YEAR 50 Nanaimo Boxing Club: by Brian Zelley

Amazing Year 51 begins in September 2021 to begin another 50 years or more or less.  Long time coach Barry Creswell has now retired, but year 51 will begin in September with four new coaches.  It has been an interesting 50 years from 1971, but the idea of forming a club became an idea in 1969 after the Newcastle Boxing Club folded for a number of reasons. The idea was initiated when Bob Lewis and Bob Pegues asked me if I could help them, so very briefly I helped them, but it would take another two years to start the club by Dan Wright and Brian Zelley, with help from George Nepper and John Ormandy.