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The Sunset Empire Park & Recreation District is hosting a six-week Pickleball series on Saturdays through Feb. 20 at the Camp
Rilea Training Center gymnasium. Alice Lane (left), of Seaside, is coaching.
Seaside recreation district
offers pickleball program
Saturday sessions held
at Camp Rilea, open to
the public
R.O.C.C.
There will also be a si-
lent auction of items do-
nated by local businesses
and artists. R.O.C.C. pro-
vides free library cards
for kids in Clatsop Coun-
ty who are not served
by a city library. The
R.O.C.C. program also
runs a countywide sum-
mer reading program and
courier services between
Clatsop County schools
and public libraries. For
more information call the
Astoria Public Library
at 503-325-7323, the
Seaside Public Library
at 503-738-6742, or the
Warrenton Public Library
at 503-861-3919.
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Pickleball — a sport that
is gaining popularity for its
accessibility to athletes of
all levels — doesn’t have
a lot, or really anything, to
do with pickles. It’s a sim-
ple volley game, similar
to a slow-moving version
of tennis that uses shorter
paddles, a light perforated
plastic ball and a badmin-
ton-sized court.
Community members
on the North Coast can
learn more about the game,
thanks to a new program
being offered through a
partnership of the United
States of America Pickle-
ball Association and the
Sunset Empire Park & Rec-
reation District.
The program, held at the
Camp Rilea Armed Forces
Training Center gymna-
sium, started Jan. 16 with
demonstrations and instruc-
tions. It’s not too late to get
in on the fun, though. The
group is meeting every
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. through Feb. 20.
Seaside’s Alice Lane
provides coaching on be-
half of the USAPA. She
started playing pickleball
about 12 years ago while
visiting Palm Springs, Cal-
ifornia. She was introduced
to the sport there, then
bought rackets and balls for
herself and has kept playing
ever since.
Lane said the sport is
easy to learn, “so much eas-
ier than tennis.”
Lauren and Paul Fisher,
of Seaside, who play tennis
recreationally, agreed after
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Jan. 23.
“I thought it was great,”
Lauren Fisher said. “I think
anybody could come in and
have fun.”
Pickleball provides a
faster learning curve. Un-
like tennis, where a person
must play a lot before it be-
comes enjoyable, “you can
have fun very quickly,” she
said.
Pickleball also is de-
signed to be a social game,
Lane said. With three courts,
the Camp Rilea gymnasium
is a good facility for a com-
munity program, she added.
She also was given storage
space in the building for the
duration of the program.
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ing outreach takes place
Thursday, Feb. 11, from
6 to 8 p.m. at the Seaside
Convention Center.
The Astoria, Seaside,
and Warrenton libraries
will hold an auction of
Little Free Libraries and
a fundraiser to support
Rural Outreach in Clat-
sop County. For the past
two months, folks on the
North Coast have been
building Little Free Li-
braries that can be set up
in neighborhoods as com-
munity book exchanges.
The Little Free Libraries
will be auctioned off, and
all proceeds will go to
Lauren Fisher, of Seaside, got her first taste of pickleball for during a session Jan. 23 at the
Camp Rilea gymnasium in Warrenton.
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Alice Lane, of Seaside, provides pickleball in-
struction on behalf of the United States of Amer-
ica Pickleball Association during the Sunset
Empire Park & Recreation’s program. The public
is welcome to play for a drop-in rate of $5 from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays through Feb. 20.
Barney McCallum, the trio
of friends created rules for
their game.
There are two theories
regarding the name’s ori-
gin, and it is possible both
are true. McCallum claimed
the Pritchard family chose
to name their newly invent-
ed game pickleball, because
their cocker spaniel, Pick-
les, often ran off with the
ball. Pritchard’s wife, Joan,
claimed she started “call-
ing the game pickleball
because ‘the combination
of different sports remind-
ed me of the pickle boat in
crew, where oarsmen were
chosen from the leftovers
of other boats,” the website
states.
The sport caught on in
the community, among
neighbors and friends. In
1972, a corporation was
What’s in a name
formed to protect the new
Pickleball
originated sport, the website states.
in the Seattle area in the The United States of Amer-
1960s. Joel Pritchard, a ica Pickleball Association,
congressman at the time, organized in 1984, is now
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wanted to play badminton governing body for the
with their two families, but game, which has experi-
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adequate equipment. They crease in popularity over
improvised, replacing the the past few years.
badminton rackets with
In pickleball, the ball is
wooden ping-pong paddles served underhand, without
and using perforated plas- bouncing it from the court,
tic balls. With the help of and diagonally to the oppo-
Lauren Fisher during a pickleball game Jan.
23. The Sunset Empire Park & Recreation Dis-
trict is sponsoring a pickleball program that
goes through Feb. 20.
nent’s service zone.
Points are scored by the
serving side only and occur
when the opponent fails to
return the ball or hits the
ball out of bounds, also
known as faults. The serv-
er continues to serve, alter-
ing service courts, until the
server faults.
A game is won by the
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but will continue until won
by a two-point margin.
who work during the week.
The district wanted to
sponsor the pickleball pro-
gram because it is a good
recreational activity for
participants of many ages
and something fairly new to
the area, Smith said. Only
one site in Seaside is listed
on the USAPA website as
a place to play, and that is
at Thousand Trails’ Seaside
RV Resort.
Lane said she believes
offering pickleball pro-
Pickleball on the
grams and courts — which
North Coast
have the same dimensions
as doubles badminton
The Seaside recreation courts — in the local com-
district covers liability in- munities will make this re-
surance for the program and gion even more of a desti-
Lane pays rent for the facil- nation area.
ity. In the summer of 2015,
“The Oregon coast al-
the district offered a few ready is a destination point
sessions of pickleball on and this will be another at-
Wednesday mornings for traction,” she said.
about a month at Seaside
In order to increase the
Heights Elementary School sport’s presence in the area,
for people of all ages.
“we would need people to
The district is always come out and try it for the
looking for ways to “en- ¿UVW WLPH´ 6PLWK VDLG$I-
gage the community more,” ter people try it once, they
especially during the winter are likely to play again, she
months when outdoor ac- added.
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Balls and paddles are
provide, Fitness and Spe- provided. The cost is $5 per
cial Events Manager Grace person for three hours of
Smith said. They decided play; only cash is accept-
to hold it on Saturdays for ed. Camp Rilea is located
the winter program to make at 333168 Patriot Way in
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