(Photo Credit: Grande Prairie Pickleball Club)

By Nathaniel Leigh

Grande Prairie Pickleball Club

Grande Prairie Pickleball Club receives provincial funding for court upgrades

Dec 18, 2024 | 1:18 PM

The Grande Prairie Pickleball Club has received some extra funding from the province.

Club president Wendy Trepanier says the money will be used to resurface their pickleball courts, as part of a series of needed upgrades.

“We also require other repairs,” Trepanier says. “We have a drainage issue on the north side of our courts, and we’d like to have that fixed. We have some fencing issues that need to be rectified, and we’re looking at some wind screens that surround the different courts.”

Trepanier calls the announcement fantastic news.

“Our board has been working quite strenuously the last several months to find grants that will give us some additional funding, so we can get this project completed,” she says. “We did receive what is currently the Outdoor Pickleball Courts from the city. They are owned by the city but we took them over a few years back.”

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She says the resurfacing should be finished in August.

“Now as far as the drainage issue? We don’t have a timeline on that,” she says. “That won’t necessarily impact the resurfacing project that’s outside of the stands. So, that draining issue is outside and a different project in itself. Separate, but still inclusive of the entire repairs for our courts.”

The Active Communities Initiative is allocating $4.2 million in funding grants to 12 sport organizations to fund needed renovations and construction projects for their facilities.