Admittedly, looking at the tennis/pickleball court issue from the outside looking in, the actions that took place in connection with whether or not the Board would approve permanent playing time and use of a portion of the tennis courts by the Pickle Ball club players became a real quagmire of: who said they said; without the Board’s direction an estimate to install separate Pickle Ball courts was developed months ago; fragmented meetings were held off and on by club members and staff; an opinion from the Fitness Advisory Committee was solicited; at the last COTW meeting the Board approved a permanent commitment to allow Pickle Ball on two existing tennis courts; this week the Board rescinded its COTW meeting vote based on the recognition that it was not presented with adequate information on which to act. The impression from all of this was that there was a whole lot of talking going on for a long time in multiple directions. This is not to minimize or trivialize all of the various efforts, but, to an outsider looking in, it might continue to be a little confusing about what occurred to date. It would seem that the Board agreed with that impression. So what to do? The Board voted to authorize a new advisory committee for the purpose of gathering information for its consideration, not withstanding the fact that data and analysis had already been collected to determine time requirements for both clubs on the existing courts. It was not determined who will serve on that ad hoc committee.
As the Board president recalled, additional tennis courts were built a few years ago to accommodate, what was anticipated at the time to be an exponential interest in the game. That imminent need never did, nor likely, will ever happen. Interest in pickle ball has grown.
Civil heads will prevail to resolve the current dilemma! The ball is in someone’s court!
Any one for a game of darts? No courts needed.
Jim Darow
Sun City resident
I am writing this letter to all Sun City Seniors urging them to take advantage to the programs and medical tests that are offered by the wellness center. In November of 2015, I had the wellness screening of the carotid arteries and was told that I had an abnormal amount of calcified plaque In my right artery of the neck. Future testing by a cardiologist showed that the blockage was almost 90 percent, which required surgery. I had no symptoms whatever, but I was told that without this test I could have had a stroke. So please take advantage of the programs offered by the wellness center.
Mr. R. Seller
Neighborhood 31
