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Some know it as “piko,” “marelles,” “hinkel­baan,” or “stapu,” but in T&T, hop­scotch is a word that un­locks a world of child­hood mem­o­ries. One Wood­brook woman is striv­ing to turn that mem­o­ry in­to an every­day ac­tiv­i­ty.

“You know, I grew up lov­ing hop­scotch as a kid and it brought me so much joy.  So, I fig­ured, you know, in that time of the pan­dem­ic, you know, that it would be very nice to bring that back to peo­ple,” said Louann Kristy.

She ex­plained that dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, she felt that peo­ple need­ed some­thing to smile about, so with chalk she drew hop­scotch box­es on the pave­ment in front of her home for passers­by to hop along on their way.