Working Together To Strengthen Our Community!!!
Help us renovate the Gowrie Swimming Pool to promote a healthy and
safe environment for all and keep kids active in our community.
GOWRIE POOL MEMORIES...
(leave your favorite memories
of the Gowrie Pool on Facebook: Gowrie, Iowa)
"I spent practically every summer day of my childhood there. I have good memories of playing sharks and minnows in the deepend, having diving competitions, races and just playing to play. I know how lucky we were to have the pool for entertainment and I can not imagine my childhood without it. Good Times!"
- Ann Johnson Trimm
Gowrie Pool Fundraising Campaign
C/O Mindy Swieter
PO Box 41
Gowrie, IA 50543
info@gowriepool.com
"Our family was at the pool so much when we were kids...mid 1960's to about 1973....then I took my kids there when they were young, and they continued to go through high school--college. Great memories!"
- Mary Larson
"Mom would drop us off after a hot morning of bean walking. I learned to swim there and spent most every afternoon there."
- Kathy Dewbre
"Swimming lessons early in the morning and the salamandars in the pool. Also getting a candy bar if i dove off the high dive."
-Dave Wendell
"Working early at the pool- water areobics with the older crowd (why did I do that?!?)..
- Bill Carlson
"I used to hate swimming lessons because the water was always so cold. PE wasn't so bad because we (the boys) got to watch Mr. Lewis throw the girls in. Everybody had to get in whether they wanted to or not!!!"
- David Carlon
"Wow Gowrie has changed alot !! I lived there as a kid !! Im a Ellsbury !! my brothers graduated from prairie high school !! Back then they were called the panthers !! I learned to swim in that pool!!!"
- Jody Johnson
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GOWRIE POOL FUNDRAISING BROCHURE
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Local Children Get Involved....
Madi Marburger and Rylie Donahe set up a lemonade/bake sale stand to raise money for the pool during the annual Gowrie Garage Sales . The girls then brought the money that they raised, $89.18, into Security Savings Bank, who in turn matched those funds!!!
THANK YOU!!!
- Andrea 'Nelson' Wherry
"My sisters and I went to the pool almost daily every summer, and loved every minute of it! Sometimes I hear old songs that I refer to as "swimming pool songs" because we used to hear them at the pool. Just thinking about this has me hungry for bottlecaps and laffy taffy"
- Dan Mitsven
"I was a teenager when it was built and we would go swimming after hours (early AM). I beleive I was in the pool before it actually opened. Late nite swims were a tradition for many years."
- Rick Sharkey
"Early and cold swimming lessons! Both as a kid and when I taught them there!"
- Rawley King