Heads swimming over opening of water park -
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Published on: 6/16/2002
Last Visited: 6/16/2002
"If they can get it open by then, God bless 'em," Joliet City Council member Joe Shetina said."But there's an outside shot it won't happen this year."
Officials from the park district, which will operate Splash Station when it's done and will have lost approximately $435,600 by July 20 by not having it open, insist there will be some swimming squeezed in this summer.
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"I don't know," Shetina said when asked if he thought the water park would open at all this summer."If they don't get it done by August, I don't think there's any point in opening it up."
The majority of the park's 80 employees - most of whom were hired as lifeguards - are either college or high school students who will head back to class in mid to late August.
For now, almost all of those employees remain on the park district payroll, training or working at two other swimming pools in town.