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Reader photo: Pickleball, anyone?

The Lithia Park pickleball courts are silent on a rainy day. But they can be a source of inner peace when alive with the pops, cheers and groans of a pickleball game. Douglas R. Smith photo
March 21, 2023

Rain, rain go away, so we can play pickleball another day. Douglas R. Smith captured this photo of the courts in Lithia Park between February storms.

Email your photos taken in and around Ashland to betling@ashland.news. Be sure and include the names of people in the photo (if any, from left to right and front to back), where and when taken, and say what’s going on in the photo and the name of the person who took it. Note: Photos with a horizontal (“landscape”) orientation work better in our web design.

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Bert Etling is the executive editor of Ashland.news. Email him at betling@ashland.news.

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