Greetings Everyone,

Here are a few items to let you know about:

1. We have been receiving complaints from players who have reserved courts on Hold My Court (HMC). The gist of the complaints revolves around players showing up early for their court time. It can be intimidating to have people lined up at the court five minutes before their reservation time watching that court’s game. This is even more amplified if it is a large group (i.e. a dozen men from Men’s Day) waiting. So could you please wait in the parking lot until your actual court time. If the group before you is unaware and are not packing up by that time, feel free to gently remind them then. 

2. Speaking of showing up early ... .Many of you who register for a Weekly Organized Play event like to show up early and play a game or two with our Drop In Play members. There is nothing wrong with that, however we do expect you to follow the same procedures, namely sign up on the whiteboard, limit your warm-up to a couple of minutes and vacate the courts immediately after your game is over.

3. Many of you are playing in the afternoons during public play times. We just want to remind you that after 1:00 pm you are governed by the rules that the city has established and are posted at the courts. The key understanding is that once people are waiting for a court the players have 30 minutes in which to finish up. What isn’t very clear is that this applies to all 12 courts NOT just court 1 and 2. Yes we know that the configuration of the Boucherie courts makes it difficult to let players on other courts know that you are waiting and we have brought this to the city’s attention and are awaiting their response. If you have any suggestions on how to handle this situation please reach out to us and we will forward your ideas to the city.

4. If you have visited our Hold My Court page you will have noticed that there are 8 new courts listed there as Shannon Lake Court 1-8. The city will be painting 8 pickleball courts at Shannon Lake and were to be done last week but the weather has delayed the process. Once everything is functioning there we will make another announcement complete with operating details. 

That’s it for now. Have fun and play nice.