The pickleball courts on LBCC’s Albany campus are a popular place to play and learn the sport of pickleball. In 2019 the city of Albany would replace the tennis courts with pickleball courts for an estimated $300,000, and LBCC would then be responsible for maintaining the courts. In April of 2020 it was officially 300,000 to officially renovate the old tennis courts into 8 pickleball courts and one sports court for tennis. By August of 2021 the renovation was finished and their was now 12 pickleball courts. There was some criticism of the $330,000 project of why the city needs to spend so much on just pickleball courts instead of things like homelessness. There was also a lot of positive talk and excitement from the Albany Pickleball Club and some community members saying they would be well used. Pickleball is a popular paddle sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. It is played on a smaller court with a perforated plastic ball and solid paddles....
If you have ventured near LBCC’s pickleball courts you have seen all the workers on the roof of the Periwinkle Center, along with the fenced up area where people usually park at the Albany campus. The Periwinkle Child Development Center is home to the child resource center. All the workers and closed fence was due to the expansion and remodeling of the building. Now the work is done and students, staff and their families will reap the fruits of the labor. On Tuesday, Feb. 13, it was time for the grand opening, introducing the newly remodeled building. Former teachers, college board members, and Albany City Council members along with the mayor showed up to add to the importance of this event and show their support. From the outside the Periwinkle Center may be just like any other college building, but going inside you can see the magic in the air among the people that have a part in helping children. Wonder and warmth filled the air as these compassionate people displayed big smiles and...
Travis Overvig is the newly appointed president of the Student Leadership Council, was former Vice President, which made him a perfect candidate for the job. He is a person that grew up in a military family, and with a thick-skinned attitude and the ability to give advice and be a leader, I thought I would ask him a few questions and get to know him better and see how he operates. 1. What have been some of the challenges you've faced since becoming Student Leadership president at LBCC? Some of the biggest challenges we're facing is just how we can best serve the needs of the students. And that's our purpose on the student council. So here at the SLC we try to do our best to make sure that Linn-Benton Community College is as affordable and accessible to all students as best as we can. So, often, we engage with the student body, we'll do that with our events. We try to make them fun. So when students are out of class, they have places they can go to kind of unwind wit...
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