The Whitson PTO "Big Ideas" committee has decided on a project: The plan is to build a concrete backboard sport wall at the north end of the basketball courts, next to the city pool.
The wall will provide a large, badly needed playing surface for the children of Whitson Elementary, for the Columbia High School tennis teams, and for adults. The project can also support a storm water runoff (gutter) system for the solar panels on the city pool as a bonus.
The wall will be six inches wide, eight feet high, 86 feet long concrete wall and footing. It will also have an upper catch netting approximately two feet high and painted lettering and sealer.
The proposed wall is the result of many fundraisers and months of research and conversations with teachers, parents, and the larger community of White Salmon.
The city of White Salmon has offered to provide the labor of cutting the existing asphalt, provide an engineered drawing, and waive a formal planning review.
The estimated cost of the project is in the range of $11,000.
The White Salmon-Bingen Rotary has pledged $2,500 for the project as a "matching fund." The $2,500 from the Rotary Club Foundation is a match that Rotary will go up to.
"We would like to encourage the general public to donate to this cause, and thus we will match up to $2,500," explained Jonathan Blake, president of White Salmon-Bingen Rotary.
The project has received an additional pledge of $1,100 from a local group of tennis players through a "Today's Chalet" fundraiser.
As of June 8, other donations include:
Jonathan & Martha Blake: $100, and McCoy Holliston Insurance: $100.
Donations can be sent to the Whitson PTO with "Whitson/Rotary Match" on the check. Send to: Whitson/Rotary Match, P.O. Box 1279, White Salmon, Wash., 98672.
For more information, contact Ellen Nippolt at 493-1352.
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