{"id":2278,"date":"2011-05-03T19:51:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T09:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2011-05-03T19:51:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T09:51:13","slug":"queanbeyan-courts-re-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2011\/05\/03\/queanbeyan-courts-re-open","title":{"rendered":"Queanbeyan Courts Re-open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888\">By Edwin Smith <\/span><\/p>\n<p>When Queanbeyan experienced\u00a0its worst floods in decades at the end of last year, much of the town was declared a natural disaster zone.\u00a0Countless buildings, homes, shopping centres and sporting venues were affected.<\/p>\n<p>The tennis community experienced some of the worst flooding, with one of the centres going completely underwater.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barry Lynch, Committee Member told Tennis ACT that the courts were covered by a meter and a half of water and mud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily the outside fences stayed\u2026 You could see the debris hanging about 1 and a half meters above the fence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, it wasn\u2019t just the\u00a0courts that were affected, with the clubhouse experiencing some major damage too. Many of the doors still do not function properly, and the lights inside the clubhouse\u00a0have only just been fixed by a club member, who\u00a0is an electrician and volunteered to fix the wiring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a community effort; it was well beyond any working bee we could do,\u201d Lynch said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest problems was the pennant competitions that are played at the complex each week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had a large number of junior teams, the biggest numbers in years\u2026 luckily, Tennis ACT made arrangements to play at different courts,\u201d Lynch said.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a government grant, countless hours of volunteer work from the community and committee members, plus assistance from Tennis ACT, the Queanbeyan Tennis Club now has all courts back up and running.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0successful Open Day on Sunday 17th April had members from the club coming down to play some social Tennis\u00a0on newly laid courts and enjoying a BBQ. The courts were then officially opened by the\u00a0Mayor\u00a0who is\u00a0soon to become\u00a0the clubs\u00a0newest member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Edwin Smith When Queanbeyan experienced\u00a0its worst floods in decades at the end of last year, much of the town was declared a natural disaster zone.\u00a0Countless buildings, homes, shopping centres and sporting venues were affected. The tennis community experienced some of the worst flooding, with one of the centres going completely underwater.\u00a0 Barry Lynch, Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":2280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}