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Top Local: Ottawa pool closure and new $185,000 project
The Forest Park pool closure in July 1966 prompted a special election for a new pool. By September the city approved a $185,000 pool to be completed in 1967 after protests by citizens and groups. The pool ranked as the top local news story of 1966 in Herald staff voting.
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