Tennis Court Repair March 2008

Part of the park that the community garden is located in, has a Tennis Court. In the past, the there were very few people that came to play tennis each summer. In 2006, the story changed. I would see line-ups for the court. And harvested many tennis ball from my garden too. It was great to see how the community garden just brought people to the park. In 2007, there were still a lot of tennis players, but I noticed that there weren't as many, so I asked them what had changed?

The reply was simple: One side of the court was no longer usable. "You would hit the ball in that direction, and it would bounce into a pot hole and would go flying off in a different drection!" "Pot holes?" I inquired. "Well, not really visable holes, but deep spots, and high ridges." and as the tennis players took me for a tour of the surface of the court I could see that this was a real problem, and a safty concern as well, one player mentioned that her son has scrapes and bruises from trippping on them. I passed this infromation on, and I guess it fell on the right ears. This year the Tennis court will be repaired.

By the middle of April the contractor had cleared out the old foundation of the court and had laid the new limestone foundation.

So finally the court is finished and my favorite tennis players have come back...

...and the gentle sound of the ball being hit back and forth between the players has returned.