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Toist priest Bill Wong performs the dim ching, - the eye-dotting ceremony - to prepare the six newly launched dragon boats for Toronto's fourth annual(...)
Toist priest Bill Wong performs the dim ching, - the eye-dotting ceremony - to prepare the six newly launched dragon boats for Toronto's fourth annual(...)

Toist priest Bill Wong performs the dim ching, - the eye-dotting ceremony - to prepare the six newly launched dragon boats for Toronto's fourth annual(...)

Date4/29/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: Toist priest Bill Wong performs the dim ching; - the eye-dotting ceremony - to prepare the six newly launched dragon boats for Toronto's fourth annual Dragon Boat Race Festival; to be held at Centre Island on June 27 and 28. Sixty teams are expected to compete; with the winner representing Toronto at the 1993 World Championship Inernational Dragon Boat Race in Hong Kong.
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