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  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.  The sport

  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

  If you are looking to have a good time by yourself, with a friend, or a big group, good food, bowling, arcade, two different bars with a great selection of beer and cocktails with 12 video poker machines, then Lakeshore Lanes in south Albany is the place to go.  “There is just so much to do here,” said a customer who brought her two kids to bowl and ended the day with a game of miniature golf, which is located to the left side of the parking lot and includes waterfalls, soothing sounds and 18 holes of putt putt.  I was pleasantly surprised when I went after the pizza. I noticed a lot of people were eating and drinking a variety of different foods and drinks while bowling or inside one of the bars. I looked over and saw the woman that was working and getting everyone set up for their shoes and lane to bowl and she was multitasking three or four different things at the same time. I assumed that it takes a certain kind of person to pull it off and keep everyone happy.  The pizza was goo