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THE NORTH Shore
Colts, are being

-‘Stampeded out of the
Rim Soccer .

Pacific

League, according to

Colts’: chairman_ Grant

Johnstone.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

of midnight Thursday
lorth Shore franchise
technically | suspended

. The ‘suspension follows an
October 9 announcement by
Johnstone’ that the Colts
would.be unable to play in
the PRSL’s 1986 regular
season schedule because
Kinsmen Stadium, the
team’s home park, and the
only enclosed field on the
‘North’ Shore, would be
‘under reconstruction during
1986 and: therefore
unavailable to the Colts.

In place of regular season
involvement, Johnstone said
the team would arrange a
series of exhibition games to
be played against the other
five PRSL teams.

- SUSPEND FRANCHISE

After learning of
Johnstone's decision
through an October 9 story
in the News, PRSL president
Jim Richardson mailed a
registered letter to the Colts’
office October 23 informing
Johnstone of the league's in-
tention to suspend the North
Shore franchise by midnight
October 31 unless the team
made a commitment to play
in the PRSL’s regular season
schedule.

Johnstone claims that he
cannot support a_ semi-
professional soccer team
without an enclosed
stadium.

**Just to operate the pro-
posed exhibition schedule
wili cost the club in excess of
$12,000 for the year,”’
Johnstone said Friday.

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CHANCE’ — KWOK

KIM KWOK yelled, ‘‘My god, it’s the ferry,’’ at
the same moment George Kwok saw the black
hull of a jumbo ferry bearing down on his 33-foot
pleasure craft, Kwok testified in the fifth day of a
coroner’s inquest into the disaster.

Kim Kwok and sons Mar-
tin, 12, and Michael, three,
died in the resulting crash
between the Kwoks’ 33-foot
pleasure craft, the

Kimberley, and the Queen of

Cowichan, which was in-

| By ROSS MEEK |

bound to Horseshoe Bay in

Queen Charlotte Channel at

9:30 a.m. August 12.
George Kwok survived the

collision along: with the
Kwoks’ third son, 10-year-
old Nelson.

Kwok testified Friday that
he never saw the jumbo ferry
until it was too late.

“T was looking for the
ferry... I usually point the
ferry out to my small boy,’’
said Kwok.

He said his vessel emerged
from between Passage Island
and Whytecliff Point and
was north-bound up the

channel when the crash oc-

curred.
‘*) didn't have a chance to
teact,”” Kwok said, who

broke down and cried twice
during his testimony.

When asked by ‘captain
Wayne Holmes’ lawyer Peter
Lowery why he didn’t see
the ferry Kwok replied he
couldn’t understand it
himself but added that he
had done his fair share of
looking around.

His only conclusion was
that the ferry approached in
the Kimberley’s blindspot
created by the bulkhead at
the rear left of the boat’s
cabin. .

When asked why he didn’t
hear the whistle Kwok
replied: ‘‘That’s a ‘question
Pve been asking myself...
and probably for the rest of
my life I'll be asking
myself.”” ‘

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