“I have received comments … no one really wants it to happen,” Ingle said, “I’m glad the citizens feel that way.”
The public pool has been open for many years now, serving the community as an inexpensive place to swim. Certified high school and college students work in the summers as lifeguards and swimming instructors, teaching kids of all ages and skill levels. Classes run for 45 minutes a day, five days a week, for two weeks.  Beginners are simply there to acclimate themselves to the water and overcome their fear of the deep end. Advanced swimmers are taught a variety of different strokes and dives. The community seems satisfied with the instruction, and mother of two Robin Bilinski has taken her children to swimming lessons in the past.
“Even though it’s been several years, when I took my kids, I thought it was a worthwhile program,” Bilinski said. “Both my kids definitely learned their skills from the staff at the Nappanee pool.”
Citizens may be losing interest in going to the public pool to swim, because they may fear it will be closed. A rule is that the staff must close for the day if their attendance rate is lower than 10 swimmers for more than an hour. The pool opens at 12:30 p.m. weekdays and 1 p.m. Sundays with the usual closing time being 6 p.m., but many times over this past summer, the pool was closed by 2 or 3 p.m. due to low attendance rate.
“This year we tried to go to the pool a few times but became frustrated because sometimes the kids had been there for a few minutes or less than an hour and the pool had closed,” Bilinski said. “I feel like it became a reciprocal problem. People who wanted to use the pool stopped going because when they did, it would close soon after their getting there.”
These daily closings are of course temporary, but have spurred many rumors about the pool’s future.  Citizens have wondered if the pool will close for one summer, or if it will close up shop for good.
When asked these questions, Ingle replied, “In our economic times, nothing is guaranteed. I believe the pool will be open (in the summer of 2010).”
Hopefully, these answers will relieve citizens, and next year, if the pool is open, citizens will remember the sanctity of the pool and the job it serves.