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The Huron Expositor • February 8, 2006 Page 3
Lions Club looking for community's help to
keep 50 -year-old iool in' operation this summer
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At the same time, the Lions Club
plans to make the pool more accessi-
ble with ramps at the stairway
leading into the pool and a remov-
able set of stairs that will allow any-
one having difficulty
with the ladders to
walk into the pool.
"The stairs will
assist anyone with
arthritis having trou-
ble getting into the
pool and they can be
removed for swim
meets," say
Beuttenmiller.
The Seaforth Lions
have asked Middegaal
Pools to do the work
on the pool with help
from Seaforth-area
tradespeople.
Beuttenmiller says
work should be sched-
uled to begin in April so
that the work can be done for the
beginning of swimming lessons at
the middle of June.
"It's a community pool and we
hope everyone will see fit to help us
out with it," he says, adding that a
community fundraising project is
expected to begin soon.
As well, the Lions are approach-
ing several foundations for help
with funding.
The. Seaforth Lions have been pro-
viding a community swimming pool
for the town since 1925, when two
cement slabs - one for a deep end
and one for a shallow end - were
poured on the bottom .of Silver
Creek where the community once
swam.
Once it was determined that bac-
teria in the creek made swimming
there unsafe, the Lions launched a
campaign to buildthe swimming
pool in 1955.
"They sold tickets on a car all over
Ontario to build that pool," says
Beuttenmiller.
`We hope to
provide
another 40
years of
swimming in
Seaforth,'..
Seaforth
etiforth,'--
Seaforth Lions
Club member Bob
Beuttenmiller
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He says he remem-
bers travelling . to
Seaforth with his
grandparents as a boy
from Stratford where
he grew up to swim in
the Seaforth Lions
pool.
"There will be none
of us around when this
has to be done again
but we see a real need
for an outdoor pool in
Seaforth," he says.
Beuttenmiller says
there was no hesita-
tion among members
when the topic was
raised last fall that
repairs needed to be
done to the pool.
"We've done everything we can to
keep the pool going. It's needed and
we don't want to be the ones who
don't carry it on," he says.
After the best season "in a long
time" during last summer's hottest
year on record - and the first time
Seaforth's swim team ever won the
regional championship
Beuttenmiller says he particularly
wants to keep the pool in operation.
"We hope to provide another 40
years of swimming in Seaforth," he
says.
This photo of the
blasting of the
bedrock neces-
_ sary to build Lions
pool in 1950 at
the Seaforth
Lions Park, was
created by
Seaforth's Frank
Phillips, from the
roof of the bath-
house.
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