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Is it a bird?

Is it a plane?

NO . . . IT’S RICK MERCER FILMING A FLYBOARD SEGMENT FOR HIS CBC TV SHOW ON SYLVAN LAKE

Cross another activity off Rick Mercer’s wacky to-do list.

On Monday afternoon, the CBC comedian and daredevil spent about two hours learning how to use a Flyboard on Sylvan Lake.

The extreme watersport uses a waterjet pack hooked up to a Jet Ski and can propel a person as much as nine metres (30 feet) into the air.

“When they do it, it looks like Iron Man. I don’t think I look like Iron Man. I was just glad I got up in the air,” said Mercer with a smile back on shore at the Sylvan Lake Marina.

With training, the force of the jets allows the flyboarder to arc in and out of the water like a dolphin.

Mercer said he did a good imitation of a “flabby dolphin.”

“My dolphin looks nothing like their dolphin. They actually look like super dolphins. I look like probably a severely injured, out-of-shape dolphin.

“But I managed to get something close to a dolphin.”

Rick Mercer Report officials called NBD Watersports, of Sylvan Lake, about two weeks ago to book Mercer a training session to air on his show.

NBD Watersports owner Brody Wells is the second male Flyboard instructor in Canada and Stephanie Wells, communication and marketing manager, is the first female Flyboard instructor in the Americas.

“It’s as extreme as you want to make it. You can do back flips. You can just go out and fly,” said Nikita Jerrett, NBD operational support manager.

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Rick Mercer loses control while launching himself on a water-propelled Flyboard on Sylvan Lake in taping a segment for his CBC TV show ‘The Mercer Report’ Monday. Right: Rick Mercer is readied for a Flyboard ride Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

lobbies Town council, MLA collide Mayor to replace over contentious intersection courthouse

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

SYLVAN LAKE

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Sylvan Lake town council and its rookie MLA are embroiled in a war of words over the contentious Hwy 781 and Hwy 11 intersection.

Last week, Kerry Towle, the Wildrose MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, hosted a public meeting to update residents on her lobbying efforts to open up the intersection that was changed to a right-in, right-out configuration for safety reasons.

While town council says they were aware of the meeting, they said they did not receive a formal invitation.

Towle has maintained she extended an invitation.

The gathering drew about 350 people from Sylvan Lake and surrounding area who voiced their dismay over the province’s decision to reconfigure the intersection instead of installing traffic lights.

Towle made a point at the meeting of saying that town council was not there to hear people’s concerns. She also suggested that town council was not listening to the needs of the community.

A few days after the meeting, the

‘WE’RE VERY CONCERNED AND WE SPENT QUITE AN AMOUNT OF TIME AND EFFORT TO COMMUNICATE THE PRIORITIES OF OUR COMMUNITY TO THE MLA AND I DON’T BELIEVE THAT’S BEING RECIPROCATED.’

Red Deer Mayor Morris Flewwelling is helping drum up support to replace the city’s overcrowded courthouse.

In a letter sent to Central Alberta mayors and reeves, Flewwelling says he has been approached by members of the legal community and by retired Court of Queen’s Bench justice Jim Foster, who are all concerned that the courthouse is no longer adequate.

Flewwelling said the building is “bursting at the seams and process is being delayed as a result of the lack of facilities.”

Red Deer is in line behind Sherwood Park for courthouse upgrades, but the province has proposed building additions to the east and west sides of the existing building and renovating the interior to add more space. It’s an overhaul that could take seven years.

Unfortunately, due to a last-minute cost-cutting measure, the courthouse was not built with large enough foundations to allow additional storeys to be added on the existing footprint.

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— SUSAN SAMSON, MAYOR, SYLVAN LAKE

FRUSTRATION MOUNTS A2 Town of Sylvan Lake posted an open letter to residents on its website outlining some of its communication problems with the opposition MLA. Mayor Susan Samson said the town has made a concerted effort to keep the MLA up to speed on intergovernmental affairs involving the town, including the Hwy 781 and Hwy 11 intersection, and Memorial Trail and intersection upgrades (including Memorial Trail and Hwy 20, Hwy 11 and Hwy 20, and Hwy 781 and Hwy 11, and 60th Street and Hwy 11).

The town secured $6.6 million to build out Memorial Trail and the intersections. Samson said the relationship with the MLA is very one-sided.

“We’re very concerned and we spent

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quite an amount of time and effort to communicate the priorities of our community to the MLA and I don’t believe that’s being reciprocated,” said Samson.

“Yes, Mrs. Towle has talked about how she has attended all these events and activities in our community and that has been at our invite.”

Samson said town council has worked very closely with Alberta government to look after the efficient transportation of residents and the travelling public in the area.

“Council is pleased to report there have been no accidents Hwy 781 and Hwy 11 since the changes have been made.”

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Resident wants non-confidence vote

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

INTERSECTION CONTROVERSY

SYLVAN LAKE — A local resident frustrated with the mayor’s support for changes to a controversial local intersection wants to push for a non-confidence vote.

Colleen Halwa said outside a Sylvan Lake town council on Monday night she was “absolutely furious” with Mayor Susan Samson’s position on the Hwy 781 and Hwy 11 intersection, which has been converted into right-in, right-out only.

“She is not standing behind the citizens of Sylvan Lake,” said Halwa, one of about 20 residents who turned out for the open microphone session that begins each council meeting.

The mother of two had asked the mayor if she would support residents who are trying to press the province to install traffic lights at the controversial intersection, which has been the scene of a number of fatal accidents over the years.

Samson said she believed the province had chosen the safest solution for the spot and she would

not join a lobby to add traffic lights.

Town council got an earful from residents steaming about changes made to the key local intersection.

Dale Mannix warned it’s only a matter of time before the current configuration that marks out turning lanes with posts and cables causes a fatal accident in snowy or foggy weather.

The posts are expected to be replaced eventually by a curbed island, likely next spring.

Wendy Morris also believes the changes have created a dangerous situation.

Related plans to upgrade Memorial Trail and build an intersection at Hwy 20 will add another hazardous corner in the community, she told council.

Shari Britton said the hundreds that turned out to a recent meeting on the intersection hosted by local Wildrose MLA Kerry Towle shows that many in the community believe the province made the wrong decision on the best way to fix the intersection. All residents want is for the province to take an-

other look at options, she added.

Towle also took the microphone to tell council she hoped to work with them but felt it was her responsibility to lobby for changes as residents’ provincial representative.

After the meeting, Samson said the town perhaps has not communicated its position well enough on the intersection.

Samson believes the province has done its homework on what should be done there.

“I believe Alberta Transportation has the background and the engineers to come up with safe solutions on that intersection,” she said.

“This is not news to us that that intersection was going to change.

That change was accelerated by the unfortunate, tragic deaths that occurred there and that seems to have been forgotten.”

Three people were killed in separate collisions at the intersection two months apart in the summer of 2011, prompting calls to improve safety there. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Sylvan Lake’s lighthouse days appear numbered A Sylvan Lake landmark’s days are numbered.

The red and white lighthouse that has stood on the shore near the marina since 1988 is scheduled for demolition.

Town chief administrative officer Betty Osmond told council on Monday night that the lighthouse, which is on private land and near a proposed condominium complex, was in too poor condition to be salvageable and will have to be knocked down.

A provincial building inspector and local fire inspector have examined the structure and determined it can’t be saved.

Mayor Susan Samson said the lighthouse has been in poor repair almost since it was built.

Only a year after it was erected by a local resident it was condemned as unsafe and had to be

shored up internally.

It was also hit by fire at one point.

“It’s going to be a controversial thing again, for sure,” she said of the lighthouse’s demise.

Councillors also expressed their concern that the public would not take kindly to seeing the lighthouse torn down.

Coun. Sean McIntyre called it a “beloved landmark.”

Council voted to make sure that the lighthouse was replaced, either with another one or some other landmark that would meet local residents’ approval. The town plans to go to the public to gather ideas about what could be done to replace the lighthouse.

“We might build the exact same thing because people love it,” said Samson. “We’ll go back to the public and see what they think.”

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COURTHOUSE: Prefer a new building downtown The City of Red Deer, backed by the Central Alberta Bar Association, would prefer to see a new courthouse built downtown.

In June, the bar association passed a special resolution that says Central Albertans are being “denied access to justice because they cannot obtain access to court facilities within a reasonable period of time.”

Association president Brent Handel says in a July 17 letter to Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas that in the last 20 years, three independent reviews have recommended courthouse expansion without anything being done.

A review of regional courthouse standards suggests the 97,000-square-foot building be almost tripled in size.

“Expansion of the existing courthouse is no longer financially or practically feasible,” says Handel. He could not be reached for comment on Monday.

Flewwelling said there is some urgency because an ideal city-owned site is available: the site of the former RCMP headquarters.

While the former RCMP site has been considered for City Hall expansion, a deal could be arranged to allow the province to use the site and in return the city could take over the former courthouse building.

“The reason I’m stirring this right now is because that’s a possibility that may not always exist,” said the mayor.

“That greenfield is a very valuable piece of property in the downtown because it’s so large.”

The city believes the courthouse should remain downtown.

Flewwelling said he’s contacted Central Alberta MLAs to enlist their support for the new courthouse plan. He plans to raise the issue on Friday as part of a general meeting with the city’s two MLAs. The courthouse will also be discussed at a meeting this fall of regional municipal leaders. pcowley@reddeeradvocate. com

SPAT: A‘fine’ relationship Samson said there is no reason for the town to go back to the province to open the conversation on this issue.

However, Towle said it is very clear that the residents in her riding want the intersection re-opened. She said it is her mandate to listen to the residents and lobby on their behalf to the province.

“Clearly this residents are saying this solution does not suit their needs. There are many intersections across this province that are safe and can be used as examples of how this one could be made safe.

“I understand town council’s position initially that it was unsafe intersection but I believe there are ways to make it safe again that don’t include the closure.”

Towle posted a response to the town’s letter on her Facebook page indicating that she invited town council to the public meeting. She said the meeting was advertised in local newspapers that the meeting was open to the public and

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Rick Mercer of CBC TV’s show ‘The Mercer Report’, in yellow hat, watches Brody Wells, left, and his cousin Stephanie on their Flyboards on Sylvan Lake during taping a segment for his CBC TV show The Mercer Report Monday. Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com. she sent emails to the town.

“Realistically, the relationship is fine,” said Towle.

“There might be a little of a miscommunication but I am sure the town and I will sort it out to do what’s best for the residents.”

Both Sylvan Lake town council and Towle said they look forward to working together over the next four years. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

MERCER: ‘It’s nothing like I’ve ever done’

Mercer said sometimes there’s a learning curve to the activities he tries. But Flyboarding was instant fun, shooting him up into the air in the first minute.

“It’s like nothing I’ve ever done and I’ve done a lot of zany things. Doing it looks as fun as you would imagine.”

His excitement tempered any anxiety he had.

“I did have some anxiety but I was really, honestly, excited to try this. From the moment I saw it on YouTube I just thought that was something I would love to experience.”

His first trip to Sylvan Lake was another happy surprise.

“When I think of the Alberta landscape, I never think of lake-front living. I don’t know

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why and this has been a real eye-opener.”

“For me, I like to travel around the country and meet really interesting people doing interesting things, but if I can throw in a beautiful landscape, that’s three for three, and to me that’s a perfect Mercer Report piece. We had that in spades.”

Days before Mercer strapped on a Flyboard, he was in Cold Lake flying fighter jets and racing Ferraris, and in Olds where he went gliding with Royal Canadian Air Cadets. The Sylvan Lake Flyboard episode is expected to air in September. No dates have been given for airing the Olds and Cold Lake episodes. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

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Mothers want tougher drug trafficking laws

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Two mothers who lost their sons to drugs have joined forces to put pressure on the federal government to tighten drug trafficking laws.

The existing law is already scheduled to change, but both women say it’s not enough to protect Canadian teens from deadly street drugs.

Carol Dahl says Ecstasy laced with PMMA killed her son Daniel last December.

She says no mother should ever have to read a medical examiner’s report on their little boy.

Dahl is being joined in her campaign by Brenda Hermann, who also lost her son Jonathan to Ecstasy a few months earlier.

Both women want to see the penalties for trafficking that results in death made much stiffer.

“Just like when you’re drinking and

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Flies bedevil a mare as she stands in the shade to escape the sun in Lacombe County Monday. This summer’s heat has been a boon to many, but to some, whether equine or human, it’s simply a bane.

Non-union salaries expected to rise in 2013 CALGARY AND ALBERTA MARKETS FORECAST AN AVERAGE INCREASE OF 3.3 PER CENT FOR 2013 tor/not for profit forecast increases of 2.4 per cent and 2.5 per cent respectively when salary freezes are included, Mercer said.

CALGARY — An inquiry into allegations that some Albertans have been getting preferential treatment in the health-care system has launched a website.

John Vertes (ver-tis), the commissioner of the inquiry, says he hopes going online will encourage more people to take part in the probe.

The inquiry is to determine if some people are or have been jumping the line for health care and to come up with recommendations to stop the practice if it is happening.

The actual consultation phase of the inquiry doesn’t start until December when public hearings will be held in Edmonton and Calgary.

The website is www.healthaccessinquiry.ca

Pilot dead after crash of small plane NANTON — A pilot who was patrolling pipelines over rugged terrain southwest of Calgary has died after his light plane crashed.

Chris Krepski of the Transportation Safety Board says the single-engine Cessna 172 went down Sunday afternoon near Chain Lakes Provincial Park. The 37-year-old pilot was the only one on board.

RCMP say he was from the Edmonton area.

His name has not been released.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

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Non-union workers across Canada can expect wage increases of 3.2 per cent on average next year, according to an annual survey by Mercer.

The gobal business consultancy said Monday that the projected wage increases would match actual increases in base pay reported for 2012.

They would also be up slightly from the average of three per cent in 2011 and 2.9 per cent in 2010.

Mercer’s 2012/2013 Canada Compensation Planning Survey, conducted annually for over 20 years, includes responses from more than 750 employers across Canada and reflects pay practices for approximately two million nonunion workers.

The results cover increases in five categories: executive, management and professional (sales and non-sales), as well as workers in the office, clerical and technician classification and those in the trades, production and service sector.

Mercer said the results are indicative of a steadily increasing trend that will also see topperforming employees — some six per cent of the workforce — enjoy even higher increases as companies strive to retain critical talent.

“Differentiating salary increases based on performance is the norm and remains an effective way for employers to wisely spend their reward dollars on the most

impactful employees,” said Iain Morris, leader of Mercer’s human capital consulting business for Canada.

“Since many companies are still working with limited dollars, taking a holistic approach to total rewards using internal workforce analytics as well as external market data to set appropriate programs for each employee segment is the smart approach,” Morris said.

Mercer’s survey shows that in 2012 highest-performing employees received average base pay increases of 4.9 per cent compared with 2.9 per cent for average performers, about 60 per cent of the workforce.

Regional and industry differences were also a factor, with Western Canada continuing to lead the way with higher increases than the rest of the country.

For example , the Calgary and Alberta markets forecast an average increase of 3.3 per cent for 2013 compared with 2.9 per cent for Montreal and Quebec.

Oil and gas companies lead the way with a forecasted increase of 4.2 per cent for 2013 while high tech/telecommunications and public sec-

LETHBRIDGE — Some Alberta politicians think a call by a Liberal member of the province’s legislature for Frito-Lay to boycott Alberta potatoes is half-baked.

David Swann made the unusual call last week to pressure the Alberta government to deal with the issue of child labour on farms and the extension of workplace health and safety regulations to farm workers.

Opposition Wildrose M-L-A Gary Bikman says Swann doesn’t understand the need for young family members having to work occasional long hours on a farm when conditions are optimal.

Progressive Conservative M-L-A Greg Weadick says it’s unbelievable for Swann to call for a boycott of an Alberta product.

The Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research says the rate of children killed in agriculture-related accidents between 1992 and 2009 increased even though the overall number of children in the past two decades dropped.

Potato Growers of Alberta chair Rob Van Roessel says the organization has led the way in Alberta with onfarm food safety protocols, and supports more safety training for workers.

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driving and you cause a death, you are accountable for your actions,” says Hermann.

Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson’s office says federal laws surrounding Ecstasy are about to get stricter.

As of November, it will be considered a hard drug like cocaine or heroin under the law, so there will be more jail time for trafficking it, but there are no plans right now to specifically target dealers who sell the killer product.

Both women acknowledge their sons’ roles in their own deaths, but they want those who sell the drugs to be more accountable for the deadly results.

Police used tips given to them by Dahl and others to make seven arrests in her son’s death earlier this year.

Meanwhile, Dahl and Hermann say the best thing people can do to help them now is to sign their petition asking the government to tighten drug trafficking laws.

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Lost perspective on heroes America creates heroes, brick on teetering brick, like an imaginative child fashions building block figures: never simply, always with grand intent regardless of the reality.

From Neil Armstrong to Lance Armstrong, the culture of success so fundamental to the United States ethos means that the nation is always erecting pedestals, and always hoisting someone atop those pedestals. A national obsession with striving to be the best isn’t enough; Americans seem to need to constantly celebrate — and flaunt — their achievements.

It goes beyond good nation building, all the way to chauvinism.

Even the best of human endeavour, like venturing into space, becomes grandiose and, ultimately, perspective of the feat becomes twisted.

The space program should have always been about exploring, developing new technologies, and testing human limits. It should have been about advancing the human experience, and our well of knowledge, for the better-

OURVIEW JOHN STEWART ment of everyone.

Given the era, of course, it was about much more than that. (And, in hindsight, it’s often seen now as a colossal waste of public money that could have been put to use educating, housing and feeding America’s vast poor.)

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, tacitly declaring victory for the United States in its decade-long space race with the Soviet Union, and diverting attention from a host of ailments that had beset American society, from a disaffected generation to a pointlessly tragic war in Vietnam.

Neil Armstrong never meant to be a hero, and shied from the spotlight in the following decades until his death last weekend. That he had the stuff of a hero is undeniable. He was a combathardened war veteran, a brilliant engineer, a brave and skilled test pilot, a

teacher and an innovator.

But he became more than that in the eyes of Americans, and reflected out into the greater world: he became an icon, emblematic of the battle to crush communism, and the mission to assert the supremacy of the United States and its way of life.

Certainly he never spoke in those terms, but that was how his life’s work was defined.

The space program with which Armstrong was so inextricably linked gave mankind some remarkable technological advancements. And it has inspired a host of young people to view their world, and their potential, differently.

But Armstrong believed firmly that he was just a man doing his job.

That he did it with modesty and extreme competence should have been enough. In the end, obligingly, the American public cherished him even more because he held true to his humility. It was one more thing for the nation, ironically, to puff its chest out about.

The lessons of Lance Armstrong, champion cyclist, cancer survivor and apparent cheat, are far more complicated. But they are equally illustrative.

After years of battling with the United States Anti-Doping Agency, the seven-time Tour de France champion last week said he would fight no more.

He didn’t say he was admitting that he used performance-enhancing drugs (he has never failed a drug test). Just that he was tired of the constant fight.

Never mind that the agency has a dozen or more witnesses who are willing to testify that Armstrong and his team were guilty of “doping activity.”

The agency says it has persisted in pursuing Armstrong for years because it wishes to tear down the “win-at-allcost culture.”

That, of course, sounds positively anti-American.

Here’s hoping the agency succeeds, in honour of people like Neil Armstrong.

John Stewart is the Advocate’s managing editor.

Bike lane project took a wrong turn DEDICATED LANES ON 55TH STREET ARE DESTINED TO MAKE A BAD TRAFFIC SITUATION WORSE Have you ever witnessed a first-rate idea gone just a little sideways?

I saw one last week as I drove my daughter to her volleyball camp at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School — and it was a bit of a stunner, I must say.

The first-rate idea? Dedicated bike lanes in the city.

The sideways part? Installing them along 55th Street in the downtown.

I begin with commending the city for its proactive efforts to encourage healthier and greener transportation choices throughout our community, by creating, and retrofitting where necessary, dedicated bike lanes as a high VESNA priority.

HIGHAM Kudos to city council for this vision, and to the biking steering committee for its hard work in mapping out streets and trails facilitating safer, more direct means for bikers to traverse the town.

Most people in this city are quite willing to concede some degree of driving convenience to make room for, where practical, these two-wheeled commuters, knowing that we must strike a healthy balance between moving traffic and accommodating biker access and safety.

Retrofitting 55th Street with bike lanes is an ex-

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ample where that balance is altogether lost.

The cost of reducing two lanes of traffic in each direction down to one each is simply too high in terms of the volume of traffic that will and must move down that street during the upcoming school year — particularly at peak commuter hours.

I realize this is a pilot project, returning to council at regular intervals for update and review. None of the lanes throughout the city are permanent, yet.

And generally speaking, the nature of a pilot is to test the waters: to experiment, observe and record resultant outcomes.

In the case of 55th — a street that I and many parents like myself drive virtually everyday during the school year — I can tell you in a word the outcome of this experiment.

Gridlock.

The students and staff alone of Lindsay Thurber and Central Middle School represent a community of some 2,800 people accessing those facilities daily throughout the work week of any given school year.

Fifty-fifth is the only direct route to Lindsay Thurber coming from the north across the river, as I do, and is a very busy commuter carrier, with hundreds of business vehicles, city and school buses, and personal vehicles vying for access along that stretch every day.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sat in near stand-still traffic backed up behind 20 or more vehicles along 55th last year, waiting to get through the three traffic lights that guard access to the bridge on Gaetz north.

And that was in two lanes of traffic each way.

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I finally “wised-up” after a time, and began winding my way through the Waskasoo and Woodlea communities that surround Thurber and Central to avoid as much of 55th as I could — and many like myself also sought these back-road solutions to their traffic woes.

The result, unfortunately, becomes increasing traffic in these residential streets not designed for commuter traffic, creating another issue altogether.

I don’t want to think about how much worse the scenario will be this school year, now that we’re down to one lane each way.

First-rate intentions gone a little sideways.

It’s imperative that the city return to the drawing board to figure out a way around this most pressing concern.

I’ve not even mentioned the safety hazards to bikers inherent in the current plan, as buses and commuters attempt to turn right onto 48th Avenue, directly into the new bike lane.

I shudder to think that some careless driver (many of whom are teenagers coming in and out of Lindsay Thurber) — frustrated by the gridlocked traffic he’s trying to escape — may inadvertently wipe out a biker on the path who thinks she’s “safe” in the designated lane.

To the powers that be: please don’t wait until this time next year to effect the necessary changes along 55th that will restore two lanes of traffic each way.

This is not a street that can accommodate an otherwise first-rate idea.

Vesna Higham is a local lawyer, former Red Deer city councillor and a freelance columnist.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BRAMPTON, Ont. — The estranged boyfriend of a woman whose body parts were found scattered west of Toronto and near her home in the city has been charged in her death and dismemberment.

Peel Regional Police say Chun Qi Jiang, 40, of Toronto, appeared in a Brampton, Ont., courthouse Monday on a charge of second-degree murder. He was remanded in custody until Sept.

10.

Jiang, a construction labourer, had been in a four-year-long relationship with 41-year-old Guang Hua Liu that

had recently ended, said Peel Police Insp. George Koekkoek.

“He became a person of interest or a suspect early on in the investigation,” Koekkoek told a news conference at police headquarters.

The inspector could not say when the couple had separated or if they had ever lived together.

“We’re still trying to flesh out those details so I’m not at liberty to go any further on that part,” he said. “They were boyfriend and girlfriend, is my information. They were dating.”

Jiang was arrested sometime Sunday in Toronto.

Court documents show he lived near

Lawson named new chief of defence staff ting and reorganization in what’s been described as a bloated command structure in Ottawa.

OTTAWA — The old adage that winLawson said he is honoured and dening the war is easier than winning lighted to be taking over command of the peace might be something Lt.-Gen. “an organization in which I have quite Tom Lawson takes to heart as he as- literally grown up.” sumes his place as the country’s next His career trajectory has taken him top military commander. from the cockpits of CF-104 StarfightThe former fighter pilot ers and CF-18 Hornets to was named Monday as the the staid halls of the Royal new chief of the defence Military College as comstaff, replacing the retiring mandant.

Gen. Walt Natynczyk, who He has also served in held the job for over four some of the major planning years. arms of the military, includThe date has yet to be set ing a stint as assistant chief for a formal change of comof air staff. mand.

In that job, he was kneeIntroducing Lawson to deep in planning for the the national media, Defence F-35 and was eventually Minister Peter MacKay said asked by the Harper govhe has big “combat boots to ernment to support the profill,” but military observers Lt.-Gen. Tom gram in a speaking tour afsay the new chief’s battles Lawson ter MacKay announced the will mostly be in the back selection of the Lockheedrooms of Ottawa, rather than Martin jet in 2010. in far-flung corners of the globe.

He’s known as a backer of the trouMacKay praised the smooth, low-key bled program, but on Monday he stuck officer as a man who leaves a strong to the government’s carefully scripted impression. position that all options are being con“In my time as minister of Nation- sidered. al Defence, I’ve heard time and time “The F-35 is a program that is hitagain from all personnel of all ranks ting milestones and doing quite well,” the extremely personal bonds that he he said. has developed with colleagues, staff “It will continue to contend for the and former military college students replacement for the CF-18.” and about the lasting, positive impresBut Lawson made it clear it was sions that he has made on all of those his job to provide hus “best advice who have had the privilege of serving throughout the process.” with him,” MacKay told the assembled It was during last year’s bombing media. campaign in Libya that Lawson’s name And he may need all of that charm. became prominent outside of the tightThe 37-year air force veteran, who is ly knit defence community when he currently deputy commander of Norad acted as air force spokesman during — the North American Aerospace De- public briefings. fence Command — inherits a military But his stint at National Defence in transition out of the Afghan war, a headquarters a few years earlier saw Conservative government in cost-cut- him as a key player in the team asting mode and a major political-pub- sembled by former defence chief Rick lic relations fiasco in the F-35 stealth Hillier to help reshape the military in fighter.

2005-06 to fight the Afghan war.

The government is looking to save He’ll need those skills in his new as much as $1.5 billion with cost-cut- job.

a townhouse where Liu resided with her eldest son. According to police, her two younger children live with their father.

Police would not say whether they are searching or have searched Jiang’s residence in east-end Toronto, but yellow police tape could be seen encircled around the brown townhouse Monday.

Koekkoek said Jiang is a Canadian citizen of Chinese descent and was not previously known to police. He immigrated to Canada in 2002 — the same year Liu arrived.

Liu was reported missing on Aug. 11, one day after her friends dropped

her off in front of a now-defunct spa she owned called the Forget Me Not Health Centre in east Toronto.

On Aug. 15, her right foot was found in the Credit River in Mississauga, Ont., about 45 kilometres west of her home.

Liu’s head and hands were later discovered in the same river in the Hewick Meadows Park area.

Days later, two calves, a thigh and an arm were found in West Highland Creek, just blocks from where she lived.

Forensic tests determined all the remains belonged to Liu, but police still do not know how she died.

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Armstrong’s ‘giant leap’ changed human history A HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT THAT ‘WILL BE REMEMBERED FOREVER’

BY SETH BORENSTEIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A LOOK BACK AT SOME OF NASA’S ASTRONAUTS FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF SPACE EXPLORATION

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo provided by NASA shows Neil Armstrong. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, at age 82.

Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 lunar lander spacecraft Eagle that landed on the moon July 20, 1969.

American Imagination.”

“He took something that 20 years earlier was pure fantasy and turned it into reality and if we could do that for space we could do it for anything,” McCurdy said Saturday.

The Apollo 11 moon landing was the finish line in a decadelong space race started by the Soviet Union.

And so the first steps on the moon coming from an American had many meanings. Getting there first showed American technological superiority, but Armstrong mentioned mankind — not Americans — demonstrating that this was a moment for the people of Earth, McCurdy said.

Armstrong and Aldrin left a plaque on the moon that read: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”

For all mankind. And that’s how the world took it.

“The success for America (is a) success for every living man” reported the Swahili-language newspaper Nguromo of Dar. And if that wasn’t enough, Armstrong and Aldrin also left a patch

to commemorate NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in pursuit of space.

“It was special and memorable but it was only instantaneous because there was work to do,” Armstrong told an Australian television interviewer this year.

The Cold War may have slightly muted the significance of the event at the time, but over the years the importance of the moon landing has only grown, Logsdon said.

It’s permeated into culture.

The moon landing is in movies, television, books, songs and it was even Michael Jackson’s signature dance step.

That’s probably because in some ways that moonwalk touched something that has been hardwired into humanity: the need to explore.

For 25,000 years, humans have been migrating and pushing into new places. Armstrong took it to new heights.

John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, noted it was “the first time any human being set foot on a place other than Earth, and that’s a pretty big step.”

Private memorial service planned for Friday THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A footprint left by one of the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission shows in the soft, powder surface of the moon on July 20, 1969.

CINCINNATI, Ohio — A private service is planned in Cincinnati on Friday for astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon.

The Ohio native died Saturday in Cincinnati at age 82.

No other information was released immediately about the service, other than that it would be private.

There have been preliminary discussions about a national memorial service for Armstrong, who often shunned publicity in the decades after his historic mission, but a family spokesman said there were no details yet.

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As space exploration has become more common and the number of astronauts has risen past 300, many names have faded into the background. But some will forever be associated with the golden age of space exploration. Some examples: From 1969’s Apollo 11, the first manned moon landing mission: ● Buzz Aldrin: Lunar module pilot for Apollo 11.

Second man on the moon after commander Neil Armstrong. Left NASA in in 1971 and returned to Air Force.

Wrote several books including Return to Earth and Men from Earth. Advocate for future U.S. space exploration and frequent lecturer. Age: 82. ● Neil Armstrong: Commander of Apollo 11 mission and first human to set foot on the moon. Left NASA in 1971, taught engineering at the University of Cincinnati, and later became chairman of electronic systems companies. Died Aug. 25 at age 82. ● Michael Collins: Command module pilot on Apollo 11 and circled the moon while colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed. Left NASA in 1970 and became first director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Wrote “Carrying the Fire,” considered one of the best insider space books. Age: 81.

Some other notable astronauts: ● Scott Carpenter: Second American to orbit the Earth in 1962. With John Glenn, surviving member of NASA’s original Mercury 7 astronauts. Gave the famous send off — “Godspeed, John Glenn.” Involved in Navy’s SeaLab program, and spent 30 days under the ocean in 1965. Left the Navy in 1969. Age: 87. ● Eugene Cernan: Commander of Apollo 17 in 1972; last astronaut to walk on the moon. Second person to walk in space in 1966 as a pilot on Gemini 9.

Retired from the Navy in 1976 and later started an aerospace consulting company in Houston. Age: 78 ● John Glenn: First American to orbit the Earth in 1962, circling three times in five hours. Left NASA in 1965 and retired from the Marine Corps the next year.

Became a Democratic U.S. senator from Ohio and ran briefly for president in 1984. Return to space in 1998 for a nine-day mission aboard space shuttle Discovery, becoming at age 77 the oldest person in space. Turned 91 in July. ● Jim Lovell: Commander of Apollo 13 in 1970, his fourth space flight. Oxygen tank in the spaceship exploded and the moon mission was aborted. Left NASA in 1973 and became a business executive. Age: 84. ● Edgar Mitchell: The sixth man to walk on the moon in 1971 after manoeuvring the landing module from Apollo 14. Made two excursions to collect lunar samples with Alan Shepard. Left NASA in 1972 and went on to become an educator, lecturer and consultant. Age: 81. ● Alan Shepard: First American in space; made a 15-minute suborbital flight in 1961. Returned to space as commander of Apollo 14 in 1971; used a lunar sample scoop with an attached golf-club head to hit a ball on the moon. Retired from NASA in 1974 and went into private business in Houston. Died in 1998 at age 74. ● Jack Swigert Jr.: Pilot for Apollo 13 in 1970, a lastminute replacement after another astronaut came down with the measles. Mission to moon was aborted after an oxygen tank on the spaceship exploded. Left NASA in 1977. Elected to Congress in November 1982; died of bone cancer the next month at age 51. ● John Young: First person to fly into space from Earth six times — seven times counting his lunar liftoff in 1972. Flew two Gemini and two Apollo missions.

Commander of the first space shuttle flight, aboard Columbia in 1981. Final space flight in 1983 aboard Columbia. Retired from NASA in 2004. Age: 81.

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When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it.

But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon in July 1969, an entire globe watched in grainy black-and-white from a quarter million miles (400,000 kilometres) away We saw it. We were part of it.

He took that “giant leap for mankind” for us.

Although more than half of the world’s population wasn’t alive then, it was an event that changed and expanded the globe.

“It’s a human achievement that will be remembered forever,” said John Logsdon, professor emeritus of space policy at George Washington University. Those first steps were beamed to nearly every country around the world, thanks to a recently launched satellite. It was truly the first global mass media event, Logsdon said.

An estimated 600 million people — 1 out of every 5 on the planet — watched.

The two historical events likely to be long remembered from the 20th Century are the moon landing and the first atomic bomb, said Smithsonian Institution space curator Roger Launius.

“There is no way to overestimate that significance in human history and he is forever linked to that,” Launius said of Armstrong, who died Saturday at age 82.

Just as the voyage of Christopher Columbus split historic eras 500 years ago, so will Neil Armstrong and Apollo 11, said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, a specialist in 20th Century history.

“We may be living in the age of Armstrong,” said Brinkley, who conducted oral histories for NASA, including sessions with Armstrong.

The late science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote that the Apollo 11 moon landing was “one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.”

Since that day, there’s been a common phrase: “If we can send a man to the moon, why can’t we ... ?” with the blank filled with a task that seems far less difficult.

Armstrong’s small step was that leap in confidence telling the world “if we can do this, we can do anything,” said Howard McCurdy, a professor of space and public policy at American University and author of the book “Space and the

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A farmer stretches his leg while swathing barley north of Blackfalds Monday.

‘Pretty good’ crop harvested AREA PRODUCERS JUST A FEW WEEKS AWAY FROM GETTING CROP INTO THE BIN

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

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CAW supports strike mandates at Big Three Hourly workers at Chrysler, General Motors and Ford plants in Canada have voted overwhelmingly to go on strike to back their contract demands, according to their union. The Canadian Auto Workers union says Chrysler workers have voted 99 per cent in favour of strike action if necessary.

The vote was almost as strong at General Motors, where 98 per cent backed strike action, and at Ford, where the vote was 97 per cent. The voting was conducted at a number of meetings over the last week and this past weekend, CAW said in a news release.

Negotiations with the North American auto companies resume Monday in Toronto.

The last CAW strike was in 1996, against General Motors.

The current contract expires Sept. 17 at 11:59 p.m.

Nearly half of Canadians have TFSAs Nearly half of Canadians are ready to put money away with their Tax-Free Savings Accounts, but a new survey finds that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re using them. A poll from CIBC (TSX:CM), released Monday, found that 47 per cent of respondents say they’ve set up a TFSA, but only half of the respondents with a TFSA account have made a contribution this year. The tax-free accounts have existed for nearly five years, though numerous polls have found that Canadians didn’t necessarily understand how they work or simply had decided not to open one. The poll found that 41 per cent of Canadians with a TFSA say they don’t have any immediate plans for the money they’ve set aside, but that they just wanted to avoid paying tax on the interest.

About 36 per cent of respondents say they plan to use the money to retire.

With swathers and combines rolling into Central Alberta fields, area producers are just a few weeks away from getting a pretty good crop into the bin.

Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development reported on Friday that two per cent of regional fields had been combined and a further nine per cent swathed, as of last Tuesday.

These figures were inflated by harvest activity related to winter wheat (32 per cent harvested and 16 per cent swathed), field peas (24 per cent combined) and canola (25 per cent swathed).

Quality remains high, with good or excellent ratings given to 96 per cent of Central Alberta’s winter wheat, 94 per cent of its field peas and oats, 91 per cent of its canola, 90 per cent of its spring wheat, 88 per cent of its barley and 87 per cent of its durum.

The report projected yields at 10 per cent above historic averages.

“The numbers are up where you want them to be,” said Mark Cutts, a crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture’s Ag Info

Centre in Stettler, on Monday.

“The ratings overall are still good.”

Cutts said it was too soon for his office to have received much feedback from farmers, but information related to yields and quality should start coming in soon.

“Probably two weeks from now we’ll have a pretty good feel how things are going.

“Hopefully, if the weather continues to hold, guys can just keep moving through it.”

It does appear that crops are ripening in a timely fashion, unlike the previous few years when late harvests made frost damage more likely.

“Looking at where we are in terms of crops getting close or very close to maturity in most areas, if the weather can hold here for another couple weeks, I would think the risk of frost damage is going to be certainly minimized.”

An exception could be fields hit by hailstorms that are now behind schedule.

A week and a half ago, the Canadian Crop Hail Association said that nearly 4,000 hail-related claims had been made

by Alberta producers — making 2012 the second busiest year of the past 10 for adjusters.

Much of that damage related to a July 31

storm in the Olds-Three Hills area, and to subsequent hail from Lacombe to Innisfail and west to Caroline.

Cutts said losses to pests have been relatively low.

There has been some spraying for lygus bugs in west Central Alberta, and for bertha armyworms east and northeast of Edmonton.

“I guess we’ll see with canola, for example, when producers go in to swath if they’ve had any significant disease issues that might have impacted yield.”

If yields and quality are as good as many expect, farmers should be rewarded at market.

“It seems like prices are holding, and that’s a good thing going into harvest season,” said Cutts.

He pointed out that there’s an added benefit to getting crops into storage ahead of cold weather.

“If harvest can be done in a timely manner it does allow some field operations in the fall that can save you time next spring,” said Cutts, listing fertilizer application and weed control as examples. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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boost to the economy and create muchneeded jobs.

So does B.C. newspaper mogul David Black, who raised eyebrows — and rolled some eyes — earlier this month when he proposed a $13-billion refinery at the end of the Northern Gateway pipeline on British Columbia’s coast.

However, there hasn’t been a new refinery in Canada since 1984, and many observers say that’s unlikely to change any time soon, whether in B.C. or elsewhere.

Oil refining is a volatile, low-margin business, they say, and it’s far cheaper and much simpler to export crude to countries that already have refineries ready and willing to process it, particularly the United States and China.

MONTREAL — Housing affordability continued to erode in most markets across Canada in the second quarter as a result of higher home prices and interests rates, but there were a couple of bright spots.

Alberta, in particular, solidified its position as having the most affordable housing market thanks to a significant drop in prices for electricity and natural gas, says a quarterly Royal Bank (TSX:RY) housing report.

Montreal also enjoyed improved affordability, which prompted resales to rise 8.6 per cent to reach their third-highest second quarter total, the report said.

A 17 per cent reduction in Alberta utility costs was the biggest contributor to the improvement in the cost of owning a home as a share of household income.

“Usually changes in utilities don’t do much to affordability and, in that particular case, the swing was substantial in the second quarter,” senior economist Robert Hogue said in an interview.

Attractive affordability and a vibrant economy are powerful incentives for home buying.

Alberta home resales in the second quarter were the best in five years, surging 18 per cent from a year earlier.

On a national level, however, modest increases in home prices and mortgage rates slightly eroded housing affordability in the quarter.

RBC’s affordability index for a detached bungalow stood at 43.4 per cent of income nationally in the second quarter, up 0.2 percentage points from the first quarter but unchanged from a year ago.

That figure assumes an average home price of $365,200 for a 1,200-square-foot, one-storey house and $79,000 in annual qualifying income. Based on those figures, an owner would need to spend 43.4 per cent of annual income to pay for mortgage payments, utilities and property taxes.

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A worker uses a small boat to move logs on the Douglas Channel at dusk in Kitimat, B.C. Enbridge Inc. has proposed a pipeline to carry Alberta oil to British Columbia’s coast.

Pipelines fuel refinery debate, observers say industry volatile

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Whether they’re crossing the border into the United States or heading west to the British Columbia coast, the controversial pipelines linked to the Alberta oil sands have one purpose: to get the thick, heavy bitumen out of the country.

But Enbridge’s (TSX:ENB) Northern Gateway and TransCanada’s (TSX:TRP) Keystone XL pipelines, which have been fighting for the approval of governments, regulatory agencies and the public, have renewed a debate over whether Canada should be refining the raw bitumen at home instead of exporting it to be refined farther afield.

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To ensure ultimate utilization, several delivery mechanisms are followed up with some form of accountability coaching.

A new employee, particularly a younger or less-experienced employee, will take some time to get up to speed.

Some statistics say it takes between six and 24 months before a new employee earns more than they are costing you.

Based on this, make it clear that you expect them to learn as they earn.

Work with new hires to establish specific goals, methods, timeframe and learning outcomes. Include these goals on their job descriptions and reassess on every performance review after that.

Provide access to the learning resources on an ongoing basis. A commitment to employee learning/training is a critical factor to retaining your team.

People do quality work when they are empowered to make the decisions at the level of their work.

Whether a business owner or an employee, associate with people who have a similar passion for success.

Avoid individuals with the “I know” mentality, or those that discount the value of life-long learning.

Make an effort to meet and build relationships with other successful and motivated people inside and outside your own industry. Sharing information is a great way to learn and improve your business.

Whether you do this with a group, or simply go have a cup of coffee with someone, spend time with other successful business owners.

Accepted knowledge and wisdom are invaluable. However, the traditional preparation for the workplace continues to transforms to a team environment, with a framework of creative decision-making and leadership development at every level.

The reality is that individuals, especially the up-and-coming generations, will be more self-managed. An educated and trained workplace boosts productivity and are able to take responsibility for themselves and others.

Support for learning backed up with principles of fairness and support, are critical to business success.

Learning opportunities and formal education truly do not cost much time or money. What it does take is a commitment to personal growth and a passion for success.

ActionCoach is written by John MacKenzie of ActionCoach, which helps small- to medium-sized businesses and other organizations. He can be contacted at johnmackenzie@actioncoach.com or by phone at 403-340-0880.

REFINERY: ‘Ship sailed’ “It gets a lot of points to say, ‘We’ve got to do things at home, we’ve got to be independent, we ought to not depend on somebody who could change their mind,’ but as an economic matter, it doesn’t really make sense, or we would have been doing it,” says Michal Moore, a professor at the University of Calgary’s public policy school.

“My guess is that under current circumstances ... that ship probably has sailed.”

Canada is a net exporter of oil, and the increasing production from the oil sands combined with the closure of Canadian refineries mean the amount of raw crude leaving this country to be refined elsewhere will only increase.

Production in the oil sands is projected to double by 2035. At the same time, the number of refineries in Canada has been steadily decreasing, from more than 40 in the 1970s to fewer than 20 today. Several of the refineries that still exist are at risk of closing or are already scheduled to shut down.

Building a new refinery would be a long and expensive proposition. Such a facility would cost billions of dollars and likely take a decade to obtain the necessary government approvals and build, says Moore.

Compare that to the alternative: exporting crude to the United States, where refineries are far below capacity and eager for Canadian crude, or to Asian countries such as China, which is constructing massive refineries to meet that country’s rapidly growing

demand.

“If you think of the cost of capital, it’s much easier to just go offshore and move product by ship or rail to existing distribution points,” says Moore.

“Our comparative advantage lies in being able to get our products upgraded to a point where they’re competitive, but just at that point, and then shipping them to areas that have got sufficient refining capacity to deal with them.”

A report last year from the Conference Board of Canada noted the current roster of refineries still operating in Canada is more than enough to meet domestic demand. While the number of refineries has been cut in half, upgrades and expansions over the years have kept the refining capacity at the same level and Canada continues to refine more fuel than it needs.

That means any additional oil production — whether in the form of crude or refined fuel — would be destined for export.

The federal New Democrats have suggested Canada needs more refineries, arguing such facilities would create jobs and bring in tax revenues, though the Opposition party hasn’t said how it would overcome the economic challenges that have until now prevented that from happening.

The party’s energy critic, Peter Julian, says the New Democrats want to spur a “national discussion” on how to develop such infrastructure.

The federal Conservative government, a strong proponent of pipelines such as the Northern Gateway project and the Keystone XL line into the United States, appears content to let the market decide whether it’s a good idea to build new refineries.

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says the only alternative would be to build refineries with government money. “The economics have to be there to do it, and the fact that there hasn’t been a refinery built since the early ’80s indicates that the economics weren’t there,” Oliver said.

“That’s a pre-condition, unless of course the government is willing to subsidize the industry to the tune of many billions of dollars, and that’s certainly not our approach.”

Oliver said even if Canada exports a significant amount of raw crude, the industry still keeps hundreds of thousands of people employed and pays billions of dollars in taxes and royalties.

RBC: Costs rise The RBC housing trends report said it was the second consecutive threemonth period in which the cost of owning a home as a share of household income increased following back-to-back quarterly declines in the latter half of 2011.

Affordability deteriorated in two of three housing categories — detached bungalows and two-storey homes — while condominiums were flat.

Hogue said the change was essentially the same as the previous quarter, adding that the impact wasn’t particularly troubling since it was quite gradual.

But with house affordability in most parts of the country running ahead of the long-term average, possible interest rate increases next year could add to the strain on home ownership and ultimately cool housing markets.

“Considering the fact that exceptionally low interest rates were the main factor keeping affordability from dangerous levels in recent years, any increase in interest rates will add a bit of pressure and most likely lead to some deterioration going forward,” Hogue said.

There is already some higher tension in the affordability of two-storey homes. Resales softened in late spring and RBC expects that more stress will lead to cooler markets next year.

The national numbers for bungalows were exaggerated by extremely poor affordability in the Vancouver area, but had little impact on two-storey homes.

The Vancouver-area continued to be, by far, the least affordable in Canada and was very close to the worst on record, as the costs associated with owning a detached bungalow at market prices rose 2.2 points to 91 per cent of annual income.

In Canada’s most expensive realestate market, RBC assumes an owner would need $159,500 of annual income to make mortgage payments, utility costs and property taxes on a bungalow priced at $846,800.

However, the situation isn’t as extreme in other parts of British Columbia. In Victoria, the share of income needed to carry the costs of a mortgage is about half the share in Vancouver for some housing types.

The Toronto index deteriorated by 0.9 percentage points to 54.5 per cent based on $113,700 in annual income.

While home ownership costs were above the historical average, they were still well below the peaks experienced during the housing bubble in the late 1980s.

Strong activity worsened affordability in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, but were near their historical norms.

Atlantic Canada suffered a modest deterioration.

In Montreal, the cost of ownership decreased one percentage point to 40.4 per cent of income at $63,800, and in Ottawa it was flat at 41.9 per cent of income at $89,800.

In Calgary, only about 36.7 per cent of pre-tax income would be required to pay for a standard bungalow — unchanged from the previous study — and in Edmonton the index improved by 0.1 of a percentage point to 32.4 per cent.

Qualifying income was also lower in the two Alberta cities than in Vancouver, Toronto or Ottawa, at $87,800 in Calgary and $73,000 in Edmonton.

Apple lists 8 Samsung devices it wants banned

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. on Monday gave a federal judge a list of eight Samsung Electronics Co. products it wants pulled from shelves and banned from the U.S. market, including popular Galaxy model smartphones.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh asked for the list after a jury in San Jose last week slammed Samsung with a $1.05 billion verdict, finding that the South Korean technology giant had “wilfully” copied Apple’s iPhone and iPad in creating and marketing the products.

Samsung plans an appeal.

The products Apple wants out are all smartphones: Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S2 AT&T, Galaxy S2, Galaxy S2 T-Mobile, Galaxy S2 Epic 4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Droid Charge and Galaxy Prevail.

Koh on June 26 banned the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from the U.S. market after finding it likely violated a “design patent.” Samsung is now asking for that ban to be lifted after the jury found the computer tablet didn’t infringe that particular patent, but it did find it infringed three Apple’s software patents that cover the popular “bounce-back” and pinch-to-zoom features.

The judge has scheduled a Sept. 20 hearing to discuss Apple’s demands for the sales bans. She asked Apple on Friday to submit the list of products its wants removed from U.S. stores after Samsung complained that it doesn’t

have enough time to prepare for the scheduled hearing.

The judge is deciding whether to reschedule the hearing to give Samsung more time to prepare. Samsung plans to ask the judge to toss out the jury’s verdict as unsupported by the evidence. Failing that, the company says it will appeal the verdict to higher courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

In addition to the sales bans, Apple also plans to ask the judge to triple the damages to $3.15 billion because of the jury’s finding that Samsung “wilfully” copied Apple.

Apple filed its lawsuit in April of last year alleging that 28 Samsung smartphones and computer tablets had “slavishly copied” the iPhones and iPads. Samsung countered with its own claims that Apple used its wireless technology without compensation.

A jury in its verdict Friday unanimously agreed with Apple. Most of the damages were tied to Samsung’s smartphones. The jury rejected Samsung’s counterclaims.

Most of the Samsung products found to have “infringed’ Apple’s patent were older devices no longer being sold. The list Apple presented to the court on Monday represent devices it believes are still being sold in U.S. stores, including several versions of the company’s popular S2 phones introduced last year. Samsung’s newest and hottest selling smartphone, the Galaxy S3, was not part of the lawsuit.

Canada Post posts $10-million loss

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadians mailed fewer packages through Canada Post in the second quarter, eroding results across most of the Crown corporation’s operations, while its courier business Purolator got a boost partly from more orders sent by e-commerce retailers.

Noting that the “decline of mail is not something that’s going to rebound,” the Canada Post Group of Companies said that reality would weigh on any new labour agreement with its workers.

The company reported a loss of $10 million, or $4 million after taxes, on Monday, which marks an improvement from a loss $18 million, or $17 million after taxes, a year earlier.

The Crown corporation says the latest quarter compares favourably largely due to a lockout last summer, which pulled down results in the comparable period last year, making the decline in the latest quarter seem less severe.

Mail volumes were down 4.4 per cent or 31 million pieces, it said.

Cost of operations rose 6.1 per cent, or $85 million, to $1.47 billion in the quarter ended June 30.

The company’s Purolator courier business showed strength, with higher

volumes pushing revenue to $302 million from $245 million a year earlier, particularly due to more shipments from e-commerce retailers.

Canada Post also has a roughly $4.7-billion solvency deficit in its pension plan.

The company noted that 71 per cent of its overall costs are tied to labour, which is why it believes it’s important to reach a collective agreement with the union representing its employees.

“It’s time for us to have some realistic discussions based on the current realities we now face,” said Jon Hamilton, Canada Post’s director of communications, in a phone interview.

“The decline of mail is not something that’s going to rebound. Canadians are using Canada Post in different ways. Their expectations of what Canada Post can offer are different and we need to adjust for that.”

Hamilton said that Canada Post gave its most recent offer to the Canadian Union for Postal Workers on July 19.

Canada Post locked out some 50,000 of its employees last summer after a series of rotating strikes.

The dispute ended with federal back-to-work legislation that forced workers to accept wages that amounted to less than Canada Post’s last offer.

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BRIEFS Forest companies’ sales revenues rise Members of the Alberta Forest Products Association enjoyed a nearly six per cent increase in sales revenues in the second quarter of 2012, as compared with the same period last year.

The association said its members combined for $582 million in sales of lumber, panelboard, and pulp and paper for the three months ended June 30 — their strongest quarter since 2010.

That figure compared with $551 million for the second quarter of 2011 and $545 million for the first three months of 2012.

“I am really encouraged by the positive growth that our industry has seen,” said Alberta Forest Products Association president and CEO Brady Whittaker in a release.

“The trend in lumber and panel pricing is optimistic. A stronger industry has a noticeable impact on the communities that our members operate in.”

On a product-by-product basis, AFPA companies sold $229 million in lumber during the second quarter (up 35.5 per cent from the same period in 2011), $85 million worth of panelboard (up 23 per cent), and pulp and paper valued at $268.8 million (down 14 per cent).

Whittaker pointed out that continued economic uncertainty in Europe and low demand for pulp in Asian have affected global prices.

“While prices remain above their 10-year average, we have seen declines in the pulp market over the last several quarters. We are hopeful that greater certainty in the global economy will reverse this trend soon.”

The Alberta Forest Products Association represents lumber, panelboard, pulp and paper, and secondary manufacturing wood products companies operating in Alberta.

Clearview getting service station, coffee shop A service station and coffee shop are the latest proposed additions to Clearview Market Square.

Shell Canada Ltd. has received approval from the City of Red Deer to develop a four-pump station and con-

venience store at 62 Carleton Ave., just south of 67th Street.

A Tim Hortons outlet with a drivethrough is also expected to operate out of the 4,700-square-foot premises.

Verity Conrad, a spokesperson with Shell, said a date for the start of construction has yet to be determined, but it will likely be in the spring of 2013.

Clearview Market Square, which is located west of 30th Avenue and south of 67th Street, already has four financial institutions operating there: Servus Credit Union, the Royal Bank, TD Canada Trust and CIBC. Also confirmed for the shopping centre is a Shoppers Drug Mart, a Loblaw grocery store with a gas bar and liquor store, and a Canadian Brew House pub.

Tenants in multi-bay buildings will include Pet Planet, Subway, a veterinarian, a spa, an insurance agent, a tax preparation agency, a dentist and a tanning salon.

Clearview Market Square is being developed by Melcor Developments Ltd.

Horizon announces sale of oil field interest Red Deer-based Blue Horizon Industries Inc. (CNSX: BH) has announced the sale of a two per cent working interest in an Alberta oil field by its subsidiary Blue Horizon Energy Inc. to an undisclosed purchaser for $65,000.

Blue Horizon Energy had held a 15 per cent working interest in the 160-acre site before announcing the sale of a three per cent interest in June for $97,500.

That deal included an option for the purchaser to buy the remaining 12 per cent for a further $390,000. The purchaser now has the right to buy the remaining 10 per cent working interest for 45 days from Aug. 5.

Blue Horizon Industries said a test well on the property has already been drilled, cased and fracked, and is scheduled to go into production in the third quarter of 2012.

In addition to Blue Horizon Energy, Blue Horizon Industries operates Blue Horizon Bio-Diesel Inc., Blue Horizon Mining Inc. and Blue Horizon Contracting.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 96.70 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 75.90 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.65 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.54 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.79 Cdn. National Railway . . 90.90 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 82.89 Cdn. Satellite . . . . . . . . . . 3.85 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 69.74 Capital Power Corp . . . . 22.50 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.20 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 29.43 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 39.24 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.79 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.61 General Motors Co. . . . . 21.22 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 16.87 Research in Motion. . . . . . 7.01 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 36.50 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.40 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 64.27 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 15.83 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.11 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.92 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 70.11 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.00 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 34.86 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 11.00 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.79

Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.11 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 50.13 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.50 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 16.96 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 37.17 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.23 First Quantum Minerals . 19.00 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 39.58 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.62 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 45.34 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 8.77 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.71 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.49 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 28.92 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 23.86 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.00 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 47.19 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.28 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 43.50 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 30.68 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 21.67 Canyon Services Group. 11.08 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 32.57 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.750 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 22.09 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.43 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.74 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 34.45 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . 1.700

Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.32 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 46.31 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.51 Nexen Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.39 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.98 Penn West Energy . . . . . 14.51 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 1.84 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.83 Pure Energy . . . . . . . . . . 10.94 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 31.46 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 14.03 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 12.67 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.45 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 46.30 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 57.70 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 52.94 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.52 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.02 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 26.46 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 22.29 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.66 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 60.60 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 10.94 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 73.86 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 53.91 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 22.75 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.82

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Mining stocks led the way to a lower close on the Toronto stock market Monday, with buyers inclined to do little ahead of a major U.S. Federal Reserve meeting at the end of the week.

The S&P/TSX composite index declined 33.41 points to

12,048.82 while the TSX Venture Exchange was off 5.06 points at 1,246.82.

The Canadian dollar rose 0.08 of a cent to 100.93 cents US. U.S. markets were mixed with the Dow Jones industrials down 33.3 points at 13,124.67.

The Nasdaq composite index

added 3.4 points to 3,073.19, benefiting from a 1.9 per cent rise in Apple’s share value.

On Friday, a federal jury in California found that some of Samsung’s products illegally copied features and designs from Apple’s iPhone and iPad and ordered the South Korean concern to pay more than $1 bil-

lion in damages. Samsung Electronics shares fell 7.5 per cent in Korean trading.

The S&P 500 index slipped 0.69 of a point to 1,410.44.

Central bankers will be in focus later in the week as the U.S. Federal Reserve holds its annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke delivers a keynote speech Friday while European Central Bank president Mario Draghi speaks on Saturday.

Expectations for more stimulus grew after the Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Bernanke had written a Republican lawmaker saying there was room for the central bank to do more to help the recovery.

Hopes for central bank stimulus have supported gains this month after Draghi said Aug. 2 that the ECB was prepared to do whatever was necessary to keep the euro currency union intact.

“What’s driving markets is this whole hope for stimulus, because really there’s been nothing but a spate of OK news, but not great news,” said John Stephenson, portfolio manager at First Asset Funds Inc., adding there will be disappointment if central bankers don’t deliver.

“If you think people have run the market up in the hope of stimulus, you’re going to be hoping they don’t disappoint otherwise you could see a relatively unpleasant selloff occur.”

There were also hopes that the Chinese government is ready to boost the world’s second-biggest economy after Premier Wen Jiabao called for efforts to stabilize weakening exports.

The report from the official Xinhua news agency gave no indication of possible measures but Beijing previously has promised tax cuts and loans by state banks to help struggling exporters.

Export growth in July fell to just one per cent, well below forecasts, from the previous month’s 11.3 per cent growth

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due to weak demand in debtcrippled Europe, China’s biggest export market, and the United States, which is struggling with a sluggish recovery.

On the TSX, the base metals sector was down almost one per cent as September copper shed an early advance to close down one cent at US$3.48 a pound.

Capstone Mining (TSX:CS) dropped eight cents to $2.54 while Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) eased 10 cents to $4.52.

The gold sector slipped about 1.5 per cent as December bullion gained $2.70 to US$1,675.60 an ounce. Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) dipped 49 cents to C$39.58.

The energy sector edged 0.1 per cent lower with the October crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange down 68 cents to US$95.47 a barrel.

Oil prices had been higher earlier Monday but backed off on increased speculation that the U.S. will release oil from reserves to ease the commodity’s rising cost.

Forecasts for tropical storm Isaac also moderated, easing concerns that the storm would damage key oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. government says 78 per cent of the oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has been halted in preparation for Isaac.

Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) declined 38 cents to C$30.68.

Financials gave some lift to the TSX a day before the big banks start delivering quarterly earnings reports. Two of the banks report on Tuesday. Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) was 48 cents higher to $52.94 while Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) added eight cents to $57.70.

Telecoms also provided lift with Telus Corp. (TSX:T) ahead 27 cents to $64.27.

Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) was ahead seven cents to $40.15 after it said it is buying sports broadcaster Score Media Inc. (TSX:SCR) in a transaction valued at $167 million, or

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A customer stands outside Burger Friends restaurant in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012.

A wave of new American-style restaurants is spreading across the Iraqi capital, enticing customers hungry for alternatives to traditional offerings like lamb kebabs and fire-roasted carp.

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WASHINGTON — As the income gap between rich and poor widens, a majority of Americans say the growing divide is bad for the country and believe that wealthy people are paying too little in taxes, according to a new survey.

The poll released Monday by the Pew Research Center points to a particular challenge for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, whose party’s policies are viewed by a wide majority as favouring the rich over the middle class and poor.

The poll found that many Americans believe rich people to be intelligent and hardworking but also greedy and less honest than the average American. Nearly six in 10, or 58 per cent, say the rich don’t pay enough in taxes.

Even among those who describe themselves as “upper class” or “upper middle class,” more than half — or 52 per cent — said upperincome Americans don’t pay enough in taxes; only 10 per cent said they paid too much. This upper tier was more likely to say they are more

Canola: Nov.’12 $5.00 lower $628.60; Jan ’13 $4.40 lower $632.80; March ’13 $2.70 lower $632.60; May ’13 $0.70 lower $620.10; July ’13 $0.40 lower $612.10; Nov. ’13 $0.60 lower $554.40; Jan. ’14 $0.80 higher $556.90; March ’14 $0.80 higher $556.50; May ’14 $0.80 higher $556.50; July ’14 $0.80 higher $556.50; Nov. ’14 $0.80 higher $556.50.

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They are less likely to report problems in paying rent or mortgage, losing a job, paying for medical care or other bills.

The findings come at the start of this week’s Republican National Convention and as both Romney and President Barack Obama seek to appeal to a broad swath of financially struggling voters who identify as middle class. Romney supports an extension of Bush-era tax cuts for everyone including the wealthiest 2 per cent, and says his policies will benefit the middle class.

“The fact that Romney may be viewed as wealthy doesn’t necessarily pose problems for his candidacy,” said Kim Parker, associate director of Pew Social & Demographic Trends, noting that people see the wealthy as having both positive and negative attributes. “The challenge for Romney lies more in the fact that large majorities say if he is elected president, his policies would likely benefit the wealthy.”

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Analysts say the agreement is a step in the right direction for Schulze. “(Schulze) had a zero probability of raising equity without due diligence, and now that zero is up to a 15 or 20 per cent chance,” said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. “Private equity firms want to understand their investment and return, and in order to understand that you have to be able to look at the books.”

If Best Buy’s board reject’s Schulze’s proposal, they will have until

January 2013 to present a second proposal. Best Buy’s board would have 30 days to review the second proposal before Schulze can take the offer directly to shareholders at the company’s annual meeting or a special meeting. If the second offer is turned down by both the board and Best Buy’s shareholders, he would have to wait one year before offering another proposal.

Best Buy’s public fight over its future comes as it has been engulfed in mounting controversy since April when former CEO Brian Dunn resigned amid a company investigation into an “improper relationship” with a 29-year-old female employee. Schulze resigned as chairman a month later after the probe found that he

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NEW YORK — Best Buy Co. Inc. and its founder and former chairman Richard Schulze say they have an agreement that will allow Schulze to pursue his plan to try to buy the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain.

The news sent Best Buy shares up 3.2 per cent to close at $17.87 Monday.

Best Buy said the agreement will allow Schulze to get access to confidential financial statements and allow him to form an investment group with private equity sponsors to make the bid. He already owns 20 per cent of the company’s stock.

The agreement is the first step toward Schulze making an official bid for the company, as Best Buy tries to turnaround results and adjust to a new CEO. Earlier this month, Schulze suggested he could pay $24 to $26 per share for the chain. Best Buy had said it was considering the overture.

The talks stalled a week ago, with the two going back and forth in public exchanges.

The retailer says the agreement establishes a non-exclusive orderly process for a bid while protecting the interests of all shareholders.

Schulze says the agreement will allow him to examine the company’s books in detail.

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$1.62 per share.

Shares of Score Media jumped nearly 47 per cent Friday following reports that the specialty TV sports broadcaster was in discussions to be purchased

by Rogers. Score stock was up a further 18 cents or 11.69 per cent to $1.72 Monday.

In other acquisition activity, Canadian uranium giant Cameco (TSX:CCO) has purchased one of Australia’s largest undeveloped uranium deposits. Cameco is paying BHP Billiton US$430 million for the Yeelirrie uranium project. Cameco shares were down 23 cents to C$22.23.

Rental car company Hertz is buying its rival, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc., for approximately $2.3 billion, giving it more ways to attract business and leisure travellers and an expanded international presence.

Hertz Global Holdings jumped 8.06 per cent to US$14.21.

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Boyd and Eskimos get road win RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS BY JOSEPH AND CHARLES LEADS ESKIMOS PAST ARGONAUTS IN EMOTIONAL RETURN TO TORONTO FOR BOYD JUSTIN MEDLOCK

MAKING THE CUT The Panthers are going young at kicker.

Carolina released 16-year NFL veteran kicker Olindo Mare on Monday just one year after giving him a four-year, $12 million contract. Justin Medlock, a journeyman kicker who last played for the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats, appears to have won the kicking job. Mare connected on 22 of 28 on field goals attempts last year but had two key misses in losses to Atlanta and Minnesota. With a chance to send the game into overtime he pushed a 31-yard field goal wide left in the closing seconds resulting in a 24-21 loss to the Vikings. A few weeks later he missed a 36-yarder against the Falcons in another late-game situation. However, Medlock is a much cheaper alternative in terms of base salary.

He’s set to make the league minimum of $390,000. Mare’s base salary would have been $2.1 million this year.

The kicking battle had been one of the most competitive in training camp and Medlock appeared to have edged ahead because of his ability to make longer field goals.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Eskimos 26 Argonauts 17 TORONTO, ONTARIO — Edmonton Eskimos coach Kavis Reed is thrilled to be done with the Toronto Argonauts.

Kerry Joseph and Hugh Charles scored rushing touchdowns as Edmonton defeated Toronto 26-17 on Monday night.

It marked the Eskimos’ second win this season over the Argos and fifth straight overall against the squad.

And there’s been no shortage of hype leading up to each game this year.

In December, Eskimos GM Eric Tillman received plenty of flak in Alberta for dealing veteran quarterback Ricky Ray — a two-time Grey Cup champion and fan favourite — to Toronto for journeyman passer Steven Jyles, Canadian kicker Grant Shaw and a 2012 first-round draft pick. And just for good measure, Edmonton hosted the Argos in the season opener for both teams, winning 19-15.

On Aug. 12, Toronto shocked the CFL by releasing league rushing leader Cory Boyd, who hours later agreed to terms with Edmonton. Boyd’s return to Rogers Centre was the top storyline here leading up to kickoff.

“I’m ecstatic that this is over,” Reed said. “All that hype is for you guys, it’s not for us.

“This football team is built on character. We focus on a very competitive league and every game is a season for us. Two points are very difficult to come by in this league these days.”

Boyd, who was the CFL’s second-leading rusher in each of his two full seasons in Toronto, ran for 45 yards on nine carries and added two catches for 30 yards.

“The first thing I said when

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Edmonton Eskimos’ J.C Sherritt intercepts as pass from Toronto Argonauts quarterback Ricky Ray as Argos Andre Durie and Chad Kackert flounder during first-half CFL action in Toronto on Monday.

I got into the locker-room was this whole fiasco was over with,” he said. “I’m glad we got the win and I won’t have to see or hear you guys for a whole other year so I’m pretty blessed about it.

“I’m loving this team and I’m loving what we have in this locker-room, the character and amount of guys who will fight

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp at the Centrium — Main camp from 10-11:30 a.m. and 5-6:30 p.m.

Wednesday

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp at the Centrium — Team B pregame skate from 10:3011:15 a.m., Team B from 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.; Black and White game at 7 p.m. ● Golf: Alberta Open south qualifying at Olds Highlands. ● College men’s exhibition soccer: Grande Prairie at RDC Kings, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday

● WHL pre-season: Red Deer Rebels vs. Prince George Cougars, 11 a.m., St. Albert.

Sunday

● WHL pre-season: Red Deer Rebels vs. Edmonton Oil Kings, 7 p.m., St. Albert.

MONDAY SCORES CFL Edmonton 26 Toronto 17

NHL Toronto

8 Yankees 7

Seattle

1 Minn.

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Texas

6 T. Bay

5

St. Louis

4 Pitts.

3

Oakland

3 Clev.

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Baltimore 4 W. Sox

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Boston

5 K. City

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Milw.

15 Cubs

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Colorado 10 Dodgers 0 Cinc.

3 Arizona

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S. Diego

3 Atlanta

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team but I just have to focus on what I need to do.”

Jyles, too, was making his first return to Toronto since the Ray trade but left late in the first half with a right ankle injury. Enter Joseph, the CFL’s top player in 2007 who struggled during his two seasons with the Argos before being released after the 2009 season.

Sutter takes over bigger role for Rebels

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Today

for one another and that’s what I like about this team.”

Kackert replaced Boyd in Toronto’s starting lineup and outperformed his former teammate, rushing for 58 yards on eight carries and added five catches for 31 yards.

“I think Cory had something to prove coming in,” Kackert said. “It’s tough being cut by a

Back in town after a three-year stint as head coach of the Calgary Flames, workaholic Brent Sutter officially made it known Monday that he will be a hands-on figure with the Red Deer Rebels during the 201213 Western Hockey League season.

The Rebels owner/governor is moving into the general manager’s chair, leaving previous GM/head coach Jesse Wallin to zero in on his bench boss duties.

“This is not just a reactionary decision, it’s something I have thought about and Jesse and I have talked about for awhile,” Sutter said during a press conference at the Rebels office.

“We always want to do what’s right for the organization and the right thing at this point is to let Jesse focus on the role of head coach of the team. “That’s what’s most important to start with, allowing Jesse and the players to develop. Jesse doesn’t need to worry about the management side of it now. He can concentrate on coaching.”

Sutter said he considered bringing in an

outside source to serve as general manager.

“But with myself knowing the coaching staff extremely well and knowing the players, the scouting staff and everyone involved in the hockey operation, I felt it was best that I be the one who becomes the general manager,” he said. “It’s not something that’s new to me. This way Jesse can do what he does best, and that’s being a real good coach.”

Sutter reiterated that the personnel move was well thought out and in the end will benefit the team.

“To me, it’s about the players . . . giving the players the best chance to succeed and be successful, and I think this is definitely the right decision. It’s been a long process for myself, over three months going through it.

“To be quite honest, I informed Jesse on Friday that this was the direction I was leaning towards going and that I needed the weekend to think about it. Yesterday it became very clear to me that this was what we needed to do moving forward. Effective today, this is where our hockey operations stand.”

Sutter added that in the near future he

expects to hire a ‘special assignment’ person to work alongside himself as well as assist the coaching staff.

Meanwhile, Wallin sounded almost relieved that he will now be strictly in charge of guiding the Rebels from the bench.

“You want to do a good job of everything, but being a GM is a lot of extra work and a big responsibility,” he said. “Coaching is my passion, coaching is what I came on board to do and I feel that’s my greatest strength and what I enjoy the most. This allows me to focus on that.

“Ultimately, as Brent said, it’s what’s best for the organization. We’ve had a number of talks about this over a long period of time, as far back as when I took this position.

“I just feel that with the situation at this point in time, with Brent being back . . . that it made sense that at the end of the day this was the best thing for the organization and for the players, the best thing for everyone involved, myself included. I’m excited about being able to focus solely on the coaching side of it.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Rebels would love to see Elson back again RED DEER REBELS TRAINING CAMP

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Playing for pay this winter would be ideal, but 20-yearold Red Deer Rebels forward Turner Elson would also be OK with playing a fourth and final season in the Western Hockey League.

The St. Albert product signed a two-way contract with the Calgary Flames last year and has no idea of where he will be skating in the 2012-13 season.

Ideally, he’ll start cashing in on his pact by earning regular employment with the Flames’ AHL team, the Abbotsford Heat, but the notion of returning to Red Deer is anything but unsettling.

“You always want to take that next step. It would be great to be in the AHL and getting that experience as a first-year pro, but I could also be here getting plenty of ice time. To me, it’s a win-win either way,” Elson said Monday after completing his physical testing prior to the first scrimmage of the Rebels main camp at the Centrium.

Even with an NHL lockout looming, Elson will leave for a pro camp in September, one way or another.

“Right now, it kind of depends. If there’s no lockout then

I’ll go to the Flames camp on the 16th. If there is (a lockout) then I’ll go to Abbotsford on the 22nd,” he said.

The Rebels would certainly love to have the feisty forward back in gear this season. Elson made the Rebels as a camp invite in 2009 and evolved into a full-time WHL contributor, improving from 17 points (9g,8a) in his rookie season to 31 points (16-15) in 2010-11 to 46 points (21-25) in an injury-shortened 56-game campaign last winter and earning a pro contract.

“I didn’t envision that at all,” said Elson. “I envisioned trying to make the Dub and being an everyday player. I just pushed myself and finally got that big pro contract I’d been dreaming about my whole life.”

Rebels head coach Jesse Wallin would welcome Elson back into the Rebels fold this season with open arms. “He’s a guy who came in here and found a way to work his way onto our hockey team,” said Wallin.

“That’s the tenacity he brings every night. He’s a gritty player who has had to earn everything he has got to this point in time.

That’s his bread and butter and that’s what he brings to the table.”

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Forward Turner Elson makes a pass during a scrimmage, Monday.

Elson is at training camp but is unsure weather he will bve joining the Calgary Flames or coming back for a fourth season with the Rebels.

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Baseball New York Baltimore Tampa Bay Boston Toronto

American League East Division W L Pct 74 54 .578 70 57 .551 70 58 .547 62 67 .481 57 70 .449

GB — 3 1/2 4 12 1/2 16 1/2

Chicago Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 71 56 .559 69 58 .543 56 71 .441 55 73 .430 52 76 .406

GB — 2 15 16 1/2 19 1/2

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle

West Division W L 76 52 70 57 66 62 62 67

Pct .594 .551 .516 .481

GB — 5 1/2 10 14 1/2

Today’s Games Chicago White Sox (Sale 15-4) at Baltimore (Tillman 6-2), 5:05 p.m.

Oakland (Milone 10-9) at Cleveland (McAllister 5-4), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (R.Romero 8-11) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 12-11), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Shields 12-7) at Texas (Darvish 12-9), 6:05 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 12-7) at Kansas City (Mendoza 7-9), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 4-3) at Minnesota (Diamond 105), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Buchholz 11-4) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 16-3), 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Oakland at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Texas, 5:05 p.m.

Detroit at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

Seattle at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

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

Ro.Hernandez, Seddon (3), C.Allen (8) and Marson.

W—Bre.Anderson 2-0. L—Ro.Hernandez 0-3. Sv— Balfour (15). HRs—Oakland, Reddick (26).

Toronto 010 020 103 01 — 812 0 New York 100 320 001 00 — 7 8 1 (11 innings) H.Alvarez, Laffey (4), Delabar (7), Loup (7), Lincoln (8), Janssen (9), Oliver (10) and Torrealba, Mathis; Phelps, Eppley (7), D.Robertson (8), R.Soriano (9), Rapada (10), D.Lowe (10) and R.Martin. W—Oliver 3-2. L—D.Lowe 8-11. HRs—Toronto, Lind (9), Torrealba (4), Rasmus (21). New York, Cano 2 (27), Swisher (20), Jeter (14).

Chicago 000 002 010 — 3 8 0 Baltimore 010 001 02x — 4 7 1 Liriano, Crain (6), Myers (7) and Pierzynski; W.Chen, O’Day (7), Strop (8), Ji.Johnson (9) and Wieters. W—Strop 5-2. L—Myers 2-2. Sv—Ji.Johnson (40). HRs—Chicago, Youkilis (16). Baltimore, Ford (1), McLouth (2).

Tampa Bay 201 020 000 — 5 6 2 Texas 032 010 00x — 6 10 1 Price, Badenhop (5), Farnsworth (7), W.Davis (8) and J.Molina; D.Holland, Ogando (7), Mi.Adams (8), Nathan (9) and Soto. W—D.Holland 9-6. L—Price 16-5. Sv—Nathan (26). HRs—Tampa Bay, Longoria (7). Texas, Beltre (25), N.Cruz (21).

Seattle 000 000 010 — 1 3 0 Minnesota 000 000 000 — 0 5 1 F.Hernandez and Jaso; Hendriks and Mauer. W—F. Hernandez 13-5. L—Hendriks 0-7. HRs—Seattle, Thames (7).

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Trout LAA 105 427 100 MiCabrera Det 126 490 83 Jeter NYY 126 541 83 Konerko CWS 111 414 53 Revere Min 91 382 53 Mauer Min 119 443 67 Fielder Det 127 460 68 Beltre Tex 123 480 73 Cano NYY 127 490 78 Butler KC 126 477 54

H 144 159 174 132 119 138 143 149 152 145

Avg. .337 .324 .322 .319 .312 .312 .311 .310 .310 .304

Monday’s Major League Linescores Kansas City100 000 000 — 1 7 0 Boston 102 002 00x — 5 8 1 Hochevar and S.Perez; Matsuzaka, Mortensen (8), Padilla (8), A.Bailey (9) and Saltalamacchia. W— Matsuzaka 1-3. L—Hochevar 7-12. HRs—Boston, Ellsbury (2).

Oakland 111 000 000 — 3 7 1 Cleveland 000 000 000 — 0 2 0 Bre.Anderson, R.Cook (8), Balfour (9) and D.Norris;

BATTING — Trout, Los Angeles, .337; MiCabrera, Detroit, .324; Jeter, New York, .322; Konerko, Chicago, .319; Beltre, Texas, .315; Revere, Minnesota, .312; Mauer, Minnesota, .312.

RUNS — Trout, Los Angeles, 100; Kinsler, Texas, 89; Hamilton, Texas, 84; MiCabrera, Detroit, 83; Jeter, New York, 83; Granderson, New York, 82; AJackson, Detroit, 79.

RBI — Hamilton, Texas, 111; MiCabrera, Detroit, 106; Willingham, Minnesota, 92; Fielder, Detroit, 91; ADunn, Chicago, 88; Encarnacion, Toronto, 88;

AdGonzalez, Boston, 86; Pujols, Los Angeles, 86.

HITS — Jeter, New York, 174; MiCabrera, Detroit, 159; Beltre, Texas, 152; Cano, New York, 152; AGordon, Kansas City, 151; Andrus, Texas, 148; Rios, Chicago, 146.

DOUBLES — AGordon, Kansas City, 42; AdGonzalez, Boston, 37; Cano, New York, 36; Choo, Cleveland, 35; Kinsler, Texas, 35; Brantley, Cleveland, 34; NCruz, Texas, 34; Pujols, Los Angeles, 34.

TRIPLES — AJackson, Detroit, 8; JWeeks, Oakland, 8; Rios, Chicago, 7; Andrus, Texas, 6; AEscobar, Kansas City, 6; ISuzuki, New York, 6; Trout, Los Angeles, 6; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 6.

HOME RUNS — ADunn, Chicago, 38; Hamilton, Texas, 35; Encarnacion, Toronto, 34; Granderson, New York, 33; MiCabrera, Detroit, 32; Willingham, Minnesota, 31; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 30.

STOLEN BASES — Trout, Los Angeles, 41; RDavis, Toronto, 39; Revere, Minnesota, 30; Crisp, Oakland, 28; AEscobar, Kansas City, 26; Kipnis, Cleveland, 26; JDyson, Kansas City, 25.

PITCHING — Weaver, Los Angeles, 16-3; Price, Tampa Bay, 16-5; Sale, Chicago, 15-4; MHarrison, Texas, 15-7; Scherzer, Detroit, 14-6; Sabathia, New York, 13-3; FHernandez, Seattle, 13-5; Vargas, Seattle, 13-8.

STRIKEOUTS — Scherzer, Detroit, 195; Verlander, Detroit, 192; FHernandez, Seattle, 184; Darvish, Texas, 172; Price, Tampa Bay, 170; Shields, Tampa Bay, 168; Peavy, Chicago, 155.

SAVES — JiJohnson, Baltimore, 40; Rodney, Tampa Bay, 39; RSoriano, New York, 33; CPerez, Cleveland, 33; Valverde, Detroit, 26; Nathan, Texas, 26; Aceves, Boston, 25.

Washington Atlanta Philadelphia New York Miami

National League East Division W L Pct 77 50 .606 73 56 .566 61 67 .477 59 69 .461 58 71 .450

GB — 5 16 1/2 18 1/2 20

Cincinnati St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Chicago Houston

Central Division W L Pct 78 52 .600 71 57 .555 68 60 .531 60 67 .472 49 78 .386 40 88 .313

GB — 6 9 16 1/2 27 1/2 37

San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona San Diego Colorado

West Division W L 71 57 69 60 64 65 60 70 52 75

Pct .555 .535 .496 .462 .409

GB — 2 1/2 7 1/2 12 18 1/2

Football Canadian Football League East Division GP W L T 8 5 3 0 8 4 4 0 8 3 5 0 8 2 6 0

PF 233 177 236 176

PA Pt 242 10 191 8 261 6 244 4

West Division GP W L T B.C. 8 6 2 0 Edmonton 8 5 3 0 Calgary 8 4 4 0 Saskatchewan 8 3 5 0

PF 202 190 217 190

PA Pt 141 12 151 10 206 8 182 6

Montreal Toronto Hamilton Winnipeg

Tor — FG Waters 17 3:50 Edm — FG Shaw 32 8:49 Edm — FG Shaw 12 12:43 Third Quarter Tor — TD Inman 16 pass from Ray (Swayze convert) 1:20 Edm — FG Shaw 50 7:10 Tor — TD Kackert 25 run (Swayze convert) 15:00 Fourth Quarter Edm — TD Charles 10 run (Shaw convert) 2:31 Edmonton 10 6 3 7 — 26 Toronto 0 3 14 0 — 17 Attendance — 22,912 at Toronto.

National Football League

Week Nine Monday’s result Edmonton 26 Toronto 17 Saturday’s result Calgary 17 Saskatchewan 10 Friday’s result B.C. 20 Winnipeg 17 Thursday’s result Montreal 31 Hamilton 29

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 1 2 0 .333 52 Buffalo 0 3 0 .000 27 Miami 0 3 0 .000 30 N.Y. Jets 0 3 0 .000 21

Week 10 Friday, Aug. 31 B.C. at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 2 Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 3 Toronto at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

Houston Jacksonville Tennessee Indianapolis

Week 11 Friday, Sept. 7 Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 8 Hamilton at Toronto, 11 a.m.

Montreal at B.C., 2 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 9 Saskatchewan at Winnipeg, 11 a.m.

Eskimos 26, Argonauts 17 First Quarter Edm — FG Shaw 22 7:17 Edm — TD Joseph 1 run (Shaw convert) 15:00 Second Quarter

PA 63 81 66 60

W 2 2 2 1

South L T 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0

Pct .667 .667 .667 .333

PF 73 76 79 79

PA 56 103 61 59

Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland Pittsburgh

W 2 2 2 2

North L T 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

Pct .667 .667 .667 .667

PF 91 54 64 87

PA 61 52 54 55

San Diego Denver Kansas City Oakland

W 3 1 1 1

West L T Pct 0 0 1.000 2 0 .333 2 0 .333 2 0 .333

PF 61 65 58 58

PA 43 62 92 54

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 3 0 0 1.000 78

PA 50

Dallas Washington N.Y. Giants

2 2 1

Carolina Tampa Bay New Orleans Atlanta

Chicago Detroit Green Bay Minnesota

Seattle San Francisco St. Louis Arizona

1 1 2

0 0 0

.667 .667 .333

43 68 74

47 56 55

W 2 2 2 1

South L T 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 0

Pct .667 .667 .500 .333

PF 53 57 81 59

PA 55 65 71 61

W 2 1 1 1

North L T 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 0

Pct .667 .333 .333 .333

PF 56 64 50 52

PA 79 62 69 43

W 3 2 1 1

West L T Pct 0 0 1.000 1 0 .667 2 0 .333 3 0 .250

PF 101 55 53 85

PA 41 50 75 103

Sunday’s Games San Francisco 29, Denver 24 Carolina 17, N.Y. Jets 12 Wednesday, Aug. 29 Tampa Bay at Washington, 5 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Giants, 5 p.m.

Miami at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 30 Atlanta at Jacksonville, 4:30 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia,4:35 p.m.

Minnesota at Houston, 5 p.m.

Baltimore at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

Kansas City at Green Bay, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Tennessee, 5 p.m.

Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 8 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 8:05 p.m.

Denver at Arizona, 9 p.m.

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REBELS: Pretty good hockey player Elson, along with Charles Inglis and captain Adam Kambeitz, would also provide the Rebels with a trio of overage forwards capable of leading the club offensively.

“He’s certainly not what you’d consider a skilled player, but he’s not a kid without ability, either,” said Wallin.

“You combine the ability he does have with the heat and the passion that be brings and you have a pretty

good hockey player.”

In the event that he returns, Elson is convinced that he, Inglis and Kambeitz can help the Rebels rebound from a 2011-12 season that turned from promising to disappointing due to an inordinate number of injuries.

“We have a lot of young guys who played big minutes last year. They’re back feeling confident and we also have some good 20-year-olds,” said the five-foot-10, 180-pound winger.

“I think Kamby can put up over a point per game this year, for sure, and Charles has the skill set of a good player who can also put up big numbers.

“It’s going to be a good solid year for us and I really think we can be a con-

Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets (C.Young 3-7) at Philadelphia (Worley 6-9), 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Westbrook 13-9) at Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 11-6), 5:05 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 15-5) at Miami (Nolasco 9-12), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 13-8) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 4-10), 6:05 p.m.

San Francisco (M.Cain 13-5) at Houston (B.Norris 5-11), 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Capuano 11-9) at Colorado (Chatwood 3-3), 6:40 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 16-6) at Arizona (Miley 14-8), 7:40 p.m.

Atlanta (Medlen 5-1) at San Diego (Werner 1-0), 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 1:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Arizona, 1:40 p.m.

Atlanta at San Diego, 4:35 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Houston, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Major League Linescores St. Louis 000 022 000 — 4 10 2 Pittsburgh 000 200 100 — 3 9 2 Lohse, Lynn (6), Salas (7), Boggs (8), Rzepczynski (8), Motte (8) and Y.Molina; A.J.Burnett, J.Hughes (6), Grilli (8), Watson (9) and Barajas. W—Lohse 14-2. L—A.J.Burnett 15-5. Sv—Motte (31). HRs— St. Louis, Holliday (24).

Milwaukee 100 031 019 — 15 21 2 Chicago 003 001 000 — 4 9 2 Estrada, Loe (6), Fr.Rodriguez (7), Henderson (8), Li.Hernandez (9) and Lucroy; Germano, Bowden (6), Al.Cabrera (7), Corpas (8), Hinshaw (9), L.Castillo (9), Mather (9) and Clevenger. W—Estrada 2-5.

L—Germano 2-4. HRs—Milwaukee, Ar.Ramirez 2 (20), C.Gomez (14), Braun (35), Hart (24). Chicago, B.Jackson (4).

Los Angeles000 000 000 — 0 4 0 Colorado 100 101 07x — 10 13 1 Beckett, Choate (6), League (7), Jansen (8), Wall (8) and A.Ellis; Francis, Roenicke (6), Brothers (7), Belisle (8) and W.Rosario. W—Francis 5-4. L— Beckett 0-1. Sv—Belisle (2). HRs—Colorado, Colvin (15), W.Rosario (21).

Cincinnati 001 101 000 — 3 6 0 Arizona 010 100 000 — 2 5 1 Arroyo, Marshall (7), Broxton (8), Chapman (9) and Hanigan; Skaggs, Ziegler (6), Albers (8), D.Hernandez (9) and M.Montero. W—Arroyo 11-7.

L—Skaggs 1-1. Sv—Chapman (32). HRs—Cincinnati, Arroyo (1). Arizona, J.Upton (11).

Atlanta 000 000 000 — 0 4 0 San Diego 020 000 01x — 3 9 0 Maholm, Durbin (7), Batista (8) and McCann; C.Kelly, Layne (7), Thayer (8), Gregerson (9) and Grandal. W—C.Kelly 1-0. L—Maholm 11-9. Sv— Gregerson (2). HRs—San Diego, Grandal (6).

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING—MeCabrera, San Francisco, .346; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, .345; Posey, San Francisco, .328; YMolina, St. Louis, .324; DWright, New York, .317; Holliday, St. Louis, .311; CGonzalez, Colorado, .308.

RUNS—AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 88; Bourn, Atlanta, 85; Braun, Milwaukee, 85; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 84; Holliday, St. Louis, 83; JUpton, Arizona, 82; CGonzalez, Colorado, 80.

RBI—Braun, Milwaukee, 90; Holliday, St. Louis, 90; Beltran, St. Louis, 85; FFreeman, Atlanta, 82; Bruce, Cincinnati, 81; CGonzalez, Colorado, 81; ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 81.

HITS—AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 162; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 159; Bourn, Atlanta, 153; Holliday, St. Louis, 151; Prado, Atlanta, 148; Reyes, Miami, 146; DWright, New York, 145.

DOUBLES—ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 43; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 36; Prado, Atlanta, 36; Votto, Cincinnati, 36; DWright, New York, 36; DanMurphy, New York, 33; Alonso, San Diego, 32; Holliday, St. Louis, 32.

TRIPLES—Fowler, Colorado, 11; Bourn, Atlanta, 10; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 10; SCastro, Chicago, 9; Colvin, Colorado, 9; Pagan, San Francisco, 9; Reyes, Miami, 9.

HOME RUNS—Braun, Milwaukee, 35; Stanton, Miami, 29; Beltran, St. Louis, 28; Bruce, Cincinnati, 27; Kubel, Arizona, 26; Ludwick, Cincinnati, 25; 5 tied at 24.

STOLEN BASES—Bourn, Atlanta, 37; Pierre, Philadelphia, 32; Bonifacio, Miami, 30; DGordon, Los Angeles, 30; Victorino, Los Angeles, 30; Reyes, Miami, 29; Stubbs, Cincinnati, 28.

PITCHING—Dickey, New York, 16-4; Cueto, Cincinnati, 16-6; GGonzalez, Washington, 16-7; Strasburg, Washington, 15-5; AJBurnett, Pittsburgh, 15-5; Lohse, St. Louis, 14-2; Hamels, Philadelphia, 14-6; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 14-8; Miley, Arizona, 14-8.

STRIKEOUTS—Dickey, New York, 183; Strasburg, Washington, 183; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 183; Hamels, Philadelphia, 172; GGonzalez, Washington, 168; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 165; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 163.

SAVES—Hanrahan, Pittsburgh, 34; Chapman, Cincinnati, 32; Motte, St. Louis, 31; Kimbrel, Atlanta, 31; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 29; Clippard, Washington, 28; RBetancourt, Colorado, 26; Putz, Arizona, 26.

Red Deer gets win at memorial tournament PRINTING PLACE PADRES WIN 45-PLUS, CODOGAN HAWKS WIN 30-PLUS DIVISION IN DOUG BRADFORD MEMORIAL FALL CLASSIC

SENIOR BASEBALL The Printing Place Padres slipped past the Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends 7-6 in Sunday’s all-Red Deer final of the 45-plus division of the Doug Bradford Memorial Fall Classic senior men’s baseball tournament.

The Padres reached the championship game at Great Chief Park with an 11-0 win over the Provost Buds, while the Legends downed the Saskatoon Sportsmen 9-7 in the other semifinal.

Meanwhile, the Cadogan Hawks captured the 30-plus division title with an 11-7 win over the Regina Drifters. In semifinal play earlier in the day, Regina beat Red Deer North Star Sports 5-2 and Cadogan got past Spruce Grove 3-2.

On Saturday, Gary Moe whipped Provost 11-1 and Printing Place dumped Saskatoon 8-2 in 45-plus action, while in the 30-plus category Regina defeated Sylvan Lake 8-3, Cadogan downed The Hideout of Red Deer 10-7 and Sylvan Lake fell 11-4 to Spruce Grove.

In earlier 30-plus games, Spruce Grove was a 10-3 winner over Lacombe Stone and Granite and North Star Sports beat the Clive Red Sox 6-2. Provost and Saskatoon played to a 4-4 tie in the 45-plus category.

tender and put together a good long playoff run for the city and the fans.

If I’m back, I’m looking to have a big year. It will be my last one here and I want it to be memorable. I’ll do everything I can to be that guy who helps the team out.”

Elson admitted that Rebels training camp is a special time, dating back to his first participation three years ago.

“It feels like just yesterday that I came into camp just wondering if I was going to make it or not,” he said. “You really have to enjoy the moment. It flies by way too quickly.” ● The Rebels rookie camp concluded Monday afternoon, with the first main-camp scrimmage following at 5 p.m.

A total of 31 players registered for main camp, the notable exception being invited player Brett Njaa, an

18-year-old forward who finished third in Saskatchewan Midget AAA League scoring last year with 26 goals and 65 points in 44 games with the Prince Albert Mintos. Njaa has apparently decided to play junior A hockey this season after being guaranteed of a berth with the Camrose Kodiaks of the AJHL. The main camp schedule was changed Monday after the coaching staff decided to keep 16 players from rookie camp, making for the formation of three scrimmage teams.

Therefore, 90-minute scrimmages will be played today at 9 a.m., 1:30 and 6 p.m., with the top 40 to 42 players to remain for the Black and White intrasquad game set for Wednesday at 7 p.m. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Transactions BASEBALL BOSTON RED SOX—Placed DH David Ortiz on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 25.

Recalled OF Ryan Kalish from Pawtucket (IL). Activated RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Pedro Beato to Pawtucket.

NEW YORK YANKEES—Acquired OF Steve Pearce from Houston for cash.

SEATTLE MARINERS—Activated OF Franklin Gutierrez from the 15-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS—Reinstated INF Michael Young from the paternity list. Designated INF Luis Hernandez for assignment. Extended their player development agreement with Spokane (NWL) through the 2014 season. Agreed to terms with RHP Mike Zouzalik to a minor league contract.

National League CHICAGO CUBS—Acquired C Anthony Recker from Oakland for C-1B Blake Lalli and assigned Recker to Iowa (PCL). Designated LHP Scott Maine for assignment. Recalled LHP Brooks Raley from Iowa. Optioned LHP Chris Rusin to Iowa.

HOUSTON ASTROS—Recalled OF Jimmy Paredes from Oklahoma City (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Placed RHP Chad Billingsley on the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Alex Castellanos to Albuquerque (PCL) and RHP Shawn Tolleson to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal). Added 1B Adrian Gonzalez, RHP Josh Beckett and INF Nick Punto to the active roster. Transferred INF/OF Jerry Hairston Jr. from the 15- to the 60-day DL. Recalled RHP Josh Wall from Albuquerque.

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Selected the contract of RHP Casey Kelly from Tucson (PCL).

Activated RHP Dale Thayer from the paternity list. Optioned LHP Josh Spence and RHP Brad Boxberger to Tucson.

American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES—Traded INF Lee Cruz to Long Island for a player to be named.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS—Signed RHP Bobby Blevins. Reinstated LHP Eric Niesen to the active list. Placed RHP Jon Hunton and LHP Adam Rowe on the inactive list.

BASKETBALL ATLANTA DREAM—Named Fred Williams coach and general manager.

FOOTBALL BALTIMORE RAVENS—Placed LB Stevie Baggs, LB Darryl Blackstock, S Emanuel Cook and DT Ryan McBean on injured reserve. Placed WR David Reed and LB Terrel Suggs on reserve/physically unable to perform list.

BUFFALO BILLS—Acquired QB Tarvaris Jackson from Seattle for an undisclosed draft choice. Released QB Vince Young.

CAROLINA PANTHERS—Terminated the contracts of P Nick Harris and K Olindo Mare. Waived WR Darvin Adams, G Roger Allen, WR Michael Avila, WR Brenton Bersin, G Will Blackwell, RB Lyndon Rowells, TE Greg Smith and RB Josh Vaughan. Waived/ injured WR Rico Wallace. Placed CB Brandon Hogan on injured reserve and WR David Gettis on the physically unable to perform list.

CHICAGO BEARS—Waived RB Harvey Unga.

CINCINNATI BENGALS—Waived WR Kashif Moore.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Claimed DL Ernest Owusu off waivers from Minnesota.

Waived/injured DL Marcus Benard, DL Auston English and DB Antwuan Reed. Placed LB Emmanuel Acho and LB Chris Gocong on injured reserve. Placed DL Phil Taylor on the reserve-physically unable to perform list.

DALLAS COWBOYS—Waived WR Raymond Radway, OT Levy Adcock, OT Tyrone Novikoff, WR David Little, TE Harry Flaherty, RB Javarris Williams, LS Charley Hughlett, CB C.J. Wilson and P Delbert Alvarado. Waived/injured WR Donovon Kemp and LB Caleb McSurdy. Placed C-G Kevin Kowalski on the physically unable to perform list.

DENVER BRONCOS—Waived LS Lonie Paxton, WR Mark Dell, WR Cameron Kenney, TE Anthony Miller, RB Xavier Omon, FB Austin Sylvester, OT Mike Remmers, G

Austin Wuebbels, LB Eliot Coffey, DE Cyril Obiozor, S Anthony Perkins and CB Ramzee Robinson. Placed DE Jason Hunter on injured reserve.

DETROIT LIONS—Placed RB Jahvid Best and CB Chris Greenwood on the reserve/ physically unable to perform list. Placed G Bill Nagy and T Jonathan Scott on injured reserve. Released RB James Bryant, WR Dominique Curry, WR Jarett Dillard, K Derek Dimke, RB Stephfon Green, S Sean Jones, S Isaac Madison, G Jacques McClendon, G J.C. Oram, DT Bobby Skinner and WR Terrence Toliver. Waived/injured LB Slade Norris.

GREEN BAY PACKERS—Placed RB Du’ane Bennett, LB Desmond Bishop, TE DeMarco Cosby, G Ray Dominguez, DE Johnny Jones and WR Shaky Smithson on injured reserve. Placed TE Andrew Quarless and LB Frank Zombo on the reserve/physically unable to perform list. Released FB Jon Hoese and DE Jarius Wynn.

HOUSTON TEXANS—Released C Thomas Austin, LB Omar Gaither, P Brett Hartmann, WR Bryant Johnson, WR Mario Louis, RB Davin Meggett, OT Nick Mondek, DE Jimmy Saddler-McQueen, FB Derrell Smith, G Kasey Studdard and CB Torri Williams.

Waived/injured NT Ra’Shon Harris and LB Greg Williams. Placed K Randy Bullock on injured reserve. Placed LB Darryl Sharpton on the physically unable to perform list.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Placed C John Estes, G Drew Nowak, G Jason Spitz and TE Matt Veldman on injured reserve. Waived/injured FB Brock Bolen. Placed DE John Chick and LB Clint Session on the reserve physically unable to perform list.

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Waived WR Julius Pruitt. Placed S Kelcie McCray on injured reserve.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed TE Aaron Hernandez to a five-year contract through 2018. Released DL Tim Bulman, WR Jabar Gaffney WR Donte’ Stallworth, DB Ross Ventrone and DL Gerard Warren. Placed DB Will Allen, S Josh Barrett and FB Spencer Larsen on injured reserve. Claimed WR Kerry Taylor from Minnesota. Placed TE Jake Ballard and DL Myron Pryor on the reserve/physical unable to perform list and OL Markus Zusevics on the reserve/non football injury list.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—Waived QB Luke McCown, DT Remi Ayodele, WR Marques Clark, LB Aaron Tevis, TE Jake Byrne, WR Derek Moye, WR Kevin Hardy, OL Brian Folkerts, OL Paul Fenaroli, OL Hutch Eckerson, DL Donavan Robinson, DL Swanson Miller, DB Kamaal McIlwain, DB Cord Parks and DB Johnny Thomas.

NEW YORK GIANTS—Placed DT Chris Canty and TE Travis Beckum on the reservephysically unable to perform list. Terminated the contract of CB Antwaun Molden. Placed OL Brandon Mosley on injured reserve. waived TE Ryan Purvis, TE Christian Hopkins, DT Carlton Powell, DT Oren Wilson, DB Chris Horton, DB Brandon Bing, DB Jojo Nicolas, WR Julian Talley, WR Brandon Collins, RB Joe Martinek and OT Joel Reinders.

NEW YORK JETS—Released K Josh Brown. Waived/injured FB-TE Josh Baker.

Waived LB Damario Ambrose, WR Stanley Arukwe, WR Wes Kemp and RB Jeremy Stewart. Traded T Wayne Hunter to St. Louis for T Jason Smith.

OAKLAND RAIDERS—Waived FB Manase Tonga, QB Kyle Newhall-Caballero, LB Korey Bosworth, DE Mason Brodine, DE Wayne Dorsey, S Aaron Henry, CB Terrail Lambert, WR Thomas Mayo, WR DeAundre Muhammad and S Chaz Powell. Waived/injured FB Rashawn Jackson and OL Ed Wang.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Placed OT Jason Peters on the reserve/non-football injury list. Placed DT Mike Patterson on the reserve/non-football illness list. Placed G Mike Gibson on injured reserve. Waived WR Jamel Hamler.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS—Released LB Ryan Baker, DT Mike Blanc, WR Paul Cox, CB Andre Freeman, K Daniel Hrapmann, OL Kyle Jolly, LS Matt Katula, TE Jamie McCoy, CB Walter McFadden, TE Justin Peelle, S Myron Rolle, WR Juamorris Stewart, DT Kade Weston and WR Jimmy Young. Waived/injured LB Mortty Ivy. Claimed RB DuJuan Harris off waivers from Jacksonville.

ST. LOUIS RAMS—Placed DT Trevor Laws on injured reserve. Waived/injured WR Danario Alexander. Waived FB Todd Anderson, TE Brody Eldridge, WR Charles Gilbert, DT John Gill, WR Brandyn Harvey, LB Alex Hoffman-Ellis, OT Kevin Hughes, LB Noah Keller, K Garrett Lindholm, OT Ryan McKee, RB Calvin Middleton, RB Nick Schweiger and LS Travis Tripucka.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS—Released WR-KR Roscoe Parrish and OT Michael Toudouze. Waived WR Jason Barnes, WR Taylor Embree, WR Phillip Payne, DT Eddie Brown,

LS Nick Guess, RB Michael Hayes, TE Brad Taylor and OT Phil Trautwein. Waived/injured DT Garrett Brown. Placed G Johnnie Troutman on the eserve-non-football injury list and G Brandyn Dombrowski on the reserve-non-football illness list.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS—Waived C Jason Slowey, FB Cameron Bell, LB Kourtnei Brown, DT Patrick Butrym, DT Matthew Masifilo, WR Ben Hannula, WR Joe Hastings, WR Brian Tyms, CB Cory Nelms, CB Deante’ Purvis, TE Joe Sawyer and K Giorgio Tavecchio. Placed RB Jewel Hampton on the reserve/non-football injury list and LB Darius Fleming on the reserve/physically unable to perform list.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Placed G Davin Joseph on injured reserve. Placed DE Da’Quan Bowers on the reserve/physically unable to perform list. Waived RB De’Anthony Curtis, LS Andrew DePaola, WR Greg Ellingson, TE Collin Franklin, WR Ed Gant, P Eric Guthrie, OT Mike Ingersoll, LB Brian Smith, S Tramain Thomas and CB Marquese Wheaton.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Waived K Neil Rackers, RB Antwon Bailey, OL Chris Campbell, RB Lennon Creer, QB Jonathan Crompton, WR Samuel Kirkland, LB Monte Lewis, G Nick Martinez and TE Beau Reliford. Waived/injured WR Lance Lewis and CB Morgan Trent. Released OL James Lee, OL Tony Moll and K Neil Rackers. Traded CB Kevin Barnes to Detroit for a conditional draft pick. Placed OT Jammal Brown on the reserve/physically unable to perform list.

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B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012

Top seeds cruise on day one at U.S. Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Maria Sharapova’s stomach ache turned out to be nothing more than that.

That lopsided loss she suffered at the Olympics — well, that may have only been a false alarm, as well.

Playing her first match since a blowout loss to Serena Williams in London and a stomach virus forced her out of two tuneup tournaments, Sharapova returned to tennis in fine fashion Monday at the U.S. Open.

The third-seeded Russian came back from a three-week break and defeated Melinda Czink of Hungary 6-2, 6-2 in a stress-free, 67-minute firstround match at blustery Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Later, top-seeded Roger Federer took centre stage and beat American Donald Young 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 to begin the chase for his 18th major title.

Sharapova completed the career Grand Slam earlier this year by winning the French Open. Monday’s victory, in front of the half-filled stadium, was her first match since a 6-0, 6-1 loss to Williams at the London Games in a gold-medal showdown that looked more like one of these first-round wipeouts Sharapova usually inflicts.

Turns out, Sharapova was dealing with some stomach pain then, which only got worse a few weeks later. She went to the doctor for a series of tests, including an ultrasound to see if she was pregnant. The test turned up negative.

“Just because of the pain I was having, it was really weird,” said Sharapova, who is engaged to basketball player Sasha Vujacic.

“They told me I was fine, not pregnant. Then, I’m like, ‘Can I get my money back?”’

It has been an eventful summer for one of tennis’ biggest stars.

After serving as the flag-bearer for Russia, then finishing as the silver medallist at the Olympics at Wimbledon, Sharapova’s original plan was to come to North America and play in tuneups in Montreal and Cincinnati to acclimate herself to the hard courts.

But the Olympics took a lot out of Sharapova, and when she arrived in Canada, she got knocked down by a stomach ache so bad that she went to the doctor.

It turned out to be a virus — her body’s way of telling her to take it easy, she said, so she withdrew from the events and took a few weeks off.

“It was a nice break in a way, but after so many weeks of practicing, you’re just eager to get back on the court,” she said.

She looked eager to get off the court, as well, showing very few signs of rust against her 88th-ranked opponent.

Sharapova served five aces and maxed out at 115 mph. It took her 31 minutes to finish the first set and she was up 3-0 in the second before Czink got her only break.

That made things only mildly interesting, and only for a very short time.

Leading 4-2, Sharapova won one point by chasing a ball almost into the stands on the sidelines, reaching out to get it back, then closing in on the net to win the point. Czink stood there shaking her head, hardly believing what she had just seen.

Sharapova said getting the blowout loss to Williams out of her mind was not a problem.

“It doesn’t stick with you,” she said.

“I mean, personally, I’ve been part of many different types of matches in my career. Looking back at that week, it was really special. It was so hectic.”

Meanwhile, Aleksandra Wozniak of Blainville, Que., breezed into the second round with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Romania’s Alexandra Cadantu.

“I’m glad I stayed on top or her and won this one,” Wozniak said. “It was nice that it went so fast after the long rain delay. It was so crowded in the locker-room, the lounge, the cafeteria.”

The routine win was part of a day filled mostly with by-the-book results: Defending champion Sam Stosur’s 6-1, 6-1 victory over Croatia’s Petra Martic, No. 3 Andy Murray’s 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 win over Alex Bogomolov Jr., of Russia and, of course, a two-hour rain delay at a tournament that has finished on a Monday for four straight years because of bad weather.

Federer closed the night with a 1-hour, 34-minute dispatching of Young and stayed in the mix for his sixth U.S. Open title.

Federer, a loser to Novak Djokovic in the semifinals the last two years, is seeded first for the 23rd time at a Grand Slam, breaking the record he shared with Pete Sampras.

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Roger Federer, of Switzerland, serves to Donald Young during a match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Monday, in New York. Federer won 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.

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Blue Jays rally to beat Yankees in extra innings

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Toronto 8 New York 7 NEW YORK — Colby Rasmus hit a three-run homer off Rafael Soriano with two outs in the ninth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays took advantage of Derek Lowe’s wild pickoff throw in the 11th to beat the New York Yankees 8-7 Monday night, snapping a sevengame losing streak.

Moments after Rasmus’ stunning drive put Toronto ahead 7-6, Derek Jeter tied it with a home run off Casey Janssen. But the last-place Blue Jays didn’t cave, scratching out a run two innings later to stop an eight-game slide at Yankee Stadium.

The loss might be a costly one in more ways than one for the AL Eastleading Yankees. Slugging first baseman Mark Teixeira was pulled with a strained left calf and sent to the hospital for an MRI. Yorvit Torrealba had a two-run shot and Adam Lind also went deep in his first plate appearance for the bangedup Blue Jays since coming off the disabled list.

Missing slugger Jose Bautista and several other regulars, Toronto had dropped a season-worst eight straight on the road.

Robinson Cano homered twice and Nick Swisher hit a two-run drive for New York.

Torrealba singled leading off the 11th for his third hit and pinch-runner Mike McCoy scampered to third when Lowe’s pickoff attempt got past first baseman Eric Chavez and rolled into foul territory up the right-field line.

Lowe (8-11) was charged with an error.

After a strikeout, Adeiny Hechavarria hit a slow grounder toward third that forced Jayson Nix to charge the ball.

McCoy waited until Nix threw to

first, then dashed home and beat Chavez’s throw to the plate with a slide.

Darren Oliver (3-2) pitched two hitless innings for the win, Toronto’s first at Yankee Stadium since May 23, 2011.

Jeter lofted Janssen’s second pitch to right field, beyond a leaping Moises Sierra and into the front row of seats behind the auxiliary scoreboard. It was Jeter’s 14th home run of the season and fourth in seven games.

Rookie right-hander David Phelps gave the Yankees another solid spot start, this one in place of injured Ivan Nova, and New York opened a 6-3 lead in the fifth on a two-run drive by the streaking Swisher.

Hechavarria got Toronto’s comeback started with a two-out RBI single off Cody Eppley in the seventh.

Sierra and Rajai Davis singled in the ninth to bring up the slumping Rasmus, who drove a breaking ball deep into the second deck in right for his 21st home run.

It was Soriano’s third blown save in 36 chances since replacing injured closer Mariano Rivera in early May. On a night when it was downright dangerous to be a Toronto pitcher, four times the Yankees hit sharp comebackers that caromed off the body of a Blue Jays hurler.

Henderson Alvarez took the worst one, Russell Martin’s hard grounder that smacked off the right-hander’s leg in the fourth inning and careened into shallow right field for an RBI single.

Alvarez hobbled over to the first base line and bent over in pain.

He was checked by a trainer and walked slowly off the field with a bruised left shin.

X-rays were negative and he is day to day. Aaron Laffey relieved and was given all the time he needed to warm up.

last week, and led to the scheduling of another one with the talks shifting back to New York.

The sides are in need of anything that might encourage progress with a Sept. 15 deadline looming for a lockout.

“When you get into discussions like this sometimes things can become more or less cumbersome depending on the nature of the group and what you’re talking about,” said Donald Fehr. “And, you find a way to satisfy everybody’s comfort level and go on. If you try it one way and that doesn’t really work you go try it another way.”

The biggest issue holding up talks is finding agreement on how the league’s revenues should be split up. Players received 57 per cent under the expiring CBA and the league wants to see that number reduced considerably.

The NHL’s initial offer involved cutting the amount to 43 per cent, although it has indicated a willingness to negotiate

off that number.

Based on last season’s revenues, every percentage point lost would cost the players $33 million.

After capitulating in the last round of negotiations and hiring Fehr to lead them in this one, that group appears ready to fight against significant givebacks.

In fact, Fehr declared last week that “the players aren’t afraid of a lockout.”

For an agreement to be made, something will have to give. Bettman has made it clear that he believes the owners are paying out too much money.

“The players have done very well under this deal,” said Bettman.

“The average salary has gone from $1.45 million (in 2005-06) to $2.45 million, and I think if given their druthers — and they’ve said publicly — they’d be happy to keep playing under this deal even while we negotiate.

“My sense is that they prefer to keep things the way they are, and so that slows up the process.”

2012-2013

Annual REBELS SEASON PREVIEW Friday, September 21 The Western Hockey League season is

fast approaching and the Red Deer Rebels are looking to start fresh this season.

The Red Deer Advocate will provide insight into the 2012-2013 Rebels, along with the coach’s expectations, player profiles and how teams around the WHL stack up, in a special publication distributed in the Friday, September 21 Red Deer Advocate.

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Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar leaps over New York Yankees’ Russell Martin (55) to force out Martin at second base in the fourth inning of a baseball game on Monday, at Yankee Stadium in New York.

The battery of lawyers and sprawling negotiating committees are being relegated to the sidelines.

As the NHL’s collective bargaining talks resume in New York on Tuesday, they’ll do so with only four men at the table: NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and his deputy, Bill Daly, on one side; NHL Players’ Association executive director Donald Fehr and his top assistant, Steve Fehr, on the other.

“Both sides agree that this, at this point in time, might be a productive way for us to try and get some traction,” Bettman said when negotiations broke last week.

There’s been very little evidence of traction over the last two months.

While the parties have met face-to-face every week since the end of June, they’ve made very little headway on the framework that will shape the next agreement.

That prompted the first small session with just Bettman, Daly and the Fehrs in Toronto

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KEELBOAT EVENT Some of Canada’s fastest sailors will meet at Sylvan Lake this weekend for the 2012 Women’s National Keelboat Championship, the first time it has ever been held on the Prairies. Hosted by the Sylvan Lake Sailing Club and sanctioned by the Canadian Yachting Association, the competition and related events bring crews of four to compete in their high-performance racing boats. Teams arrive on Thursday and then will spend Friday brushing up their skills, including practice races.

Racing starts at 10 a.m. on both Saturday and Sunday and wraps up in the late afternoon on both days, depending on weather and wind.

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Education initiative started EDUCATIONAL SUMMIT ADDRESSES A VARIETY OF COMMON ISSUES

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta partners in education met for the first time formally at an Educational Summit to discuss a variety of common issues like dropout rates, transition from high school to post-secondary, and high school completion.

School board chairs, superintendents and college representatives hoped by the end of the day-long meeting on Monday that they would find more common ground on key issues, new strategies and opportunities to work together.

Enterprise and Advanced Education Minister Stephan Khan said it was encouraging to see this type of initiative between school boards and the colleges.

“We are hoping this is a sustainable model that perhaps we can utilize in other (regions) as well,” said Khan, at RDC on

Monday.

RDC president Joel Ward said the more opportunities for the school boards and the college to work together, the more likely that students will make good choices about the programs they take when they get to post-secondary institutions.

“We want to ensure the teachers and counsellors in (kindergarten to Grade 12) have a complete understanding of the options that might be available for kids when they get to high school,” said Ward.

Ward said they would like to find opportunities to bring college faculty into the schools, talking to students, giving presentations, attending career fairs and offering lectures on areas of interest that may not exist in the kindergarten to Grade 12 system.

“If we start to look at education as kindergarten to Grade 16 instead of kindergarten to Grade 12 and post-secondary, and ways to integrate, I think we can find a com-

mon ground,” said Ward.

At the end of the day, a working group will be formed to look at opportunities for future pilot projects and action items. Ward suggested a second-semester Grade 12 class as a pilot project where the students and the teachers would study on RDC campus.

Wild Rose School Division superintendent Brian Celli said there was a time when people could get by on a Grade 9 education, but those times are gone.

“For students to really have opportunities to have the lives they may really want, they need to probably go to some kind of post-secondary,” said Celli.

“So one of the things we need to do is line up the pieces to allow them to do that.

To make sure when students leave our institutions, they have what they need to pursue what they want to pursue in the postsecondary realm.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

CAR BURNS NEAR RIMBEY

MAVIS GOSS OPEN COMING Central Alberta golfers can tee off at the third-annual Mavis Goss Open, raising money this year for the Rainbow Society of Alberta. The charity fulfils wishes of children with a chronic or life-threatening illness, including 16-year-old Tanner Fandry of Red Deer, who was diagnosed with a progressive and degenerative disease called avasular necrosis (AVN). The event is looking for golfers, plus sponsors, as well as travel, cash, food, drink or prize donations in support of the society’s wish program. The gala runs on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Gasoline Alley. The golf tournament runs on Friday, Sept. 14, at 9 a.m. at Alberta Springs Golf course, five km west of Red Deer on Hwy 11. For registration or to become a sponsor, go onilne at www. themavisgossopen. org, go on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ mavisgossfoundation or on Twitter at @ MavisGossOpen.

CORRECTION Sunday Life’s list of upcoming events had incorrect times for Greater Tuna — a real redneck comedy — the season-opening fundraiser play for Central Alberta Theatre.

Show times for Sept. 6 to 9 and 13 to 16 are 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 6 p.m. Check for food options and order tickets through the Black Knight Inn box office, 403-755-6626.

For more information, contact Judith at 403309-3590 or email moodtrek@telus.net.

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Car owner Vince Smith could do little more than stand and watch in agony as his birthday gift went up in smoke on a gravel road north of Rimbey on Sunday night. RCMP say the 47-year-old Red Deer man and another person were travelling in the 2006 Dodge Charger on Township Road 440 shortly before 9 p.m. when they saw flames at their feet. The unnamed person driving Smith’s car pulled it to a stop and they both went for help. Fire crews and police from Rimbey arrived at the scene at about 10 p.m. to find the vehicle totally engulfed in flames. The car had been given to Smith about six months earlier for his birthday.

Teen returns home after Young harrowing cancer scare retire FUNDRAISING BENEFIT IS BEING PLANNED TO HELP COVER COST OF FAMILY’S PROLONGED STAY IN OKLAHOMA FOR CANCER TREATMENTS

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF A summers go, it was a traumatic, life-altering one for 17-year-old Jesse Ganson.

The Lacombe teen was diagnosed with a brain tumour in June.

He underwent immediate surgery in Edmonton, followed by two months of aggressive treatment of radiation and chemotherapy in Oklahoma.

Throughout his ongoing, painful ordeal, which resulted in a 14kg (30-pound) weight loss from Jesse’s already lanky frame, relatives marvelled at his strength and courage.

“The whole time, he Jesse Ganson took things in stride, reassuring everybody that he’ll be all right.

“He went through so much . . . with nausea and vomiting.

“He was never unpleasant or complaining. It amazed all of us,” said his aunt, Londa Beavington.

As Jesse is set to start Grade 12 at the Parkview Adventist Academy using a walker for balance, Beavington now wants to ease some of the burden on his parents.

A fundraising benefit is being planned for Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Lacombe Memorial Centre to help Jesse’s mom and dad cover the cost of their prolonged stay in Oklahoma.

Jesse’s older brother, Joel, stayed home.

Beavington said Shanna and Gerald Ganson, were advised by doctors to take their younger son to the U.S. for a type of radiation treatment that is still unavailable in Canada.

Since Jesse’s brain tumour was found to be a very aggressive type that often will jump intdo the spinal column, doctors prescribed proton radiation because it mostly targets stray cancer cells, reducing damage to surrounding healthy tissue.

With one year of proton radiation and chemotherapy treatments, the “typical teenager,” who was described by his aunt as enjoying playing computer games, was given an 80 per cent

chance of survival.

Jesse is now reunited with his brother at home after successfully completing two months of treatments in the U.S. He is looking forward to seeing his friends and returning to school, said Beavington.

Jesse’s Oklahoma medical treatments were covered by Canadian medicare.

But the teen’s parents had to miss work and stay at a hotel during their two months in the U.S. (Gerald works as a computer programmer at Red Deer College and Shanna is a former day school operator).

Also, the Gansons have already used their entire lifetime allotment of extended healthcare benefits to pay for Jesse’s medication, so far.

“Any further purchases will have to come out of their pocket,” said Beavington, who hopes the fundraiser will help ease the financial load.

Many musicians are donating their talents, including Justine Vandergrift, a bluesy singer/songwriter, and country crooner Steve Arsenault, both of Red Deer, and Edmonton jazz singer Jenie Thai and folk musician Braden Gates.

As well, there will be performances from the Lacombe Flat Iron Jazz Band, which Gerald plays trumpet with, as well as members of the Red Deer College Faculty of Music, and others yet to be announced.

“This is turning into something much bigger than was originally planned,” said Beavington, who’s touched by the extent of community support.

A corporate sponsor who can help cover the cost of the venue is still being sought.

The silent auction will start at 6 p.m., and musical entertainment at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $30 from the Lacombe Chamber of Commerce or by emailing Beavington at jessebenefitconcert@gmail.com.

A trust fund at the Scotia Bank in Lacombe was also set up by Jesse’s grandfather and another aunt.

Cheques can be made out to Leo Ganson and Julie Shipowick in Trust for Jesse Ganson. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

keeps it ‘simple’ JUST KNEW HOW TO BECOME AN ‘IDIOT MILLIONAIRE’

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF Derek Foster believes he’s Canada’s youngest retiree at age 34 — and so far, no one has challenged him.

Foster didn’t win the lottery and wasn’t born into money.

He just knew how to become an “idiot millionaire,” thanks to investing in simple stocks.

This one activity proved to be quite life-altering.

Typically, he says, a lot of people will acquire financial advisors, who end up charging fees.

“I’m not an investing guru or have special knowledge,” said Foster, before giving a free talk at Red Deer Public Library downtown branch on Monday night.

“I think the average person can invest themselves. I think people are afraid to do it until they go to an advisor, the bank or some local expert.”

Foster said the key to investing is being able to buy stocks that are simple enough for any six-year-old to illustrate with a crayon.

“You don’t want it complicated and people are usually attracted to more complicated ideas,” said Foster.

“Often the simple things work.”

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BRIEFS Case of fatal collision delayed Court proceedings have been delayed for a few more days against a Cochrane man accused of killing four people and injuring one in a collision on Hwy 2 near Innisfail.

Tyler James Stevens, 30, faces 19 charges after a collision late in the evening of March 4 during which a southbound SUV carrying four people was struck by another SUV travelling north in the southbound lanes.

Charges against Stevens include criminal negligence causing death, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm and refusing to provide police with a sample of his breath.

Red Deer lawyer Will Willms, speaking on behalf of Stevens’s lawyer Ian Savage in Red Deer provincial court on Monday, said the accused man’s counsel needs more time to negotiate a plea agreement with the Crown.

Savage and his client are to return to court on Sept. 10 to enter a plea.

Woman fined for role in fatal collision

Stolen Red Deer property found in searches around Edmonton Strathcona RCMP found hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen property this month, including some from Red Deer, after searching various Edmontonarea properties.

RCMP recovered the stolen goods at two rural properties in Lamont County, one rural property in Strathcona County and at a business in Fort Saskatchewan.

The majority of the property — including allterrain vehicles, a motorbike and a school bus — was allegedly stolen during the last two years, but some items may have been taken before that.

Police later searched a rural property near Tofield, found more stolen goods and have now charged six people.

Among the items retrieved is a Caterpillar skid steer valued at $ 20,000. It was reported stolen from Red Deer.

Two Yamaha all-terrain vehicles, valued at $15,000, were reported stolen from Selkirk, Man., and Red Deer.

Richard Kennedy, 52, of Androssan, Robert Grouette, 59, of Lamont County, Skip Davison, 28, of Tofield, David Splichen 25, of Tofield, Kassandra Schimmens, 23, of Sherwood Park, and Barry Clarke, 24, of Tofield all face a variety of charges, including possession of stolen property over $5,000.

RCMP ask anyone with information related to the crimes to call 780-467-7741.

Proceedings in alleged kidnapping delayed Court proceedings have been delayed until next month against an Innisfail man accused of breaking into his former spouse’s home, and attacking and kidnapping her.

Airdrie RCMP allege that they were called to the CrossIron Mills Mall in Balzac on March 28 by a security guard who had been slipped a note by a woman saying she had been kidnapped.

Police officers who answered the complaint allege that they witnessed the accused man striking a woman and that he then turned on them while they were making the arrest. The man’s name has been withheld to protect the identity of his victim.

The accused man, who remains in custody, made a brief appearance in Airdrie provincial court on Thursday. He reserved his plea on charges of 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.

He is to return to court on Sept. 13 to enter a plea.

Recreation Centre hours extended Hours have been extended at the Red Deer Rec Centre to allow people to take advantage of the warm weather.

Recreation Centre Co-ordinator Monique PageMearns announced on Monday that lane and public swimming hours will be extended to mid-September.

Effective Sept. 4 to 16, public swimming will be open from 3:30 to 8 p.m. on weekdays, 1 to 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 1 to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Lane swimming is open from 6 to 9 a.m., noon to 1 p.m. and 8 to p.m. on weekdays, noon to 1 p.m. and 8 to 9 p.m. on Saturdays and noon to 1 p.m. on Sundays.

Visit the recreation pages at www.reddeer.ca or call 403-342-8222 for further details.

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Derek Foster believes he’s Canada’s youngest retiree at age 34.

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SEEDS: Investments that grow For instance, he says everybody wonders what will be the next big Apple or other technological thing to invest in.

Instead, he sticks with products and services that are used every day, such as toothpaste.

“That’s how I was basically able to fund my retirement,” said Foster. “We basically live in a culture where people want things instantaneously.”

Some people invest like they would at a casino — they want to make a quick gain.

Foster gives an analogy where seeds, symbolizing money, are planted for investment.

That will grow into a tree, but in many cases, people just want to chop it down.

“I plant the seeds and I grow a tree, but I harvest the fruit and I can do it again next year and the next

Senator’s wife often got upset about health of much older husband: grandmother

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — A 69-year-old senator from Manitoba and his 23-year-old wife marked their first anniversary — the paper anniversary — on Monday with a court document keeping the newlyweds apart.

Maygan Sensenberger has made headlines around the world since her arrest on a plane when it landed last Thursday in Saskatoon.

Police alleged she caused a disturbance on the flight, yelled about bringing down the plane and threatened her spouse, Sen. Rod Zimmer. But a witness says Sensenberger was simply worried about her husband’s health and wanted him to get help for breathing problems he was having during the flight.

Sensenberger’s family says it was not unusual for the young woman to be worried about her partner — she easily got upset about his heath.

“She gets upset easy if anything’s wrong with her husband,” Sensenberger’s 68-year-old grandmother, Rita, said Monday from her home in Collingwood, Ont. “He is quite a bit older than Maygan and she does worry a lot about him ... if she thought there was something wrong with Rod she would be very, very upset.”

The trouble started, according to fellow passenger Scott Wright, when Sensenberger got upset after Zimmer started feeling tightness in his chest on an Air Canada flight from Ottawa to Saskatoon.

Wright, a former ambulance attendant, volunteered when the crew asked for anyone with medical experience to help the senator.

The couple was sitting near the back of the plane, he said, and Sensenberger was emotionally distraught.

Wright said it sounded like Zimmer was struggling a bit to breathe, although the senator told him it may have been caused by a previous medical condition.

Zimmer also spoke of a previous incident that happened a few days prior.

The crew gave Zimmer some oxygen and he started feeling better, but his wife was still upset and they fought over his condition.

“All of the frustration she expressed while I was there was targeted around the medical condition and the health of her husband.

“I never at any time felt threatened.”

Wright said he and several other passengers did their best to help. The crew asked Wright if he believed they needed to land early, but when Zimmer began to feel better, the decision was made to continue on to Saskatoon.

Sensenberger continued to be upset, he said. Zim-

Judge rejects royal privilege argument

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS An attempt to invoke royal privilege in a Canadian courtroom was rejected by a judge Monday.

Quebec Superior Court dismissed arguments that the province’s former lieutenant-governor should be granted immunity from fraud charges.

Marc Labelle, the lawyer for Lise Thibault, had argued that his client should benefit from sovereign immunity, because the Crown’s prosecution cannot prosecute the Crown. Superior Court disagreed and said Thibault’s trial will proceed on Sept. 10.

Thibault, who served as the lieutenant-governor from 1997 to 2007, has pleaded not guilty to two counts each of breach of trust, fraud and creating false or counterfeit documents.

The auditor-generals of Quebec and Canada concluded in a joint report in 2007 that Thibault was

year,” Foster said. “So I tend to focus on companies that pay dividends, where you get cheques every three months.”

Colgate toothpaste has paid uninterrupted dividends since 1895.

“The stock will go up and down, but as long as people keep brushing their teeth, you will keep getting those dividend cheques,” Foster said.

Foster, now 42, has been busy despite retiring, or not having a conventional job, in eight years.

Recently, he and his wife Hyeeun sold their house in Ottawa and are taking a one-year trip through North America with their five children, ranging in age from two to 12.

“We have extra freedom, but we don’t have an extravagant lifestyle,” said Foster.

He’s written a number of books, including his first book called Stop Working: Here’s How You Can. For more information, go online to www.stopworking.ca.

His books were on sale during Monday’s presentation. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

reimbursed for $700,000 in expenses that were not related to her mandate. Labelle’s novel argument was based on the principle that the Queen can do no wrong, which dates back to the Middle Ages.

It raised the idea of whether the Crown could be prosecuted by the institutions it helped to create, and whether it was actually appropriate for a democratic institution to punish a figure who is constitutionally mandated to keep it in check and prevent abuses.

mer said he was feeling fine but she felt his medical condition was affecting his judgment.

“She saw us doing the primary work so she was continuing to speak out. She was continuing to say, ’What’s happening? Is he OK? Tell me he’s going to be OK. Why aren’t you doing more? Why aren’t you doing something?’

“She did pause to yell at one or two of the other passengers who were peering over or trying to see what was going on,” Wright said. “There was the odd profanity offered.”

He said Sensenberger didn’t lash out physically at anyone on the plane but she did have a tussle with her husband.

“The only grabbing and pushing I saw was between her and him as he was trying to calm her and nudge the hand over and settle her down,” Wright said.

Police and ambulance staff met the plane when it landed. Wright said Zimmer walked off the aircraft by himself.

Sensenberger was arrested and charged with endangering the safety of the aircraft and causing a disturbance.

She first appeared in court Friday but was held in custody over the weekend.

On Monday, their first-year wedding anniversary, according to their Facebook page, the judge released her on several conditions, including that she have no contact with her husband. She was also banned from drinking alcohol and being in licensed establishments.

Zimmer sat in the front row of the courtroom during the appearance. He then left through a back door, as his wife walked out the front and rushed by reporters into a waiting black car.

She is to appear again today in a specific courtroom set aside to hear domestic violence cases.

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A Trochu woman was fined $402 under the Alberta Traffic Safety Act for her part in collision that claimed the life of a female motorcyclist south of Three Hills on Aug. 4.

Three Hills RCMP say a driver of an SUV was travelling south on Hwy 21 when it rear-ended a truck hauling a trailer around 12 p.m. The SUV flipped and rolled into the northbound lane, colliding with a motorcycle.

The female motorcyclist, Sherry Kirk, 34, of Three Hills, died en route to hospital.

Jennifer Dale, 22, of Trochu was charged with careless driving.

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Red Deer’s Codd wins junior championship CODD COMES OUT ON TOP OF A THREE-WAY PLAYOFF AT MCLENNAN ROSS SUN JUNIOR GOLF TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP AT WOLF CREEK

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Red Deer’s Matt Codd plays his approach shot to the third green at Wolf Creek Golf Resort, Monday. Codd got a special first victory of the season by winning the McLennan Ross Sun Junior Golf Tour Championship on the second playoff hole by beating out fellow Red Deerian Brett Pasula and Edmonton’s Tyler Saunders.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR WOLF CREEK — While touring the difficult Wolf Creek Old Course layout in 71 strokes through 18 holes — a mere 1-over par — Red Deer’s Matt Codd obviously made some impressive shots in regulation play Monday.

But it was an up-and-down on the first playoff hole of the McLennan Ross Sun Junior Golf Tour Championship that the eventual winner insisted were his best back-to-back strokes of the day.

Codd, along with Brett Pasula of Red Deer and defending champion Tyler Saunders of Edmonton, headed to the par-4 15th hole for the start of a three-way playoff after 18 holes, and promptly carved a 3-wood into the right fescue.

“I didn’t really swing it that well. I failed to follow through,” said Codd, who from there punched his ball out to the left rough and then hit 73 yards to within 12 feet of the pin.

Unfazed, he drained the putt to join Pasula and Saunders — who both parred the 15th — at the 18th tee for the second playoff hole.

“The putt was left to right down the hill. If I missed it, it was off the green for sure, but I rammed it in the jaws,” said Codd, who captured the 2012 MRS Tour championship 15 minutes later when he twoputted for par on the 18th.

Both Pasula and Saunders hit wayward drives on the 18th while Codd was 300-plus yards down the middle. He then hit a 54-degree wedge 114 yards to within 10 feet and made his four to record the victory, his first of the year.

“I thought it was going to get off the left side (of the green) but it cut just enough for me,” said Codd of his approach.

While Codd had been shut out in an otherwise solid season until Monday, he felt comfortable at Wolf Creek.

“I played well at the Junior Masters here earlier this year.

I shot a 70-71, so that was good,” he said. “But I hadn’t got a win here until today.”

Indeed, Codd finished

Curing over-rotation in the backswing With the September long weekend quickly approaching, the end of the golf season is sadly within view. Although we still have at least one and a half months of good golfing days left, the cool morning and evenings remind us that the season is changing.

As grade school begins, family interests and priorities seem to change, therefore for many golfers their clubs are relegated to a corner in the garage come September. The days are shorter, the leaves are turning color and, of course, the weather has to cooperate for us to even have a chance to get out on the Links. I am not sure about you, but I am not ready to hang up the sticks quite SCOTT yet.

BERGDAHL This of course leads me to my INSTRUCTION next question. Is it too late in the golf season to take lessons and continue working on your swing? This exact question was asked of me over the weekend and of course got me thinking. At what point do we just go out and enjoy what the day brings rather than continue to work on certain aspects of our golf game and ultimately our swings? Will I forget everything that I have worked so hard to change, therefore starting over next season?

After all, it is a long winter.

There is some truth to the fact that not swinging a club all winter long will lead to a little rust as we get back on the golf course next spring. This is guaranteed to happen whether we are taking lessons or not. There is always an element when we get back on to the golf course of being rusty or inconsistent until the muscle memory that you had before starts to kick in.

The whole idea of taking golf lessons is to educate yourself as to the proper technique and then begin to add components to your swing that make you more efficient. Most players have great aspects to their golf swing, therefore a golf professional’s job is to introduce the components necessary to make your body — and therefore golf swing — more efficient.

Ultimately, if done correctly, the player will begin to hit the ball further, straighter and with more consistency. The bottom line is that you are working towards achieving your goals through receiving instruction.

Once you achieve those goals you set new goals and work towards achiev-

ing those and so on.

This then takes us right back to the question of, is the end of the golf season (September) the correct time to take lessons? As I see it, as long as the changes you need to make to improve your swing are not major changes, then it is fine to take golf lessons at the end of the season. In most cases, a player will see and/or notice an improvement right away. The challenge will be to take that information that you just learned and put it into practice.

This is generally where players have some difficulty because we do not tend to hit the number of practice balls necessary to make the changes to our swing quickly.

The swing becomes natural when you no longer have to think about it.

This is what we refer to as muscle memory. If you have repeated the swing change enough times properly you never have to consciously think about it, therefore it becomes a natural part of your golf swing. In the next few paragraphs I shall talk about over-rotation in the backswing and a few of the likely causes of over-rotation. A few of these include straightening your trail leg (right leg for right-handed golfers), standing or lifting up and bending the target arm (left arm for right-handed golfers).

The first step is to explain what an over-rotation is. Over-rotation is when the golf club is past parallel (at the top of the back swing the club should be parallel to the ground, pointing towards your target), and therefore pointing towards the ground when you are at the top of your backswing.

The best example of this is John Daly.

If you have ever watched him hit the ball you will see that he wraps the club so far around him at the top of the swing that it points down to his feet. This seems to work for him, but in most cases will cause inconsistent ball contact.

A perfect ‘book’` backswing is one that has your shoulders turning approximately 90 degrees away from your address position, with your hips turned half as much (approximately 45 degrees). You will have maintained the flex of your right leg (which assists in creating load within your muscles), your target arm (left arm for righthanded golfers) is straight and the golf club is above your shoulder, parallel to the ground pointing towards your target.

The first flaw to over-rotation is the straightening of your trail leg (back leg) in your backswing. Maintaining the flex of your trail leg in the backswing is an important component to creating power and consistency.

Straightening the back leg allows you to lose torque throughout your body, creating a loss of power, but most importantly allows you to rotate further than you could by maintaining its flex.

The next common flaw to over-rotation in the backswing is the lifting up of the upper body. Most people will recognize this as lifting your head.

At the address position we start bent over. Bending over is important as we have to allow our arms to hang from our shoulder. This can only be done properly if we have a bend in our waist. A properly executed backswing would have you turning to the backswing maintaining the flex or bend in your upper body that you started with.

In other words, do not lift the head.

The body is a funny thing as it will take the path of least resistance. What this means is that when you take the club back into your backswing, the body will quite often naturally want to lift up as there is less strain on the muscles or your back in an upright position. This is particularly noticeable for people that have lower back problems or pain. The bottom line is if you stand up or rise in the backswing, your body now has a larger range of motion, therefore it is easier to overrotate.

Finally, and likely the most common cause of an over-rotation for most players, is the bending of the target arm (left arm for right-handed golfers) in the back swing. In your address position you want to start with your target arm straight. As you turn to the top of the backswing the target arm needs to remain straight. In most cases, golfers tend to bend their target arm, causing the club to go past parallel and creating inconsistent contact with the ball.

One of the main causes of bending the target arm is grip pressure.

Gripping the golf club too tight causes you to create hinge by bending the target arm. In the backswing we need to create hinge in the wrists (proper hinge will be 90 degrees between your target arm and the shaft of the club at the top of your backswing) and this cannot be done if you have squeezed the club too tightly.

Awareness is the first step to making any change in the golf swing. If you are not aware that you have a swing flaw then you will never make the change. If you are inconsistent in your ball contact and are interested in making changes to improve your swing, consult your local CPGA professional for his/her assistance. Play well and have a great week.

Scott Bergdahl is the teaching pro at Lakewood Golf Resort near Sylvan Lake

fifth overall in the McLennan Ross championship last year after faltering on the final four holes, and he might have thought he was headed for a similar result Monday when he was 2-over on the final four holes of regulation.

“But it was good enough to get into a playoff and get a ‘W’ out here today, which is big for me,” he said. “This is big. I’ve had a really good year, I’ve definitely played a lot better than last year so it’s been a big step forward for me.

“I’ve been playing well. I’ve been stroking the ball a whole lot better than last year and it was just nice to see some putts fall today.”

Codd took up golf at the age of 10 and was breaking 100 within two years. He credits his father Terry for his rapid advancement in the sport.

“He started me with the fundamentals, the wedge and the putter,” said Codd. “That’s pretty much what this game is . . . it’s all about the short game, 100 yards and in. That’s pretty much my bread and butter.”

Jaclyn Lee of Calgary captured the girls title with a 71, eight strokes better than runner-up Devon Spriddle of Lethbridge.

“That’s a good score here.

I’m happy with how I played today, I was really steady,” said the 15-year-old, who earlier this summer scored a seasonbest 1-under at Sundre.

Other Central Alberta results: Boys — Jesse Teron, Red Deer, 75; Theo Olver, Three Hills, 76; Jaxon Lynn, Sylvan Lake, 79; Colby Massignan, Innisfail, 80; Jeremy Rietze, Lacombe, 80; Kolby Vold, Wolf Creek, 83; Ryan Caines, Coyote Creek, 84; Logan Gordon, Pine Hills, 84; Jared Nicholls, Wolf Creek, 85; Austin Jacobsen, Wolf Creek, 86; Jordan Biollo, Pheasantback, 86; Brad Weidmer, Lacombe, 86; Chandler McDowell, Red Deer, 87; Korbin Allan, Sylvan Lake, 88; Colby Phillips, Innisfail, 90; Brendan Howard, Innisfail, 91; Joey Ramsell, Innisfail, 94.

Girls — Courtney Dickson, Innisfail, 95; Shaye Leidenius, Ponoka, 101. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Wild cards added to European team RYDER CUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GLENEAGLES — European Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal said Monday that picking Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium — along with England’s Ian Poulter — as his wild-card selections is not a gamble.

The 32-year-old Poulter will be competing in his fourth Ryder Cup since making his debut in 2004 while Colsaerts will be playing in his first and is the only rookie on Olazabal’s squad.

“It is true Nicolas is going to be the only rookie on the team but we do have an experienced team,” said Olazabal.

“Out of the 12 players, 11 have played Ryder Cup. They have proven they can handle that pressure. They have the experience so we do have a very solid team.

“He’s had a very solid season and on top of that he has made the extra effort trying to make the team, and he really showed me that he wanted to be part of that team and that is the reason I chose him.”

Colsaerts was 12th in the European Ryder Cup table, two places outside of automatic qualification. His commitment to the team was evident when he played in the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina and then crossed the Atlantic to tee up in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles last weekend in an attempt to secure qualification.

Colsaerts, who was staying with friends in a nearby village, said he got a call from Olazabal late Sunday night when the Spaniard invited him to attend the Gleneagles Hotel where he was staying ahead of the announcement.

He will be the first Belgium-born player to compete in the 85-year history of the competition.

“Well I know my phone has not stopped ringing but I do hope this is going to put golf in a better position in (Belgian) people’s minds, people’s heads,” he said.

“Golf is not a very popular sport back home, and not much as it is over here in Scotland.

“I would like to think that some of the young guys are going to go play tournaments abroad and feel like they are part of a bit of the golfing culture, just because I’ve finally put the Belgian flag on the map.”

For Poulter, it is the second time he has needed a wild-card selection after also getting one in 2008.

Poulter also learned of his selection late on Sunday night after finishing in a share of 36th place in The Barclays tournament in New York.

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Scientists grow lung cells from CF patients example. Each individual responds differently to each treatment.

For some, a certain drug works and for others it

WITH AIM OF TESTING DRUGS

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generate lung cells derived from a particular patient, then they can look for a specific drug that will work in that individual’s cells.

Then, if the drug is effective in overcoming the mutation in lung cells in the lab, the next step would be to see if it works in the patient, she said.

“What we are trying to do here is not take lung cells and put them back in patients — that’s a ways off. But by taking these cells and growing them in culture, we really do have, in this fairly short term, new cells that can be used to develop drugs that might be used to treat patients.

“In the long run, if we could improve the efficiency of making these lung cells, and really get them to function, one day we might indeed be able to use them to help repair damaged lung tissue.”

Up until recently, the only therapies available for patients with cystic

Pediatricians update stance on benefits of circumcision

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — The nation’s most influential pediatricians group says the health benefits of circumcision in newborn boys outweigh any risks and insurance companies should pay for it.

In its latest policy statement on circumcision, a procedure that has been declining nationwide, the American Academy of Pediatrics moves closer to an endorsement but says the decision should be up to parents.

“It’s not a verdict from on high,” said policy co-author Dr. Andrew Freedman. “There’s not a one-sizefits-all-answer.” But from a medical standpoint, circumcision’s benefits in reducing risk of disease outweigh its small risks, said Freedman, a pediatric urologist in Los Angeles.

Recent research bolstering evidence that circumcision reduces chances of infection with HIV and other sexually spread diseases, urinary tract infections and penis cancer influenced the academy to update their 13-year-old policy.

Their old stance said potential medical benefits were not sufficient to warrant recommending routinely circumcising newborn boys. The new one says, “The benefits of newborn male circumcision justify access to this procedure for those families who choose it.” The academy also says pain relief stronger than a sugar-coated pacifier is essential, usually an injection to numb the area.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Convention has estimated circumcision costs range from about $200 to $600 nationwide. Coverage varies among insurers and several states have stopped Medicaid funding for circumcisions.

The new policy was published online Monday in Pediatrics. It comes amid ongoing debate over whether circumcision is medically necessary or a cosmetic procedure that critics say amounts to genital mutilation. Activists favouring a circumcision ban made headway in putting it to a vote last year in San Francisco but a judge later knocked the measure off the city ballot, ruling that regulating medical procedures is up to the state, not city officials.

In Germany, Jewish and Muslim leaders have protested a regional court ruling in June that said circumcision amounts to bodily harm.

Meantime, a recent study projected that declining U.S. circumcision

rates could add more than $4 billion in health care costs in coming years because of increased illness and infections.

Circumcision involves removing foreskin at the tip of the penis. The procedure can reduce germs that can grow underneath the foreskin, and complications, including bleeding and infection, are rare, the academy says.

Despite the U.S. decline, about half of baby boys nationwide still undergo circumcision, or roughly 1 million each year. The country’s overall rate is much higher than in other developed nations, but U.S. rates vary by region and are higher in areas where it is a cultural or religious tradition, including among Jews and Muslims.

Psychologist Ronald Goldman, director of an anti-circumcision group, the Circumcision Resource Center, said studies show circumcision causes loss of sexual satisfaction — a claim the academy said is not supported by the research it reviewed — and can be psychologically harming. Goldman contends medical studies showing benefits are flawed and that the academy’s new position is “out of step” with medical groups in other developed countries.

The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists took part in the research review that led to the new policy and has endorsed it. Circumcisions in hospitals are typically performed by obstetricians or pediatricians.

The CDC also participated in the review, and will consider the academy’s updated policy in preparing its own recommendations, a CDC spokesman said.

The agency has a fact sheet summarizing circumcision’s potential health benefits and risks but no formal guidelines.

The American Medical Association and American Academy of Family Physicians have neutral policies similar to the pediatrics academy’s previous position.

Philadelphia social worker Shannon Coyne examined medical research on circumcision before her son was born last September and had a tough time making a decision. She learned that a relative’s boy needed reconstructive surgery after a botched circumcision, and that another’s son who wasn’t circumcised developed urinary infections.

Online: American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aap.org

fibrosis have targeted symptoms of the disease, such as respiratory infections and digestive disorders, rather than the CFTR gene mutation itself.

Lung transplants can prolong life, but a shortage of donor organs means that therapy is available to relatively few CF patients. One person dies from cystic fibrosis in Canada each week, and of the 40 who died of the disease in 2010, half were under 26 years old, according to statistics from Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

“More recently there has been a paradigm shift and now drugs are being developed to target the mutant CFTR specifically,” said study co-author Christine Bear, co-director of the SickKids CF Centre.

“However, every patient is unique, so one drug isn’t necessarily going to work on all patients with the same disease,” Bear said.

“Take cancer, as an

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that might help to treat cystic fibrosis,” said principal researcher Janet Rossant, chief of research at Sick Kids.

Because a patient’s cells all carry the genetic mutations that give rise to cystic fibrosis — including the lung cells grown in the lab — researchers can test drugs that specifically target the individual.

One of those drugs is an experimental compound currently being tested in the lab to see if it can reverse the effects of a key mutation in cystic fibrosis, which involves a gene known as CFTR. The CFTR gene was isolated at Sick Kids in 1989 by a team led by Lap-Chee Tsui.

“This study shows the major impact stem cell research can have on the field of individualized medicine,” said Rossant.

“It is a promising move toward targeted therapy for patients with cystic fibrosis.”

If researchers can

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Janet Rossant, chief of research at the Hospital for Sick Children. In a study published on Sunday in Nature Biotechnology, researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto describe how they produced what are known as induced pluripotent stem cells from skin taken from patients with cystic fibrosis.

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Researchers have produced lung cells in the lab using stem cells grown from the skin of patients with cystic fibrosis — a tool they believe can be used to test drugs that might overcome the debilitating, life-shortening condition.

In a study published Sunday in Nature Biotechnology, researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto describe how they produced what are known as induced pluripotent stem cells from skin taken from patients with CF. Induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, are adult cells that have been genetically manipulated in the lab to act like embryonic stem cells.

As such, they can give rise to heart, muscle, liver and virtually any other cell type in the body.

In this case, the researchers wanted to make lung cells because it is the lungs that are primarily affected by cystic fibrosis.

One in every 3,600 children born in Canada has CF. The disease, which results from genetic mutations, causes a thick, sticky mucus to clog the lungs and airways, leading to repeated respiratory infections and lung damage.

The mucus also severely affects digestion: CF patients must take large doses of digestive enzymes at each meal so their bodies can absorb nutrients.

“What we would like to be able to do is take cells from patients, turn them into these iPS, or pluripotent cells, and then be able to turn them into lung cells that we can use to test for drugs

doesn’t. This tells us that we need to be prepared to find the best option for that individual patient.”

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From Tweets To Tags:

A Beginners Guide to Social Networking for Seniors A recent Canadian Press Survey reports that use of social media by seniors has leaped in growth in the past two years, with Facebook being the most popular medium. Issues of isolation, mobility and other health challenges, as well as perhaps re-locating to a new part of the city or an entirely different community, mean that social media networks can help a senior stay connected, find important information, re-discover old friends, or cultivate new ones who share common interests.

By now you may have had at least one request to “friend” either a grandchild, someone from your graduating class, or former colleagues or neighbours.

Perhaps you have been invited to visit your dentist, health practitioner, or your favourite coffee shop’s Facebook page. That’s because just about everybody has one; whether an individual, a group, or a retail organization.

Sure, Facebook has a dimension of advertising and marketing attached, however it is still primarily a website devoted to social networking. Whether you read the ads on the sidebar is up to you, but the main opportunity is to connect with family and friends.

Facebook is free and not too complicated to set up. You will require a valid e-mail address to get you started, but this can be obtained free of charge through Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, or other providers. If you feel overwhelmed at this point, assistance is available from public libraries, or by searching the yellow pages or the community college catalogue. Alternatively, you can simply ask the savvy teenager next door for a little help.

Once you have started your Facebook account using your e-mail address and your user name, you can customize your privacy settings. This will allow you to control how, and with whom, you share your information.

You can send invitations to other Facebook users to be your “friend” or online contact, and you can accept or decline similar requests from other Facebook users. You can look up long lost friends from your former workplace or school. Often, reunion organizing groups activate Facebook pages to share

information, gather a guest list, put everyone back in touch with one another, and even make a map to the venue available.

Facebook allows you to view and share up-to-date photographs from your family and friends. For grandparents who don’t live in the same community as their grandkids, receiving new pictures is quick and easy, and the photos can then be shared with your own network of interested friends. The ability to share news and photos without leaving your home is especially important for those who are faced with issues of mobility.

You can also play games on Facebook.

Sharing your progress or score on a game such as Farmville or Scrabble can keep you connected to others. Research has also shown the positive impact playing “brain games” can have on our health.

Likewise, seniors who remain engaged in current and community events are less likely to suffer from depression. Along with newspapers, professional journals, and magazines, you can follow local and international people and issues that are of interest through Facebook. Politicians and policy makers,

athletes and sports personalities, artists and musicians often have public Facebook pages of their own.

Unlike Facebook, Twitter is a social networking medium that restricts the user to short, 140 character messages. These messages, also known as “tweets”, offer current, real-time information for people around the world.

Like Facebook, you can choose to follow anyone you find interesting.

Receiving Twitter messages is something like creating your own personal stream of news or information, based on your particular interests. Often, the messages on Twitter are up to the minute and breaking news headlines or information. And like Facebook, Twitter is interactive. You can respond to the short messages with your own thoughts or opinions.

Also like Facebook, Twitter is free but requires an e-mail address to start an account. Once you have opened the account, you create a personal profile and choose people or groups of people you wish to follow and receive information. For example, you may wish to acquire news from a television network, or an international newspaper or other publication. Or you might want to simply share a review of a book you have read, a favourite recipe, or plans for the high school reunion with your own followers.

Twitter comes with its own form of jargon: again, you might want to invite the teenager next door over for a plate of cookies and an iced tea while they explain “hash tags” to you (honest, it’s not what you think!). Seniors who have taken the short amount of time to set up and learn the basics of Facebook and Twitter report that there is no going back.

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So You Think You Can Write?

The Seniors’ Guide To Blogging A recent Canadian Press Survey reports that use of social media by seniors has leaped in growth in the past two years, with Facebook being the most popular medium. Issues of isolation, mobility and other health challenges, as well as perhaps re-locating to a new part of the city or an entirely different community, mean that social media networks can help a senior stay connected, find important information, re-discover old friends, or cultivate new ones who share common interests.

By now you may have had at least one request to “friend” either a grandchild, someone from your graduating class, or former colleagues or neighbours.

Perhaps you have been invited to visit your dentist, health practitioner, or your favourite coffee shop’s Facebook page. That’s because just about everybody has one; whether an individual, a group, or a retail organization.

Sure, Facebook has a dimension of advertising and marketing attached, however it is still primarily a website devoted to social networking. Whether you read the ads on the sidebar is up to you, but the main opportunity is to connect with family and friends.

Facebook is free and not too complicated to set up. You will require a valid e-mail address to get you started, but this can be obtained free of charge through Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, or other providers. If you feel overwhelmed at this point, assistance is available from public libraries, or by searching the yellow pages or the community college catalogue. Alternatively, you can simply ask the savvy teenager next door for a little help.

Once you have started your Facebook account using your e-mail address and your user name, you can customize your privacy settings. This will allow you to control how, and with whom, you share your information. You can send invitations to other Facebook users to be your “friend” or online contact, and you can accept or decline similar requests from other Facebook users. You can look up long lost friends from your former workplace or school. Often, reunion organizing groups activate Facebook pages to share information, gather a guest list, put everyone back in touch with one another, and even make a map to the venue available.

Facebook allows you to view and share up-to-date photographs from your family and friends.

For grandparents who don’t live in the same community as their grandkids, receiving new pictures is quick and easy, and the photos can then be shared with your own network of interested friends. The ability to share news and photos without leaving your home is especially important for those who are faced with issues of mobility.

You can also play games on Facebook. Sharing your progress or score on a game such as Farmville or Scrabble can keep you connected to others.

Research has also shown the positive impact playing “brain games” can have on our health.

Likewise, seniors who remain engaged in current and community events are less likely to suffer from depression. Along with newspapers, professional journals, and magazines, you can follow local and international people and issues that are of interest through Facebook.

Politicians and policy makers, athletes and sports personalities, artists and musicians often have public Facebook pages of their own.

Unlike Facebook, Twitter is a social networking medium that restricts the user to short, 140 character messages. These messages, also known as “tweets”, offer current, real-time information for people around the world.

Like Facebook, you can choose to follow anyone you find interesting.

Receiving Twitter messages is something like creating your own personal stream of news or information, based on your particular interests. Often, the messages on Twitter are up to the minute and breaking news headlines or information. And like Facebook, Twitter is interactive. You can respond to the short messages with your own thoughts or opinions.

Also like Facebook, Twitter is free but requires an e-mail address to start an account. Once you have opened the account, you create a personal profile and choose people or groups of people you wish to follow and receive information. For example, you may wish to acquire news from a television network, or an international newspaper or other publication. Or you might want to simply share a review of

a book you have read, a favourite recipe, or plans for the high school reunion with your own followers.

Twitter comes with its own form of jargon: again, you might want to invite the teenager next door over for a plate of cook-

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Clean out your computer to improve performance

Few computer users have not experienced the rotating hourglass icon or the spinning rainbow ball that signifies that the system is working or bogged down by something.

Over time computers can collect bits of information, fragmented files and other data that might wreak havoc on the inner workings that make a computer tick.

While some people are tech wizards, much of the general public is not so knowledgeable when it comes to understanding computer language or even moving beyond basic tasks. However, taking the time to run maintenance on the machine or asking an IT professional to assess your computer and make recommendations can improve the function of the computer and reduce stress over the slowing down or freezing of applications. Depending on the platform you use (PC or Mac), there will be certain procedures exclusive to that platform. But in general there are strategies anyone can take to clean out their computers and keep them running optimally.

• Free disk space. One of the first steps is to take inventory of what you have saved on the computer and delete extraneous

or unused program files and other items.

Delete optional factory-installed components that you don’t use as well. Check out files that you have personally saved and get rid of old things, especially photos, videos and other data that takes up a lot of space.

Temporary Internet files take up a lot of space because the browser caches each page you visit for faster access at another time. Removing these temporary files can make your computer run more quickly.

• Update software. Both Mac and PC platforms have routine updates that are recommended for the operating system and the programs installed. Some software errors may be remedied by the updating of applications when indicated.

• Use spyware and virus protection.

Visiting the Internet opens you up to contamination by any virus or spyware software contained on that site and through downloads you may do. Protection products will locate errant files on the hard drive and notify you for deletion.

• Back up files to external sources.

Having your full photo and video compilation stored on your computer may be con-

venient, but what will happen should the hard drive become damaged and data not recoverable? Protecting yourself by keeping backups of important files and information can prove a saving grace should anything happen to the computer down the line.

• Inspect start-up items. Certain applications can be designated to launch with startup, and this can bog down the machine and cause sluggishness. If speed issues are behind the clean-out, consider modifying the number of applications that you have in the start-up menu.

• Monitor activity. There may be something that is hogging your processor or using a lot of RAM. By seeing what is being used on the machine and when, you can make adjustments.

While not every tip will be applicable to your particular situation, it is important to realize that a computer is a machine and it will need maintenance. Also, as technology advances at light speed, it will be necessary to keep up with the proper updates that will enable the computer to work at full capacity.

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SHOW GOES UNDERCOVER IN EFFORT TO REVAMP STRUGGLING EATERIES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Royal Ontario Museum Chef Corbin Tomaszeski cooks alongside Rozanne Persad, owner of Curry & Roti Restaurant in Scarborough, Ont., in the Restaurant Takeover studio kitchen in this undated handout photo. Tomaszeski, who dines incognito as part of Restaurant Takeover, says he’s amazed that many restaurateurs are not up-to-date when it comes to social networking or don’t have wi-fi.

“There’s a little more accountability on the restaurant’s side with the chef and the designer taking over the restaurant. And (it’s) really explaining to these restaurant owners that their business is in the pits and we need to do something about it. So we physically take the restaurant over.”

Besides Tomaszeski, other familiar faces include Massimo Capra, chef and co-owner of Toronto Italian restaurants Mistura and Sopra Upper Lounge, and designers Cherie Stinson and Cheryl Torrenueva. They’re being joined by some newbies: chefs Richard Andino, Derek Minkensky, Andrea Nicholson and Adam Hynam-Smith, as well as designers Montana Burnett, Paula Velez, Amanda Campbell and Alison Milne.

As in the show’s previous incarnation, restaurants apply to participate and agree to shut down during the sixday makeover. And they must pony up $15,000, which the show matches.

There has been criticism levelled at “Restaurant Makeover” — called a curse by some — that establishments

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A grated carrot salad is served with dates and pistachios.

A refreshing, healthy way to enjoy a sweet vegetable

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS When Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish new year — rolls around, sugar, and specifically honey, often is on the menu. It’s a kind of edible prayer, a hopeful way of attracting sweet things to one’s life in the year to come.

That’s why this salad is based on a sweet vegetable — the carrot — and flavoured with honey and dates. But you don’t have to celebrate Rosh Hashanah to love this recipe. Refreshing and simple to prepare, it’s a great and healthy end-of-summer treat no matter what your faith.

Technique-wise, I borrowed a trick I learned for beets: I grate them.

For years, I hated beets. To me, they tasted like dirt. And the little devils start out hard as rocks, so hard you have to boil them for an hour before you can even think about cutting into them. One day it occurred to me that I might be able to make beets more user-friendly by running them through the grating disk of a food processor.

Much as I love my chef’s knife, I am not ashamed to reach for a more complex piece of equipment if it will make my life easier. So I peeled and grated some beets using the processor. And

guess how long it then took me to saute them in a large skillet? Three minutes.

My beet-loving husband was ecstatic, and I felt like a whole new world had opened up.

I started rummaging through the fridge and cupboard in search of additional candidates for the grater.

The carrot was a natural. I grated a bunch, flavoured it with hot pepper flakes and lime, then cooked it all in a large skillet coated with vegetable oil, just as I had the beets. Sure enough, 3 minutes later they were done. And delicious. Cooked shredded carrots quickly shouldered their way into our weeknight dinner rotation.

And it turns out shredded carrots are wonderful raw, too, especially in a salad. All they needed was some Middle Eastern flavouring — paprika and cumin and a spritz of lemon to balance their natural sweetness. Enhancing this basic line-up with a little honey and some chopped dates makes it a salad wonderfully fit for Rosh Hashanah.

Paprika, by the way, is one of my favourite ingredients these days. In this recipe, I used a mix of hot smoked and sweet Hungarian. Who’d have thought that the bright red powder my mom used to sprinkle on hard-boiled eggs

have gone out of business after their remake. But Tomaszeski said it’s not the TV show that was to blame. Some of the restaurants were already too far gone.

“By the time we get in there and people think that $15,000 or $30,000 is going to save a dying restaurant I think they need a little dose of reality. Just because we put paint on the wall and new floors and new tables and chairs, that’s not always good enough. People need to throw away the bad habits,” he said.

“More importantly, they’ve got to adopt the new philosophy about food.

Sometimes it’s too late when we get there because they’re so far in their rut they don’t understand.”

Some owners have used the makeover to sell their restaurant, he added.

The first season of Restaurant Takeover targets 13 eateries in Ontario and shooting is underway on the second season. In the premiere airing Thursday, Tomaszeski and designer Velez redo Village Pizza and Restaurant in

Tottenham, Ont., northwest of Toronto.

In the reveal, owner Bernice Augusto, whose decor was dated and cluttered, is at first not receptive to the new modern furniture and airier interior.

“You gotta be firm with these people because they don’t get it,” Tomaszeski said.

“They’re so far into the depths of their business falling apart they’ve lost sight of why they’re there, they’ve lost sight of why they have these businesses. It’s really a shame because usually you see that hidden golden nugget of opportunity and they don’t.”

Tomaszeski, who’s working on a cookbook as well as his catering and consulting business, said he tries to help owners look at presentation and service as well as food, and focus on giving customers value and a special experience, such as a signature dish.

“It doesn’t have to be fancy. It could be just the simple ingredients that make all the difference, present it in a way that’s completely out of the ordinary so they keep coming back.”

and potato salad just for looks one day would become the sweetheart of cutting-edge American chefs?

As for the dates, I have a couple of tricks for dealing with their annoying stickiness, which makes them a pain to chop. If you spritz your knife with

cooking spray before you start, you shouldn’t have any trouble.

And when it comes time to mix the finished salad, use your impeccably clean hands, rather than salad spoons, to make sure the dates are happily dispersed throughout the salad.

GRATED CARROT SALAD WITH DATES AND PISTACHIOS Start to finish: 30 minutes Servings: 6 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 teaspoon whole cumin seeds 1 teaspoon paprika, sweet, hot or smoked, or a combination 1 teaspoon honey 1 pound carrots 1/4 cup chopped pitted dates (about 4 whole) 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1/3 cup shelled natural pistachios, walnuts or almonds, chopped 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1 tablespoon shredded fresh mint In a small skillet over medium-low, heat the oil. Add the cumin seeds and cook,,

swirling the pan occasionally, until they turn a shade darker and become fragrant, about 4 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the paprika and the honey.

Let the mixture cool to room temperature.

Meanwhile, coarsely grate the carrots, preferably using the coarse grating disk on a food processor. In a large bowl, toss the carrots with the cooled oil-cumin mixture, the dates, lemon juice, pistachios and salt, using your hands to incorporate the dates.

Stir in the mint just before serving.

Nutrition information per serving (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 180 calories; 90 calories from fat (50 per cent of total calories); 10 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 21 g carbohydrate; 3 g protein; 4 g fiber; 220 mg g sodium.

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Red Deaer & Are 2 FALL 201 The Red Deer Advocate is once again publishing a guide on the multiple dining choices in Red Deer and area. Watch for this high-end product boasting full colour layout on all advertisements and pictures.

In addition to the Advocate distribution; there will be 2400 copies that will be distributed to the hotels of Red Deer now, and again in November.

Take advantage of this excellent advertising opportunity and contact your Advocate representative today, or call our SALES LINE at 403-314-4343.

Publication Date: Saturday, September 29 Advertising Deadline: Thursday, September 13

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TORONTO — Restaurants teetering on the edge of bankruptcy need to get with the times, says a food industry expert who is passionate about helping failing eateries get their ledgers back in the black.

Chef Corbin Tomaszeski, who dines incognito as part of Restaurant Takeover, says he’s amazed that many restaurateurs are not up-to-date when it comes to social networking or don’t have wi-fi.

“If you look at the younger generation with their smartphones, you’ve got to get on board with that. People come in with their smartphones. What do they do?” he asked. “They take pictures, there’s Facebook, they’re tweeting, there’s Pinterest, Instagram, there’s all those things they do and that’s just with their cellphone,” he said.

“That’s a huge impact on your business and if you’re not set up for it, you’re screwed.”

Tomaszeski, who is executive chef at the Royal Ontario Museum and has 20 years experience in the food trade, is one of the experts who, along with designers, turn around failing eateries in the new show Restaurant Takeover.

The fresh take on Restaurant Makeover premieres Thursday on Food Network Canada.

“I like the spin on the new direction the show has taken,” with a greater focus on food and more tough love, Tomaszeski said.

What’s different is the addition of spy-cams, which provide undercover footage of what customers would see, “which makes it blatantly obvious why they’re having the problems they are,” he added.

“We’re actually looking at the restaurant while they’re in business, which is something that never happened before. (Before) we went when it was empty, there was never any public there.... You now have that realness to the show. It’s less stagy, or fabricated as I say, and I also think it’s not as predictable as the old show.”

He said there’s more focus on resolving why the restaurants are having problems rather than just doing a quick fix and creating a few dishes.

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BLEAKEN Irene It is with sadness that the family announces the passing of Irene in Red Deer on Friday, August 24, 2012.

She was best known for her love of family and her caring nature. She leaves to cherish her memory her children Phyllis (Bill) Thompson, Douglas Bleaken, and Suzanne; her grandchildren Adam (Amy) Terrenzio and Isaac (Mandy) Terrenzio. “Mémé” was loved by her special great-grandchildren Taya, Luca, Kellan, Mia and Kasia.

Irene was predeceased by the love of her life, her husband, Maynard. A celebration of her life will be held on Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to the charity of your choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222.

COUSINS Ronald Dec. 26, 1919 - Aug. 21, 2012 Ron Cousins passed away peacefully at Centennial Care Centre in Ponoka, AB on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at the age of 92 years. He is survived by his daughter Beverley (Fred) Beckley; granddaughter Avalon Cousins, great-grandson Aslan Cousins; nephew Ron (Judith) Cousins of Brooks, AB, John Cousins of Edmonton, AB and Ann Cousins of Red Deer, AB. He is predeceased by his wife Louise and son G a r r y. A G a t h e r i n g t o Celebrate Ron’s Life will be held at The Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 35 (2810 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, AB) on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded through www.mcinnisandholloway.com If friends so desire, memorial donations may be made directly to The Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury, Orion Unit, Box 1000, Ponoka, AB T4J 1R8.

In living memory of Ron Cousins, a tree will be planted at Big Hill Springs Park Cochrane by

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COOK After a battle with cancer and diabetes it is with sorrow that we an nonce the passing of Bernard (Ben) Cook of Red Deer on August 26, 2012 at the age of 83. Ben was born at Bashaw, Alberta December 16, 1928. Ben attended a one room school in the Schultz District around Bashaw. In 1950 he was married to Helen Riske.

Together they farmed in the Bashaw area for 3 years.

In 1953 after their eldest daughter Sheila Mae was born they moved to Red Deer. Ben worked at Carling Breweries until 1961. They then purchased a light delivery business running that out of their home. In 1965 the business grew to include furniture moving and obtaining a large warehouse down on the truck route.

The business was approved by the Alberta Government, Department of National Defence, and RCMP Headquarters in Regina, Scotia Bank, TD Bank and many oil companies, moving their employees all across Canada. Ben sold the business in 1974 and went into semi retirement. He enjoyed camping, rodeos, playing his guitar, fishing, ice fishing and watching baseball. Ben is survived by his three daughters, Sheila (Dale) Carriers, their children Mitchell (Kim) Carriere and Jaclyn (Ian Anderson) Carriere, Brenda Reeves, Shauna (Aaron) Martin and their son Garret; two great grandchildren Madison and Kayden Carriere. Ben is also survived by his children’s mother Helen, sister Lillian of Port Albernie, B.C. and numerous relatives in Canada the United States. Ben was predeceased by his mother and father Martin and Elizabeth Cook; two sisters, Ann Petersen, Millie Read; two brothers, John and Alex.

At Ben’s request no formal funeral service will be held. A gathering of family, relatives and friends will be held to celebrate Ben’s life on September 9, 1:30 pm in the Red Deer Room at the Red Deer Lodge. The family w o u l d l i k e t o t h a n k D r.

Hophner for the wonderful care he received and to the Red Deer Hospice and their wonderful staff. Memorial Donations in Ben’s honour may be made to the Red Deer Hospice or the Diabetes Association.

Arrangements entrusted to Alternative Funeral and Cremation Services.

TURNER ~ Harold 1937 - 2012 Harold Turner of Red Deer, Alberta passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2012, just as he lived his life, with the love and admiration of his family surrounding him.

Harold was born on March 29, 1937 in Ferintosh, Alberta spending time in Edmonton and Calgary before settling in Red Deer in 1962. After working at Deerhome for a year, Harold took a job with the City of Red Deer and worked there until his retirement in 1994. Harold is survived by his loving wife of 51 years, Sylvia (nee Orr), daughters, Cheryl (Joe) Groeneveld, charlene Turner, Denise (Neil) Jeffrey and son, Todd Turner. Harold will also be deeply missed by his grandchildren, Danielle, Kaitlyn,

Aaron, Robyn, Rachel and Callie, sisters Betty (Calvin) Johnson, Joy Rushton, Faye (Dallas) Norstrom and Carol

and Carolyn; as well as by numerous nieces, nephews, family and friends who meant the world to him. Harold was predeceased by his parents, Lloyd and Annie Turner, twin brother, Howard, brothers, Leonard and Earl, brother-inlaw, Norm Rushton, niece, Elaine and cherished friend, Bevan Olstad. Many lives were touched by Harold whether at a baseball game, hockey game or over coffee at one of his many stops throughout the city. In honour of Harold’s life, a funeral service will take place on W e d n e s d a y, A u g u s t 2 9 , 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at CrossRoads Church, S.W. corner of Hwy. 2 and 32 nd Street, Red Deer, Alberta. Memorial contributions made directly to STARS Foundation, 1441 Aviation Park NE, Box 570, Calgary, Alberta, T2E 8M7, would be appreciated.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at: www.parklandfuneralhome.com

Arrangements in care of Gary Anderson, Funeral Director at Parkland Funeral Home & Crematorium 6287 - 67 A St. (Taylor Dr.), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

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Check Us Out Progressive Pots @ www.reddeerbingocentre.ca OUR SPONSORS FOR THE WEEK: Tues. Aug. 28 Aft: Circle of Red Deer Seniors Society Eve: Red Deer Marlin Swim Club Wed. Aug. 29 Aft: Sylvan Lake Lions Club Eve: Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society Thurs. Aug. 30 Aft: Red Deer Elks Lodge Eve: Loyal Order of Moose Fri. Aug. 31 Aft: R.D.R.H. Volunteer Association Eve: Sylvan Lake Figure Skating Skating Club Sat. Sept. 1 Aft: Alta. Northern Lights Wheelchair Basketball Eve: R.D.R.H. Volunteer Association Sun. Sept. 2 Aft: R.D.R.H. Volunteer Association Eve: Red Deer Central Lions Mon. Sept. 3 Aft: Circle of Red Deer Seniors Society Eve: Canadian Paraplegic Association

RED DEER BINGO CENTRE 4946-53 Ave. 347-4504 (Just West of Superstore) Check Us Out @ www.reddeerbingocentre.ca

Afternoon & Evening Bingo 7 Days a Week

F/T live in nanny, n/s, cell 403- 391-7844 Ruel .

P/T Caregiver req’d for mid. age lady in S. Red Deer. Entails 2 visits daily, 9-9:30 a.m. & 8:30-9:30 p.m. to monitor well-being & health. Schedule involves 10-14 days/mo. Job pays above average wages.Send resume to Box 1001, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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CALIBER PAINT & BODY INC.

Currently seeking A F/T EXP’D BOOKKEEPER, with office duties, Must have all accounting backrground with knowledge of Simply accounting.

Please email your resume to caliberpaint@telus.net.

Seeking a mature motivated individual.

Must have experience with Accounting, Microsoft Office and Accounts Receivable.

Knowledge of Service Writing would be an asset.

This person must be a team player,punctual and able to multi-task.

Email resumes attn: annie.pitcher@lafarge-na.com

Computer Personnel

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FULL TIME IT FIELD SERVICE TECHNICIAN NEEDED in Red Deer, AB We offer competitive and comprehensive compensation with benefit package, vehicle allowance, and salary based on experience.

Please submit resume to: info@longhurstconsulting.com

FULL TIME IT FIELD SERVICE TECHNICIAN NEEDED in Red Deer, AB We offer competitive and comprehensive compensation with benefit package, vehicle allowance, and salary based on experience.

Please submit resume to: info@longhurstconsulting

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STERILIZATION ASSISTANT required for our restorative dental practice. Experience preferred but not required.

This is an excellent position to provide second family income. Please send resume to Dr. Brian Saby, fax 403-347-1377 or email: info@saby.com or deliver to: 100, 3947 50A Ave. Red Deer.

Estheticians

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WE’RE GROWING! Laser Derm & Wellness Centre in Red Deer - a med-spa is looking to hire an Aesthetician.

Must have aesthetic diploma, all training will be provided. Please drop off your resume to Laser Derm Bay 500 80 Donlevy Avenue Red Deer, Alberta.

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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

FLINT TUBULAR MANAGEMENT SERVICES requires Shop & Yard Laborers. $16/hr. to start Apply w/resume to: 4115 39139 HWY 2A (Blindman Industrial Park)

IS looking to fill the following positions in the: HINTON AND FOX CREEK LOCATION * Oilfield Construction Supervisors Hiring Experienced * Oilfield Construction CLEANING Lead Hands * Stainless and Carbon SUPERVISOR Welders Must have an open availability and be flexible * B-Pressure Welders * Pipefitters with schedule as are open * Experienced Pipeline 24 hours. You will have Equipment Operators experience leading a team of cleaners. Send resume * Experienced oilfield labourers to vickib@cashcasino.ca * Industrial Painters or fax 1-403-243-4812. * 7-30 tonne Picker Truck Cash Casino, Operator with Class 1 6350 - 67 St Red Deer.

H2S Alive ( Enform), LEADING facility services St. John (Red Cross) company is seeking hard standard first aid) & working, safety conscious in-house drug and alcohol cleaners for janitorial team. tests are required.

F/T work. Fax resume to Please submit resume to 403-314-7504 hr@alstaroc.com or Fax to 780-865-5829 Quote job #62419 on resume

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ACCURACY ONLINE P r o d u c t i o n Te s t i n g i s currently hiring for day and night assistant personnel.

Must have current safety tickets- H2S, First Aid, PST. Must have all own safety PPE. Emailaccuracyonlineoffice@ gmail.com DEX Production Testing req’s exp. day night supervisors & assistants.

Competitive wage & benefit pkg. Email resume to: office@ dexproduction.com or fax 403-864-8284

Landcore Technologies Inc. located in Ponoka is currently seeking energetic, motivated team players for the following positions:

Drillers and Driller Assistants with a Class 1 driver’s license.

Apprentice or Journeyman Mechanics Pile Drive Operators Pile Drive Assistants Field Supervisor All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Safety tickets are an asset but we are willing to train the right candidate.

We offer exceptional pay, excellent benefit package and a positive work environment.

Please email resumes to info@landcore.ca or fax 403-783-2011.

The right candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Please no phone calls.

MANAGEMENT Trainee Required Westcan Fabricating Ltd is a fast growing oil and gas fabricating company based out of Ponoka AB. The successful candidate will have: *2 years Post-Secondary Education in either Business/Oil & Gas Technology *Good Computer Skills with MS Office; *Detailed Orientated individual who can deal with multi-tasking and changing priorities and staff on a daily basis. *Experience working in fabricating oil and gas production equipment an asset.

Competitive wages with benefit packages available.

Interested candidates please send resume to admin@westcanfab.ca Of fax to 403-775-4014

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RED DEER BASED Oilfield trucking company requires Oilfield salesperson /truck push .

Please send resume and oilfield related tickets to Box 1002, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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WANTED: Global Energy Management Corp.

Personnel for Domestic & International Oil and Gas Projects

*Specify Position Being Applied For

*Equipment Operators REQUIREMENTS: *Valid driver’s license * H2S Alive * Standard First Aid *WHMIS and/or CSTS or PST * Pre-Access A& D Testing 258715I2

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TANKMASTER RENTALS requires experienced Class 1 bed truck/winch truck operators. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818 TEAM Snubbing now hiring operators and helpers. Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com

TR3 ENERGY is at the forefront of reclamation and remediation in the oil & gas industry.

We are currently recruiting for:

• Project & Construction Managers • Civil, Mechanical, E&I Supervisors & Inspectors • API 510,570,653 & NACE Inspectors • Commissioning & Start Up Personnel • Operations Personnel - Oil and Gas Facilities International Experience to be considered as an asset.

Please email Resumes to:

Please email or fax your resume to: hr@tr3energy.com Fax: 403-294-9323 www.tr3energy.com

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions!

Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

Helix Coil Services, a division of IROC Energy Services is currently hiring to work with newly built state-of-the-art Coil Units based in Red Deer. We offer higher hourly pay rates and scheduled days off.

WANTED

EXPERIENCED

Currently recruiting for:

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VAC/steamer Truck driver Lacombe area, Fax resume to 403-782-0507

t Operators with Class I/Class III Drivers License

Isolation Equipment Services Inc. An expanding Oil Service Company is willing to train the right candidates as valve technicians &/or shop assistants in its fast & mechanical environment.

Duties include but not limited to the following: • •

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Assembling and repairing control valves/frac heads Calibration, testing & troubleshooting of valves as well as measurement & valve related instruments Disassembly, cleanup and evaluation of parts Signing & documenting date compliance sheets Pressure testing processes with experience, will train Forklift experience/ loader experience, will train Must be 18 years of age or older to apply Must supply driver’s abstract

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Oilfield

WELLHEAD ISOLATION SERVICE TECHNICIANS ANDTRAINEES ISOLATION Equipment Services Inc. an expanding Oil Service & Supply Company is seeking quality Service Technicians and Trainees.

Previous exp. with service rigs, fracturing, or similar industry exp. with oilfield tickets is an asset Class 1 or 3 driver’s License applicants will get primacy (Drivers with Class 5 & 5Q will be considered if applicant has relevant oilfield experience) A current driver’s abstract req’d Off-road driving exp. is an asset. MUST HAVE valid H2S and AB/BC First Aid Tickets, BENEFITS

Oilfield

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Established and very busy Oilfield Trucking Company is now hiring for the following:

COCKTAIL SERVER

• Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanics • Apprentice Heavy Duty Mechanics (must have a minimum of two

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Oilfield Swampers Class 1 Drivers (Rig Moves) Picker Operator Receptionist Call HR Dept: 780-467-9897 Fax: 780-463-3346 jobs@vdmtrucking.com

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REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY:

Rick at Northwest Motors 3115-50 Ave. Red Deer or fax to 403-341-5066

Automotive painter

Journeyman certification is preferred, however exp. in the field will also be considered. If you like working in a fast paced environment, and take pride in your work, please apply. We offer a fun work environment, exc. wages, incentive and benefits.

Interested candidates should apply in person at 6424 Golden West Ave. or email resume to: caliberpaint@telus.net

AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC

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NOW HIRING

PART-TIME SALES STAFF

Must be enthusiastic, hardworking, flexible and positive. You must have a passion for Fabrics, Sewing, Crafts and Home Decor.

Basic sewing skills are a must.

Apply in person to: #2, 2119 - 50 Avenue, Red Deer or Fax resume to: 403.346.4320

850

full-time permanent parts person to join our parts desk in our Rocky Mountain House location.

- 4 days on / 4 off schedule - Competitive industry wages - Benefit package - Modern fully equipped facility

3rd & 4th year apprentice or Journeyman

Good computer skills an asset.

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1511018 Alberta Ltd. O/A Micabella Cosmetics & Oro Gold Cosmetics req’s sales people F/T, P/T for women’s makeup & Oro Gold Cosmetics in Red Deer Malls $15/hr. Shift. canadacarts@gmail.com

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Competitive wages & benefits. Fax resume to: 403-227-1165.

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Exc. monthly guarantee Exc. job bonus Northern Allowance • Program SOAP STORIES • Excellent Benefit Plan is seeking and Travel Expenses.

Retail Sales Supervisor BENEFITS: • Retirement Plan for our Parkland Mall location, • Lucrative Safety Bonus Red Deer. $17.40/hr.

• Excellent hourly wage • Christmas bonus Email resume: • Lucrative Safety Bonus premierjobrd1@gmail.com and Christmas bonus Fax or email your resume • Excellent benefit plan and driver’s abstract to: • Retirement plan Fax: (403) 347-3406 CANEM SYSTEMS Trades Email: l.enzie@ LTD Fax or email your resume isolationequipment.com REQUIRES and driver’s abstract to: or drop by 239-37428 ABEL CORPORATION Fax: (403) 347-3406 RR273 Red Deer County is looking for candidates * JM & Apprentice Email: l.enzie@ T4E 0A1 Commercial Electricians for the following positions: isolationequipment.com * JM & Apprentice or drop by Service Electricians * Woodworking machine #239-37428 RR273 FOR LOCAL WORK operators $17.00- $21.50 Clearview Industrial, Professionals hourly - 40 hrs. per wk.

Red Deer County Resumes to: * Furniture manufacturing Fax: 403-347-1866 Looking for a place “JOIN OUR TEAM” labourers $13.95 - $17. to live?

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Optical Lab Tech Take a tour through the * Cabinetmakers $18.50- dchristensen@canem.com Our office is looking No Phone Calls CLASSIFIEDS $22.50 hourly - $40.00 for a career minded hrs. per wk. professional, a team Case IH Equipment Dealer Classifieds player who enjoys a fast in Red Deer is now Your place to SELL Send resumes to paced, exciting work accepting applications for Your place to BUY Box 5324 Lacombe, atmosphere. Part time 1st & 2nd yr. Apprentice Alberta T4L 1X1; position. Willing to work or Journeyman You can sell your guitar apply by email at flexible schedule including for a song...

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403-342-0188 needed. All oilfield tickets req’d. Call 885-4373 or fax We offer year round RMT required for resume 403-885-4374 employment, exemplary chiropractic & massage benefits package, competitive clinic. Please apply, in Classifieds...costs so little pay scale and continuous person, with resume to Saves you so much!

Andy’s Oilfield Hauling Ltd. professional training in a Optimum Performance in Blackfalds requires: positive, friendly team Buying or Selling Centre, located in the oriented work environment. your home?

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If you have a great attitude Winch Truck, Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds Bed Truck Drivers and integrity, Future Ag Inc you an exciting Restaurant/ & Picker Operators is offering career opportunity.

Hotel To apply, forward your Competitive wages, resume to: Bo’s Bar & Grill is looking benefits and scheduled Future Ag Inc. for experienced line cooks. days off. tickets and Attn: Barry Groves Competitive wages, bonus experience an asset.

Box 489 Red Deer, AB system, good work ethic, Please forward T4N 5G1 Fax to team player needed. 403applications by e-mail to (403) 342-0396 We are currently looking 309-2200 attn: Jacquie. accounting@ Email to barryg@ to recruit a qualified, andystrucking.net or fax futureag.ca career-oriented candidate (403) 885-4931 for the position of CENTRAL ALBERTA ARROW ARC WELDING DISPATCHER/FIELD DEALERSHIP is looking for is now accepting SALES WELDING APPRENTICE applications for a full time to join our Operations LOCATED BY GULL lAKE. Parts Person. team in RED DEER. This Phone Brian 318-6760 Must have good communiis a full-time, permanent cation and computer skills opportunity.

B & B COWIE and have the ability F/T & P/T COUNTER INSULATION LTD. to work independently.

TOTAL OILFIELD STAFF & BAKERS Looking for Experienced Excellent company benefits.

RENTAL offers: Must be reliable and Insulation installers and Please email resume along willing to work weekends. crews. Must have own with wage expectations to: • Competitive wages Apply in person to the transportation. philparts@gmail.com or based on experience Donut Mill, CSA approved safety fax to 403-347-3813 • Bonus program Gasoline Alley boots are required.

EXP’’D drywall tradesmen • Group health and Please fax resume to F/T or P/T Housekeeping & laborers req’d, dental benefits 403-347-8075. and servers with experiPhone 403-348-8640 • Employee RRSP and Email: bbcowie@telus.net ence in serving seniors. company stock savings EXP’D SIDER , must have Must be flexible, work plan truck and tools. $85/sq. within a team environwe pay compensation ment, take initiative and Please apply to Call 403-347-2522 work without supervision.

John Vanderburgt at Must be available to work jvanderburgt@ weekend. We offer a totaloilfield.ca Boundary competitive salary. or fax at (403) 341-5808.

Fax: 403-341-5613 Technical Group Attention: ARAMARK Total Oilfield Rentals is an Inc. equal opportunity employer. e-mail: margery_becker@ Is now hiring for: F/T HEAVY DUTY aramark.ca JOURNEYMAN or 3rd YR. For more information about ~TECHNOLOGIST wanted or growing SAROS our company, please visit independent shop in (PARTY CHIEF) Req’s Exp. P/T waitress our website business for over 25 for days & evenings. www.totalenergy.ca years. Apprentices & Please apply in person: ~TECHNICIAN journeymen welcome.

ZUBAR Production w/resume to 4914-52 St. (RODMAN) Competitive wages, Services In the Red Deer and benefits training & tool is currently taking resumes surrounding area programs. for experienced E-mail resume to: Assistant Operators.

Boundary offers a joy@etrnow.com Must have all valid tickets. competitive salary and fax (403) 340-8796 Email resume to: benefits package rdzubaroffice@telus.net or THE RUSTY PELICAN is FOUNDATION Company as well as an RRSP fax to: 403-346-9420 in Red Deer currently now accepting resumes for program. We are a seeking experienced a well experienced Tired of Standing?

Construction/Land survey commercial foundation F/T SERVER Find something to sit on company based in Airdrie. form workers. Please fax Apply within: 2079-50 in Classifieds resume to: 403-346-5867 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Please send resume to: Fax 403-347-1161 Phone Something for Everyone FAX: (403) 948-4924 or calls WILL NOT be accepted. email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca Everyday in Classifieds •

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N o w h a s i m m e d i a t e TANKMASTER RENTALS requires experienced opening for CGSB LEVEL II RT and CEDO’s for a Class 3 Vac Truck Operators for Central Alberta. large Pipeline Project in Competitive wages and the Fox Creek area. benefits.

This project is ongoing and JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING work can be performed on m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818 now hiring Day Supervisors, a rotation or a continuous basis. Other areas may TOO MUCH STUFF? Night Operators, and require personnel also.

Helpers.

Let Classifieds Top wages and a compreEmail resumes to: help you sell it. hensive benefit package jagare2@gmail.com or mikeg@jagareenergy.com a r e a v a i l a b l e a f t e r 3 months employment.

Email resumes to: qtestltd@telus.net or phone 403-887-5630 PROFLO Production Separators is currently looking for production testing assistants. Suitable candidates must have H2S, First Aid, PST/CST and a valid driver’s license.

Please forward resume to info@proflo.net or fax to 403-341-4588.

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FRAMERS req’d. Exp. preferred. Exc. wages . Local work 403-588-0808 Full time Certified Quality Journeyman Auto Body Painter, Certified Journeymen Auto Body Technician and Certified Quality Estimator, required for busy shop in Rocky Mountain House. Top wages and benefits. E-Mail Resume to skylnltd@telus.net. Fax: 403-845-7724 or stop by: Skyline Collision 4811 43rd Street Rocky Mountain House, AB HEAVY EQUIPMENT SERVICE TECHNICIAN. United Rentals is looking for a

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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

JOIN OUR TEAM!

Independent Paint & Body is currently accepting resumes for experienced Autobody Technicians and Shop maintenance person.

Apply with resume to 7453 - 50 ave Red Deer, AB or email resume to indy2000@telus.net.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds JOURNEYMAN Electrician Required Local work (Central Alberta) Oilfield exp as asset.

Send resume to hr@truemark.ca

Central AB based trucking company reqires night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

CLASS 1 DRIVING INSTRUCTOR

QUALIFIED ELECTRICIANS NEEDED True Power Electric Requires Residential exp. only Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

RED DEER MITSUBISHI is looking for a Journeyman Technician to join our closeknit team of professionals. Enjoy a diverse workload and above industry average compensation.

E-mail resume to eduiker@reddeermitsu.ca, fax to 403-348-8026 or call Ed @ 403-348-8000.

Licensed Technicians only please.

1442968 AB LTD o/a Rimbey Gas & Snacks. Wanted food counter attendant, food service supervisor, retail store supervisor, baker positions. Wage: from $11.50/hr-food counter attendant, $13.00/hr-food service supervisor, $16.00/ hr-retail store supervisor, $14.50/hr-baker. Apply in:sungmina@hotmail.com or fax:403-843-3871 or mail: PO Box 2069 5134 50 Ave Rimbey AB T0C 2J0

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED CLEARVIEW For early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate by 6:30 a.m. Mon. through Fri., + 8 a.m. on Saturday.

Class 3 Commercial Driver.

United Rentals is looking for a Class 3

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

Commercial Driver

MACHINE SHOP SUPERVISOR

MILLARD Trucking is looking for Licensed Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic. Applicant must be able to work well in a high paced environment.

We offer competitive wages & performance based bonuses. Interested persons apply to: Fax 403-638-4987 or jmillard@enerchem.com

1349300 Ab Ltd o/a Trochu Gas & Snacks.

Wanted food counter attendant, food service supervisor, retail store supervisor, positions.

Wage: from $11.50/hrfood counter attendant, $13.00/hr-food service supervisor, $16.00/hrretail store supervisor.

Apply in:sungmina@ hotmail.com or fax:403-442-3138 or mail: pobox488 114 1ave N. Trochu AB T0M2C0

Req’d immediately Will consider training a professional, experienced driver.

Ph.1-877-463-9664 or email resume to info@capilano trucktraining.com

to deliver and pick up construction equipment in Central AB. Qualified candidates CELEBRATIONS must have a clean & valid HAPPEN EVERY DAY Class 3 License w/air brake IN CLASSIFIEDS endorsement. Competitive wages and Benefits.

LABORER needed in Red Send resumes to Rob at Deer ASAP. Must know rmcwade@ur.com Red Deer & surrounding or fax to 403-343-1087 area & have valid driver’s license. Please fax resumes to Fireplace Connections at 403-343-1899

needed for small town in Alberta, 1- 1/2 hours from Calgary. Must have CNC Machine experience.

Wage depending on experience.

Please send resume to info@skillmetal.com or fax 403-641-3466.”

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OPERATORS SERVICE TECHNICIAN OWNER in AB. Home the odd to maintain and repair construction tools and equipment. Applicants must have 3-5 years exp, High School Diploma and valid drivers license.

Competitive wages and benefits. Email Rob at rmcwade@ur.com or fax to 403-343-1087

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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

PROVIDENCE TRUCKING

Is looking for an exper.

TEXAS BED TRUCK OPERATOR in Red Deer, AB. Applicants must have previous oilfield exper. in driving off-road conditions. A Class 1 license with a clean drivers abstract is required. We offer a drug free work environment with excellent employee benefits and Group RRSP. Please fax a resume and current abstract to: 403-314-2340

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires fluid haulers.

Oilfield tickets an asset.

Competitive wages. Fax resume to: 403-340-8818 WANTED Class 1 drivers with propane, butane, LPG mix in Central AB. Must have all tickets Fax resume to 403-887-6110 or Call Dennis at 403-588-5836

Reliable vehicle needed.

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Wanted for delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life in ORIOLE PARK Oriole Park West Ogilvie Close & Oldring Crsc.

HIGHLAND GREEN Adult Carrier Needed for early morning 6 days /wk.

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in EASTVIEW 82 Advocate $430/month $5165/year WEST LAKE 77 Advocate $404/month $4851/year MOUNTVIEW 71 Advocate $372/month $4473/year

For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in MICHENER

* 50A Street & 51 Street between 40 Ave & 43 Ave.

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for Morning Newspaper delivery in the Town of Stettler

Must have a reliable vehicle .

Please contact Rick at 403-314-4303

ADULT CARRIERS REQUIRED for Early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate in Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details

314-4307 AUTO GLASS INSTALLER

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life

Service Runner (Part Time)

Do You: - Want extra income - Possess a clean, valid drivers license - Have a friendly attitude - Enjoy customer service - Want part-time work (12 to 22 hours per week)

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

As part of our customer service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to delivRequired Exp’d Fabricator ery newspapers and flyers For a Ponoka ADULT to customers or carriers. A Manufacturing Shop.

UPGRADING delivery vehicle is proAlberta Government vided.

Knowledge of ASME code WANTED. Exp’d driver Funded Programs bolt up, basic instrumenta- with clean Class 1 license Student Funding Available! Hours of shifts are Monday through Friday 5 a.m. to tion and a commitment to for Super B work in Central 9 a.m. or longer, and/or excellence are prerequisites.

Alberta. F/T, benefits. * GED Preparation afternoon shifts Monday to Fax resume and current * Trades Entrance Exam Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m..

Competitive wages with driver’s abstract to Preparation Saturday and Sunday, 7 benefit packages available.

403-728-3902. or * Women in the Trades a.m.-11 a.m. or longer 746-5794 or email Interested candidates mrmike71@hotmail.com Academic Express Submit resume, indicating please send resume to Adult Education & Training “Service Runner Position”, admin@westcanfab.ca along with your drivers 340-1930 Of fax to 403-775-4014 Misc. abstract immediately to: www.academicexpress.ca Help ROCKY RIDGE careers@ BUILDERS INC. reddeeradvocate.com is currently seeking mature or mail to: individuals for modular Human Resources horse barn manufacturing.

ADULT & YOUTH 2950 Bremner Avenue Carpentry exp. an asset.

Red Deer, AB. T4N 5G3 CARRIERS Must have drivers license or fax to: 403-341-4772 NEEDED and transportation. 10 hrs/day, 5 days/week. 15 We thank all applicants for for delivery of minutes south of Sylvan their interest, however, * SANDBLASTER Flyers Lake. Fax resume to only selected candidates WE OFFER : Red Deer Express 403-728-3106 or call will be contacted.

403-373-3419 & Red Deer * Full Time hours CENTRAL AB Life Sunday in STAIR MANUFACTURER * Great benefit program LUBE SHOP after 3 mos.

Req’s F/T workers to build REQUIRES MANAGER/ * Most weekends off stairs in Red Deer shop.

GRANDVIEW LEAD HAND. Exp. req’d. * Competitive Wages MUST HAVE basic carMORRISROE Submit resumes by fax: pentry skills. Salary based WEST LAKE 403-507-8514 or email: on skill level. Benefits Hardworking need only wchurch77@gmail.com avail. Apply in person at apply. Bring resume to: 100, 7491 Edgar Metal Strip & Coatings Call Karen CUSTOMER SERVICE Industrial Bend. email: 4617 63rd Street A locally owned industrial for more info earl707@telus.net. and/or Mon-Fri 8-5. supply company is looking 403-314-4317 fax 403-347-7913 No Phone Calls Please. for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ Truckers/ aesreddeer.com

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BOWER AREA Boyce St. Bell St./Byer Close

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

CIRCULATION

Also * Duffy Close & Dietz Close area

ANDERS AREA: Andrews Close Ardell Close/ Allan St. Asmundsen Ave/ Arb Close Aikman Close/ Allan St.

SUNNYBROOK AREA: Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close Springfield Ave.

Call Rick at 403-314-4303

* 51 A Street & 52 Street between 40th Ave. & 43 Ave.

VANIER AREA FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

INGLEWOOD AREA: Issard Close

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BED ALL NEW,

Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325.

302-0582 Free Delivery BED: #1 King. extra thick Must have experience as a orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr. warranty administrator/ warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice Clerk. Must also have excellent organizational @ $545. 403-302-0582. skills. F/T with flexible hrs., D R E S S E R w / m i r r o r, 3 9-4. Benefits. Exciting drawers $70; chest of atmosphere. Check our drawers, 4 drawers $50; website for more details at night table 2 drawers $40; Allandale.com Send record cabinet 26” x 15” x resumes: attn: Suzette 22”h $40 403-314-2026 suzette@allandale.com fax. no. 403-346-3116 or LAZY Boy sofa recliner good cond, $165; swivel come by in person rocker $75 403-347-6040 VARIOUS light fixtures, Career bookcase unit, captains bed,, wood benches, ladPlanning der, metal shelving unit, RED DEER WORKS g e a r s f o r c a r, s t o v e , FREE! Call 403-342-5236 Build A Resume That Works!

WANTED APPLY ONLINE Antiques, furniture and www.lokken.com/rdw.html estates.

342-2514 Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Stereos Career Programs are

Warranty Administrator for RV & Trailer Dealership

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

VANIER AREA: Viscount Dr./ Violet Place Valentines Crsc./ Vandorp St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

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27” TV very good cond, $75; coffee and 2 end tables, light oak, $40 403-347-1181

TV's, VCRs

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KITCHEN clock/radio Sony fm/am, 3CD under cupboard, new $100 403-314-2026

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18 CONTAINERS of various 2 cycle engine oils, power steering fluid chain saw oil, and more, all for $10; alum. extension ladPlease contact d e r 11 ’ l o n g w h e n n o t Auctions QUITCY extended $50; tail gate at 403-314-4316 or email protector and cargo orgaqmacaulay@ nizer for Ford Ranger new, Bud Haynes & reddeeradvocate.com both for $40; 26 8 tracks, Co. Auctioneers 26 cassettes and 27 LP’s Certified Appraisers 1966 country/western, must take Estates, Antiques, all $80 403-314-2026 Firearms.

4 DRAWER filing cabinet Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. $35; 22 qt. pressure cookNEWSPAPER 347-5855 er canner like new $85; CARRIERS exercise bike $20; 10 doz.

REQUIRED canning jars wide and narBicycles row mouth $5/doz.; dozen for pint jars, $3/doz.

The Town of Olds BRC unicycle, good cond; 403-358-5247 No collectins! $69; 403-877-0825 MOVING MUST SELL:: Packages come Outdoor Garbage Can on ready for delivery! Equipmentwheels (clean) $8; 3/4” Rubber Hose 20” long $10; Heavy Black & Decker Weed EatPlease contact er with 25’ extension cord QUITCY TRAILERS for sale or rent $15; Back Saver Snow at 403-314-4316 or email Job site, office, well site or Shovel $7; Rake $3; Flowqmacaulay@ er Bed Weeder $3; Shovel storage. Skidded or reddeeradvocate.com wheeled. Call 347-7721. $ 3 ; A j a y G o l f C a r t $ 8 ; Small Rona Oscillating Heater/Fan $15; 3 CollecClassifieds Farmers' tor (Blossom Time) Royal Your place to SELL Albert Cake Plates $15; Market Your place to BUY Coil Oil Kerosene Mantle ALBERTA Spring lamb, cut Lamp $15; Circle Cutter for P/T help needed for janitorial and wrapped by the piece, Drill Press $15; Santa Suit days and or eve/wknds. (complete set) Adult size 1/2 or whole carcass. $13.00 start please send $50. Make us an offer.

Come see our 100 mile resume to acncleaning@ radius store. Brown Eggs 403-754-1695 hotmail.com grt and Lamb 403-782-4095 POWER Washer 3300 psi supplemental income! $50. 403-346-9899 P/T POSITION IDEAL For SMALL apt. size deepSEMI RETIRED or freeze $60, small bar Firewood RETIRED PERSON fridge $30, vanity oak color 1 - 3 days /wk. must have table and stool, $25, desk AFFORDABLE current criminal record $25; 403-304-4424 check. Must be able to do Homestead Firewood STONE EFFECTS KIT. considerable walking and Spruce, Pine, Birch 3.68L (2). $50 both. some lifting. Qualifications: Spilt, Dry. Pickup or Del. 403-346-9899 cash handling/sales exp., 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 organized and exc. math TOILET & seat, new, $80; Tired of Standing? and computer skills, New pedestal sink, faucets Find something to sit on immediate start. & drain, $70; Shower in Classifieds To arrange interview stall & faucet, $50. call 1-800-387-8223 403-352-2833 FIREWOOD. All Types. ext. 644 P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 Fax: 1-888-434-5122 Musical birchfirewoodsales.com REAL Enterprises Ltd Instruments NOW HIRING Exp Landscape Foremen/ Health & 2 TRUMPETS, 1 CLARILabourers Beauty NET, 1 flute 403-350-4182 Benefits - Bonuses Must have valid drivers *NEW!* Asian Relaxation KAWASAKI Jr. beginner license Massage Downtown RD a c o u s t i c g u i t a r $ 7 9 ; Fax or email resumes: 587-377-1298 open 10am 403-877-0825 Fax 403-314-2214 - 6pm Monday - Friday!

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********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk.

Apply in person w/resume: Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

F/T furnace cleaning technician to start immed.

Training paid. Mechanical exp. an asset. Please call 403-340-2335 fax 403-885-0383 or email tp_fc@yahoo.ca

Front Counter Parts Technician

Deermart Equipment, Red Deer’s John Deere Dealer is seeking to fill a full time position for a Front Counter Parts Technician.

Experience in parts is an asset however with detailed training avail. it is not required. * Outstanding and proven successful background in customer service. * Exc. people skills and must enjoy working with customers * Must be able to work in a team environment. * 1st. yr. apprentice also accepted.

Duties for this role will also include but are not limited to assisting customers to locate and purchase parts, store merchandising and staying on top of industry and product changes.

All interested and qualified applicants may forward their resume to the attention of Lindsey Loring by email: lloring@ deermart.com by fax 403-342-5600 or in person at 6705 Golden West Ave., Red Deer, AB. Hiring residential house cleaners. 12-20 hrs/wk.

Phone 403-986-4883 for details.

IN SERVICE SHOP, exp’d with farm equipment and the ability to weld.

Apply in person with resume at: Reg Cox Feed M i x e r s . S o u t h o f U FA Burnt Lake Indust. Park, Phone 403-340-2221 or fax 403-341-5622 INSULATOR cover manufacturer requires sewing machine operator . $13.00/hr., to start, pay review and benefits after 30 day period. Normal hours are 8 to 4:30 Monday to Friday with possible overtime during busy season. Indoor work. Call Dave at 403-343-3492.

LABORER needed in Red Deer ASAP. Must know Red Deer & surrounding area & have valid driver’s license. Please fax resumes to Fireplace Connections at 403-343-1899 LOCAL cover manufacturer requires material layout and cutting trainee $13.00/hr., to start, pay review and benefits after 30 day period. Normal hours are 8 to 4:30 Monday to Friday with possible overtime during busy season. Indoor work. Call Dave at 403-343-3492.

NEW AUTO yogurt maker $35; ceramic water jug, like new $50; grey suitcase 24”, rollers, new cond, $28; walker w/basket seat $40; printer/fax/copier HP Office Jet LX $35 403-352-7964

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Household Appliances

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Supplies

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DOG kennel, large size, with cushion. $30.

403-346-9899

Cats

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TOP WAGES, BENEFITS, Exp’d. Drivers & Swampers required.

MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.

SMALL apartment size deep freeze $50; small black computer stand $50; pull out sofa bed, brown, beige, black $100 403-986-3924

Dogs

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CAVACHON pups, = Cavailier x Bichon 505-6837 FREE TO good home male German Shepherd / Great WOODS small deep freeze Pyrenees cross, friendly, 2 22”x32” $80 403-728-3375 years old. 403-786-8691

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18 CU. FT. fridge, LG, white, glass shelves, 3 yrs. l i k e n e w, SNO-VALLEY CUSTOMS is o l d , c u r r e n t l y l o o k i n g f o r $200 403-307-4223 operators, for our fall farm APPLS. reconditioned lrg. runs and our winter ice road selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. season. Call warr. Riverside Appliances 403- 348-1521, 391-1695 403-342-1042 Looking for a place FRIGIDAIRE Gallery dryer to live?

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Pidherney’s is growing and requires experienced Class 1 & 3 drivers to join our busy team:

1770

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Household Furnishings

for all Albertans

requires

Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

NEW P/T Position with HELPING HANDS! (15-20 hrs/wk) providing Community Supports for Brain Injured clients.

Must enjoy/have exp. working with people with disabilities. Clear criminal record check & willingness to drive short distances outside of RD. (mileage paid) required. Mon - Fri, NO eves, wknds, or stats.

Position best suited for older or semi-retired adults, or people with school aged children looking for flexible P/T hours! Competitive wages & benefit pkg.

Email resumes to helping2@netago.ca or fax to 403-346-4100.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Top wages paid based on experience Benefit package Assigned units Scheduled days off Valid safety tickets an asset

880

F.T / P.T. CASHIERS for all shifts Flexible hours.

Above average salary & benefits paid!!

Apply with resume to: Run’n On Empty 5101 - 76 Street, Red Deer

CARRIERS NEEDED For Advocate routes

GRANDVIEW 69 Advocate $362/month $4347/year

EXECUTIVE AUTO GLASS Must have valid drivers license and good driver abstract. Please send resume to: #2, 7859 Gaetz or executiveglass2@gmail.com

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

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Misc.

Help

MANY POSITIONS AVAILABLE:

Earn $500.mo. for 1--1/2 hrs. per day 6 days a week.

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIER NEEDED

Misc.

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CLUBS & GROUPS www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

COMPUTER REPAIR

www.reddeerspca.com Many Pets to Choose From

REAL ESTATE www.homesreddeer.com Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333 www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

SHOPPING www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONS www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

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Truckers/ Drivers

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Dogs

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

P.B. BORDER collie pup- 2 BDRM. condo, new reno, py, first shots, dewormed, no pets, $900. rent/d.d. $200 call 403-844-4033 587-377-2288

Collectors' Items

1870

VARIOUS Royal Alberta Old Country Rose pieces value $750. Offers; 12 piece Royal Horticultural Society floral plates, Offers. 403-3046472

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

3060

Suites

3090

Rooms For Rent

Lots For Sale

4160

FULLY SERVICED BSMT. rooms, w/washer 1 & 2 BDRM. APTS. 2dryer, bathroom and din- res & duplex lots in Lacombe.

Clean, quiet bldg.

5030

Cars

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

Builders terms or owner ette, good for student or Call 318-0901. working couple, no pets, will J.V. with investors or 3810-47 ST. subtrades who wish to become n/s, 403-347-6889 Brookview Estates home builders. Great Large 3 bdrm., townhouse, Spacious 2 bdrm. stove, cell 403-506-9558 fridge, security.

Adult only, returns. Call 403-588-8820 1 1/2 baths, fridge, stove, ROOM in quiet home. washer, dryer. Full unfin. no pets, Well maintained N/S, no drinking, working SYLVAN LAKE big lot, bsmt. Avail. Now. No Pets bldg. Rent $795; phone Female, avail. Aug. 10 403-550-1612 nice location, well priced.

HEARTHSTONE $450 + $200 d.d.

403-896-3553 403-314-0099 403-309-4155 Hewson Ave. OR 403-396-9554 Adult Only TOO MUCH STUFF? Looking for a new pet? www.garymoe.com www.hpman.ca $875. INCLUDES Let Classifieds Check out Classifieds to UTILITIES help you sell it. find the purrfect pet.

Halman Heights 2 bdrm., bsmt. Suite.

3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls. AVAIL. NOW 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, HEARTHSTONE has relocated to Garage no pets, n/s, rent $1350 403-314-0099 SD $1000 avail. Sept. 15 Space or 403-896-1193 403-304-7576 or 347-7545 www.hpman.ca 60’ x 32’ heated, 2 doors SOUTHWOOD PARK LARGE 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. 12’ x 12’ $1700/mo. Sylvan 3110-47TH Avenue, SUITES. 25+, adults only Lake area 780-434-0045 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 generously sized, 1 1/2 CLASSIFICATIONS MONARCH PLACE Mobile baths, fenced yards, Kelloway Cres. $1450. & full bsmts. 403-347-7473, 5000-5300 Lot 216751 elec. WHEELCHAIR Sorry no pets.

ACCESSIBLE. Spacious www.greatapartments.ca LACOMBE new park, 3 bdrm., 1 1/2 baths, 5 animal friendly. Your mobile appls., Insuite storage & SYLVAN 2 bdrm.,. condo.

SUV's Cars or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm. laundry. AVAIL NOW! private entrance, $1100 + Excellent 1st time home Sorry, no pets gas & electricity. buyers. 403-588-8820 HEARTHSTONE Phone 403-341-9974 403-314-0099 MOBILE HOME PAD, in or 403-896-1193 Red Deer Close to Gaetz, www.hpman.ca Manufactured 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Lana 403-550-8777 Homes ONE bdrm. apt. for rent, West Park $725; close to Newly Reno’d Mobile college, avail. Sept.

FREE Shaw Cable + more 1 403-877-3323.

2 0 11 T R AV E R S E LT Z 2008 DODGE Charger $899/month AWD, dual air, cool/heat 3.5L RWD, 83,285 kms, VERY large 1 BDRM. Lana 403-550-8777 exc. cond, all service/fuel lthr., 7pass.,, $38,888 apartment in Ponoka 348-8788 Sport & Import economy data avail. $750/mo. inclds. all utils. $13,000 403-346-8299 or plus laundry facilities.

4 Plexes/ 403-506-9994 Avail. now.. 403-993-3441

At

3150

wegot

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3190

2000-2290

Farm Equipment

2010

GLEANER L 3 combine 1987 hydro green stripe, field ready, Redekop chaff blower; straw chopper, melroe pick up, 2800 hrs $12,000 obo Gleaner L2 combine, 1978 field ready, straw chopper, $4000 obo Phone 403-391-1604r

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

ROUND hay bales for sale.

1300-1400 lbs. Last year’s hay, good shape, 400+ bales, $15 per bale (you load) This year’s hay - no rain, $35 per bale. This year’s hay, rained on but put up dry. $20 per bale, approx. 500 bales in Rocky Mtn .House. Call Jeremy at 403-418-6342

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3040

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6 Plexes

3 BDRM. 4 plex, Innisfail, heat incld’d, $795 w/laundry connection 403-357-7817 ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $875/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. OCT. 1 403-304-5337 CLEARVIEW bi-level. 2 bdrm., 1 bath, 5 appls, balcony.

Close to park & bus. $850+utils. 403-210-1360

GLENDALE

, 2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $925 incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

Oct. 1. 403-304-5337

Manufactured Homes

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

2 BDRM. main floor of house, retn $1150, utils. incl., shared washer/dryer, RENTED

23 LANDRY BEND

FULL HOUSE, Newer Bi-level - large 4 bdrms., 3 baths. Dble. att. garage.

Deck in fenced yard. Close to Collicut Centre, schools & shopping. Avail. Sept. 1.

No Pets.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 OR 403-896-1193 www.hpman.ca

SYLVAN LAKE

SYLVAN, five fully furn.

2 bdrm. + hide-a-bed, incl., cable, dishes, bedding, all utils. $950 - $1400/mo.

403-880-0210

2 BEDROOM CABIN AT PINE LAKE. $1200/mo. 403-346-7462

Roommates Wanted

3080

ORIOLE Park.$550/mo, $400 dd. incl. utils. share bathroom.

Charmane 403-358-8020. must like cats ROOM for rent, shared bath and kitchen. All in $550 a month, male pref.

403 782-2853, 396 3708

3040

4000-4190

4020

Houses For Sale

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, 2005 HONDA Accord LX prices, address, owner’s lthr.,64,928 kms, $12,888 phone #, etc. 342-7355 348-8788 Sport & Import Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

20,000with Intro

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable Lana (403) 550-8777 254509H1

2 STOREY TOWNHOUSE 4 SALE 32 - 269 Inglewood Dr. 4 bdrm, 2.5 Bathroom To view call 403-795-5421 Asking $263,900

4090

Manufactured Homes

Renter’s Special

MUST SELL

By Owner $7,000.

Lana 403-550-8777

FREE Cable

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

2 & 3 bedroom modular/mobile homes in pet friendly park

Starting at

849

REDUCED!

/month

Lana (403) 550-8777 www.lansdowne.ca

Welcome H ome!

Celebrating the birth of your child?

Share your happy news with family & friends with a special announcement in the Red Deer Advocate Classifieds “Announcement” section.

U N WA N T E D c a r s a n d trucks. 403-391-4144

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal 1 9 9 9 TO Y O TA S i e n n a , C l e a n , 2 5 7 , 0 0 0 k m s , removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 $4,200.00 .Call 403-783-5233 REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585 Fifth

5110

Wheels

WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

5230

Trailer Rental

FOR RENT DAILY OR WKLY RATE. 2009 25’ holiday trailer, avail. anytime, 403-340-1328 40-3=302-3647

y

5120

TRY Central Alberta LIFE

28’, fully loaded, sleeps 9, rarely used, moved only twice, some extras incl.

Can be viewed 1/2 km east of Red Deer on Hwy 11 near Balmoral Golf Course. $13,000 obo Phone 403-391-2586

SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

CALL 309-3300

5030

2007 ESCALADE leather, DVD, 7 passenger, $27,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

Premium Package Grab it While it’s HOT

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

2 0 0 6 E X P L O R E R X LT 4X4, lthr., 4.0L $12888 348-8788 Sport & Import

“THE WHEEL DEAL”

2003 MERCEDES C320 premium cond., senior driver. 112,000 kms. Clean 2005 SPORT TRAC XLT $11,250. 403-986-4123 4X4 lthr., sunroof, $13888 1997 NEON, 5 spd., 2 dr. 348-8788 Sport & Import clean, red, 403-352-6995

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5050

1997 FORD Taurus 254,000 kms, full load, lots Trucks of new parts, command start $1800 obo 896-9138 2010 FORD F150 SUPER CREW LARIAT, beautiful shape, almost all hwy miles, loaded with everything except. navigation, heated/cooled seats, power everything incl. mirrors , nice big sunroof, 170,000 KMS. $19,000 , For more info contact Diane at 403-729-2060 or cell 1990 BMW 735i 200,000 403-429-0027 kms, RWD, p/w, p/s, a/c, custom wheels w/2 sets of tires $3800 403-340-0438

1 WEEK IN THE RED DEER ADVOCATE & 1 Insertion In These Community Papers: BASHAW, CASTOR, CENTRAL AB LIFE PONOKA, RIMBEY,STETTLER, WEEKENDER, SYLVAN, ECKVILLE

PLUS

LAKE FRONT PROPERTY -†2300 sqft home on 10 acres $449,000. 10 min from Ponoka.

Fishing, swimming & boating at your back door.

See welist.com #47984.† MLS C3526876.

Call 403-519-6773† Email: 1989 FORD CROWN Vic brettie@platinum.ca 57,000 miles $4000 firm body good 403-347-9843

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1987 PONTIAC 6000 LE 4 2010 F150 Platinum, white dr, pdl, air, pw, 100,003 kms, $800 obo 346-7907 6’ 5” box w/Line-X liner, soft cover. 65,000 kms., all FACTORY direct golf cart business, fleet sales, parts 1964 OLDSMOBILE hard- o p t i o n s . t i r e s a s n e w. and service. Full price, top, factory, 394 motor, $35,000 obo 403-342-0891 $55,000/$35,000 cash.

330 hp, fast, driven daily, 1995 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4 Owner may carry balance. $4900 with a new paint job blue, propane, L/B, $1000 587-364-0053 o.b.o. 780-455-2573 obo 403-304-8915

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Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Accounting

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

1060

Contractors

1100

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

Fencing

1169 Massage Therapy 1280

P.W. FENCING 403-598-9961

Handyman Services

1200

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. We do fencing, decks, reno’s GENERAL reno’s, restore landscape and more. Give & repair. 403-550-3888 us a buzz @ 403-598-3857 KING’S KIDS PLAY SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Free quotes. WCB, insured.

SCHOOL IS ACCEPTING Prefering non- combustible FALL REGISTRATIONS! CONCRETE sidewalk, fibre cement, canexel & Looking for the perfect driveway, patios, decks, smart board, Call Dean @ place for your pre-schoolfences.

403-550-3888 302-9210. er? We offer learn through F & J Renovations. We do play programs for 3-5 year it all. Good rates and olds and we are excited to references available so call now be using SMARTEscorts John at 403-307-3001 Board Technology! Please jbringleson@shaw.ca visit our website or call *LEXUS* 403-392-0891 Debbie for class times and GREYSTONE Handyman INDEPENDENT prices. 403-346-3798.

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Caregivers

1165

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Buses

FORMULA 1

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5190

2004 CELICA GT leather, sunroof, $12888 348-8788 Sport & Import

$

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1997 FORD F150, 4x4, 24’ LEGEND Pontoon, 135 good cond. 403-346-3427 Merc, dble. biminy w/walls, life jackets, BBQ, balance 1997 FORD F150 reg. cab, of 2012 @Sylvan Marina. green, good cond 318-3040 $38,500. 403-304-6472 1968 FORD F-100 half ton truck. Not running, but motor not seized up. Six- Auto cylinder, 4-speed manual. Wreckers $150 OBO. Call (403) 347-0660.

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash Vans for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Cars

4040

A MUST SEE! Only

2004 CHRYSLER 300 Special 144,000 kms, top cond, every option + more $6000 403-704-3252 or 783-3683

2008 LAND ROVER LR2 85,290 kms $21,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

5160

Boats & Marine

2007 TIMBERLODGE

Call for more info call 403-342-4544

Condos/ Townhouses

2007 GMC 1500 HD 4x4, Loaded, good shape in/out has 286,000 kms 6.0L, very exc. on fuel, runs great $7950. 403-348-9746

Holiday Trailers

8 Brand New Homes starting at $179,900 Older Home for sale in Blackfalds. 1500 sq.ft., 4 bdrm, 20X24 Garage,Shed, Big Lot! Would be a Great Starter Home!

To View call 403/896-7558. asking $229,000

1 9 9 9 T R AV E L A I R E Rustler, 26’, 5th wheel, new tires, new axles, Exc. cond. bought new one. $7500 obo phone 403-318-1913

1999 35’ DUTCHMEN 5TH WHEEL, pulled 600 kms., a.t., heat & air, full bath w/tub in main bdrnm,. suite, 1/2 bath w/dble bunks at rear, 14’ pushout kitchen and living, sleeps 8, exc. cond., n/s, no pets, clean, lots of storage, full 2009 FORD FLEX rear air, hook ups, stove and fridge, 7 passenger, $20,888 $12,000 obo 403-227-6442 348-8788 Sport & Import 403-304-5894

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HALF DUPLEX, front/back split, 2 bdrm. 2 car garage, gas incl. $1100/mo., Oct. 1,403-886-5342 357-7817 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath bi-level home, 6 appl, ensuite, deck, $1,700 + util, $1,650 SD, No pets, N/S, PM 553 ~ 4 Hammond Cl ~ Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 ~ www.simproperties.ca

3070

Newly Renovated Mobile Home

CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

CLASSIFICATIONS

Cottage/ Seasonal

254502H1-I30

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5120

Holiday Trailers

2004 HOLIDAIRE 25’ good cond, $8000 403-358-5800

5040

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5050

Trucks

1100

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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1290

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 KLEEN SITE SERVICES Residential & Commercial Pickups, Junk Removal, Bin Rentals, Dump & Cargo Trailers, BobCat Services 403-373-3242

Misc.

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1290

Scrap Vehicle Disposal Service (403)302-1848 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Seniors’ Services

1372

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 D5

Republicans set to nominate Romney

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann, arrive at Brewster Academy, for convention preparations in Wolfeboro, N.H.

TAMPA, Fla. — The stormshortened Republican National Convention begins in earnest today, a three-day coronation of Mitt Romney as the party’s rival to President Barack Obama. Republicans seek to use the high-profile stage to rally their base, win over undecided voters and humanize a candidate often seen as aloof and wooden.

Once the scene of dramatic floor fights and backroom deals that determined nominees, U.S. political conventions are now carefully orchestrated spectacles with few surprises. Romney locked up the nomination months ago so there will be no mystery in the roll call of state delegates affirming his nomination today.

Still, conventions are among the most closely watched events in the campaign, allowing the candidates to lay out their visions directly to millions of television viewers and marking the start of the final stretch in the marathon presidential race.

And even the most carefully crafted convention inevitably has surprises — such as the cancellation of the first day’s activities Monday because of Tropical

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Storm Isaac. Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus gaveled the session to order Monday, then immediately recessed it.

Though the storm no longer threatens Tampa, it could affect the convention. It could reach hurricane strength and make landfall along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast, forcing Romney to share the spotlight.

Republicans may also have to scale down their celebration so they are not seen as partying as the storm barrels toward land.

Democrats have sought to cast Romney and fellow Republicans as indifferent to the hardships of non-wealthy Americans and Republicans recall how President George W. Bush was roundly criticized for his handling of Hurricane Katrina in the same region that killed 1,800 people almost exactly 7 years ago.

“You can tone down the happydays-are-here-again a bit,” said Rich Galen, a veteran Republican consultant in Washington. “Maybe you don’t have the biggest balloon drop in history.”

Romney said Tuesday that he hoped those in the storm’s path

would be “spared any major destruction” but indicated there were no thoughts of cancelling the convention.

“We’ve got a great convention ahead,” he declared at his summer home in New Hampshire.

The Republican gathering, followed by next week’s Democratic convention, comes as opinion polls show the presidential race nearly even, although it appeared Obama had a slim advantage in battleground states where the election is most likely to be decided.

Obama’s approval ratings, which soared early in his presidency, have tumbled as he deals with stubbornly high unemployment. Romney, the former head of a private equity firm and governor of Massachusetts, has claimed his business and management background gives him the skills to turn the economy around.

But Obama remains more popular personally. He and other Democrats have attacked Romney’s experience heading Bain Capital, claiming it made a fortune for investors while bankrupting some companies and laying off workers.

Close to 10,000 refugees wait in Syria AS TURKEY BUILDS MORE CAMPS, TIGHTENS SECURITY CHECKS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANKARA, Turkey — Some 10,000 Syrian refugees are waiting on the Syrian side of the border as Turkey rushes to build more camps to accommodate the influx and carries out more stringent security checks on the newcomers, Turkish officials said Monday.

The developments underscore the growing toll Syria’s civil war is having on neighbouring countries, several of which have seen a massive flow of Syrians trying to escape the conflict which activists estimate has killed more than 20,000 people since March of last year.

Turkey has so far taken in more than 80,000 Syrians, and all nine Turkish refugee camps along the border are full.

Until recently, newcomers were being housed in schools, dormitories or sports centres near the border while Turkish authorities scamper to construct four new camps that will increase Turkey’s capacity to 100,000 refugees.

The refugees still stuck on the Syrian side will be allowed in “within a day or two” when a new camp near the border becomes operational, a Turkish official said, adding that Turkey’s Red

Crescent organization was providing emergency aid to the refugees as they wait to cross into Turkey.

Another official said Turkey was also carrying out more stringent security checks on the refugees, adding to the delay in bringing them across the border.

The tighter checks come amid Turkish fears that Kurdish rebels fighting for self-rule in southeast Turkey may be coming in through Syria. There are also concerns that foreign jihadists are moving in and out of Turkey to fight the Syrian regime.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of government rules that bar civil servants from speaking to the media without prior authorization.

Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has said the United Nations should establish refugee camps inside Syria and that his country would struggle to cope if the refugee numbers rise substantially.

“Turkey is carrying out its humanitarian duties toward the Syrian people with whom it has historic brotherly ties,” Davutoglu said Monday. “On the other hand, the increasing numbers are becoming an encumbrance. The

Photo by THE ASSOCAITED PRESS

A Syrian girl, who fled her home with her family due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, looks back on Sunday while checking her laundry as she and others take refuge at a border crossing with Turkey. As sectarian slayings have swelled between Syria’s Sunni majority and the Alawite minority during the country’s 17-month-old conflict, so has the segregation of the two communities as they flee each other. international community must help share this burden.”

Also Monday, Turkish television NTV broadcast a video of Cuneyt Unal, a Turkish journalist who is reportedly being held in Syrian government captivity. Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu said the video was first shown on a pro-regime television station in Syria.

Unal was working as a cameraman for the U.S.-funded al-Hurra network

when he and a colleague, Bashar Fahmi, were believed to have been captured while covering fighting in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo a week ago. The cameraman, seen with bruises under his eyes, says he crossed into Syria with foreign militants and one image shows him holding a weapon.

Davutoglu said Monday the journalist was coerced into making a statement and that Syria was responsible for his well-being.

Fire spreads at Venezuela oil refinery after blast 41 KILLED IN EXPLOSION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela — An intense fire at a Venezuelan refinery spread to a third fuel tank on Monday nearly three days after an explosion killed at least 41 people and injured more than 150.

Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said a third tank ignited at the Amuay refinery, which has been in flames since Saturday’s blast.

Government officials had previously said they had the blaze contained, and the spread to another tank was an apparent setback to their plans to quickly restart the refinery.

While a thick column of smoke blew in the wind, Ramirez told reporters the fire was still contained.

“There is no risk of a bigger event,” Ramirez said, without specifying how much longer it might burn.

Officials have said a gas leak led to the blast, but investigators have yet to determine the precise causes. Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega said at a news conference that 151 people were injured, 33 of whom remain in hospitals.

A 9-year-old girl was missing in the area, Health Minister Eugenia Sader said on television.

Criticisms of the government’s response to the gas leak emerged from local residents as well as oil experts. People in neighbourhoods next to the refinery said they had no official warning before the explosion hit at about 1 a.m. on Saturday.

“What bothers us is

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Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, second from left, speaks with Venezuela’s vice-president Elias Jaua, as Venezuela’s Oil Minister and President of Petroleos de Venezuela, Rafael Ramirez, left, stands during a visit to the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Sunday. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela’s biggest oil refinery early Saturday killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 80 in Venezuela’s deadliest refinery blast ever. that there was no sign of an alarm. I would have liked for an alarm to have gone off or something,” said Luis Suarez, a bank employee in the neighbourhood.

“Many of us woke up thinking it was an earthquake.”

The blast knocked down walls, shattered windows and left streets littered with rubble.

People who live next to the refinery said they smelled strong fumes coming from the refinery starting between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, hours before the blast, but many said they weren’t worried because they had smelled such odours

before.

Then, a cloud of gas ignited in an area with fuel storage tanks and exploded.

President Hugo Chavez visited the refinery on Sunday. In a televised conversation with the president, one state oil company official said workers had made their rounds after 9 p.m. and hadn’t noticed anything unusual.

The official said that at about midnight officials detected the gas leak and “went out to the street to block traffic.”

“And later something happened that set (it) off,” Chavez said. “A spark somewhere.”

The disaster occurred little more than a month before Venezuela’s upcoming Oct. 7 presidential election.

Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles said the disaster shouldn’t be politicized, but he also strongly criticized a remark by Chavez, who had said “the show should continue, with our pain, with our sorrow, with our victims.”

“It seems irresponsible, insensitive... to say ’the show should continue,”’ Capriles told reporters in Caracas.

The opposition leader also repeated past criticisms about the number of acci-

dents at the state-owned oil company.

“Accidents occur for a reason, and we Venezuelans are expecting there to be a conclusive response, a serious, responsible and transparent investigation, in order to see what the situation was,” Capriles said.

Energy analyst Jorge Pinon said the accounts of the hours leading up the explosion raise concerns.

“The fact that the gas leak went undetected for a number of hours and that there was no evacuation alarm (or) order indicates to me that there is a lack of safety related planning and behaviours throughout the complex, and most important in nearby communities,” Pinon said.

“The key to refinery safety is not only equipment and maintenance but processes and behaviours,” Pinon added, “not only within company employees but also contractors and surrounding communities.”

U.S. refineries have also had their share of serious accidents, most recently the destructive blaze at Chevron’s refinery in Richmond, California.

Some experts say that U.S. refineries have increasingly used more sensing systems to alert workers to gas leaks, and also have established safety protocols.

Amuay is among the world’s largest refineries and is part of the Paraguana Refining Center, which also includes the adjacent Cardon refinery.

Together, the refineries process about 900,000 barrels of crude per day and 200,000 barrels of gasoline.

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Miller and Naylon had seen his short films and were thrilled to have him bring their story to life.

“I think what he did was make the world of phone sex — which could possibly be gritty and a little less funny, we’ll say — really accessible and kept it about the girls and about their growth with each other,” Miller says.

Travis also appears in the movie — kind of.

The girls’ matchmaking friend, played by Justin Long, is loosely based on Travis.

“Justin, as soon as he spoke to Jamie, was like, ‘Wait a minute, I’m going to do a character study of you,”’ explains Graynor.

“And it was amazing on set to watch.... Justin’s not playing Jamie but it’s a bit of an homage.”

Naylon isn’t necessarily counting on Bridesmaids-type business for For a Good Time, Call... but was proud and encouraged by the positive reviews after the film screened at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

“We think women are funny and we think we’re funny. Girls laugh a lot and talk dirty sometimes and there’s definitely an audience for it,” she says.

“We just needed to prove that.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Three members of the Pussy Riot punk band have appealed a court’s decision to jail them for two years for their “punk prayer” against Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a Moscow cathedral, their lawyer said Monday.

The stunt angered Russia’s dominant Orthodox Church, but the women’s trial and punishment also upset human rights activists and others who accused the Kremlin and the Church of orchestrating the trial amid a crackdown on Putin’s critics.

Protests supporting the women have been held in many countries, and celebrities such as Paul McCartney have called for their release.

The women were arrested and put on trial after their unauthorized performance at Moscow’s Christ the Savior cathedral in February, during which they called on the Virgin Mary to deliver Russia from Putin.

The Russian leader faces growing opposition, and he has increasingly cracked down on critics since returning to the presidency in May. The women were sentenced on Aug. 17, and their lawyer Violetta Volkova said the appeal was submitted to the Khamovniki district court on Monday. A decision is expected within 10 days. Meanwhile, the band has said that at least two of its members have fled Russia to avoid arrest.

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The couple’s kiss is the culmination of a dramatic story in Justice League No. 12, which marks the first full year since DC relaunched its stable of heroes with new stories, new costumes and revised origins.

DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee, who has drawn each issue of Justice League since its debut, called the canoodling in Wednesday’s issue not a stunt or an alternate reality smooch.

“This has been in the works for some time and we certainly wouldn’t have pulled the trigger on without there being great creative benefit to the liaison,” he said in an email.

“Beyond the joy and sorrows of new love, there are potentially huge ramifications and dramatic ways this single relationship between these iconic characters will change the entire political and interpersonal landscape of the DC Universe.”

The characters have long formed, with Batman, the triumvirate of DC Entertainment’s heroes and are among the most powerful and bestknown.

In the 1980s, the pair had a brief fling but Superman went on to marry Lois Lane.

They also kissed in Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Strikes Again a decade ago.

In a 2006 epilogue to 1996’s Kingdom Come, the couple asks Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, to stand as godfather to their unborn child.

Since DC relaunched its characters and universe nearly a year ago, some of the origins have changed — Wonder Woman is now the daughter of Zeus — and the costumes

have, too.

One aspect that did not survive the relaunch: Lois Lane’s role as Superman’s love. She’s still around, but the two have never dated, nor are they likely to.

Geoff Johns, who writes Justice League is laying out a story that looks not only at the couple but the effects on others, too, Lee said.

“The way Geoff unfolds the story and the implications of two of the most powerful characters in the DCU becoming a team is something that goes beyond the question of ‘What about Lois and Clark?”’

Lee said.

“This is a statement to every nation and geopolitical organization in the entire DC Universe giving creative teams ample material to explore this relationship on so many different levels.”

It’s Graynor’s character that spends most of the time manning the phone-sex line, theatrically purring out dirty come-ons and faux orgasms.

There are some high-profile callers who agreed to play cameos in the film, including Smith and Seth Rogen, who married Miller last fall.

“The comedians that we got to be in the film, they ran with what they wrote and really did what they wanted to do and made it awesome,” Naylon says.

The film’s humour is certainly R-rated (it’s rated the equivalent 18A in Canada) but isn’t intimidatingly so, since the sexual content is more about getting laughs than titillating, Graynor says.

“Some of the things that’ll fly out of my mouth and out of Lauren’s mouth are big and sexually (explicit) but because it’s all done for comedy’s sake and it’s in a sort of heightened fantastical world ... it’s raunchy but not dirty,” she says.

“To play around on the phone was a fun piece and a fun challenge — and now I have a new skill.”

The film is directed by Vancouver native Jamie Travis, marking his feature directorial debut.

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If filmgoers want to compare the new female-oriented phone sex comedy For a Good Time, Call... to the megahit Bridesmaids, the filmmakers and cast behind the indie film are more than happy to hear it.

“We’ll take it!,” says Lauren Anne Miller, co-star and co-writer of the saucy yet sweet film, which opens Friday.

“We get compared to Bridesmaids a lot and that is fine with us because what a funny movie,” adds fellow co-writer Katie Anne Naylon.

“It seems like female-driven comedy is back in a lot of ways or it’s being celebrated more.”

Inspired by the R-rated lewd humour of Judd Apatow’s “bromance” flicks and others of its ilk — Miller appeared in Superbad and the cancer comedy 50/50 — the co-writing duo sat down to brainstorm on a female-fronted comedy with the same flavour.

They tapped into Naylon’s own real-life experiences running a phone-sex line out of her college dorm room.

Miller and Ari Graynor star as two old high school classmates who are set up to be roommates in expensive New York City.

Graynor’s character needs someone to help pay the rent for her huge Manhattan apartment, while Miller’s needs a new place after breaking up with her boyfriend.

When cash gets tight, the frenemies-turned-besties get into phone sex.

It’s “a dynamic between women that is truthful, the way friends really are with each other,” says Graynor in explaining what drew her to the project.

“A lot of women prejudge each other and can be super judgmental. And then as soon as you sort of let your defences down a little, not only do you massively grow and kind of find yourself in your relationships, but you learn how important a best friend is.

“It was so funny and smart and irreverent and the fact that there was a movie, finally, about female friendship — that was set in this really fun world of phone sex — it was just so refreshing and exciting to see.”

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Pricey dance lessons drain senior’s savings Dear Annie: My 81-year-old mother lives alone, drives her own car and manages her own finances. Between savings, retirement income and inheritance, she is well fixed.

What worries me is that Mom has been enrolled in ballroom dance lessons for several years. These lessons are exorbitantly expensive, costing in the six figures annually. There are multiple lessons each week, as well as competition trips. The instructors, managers and owners of the club flatter MITCHELL Mom and tell her what & SUGAR a wonderful dancer she is. But, Annie, I’ve seen her performances, and she looks lost, doesn’t remember the steps and has no clue what to do next.

I believe this dance studio is taking advantage of her. I spoke to management, but they said it’s none of my business. Mom used to be quite frugal, and I worry that she no longer has the judgment to manage her money. Yet I can’t do anything about it other than wring my hands. She won’t listen to a word I say.

Mom never visits the grandchildren. She has no interest in family activities and has abandoned the things she used to do before she discovered dancing. She had a small stroke two years ago, and her doctor has made numerous appointments with a neurologist, but she always finds a reason to cancel.

If Mom burns through her resources, I will not have the means to help when she can no longer live independently. I am hurt that she lies to me when all I want is to see that she is provided for. — Only Child in Music City Dear Music City: We’re glad Mom enjoys her dance lessons, and it’s good exercise, but it sounds as if this dance studio may be guilty of financial abuse. Call the Better Business Bureau in your city and find out whether complaints have been registered. Also contact the National Center on Elder Abuse (ncea.aoa.gov) and the Eldercare Locator

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(1-800-677-1116) and ask for assistance. Then, when your mother has her next doctor’s appointment, ask if you can go along. Alert the doctor’s office in advance, and request a more extensive exam.

Dear Annie: My father-in-law loves going to yard sales and likes to buy sale items for our home and our four sons. The problem is that we have limited space and don’t need all this junk. The toys tend to have a missing part or be partially broken, and the clothes have stains or holes.

My husband wants to simply accept the items because my father-in-law would otherwise be offended. But it upsets me that they give us so many used items. We just got back from a weeklong visit and were barraged with bags of these things. — Tired of Used Stuff Dear Tired: Even used junk is a gift that requires a “thank you.” Please accept your father-in-law’s yard sale items with graciousness. He means well. Then throw them away as soon as you see a garbage can, give them to charity, fuse them into a garden sculpture or do whatever else you wish with them.

Dear Annie: “Frustrated in the Midwest,” who doesn’t want her parents to attend her children’s school events, comes across as very self-absorbed.

I am 63 and was reared in a generation where we enjoyed our families. We included our parents in our lives. I cherish the memories of them sharing our children’s activities.

I have first-hand knowledge of this “new generation” attitude. My oldest son and daughter-in-law have banned me from seeing my grandchildren.

My youngest daughter-in-law is downright rude to me. “Family time” is a thing of the past. If a Grandma wants to show love and concern, she is meddling. Merely calling to see if everyone is OK is intrusive. My generation will be passing away soon, and sadly, these kids will wake up too late, if at all. — One Frustrated Grandma Annie’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: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Tuesday, Aug. 28 love, continue to pursue it.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: GEMINI (May 21-June 20): No one wants LeAnn Rimes, 30; Jack Black, 43; Shania to be compelled to do something, whether Twain, 47 out of guilt or other thoughts of inTHOUGHT OF THE DAY: adequacy. Although you may feel One of my favorite truisms is obliged to do something you hate, “The Universe is Wise and if you do it anyway, surprising reLoving.” No matter what hapwards will follow. pens, we have the ability to CANCER (June 21-July 22): decide to learn from it, and Rehearsals provide a space for exbecome better, more compasperimentation, but it is the perforsionate human beings as a remance that can either fall or catasult of the experience. It will be pult into the realm of iconic moa great day, enjoy! ments. What you have achieved in HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Like such a short time is amazing, and a track star, quick moments you’re only at the beginning. Give have you jumping and catathe show of a lifetime.

NADIYA pulting your life forward. The LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There SHAH best stuff comes out of the are sub-categories of love. They inblue and is much better than clude friendship and genuine care, anything you even knew you in addition to the romantic kind. wanted until it arrived. It will be You’re now uncovering the subtlea great year, enjoy! ties and profound implications of this source ARIES (March 21-April 19): You know of love, opening you to a bond deeper than the difference between doing something out ever. of self-love and out of self-doubt. You’re now VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Recent degrounded in love. If there was ever any doubt, velopments may have you reeling. You never you’ll soon be put on the right path to clarity knew that you could be so appreciated and of your intentions. valued. You have nothing to worry about.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If someone Give your self the acceptance you crave and wants recognition, it’s usually because les- let the world love you now. sons are in its pursuit. You are being sent the LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): We take on anmessage that there is something empty within other character during Halloween. Behind that you for wanting something. If it arises from mask we can behave in bolder ways. You’re

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now cursing your mask, but it’s a part of who you are. Take on the persona that will most allow you to shine knowing it’s a part of you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You now have a lot within you and are seeking to find an outlet. Start where it feels most right and share. Allow greater depths to be revealed to yourself and to another that you trust. There, in the midst of it, you will find your freedom.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A smile exchanged between strangers is a small act of kindness. We find ways to keep ourselves safe that made sense at one time but there comes a point when we realize they’ve outworn their usefulness. You feel vulnerable.

It’s a beautiful place to be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your sadness now is simply a very brief mourning period of the past you knew. You’re ready for bigger and bolder things. On the other side

of your melancholy is a life you have long dreamed of, but never dared declare before.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There are many things you can feel genuinely grateful for. Surprising moments are leading you to be thankful for all your past frustrations and uncertainties. You’re now in a better, stronger place, ready to take a leap forward.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Wisdom is thought to be a gift. It is, at times well earned.

You’re discovering that there is wisdom that’s eternal. It’s the kind that was always there but needed to be felt intuitively. Something about the sense of connection you feel is right in your bones.

Nadiya Shah is a consulting astrologer, syndicated sun sign columnist and holds a master’s degree in the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination, from the University of Kent, U.K. Her column appears daily.

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