A MEMORIAL to a nine-year-old boy who drowned in the River Dee is to be set up in a community garden.
Jordan Baker, from Cestrian Street, Connah’s Quay, died on May 31 after he was swept away by strong currents, while swimming with his father and seven-year-old brother.
Now QuayCat, a Connah’s Quay community committee, is planning to put up a plaque in memory of the youngster in a recently-opened community garden.
Ian Dunbar, QuayCat chairman, said: “We decided to suggest the idea of a memorial to Jordan’s family because the garden is a memorial for all the community.
“Jordan was a Connah’s Quay lad and I knew his dad and grandfather. They were absolutely over the moon when we asked them.”
There are currently two other memorial plaques in the garden, dedicated to RAF senior aircraftsman Peter McFerran, who died in an Iraq mortar attack in 2007, and Sgt Malcolm Wigley, who was killed in the Falklands War.
But Bob and Ann McFerran, Peter’s parents, are still locked in a battle with QuayCat over whether or not their son’s memorial should be moved to Connah’s Quay cenotaph.
The plaques have been targeted by vandals on several occasions, but Cllr Dunbar said the committee plans to secure them in concrete, so they cannot be dislodged.
He added: “We are planning to plant 500 daffodils in the garden and the allotments that have been tended by local schoolchildren and residents are showing the results of hard work.
“We are also fencing in the entire garden. It will be a wonderful place when all the work is finished.”