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Right Spot no more

Lisa Scott
Northern News Services

Yellowknife (Nov 02/05) - The day a Liquor Licensing Board hearing was scheduled to rule on his licence, the owner of the Right Spot Sports Bar and Grill handed it over.

Kan Sui Wong sent a letter to the board Oct. 28, seeking cancellation of the licence for the 50th street bar.

Wong didn't offer an explanation and board chair Don Kindt wouldn't speculate on the reason for the move.

In Kindt's two years with the board, three licence holders have sought cancellation.

"Usually it's because someone is selling the business or because they are leaving town," he said.

Wong is in jail facing five charges of conspiring to traffic cocaine. He was one of 11 persons charged after an Oct. 13 drug sweep in Yellowknife.

A liquor inspector closed the bar for 48 hours after RCMP officers noted possible liquor violations during the raid. The Right Spot has not re-opened.

Delilah St. Arneault, manager of licensing and enforcement, said the possible violations included rowdy behaviour, a lack of locked storage space for bar supplies and the possibility that the bar was selling liquor bought from a warehouse outside the Northwest Territories.

If proved, any of the violations might have been sufficient cause for the board to revoke the bar's licence, St. Arneault said.