Originally posted at 1:15 p.m. Thursday

Doug Eastwood/Spokesman-Review

DFO: We're going to play a word association game:
DE: (Red Halpern) “Softball guru,” (Ron Edinger) “the people's choice,” (Bob Macdonald) “the father of the Centennial Trail,” (Steve Anthony) “best recreation program guy in all of Idaho and maybe the Northwest,” and (Duane Hagadone) “Visionary.”

DFO: What's your best memory of Red Halpern?
DE: Red and I played on the Skate Plaza softball team for many years. He pitched (into his 60s) and I played first.

DFO: Will Duane Hagadone ever get his downtown garden?
DE: I don't know. The idea has merit. I think it needs to be marketed a little differently. I wouldn't give up on the idea.

DFO: What's your next project?
DE: We have 3 things happening simultaneously now. We just finished Johnson Mill River Park. We're going to open Riverstone Park tomorrow. We're halfway through with North Pines Park (Lunceford and 12th).

Full interview here or in extended entry.

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