Work on the new Thompson Park swimming pool is to begin next week after the Northern Wasco County Parks and Recreation District board approved a contract with Tripplett Wellman of Woodburn to serve as a construction manager and general contractor.  District interim executive director Karl Cozad says work should begin this Tuesday.  Cozad says when all the numbers came in, the district was short $150,000 in the project budget to fully finish it, so it will seek a gap loan to finish it and pay it back through the savings the district will realize by having their offices at the pool complex rather than renting.  Cozad adds they should be able to acquire that funding through a government support agency rather than having to go out on the commercial market.  The anticipated opening date for the pool is June 13, 2015.