Greensboro Petanque is Open For Business!

Does this count as a "selfie"? Guess who.

Gary testing the surface

Anne points as Mary and Ryan look on

John W, David, and John H

More Mary

Anne and Tina

David

Eight of us played yesterday at David Caldwell Historic Park / Tanger Bicentennial Gardens in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ryan Richardson. Park Manager, and his crew have now completed the initial building stage of a 17 meter by 17 meter petanque terrain that promises to be among the finest in North Carolina. The terrain will easily accommodate four international-sized pistes (courts).

We hope to coordinate with Ryan an official Grand Opening event and/or tournament in the near future. We want to emphasize the extraordinary level of cooperation the Greensboro Parks and Recreation department has provided in allowing us to be involved in every step of the planning and construction. Ryan and his crew went above and beyond our expectations.

Another special thanks to Johnny Galbreath, the Botanical Gardens Superintendent, for his original invitation that allowed Carolina Petanque to begin an association with the park back in 2007, our founding year. From 2007 to present day the club has participated in the annual Parisian Promenade 
held each spring.

Thanks also to Carolina Petanque's John Wilson for his time and effort in helping to coordinate the project. He has participated in every phase and is still involved with the finishing stages-- signage, scoreboards, landscaping the park will be doing, etc.

And, finally, a HUGE thanks to our players. We need your continued help in promoting our game, encouraging play, recruiting new members, scheduling special events, and all the other things that will make Tanger Gardens a special place to play.

Yesterday's players: John Wilson, John Hayes, Mary Hayes, Tina Currie, Anne Fechner, David Fechner, Shirley Jones, and Gary Jones. While we enjoyed our outing, the only thing missing from yesterday's P E T A N Q   E was U !!!!!