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The Redding Parks and Recreation Department has received suggestions from community members that it explore the possibility of installing dedicated pickleball courts as part of an upcoming project to resurface the town’s four tennis courts.
McIsaac said she was looking for a smaller home after her husband died last year, and jumped at the opportunity to move into one of the units. “Being alone with a bigger property to look after, it just made sense to downsize. So this has been amazing, for me.” Brya Ingram/Stuff Picton Health Trust trustee Nigel Weetman, left, receives the keys to three new houses from builder Rob Blick. The trust’s houses were intended to offset a shortage of small, affordable housing in Picton. Marlborough was one of eight regions to reach a record median April house price last month, at $627,000, ...
“There’s nothing for people who are still mobile. We get people with a husband or wife in the rest home up there, and they can live in these houses and walk up to see them, they don’t have to live miles away. These are people still enjoying life, people who have always lived here and don’t want to move yet, they’re not in the end stage of life.” The new houses were being built on the last remaining space on a larger piece of land bought after Picton Hospital closed in 1987, by the trust established to “save the hospital”, comprising mainly health professionals including a ph...