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Swimming drought

For the second summer in a row, Santa Fe’s children will have no access to an outdoor swimming pool. Wealthy families will of course have their member-only pools, but the kids of our essential workers, our teachers, our construction workers, will not have that pleasure.

The Bicentennial Pool already was wholly inadequate to the needs of our children; after lining up in the hot sun, many families were turned away each day due to lack of space.

Now even this is taken away. The only indoor swimming I know of available for children is from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center, reservation only.

Mayor Alan Webber’s recent email to residents boasts of a future state-of-the-art recreation center to include outdoor swimming. That would be nice, Webber, but our children just need access to outdoor pools so that they can enjoy the summer. Surely that’s not too much to ask.

Esther Kovari Santa Fe

LOCAL & REGION

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2021-06-16T07:00:00.0000000Z

2021-06-16T07:00:00.0000000Z

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