Dear Editor,
My children and I went to South Arm today, as we occasionally do, to work on their hockey skills.
There is a lacrosse box with two hockey nets that we utilize for shooting pucks.
Ice time can be expensive and this is the perfect place for them to get in their reps.
Only today we found that the city had painted three shiny, new pickle ball courts, right in the centre of the lacrosse box.
Not on one end, where there could still be enough room for people who would like to use the box for one of its intended purposes.
Right in the middle. Not only have we lost a third of the court in the past few years for the construction of new courts, but now there’s no place for us to play hockey if the court is occupied, which it seemingly always is.
I understand that there is a want for more pickle ball spaces, but why take away from another area?
Why punish people who want to play hockey?
Does the city have an anti-hockey agenda? Courts and nets have been disappearing throughout the elementary schools.
Again, another example of a shortsighted city catering to one lobby’s agenda.
Paul Scheff
Richmond
