Regular users of Linda Vidler Park at Suffolk Park will have noticed new improvements to the much-loved community facility.
With the support of a $200,000 grant from the NSW Government's Local Small Commitments Allocation Program, the main entrance to the park now features a new path and bike racks, along with signage acknowledging the late Arakwal Elder, Aunty Linda Vidler.
"Aunty Linda was a much-loved and respected, proud Arakwal woman and a cultural custodian," Sarah Ndiaye, Byron Shire Mayor, said.
"Linda Vidler Park is named in her honour and to now see new signage in place explaining who she was and her connection to Country is so fitting," Mayor Ndiaye said.
The improvements to the main entrance complement other upgrades of facilities in the park in recent years including:
- Drainage
- Bush regeneration
- New change rooms and canteen for the Suffolk Park Football Club
- A pump track
- Resurfacing of the tennis courts
- Improved connections from Pepperbush Circuit.
A new shelter near the community gardens was also recently completed.
