Park honors former Seminole Manor resident Martha Wellman

From the Tallahassee Democrat:

Martha Wellman cared deeply about the environment and Tallahassee. Now her name is affixed to part of the Tallahassee environment.

Blueprint 2000 will dedicate Martha Wellman Park on Monday. The park is on West Tennessee Street, a quarter-mile west of Capital Circle.

Wellman was a state government analyst and Sierra Club member who served on numerous Tallahassee committees. She was one of 13 members of the Economic and Environmental Consensus Committee, which created the plan for Blueprint 2000 and its one-cent sales tax funding approved by voters. She was a community representative for Blueprint’s Capital Circle Southwest project.

Wellman, 60, died of cardiac arrhythmia in May 2007, on an airplane returning to Tallahassee from a Sierra Club meeting in California. She had lived in Tallahassee since 1972, including many years on Rankin Avenue, in southwest Tallahassee, a few miles from the new park.

See Gerald Ensley’s full article at tallahassee.com.