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our community, his family, his friends and his extended family – they really meant a lot to him.” As a coach, Tom was all about the little details that made a big impact. He saw what could be minutely adjusted to offer big gains for athletes striving for excellence. Tweaking an athlete’s technique was Tom’s specialty.
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up the wrong tree – we would go for 10 minutes with continuous puns and one liners – back and forth – and we’re all quite good at it and it’s directly because of dad. We had to be on our toes all the time.” Bill said if you spent 10 minutes with Tom you knew what he was all about. “He was honest and open and true,” Bill said. “He was deeply committed to
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Tom Masich, the founder of the Prince George Track and Field Club, is seen here in 2010 with a group of children he was coaching.
Ted Keeping is glad he went home to Port aux Basques a month ago and wasn’t there this past weekend when Fiona reared her ugly head. The 67-year-old Prince George resident spent the first 22 years of his life in the southwestern Newfoundland town which took a direct hit from the hurricane early Saturday morning. Like the rest of the world, Keeping is having a hard time fathoming how destructive the storm was. “Of everybody I know and have talked to, nobody’s ever seen a storm like this one,” said Keeping. “It’s in a cove, and that’s what did most of the damage was the water surge. It’s a disaster. The local boats, most of them got them out, but a lot didn’t and there’s nothing left of them, or they’re down the road somewhere. “My sister that lives there, she’s fine, she’s quite a ways from the water, but they were pretty scared about the windows blowing in,” he said. “The worst thing that they were fearing was their picture window coming in. Those houses on the shore that did survive, the windows were blown out of most of them.”
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“He was Tom. He was the man. That was my Dad.” Bill Masich sat down with The Citizen last Wednesday to talk about his dad, Tom Masich, Prince George sports icon and Hall of Famer, who passed away peacefully on Sept. 18 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 86. “If you came to the track, you knew who my dad was,” Bill said. “And even I called him Tom at the track because that’s who he was – just Tom.” It was like that at the track and it was like that for Bill on the job, too, like when they were on the same job, swinging a hammer along with his carpenter dad building the University of Northern BC. “He was always Tom,” Bill said. “And when we stepped away from all that stuff then he was Dad or Pops. He was just that guy. He filled so many roles in so many ways and did them all so well and he could be all of those things at once.” Tom was one of the funniest men Bill ever knew. “At home when I was a kid we’d get on these trails of witticisms with a theme,” Bill said. “Oh, you should leave that alone. Why don’t you branch out? Stop it, you’re needling me. You’re barking