The Editor,
Re. "Seniors snookered at PCCC?" (The Tri-City News, Sept. 19).
When I was a kid many decades ago, the pool hall was a sacred place where you could go to get away from school, pointy-finger parents and the other worries of adolescent life (at least until you were 21, when you could get into the beer parlours). A few with talent with a cue stick stuck it out in the pool hall and became ace billiard snooker players.
You'd think with the many, many tens of millions spent on the monstrous community megaplex that Port Coquitlam council and city staff could have found the cash for a couple of snooker tables to keep the few old PoCo masters in the local league they were recently dropped from for being two tables short — two tables that they had previously in the more modest Wilson Centre.
To claim that they were not worth any consideration because they were seniors is insulting but not as bad as the ridiculous idea to replace the two snooker tables with ping pong tables, thereby rendering any serious game of snooker impossible.
Surely someone at city hall can fix this.
Peter Manning, Port Coquitlam
