I lu \rr G PEOPLE City asked to recognize former parks board chair By Bill Hunt ^ *^^fy I 0 ( f ) 401, on both east and west sides, says was completed with financial assistance The Intelligencer ~~n , -^ Stephen Geneja, who made a deputation from Corby Distillery, says Geneja. » before city council earlier this week. He «™. nf iiv^ O.n Tj,,w4. v^/i On the heels of the Communities in wants council to name a trail, park, Of COUIT B Q l l l 1 r h a Bloom competition, city hall has been building or street after Hurst. asked to recognize one of the city's biggest supporters of park lands. Among Hurst's endeavours was the tant to helD othes or William Nugent Hurst was born in transformation of West and later East ^ SiS^fJS SS?w J!*H w?2rf. Belleville in 1908 and served as chair- Zwicks Island from city dump sites to S?Uft^5 ?rSa g man of the Recreation and Parks Board parks. Hurst then worked with individ- ' y ^eneja. in the 1950s and 1960s. Hurst had a uals and service clubs to construct East "I think he left us quite a legacy and dream of creating park land from the and West Riverside Parks before turn- it's nice to have people in a community, mouth of the Moira River to Highway ing to the Corby Rose Garden, which like that." Hurst died Aug. 18, 1989. , : 1 : • • i -^