{"id":7712,"date":"2023-10-06T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=7712"},"modified":"2023-10-06T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:00:12","slug":"ceremony-set-to-open-riverside-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/ceremony-set-to-open-riverside-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceremony set to open Riverside courts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Saturday morning at the site of the new trio of athletic courts at Riverside Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pickleball courts have been in use for some time, but the sand volleyball and shuffleboard courts have just recently been finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City officials are offering coffee and donuts starting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the site, with the ribbon cut slated for 11. At 11:30, across Jackson St., opening ceremonies for the Highland Games will begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yagerfurniture.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Billboard-ad-at-Parr-Rd-1024x418.jpg?resize=640%2C261\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Billboard-ad-at-Parr-Rd.jpg?resize=1024%2C418&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Billboard-ad-at-Parr-Rd.jpg?resize=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Billboard-ad-at-Parr-Rd.jpg?resize=768%2C313&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Billboard-ad-at-Parr-Rd.jpg?resize=1536%2C627&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Billboard-ad-at-Parr-Rd.jpg?w=1838&amp;ssl=1 1838w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Billboard-ad-at-Parr-Rd.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Dan Rickord has praised the new setup behind Riverside Center as \u201ca great collaboration of many.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both city and county funds were used, and pickleball enthusiasts have been a key partner in the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The courts will be open daily until 10 p.m. There is a button available to activate the lights on the courts, Park-Rec Leisure Services Director Chris Krull said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Saturday morning at the site of the new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,56],"class_list":["post-7712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-decatur","tag-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DC01720AAA634C4E8578D82F2B904F60.jpg?fit=672%2C447&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}