Blue Jays icon set to receive incredible honour
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Toronto Blue Jays outfielder and franchise icon Jose Bautista is set an incredible honour from the city of Barrie, Ontario.
City councillors have added the slugger's name to a municipal registry of people being considered to have a city street named after them. Other names include local Barrie residents and heroes Alan Hopper, Barb Richards, and Nancy Jean.
The registry contains council-approved names and facilitates the process for assigning monikers to new streets and other municipal assets, such as city parks.
The final debate is set to happen on March 5th.
The suggestion to add Bautista was first brought forth by city councillor Sergio Morales who is originally from Bogota, Colombia.
It's a good story that he has to tell and the contribution that he's made. It's always good when our streets have different origin stories, perspectives. - Barrie City Councillor Sergio Morales.
While the Ward 9 councillor doesn't have a particular street in mind, he noted it would be something different as most current streets have traditional English names.
But it's more in the differentiation, and having a different origin story and having a narrative. It wasn't motivated by the diversity.
