It’s just not summer if you can’t escape the southern heat with a refreshing dip in the pool. The Vicksburg City Pool will open to the public on Memorial Day, or Monday, May 28, so anyone searching for a way to cool down on their holiday won’t need to look any further.

The pool will be open seven days a week, and recreational swim will last from 1-5 p.m., with the exception of June 1-3, as the pool will be closed to host the annual VSA Stamm Family Invitational Swim Meet. The pool will resume normal hours on June 4.

The cost of admission for recreational swim is $4 for adults and $2 for children, and individual season passes are available for $60 and family passes are available $120.

In additional to the recreational swim hours, lap swimming hours are scheduled for Monday-Friday, 6-8:30 a.m. and noon-1 p.m.

This year, the pool changed their evening activity schedule in an effort to be more inclusive to the whole community. All evening programs begin the week of June 4, with hours lasting from 6-8 p.m. and 6:45-8 p.m. on swim lesson weeks, which are June 4-15, June 25 to July 6, and July 16-27.

Family Swim Time will be held on Mondays and Fridays, Senior Swim for ages 50-and-over will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and on Wednesday, there will be a practice for the swim team, and Tot-time for children ages seven-and-under and their adult guardian will be held in the kiddie pool.

Sylvia Gertowski, the City Pool manager, said that they had received requests for tot-time and senior swim a lot, but had never been able to fit it into their schedule. This year, they managed to move some things around and designate evening slots for them.

“We were trying to fit it into the mornings years ago, and it just wasn’t working,” Gertwoski said. “We didn’t really think about the evenings, because we’d been having family swim all five nights, and this year we decided to try and see if we could change things up a little bit, and I think this is going to work really well.”

Gertowski also offered a quick reminder of one of the important rules the pool has.

“We don’t allow any cotton T-shirts or plain clothes, Everybody has to wear a swimsuit,” Gertowski said. “If they choose to wear a nylon shorts or a dry-fit shirt over that, it’s fine, but they must have a swimsuit, not sports bras or underwear. That is for their safety and health.”