Editor: ANDY FRASER | -—

BOBBY LENARDUZZI (No. 5) waits for the ball in last Saturday's game against the Washington Diplomats. The
Whitecaps won, 2-0, at Empire Stadium. At the next home game, Saturday, Aug. 23, junior soccer players will be

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accepting donations for the Nathanial Johnson Memorial Project. (Kent Kallberg photo)

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| Donate at the gate

nding the final Whitecaps home game.

should not be too surprised if they are approached
by young soccer players for money to help
purchase a machine to fight leukemia.

The machine will be
purchased for the Van-
couver General Hospital in
memory of Nathanial
Johnson, sone of former
Whitecap star Glen Johnson.

Nathanial, 6, died of
leukemia July 3. - .

Glen Johnson was the first
player to sing a professional
contract with the Whitecaps.’
He has-also played on the
Canadian national team

But family. responsibilities ~

forced him to leave the
Whitecaps and - devote

himself almost entirely to his ©

son, who had leukemia for
all but 17 months of his life.
Johnson and his wife hope
to do something positive for
other children suffering from
leukemia by the Nathanial
Johnson Memorial Project.

The cell separation
machine is estimated to cost
$20,000 and will be pur-
chased for the exclusive use
of Vancouver General's
pediatrics ward.

The hospital already has
two of these machines, but
both can only be used in the
adult wards. - .

The Whitecaps have given
the project permission to
solicit donations ~at the
game, against the Portland
Timbers. Juvenile soccer
players will be at the gates to
receive any donations. —

Donations can: also be.
mailed to the J.R. Nicholson
Cancer Research Foun-
dation for Children, 1019
Palmdale Street, Port
Coquitlam, V3R 3R5, phone

_ number 464-0297.

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