Paula Simons: Don't throw the wading pool out with the bath water

For 25 wonderful years, the City Hall wading pool has been the glory of downtown Edmonton. Every summer, people flock there to wade and splash. It is our most beautiful, our most delightful, and our most popular downtown amenity. It makes City Hall feel accessible, joyously democratic, a place for the people. 
So I was horrified to read Elise Stolte’s scoop Tuesday in the Journal telling us we’re spending $13 million to retrofit the pool as a much shallower fountain. Curren