Hi everyone,
My sincere apologies for the Britannia pool time mixup on January 3rd. There have been a lot of pool rental issues that I've been working through and I thought Britannia was fine, but realized (at the pool!) that I didn't have the contract in my hands that stated a start date of January 3rd.
However, the Britannia programmer did confirm that they have staff for our Wednesday rental starting next week, so we should be okay for the rest of Wednesday practices.
Now, Sunday practices. This is another story! City of Vancouver has had enormous staffing challenges and they haven't been able to accommodate many of their usual rental groups for the Winter session, including us at Templeton. We actually had an apology email from Tony Syskakis the Supervisor of City-Wide Aquatics about this issue earlier in the week. They are working on it, but as of now, we do not have pool time booked for January 29th, February 5th, or February 12th.
We are at Templeton this Sunday, January 8th for our usual time (I've confirmed twice with Templeton!)
January 15th we are in North Vancouver at Delbrook (different time than usual: 6pm-8pm)
January 22nd is the competition (we don't usually hold practice the same weekend as the competition)!
January 29th - To be determined
February 5th - To Be determined
February 12th - To be determined
February 26th - Delbrook (North Vancouver (6pm-8pm) (this was covering Templeton's usual closure)
March 5th - Delbrook (North Vancouver (6pm-8pm) (this is Templeton's usual closure)
For the three TBD practices, I have reached out to various municipalities (Richmond is a no, Burnaby is a no) and haven't had any luck yet. However, I made a plea to Tony that we will go anywhere in Vancouver on Sundays so he thinks he can get at least 1 or 2 of the dates with some space in Vancouver Aquatic Centre's Dive tank. To be determined.
Downsides of VAC - parking is expensive - if we end up booking there, I suggest carpooling with your team if at all possible.
I can also reach out to North Van, but they are 2x the price, so I'm loathe to book again - but we can see how much we love swimming there on January 15th!
Sorry for the not great news on the pool rental front - just wanted to be transparent with the club membership about what is going on!
Erin
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