Save the Edmonds Yost Penguins community swim team
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Anonymous
5 years ago
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All our kids need opportunities for participating in what they know and love. There must be a way to make time and space for our kids. The community saved Yost Pool before, we can do the same for the Penguins. Tell us how much money you need and let's raise it since that seems to be the way to be the way the decisions are made.
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Hava Skovron
5 years ago
Please allow the Yost Penguins swim team to return this summer. Our kids and community need it now more than ever!
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Gretchen Pawling
5 years ago
Yost Penguins are part of the Edmonds community, so why are outside clubs being given precedence?
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Anonymous
5 years ago
It’s ridiculous to only allow private swim clubs at Yost Pool. Our kids love the penguins swim program at Yost and we had looked forward to having at least one viable activity this summer. Boo!
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Greg Lanter
5 years ago
Great program sad if it cannot operate this summer
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Anonymous
5 years ago
This program is vital for our children's physical health, mental well being, and necessary for more equal access to swim sports.
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Shaela Welsh
5 years ago
Penguins are and have been the local rec swim club at Yost for a long time. Very important to have them for our local kids ...other outside swim teams get left over available time / use of the pool.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Swimming is one of the safest Covid activities available and you’ve closed this pool to the public for too long. Swimming should be wide open at this point and having it only accessible to private clubs is ridiculous. We love the Yost Penguins program and beg you to bring it back ASAP.
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Megan Reibel
5 years ago
Yost is our family's happy place in the summer and the Penguins Swim Team is very much a part of that. I hope we can find a way to keep the team alive and give our kids an inclusive community option that supports their love of the pool and swimming.
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Frances Horner
5 years ago
As a former Yost swim team Penguin and Yost lifeguard, swim instructor, and swim team coach, it is incredibly sad to see that there will not be swim team this year. Yost pool, the Penguins team, and the job that Yost provided me for many years led me to swim for my high school swim team, and later attain a job as a lifeguard at the University of Washington while I attended school. I cannot say how much I love Yost and how important being a part of the Penguins swim team was to my youth experience. It taught me discipline, while providing me with a healthy environment to make friends and have fun. I think it is so important to bring the team back ASAP.
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Christina Asimakopoulos
5 years ago
Please save the Penguins !
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Kirsten Schwab
5 years ago
In the mid 80s I was a penguin. My kids now in their 20s were penguins. How could we allow such a legacy program sunset?????
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Jane Ellison
5 years ago
Community pool time for community congruity. Keep Corporate politics out.
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Kathleen Kindred
5 years ago
Please reinstate! I’d love my daughter to have an inclusive team to swim with!
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Gavin Hardwick
5 years ago
SAVE THE PENGUINS
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Megan Allard
5 years ago
Our kids thrive during swim team months and we desperately miss this experience. I believe it can be done safely this summer and hope to see it back!
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Vicki Nelson
5 years ago
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The Yost pool was a fabulous venue for all of my children who did not fit the qualifications for select sports. It is not fair to rent the pool out to a select organization and take the community aspect away from the children who look forward to participating each year at Yost. Please reconsider.
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Donny Ballard
5 years ago
Keep swimming accessable to all!
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Amara Swan
5 years ago
Not quite a resident of Edmonds who believes this is a real need this year!
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Mika McAfee
5 years ago
Community Swim Teams are crucial to young children learning healthy habits for life. Invest in our future and keep Swim Team at Yost.
All our kids need opportunities for participating in what they know and love. There must be a way to make time and space for our kids. The community saved Yost Pool before, we can do the same for the Penguins. Tell us how much money you need and let's raise it since that seems to be the way to be the way the decisions are made.
Please allow the Yost Penguins swim team to return this summer. Our kids and community need it now more than ever!
Yost Penguins are part of the Edmonds community, so why are outside clubs being given precedence?
It’s ridiculous to only allow private swim clubs at Yost Pool. Our kids love the penguins swim program at Yost and we had looked forward to having at least one viable activity this summer. Boo!
Great program sad if it cannot operate this summer
This program is vital for our children's physical health, mental well being, and necessary for more equal access to swim sports.
Penguins are and have been the local rec swim club at Yost for a long time. Very important to have them for our local kids ...other outside swim teams get left over available time / use of the pool.
Swimming is one of the safest Covid activities available and you’ve closed this pool to the public for too long. Swimming should be wide open at this point and having it only accessible to private clubs is ridiculous. We love the Yost Penguins program and beg you to bring it back ASAP.
Yost is our family's happy place in the summer and the Penguins Swim Team is very much a part of that. I hope we can find a way to keep the team alive and give our kids an inclusive community option that supports their love of the pool and swimming.
As a former Yost swim team Penguin and Yost lifeguard, swim instructor, and swim team coach, it is incredibly sad to see that there will not be swim team this year. Yost pool, the Penguins team, and the job that Yost provided me for many years led me to swim for my high school swim team, and later attain a job as a lifeguard at the University of Washington while I attended school. I cannot say how much I love Yost and how important being a part of the Penguins swim team was to my youth experience. It taught me discipline, while providing me with a healthy environment to make friends and have fun. I think it is so important to bring the team back ASAP.
Please save the Penguins !
In the mid 80s I was a penguin. My kids now in their 20s were penguins. How could we allow such a legacy program sunset?????
Community pool time for community congruity. Keep Corporate politics out.
Please reinstate! I’d love my daughter to have an inclusive team to swim with!
SAVE THE PENGUINS
Our kids thrive during swim team months and we desperately miss this experience. I believe it can be done safely this summer and hope to see it back!
The Yost pool was a fabulous venue for all of my children who did not fit the qualifications for select sports. It is not fair to rent the pool out to a select organization and take the community aspect away from the children who look forward to participating each year at Yost. Please reconsider.
Keep swimming accessable to all!
Not quite a resident of Edmonds who believes this is a real need this year!
Community Swim Teams are crucial to young children learning healthy habits for life. Invest in our future and keep Swim Team at Yost.