Basketball Court Gets Needed Facelift

Additional city revenues have paid for the city’s only basketball court to be resurfaced this weekend.

After this summer’s budget hearings, the Parks and Recreation department received $5,000. That money will revive a 20-year-old basketball court that hasn’t been resurfaced since it was built, said Bill Musson, Parks and Recreation director.

Advantage Tennis, a business from Libby, Mont., will work on the court this weekend. Work began Friday at White Pine Park, on Spokane Street and 21st Ave. Body By Scotty, a local auto repair shop, will sand the court’s six backboards.

The effort is just one of many that will bring more basketball courts to Post Falls, said Musson.

“We need to start out saving the one we got,” he said. “By mid-next week, the court will be 100 percent better.”

Had the money not been available, Musson said next year’s budget couldn’t have included the expense.