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‘We’re just a target’: Pickleball players call for more security

On Oct. 25, thieves stole a large storage box packed with supplies from Washougal pickleball courts

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The Wolfe Courts pickleball courts at Hathaway Park in Washougal are pictured on Oct. 31, 2024. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

The Wolfe Courts pickleball courts at Hathaway Park in Washougal are pictured on Oct. 31, 2024. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Members of the Camas-Washougal Pickleball Club gather at Wolfe Courts in Washougal’s Hathaway Park in an undated photo. (Contributed photo courtesy of Lynda Boesel)

Members of the Camas-Washougal Pickleball Club gather at Wolfe Courts in Washougal’s Hathaway Park in an undated photo. (Contributed photo courtesy of Lynda Boesel)

The pickleball courts at Hathaway Park in Washougal sit empty on Oct. 31, 2024, six days after a theft at the courts. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

The pickleball courts at Hathaway Park in Washougal sit empty on Oct. 31, 2024, six days after a theft at the courts. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

A black metal rigid box, similar to the one pictured, was stolen from the pickleball courts at Hathaway Park in Washougal on Oct. 25, 2024. (Contributed photo courtesy of the Washougal Police Department)

A black metal rigid box, similar to the one pictured, was stolen from the pickleball courts at Hathaway Park in Washougal on Oct. 25, 2024. (Contributed photo courtesy of the Washougal Police Department)

The president of the Camas-Washougal Pickleball Club (CWPC) is calling for increased security measures at Wolfe Courts after a large storage box containing a variety of equipment and supplies was stolen in late October.

One of the club’s two metal rigid boxes was taken from the courts, located at Hathaway Park in Washougal, on Oct. 25, according to the Washougal Police Department (WPD). The box contained an automated defibrillator, squeegees, towels, batteries, a first-aid kit, napkins, paper towels, toilet paper, hand sanitizers, measuring tape, a screwdriver, a wrench, lost-and-found items, water bottles, and pickleball balls and paddles, CWPC President Lynda Boesel said.

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