All city pools will be open this summer

Fundraising efforts have amassed $250,000 toward the $300,000 needed to re-open all six of Grand Rapids’ city pools this summer. But fundraisers aren’t stopping there; they plan to raise the remaining $50,000, plus enough to keep the pools open for the next three years.

According to excerpts from the story:

When Roosevelt Tillman was a boy, he learned to swim in the pool at what is now known as Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Grand Rapids.

"I'm a product of the inner-city pools," Tillman said. "That's where I learned how to swim and dive. It was good clean fun."

And when Tillman learned the city of Grand Rapids was closing down all but three of its largest pools again this summer to save money, he decided to take action.

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