More than 50 people attended the opening of an outdoor pool in the Westside neighborhood on a blistering Monday afternoon.
The opening of the highly-anticipated pool at the Tony Aguirre Community Center came after the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department closed the Jarboe pool in 2022 for sanitation reasons, and then voters in November 2022 approved $175 million in city bonds to improve the city’s parks and recreation centers.
Westside community members now have direct access to an affordable pool — adults pay $5, children pay $2 and seniors pay $3 — and no longer have to travel across the state line to swim at pools in Fairway or Prairie Village…