BCPA News
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BC Fall Festival 2025
Burke Centre's Festival this year on September 6 & 7, 2025. As a Chartered group, we will have a booth to promote pickleball as we have done for the last several years. In addition, we have a commitment of 42 service hours to fulfill. That amounts to 21 two-hour slots for service hours and 21 slots for our booth. Activities needing service hours are staffing rides and games. There will be a Signup Genius for each responsibility made available in late July as we have done in the past.
BCPA Board Election 2025
Many members voted and new Board members have joined. I big thank you to both the outgoing Board members and the incoming Board members. Board positions are provided on the Contact page.
2025 Pickleball Rules
The USA Pickleall rules for 2025 have now been published. Look on our Rules page under the How to... tab for details.
Winter Social
On 17 Dec 2024 BCPA sponsored another Happy Hour social at Banditos Tacos and Tequila in University Mall that was well attended. Both the food and company were great. We all had a good time.
Pickleball Court Conversion
The BCC Board of Trustees has approved the conversion of three Tennis courts at the Landings into eight permanent Pickleball courts, and selected a contractor to perform the conversion. News on the start date is expected shortly and will be announced by email to the membership. Your continued patience is appreciated.
Meanwhile Andy Forsyth has loaned us four solar LED court fixtures to see if we can illuminate our courts with them. On Feb 28, with BOT approval, Conservancy staff installed these fixtures at the Landings for testing purposes. Jon will test these in preparation for a demonstration for the BOT. These fixtures are quite economical compared to hard wired systems - fingers crossed.
Equipment Lockers/Gate Key
The combinations of the lockers at both the Woods and Landings were changed in Feb 2024. The new combinations will be given only to court-key-holding BCPA members in good standing. Please support your fellow BCPA members by making sure that our equipment is only used by dues-paying members of BCPA and continuing to make sure all equipment is properly stored and secured at the end of each session.
All the court entry gates were re-keyed on 10 Jul 2024. If you have not yet obtained a new court key, you can do so at the Conservancy Office during regular business hours. They cost $25/key. They have a key request form available at the office or use this fillable form.
Playtime Scheduler
BCPA is encouraging all members in good standing, annual and seasonal, to register for a free account with Playtime Scheduler and use it consistently. We are using this online app so member players can see who and how many are playing, and whether a keyholder is going to be at a playing session. You can download instructions for registering as well as a help manual. Those who are already using the Scheduler are very pleased with it.
TennisCall
A confirmed reservation of the courts can only be made using the TennisCall App. Only Burke Centre residents may do so. Download the BURKE CENTRE CONSERVANCY TENNIS & PICKLEBALL RESERVATION POLICY for an explanation of how the system works.
Membership:
At this time, we’ve suspended membership to non-Burke Centre residents, however, seasonal passes are available for purchase by non-residents.