The city of Nashua continues to honor its local sports heroes with a pair of greats being inducted into the Nashua Lions Club’s Holman Stadium Sports Legends Hall of Fame on July 4 at Holman Stadium.

Former Nashua High School football and wrestling coach Paul Bellavance and the late broadcaster Frank Teas make up the class of 2012 as they’re names become part of a significant group of local sports legends Wednesday at 8 p.m.

The ceremony has been held annually on July 4 since the Nashua Lions took over in 2010 with the help of Mayor Donnalee Lozeau, who will attend the induction.

Bellavance and Teas’ names will be added to a list of past inductees that includes former Boston Red Sox catcher and Major League Baseball manager George Tebbetts, former Nashua and Detroit Lions quarterback Greg Landry, former Bishop Guertin athletic director Richard Piwowarski and broadcaster Edward F. Lecius.

“It was a very humbling event for us,” said Lecius’ son Ed, whose father as inducted into the Hall’s inaugural class.

Lecius continues to be involved with the event and the Lions Club, whose president also happens to be his wife, Elaine, a retired NHS teacher who is the second woman president in the club’s 89-year history.

Lecius had the opportunity to get to know both Bellavance and Teas, and considers it a “fortune having known both men.”

Bellavance, who usually makes plans to head to the beach for July 4, was more than willing to accommodate for the ceremony.

“I was totally surprised,” Bellavance said. “I thought it was a very nice award. I’m surprised and honored to be thought of.”

This is not the first Hall of Fame induction for Bellavance, who is also a member of the Nashua High School Hall of Fame. The lifelong Nashua resident served as captain of the Purple Panthers football team as well as the baseball team.

“I was a jock,” Bellavance said. “Playing football, basketball and baseball throughout high school, I enjoyed athletics. I got along well with my coaches and teammates. The problem is I spent most of my time at school going to the stadium instead of the library.”

Bellavance continued his playing days at the collegiate level, where he captained the University of New Hampshire football team in 1960 and the Wildcats baseball team the following spring.

After his career at UNH came to an end, Bellavance went on to coach football in various parts of New England before returning home to Fairgrounds Junior High School until he was promoted to assistant at NHS. He especially made a name for himself when he took over the school’s first wrestling team despite having no experience in the sport. However, Bellavance picked up the sport well. He was part of the original New Hampshire committee and went on to win multiple state and regional championships.

“I enjoyed athletics and in particular coaching young men,” Bellavance said. “I wanted to give them direction in life. Sports is a good after school activity for that.”

Often referred to as the “Voice of Nashua,” Teas, who passed away July 10, 2010 at age 81, spent over 40 years behind the microphone, broadcasting an array of NHS sporting events as well as his own popular shows.

“I’m very humbled to receive this award on his behalf,” said his son Frank, who is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of the Nashua Bank and will represent his father at the event.

“He never really wanted to be recognized for his work, but he would be humbled and appreciative.”

The Manchester native and Central High School graduate, who lived by his unofficial credo “Be Nice. Be Good. Be Careful,” began his career at WABI television in Bangor, Maine, before coming to Nashua in 1958 as the first on-air personality for the then-brand new WSMN radio station, where he hosted the popular Wake Up Show for the next 44 years. Teas also broadcast Nashua basketball, football and baseball games before concluding his career as an Account Executive for the 1590 broadcaster, the radio station’s weekly newspaper.

Before he was a local hero for his work behind the microphone, Teas was a graduate of Syracuse University who served as a hero of a different nature in 1946 when he enlisted in the United States Army.

He became a lieutenant in the Air Force, where he served for the next 22 years before retiring as a major.

“He worked hard for the good of mankind,” the younger Frank Teas said. “He always taught me to work hard, serve the community and do a good job.

“He thought recognition should not be expected. It’s just a bonus.”