Basketball courts get blacktop

Volunteers help convert defunct tennis courts to basketball courts.

Volunteers pose atop recently laid blacktop at Larry Quinn Memorial Park. A grassroots effort, volunteers have been raising funds to repurpose defunct tennis courts into basketball courts at 3rd Street and Simpson Avenue in Montesano. Ryan Watkins, who has led the effort, hopes to have the park open by mid-September. Larry Quinn was a longtime coach of athletics throughout Grays Harbor. He died in July 2013.

Pictured are Eric Ezell, Mike Sutherby, Mike Bacon, Jesse Schurr, Joe Brown, Pat Pappuc and William Sharp. Volunteers not pictured are Paul Thompson, Stacie Ibabo, Rob McNelly and Angel Ramirez.