SEQUIM — City of Sequim staff have added bocce ball and shuffleboard courts to Carrie Blake Community Park.
The new courts sit next to the horseshoe pit south of the Albert Haller Playfields in the Water Reuse Demonstration Site at the park at 202 N. Blake Ave.
City staff and members of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce attended as Mayor Dennis Smith cut the ribbon on the new courts Wednesday.
“I’m glad we were able to add this on,” Smith said.
Sequim’s Public Works crew built the courts. Contractor Colin Hiday of Hiday Concrete built the shuffle board surface.
Sequim operations manager Ty Brown said the idea for the courts was brought forward from city works director David Garlington about three years ago.
Brown said the project stayed on budget at about $10,400 using Water Reuse Demonstration Site budget funds.
The bocce ball court features crushed oyster shell.
Park hosts will put out equipment for daily use, Brown said.
A storage shed, picnic tables and propane barbecue stations will be installed in the near future as well.
David Stahl, a Sequim bocce ball player, said he was pleasantly surprised to learn about the new court.
“I said ‘Alleluia,’ ” he said.
For more information about the courts, call 360-683-4908.
