Boy, it's hot: Families and kids hit the pools to beat the heat

Two-year-old Layla Ander­son swims with her water wings on as mom Ash­ley Ander­son watches close by in the adult area of Mil’Lympic Pool. (Gazette pho­to­graph by Becky Brooks)

By Becky Brooks

and Michael Carter

Gazette staff

With the extreme heat over the past sev­eral days, city pools in Belle­vue and Clyde have reaped the ben­e­fits although Fri­day was a bit slow locally.

Mil’Lympic Pool Man­ager Jen­nifer Nolan said the heat Fri­day may have just have been too hot for patrons.

“It’s been a good year for the pool,” Nolan said early Fri­day after­noon dur­ing a youth pool break.

She said so far this sum­mer atten­dance has been up. “It’s been pretty good the past cou­ple weeks,” she added. “We were really up the Fourth of July.”

Clyde’s Aquatic Cen­ter also has seen a busy summer.

“We usu­ally aver­age around 100 or so on a good day,” said Clyde pool assis­tant man­ager Deb Newsom.

“How­ever, with the heat, we can see a lot more.”

The tem­per­a­ture on Fri­day after­noon was report­edly 99 degrees, although at the Mil’Lympic Pool it was even hot­ter due to the con­crete and reflected heat.

At the pool, a mom, Ash­ley Ander­son of Belle­vue, had her two-year-old Layla in the baby pool and then the adult pool too. “I come every day I can with her.”

Another mom in the pool, Toni Cor­rado, of Belleuve, said she and her daugh­ter also were try­ing to beat the heat. “We come every chance we get,” Cor­rado said.

The Mil’Lympic Pool is open Mon­day through Thurs­day, 12:30 to 7 p.m.; Fri­days 12:30 to 6 p.m. and Sat­ur­day and Sun­day 12:30 to 5 p.m.

A one day pass costs $4, but chil­dren under age 2 are free.

The Clyde Aquatic Cen­ter is open Mon­day through Fri­day from noon to 6 p.m. for open swim. The the pool is open 6 to 8 p.m. each night for fam­ily swim. On Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, how­ever, the pool is open noon until 7 p.m. with no des­ig­nated fam­ily hours.

“One of our best fea­tures is our zero depth entry end of our pool,” New­som said. “Our par­ents love that for the smaller kids and babies and our older mem­bers love it as well,” she added.

The Clyde pool is open to the pub­lic for a cost of $4 for res­i­dents and $6 for non-residents. Vet­er­ans, senior cit­i­zens and chil­dren under 48 inches tall are always only $2.

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