{"id":7390,"date":"2019-06-03T11:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=7390"},"modified":"2019-06-03T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:58:04","slug":"pickleball-courts-planned-for-franklin-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/pickleball-courts-planned-for-franklin-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickleball Courts Planned for Franklin Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The City of Yakima is starting work this week on creating eight courts for one of the nation’s fastest growing sports \u2013 Pickleball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

photo courtesy USAPA<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Three of the six\ntennis courts at the City’s Franklin Park will be converted to pickleball, a\nsport that combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping-pong. It is played\neither as doubles or singles with paddles and wiffle balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Franklin\nPark courts are older and need to be renovated,” said Parks and Recreation\nManager Ken Wilkinson. “We have a pickleball group that has agreed to help\nwith the project and will provide volunteer labor and funding.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The renovation’s\ncost is estimated at $10,000, with City park maintenance staff providing most\nof the labor to save costs. “We will also use the project as an\nopportunity to train staff on tennis court renovations, as well,” said\nWilkinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Sig\nFossum with Sporthaus has agreed to assist with renovating the three Franklin\nPark tennis courts into eight pickleball courts, applying his experience in\nrenovating other courts in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Once again,\ngenerous people in our community see a need and are willing to step up and do\nwhat it takes to make our community a better place,” said Wilkinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more about\npickleball, visit the USA Pickleball Association (USAPA) website at https:\/\/www.usapa.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USAPA has\nposted an introductory video about the sport at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=30&v=hGfk7wTBg3E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click https:\/\/yakimaparks.com\/<\/a> for more about Yakima Parks and\nRecreation programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The City of Yakima is starting work this week on creating eight courts for one of the nation’s fastest growing sports \u2013 Pickleball. photo courtesy USAPA Three of the six tennis courts at the City’s Franklin Park will be converted to pickleball, a sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping-pong. It is played<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[310],"class_list":["post-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pickleball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7390"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}