Uh-Oh, Some Pool Funding in Question in Williamsport

Williamsport's mayor, Gabriel Campana, is pushing for the rebuilding of the Memorial Park Pool.  Williamsport's only other pool, the East End Pool, is slated for closing the end of this summer, see here for more info.  As part of the bargain on the pool effort, he asked the community to raise $50,000.  The community has come up woefully short and the mayor is disappointed.  See article below.

But in retrospect, it might not be surprising as one would think.  Some of your biggest supporters of pools are swim team parents.  The local swim team community is small in the city.  So small, they are unable to support or field a winter YMCA swim team (even as they are one of the biggest cities in central Pennsylvania.  Isn't it odd that Williamsport, a town of 29,000, doesn't have a team but just a ways west on Interstate 80, little ol' Ridgway (population 4,000) has a YMCA swim team). 

Here's hoping that someone in the business community sees fit to provide monies to give kids the opportunity to swim.