Brian and Becky Haskin caught the pickleball bug while spending the winter in Florida, and they knew it was something they wanted to take back home to Lake Odessa, Michigan. What they didn’t know at the time was just how far they’d take things. “We enjoyed the sport so much that we came home and built a single court at our house and started getting neighbors and friends to come over and play, ” says Brian Haskin. The Haskins thought a facility dedicated to the trendy racquet sport could bring some value to their small community. So, Brian spoke with the board of the Lake Odessa Fairground. Members offered him property where pickleball courts could be installed. Through a combination of fundraising and donated work from Haskins’ excavation and drainage business, the project got off

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