Gardening was a favorite pastime of the late Rick Noordam, who served as chair of the Post Falls Parks and Recreation board.
“If you knew Rick, he and his wife (Nancy) were avid gardeners,” Parks and Recreation Director Dave Fair said to Post Falls City Council members during their Nov. 15 meeting.
“Rick was not just instrumental in it, but he was the driving force behind us getting a community garden,” Fair said. “He worked on the fundraising, he got volunteers involved, he and his wife volunteered for two years supervising it actually working in the garden, he got the Rotary behind building the building. It was a labor of love, that endeavor.”
To honor Noordam’s contributions to the River City, the city council unanimously voted to give the Post Falls Community Garden a new name — the Rick Noordam Community Garden.
Major Ron Jacobson said he knew Nordam through