‘Cover Stories’ Archives
Ripple to Tidal Wave
The existing six-lane pool built in 1972 is without water or swimmers today because it requires updating of safety improvements such as the drainage device. Implementing modified “Option B” would add two lanes to this pool and an additional four lane warm water specialty pool. The Phillips Aquatic Center is becoming a reality as money is doubled and enthusiasm tripled for equity use The Phillips Aquatics Center Update By Denny Bennett It has been another whirlwind month of looking for money everywhere we can to deliver on our promise to bring EQUITY, ACCESS & the OPPORTUNITIES that swimming can bring to all in Minneapolis! Of course, our answer to this seemingly befuddling political riddle is not new committees, or task forces, but rather, to update and enhance the first PUBLIC, indoor pool right here, in the heart of the Phillips Community! The Phillips Aquatics Center is a reality! Swimming lessons in Minneapolis will no longer only be for the more affluent, we [...]
EPIC $50,000 to Phillips Pool Doubled by Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
By Brad Pass The 7,000 children and youth of the Phillips Community will once again have a place to learn to swim. If one young person”'s life is saved from drowning by this huge effort to bring swimming back to these neighborhoods with immense “kids of color” population, all the blood, sweat and tears will have been worth it. The fact that every drowning victim in Mpls., the City of Lakes, for several years has been a youth from a diverse community who was not able to swim and without an available and affordable place to learn has motivated this project. The Phillips Pool project is intent on resolving this serious inequity of the City. The East Phillips Improvement Coalition (EPIC) has been in the forefront of the community wide effort to save and renovate the defunct swimming pool in the Phillips Community Center, 2323 11th Ave. S, Minneapolis. East Phillips Neighborhood members supported the pool in a series of votes to allocate $50,000 of EPIC”'s NRP [...]
