Summer is just around the corner, which means a lot of pools around Cedar Rapids will be opening soon.Bender Pool will be opening up on Memorial Day weekend. Ch ...

The swimming pool at the Helen G. Nassif YMCA in downtown Cedar Rapids was recently closed indefinitely ... Young people cited the pool in the Ellis Park YMCA as one reason to keep that facility ...

Viola Gibson knew it was wrong that Black children and teenagers, like her nephew, weren't allowed to swim in Ellis Pool in Cedar Rapids. So in 1942, she helped reactivate the Cedar Rapids branch ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ... Ellis, and Jones pools are supposed to open in late June, but the city said that timetable could change, depending on staffing levels. Tuuri, who visits the Noelridge pool ...