A Splash of Hope: Reviving Oakesdale’s Beloved Swimming Pool
Aaron Davis vividly remembers the first time he saw the inside of the Oakesdale Public Swimming Pool building. It was late 2020, and the five-year Oakesdale resident had just attended his first meeting of the Oakesdale Park and Recreation District committee. He agreed to take on primary responsibility for the facility. It was a cold, dark winter night, and the power in the pool building had been shut o, but he turned on his phone flashlight and opened the door. “It was like walking into a haunted house,” he said. Originally constructed in the 1920s, the building’s flat roof had…