READING, Pa. – Water\u2019s spraying, kids are running, and dozens of families are cooling off in Oakbrook during Reading’s final Wacky Water Wednesday of the summer.<\/p>\n
“We’re having a great time; all my kids are having a great time. It’s nice. It’s a nice event. They’re having popcorn and bracelets for the kids for back to school,” said Reading mom Janelle Ash.<\/p>\n
Ash brought a big crew to the event today. The woman is a mom of ten, with nine of them heading back to school.<\/p>\n
“The kids can bounce around from thing to thing, so they get to experience different things,” Ash said.<\/p>\n
Wacky Water Wednesday is just one of several ways the city has given families a place to cool off, stay active, and spend time together this summer. That summer fun also continues at the Schlegel Park Pool.<\/p>\n
“I decided to bring the kids because they’re almost going back to school, so they can have a good time for a while,” said Reading mom Jennifer Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez says spaces like this matter, especially for families looking for something affordable and close to home.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s helped a lot of people. Not just this, but the parks where there’s water. Because there are a lot of families that don’t have transportation to go to places like pools,” Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n
With five-dollar admission at Schlegel Park Pool through Friday, families still have time for a few more summer memories.<\/p>\n
Reading School District students head back to class Monday, August 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Water\u2019s spraying, kids are running, and dozens of families are cooling off in Oakbrook during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[113186,44072,734,733,1507,539,736,128,130,129,87248,88259,113187,113185],"class_list":["post-268451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-affordable-recreation","tag-back-to-school","tag-children","tag-community-event","tag-family-fun","tag-pa","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schlegel-park-pool","tag-summer-activities","tag-summer-memories","tag-wacky-water-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}