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To the Editor:

The New Canaan Pops in the Park Committee wishes to express our gratitude to the residents of New Canaan and our neighboring communities for supporting the 5th annual Pops in the Park with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra.  

We estimate that approximately 1,800 people turned out on Sunday, June 7th for our “America 250!” concert on the great lawn behind Waveny House. A big thank you goes to our Platinum Sponsors Chris Gruseke and Bankwell, the lead sponsor again this year, and Chris and Terri Bell (Horizon Kinetics), as well as our Gold Sponsors, including Waveny Park Conservancy, where Michelle Crookenden and the Board do amazing work in the upkeep of our beautiful park. 

Our heartfelt thanks go out to our other generous sponsors:

Karl Chevrolet 
New Canaan Community Foundation
Dawn Sterner at Brown Harris Stevens Real Estate
Walter Stewart’s Market
Bill Bergner at State Farm Insurance
New Canaan Music
CMI Dunkin
HTG Investment Advisors
The Franco, Lara Kelly, Kerridge and Schlein families in New Canaan and Westport.  

We offer special thanks to all our volunteers, especially the Service League of Boys (SLOBS).

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I write this in my capacities as: a Civil Engineer; a 15-year former New Canaan YMCA Board member; a NC Y project team member for the Valles expansion in 1978-1980 and the 2014-2016 Forese renovation; and a Board member and member of the Building Committee, the Finance Committee and the Pool Committee during the Forese renovation. The Pool Update & Facility Survey signed by Margaret Riley, CEO of the Y, states that three years ago an architect and engineer concluded that the Valles building requires repairs that will span 1-2 years at a cost of millions of dollars; that the Valles pool will be closed later this year; and that the Valles Pool may be replaced by a new aquatic center. She has also said to me that the building is in danger of failure.

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To the Editor,

As a daily 5:30 a.m. lap swimmer at the New Canaan YMCA for the past 10 years, I would like to express the concerns of many members regarding the proposed demolition of the Valles Pool. Hundreds of swimmers rely on access to both pools. Many of us swim before heading to work, and some members even join the New Canaan YMCA from neighboring towns such as Stamford and Norwalk because of its convenient location and early-morning pool access.

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The post below is the contents of a letter Friends of Valles, a 93-member group of New Canaan Y members in support of keeping the Valles Pool, sent to the New Canaan YMCA Board of Directors on Friday evening, June 5. It had multiple authors as the group contributed to it. I am submitting it.

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Op-Ed: An Update from the YMCA on the Valles Pool

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[Margaret Riley is CEO of the New Canaan YMCA]

Dear friends, 

I have had the privilege of leading our amazing YMCA for the last five years. More times than I can count, a member has approached me to tell me how our Y has changed their lives. These stories motivate me, and all our staff and board, to work to ensure that our Y is here for decades to come, so that future generations of New Canaanites can experience the joy this place delivers daily. We serve many functions. We are a full-day childcare, camp, gym, fitness center, aquatics facility, place for inclusion and support programming, chronic disease support, and community center where people come to connect. 

When a place means so much to the community, it’s understandable that you would feel passionate about being engaged with any potential change.