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Patch Editor Jenny Whalen visits five Macomb locales in five days. We're out to meet people and try new things–all in our insanely creative way.
Special thanks to Macomb Patch Local Voices blogger Erin Rawlings for allowing Editor Jenny Whalen to share her children and her life to complete the Patch Spring Tour. Stay tuned to Patch for details on the Summer Tour.
Patch Spring Tour Day 1: Monday, May 16, 9:30 a.m. My first adventure took me to the Macomb Township Recreation Center, where I applied my rather limited athletic skill to the increasingly popular sport of Pickleball. I joined the regulars in the Rec Center's gym and U.S.A. Pickleball Association Ambassador Stanley Helzer showed me the finer points of lobs, dinks and other Pickleball shots. Partnered with three-year player Karen Kelly, I managed to hold my own with only a few slip ups. I've compiled my adventure into a video diary and I invite you to watch and be amused. Maybe I have inspired…
Next week, Macomb Patch, led by its fearless editor Jenny Whalen, will embark on the inaugural Patch Spring Tour. What is the Patch Spring Tour you ask? Think Tour de France, but without the bike shorts, and for the most part, without the bike. The Patch Spring Tour is a challenge to delve deeper into the community. For five days straight, I'll be visiting legendary locales and unknown nooks and crannies all throughout Macomb Township. So in a Where's Waldo-esque fashion, I'll be posting video, photos and stories of my adventures throughout the week and I invite you to join me in person, as …
