Hope all of you are enjoying the official start of summer! With the schools out, our swim team will be practicing in the mornings so our members can enjoy our pool during hot summer afternoons. For a detailed schedule, please check our calendar at http://www.walnutheightsswimclub.com/calendar. Some reminders as followed:

 

We appreciate the fact that our young life guards all chose to be with their fathers on Father’s Day, instead of working at the pool. Please make sure you take extra care with your young children. 

 

Summer hours, we should have life guards from 2pm - 8pm on weekdays, and 10am - 8pm on Sundays. Life guards charge hourly so if they see the pool is empty after 6pm, they are free to choose to leave early. Please note, it is NOT required by our insurance that the club provide life guards, so there might be days that we are unable to get the life guards (they are scarce). We will try our best to communicate if we have no life guards for certain days.

 

Life guards authority need to be respected. Based on the club rules, we are giving our life guards the rights to bar any member from the pool in the events of misconduct and failure to cooperate. These young men and women are mostly our members’ children and this is one of their first ever jobs. Please treat them with utmost respect. If you ever disagree or have any complaints about any of our life guards, please contact our board at board@walnutheightsswimclub.com instead of arguing directly with our life guards.

 

Red Cross requires life guards to rest 10-15 minutes an hour. During these rest periods, ONLY adults 18 or older are allowed to be in the pool. Children 3 or younger who are accompanied by their parents “IN” the pool, are also allowed. We are considering lowering the age limit to 14 based on members requests, but until the decision is finalized, please follow the 18 or older rule.

 

We have noticed several unreserved parties/gathering happening at the club. Our party reservation fee is one of the cheapest around the area, and we use it not to get profit, but to offset our trash and pool management cost.  Not only did these parties happen unreserved, the club was left a huge mess and the trash overflowing. There were floats and boards left all over the pool - our closers could not even cover the pool with the tarp. As we all know, this is a community pool based on volunteers, please treat the club as your own home. If this kind of mistreatment of our club continues we will have no choice but to increase the dues.  If any member sees other members conducting in this manor, please contact our board at board@walnutheightsswimclub.com.

There is absolutely NO GLASS allowed near the pool. If you brought glass container beverage to the pool, please also bring plastic cups to pour them into. Any broken glass around the deck can hurt our bare feet kids severely.  If a glass bottle gets broken in the pool we are required to drain the entire pool forcing closure of the pool for days, not to mention amount of water bill we need to cover the refilling.

 

Even if there is no party at the pool, if you see any trash cans that are full, for example, by the snack shack area, please provide your helping hands to bring it to the trash bins and refill with a new trash bags. Obviously, this is not a requirement for the club members, but just a neighborly act. 

 

More details can be found at http://www.walnutheightsswimclub.com/rules. 

 

Now, enough for all the rules. We don’t get to 60 YEARS of an excellent neighborhood club without having great neighbors like you. We are certain this will be another GREAT SUMMER. Happy Summer 2017. 

 

Sincerely,

WHSC Board 2017 

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President: Trace Lee

VP and WHO Team President: Rob Christiansen

Treasurer:  Gordon Mauger

Reservations: Maurice Plaza  

Membership: Ed Kennedy

Work Party: Nicolle Cannon

Maintenance: Michael Brooding