Winchester’s former vice mayor Tim Slate thrilled residents this week when he unveiled a brand new, stunning, above-ground Centrepointe. While it won’t be filled with Ale-8 and open for swimming until after Memorial Day the buzz is already exciting residents across the town.

We spoke with a Winchester resident who insisted his name was only Carl (and then produced a driver’s license to prove he had no last name). Carl compared Winchester’s Centrepointe very favorably with Lexington’s, “Look, we’ll get ours up and going in a couple of days, just have to get an air compressor and inflate it. Y’all Lexington folk can fill yours in with parking garages or whatever, but us, we’re gonna fill ‘er up with Ale-8, straight from the hose, and watch them pretty girls walk by. We’re not lookin’ for world equestrian games, but we wouldn’t mind some Marco Polo.”

While many residents are excited about the potential for their Centrepointe in the summer months, former vice mayor Slate has made it very clear this is not just a seasonal project. “I know in Lexington they put up a big fence and then as soon as it gets under 50 degrees or over 54 degrees they’re not allowed to do any work on it but not us.”

Slate laid out his plans for a year round Centrepointe saying, “come next winter we’re gonna toss some bass in there and have some ice fishing.” When we asking if bass could survive in Ale-8 the former vice mayor pointed to a singing Big Mouth Billy Bass on his office wall and said, “I caught that last week.”

Former Vice Mayor Slate said “this thing is going to get better and better, after we do 8 years of construction, imagine how many decks and slides this baby is gonna have!”