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Caitlin Pfeiffer with young Kaihlan … worried about lack of shade at the Kingaroy pool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

January 24, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kingaroy mum Caitlin Pfeiffer has launched an online petition in a bid to prove to the South Burnett Regional Council that local residents want more shade at the Kingaroy swimming pool.<\/p>\n

Caitlin’s three-year-old son Kaihlan is about to start swimming lessons, and she’s worried there’s not enough shade over the pool, and in the poolside area.<\/p>\n

“You can’t stay for long in the pool, and you can’t sit for long near the pool,” she said.<\/p>\n

“There needs to be some sort of shading.<\/p>\n

“Half the time the sun is belting into the grandstand.<\/p>\n

“They took the trees down along the fence and didn’t replace them with anything.”<\/p>\n

Caitlin said she also believed the children’s pool, which is currently half-shaded, should have a full cover.<\/p>\n

And the main pool should at least have some shade cloth across it, if not down the full length.<\/p>\n

After comments on social media, Caitlin emailed South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann and Deputy Mayor Keith Campbell about the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

She started the petition on Change.org on Monday so she could go back to Council with numbers; more than 320 people have already signed it.<\/p>\n

South Burnett councillors visited the pool on Friday morning to discuss improvements at the facility.<\/p>\n

Mayor Kratzmann said the lack of shade was “a very valid point”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n