To the Editor:

I am writing in support of the JDCC pool as a resident of Canyon City, as your neighbor, and as a father to a disabled child who loves the water and meeting anyone who will say hello.

In this community, there are few things that have the potential to bring so many of us together like a modern place to cool off and get some exercise, and in the case of my little family, to get a chance to see our child socialize and play, a child who has had and will continue to have trouble finding any sort of social experience outside of what his mother and I are able to generate.

A safe and well-designed aquatic space like the proposed pool allows people with low to no mobility to experience a much-needed place to get up and out that they simply cannot get otherwise and will greatly improve the quality of life of anyone who bothers to give it a go.

And hey, remember the crazy heat last year? When many of us were essentially forced into hiding while the old pool moldered? Now we have a chance to complain to each other about the hot, hot weather from the cool water of a good pool. Our own pool. Vote yes, and let’s gripe together the way good neighbors should.

Jeremy Mothershead

Canyon City