Julia A. Moffatt and her three young children trekked their way in the heat from their Parker Street home across the city Monday to the municipal pool at North Elementary School. Normally, they would have gone a few blocks away to the Thompson Park pool. But the deteriorating, 90-year-old pool remains closed this summer because of budget constraints and the high costs to replace it. At that moment, they were joined by at least 85 other people frolicking, splashing and swimming in the William J. Flynn Municipal Swimming Pool at the school on the city’s north side.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:49:06 +0000
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