Carnie's Comments - Let's Play Pickleball!
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- Published: Wednesday, 25 May 2022 09:39
Carnie's Comments
Let's call it progress. Local pickleball players are pumped!
The City of Moose Jaw broke ground on an outdoor pickleball facility yesterday. It's being built on the Kinsmen Sportsplex lot on the corner of 9th Avenue NW and Elizabeth Street. That space is called Kinsmen Crichton Park.
I remember clearly when our family first moved to Moose Jaw, Crichton Park was a wide-open space. We had an outdoor rink where the Sportsplex now sits, a playground with old-school equipment like a merry-go-round and a witch's hat and we had two Little League fields - diamonds three and four we called them.
The Kinsmen Arena opened in early 1976, as I recall, with a promise that our outdoor rink would be re-erected adjacent to the new facility. That never did happen. I'm still waiting. But, let's keep it positive, shall we?
That neighbourhood will be even busier than it already is with the addition of the pickleball courts. We'll have a one-stop-shop for recreation - pickleball, swimming, baseball, hockey and figure skating and let us not forget the skate park on the north side of Macdonald Street.
Moose Jaw's a good place to be, isn't it?