AFTER LOCAL RESIDENTS rallied twice last month to save the community’s school pools, Premier Dalton McGuinty pledged $12 million toward capital funding.

The  pools at Winona McMurrich Junior Public School and Forest Hill Collegiate Institute will not be drained, as they were scheduled to be this June. How the $80,000 to $100,000 operating costs for each pool will be covered is still a problem for former mayor David Crombie and his Aquatics Working Group and will be tackled in coming months..

“We need to sit down together and find long-term solutions,” said school board trustee Josh Matlow.

Last year the school board announced that 39 school pools would close, citing insufficient funding from the province.