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we feel that if the communities request for building had been adhered to this tragedy wouldn't have happened, that the building would have been locked up and it has been complete safety. So therefore we feel now, and we asked the supervisors again to put this in our

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budget so that we get a building around the swimming pool so we can use it the year round for the benefit of the people in the community. The water is nine ft deep here at the deep end of the Martin Luther King Pool at 3rd and

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Carol. And some neighborhood groups are quite concerned about safety in this pool that's only enclosed by a fence. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. The fence around this pool is more than six ft high. When it was built. City officials thought that would be plenty

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high for safety, but apparently it isn't. Some neighborhood residents would like it enclosed in a building that they say would provide greater safety and make the full usable year round, normal drift Channel five, eyewitness News at third and carol.