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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like the homeless shelters. 
By the way, does anyone know how you sign up for Te tennis courts ? I'd like to use them while they're still around [/quote]

You don't have to sign up for any public courts in DC. Just show up, and if all courts are taken (as they almost always are in decent weather on weekday evenings and weekends), wait for someone to vacate, or head to other courts and try there. The Hearst courts are in pretty bad shape, but they're very popular and we seldom succeed in getting one.

Seems to me that someone just wants to take credit for a huge project, and that someone decided that a pool would be it! Meanwhile, for years and years, no one has spent ANY money or time maintaining the Hearst grass soccer field or the tennis courts. My kids play soccer at Hearst, which everyone refers to as the "Heart Dustbowl."  Serious hazard if your kids have asthma, as my youngest does. If it hasn't rained recently (and if it has rained even one drop, DCPR closes the precious fields--that they spend $0 to maintain--for days), my youngest has to use his inhaler and hope for the best amid the brown cloud of dust that surrounds the players. It's absurd. And the courts haven't been resurfaced in (guessing here) 20 years, and there's never a broom to sweep up the leaves, which are a sliding/tripping hazard. I have seriously never lived anywhere where the public tennis courts were in such sorry shape.

So I know: let's re-sod the existing field and pay someone to maintain it; resurface the tennis courts; and then we can rename the whole complex Mary Cheh Field/Courts! And forget the whole pool thing![/quote]

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