Local Pools Have Solid Attendance

WAITSBURG - Despite some recent cold, wet weather, attendance numbers at the public swimming pools in Prescott, Waitsburg and Day- ton are holding steady.

Len Conlee, the manager at the Prescott pool, said the facility opened on June 9 and "we've been doing pretty well."

The pool offers swim les- sons and water aerobics and is open seven days a week. The pool is averaging 15 to 20 swimmers during open swim each day, he said. And on a hot day, the pool has seen as many as 125 swim- mers.

"It depends on the temperatures," Conlee said. "We have about a dozen who will swim in the rain."

And while...