AN ISLAND'S community hub will pay tribute to murdered aid worker David Haines after bosses were inspired by the ideas he brought when he applied to work at the centre.
The Perth-raised worker, who was beheaded by Islamic State militants, had hoped to start a new life with his family on Luing and had an interview for the post of project development manager of the Atlantic Islands Centre, which is due to open next year.
He was not successful in getting the post and later moved from working in Croatia, where his wife and one of his children still live, to Syria, where he was captured in March 2013 while surveying sites for refugee camps,
Alastair Fleming, the treasurer of the Atlantic Islands Centre, said: "He was full of energy, full of ideas. He was just such an interesting man but the job we had, his ideas were for some different job perhaps."
Now Mr Fleming, 76, is considering the idea of remembering the aid worker when the centre opens next year, by using one of the ideas Mr Haines suggested during his interview.
He said: "One of his ideas that he floated - literally - was that we put a lot of floating candles out to sea and I think that to do that would be an interesting way, at some stage, of remembering that we had a connection."
Mr Haines, 44, had a four-year-old daughter with his wife, Dragana, and a teenage daughter from an earlier marriage.
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