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Red honored for athletics work, page 2

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S fc> 0, /-kn--g. "'get/" They might be called "Red's Boys" as this foursome got together during a meeting of the Central Ontario School Athletics Association at Madoc recently. Centre of attention was Homer (Red) Townsend, (third from right) who received the Pete Red's Boys Beach award for his contribution to secondary school athletics in a teaching career at Belleville Col- legiate which spanned 1943 to 1972. Presenting the award is current BCI phys-ed instructor Brian MacKenzie who also played football for Town- Photo-jack Evans send in the 1950s. Left is another phys-ed teacher and COSSA member Allan Mott, who was Red's student in the 1960s, and at rear is well-known Bellevillian and town crier Al Kelleher who was on Townsend's team in the 1940s.

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