Ed Mandler; photo by Ed Mandler
Shawne Cryderman
Ed Mandler is a self-appointed Ridgeview courts cleanup guy. Every morning he arrives at the SaddleBrooke Pickleball Association courts and picks up all the balls, returns them to their individual court holders and makes sure each holder is full of non-cracked playable Onix Pure 2 pickleballs. Next he picks up trash around the courts, retrieves balls that have gone over the fence and into the cactus patch, picks up items left by absent minded players and puts them in the lost and found. Then Ed begins to play the game he loves at 7:00 a.m. when others join him. How can the Pickleball Club and its 714 members be so lucky?