To the editor:
Re: "Remembering Jim Green and his pork pie hat," Feb. 29.
Recently, the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»park board passed a motion "to find a way to recognize [Mr. Green] by naming a park or place in his honour."
I would like to go on record as an active park advocate in the Downtown Eastside for 30 years to say I do not support the renaming of any Downtown Eastside public park after Mr. Green.
As the current and only president of Crab-Water for Life Society [Crab Park at Portside], I would like to clarify that Mr. Green only became involved in the Crab Park creation when it was in the bag-or a slam dunk. He only showed up on the scene after almost five years of grassroots Crab-Water for Life Society work was done.
This year, we are celebrating our 30th year of existence as a grassroots society and we will honour the 25th anniversary of the creation of our park with a July 1 festival. Crab-Water for Life Society is an independent group that worked very hard to get our seven-acre waterfront park. C.R.A.B. is an acronym for "Create A Real Available Beach."
Don Larson, Vancouver
