Wayne Richards - Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia - Citizen Memorials on Waymarking.com

At the northern car park and entrance to the Playing Fields are two bronze plaques, on a trapezoidal concrete block. The upper one, detailing the significance for the naming of the ovals after Wayne Richards, has the following text:

Wayne Richards

24 March 1950 - 19 August 2003

Wayne Richards was elected to Hastings Council in September 1995 and served as Mayor from September 1998. He served his community with distinction until his untimely death in August 2003. Wayne was a popular and committed Hastings Mayor and Councillor. He strove to serve his community and paved the way for many important Hastings Council initiatives ranging from environmental improvement programs to cultural and sporting infrastructure development.

He drove the campaign for the construction of a first-class sporting facility for the Hastings community, seeking support and funding from the Federal and State Governments, Hastings Council and the community. The 2005 opening of Wayne Richards Park is testimony to his vision and determination.

A secondary school English teacher, he moved to Port Macquarie with his family in 1978 to take up a position at Port Macquarie High School, He was an active member of the community, being President of the Port Macquarie Teachers Federation, President of the Hospital Action Group, and a membeer of the Mid North Coast Area Health Board. He also established unique community charities that provided financial assistance to the talented Hastings' youth.

'I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.' - George Bernard Shaw.

While the lower plaque is specifically for the Opening of the Fields in 2005. The text is as follows:

      HASTINGS COUNCIL
This plaque commemorates the official opening of
  WAYNE RICHARDS PARK
	       by
    CHRISTINE RICHARDS
	       on
    Saturday 15th January 2005

Rob Drew			 Bernard Smith
 Mayor				General Manager

Apart from a 'internet snippet', that Wayne Richards is interred in the Innes Gardens Memorial Park, just out of Port Macquarie, there was nothing found in searches. Robert Wayne Richards

Visited: 0652, Sunday, 22 October, 2017

Location: At the entrance to the set of Grounds, from Car Park Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: Not listed

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