DAVIDSON—After working to raise more than $1.3 million to build a new $1.5 million swimming pool for the community, the volunteers behind the Davidson Pool Facility Committee are hanging up their blue pool committee T-shirts.

The Fire and Water Community Auction on April 8 marked the final official public appearance of those royal-blue T-shirts.

“These blue shirts,” committee member Crystal Johnson explained, “Represent passion for improving our community.”

Since 2012 the committee of community-minded individuals have worked diligently to raise money for the new swimming pool.

Johnson said the task came with a lot of risk and responsibility as they had to make difficult decisions regarding the design and scope of the project.

She added that the t-shirts represent “commitment to seeing this project to the very end.”

This year’s auction, she said, would be the committee’s last fund raiser. The pool committee partnered with Davidson Volunteer Fire Department to put on the event this year. The fire department will conduct the auction by itself when the time rolls around again, in two years’ time.

The 2018 auction, conducted by Manz Auctioneering Service, raised about $85,000 to $90,000 as people purchased a wide-array of items from eggs to farm inputs that were generously donated by Davidson and area businesses and individuals as wells as from companies in neighbouring communities.

Proceeds from the auction will be split 50/50 between the pool committee and the volunteer fire department.

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