It is with heavy heart that we have to inform fellow snowmobilers that long time snowmobiler Mannie Lewis suddenly passed away on Monday July 7th. Mannie was a great sport and generous to snowmobileing whether at the track or aside the trail. Our thoughts go out to his wife Annette and his many close friends.

Mannie's Obituary is attached, for more information click the link below.
http://www.whitefamilyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/37740

Andrew Johnson
on behalf of AVLRR Executive.

R.I.P. Mannie, my condolences to your family. We will miss you.

This is terrible news for eveyone who knew Mannie and to our snowmobile club. For those who do not know him by name he is the gentleman who owned, maintained and spent alot of his own money on the drag race track in the Berwick area. There's nobody out there that enjoyed those events as much as Mannie and his loss will be hard felt by all who knew him.
My condolences to Mannie's family and many friends.

Very sad news. It is tough to lose a good friend. It is especially tough to lose someone that volunteered as much to the local sport as Mannie did.

My condolences to the family and friends.

Very sad news indeed. I got to know Mannie over the last 3 years, and a true friend he was to me and everyone around him.

He loved the sport of snowmobile racing more than anyone I knew, and enjoyed seeing us having fun doing it at his track.

I will miss the Saturday's at the track, and our lengthy conversations on the phone in the winter talking about what he loved to do, and that was race.

We will all miss him greatly, RIP my friend.

yes very sad news just got in from work. and seen this, it is sad to here such a great guy has passed away may him R.I.P.. and he will be sadly missed and wont be forgoten he was such a very happy go lucky kind of guy and the sport of ski-doo racing i don't think their was anyone that enjoyed it as much as he did win or loose mannie was alway's their to have a good time. and he used to hold a great event at his own race track that i know he spent hour's to prepare for the weekend of raceing(SAD)our CONDOLENCE'S gos,s out time him and his family!!!! from the (DECOSTE'S)MAY HIM R.I.P!!

I Knew Mannie from when i was just a kid back when ice racing was the biggest thing going in nova scotia my condolences goes out to his family Mannie was a great man that loved the sport of racing snowmobiles RIP he will be sadly missed

Derrick

My condolences goes out to his family

Very Sad to hear about this. It's awful signing in and seeing this. condolences goes out to his family.

Very sad news to the racing community, my condolences goes out to the family, he will never be forgotten.

very sad news forsure,he was an asset to sledding and racing for many years always had a smile and time to talk to anyone.he will be missed,their are very few left in the world like him . condolences go out to his family.


robbie

Very sad to hear. He was always ready to help and support our club however he could whenever we were planning a race.

Many condolences.

I extend condolences to Manny’s friends and family.

Since I moved to Nova Scotia about seven years ago I have meet some excellent people in the sledding community here and Manny was at the top of that list. I met Manny at one of the many races he organized and immediately took a liking to him. How could you not? He treated everyone respectfully and always greeted you with a big smile. Making sure that everyone enjoyed themselves as much as possible was a top priority for Manny. He was an easy person to appreciate and I did. The next sled race event that any of us will attend may be one held in his memory…..but fear not I believe he will be present in sprit.

Godspeed Manny.

I attended the funeral for Mannie yesterday and it was a great tribute to such a fine person. There were so many people there they had to open a second building and feed the video of the funeral into it, standing room only was an understatement. It looked like an AVLRR snowmobile meeting was held there, as eveyone in the club that could make it was there to show thier respects and all of us in disbelief that this has happened to Mannie. There'll be a huge void left by Mannie that will be impossible to fill, but he has left us with a great example of what we need to do , and that would be become more like him.

On the lighter side, who is 800XCR going to spar with ?? and who going to show ZR2 how to drive a drag sled???
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My condolences goes out to Mannies family and friends. His smile and kind words will always be remembered R.I.P!!!

Kevin

My condolences to Mannies family and friends, he will be missed by all who knew him. He gave so much to the sport of snowmobiling, from the circle track in New Ross to Mannies Raceway he made many friends along the way. Mannie and JJ will be missed...

Mannie's Race Way Berwick NS More pictures on AVLRR website, link below.
Andrew

In keeping with Mannie's spirit and humor;

Mannie was outfitted with his Angels wings on Fri afternoon, he immediately went back to his cloud and in private, removed the wings, installed bigger feathers , increased the wings span and lightened up the tail.

He has since been going cloud to cloud asking all other Angels if thier wings were for show or go and gernerally has turned heaven into his own private drag strip.

A note to the wise; Start designing your modified wings now , cuase he'll be waiting for us.


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RIP, Mannie was a great guy and spent a lot of time and money on the Snowmobiling community. He will always be in our hearts.

Mike