Five years ago, Audrey Workman presented her pickleball group with an idea to spread the holiday spirit to a family in need.

The group of 25 seniors, who have played a few times every week for the last decade, had volunteered and donated to other initiatives around the city in the past, so Workman thought the Christmas Cheer Board’s Feed-A-Family program would be a perfect fit for her clan.

The Pickleball Pals bought in immediately, and they’ve done so every year since.

“It started with the idea that we’re very fortunate. We have everything we need and recognizing that there are people in the community who don’t have that, and realizing that, as a group, we can impact somebody,” Workman said.

“We thought we could do a little bit more and make it more personal.”

This year, the Pickleba

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