Youngstown pool, playgrounds open thanks to stimulus money through MYCAP

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s summer youth recreation programs will begin and its North Side Pool is to open Wednesday thanks to the use of federal stimulus package money.

The Ohio Department of Development’s Office of Community Services gave final approval to a request from the Mahoning-Youngstown Community Action Partnership to use the money for the city programs and pool, said Kimber Perfect, an ODOD spokeswoman.

Youth recreation programs at seven parks in the city were begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. and the pool, on Tod Avenue, was to open at 1 p.m., said Jason Whitehead, director of the city’s park and recreation commission and the mayor’s chief of staff.

Without the stimulus program, the programs and pool opening wouldn’t have happened, Whitehead said.

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