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First pickleball mixer brings hundreds to Hathaway Park

New friendships established on Washougal courts

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Michelle Annett digs up a pickleball, while RD Fisher and Kathy Rambousek celebrate after scoring a point in the background. The Washougal Pickleball Mixer brought 96 players, and their friends and family members, to the city's six new courts at Hathaway Park.

Six new courts welcomed 96 players, family members and friends to Hathaway Park for the first Washougal Pickleball Mixer Saturday and Sunday.

As the 48 teams in this double elimination tournament paddled a plastic ball back and forth, Columbia River Pickleball President Mike Wolfe stood in the background and watched his dream come to life. It was impossible to wipe the smile off his face.

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