Facilitated by the Board of Community Relations, a group of individuals met Feb. 10 to discuss ways to honor the late Robert Brundage.

The group hopes to capture who Brundage was as an individual and find an appropriate way to honor him. Ideal recognition would “knit the community together.”

The group discussed a possible outdoor event at the Toledo Botanical Gardens, a scholarship to honor Brundage or a science lab to be named for him at Scott High School.

The group is seeking input from anyone who knew Brundage personally or served in an organization with him. To share stories about Brundage, or help define who he was, e-mail, htccwarren@yahoo.com.

Brundage served in many organizations throughout Toledo. The 66-year-old activist, scientist and environmentalist died at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center on July 7. He had been in critical condition since June 22, when 15-year-old Dailahntae Jemison attacked him and stole his bike.

Brundage was involved in the Central City Neighborhoods Community Development Corporation, Community Shares of Northwest Ohio, Jobs with Justice, Parents for Public Schools, Urban Coalition, Toledo Grows, Building Bridges toward Racial Harmony and many other community organizations.

“He looked at his community as a garden and he was constantly fertilizing and pruning and planting and hoping good would grow,” said Steven Flagg, a friend who worked with Brundage on the Toledo Urban Coalition.

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