Offering a lift for the handicap

If you’ve been out at the Eagle Grove Family Aquatic Center this summer, you know it’s a popular place to be for both kids and adults. But until now, it hasn’t been the easiest facility to use for those with a mobility handicap.

Lisa Kist, aquatic center manager, is happy to announce that the facility now has a portable pool lift chair available in compliance of the American’s with Disabilities Act. Now, individuals in wheelchairs, or those who have a hard time getting in and out of deeper water, can request the use of the chair that is easily self manipulated. If it’s not already out when you get to the pool, all you have to do is ask the person at the front desk and the guards will happily get it out and set it up for you. It only takes a matter of a couple minutes. Kist noted the reason it may not be kept out all the time is to prolong the life of the chair and keep tempted children from playing on it. If someone is using it, the chair will remain out the entire time they are at the pool.

The lift chair is located on the north end of the pool near the lifeguard chair. A simple turn of the handle lowers you in and raises you out of the water at your will.

Read the full article in the July 13 edition of the Eagle.