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BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

Photo by CYNTHIA RADFORD/Advocate Staff

Spandy Andy leads enthusiastic followers in front of the Pavillion during Westerner Days. Thursday was Kids Day at the Westerner, and there was plenty of fun arranged for all visitors.

Westerner Days narrowly misses record on first day

BY JESSICA JONES ADVOCATE STAFF The first day of Westerner Days Fair and Exposition nearly broke a record with people pouring through the turnstiles.

On Wednesday 15,395 people attended Westerner Days, only 15 people away from the 2010 record-setter

of 15,410.

The evening was also busy with 3,448 people attending the Hedley concert.

By Thursday evening Westerner Park marketing manager Erin Gobolos said attendance numbers were looking very good.

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Discount shoppers will lose one of their local destinations on Nov. 12, when Zellers closes its Bower Place Shopping Centre store.

However, relief is expected next spring with the scheduled opening of Target in the same space.

Target Corp. struck a deal in January 2011 with Zellers Inc., a subsidiary of the Hudson’s Bay Co., to purchase Zellers’ lease interests in 189 commercial sites. The American retail giant made the move to jump into the Canadian market, and has since confirmed plans to open 125 to 135 stores here.

Target has now indicated that Red Deer will be among the first Canadian communities it lands in.

It included the city on a list of 48 sites it expects to open by next spring, with 11 in Alberta, 10 in British Columbia, three in Manitoba and 24 in Ontario. Additional store openings are scheduled for the summer, fall and winter of 2013, with more planned for 2014 and beyond.

Minneapolis-based Target said each site will be closed for six to nine months while renovations occur. More than $10 million is expected to be spent at each location.

Tiffany Bourré, external communications manager with Hudson’s Bay, said Zellers’ November closure date will be preceded by a stock liquidation. “Typically, liquidations start about 12 weeks out.”

Bourré said Hudson’s Bay does not disclose the number of staff who work at its stores. But the average is about 100, she said.

Target said it will employ between 150 and 200 people at each store and is already hiring managers. Recruitment of hourly staff is expected to occur late this year and early in 2013.

Target has 1,764 stores across the United States.

Zellers currently operates at about 280 locations in Canada. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

CSI Delburne: building bonds DELBURNE — Get down on your knees! Raise your hands over your head!

Braden Fenton shouts to the male perp who starts towards him with a baseball bat. With his toy gun drawn, Fenton, 14, commands the suspect to stop moving.

The suspect happens to be Sgt. Joe Sangster of the Three Hills RCMP detachment.

And Fenton is getting a firsthand look at what it takes to be an RCMP officer in Alberta.

The Three Hills Grade 10 student said police work is more challenging than he ever imagined, particularly the physical aspect.

“They worked us pretty hard this week,” said Fenton.

Thirteen teenagers — five girls and eight boys — between the ages of 14 and 18 and from the Three Hills area, participated in the one-

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week youth police camp at the Delburne Centralized School.

For five days, they listened to presentations and took part in fitness activities similar to the RCMP Physical Abilities Requirement Evaluation (PARE) test, police defensive tactics, police scenarios and marching drills. They got to try their hand at fingerprinting, handcuffing and using a police baton.

Ten officers from the detachment offered expertise in police dogs, forensics and other police areas.

“In this community and this detachment, we have a wonderful working relationship with our youth,” said Sangster.

“I have found over the last three years . . . my calls for service have dropped substantially because of our relationship with our youth.

They are passing it on to their parents and peers. They know us by our first names. We’ve formed a bond and respect for one another.

This camp is just other example of us trying to find new ideas to inter-

action with youth.”

Sangster said they are keeping youth out of trouble by showing them they are the good guys.

Sixteen-year-old Courtney Morgan’s father is a volunteer firefighter in Trochu so she knew a little about emergency services. But she wanted to learn more about other possible career opportunities.

She enjoyed learning how to put handcuffs on and being authoritative.

“Everything is so precise from how you pulled them out to how you put them in the pouch and to the way you hold the hands when you handcuff them,” said Morgan.

She said the camp has renewed her respect for the men and women in uniforms. As well, she said the physical aspect gave her a push to be more active in her life.

Likewise, Michael Janz, 18, said he was surprised about the physical elements of the job.

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Alexandra Silbernagel; 17; and Evan Metcalfe; 18; orders suspect Three Hills RCMP Sgt. Joe Sangster to stay down during a mock training scenario.

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Search team returns from B.C. landslide site after operation called off

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‘(WE) BELIEVE THAT WE REALLY DID DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO BRING CLOSURE TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE MISSING PEOPLE.’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — After seven gruelling days searching for four people buried under the debris of a massive landslide in southeastern B.C., the members of a specialized search-andrescue team returned to Vancouver on Thursday, disappointed they were forced to leave without uncovering two of the victims.

A family of three and a German traveller were buried by last Thursday’s slide at Johnsons Landing, more than 200 kilometres southwest of Calgary, but in the days that followed searchers were only able to recover two bodies.

The search for the remaining two victims was called off Wednesday night, when it became apparent the chances of finding them in dangerous conditions were becoming increasingly slim.

The search was scaled back earlier in the week when officials determined there were no survivors trapped in the mud, and the remaining members of a heavy urban search-and-rescue team, some with scrapes and bruises, returned on Thursday.

Team leader Jim Young said the group had mixed feelings about the end of their mission.

“There was some sense that we

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didn’t accomplish all of our objectives, because there are still two missing people out there,” Young said.

“But after reflection . . . we realized the magnitude of the operation that we were faced with up there, and believe that we really did do everything in our power to bring closure to the families of those missing people.”

Sixty-year-old Valentine Webber’s body was uncovered Sunday, and the remains of one of his daughters were found the next day. The BC Coroners Service has yet to confirm whether that second body was that of 17-yearold Rachel Webber or her 22-year-old sister, Diana.

One of the sisters and Petra Frehse, a 64-year-old traveller from Germany who was a regular visitor to the area, are still buried somewhere under the slide.

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Makayla Plishka, age 11, is having fun figuring out her Robot Kit during a science camp being held at Red Deer College. Due to the popularity of the robotics camp, the college’s continuing education department is offering another Tech and Robotics class to run August 7-10, Tuesday to Friday for $250. Phone 403-357-3663 for more information.

FAIR: Steady gate, parking lot is full

Sentencing date set for former Innisfail Mountie

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A new sentencing date has been set for a former Innisfail Mountie convicted of bullying his tenants and cheating mortgage companies and their insurers.

Hoa Dong La, 48, was to have been sentenced in June on charges of extortion, criminal harassment and mortgage fraud in relation to properties he and members of his family owned in the Bowden and Innisfail areas.

Justice David Gates pronounced La guilty of 10 counts of mortgage fraud, and two each of extortion and criminal harassment in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on March 28.

However, the sentencing hearing set for June 6 was suspended when defence counsel Ian McKay announced that new evidence had surfaced, which may have affected the outcome of the trial.

McKay said at the time that he may seek a mistrial or ask that the trial be reopened, swinging on a review of documents and video tapes.

Documents included records of La’s history with the RCMP, held by Veterans Affairs Canada, and video tapes from the camera in his police car.

Calgary lawyer Chris Evans, who reviewed the evidence with McKay, advised the court on Thursday that the application would be withdrawn and

that the defence is prepared to proceed with sentencing.

Evans appeared with McKay’s cocounsel, Heather Ferg. McKay was not present.

Retained strictly in relation to the new evidence, Evans offered no excuses when the judge expressed his annoyance at what he described as an unnecessary delay, given that McKay and his client had known about the documents for months.

“This could all have been avoided,” said Gates.

“This could have been done months ago. The issue about Mr. La’s records with Veterans Affairs have been known to Mr. La and Mr. McKay. We have been assembled here for no reason.”

Gates asked that the Crown and defence agree on a new sentencing date as soon as possible, stating that less urgent matters could be set aside if necessary.

Sentencing has been tentatively scheduled for Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Sept. 6, with a conference call ordered for next Thursday morning to see whether an earlier date can be found.

Crown prosecutor Leah Boyd declined Gates’s offer to submit an application to have La taken into custody.

La lives in Airdrie, under strict conditions. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Most of the animals are leash trained so the keepers take them for walks on the grounds before the fair opens.

X-Treme Wild has daily show times at 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

On Thursday organizers were disappointed to announce the cancellation of the Canadian Forces Parachute Team, the SkyHawks, due to mechanical issues with their aircraft. They were scheduled to jump into the bowl of the pony chuckwagon track, as they did on Wednesday evening.

Nazareth will be performing at Westerner Park at 8:30 p.m. today. The concert is free with gate admission.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Also, be sure not to miss The Northern Lights Fireworks show this evening. jjones@reddeeradvocate.com

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“We have had a steady gate and the parking lot is full again so we are hoping to beat the record for Thursday,” she said.

“We have a few shows that are really popular.

“And that is our goal, every year we want to keep it fresh and give people a reason to come back,” Gobolos said.

New this year is the X-Treme Wild family-fun attraction at the outdoor amphitheature.

Four zookeepers, all from the Bowmanville Zoo, a small private zoo about 45 minutes east of Toronto, travelled to Westerner Days in order to educate the public about endangered animals, such as the Siberian tiger.

They showed a off a lynx, a hare, a grey wolf, bison, half Siberian tiger, zebra, who was accompanied by a miniature horse, and a male lion weighing 550 pounds. People also have the opportunity to ride a camel and get their picture taken with a baby lion.

Dexter Burden, Lori-Lynn Stanley and their children Brooklynn, 3, and Dakota, 5, had just finished watching the X-Treme Wild show on Thursday.

“It was excellent,” Dexter, from Red Deer, said. “It is a nice feature that they added.”

Bowmanville Zoo keeper Lindsay Paats has been working with the animals for about six years. She says it is important to know all about the behavioral traits of each animal.

“It is nice to come to places like this when there are not a whole lot of these things around and educate the public, specifically about animals that are endangered,” she said.

“It is also nice for kids to come and interact on a more personal level and it leaves them thinking a little more,” she said.

DELBURNE: Breathless after drills While Janz is active in basketball and volleyball, he was out of breath after most drills.

“You have to be more physically fit than I thought,” said Janz. “You see the stereotypical cops with doughnuts in movies but they don’t do that here.”

Three Hills School resource officer Const. Bart Warner developed the course because there were students in the area who were interested in policing and may not necessarily get into the RCMP summer cadet program in Regina.

“The idea is for them to come and experience the skill set to get into law enforcement and an idea of what it would be like to go to Depot in Regina,” said Warner. “There’s always a need to recruit good quality recruits.”

The 13 teenagers participated in a graduation ceremony on Friday.

Next year, the detachment hopes to expand the camp. Each participant paid $100. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Whooping cough vaccinations urged ONE-MONTH-OLD BABY DIED FROM COMPLICATIONS OF PERTUSSIS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LETHBRIDGE — The grieving family of a baby girl who died after contracting whooping cough came forward Thursday to try to prevent a similar death.

One-month-old Harper Whitehead died at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary last month from complications caused by pertussis.

Babies under three months of age have little, if any, immunity to the cough, but cannot be vaccinated against it until they are older. Infants less than six months old represent almost 90 per cent of all pertussis deaths.

In March, Alberta Health Services declared an outbreak in southern Alberta, where there have been 42 reported cases so far this year. Typically,

one to three cases of pertussis are reported in the region every year.

Dr. David Strong, acting medical health officer for the region, says it’s important that anyone caring for babies be immunized.

Family spokeswoman Dani Whitehead, Harper’s aunt, told a news conference her niece didn’t have to die.

“We as a family aren’t looking for attention from this tragic event, but (want) to make people aware that this is a real disease,” she said.

“This, and other diseases like it, can be prevented by families being immunized. We hope that by coming forward and sharing our story we can encourage people to get immunized, so we can help prevent this tragedy from happening to another family.”

Harper was a healthy baby just under eight pounds when she got sick.

“Over the next two weeks, Harper underwent a series of tests, one of which came back positive for pertussis,” Whitehead explained. “Most of her time spent in the Alberta Children’s Hospital, Harper was medically sedated and medically paralyzed, so she wouldn’t fight against the tubes and machines she had attached to her.”

“This is largely preventable and we know immunization is key to preventing outbreaks such as the one in the south zone,” Strong said.

Caregivers include anyone who has direct contact with a child such as parents, grandparents, nannies or day-care staff. The goal, said Strong, is to create a “cocoon” of vaccinated people around newborns.

RDC hoping city will invest $2 million

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BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer College will ask the City of Red Deer to invest $2 million towards upgrading the college library, Donald School of Business, City Centre stage and Arts Centre technologies.

College administration will approach city council on Monday about helping it commemorate three milestone events — the Arts Centre’s 25th anniversary this year, the 50th anniversary of the college in 2013 and the City of Red Deer centennial.

In documents that will go to council, the college reports that the city’s contribution will be used to leverage provincial grants and community contributions.

One project involves enhancing the lighting projection and image creation capabilities in the Arts Centre. The upgrade is required to bring the facility up to modern standards for teaching use as well as the staging of local and touring productions.

The college is also looking to partner with the Central Alberta Theatre to enhance the City Centre stage in the former Uptown movie theatre on 49th Street.

“Apart from theatre productions, this facility will become an important teaching and learning venue for the Donald School of Business,” says the report.

The college would also like to enhance future growth at the Donald School of Business downtown.

Program and space improvements are being considered for the Library Information Common. This includes investing significant dollars in technology and other learning resources.

The office of the mayor and city manager support the request from the college in principle. It suggests considering this request during council’s mid-year budget review on Aug. 20.

A capital contribution between $1.4 million and $1.5 million could be supported and funded over a five-year period, a staff report suggests. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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Athena the lion looks deceptively sweet at the Westerner Park. You can visit Athena and other exotic animals at X-Treme Wild at the outdoor Ampitheatre at 2:00, 4:30 and 7:00 PM daily.

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Alberta Health issues warning to not swim in lake in southern Alberta MILK RIVER — Alberta Health Services is advising the public not to swim or wade in the Milk River at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park due to elevated levels of fecal coliform currently present in river water.

AHS is also advising the public not to ingest contaminated river water as water-borne organisms, including fecal coliform, can impact the digestive tract.

Elevated levels of fecal coliform were detected during routine testing of Milk River water at Writingon-Stone Provincial Park.

At current levels, skin, ear and eye infections can result from any contact with Milk River water.

AHS officials will continue to monitor the water in the Milk River at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park.

ASIRT investigating after Mounties shoot and kill man east of Edmonton

Drugs possible motive for 36-hour-long abduction of Edmonton woman: police EDMONTON — Police are looking for two people who allegedly helped abduct a woman and hold her for more than a day in an Edmonton hotel room.

Investigators say the suspects are known to the 30-year-old woman and that the motive for the abduction was drug-related.

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The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says it happened Wednesday around 5 p.m. northeast of Vegreville, Alta.

The agency which investigates incidents involving police says RCMP got a call about a man armed with a gun causing trouble at the location.

The RCMP Emergency Response Team was called in to assist, but prior to its arrival, ASIRT says uniformed police fired one shot at a 43-year-old male.

Emergency medical services at the location tried to revive the man — whose name is not being released — but he was pronounced dead on scene.

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Friday, July 20, 2012

Taking yes for an answer

BY BRIAN LEE CROWLEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

OTHERVOICES

Regardless of short term ups and downs, Canada’s resource economy is booming as never before.

This should be an opportunity not just for all Canadians, but especially for many Aboriginal Canadians who inhabit the land surrounding the mining and energy projects underway or planned across the mid and far North.

In fact, this new resource-based wealth could be the key to progress in ending the shameful plight of too many First Nations people in Canada.

To do so, however, we are going to have to change behaviour and expectations on both sides of the Aboriginal/ non-Aboriginal divide. Happily, far from being a distant and improbable prospect, we can already discern the new shape of the relationship.

Indigenous conflict with resource developers is hardly new. But in one of the most profound changes in recent Canadian history, however, Aboriginal people are now poised both to shape and capitalize on the wealth-producing possibilities of resource extraction.

We don’t appreciate the positive significance of what has happened because too many of us are still stuck in the politics of confrontation of the 1980s and 1990s, when Indigenous leaders fought for political attention, con-

stitutional guarantees, redress of historical grievances, land claims settlements, self-government and resource rights.

That generation of Indigenous leaders was hugely successful, and changed the country in the process.

Moreover, the Supreme Court has decreed governments and mining companies have a duty to consult Aboriginal people before proceeding with development projects. Like it or not, Indigenous peoples will henceforth be major players in Canada’s resource economy.

In other words, Canada has said “Yes” to many of the demands of Indigenous Canadians.

But the most important — and subtlest — change has taken place inside Aboriginal communities.

A new generation of leaders preoccupied with economic progress has emerged. First Nations and Inuit communities across the country have set up development corporations, joint venture companies with resource firms, locally- and community-owned businesses, and consulting operations.

Hundreds of Aboriginal students each year attend college and university programs, studying everything from business to engineering, the mining

trades and environmental remediation. Thousands of Aboriginal people now work in the resource sector, with the numbers swelling yearly.

The new realities have also penetrated the corporate boardrooms of the land. Companies are increasingly moving beyond minimum legal requirements, developing substantial partnerships with First Nations and Inuit communities, realizing that such actions are not feel-good window-dressing but sound business practice.

While confrontations and difficulties are still common — just think the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario and the Enbridge Pipeline — there are many more instances of Indigenous cooperation with resource companies.

Blockades may be on the news, but the new joint ventures, long-term training programs, and successful Indigenous businesses are what will reshape our common future.

The fundamentals of Indigenous political and economic life have started to shift. So much remains to be done to alleviate poverty, community dysfunction and suffering, and cultural and language loss, though, that many of us overlook what First Nations and Inuit people have, in partnership with Canada, accomplished in recent decades.

Resource issues played a significant role in the debates leading up to this week’s Assembly of First Nations elections. All of the contenders

for National Chief made it clear that they expected First Nations people to get better returns from future resource development.

Shawn Atleo’s re-election likely confirms the trajectory and pace of Indigenous engagement with mining and energy projects. Aboriginal leaders have started to learn to take “Yes” for an answer; Canadian governments and businesses are prepared to work with First Nations and Inuit governments and communities as partners in development.

If First Nations and Inuit leaders stay the course, and continue their collaborations, if resource companies keep their commitments and sustain their engagement, and if governments support this unprecedented pattern of cooperation, the calamities that have so long defined Aboriginal communities could start to give way.

For years, Indigenous leaders have railed against the soul-destroying elements of welfare dependency and abject poverty.

The 21st century resource boom holds the potential to set all Canadians, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike on a new more promising path.

Ken Coates is Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the University of Saskatchewan and Brian Lee Crowley is Managing Director of the MacdonaldLaurier Institute, a public policy think tank in Ottawa.

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Small changes can save big dollars in health care

BY GINA BROWNE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Our health care system is based on an on-demand model of physicians and hospitals providing acute and episodic care. While this system works well for the vast majority of citizens, it is a poor match for many of those with chronic diseases.

As a nurse and an academic, my particular interest is examining how health and social services can work together to improve people’s lives — and contain costs.

In my view, problems arise when circumstances in the world change and conventional wisdom does not; the increasing prevalence of chronic illnesses among the Canadian population is a circumstance to which our health system has not yet adapted.

The truth is, a very few people use most of our expensive health care resources.

As part of a series of reports that formed the findings of the Canadian Nurses Association National Expert Commission, myself and my colleagues highlight that the small proportion of the population that use a disproportionate amount of current health care services are people with chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, arthritis and asthma.

Within that group, however, we discovered that it is the poor, and a subgroup with a co-existing mental health issue (anxiety, depression, substance abuse, personality disorder, schizophrenia, dementia), who are the most frequent health care seekers.

For example, we learned that in 2010 only one per cent of the Ontario population (about 130,000 people) used 49 per cent of hospital and home care services.

And that only five per cent of the population (about 650,000 people) used 84 per cent of those services.

These statistics are mirrored across the country.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Neither Canada’s premiers nor the federal government should think they can forge a national energy policy without First Nations at the table as an equal partner, says the newly re-elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

A reinvigorated Shawn Atleo is heading to Halifax next week to meet with the premiers — his first major foray since winning a second threeyear term in a divisive contest that saw harsh criticism of Atleo’s co-operative approach to politics.

With chief after chief urging him to stand up for a larger First Nations share of Canada’s natural resource wealth, Atleo heads into the Council of the Federation meeting with an unshakable mandate to demand a spot at the table.

“This government, every government, must deal with First Nations as full partners,” Atleo said Thursday,

the day after his third-ballot win at the AFN’s general assembly in Toronto.

“All those natural resources that the government wants to open up for development, First Nations have to be dealt with. It’s time that that happened.”

The premiers are expected to discuss moving ahead with a national energy strategy piloted by Alberta that would form a common approach to developing, marketing and sustaining energy resources.

The Western premiers are already backing the vision put forward by Alberta’s Alison Redford, who was in Toronto earlier this week meeting with Ontario counterpart Dalton McGuinty in order to push her plan.

Ontario’s backing is not guaranteed, however: the province balked at Alberta’s plan a year ago over the West’s insistence that oilsands were “sustainable.” McGuinty said Thursday that he and Redford have found a way to clear the air.

ENERGY STRATEGY “I think we have found a lot of common ground, and among other things, we are determined to ensure that Ontarians understand that they have a vested interest in the con- Shawn Atleo tinuing growth and prosperity of Alberta, just as Albertans have a vested interested in the continuing growth and prosperity of Ontarians,” McGuinty said.

“We need to recognize that we need to work together to develop our energy capacity here in Canada.”

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is coming from Ottawa too.

A Conservative-led Senate committee put forward a plan Thursday for a national approach to energy, calling it an urgent priority.

The committee urged governments at all levels to come together quickly and make sure they were not stepping on each other’s toes or standing in each other’s way in developing natural resources.

The report envisions shipping Canada’s oil east as well as through the West, all the while developing megaprojects in hydro and investing in renewable fuels.

The report does not, however, address climate change — prompting criticism from Greenpeace and other environmentalists.

And when it comes to First Nations, the report recognized the frustration felt by business and First Nations alike over unclear processes and timelines around consultation and resource exploitation.

Police remove 83 Reyat loses appeal on perjury conviction explosives from Barrie residence PEOPLE EVACUATED FROM NEIGHBOURHOOD ALLOWED TO RETURN HOME

BARRIE, Ont. — Special teams of police investigators say they have neutralized the danger of a Barrie, Ont., home filled with explosives and nearly 60 people living in the neighbourhood were given the green light to return home a week after an evacuation.

“We told all the residents that they can come home to their own beds tonight,” said Barrie police Const. Angela Butler.

The all-clear comes after squads of Ontario Provincial Police, RCMP and forensics experts finished clearing the home Thursday afternoon, removing a total of 83 improvised explosive devices — including pipe bombs and remote-detonation explosives stuffed into the walls — and containers full of unidentified chemicals.

Those evacuated from some 20 homes in the neighbourhood last Thursday can head back any time they like, she said.

“I got to tell them personally myself.

It was a great feeling,” Butler said.

The investigation of the property will continue, Butler said earlier Thursday, noting officers will remain on hand to process evidence and watch over the scene.

In addition to the explosives, some of which were detonated on site, police scouring the home have also found a cache of 29 firearms including three rifles, two shotguns and a civilian version of an MP5 submachine gun, along with thousands of rounds of ammunition.

Ten of those weapons were pulled from an underground fallout shelter running at least 4.5 metres long and more than 2 metres deep dug into the home’s backyard, Butler said.

The search began last Thursday after police arrested a father and son in connection with the decades-old slaying of Michael Traynor.

The investigation into Traynor’s death went cold shortly after his body was found in a wooded area in 1978.

Donald Feldhoff, 54, was charged with first-degree murder after he went to police. His 75-year-old father William has been charged as an accessory after the fact, and appeared in court Thursday morning.

Police anticipate laying further charges against the pair. An investigator involved with the search said last week that they hadn’t discovered on the property that was linked to the 1978 case.

Butler said there were no explosives found in the bunker. She said she could not divulge what kind of chemicals were found since they are considered evidence.

The bunker was split into two rooms and stocked with food, water and clothes, she said. It was also equipped with a toilet, a ventilation system and two-way radios.

The city of Barrie approved a permit in 1984 to build the shelter, which police photos show crammed with boxes and jugs of liquid.

Butler said police briefed residents about the investigation each day, which proceeded at a snail’s pace to make sure the dangerous home was completely safe.

The more investigators looked, the more suspicious devices they found, Butler said.

The process went slowly since search teams “could move two steps forward then move four steps back after finding something they weren’t expecting,” she said before the evacuation ended.

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VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s highest court upheld a perjury conviction Thursday for Air India bomber Inderjit Singh Reyat, who repeatedly lied at the trial of two men who were acquitted in the worst case of aviation terrorism before 9-11.

Three judges of the B.C. Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed the man’s bid for a new trial, cementing Reyat’s nine-year sentence. It’s believed to be the longest perjury sentence in Canadian history.

Perviz Madon, whose husband Sam was among the 329 people killed when an Air India plane was bombed on June 23, 1985, said she’s glad Reyat is “paying” for lying under oath.

“That’s justice for us,” she said, shortly after learning of the decision.

“Whatever justice we get, we’ll take it.”

Reyat, 59, was a Crown witness at the 2003 trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were acquitted of mass murder and conspiracy in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Some 329 people, mostly Canadian citizens, were killed when the plane went down after leaving a Montreal airport.

Reyat’s testimony was part of a deal that saw him plead guilty to manslaughter in the bombing of the plane and receive a controversial five-year

sentence. He also served an earlier 10-year sentence for manslaughter for the deaths of two airport baggage handlers in Tokyo that happened on the same day.

Reyat was accused of lying 19 times at Malik’s and Bagri’s trial, when he insisted he knew nothing about the conspiracy.

A jury convicted Reyat of perjury in November 2010, but his lawyers appealed. They argued the judge made a mistake when he told the jurors they only needed to conclude Reyat lied in just one of those 19 instances, and that they didn’t need to agree on which lie he told.

Reyat’s lawyer, Ian Donaldson, told the Appeal Court that the perjury verdict was unfair because the jury may not have been unanimous. He argued the jury should have been directed to agree on at least one false statement.

The Appeal Court judges disagreed.

“The trial judge did not err in his instructions to the jury,” Chief Justice Lance Finch wrote in the decision.

“The necessary elements or ingredients for the offence of perjury are entirely consistent among the 19 particulars to the indictment, and there was evidence on which the jury could have found each to be proven.”

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Health clinic slapped for private billing vows to continue legal fight VANCOUVER — The president of a health clinic in British Columbia is vowing to continue his legal fight to allow the public to access private care, after a ruling this week that ordered two facilities to stop illegally billing patients.

An audit by the B.C. Medical Services Commission found Cambie Surgeries Corp. and the Specialist Referral Clinic, both owned by the same company, illegally billed patients for services funded under the provincial health plan.

But Dr. Brian Day, president of Cambie Surgeries Corp., said Thursday his lawyer will file an amended statement of claim early next week as part of a 2009 lawsuit that argues Canadians have a right to timely health care that’s not being provided in the public system.

The developments in B.C. come after a similar lawsuit was launched in Alberta by two people

who say they were forced to pay for care in the United States because they couldn’t get it in a timely fashion at home.

Both follow a Quebec case that saw the Supreme Court of Canada strike down that province’s ban on private insurance for medically necessary services.

“The ultimate outcome from what we’re fighting for will be the end of wait lists,” said Day. “When we change the system to allow competition, wait lists will go away.”

B.C.’s Ministry of Health declined to comment on the court action Thursday, saying it would be inappropriate to comment on an issue before the courts, particularly for a statement of claim that has yet to be filed.

Vanessa Brcic, the executive board member of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, said issues such as wait lists can be resolved within the public system and without developing a parallel for-profit system.

“If you start delivering care within the forprofit system, you’re basically allowing certain Canadians to bypass the wait lists and buy their way to the top of it,” said Brcic, a physician. “So you’re providing better access to a very select group of people, and in turn, providing worse access to everyone else.”

The lawsuit was originally filed against the B.C. government in January 2009. Six companies, including Cambie Surgeries Corp., say B.C.’s Medicare Protection Act is unconstitutional because it prevents patients from receiving timely and reasonable access to health care.

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Police alone can’t stop gun violence POLITICIANS, COMMUNITY LEADERS HUNT FOR SOLUTIONS AFTER TORONTO SHOOTING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Tougher laws and increased police presence alone won’t curb a wave of violence that has shocked Toronto in recent days, community leaders and politicians said Thursday as police began laying charges in a fatal shootout at a community block party.

“I think we need to take a pause and ask ourselves what more we might do,” Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said during a news conference in Ottawa.

“I don’t pretend to have any quick and easy answer for you, and I don’t know anybody who does.”

McGuinty’s comments came as Toronto residents struggled to come to terms with violence that erupted at a block party in a diverse community in the city’s east end.

Gunmen opened fire at the outdoor party, killing 14-year-old Shyanne Charles and Joshua Yasay, 23, and sending 23 others to hospital with gunshot injuries.

Police announced an arrest in the case Thursday, charging Nahom Tsegazab, 19, with reckless discharge of a firearm.

McGuinty will meet with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Police Chief Bill Blair next Monday to discuss ways to prevent similar violent incidents in the future. Community leaders insist it’s imperative they be part of the bigger conversation about gun violence in Canada’s largest city.

In advance of Monday’s meeting, McGuinty has planned a to visit the neighbourhood where the shooting occurred on Friday.

McGuinty will visit the East Scarborough Boys

and Girls Club on Galloway Road to meet with local community leaders who are involved with violence prevention and youth engagement, a spokeswoman said.

Ford has already weighed in on the issue by announcing his intention to appeal to Ottawa for immigration reform that would see those convicted of gun crimes banished from the city.

Ford has called for a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to discuss tougher gun and immigration laws.

“I’m going to sit down with the prime minister and find out how our immigration laws work,” Ford told Arlene Bynon of talk radio station AM640. “Obviously I have an idea, but whatever I can do to get ’em out of the city I’m going to. Regardless of if they have family or friends, I don’t want these people, if they’re convicted of a gun crime, to have anything to do with the city of Toronto.”

Andrew MacDougall, a spokesman for Harper, said the prime minister’s office is “working on scheduling” a meeting with Ford.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, meanwhile, took to Twitter on Thursday to agree with Ford that gangsters convicted of gun crimes should be run out of Toronto.

“I agree w/ Mayor Ford: foreign gangsters should be deported w/out delay,” he tweeted.

Kenney’s office did not respond to a request for an explanation as to why the minister appears to assume those involved in Monday’s deadly shooting are not Canadian citizens.

MacDougall declined to comment on Kenney’s tweet.

Margaret Parsons with the African Canadian Legal Clinic said too many black youth are dying in fatal shootings and the solution is community-building, not increased policing.

“African-Canadians continue to be primary victims of gun violence in the city of Toronto and no one seems to care,” Parsons said at a community meeting at an east Toronto recreation centre.

“Turning our communities into quasi-military zones by deploying 200 cops isn’t the long term answer either. The answer is stringent and effective gun control and measures to stop the flow of guns into the hands of our youth.”

Community leaders worry that without swift action, there will be retaliation and more bloodshed.

Donna Harrow, a community worker who attended the meeting Thursday, got emotional as she described the systematic problems affecting black youth.

“We need to look at young people and look at the ways in which they have been taught to be unsuccessful in this city,” she said, her voice breaking.

“We have a group of young people who are not thinking about post-secondary education. They’re thinking about how they get their next $10 and sometimes it’s not the best choices that are made,” she said.

Community leaders said the government should continue to fund youth programs and urged them to implement the recommendations from a 2008 provincial report by former Ontario Superior Justice Roy McMurtry on youth violence prevention. The group said none of the 27 recommendations in the report have been put in place.

Hopley a simple man who Judge questions did a stupid thing: lawyer Guergis lawsuit

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CRANBROOK, B.C. — The man who abducted a three-year-old British Columbia boy last year before returning him unharmed several days later is a harmless, child-like figure who doesn’t deserve to be locked away indefinitely as a dangerous offender, his lawyer told a sentencing hearing Thursday.

Randall Hopley has pleaded guilty to breaking into Kienan Hebert’s home in Sparwood, B.C., in the middle of the night last September before spiriting the boy to a cabin at a nearby Bible camp.

Kienan was returned four days later and Hopley was later arrested at the Bible camp.

Crown has indicated it may seek to have Hopley, who turns 47 next week, labelled a long-term or dangerous offender, which would allow the court to hand him an indeterminate sentence.

But the man’s lawyer told a B.C. Supreme Court judge in Cranbrook that such a sentence would be too extreme.

“We don’t have any violence, any maltreatment or any threats of violence,” William Thorne said during the second day of Hopley’s sentencing hearing.

“We have a case of a simple man who did a stupid thing but who treated the boy well.”

Hopley has insisted he never harmed or sexually assaulted the boy, and the Crown has presented no evidence that he did.

However, the Crown also points to Hopley’s criminal history, including a sexual assault on a five-yearold boy in 1985 and an attempted abduction in 2007, to suggest he is a dangerous man who must be kept from the public. Thorne rejected that characterization.

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The Crown has asked that Hopley be ordered to undergo a 60-day psychiatric assessment to determine whether he should be labelled a dangerous offender.

His two-day sentencing hearing featured video evidence in which Hopley confessed to police and also came face-to-face with Kienan’s father, Paul Hebert.

Hopley sat in court with his head bowed down, struggling to hold back tears, as the video showed Hebert telling Hopley that he forgave him for abducting his son and thanked him for the boy’s safe return.

“There was no sexual assault at all,” Hopley said in the video interview.

Hebert asked Hopley if he was heterosexual or whether he only liked children.

“Oh, yes, I prefer women,” replied Hopley. “Children, but not in a sexual way. It was nothing to do with sex.”

In the interview, Hopley is reminded about his 1985 sexual assault conviction, but Hopley said he would never have done anything to someone as young as Kienan.

“That was in the past. I don’t want to go back there,” Hopley said softly. “If I hurt a three-year-old, I would just take myself out in the bush and shoot myself.”

“I believe you,” replied Hebert. “You took my son from me and I forgive you. Change yourself. Be a better person.”

OTTAWA — An Ontario Court judge asked pointed questions Thursday about an ousted federal minister’s allegations against her former boss — most notably the suggestion that Stephen Harper himself made up claims that Helena Guergis was involved in criminal activity.

Guergis was ejected from cabinet and from caucus in 2010 amid allegations she was caught up in criminal activity with her businessman husband Rahim Jaffer. The RCMP later said they could find no reason to charge them.

Now she’s trying to bring a $1.3-million defamation and conspiracy case to court against Harper and several Conservative figures — and, in the process, floating the purely hypothetical theory that the prime minister himself was the source of the defamatory claims.

One of the central themes of Guergis’s lawsuit is that she was defamed when Harper told reporters that he had received serious allegations about her, and then again when a letter was sent to the RCMP citing allegations received by the prime minister’s office.

Guergis’ statement of claim entertains three possibilities. One, that private detective Derrick Snowdy went to the party’s lawyer with allegations in April 2010, thus defaming her.

Two, that Snowdy did no such thing, but that the party lawyer made the allegations up when he communicated them to the prime minister’s office shortly afterward.

Or three, that neither Snowdy nor Hamilton communicated allegations, but that Harper made them up when he made his public statement and wrote to the RCMP.

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OTTAWA — The Federal Court has rejected a bid by the Conservatives to prevent federal election results in a handful of tightly contested ridings from being overturned.

The Tories argued in court last month that an application by the Council of Canadians to review

REGINA — A mystery has emerged about the identity of a Saskatchewan woman who could be not only the oldest person in the province, but one of the oldest in the world.

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, the oldest living person in the province is a woman born on July 1, 1899.

That would make her 113 years old.

The ministry notes that if someone dies, it takes a few weeks for a record to reflect the death.

A leading authority on the world’s oldest people has heard nothing about her.

Dr. Stephen Coles from the Gerontology Research Group in Los Angeles says it’s always a surprise to hear about someone who is not already on their list.

“We really need to know much more about this anonymous case that the government in Canada knows about so we can get the right documents and validate the claim,” says Coles.

“It’s important from the point of view of scientific research.”

Coles and the other researchers he works with also spend time contacting families of these people of incredible age so they can learn more.

“As a physician, I want to know their secret,” he says.

VANCOUVER — A new study by researchers in British Columbia has found the vast majority of youth on the streets of Vancouver who try injection drugs for the first time become regular users.

The study by researchers at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS focused on 338 youth between the ages of 14 and 25 years old who regularly access shelters or drop-in centres.

Of those, 74 per cent became regular drug injectors, and 60 per cent of those regular users began frequent use within one month of their first time injecting heroin, cocaine or methamphetamines.

Kora DeBeck, one of the researchers on the study, said the youth were mainly based in the south side of downtown Vancouver, around Granville and Davie streets.

DeBeck said the study showed that the type of drugs being injected had no bearing on users becoming regular injectors. Instead, it was the demographics of those in the study that made a difference.

“Female youth were more likely to transition become regular injectors and also youth who had a history of childhood physical abuse,” said DeBeck.

Police ready as Hells Angels converge on Saskatoon for national rally SASKATOON — Hundreds of Hells Angels are roaring into Saskatoon and police are watching to make sure the bikers are on their best behaviour.

As many as 500 Hells Angels are expected in the Prairie city over the weekend for a national rally.

“It’s not just a motorcycle gang, it’s a criminal organization,” said police spokeswoman Alyson Edwards.

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She said that’s because the group is more organized than a street gang that would be more likely to commit random assaults, break and enters or create trouble at local bars.

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Stamps steal one from Riders WIN IN OVERTIME AFTER COMING BACK FROM 17-POINT DEFICIT LATE IN FOURTH QUARTER MATHEW DUMBA

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DUMBA GETS SIGNED

Stampeders 41 Roughriders 38 CALGARY — Nik Lewis caught a 16-yard touchdown pass in overtime as the Calgary Stampeders rallied from a 17-point fourth quarter deficit for a thrilling 41-38 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Thursday.

Lewis finished the game with three touchdown receptions, while Larry Taylor also hauled in a late TD pass in the fourth quarter from Kevin Glenn. Rene Paredes kicked four field goals for the Stamps (2-2), who snapped a two-game losing streak. Calgary also recorded a turnover.

Kory Sheets ran for a pair of touchdowns for the Roughriders (3-1), who had the first possession in overtime, but had to settle for a 50-yard field goal by Chris Milo.

Saskatchewan’s Chris Getzlaf and Weston Dressler caught touchdown passes from starting quarterback Darian Durant, while backup QB Drew Willy threw a TD pass to Neal Hughes.

Calgary trailed 35-18 after Sheets plunged into the end zone for a one-yard touchdown five minutes into the fourth quarter. But Lewis then caught a 21-yard TD pass from Glenn with 5:17 left in the game before Calgary linebacker Malik Jackson intercepted an errant pass by Durant and ran it back 23 yards into Saskatchewan territory. On the next play, Glenn tossed a 20-yard touchdown pass to Taylor to pull the Stamps within three points.

After the Riders went two-and-out on their next possession, Taylor fumbled the ball on the ensuing kick return to give Saskatchewan the ball back on the Calgary 39-yard line.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild have signed teenager and first-round draft pick Mathew Dumba.

The Wild announced Thursday the signing of 17-year-old Dumba, who was the seventh overall draft pick. He recently participated in the Wild’s prospect camp after serving as a captain for Canada in the Under-18 world championships. Dumba had 20 goals and 57 points for Red Deer in the Western Hockey League last season. He led all WHL defencemen in goals. The Wild envision him becoming a top-shelf, puckmoving defenceman.

His development will no doubt be aided by the recent acquisition of veteran defenceman Ryan Suter.

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Friday

● Pony Chucks: North American championships, 6:30 p.m., Westerner. ● Major league soccer: Red Deer City vs.

Edmonton Victoria, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Riggers baseball: Red Deer Riggers tournament, Riggers vs. Parkland, 7:30 p.m.

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Saskatchewan Roughriders’ Abraham Kromah, left, and Brent Hawkins, second from left, try to bring down Calgary Stampeders’ Jon Cornish, during CFL football action in Calgary, Thursday. The Stampeders made a thrilling fourth quarter comeback to send the game to overtime where they were able to come away with the 41-38 win over the Riders.

Scott ties course record for Open lead

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Saturday

● Pony Chucks: North American championships, 6:30 p.m., Westerner. ● Riggers baseball: Red Deer Riggers tournament, Prince George vs. RD Stags, 9:30 a.m.; St. Albert vs. Parkland, noon; Fort Saskatchewan vs.

Prince George, 2:30 p.m.; Riggers vs. St. Albert, 5 p.m.; Stags vs. Fort Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Red Deer DQ Braves vs.

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Flyers offer Weber $110-million contract

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Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy hits a shot out of the rough during day one of the British Open Golf Championship, at Lytham St Annes, England, Thursday.

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Unlike the guys in charge of the weather forecast, Adam Scott got everything just about right Thursday in the British Open.

Scott was determined not to take himself out of contention in the opening round at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, as he had done in the first two majors this year. Caddie Steve Williams gave him a pep talk to play the first hole like it was the last one. Even more inspiration came from the international flags posted above the massive grandstand down the left side of the first tee.

They weren’t flapping. They were sagging.

In surprisingly calm conditions, Scott raced out to the lead and almost into the record book. He stood on the 18th tee needing a birdie to break the major championship scoring record, and instead made bogey to settle for a 6-under 64.

It matched the lowest Open round ever at Royal Lytham and gave the Australian a one-shot lead over Paul Lawrie, Zach Johnson and Nicolas Colsaerts.

“It was just like a nice walk in the park today,” Scott said. “And it was not what we’ve experienced in the practice rounds. I’m sure there’s going to be some weather elements thrown at us the next three days, so just going to

have to knuckle down to handle that.

But I’m confident. My ball striking is good. I think I can get it around no matter what the conditions are.”

The proof was in limp flags and red numbers on the scoreboards.

Scott was among three dozen players with rounds in the 60s, a group that included Tiger Woods. Trying to end a four-year drought in the majors, Woods raced out to four birdies in seven holes to take the early lead, only to settle into a series of pars and one adventure through grass up to his knees for a lone bogey that gave him a 67. In his third Open at Lytham, Woods said it was as easy as he had ever seen it play.

“The wind wasn’t blowing, and we’re backing golf balls up,” Woods said. “That’s something we just don’t see.”

Lawrie won his British Open in nasty conditions at Carnoustie in 1999, and the Scot showed he could handle the calm weather with equal aplomb.

He ran off three birdies over the last five holes. Johnson, who won the 2006 Masters in the wind and cold at Augusta National, flirted with a major record-tying 63 until a bogey on the 17th hole. Colsaerts, the big hitter from Belgium, holed out with an 8-iron on the 481-yard second hole for eagle and added four birdies for his 65.

Brandt Snedeker was another shot behind at 66.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — Shea Weber is on the brink of becoming the dominant blueline force the Philadelphia Flyers desperately need.

Weber signed a staggering offer sheet with the Philadelphia Flyers and the restricted free agent could be a week away from bolting the Nashville Predators. A person with knowledge of the decision says the Flyers signed Weber to a 14-year offer sheet worth $110 million.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because the Flyers hadn’t announced terms of the offer.

Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren confirmed early Thursday that the Flyers did sign Weber to an offer sheet. He gave

no further details. The Predators issued a statement late Thursday morning confirming they had received the Flyers’ offer sheet, which gives the team seven days to make a decision on matching the deal or letting the defenceman go.

“We have stated previously that, should a team enter into an offer sheet with Shea, our intention would be to match and retain Shea,” Predators general manager David Poile said. “Our ownership has provided us with the necessary resources to build a Stanley Cup-winning team. Due to the complexity of the offer sheet, we will take the appropriate time to review and evaluate it, and all of its ramifications, in order to make the best decision for the Predators in both the short and long-term.”

Weber, 26, is the Predators’ captain and played on a $7.5 million arbitrator’s award last season. He had 19 goals and 49 points

along the way.

Nashville already lost free-agent defenceman Ryan Suter to Minnesota this summer, and losing Weber would be an unexpected blow to a defence-first team that had 104 points last season, took the No. 4 seed in the Western Conference and advanced to the second round of the playoffs.

“We didn’t go actively looking for an offer sheet,” said Jarrett Bousquet, Weber’s agent. “But when we spoke with Philadelphia, it seemed to be a right fit there.”

Meanwhile, Weber would fill the void left by Philadelphia defenceman Chris Pronger’s absence. Pronger — a key cog in the Flyers’ run to the 2010 Stanley Cup finals as a No. 7 seed — has been battling concussion problems and missed most of last season.

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All those trade rumours don’t seem to be bothering him one bit.

Dempster is scheduled to start for the Chicago Cubs on Friday at St. Louis, and he doesn’t know of any reason why he won’t be on the mound at Busch Stadium. While trade rumours swirl around the righthander, he remains focused on his next game with his current club.

“Nothing imminent, not that I know of,” said Dempster, who can veto any deal. “I’m sure if they have something they’ll come to me. But right now I’m just worried about trying to get ready for tomorrow’s game.”

Dempster is one of the best pitchers on the market ahead of the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline. He has won five consecutive starts and leads the majors with a 1.86 ERA. He will carry a 33-inning scoreless streak into the start against the Cardinals, an impressive run he admits to thinking about “all the time.”

“I know I haven’t given up a run in five starts,” he said before the Cubs hosted the Miami Marlins on Thursday. “I’m not naive.

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Keith Wood still has a some work to do before he can capture his record eighth North American Pony Chuckwagon Championship, but he it appears as if he’s going to make a run at it.

Wood, who came into the evening in 21st place, charged from behind on his Farm Credit Corporation wagon during the second of five performances at the Westerner Days Thursday to move into the top 10.

The Saddle Lake veteran finished second in the 14th and final heat with a time of one minute 18.54 seconds to slip into eighth place overall at 2:39.95.

Defending champion Ray Adamson of Camrose continues to lead the overall standings with a 2:36.51 time, despite finishing third in the 14th heat at 1:19.07.

Gary Thiel drove his Pumps and Pressure outfit to the day’s best time of 1:18.13 in the 13th heat and gained some valuable time on Adamson and continues to sit in second place at 2:37.48.

Curtis Hogg and the Kellough Enterprises sponsored wagon won the 14th heat with the day’s second best time of 1:18.30 and is in third at 2:37.69.

Lee Adamson posted the fifth best time of the day, a 1:19.16 on the Ulterra wagon, and is in fourth at 2:38.62.

Fifth place is held down by Wade Salmond and the Nossack Food Group with a time of 2:39.01, following a 1:19.50, with Dale Young and the Calgary Flames Ambassadors in sixth at 2:39.27 after finishing at 1:19.66.

Former champion Louis Johner moved into seventh place from 12th with the Wei’s Western Wear sponsored rig. He had a running time of 1:19.56 and a total time of 2:39.54.

Jim Lang and the Hoff Trailer Sales wagon is ninth and Jake Van Ringen and the Ol’ MacDonald’s Resort 10th.

Lang came into the evening in 15th place and moved up with a running time of 1:19.47 which left him at 2:40.01. Van Ringen had a time of 1:20.61 and sits at 2:40.23.

Action continues tonight and Saturday at 6:30 p.m. with the finals at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

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of them actually belongs in second place. The Lions are a first-place team trapped in a second-place body while the Eskimos are a fourth-place team trapped in a second-place body. Eventually the season will mature into this stark reality and I suspect that the gap between the two teams will be painfully evident tonight under the West Coast stars.

The BC Lions are a talented team with a big ego and last week’s loss to the Riders will be painfully fresh in their minds. The unfortunate whipping boy for last weekend’s defeat will be the Edmonton Eskimos.

The Lions are incredibly solid on both sides of the ball while the Eskimos have Steven Jyles as their starter at quarterback and that’s a lot like having a fat kid on one side of a teeter-totter for this game. This game will be the worse massacre since plucky gazelles took on angry lions on the Serengeti Plains and will produce a similar Lion victory.

NBA board approves changes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — The NBA Board of Governors approved a new look for uniforms and a couple of changes in the use of video replay.

Commissioner David Stern met with the media Thursday after the Board of Governors held their annual summer meeting.

He said the league is looking to add possibly $100 million in revenue by permitting small advertising patches on uniforms starting in the 2013-14 season.

“The view is, that the teams would need a significant time; one, to sell the patch; and number two, for Adidas to manufacture the uniforms, because the patch that would be on the players’ uniforms would also appear on the jerseys at retail,” said

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CFL: Comeback Two plays later, Calgary defensive lineman Charleston Hughes sacked Durant for a 13-yard loss to force another punt. The Stamps drove the ball 83 yards down the field, but had to settle for a 17-yard field goal by Paredes to tie the game at 35-35 with 29 seconds left and force overtime.

The Stamps had opened the scoring Thursday with a 46-yard field goal by Paredes, but the Riders responded with a two-yard touchdown run by Sheets to cap off a six-play, 54-yard drive.

Early in the second quarter, Glenn engineered a six-play, 62-yard drive that he finished off by tossing a five-yard touchdown pass to Lewis.

The Riders answered right back with a quick fourplay, 73-yard scoring drive culminated by a two-yard TD pass by Willy to Hughes.

Calgary then took a 15-14 lead as a result of a 37-yard field goal by Paredes followed by a safety when Saskatchewan punter Chris Milo was tackled in the end zone after Cory Huclack snapped the ball over his head.

The Stamps appeared to stall Saskatchewan’s next drive after just four plays, but a costly 15-yard penalty to Calgary defensive lineman Torrey Davis gave Durant and his offence another opportunity.

Durant made the Stamps pay by driving the Riders downfield and ultimately tossing a 30-yard touchdown strike to Getzlaf to give Saskatchewan a 21-15 lead heading into halftime.

Tristan Jackson gave the Riders great field position in the third quarter by running the opening kickoff 63 yards back into Calgary territory. Six plays later, Durant completed a 20-yard TD pass to Dressler to extend Saskatchewan’s lead.

Calgary’s undisciplined play continued in the second half as Dmitri Tsoumpas was ejected from the game for rough play before fellow offensive lineman Jon Gott took an objectionable conduct penalty.

Defensive lineman was then penalized for piling on after a late hit on Durant.

Paredes kicked a 44-yard field goal for Calgary with 13 seconds left in the third quarter. Sheets started the fourth with a one yard touchdown run to put the Riders up by 17 but then que the comeback.

The Stampeders got a 21 yard touchdown from Glenn to Lewis with five minutes to play then intercepted the bakll on the Riders next posession. One play later Glenn hooked up with Larry Taylor for a 20 yards strike. Parades added an 18-yard field goal with 30 seconds left to tie the game.

In overtime the Riders had to settle for a field goal. On the Stamps posession Glenn found Lewis again for a 16 yard touchdown and the win.

OPEN: Little wind “We had a little wind early on the front nine, but it kind of calmed down the second half,” Snedeker said “That’s the best Americans are going to see over here.”

Rory McIlroy was panned last summer at Royal St. George’s for saying he prefers calm conditions, so maybe this was more to his liking. He wound up in the group at 67 after a wild day filled with great shots, bad luck and a bump on the head for a 16-yearold spectator standing in the wrong spot.

McIlroy was at 3 under with four holes remaining when his drive on the 15th hole sailed to the right of the fairway. It plunked the teenager in the head and caromed farther to the right. The teen was OK. The ball settled a few inches beyond the out-of-bounds stakes near a corporate tent, sending McIlroy back to the tee to play his third shot. McIlroy gave the lad a glove on which he wrote “Sorry” with a frown face and “Rory.”

“He could have headed it the other way,” McIlroy joked later. “It would have been on the fairway.”

He bounced back from that double bogey by driving the 336-yard 16th hole and two-putting for birdie, then making birdie on the final hole to join guys like Ernie Els, Masters champion Bubba Watson, Graeme McDowell and Steve Stricker, who followed an eagle from the 13th fairway with a double bogey on the next hole.

One sign of the easy scoring was that no one shot in the 80s. That hasn’t happened in the opening round of the British Open since 1998 at Royal Birkdale, where conditions also were benign. Woods opened with a 65 that year, only to get blown away in bad weather the next round.

Perhaps bad weather is on the way. The forecast hasn’t been nearly as accurate as Scott was with his tee shots on Thursday — sunshine when it calls for

Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver, who is handling the uniform change. Silver said there are revenue projections from European soccer teams that the NBA could use. The competition committee altered a few rule changes with respect to the use of video replay, primarily in the final 2 minutes or overtime of games. At any point in the game, officials can now check video replay on all flagrant fouls.

“So the call is flagrant foul and then you go the tape, and you decide whether it’s a 1 or a 2, or in some rare instance, maybe even a common foul,” Stern said.

Officials can now use video replay in the final two minutes or overtime to decide whether a defender was in or out of the restricted area around the basket on charge and blocking fouls. rain, clouds when the forecast is for dry spells.

Els and his caddie, Ricci Roberts, figured out immediately that dead calm translates to low scores.

“It’s on today,” he said. “I said to Ricci, ’I might not have the chance again.’ You never know how the weather is going to be.”

But even in such weather suited for low scores, Lytham still required tee shots in the fairway. It still demanded good shots. And it was a struggle for some.

Lee Westwood, despite a birdie-birdie start, hit a bunker shot across the third green to take double bogey, and had to play a left-handed shot out of the back end of a pot bunker on the 13th hole as he staggered to a 73. Luke Donald made a sloppy bogey — his only one of the round — on the final hole for a 70.

Justin Rose played in the same group as Woods and already was nine shots behind after eight holes. He rallied for a 74.

Lytham was there for the taking — as long as the tee shots found the fairway.

Phil Mickelson, a runner-up at Royal St. George’s last year, went from the left rough to the right rough on the par-5 seventh to make double bogey on the easy hole at Lytham. On the next hole, he tried to hit wedge out of a pot bunker and it got snagged in high grass just over the lip. A small search party nearly didn’t find it, and Mickelson had to take a penalty shot to drop it back in the fairway.

“I putted poorly today and I drove it horrific and the chipping was below average,” he said.

Scott had no such issues. After an early bogey when he got out of position on the third hole, he warmed up with birdies on the sixth and seventh holes, and then ran off three straight birdies on the back nine, starting with the 598-yard 11th hole that he reached in two shots.

Royal Lytham was changed to a par 70 this year, and with a birdie on the 16th that put him at 7 under, Scott needed one more birdie to become the first player with a 62 in the majors. There have been 25 rounds of 63.

“I was waiting to use the bathroom going to the 17th tee and I did a look at the leaderboard and realized it was a par 70,” he said. “And I also probably then realized that I wasn’t going to be the guy to shoot 62. It’s one of those things that you don’t want to go through your mind, thinking about your final score and stuff like that.”

He slightly pulled a 2-iron off the tee on the 18th, played out of the thick rough short of the green and failed to save par.

No matter. His 64, which matched Tom Lehman’s third-round score in 1996 when he went on to win his only major.

Scott can only hope for the same outcome. His 18 worldwide wins include The Players Championship, the Tour Championship, and the Australian Open.

He has reached as high as No. 3 in the world. He is missing the kind of trophy that defines great players.

“I’ve won a couple of tournaments most years, which is a good habit to have because it’s getting harder and harder to win out here,” Scott said. “And I’m looking for a win this year. But I would say I haven’t achieved what I wanted until I win a major.”

WEBER: Good situation He finished with one goal in 13 games as the Flyers bowed out in the second round to New Jersey after a promising, 103-point regular season. The Flyers were exposed on defence in that five-game, Round 2 loss to the rival Devils, and since have lost defenceman Matt Carle, who snared a six-year, $33 million deal with Tampa Bay. Weber would fix a lot of problems for a Flyers team that allowed 44 goals in just 11 post-season games. He is a three-time All Star who helped Canada win gold in the 2010 Olympics, and is also is the mainstay of the Predators’ defensive-minded approach. He is coming off a season in which he turned in a career-best plus-21 rating. Weber was sixth among NHL defencemen in scoring, as well, last year.

He also had a career-high 22 points on the power play, and led all NHL defencemen with 10 powerplay goals.

“I think at the point, he’s really in a good situation,” Bousquet said. “I think he wants to explore his options. I don’t think he would sign an offer sheet unless you were hoping you were able to go to that team.”

Weber averaged 29 minutes, 9 seconds of ice time last season, second on the team to his former partner, Suter, who signed a 13-year, $98 million deal with Minnesota on July 4.

“Things changed in Nashville July 4,” Bousquet said. “The next four or five days we had to look at different options.”

The Predators said they had the money to keep

The second game of the weekend involves those other cats from Hamilton and the Montreal Alouettes. Both teams are riding a win wave after victories last weekend and they both want to get closer to A-number one-top-of the-heap in the East. The real pressure will be on Henry Burris to lead the Tiger-Cats out of the jungle of mediocrity this year because they have hit the wall over the past several years and need to move up the ladder.

I believe that things will happen for Hamilton in this game because Hank has a lot of offensive weapons at his disposal and he will need every one of them against the Als. Neither team has shown any real signs of defensive strength this year, so expect a high scoring game with a Hamilton victory to seal the deal for the Ticat faithful. Hamilton wins a shootout at Ivor Wynne.

Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer

JUNIOR GOLF CAMROSE — Two time defending McLennan Ross/Sun Junior Tour champion Tyler Saunders of Edmonton turned in a spectacular 29 on his back nine to capture the Camrose tour stop Thursday.

Saunders, who started on the back, had a 36, then became the first competitor on the tour to break 30 for a nine, to finish at 65 and a two-stroke victory over Andrew Harrison of Camrose, who had a 36-31.

Saunders also won the 17-19 year-old division with the 15-16 year-old title going to Harrison.

Brett Hawken of Wetaskiwin, who won the tour stop Wednesday on his home course, finished third at 71.

Jeremy Rietze of Lacombe shot an 80 and was third in the 15-16 year-old category while Chandler McDowell of Red Deer had an 83 and tied for second in the 14-and-under division, one stroke back of Sikander Kaleka of Stony Plain.

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Nashville Predators defenceman Shea Weber (6) moves the puck during the second period of a hockey game in Nashville, Tenn. A person with knowledge of the decision says the Philadelphia Flyers have signed Weber to a 14-year offer sheet worth more than $100 million.

Weber and Suter after signing goalie Pekka Rinne to a seven-year, $49 million deal last November. But Poile couldn’t keep Suter in town despite team officials thinking they had a good chance to keep their top draft pick in 2003. The Wild not only snagged Suter, but also agreed with forward Zach Parise, Suter’s good friend who left New Jersey for a similar deal to Suter’s, a month after leading the Devils to the Stanley Cup finals.

Nashville took Weber, the team’s fourth pick in the second round in that same 2003 draft, to arbitration a year ago and couldn’t take the restricted free agent there again this summer.

The Flyers would love to make a splash after losing out on Suter and Parise. They lost Carle and forward Jaromir Jagr, who left for Dallas, and traded one of their former cornerstones in forward James van Riemsdyk to Toronto.

Clearly, Philadelphia is in a position of need. The Flyers need help on the backline, they have watched teams around them in the East get better, and are still smarting from consecutive exits in the second round. Not to mention, last summer, Holmgren pulled off the stunning deals to get rid of high-priced forwards Mike Richards and Jeff Carter, and the two ended up helping Los Angeles to the Stanley Cup last month.

So, with a move like this, the Flyers seem to be drawing a line in the sand, especially after watching so many stars head elsewhere this off-season.

Perhaps Weber stops all of that. After all, he would likely be the Eastern Conference’s biggest offseason addition, and one that can fuel Philadelphia’s chase for a first Stanley Cup since 1975.

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Baseball New York Baltimore Boston Tampa Bay Toronto

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AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB 57 35 .620 — 48 44 .522 9 48 45 .516 9 48 45 .516 9 45 47 .489 12

Chicago Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 50 42 .543 49 44 .527 47 45 .511 39 52 .429 38 54 .413

GB — 1 3 10 12

Texas Los Angeles Oakland Seattle

West Division W L Pct 55 36 .604 50 43 .538 48 44 .522 40 54 .426

GB — 6 7 16

RBI—Hamilton, Texas, 78; MiCabrera, Detroit, 76; Fielder, Detroit, 67; Willingham, Minnesota, 67; Bautista, Toronto, 65; ADunn, Chicago, 65; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 65.

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HITS—MiCabrera, Detroit, 121; Jeter, New York, 119; Cano, New York, 113; Beltre, Texas, 109; AdJones, Baltimore, 108; Rios, Chicago, 108; Fielder, Detroit, 107; AdGonzalez, Boston, 107.

DOUBLES—AGordon, Kansas City, 31; Choo, Cleveland, 29; Cano, New York, 28; Brantley, Cleveland, 27; AdGonzalez, Boston, 27; MiCabrera, Detroit, 26; Kinsler, Texas, 26.

1/2 TRIPLES—Andrus, Texas, 5; Berry, Detroit, 5; De Aza, Chicago, 5; AJackson, Detroit, 5; Rios, Chicago, 5; JWeeks, Oakland, 5; 6 tied at 4.

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Today’s Games Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 1-1) at Cleveland (D.Lowe 8-7), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Peavy 7-6) at Detroit (Verlander 10-5), 5:05 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 1-2) at Tampa Bay (Shields 8-6), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Laffey 1-1) at Boston (Beckett 5-7), 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Blackburn 4-5) at Kansas City (Hochevar 6-8), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Nova 10-4) at Oakland (Milone 9-6), 8:05 p.m.

Texas (D.Holland 6-4) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 111), 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 2:05 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m.

Seattle at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 11:05 a.m.

Toronto at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

Seattle at Tampa Bay, 11:40 a.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 6:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Major League Linescores Cleveland 000 000 000 — 0 2 0 Tampa Bay 001 004 10x — 6 11 0 Jimenez, Barnes (6), Accardo (8) and Marson; Price, W.Davis (8) and J.Molina. W—Price 13-4. L— Jimenez 8-9. HRs—Tampa Bay, Scott (12).

Los Ang. 000 001 000 — 1 3 1 Detroit 030 110 00x — 5 9 0 Williams, Takahashi (7), Hawkins (7), Frieri (8) and Bo.Wilson, Hester; Scherzer, Benoit (8), Valverde (9) and Avila. W—Scherzer 9-5. L—Williams 6-7.

HRs—Los Angeles, Trout (14). Detroit, Avila (6), Mi.Cabrera (21).

Baltimore 010 000 120 — 4 7 1 Minnesota 200 100 000 — 3 7 1 W.Chen, O’Day (8), Patton (8), Strop (8), Ji.Johnson (9) and Wieters; De Vries, Duensing (7), Al.Burnett (8), T.Robertson (8), Swarzak (8) and Mauer.

W—W.Chen 8-5. L—Al.Burnett 3-3. Sv—Ji.Johnson (28). HRs—Baltimore, C.Davis (15).

Seattle 030 010 101 — 6 11 0 Kansas City000 010 000 — 1 8 0 F.Hernandez, Luetge (9) and Jaso; W.Smith, L.Coleman (7), Bueno (7) and S.Perez. W—F. Hernandez 8-5. L—W.Smith 1-3. HRs—Seattle, J.Montero (9).

Chicago 000 100 000 — 1 8 0 Boston 000 000 003 — 3 8 0 Quintana, Thornton (9), Reed (9) and Pierzynski; Buchholz, Aceves (9) and Shoppach. W—Aceves 1-6. L—Thornton 2-6. HRs—Boston, C.Ross (16).

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING—Trout, Los Angeles, .352; Mauer, Minnesota, .329; MiCabrera, Detroit, .326; Konerko, Chicago, .325; Beltre, Texas, .322; Cano, New York, .320; AJackson, Detroit, .317.

RUNS—Trout, Los Angeles, 66; Granderson, New York, 65; Kinsler, Texas, 65; Ortiz, Boston, 65; Bautista, Toronto, 63; Cano, New York, 62; AdJones, Baltimore, 61.

HOME RUNS—ADunn, Chicago, 28; Hamilton, Texas, 28; Bautista, Toronto, 27; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 26; Encarnacion, Toronto, 25; Granderson, New York, 25; Ortiz, Boston, 23; Willingham, Minnesota, 23.

STOLEN BASES—Trout, Los Angeles, 30; RDavis, Toronto, 24; Kipnis, Cleveland, 20; Revere, Minnesota, 20; Crisp, Oakland, 18; JDyson, Kansas City, 17; Andrus, Texas, 16; DeJennings, Tampa Bay, 16; EJohnson, Tampa Bay, 16.

PITCHING—Price, Tampa Bay, 13-4; MHarrison, Texas, 12-4; Weaver, Los Angeles, 11-1; Sale, Chicago, 11-2; Sabathia, New York, 10-3; Doubront, Boston, 10-4; Nova, New York, 10-4; Verlander, Detroit, 10-5; Darvish, Texas, 10-6.

STRIKEOUTS—FHernandez, Seattle, 143; Verlander, Detroit, 136; Scherzer, Detroit, 134; Darvish, Texas, 121; Price, Tampa Bay, 120; Shields, Tampa Bay, 114; Peavy, Chicago, 113.

SAVES—JiJohnson, Baltimore, 28; Rodney, Tampa Bay, 27; CPerez, Cleveland, 26; RSoriano, New York, 24; Broxton, Kansas City, 22; Aceves, Boston, 20; Nathan, Texas, 19.

Washington Atlanta New York Miami Philadelphia

Cincinnati Pittsburgh St. Louis Milwaukee Chicago Houston

San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona San Diego Colorado

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 53 37 .589 50 41 .549 47 45 .511 44 48 .478 41 52 .441

GB — 3 7 10 13

Central Division W L Pct 52 40 .565 51 40 .560 47 45 .511 44 47 .484 38 53 .418 34 59 .366

GB — 1/2 5 7 13 18

West Division W L Pct 51 41 .554 49 44 .527 44 48 .478 39 55 .415 35 56 .385

GB — 2 7 13 15

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Miami at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

San Francisco at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.

Houston at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING—McCutchen, Pittsburgh, .369; MeCabrera, San Francisco, .357; DWright, New York, .353; Ruiz, Philadelphia, .350; Votto, Cincinnati, .342; CGonzalez, Colorado, .333; Holliday, St. Louis, .316.

RUNS—McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 65; Bourn, Atlanta, 63; CGonzalez, Colorado, 63; Braun, Milwaukee, 61; DWright, New York, 61; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 60; Pence, Philadelphia, 59.

RBI—Beltran, St. Louis, 66; Braun, Milwaukee, 65; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 65; DWright, New York, 65; Kubel, Arizona, 63; CGonzalez, Colorado, 62; Ethier, Los Angeles, 59; Holliday, St. Louis, 59.

HITS—MeCabrera, San Francisco, 128; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 123; Bourn, Atlanta, 117; DWright, New York, 115; CGonzalez, Colorado, 113; Prado, Atlanta, 108; Holliday, St. Louis, 107.

DOUBLES—Votto, Cincinnati, 36; DWright, New York, 30; ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 29; Cuddyer, Colorado, 27; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 27; DanMurphy, New York, 25; Desmond, Washington, 24; Hart, Milwaukee, 24; Prado, Atlanta, 24; Ruiz, Philadelphia, 24.

TRIPLES—Fowler, Colorado, 9; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 8; Bourn, Atlanta, 7; SCastro, Chicago, 7; Reyes, Miami, 6; 13 tied at 5.

HOME RUNS—Braun, Milwaukee, 26; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 22; Beltran, St. Louis, 20; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 19; Stanton, Miami, 19; Bruce, Cincinnati, 18; CGonzalez, Colorado, 18; ASoriano, Chicago, 18.

STOLEN BASES—DGordon, Los Angeles, 30; Bourn, Atlanta, 25; Campana, Chicago, 25; Schafer, Houston, 23; Bonifacio, Miami, 22; Pierre, Philadelphia, 21; Victorino, Philadelphia, 21.

PITCHING—Dickey, New York, 13-1; GGonzalez, Washington, 12-5; Hamels, Philadelphia, 11-4; Lynn, St. Louis, 11-4; Cueto, Cincinnati, 11-5; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 11-6; 6 tied at 10.

1/2 STRIKEOUTS—Strasburg, Washington, 135; Dickey, New York, 132; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 132; GGonzalez, Washington, 129; Hamels, Philadelphia, 125; MCain, San Francisco, 124; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 121.

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SAVES—Kimbrel, Atlanta, 28; Hanrahan, Pittsburgh, 26; SCasilla, San Francisco, 23; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 21; Motte, St. Louis, 20; Myers, Houston, 19; HBell, Miami, 19.

Thursday’s Major League Linescores

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Today’s Games Atlanta (Hanson 10-5) at Washington (Strasburg 10-4), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Nolasco 8-7) at Pittsburgh (Correia 6-6), 5:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Lincecum 3-10) at Philadelphia (Worley 5-5), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Harang 6-5) at N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 6-6), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Estrada 0-3) at Cincinnati (Bailey 8-6), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Dempster 5-3) at St. Louis (Lohse 9-2), 6:15 p.m.

Houston (B.Norris 5-7) at Arizona (Cahill 7-8), 7:40 p.m.

Colorado (D.Pomeranz 1-4) at San Diego (Marquis 2-5), 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 11:05 a.m., 1st game L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

San Francisco at Philadelphia, 2:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 5:05 p.m., 2nd game Miami at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m.

Houston at Arizona, 6:10 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 6:35 p.m.

Sunday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 11:10 a.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE San Francisco010 000 010 — 2 9 1 Atlanta 011 100 00x — 3 3 0 Bumgarner, Hensley (8) and Posey; T.Hudson, O’Flaherty (8), Kimbrel (9) and D.Ross. W—T.Hudson 8-4. L—Bumgarner 11-6. Sv—Kimbrel (28).

HRs—Atlanta, F.Freeman (13), D.Ross (5).

Arizona 101 013 000 — 6 14 1 Cincinnati 000 003 40x — 7 6 0 J.Saunders, Shaw (7), Zagurski (7), Ziegler (7), D.Hernandez (8) and H.Blanco, M.Montero; Leake, Simon (6), Ondrusek (8), Marshall (8), Chapman (9) and Mesoraco, Hanigan. W—Simon 2-1. L—Shaw 1-4. Sv—Chapman (15). HRs—Arizona, A.Hill (13), H.Blanco (1). Cincinnati, B.Phillips (11).

New York 212 400 000 — 9 11 2 Washington100 001 021 — 5 14 0 Dickey, Byrdak (8), R.Ramirez (8), Edgin (8), Parnell (9) and Thole; G.Gonzalez, Stammen (4), H.Rodriguez (7), Storen (9) and Flores, Leon. W— Dickey 13-1. L—G.Gonzalez 12-5. HRs—New York, D.Wright 2 (14), I.Davis (14). Washington, Zimmerman (11).

Miami 000 001 001 — 2 6 0 Chicago 000 040 00x — 4 9 0 Buehrle, LeBlanc (6), Mujica (7), Cishek (8) and J.Buck; Maholm, Marmol (9) and Soto. W—Maholm 8-6. L—Buehrle 9-9. Sv—Marmol (11). HRs—Chicago, A.Soriano (18).

Houston 000 000 000 — 0 1 0 San Diego 100 000 00x — 1 4 1 Harrell, W.Wright (8) and C.Snyder; Volquez and Grandal. W—Volquez 6-7. L—Harrell 7-7.

Alberta Downs Entries Saturday Post time: 1:45 p.m.

First Pace, purse $4,000 (DD, EX, SF, TR).

1 Sureshowedu (R. Starkewski) 2 Wish I Was (K. Clark) 3 Barona Lilac (K. Hoerdt) 4 Outlawcherishafool (C. Kolthammer) 5 Miss Reserve (B. Clark) 6 Mystic Angel (T. Remillard) Second Pace, purse $4,000 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Va Va Varoom (R. Hennessy) 2 Cracklin Millie (G. Hudon) 3 Hf Pajama Party (H. Haining) 4 Contesta Hanover (K. Clark) 5 Fire Dance (D. Monkman Jr) 6 Cowgirlhall Offame (G. Schedlosky) 7 Eternal Grace (J. Gray) Third Pace, purse $3,200 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Pine Coulee (J. Gray) 2 Freswig (J. Marino) 3 Down Home Stylish (K. Hoerdt) 4 Rose Of Dawn (R. Schneider) 5 Westcoast Royal (G. Schedlosky) 6 Brendons Ruby Red (W. Tainsh Jr) 7 Justabitfaster (G. Hudon) 8 Meadowlarks Dakota (K. Clark) 9 Alberta Bound (J. Chappell) ae Barona Kijiji (R. Hennessy) Fourth Pace, purse $3,800 (EX, SF, TR, W4).

1 Callmeaftermdnight (K. Dressler) 2 Sharon Blew Bye (J. Marino) 3 Te Anau (D. Monkman Jr) 4 Wrangler Diva (B. Grundy) 5 Red Star Jenny (K. Hoerdt) 6 Gottobsexy (J. Gray) 7 No Limit For Mjjz (B. Thomas) 8 Market For Romance (K. Ducharme) Fifth Pace, purse $2,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Knickfree (J. Chappell) 2 Nf Star Power (J. Abbott) 3 Kg Super Sonic (J. Gray) 4 Barona Ferrari (B. Clark) 5 Boiling Over (R. Grundy) 6 Super Sunrise (R. Goulet) 7 Modern Man (W. Tainsh Jr) 8 Badlands Buddy (T. Remillard) 9 Outlawclassichrome (J. Marino) Sixth Pace, purse $4,500 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Cool One (D. Monkman Jr) 2 Smoky Moon (J. Jungquist) 3 Carro Avro (R. Starkewski) 4 Brendons No Fly (B. Grundy) 5 As Hot As Promised (J. Gagne) 6 Bashful Beauty (K. Hoerdt) 7 Outlaw Star Maker (C. Kolthammer) 8 Crafty Cracker (J. Marino) 9 Dickies Motel (R. Schneider) ae Outlaw Pot Of Gold (C. Kolthammer) Seventh Pace, purse $8,500 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Trust The Artist (K. Hoerdt) 2 Neal Diamonique (J. Marino) 3 Smart Shark (C. Kolthammer) 4 Flak Jacket (J. Gray) 5 Hilldrop Shady (B. Grundy)

6 Lil Dude Starrbuck (J. Chappell) 7 Bachelor Pad (B. Clark) 8 Timberline Court (G. Hudon) 9 All Canadian Mjjz (R. Starkewski) Eighth Pace, purse $50,000 (EX, SF, TR, W3).

1 G I Joan (J. Marino) 2 Born With A Grin (J. Jungquist) 3 Honor Roll (J. Gagne) 4 Stylish Killean (S. Masse) 5 Credit Card Junkie (K. Clark) 6 Blue Star Beauty (W. Tainsh Jr) 7 Succulent (G. Hudon) 8 Phone Terror (S. Masse) ae Smoky Moon (J. Jungquist) ae Bashful Beauty (K. Hoerdt) Ninth Pace, purse $7,500 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Gts Jake (J. Gray) 2 Mr Mozzart (J. Marino) 3 Strikes N Charges (D. Lupul) 4 Wannabe Cowboy (R. Grundy) 5 Kg Explorer (R. Goulet) 6 Allbouttaj (J. Gagne) 7 Outlawdangruswatrs (K. Clark) Tenth Pace, purse $3,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 As Seely Promised (K. Clark) 2 Personal Promise (G. Schedlosky) 3 A Promise For You (K. Ducharme) 4 Barona Java (J. Marino) 5 Dudes Bonnie (R. Goulet) 6 Canyacrackher (R. Hennessy) 7 Samnmadie (J. Jungquist) 8 Tilly The Toiler (K. Hoerdt) 9 Minettaszoombyyall (J. Chappell) Entries Sunday Post time: 1:45 p.m.

First Pace, purse $4,000 (DD, EX, SF, TR).

1 Aerial Time (R. Starkewski) 2 Play Me Right (J. Gagne) 3 Burn The Floor (R. Hennessy) 4 Hope Wish Prey (K. Clark) 5 Blue Star Admiral (W. Tainsh Jr) 6 Caleo Bay (J. Marino) 7 Rs Skater Boy (T. Remillard) 8 Jellos Fellow (K. Hoerdt) Second Pace, purse $3,600 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Arctic King (B. Clark) 2 Power Of Elizabeth (D. Lupul) 3 Passing Breeze (J. Marino) 4 Farm Team (J. Chappell) 5 King Carver (Q. Schneider) 6 Complete Ensemble (B. Grundy) 7 Cenalta Magic (W. Tainsh Jr) Third Pace, purse $3,000 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Westcoast Son (G. Schedlosky) 2 Minettas Leader (J. Jungquist) 3 Fulla Promise (K. Clark) 4 Blue Star Cavalier (W. Tainsh Jr) 5 Campers Life (B. Thomas) 6 Mavericks Pride (J. Chappell) 7 Eldorado Gold (R. Starkewski) 8 Mjjz Shannon D (B. Grundy) Fourth Pace, purse $4,700 (EX, SF, TR, W4).

1 Dieselystic (K. Hoerdt)

2 My Promise To You (J. Gray) 3 Location Baran (J. Marino) 4 Coolestdudeintown (R. Hennessy) 5 Acesndeuces (W. Tainsh Jr) 6 Mjjz R Us (R. Starkewski) 7 Sharkalucchi (K. Clark) Fifth Pace, purse $3,400 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Kg Rowan (G. Hudon) 2 Avenger (B. Clark) 3 Blasty Cam (B. Thomas) 4 Mystic Light (K. Clark) 5 Man Alive (R. Starkewski) 6 Meadowlarkrenegade (W. Tainsh Jr) 7 Lightning King (J. Marino) 8 Slender Pride (J. Jungquist) 9 Rope The Wind (J. Chappell) ae Lightemup (J. Gagne) Sixth Pace, purse $8,500 (EX, TR).

1 Shoplifter Hanover (J. Marino) 2 Minettas Nightstar (K. Clark) 3 Itza Free For All (J. Gray) 4 Doober Hoozzitz (J. Chappell) 5 River Lass (K. Hoerdt) Seventh Pace, purse $3,400 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Double L Cammie (K. Clark) 2 Hollywood Breeze (G. Hudon) 3 Me Myself And I (B. Clark) 4 Notable Intension (R. Schneider) 5 Arctic Pine (J. Gray) 6 Js Honeybet (T. Remillard) 7 Shynaway (D. Mcleod) 8 Tequila Boom Boom (R. Hennessy) 9 Elegant Lass (W. Tainsh Jr) Eighth Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR, W3).

1 Barona Hush (B. Grundy) 2 Mood Light (J. Chappell) 3 Hollywood Jubilee (G. Hudon) 4 Caracas (J. Abbott) 5 Outlaw Like A Lady (T. Remillard) 6 Lynettes Legacy (J. Marino) 7 Looking At You (R. Schneider) 8 Purrfect Bliss (K. Clark) 9 Touch Of Magic (W. Tainsh Jr) Ninth Pace, purse $3,300 (EX, SF, TR).

1 Major Beach Girl (B. Grundy) 2 Sealedwithapromise (W. Tainsh Jr) 3 Big Bang Theory (G. Hudon) 4 Clintons Keepsake (J. Gray) 5 Charm N Wits (K. Ducharme) 6 Feelin Flush (J. Chappell) Tenth Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Payoff (B. Grundy) 2 Capablenrewarding (D. Mcleod) 3 Rango (J. Gray) 4 Nevermissabeat (R. Grundy) 5 Art By Dylan (K. Hoerdt) 6 Domino Theory (W. Tainsh Jr) 7 Hot Attack (K. Clark) 8 Jeff The Builder (R. Schneider) 9 Lakers R Electric (Q. Schneider) ae Jafeica Again (K. Hoerdt)

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Recalled LHP Donnie Veal from Charlotte (IL). Optioned LHP Pedro Hernandez to Charlotte.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with C Jason Kendall on a minor league contract and assigned him to Northwest Arkansas (TL). Optioned RHP Vin Mazzaro to Omaha (PCL). Recalled RHP Will Smith from Omaha.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned RHP Sam Dyson to New Hampshire (EL).

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Assigned LHP Erick Threets to Albuquerque (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Reinstated RHP Edward Mujica from the 15-day DL. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reinstated RHP Drew Storen from the 15-day DL. Recalled C Sandy Leon from Harrisburg (EL). Placed C Jhonatan Solano on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 18.

Designated OF Rick Ankiel for assignment.

American Association LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed C Derek Coverstone.

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed RHP Julio

Santana.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Signed F Vladimir Radmanovic.

FOOTBALL National Football League INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed QB Andrew Luck and DT Jason Shirley.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed LB Dont’a Hightower.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Released OT Jonathan Scott.

Canadian FootballLeague EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed KR Tony Logan to their practice roster.

Ultimate Indoor Football League FLORIDA TARPONS — Signed FB-DL Steven Turner.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reached an affiliation agreement with Denver (CHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed C Ryan Craig to a one-year AHL contract.

MINNESOTA WILD — Signed D Mathew

Dumba.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Signed F Tom Wilson to a three-year, entry-level contract.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with D Derrick LaPoint.

Western Hockey League VICTORIA ROYALS — Named Dave Lowry coach.

LACROSSE National Lacrosse League BUFFALO BANDITS — Named Steve Dietrich general manager.

COLLEGE CATAWBA — Named Jordan Clodfelter women’s lacrosse coach and David McDowell assistant sports information director.

CLEMSON — Named Jimmy Garrity women’s assistant basketball coach.

QUINNIPIAC — Named John Delaney assistant baseball coach.

RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE — Announced the resignations of softball coach Maria Morin, associate head softball coach Ken Stanley and assistant softball coach Kristen Norberg.

TREVECCA NAZARENE — Named Ryan Schmalz baseball coach.

British Open Scores Thursday At Royal Lytham & St. Annes Lytham St. Annes, England Purse: $7.75 million Yardage: 7,086; Par: 70 (34-36) First Round a-amateur Adam Scott 32-32 Paul Lawrie 32-33 Zach Johnson 32-33 Nicolas Colsaerts 31-34 Brandt Snedeker 32-34 Ernie Els 33-34 Bubba Watson 31-36 Graeme McDowell 31-36 Tiger Woods 30-37 Toshinori Muto 31-36 Rory McIlroy 32-35 Steve Stricker 32-35 Peter Hanson 32-35 Jamie Donaldson 35-33 James Morrison 33-35 Thomas Aiken 31-37 Scott Pinckney 33-35 Anders Hansen 34-34 Jbe Kruger 31-37 Anirban Lahiri 33-35 Justin Hicks 33-35 Matthew Baldwin 33-36 Adilson Da Silva 37-32 Thongchai Jaidee 34-35 Matt Kuchar 35-34 Charl Schwartzel 34-35 Thorbjorn Olesen 33-36 Bob Estes 34-35 Brendan Jones 34-35 Steven Alker 35-34 Lee Slattery 32-37 Richard Sterne 33-36 Francesco Molinari 33-36 Fredrik Jacobson 34-35 Marc Leishman 34-35 Ted Potter Jr. 35-34 Jeev Milkha Singh 32-38 Simon Khan 34-36 Kyle Stanley 35-35 Rafael Cabrera-Bello 36-34 Vijay Singh 36-34 Thomas Bjorn 36-34 Jason Dufner 32-38 Martin Laird 35-35 Troy Matteson 33-37 Aaron Townsend 34-36 K.J. Choi 35-35 Hunter Mahan 36-34 John Senden 33-37 Padraig Harrington 35-35 Luke Donald 33-37 Retief Goosen 35-35 Andres Romero 34-36 Garth Mulroy 36-35 Mark Calcavecchia 37-34 Greg Chalmers 36-35 Miguel Angel Jimenez 36-35 Bill Haas 37-34 Davis Love III 37-34 Nick Watney 35-36 Ian Poulter 34-37 Yoshinori Fujimoto 34-37 Tom Watson 35-36 Aaron Baddeley 35-36 Warren Bennett 34-37 Dale Whitnell 36-35 Juvic Pagunsan 34-37 Greg Owen 34-37 Marcus Fraser 34-37 Carl Pettersson 34-37 Harris English 34-37 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano 33-38 Angel Cabrera 33-38 Bo Van Pelt 33-38 Keegan Bradley 33-38 Rickie Fowler 36-35 Alexander Noren 35-36 Richie Ramsay 32-39 Ashley Hall 40-31 Todd Hamilton 36-36 John Daly 38-34 Raphael Jacquelin 37-35 Stewart Cink 36-36 Sergio Garcia 36-36 Steven Tiley 36-36 Lucas Glover 35-37 Charles Howell III 33-39 Paul Casey 31-41 Mark Wilson 34-38 Simon Dyson 35-37 Ross Fisher 35-37 Sang-moon Bae 36-36 Louis Oosthuizen 34-38 Geoff Ogilvy 36-36 Toru Taniguchi 35-37 Jim Furyk 33-39 Koumei Oda 35-37 Troy Kell 35-37 Barry Lane 37-36 Rafael Echenique 36-37 Chad Campbell 36-37 Johnson Wagner 36-37 Lee Westwood 33-40 Dustin Johnson 33-40 Kevin Na 36-37 Daniel Chopra 34-39 Joost Luiten 36-37 Nicholas Cullen 36-37 Tom Lehman 33-40 Pablo Larrazabal 35-38 Gregory Havret 36-37 Gary Woodland 35-38 Branden Grace 35-38 Phil Mickelson 37-36 Sandy Lyle 37-37 Alejandro Canizares 41-33 David Duval 35-39 Stephen Ames 38-36 Y.E. Yang 36-38

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True South Classic Scores Thursday At Annandale Golf Club Madison, Miss.

Purse: $3 million Yardage: 7,202; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Play suspended by rain Jason Bohn 33-31 Luke Guthrie 33-32 J.J. Killeen 31-35 Steve Lowery 32-34 Ryuji Imada 33-33 Jason Gore 34-32 Willie Wood 32-34 Marco Dawson 31-36 Bud Cauley 34-33 Roberto Castro 34-33 Russell Knox 33-34 Will Claxton 35-32 Jonathan Randolph 34-33 Tom Pernice Jr. 36-32 Duffy Waldorf 35-33 Skip Kendall 37-31 Scott Stallings 35-33 Ken Duke 37-31 Joey Snyder III 34-34 Mark Anderson 36-32 Kevin Kisner 34-34 Hunter Hamrick 34-34 Matt Jones 34-35 Chris Couch 35-34 John Inman 36-33 Jerry Kelly 34-35 Len Mattiace 35-34 Jason Kokrak 33-36 Kyle Reifers 37-32 Zack Reeves 35-34 Parker McLachlin 34-35 Nathan Green 33-37 Tommy Gainey 35-35 Bill Lunde 37-33 Brendan Steele 35-35 Derek Lamely 35-35 Guy Boros 36-34 Erik Compton 34-36 Brendon de Jonge 36-34 Tim Petrovic 36-34 Alex Cejka 35-35 Matt McQuillan 35-35 Bobby Gates 37-33 Woody Austin 35-36 Scott Dunlap 36-35 Joe Durant 36-35 Frank Lickliter II 39-32 Steve Flesch 36-35 Brian Gay 36-35 Robert Damron 36-35 Richard S. Johnson 37-34 Charlie Beljan 38-33 Brian Bateman 35-37 Peter Lonard 34-38 Scott Brown 37-35 Brendon Todd 35-37 Chris Smith 38-35 Tommy Biershenk 38-35 Gene Sauers 34-39 Tom Byrum 37-36 Marc Turnesa 38-36 Sung Kang 39-35 Jim Carter 38-38 Jim McGovern 40-38 Leaderboard Jason Bohn Luke Guthrie Steve Lowery J.J. Killeen Ryuji Imada Jason Gore Willie Wood Russell Knox Will Claxton Bud Cauley Jonathan Randolph Marco Dawson Roberto Castro

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CFL East Division W L T PF 2 1 0 84 2 2 0 106 1 2 0 88 0 4 0 78

PA Pt 100 4 113 4 109 2 141 0

GP Saskatchewan4 Edmonton 3 B.C. 3 Calgary 4

West Division W L T PF 3 1 0 121 2 1 0 62 2 1 0 92 2 2 0 144

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Montreal Toronto Hamilton Winnipeg

Week Four Thursday’s result Calgary 41 Saskatchewan 38 (OT) Wednesday’s result Toronto 25 Winnipeg 22 Friday’s game Edmonton at B.C., 8 p.m.

Saturday’s game Montreal at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Week Five Thursday, July 26 Edmonton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, July 27 Toronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 28 Hamilton at Saskatchewan, 4 p.m.

B.C. at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Roughriders 38 at Stampeders 41 (OT) First Quarter Cal — FG Paredes 51 6:53 Sask — TD Sheets 2 run (Milo convert) 13:38 Second Quarter Cal — TD Lewis 5 pass from Glenn (Paredes convert) 3:43 Sask — TD Hughes 2 pass from Willy (Milo convert) 6:26 Cal — FG Paredes 37 11:06 Cal — Safety Milo tackled in end zone 12:10 Sask — TD Getzlaf 30 pass from Durant (Milo convert) 14:50 Third Quarter Sask — TD Dressler 20 pass from Durant (Milo convert) 3:26 Cal — FG Paredes 44 14:47 Fourth Quarter Sask — TD Sheets 1 run (Milo convert) 5:10 Cal — TD Lewis 21 pass from Glenn (Paredes convert) 9:43 Cal — TD Taylor 20 pass from Glenn (Paredes convert) 11:46 Cal — FG Paredes 17 14:31 Overtime Sask — FG Milo 50 Cal — TD Lewis 16 pass from Glenn Saskatchewan7 Calgary 3

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Attendance — 32,228 at Calgary.

Soccer Portland 19 5 10 4 19 30 Dallas 21 4 10 7 20 30 Note: Three points for a win, one for a tie.

MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L Kansas City 20 11 6 New York 20 10 5 D.C. United 19 10 6 Chicago 20 9 7 Houston 20 8 5 Montreal 22 7 12 Columbus 17 6 7 New England 19 6 9 Philadelphia 17 6 9 Toronto 20 5 11

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WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L San Jose 21 13 4 Real Salt Lake 21 11 7 Seattle 20 8 5 Vancouver 21 8 6 Los Angeles 21 8 10 Chivas USA 18 6 7 Colorado 20 7 12

T GF 4 43 3 31 7 25 7 23 3 35 5 12 1 27

GA 25 26 21 25 34 18 28

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SOFTBALL WHITEHORSE — Toronto’s Jenna Caira struck out nine and only gave up three hits on Thursday as Canada routed Italy 8-0 in five innings at the world women’s softball championship.

The Canadians racked up

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Wednesday’s results Montreal 2 New England 1 Toronto 2 Colorado 1 Los Angeles 2 Vancouver 2 Chivas USA 1 Portland 0 New York 1 Chicago 0 Houston 2 Kansas City 1 San Jose 2 Dallas 1 Saturday’s games Philadelphia at New York, 12:30 p.m.

D.C. United at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Montreal at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

New England at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Real Salt Lake, 8 p.m.

Chivas USA at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s game San Jose at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

seven runs in the second inning, chasing Italian pitcher Michela Muistelli Romani from the mound.

Caitlin Lever started the rally with a home run. Canada was so effective in the second that Lever had a chance to return to the plate in the same inning, cashing in two more runs with a double.

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Faber, Barao want to give a memorable fight

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A fight between Urijah Faber and Renan Barao may not have been the first choice for the main event of UFC 149, but the two fighters are determined to make their battle in Calgary a memorable affair.

Faber and Barao will close Saturday night’s card, and the winner will leave the Scotiabank Saddledome with the interim UFC bantamweight title.

“The reason people are going to be tuning in is to find out if he’s better than I am,” said Faber (26-5), a native of Sacramento, Calif. “I don’t think that he is and he thinks that he’s better than I am. We’re going to beat the crap out of each other and find out. I plan on winning.”

Also on the main card, middleweights Hector Lombard and Tim Boetsch will go toe-to-toe, while heavyweights Cheick Kongo and Shawn Jordan will square off.

Brian Ebersole takes on James Head while Chris Clements of London, Ont., will battle Matthew Riddle in welterweight fights.

“Not only are these fights good fights, but they mean something,” said UFC president Dana White. “The two guys fighting in the main event are fighting for the title to see who fights Dominick Cruz for the undisputed champion.”

Earlier this month at UFC 148, Faber was supposed to fight Cruz, who had to bow out due to a knee injury. The winner of Saturday’s fight between Faber and Barao will get a shot to take on Cruz once he recovers.

Barao (30-1-0), of Rio de Janeiro, has gone 29 fights without a loss and he’s confident he can extend that impressive streak against Faber.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Renan Barao, right, from Brazil, and Urijah Faber, from Sacramento, Calif., attend a news conference in Calgary, Thursday. UFC 149 takes place in Calgary, on Saturday.

“I feel fine, I feel comfortable and I’ll be ready for Saturday,” Barao said through an interpreter. “I’ve been working very hard for such a long time.

I’m very happy and grateful for this opportunity and I’ll make the most of it.”

This is the first-ever UFC event in Calgary, and White has vowed to arrange another fight card at the Saddledome for as early as next year.

“I’ve been waiting to come to Calgary for a long time,” White said. “Canada has been a mecca for mixed martial arts for a long time. I love coming

up here. I love Canada. It’s a great, great country.”

When it was announced in May, the UFC 149 main event featured Jose Aldo taking on Erik Koch for the featherweight title, with Mauricio Rua battling Thiago Silva in another featured bout. After Aldo and Silva went down with leg and back injuries respectively, the busted card had to be re-jigged.

“This is the business we’re in,” said White, while adding that there was never any discussion of cancelling the injury-plagued event.

“This is what we do. We put on fights. The day we can’t put on more fights, we might as well pack up the tents and call it a day.”

Michael Bisping, Thiago Alves, Yoshihiro Akiyama and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira also dropped out with injuries, resulting in even more changes to the card.

“It’s a testament to these guys and to the sport,” White said. “When things fall apart and we have to make some moves and everything else, these guys have no problem. Whereas boxing would have to cancel an event, our guys are dynamite. Not only do they adapt and move their camps and do everything that they need to do, but they deliver every time they get in there and they’ll deliver on Saturday night.”

Saturday’s preliminary card will feature Canadians fighting in all four bouts. Bantamweight Mitch Gagnon of Sudbury, Ont., will kick things off with a fight against Bryan Caraway before Edmonton’s Ryan Jimmo will battle Australian Anthony Perosh in a lightheavyweight bout.

After Roland Delorme of Winnipeg takes on Francisco Rivera in a bantamweight bout, Calgary’s Nick Ring will trade blows with Court McGee in a middleweight matchup.

“As a Calgarian, fighting in Calgary at the UFC, it’s an incredible feeling,” Ring said.

“This is the Olympics of my sport.

The level doesn’t get any higher than this.”

The pay-per-view events on the main card will then get under way with Clements up first in a welterweight bout against Riddle.

“I’m blessed for the opportunity,” Clements said. “I’m just pumped and excited to go out there and prove that I deserved it.”

Hinchcliffe still in ‘attack mode’ despite engine troubles EDMONTON INDY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — For 10 races, James Hinchcliffe’s engine drove his car. With five races to go, he is trying to avoid the engine driving him.

The 25-year-old from Oakville, Ont., is on his fifth and final Chevrolet engine heading into Sunday’s Edmonton Indy.

If this one blows, he’ll get a penalty, fall 10 places in the starting grid, and get a rebuilt engine as a replacement.

For each subsequent blown engine it’s another 10-spot penalty.

If that happens, he can kiss goodbye any chance of leapfrogging four opponents, including series leader Ryan Hunter-Reay, to reach the top of the driver standings.

Hinchcliffe said for now the engine is not dictat-

LOCAL

BRIEFS Midget AA Braves got revenge on Rocky Mountain House The Red Deer Sports World Braves got some revenge on the Rocky Mountain House Sun Devils with an 11-4 victory in midget AA baseball league action Wednesday.

The Sun Devils are the only team to beat the Braves this season.

Reid Stoyberg got the Braves’ offence rolling with an RBI triple in the first inning and Jesse Kowalchuk’s run-scoring triple in the third keyed a fourrun outburst.

Logan Marshall had a pair of hits, an RBI and scored once while Alex Heinzlmeir added a pair of singles and scored once.

Jesse Muirhead contributed an RBI single, drew a pair of walks and scored twice while Blake Thomson walked, drove in a run and scored twice.

Jeff Ireland and Alec Mitchell each had a single and scored once.

Chaz Piche tossed a complete game five-hitter, fanning five.

Griffiths sits seventh at Men’s Am MEDICINE HAT — Zak Griffiths of Red Deer shot a three-under par 68 to grab the lead among Central Albertans at the Sun Life Financial Men’s Amateur Golf Championship Thursday.

Griffiths, who had opening rounds of 71-75 in the 72-hole event, is in seventh place with a 214 total, seven strokes back of Neil Thomas of Edmonton, who shot a 69 Thursday.

Sang Gyun Lee of Calgary, who had a 66, and Craig Gibson of Brooks, who came in with a 71, share second place at 209 with Riley Fleming of Calgary at 210, following a 70.

Kyle Morrison and Jordan Krulicki of Red Deer are tied for 12th at 217. Morrison shot a 70 Thursday following rounds of 73-74 while Krulicki came in with a 72 to go with opening rounds of 73-72.

Shawn Schwartz of Stettler had a 72 and is tied for 32nd at 223, one stroke better than Brett Pasula of Red Deer, who had a 75, and is tied for 37th.

Mitch Bach of Sundre is in a tie for 43rd at 227, following a 78, while Jason Thiels of Olds also shot a 78 and is at 229 and in a tie for 47th.

Spencer Dorowicz of Olds is in 52nd at 234 following an 83.

The final round goes today with the top four finishers on the Willingdon Cup team.

ing race strategy because his crew is still trying to salvage another motor that went south two weeks ago at the Toronto Indy.

“When we establish whether or not this engine from Toronto is salvageable, then that might have an effect going forward for future races,” Hinchcliffe said Thursday.

“But for right now, we’re on full attack mode.

“If not, I can’t do the entire rest of the season on one engine, so I would have to take a penalty at some point.”

Hinchcliffe’s problems with his 2.2-litre turbocharged V6 powerplant mirror his season — a fantastic start, but a season now starting to hit the ditch.

Replacing Danica Patrick in the neon limecoloured GoDaddy car for Andretti Autosport, Hinchcliffe had a storybook first three months.

He consistently finished in the top six except for a freak crash in Belle Isle, Mich., when a piece of the track dislodged into his undercarriage, sending his Dallara into the wall.

He was second overall in the standings after the

Milwaukee race on June 16th, but since then has —literally and figuratively — hit the skids.

At the oval track at Iowa on June 23rd, he started fourth but spun into the wall late in the race and finished 17th.

Engine-wise he was still doing fine, with one in the car and two in reserve.

But that all came apart in Toronto.

The third engine had problems in practice, forcing his engineers to go to the fourth powerplant.

Under the rules, the engines can’t be swapped out without penalty until after 1,850 miles. The engine had not reached that limit, so Hinchcliffe incurred the 10-spot grid penalty and started 19th.

The fourth engine was good for the first third of the Toronto race, then mysteriously began bleeding horsepower. He finished 22nd.

“It all deteriorated very quickly,” Hinchcliffe said.

“There’s no way we could have finished that race in Toronto. It was losing power. It was getting progressively worse.”

Lin excited about playing in Houston

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Jeremy Lin figured he’d be having this kind of news conference in New York.

Instead, he was talking about his new deal with the Houston Rockets on Thursday on the same practice court where he worked in virtual anonymity seven months ago before he was waived. Lin became a Rocket again when the Knicks decided not to match Houston’s three-year, $25 million offer.

“It’s been an unbelievable ride,” Lin said. “Just a lot of things I didn’t expect to happen, in terms of just the way last season went.

I still have to kind of remind myself that this is all actually happening, sometimes. But it’s a huge blessing. I can’t believe how it all shaped up and for me to be here right now. I’m definitely excited and thankful.”

Lin said he expected to be resigned by the Knicks after he electrified the Big Apple last season

before he was sidelined by a knee injury. Shortly after the Knicks officially declined to match, Lin was quoted on SI.com as saying, “Honestly, I preferred New York.”

Lin said the question he answered was set in the context of before the start of the free agency period.

“The question was, ’Going into free agency, which team did you prefer?”’ Lin said. “Before July 1, I didn’t even know what teams were interested in me. But all I was hearing was, ’You’re going back to New York.’ At that time, before free agency started, I preferred New York. By the time it came to the offer sheet, I was just excited about both opportunities.

“Houston and New York,” he said, “I was definitely excited about the possibility to go to both.”

But probably not as excited as the Rockets were to get him.

Houston has missed the playoffs the last three seasons, and when Linsanity skyrocketed in New York, general manager Daryl

Morey was kicking himself for waiving him on Christmas Eve. When Lin hit a winning 3-pointer in Toronto on Valentine’s Day, owner Leslie Alexander called Morey to tersely ask him again why Lin was no longer a Rocket.

“He was killing me,” Morey said with a smile. “I think one of the reasons Mr. Alexander is a great owner is because we’re constantly evaluating our past decisions and deciding what did we know at the time? What could we have done better? How can we improve?

“People are making a lot of us admitting to our mistake,” Morey said. “But the only way to get better is to quickly say, ’That was a mistake. How can we do better next time?”’

At the time Lin was released, the Rockets had Goran Dragic and Kyle Lowry on the roster — two point guards with NBA experience. And who knew what Linsanity would become?

“We had very fair reasons to waive him,” Morey said. “But the reality is, we shouldn’t have.”

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The Topco Oilsite Panthers have advanced to the Red Deer Ladies’ Fastball League final.

The Panthers downed the N. Jensen’s Bandits 7-3 to sweep their best-of-three league semifinal and advance against the Snell and Oslund Badgers, who beat the Budal Ice 2-1 in their series.

The best-of-three league final runs Tuesday, Wednesday and, if needed, Thursday at 7 p.m. at Great Chief Park.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, July 20, 2012

McCallum haunted by missed kicks WANTS TO PUT MISSED FIELD GOALS AGAINST SASKATCHEWAN BEHIND HIM AS LIONS GET READY TO FACE ESKIMOS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SURREY, B.C. — Contrary to public perception, it turns out that Paul McCallum actually struggles once in a while.

The B.C. Lions kicker hopes to put in a better effort against the Edmonton Eskimos on Friday after a couple of rare misses last weekend.

McCallum, who was almost perfect last season, missed two field goal attempts in a 23-20 loss to Saskatchewan. On the second one, Tristan Jackson returned the ball 129 yards for the decisive touchdown.

But McCallum, who booted a record 30 consecutive three-pointers in 2011, is not dwelling on his mistakes as the Lions (2-1) host the Eskimos (1-2) at B.C. Place Stadium.

“It’s professional sports,” McCallum said Thursday after a practice at the Lions’ facility in Surrey, B.C. “You’re not going to be perfect. So you’ve just gotta put it behind you and go out in this game here and try and correct the mistakes you made and work hard. That’s all you can do.”

The 40-year-old Surrey, B.C., native made 50 of 53 field goal attempts last season while helping the Lions roar back from a 0-5 start to win the Grey Cup. But he has already missed three this season while making good on nine of 12 attempts.

He has spent the past week reviewing video of his kicks from this season and previous campaigns in a bid to avoid more miscues.

“My timing was a little bit off,” said McCallum, who aims for a smooth golf-like swing with his kicking motion.

He was also approaching the ball differently and made an adjustment. The Lions are also deploying a new holder in backup quarterback Mike Reilly, the replacement for Jarious Jackson, who was released and signed with Toronto as a free agent.

Centre Angus Reid has also become the new snap-

per on field goals following Dan McCullough’s retirement. McCallum is still adjusting to the changes.

“It’s a work in progress,” said McCallum. “I’m not going to lie. Those guys are doing their jobs. But it’s a comfort level for me. The more work I get with them, the better.”

Reilly said Reid, also the centre on regular downs, has been able to position the ball well despite fatigue from drives down field, and he has been able to get the ball down on McCallum’s kicking tee every time. But the unit’s alignment was off the last game.

Before the season started, McCallum said his leg is not as strong as it used to be, but he is still able to make kicks when necessary. Lions coach Mike Benevides said he has no concerns about the 2011 CFL special teams player of the year’s ability to perform when necessary.

Benevides expressed confidence that McCallum’s video sessions with special teams coach Chuck McMann will pay off.

“It was a great exercise to go through,” said Benevides. “He looked at his mechanics. He looked at his tempo and his strike. He looked at the previous 12 kicks of this season and he was able to analyze (them).”

Benevides is more concerned about McCallum having to make tackles. The kicker saved a touchdown on the first of Jackson’s two returns as he got in the Roughriders’ way enough to bring him down.

But McCallum was blocked on the second as Jackson took the ball all the way back.

“It’s not what he’s good at, and I don’t want him to do that,” said Benevides. “But it’s part of the deal.

If he’s gotta make it, just slow (the returner) down a little bit, so someone else can get him.”

Admitting tackles are not a strong point of his game, McCallum, the last player back on kick returns, just tries to be a “speed bump” and slow the returner down.

In 2009, McCallum was limited to seven regularseason games after being injured while making a tackle on a return against Hamilton. Although Benevides recognizes that McCallum has to make a tackle when necessary, he would prefer that the kicker not be placed in a position where he has to get anywhere close to the returner.

“Paul is a safety for the field side,” said McCallum. “We don’t want him to be involved. We don’t want him to be involved. We want everybody else to make the play.”

Meanwhile, Nick Moore will make his first start of the season at wide receiver for the Lions after Kierrie Johnson fractured his forearm on a touchdown reception against Saskatchewan. Johnson is expected to be out until at least October.

Moore is grateful for the opportunity after experiencing injury troubles of his own and losing a starter spot last season. The 26-year-old Westerville, Ohio native separated his shoulder in the 2011 season opener against Montreal and then suffered a case of the drops after he returned.

As a result, he appeared in five games and made only five receptions. Moore spent the first three games on the practice roster. Lions general manager Wally Buono said in pre-season that this is a makeor-break season for the second-year Lion.

Moore had a strong training camp, earning heavy praise from Benevides, and scored two touchdowns in a 44-10 pre-season victory over Saskatchewan. The coach based his decision to go with Moore largely on his camp and pre-season showings.

Moore is banking on the early results to help him in his first regular-season contest of 2012.

“Last year was a frustrating year for me,” said Moore. “To be able to have a successful training camp and go out there in the first pre-season game and be able to make some plays, it helped my confidence tremendously.”

LaPolice mum about starter in home opener

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Coach Paul LaPolice isn’t saying who will start at quarterback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in their home opener next week.

With Buck Pierce out of action for the next month, Alex Brink completed only nine of 34 passes Wednesday as the Bombers fell to 0-4, losing 25-22 to the Toronto Argonauts.

“He hit a nice throw to (Clarence) Denmark,” LaPolice said as he arrived at the Winnipeg airport Thursday, when asked for some positives about Brink’s performance.

“I think he stood in there. He hurt his groin a little bit himself so he was

kind of banged up but I want to look at the film and go from there.”

Brink admits he had trouble getting anything going against the Toronto defence.

“I don’t know if I ever really found that rhythm,” he said.

“It’s tough when they’re playing that much man coverage, a lot of press man, they’re making contact with our receivers, it really throws your timing off.

“They’re a good defence and they had a good game plan for us.”

If Brink doesn’t start, it’s likely the nod would go to Joey Elliott, who sits third on the Bomber quarterback depth chart.

Because of what was expected to be a delay opening their new stadium, the

Bombers opted to play their first four games on the road. They eventually gave up and decided they would play all their home games at the old Canad Inns Stadium.

That means their first regular-season home game is next Thursday when the Edmonton Eskimos come to town.

Winnipeg was crushed 42-10 when the two teams met last Friday in Edmonton.

The already lengthy Bomber injury list grew Wednesday with the addition of receiver Terrence Edwards, safety Ian Logan and defensive lineman Brandon Collier. LaPolice says Collier could be gone long-term.

LaPolice says the team is frustrated with the poor start as they try to get

back to the Grey Cup after losing to B.C. in last year’s final.

There were positives Wednesday night, such as running back Chad Simpson’s 91-yard rushing debut (he collected another 31 receiving), and LaPolice says other elements also improved, but not enough.

“Our kicking game I thought was good. . . Our defensive intensity was better, we got to the quarterback, and we ran the ball better offensively, but we have to put it all together.”

He says the extended road swing is no excuse.

“If you win two games you’re not talking about that issue. . . You’ve got to win games on the road, that’s part of being successful.”

Bohn takes first round lead at PGA True South Classic

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Miss. — Jason Bohn shot an 8-under 64 to take an early lead at the U.S. PGA Tour’s True South Classic before heavy rain halted play on Thursday.

Luke Guthrie, in just his third professional tournament, opened with a 65. He finished last week’s John Deere Classic tied for fifth.

J.J. Killeen, Steve Lowery, Ryuji Imada, Jason Gore and Willie Wood share a tie for third, two shots behind Bohn.

After a week of rain, Annandale Golf Club’s fairways were soft with areas of standing water. Players were allowed to lift, clean and place balls in the fairway, helping scores stay low.

“There was very little roll (in the fairways), but

PGA GOLF that makes the fairways wider,” Bohn said. “You can play more aggressively off the tee — use drivers where you might use a 3-wood.”

With many of the big names playing in the British Open this week, an unfamiliar collection of players was at the top of the leaderboard. J.J. Killeen, Steve Lowery, Ryuji Imada, Jason Gore and Willie Wood shared a tie for third, two shots behind Bohn.

Killeen, Imada and Gore have yet to win on the Tour, while both Lowery and Wood have won at Annandale.

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Bohn’s good start gives him some encouragement that his recent slump could be coming to an end.

“I kept telling myself I’m going to play some good rounds,” Bohn said. “I’ve just got to take the bad rounds that I play and make them not so bad.”

Bohn didn’t make many mistakes on Thursday, though he did lose his grip on a drive at No. 18, leaving a difficult shot out of a fairway bunker. He recovered for a birdie.

“The one difficult thing we don’t really play too much in the humidity,” Bohn said. “The warm weather certainly presented itself today. It’s tough to keep your hands dry.”

Other than wet hands, Bohn didn’t have many complaints. The soft and muddy course was usually forgiving.

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Canada faces Trinidad during qualifying layoff MENS SOCCER THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The coach calls it an ideal game in an inconvenient situation.

Canada’s men’s soccer team will play a friendly against Trinidad and Tobago next month in a World Cup qualifying tune-up, a game the team had to fit in to avoid a nearly three-month layoff between matches.

Faced with winning a vital game against Panama on Sept. 7 at Toronto’s BMO Field, head coach Stephen Hart said he needed his team to regroup one last time.

But the options were slim. The only date remaining for FIFA friendly matches was Aug. 15, limiting the number of opponents available.

Just four teams were considered, and in the end Hart said only 80thranked Trinidad could make the day work.

“It’s a difficult situation because of course the August date is probably the most hated date in the FIFA calendar,” said Hart on a conference call Thursday.

“There’s a lot of negotiation ... As soon as I can I will release the roster but there’s still a lot of back and forth going on.”

Putting together that roster will also be a chore. The date comes in the middle of the MLS season, with several other leagues set to open shortly after. Toronto FC and FC Dallas each have games on Aug. 15, limiting the availability of midfielders Julian de Guzman and Terry Dunfield, and centre back Adrian Cann.

Hart said he’ll use the game to give time to players who have yet to play or have seen limited minutes.

“I think my concern is to call upon some players that if I do have to call upon them in the Panama game I would know what to expect from them having seen them internationally,” Hart said.

“I’m still trying to work out the roster in that respect, but I think it’ll be a balanced squad with quite a few of the players that have been in the last sequence.”

Even the venue isn’t Canada’s first choice.

Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was unavailable, so the two teams will play at the Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill, Fla. The pitch is primarily used as a cricket field but can be converted for soccer.

Nevertheless, Hart said Trinidad will be a good opponent to help prepare for a difficult opponent in Panama.

He said the teams have a similar athleticism, and that Trinidad’s willingness to meet Canada in Florida was key to limiting travel time for players.

But history will have nothing to do with it.

Hart, who was born in Trinidad, said he didn’t see anything special about playing his opponent. The last time Canada played Trinidad was in 2000 when the teams faced each other five times. One of those matches eliminated Canada from qualifying for the 2002 World Cup, while another advanced the Canadians into the CONCACAF Gold Cup final, which they eventually won.

“It doesn’t carry anything for me,” said Hart.

“I’m preparing my team and whether it was Trinidad or you know whether it was Ecuador or whoever, it really doesn’t matter to me. I just want to focus on my team and get in a game and work on the things we need to do.”

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation said in a statement on its website that financial constraints mean its team, which has already been knocked out of World Cup qualifying, will likely play all games this year away from home.

The game will be an excuse for Trinidad to get in some practice — their national team, which includes Stoke City forward Kenwyne Jones, hasn’t played

since a 2-0 win over Guyana ended their World Cup qualifying in November.

Canada, ranked 68th in the world, will have every reason to take the

game seriously. The team is second in CONCACAF Group C following a 1-0 win over Cuba and a 0-0 home draw against Honduras in June, and trails Panama by two points.

The top two teams in the group will advance to the final round of quali-

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Four days after their first meeting, Canada visits Panama for another match Sept 11. Canada then hosts Cuba on Oct. 12 before playing its last

group game against Honduras on Oct. 16.

With plenty of games ahead, Hart said he isn’t dwelling on the first two games.

“Those games are in the past now and we will build on what we learned off of those games. We

know what we need to do and what would be necessary in our preparation to try and make those things right,” Hart said. “The bottom line is like always you’re going to need players playing as often as possible and to be sharp.”

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Valverde win 17th stage, Wiggins holds top spot

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BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON, France — Bradley Wiggins overcame a big hurdle in his bid to win the Tour de France, repelling would-be attackers on the last day of mountain climbs as Spain’s Alejandro Valverde won Stage 17 on Thursday.

After the last hard ascent, the Briton cemented his grasp on the yellow jersey and said he sensed “that it was pretty much over” with just three racing days left.

The 143.5-kilometre ride from the southwestern town of Bagneres-de-Luchon to the ski station of Peyragudes featured three hefty ascents in the Pyrenees and an uphill finish.

Valverde, the Movistar leader who returned from a two-year doping ban this year, won his third Tour stage in a breakaway. Christopher Froome of Britain was second, and Wiggins was third, both 19 seconds back.

Wiggins faces one last test to become the first Briton to win cycling’s biggest race: Saturday’s individual time trial — and that’s his specialty. Flat stages await on Friday and in Sunday’s ride to the finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, and aren’t expected to alter the standings.

Overall, Wiggins leads Sky teammate Froome in second by 2 minutes, 5 seconds, and Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali trails in third, 2:41 back, after losing 18 seconds to them in the final ascent.

A 2-minute lead after nearly 80 hours of racing and 2 ½ weeks might not seem like much of a margin.

But in stage races like the Tour, the strategy of success for a leader is keying on his closest rivals.

Wiggins wasn’t much worried about any other riders. After Nibali and Froome, his next closest challenger was Jurgen Van Den Broeck, who was 5:46 back, a deficit almost impossible to erase without a collapse by Wiggins.

Defending champion Cadel Evans of Australia, after dropping out of contention in the first Pyrenean day on Wednesday, lost more time and trailed by 9:57. Still, he rose to sixth overall, after Spain’s Haimar Zubeldia lost nearly a minute to the Australian.

American Tejay Van Garderen — a BMC teammate of Evans — rose a notch, too, to fifth, and was 8:30 back.

Valverde, with tears in his eyes in the winner’s circle, had a rough start to the Tour with at least three crashes.

He also sensed Wiggins and Froome closing on him at the end of the stage.

“I went all out,” said Valverde, who also won stages in the Tour Down Under and the Paris-Nice races this year. “When I saw there were only 700 metres left, I was really really happy”.

Of his victory he said, “It erases all of the past.”

crash- and sickness-depleted peloton over three big climbs — including the Port de Bales, one of cycling’s hardest — and two lesser ones.

A group of 17 breakaway riders set the early pace.

Nibali joined the escapees but came to a gentleman’s agreement with them and fell back. That’s because the leading group knew Sky would try to chase him down — thus reducing their chance to vie for a stage win.

Nibali, too, knew that so early in the stage he wouldn’t be able to hold a big gap. So after a handshake with Valverde, he drifted back to the pack to wait for chances later.

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The Andrew Luck era can now officially begin.

The Colts signed the Stanford quarterback and No. 1 overall pick in the draft to a four-year, $22.1 million deal on Thursday, “12 is officially signed!!!!!!” Colts owner Jim Irsay tweeted, adding a photo of Luck signing his contract for good measure. Luck’s agent and uncle, Will Wilson, confirmed the deal had been completed.

The deal is similar to the one signed by Cam Newton a year ago and the one signed this week

by Robert Griffin III. Newton, last year’s top pick, has a four-year, $22 million deal with Carolina and Griffin, who went No. 2 behind Luck in April’s draft, signed a four-year contract with the Washington Redskins worth $21.1 million guaranteed, with a club option for a fifth year.

Whatever the terms, Colts fans can look forward to seeing Luck behind centre this season, brought in to help the proud franchise rebound after last year’s horrible skid.

The injured Peyton Manning never played a down and now he’s gone, off to Denver for a fresh start with the Broncos.

Indy gets a rare opportunity to transition from one star quarterback to another.

Luck threw for 35 touchdowns last season — breaking his school record of 32 in 2010 — and eclipsed John Elway’s career record (77) at Stanford with 80 touchdown passes in only three seasons. He finished with 3,170 yards passing, a 70 per cent completion percentage and only nine interceptions without the benefit of an elite wide receiver in 2011.

He was the Heisman Trophy runner-up — twice.

Luck has a pretty good idea what to expect beyond wearing a No. 12 jersey for the Colts. He will be expected to help lead the team back from a 2-14 season.

One of Sky’s dilemmas was exposed on Thursday: Froome entered the day clinging to an 18-second lead over Nibali, and he was looking for any chance to gain time on the Italian.

On the final ascent to the Peyragudes, Froome tried to gain time on Nibali, but also repeatedly spoke with Wiggins and even gestured with his hand for the Sky leader to come along.

“Chris encouraged me, saying ’Come on, come on,”’ Wiggins said.

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The pack with Bradley Wiggins of Britain, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey climbs Col des Ares during the 17th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 143.5 km with start in Bagneres-de-Luchon and finish in Peyragudes, Pyrenees region, France, Thursday.

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BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF A group interested in protecting Gull Lake will map out the number of aquifers directly connected to the lake.

Gull Lake Water Quality Management Society wants to help the municipalities and Alberta Environment know which aquifers are connected to the lake.

Trevor Wannop, a society member and former mayor of the Summer Village of Gull Lake, said they want to accurately map out these aquifers so they can dissuade the authorities from allowing wells with substantial volumes to be drilled from those aquifers.

“We’re not against development,” he said. “This is about responsible develop-

ment so we don’t hurt the resource that is creating the desire for development.”

In 2010, the four municipalities — Lacombe and Ponoka counties, Summer Village of Gull Lake and Summer Village of Parkland Beach — established an intermunicipal development plan to govern housing development.

Wannop said the plan calls for no net negative impact on the lake because of development.

“If something you do is going to have a negative impact, then you have to mitigate that by doing something that’s going to be positive on the lake,” said Wannop of Calgary.

Right now, people must drill a well to get water for their property. The lake gets its water mostly from surface runoff.

There are no regularly flowing streams in or out of the lake. The water level is very dependent on what flows into it, said Wannop.

Wannop said the society’s concern is that numerous water wells could be drilled from aquifers connected to the lake and as a result, the water level would go down.

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt) from which groundwater can be usefully extracted using a water well.

“If water is being drawn in great quantities out of aquifers that are connected to the lake, it starts having a long-term negative impact,” said Wannop.

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Patient wonders where she’ll live

FLUORIDE

Panel talk eyed

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF

NEEDS HOUSING TO BE CLOSE TO DIALYSIS UNIT

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A woman who is now a patient in Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre isn’t sure where she will live when she leaves hospital.

Leslie McDonald, 61, is looking for rental housing in Red Deer that does not have stairs. She can’t use stairs because of her medical conditions.

McDonald, formerly of Innisfail, has been in hospital since June 5.

She needs to move to Red Deer because she doesn’t have transportation to Red Deer for dialysis three times a week. Her dialysis appointments are in the evening, when the Innisfail Handivan does not operate.

“They don’t want to let me out until I have some place safe to go and I can get to dialysis,” said McDonald, who is also on oxygen and has a back problems.

“There’s a lot of town houses and stuff like that, but the bedrooms are all upstairs. There’s just no way I can do stairs.”

McDonald said her family have been searching classified ads and consulting with hospital social workers to find suitable housing.

Alberta Health Services will work with patients and their families to help link them to community and government agencies that provide accommodation, transportation, financial and other supports to assist patients in maintaining their health.

“I’ve got everyone I know looking.”

She lives with her sister, who is

Photo by CYNTHIA RADFORD/Advocate staff

Leslie McDonald ponders her future while at the Red Deer Hospital. also on oxygen, her son and granddaughter, so she wants a four-bedroom house with at least two bedrooms on the main floor.

“We come as a package.”

McDonald, who is applying for AISH, said she could afford to pay $1,100 a month.

“I’m getting really desperate. I don’t know how long I’ll be stuck here if I have no place to go.”

She hopes to be healthy enough to leave hospital in about a week.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.’s spring 2012 rental market survey showed Red Deerians have fewer apartment options than they did a year ago and are paying more.

Red Deer’s overall vacancy rate for private apartments is 2.2 per cent — down from 6.4 per cent last spring.

The average monthly rent for apartments of all sizes was $781,

up from $767.

Information on house rentals was not available.

Donna Murphy, property manager with Manor Management Ltd., said the vast majority of its apartments or fourplexes are walk-ups with stairs.

“There’s only so many buildings that have elevators and unfortunately a lot of the time they’re full because they have elevators.”

Larry Pempeit, director of community development for Canadian Paraplegic Association (Alberta), said there are no utopias in Alberta when it comes to finding accessible housing.

“Red Deer is no better and no worse,” Pempeit said.

Anyone with a house to rent to McDonald can call her at 403-3920434. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Police investigate serious beating Red Deer City RCMP are investigating a serious assault against a 24-year-old Red Deer man early Sunday morning in the downtown.

At about 1 a.m., it is alleged that a group of males approached the man who was walking alone near Ross Street and 51st Avenue and asked for a cigarette.

When the victim declined to provide a cigarette, he was punched in the face at least twice before losing consciousness and falling to the ground.

Four males continued to assault the victim by punching and kicking him while he was on the ground.

The victim suffered multiple facial and head injuries, which required him to be hospitalized.

The victim recalls that at least one person witnessed the event and offered assistance after the fact.

Police received the complaint of the assault on Wednesday afternoon.

If anyone has information regarding the identity of the four males responsible for the assault, contact Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575.

To report a anonymous tip, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit. com.

If the information leads to an arrest, tipsters are eligible for a cash reward of up to $2,000.

Red Deer city council will decide on Monday whether it should invite experts from both sides of the fluoride debate to a panel discussion.

The speaker/panel discussion would happen in early September, if council gives the nod.

The talk would be presented to civic leaders, Red Deerians and regional water users.

“This piece of consultation focuses on whether we should or shouldn’t continue to fluoridate the city’s water supply,” said Tara Shand, acting communications manager.

“People indicated that they want more education around fluoride, and we’re responding to that by giving people an opportunity to hear from people on both sides of the issue.”

This discussion would be the last step before council decides on Oct. 1 whether to move to a plebiscite, which would likely take place on the municipal election ballot in October 2013, or have council debate the issue and make a decision itself.

The city adds fluoride to its municipal water supply in a concentration of less than 0.7 mg/L per the guidelines set out by Health Canada.

Fluoridation of Red Deer’s public water supply is mandated by a plebiscite that was held in the 1950s.

The water treatment plant is legally required to continue this practice.

In early 2009, fluoride was re-introduced into Red Deer’s water supply after more than a year of not having it due to supply shortages.

About 75 per cent of Alberta communities use fluoridated water.

British Columbia is about 95 per cent fluoride-free and Europe is about 98 per cent fluoride-free.

See FLUORIDE on Page C2

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MIRACLE TREAT DAY

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LOCAL

BRIEFS Man detained on CrossIron Mills assault An Innisfail man facing multiple charges relating to an assault at the CrossIron Mills mall in Balzac remains in custody pending his next court date.

The 55-year-old man, whose name is withheld to protect the identity of his victim, was arrested after a run-in at the mall with police and security guards.

RCMP say police were called to the mall on March 28 when a woman slipped a note to a security guard saying she had been kidnapped.

Police allege that, upon arrival at the mall, they witnessed the suspect beating the woman and that he then struck one of the officers who was there to make the arrest.

Charges include housebreaking with intent to commit a crime, sexual assault, choking with intent, assault causing bodily harm, unlawful confinement, kidnapping, uttering death threats, resisting a police officer, assaulting a police officer, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public and breaching the conditions of a recognizance.

His next court appearance has been set for Airdrie on Aug. 23.

Assault case adjourned Proceedings against a Red Deer man accused of assaulting his girlfriend and at least one of her children have been adjourned to next Wednesday.

The 24-year-old man, whose name is withheld to protect the identity of his alleged victims, was arrested from a home in Glendale in June after a neighbour called police to report that a man was kicking a small child.

Police allege that they found a sixyear-old boy smeared in feces and requiring medical treatment for damage to the corneas of both eyes.

The suspect was arrested at the scene and remains in custody pending his next court appearance. He has not entered a plea.

Lawyer faces assault trial A Red Deer lawyer who was temporarily suspended for his role in a Ponzi scheme is being tried later this month on a single charge of assault.

Dana Carlson, 50, goes to trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on July 27.

No other details are available on the assault charge, which is related to an incident in 2011.

In relation to the Ponzi scheme,

the Law Society of Alberta suspended Carlson for three months earlier this year, effective March 26, and ordered him to pay more than $6,000 for the cost of a hearing.

Carlson admitted to the law society hearing committee that he was guilty of improper conduct, including representing clients in business transactions that he should have known were in breach of securities law, unwittingly enabling a party to achieve an improper purpose and accepting compensation other than legal fees from such a party.

The law society hearing committee also found Carlson guilty of unnecessarily complicating the investigation by destroying evidence and not being immediately forthright in explaining his actions to the law society.

The law society hearing committee reported a number of factors in Carlson’s favour, including an early guilty plea indicating genuine remorse and generating substantial costs savings.

The committee also stated in its report that Carlson did not act in full knowledge or in bad faith and that while he continues to practise litigation law, he no longer operates a solicitor’s practice.

That factor offers significant protection to the public, it says, since the sanctions against him arose from his role in the Ponzi scheme, described in the hearing committee’s report as a prime bank instrument fraud.

PAINTED LIKE A PARROT

Man accused of credit card fraud A Red Deer man faces charges in the United States for allegedly using at least 32 credit cards to conduct fraud in connection with identification information.

Red Deer City RCMP arrested Eric Bogle, 23, in Red Deer on a warrant issued in the United States on July 2.

The United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York say the arrest was part of the largest coordinated takedown of cyber criminals in history.

The co-ordinated efforts were the results of a two-year undercover operation led by the FBI. The operation involved 13 countries and resulted in 25 arrests, including 12 arrests in the United States and 13 arrests in seven other countries, including Canada. Bogle was one of two Canadians arrested. The other Canadian was not named.

Bogle is scheduled to appear in Court of Queens Bench Court in Edmonton today. The Department of Justice Canada is representing the U.S. Attorney on the matter.

Westerner gets tourism grant Westerner Park has received a $25,000 grant for promoting tourism in

Photo by CYNTHIA RADFORD/Advocate staff

Emmalayna Paulson, age 5, gets her face painted to resemble a parrot at the Westerner Park on kids day on Thursday. the region.

The park is the recipient of the Festivals and Events Tourism and Events Tourism Growth Program grant.

Funded by the Department of Tourism, Parks and Recreation, the grant program evaluates the event to determine its tourism growth potential, develop a three-to-five-year growth plan and identify organizational improvements required to implement the growth plan.

Mountie injured in collision A Red Deer Mountie was taken to hospital Thursday morning after his cruiser was involved in a crash with a City of Red Deer vehicle.

The officer was responding to a complaint at 8:40 a.m. when the colli-

sion occurred with a City of Red Deer parks and maintenance truck near the intersection of Hermary Street and 58th Avenue.

Both vehicles were travelling at low speeds at the time of the crash, say police.

Red Deer city RCMP report the driver of the city vehicle wasn’t injured.

The police officer, who has eight years of experience with the RCMP, was taken to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre by ambulance. He suffered a concussion and required stitches for a gash to his head.

RCMP anticipated the officer would be released from hospital the same day.

The collision remains under investigation.

Man’s charges upgraded to murder

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MEDICINE HAT — A 34-year-old man has gone from being a suspected accomplice in the case of a missing southern Alberta nursing student to her alleged killer.

But police have yet to locate a crucial piece of evidence in a homicide case — a body.

“We are still no closer to knowing exactly where she might be,” said Insp. Glen Mots of the Medicine Hat police.

But he added that police “are very confident the evidence that has been gathered will secure conviction.”

Police laid a charge of second-degree murder

against Jerrison Herve Stopanski on Thursday.

He’s alleged to have killed 23-year-old Amy Lewis, who was last in contact with friends late in the evening on June 11.

Police began a missing person investigation two days later, and on June 15, they arrested Stopanski and charged him with accessory to murder after the fact.

Helicopters from RCMP and the British Army conducted aerial searches of areas surrounding Medicine Hat while police, fire and volunteer search and rescue organizations scoured the land looking for Lewis over the last two weeks of June.

The search was called off when all leads failed to find her.

Asked if Stopanski has co-operated with investigators in locating the student, Motz responded: “We continue to search for Amy Lewis.”

City considering disc golf course

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer believes a former elementary school site in a southside neighbourhood would now be a great green space for playing disc golf.

The Recreation, Parks and Culture Department has joined with Primary Care Network, a partnership between 66 local family doctors and Alberta Health Services, in proposing a 10-hole disc golf course at the Victoria Park central park site. It’s found along the east end of Allan Street.

An open house is being held on Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the park site.

The city built a similar course last year at a Kentwood park site.

Disc golf is said to be gaining popularity among all age groups.

It’s similar to golf in that a player must cross a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of a disc.

The Victoria Park course has been designed for beginner to intermediate play. It’s expected this course will attract casual users and will not result in a significant increase to the number of park users at one time, according to city administration.

The city reports minimal impact is felt on homeowners who live next to the park because the course forces game play away from housing.

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LAKE: Consultants hired Developers would apply for a permit through one of the four municipalities. Those drilling water wells for a multi-unit development would also have to show Alberta Environment that there’s enough water from those wells, plus that it wouldn’t be affecting other users.

“They don’t have real strong requirements around proving that aquifer is connected to the lake and you might be drawing out of the lake,” said Wannop.

“The lake might shrink.”

The society has hired HCL Consultants and so far has gathered data and ironed out the scope of the project.

It received a grant from the Land Stewardship Centre, plus other donations from corporations.

But it’s $5,000 short to complete the water sampling that would be done by the Gull Lake society this year.

More grant money would be sought for next year’s

The Kentwood course has been successful and is regularly used, according to parks planning coordinator David Girardin.

“Since its implementation, the city has not received a single complaint from adjacent land owners,” said Girardin in a letter to nearby residents.

Red Deer Public School District board decided in 1999 to delete the Victoria Park site for a possible future elementary school.

The site was to have been deleted from the East Hill Major Area Structure Plan but wasn’t.

Earlier this year, the site was considered for a francophone school, then rejected. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

phase. The project’s total cost is estimated at $60,000.

This week, Wannop asked Lacombe County council about granting money to the project. Council referred the matter to administration for its recommendation.

Anyone interested in donating to the project can contact http://www.gulllakewater.net. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

FLUORIDE: Toxic fear Besides the issue of personal choice, fluoridation opponents believe this chemical is toxic to the human body.

Alberta Health Services disputes this claim, saying scientific studies have not found water fluoridation to cause adverse health effects.

It reports that communities with optimal water fluoride levels have more cavity-free children, and the children who have had decay have less of it.

Water fluoridation also works to limit tooth decay in adults, and has an additional positive effect beyond that of using fluoridated toothpaste. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

Motz said the second-degree murder charge was laid after DNA testing results providing enough probable cause to elevate the charge against Stopanski.

Police are not saying what evidence they have, what the alleged motive may have been or the relationship between Stopanski and Lewis.

Stopanski is scheduled to next appear in Medicine Hat provincial court on July 26.

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LOCAL HOME BUILDERS IN RUNNING FOR INDUSTRY AWARDS A pair of Red Deer home builders are in the running for provincial industry awards. Colbray Homes and True-Line Contracting are finalists for 2012 Alberta Awards of Excellence in Housing.

Colbray is one of three companies vying for the award for Best Multifamily Townhome or Duplex Under $325,000, while True-Line is among a trio of finalists for Best Renovation Over $200,000. The Alberta Awards of Excellence in Housing are presented annually by the Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Alberta.

This year, there were a record 383 entries in 17 award categories, with finalists also eligible for the Ralph Scurfield Builder of the Year Award.

The Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Alberta has also announced the finalists for the Safety Leadership Award. The 11 companies include two from Central Alberta: Carpet Colour Centre of Red Deer and Falcon Homes of Sylvan Lake. Winners of the 2012 Alberta Awards of Excellence in Housing will be announced on Sept. 21, with the recipient of the Safety Leadership Award to be named on Sept. 22.

AMERICA’S LOSS IS ARGENTINA’S GAIN AS GRAIN PRICES SOAR BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — America’s loss is Argentina’s gain.

Record soy prices due to a punishing drought in the U.S. heartland are expected to create billions of dollars in new revenue for the South American country, which is the world’s third-largest soy producer behind the U.S. and Brazil. Prices for soybeans for August delivery gained 50.25 cents, or 3 per cent, to end at $17.3375 a bushel.

Corn also beat its all-time high of a year ago, with September deliveries rising 12.75 cents to finish at $8.0775 per bushel.

September wheat also rose a sharp 31.75 cents to close at $9.35 per bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade, its highest prices since 2008. A U.S. drought has reduced supplies of the very grains Argentina grows in abundance — mostly to China, which buys 80 per cent of Argentina’s soy.

— By Advocate staff and Advocate news services

Demonstrators lift their hands and shout slogans as they protest against austerity measures announced by the Spanish government in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday. Concerns over Spain’s attempts to restore market confidence in its economy resurfaced Thursday after a bond auction went poorly and its borrowing costs edged higher — even as the country’s Parliament passed the latest round of harsh austerity measures designed to cut its bloated deficit. Please see related story on C4.

Dropping a lure in Seattle CAAP LOOKING FOR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE UNEMPLOYED, UNDEREMPLOYED

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Forget Sleepless in Seattle.

Central Alberta: Access Prosperity is looking for relationships with the unemployed and underemployed in Seattle.

The economic development organization is taking part in an Aug. 11 to 16 recruitment trip to the Washington city in hopes of luring skilled workers to the Red Deer region. It’s piggybacking on a project organized by Edmonton Economic Development Corp. in conjunction with Syncrude Canada Ltd., Suncor Energy Inc., PCL and Finning Canada.

Because of Finning’s strong presence in Red Deer, Central Alberta: Access Prosperity was invited to take part, said manager Gary Slipp.

“Our purpose in going would be to represent the region and let those employees

that come to the event know that there are a lot of opportunities here as well.”

Although Central Alberta employers won’t be able to participate directly, they can notify Central Alberta: Access Prosperity of their labour needs. Danielle Klooster, the organization’s business retention, expansion and investment officer, is travelling with the group and will make those needs known, said Slipp.

Among the skills already on the delegation’s wish list are heavy equipment technicians, welders, steamfitters/pipefitters, power engineers and construction professionals.

In addition to Seattle, the Edmonton Economic Development contingent will be beating the bushes in other parts of Washington and in Oregon.

Slipp said the decision to target this area resulted from research into where workers with skills needed in Alberta were at.

“They found out Seattle had an excess.”

Americans interested in offering their services north of the border could do so on a temporary basis, noted Slipp.

“It’s hoped that the people who will come, take up permanent residence.”

Although some might be reluctant to relocate to Alberta, Slipp believes they might be persuaded with information about the province — or better still, by coming here and seeing the region for themselves.

Central Alberta: Access Prosperity is probably best known for its mandate to attract foreign direct investment to this area.

But Slipp stressed that labour attraction is also an important part of its work.

“It’s a key element for sure; it shares the limelight with investment attraction.

“We can’t really have one without the other.”

Please see SEATTLE on Page C4

Microsoft reports first quarterly loss

Route to Rocky a busy addition

STRUGGLING ONLINE AD BUSINESS A BUST

LESS SO TO SYLVAN LAKE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Microsoft has posted its first quarterly loss in its 26 years as a public company as it declared a struggling online ad business a bust and prepared for one of the biggest product updates in its history.

The software company had warned two weeks ago that it would take a $6.2 billion charge in the April-June quarter because its 2007 purchase of online ad service aQuantive failed to help it compete with Google Inc. The amount reflected the bulk of the $6.3 billion it paid for aQuantive.

The purchase of aQuantive, Microsoft’s most expensive deal at the time, was supposed to help Microsoft boost its online ad business and mount a more serious challenge to Google. But the division housing aQuantive continued to post losses — totalling more than $9 billion since the company bought aQuantive, not including the charge.

By contrast, Google has widened its lead

in the growing online ad market, thanks in part to its purchase of DoubleClick for $3.2 billion about eight months after Microsoft took control of aQuantive.

Google’s search engine, a major vehicle for selling ads, has remained strong, while Microsoft’s Bing search engine saw its market share drop slightly to 26 per cent, from 27 per cent a year ago. The Bing figures include searches through business partner Yahoo Inc., which has been using Microsoft’s search technology for nearly two years.

The aQuantive setback didn’t faze investors, who have been used to years of troubles in Microsoft’s online ad business.

Investors usually focus on what lies ahead for a company instead of dwelling on past mistakes. Despite the loss, Microsoft’s stock was up 72 cents, or 2.4 per cent, at $31.39 in after-hours trading following the announcement.

Please see MICROSOFT on Page C4

West Fraser second-quarter earnings, sales improve on higher lumber prices

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Lumber producer West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (TSX:WFT) says its second-quarter profit and sales jumped from a year ago as lumber prices improved.

The Vancouver-based company reported Thursday that second-quarter earnings after discontinued operations were $27 million, or 63 cents per share, up from $10 million, or a loss of nine cents per share in the same quarter of 2011.

Revenues rose to $774 million from $720 million in the year-earlier period.

The company said lumber prices rallied strongly as improved U.S. demand, along with continued demand from Asia helped raise sales.

The higher prices also triggered a reduction in duties —from 15 per cent to 10 per cent — on softwood lumber exported to the U.S. from B.C. and Alberta in June.

It added that its panels segment also improved along with higher prices.

Pulp and paper prices increased in the quarter to US$900 per tonne from US$870 in the previous quarter, but reduced production and shipments, along with increased chemical costs hit results in the segment.

West Fraser said it expects results from its lumber and panels businesses to improve if U.S. new home construction continues to recover. However, it warned that the recovery is still fragile and could be set back by adverse global economic events.

Please see LUMBER on Page C4

RED ARROW

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Residents of Rocky Mountain House appear to be embracing a new shuttle service that connects their town to Sylvan Lake and Red Deer.

“It’s been mostly Rocky that we’ve had a considerable amount of passengers travelling,” said John Stepovy, general manger of Red Arrow Motorcoach. “Red Deer-Sylvan has been a bit slow to pick up.”

Red Arrow has been running a 14-person passenger van between the three Central Alberta communities since June 25.

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, it leaves the Petro Canada station in Rocky Mountain House at 6:05 a.m. and then returns at 7:15 p.m. Passengers are required to reserve a spot in advance.

On weekdays, the Red Arrow Connector completes several round trips between Sylvan Lake and Red Deer, with stops at Chateau Suites at Sylvan Bay, the Visitor Information Centre, the Community Centre and Canadian Tire in Sylvan Lake, and at Red Deer College, Sorenson Station, the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, Bower Place Shopping Centre and the Holiday Inn on 67th Street in Red Deer.

The van is also making several trips between Sylvan Lake and Red Deer on Saturdays during the summer.

Cost of the service is $10 for one-way rides and $19 for return fares between Red Deer and Sylvan Lake, with travellers between Rocky and Red Deer paying $36, or $70 return. Discounts are available for multi-ticket packs and for students.

Stepovy thinks passenger counts will increase as awareness grows.

“We think it’s a good service, and for 10 bucks between Sylvan Lake and Red Deer, you can’t beat that.

“Sylvan Lake’s been a little bit slow, but I think once school gets in we’ll see a few more students coming and going.”

The vans offer Wi-Fi and have power outlets that passengers can use.

More information about the Red Arrow Connector service, including its schedule, is online at www.redarrow.ca.

C4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, July 20, 2012

MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Wednesday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 96.01 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 74.17 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.20 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.90 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.09 Cdn. National Railway . . 88.78 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 76.47 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 3.75 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 69.58 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.35 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.89 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 31.32 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 41.25 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.11 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.00 General Motors Co. . . . . 20.14 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 14.94 Research in Motion. . . . . . 7.03 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 39.02 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 27.79 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 62.11 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 17.40 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 44.38 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.10 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 67.03 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.41 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 32.00 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 10.60 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.22

Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.07 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 53.38 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.53 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 16.55 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 35.08 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.76 First Quantum Minerals . 18.28 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 33.60 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.11 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 39.84 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 8.07 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 45.74 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.71 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 31.24 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.63 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.20 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 41.75 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.60 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 44.00 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 28.98 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.32 Canyon Services Group. . 9.93 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 32.94 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.660 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 20.93 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.89 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 86.21 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 30.21 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . 1.620

Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 25.73 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.82 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.25 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.44 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.28 Penn West Energy . . . . . 13.22 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.88 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.60 Pure Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 6.87 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 30.59 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.27 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 11.54 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.76 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 47.19

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Resource stocks helped give the Toronto stock market a solid lift Thursday as commodity prices picked up on hopes that central bankers are ready to help with stimulus in the future.

Oil in particular got a lift from rising tensions in the Mideast, pushing prices past the US$92 level.

The S&P/TSX composite index ran up 86.54 points to 11,665.7 while the TSX Venture Exchange added 8.54 points to 1,190.87.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.29 of a cent to 99.23 cents US. U.S. markets came off session highs after data showed sales of existing homes in June fell by 5.4 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.37

million, much lower than the 4.65 million that was expected.

“Existing home sales brought to a fairly abrupt end to a run of good news regarding the U.S. housing market,” observed CIBC senior economist Andrew Grantham.

“The large decline is at odds with the more positive recent trend in pending home sales, and took the rate of existing home

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 58.30 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 52.62 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.80 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.99 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 25.37 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 22.23 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.48 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 62.53 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 10.86 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 75.32 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.950 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 52.66 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 22.13 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.51

sales down to its lowest so far this year.”

As well, data showed manufacturing activity in the Philadelphia region rebounded only slightly in July. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s diffusion index rose to negative 12.9 in July from negative 16.6 in June. This is the third straight monthly reading below zero, indicating contraction.

The Dow Jones industrials gained 34.66 points to 12,943.36.

The Nasdaq composite index was ahead 23.3 points to 2,965.9 while the S&P 500 index rose 3.73 points to 1,376.51.

Strong earnings news supported New York indexes.

IBM had reported after the close Wednesday that quarterly earnings rose six per cent to mark the 38th consecutive quarter that IBM’s net income has climbed from the previous year.

Without accounting charges for past acquisitions and the company’s pension, IBM said it would have earned $3.51 per share, beating expectations by eight cents a share. IBM stock ran ahead $7.09 to US$195.34.

Morgan Stanley was a disappointment. Net income rose to $564 million or 29 cents a share, missing expectations by three cents. Revenue tumbled 24 per cent to $7 billion and its stock was down 74 cents to $13.25.

Microsoft was in focus as the software giant handed in its first-ever quarterly loss after the close because of an accounting adjustment to reflect a weak online ad business. The charge led to a US$492 million loss in the April-June quarter, or six cents a share. Excluding extraordinary items, the company reported a profit of 73 cents a share, higher than the 62 cents analysts expected. Its shares were up 1.58 per cent in after-hours trading.

In Canadian earnings news, Nexen Inc.’s (TSX:NXY) net income fell 57 per cent from a year ago to $109 million in the second quarter, a bigger decline than analysts had been estimating. Nex-

en earned 20 cents per share, which was seven cents per share below estimates. Nexen said the latest quarter’s results were hurt by the unsuccessful Kakuna exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico and its stock added a penny to C$17.44.

Shoppers Drug Mart (TSX:SC) reported second-quarter adjusted earnings of $149 million or 71 cents per share, up 4.4 per cent from the same time last year and a penny ahead of estimates. Its shares improved by 41 cents to $43.07.

Traders were focused on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke during his two-day testimony to Congress. And while he did not indicate that another round of stimulus was imminent, his comments led investors to believe further action remained an option. The Fed has already completed two programs of asset purchases, which have the effect of increasing the supply of money, much of which ends up in financial markets.

The base metals sector climbed 4.42 per cent while copper, viewed as an economic bellwether as it is used in so many industries, ran ahead six cents to US$3.53 a pound. The rise reflected hopes that Chinese authorities will also take steps to improve that country’s performance as the most recent data showed Chinese growth coming in at a three-year low of 7.6 per cent in the second quarter. Thompson Creek Metals (TSX:TCM) was 26 cents higher to $2.89 while First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) ran up $1.68 to $18.28.

Oil traded at seven month highs amid rising tensions in the Middle East. The oil market is concerned once again that Iran will try to block oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway in the Persian Gulf through, through which onefifth of the world’s oil travels every day. On Wednesday Israel blamed Iran for an attack on Israelis in Bulgaria, and vowed to strike back.

The August crude contract

on the New York Mercantile Exchange up $2.79 to US$92.66 a barrel. The energy sector was up 1.61 per cent and Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) climbed 39 cents to C$30.59 and Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) advanced 91 cents to $28.98.

The gold sector advanced 0.77 per cent as bullion prices also rose, up $9.60 to US$1,580.40 an ounce. Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) was up 74 cents to C$33.60.

The strong IBM results boosted the tech sector by 1.23 per cent. Open Text (TSX:OTC) gained 74 cents to $48.90 while CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A) was ahead 34 cents to $24.33.

Financials also supported the TSX and Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) ran up 14 cents to $10.86.

The telecom sector was the weakest group with Telus Corp. (TSX:T) down 58 cents to $62.11.

ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov.’12 $4.20 higher $636.70; Jan ’13 $4.10 higher $639.70; March ’13 $4.60 higher $639.60; May ’13 $4.40 higher $636.50; July ’13 $4.90 higher $634.30; Nov. ’13 $4.90 higher $579.80; Jan. ’14 $4.90 higher $574.60; March ’14 $4.90 higher $574.60; May ’14 $4.90 higher $574.60; July ’14 $4.90 higher $574.60; Nov. ’14 $4.90 higher $574.60.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’12 unchanged $255.00; Dec. ’12 unchanged $260.00; March ’13 unchanged $265.00; May ’13 unchanged $267.00; July ’13 unchanged $267.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $267.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $267.00; March ’14 unchanged $267.00; May ’14 unchanged $267.00; July ’14 unchanged $267.00; Oct. ’14 $267.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 373,920 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 373,920.

Spain lawmakers pass austerity measures INVESTORS UNIMPRESSED AS IT UNLOADS $3.7B IN DEBT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID, Spain — Concerns over Spain’s attempts to restore market confidence in its economy resurfaced Thursday after a bond auction went poorly and its borrowing costs edged higher — even as the country’s parliament passed the latest round of harsh austerity measures designed to cut its bloated deficit.

The ruling conservative Popular Party used its majority in Parliament to push through the measures, which include a rise in sales taxes and a wage cut for civil servants.

As dusk fell, tens of thousands of government workers, trade union members and disgruntled Spaniards began marches and rallies in 80 cities throughout Spain. Large crowds gathered in Barcelona and Bilbao, while leading Spanish newspaper El Pais estimated on its website that more than 100,000 had attended the rally in Madrid.

The government also published details of the C100 billion ($122.9 billion) financial assistance agreement between Spain and the Eurogroup aimed at

shoring up the country’s struggling banks.

The Economy Ministry statement said the precise bailout amount “will be known once a bank to bank scan is complete,” and that the loan mechanism will be available until Dec. 31, 2013. It also said the interest rate will be variable.

Marchers in Madrid carried Spanish flags bearing black bows for mourning and banners saying, “No to the cuts” and “You have ruined us.”

Isabel Urbelz, a 54-year-old civil servant, said she was angry with the government because it had cut her Christmas bonus.

“I am indignant, I’m angry. Why can’t they cut elsewhere?” she said.

The vote in parliament followed an auction of medium-term Spanish bonds, where the government had to pay substantially higher interest rates to unload C2.96 billion ($3.62 billion) in bonds maturing in 2014, 2017 and 2019. Its target range was C2 billion to C3 billion. Demand was roughly two times the amount on offer for each issue. But that was down from earlier auctions.

And the interest rate on the five-year debt rose

sharply to 6.46 per cent, from 5.54 per cent at the last such auction on July 5. The Treasury provided no comparable rates for the other maturities.

In the secondary bond market, where issued debt is traded openly, the interest rate, or yield, on benchmark Spanish 10-year bonds — a measure of investor worries about the security of a country’s debt — was at 6.95 per cent Thursday, up 0.05 percentage points on the day.

The Spanish government, led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, introduced the latest round of spending cuts and tax increases to shave C65 billion off the government’s budgets by 2015. Some specific measures were left to be addressed later, such as speeding up the phasing in of an increase in the retirement age from 65 to 67.

The austerity package was unveiled by Rajoy last week after finance ministers from the other 16 countries that use the euro agreed the basic terms of a bailout of up to C100 billion to strengthen Spain’s banking sector and gave the government an extra year to reach deficit-reduction targets.

Ford recalls 2013 Escape due to chance of engine fires

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. is telling Canadian and U.S. owners of one version of the brand-new Ford Escape not to drive the SUVs until dealers can fix fuel lines that can crack and spill gasoline, causing engine fires.

The company issued the unusual warning on Thursday and said it is recalling 2013 Escapes equipped with 1.6-litre four-cylinder engines. Dealers will pick up the Escapes and drop off a loaner car that customers can use until the repairs are finished. The company is hoping to ship parts and get all the SUVs repaired in the next two weeks.

Ford says it has three reports of fires: two at the factory and one while a customer was driving an Es-

SEATTLE: Set the stage for next trip Slipp said the Seattle trip could set the stage for similar recruitment projects with a greater focus on local labour needs.

“Our plan is to learn from this experience and then develop a similar mission specific to Central Alberta businesses for 2013.”

Such a trip could target other places where skilled workers are having a tough time finding relevant employment, such as Western Europe or the U.S. Midwest.

Central Alberta employers that want to make their labour needs known for the Seattle project or participate in similar trips in the future can contact Slipp at 403-342-3103 or at gary. slipp@accessprosperity.ca. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

MICROSOFT: Next up — Windows 8 Microsoft’s fortunes are now tied to the Oct. 26 release of Windows 8, the most extreme redesign of the company’s flagship operating system since 1995. Windows 8 will feature a new look and boast new technology that will enable the operating system to work on touch-controlled tablet computers, as well as Microsoft’s traditional stronghold of desktop and laptop computers. In conjunction with

Windows 8, Microsoft is planning to release its own tablet, the Surface.

A revamped version of another lucrative franchise, Microsoft’s Office software that bundles word processing, spreadsheet and email programs, is also in the works. Earlier this week, Microsoft previewed how the next version of Office will work on tablet computers running on Windows 8.

The new Escape is among Ford’s top-selling vehicles. People bought 28,500 last month, up 28 per cent from June 2011.

The Escapes in the latest recall were built at the company’s Louisville, Ky., plant from early April through July 11.

Two recalls in one week are unusual, but more likely a coincidence than a sign of quality problems, said Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a consumer group. Ditlow, who has been critical of Ford’s safety record, said he questions a vehicle’s quality if it has three recalls in a year.

Michelle Krebs, senior analyst with the Edmunds. com automotive website said Ford apparently has learned from Toyota’s slow response to unintended acceleration problems.

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LUMBER: Results are encouraging “We are encouraged by this quarter’s results and we expect to see continuing operational improvements as a result of our extensive capital program and the efforts of all of our people.

We are well positioned to take advantage of the anticipated recovery,” said Hank Ketcham, West Fraser’s chairman and chief executive officer.

The company and other lumber producers won a significant victory Wednesday, when an international tribunal convened under the 2006 softwood lumber agreement ruled that Canada did not circumvent the deal by shipping large quantities of pine beetle-infested lumber south of the border.

The United States government argued that B.C. mills had an unfair advantage in softwood sales because they’ve been selling logs made from the destroyed trees at lower prices.

The three-member panel at the London Court of International Arbitration ruled in favour of Canada, though the details of the ruling will remain confidential for 10 days.

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cape. No one has been injured.

The recall affects 11,500 Escapes in the U.S. and Canada. Only 4,800 have been sold to customers. The rest are on dealer lots and will be fixed before they are sold, spokeswoman Marcey Zwiebel said. “We are obviously taking very quick action in the interest of our customers’ safety,” she said.

Escapes powered by other engines are not affected, nor are other Ford models with 1.6-litre engines, Zwiebel said.

This is the second recall of the redesigned Escape, which went on sale in June. On Saturday, the company said it would recall more than 10,000 Escapes to fix carpet padding that could interfere with braking. Problems often crop up when new vehicles are introduced, even though automakers have improved quality in recent years.

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Friday, July 20, 2012

Energy options are humming along Imagine a beautiful day, blue sky, the wind at a steady 18 km/h, the wind turbine rotating in the breeze, the solar array tracking the sun as it treks across the horizon.

You go out to your electric car, unplug it from the charger where it has been plugged in awaiting the start of your morning.

Off to LORNE town you go, OJA noiselessly accelerating at a rate that scares the piston-driven crowd and leaves them sitting at the light.

Sound farfetched?

Well No. 1, you probably are not going to see this in Alberta any time soon, but the technology is available and is being used.

Alternate energy systems have proven themselves in industrial situations all over the world. From large solar farms in California to the wind farms in Alberta, the green energy concept is being verified daily.

Electrical energy can only replace so much infrastructure.

In the alternative fuel side, hydrogen is one avenue being aggressively pursued, especially by

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countries with no petroleum resource.

Fuel cells, the newest user of hydrogen, are moving into their place.

They have been around awhile, actually having been invented in 1839 by Sir William Grove. The ability to generate hydrogen has been around since 1766 when Henry Cavendish recognized it as a “discrete substance.”

It is feasible to set up an off-grid home, with wind and solar arrays large enough to generate a surplus of power on those clear, windy days.

This energy surplus could be used to produce hydrogen, store the hydrogen in metal hydride cylinders, and use it for running fuel cells to power the house on foggy days, heating your home, cooking your food and even, running your hybrid vehicle.

Alternatively, electric vehicles could be used to provide your basic transportation needs, totally eliminating the use of hydrocarbons.

This would significantly reduce your carbon footprint, your cost of transportation and maintenance.

Essentially, a properly designed alternate energy system would provide you everything you needed to maintain the standard of living that we have become so accustomed to.

In addition, it would reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources and would greatly ease

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Development Permit Approvals Westlake Built By Owner – a 0.4 metre relaxation to the height and a 0.98m2 relaxation to the maximum site coverage to a proposed detached garage to be located at 76 Walker Boulevard Woodlea Tyler Brake – for a 1.5 metre relaxation to the maximum height to a proposed detached garage to be located at 5141-45 Avenue You may appeal discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative & Governance Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on August 3, 2012. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative & Governance Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

INVITATION TO TENDER Sealed Tenders clearly marked Heritage Ranch Water and Sanitary Servicing 2012 delivered or mailed to the Purchasing Section – Main Floor at:

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003 and is in the planning stage for his second.

His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Would you like to get together for drinks in the cyberworld after our virtual convention ends?

It’s not a typical invitation for drinks, but Vancouver’s Utherverse Inc., doesn’t deal in regular feet-on-the-ground conferences either.

Utherverse puts on 3D virtual conventions, allowing keynote speakers and participants to take part from their homes, offices or from anywhere in the world via personalized avatars in a virtual world.

The result is similar to being in a video game but it’s still like being at a real convention, said CEO and company founder Brian Shuster.

“For example, you can overhear conversations,” he said, referring to avatars strolling through virtual convention halls and visiting virtual booths. “You can run into people and have random encounters.”

Participants communicate at a virtual convention through text messaging and audio, said Shuster.

As for the entertainment and parties that are usually part of a convention, there’s plenty of that.

“There’s beer,” Shuster said, though you can’t actually drink it. “Your avatar can drink beer and sit there and socialize with people.”

And if you find the keynote speaker a bit dull, you can just tune out and have an online chat.

“You can have a whole conversation back and forth, which would be considered rude at a real convention.”

Never mind sore feet, because you can visit virtual booths to see products you’re interested in.

The software development company has put on conventions for the online video game “World of Warcraft” and the adult entertainment industry, Shuster said, adding conventions are in the works for a racing group and a bloggers group.

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Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On July 11, 2012 the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications:

your personal impact on the environment.

Practical applications would be remote facilities like fishing lodges, new homes where bringing in the grid is extremely costly, or geographically not possible. Basically anywhere you have to be or want to be, totally self sufficient.

Proof of concept: there are actually hydrogen homes already in operation that harvest enough of an excess of power that electricity, heating, and fuel for local transportation are provided for.

However, this takes the kind of dedication to a new concept that most people are not willing to muster.

This equipment may not be sitting on the shelf down at the hardware and it also takes a certain amount of technical expertise and talent to install and operate.

For some, that is reason enough not to proceed with the concept, for others the seed of a very important idea has been planted.

I like the fact we have a choice.

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Development Officer Approvals On July 17, 2012, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications:

Timberstone Park Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan Bylaw Amendment 3217/C-2012 Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/K-2012 Timberstone Park Neighbourhood 55 Street & Timberstone Way City Council proposes to pass Timberstone Park Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan (NASP) Amendment 3217/C-2012 which provides for the addition of a public road within the multi-family site in the southeast portion of the Timberstone Park NASP. Council also proposes to pass Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/K-2012 which provides for the rezoning of 2.395 ha (hectares) of land as Phase 7 of the Timberstone Park NASP from A1(Future Urban Development District) to R3 (Residential – Multiple Family) to facilitate the development of row housing and apartment buildings.

Permitted Use Aspen Ridge 1. The TDL Group Ltd. – site development for a double order station to an existing Tim Horton’s, located at 700 3020 22 Street.

Downtown 2. Traptow’s Cool Beans Coffee Company Inc. – a mobile coffee shop to be located at 4738 50 Street.

Gaetz Avenue South 3. Cork’d Taphouse & Grill – an 84.5m2 seasonal outdoor patio addition to the existing drinking establishment located at 100, 2325-50 Avenue.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative & Governance Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on August 3, 2012. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative & Governance Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8399.

Proposed Amendment to Land Use Bylaw 3357/2006

The City of Red Deer 4914 - 48 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3T3 and received before 2:00:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, August 2, 2012 will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

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Tender Documents are to be obtained directly from The City of Red Deer Engineering Services Department, Third Floor, City Hall, on or after 8:00 amTuesday, July 24, 2012 for a $100 non-refundable fee. The City of Red Deer Contract Specifications 2012 Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 non-refundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer Website @ www.reddeer.ca.

Subcontractors may view the Tender Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices.

Inquiries regarding this Project may be directed to: Kingsford Amoah The City of Red Deer Engineering Services Department 4914-48 Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 3T3 403.342.8158

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. & 5 to 8 p.m.

Supercede District to: A1 to R3 A1 to P1

Affected District: A1 - Future Urban Development District R3 - Residential (Multiple Family) District P1 - Parks and Recreations District

G.H. Dawe Community Centre (56 Holt Street) Proposed Amendment Map: 11 / 2012 Bylaw: 3357 / K-2012 Date: July 4, 2012

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative & Governance Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaws at the Public Hearings on Monday, July 23, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor at City Hall. If you want your letter or petition included on the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative & Governance Services by Friday, July 20, 2012. Otherwise, you may submit your letter or petition at the Council meeting or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Director, Legislative & Governance Services at 403-342-8132.

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Parents unsure if child is ready for preschool Question: We’re considering enrolling our daughJULI SLATTERY ter in preschool this fall, but we’re not sure about the idea of consigning her to an institutional setting JIM DALY for hours every week.

What do you recommend?

Jim: When it comes to early childhood training, but it will give him the best chance of succeeding in Focus on the Family’s primary concern is to encourall of his endeavors. age a strong parent-child connection.

Submit your questions to: ask@FocusOnTheFamily.

We prefer to toss the ball back to the parents and let them evaluate their own unique situation.

Does preschool have the potential to enhance or enrich the bond you enjoy with your daughter? Or do you sense that it might compromise that vital relationship in some way?

Also, check your motives.

What’s your purpose in sending your daughter to preschool?

Are you hoping to provide her with a healthy introduction to the joys of learning?

If so, there are probably preschools in your area that can help, particularly with respect to language skills, cognitive development and educational readiness.

However, if you’re merely attempting to turn your daughter into a genius or position her in the academic pack in order to “keep up with the Joneses,” you should reconsider.

This phase of her life needs to be characterized XECUTIVE SSISTANT ECEPTIONIST by a strong emphasis on relationships, and you can seriously jeopardize that if you push too hard too usy corporate office in Red Deer soon.

In short, evidence suggests that children reap the is seeking a professional, friendly and greatest benefits, both educationally and socially, when they’re protected from peer pressure and a courteous individual to take on the role formalized educational setting until they’re mature of executive assistant to the owner, as enough to handle it.

But there are also situations in which a good prewell as the office receptionist. school might be valuable for a child. Those are quesWe offer excellent wages and benefits. tions only you can answer.

Question: My son is almost 20 years old and currently is in college.

He has really struggled focusing on his classes the last two years and his grades have suffered in return.

It is so important to me that he finishes college, but I don’t know if it’s ap- propriate for me to continue to monitor his work.

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Christian Bale as Batman is back as a flawed superhero in The Dark Knight Rises, and he has as many cool gadgets as a superhero might need, but this film is much more than a summer action thrill ride.

Call it cape fear THIRD IN TRILOGY, SOUL-DEEP DARK KNIGHT RISES DELIVERS MUCH MORE THAN A COMIC BOOK HERO The Dark Knight Rises Rated: PG Four stars (out of four) Fear is the word in The Dark Knight Rises, the concluding chapter of Christopher Nolan’s outstanding Batman origin trilogy.

It’s in the eyes of both hero and villain, in all its manifestations — from anxiety and doubt right up to sheer terror.

It’s constantly on their lips, as when new arch-villain Bane tells one of his victims: “Now’s not the time for fear.

That comes later.”

It’s in their sweat, and also in the beads of perspiration you’ll likely feel watching, prompted in part by the foreboding bass of Hans Zimmer’s PETER score and Richard King’s HOWELL sound design, magnified by the IMAX-sized visuals of Wally Pfister’s cinematography.

Genuine fear is an emotion you don’t often get in summer blockbusters, which tend to be all about the swagger conferred by superpowers and absurd scenarios.

Not this trilogy, and especially not this movie, which incorporates human frailty and realistic threats of nuclear and economic destruction into the densely layered saga co-written by Nolan with his brother Jonathan and David S. Goyer.

The film opens today in Red Deer.

This Knight not only rises, it also cuts deep — not just as spectacular entertainment but also as harrowing drama.

It’s eight years past the traumatic events of The Dark Knight (2008), and Batman is for all intents and purposes no more. He’s been outlawed and ostracized in Gotham City, which arrogantly believes it has rid itself of major crime.

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— or rather his alter-ego Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) — hides inside stately Wayne Manor. Mourning losses both tangible and emotional, he lacks the anger that sparked his heroic creation in Batman Begins (2005), when he adopted the sign of the bat as his symbol of fear vanquishing evil.

Wayne is also physically diminished, and now walks with a cane. He just wants to check out of the world.

But Gotham City still has an interest in what happened to him. A lot of people want to know who Batman was, if only to exact revenge.

And a new threat has emerged: a super terrorist by the name of Bane (Tom Hardy), probably the most vile and fearsome foe that Batman has ever faced.

Indeed, that any hero has ever faced.

Built like a wrestling giant, Bane wears a mask that resembles a spider or perhaps the “face hugger” from the Alien series. Worn through painful necessity, the mask hides his mouth but not his piercing eyes, ferocious intellect or unsettling voice. He proclaims himself to be “Gotham’s reckoning.”

Gotham’s destruction seems more likely. Bane plans to weaponize a nuclear fusion device that Wayne Enterprises developed for peaceful means.

The tables turn evil’s way in an eye-popping airborne prologue and in a daring raid on the city’s stock exchange.

If it’s at all possible, Bane is even more nihilistic than Heath Ledger’s Joker from The Dark Knight.

And while it would be almost impossible to top the late Ledger’s incendiary performance, which won him a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar, Hardy’s Bane comes awfully close.

He’s mesmerizing on the screen, recalling Darth Vader in the original Star Wars.

Christian Bale’s finely drawn Batman, meanwhile, is a darker and more brooding character than we’ve seen in past outings. It’s an understated performance

by Bale, but quite possibly his best.

Two welcome female characters join the cast.

Anne Hathaway intrigues and wows as cat burglar Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, who has connections to both Bane and Batman. She’s brutally funny, a little frightening and incredibly athletic in her skin-tight leathers, filling the screen as one of the most dynamic femmes seen in a long time.

Marion Cotillard makes less noise as Gotham

tycoon Miranda Tate, but she fits very well into the intricate puzzle that is The Dark Knight Rises.

So too does Joseph Gordon-Levitt, another newcomer, who like Cotillard and Hardy hails from Nolan’s previous film Inception. Gordon-Levitt plays good cop John Blake, an aide to Commissioner Gordon, who is such an old-school lawman he rounds up street kids to help him spread the word about the threats to Gotham.

There are also many familiar faces in The Dark Knight Rises, including two that function best as discoveries.

But another two can’t be left unmentioned: Michael Caine as Wayne’s loyal butler Alfred, and Morgan Freeman as company gadget man Lucius Fox, who supplements the Batmobile and Bat-Pod motorbike with a supercool flying machine simply called The Bat. As before, Caine and Freeman serve as father figures, but Caine’s role takes on added nuances that make him the film’s emotional heart, and also the first amongst equals for a likely slew of Academy Awards nominations.

Blockbusters aren’t supposed to be this brainy in the summer. You’re supposed to switch your brain off and just roll with it, which is essentially what The Avengers did earlier this summer. It was a fun movie but not a deep one.

The Dark Knight Rises is soul-deep. It prompts us look at our most private fears and how we cope with them. It questions what happens if we give into those fears.

It’s a demanding movie, one that could leave you exhausted as well as exhilarated during its nearly three-hour running time, which is perhaps a shade longer than the film needs to be.

But we can forgive a few script excesses because we’re invested in all the characters.

And if all else fails, just sit back and marvel at the images.

Nolan aims to capture our minds and also to dazzle our eyes, and he succeeds admirably on both counts.

The Dark Knight Rises is not just the summer’s grandest blockbuster, but also one of the year’s best movies.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Bullet for Adolf: the start of a beautiful friendship

BY MARK KENNEDY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In the summer of 1983, The Police were on top of the charts with Every Breath You Take, James Bond was sipping martinis in Octopussy and Woody Harrelson was meeting a man who would change his life.

Harrelson, the then-22-year-old soon-to-be a star of the TV series Cheers, was working construction in Houston when he met Frankie Hyman, an older New Yorker with a bunch of funny stories. The two became roommates, spent hours talking, debating and bonding over beers and reefer.

“He just helped open my eyes to a lot of things,” says Harrelson. “He’d seen a lot of the world. I always felt like he was one of the wisest people I’d ever met and I still do. He really had a huge impact on me.”

That sweltering summer saw both men woo girlfriends and meet a lot of interesting characters. Hyman was the second black man Harrelson had ever met and Harrelson was the second white man Hyman had ever met. So they talked about race, sex and history.

Harrelson says he knew that summer could somehow be captured in art: “My head was always about, ‘This could be a great play. It could be a funny play. The characters are all there.”’

And then, like a summer romance, it all ended.

Texas-born, Ohio-raised Harrelson made his way to New York that fall, where he eventually landed his first professional job, as an understudy on Broadway in Biloxi Blues.

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Woody Harrelson, left, and Frankie Hyman pose at the Bullet for Adolf media availability in New York. The play, co-written by Harrelson and Hyman, opens offBroadway next month.

From there, he became a TV bartender and built an Academy Awardnominated film career with credits such as The Messenger, Natural Born Killers and The People vs. Larry Flynt.

Though Harrelson lost touch with Hyman, he found himself constantly thinking back to that summer. He

even paid a private investigator to try to track down his lost friend, with no luck. Harrelson would lay awake at night and wonder how he could find Frankie.

Frankie Hyman was indeed untraceable. Things weren’t going as well with him as they were for Harrelson.

“The reason he couldn’t find me is because I’m back in New York,” says Hyman. “I’m in Harlem, but I’m in the sublevels of Harlem. I’m into addiction. I’m in the darker layers. I don’t have a Social Security card active. I was buried pretty deep.”

Hyman says he had cheered Harrelson’s career with a measure of pride.

He’d tell his disbelieving brother that he’d once been pals with the movie star.

In the meantime, he says he battled demons and was once photographed for the cover of the New York Daily News — in handcuffs.

Then one night in 1993, Hyman’s brother was watching TV when he swore he heard Harrelson, a guest on The Tonight Show, tell Jay Leno that he really wanted to reconnect with Hyman.

Harrelson now says he just blurted it out. “Once I got to be famous, I guess it was only a matter of time that it dawned on me, ‘Well, hey, I could just go on a talk show and ask for him,”’ says Harrelson with a laugh.

Within 24 hours, the two men were in touch again. Harrelson put his friend on a plane and flew him to the West Coast to help him get sober.

“That was the beginning of him actually getting his hands on me and pulling me out of a very dark place,” says Hyman.

Soon they began co-writing a play — naturally, about that summer in 1983.

Hyman, who had kicked drugs because of his old friend, now had another reason to thank him.

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Vancouver prodigy in semifinals of Honens piano competition

BY JESSICA VITULLO THE CANADIAN PRESS Avan Yu has been playing piano since he was five years old. In fact, he had his first piano lesson on his fifth birthday.

Twenty years later, Yu is one of 10 pianists advancing to the semifinals in the Honens International Piano Competition. Yu says it’s an honour to take part in the contest.

“It’s something that I’m very excited about,” says Yu, 25, in an interview.

“It’s a very prestigious competition.”

Yu’s passion for playing the piano began long before he knew about the competition.

“I always wanted to play the piano,” he says. “It was always something that I enjoyed.”

Yu began studying privately with piano teachers and even though he didn’t attend a high school for musicians, he continued his studies outside of school. It wasn’t until he left his home in Vancouver five years ago that he started studying music in school.

He’s spent the last five years majoring in music at the Berlin University of the Arts and is working towards his master’s degree in music.

Yu was one of 125 musicians who applied for this year’s competition.

The jury narrowed the group to 50 applicants for the quarterfinals. After auditioning in the quarterfinals with a 40-minute solo that was recorded by the jury in Berlin, Yu was chosen once more to advance to the semifinals.

As the competition draws nearer, Yu says there’s no way to tell what will happen.

“Of course we all hope (to win) and having not heard anybody else, it was hard for me to tell (how I’d do),” he says. “I just tried my best and when the results come, the results come.”

Despite the fact that Yu is competing against nine other people for the top prize, he doesn’t see the process as a competition.

“They really treat it more like a piano festival than a competition,” he

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At 25, Avan Yu is competing with the world’s best pianists at Honens International Piano Competition in Berlin. says. “We are there to perform. We’re not there as competitors.”

Still, he’s practising for the semifinals on a daily basis. He’s currently working on his one-hour solo piece.

The second component in the semifinals is an ensemble performance with a cellist, violinist and singer.

The semifinals will be held in Calgary from October 17 to 26. If Yu advances to the finals, he will be one of five musicians performing a concerto

with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and its musical director.

The winner of the competition will receive a $100,000 cash prize and an artistic and career development program.

The Canadian competition, formerly known as the Esther Honens International Piano Competition, runs every three years.

Since it began in 1992, it has had only two Canadian winners, Katherine

Chi, in 2000 and Winston Choi in 2003.

While the cash is sure to entice, Yu says the winner also gets to perform in different cities around the world, which would make him most happy.

But having the extra money to put toward his musical career wouldn’t hurt. “In the world of music, we all need somebody to help manage our careers,” says Yu. “The fact that the competition is offering to do that is really great.”

Did you keep your tickets? Now, 33 years later, you can use them PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Fans still holding tickets for a cancelled 1979 show in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who can finally use them.

The Who’s 1979 concert in Providence was cancelled by then-Mayor Buddy Cianci, who cited safety concerns after a stampede before a show in Cincinnati, Ohio, killed 11 people.

The band hasn’t been to Providence since.

The Who this week announced it will end its latest tour in Providence on Feb. 26 at the same venue where its show was cancelled 33 years ago, now called the Dunkin Donuts Center.

General Manager Lawrence Lepore said on Thursday that the venue will honour tickets from the cancelled 1979 show.

Lepore said many ticketholders got re-

funds for the cancelled show in 1979, but others may have held on to their tickets as memorabilia.

“Somewhere, someplace, someone’s got it stashed,” he said.

“The question is, are they willing to give that up? If they are, we’re willing to take it.”

He first made the offer on WPRO-AM, which then asked listeners to call if they still had a 1979 ticket.

No one did.

The highest price ticket at the 1979 show was $14, Lepore said.

Tickets for February’s show range from $57.50 to $127.50.

Lepore said 1979 ticketholders can call his office to make the exchange. Any 1979 tickets redeemed will be donated to help raise money for the Special Olympics of Rhode Island.

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Before the Ottawa band’s former bassist was stationed as a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan, he asked the musicians to “write some good tunes to keep his spirit alive” in case he didn’t make it back.

Project Mars musicians, who perform at Cheers in Red Deer on Monday, used this uncertainty to spur their songwriting, “to illustrate the fear . . . of not knowing if you’ll ever return the same mentally or physically and (be) alive for your friends and family.”

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Chaos at The Zoo The emotional roller-coaster of divorce prompted My Own Chaos’ debut album.

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BULLET: Pulled no punches “I’ve always been a storyteller and I’ve always been able to write. But to think for a minute that I could become a professional writer? No way,” Hyman says during a joint interview in Harrelson’s Upper West Side apartment, a space sweltering due to Harrelson’s dislike of air conditioners. “And not only that: I’ve also developed the confidence and now the passion. He put me on that track.”

The result of their collaboration — Bullet for Adolf — had its world premiere this spring at the Hart House Theatre in Toronto and opens off-Broadway next month at New World Stages. Harrelson also directs.

The eight-character comedy is, as the creators like to say, seven per cent true and 93 per cent fiction. A key decision was to plop a real story Harrelson heard about a gun once used in an attempt to kill Adolf Hitler into the tale of unlikely friends bonding in Houston in 1983.

“I kept wondering how that story factored into this play. I kept thinking, ‘There’s got to be a way.’ Sure enough, it gave us our plot. Because prior to that we kind of lacked a plot. We just had an amalgam of

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In this 2006 file photo, Roger Daltrey, left, and Pete Townshend of the Who perform at the Hyde Park music festival in London.

fail on Friday, July 27.

“I really dove deep into my emotions and let all the issues out. This album is my therapy,” said Chaos, a hard rocker who also fronts the tribute bands Sister Sabbath and Zeppelina.

For more information about the concert, call 403227-7277.

Girl power trio Jungal at the Vat The Aussie all-girl power trio Jungal will bring some foot-stomping rock/roots music from Down Under to Red Deer.

Billed as Melbourne’s “all gal favourites,” Jungal plans to “rock the socks off” The Vat on Monday, July 30.

With punchy melody lines, powerful grooves and some “genuine girl powerrrr,” Jungal will deliver some heart-pumping music from the group’s first live recording, Live at NSC. For more information about the concert, call 403346-5636.

British glam rockers Sweet in Olds Best-selling British glam rockers Sweet will perform The Ballroom Blitz and other favourites in Olds on Monday, July 30.

The prolific band that formed in 1968 had its first hit with the bubble-gum rock song Funny, Funny in 1971. But Sweet finished out the decade performing scenes,” says Harrelson.

They’ve written a racy, edgy script. The N-word is tossed around a lot, gross stuff is eaten, pedophilia is joked about and there’s even a reference to the ovens used in the Holocaust.

“We didn’t want to pull any punches writing this thing,” says Harrelson. “I think it’s good to be able to talk about some of these topics and hopefully laugh.

That is the first avenue in toward a real discussion.”

Some lines are purely provocative — “Poverty and justification goes together like cream and coffee,” someone says — while other exchanges are just silly, as when one character says, “I like a woman who can beat me up” and another replies: “Then why don’t you like my mother?”

“That’s the way we talk to each other all the time.

We try to ride the edge wouldn’t you say, Frankie?”

Harrelson asks his friend.

“We do. We do,” Hyman responds, smiling.

Whatever theatre critics think — and the play was roasted in Canada before changes were made — Bullet for Adolf is about the origin of something real: a deep friendship.

The writers even make a gentle nod to it when they made the character named Frankie say to the character based on Harrelson: “I don’t think either of us knows the give and take of friendship.”

In the apartment, Hyman looks over at his friend of almost 30 years, a man who helped him transition from drugs to art.

in a more Who-influenced rock style for the singles Hell Raiser, Teenage Rampage and, of course, the Blitz.

Fox on the Run and Love is Like Oxygen are also among the group’s 13 Top-20 hits on U.K. charts.

The band that sold 40-million albums world-wide disbanded in 1981, but guitarist Andy Scott, who played with Sweet in the 1970s, has reassembled a version of the group that will perform at the Olds Agricultural Society Bandstand.

Gates open at 6:30 p.m. For ticket information, call 403-556-3770. Proceeds will benefit the Olds Ag Society.

Titans Eve to thrash at Scott Block Vancouver thrashers Titans Eve will perform their own personal apocalypse at Red Deer’s Scott Block on Wednesday, Aug. 1.

Destined to Die is the introductory track off the group’s new release, Life Apocalypse. “It’s about a person’s everyday struggle with life challenges and how, in the end, we die no matter how hard we fight to live,” states the band’s vocalist/guitarist Brian Gamblin.

“Death is the storm that we can’t see, but our wanting to triumph over challenges . . . is what makes us real.”

The Red Deer concert includes ANVIL and Day One. For more information about the event at 4816 50th Ave., call 403-346-0402.

“Today, we’ve done the give and take until we’ve built this strong friendship,” he says.

They’re even tinkering with another play. This one is set in 1993 and is about two estranged friends who find each other again.

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EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES Uncommon Threads is a sampling of selected works in textile by local artist Matt Gould now on display at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until Aug. 26. See www.reddeermuseum.com or phone 403-309-8405.

Bunad, a folk costume exhibit, may be viewed at Norwegian Laft Hus during July. For more information call 403-347-2055.

Little to Wish For, a ceramic installation by Aly Bowd, will be exhibited at the Harris-Warke Gallery until July 28. For more information contact Paul at 403-5979788.

Art From the Inside, a display of works by Wendy Cassidy is on display at the Hub on Ross for the month of July. Call the Hub Gallery at 403-340-4869.

The Garden Ceremony, by Benalto artist David More, can be viewed at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until Sept. 5. More’s series explores gardens as places of refuge from personal turmoil. Call the gallery at 403-309-8405.

Flower Scapes: Recent Works by Elaine Tweedy, will be displayed in the Kiwanis Gallery of the Red Deer Public Library until Aug. 19. Contact Diana at 403-3482787 for more information.

Alberta Wide Exhibit is open for viewing until Aug. 12 at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery and features winning juried works from three provincial shows. See www.reddeermuseum.com, or phone 403-309-8405.

Prairie Excellence is now open for viewing at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until Aug. 26. See this unique ground-breaking touring exhibit jointly produced

by Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta Craft Councils. A selection committee, consisting of one curator from each province, looked over 270 works submitted by 164 artists from across the prairie provinces and selected 35 works and presented awards to best emerging, mid-career, and established artist categories.

Craftsmanship pushes well beyond conventions, shifting towards experimental use of materials. Phone 403309-8405.

To be included in this listing, please email event details to editorial@reddeeradvocate.com, fax to 403-3416560, or phone 403-314-4325.

These ceramic works are part of the Little to Wish for installation by Aly Bowd at the Harris-Warke Gallery.

LIVE, ON STAGE Central Music Festival on Aug. 17 to 19 features Alberta-based entertainers including The Rault Brothers, Diamond Joe White and Time Williams, Morgan Davis and Dick Damron with George Hamilton IV. Tickets for the music festival are available at www.centralmusicfest.com Shake the Lake on Aug. 12 in Sylvan Lake features Rococode.

Cheers, 6017 54 Ave, has hard rockers Project Mars doing a cross Canada tour with Riding Shotgun on July 23.

One Eleven Grill presents Jessica Stuart Few on Aug. 4.

Scott Block presents Dark Century on July 27, and Titans Eve with Anvil and Day One on Aug. 1.

The Vat welcomes Aurora Jane and Picture the Ocean on July 27 at 9 p.m., and Aussie all gal rockroots trio Jungal on July 30. On Aug. 11 catch Titans Eve with Killk Devil Hill.

The Hideout presents Shirley Jackson on July 28.

Westerner Park confirms Nazareth on July 20 and Terry Clark on July 21. These concerts are free with gate admission. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the concert begins at 8:30 p.m. Seating will be on first come, first served basis. Suitable for all ages. Please use discretion when bringing minors to these shows.

To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.

Starr likes to stay useful He also takes a turn on the drums with his perfect, yet oftenunacknowledged, sense of tempo and feel. A kind of sixth sense allowed him to keep time with his innovative matched-grip style, DAVID BURGER whether drumming to All You Need ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Is Love in 7/4 time, or Here Comes the Sun with repeating 11/8, 4/4 and 7/8 Ringo Starr paused. passages.

The legendary drummer for the Before Starr, drummers were an Beatles had just been asked what afterthought. Starr elevated their was the best compliment he had ever status, figuratively and literally — received. he was among the first to use drum “’Thanks for being useful,’ “ he risers. eventually said.

Because of his willingness to Starr — who turned 72 on July 7 — share the spotlight, he is able to rehas been far more than useful during cruit the best sidemen in the busihis career, which began in 1957 when ness. Alumni of his All Starr Band he and friend Eddie Miles formed include Nils Lofgren, Joe Walsh, the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group.

Dr. John, Billy Preston, Levon That band eventually became Helm, Timothy B. Schmit, John known as Rory Storm and the HurEntwistle, Randy Bachman, Peter ricanes. While the band was in HamFrampton, Jack Bruce, Roger Hodgburg, Germany, Starr met John Lenson, Howard Jones, Sheila E. and non, Paul McCartney, George HarriEdgar Winter. son and the rest of the Beatles.

“Usually,” he said, “artists get in He replaced Pete Best as the touch” about being in his band. band’s drummer in August 1962, and This year, newcomers include during the next eight years he was Steve Lukather (Toto) and Gregg an integral part of the foursome that Rolie (Santana and Journey). They changed the course of music history. join Richard Page, Todd Rundgren, In a recent telephone interview, Mark Rivera and Gregg Bissonette.

Starr admitted that — like the rest of With that lineup, fans might hear the world — he finds himself listenSantana’s Black Magic Woman, Rundgren’s Bang the Drum All Day, ing to the Beatles from time to time.

Toto’s Africa and Mr. Mister’s Bro“I was listening to the guys,” he ken Wings. said, “and they sound like young Photo by Advocae news services “I don’t want to stand there and boys.”

Starr, whose baritone has gotten Ringo Starr, just turned 72, made history as a member of the Beatles, but he also be the front guy (all the time),” Starr said. even deeper over the years, is perelevated the role of a band’s drummer to a central position on the stage.

Well, no one’s perfect. Not even a forming and touring with the latest Beatle. incarnation of his All Starr Band.

Your Man, Yellow Submarine, With a Little Help From But useful? Yes, Starr has always The tour includes selections from been that. his time in the Beatles, among them Boys, I Wanna Be My Friends, Don’t Pass Me By and Good Night.

AND HE’S STAYING BUSY, TOURING WITH HIS ALL STARR BAND

Emmy nominations have a sharp Canadian flavour

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — This year’s Emmy Award nominations represent something of a Canuck callback.

Yes, many of the Canadian honorees could be forgiven for feeling a sense of deja vu as nominations were announced on Thursday.

There was Michael J. Fox nabbing his second consecutive nomination for outstanding guest actor in a drama series for his recurring role on The Good Wife.

The Edmonton-born actor also earned a guest-actor nod for his appearance on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Similarly, Brampton, Ont., funnyman Will Arnett claimed his fourth nod for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for his performance as the conniving Devin Banks on 30 Rock.

The Emmy echo for Canadians extended even further.

Veteran Toronto-born voice actor Maurice LaMarche received a second straight outstanding voiceover performance nomination for playing a cluster of wacky characters on the sci-fi satire Futurama (he won the category last year), while the unstoppable Canadian teen series Degrassi is once again up for outstanding children’s program, a year after receiving its inaugural nomination.

And Toronto-born SNL sage Lorne Michaels received his latest in a long, long line of writing nods.

Another repeat nominee was London, Ont., composer Trevor Morris, who’s up for outstanding music composition for a series (original dramatic score) for the historical drama The Borgias.

He won an Emmy for that same score last year, and also hauled home an award back in 2007 for the main-title music to The Tudors.

Canadian Ted Mann, who once won an Emmy for penning NYPD Blue, is up again for outstanding writing for a miniseries, movie or dramatic special for the History hit Hatfields & McCoys, and Edmonton’s Stacey Tookey earned her third straight nomination for outstanding choreography for her work on Fox’s

So You Think You Can Dance. earned its nod after showcasing an episode depictBut for many, being nominated for a major award ing the plight of transgendered teen Adam. simply doesn’t get old.

Brogren said it’s the honest way in which the show “We were definitely excited last year — I guess we has tackled difficult subject matter that might have sort of thought that was our time, they acknowledged caught the attention of Emmy voters. this Canadian show for the work we’d done,” said “Our show tries very hard to maintain a certain Degrassi star, producer and writer Stefan Brogren in reality when it comes a telephone interview on Thursday. to what teens are going “But it turns out they want us to come by again, through,” said Brogren, which is fantastic.” the 40-year-old who has ABE LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER 14A Of course, there were Canadian first-time nomiportrayed Snake in the 3:40, 10:00 nees as well.

Degrassi franchise since PROMETHEUS 2D 14A Calgary-reared Mad Men scribe Semi Chellas is the 1980s.

9:40 PROMETHEUS 3D 14A up for her first Emmy for outstanding writing for 3:35 a drama series. She’s WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN nominated alongside the YOU’RE EXPECTING PG GALAXY CINEMAS RED DEER moody period drama’s Lang. may offend 12:55, 3:50, 7:10, 357-37400 HWY 2, RED DEER COUNTY 403-348-2357 9:55 creator Matthew Weiner PEOPLE LIKE US PG for the jaw-dropping epiSHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY JULY 20, 2012 Coarse lang. Substance abuse 12:50, 7:05 sode The Other Woman, TO THURSDAY JULY 26, 2012 SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE in which Pete asked END OF THE WORLD 14A ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Coarse lang. Substance abuse 3:55, 10:00 3D (G) NO PASSES FRI-THURS 3D (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG Joan to sleep with a cli12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 CHILDREN,VIOLENCE,FRIGHTENING ROCK OF AGES PG ent to land a Jaguar acCoarse Lang. Not recommended for SCENES) FRI-THURS 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 TED (18A) (CRUDE young children 12:45, 7:00 count.

CONTENT,SUBSTANCE ABUSE) FRIMOONRISE KINGDOM PG MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS And Montrealer Shira THURS 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 10:45 1:05, 7:20 (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG Lazar nabbed her inauCHILDREN,VIOLENCE) FRI-SUN,TUETHAT’S MY BOY 18A SAVAGES (18A) (SEXUAL THURS 9:40; MON 10:20 Crude, Sexual Content 7:05, 9:45 gural nod for outstandCONTENT,BRUTAL MEN IN BLACK 3 2D PG VIOLENCE,SUBSTANCE ABUSE) FRIing creative achievement MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST Violence 3:50, 9:55 THURS 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:35 in interactive media for WANTED (G) FRI-THURS 11:45 MEN IN BLACK 3 3D PG THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) Violence 1:00, 7:15 her online talk show (VIOLENCE) NO PASSES FRI-THURS BRAVE (G) FRI-THURS 12:20 SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN PG What’s Trending With 11:45, 1:25, 2:05, 2:45, 3:25, 5:15, 5:55, Violence, Frightening Scenes, not recommended 6:35, 7:05, 8:55, 9:35, 10:15, 10:45 Shira Lazar?

BRAVE 3D (G) FRI-THURS 2:50, for young children 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:35 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Degrassi, meanwhile, HUNGER GAMES THE 14A MAGIC MIKE (14A) Violence 6:45, 9:30 (NUDITY,COARSE landed its second nomiICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT LANGUAGE,SEXUAL PIRATES BAND OF MISFITS 2D G nation after submitting (G) NO PASSES FRICONTENT,SUBSTANCE ABUSE) FRI1:15, 4:00 SUN,TUE,THURS 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, the episode ExtraorTHURS 11:50, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL THE 7:15; MON 12:00, 2:25, 4:50; WED 4:50, Coarse Language 3:30 dinary Machine, which 7:15 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA LORAX, THE 2D G found the bipolar Eli TURTLES () SAT 11:00 1:20 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL refusing his medication STAR TREK: THE NEXT DRIFT (G) STAR & STROLLERS www.carnivalcinemas.net GENERATION 25TH with disastrous results.

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LUANN July 20 1885: Regina — Trial of Louis Riel 18441885 for treason begins at Regina, the capital of the North-West Territories; Riel wishes to plead not guilty, but his lawyers enter an insanity plea over his objections.

1905: Regina and Edmonton declared the capitals of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

1945: Ottawa sends out first Family Allowance payments to Canadian families; critics

call it a waste of money, say it will encourage poor families to have more children.

1985: Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench fines former Eckville school teacher James Keegstra $5,000 for willfully promoting hatred against Jews; taught students that the Holocaust didn’t happen and that a Jewish conspiracy controls world affairs; Alberta Court of Appeal overturns verdict in 1988; Supreme Court of Canada will agree there should be a new trial in 1990; second jury convicts Keegstra in 1992.

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Friday, July 20, 2012

An egg a day to keep an egg allergy away

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First peanuts, now eggs. Doctors have reversed allergies in some children and teens by giving them tiny daily doses of problem foods, gradually training their immune systems to accept them.

In the best test of this yet, about a dozen kids were able to overcome allergies to eggs, one of the most ubiquitous foods, lurking in everything from pasta and veggie burgers to mayonnaise and even marshmallows. Some of the same doctors used a similar approach on several kids with peanut allergies a few years ago.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try this yourself, though. It takes special products, a year or more and close supervision because severe reactions remain a risk, say doctors involved in the study, published in Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New England Journal of Medicine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This experimental therapy can safely be done only by properly trained physicians,â&#x20AC;? says a statement from Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the federal agency that sponsored the study.

It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work for everyone, and some dropped out of the study because of allergic reactions. But the results â&#x20AC;&#x153;really do show there is promise for future treatmentâ&#x20AC;? and should be tested now in a wider group of kids, said the studyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leader, Dr. A. Wesley Burks, pediatrics chief at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

More than two per cent of young children have egg allergies, suffering wheezing and tight throats or

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Egg allergy experiment produces some results among children, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try it on your own. even life-threatening reactions if they eat any egg, Burks said. Many will outgrow this by age 4 or 5, and more will by the time they are teens, but 10 to 20 per cent never do. The big worry is that these kids will eat eggs as an ingredient in a food they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize contains them, and have a severe reaction. Training a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immune system to tolerate even small amounts of egg to prevent this was the goal of the study.

It enrolled 55 children ages 5 to 18. Forty were given tiny daily amounts of powdered egg white, the part that usually causes the allergy. The other 15 were given cornstarch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a dummy treatment â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for

comparison. The amounts were increased every two weeks until kids in the treatment group were eating about one third of an egg each day.

They periodically went to their doctors to try eating eggs. They failed the test if a doctor could see any symptoms such as wheezing.

At about a year, none receiving the dummy treatment passed the egg challenge. Those on the egg white powder fared better. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the end of the year, half of them passed. At the end of two years, 75 per cent of them passed,â&#x20AC;? Burks said.

Next, he went a step further, to see if participants could maintain tolerance without the daily powder.

Those who passed the second test stopped using the powder, avoided eggs entirely for four to six weeks, then tried eating eggs again as they wished. Eleven of the 30 kids were able to do this with no problem.

The treatment worked for 10-year-old Nicholas Redmond of North Carolina. Avoiding eggs has been â&#x20AC;&#x153;a huge problem,â&#x20AC;? said his father, Chris Redmond.

Now Nicholas has some egg nearly every day to maintain his tolerance, which his father finds terribly ironic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You spend 2½ years avoiding eggsâ&#x20AC;? and now have to make sure he gets some, Chris Redmond said.

Nicholas said the hardest part of his allergy was turning down birthday treats at school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no thank youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and I had this little treat box with stuff filled for class parties,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Now, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can have eggs in cake and cookiesâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t contain peanuts, he said. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also allergic to those, and will start sensitization therapy for peanuts next month.

Boyfriend catering to daughter is bad news Dear Annie: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been seeing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Budâ&#x20AC;? you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to accept your limitafor a year. tions when it comes to changing the He lives in a trailer park situation. A pre-nup wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t and has a 23-year-old daughsolve your problem. Bud is ter who is on Budâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chegoing to continue to pay for quing account and charge his daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bills. He will cards. This girl insists that continue to acquiesce to her her mother (Budâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ex-wife) requests, including having spend weekends at the her mother stay at his place. trailer, so Bud spends those And you will continue to be weekends at my house. He miserable playing second will not tell his daughter no. fiddle to his daughter. Your This has put some stress decision is how best to reon our relationship. His spond to this. daughter often buys things Dear Annie: My husband for her mother, and Bud is one of five sons. His parpays the bills. I find this a ents recently passed away, MITCHELL little strange. Bud doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t and he is the executor of & SUGAR understand my objections. the estate and is in the proHe has no interest in saving cess of selling their home. for our future together.

He got several estimates My friends say that Bud is and selected the realtor he using me because I have a nice house. felt would do the best job. One brothIf I were to marry him, I would make er tried to get my husband to pick a him sign a pre-nup, because otherwise friend, but my husband was not imhe would give away everything I have. pressed with her. Another has been Am I being naive about our relation- really nasty, telling my husband he ship? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Take It Anymore should try harder to get more money Dear Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Take It: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not naive. from the sale.

You understand whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on. But My husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s niece would like to

HOROSCOPE Friday, July 20.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Gisele Bundchen, 32; Chris Cornell, 48; Carlos Santana, 65 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve recently fallen in love with â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Daily Love,â&#x20AC;? an inspirational website that has the uncanny ability to summarize exactly what I believe about the Universe. My resonance reminds me there is always a community available to those seeking to be lifted by love. It will be a great day, enjoy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: There are impressive career and financial advancements this year, guided in part by new ideas shared with established contacts. Network with those you already know and let them facilitate new connections. It will be a great year, enjoy!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You might interpret a statement as condescending, when it is not meant to be. Be willing to engage in a conversation, but the big lesson in this for you is to not take the actions or thoughts of others personally.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The TV show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always sunny in Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;? features a father and siblings who get involved in slap stick shenanigans. While it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be as bizarre, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re inclined to boisterous downtime with family. A get together leads to a cherished memory.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your own sanity and happiness is directly proportional to your ability to forget anything anyone else might think, no matter who they are, and do what your heart is now calling you to do. This inner lesson provides your greatest opportunity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Consistent effort will always lead to progress.

The hope is by the time you get to the end goal, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still something you want. What you aspire to now gets an insight leading to a huge boost of change.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Every show rests on the ability of a character to create a connection among audiences. In your own story, seek a genuine moment with a persuasive player. A real connection goes a long way towards loyalty and support.

NADIYA SHAH

SUN SIGNS

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Most of us are not inclined to give into our basest desires. We are all capable of things that are beautiful, and its converse. Someone admits a brush with the taboo. Try not to judge. Given a change in circumstance, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in you too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Some lament the mainstream, for itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over commercialization and homogenization of culture.

But there are good things about a consistent thread. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re asked to participate in the decidedly common. It can still be meaningful and fun.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): One of the great lessons of success involves intention and focus. Those who use their attention wisely make more of their time, and therefore their lives. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think about things that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to good places and need all your love and focus.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A fierce ally has the ability to inspire courage. While there are some things that only you can do for yourself, it might help to let another do their best on your behalf. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get a strong outcome either way, but by involving another you move closer.

brothers. If the niece is offering a fair price for the house and your husband wants to sell to her, he should do so.

Dear Annie: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sterling, Mass.â&#x20AC;? said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Type 1 diabetes is an epidemic, and people with the disease arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to wait to eat.â&#x20AC;? She should have said â&#x20AC;&#x153;Type 2.â&#x20AC;?

The CDC predicts that one out of every three people will have Type 2 diabetes by 2050. This form of diabetes is caused from a mixture of things, including heredity, eating and exercise habits. People with Type 2 diabetes may or may not use insulin.

Fast-acting insulins can begin to work in 10 to 15 minutes, so the person needs to start eating fairly soon after injecting. Others might be able to inject the insulin up to 30 minutes before the meal. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Advanced Diabetes Nurse Specialist/Educator, Transcultural Nurse Specialist Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): On the surface it might look revolutionary, but a stance is actually more restrained than it appears at first sight. There can be value in this, as it provides a strong basis from which to explore more daring options.

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The Ripper terrifies again truth in 1916 when he was a lieutenant working under orders from President Woodrow Wilson.

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The kidnappers are part of a cartel called the Novem Soles (Nine Suns), and they have their hands in law enforcement and government around the world.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — With its scent of sex, booze and despair, James M. Cain’s Mommy’s a Barfly should seem familiar to fans of the crime writer.

The short story is set in a rundown nightclub during World War II and tells of a two-timing dancer who’s married to a handsome sergeant and carrying on with a “pie-faced runt.” There’s a torch singer named Fred, a little girl who sleeps under the bar.

But even the most thorough Cain admirer will not have read the story in the new issue of The Strand Magazine; it apparently never was published.

“I was going through some papers at the library of Congress and as an admirer of Cain, this one didn’t ring a bell,” says the Strand’s managing editor, Andrew F. Gulli. “It didn’t take a lot of research for me to realize that I discovered a literary treasure.”

The Strand, a Birmingham, Mich.-based quarterly, also has published little known work by Mark Twain, Graham Greene and Dashiell Hammett.

Cain, who died in 1977, wrote such classic noir thrillers as Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce, all of which have been adapted into equally memorable films. Mommy’s a Barfly has a lot of the pulpy dialogue that readers and moviegoers love, whether “Be a funny kind of heaven with her flying around in it,” or an exchange between the singer and the sergeant: Sergeant: Shut up.

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Gulli believes the story was written in the 1940s, during the war. It is an especially gloomy tale, from the way Cain sets the musical mood: “The place was a blue twilight, with Fred’s voice hovering over it in songs that didn’t seem to end but rather to trail off into pure sadness.”

“In my view this was vintage Cain, since he tackled the consequences of human frailty better than any other writer of the 20th century,” Gulli says.

“His works were dark, but I think this was never published since the ending is rather nihilistic and may have been too much for magazine readers of the ’40s. Like with so many of Cain’s works, you can see a train wreck and you’re turning the pages furiously to get to the inevitable.”

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Left, a model sports a Stonehouse, Wool, side vent, two-button suit with flat front pant in taupe pin stripe jacket, dress shirt in oversize gingham pattern in tan and white. Centre, model wears Stonehouse jacket, wool, side vent, two-button suit with flat front pant in navy, dress shirt in light blue and white glen plaid, and a Bellissimo silk rep stripe tie in navy. Right, a Tallia Orange Suit with a Tallia Orange Tie.

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Men unsure of what to wear to a summer wedding should take their cues from the groom, noted Walter Dimini, divisional merchandise manager for dresswear at Tip Top Tailors.

“If the groom is wearing shorts, obviously, it’s OK to wear shorts. It could be short sleeves, it doesn’t have to be a long sleeve.

“It really depends on the flavour of the wedding or the tone being set by the bride and groom.”

For a stylish but more casual option, Dimini said men could opt for a great pair of chinos in a polished cotton.

“Let’s say you do a natural or khaki colour, wear a white shirt. And if it’s looking like it’s a little bit more formal than you anticipated, if it’s a long-sleeved shirt you can just wear it longsleeved.

“If it’s a little less formal, then you just roll up the sleeves and go a bit more casual.

“If it’s going to be in August, and especially during the day, and it’s going to be on the beach, I don’t think people are expecting anybody to be wearing a jacket,” he added.

Dimini said men should also swap out their dress shirt — which is meant to be mostly worn with suits — and seek a more fun alternative.

“It should be just kind of a cool shirt.

“It could be linen, it could have an interesting pattern on it, it could be a great colour, like a great royal blue,” he said.

Dimini noted that pink is also re-emerging as a go-to hue in the men’s wardrobe.

Ginghams, checks and houndstooth are among the hot choices in patterns — and it extends beyond shirts and ties.

Dimini said a notable trend to dress up suits without wearing a tie is a pocket square, allowing for a small sliver of colour to be visible in the breast pocket.

“If you have a houndstooth shirt, then if you could find a houndstooth-patterned pocket square it would be great — but it would have to be a tiny, tiny pattern,” Dimini said.

“If you’ve got a solid shirt, you could play with any pattern on the pocket puff, provided it doesn’t clash with the suit.”

Men seeking to invest in a suit will want to get some versatility out of the look. Dimini said those who want an option suitable for businesswear should consider going for a lightweight wool suit.

But for men looking to lengthen the wear of their new buy beyond summer, he cautions them to be mindful of their colour choice.

“If it’s a pearl grey, it’s really not great for during the winter. It stands out.

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Theallet wins knitwear prize

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — There’s not a lot of room for Ed Henry to make a style statement. The Fox News Channel chief White House correspondent pretty much has to stay in the box that is your TV screen.

But in the buttoned up-world of TV news, he’s figured out a way: pocket squares.

Blue ones, red ones, white ones. He’ll wear red-meets-blue purple, too, but don’t read too much into any political meaning, he says.

It all started as a friendly fashion competition with Ali Velshi, a former colleague when Henry was at CNN. It was all about the bigger, better necktie back then.

There was an unending game of one-upmanship with more colorful shirts, perhaps even a patterned vest.

Still, Henry says, Velshi usually out did him — until Henry pulled out the pocket square.

“The pocket square amps it up!” says Henry.

He adds: “At least no one is teasing me about my makeup anymore.”

There is a bit of ribbing about his fashion sense. A producer set up a Twitter account for Ed’s Pocket Square.

Sample tweet: “I hate when the TV graphics cover me and I don’t get enough air time!”

Henry meets a reporter at the Brooks Brothers flagship store on Madison Avenue.

The way he stands there at one of the glass countertops, opening his travel friendly pocketsquare case and putting them on display, it looks like if things don’t work out at Fox, there would be a position for him here. Customers pass by and look at him: One can’t tell if they want to ask for his autograph or if the squares are on sale.

“I like pizazz. I like to show my personality — any way I can,” he says with a smile.

Most of his work day is serious business, and he doesn’t want to distract from that.

He travels the world with the president, reporting on stories and issues that affect the world.

But that doesn’t mean he’s a two-dimensional stuffed shirt: He has a wife, kids and, yes, an appreciation for a little flair in his fashion.

When he was following President Barack Obama to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., two years ago, he stopped in a store in Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and picked up a pocket square with a paisley print in ocean colours.

He was covering the president’s vacation, after all, and he wanted to look the part.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A model wears fashion from the Sophie Theallet Fall 2012 collection during Fashion Week in New York.

Theallet won the U.S. division of the International Woolmark Prize this week and will go on to compete in the international contest against regional winners in China, Australia, India and Europe in February.

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Could Sophie Theallet be on her way to becoming the next Yves Saint Laurent or Karl Lagerfeld?

She took a step forward this week, winning the U.S. division of the International Woolmark Prize, and the $100,000 that goes with it. Her competition included Bibhu Mohapatra, Naeem Khan and Prabal Gurung.

The Woolmark contest promotes excellence in knitwear, especially using merino wool. Lagerfeld and Saint Laurent won in the 1950s.

Theallet will compete against regional winners in China, Australia, India and Europe in the international contest in February.

“I have so much respect for the work I’m doing today, for what I have learned. For me to win the Woolmark Prize, it means a lot because of the people who won before me.

“And there are such talented designers competing!” Theallet said.

Theallet said she’s planning to have more knit looks in her next runway show in September during New York Fashion Week. The style makes her think of her roots.

“My grandfather had a factory of knitwear in the south of France. I remember the smell of the thread in the factory,” she said.

“This prize is for the memory of my grandfather.”

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CARROLL A Graveside Service for Irene Eleanor will be held at the Bradshaw Cemetery Township 41-4, Range Road East 4-0 on August 4, 2012 at 1 pm. Lunch to follow at the Aurora Hall, Hwy. 761 North 415058. Please come and share this time with the family. Signs will be posted.

DE JONG 1957-2012 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of Barbara Lynn de Jong (Driver) on Saturday, July 14, 2012 at the age of 55 years. Barb was born in Williams Lake, British Columbia.

When Barb became an RN, she served the health communities of Williams Lake and Kamloops before moving to Red Deer with her daughter Lindsay in 2007.

She worked in the emergency department at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, until moving to Home Care.

Barb was devoted to her children, Lindsay and Jarod Golightly, as well as to her husband John de Jong who she married in May 2010.

She is survived by her loving husband John de Jong, her mother, Frieda Driver, two brothers, Clay (Arla) Driver and Murray Driver of Williams Lake, British Columbia, her son, Jarod (Dawn) Golightly of Williams Lake, British Columbia and two step sons, Eric (Tara) de Jong of Red Deer and Paul (Robin) de Jong of Blackfalds, Alberta, also her daughter, Lindsay Golightly of Red Deer and step daughter, Carla (Christopher) Holloway of Castor, Alberta. Barb is predeceased by her father Roy Driver. A celebration of Barb’s life will be held from the chapel of Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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EKDAHL Barbara March 2, 1962 - July 12, 2012 It is with heavy hearts that Dawn Ekdahl and Shaylin Ekdahl-Wessner announce the sudden passing of their mother.

Barbara passed away on Thursday, July 12, 2012 at the age of 50. Barb was born in Kingman, Alberta and passed away near Red Deer, Alberta. Barb is lovingly remembered by her mother, two daughters, numerous siblings, nieces, nephews and friends.

She is predeceased by her father. A tribute to Barb’s life will be held in Kingman, Alberta and she will be laid to rest in the Kingman Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the charity of your choice.

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BECKLEY In Loving Memory of Margaret Beckley Sept. 30, 1941 - July 20, 2011

DERSCH Doris 1931 - 2012 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved mom, grandma and great grandma, Doris, at the age of 80 years. Doris was born October 1, 1931 and passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with cancer at the Rimbey Continuing Care Centre on July 13, 2012. She will be greatly missed by her daughters, Bobby-Lu (Murray) Tornack, Jo-Ann (Kevin) Curtis; her grandchildren, Shane (Erica) Tornack, Michelle Curtis (Brian), Nikki Curtis; her great grandchildren, Kaysen and Raeya Tornack; sister-in-laws, Beatrice Dersch and Eleanor Hansen; her extended family, Don and Yvonne Heisler, Kathy Heisler (Wally); Ellen and Bill Wright; Roger and BJ Heisler, Barb and Lorne Reaney and numerous relatives and friends both near and far. A grave side service will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, July 21st, 2012 at West Haven Cemetery, Rimbey, AB followed by refreshments and a celebration of Doris’ life at the United Church, 4931 - 51 Avenue, Rimbey. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in memory of Doris to the Canadian Cancer Society 101, 6751 - 52 Ave Red Deer, AB T4N 4K8.

HODGKINSON Richard Ernest (Dick) Richard Ernest (Dick) Hodgkinson passed away in Edmonton on July 12, 2012 at the age of 78. Dick was born at home at Flat Lake, Alberta on February 25, 1934. He moved with his family to the old family homestead at Pine Lake in 1945. Dick attended the Fairbanks School and stayed in the dormitory while attending the Red Deer Composite High School. After working with his father on the Pine Lake farm, Dick decided to take up teaching as his career. He taught at Pine Hill, Dickson, Spruce View, Sylvan Lake and Red Deer. He later taught and was principal in a number of Arctic and First Nations communities across Northern and Western Canada.

Dick went on to teach English in Thailand with his wife Kamolsri. In his retirement, he enjoyed greatly volunteering as a conversational English tutor with Catholic Social Services in Edmonton. Predeceased by his parents, Jack and Hilda Hodgkinson; his brothers, Hugh and Jim and sister Jean Dawe. Dick is survived by his wife, Kamolsri; sister Rita; sons, Peter (Lorrie), Gordon and John (Carrie); daughters, Mildred and Chandra (David); six grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

There will be a memorial gathering of family and friends on Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 4 p.m. at Fat Jakks Restaurant at 10130 107 Avenue, Edmonton.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Catholic Social Services Learning and Community Enrichment (LACE) at 8815 99 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E 3V3, 780-432-1137.

MORRIS Kyle Gregory Morris of Red Deer, AB passed away suddenly on July 17, 2012 at the age of 36. He leaves behind his beloved wife, Melissa and children, David, Kaylie, Kian, and Keirdan. Dear son of Doug (Teresa) and Linda (Don). Sister, Shannon and grandma Pip. Predeceased by infant son, Kian and grandparents. He will be dearly missed by family and friends. Funeral services to be held at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 67 Street at 1:00 p.m. on July 21, 2012.

There will be a trust fund set up for his three beautiful children at the Bank of Nova Scotia, starting July 26. In lieu of flowers, please gift to these angels, David, Kaylie and Keirdan.

METZLER Darren 1970-2012 It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of Darren Blair Metzler of R e d D e e r, A l b e r t a o n Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at the age of 42 years after a long and courageous battle.

Darren will be forever loved and remembered by his partner and friend Wendy Marshall, mother Joy Sikora, brothers Gary Metzler, Rick Toth, Ron Toth and Howard Toth, sisters Berna Chupa, Sandy Hogarth, Wendy Clague, Kate Groseth and Mary-Ellen Koch, in-laws Helen and Ahmet Okur and his best friend - his dog Floyd. Darren will also be sadly missed by his nieces, nephews and other family members. Darren was predeceased by his family members, Denise Babyak, Pat Nicol, Fred Metzler, Joan Metzler and John Heron.

Darren’s family wishes to send a special thank you to the Doctors and Nurses at the Palliative Care Unit at the Red Deer Regional Health Centre and to Dr. Tony Ford for all the great care given to Darren. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes in honor of Darren may be made directly to the Cross Cancer Institute, 11510 University Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1Z2.

A celebration of Darren’s life will be held from the chapel of Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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We little knew that morning, That God was going to call your name.

In life we loved you dearly, In death we do the same.

It broke out hearts to lose you, You did not go alone.

For part of us went with you, The day God called you home.

You left us peaceful memories, Your love is still our guide.

And though we cannot see you, You’re always by our side.

Our family chain is broken, And nothing seems the same.

But as God calls us one by one.

The chain will link again.

STEWART-WOOD Donna Lee Sept. 28, 1953- July 14, 2012 This beautiful, intelligent, and genuine woman became an ~So loved, so missed, angel on July 14th, 2012, due Your Loving Family to cancer. Her life was filled with love, laughter, family, friends, success, hard work, accomplishments, gardening, and the odd game of golf.

She was and will remain the rock of our family. Gone too soon; her absence will cause heartache. But it’s because of the heartache that we know she played such a significant role in our lives.

She will live on through the lives of her devoted husband, Kevin Wood; her proud son, Thomas Wood (Tara AntonsenWood and grand-daughter Olivia Wood); and her beautiful d a u g h t e r, N a t a l i e Wo o d .

Donna’s three sisters, Jamaine (Wally), Jackie (Don), and HELGA HEIN Betty (Randy) will be deeply 1934 - 2007 missing their amazing sister.

In loving memory of our loving Donna had many friends, wife, mother, Grandmother, some since high school, Great Grandmother, some since university. Her who will forever live in our genuine yet practical and hearts and memories. kind nature was hard to resist. ~Ervin, Melinda, Teresa She led a very accomplished & families career, starting out as a social worker in Calgary, then moving up to one of her favourite careers as CEO of Anniversaries the Michener Centre in Red Deer. Her colleagues and friends in the Employment and Immigration Division in Red Deer immensely enjoyed her leadership and friendship.

Her hard work and dedication stretched far across Alberta.

This woman was truly amazing in all aspects of her life. For anyone who knew Donna and shared in friendship, you are welcome to celebrate her life at the Michener Centre on Monday, July 23 rd, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. Donations in Donna’s name may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Arrangements entrusted to Hansons’ Arbor Funeral SCOTVOLD - Worthy & Gloria Chapels & Crematorium.

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WILTSHIRE George Douglas Mr. George “Douglas” Wiltshire passed away at Red Deer Region Hospital on Sunday, July 15, 2012 at the age of 94 years. Doug will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 65 years, Margaret Wiltshire, of Red Deer Alberta and son; Bruce (Glenda) Wiltshire of Calgary Alberta. Doug is predeceased by his daughter Heather in 1991. Doug’s family wished to extend a heartfelt thank-you to Dr. Hopfner and the nursing staff on Unit 33 at the Red Deer Region Hospital At Doug’s request no funeral service will be held. Memorial donations in Doug’s honor may be made to the donor’s choice.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer Phone (403) 347-2222.

BOLZE Thank you’s to Rebekah and staff at Eventide for your support and thoughtfulness during this difficult time, to Reverend Wayne Reid for your inspiring graveside service and prayer later at lunch, Dot Egan, for everything, you are a special person. To Sam Vangunst for your support and organization of the Legion Honor Guard, to the Honor Guards and lunch volunteers. Michael Dawe, a very special thank you, your eulogy captured who Bill was throughout his long life, Associated van driver Sheldon, your gentleness transporting Phyl, compassion and extra help did not go unnoticed. Extendicare staff, your wonderful care will never be forgotten, to friends and family, thank you for your kind words and support.

Thanks to all who made donations to the Red Deer Museum, donations in Bill’s memory are still being gratefully accepted.

The Bolze Family ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Linda, Olga and Maurice, Thank you for your love, understanding and support.

Love, Judy

ANDREA KELLS Congratulations for completing your Bachelor of Science Degree (Honors with Distinction) at the University of Houston. Additionally, congratulations on competing successfully for four years on the U of H NCAA Div 1 Swim Team (Captain for Jr and Sr years). Good luck as you begin Optometry School in Houston in August.

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She was missed by her TOC, oh so very much AFRICAN Grey Congo lost Messages were sent on June 30 in Lousanna, just to keep in touch AB. 403-749-2449

KUDOR IS MISSING she is a 4 year old grey tabby Maine coon cross cat.

She went missing from Reinholt Avenue in Rosedale Meadows, Red Deer.

She is wearing a tie-dyed bandana with skulls on it.

Microchip # 956000008025134 if found please contact 403-550-4469

Japanese food one night a BBQ the next When a walkabout was done oh the tarts were vexed No need to name names but she knows who she is Clothes & items kept disappearing too - gee whiz

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STINGER WELLHEAD PROTECTION has an immediate opening for a DETAIL-ORIENTED individual who can multi-task, and deal with When birdies did changing priorities on a daily basis. The ideal happen - celebratory candidate is someone drinks were downed who has a very positive attitude, who enjoys All-in-all a good time was keeping busy and who is had by the Tarts well versed in computer Our last day at Sundre applications such as Excel, and time to part Outlook, Word and database programs.

So thanks for the Previous experience working in tax/accounting memories and all of /bookkeeping programs the fun MISSING from would be a definite asset.

KENTWOOD since May 7. TOC raise your glasses The ability to work well as to Donna ... one of the Answers to PUFF. part of a team and to take Long haired, light orange/ very BEST ones! direction from multiple beige & white. Any info or people. Flexibility, sightings appreciated. hard-work and fastPlease call 403.392.8135 learning skills will be or 403.350.9953 Bingos excellent attributes for this position. If you are the friendly, hard-working, SET of KEYS lost on RED DEER BINGO Centre flexible, detailed person Taylor walking path from 4946-53 Ave. (West of that we are looking for Kentwood to Dawe Centre. Superstore). Precall 12:00 please apply with your 3 Keys with picture. & 6:00. Check TV Today!!!! resume and cover letter as Please call soon as possible.

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Interviews of potential Fitness candidates will take place & Sports STEVE is short haired immediately. ONLY brown tabby, neutered M. candidates selected for w/white chest, white belly, PITCHERS WANTED FOR interview will be contacted. white paws, pink nose & MEN’S HARD BALL Thank you to all who yellow eyes. No collar but LEAGUE. Age 29+ apply. Please fax resume has a tattoo in his right ear.

Call 403-302-7778 to 403-340-2525 WDC118. Lost in the or email to: Mountview area. reg.schutz@oilstates.com Steve has been found!

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Please email resume to: sylvanlake@adental.ca DENTAL ASSISTANT We are looking for a level II RDA who is excited about dentistry and wants to help us provide excellent high-end dental care for our patients.

Must be willing to learn new skills and perform at an accelerated level. Must have good communication skills and be organized.

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Must be willing to assist with dentist as well as work in front reception.

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ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs.

Starting wage $13/hr. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

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ALDRICH CLOSE MULTI FAMILY On CLOSE July 18 - July 20 Wed. Thurs. & Fri. 2 - 8 Something for Everyone!

Bower 89 BAIRD ST. Back Lane July 21, Sat. ONLY 9-3 Large amount of items including office desk, lawn furn., stereo & speakers, butane heater, satellite dish & received.

Clearview 136 CRAWFORD STREET July 19 & 20.

Thurs.& Fri. 8-5 Household misc.

Kentwood Estates 26 KINSGTON DRIVE Fri. July 20th 5-8, Sat. July 21st 9-5 Sun. July 22nd 9-3

Lancaster Green 244 LAMPARD CRES. JULY 19 & 20; Thurs. & Fri. 3 -8 HOUSEHOLD MISC. Something for Everyone!

Morrisroe 21 MACKENZIE CRES. July 19, 20, & 21 Thurs & Fri. 10-6, Sat. 10-1 Old calendars & catalogues, picture frames, file cabinet, bone china cups & saucers, shop vac, router, tools, wood working patterns, kitchen table, bed, headboard & frame & more! Pre selling garage sale tables, avail. after sale.

Oriole Park Deer Park 15 DENSMORE CRES July 21, Saturday 8 - 2 Books, pictures, games, bikes, furniture, household misc.

45 DENOVAN CRSC July 21, 9-2 July 22, 10-2 MULTI FAMILY 89 DUNCAN CRES Thurs. 19th, 1-5, Fri. 20th & Sat. 21st, 11-4 Queen Anne chair, chandelier, much more.

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Grandview July 20, 4-8, July 21, 10-8 July 22, 8-5.

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West Park MULTI FAMILY Household goods, furniture, books 121 & 125 Wilson Cres. (back lane) July 19 & July 20, 4-8 July 21, 9-3

Out of Town DOWNSIZING Huge Farm Yard/Garage Sale.

Antiques & Collectables July 20th, 10-8, 21st 9-8 & 22nd 9-4 Too many items to mention!

11 km E of Bowden on Hwy 587 to RR 281, then 1.5 mile south OR from Hwy590 eat, to Hwy 791 S follow signs OR Olds overpass 12.6 km E Hwy 27 to RR 281, 13.9 km N.

HUGH MULTI FAMILY RAIN OR SHINE 1/2 MI South of Delburne Golf Course, Rng. Rd. 233 House #37264 Thurs. July 19 - Sun. July 22 9 am -6 pm all days.

Fibreglass steps, clocks, collectibles, household etc.

4 ONSLOW SQUARE Back Alley July 20, 21 & 22 Fri. 7-9, Sat. & Sun. 10-4 Large collection of hand & YARD sale. Weather perpower tools, household etc. mitting. Sat. July 21, 9-5 Sun. 10-4. Household items, bicycles, toys, camping, tools, 77 & 79’ Honda 90 trail bikes, also 80 Honda 185 dirt bike, Kawasaki quad and much misc. 37354 Sand Road, Markerville area.

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Preference will be given to those with a Post secondary certification in Electronics Engineering or Instrumentation Strong computer skills Lonkar offers an immediate benefits package including a matching RRSP plan. Please submit your resume to: 8080 Edgar Industrial Drive Red Deer AB, T4P 3R3 Fax: 403-309-1644 Email: careers@lonkar. com

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Is looking to fill the following position in our Hinton location:

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IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Night Foremen, Day & Night operators Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license.

Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages.

Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca or by fax to (403) 783-8004 Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted

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Requirements: current oilfield certificates, oilfield driving exp., class 1 drivers license, clean drivers abstract. Fax resume to 403-314-9724 or call Dean 403-391-8004

NOW ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR EXP. WINCH TRACTOR OPERATORS BED TRUCK OPERATORS JOURNEYMAN PICKER OPERATORS & MECHANICS FOR RED DEER AREA. Fax resume & abstract to 403-885-0473 No phone calls please.

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QUALIFIED DAY AND NIGHT SUPERVISORS

(Must be able to Provide own work truck)

Valid 1st Aid, H2S, Drivers License required!!

Please contact Murray McGeachy or Kevin Becker by Fax: (403) 340-0886 or email

mmcgeachy@ cathedralenergyservices.com

IS looking to fill the following positions in the: HINTON AND Relocation to either our FOX CREEK LOCATION Hinton or Fox Creek * Oilfield Construction office will be mandatory Supervisors * Oilfield Construction Must pass an in-house Lead Hands Drug and Alcohol Test. * Stainless and Carbon Welders Please submit resumes to * B-Pressure Welders hr@alstaroc.com or fax to * Pipefitters 780 865 5829 * Experienced Pipeline A RED DEER BASED Equipment Operators Pressure Testing Company QUOTE JOB # 61968 * Experienced oilfield req’s. Operators for testing ON RESUME labourers BOP’s throughout AB. * Industrial Painters Only those with Drilling rig * 7-30 tonne Picker Truck exp. need apply. Fax Operator with Class 1 resume & driver’s abstract H2S Alive ( Enform), to: 403-341-6213 or email St. John (Red Cross) mikeoapt@gmail.com standard first aid) & Only those selected for in-house drug and alcohol interview will be contacted.

NOW ACCEPTING tests are required.

Resumes for: Please submit resume to DEX Production Testing DRIVERS/HELPERS, hr@alstaroc.com or req’s exp. day night w/Class 1 or 3.

Fax to 780-865-5829 supervisors & assistants.

Must have drivers abstract.

Quote job #61953 Competitive wage & Looking for on resume benefit pkg. Email SNUBBING OPERATOR resume to: office@ HELPERS dexproduction.com or fax QUINN PUMPS Must fax resume & driver’s 403-864-8284 CANADA Ltd. abstract to: 403-314-5405.

Is looking for a Pump Quattro Energy Services Technician in their Red Deer location. Apply within with resume 6788-65 Ave. JOB HUNTING? Read the Red Deer. No prior experiClassifieds. 309-3300. ence is necessary FLINT TUBULAR MANAGEMENT SERVICES requires Shop & Yard Laborers. $16/hr. to start Apply w/resume to: 4115 39139 HWY 2A (Blindman Industrial Park)

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Please submit resumes to hr@alstaroc.com or fax to 780 865 5829

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Must pass an in-house Drug and Alcohol Test.

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Anders on the Lake

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Are you retired or semi F/T Live-in Caregiver req’d -retired and have administrative experience? Do you for 11 & 9 yr. old children.

403-309-7304 or email enjoy working with seniors, are compassionate and magenta_blue28@yahoo.com caring? Then this is the position for you! Symphony Senior Living Inglewood is looking for a casual/PT receptionist who is professional in work ethic and appearance, with an outgoing positive attitude. You must have extensive computer experience with Microsoft word, Outlook and Excel, and be able to multitask. Reception is very important to our business, and you will play a major role within the team. Thank you in advance for your application however only applicants with experience will be considered and contacted for this position. Please drop off your resume to #10 Inglewood Dr. or email to Lynda Meek Assistant General Manager email: agmiw@ symphonyseniorliving.com

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Janitorial

Required Immediately

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Established and very busy Oilfield Trucking Company is now hiring for the following: CLASS 1 DRIVERS

• • • •

SWAMPERS Heavy Duty Journeyman Technician Journeyman Welder Wash Bay Attendant

Rig move/Oilfield Pipe Haul/Highway/Long Haul

For the position of CLASS 1 Drivers, consideration will only be given to those with some experience.

Call HR Dept: 780-467-9897 • Fax: 780-463-3346 jobs@vdmtrucking.com

kbecker@ cathedralenergyservices.com website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

REQUIRED F/T operator.

Rocky, Caroline, Sylvan, Ponoka & Wetaskwin area. Must have a minimum of 2 years exp in artificial lifts, gas/ liquid separation, PJ operation, field compression and general maintenance on pumps, heaters, control valves etc.

Contract operators need not apply.

E-mail resume’s to ken.webster@altagas.ca or fax 403-347-0855 TEAM Snubbing Services now hiring exp’d snubbing operators and helpers.

Only those WITH experience need apply. Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com or fax 403-844-2148 Voltage Wireline Inc. is seeking an Electronic Technologist The successful candidate: - Completes preventative maintenance on downhole wireline tools by following standardized procedures.

- Troubleshoot and repair of electronic components, parts, switches, panels, electronic equipment, and systems.

- The physical ability to immediately respond to emergency situations.

- The successful candidate will be required to participate in the on-call rotation.

- Formal completion of 2 year diploma in Electronic Technology - Mechanically inclined - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Please send resumes to jvalliere@voltagewireline. com

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Accounts Receivable/ Payable Clerk

We are currently hiring for the following positions in our Blackfalds mod yard and throughout Alberta:

Full time, permanent employment required immediately in the Olds area for a growing manufacturing company.

Job Duties: • Sort documents and related information • Post and pay invoices; scheduling and preparing disbursements; obtaining authorization of payment • Prepare and mail invoices; identify delinquient accounts and notify customers • Maintains accounting ledgers and reconciling statements and transactions • Data base backups • Maintain Lease and Rental agreements, employee files, transportation agreements • Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed Qualifications: Organization, Data Entry Skills, General Math Skills, Analyzing Information, Attention to Detail, Thoroughness, Reporting Research Results, Verbal Communication. Proficiency in Simply Accounting and MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook) 5 or more years’ experience in computerized book keeping. Willingness to learn and take on new and different tasks. Positive attitude and team player who is capable of working in a fast pace environment.

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Essential Energy Services Ltd. provides oilfield services to oil and gas producers in western Canada related to the ongoing servicing of producing wells and new drilling activity. As we continue to grow and expand we are currently looking for applicants for the following positions:

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Red Deer,Alberta Applicant Requirements

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• Office Technology or related certificate • Proficiency in Microsoft Office • Exceptional phone manners and communication skills • Superior organizational skills and attention to detail • Able to work in team environment

• Career advancement opportunities • Competitive wages • Industry leading benefit packages • RSP matching program • Employee referral bonus program

Email: helixjobs@iroccorp.com Call: 403-358-5001 Fax Resume: 403-342-1635

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BOOKKEEPING company requires full time bookkeeper /office manager. 5 yrs.+ bookkeeping exper.

Must know QuickBook Simply Accounting, payroll.

Compensation based upon exper. Closes July 25, 2012. Email OfficeManager 2012@shaw.ca

Restaurant/ Hotel

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THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a well experienced F/T SERVER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Trades

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Trades

APEX OILFIELD SERVICES IS HIRING! Looking for a Journeyman or Apprenticing Welder in Red Deer. Experience required.

Call 403-314-4748 or email hr@apexoil.ca to apply.

White Goose Stettler Kitchen helper Full Time, Salary: $11.50 Hourly for 40 hours per week Location: Stettler, Alberta Apply In Person

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Trades

PIPELINE & Facility 3rd & 4th year Construction Now Hiring : Apprentices or Journeyman / *Qualified Ticketed Laborers Heavy Duty Mechanics * E q u i p m e n t O p e r a t o r s with Ag experience.

We offer year round employment, exemplary benefits package, competitive pay scale and continuous professional training in a positive, friendly team oriented work environment.

If you have a great attitude and integrity, Future Ag Inc is offering you an exciting career opportunity.

We are looking for a DETAILER/CLEAN UP PERSON We offer a good working environment & benefits.

Please apply with-in at 6424 Golden West Ave. or email resume to: caliberpaint@telus.net

*Chain Saw Hands *Landscape personnel

Please forward a resume by fax to 403-309-4232

WE are expanding again and looking for a full time CENTRAL ALBERTA Field Sales Representative CASE IH RESIDENCE SOCIETY to support this expansion.

REBEL METAL EQUIPMENT DEALER We supply the oilfield with: RESIDENTIAL FABRICATORS IN STETTLER • Breathing Air Sales & SUPERVISOR is now accepting DRAFTSPERSON Equipment & Rentals To apply, Distributors applications for Immediate Opportunity.

• On-Site and Personal forward your resume to: QUALIFICATIONS: This position is responsible Gas Monitoring 3rd and 4th year Future Ag Inc. for ABSA drawings and • H2S Supervision • Disability & Community PREMIER Spa Boutique is Attn: Barry Groves Apprentices or shop layout drawings for • Shower Units Studies or related post- s e e k i n g R e t a i l S a l e s Box 489 Journeyman / truck mounted vacuum If you have minimum of secondary diploma with Supervisor for our ParkRed Deer, AB T4N 5G1 Heavy Duty Mechanics systems using Autodesk land Mall location, Red five years field sales a minimum of two Fax to (403) 342-0396 with Ag experience.

Inventor. Production Deer. $17.40/hr. experience (preferable in a years experience providing Email: barryg@futureag.ca We offer year round Bonuses Comp.

Email resume safety role) and looking for community support services CENTRAL ALBERTA employment, exemplary wages & benefits. an exciting new team to f o r i n d i v i d u a l s w i t h premierjobrd1@gmail.com HEATING & AIR benefits package, Long term employment join please send resume to: developmental disabilities competitive pay scale and CONDITIONING COMPANY Please email resume to bert@renaissancesafety.ca • Prior supervisory experience REQUIRES continuous professional hr@rebelvac.ca • Strong background in a training in a positive, or fax to: 403-314-2249 RESIDENTIAL variety of intervention Trades friendly team oriented work NEW CONSTRUCTION strategies and disabling SIDING INSTALLERS environment. If you have a conditions needed immediately. great attitude and integrity, DUCT INSTALLERS. • Strong communication, WE ARE SEEKING Only experienced duct We offer competitive rates Future Ag Inc is AUTOMOTIVE organizational, interperMOTIVATED HARD installers will be considered. & a fantastic benefit offering you an exciting sonal, leadership and SERVICE WORKING PERSONNEL We pay piece work based package. If you have career opportunity. problem solving skills, TO PROVIDE QUALITY on size of home. Rough-ins siding installing experience TECHNICIANS contributing to your SERVICE TO THE are done and duct and & your own reliable To apply, (Hyundai Master effectiveness working as OIL & GAS INDUSTRIES fittings are delivered to the transportation, please call forward your resume to: part of a multidisciplinary Technician Required) basement.

Duct installers Darcy at 403-391-6293.

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The following positions take the furnace and go.

Tools are an asset but not Attn: Markus Stadelmann Two full time, permanent DUTIES: are available Best pay in the industry. necessarily a requirement.

Box 1510 positions in Red Deer, AB Truck supplied.

Stettler, AB T0C 2L0 • Will work directly on STAIR MANUFACTURER Call Terry or Mike at * BED TRUCK From $29.75/hr to $33.00/hr Fax to (403) 742-5626 site, providing direct Req’s F/T workers to build 403-342-7870 or email: Email to DRIVERS services and be responsible stairs in Red Deer shop.

Vehicle maintenance terry@ariesairflo.com markuss@futureag.ca for the overall daily * SWAMPERS MUST HAVE basic carservice, replace, fix, adjust organization, operation EXP’’D drywall tradesmen pentry skills. Salary based systems and components, * PICKER OPERATOR & laborers req’d, and monitoring of support on skill level. Benefits steering, brakes, EXPERIENCED repair * WINCH TRACTOR Phone 403-348-8640 services provided. avail. Apply in person at suspension, transmission, person or HD Mechanic to DRIVERS • Ensuring effective and 100, 7491 Edgar electronics, electrical, work in Clive area shop.

EXPERIENCED consistent supports across * MECHANIC engines and accessories.

Industrial Bend. email: Exp. working on highway SHEET METAL all team members earl707@telus.net. and/or tractors and trailers, Class Apply in person with INSTALLERS fax 403-347-7913 HOURS / COMPENSATION: 3 an asset. We offer an Please submit your resume and Hyundai • 40 hours / week, shift8:30-5 work day. All tools resume, current driver’s Req’d for Residential work may be required supplied. Health and denabstract (5 year) and certification to: Dave @ occasionally. tal benefits. Fax resume to current safety certificates.

Gary Moe Preference to • Salary range: 1-855-784-2330 or call Competitive wages registered Apprentices Hyundai $3,440.82 - $3,730.76 1-877-787-2501 with benefit and salary per month options available.

7652 Gaetz Ave For interview phone EXPERIENCED Concrete Red Deer Brent or Brian Direct Resumes / Applications Email: TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Cribbers Required. Please @ 403-309-8301 to C.A.R.S. scornell@completeenergy.ca Requires 403-350-3000 call Ryan for details.

Fax or email resume to #101 5589 47 St. Fax: 403-887-4750 403-845 6332 403-309-8302 or Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 QUALIFIED info@ComfortecHeating.com Fax: 403-346-8015 We would like to thank all 3rd and 4th yr.

Email: markw@carsrd.org those who apply. Only EXP`D SIDER , must have Trades qualified candidates will be JOURNEYMAN truck and tools. contacted for an interview.

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Successful candidate will be required to relocate to Hinton, Alberta For complete Job Description & Application Form, please go to our website www.alstaroilfield.com Please Quote Job #61714

EASY! The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

Restaurant/ Hotel

F/T PAINTERS REQ’D Painting exp. necessary.

Must have vehicle.

Must be task orientated, self motivated & reliable.

Recognized as a top safety award winning company.

Phone 403-596-1829

DOMINO’S PIZZA

NOW HIRING F/T and P/T DRIVERS & In stores.

Apply within, 5018 45th St.

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ALSTAR is a long standing and quickly growing Gas & Oilfield Construction Company and is looking to fill the following position:

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Looking for Part/Full Time BARTENDER/SERVER. Apply with resume to 3811 40 Ave, Red Deer PIZZA 73 DOWNTOWN LOCATION Hiring F/T Delivery Drivers.

Apply in person.

Up to $200/night.

SUBWAY RESTAURANT Innisfail, AB needs F/T Food Counter Attendant.

Must be Mature and willing to work any shift. $11.00/hr. Fax resume to 403-227-6176 or email d_merkley@telus.net THE Ranch House Restaurant & Bar req’s exp. f/t and/or p/t bartender. Phone David 403-358-4100 for interview appt. or email resume to quantumgroup@shaw.ca

Maintenance Millwright

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full time Millwright position.

The position includes maintenance inspections, lubes, PM’s and repairs to all types of equipment in order to maintain the safe operation and fulfill production requirements of Rahr Malting.

The position is rated under the Heavy Job classification.

Application Closing Date: August 3rd, 2012.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

No Phone Calls Please

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GEN-X MACHINING INC requires Journeyman/3rd or 4th year machinist.

CNC experience preferred but not required.

Top Wages.

Please submit resumes to: gen-xmachining@telus.net or fax 403-314-2100

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BLUE GRASS SOD FARMS LTD is seeking 2nd. or 3rd. yr. heavy duty mechanic apprentice with experience in agriculture equipment and trucks. bluesod@xplornet.com or fax to 403-342-7488

www.badgerinc.com Badger Daylighting LP the industry leader in Hydro-vac excavating requires an:

NOW HIRING Hosts

Cooks

Bartenders

Dishwashers

Convenience Store / Gas Station Attendants

for the PAINT department in the Red Deer manufacturing shop.

This is full time position and only experience Industrial Spray Painter need apply. Preference will be given to those who have previous industrial spray painting experience and to those who take pride in their work and generate high quality workmanship. Some weekend work required.

Full company benefits are available as well as a wage that compliments experience.

Please reply to this ad by fax or email, including references:

Our completely redeveloped Smitty’s Restaurant, Lounge, Convenience Store, New Husky Gas Bar and Car Wash on Gasoline Alley in Red Deer, AB will reopen in September. Don’t miss your opportunity. Apply today.

SMITTY’S CANADA LIMITED

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#600 – 501, 18th Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2S 0C7 Fax: (403) 229-3899 Email: reddeer-hwy2south@smittys.ca www.smittys.ca

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Servers

Galaxy Plumbing & Heating Ltd requires 2nd and 3rd year apprentices. Must be mature and dependable. Send resumes to galaxyadmin@telus .net or fax to 403-347-4539.

Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.

has an opening for a JOURNEYMAN LIGHT DUTY MECHANIC Preference will be given to those w/alignment exp.

Great pay, profit share and full benefits.

Bring your resume to: 5139 - 50 Street, Innisfail STRONG Insulation Inc. Looking for exp. residential insulators w/drivers licence (Batt And Poly, Blow-in).

Call 403-848-2402

NORTH HILL LOCATION FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

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Welders Needed Immed.

and Machinists with CNC and manual experience.

Pace is a well-established, long standing business in Red Deer. Our company is focused on providing the highest of quality to all our customers. We are presently looking for selfmotivated, goal-oriented individuals, willing to learn, possessing high standards, looking for longterm employment and would like the opportunity to join our team. Please drop off your resume, in person, Or mail to Pace Manufacturing at 6820-52 Ave., Red Deer, AB, T4N 4L1 E-mail: pace@telus.net or Fax to: 403-340-2985 WELDERS, MILLWRIGHT or Millwright Welder Apprentices to work in the Ag. Industry.

Must be willing to travel Ab. & Sask. Email to tracous@yahoo.com

Truckers/ Drivers

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BUSY CENTRAL AB company req’s exp’d. Class 1 drivers to pull decks.

Assigned truck, exc. wages and benefits pkg. Paid extras. Family orientated.

Resume and abstract fax to 403-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501 Mon,. - Fri,. 8 a m to 6 pm Busy Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers. We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net

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COMPUTER REPAIR

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

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CLASS 1 DRIVING INSTRUCTOR

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REAL ESTATE

Req’d in Sylvan Lake Immediately.

Phone 1-877-463-9664 or email resume to info@

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RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333 www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

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WEB DESIGN

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AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

Employment Opportunity. * Class 3 license a must. *Class 1 preferred * Picker experience a plus Distribute precast concrete in central AB area, Fax resume with clean driver’s abstract to: 886-4853 or drop off resume at: 930 Fleming Ave. Penhold. Inquiries 403-588-6505. Gary

EXPERIENCED

Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed.

CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q All oilfield safety tickets req’d. Clean drivers abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy.

References Req’d.

Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net

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FOOD COURT STAFF Full Time 5:30 am - 1:00pm Mon - Fri Fax or email resumes

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scottys.esso@shaw.ca Open 5:30 - 11:00 daily Located in Rosedale Hwy #11 East @ Reichley St.

FOR recycling company in Central Alberta. Must be able to work independently and enjoy sales. Class 3 license needed. Call 403-635-4123 or fax 403-329-1585 or email tdtren@telus.net LOCAL ACID Transport company looking for expd’ F/T Class 1 truck driver.

Top wages and exc. benefit pkg., Fax resume and driver’s abstract to 403-346-3766

ADULT UPGRADING

Alberta Government Funded Programs Student Funding Available! * GED Preparation * Trades Entrance Exam Preparation * Women in the Trades

Academic Express

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TANK TRUCK DRIVERS

WANTED

$1000.00 SIGNING BONUS. SAFETY BONUS. REFERRAL BONUS. GREAT WAGES AND BENEFITS. Northwest Tank Lines seeks qualified truck drivers with at least three years’ experience in tank truck driving, heavy oil-field hauling, or a related field.

The ideal candidate will have a history of safe-driving, and seek a long-term and rewarding career. careers@nwtl.ca http://nwtank.hgcareers.com DRIVE.EARN.GROW

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HYPE MARKETING is currently looking for students to join our award winning team. We do marketing for 34 newspapers across Canada and Red Deer is the Number 1 team! Here’s why.....

Work 3-7 days a week you choose the days! Hours are from 4:30 - 9:30 pm.

Earn extra money with daily cash bonuses!

Get paid weekly!

Average earnings are $300 - $600 per week.

Candidates must be friendly, outgoing, and very good looking! Just kidding.

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CLASS 3 WATER HAULER needed. Only those with Drilling Rig Water Hauling experience need apply.

Need H2S & First Aid tickets.TOP WAGES PAID Fax clean drivers abstract and resume between the hours of 9 am to 6 pm to: 403-746-3523 or call 403-304-7179

UPS is now hiring for Part time Early Morning MORNING WAREHOUSE AND FULL TIME DRIVING. Applicants must be physically fit and be able to lift up to 70 lbs.

P/T Warehouse, Mon. to Fri. 15 - 20 hrs/wk.

Driving Mon. to Fri, 10 to 12 hours per day.

Alberta Class 5 license, clean abstract. This is fast paced, physically demanding environment.

All candidates are subject to criminal record checks.

Apply by online @ www.upsjobs.com or fax resume to: 403-648-3312

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• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks Apply in person at 6889 Gaetz Avenue or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

www.centralalbertahomebuilders.com Central AB Home Builders 403-346-5321 www.reddeer.cmha.ab.ca Canadian Mental Health Assoc. www.realcamping.ca LOVE camping and outdoors? www.diabetes.ca Canadian Diabetes Assoc. www.mycommunityinformation.com /cawos/index.html www.reddeerchamber.com Chamber of Commerce 403-347-4491

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But seriously you need to self motivated and have a positive attitude. Sales experience isn’t necessary as training will be provided.

If you think you got what it takes, call now

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Blue Grass Sod Farm is in need of a Class 1 driver.

Min. 1 yr. driving exp. and clean drivers abstract are necessary. Please fax resume and abstract to 403-342-7488 or email to margaret. siudem@bg-rd.com

Truckers/ Drivers

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300 ASSOCIATIONS

Truckers/ Drivers

TRUCK DRIVER wanted, Adult Education & Training Super B flat deck work, for 340-1930 Alberta only, Mon. to Fri. www.academicexpress.ca Call 403-350-1406

FRAMER req’d. 2-3 yrs. residential exp. own vehicle a must. 403-350-5103

Applicants must have a valid trade certificate for work in Alberta.

This position will work in coordination with the Operations group and is accountable to the Maintenance Supervisor.

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta,T0C 0B0 Fax: (403) 747-2660

Residential exp. only Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

FOUNDATION COMPANY in Red Deer currently seeking Experienced Commercial Foundation workers.

Please fax resume to 403-346-5867

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CASE IH EQUIPMENT DEALER IN RED DEER is now accepting applications for

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CLASS 1 and 3 drivers req’d for road construction.

Water truck and truck and pup exp. preferred. Living allowance incld. Fax 403-309-0489

Reimer Alliance International is a manufacturer of Mobile Concrete Mixers and is presently recruiting for our manufacturing facility in Didsbury, AB. Production & Assembly Technician Production & assembly of mechanical & hydraulic components in the manufacture of truck mounted heavy equipment Qualifications/requirements: • Mechanical aptitude is essential • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment • Team player with a strong work ethic and positive attitude • Use of hand tools and power tools • Standard First Aid / CPR an asset Please email your resume to gsenior@reimermix.com

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ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

* Work in a FUN environment * Paid Weekly + bonuses * Only 4 hrs./night & 3-7 days per wk.

ADULT CARRIERS REQUIRED for Early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate in Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie

WEST LAKE

for details

* Training is provided

314-4307

WEST PARK

* MUST speak fluent English

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

* Excellent work experience For further information please contact

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

CHRIS MCGINNIS Red Deer and area Team Leader Phone 1-780-716-4202 ****************************

WEST LAKE 77 Advocate $404/month $4851/year

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT

MOUNTVIEW 71 Advocate $372/month $4473/year

314-4300

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We Have a part time position now available in Red Deer 1-3 hours/day 3 - 4 Days /week.

We offer flexible hours, paid training, free comprehensive benefit package.

The work will include, light duty maintenance, site inspections, equipment verifications.

Knowledge of filing systems, familiarity with Microsoft Outlook and basic computer skills.

Wage starting at $20 and up to $24.00/hour depending on experience.

Fax resume to 306-244-4498 or email to: jadeverishine@kwpetro.com

GRANDVIEW 69 Advocate $362/month $4347/year

Whatever You’re Selling...

We Have The Paper You Need!

Central Alberta LIFE

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIER NEEDED Wanted for delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life In GLENDALE Goodall Ave & Grimson St. Gunn St. & Goodacre Cl.

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for Morning Newspaper delivery in the Town of Stettler Earn $500.mo. for 1--1/2 hrs. per day 6 days a week.

Must have a reliable vehicle .

Please contact Rick at 403-314-4303

PINES Pearson Crsc.

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

Employment Training

ARE YOU RETIRED OR SEMI-RETIRED OR JUST LOOKING TO WORK A FEW HOURS A DAY?

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

F/T Customer Service Representative. Must be avail. weekdays and Sat’s. Some outside work req’d. Computer skills an asset. Fax resume to 403-347-0788

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life twice weekly in Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick at 403-314-4303

CARRIERS NEEDED For Advocate routes INGLEWOOD AREA ANDERS AREA VANIER AREA LANCASTER AREA FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION Telephone Rep’s needed to recruit volunteers.

P/T contract.

Call from home.

4 pm - 8 pm.

Starting Aug. 13th $12/hr.

Call Natalie 403-346-4631 by July 23 ESSO IN PONOKA Hiring Supervisor Up to $15.65/hr + benefits. Fax resume to: 403-783-8273

ANDERS AREA: Anders Close Ackerman Crsc.

Asmundsen Ave/ Arb Close SUNNYBROOK AREA: Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close INGLEWOOD AREA: Imbeau Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

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********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

ROSEDALE

ROUTES AVAIL.

Robinson Crsc., Reinholt Ave. DEER PARK

ROUTES AVAIL. 246823F8-G31

Dunning Crsc.

Depalme St. MICHENER

ROUTE AVAIL.

51 Street & 43 Ave. area ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

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$18.36/hr. + bonuses. Red Deer distribution company beginning 2nd. successful year of growth in the Red Deer area. We are currently seeking energetic individuals looking to get ahead. Positons include: Water quality advisers, customer service and general labor. P/T & F/T positions avail. Rapid advancement avail. Please call Sat. Mon. & Tues.

10-6 403-356-0330

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STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION OF RDC Are you highly motivated?

Do you have experience in event planning, marketing and are able to work independently?

Duties include: organize student-run events for September & October, develop promotional material for events, coordinate volunteers to help run events, day-to-day activities of events, other duties as assigned by executive.

This position is a paid temporary position, with full time hours in late August, and part time hours (will work around student schedules) for September. Start date tentatively Aug 13, hiring process will be July 26-27.

Apply to Brandy Newman, VP Operations: brandy.newman@rdc.ab.ca

F.T. WAREHOUSE

Needs a Drivers licence, some heavy & light lifting, friendly, personnel.

Monday-Friday, with some Saturdays, exc. wages & benefits.

Fax to: 403-309-3000.

Drop off: #9 - 7619 50 Ave Red Deer, AB

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

PIDHERNEY’S IS GROWING! We currently require a

UTILITY/BASE CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN

Fountain Tire on 67th Street would like to run an ad looking for a tire technician. Experience would be an asset but not a necessity. Full benefit package & competitive wages. RRSP options available after one year service.

Please fax resume to 403-343-8466 or e-mail to f046@fountaintire.com

For work in and around the Red Deer area

Please fax resume to 403-845-5370 or email to hr@pidherneys.com Please reference # KZWS - 0007

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This successful individual will possess the following quali¿cations: • Have experience running a small base crew • Have blueprint knowledge and experience • Understands grade setting • Parking lot and subdivision experience an asset • Valid driver’s license Pidherney’s offers competitive wages based on experience & a medical bene¿t package.

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F/T Retail Trade Supervisor 2 positions $14.90/hr.

F/T Food Service Supervisor 1 position $13.00/hr.

F/T Food counter attendants 2 positions $10.70/hr.

1105903 AB Ltd. o/a Eckville Gas & Snacks, 5008 - 48 St. Eckville, AB T0M 0X0 F/T Retail Trade Supervisor 1 position $14.90/hr.

F/T Food Service Supervisor 1 position $13.20/hr.

F/T Food counter attendant 2 positions $11.50/hr 1105903 AB LTD. o/a Alhambra corner Hwy.11 R R 54 AB TOM OCO F/T Retail Trade Supervisor 1 position $14.90/hr.

F/T food service supervisor, 1 position $13.20/hr.

F/T food counter attendants 2 positions $11.50/hr 1373883 AB Ltd. o/a Caroline Gas & Snacks. #1 4903 50 Ave. Caroline AB T0M 0M0 Please send resumes by e-mail, mail, fax or in person Fax: 403-746-3229 shinbukap@hanmail.net or mail to Box 506 Eckville T0M 0X0 until July 31, 2012 F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

F/T YARD LABORER * Great customer service * Must have a valid driver’s license * Clean drivers abstract * Ability to work unsupervised * Ability to work with others * Lumber experience an asset but not a requirement * Physically demanding * High pace * Must be able to work weekends Please forward resumes Attention Manager to fax # 403-887-3625 Or email to: resumes@ lakesiderona.com Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

HOSE HEADQUARTERS requires a F/T Shop Technician. General shop duties, shipping and receiving. Training avail. plus benefits package.

For appointments, call Andrew at 403-340-3908 or Fax resume to 403-340-3928.

Required

Equipment Assemblers/ Labourer

For a Ponoka Manufacturing Shop.

Knowledge of ASME code bolt up, basic instrumentation and a commitment to excellence are prerequisites.

Competitive wages with benefit packages available.

Interested candidates please send résumé to admin@westcanfab.ca Of fax to 403-775-4014

Symphony Senior Living Inglewood req’s part time/full time Maintenance Assistant Building operator exp. preferred along with pool maintenance exp. and certification. The ideal candidate will also be mechanically inclined and be able to handle all aspects of building maintenance including painting and drywall repair.

Please reply to D. Booth #10 Inglewood Drive or fax to 346-1109 or email bsciw@ symphonyseniorliving.comon or before May 22, 2012.

Thank you for your interest and only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Competitive starting wages plus regular increases.

Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Excellent benefits package. Opportunities to advance. Must be dependable, hardworking and seeking a long-term career. Apply in person, or email to: hartleytj@eecol.com 4747 - 61st Street

Employment Training

offers a variety of

to meet your needs.

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis.

As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem)

Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403-885-5516 or e-mail: k.kooiker@eaglebuilders.ca.

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

COIN Operated Inglis washer & dryer, $350. ea.; 403-348-1262 DISHWASHER, Bosch stainless steel $150.

403-348-1262 FRIDGE, GE, frost free. $30. 403-782-7439

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BED ALL NEW,

Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

Spruce, Pine, Birch Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325.

Spilt, Dry. Pickup or Del. 302-0582 Free Delivery 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 BED: #1 King. extra thick FIREWOOD. All Types.

P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr. birchfirewoodsales.com warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice F R E E f i r e w o o d t o b e @ $545. 403-302-0582. moved 403-346-0674 CHINA CABINET, $100; 403-346-4555

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Garden Supplies

LANDSCAPING mulch, $10.00 yard. Phone 403-346-3800 weekdays or 403-343-6182 eves. & wknds.

COFFEE table and 2 end tables, solid oak. $125.

403-314-5528 COUCH, LOVESEAT, COFFEE TABLE & 2 END TABLES. Good Cond. $200. 403-391-7843

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

GENERAL LABORER Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

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Cleaning

Complete Janitorial

for all Albertans

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Please contact QUITCY

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Auctions

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Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855 SHORT NOTICE Unreserved Auction Sale for LAKESIDE RONA Saturday, July 28, 2012 Sylvan Lake, Alberta Time: 10:30 a.m.

30 Schenk Industrial Road MACHINERY • • • •

2010 Bobcat T190 Track Skid 2010 TrailTech 18’ T/A Trailer 2002 Chev C7500 Truck c/w 20’ Deck 1992 Ford F800 S/A Truck c/w Box & Hoist Plus Selling A Huge Assortment of Lumber, Concrete & Blocks, Lawn & Garden Supplies, Fencing Materials, Trusses, Doors & Windows, Siding, Beam Material, Show Home Furniture & Office Furniture SALE CONDUCTED BY: Allen B. Olson Auction Service Ltd. Rimbey, Alberta License No. 165690 (403) 843-2747 Sale Site E-mail: abolson@telusplanet.net Homepage: allenolsonauction.com

Massage Therapy

QUALITY CLEANING 403-755-7570

Contractors

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BLACK PEARL CONCRETE Garage/RV pads, driveways, patios, bsmt. Dave 352-7285 BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

DALE’S Home Reno’s.

Free estimates for all your reno needs. 755-9622 cell 506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Prefering non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 302-9210.

TAPER for hire Phone 403- 391-6733

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Escorts

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT Busty Babe w/My Own Car! EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049 ROXY 26 Hot Blonde 403-848-2300 UPSCALE Hotties in town mydiamondgirls.org 403-550-0732

Handyman Services

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TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. Specializing in mobile home leveling and winterizing 587-876-4396

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch.

Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. 403-348-5650

Accounting

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Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

www.performancemaint.ca 403-358-9256

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

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COR CONSTRUCTION ~Garages ~Decks ~ Fencing ~ Reno’s.

35 years exp. 403-598-5390

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Career Planning

NEEDED IMMED.

Real Enterprises Ltd NOW HIRING Exp Landscape Foremen/ Labourers Benefits - Bonuses Must have valid drivers license Also Hiring: -PT Mechanic (Semi Retired Welcome) -Carpenter’s Helper Fax or email resumes: Fax 403-314-2214 Email realltd@telus.net www.reddeerlandscaping.net

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Sidewalks, driveways, garages, patios, bsmts. RV pads. Dean 403-505-2542

403.341.4544

Full Time Positions

- Concrete Batch Plant Operator - Concrete Finishers - Carpenters/Woodworkers - Steel Reinforcement Labourers - Overhead Crane Operators - General Labourers

ALBERTA Spring lamb, cut and wrapped by the piece, 1/2 or whole carcass.

Come see our 100 mile radius store. Brown Eggs and Lamb 403-782-4095

Black Cat Concrete

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Maintenance Person

Personal Assistant

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Farmers' Market

SAFETY COURSES

Pickers / Packers Receivers / Shippers

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

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OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

LOOKING for laborers and flaggers for road construction. Fax 403-309-0489

Central Alberta Tile One is looking for a Personal Assistant.The office is very busy and the ideal person would need to be able to multi task while handling a number of different projects. Team oriented, effective verbal and listening skill, proficient computer skills (MS Office) email: Shannon@catile1.com or drop off resume at #9 7619 50 Ave Red Deer.

18 CU. FT. Fridgidaire, like new, white $200 obo 403-597-9929

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Warehouse Shipper/ Receiver

Now Hiring

is expanding its facility to double production.

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Industries #1 Choice!

Submit resume to: Email: careers@ chatters.ca Fax: 1-888-742-9036

HANDICAPPED wheel chair porch lift, electric. $1200. 403-342-2530

SKILL SAW, Black & Decker, $30.

SANDER, Craftsman, $30.

JIGSAW, Craftsman, $30. APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo.

403-782-7439 warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042

Firewood

OILFIELD TICKETS

Very clean atmosphere, user friendly equipment & technology.

Benefits, competitive wages, perks.

Experience an asset.

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Health & Beauty

VERY good healthy raspberry plants to transplant WASHER & dryer, $75. ea.

403-3481262 $6/ea. 403-346-9886

TRAINING CENTRE

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

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Tools

SAFETY

Req’d. F/T employment.

Carpentry or flooring installation exp. is an asset (carpet, tile, lino & hardwood) but not necessary.

Must be neat, clean, professional, friendly, works well with others or alone.

Drivers License req’d.

Exc. wages, benefits & great working environment.

Please fax résumé to 403-309-3000 or drop off at 9-7619 50 Ave Red Deer, AB

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EquipmentHeavy

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Interior Designer

Very busy Red Deer Flooring Company is seeking Interior designer (male or female). Must have an eye for design and professional attitude.

Commercial & Residential Estimating: Floor & Wall Tile, Hardwood, Laminate and Carpet. Wages are negotiable based on experience & benefits avail. Fax 403-309-3000

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VII MASSAGE

Feeling blue, under the weather? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave. www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels 403-986-6686

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346 Yard Work / Reno / Tree / Junk Removal 403-396-4777

Moving & Storage

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BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

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LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Seniors’ Services

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ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for an honest reliable person to help on small renovations or jobs around your house? Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship, helping you/helping your family. Call 403-346-7777 Low Price Guarantee. www. helpinghandshomesupport.com

Accounting

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Are Cash Flow Problems Causing Stress when meeting payroll, monthly expenses or expansion plans?

Factoring converts your invoices to cash Immediately Without Debt!

Ph: 403-352-0067 Toll Free: 888-335-0552 Email: fbezaire@factorswestern.com Financial power for small business.

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DBL. reclining loveseat $80; Sony DVD $40 403-346-9635 MOVING 2 Chesterfields, $50/ea, would be good for rumpus room, recliner, $80, OR BEST OFFER 403-864-2009 MOVING Table, $20, double bed, $50.

OR BEST OFFER 403-864-2009

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GLENDALE 3 bdrm., good P.B. JACK RUSSELL cond. 4 appls., fenced puppies. $350.

403-896-9998 or 348-1810 yard, no pets, n/s, 403-318-0136

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Sporting Goods

RH golf clubs, c/w bag and handcart, $45, 403-347-5749

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Collectors' Items

ROUND oak table w/leaf that sits 10, 7 chairs $150; c u r i o c a b i n e t $ 5 0 3 PETIT POINT PICTURES. Japanese Geisha Girls.

403-343-3160 Professionally framed.

SOFA and chair, tan ve$125/set of 3. lour, Sklar, good shape 88” 403-314-9603 long sofa, no pets, n/s, HARDY BOYS BOOKS $140; record cabinet from the 1960’s. Good stained wood 26” x 15” x cond. 5/$25. 403-314-9603 22”h $45 403-314-2026

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Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

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UNIVERSAL T.V. Wall Mount for up to 50’ with tilt.

Brand New! $40.

403-346-4609

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4 GLASS bottom steins(alum) $32; decorative stein with music box $20; 6 tall 8 oz. glasses (sherry style) $10; green flared chip/dip bowl set $8; large white turkey platter $5; large blue enamel roaster $12; med. blue enamel roaster $6; wood burning art work picture, moose in meadow (one of a kind) 42” x 35 1/2” $60; driftwood 31 1/2”L x 9 1/2”h stained $45 403-314-2026 COMPOSTER Brand New. $30.

403-346-4555 Double Halogen light stand, $50.

Brand new, in box, 1500 lb 12V winch, $50.

403-887-4981 DRESSER & CHESTER DRAWER: 6 drawer dresser with centre double doors - mirror not included.

Chester drawer have double doors with 3 shelves plus 2 bottom pull out drawers. These are finsihed oak medium color. $199 for set. Pick up only.

(403)358-3073 or rjmarq@telus.net

MINIATURE HORSE

or utility trailer 12’ long, 5’w, tandem axle, brakes, rubber mat $2495; 2 mini Jerold show carts, covers (1 as new) $1195 - $450; antique Doctors cart for mini’s 1 or 2 horsehitch $750; mini harness, show halters, etc. 403-342-4457 MOVING SALE: Maple colored computer desk 31 1/4”W X 23 1/2” D w/attached monitor stand, pull out key board holder, bottom storage for hard drive or other storage $15.

Set of small Computer speakers that plug into computer or TV $15.

One queen size feather bed cover for mattress - never used $40 and two twin size feather bed covers slightly used $20 each.

These are all pick up only (403) 358-3073 or rjmarq@telus.net OLDER Sony Trilitron tv, 16”, color, remote, works good $5; Star Choice receiver $5; portable radio/cassette, Sharp, 12v/110 or 8 D cells $10; metal record holder $8; 8 track tape holder $5 403-314-2026 SENIOR DOWNSIZING heavy stainless pot. $12. 2 brass candle holders, $4.50 ea.; (1) old figurine lamp, $20.; (1) old fruit bowl, $12.; new tea pot with cover $10.; old divided vegetable dish, $9.50; old candy dish $4.50; 6 Correlle plates $2. ea.; 6 small Corelle plates, $1. ea; 2 old platters, (1) $12, (1) $15; green Tupperware vegetable storer, $5; 6 steak knives $4.; water & liquor glasses (10) $0.25 ea.; 1 Ukrainian plate with girl & bun figurine, $10; Ukrainian plate picture of Easter Eggs, $10; glass serving bowl, $3.; glass gravy boat & tray $4.; dress cutting board, $2.; Singer electric hand blender, $15. 403-346-2231

Office Supplies

1800

1 - Office Desk, $60 obo.

Dark Cherry wood color 2 - top drawers and 2 large “legal” drawer.

Leave msg @ 403-598-3986

Pets & Supplies

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BIRD CAGES (2) $20 ea.

403-346-4555

Cats

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LAURA SECORD DOLL 1984 musical, mint cond.

Certificate of authenticity, $150. 403-314-9603

QUITE, SOFT, ADORABLE KITTENS Free to a good home.

Litter trained. Assorted sizes & colours. Black w/chocolate brown highlights, tabby w/tan & brown markings. 403-782-2397

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

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Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912 WE BUY HORSES, broke, unbroke or unwanted. 403-783-0303

ROSEDALE upgraded, bright 1200 sq.ft. 3 bdrm., 2 bath 1/2 duplex. 5 appls. fenced back yard, family/ mature couples pref. $1350 + utils. 403-343-3964

Condos/ Townhouses

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14 ELLENWOOD

3 bdrm townhouse in Eastview. 1.5 bath, 6 appls.

Fenced yard. CAT friendly.

Avail Aug 1. $1295.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 OR 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca 3 BDRM. townhouse/ condo, 5 appls., 2 blocks from Collicutt Centre. $1200/mo. + utils, incl. condo fees. 403-346-4868 GILMORE TOWNHOUSE 3 bdrm., 1.5 bath, 5 appl.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099

Halman Heights

3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, no pets, n/s, rent $1350 SD $1000 avail. July 31.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

NORMANDEAU

3 bdrm townhouse. 1.5 baths, 5 appl. Fenced yard.

Small PET allowed.

Close to schools. $1250 HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 OR 403-896-1193

Riverfront Estates

2190

11/2 blocks west of hospital!

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3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. balcony, no pets, n/s, rent $1150 SD $1000 avail. July 15.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545

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GERMAN Shepherd P.B. pups. Ready to go!

587-377-3388 GOLDEN RETRIEVER pups, 2 F, 2 M. Ready to go, 1st. shots.

Vet checked. Born May 13.

403-773-2240 or 304-5104

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ORIOLE PARK Avail July 25. 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath, 4-plex, 4 appl, $925 + util, $875 SD, No Pets, N/S, PM 192.

8B Orient Green Sim Management & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

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1 & 2 BDRM. APTS.

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Houses/ Duplexes

CAMPBELL AVE. 3 bdrms, 1.5 baths, 5 appls, Den. †HEARTHSTONE† 403-314-0099†

3 bdrm., 1 bath mobile home on a basement. Lrg. fenced yard. rent incl. water.

403-845-7721 to leave msg.

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Lana 403-550-8777

ENJOY THE WHOLE HOUSE IN WESTPARK 4 Plexes/ 5 bdrms, 2 baths. 5 appls.

Mature fenced yard.

Attached garage.

Sorry, no pets.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 OR 403-396-9554

Manufactured Homes

3050

6 Plexes

INNISFAIL

2 bdrm., 2 baths, brand new, rent $995. + d.d. + utils, 403-343-1010

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Newly Renovated Mobile Home

Houses For Sale

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VERY large 1 BDRM. apartment in Ponoka $750/mo. inclds. all utils. plus laundry facilities.

Avail. Aug. 1. 403-993-3441 WOODLAND MANOR ~ INNISFAIL Avail Aug 1. Newly built, adults only, 2 bdrm, 1 bath, 6 appl, central vac, patio, 2 parking stalls, $895 + pwr, $845 SD, No Pets, N/S, PM 539.

106, 5205 Woodland Rd Sim Management & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

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3090

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60’ x 32’ heated, 2 doors 12’ x 12’ $1700/mo. Sylvan Lake area 780-434-0045

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3390

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SPACIOUS, BRIGHT Houses 2 bdrm suite available in a quiet adult building. $850 plus elect. Sorry, no pets. Coin-op laundry in bldg. Avail. Aug 1.

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VIBRANT ADULT 1 bath suite, 2 appl, end 2 ref’s req’d, incld’s cable, Community coming soon suite, adults only, $675 + n/s, no drinking, drugs or to Sylvan Lake. Call pwr, $675 SD, No Pets, pets, parties. $450. rent, Lorraine 403-896-3553 N/S, PM 244-14. $200. d.d. 403-357-8097 www.brightwaterliving.ca Sim Management & Realty ROOM for rent $500./mo.

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Estate of Edith Marie Bruntjen who died on May 2, 2012 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by August 26, 2012 and provide details of your claim with: Brad A. Balon at Johnston Ming Manning LLP Barristers and Solicitors 4th Floor, 4943 - 50 Street Red Deer, AB. T4N 1Y1 If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have. 253269G20,27

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August 20th, 2012 with

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Funding probe urged

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO ELECTIONS

MEXICO CITY — The conservative National Action Party joined Mexico’s main leftist party Thursday in accusing the winner of the country’s July 1 presidential election of campaign wrongdoing, saying it has “strong and conclusive” evidence of the use of illicit funds.

National Action leader Gustavo Madero said his party is demanding that electoral authorities investigate the purported use of pre-paid debit cards by apparent winner Enrique Pena Nieto’s campaign to disburse an estimated 108 million pesos ($8.2 million) in funds. That alone would be about a third of all the money the candidate was legally allowed to use in the race.

Pena Nieto of the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, won the election with about a 6.6 percentage-point lead over the second-place finisher, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

National Action and the Lopez Obrador’s Democratic Revolution Party normally don’t agree on much, so Thursday’s joint news conference between Madero and Democratic

Revolution leader Jesus Zambrano was a rare occurrence.

Both parties claim there was widespread overspending and vote buying by Pena Nieto, a charge he denies. They say they don’t know where the money for Pena Nieto’s campaign came from, but claimed the way it was apparently channeled through front companies suggested money laundering or other illicit activities.

Lopez Obrador had previously accused the party of giving out thousands of gift cards redeemable at a supermarket chain to people ahead of the vote. Shoppers nearly stripped some shelves at a Soriana store in a poor Mexico City district in the days following the July 1 election.

National Action first discovered the prepaid debit cards, which allegedly were used to pay PRI district representatives thousands of pesos. Lopez Obrador’s party later uncovered dozens of receipts for mass purchases of the cards. Those receipts listed addresses for apparent front companies, but one of the addresses on the receipts is the same as the

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

office of a prominent former PRI official and lawyer.

A secretary at that lawyer’s office who refused to give her name said that she had never heard of one of the companies that bought the debit cards, and which listed the office as its address on receipts obtained by Lopez Obrador’s party. A relative of that lawyer allegedly played a role in Pena Nieto’s campaign, something the PRI denied.

Strange circumstances seemed to surround the debit card purchases; the address listed on the receipts for another big purchaser of the cards, an import, export and trading firm, listed as its address an office which is occupied by a dentist. The dentist’s receptionist declined to comment.

“Every day it is becoming clearer ... the link between this money and PRI activists and Enrique Pena Nieto,” Madero said.

No big-name PRI member is listed on the receipts, which Lopez Obrador’s campaign made public Wednesday.

“The PRI categorically denies the use of illicit funds in the presidential campaign, or having exceeded campaign spending limits,” PRI party leader Pedro Joaquin Coldwell said Thursday.

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Gaffes led FBI to rule out Hasan as a threat

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The nearly 20 oftenrambling emails that an Army psychiatrist sent to Yemeni terror leader Anwar al-Awlaki painted a confusing picture.

In some he was a believer intent on supporting terrorists and intrigued with the idea of U.S. soldiers killing comrades in the name of Islam. In others he was a man looking for help finding an appropriate wife.

In the end, they weren’t enough for the FBI to identify Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a terrorist threat or, as it would turn out, as a man who now stands accused of the shooting spree at Fort Hood that killed 13 and wounded 23 others in November 2009.

The emails attracted the attention of FBI and anti-terrorism task force agents in December 2008, and eventually prompted them to dig up Hasan’s personnel records and evaluation reports.

But gaps in the bureau’s systems, poor training, antiquated technologies and an underlying fear that approaching Hasan would reveal the ongoing investigation into Awlaki prevented the FBI from pursuing the matter much further.

An independent review released Thursday by the FBI lays out a series of gaffes the bureau made as agents evaluated Hasan’s correspondence with Awlaki, and ultimately decided the Army major was not a terror threat. The report, by former FBI Director William Webster, concludes that FBI personnel made mistakes in their handling of intelligence information, but that no one person was responsible.

“We do not find, and do not believe, that anyone is solely responsible for mistakes in handling the information,” Webster wrote to FBI Director Robert Mueller in a letter with the report. “We do not believe it would be fair to hold these dedicated personnel, who work in a context of constant threats and limited resources, responsible for the tragedy that occurred months later at Fort Hood.”

Much was already known about the series of oversights and missteps the government made leading to the terror attack at the Fort Hood Army post, but the report revealed new details.

The report describes the back-and-forth that went on between agents in Washington and task force members reviewing the emails in San Diego.

The FBI in San Diego had been investigating al-Awlaki, a former San Diego resident, for his possible connections to the 9-11 hijackers. When agents saw emails between Hasan and al-Awlaki, they asked the FBI’s Washington office to talk to Hasan’s bosses.

The Washington office said no.

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Evan Weber, 9, makes some minor adjustments to his “home-made sailer” while waiting for a gust of wind in his Dubuque, Iowa, driveway Wednesday.

‘Three Cups of Tea’ author’s charity expands board

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MISMANAGEMENT

HELENA, Mon. — The charity co-founded

by Greg Mortenson said Thursday it has added seven new board members, an expansion that is part of a legal settlement over accusations the Three Cups of Tea author mismanaged the organization that builds schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The new Central Asia Institute board of directors includes academics, people with business and finance backgrounds, philanthropists and an attorney who are familiar with the region where the institute works.

They participated in their first meetings in San Francisco last week after being selected from dozens of people who had submitted letters of interest.

The new members join Mortenson, Abdul Jabbar and Karen McCown, who previously were the sole board members of the Bozeman-based charity.

A Montana attorney general investigation concluded last spring that Mortenson’s control of the institute went unchallenged by the board and led to the charity spending millions on Mortenson’s books, travel and personal items.

The investigation found a lack of financial accountability in which large amounts of cash sent overseas were never accounted for and itemized expenses were missing supporting documentation.

The settlement with the attorney general’s office called for Mortenson to reimburse the charity nearly $1 million, his removal from a position of financial oversight and an expansion of the board.

Jabbar will remain the board chairman, but he and McCown will only stay on the board until next spring, said interim director Anne Beyersdorfer.

Mortenson will stay on the board as a nonvoting member, she said.

Mortenson, who flew in from Pakistan to attend the board meetings in California, is still in the U.S. but is unavailable to comment because of an appeal pending in a separate lawsuit, Beyersdorfer said.

The Montana attorney general’s office had no immediate comment Thursday.

One of the new board members, Steve Barrett, is a former member of the Montana Board of Regents and a lawyer who lives in Bozeman. He said the changes called for in settlement with the attorney general’s office must be accommodated, but he is confident they will be done on or before their scheduled deadlines.

Meanwhile, the board’s priority is to back the organization’s mission of building schools and supporting the education of girls in Central Asia, and then work to address its staffing and infrastructure needs, Barrett said.

“It’s important for us to remind ourselves that this is an important mission with real people being served, and we need to focus on that,” Barrett said.

Mortenson, his books and the Central Asia Institute came under scrutiny last year when reports by 60 Minutes and author Jon Krakauer alleged that Mortenson fabricated parts of Three Cups of Tea and its sequel Stones Into Schools and that he benefited financially from the charity.

The attorney general’s probe focused only on the charity’s finances and operations, and did not examine the books’ contents. A federal judge earlier this year dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by people who bought the book and claimed fraud by Mortenson.

Ex-chair of Penn State board of trustees resigns

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A member and former chairman of the Penn State board of trustees resigned on Thursday, becoming the first board member to do so in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Steve Garban said in a letter his presence on the board had become “a distraction and an impediment” to its efforts to move forward.

Garban was harshly criticized over his handling of the crisis that engulfed Penn State after Sandusky’s arrest last November, and he faced persistent calls from alumni and fellow board members to step down.

An internal investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh found that Garban was briefed twice about developments in the Sandusky case but didn’t share what he knew with the entire board, depriving trustees of a chance to prepare for the worst crisis in Penn State’s 157-year history.

Freeh’s 267-page report portrayed a disengaged board that handed too much responsibility to the university president and failed to investigate deeply enough once it became aware of a grand jury probe.

After the report’s release, trustees accepted responsibility for a failure of oversight and said they were “deeply ashamed.”

Board Chairwoman Karen Peetz, who announced Garban’s resignation in a letter on the board’s website, said at the time that no trustee would step down, however.

Garban didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday night.

While Garban is the first trustee to resign in the wake of the Sandusky scandal, he’s not the first board casualty. Incumbent trustee Anne Riley lost re-election last spring as alumni upset over the board’s handling of the crisis picked three new trustees — all of whom campaigned on a reform platform — to sit on the 32-member panel.

A 1959 Penn State graduate, Garban worked at the university for 33 years, the last 12 as treasurer and senior vice-president of finance and operations. Alumni first elected him to the board of trustees in 1998, and he began his fifth three-year term in 2010.

Some trustees felt he was too close to ousted university president Graham Spanier, according to the Freeh report.

“Some trustees thought Garban’s history of being previously employed at Penn State,

where as (senior vice-president) he reported directly to Spanier, hampered his ability to lead the board,” the report said.

In April 2011, the report said, Spanier told Garban about a grand jury investigation of Sandusky. Garban, in turn, failed to alert fellow board members. Garban told investigators that Spanier downplayed the Sandusky probe, and he recalled his former boss saying, “It was the third or fourth grand jury and nothing would come of it,” the report said.

Then, on Oct. 28, Garban learned from Penn State’s chief lawyer that two university administrators were about to be charged with failing to report suspected child abuse.

Garban told investigators he was “astounded” when he saw Sandusky in the Nittany Lion Club at Penn State’s home game against Illinois on Oct. 29. Yet he informed only two other trustees — James Broadhurst and John Surma — that charges against Sandusky, Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice-President Gary Schultz were imminent.

Former general counsel Cynthia Baldwin told Freeh’s investigators that she thought Garban, as “conduit to the board,” would have alerted his colleagues about the Sandusky investigation.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, July 20, 2012 E7

No group 1,200 extra U.K. troops on takes blame standby for London Games for Israeli bus attack BURGAS, Bulgaria — A lanky, long-haired man wearing a baseball cap and plaid shorts with a fake Michigan driver’s license carried out a deadly suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers, Bulgarian officials said Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the attack on Iranian-backed Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim guerrilla group, and threatened retaliation. Seven people — five Israelis, the Bulgarian driver and the bomber — died in the blast Wednesday.

Although no group claimed responsibility, Israel has attributed a series of attacks on its citizens around the world in recent months to Iran and its Shiite proxies, threatening to escalate a shadow war between the two arch-enemies.

The attack occurred shortly after the Israelis boarded a bus outside the airport in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas, a popular destination for Israeli tourists — particularly for high school graduates before they are drafted into military service.

Burgas is about 400 kilometres (250 miles) east of the capital, Sofia.

Bulgarian television aired security camera footage Thursday showing the suspected bomber wandering in and out of the terminal shortly before the blast. He was dressed as a tourist himself, wearing a baseball cap, T-shirt, plaid shorts and sneakers with short white socks. He carried a large backpack with wheels.

Officials said the bomb detonated in the luggage compartment of the bus as the attacker mingled among his victims.

Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the bomber was believed to have been about 36 years old and had been in the country between four and seven days.

“We cannot exclude the possibility that he had logistical support on Bulgarian territory,” the minister said. He declined to elaborate.

Officials were using DNA samples to try to establish his identity. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov told reporters that a Michigan driver’s license was retrieved, but he said U.S. officials reported that “there was no such person in their database.”

Michigan is home to one of the largest Arab communities in the U.S. The Israelis had just arrived on a charter flight from Tel Aviv carrying 154 people, including eight children. Some of them told Israeli television that they were just boarding the white bus in the airport parking lot for a ride to their hotel when the blast occurred.

Officials reported overnight that an eighth person had died, but later said that was incorrect.

Israel’s military said a military plane carrying 33 Israelis injured in the bombing arrived Thursday in Israeli. At least two critically injured Israelis were sent to Sofia for treatment, according to the head of the Israeli military medical corps, Brig. Gen. Itzik Kreis.

A Bulgarian government plane will fly home 100 other Israelis who were not wounded, but who want to cut short their vacation.

Syria’s Assad appears on TV after attack

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad made his first appearance Thursday since a bomb killed some of his top lieutenants, looking calm and composed on state TV even as his forces turned parts of Damascus into combat zones and rebels seized two of the country’s border crossings.

The unprecedented attack on Assad’s inner circle Wednesday, along with the government’s inability to crush the rebels after five days of intense clashes in the Syrian capital, point to an unraveling of his grip on power after 16 months of violence.

“It is a war going on here, literally a war,” said a 25-year-old woman in the Muhajereen neighbourhood. The sounds of battle had kept her up all night and she stayed home from work because she feared random gunfire, she added.

“It reminded me of that night when the Americans shelled Baghdad nine years ago,” said the woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety. “I was watching it on TV, but today I’m living a very similar situation.”

Even though Assad’s powerful military remains mostly loyal — suggesting a total collapse may not be imminent — the rebels appeared to be making startling gains as the civil war intensified.

Besides the fighting in Damascus, about a halfdozen rebels took over a Syrian border crossing near the Iraqi town of Qaim, said Iraqi army Brig. General Qassim al-Dulaimi. There are four major border posts with Iraq.

Rebels overtook a Syrian army outpost near the Syrian-Iraq border after clashes that killed 21 Syrian soldiers, he added.

In addition, amateur video posted online showed rebels taking over the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, where they stomped on portraits of Assad. The Associated Press could not independently verify the video because the government bars most media from working independently in the country.

A diplomatic solution to ending the bloodshed seemed even more remote after Russia and China again vetoed a Western-backed U.N. resolution aimed at pressuring Assad’s government to end the escalating conflict.

Analysts said the regime was clearly shaken by the violence in the heart of its power base of Damascus, but the next step was not clear yet.

“We should not get carried away with speculating about the impending fall of the regime,” said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center and an analyst on regional politics. He said the regime’s forces “are still showing a certain amount of cohesiveness in battle.”

Citing a network of sources on the ground, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported intense clashes in a string of neighbourhoods along the southern edge of Damascus, the northeastern neighbourhood of Qaboun, and in number of western suburbs.

OLYMPICS

LONDON — In a one-two punch to hopes for a smooth Olympics, Britain had to put 1,200 extra troops on standby Thursday due to a shortage of security guards and U.K. border agents decided to strike the day before the games begin.

The last-minute infusion of manpower comes as security contractor G4S continues to fall short of its obligations to provide thousands of guards to protect 100 Olympics-related sites.

Safety is a huge issue for the Olympics, and one that has become a painful embarrassment both for the British government and for G4S, which had promised to provide some 10,400 guards. G4S acknowledged last week it would be unable to fully staff the games, a last-minute admission that forced the government to call in 3,500 other soldiers to help meet the shortfall.

On Thursday, Jeremy Hunt, the government secretary in charge of the Olympics, acknowledged that even G4S’s reduced numbers may not hold up, telling the BBC he had put the extra troops on standby “in the unlikely situation that G4S’s performance deteriorates from where it is today.”

The seeming inability of government officials to get a proper grip with staffing issues has been compounded by a series of industrial disputes — in-

cluding one that threatens to lead to a 24-hour-long walkout by border guards at London’s Heathrow Airport on July 26, the day before the London Olympics begin.

Even without the strike, London’s Heathrow Airport has been beset for months by sporadic long lines at passport control, which the union blames on government spending cuts. The problem had eased in the last week as thousands of Olympic VIPs arrived for the games, but a walkout threatens a return of the endless waits at the worst possible moment for Britain’s international image Hunt’s announcement about more troops came as his Cabinet colleague, Home Secretary Theresa May, acknowledged that officials had been warned last month about Olympic security manpower issues, far earlier than has previously been admitted.

In a letter to an opposition lawmaker Keith Vaz, May wrote that she was told of a “possible temporary shortfall” in staffing numbers by G4S as long ago as June 27 and that she had already begun marshalling military resources as a contingency.

That’s far earlier than the May 11 date that May had previously mentioned to lawmakers in Britain’s House of Commons.

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