[Education and Welfare] Fw: [Missouri-l] {Disarmed}Support Accessible Swimming Pools!

[Mary Pendleton]

Some actually have the lift that will lower people in also.
Mary
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elton Thomas" <ethomas at lhbindustries.com>
To: "Education and Welfare" <ew at moblind.org>
Cc: "Education and Welfare" <ew at moblind.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Education and Welfare] Fw: [Missouri-l] {Disarmed}Support 
Accessible Swimming Pools!


> Most pools I've seen are already equipped with an easy wide step entrance 
> into the shallow end and have plenty of rails.
>
> Elton
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 18, 2012, at 8:52 PM, "Bunny" <bmag45 at fidnet.com> wrote:
>
>> That's about the most impractical thing I have ever heard of.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ew-bounces at moblind.org [mailto:ew-bounces at moblind.org] On Behalf Of
>> Elton Thomas
>> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:26 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [Education and Welfare] Fw: [Missouri-l] {Disarmed} Support
>> Accessible Swimming Pools!
>>
>> I'd like to add that adding a wheelchair ramp to a swimming pool is not 
>> that
>> practicle. Chlorine is corrosive and eats metal while water will rust
>> chairs. And forget trying to bring an electric wheel chair in a pool.
>>
>> Elton Thomas
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2012, at 2:45 PM, "David Rosenkoetter"
>> <lutheranmessenger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I must respectfully disagree with th eplea to move the adaptive
>>> swimming pool measure moved along. Why? The thing hurts samll
>>> businesses like hotels. Thanks to the Obama administration's
>>> micromanaging overreach of government, many hotels do not have money
>>> within the time allotted to adapt their pools. Rep. Vicki Hartzler
>>> (R-MO) is spot on about the fact that, in this case, private
>>> businesses do not need to put a wheelchair ramp into a pool. There are
>>> chaeaper and just as safe measures to handle this case. Each hotel
>>> should have the freedom to show how it individually handles the
>>> adaptation of swimming pools.
>>>
>>> Okay, to be honest, I'm stopping right there, because after reading
>>> the notice to which I'm responding I about lost shrimp I had for
>>> lunch. There are things which don't need governments fingerprints on
>>> them, and this one of them.
>>>
>>> Let the small and midsized business work within their means, kind of
>>> like Washington needs to do also.
>>> David Rosenkoetter
>>> Kansas City, MO
>>>
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