(Letter to the Editor) Area is lengthy overdue for neighborhood swimming facility

(Letter to the Editor) Area is lengthy overdue for neighborhood swimming facility

Published 2:30 pm Friday, May 15, 2026

I’m a resident of Limestone County in Athens, Alabama. This is my neighborhood, and we’ve got numerous candidates eager to signify it. This message is for many who can take motion.

Something is lacking which makes a neighborhood extra engaging and reveals concern for all of its members. We want an indoor swimming pool. We moved right here from Europe, the place my husband spent 15 years within the service. I participated in cardio lessons in each Italy and the Netherlands. Here I joined the Athens Limestone Wellness Center and took cardio lessons till I had surgical procedure for breast most cancers and was unable to do all of the required workouts. My physician advisable I attempt water aerobics. I did this usually till the pool was closed. The train allowed me to keep up my vitality degree and steadiness, even after having a lung eliminated on account of one other uncommon most cancers. Then the pool closed. The solely possibility now could be to depart the county for such remedy and swim coaching.

Nowhere presents indoor swimming remedy in Limestone County. My vitality degree and steadiness are deteriorating. I want the water remedy as do many others.
Those within the former aerobics’ lessons created a neighborhood which shared extra than simply an hour within the water a number of instances per week. There had been friendships, mutual caring for each other, bonds that reached far past the tiled flooring of the pool.
Limestone County is the quickest rising within the state. Those shifting in are scrutinizing the encompassing communities. A year- spherical pool with actions for swimming classes, swim staff observe, water aerobics and bodily remedy is a plus, but Athens has none to supply. Our swim groups should observe between Madison and Decatur. Other cities have a number of indoor swimming pools but we’ve got none.
Please candidates, assist construct COMMUNITY. We want a pool accessible all yr lengthy. We want it for medical causes, we’d like it for athletic causes, we’d like it for schooling, we’d like it for neighborhood. You could make it occur.

Jane H. Davis, Athens