Westsyde Pool packed for free swim on opening day
KAMLOOPS — It was a free for all at the new Westsyde Pool on Friday with a free swim for the whole community, and it appeared all of Westsyde was in the pool they haven’t had in two years.
The pool was shut down in June 2015 for much-needed repairs, but starting at 2 p.m. the pool officially re-opened to the public. It’s something these kids have waited to do in Westsyde for a long time.
“It was a really long time without it,” said one pool user.
“It felt like a really long wait, and I felt like we kept having to wait, saying it was coming, then it just took that much longer, which made it harder to wait for,” said another Westsyde resident.