The next Players Rating Session will be on Wednesday January 22.at Smith Hazel from 9am-12pm. Three slots still available. Click here to sign up.
Aiken Pickleball News
The minutes from the January Leadership Team Meeting have been post. Click here to read full report.
Here is your chance. We need someone to help post items on the Aiken Pickleball website. From “What's Happening” to the latest going ons in Aiken Pickleball. A couple of hours a week be part of the team that makes things happen. Don't have a computer or laptop? Not a problem - a laptop will be provided for your use 24/7 If interested, send an email to AikenPickleball@gmail.com. Training will be provided.
Please note that Odell is not longer accepting donations for Golden Harvest or Toys for Tots. For those of you that still want to contribute to Golden Harvest you can take your donations directly to their drop off point at 81 Capital Drive off of Banks Mill Road.
We are trying to get 2000 signatures on a petition to be presented to the City of Aiken on December 17, asking the City to provide more pickleball courts. Please help by adding your signature - contact Jordan Balba at jdb918@gmail.com. And why do we need more courts?
Over fifty schools in Aiken County now have pickleball programs. The Fall League had 134 players. That number is expected to increase to over 400 participants this coming spring. Each year over 100 people attend New Players Clinics offered at Odell Weeks. The sport continues to grow.
Junior Kids - Mead Hall - After School Program
The toilets closest to the outdoor pickleball courts at Virginia Acres Park are closed indefinitely for extensive renovations. As the project is expected to take a couple of months, the City plans to eventually provide porta potties. In the meantime, players can use the front entrance at Odell to access the restrooms located near Gyms 1 & 2. An official announcement by the City is expected soon.
I'm sure most have noticed that the calendar on the website has been taking forever to load. Some of you have just now discovered there are two calendars on the website - Localendar and Google Calendar. What is the difference?
Localendar is generated from the Google calendar by an iCal feed. We do not type any entries into Localendar. When working properly it is easiest to read using a smartphone. When the Localendar site is busy (with calendars in addition to ours) it takes forever to load, sometimes as long as three minutes and has numerous duplicate entries.
Google calendar is the master calendar that we work from. It is generated by us from the monthly schedules we received from Odell Weeks, Smith-Hazel and Gregg Park. We use the entries on the Google calendar to update the Sign up Genius each week. When brought up on a computer or laptop it is easy to read when displaying one week at a time. Not so easy to read when using a smartphone, but still readable.
The good news is the Local Calendar is back to loading in a reasonable amount to time.
The outdoor courts at Virginia Acres Park (behind Odell Weeks) are open! There is some debris on the courts, so you might want to take a broom or blower if you plan to play there.