Holiday House Pool having a good year
WEST ROCKHILL >> It looks like it won’t be hard for the Holiday House Pool and Recreation Center to keep its head above water this year.
“The Holiday House pool’s having a very good year,” Jim Miller, chairman of the West Rockhill-Sellersville Joint Recreation Commission, which oversees the pool owned by the two municipalities, said during the West Rockhill Township Board of Supervisors July 21 meeting. Miller is also a West Rockhill supervisor.
With the Quakertown and Nockamixon pools closed this year, some of the people who normally would go there are coming to Holiday House, he said.
“We have already equaled our projected goal for revenue this year and we’re only halfway through the season,” Miller said.
Rentals for things such as birthday parties are going well, he said.
The Quakertown swim team, which was renting the pool for morning practices, has now finished, he said, but will be replaced by the Pennridge High School Aquatics team which is using the Holiday House pool while work is being done on the high school pool.
Holiday House has also been working with the Menlo Aquatics Center in Perkasie, helping out with personnel and providing rental parties if Menlo was unable to do so, he said.
“The zipline has been a huge treat for everyone,” Miller said.
This is the first year Holiday House has had the zipline.
“Everything’s been going really well, no complaints, and we seem to be doing quite well,” Miller said.
In another matter at the meeting, Township Manager Greg Lippincott asked the board what should be done to distribute the fall newsletter after the spring newsletter was sent to the U.S. Postal Service bulk distribution center in Philadelphia, but was not received by the residents until months later.
The two mailing alternatives are to again use the Philadelphia bulk distribution center or to send the newsletters out by mail carrier route, he said.
“The difference is currently we mail out to 1,800 residents and landowners. However, using the alternative method, it would be by the mail route, so you’ll get people in Quakertown, people in Green Lane, people in Sellersville — you will go outside of your boundaries with your mail list and this will jump the mail count up to 4,641 households, which would increase your postage by $860, but then there would not be a threat of it being delayed,” Lippincott said.
“First of all, I am extremely disappointed in what happened in the spring,” Miller said.
He said he thinks he received his newsletter in the mail three weeks before the July meeting. The newsletters went to the postal service the end of March, Lippincott said at a previous meeting.
“It’s ridiculous,” Miller said of the late delivery. “I mean everything that was in that newsletter was old news.”
“We all know how the mail has been over the pandemic,” board member Jay Keyser said. “I had bills I didn’t get for months after they were already due.”
The newsletter wasn’t the only mailing problem, he said.
“It’s everything in everybody’s household that relies on the mail system because people didn’t go to work and their mail didn’t get moved,” Keyser said.
All three board members said they did not want to spend additional money to send the newsletter by mail route and have a lot of the newsletters go to people in other towns.
“The system has worked except for this spring,” board Chairman David Collingwood said.
“My position would be to try it one more time with the Philadelphia distribution center and see what happens,” he said.
The other two board members agreed to again use the bulk distribution.
Lately, the mail seems to be arriving in a more reasonable time, Miller said.
When the newsletter is printed, copies will also be available for pick up at the township office or to be printed out from the township website, Lippincott said.