Red Meredith’s 91st birthday includes (of course) a workout

Red Meredith’s 91st birthday includes (of course) a workout

Bernard E. Meredith is better known as Red to his friends, including the morning workout regulars at the Bodenhamer Center in Gulf Shores who presented Red Happy Birthday wishes on Feb. 20 in recognition of Red’s 91st birthday. A resident of St. Louis, Red works out in the Bodenhamer Center Fitness Center five mornings a week. A winter visitor here on the Gulf Coast since 2000, Red, accompanied only by his trusted dog Harley, still travels all over the country from his two home bases. He wintered in Destin before his wife passed away in 2010. Red said he fills his free time by walking on the beach, eating delicious local seafood and baking peanut pies and banana bread for his many local friends.
“People ask me why I am still around,’’ Red said. “I tell them that you have to exercise every day. You gotta’ eat your vegetables. Have a tottie every afternoon and make sure you have a conversation with the man upstairs before you go to bed every night.’’