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has been renamed after the City
Council rejected the first recom- However,council members
mendation for a nep name from weren't impressed with that sug-
its parks and recreation commis- gestion. "I would like to withhold
sion. for a better name,"councilman
WHAT WAS ONCE the Mi Donald Wiegert said.
chael Lane Nature Center will Councilman Norman Anderson
now be called the Maplewood agreed. "There was a Maple
Nature Center,the City Council Leaf tavern,"Anderson said in
decided last week. explaining why he didn't like the
"I want to keep the old name commission's first suggestion.
(for the center),City Manager However,the council was sat-
Michael Miller said at a prior isfied with the commission's sec-
meeting.The commissioners,on and choice. The commissioners
a 3-2 vote,felt the center should noted that it is city policy not to
be renamed the Maple Leaf Na- name parks after streets and
ture Center,he added. people. 1