By Jeff Trotman
Over one hundred Linden residents on Tuesday endorsed the name, Linden Martyrs Monument Park, for the proposed facility to be established in the vicinity of the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge to commemorate the month-long protest by Linden residents against electricity rate hikes and in remembrance of three residents who were shot by the police on July 18th 2012.
Regional and municipal councillors, business persons, ordinary citizens and a wide range of age groups participated in the exercise, which took the form of a public consultation in which architect, Robert Bentinck, presented two designs for them to choose, merge or make alterations to in a collective effort to prepare the monument and the park in which it would be located.
The interactive gathering chose one of the designs with suggested changes to be