Satiating demand for pickleball in Oak Harbor may come at the cost of some of the city’s other recreational amenities.

Ongoing discussions about adding pickleball courts in the city continued at a Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission meeting on Sept. 8. Building eight new courts as planned may take years to complete, but in the interim, an existing basketball court could be converted into three pickleball courts at either Fort Nugent or Windjammer Park.

Darin Cook, president of the Whidbey Pickleball Association, spoke at the meeting and then to the News-Times on Sunday. As grateful as he is for the courts Oak Harbor currently offers and the ones on the horizon, Cook felt more could be done to help picklers in the city.

“We do have a place to play, but it’s not provided by the cit

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