A year after Catherine Henderson implored the community club board of directors to make more tennis time available at the Racquet Center, the former Racquet Sports Committee chairwoman repeated her plea, this time armed with research showing potential harmful effects of pickleball noise.
Henderson’s conclusion, as she told the board at its December meeting at The Center, is that pickleball noise “is absolutely unbearable and unsafe.”
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