Mount Pleasant Squash Club

Press, 29 July 1978, Page 14

Mount Pleasant Squash Club

Sir, — I detect a wistful note in Katherine Peet’s letter (July 25). It is absurd even to contemplate providing courts on a fee-for-game basis. The simple economic facts are that squash courts are an extremely expensive investment, far beyond the present resources of the Mount Pleasant Community Centre. Consequently, individuals were asked to put their hands in their pockets, both through membership fees and debentures. This was not, as Katherine Peet suggests, to become a member of a so-called elite group, but to provide an essential cash base for a much-needed facility for themselves and. more important, for future generations of Mount Pleasant children. Without such people, the courts would never have been built, and Katherine Peet’s arguments would have become hypothetical anyway. I congratulate all those whose hard work, courage, and foresight have provided the people of Mount Pleasant with an extremely worth-while facility. — Yours, etc., RICHARD BRITTENDEN. July 27, 1978.