The Peoria Park District Board of Trustees honored Bonnie W. Noble, Executive Director of Parks and Recreation, for 40 years of dedicated service to the District at the April 10 Park Board meeting. Trustee Roger Allen read a resolution commending Noble for “serving faithfully and with honor, integrity and great distinction” first as an elected Board member from 1973 to 1979, then as President of the Park Board from 1979 to 1991. She was appointed to her current position as Executive Director of Parks and Recreation in 1992.

Under Noble’s leadership, the Peoria Park District has been awarded the National Gold Medal Award three times, has been a Gold Medal finalist nine times and the Park District was one of the first accredited as an Illinois Distinguished Park District by IAPD/IPRA.