Our city of 115,000 deserves more than two aging swimming pools Written By: Post Bulletin Editorial Board | 8:30 am, May 8, 2021 × "Like the mythical Phoenix rising, so have risen the hopes of an even brighter future for Silver Lake Pool despite this summer's previously planned closing." So wrote Heidi Granstrom, one of the organizers of Save Our Silver Lake Pool, a citizens group that raised more than $34,000 for operational expenses to reopen Rochester's oldest pool ... in 2004. On Tuesday, the Rochester Park Board agreed with a City Council plan to pull the Silver Lake Pool out of the city budget scrap heap and operate it for one more year ... at a cost of $95,000. And that doesn't include permanent fixes of the 43-year-old pool's many shortcomings.