Diving boards should be added

To the editor:
Portland youth is losing out again.
The times are changing and the Portland Park Board has decided to do away with a swimming pool and replace it with a water park.
They did change their minds a little and went a little deeper so there could be swim meets here.
I remember 50 plus years ago when the park board decided to build a new pool that they asked for public opinions and they built the cream of the crop at that time. The local board could do the same if they would go 5 or 6 feet deeper and put in diving boards at a cost of maybe $10,000. If any of the present board has gone to a Jay County High School swim meet they would have seen diving competition before the swimming competition.
This again is changing times so you boys and girls who want to dive must go elsewhere — maybe Hartford City, Dunkirk, Maxville, Winchester, Fort Recovery or Berne — to do it.
The bids for the pool have not been let yet, so maybe they could ask for the change. If not, 50 years from now you boys and girls can come back to the water park and watch the present board still getting on their rafts and floating down the lazy river to the lily pads. Good luck boys and girls and the future generations.
Salty Stults
Portland