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NAMING POCKET PARK - LEO E. LARRIVEE

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11.     WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Bousquet and Winterson, requesting, that the Special Committee on Memorials and Dedications consider naming the new pocket park near St. Anthony of Padua Church, or create a monument or memorial to honor and recognize the City’s greatest track hero: the “Whaling City Wonder”, French-Canadian Leo E. Larrivee, who brought home New Bedford’s first Olympic Medal – a Bronze for the third-place finish in the men’s 3,000 Meter Team Race at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games in Paris.

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