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Plaque Will Be Dedicated to Beloved North Branford Coach
The Town Council has approved the concept of a memorial for Floyd Parness to be dedicated at the upcoming Potato & Corn Festival
NORTH BRANFORD, CT - Plans are being finalized to have a monument placed at the entrance of this year's Potato & Corn Festival engraved with a plaque dedicated to beloved cross country coach Floyd Parness, who died last year while out jogging.
The council said Tilcon has agreed to donate a rock on which to attach a plaque.
The cost of the plaque would be about $2,000 and students plan to do some fundraising to defray costs.
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Parness suddenly passed away at age 66 after collapsing on an early morning run on May 18 2017.
Parness, who lived in Northford and had recently retired from Sikorsky Aircraft after working there for 34 years, was the only three-sport head coach at North Branford High School.
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He began coaching outdoor track during the spring of 2005, started coaching cross country in the fall of 2006, and was head coach of the indoor track program since its inception. Parness coached both the boys and girls in all three of these programs.
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