Coach has connected with kids for 56 years

Scott Swanson

At this Friday’s season-opening high school swim meet at Sweet Home pool, chances are an elderly man will be sitting on an elevated lifeguard’s chair near the finish area.

Bruce West has been there for years – more than a quarter of a century, to be exact – helping his friend Doug Peargin track the progress of the Husky swimmers.

West, who is nearing 79, is responsible for keeping track of the splits…

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