The access road to a cluster of ball fields by the four-ice centre is off Russ Howard Drive, named for the Olympic championship curler. Rheal Cormier was born in Moncton in 1967 and was a Major League Baseball pitcher for 16 seasons. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Montreal Expos, Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds. He was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012. He died of cancer in 2020.
Council’s vote was made during a committee-of-the-whole meeting and will be ratified during the next regular meeting.
Monday’s meeting was the first in the renovated council chambers inside the Main Street city hall building. Meetings have been held in the Avenir Centre through the summer. The renovations included new carpet and new video screens on the wall. There’s also a new system in place to record the council meetings and broadcast them to the city’s YouTube channel. During the meetings, the screens display the name of the agenda item, and will also show how each councillor votes. Mayor Dawn Arnold said they hope the changes will result in more people watching the meetings from home.
Council also voted to proceed several other street name changes recommended by city staff, who said there has been some confusion about parcel deliveries and concern about first responders during 911 calls.
A small section of Ryan Street, between Wheeler Boulevard and Mountain Road, will be renamed Bâtisseurs Street. The city stressed that the main section of Ryan Street, which has many homes and businesses, will not be affected by the name change.
Harper Street, which runs between Main Street and Harper’s Lane, will be changed to Bateau Street.
City staff said Glendalea Crescent, which runs off Frampton Lane in the north end, is sometimes confused with Glendale Crescent, which is in a different part of the city near Centennial Park. This presents concerns about package deliveries and emergency services. City staff have presented three selected names to choose from and council will be asked to assent to the name selected by the majority of residents.
Council also voted in favour of naming the trail between MacAleese Lane and Blakney Street to Symphonie Trail.
Several more names and words were added to the city’s “name bank” which is used when choosing names for streets, trails, parks and facilities. The names include words in English and French, like Casavante, Tintamarre, Wagon and Homard; along with the names of real people like Muriel Sikorski and Thea Borlase.
The city’s naming policy has a goal to “ensure that appropriate names representing a fair balance of linguistic, cultural, geographical, heritage and other themes are recommended to Council.” The naming policy’s primary objectives is to “ensure emergency services and individuals can locate addresses and facilities easily and without confusion.”
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