Just keep swimming

Numbers are up for pool users in fall 2014

More people swam at the Kinsmen Sportsplex from October to December 2014 than they did in that period in 2013.

Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

Jody Hauta, director of parks and recreation, is seen at the Feb. 9, 2015 council meeting.

The parks and recreation department's fourth quarter report, presented to council at Mondays meeting, stated there were 28,273 people who used the pool from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 compared to 26,365 users in the same period in 2013. In 2012, a total of 28,131 people used the facility in that quarter.

Obviously the fourth quarter is a busy month for our programming for dry programs and also for aquatic programs, said Jody Hauta, director of parks and recreation. Our community association programs were started up in the fall in the schools. We also initiated a few new programs at the Kinsmen Sportsplex.

One of those new programs was a Kettlebells fitness class scheduled during one noon hour per week in the Kinsmen Sportsplex lobby. Summer pickleball was also extended into the fall at a school gym in the evenings three times a week.

The free Friday family, public and teen swims are ongoing and they still continue to be popular and those were extended during the school Christmas break.

In the fourth quarter of 2014, a total of 14,059 people used the free Friday public swim for a total attendance of 58,116 people to date.

Thats incredible for a city where sometimes we hear, Well, theres nothing for us to do on a weekend or whatever. I would say that thats filling a huge need, said Coun. Candis Kirkpatrick. Its awesome the city has continued to do this.

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