Icon viewers have expressed disappointment over learning that several area health agencies have pulled the plug on the plan to reopen the Buckeye for public swimming during Bluffton's sesquicentennial year, the Icon has learned. For a quick recap click here.
Comments we've heard from some viewers follow:
Joan Dailey said that she thought something was pretty fishy about the idea. She remembers how much fun it was swimming in the old wooden floating swimming pool in the Buckeye.
Don Pannabecker considered sending a check to the committee organizing the scheme. His wife, Romaine, every cautious, reminded Don of the date that the article appeared in print.
Jamie Mehaffie may have spilled his coffee while reading the story.
Denny Edinger decided to buy season passes for all the post office employees.
Ron Motter expressed concerning for the safety of youth who might hang around the raft, due to the creatures that he always claimed lived underneath that structure.
The Icon believes that if that plan would have gone through anyone who had passed a quarry test would have been exempt from taking it a second time.
We are curious about the game Oompa-pa, which one viewer referred to in our original story. We'd welcome that viewer or any other viewer who knows how the game is played to elaborate.
Perhaps, instead of opening the Buckeye to swimming, we could hold a sesquicentennial "jump in the Buckeye." If everyone who wanted to jump in would pay $5 for the experience, perhaps the town could afford to re-install the third stop light on Main Street.
And for $15 you could get a tee-shirt stating "I jumped in Bluffton's Buckeye and lived to tell about it." Or, better still, "I passed my Buckeye test."
