COLUMBIA — Kurt Albert walks quickly across the northeast Columbia park that used to be his family's farm. There's a forested section of a disc golf course in the former cattle pasture where he and his siblings used to play. The splintery timbers of an exercise circuit installed in the 1970s are rotting and broken.
Final decision near: The naming of Albert-Oakland Park
Friday, October 3, 2008 | 5:00 p.m. CDT;
updated 2:04 a.m. CDT, Saturday, October 4, 2008
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