Editor,

I would like to personally thank all the people who are devoting so much of their time to get the pool levy passed.

I am very encouraged and heartened by the article in Saturday’s Whidbey News-Times whereby so many agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses and individuals are working so hard to reopen the pool.

I speak for our senior citizen community, some of whom can only obtain the health benefits that gentle water exercise in the pool can offer, and I am encouraging everyone to vote yes this November for the North Whidbey Pool, Park and Recreational District which also includes the baseball field and dog park on Ault Field Road.

Our pool has been a benefit to all ages including our children and grandchildren since opening its doors in 1983: children learning to swim, children’s swim teams, numerous benefits to infants being introduced to the water at a very early age as well water aerobics, water volleyball, water walking and lap swimming.

The enjoyment of family swim time is an added bonus.

Our town needs this type of an exercise and recreational facility. Doesn’t everyone living on an island deserve a chance to learn to swim?

Kris O’Connor

Oak Harbor