December 15,2011
Daily Cal
"Funeral" marks closure of Berkeley’s warm water pool
To recognize the closure of Berkeley High School’s warm water pool, roughly 40 people gathered for a “funeral” Wednesday evening to express their discontent at losing the facility. [Read more ...]
December 15, 2011
Berkeleyside
A "funeral" for a much-loved Berkeley swimming pool
After nearly three decades of being a lifeline for many disabled and elderly residents, the decrepit yet much-loved facility at Berkeley High School is closing forever. [Read more ...]
December 14, 2011
KPIX, Channel 5 (nightly newscast)
Berkeley Warm Pool to be shut down
December 7, 2011
KTVU, Channel 2 (nightly newscast)
High school pool used by special needs program forced to close
November 30, 2011
Daily Cal
Special Needs Aquatic Program in need of new pool
SNAP, which has been active in Berkeley for 20 years, gives children and teens with special needs the opportunity to take motor development and exercise classes in the water. When the pool closes, the kids will need a new place to go. [Read more ...]
Sept. 28, 2011
Daily Cal
City Council and community members talk costs of pools planning process
The Berkeley City Council and community members raised concerns at a work session Tuesday night that an over-evaluation of non-construction related expenses has hindered the city’s efforts to implement a ballot measure to save its pools. [Read more ... ]
Sept. 28, 2011
Berkeley Patch
Pool Users Ask Council For Answers and Help
About a dozen pool users came to a Tuesday evening city council work session to ask for help. They were looking ahead for support for a November 2012 pools ballot measure, but also wanted answers to hard questions about cost estimates included in the failed 2010 pools ballot measure. [Read more ....]
Sept. 21, 2011
Daily Californian
Warm water pool users raise concerns about possibility of using YMCA pools
With Berkeley’s only warm water pool set to close in under three months, city staff held a meeting Tuesday night to hear the complaints of an agitated elderly crowd that raised concerns about the possibility of using the Downtown Berkeley YMCA’s pools for their physical therapy exercises. [Read more ... ]
July 8, 2010
Berkeley Voice
Berkeley Community Lost With Defeat of Measure C
By Robert Collier -- Last week, Berkeley lost part of its heritage and its quality of life. In Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose, the trend is the same: public pools are being padlocked because of budget cuts, leaving children and teenagers out on the streets with fewer healthy alternatives. [Read more ... ]
July 1, 2010
Berkeleyside
Voting on Measure C Shows a City Split
By Robert Collier -- A close look at the election’s precinct-by-precinct results, which were released Monday by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, shows that the city’s geographic dichotomy of liberal flats versus conservative hills has grown sharper in previous years. Voting patterns were affected by several factors — proximity to the pools, to be sure, but also elevation, income and other cultural differences. [Read more ...]
June 7, 2010
Berkeley Daily Planet
What's a Warm Pool Worth?
By Gary Marquard -- Most all of us know that regular exercise is of primary importance to health, and also that exercise in water is a very low stress way to get it. But suppose your sprained joint or strained muscle, wrenched back or knee, is bad enough that being in regular pool water just makes it stiffer. Then you're a potential warm pool beneficiary. [Read more ...]
May 30, 2010
Berkeley Daily Planet
Measure C: Fact vs. Fiction
By Robert Collier -- Our opponents have made a never-ending series of false allegations about Measure C’s financing and other details. No matter how often we rebut the false claims, they keep popping up with wilder embellishments and ever-more bogus numbers. Here is a voter guide with the straight facts. [Read more ...]
May 27, 2010
Berkeley Daily Planet
Measure C, the Warm Pool, and Wedge-Issue Politics
By JoAnn Cook, Elizabeth Gutfeldt, Odette Larde, Anne Marx, Summer Raven and Mertis Shekeloff -- Berkeley has the choice of deciding whether to embrace all our city’s residents – old as well as young, disabled as well as able-bodied – or whether to succumb to conservative wedge-issue tactics that seek to divide us. [Read more ...]
May 23, 2010
KGO-TV, Channel 7
Berkeley Mayor Gets Tossed Into the Pool
Nightly newscast report from the Willard Pool swimathon. [View the report ...]
May 20, 2010
Berkeley Daily Planet
"Why I Am Supporting Measure C"
By Shirley Dean -- I’m voting yes on Measure C, and writing this because many people have asked me why. I know it isn’t easy to vote to raise our already high taxes but consider that a community’s values are reflected in what we leave for future generations to use and enjoy. [Read more...]
April 22, 2010
Berkeleyside
"Measure C Creates a Legacy"
By Robert Collier -- In Berkeley, local folk know it’s election season when the city’s streets begin to be garlanded with election signs supporting one or another candidate or ballot measure. By that standard, this past weekend marked the official opening for the June 8 election. [Read more...]
April 15, 2010
Berkeley Daily Planet
"The 'Party of No' Takes Aim at Berkeley's Pools -- and at the Truth"
By Robert Collier -- In Washington DC and around the country, conservatives are hoping they can bluff their way into upset victories in this year’s elections. Health care, clean energy, financial regulation and other much-needed reforms are in their gun sights as they fire inflammatory claims and accusations. In Berkeley, the local “Party of No” seems to hope it can use the same tactics to defeat a ballot measure that would save some of our community’s most basic yet best-loved amenities – our four municipal swimming pools. [Read more...]
March 19, 2010
Berkeley Daily Planet
"24-Hour Swimathon Supports Measure C"
Feb. 12, 2010
Berkeleyside
"A Bigger Splash: Save the Pools"
