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Vote Yes!

 

 

After the town pool in Cheshire CT had it’s bubble collapse again, people of the town started to wonder if the pool needed a more durable covering.  Finally, the people decided that a tension membrane was the way to go but, before they could start building it, the town has to hold a vote on November 5.  The tension membrane has better features than the old bubble in many ways.  One way is the tension membrane can withstand heavy loads of snow which brought down the last bubble.  Another way is the tension membrane can allow the community to have the pool open all of the time.  This helps many year-long organizations including Cheshire’s swim team, the Sea Dogs because they need the pool all year long for practices and meets.  The tension membrane is also a good solution because it can open on the sides during the summer so it can let fresh air in.  Many people are against the tension membrane though.  Many Cheshire residents that don’t use the pool just want to give up on the pool because they don’t want to have to pay taxes for a pool that they don’t even use.

In my opinion, I believe the Cheshire pool needs the tension membrane.  It will be great for open swim and organizations because it will be open all year long.   I’m on the Cheshire Sea Dogs swim team and we need the pool up and running all year long for our practices and swim meets.  Our team needs a reliable and durable structure like the tension membrane for the pool.  We need all Cheshire residents to vote yes for the tension membrane so we can get our pool up and running again!

~Courtney

Looking Back on Irene

Looking back on Hurricane Irene, it really didn’t happen too long ago. It was an eight day hurricane that started on August 20, 2011 and ended on August 28, 2011, which was around the time that we all remember when it hit us in Connecticut. And the truth was, we really didn’t get the worst part of the hurricane either. Even though the hurricane caused the first day of school to be canceled, when the storm got to Cheshire, it was actually starting to die down and was hardly what it used to be early on. Even so, the storm still caused some major damages in Connecticut anyway. Throughout Connecticut, 20 homes in East haven were destroyed and 5 more beyond repair along the Long Island Sound. In addition, and estimated half the state, that’s about 750,000 people lost their power for up to a week during and after the storm.

Weather is certainly unpredictable and sometimes very devastating. One of that last things that people in Cheshire would expect to happen is for a hurricane to hit. Even inland in a place like Cheshire, a storm like this can cause a lot of damage. That is why is is extremely important to be prepared for something like this to happen. Just having a generator when something like this hits can save you from days without power. To watch out, and keep track of storms like these easily, all you have to do is watch the weather channel on TV, weather reports on the computer, or even when power and cable are out, you can still tune into an emergency weather broadcasting channel on a radio.

~David Amann