--- In lidos@..., "Oliver Merrington" <oliver@l...>
wrote:
>
> Welcome to Steve Lloyd-Janes, who is vice chair of the Hendy Pool
committee.
>
> Some of you may have met him at the Reviving Lidos conference in
London in March 2006. Hendy was the only pool campaign which sent
along its MP to the conference - Nia Griffith, Labour MP for Llanelli.
> The village of Hendy is about six miles east of Llanelli, in
Carmarthenshire, South Wales.
>
> The "Save the Hendy Pool Campaign" was set up to re-open Hendy
Outdoor Swimming Pool, which closed in 2002. It has recently stepped
up its activity.
> This was reported by BBC News, see
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/lidos/message/1094
>
> With help from Steve, I recently added a new expanded entry on this
pool on my website. See
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/oliver.merrington/lidos/lidos6.htm#hendy
>
> Oliver
>

Hi being 40 years old and living in the very next town to the small
village of Hendy, i spent many a summer like hundreds of my
generation in the outdoor pool in Hendy

in 1999 the carmarthen council tried to close the pool but local
volunteers led by then community councilor derrick lyons formed a
committee and run the pool as volunteers with a small sum of £7,000
pounds from the county

in the winter of 2001/2002 there was frost damage to the wall and a
crack appeared and the pool was closed, since then the locals have
been campaigning to reopen their pool

in 2001 i moved from pontarddulais into hendy and in 2004 i became a
local councilor and became involved with the pool committee, after a
long drawn out battle which involved three public meetings which over
200 people turned up for

our mp went to the lido conference and has been attending some of our
monthly pool committee meetings and is 100% behind the campaign

i launched a petition and 16 other members of the committee have been
helping and in just under 3 weeks i personally have over 1300 names
and await to see what the other members will produce

i am a branch secretary for a union and next week there is a
conference in blackpool, each branch can produce two propositions to
the conference and if voted for they become union policy

i will be speaking about outdoor pools and the proposition basically
calls upon the union to inform the government that they should assist
with funding for pools, as the pools have been in decline and obesity
is todays time bomb in our younger generation, more funding will make
a healthier generation

i look forward to reading posts on here and will inform you if i was
sucessfull in getting the conference to support our proposition

steve