Pacific Assistance Dogs Society is teaming up with Pickleball BC for a provincewide charity tournament next April.
Picklers and puppies gathered at a Burnaby park this week to announce a provincewide charity tournament in support of Pacific Assistance Dogs Society .
Tara Doherty, communications director for Burnaby-based PADS, said pickleball shares many of the assistance dog organization's core values, such as inclusivity, wellness and community engagement.Burnaby picklers will be first in line to support the cause, according to Burnaby Pickleball Association president Karen Watson.
"We're terribly overloaded in every place," Knecht told the NOW. "We have clubs that have a thousand people, and they have to cut off because they haven't got time on a court, so we need some more help from the governments."
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