Named after Anne Wright who had over ten years service on the management committees of Davoren Community Centre, Elizabeth and Munno Para Together Against Crime, Munno Para City Festival, Northern Plains Garden Club, West Action Group, Self-help garden project, SAHT Tennant Management Committee, Smithfield Plains School Council, Australia Day Committee and Stebonheath Park Committee. She was Co-ordinator of Safety Houses of the Northern Plains. Co-coordinator Second Hand Rose opportunity shop at Elizabeth West. She was a Justice of the Peace.
Munno Para Citizen of the Year in 1995. Anne and husband Gerald were the first prize winners of the 1993 Housing Trust Tenants Garden Competition for best garden in Elizabeth West.
She was a friend to many, known to help locals with any issue, described as ‘matriarch of the area’ (Ann Brown NACYS Team leader).
The reserve was opened on 19th August 2001 by Councillor Shirley Wissell.
