However, fast forward several summers, countless parties, swim lessons and hours basking in the sun at the pool, I can tell you that I am so incredibly happy our community has that dang pool.

From swim lessons, to aerobics, the pool is pretty much always packed – a good sign that I am not the only one who appreciates having it in our community.

In fact, Peach had her fourth birthday party there and it was a huge success. (Also due to the fact that I didn’t have to clean before or after the guests arrived).

For a really fair price, Peach and her friends (under the eyes of the lifeguards) frolicked about in the water, while some of the adults joined in, and others were able to rest peacefully at the tables. It’s a very cool place to have a party.

In addition, outside of just children’s birthdays, I have seen our pool host the college, graduating seniors, almost of the elementary schools and our county’s swim lessons.

Which, by the way, BRAVO! I know I said it before, but it bears repeating – the staff at the pool worked wonders with both my girls teaching them to swim. Prior to their lessons, Pearl was terrified to even put her face in the water.

More impressively, since our community has the pool, it has become a place for our community youth to learn and compete in a new sport. We as community, now have swim teams! And from what I hear, our guys and gals, are pretty great!

The addition to the pool to our town has really been a blessing. Want something to tire out the kids for a couple hours on a Saturday? The pool is the place! Convenient, always clean, and for a very good price it’s an excellent way to spend the last remaining days of summer!

Five minutes of the warm sun on your face, the kids squealing in the water, and the teens jumping off the diving board, will put you in a good mood.

It is a great gathering place for our community, and of course, is one of the reasons I love where we live.

A big thank you to the Cal-FIRE Lassen-Modoc Unit Devil’s Garden Crew One, who spent Friday at Susanville’s “Pat Murphy Field” Little League complex cleaning up and doing some summer maintenance.

Lightning can create new fire starts. Strong outflow wind gusts up to 45 mph could cause a fire to rapidly grow in size and intensity before first responders can contain them.

Avoid outdoor activities that can cause a spark near dry vegetation, such as yard work, target shooting, or campfires.

Dropping in a tail spin for about 1500 feet an airplane piloted by F.C. Schott with Tony Malfa and Onto Ottino, two high school students as passengers, crashed to the earth here yesterday afternoon in the presence of two thousand celebrants.

Schott and the two boys were taken to a hospital and through badly shaken up home received serious injuries and all will recover.

The plane, which came here from Reno yesterday morning was doing aerial stunts and carrying passengers all day.

The two boys, who are about eighteen years old, were taken into the air on a stunt flight and apparently the machine was not high enough in the air to come out of the tail spin and it landed upside down, and the main business street of the city in the Milwood section. The plane was badly smashed.

The two boys were unconscious for nearly five hours but apparently were not seriously injured. Schott’s nose was broken.