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Bike Trail May be Named to Honor Kent's Veterans

Parks Board considers naming leg of trail from Crain Avenue to River Bend 'Veterans Memorial Park'

It looks like Kent's fallen veterans will have a park named in their honor — it just may not be the originally intended park.

The Board considered naming one of the city's parks "Veterans Memorial Park" after a suggestion from an ad-hoc committee of .

Originally, the ad-hoc committee suggested naming to honor Kent's veterans.

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Wayne Wilson, council's liaison to the parks board, said the parks board members felt that area was too undefined and general an area to consider naming as a park.

Instead, Wilson said the parks board suggested naming the stretch of bike trail from Crain Avenue to the River Bend subdivision "Veterans Memorial Park."

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"It’s a nice clean area, and it’s a nice new area," Wilson said. "I think it’s a good suggestion by them."

Wilson said the parks board is going to draft a letter to give to council's ad-hoc Veterans Memorial Committee, which will make the final call. It will likely be a week or more before a decision is made.

The ad-hoc veterans committee formed earlier this spring after , a 2007 Theodore Roosevelt High School graduate who died serving in Afghanistan. The committee's goal has been to come up with ways to honor the city's veterans.


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