The Basketball Courtby Tyler Martin

The Basketball Courtby Tyler Martin

Brooklyn has a nice basketball court.

The basketball court is in the middle of the city.

The city wants to tear down the court.

The children play on the court everyday.

They always have someone playing on the court.

The children found out the city wants to take the court down to

build a parking lot.The children spread the word

BUZZ—BUZZ—BUZZabout the court being taken down.

They want to have a meeting about the court being changed to a parking

lot.One person said that they would all go to a meeting with the city to talk about keeping the basketball court

opened.

The children go to the meeting and speak to Mr. Right who is the

president of the council.The children told him their story about

keeping the court. They tell him that the court is like their home away from

home.

Mr. Right says, “If we build a parking lot, we will make a great deal of money---Cha Ching! Cha

Ching!”The children tell him, “We use

the court everyday to play basketball and it’s not fair.”

Miss Peggy, a city council member, says she

remembered when she was young and played on that

same court.She will vote to keep the

basketball court.

The next day when the children showed up to play basketball, they

saw a bulldozer at the court.The children were shocked and

became upset with the city.

Suddenly, the children heard a loud noise from the court as

the bulldozer started up.The bulldozer started digging

and removing the court.

Miss Peggy started yelling to STOP as she stood in front of the bulldozer.

She explained that the city council members had a meeting again and decided

to keep the court for the children to play basketball.

All the children were happy and excited that the court will stay.

Tyler Martin is a sophomore at the Lawrence County Career &

Technical Center.

He is enrolled in the auto technology program and is from

the Neshannock Area School District.