May 03, 2003
More Strange Recreational Activity
Somehow, I thought I had once posted about plans to install an earthquake-proof bocce court in the North Park Blocks. And so, it was in the same spirit of odd recreational stories that I was going to add another one today.
While I can't harken back to that previous post, since I seem not to have made one, here is today's story about cricket, complete with cheesy opening joke:
There's a bit of a sticky wicket over Washington County's newest cricket field.
A club of enthusiasts of the British sport last weekend had contractors tear out a 22-yard strip of sod, dig down 6 inches, lay in a bed of gravel and stretch artificial turf over the top.
The new $4,000 "pitch" on Meadow Park Middle School property would be the envy of cricket players far and wide. It has everything -- except clear permission to be there.
According to the article, the club says it had permission, but the school district as well as the parks people beg to differ.
What boggles me is trying to figure out what self-respecting contractors would move forward with any job that presumably didn't have proper paperwork from those who are responsible for the property.