9/20/25 Big news at Nevin Park

 

Mica and Stephane continue to be enthusiastic hosts at Nevin Park in Charlotte. 

The exciting new development is that they (along with Shirley) met with Katie Lloyd, Capital Planning for Mecklenburg County Parks & Recreation, to discuss the possibility of expanding and renovating our playing area. 

It appears that if we incorporate the area taken up by the grassy medians that separate each of the five old bocce courts that we've been playing on for the past fifteen years, we could have room for eight courts. We could have an area 16meters long by 34meters wide which would allow for regulation size courts with 1/2 meters on both ends and both sides before the retaining timbers.

Eight is the magic number of courts we would need to hold FPUSA tournaments!

Of course, it's not a "done deal," but Katie sounded promising. 

Just for fun, I looked up the first play there.

 From December 5, 2010, here are the pics: 

Augustin, Ed, Ann

 

Shirley

That's Steve Cantt on the right

Me on the right

Sleet!!!

 

It was about 34 degrees at game time in Charlotte yesterday with a wintry mix in the forecast when six of us got together for petanque at Nevin Park. We were very happy to have two new, first-time players with us. Dr. Ed Shoaf and his wife, Ann, had been communicating via e-mail for some time (he's the one who actually discovered the boules area at Nevin Park and informed CarolinaPetanque). Their schedule finally coincided with ours for Saturday. It's too bad the weather couldn't have been a little more cooperative for their first outing.

Nevertheless, we had fun trying to get a game in before the precipitation started. We only made it about halfway through the first game before the rain/sleet/snow began. The Shoafs were good sports and we finished in the wetness. Please come back again soon, guys, when we can hope for better weather.

The four CarolinaPetanque members who showed up (Augustin, Steve G., Shirley, and myself) continued through the ensuing showers for the next hour or so until the wintry mix finally subsided. We then played on until near-dark at 5:00 PM. We had good games and no one seemed to let the inclement circumstances deter their fun. Maybe it's just a mind set? Or maybe we're "mental"?