re: Johnny Bright Playground UPDATE: Will NOT move fwd w Tennis facility

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The issue is physical space. As it stands, there is barely enough space to hold games in most of the JPRD parks, much less practices.

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Is JPRD not allowing parks like Delta, Bright, or Jefferson to be used by other parks for games or practices?

Does Lafreniere still have any baseball fields? I remember practicing there a few times as a kid.

Seems dumb to not utilize the fields of the playgrounds that no longer have active leagues, if that is the case.

In my combined registration scenario, you could pool the kids at Miley/Delta into a single league but then use the facilities at both instead of overcrowding everyone at Miley’s fields.

9/10 baseball could do something like Tuesday games at Delta, Friday games at Miley, Saturday practice at Miley and then do the opposite schedule with 11/12 baseball, so that both are going simultaneously.

Maybe they are doing this and I just don’t know, since I live in Mandeville and haven’t been involved with JPRD in over 20 years. All we have in Mandeville area is Pelican Park and Coquille, but we somehow make it work for the huge numbers of kids.

Made fat city less shitty

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You should go check it out right now. Lot full, cars parked on side of road. Bunch of kids playing baseball.

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The reason for that is that they have 3 playgrounds playing at one spot. Lakeshore is playing their home games there because their fields are being renovated. Bright has already been merged with Cleary so they alternate which playground they play at each game night.

It's not because Bright is booming...

All of those parks are used to some extent. Bright is full Monday through Sunday with teams practicing and kids getting additional work. Jefferson and Delta rent space to travel teams and host several JPRD games. If there was a standardized scheduling system that JPRD coaches could use to schedule practice time at all of those parks, I guarantee there would be 100% use.

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Jefferson and Delta rent space to travel teams and host several JPRD games. If there was a standardized scheduling system that JPRD coaches could use to schedule practice time at all of those parks, I guarantee there would be 100% use.

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This is how you know that it’s all politically corrupt and about money.

JPRD rec teams from other parks should have first access to the fields before any travel ball teams have access to rent a field.

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went to St Clement?

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When my dad built our house and moved in, St Clement used to have Sunday masses in the showroom of Metairie Ford, where Matt Bowers is now. W. Esplanade was two way traffic on the south side of the canal, the north side was a dirt road. Cleary didn’t exist on the north side of W. Esplanade, it was all woods. At the end of Gary Mikel at the lake, there was Weavers barn.

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Unless one age group at one park is very good, then the best all flock to it and "sit out a year" to stack one of the teams.

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Exactly. We’re looking at you, Girard! Can’t say that I fault the parents, but rules like this contribute to the imbalance. Ultimately, those kids don’t make the all-star teams at the bigger parks, but would have made them at the smaller ones. It makes the leagues more competitive, but those kids on the border would have gotten at least another month’s worth of quality work in all-stars.

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Al Scramuzza must be turning in his grave

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Al died????

How did I miss that???

R.I.P.

Copy that. This feels so wrong on so many levels

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April 22, 2026, six Jefferson Parish Council members voted to sign a Letter of Intent that would hand the entire ~10-acre Johnny Bright Playground site over to a private tennis facility operator

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Elections have consequences.





Honestly though, are they allowed to do this without a public vote?


Seems like the courts will throw the contract out.