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Pool Foundation hopes website will increase interest

THE TRENTON MUNICIPAL POOL FOUNDATION’S web site has information on the organization, including upcoming meetings and events. In the future, the foundation hopes to make it possible to give donations online. On Friday the foundation held an open house to discuss future plans and attract new members. Pictured around a laptop displaying the group’s new web site are, clockwise from bottom left, Trenton Torpedoes members Kelsey Huelsmann, Lauren Haukapp, and Anna Quitmeyer, pool foundation vice president Doug Denaro, board member Jim Neighbors, treasurer Brent Haukapp, board member Brent Woods, Webs Dot Com owner Chandra Zeisset, Torpedoes member Ellen Maue, and frequent pool user Trey Gibson.

The Trenton Municipal Pool Foundation now has a website (www.trentonpool.org) to help its efforts in ensuring the city maintains a working pool. “Hopefully, it will put a face with the group,” said Webs Dot Com owner Chandra Zeisset, who donated the site to the foundation. Zeisset decided to create a site after talking with employee Kelly Wilhelm, who was preparing to attend a foundation meeting one night. “We were trying to think of a way to help them out,” Zeisset said. The site contains minutes from the group’s monthly meetings as well as an electronic form to use to send comments and suggestions. Sponsors to the foundation are recognized in a special section. The group first formed this summer as the Save the Pool Committee and held its first official meeting as the Trenton Municipal Pool Foundation in September. With a substantial leak repaired in late August, the foundation hopes to keep the pool in working condition for as long as three to five years but recognizes that a new pool will eventually be needed. The group is looking into different plans for a new pool, which is expected to cost in the million dollar range. Excluding money that has been set aside for upcoming fundraisers, the organization has raised around $3,000. The group hopes to add money collected over the next few years to that total and use it to obtain some form of matching grant to help with construction of a new pool. The foundation’s next fundraiser is a January 29 showing of the movie “Are We There Yet?” at the New Baden American Legion. The show starts at 2 p.m.; tickets are $3 each.

Pool Foundation donation

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Luettinger of Trenton recently made a sizeable donation to Trenton’s Municipal Pool Foundation, whose mission is to ensure continued access to swimming facilities for Trenton citizens. Mr. Luettinger said he had learned to swim in a creek when he was a child and feels that it’s important for every child to have an opportunity to learn to swim.

 

Trenton Pool Surveys will be distributed Saturday

This Saturday, October 29, beginning at 9 a.m., volunteers from the Trenton Interest group and the Trenton Municipal Pool Foundation will distribute surveys concerning the swimming pool to each household within the Trenton city limits. Volunteers will meet at the Trenton Police Station at 9 a.m. to get assignments and surveys. If we have thirty volunteers, it should only take about one hour. If we have more, the time will be cut dramatically.

There are still some spots to be filled. If you are interested in the community and the pool in particular, please come to help. You can call ahead to Margaret Conley at 224-9575 or Pegh Zeller at 224-7459 to volunteer or just show up to help.

Trenton has much to offer its citizens and its youth. The survey is designed to give up-to-date financial and usage information on the pool and gather opinions on the future of the pool.

Your opinion is important and welcome in this endeavor. The surveys will be picked up the following Saturday following the same time frame.     Results of this survey Printer Friendly Version