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Leagues rush to reschedule games for hundreds amid Trump's Fourth of July changes
D.C. Politics
Leagues rush to reschedule games for hundreds amid Trump’s Fourth of July changes
By Cortlynn Stark, Local government and politics summer intern
June 25 at 7:24 PM
Jack Coogan, 26, loves his weekly softball games on the grassy fields of West Potomac Park. He loves the chance to run after working all day as an accountant. He loves the camaraderie of his close-knit team, made up of fellow alumni of Xavier University.
But Coogan and some 600 other after-work athletes won’t be playing next week, thanks to President Trump.
[Trump takes over Fourth of July celebration, changing locations and upending plans]
The president’s decision to change the nation’s premier Fourth of July celebration — by relocating a fireworks display, adding a second fireworks show and addressing the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — means a lengthy shutdown of the popular ballfields on Ohio Drive SW.
Starting Saturday — five days ahead of the holiday — the ballfields will be off-limits. Leagues won’t have access to the West Potomac fields again until July 7 — three days after the fireworks. ... The recently announced change is sending leagues scrambling to reschedule games for as many as 600 softball and Ultimate Frisbee players displaced from eight softball fields and nine multiuse fields.
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The Washington Area Frisbee Club’s Team Wun starts a point during its weekly game on June 20 at West Potomac Park in Washington. (Marlena Sloss/The Washington Post)
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Cortlynn Stark is a summer intern on the Local desk, covering politics and government, at The Washington Post. Follow https://twitter.com/Cortlynn_Stark
Leagues rush to reschedule games for hundreds amid Trump’s Fourth of July changes
By Cortlynn Stark, Local government and politics summer intern
June 25 at 7:24 PM
Jack Coogan, 26, loves his weekly softball games on the grassy fields of West Potomac Park. He loves the chance to run after working all day as an accountant. He loves the camaraderie of his close-knit team, made up of fellow alumni of Xavier University.
But Coogan and some 600 other after-work athletes won’t be playing next week, thanks to President Trump.
[Trump takes over Fourth of July celebration, changing locations and upending plans]
The president’s decision to change the nation’s premier Fourth of July celebration — by relocating a fireworks display, adding a second fireworks show and addressing the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — means a lengthy shutdown of the popular ballfields on Ohio Drive SW.
Starting Saturday — five days ahead of the holiday — the ballfields will be off-limits. Leagues won’t have access to the West Potomac fields again until July 7 — three days after the fireworks. ... The recently announced change is sending leagues scrambling to reschedule games for as many as 600 softball and Ultimate Frisbee players displaced from eight softball fields and nine multiuse fields.
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The Washington Area Frisbee Club’s Team Wun starts a point during its weekly game on June 20 at West Potomac Park in Washington. (Marlena Sloss/The Washington Post)
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Cortlynn Stark is a summer intern on the Local desk, covering politics and government, at The Washington Post. Follow https://twitter.com/Cortlynn_Stark
