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33 - Wednesday, October 9 1985 - North Shore News

Colts suspend regular season play

THE NORTH Shore Colts
announced Monday that
they will suspend regular
season Pacific Rim Soccer
League involvement for the
1986 season.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

Colts’ chairman Grant
Johnstone made the an-
nouncement after learning
that his team’s home park,
Kinsmen Stadium, will not
be available in 1986.

‘‘We cannot support a
semi-professional team in an
one; park,’’ Johnstone said
Monday, ‘‘we have to have
an enclosed stadium. We
also feel that if we are going
to be called the North Shore
Colts we must play on the
North Shore. The Colts
‘could predably arrange to
play at Swangard Stadium or
out at UBC, but that would
defeat the whole purpose of
the team.”’

Renovations to the
Kinsmen Stadium are ten-
iatively scheduled to begin
early in 1986 as part of a
$230,000 upgrading of North
Vancouver city parks.

Hugh McKay, assistant
engineer for the city of
North Vancouver, said the
present playing field at
Kinsmen will be dug up and
repiaced with a 12 to 18-inch
base of sand, recovered with
top soil, then reseeded. The
actual playing surface
removal and replacement
will take approximately two
to three months, McKay
said, ‘‘but the new grass
must be left to grow in pra-
perly before we can allow
anyone to play on it, and
our conservative estimates
for replacement and the nec-
essary grass growth range up
toa year.”’

The new sand-based field
will cost the city approx-
imately $150,000. It will

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THE CORPORATION OF THE
DISTRICT OF NORTH VANCOUVER

NOTICE OF BOARD
OF VARIANCE MEETING

The foliowing appeals will be heard before the Board
# of Variance on Thursday, October 17th, 1985, commen. 7
cing.at 8:30 a.m. at the Municipal Hall, 355 West &
Queens Road, North Vancouver, B.C. :

. D.L. 785, Block C, Lot
41, Plan 4730

‘2. D.L. 2169, Block 128,
Lot 9, Plan 20008

. D.L. 786, Block 4, Lot
E, Plan 20399

. D.L. 787, Block 11,
Lot. K, Plan 11213

(Mrs.) H.W. Egieston,
Municipal Clerk

October Sth, 1985.

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surface with more resilient
grass and better drainage.

In lieu of a regular season,
Johnstone said the Colts will
attempt to arrange for a
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be played against the other
five PRSL teams, which now
include a Richmond fran-
chise headed by ex-Colts
woach Frank Pike, and teams
possibly from the United
States.

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“Of course we are very
disappointed, but our budget
for 1986 was going to be
close to $30,000,”’ Johnstone
pointed out, ‘and you just
can’t collect that kind of
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Johnstone emphasized
that the Colts remain a
viable franchise for the
North Shore and are not
withdrawing from the
league.