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Indispensable: Kelly Bowers was a big presence on Saskatoon's sports scene

You heard Kelly Bowers (BAPE'71, BEd'83) before you saw him, and when he rang your phone, his voice boomed into your ear.

By Kevin Mitchell

 

“Hey, Mitch!” he’d say in that distinctive tone, all urgency and loudness — a voice that said this man on the phone is passionate about what he’s talking about. Heck; he was passionate about everything.

And then he’d tell me about a Kinsmen Football League final going on that weekend, how great it was going to be, that he knew resources are a problem, but could we send a photographer out?

Kelly Bowers, who died this week, loved the sports scene in Saskatoon — he cared for it, doted on it, nurtured it, as recently reported by the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.

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