City Pool

1962-10-19 CFP

1962-11-09: Voters approved the $150,000 bond issue by a two-to-one margin. The bond money will be added to the $23,000 already on hand for the project. The site of the pool will be city-owned property just south of Fisher Field, near North Seventh and Cedar.

1962-11-30: Gray & Osborne Company of Seattle-Yakima have been hired as engineers to prepare the design and supervise construction. The proposed L-shaped pool would have a capacity of 508 swimmers, councilman, Richard H. Hagelin reported.

1963-July: Cheney's ultra-modern new swimming pool was photographed during July, a couple of months after construction got underway. The pool will be ready for use summer 1964.

1964-06-05: Cheney's ultra-modern pool will open tomorrow.

1964-06-12

1964-07-03: Tilicum Donates Clock to New Pool

By Mrs. A.B. [Lulu] Cutting

The big $300 outdoor clock at the new Cheney swimming pool is a gift of the Cheney Tilicum Club.

Although Cheney is located in an area of nine lakes in a radius of 12 miles, the community has long been mindful of the need of a good sanitary pool in town. Members of the Tilicum women's club led the movement among local organizations boosting the pool.

The club suggested a number of locations, worked for means to finance, get it on the city ballot, distributed leaflets, and transported voters to encourage the city council to promote and float bonds to build a pool.

When a block of land belonging to the Wynstra estate was bought by the city some years ago, prospects seemed brighter. Tilicum entered into campaigning by talks and saving funds for a gift to the pool. When the matter was voted down twice, a third time proved successful and work began. Underground springs hampering excavation were surmounted and the $150,000 pool opened in June after nearly two years of building. Success and popularity of the pool is overwhelming. The big clock is visible for some blocks away and swimmers can gauge their time and activities by it.

1965-06-18: The American Legion Post in Cheney purchased an American flag for the pool facility.

1971 June: wading pool completed

1971-07-29

1987

In June 2021, the pool’s pump and other systems suffered major failure. A committee was created to research options for having a functioning community pool to take before the city council and voters.