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Hockey great Wayne Gretzky speaks at the Red Deer College Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast at Westerner Park Thursday morning. More than 1,400 people jammed the event to hear the NHL’s leading record holder talk about the Edmonton Oilers’ many Stanley Cup victories and the state of hockey today.

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‘The love for the game is still there.

I wish I could still play but unfortunately I am not as good as I used to be.’

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Wayne Gretzky is used to breaking records.

So there is little doubt that The Great One broke another at the 10th annual Red Deer College Kings & Queens Scholarship Breakfast at Westerner Park on Thursday.

Gretzky, with a little help from St. Louis Blues sportscaster and former NHL tough guy Kelly Chase, gave a hockeycrazed crowd an inside look into Gretzky’s playing days, with some locker room talk, some trash talk and insight into his prolific 20-season career.

Keith Hansen, RDC’s director of athletics, said this was the most successful scholarship breakfast in college history.

“Honestly, I don’t know if I have ever enjoyed a morning as I did this one,” said Hansen. “I would say it was a wonderful event. ... What can you say about Wayne Gretzky and Kelly Chase?

They were absolutely outstanding.”

Hansen said more than 60 per cent of the student-athletes are receiving academic awards this year.

More than 1,400 people jammed into the Parkland Pavilion to hear National Hockey League royalty talk hockey.

The event tally will be released sometime next week.

But Hansen did say that $350,000 worth of donations to the Athletic Leadership Fund. Money raised from the event will go into funding student athletic scholarships.

“You can probably understand why I say this was one of the best mornings I had,” said Hansen.

The Hockey Hall of Famer told the crowd he always knows when he is in Red Deer.

“Half the city wears blue and the other half wears red,” laughed Gretzky.

Joking about the city’s divide on NHL hockey teams — the Edmonton Oilers or the Calgary Flames — Gretz-

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ky said he has fond memories of practising with the Oilers in Red Deer.

He also noted one of the NHL’s best coaches, Mike Babcock of the Detroit Red Wings, coached at Red Deer College.

This was Gretzky’s first time speaking in Red Deer but he is no stranger to talking about his Oiler glory days and his playing career. Gretzky played for four NHL teams in his career — the Oilers, the L.A. Kings, the St. Louis Blues and the New York Rangers.

“It’s easy for me to come and enjoy myself and talk hockey because I could talk hockey all day long,” he said.

Twenty-five years ago in August, Gretzky was traded to the L.A. Kings, sending shock waves through Oil Country.

Gretzky touched on the Jarome Iginla trade announced on Thursday. He called the tremendous rivalry between the Flames and the Oilers one of “mutual respect and hatred” during his playing days.

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Province examining courthouse crowding

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s MLAs will meet with the city’s mayor and the province’s justice minister to talk about creating more courtroom space in Red Deer.

Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas, minister of International and Intergovernmental Affairs, confirmed on Thursday that he and Mary Anne Jablonski, MLA for Red Deer North, understand the need for more courthouse space in Red Deer and support Mayor Morris Flewwelling’s desire to present a proposal to Justice Minister Jonathan Denis.

Since last summer, Flewwelling has been working with Brent Handel, pres-

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ident of the Central Alberta Bar Association, and Jim Foster, retired Court of Queen’s Bench justice and former Alberta Attorney General on a plan to alleviate courtroom crowding in Red Deer.

They are pushing a proposal in which the city would swap the site of the former RCMP detachment with the site of the existing courthouse, which cannot be built up because it does not have adequate foundations to support additional floors.

Such a swap would give the city some much-needed office space while giving the province an opportunity to expand its courtroom space in Red Deer and keep it in the downtown core, Flewwelling said on Thursday.

The mayor said he had misinterpret-

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ed Dallas’s reaction to the proposal, which was presented during a meeting with all seven local MLAs, government and opposition, earlier this year.

“I got the impression . . . that his greater concern was about the problems the province had, fiscally, in being able to commit to enhancing facilities,” said Flewwelling.

“I’m saying, OK, you’re the MLA for this area, I need you to understand, appreciate and support. So, my impression was that he just didn’t get it, or he wouldn’t support it. I now understand, after having talked to him, that he has been working on our behalf. He has been carrying our flag forward. He was so close to his chest, I couldn’t see there were even any cards.”

Dallas said he was unable to com-

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GOING ‘ROGUE’

If Prime Minister Stephen Harper was hoping the Easter break would quiet down his restless caucus, a fresh group of MPs made it clear Thursday they’re not letting their grievances drop so fast. A5

ment openly before this year’s budget was released.

He said spending was constrained by the desire of Albertans, who told the provincial government to continue to build infrastructure including hospitals and schools, but to operate with some constraint and rely less on resource revenue.

“How do you advocate for a $375-million courthouse with those constraints and with those priorities?” said Dallas.

“It has nothing to do with whether I support the courthouse or not. Absolutely, I do, and I’ll continue to work with the minister of Justice to ensure that our needs in Red Deer are addressed,” he said.

Leah Gibson stars in ‘Rogue,’ premiering Wednesday on The Movie Network and Movie Central.

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Suncor given one month to fix wastewater treatment pond EDMONTON — The Alberta government has given Suncor one month to fix problems with one of its wastewater treatment ponds, two years after the problem was discovered.

The company was prohibited from releasing water from the pond — the final step in Suncor’s treatment process — into the Athabasca River in March 2011. Toxicity in the water was found to exceed allowable limits.

“They had to close the discharge outlet, which they did,” said Alberta Environment spokeswoman Jessica Potter.

Under the department’s enforcement framework, inspectors have been working since then with the company to try to fix the problem. But when water samples from the pond were recently tested, they again failed.

The water was found to kill rainbow trout fingerlings.

Suncor officials have told government inspectors the toxicity could be dissolved organic material.

Alberta Environment has told the company it must determine the source of the toxins and come up with a plan to clean them up

by April 30. No water from the pond will be allowed into the Athabasca River until that happens.

Potter said Thursday’s order was not related to a pipeline spill of process water on the Suncor site earlier this week.

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Report suggests video for hospital mental patients EDMONTON — A judge says an Edmonton hospital should try using video cameras to keep tabs on mental patients in rooms and common areas.

The judge says in a fatality report that a pilot program could be tested at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and eventually expand provincewide.

Terry McLellan hanged himself in a hospital washroom with the drawstring from his pyjama bottoms in December 2010.

McLellan had a history of depression and suicidal thoughts and had been taken to the hospital after an intentional drug overdose.

He was transferred to the psychiatric ward and placed under close but not constant observation.

He was found before he died, but his family took him off life support the next day.

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Edmonton Oiler super fans Jay Watson and Darcy Brown were dressed from helmet to hockey skate in retro orange and blue Oiler uniforms for Wayne Gretzky’s talk at Westerner Park on Thursday morning.

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GRETZKY: Trades part of the business side of sports Gretzky said it is not easy being traded, especially for someone who is as beloved as Iginla is in Calgary.

For the first bit, it may be a bit of a culture shock.

But he will get to look down the bench to see “(Sidney) Crosby and (Evgeni) Malkin and that will make life pretty good for him.”

“I never imagined not being an Edmonton Oiler,” said Gretzky. “I’m sure people felt Jarome would be a lifer with the City of Calgary. But listen, there’s a business side of sports.

“It’s probably going to be a good deal for the Calgary Flames and a good deal for Jarome. Unfortunately, the people who suffer are real true fans.

That’s just the way sports is.”

The former Oiler and Chase received an unexpected standing ovation at the Flame game at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Wednesday night.

While Gretzky only admits to hitting the ice once for four days a year during his hockey camp, the Brantford, Ont., native says hockey is still in his blood.

“It’s the greatest game in the world and I got a chance to play in the NHL,” said Gretzky. “I got a chance to play with and against the greatest players.

But I am not good anymore. Because I am not as good

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as I used to be (my passion) has gone out of it a little bit. The love for the game is still there. I wish I could still play but unfortunately I am not as good as I used to be.”

A return behind the bench isn’t likely on the horizon either. Gretzky coached the Phoenix Coyotes from 2005 to 2009. He said he was selfish as a player and now he’s selfish about spending time with his family. Gretzky watches as many games as he can on television, including the odd Oiler game.

Gretzky says he really likes what he sees on the Oilers bench with young talent in the right city at the right time.

“The fans will be patient with them,” he said.

“They saw us go through as young guys. The fans will be patient with them. It’s going to be a really good team but it’s just going to take some time. They are young guys right now.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

COURTHOUSE: MLA in full support of expansion “My interest is not in ensuring that there’s a land swap. My interest is ensuring that there is a serious due diligence done with respect to the feasibility of what could evolve from a proposal like that.

“I haven’t drawn conclusions about what a courthouse should look like, where it would be located.

But I have and continue to promote to the justice minister to take a look at this opportunity.”

Two Red Deer hockey fans caught The Great One’s attention on Thursday.

In fact, they caught most people’s attention at the RDC Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast at Westerner Park.

Edmonton Oiler super fans Jay Watson and Darcy Brown were dressed from helmet to hockey skate in retro orange and blue Oiler uniforms.

They came to hear Wayne Gretzky speak but they got much more than they ever imagined.

“We were actually on our way out and the security guard called us over from the side door (of the meet and greet),” said Brown, 45. “He says, ‘The Great One wants to take a picture with you.’ ” Brown said they were floored and couldn’t believe their luck.

Sure enough, hockey royalty wanted a picture.

“He was very classy,” said Brown. “He signed our jerseys and sticks. He critiqued us on our uniforms. It was great.”

Watson, 35, wanted to know the colour of the pants that the players wore in 1987 Canada Cup. Watson said depending on how you looked in some photos, the pants looked black with white stripes and in others they seem navy with white stripes.

“I just wanted to make sure so I can finish my other outfit and I have everything right,” said Watson. “Now I have advice from The Great One to finish the set.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Dallas said a date for the meeting has not been finalized.

Jablonski said she is “110 per cent in support” of expanding courtroom facilities in Red Deer.

“We’re doing the work we need to do behind the scenes to make things happen, but it’s a very difficult time,” said Jablonski.

“Our mayor is really good at presenting opportunities, so I’m looking forward to that meeting.”

Flewwelling said he has received a phone call from Dallas confirming his support for expanding courthouse capacity in Red Deer.

“He said he’s been keeping the minister apprised and has been pipelining the information. I said, ‘That is great good news. I will drop everything, the minute you can get me a meeting, and I will come to Edmonton.’ ” Flewwelling said the city was able to make the unofficial offer for a land swap because a planned civic annex will not be built for at least 10 years.

He said the city will hold onto the former RCMP property for Alberta Justice if the province will enter a binding agreement stating that it will eventually develop the site.

“If they can’t build a courthouse for 10 years, they will have the land to do it, once I know that they want it, and then, we will be able to plan accordingly, so the city could take over the courthouse as a city annex.”

Flewwelling said he would like to see the deal sealed before municipal elections in October, when he will retire from office, so the new mayor and council will not have to start over from scratch. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Naval collection donated to Calgary museum

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Top-secret plans, blueprints of a German U-boat and a manual for training boys on Royal Navy ships in 1898 are part of a naval history collection donated to Calgary’s military museum.

The University of Calgary has been given 5,000 books, detailed ship records and 50,000 photographs — the work of two individuals who have spent their lives building the collection.

Naval historians John Burgess and Ken Macpherson originally gave their work to the Naval Museum of Alberta Society, which in turn donated the extensive collection to the University of Calgary.

It offers a unique perspective on Canada’s maritime history and the Royal Canadian Navy from the late 1800s to the early 21st century.

It was the book Manual of Seamanship for Boys’ Training Ships of the Royal Navy that caught the fancy of Commodore David Craig. “Just to look at what they were teaching our young sailors then and to compare it to what we’re teaching our young sailors now. They’re both eager, keen, but the world of 1898 is not the world of today and it’s fascinating to see the changes,� said Craig, who is commander of the naval reserve.

The collection includes ship plans, correspondence, a blueprint for a 1943 German U-boat and — the highlight for many — top-secret documents.

Several of those documents called “Pink List�

give detailed information on ships’ capabilities, armament, weaknesses and battles. “This book is invariably to be kept locked up when not in use and is not to be taken outside the ship or establishment to which it is issued without the express permission of the commanding officer,� states a warning on the book dated June 2, 1944. “I think this has national and international significance,� said retired commander Greg McKenzie from the Naval Museum of Alberta Society. “Those top-secret papers, other than in the Admiralty in England, we don’t think ... exist anywhere else, so those are remarkable documents.�

The vice-provost of the University of Calgary’s libraries and cultural resources said the new additions put the city’s Military Museums on par with the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. “We were so excited and the experience has been exhilarating through the whole process,� said Tom Hickerson. “We didn’t know just how good it was.�

It is expected the entire collection will be digitized so it can be made available to researchers around the world. It’s an important part of Canadian history, said Craig. “These generations who have gone before us, they are our mentors, our leaders,� he said. “The memories of those who served at sea in wartime are beginning to fade, so this contribution and these records are a vital part of connecting Canadians with the history of Canada and the service of those sailors who served.�

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Commodore David Craig, commander of the Naval Reserve, holds a copy of an 1898 manual on how to train boys on Royal Navy ships, at the Military Museum in Calgary on Thursday.

Caroline residents thrilled with deal to build centre

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Caroline residents lobbying for a new community centre are thrilled their efforts have paid off.

The village and Clearwater County announced on Thursday that a deal had been worked out to pursue building a $1.3-million community centre as an addition to the Kurt Browning Complex.

Under an agreement hashed out in a meeting between the two municipalities on Wednesday evening, the county has agreed to assume responsibility for the capital costs of the proposed expansion.

The cost of the project and its impact on local property taxes was among the village council’s concerns.

Final approval will be subject to an acceptable construction bid being received. Community fundraising will also be needed to cover about $300,000 of the cost.

As well, the project hinges on the province allow-

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ing an almost $500,000 grant to be used for a community centre, rather than an earlier proposed modernization project to the complex.

The county previously agreed to provide a matching grant.

Kirsten Collison, one of a number of area residents who rallied support for the community centre and helped organize a town hall meeting that drew about 350 residents, was excited by the announcement. “It’s excellent,� she said, adding full credit should

be given to an ad hoc committee of the local ag society that has pursued the community centre idea for many months.

Collison, who is a local teacher and is involved in a local dance group that will train in the centre, has no doubt the community will be able to raise enough to complete the project. “We live in a very generous community,� she said. “I think a project of this nature, where it impacts so many families in the community, I really don’t think we’re going to have any trouble at all raising the money.�

The proposed centre would include space for a playschool, dance and yoga studios, the chamber of commerce, a medical clinic and fitness centre.

Getting the project underway took on some urgency because the provincial funding hinged on the building being done by next March, said residents.

Councils for the village and county plan to work together to create a long-term operational plan for the facility. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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CALGARY — Researchers at the University of Calgary say they’ve made a breakthrough that could make renewable energy much more practical and affordable.

Their paper published in the journal Science says they’ve found a much easier and cheaper way to build an electrolyzer, which uses electricity to break up water into hydrogen and oxygen, the basic requirements of fuel cells.

Fuel cells take those gases and generate energy by recombining them. Water is the only waste product. The cells are seen as a possible source of clean, reliable power that could be built on almost any scale required.

Electrolyzers depend on rare, difficult-to-work-with and sometimes toxic metals, but the method developed by Chris Berlinguette and Simon Trudel uses metals as common as rust. It delivers results comparable to current techniques but costs about 1,000 times less.

That could make it easier to use hydrogen to store intermittent energy produced by renewable sources such as wind or solar generators — cheaper, more efficient and with fewer toxic materials than the batteries currently used. “We’re pretty excited about this,� said Berlinguette.

A major problem, until now, has been producing the needed oxygen and hydrogen in electrolyzers. Current methods depend on the use of expensive rare earth metals in precise crystalline arrangements to catalyze, or speed up, the reaction.

Berlinguette and Trudel found a way to build catalyzers out of common metals without the need for the crystal structure.

The implications are potentially enormous.

One of the problems with renewable energy is that it’s not necessarily generated when it’s needed, but whenever the wind blows, the sun shines or the tide turns. “If you think of a wind turbine producing electricity at two o’clock in the morning, there’s no one around to actually use that electricity, so it just gets dumped,� said Berlinguette. “If you

could set that up with an electrolyzer, you could convert that electricity into hydrogen, then the next day, when there is demand, you can sell that electricity at a premium during periods of high demand.�

Hydrogen energy storage could also replace bulky, inefficient, expensive and often toxic batteries. “Wherever you can conceptually think of a battery having use, that’s really where hydrogen comes into play.�

Berlinguette envisions isolated northern communities powering themselves through fuel cells instead of diesel. Households could run off a system about the size of a beer fridge.

Fuel cells could even make conventional fossil-fuel-fired generators more efficient by allowing them to run at a constant pace regardless of demand.

Excess power could be diverted to an electrolyzer and the hydrogen stored until needed. “The nice thing about electrolytically produced hydrogen is that they can scale to the consumer,� Berlinguette said.

Electrolyzers are between 70 and 90 per cent efficient at converting electricity into hydrogen and oxygen.

Berlinguette and Trudel have already formed a company called FireWater Fuel Corp. to market their work and expect to have a commercially available electrolyzer by next year.

Berlinguette estimates there’s already a $250-million global market for electrolyzers.

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Friday, March 29, 2013

A life of miracles, purpose AT EASTER, WE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT JESUS DIED TO AFFIRM LIFE

BY LEN NEDERLOF SR. SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE We can’t out-sin the cross!

When Jesus hung on that cross all those 2,000 years ago, and just before he died, he is recorded to have cried, “It is finished.”

But, was it? What actually was finished? His life, his mission, his purpose, his miracles?

While Jesus lived on Earth, he performed an untold number of miracles (John 21:35).

John, one of his disciples, wrote that if all that Jesus did would have been recorded there would not be enough books in the world to contain it all.

During his three years of ministry, virtually every day he would be called upon to prove his divinity, to prove that he indeed was the Son of God, the promised and long-awaited Messiah, and he did it by speaking provable truths and performing indisputable miracles.

And when he was at times accused of doing those miracle in the name of Satan, the devil, he always simply reminded people that he did nothing on his own, but only that which his Father, God, instructed him to do.

Jesus had power to overrule the natural order of things.

He raised people from the dead, healed all manner of sicknesses and

diseases, escaped harm when necessary, spoke only pure truth, caused things to grow and caused them to die, could ‘see’ into peoples’ lives and ‘read’ their thoughts, and he did all those things and more without arrogance or pride.

He was so faithful to his calling and cause that God publicly declared on his behalf, “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

(Luke 3:22 NIV) There were occasions when Jesus gave those same supernatural powers to his disciples. He would send them out to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom of God to the people of area towns and villages, and they would come back from those ‘mission trips’ amazed that they, too, could cast out demons and heal the sick.

So, what exactly was it that Jesus said was ‘finished’ just before he died?

Well, he conquered death ... that’s what he did.

Remember the ‘fall’ of Adam and Eve? That one disobedient act did not usher in sin, as is commonly believed, but it brought human death to the Earth.

God told Adam right from the get-go that he was not to eat of the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,” for if he did he would surely die. The Literal Concordant Version of that passage in Genesis has it this way: “For on the day you eat of it, to die you shall be dying.”

That’s the actual word-for-word translation of the earliest copies we have of what God said to Adam. (2:17) “To die you shall be dying.”

Jesus didn’t overrule the ‘dying’ process which, incidentally, we usually

call ‘living,’ but he conquered death, the act that causes human life to cease.

We call dying living, but God calls it by it’s rightful name — dying.

Confusing? Let me explain.

When we humans die, that is, when our bodies succumb to death, that is the part that Jesus reversed when he voluntarily gave up his life on that Roman cross. His death was an all-sufficient substitute for us, and it was confirmed by God himself through Jesus’s bodily resurrection on the third day after his death.

We know this to be true because it is a matter of historical public record.

Jesus died a human death ... but he was raised up to a glorified spiritual life.

And that is the part that awaits all of us when we die our human death.

There is life after death!

From the moment we are born we are consumed by the dying process.

And even though we call it living, we are actually dying. Oh, I know, there is a time during our early years when we continue to develop and gain stature and strength, but even that is part of the dying process.

Now, here’s something else that might be of interest ...

When Adam and Eve ate from that forbidden tree, they didn’t commit the first sin, as is commonly believed. They just brought in death!

Sin came in because of death when God, through Adam, ushered in the era of the knowledge of good and evil. And that is why to this day, individually and as a society, we make serious distinction between good and evil acts.

We may vary individually on some of the finer points, but for the most

part we all recognize the difference between good and evil, right and wrong, and we govern our lives accordingly.

Whew. Is that going a little deep?

Well, if we are going to arrive at an acceptable understanding of what God is telling us through the Bible, then we have to sometimes look a little closer at the actual wording in order to get at the truth of things.

And truth, if we let it, will always set us free and bring us peace.

So, Jesus’s death and resurrection abolished the effect of human ‘death.’

But that won’t be experienced by us, of course, until we are done with the ‘dying’ process. And that is the reason why sin, with death defeated, is of no account to this day.

Cause for thankfulness? You bet.

For 2,000 years now, it has been impossible for us to out-sin the cross!

If you were looking for freedom from religion ... you just found it.

This Easter let us all rejoice in the knowledge that Jesus Christ died and was resurrected to prove that God loves us, as the Scriptures declare, and intends for us to have a knowledge of and relationship with him, free from fear and guilt, since Jesus paid the penalty of sin on our behalf.

When Jesus hung on that cross and, moments before he died, cried, “It is finished.” It was!

Jesus ushered in the era of God’s love and grace upon the human race.

And all we have to do to gain peace with God, and benefit from his love, is to simply believe it.

The way I see it, anyway ...

Len Nederlof Sr. is a Red Deer businessman.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The mayor underestimates the city’s desire for change In response to Mayor Morris Flewwelling in the article Slate of council hopefuls want to put Red Deer First, Advocate, March 13, 2013.

The article said: “Flewwelling wondered in the lightning strike chance that all eight are elected, what business owner would dismiss all of its experienced employees and hire all new staff in one fell swoop.”

If the employees of a business were losing money by making bad decisions, the business owner would be wise to replace them all!

Here are just a few facts about the business of our city.: ● At the end of 2013, the city will have $258 million in long-term debt (www.reddeer.ca). Whereas 10 years ago the city had virtually no debt. Most of this debt can be attributed to members of this council and our mayor, who have been here for the past nine years, and their support of the single largest city project, which has no benefit for the citizens of Red Deer (the approximate $120-million overspend for the new city yards, or as many locals call it, the Taj Mahal). ● We have no rainy day fund. ● Property taxes have been raised a total of 26.68 per cent (simple added total) for the last six budgets (well above inflation and population growth). In addition, utility taxes have increased much more dramatically during this same time period (www.reddeer.ca). ● They have wasted $800,000 on bike lanes without proper public consultation. The bike lanes are not used during winter and rarely used in the summer.

The bike lane implementation has resulted in loss of needed vehicle traffic lanes, parking, and has caused widespread confusion and safety issues. ● There is a plan to spend over $16 million to revamp Taylor Drive/Ross Street intersection, a project that has been identified by a traffic expert to result in more traffic congestion and will add two more traffic signals (www.reddeeradvocate.com Jan. 20, 2013). ● 40 days for residential snow removal and piling up snow on one side of the street instead of removing it, reducing parking is acceptable to this council (www.reddeer.ca snow removal policy).

Candidates supported by Red Deer First would not have voted for these actions listed above, but the majority of our current council and our mayor did.

Red Deer First is a group of individuals who recognize there needs to be a dramatic change on city council. The wasteful overspending needs to stop, if that means the entire council needs to be changed, then so be it.

Ryan Handley Red Deer First Red Deer

Red Deer First and Wildrose Party are not one and the same I would like to respond to a letter in the paper from Lloyd Johnson asking if the Red Deer First group is tied to the Wildrose Party of Alberta.

Red Deer First is not aligned with the Wildrose Party. Red Deer First is a group of diverse individuals who share the same principles regarding the role of the municipal government of Red Deer.

Sharing these principles has not required our

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group to ask what provincial party folks vote for, that is not important.

What is important is that those involved in the group share the principles of fiscal responsibility, accountability and dealing with the things most important to Red Deerians, such as pot hole repair, getting rid of the bike lanes where they impede traffic, and creating safer streets for citizens.

If you want to know about Red Deer First, visit to www.reddeerfirst.ca.

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Population surge a positive sign for Alberta With so much focus on provincial government budget issues, it’s important to remember there is much to celebrate about Alberta’s economy.

Statistics Canada reported on March 20 that Alberta’s population climbed to 3,931,300 in 2012. The number of net newcomers to the province was just under 86,000 people, more than double the number in 2011 and the highest level in history.

Alberta attracted 11,500 people from other provinces — mainly Ontario and B.C. — and another 9,100 international immigrants in just the last three months of 2012.

People across Canada and around the world are looking beyond the “bitumen bubble” to find the best economic opportunities. Let’s not lose sight of

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For a fifth consecutive quarter, Alberta posted the largest population growth rate of all Canadian provinces. Its population growth rate (0.6 per cent) was triple that of the Canadian rate.

As of Jan. 1, 2013, the population of Alberta was estimated at 3,931,300. Alberta recorded the second highest fourth-quarter growth in 2012, with a population increase of 24,500. The growth of Alberta’s population was mainly due to interprovincial migration gains (11,500). During the last quarter of 2012, most of the province net inflows came from Ontario (4,500) and British Columbia (2,600).

In addition, Alberta had net international migration (6,300) that was the second highest for a fourth quarter, with the exception of 2008. This gain in net international migration was fueled by the arrival of 9,100 immigrants, the highest fourth-quarter level.

Total net migration into Alberta in 2012 reached just under 86,000 persons, more than double the number of net newcomers in 2011 (42,673) and the highest level on record.

Tight rental markets will mean rising rents across Alberta, and this will encourage many new arrivals to buy homes. With low mortgage rates and a strong labour market, builders should look forward to an active spring selling season, particularly as supplies of existing (resale) homes are down from this time last year in most locations.

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Tory dissent likely to resume after break

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — If Prime Minister Stephen Harper was hoping the Easter break would quiet down his restless caucus, a fresh group of MPs made it clear Thursday they’re not letting their grievances drop so fast.

Three more Conservative members stood in the House of Commons to assert their freedom to say what they want in Parliament, including New Brunswick MP John Williamson — Harper’s own former director of communications.

Their frustrations build on a complaint by Vancouver-area MP Mark Warawa that he was prevented from delivering a public statement by the party leadership, presumably because of its politically divisive subject matter: abortion.

“What we have seen over the last 30 years has all happened very slowly. To use an analogy, it is a bit like a frog in a pot of water,” Williamson said of the political strategizing that influences what gets said in the House.

“Toss a frog in hot water, it will quickly recoil and jump out. Slowly increase the heat, the frog will not jump out, and instead the increasing heat will eventually kill it.”

Said colleague Kyle Seeback of Ontario: “If you

can’t at all rise to speak, you certainly cannot enjoy freedom of speech, which is one of the things that we believe to be sacrosanct in this place.”

The dissent is especially likely to resume following the two-week parliamentary recess thanks to another battle Warawa is waging.

On Thursday, a parliamentary committee — of which a majority of members are Conservative — once again declared his private member’s motion on sex-selective abortion to be “unvotable.”

Warawa has not revealed what his next step will be, but if he appeals to the Speaker, the result could be an extremely rare secret-ballot vote by all members of the Commons.

“I’m sure it will come up, there have been all sorts of issues that have been in the media,” Saskatchewan MP Randy Hoback said of the concerns he expects to hear in his riding over the next two weeks.

“That’s our job, to sit there and listen and understand what (our constituents’) concerns are and explain what really went on, and try and clear the air.”

On Wednesday, Harper tried to reason with his MPs during their weekly caucus meeting, making it clear that the Conservatives had repeatedly promised that the government would not reopen the abortion debate.

Some MPs, however, feel the debate is more about

their commitment to constituents than it is about abortion.

Harper has faced other internal skirmishes in the past, and has managed to weather them. MP Michael Chong, for example, resigned his intergovernmental affairs portfolio in 2007 in opposition to a government motion on Quebec’s nationhood.

The Official Opposition hasn’t been immune either — three MPs have left the NDP caucus since last spring’s leadership race.

The extent of the unrest and what its ultimate impact will be is unclear. In a majority government, some MPs who see no future beyond the backbench may feel they have nothing to lose by stepping out of line. Warawa was once a parliamentary secretary and a committee chairman, but currently has no official position.

Unlike caucus revolts inside the Liberal, Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties of the past, MPs in this case are not criticizing the leader — at least not yet.

“It always depends on how you’re going to move ahead as a team,” said Ontario MP Harold Albrecht.

“When you’re part of a team, there are some times you don’t get exactly what you want, but you recognize that you get a better result as a total team than you would on your own.”

Harper defends Elections chief wants tough robocall rules in place by 2014 pulling out of UN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The chief electoral officer is warning of another wave of false or misleading telephone calls in the next election if tough new rules and punishments are not in place by the end of next year.

“Given the time it takes for the parliamentary process to follow its due course, we need to act sooner than later on these matters,” Marc Mayrand said Thursday.

“My preference would be to have legislation in place by the end of 2014.”

Mayrand spoke to journalists a day after Elections Canada released a report that floated a number of ideas aimed at preventing another rash of so-called robocalls in future campaigns. Those suggestions include tough penalties for impersonating election officials, wider investigative powers and more voter privacy.

The elections chief said he has yet to be consulted as the governing Conservatives draw up legislation aimed at stopping malicious robocalls.

“It is not entirely new, I would suggest,” Mayrand said.

“Governments, from time to time, have tended to put forward their proposed legislative changes and then I become aware of them when they’re tabled in Parliament.

“I’m always available if they want to get my views or advice on any legislative matters regarding the

electoral process He urged the Tories to adopt the report’s recommendations.

“My fear is that we see a re-occurrence of issues that we saw in the last general election, that further undermined electors’ confidence and breeds disengagement and cynicism among electors,” Mayrand said.

Conservative MP Tim Uppal, the minister of state for democratic reform, said Wednesday the government would consider Elections Canada’s recommendations.

The report did not shed light on the identity of the mysterious figure known as “Pierre Poutine,” the person behind a rash of misleading calls in ridings across the country.

Mayrand refused to provide an update on the ongoing investigation into fraudulent robocalls, stemming from complaints that surfaced in dozens of ridings across the country.

The agency’s investigation has centred on the southwestern Ontario riding of Guelph, where a number of residents say they received automated phone calls from someone claiming to be from Elections Canada and directing them to a wrong or nonexistent polling station.

While the misleading phone calls appeared to target non-Conservative voters, the Conservative party insists it had no involvement in any such scheme and says it is assisting the investigation.

Complaints system broken at vets centre: audit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A federal audit released Thursday finds the quality of care at Canada’s largest veterans home meets standards but is deeply critical of how the facility handles complaints and communicates with family members.

The assessment, which bitterly disappointed some relatives of the most frail residents of Sunnybrook Veterans Centre, urges the facility to take immediate steps to improve a dysfunctional complaints process.

“Several residents and families expressed their lack of knowledge of how to make a complaint or mistrust of the formal complaints-management system,” the audit states.

“In a few cases, there was an expressed hesitancy to bring issues forward for fear of discrimination against their loved one.”

According to the audit, residents or families filed 32 formal complaints between April 2011 and the end of last year. Of those, 25 per cent were dissatisfied with the outcome.

In addition, 28 per cent of the files were closed “without an evaluation of the satisfaction with the outcome,” according to the audit.

“The final note in many of these files was that final contact with the complainant could not be made.”

Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney ordered the audit last November — the first in years — after The Canadian Press documented complaints from several relatives, who said their loved ones were being neglected or mistreated.

Common themes included residents left for hours in soiled diapers, and delayed or missed feedings.

Relatives also said their attempts at redress were met with indifference or hostility.

While the audit does not address specific complaints, it does conclude patient care “is aligned with provincial and professional standards, the clinical care is of a high quality, and appropriate monitoring is occurring.”

“Results to date indicate excellent performance in several domains. For those areas where results

fall below the provincial benchmarks, quality initiatives are put in place and monitored for improvements.”

John Marriott, whose elderly father-in-law died at Sunnybrook last spring days after family members discovered one of his teeth had been knocked out, called the document a “whitewash.”

“Where are the specific concerns that families expressed?” Marriott said.

“This audit report discards the disturbing testimony of patients and families and tacitly sanctions conditions and occurrences at (Sunnybrook) that have scarred our family.”

The 500-bed vets centre, which receives more than $55 million a year in government funding, has always insisted its care is exemplary.

Sunnybrook CEO Dr. Barry McLellan said Thursday he was “encouraged” the audit concluded the level of care is of a high quality and pledged to implement the audit’s suggestions.

“We look forward to the opportunity to providing even a higher level of care to our residents and their families,” McLellan said.

Kids found sniffing gas in Labrador home with guns, ammo around: RCMP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NATUASHISH, N.L. — An Innu chief in Labrador who found seven young children sniffing gas in an unsupervised home says he’s seeing more kids being left alone by their parents in the community.

Chief Simeon Tshakapesh of Natuashish said a nine-year-old boy was left by himself for four days when he was discovered Wednesday inhaling gas in a home with six other children no older than 12.

“It’s disgusting,” he said. “Just very young kids sitting on the couch and garbage everywhere.”

The Mounties who responded to the home in the remote reserve said they found two unsecured firearms, ammunition and several lighters at the scene, but no adults.

Police said they couldn’t locate most of the parents of the children, who were taken to other locations for the night.

Tshakapesh, who went to the home with a mental health worker after receiving a complaint from a resident, said the children were staggering and vomiting after inhaling the fumes.

Last September, police warned that an escalation in gas sniffing in the community involved children as young as seven.

desert convention

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government was accused Thursday of trying to avoid a reckoning on the science of climate change by pulling Canada out of a United Nations convention that fights the spread of droughts.

But Prime Minister Stephen Harper insisted Canada was withdrawing from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification because the program has proven too bureaucratic.

Harper said less than one-fifth of the $350,000 Canada contributes to the convention goes to programming, while Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird branded the whole process a “talkfest” that does a disservice to Canadian taxpayers.

“Eighteen per cent of the funds that we send it are actually spent on programming,” the prime minister said during question period.

“The rest goes to various bureaucratic measures....

It’s not an effective way to spend taxpayers’ money.”

The decision would make Canada the only country in the world outside the agreement, which Ottawa ratified in 1995, and whose participants include 194 countries and the European Union — the entire UN. The government’s decision to pull Canada out of the convention came just one month before a major scientific gathering to be hosted by the Bonn-based secretariat of the UN convention.

The meeting would have forced Canada to confront scientific analysis on the effects of climate change, droughts and encroaching deserts. The Harper government has been vilified an as outlier on climate change policy in past international meetings.

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BRIEFS

Top court rejects Douglas appeal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Fundraising suggests Murray is Trudeau’s main challenger OTTAWA — The latest fundraising numbers for federal Liberal leadership contenders suggest Joyce Murray has emerged as the primary challenger to front-runner Justin Trudeau.

The second of four weekly financial reports filed with Elections Canada show Trudeau raised another $35,000 over the past week, on top of the $1 million reported previously.

But Vancouver MP Murray continued to show momentum, pulling in $29,000, for a total of $198,000 over the entire campaign.

That moves her ahead of former Toronto MP Martha Hall Findlay, who has raised a total of $186,500.

Hall Findlay started out strongly, raising $115,000 by the end of last year.

But her fundraising effort seems to have stalled as the race heads down the home stretch; she raised just $7,500 over the past week.

Murray’s campaign has been given a big boost from grassroots and online advocacy groups who’ve endorsed her strong environmental platform and her plan for one-time electoral co-operation among progressive parties aimed at ensuring defeat of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in 2015.

She’s also received high-profile endorsements from the likes of environmental activist David Suzuki, former House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken and constitutional expert Peter Russell.

Tiger attacks zoo keeper in Quebec ST-FELICIEN, Que. — A Quebec zookeeper was recovering Thursday after being attacked and seriously injured by a tiger as he went to clean the animal’s cage.

Officials were still trying to determine how the attack happened because the beast was supposed to have been relocated to its nocturnal cage.

“We’re going to find out what happened,” said Lauraine Gagnon, the zoo’s director general. “We’ll look at all the procedures, how things are done with dangerous animals.”

But she emphasized that the facility in SaintFelicien, about 250 kilometres north of Quebec City, is safe.

“This is the first time this has happened in 53 years,” she told a news conference. “But it’s not something you want to have happen again.”

Provincial police and Quebec’s workplacesafety board were also investigating Thursday morning’s incident.

Other employees at the zoo managed to rescue their colleague after the animal moved away toward another part of its habitat.

Defence lawyer asks for lowest sentence for man who executed his ex-girlfriend VANCOUVER — The defence lawyer for a man who has admitted to the execution-style shooting of his ex-girlfriend says his client killed out of jealousy and a desire to control.

But Russ Chamberlain says Ninderjit Singh did not maliciously or deliberately plan to murder 18-year-old Poonam Randhawa, before he left her body in a Vancouver alleyway 14 years ago.

Chamberlain asked a B.C. Supreme Court judge to consider sentencing the 33-year-old at the minimum parole eligibility of 10 years, saying he will be deported to India after serving his sentence.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has squelched an effort by The Canadian Press to lift the shroud of secrecy over an intelligence dossier compiled on socialist trailblazer Tommy Douglas.

The high court said Friday it won’t hear reporter Jim Bronskill’s appeal in his longrunning fight to have more information in the Douglas file made public.

Paul Champ, the news agency’s lawyer, said the refusal to hear the appeal was disappointing.

“This decision is a blow to the study and understanding of Canadian history,” he said.

Bronskill has been fighting since 2005 for access to the decades-old, 1,149-page file compiled on Douglas by the now-defunct RCMP Security Service from the 1930s until just before his death in 1986.

Parts of the dossier that have been released show the Mounties shadowed Douglas for years.

They attended his speeches, analysed his writings and eavesdropped on private conversations.

They were particularly interested in his links to the peace movement and the Communist party.

Library and Archives Canada, which now holds the file, initially released only 400 heavily censored pages on Douglas, a former Saskatchewan premier, first federal NDP leader and father of medicare.

An additional 300 pages were released in 2011, just before the case was heard by the Federal Court. Even more were disclosed after the court ordered that more should be made public but large portions of the file remain secret.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which replaced the RCMP security arm and advised Library and Archives on release of the Douglas file, argued vehemently against full disclosure.

Although some information in the file goes back a lifetime, CSIS argued that uncensored release would reveal secrets of the spy trade, jeopardize the lives of confidential informants and compromise the agency’s ability to conduct secret surveillance.

“I still don’t know how documents over 70 years old can present a risk to national security today,” Champ said.

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Former NDP leader Tommy Douglas poses in Ottawa in this Oct. 19, 1983. The Supreme Court of Canada has ended an effort by The Canadian Press to lift the shroud of secrecy over an intelligence dossier compiled on socialist trailblazer Tommy Douglas. The high court has denied reporter Jim Bronskill leave to appeal in his case to have information in the Douglas file made public.

Federal Court Justice Simon Noel ruled that Library and Archives, in deciding what to release, failed to take into account its mandate to make historically significant documents accessible. He reviewed the whole file and attached an annex to his ruling listing the pages that contained information he believed should be further disclosed.

However, Noel’s ruling was curtailed last October by the Federal Court of Ap-

peal, which also struck down his annex.

The government argued there was no need for the Supreme Court to hear the matter because there was “no issue of public importance” in the case.

Champ said he thinks otherwise: “As a result of this judgment, hundreds of documents about an important historical figure will remain permanently hidden away from the Canadian public, or at least for all of our lifetimes.”

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End of an era

JOHAN SANTANA

MISSING ANOTHER SEASON The New York Mets say Johan Santana has injured his left shoulder again and likely will need surgery and miss the 2013 season. The two-time Cy Young Award winner missed the 2011 season following shoulder surgery in September 2010, then returned last year and pitched the first no-hitter in the team’s history. He hasn’t pitched in an exhibition game this year because of arm weakness.

Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said Thursday that an MRI in New York a day earlier showed a “probable” re-tear of Santana’s left shoulder capsule. Alderson said Santana’s $25 million salary this year is not covered by insurance.

The Mets will also owe him a $6 million buyout after this season.

Today

● Curling: Alberta mixed championship at Olds Curling Club. ● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer at Edmonton Southside, fourth game of best-of-five AMHL final, if necesssary, 7:45 p.m., Bill Hunter Arena.

Saturday

● Curling: Alberta mixed championship at Olds Curling Club.

Sunday

● Curling: Alberta mixed championship at Olds Curling Club. ● Midget AAA hockey: Edmonton Southside at Red Deer, fifth game of best-of-five AMHL final, if necessary, 2:45 p.m., Arena.

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Former Calgary Flames’ captain Jarome Iginla speaks to the media after being traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins, in Calgary, on Thursday.

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IGINLA SAYS GOODBYE TO CALGARY AS HE GETS READY TO HELP THE PENGUINS WIN A STANLEY CUP AFTER TRADE TO PITTSBURGH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Jarome Iginla bid farewell to Calgary and the Flames not with tears, but with his trademark forehead-creasing grin and his best wishes for the future of the franchise.

The former Flames captain spoke to the Calgary media on Thursday about his trade to the Pittsburgh Penguins which was completed late the previous evening.

A Flame for all 16 seasons of his NHL career and team captain since 2003, Iginla is a beloved player whose departure is sad

for Flames fans, but they’re also happy that he’ll get a chance to win that elusive Stanley Cup. “I don’t know if you prepare a speech for this. I’m not retiring,” Iginla told a packed media room at Scotiabank Saddledome.

“I never would have dreamed I would have got to play here so long. It’s a great, great hockey city, a great community and such a great balance for a passion for hockey and a wonderful place to live. This is definitely mixed emotions.

“I wish we had more success and I really honestly thought we were going to have more success over the past few years, but

I’m happy that we tried. I know we didn’t get it right and we haven’t been in the playoffs in the last few years to this date, but it wasn’t for lack of effort from our organization. They can still get in this year and I hope they go on a great run.”

The 35-year-old was dealt to the Penguins for a first-round draft pick and two college forwards. Iginla is Calgary’s all-time leading scorer with 575 goals and 570 assists in 1,219 games. He has nine goals and 13 assists in 31 games this lockout-shortened season.

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Hemsky’s late goal seals win for Oilers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 6 Blue Jackets 4 EDMONTON _ Ales Hemsky scored the winner with 3:08 remaining as the Edmonton Oilers won their second game in a row, defeating the Columbus Blue Jackets 6-4 on Thursday night.

Shortly after a huge save by goalie Devan Dubnyk, Hemsky took the puck down the length of the ice and danced around several defenders before making a highlight-reel goal to undress Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky.

Sam Gagner had a goal and three assists for the Oilers (1313-7), who moved into a tie for 11th in the Western Conference with Columbus with the win.

Magnus Paajarvi, Jordan Eberle, Shawn Horcoff and Corey Pottera also scored.

Cam Atkinson had a pair for the Blue Jackets (13-14-7), who have lost three in a row after going 8-0-4 in their previous 12 games. Matt Calvert and Artem Anisimov also scored It didn’t take long at all for Columbus to start the scoring in

this one.

The Jackets led 1-0 on the first shot of the game just 10 seconds in as Calvert got to a puck along the side boards and quickly dished it in front for Atkinson, who beat Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin with a shot to the glove side. The goal tied for the fastest to start a game in Columbus franchise history.

The duo combined for another goal 12 minutes into the opening period to give the Jackets a 2-0 lead as Atkinson fed Calvert on a two-on-one and he lifted a shot over Khabibulin.

Edmonton got one of those goals back with five minutes to play in the first as Paajarvi picked off a soft Gagner shot in front of the net and hooked it behind Bobrovsky.

The Oilers tied the game 2-2 with an early goal of their own to start the second period as Eberle danced around defender Fedor Tyutin and slid a puck under the pads of Bobrovsky for his 10th of the season just 39 seconds in.

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Edmonton Oilers Sam Gagner, Ales Hemsky, and Ryan Whitney, celebrate Hemsky’s game winning goal on the Columbus Blue Jackets during third period NHL action in Edmonton, on Thursday.

Iginla’s gone, what’s the next move for Calgary’s rebuild?

It’s more than the Maple Leafs got for lar to that was available in 2013 when the Mats Sundin.

Flames finally acknowledged what the rest That, folks, is about the best of the hockey world had seen for that can be said from a Calgary years, that this was a franchise perspective after Jarome Iginbadly in need of rebuilding. la was traded to Pittsburgh late Sad, really. Iginla could have Tuesday night. fetched more in a trade a year And it’s not much, is it? ago, but instead Calgary ownerThe growing hockey nightmare ship and management preferred in Calgary grew substantially to live in a delusional dream larger when Iginla, the Flames world in which the veteran captain, was traded to the Penwinger could still be a factor on guins for two U.S. college playa Calgary playoff squad. ers, neither a first round pick in Indeed, you could argue that their draft year, and Pittsburgh’s Brenden Morrow fetched more 2013 first rounder, likely No. 25 from the Penguins in trade than DAMIEN or lower.

Iginla, which is shocking really, COX Yes, how the times have given the career accomplishchanged. ments of the two players.

Iginla was acquired 18 years Now, Iginla’s departure ago from Dallas for centre Joe means the fire sale is on in CalNieuwendyk, but nothing remotely simi- gary, with goalie Miiika Kiprusoff and de-

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fenceman Jay Bouwmeester clearly also available.

What can GM Jay Feaster get for those players? Draft picks and marginal prospects, probably, as the evidence mounts on how badly Calgary management has handled the dismantling of a team they insisted until last week was playoff worthy.

Kiprusoff, even if he’s willing to play in the NHL next season, is worth less on the open market given that Vancouver is definitely looking at a last minute deal to move Roberto Luongo and Phoenix might be willing to part with free-agent-in-waiting Mike Smith. There’s great confusion over whether Kiprusoff will report to another team if dealt, which, in conjuction with the reality that the Leafs may be the only team hunting for netminding, could mean he is moved for a lower draft pick and nothing more.

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PLAYER OF THE MONTH Calgary Hitmen veteran left winger Cody Sylvester was named the Husky WHL player of the month for March. The 20-yearold from Vernon, B.C., who is in his fifth season with the Hitmen, had eight goals and 10 assists and a plus-10 rating in eight games to lead the WHL in scoring for the month. Sylvester finished the regular season with a career high 41 goals and 90 points in 68 games, leaving him 10th in league scoring.

He was named to the Eastern Conference second all-star team and is a finalist for the 2013 WHL Humanitarian of the Year. The five-foot-11, 191-pound Sylvester was picked in the eighth round, 168th overall, in the 2007 bantam draft.

SOLID IN NET Medicine Hat Tigers 20-year-old goaltender Cam Lanigan played a major role in the sweep of the Saskatoon Blades in the Eastern Conference quarter-final series. The Calgary native posted a 1.00 goals-againstaverage — second to Edmonton’s Laurent Brossoit (0.71) — and a spectacular .961 save percentage, tops in the league. He also finished with 162 saves in the four games, Lanigan started the season with Portland, playing three games, before moving to the Tigers where he played 46 games, finishing with 3.00 gaa and a .910 save percentage.

BIG TIME GOALS Red Deer Rebels 20-year-old winger and captain Turner Elson knows what it takes to be a leader.

Elson notched the game winning goal in both games in Prince Albert as the Rebels swept the best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-finals series against the Raiders.

The six-foot, 185-pound Calgary Flames product finished the series with three goals and four assists and a plus-four rating. His playoff success has carried on from the regular season where he scored 26 goals and added 31 assists in 64 games. He also had a plus-26 rating, five game winning goals, five power play markers and three shorthanded goals.

THE REBELS FIRST YEAR PLAYER SAID HE IS CLOSE TO BEING SYMPTOM-FREE AFTER THREE CONCUSSIONS CUT HIS SEASON SHORT IN DECEMBER

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF One can’t blame Jesse Miller if he was glad to see the last of 2012.

Miller suffered three concussions during the year, including two in less than a month that ended his first WHL season with the Red Deer Rebels.

He picked up his first concussion in February, while with the midget AAA Winnipeg Wild, then was injured again on Nov.

18 against the Prince Alberta Raiders. After being cleared to play he returned a month later, picked up his first two assists of the season, then two games later was injured a third time.

“I went a long time at the start of the season without any points and when I picked up the assists just before the Christmas break, it gave me a lot of confidence and I was excited about going into the second half of the season,” said Miller from his home in Winnipeg. “Then we had the home-and-home with

Edmonton and everything came to an end.”

While Miller wasn’t finding his way onto the scoresheet with the Rebels he was a solid contributor, playing mainly on the fourth line and killing penalties.

“So it wasn’t like I was on the bench all the time,” he said.

“I played hard every shift and game-in and game-out and I was enjoying myself.”

While Miller wasn’t about to call the hit Nov. 18 dirty, it was a play that could have been avoided.

“There were a couple of seconds remaining in the game and we were leading 6-1,” he said.

“I went for the puck in our corner and a PA defenceman came down and threw an elbow at the buzzer and I knew right away it was a concussion. It was crappy . . . bad luck” The third, and final concussion came on an open ice hit.

“A Rebel defenceman passed me the puck and it was kind of my fault as I looked back and just as I got the puck I was hit.

I’m not sure if it was his shoulder or helmet, but my head was aching and I knew exactly what it was.”

Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter took Miller aside and suggested he go home to rest.

“He told me it wasn’t worth me risking my health.”

Miller has at home since, although he did spend a weekend in Red Deer, working out with several other Rebels prospects.

“It was a chance to see how my head was doing and it was fine,” said Miller, who is close to 100 per cent symptom free.

“It’s a little bit here and there but I’m not sure if it’s from the work out or being on the ice. Possibly I’m not sleeping well, but I know it’s a lot better than it was a couple of months ago.”

But Miller won’t take any chances with his health.

“I want a healthy future whether it’s playing hockey or in life,” he said.

“You only have one brain and one life and you don’t want to take chances when it comes

to your brain. It’s not like a broken arm or leg which will heal.

Brain injuries are a scary thing.

You want to be able to lead a normal life.

“But right now I just want to play hockey and not worry about if I get a headache later in life.”

Miller indicated he’s always had some headaches.

“I could have had a couple of concussions when I was 12 or 13, but nothing serious. I’ve always had some headaches. I’m not sure if it’s part of my genes or what.”

Miller, who turned 19 on March 17, hopes to be back full time with the Rebels next season, although that will be up to what happens with his head and at training camp.

“Brent said as long as I feel good I’ll be back at training camp and they’ll take it from there,” said the six-foot-one, 175-pound left winger. “Other than that he didn’t say much.”

If he’s healthy, and doesn’t make the Rebels, he can always return to Manitoba.

“I’ve signed with the Winkler Flyers (of the Manitoba Junior A League), so I could go there if everything is fine. Other than that I could go to university. I have at least one year of my education paid for and if I play with the Rebels I’ll get another year. If I still have the concussion symptoms and can’t play I’ll get four years, so we’ll see how it goes.”

Miller has his fingers crossed that he can return to the Rebels, a team he selected over Calgary and Saskatoon when he first was invited to camp.

“It’s a top organization and I’m lucky to be part of it.”

Miller did have to laugh when asked about his card tricks and juggling.

“I haven’t touched the magic and juggling for a while, but I guess I could pick it up again,” he said. “It’s something that puts smiles on peoples faces and is entertaining.”

But above everything else Miller is looking to entertain Rebel fans while on the ice. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Rebels relax as they wait for next opponent They don’t know for sure who their next opponent will be, but for now the Red Deer Rebels are relaxing.

They deserve a break after completing a four-game Eastern Conference quarterfinal sweep of the Prince Albert Raiders in hostile territory Wednesday. While four games does a long series make, all four were physical and — at times — bitter clashes.

In the end, the Raiders simply could not match the Rebels’ dogged determination and resiliency. Red Deer just refused to lose, despite being outplayed in the first period of each game at Prince Albert’s Art Hauser Centre.

The Rebels were the superior team in GREG the final two frames MEACHEM of both Games 3 and 4.

The Raiders were a frustrated crew, too often beaten to the puck and then not able to solve — at least not often enough — netminder Patrik Bartosak when scoring opportunities arose.

Bartosak won the battle of the goaltenders, hands down, and was a big reason the Raiders’ power play was a paltry one-for-19 (5.3 per cent) in the series.

Red Deer’s power play wasn’t a whole lot better at two-for-15 (13.3 per cent), but both goals were big, and in fact Turner Elson’s man-advantage marker in Game 3 was the eventual winner in a 3-1 outcome.

The Rebels’ best players, GM/head coach Brent Sutter suggested on the eve of the series opener, would have to be front and centre in order for the club to succeed.

Well, the first line of Elson, Rhyse Dieno and Brooks Maxwell clearly out-performed the Raiders’ No. 1 unit of Mark McNeill, Leon Draisaitl and Mike Winther, and Mathew Dumba, Brady Gaudet and Haydn Fleury stood out on the Red Deer blueline, which

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The Rebels’ supporting cast often stepped into leading roles, with the likes of Conner Bleackley and Cody Thiel notching timely goals to keep in step with the Raiders’ second- to fourth-line skaters.

The bottom line is that the Rebels are moving on. They’ll likely meet the Hitmen in a semifinal which would start later next week in Calgary, where the Hitmen eliminated the Swift Current Broncos in their quarter-final set Thursday night, winning Game 5 by a 3-1 count.

The only other scenario would be Red Deer vs. Medicine Hat, but that would require the Kootenay Ice to rebound from a 3-1 deficit in games and upset the defending league champion Edmonton Oil Kings.

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If the Raiders were dejected following their quick exit, imagine the disappointment — and even disbelief — in the Saskatoon Blades’ dressing room following Wednesday’s 3-1 loss at Medicine Hat and the four-straight ouster of this year’s Memorial Cup hosts.

The Blades won’t play another game for 50 days, and that game will be their Memorial Cup opener.

The loss extended the Blades’ post-season losing streak to 12 games — three opening-round sweeps in three years.

“The playoffs are a different ball of wax,” Blades head coach and general manager Lorne Molleken told Daniel NugentBowman of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix following Wednesday’s fourth loss. “We didn’t rise to the occasion.

“There’s a reason why you don’t succeed. That’s something that’s hampered us in the last three years in the playoffs.

There’s a certain will to succeed. Medicine Hat played extremely well. They were the better team in this series. They deserved to win.”

The Blades were outscored 7-0 in the

first period and 15-4 in the series.

“Their goals came on hard work from them beating them us in different situations. At this time of the year, you need to really make sure you’re sticking to the plan and executing and finishing,” added Molleken. “We didn’t do that on a consistent basis.”

Realizing the mood of disappointment and outright disgust that might exist with Blades fans , Molleken and team owner Jack Brodsky addressed the Saskatoon media during a Thursday press conference.

“For us as a team this was a season full of difference challenges and pressure,” said Molleken. “But at the same time I’m not going to stand in front of you and justify our (playoff) results.

“We got off to a slow start this year and that meant pressure on the group. Despite everything going on around us this year, we still believed that our hockey club was peaking at the right time and that we were in a great spot to have a long, successful run in the WHL playoffs.

“Looking ahead to the Memorial Cup, as a group we feel this (first-round exit) can be one of the building blocks in our season.

The time off before the event is another challenge we face and we look forward to using it to our advantage. Once again, these aren’t ideal circumstances but we look forward to making the best of the adversity we’re facing and look to bring home a championship for our organization.

“That was the message to our players after the game last night. We built this team to win a championship.”

Brodsky shot down rumours that Molleken would be replaced as the Blades’ coach prior to the Memorial Cup. “I’m not going to let a game or a series or a year be a measure of what this hockey club is about or what my life is about,” said Brodsky.

“I’m not talking about changes. I’m not going to talk about that today because the guy that’s behind the bench for our hockey club is my guy and I’ve got all the trust and respect in the world for him. Period.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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TRADE LEAVES QUESTIONS ABOUT FUTURE OF FRANCHISE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Calgary Flames woke up to life without Jarome Iginla on Thursday.

While Iginla sat out the previous night’s game as his trade to the Pittsburgh Penguins was negotiated, his dressing room stall was still full of his equipment and bore his nameplate. His teammates were also preoccupied with beating Colorado, whether their captain was in the lineup or not.

But Iginla’s stall was empty and stripped of his nameplate Thursday. A Flame for all of his 16 seasons and the team’s captain for nine, his departure left a void and questions about the future of the franchise.

“It’s weird. It’s definitely weird,” Flames forward Mike Cammalleri said. “There’s no downplaying the significance and the presence he’s been in the room, on this organization and in this city. It’s a little different today.”

Iginla bid his teammates a hasty goodbye prior to a morning news conference at the Saddledome. The players’ thoughts reflected that of many Calgarians and hockey fans. They’re sad to see their captain go, but hope Iginla wins the Stanley Cup that has eluded him in Calgary.

“It’s a unique situation here, just because he’s been here for so long and he really is the face of the franchise and done so many great things,” defenceman Jay Bouwmeester said. “You play long enough, you see guys come and go. It doesn’t mean you have ill-will or anything like that.

“I think everyone in here wishes him the best of luck. It’s a great opportunity for him.”

Calgary (13-15-4) is ranked 14th in the NHL’s Western Conference. At six points outs, the Flames are not yet mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, but face a fourth straight season finishing out of the post-season.

The urgency to turn the hockey club’s fortunes around prompted the trading of the face of the franchise.

“We’re not where we want to be and unfortunately Iggy was the first guy to obviously get moved because of it this year and so you feel you’re a bit responsible for it,” defenceman Mark Giordano said.

The Calgary ownership group hasn’t traditionally held firesales, but if this is one, they started at

the very top. Iginla waived his no-trade clause to facilitate the move to Pittsburgh and had a say in his destination.

But general manager Jay Feaster hinted when he announced the deal with Pittsburgh for two college forwards and a first-round draft pick that he is not done on the trade front.

He said weekend meetings with head coach Bob Hartley, assistant general manager John Wiesbrod and the Flames scouts will determine their strategy for the NHL’s trade deadline next Wednesday.

“I know you guys like the ’rebuild’ word,” Feaster said. “Our goal is we want to ’retool’ to the point where we’re a competitive team and a legitimate playoff team.

“We’re going to continue to look for ways to improve our hockey club. There are any numbers of ways to do that and that’s through the draft, through trading and through free agency. We’re going to avail ourselves of all of those avenues, but I don’t want to use the ’rebuild’ word.

“I think we’re going to be busy. We’re going to be active in the process of trying to stockpile assets. We are not looking to move draft picks or prospects to get players right now.”

Lost in the trade speculation surrounding Iginla was the rumbling about the future of goaltender Mikka Kiprusoff in the organization. The 36-year-old has one year remaining after this season on a contract that counts $5.8 million annually against the salary cap.

The no-trade clause in Kiprusoff’s contract has expired, according to Capgeek.com. Sportsnet has reported that Kiprusoff would refuse a trade, but the goaltender would not address that report after Wednesday’s game.

“I’m not going to talk about it,” Kiprusoff said.

“I’m going to concentrate on playing games with the Flames here right now. I like it here a lot.”

Meanwhile, the Flames host the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday and look to extend their winning streak at the Saddledome to nine. Road games have been their downfall this season with a team-record 10 consecutive losses.

“In our business you find motivation in a lot of places,” Cammalleri said. “Until someone actually tells me we’re mathematically out of it, no one in this room will feel that way.

It is Stanley Cup or bust for Penguins after acquiring Iginla

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby knows the Pittsburgh Penguins will be considered Stanley Cup contenders so long as his familiar No. 87 hangs in the dressing room.

“We’re always in the conversation as far as favourites,” Crosby said.

At the moment, a case could be made the Penguins are the only ones in it.

Already riding a 13-game winning streak behind the typically sublime Crosby and a suddenly responsible defence, Pittsburgh’s quest for the franchise’s fourth Cup received a rocket-fueled boost late Wednesday night when general manager Ray Shero acquired six-time All-Star forward Jarome Iginla from Calgary.

All it took was the rights to a couple of prospects and a 2013 first-round draft pick, a pittance for a future Hall-of-Famer still searching for his first championship after 16 seasons in western Canada.

“Talking to our coaching staff, as a group, we said if there’s a chance to get Jarome Iginla ... we want to try and get Jarome Iginla,” Shero said. “There was no doubt if we could try and add this guy, we were going to try and add him.”

The stunning deal capped a furious four-day stretch for Shero, who brought in veteran forward Brenden Morrow from Dallas on Sunday and bruising San Jose defenceman Doug Murray on Monday. In the span of 96 hours, the Penguins added three players with a combined 1,682 points and 189 playoff career playoff games.

And they did it without giving up a single player on a roster that has put together the NHL’s second-best record with a month to go in the regular season.

“I’m pretty cognizant of the fact, this team on paper, that’s a pretty good team on paper,” Shero said.

The key now will be finding a way to make it work on the ice.

Iginla could make his debut in Pittsburgh as early as Saturday barring any immigration issues, capping a frantic week in which the three-time Olympian agreed to part ways with the only franchise he’s ever known.

It wasn’t an easy decision for the 35-year-old, who is Calgary’s all-time leading scorer with 1,095 career points.

Yet Iginla knew the struggling Flames needed to rebuild and understood he could help get the process started if he agreed to be traded.

He did not suit up for Wednesday night’s game against Colorado — snapping a streak of 441 consecutive games played — and waited for the phone to ring. At one point it appeared he was headed to Boston. Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli believed he’d “won the Jarome Iginla sweepstakes” around noon on Wednesday before Iginla — who had to sign off on the trade — apparently had a change of heart.

Ultimately, the chance to be reunited with Crosby won out. The two became fast friends while playing for Team Canada in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Iginla set up Crosby for the game-winning and country-shaking goal in the gold medal game against the United States.

“When it comes down to the choice I had, one or the other, it’s really hard to pass up the opportunity to play on a team with Sid and (Evgeni) Malkin,” Iginla said.

Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma is keeping quiet on who gets the first crack at taking the ice with Iginla, though it appears unlikely Bylsma would break up the trio of

Crosby, Chris Kunitz and Pascal Dupuis, the highest-scoring line in the NHL. More likely is Iginla joining Malkin and All-Star forward James Neal on the second line though Bylsma understands nothing will be set in stone. He has five weeks to figure out what combinations work and will experiment heavily even as the Penguins try to lock down the top seed in the East.

Though Bylsma is aware tinkering with a group that entered Thursday unbeaten in March comes with its potential pitfalls, he pointed out that Iginla, Morrow and Murray all had no-trade clauses in their contracts. All three waived them for the chance to pull on Pittsburgh sweaters this spring.

“We’re talking about players choosing to come to Pittsburgh and be a part of our team,” Bylsma said.

That should put to rest any concerns about whether Iginla and Morrow — both former captains — will mesh with a dressing room where the unquestioned leader is all of 25.

“We’ve got great acquisitions but I think (chemistry) is probably one of the biggest priorities,” Crosby said. “But it helps that nobody in the room is leaving.

I think we have great chemistry here. Those guys are going to add to it.”

While Shero acknowledged the Penguins will become public enemy No. 1 in the league — if they weren’t already — Crosby downplayed the notion the last four days have affected the pressure to win.

“If anything, it should motivate us even more knowing that we’ve added some guys that are going to help us and we’re a better hockey team,” Crosby said.

Bruins thought they had a deal in place for Iginla

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — The Boston Bruins lost to Pittsburgh in the competition for Jarome Iginla. That should make it tougher for them to beat the already powerful Penguins in the playoffs.

It was a bitter battle to lose, of course. Especially considering Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli thought he already had the Calgary Flames’ all-time leading goal scorer in the fold.

A few hours later, Iginla was a Penguin.

Just like that.

“We believed we had a deal,” Chiarelli said, at about noon on Wednesday for the Flames’ captain and the top prize in the NHL trade market.

But Iginla had a no-trade clause which allowed him to choose his destination from teams that made offers. And shortly before midnight on Wednesday, Calgary general manager Jay Feaster called Chiarelli with the bad news: Iginla had chosen the Penguins and Sidney Crosby.

“It’s tough. I mean, we’re talking about a really good player,” Chiarelli said. “This kind of stuff happens. It shouldn’t, but it does. The reality of no-movement and no-trade clauses, it’s going to happen more.

It’s a disappointment, but you get back on your horse

and you go out there and find some more players.”

He still has time to improve one of the NHL’s stingiest defensive teams but one that has struggled on offence. The Bruins scored five goals Wednesday night against the Montreal Canadiens, but still lost 6-5 to drop from the second to the fourth spot in the Eastern Conference standings.

The Penguins hold the top spot, lead the league in goals and had won 13 straight games at the time of the trade. That deal followed two others in which they obtained forward Brenden Morrow from Dallas on Sunday and defenceman Doug Murray from San Jose on Monday.

So what does Chiarelli think of the Penguins now?

“Well, they’re a lock, right?” he said with a laugh.

“They’re a good team.”

But so are the Bruins.

Chiarelli called them “a serious contender” but said they must improve to become more competitive for a spot in the Stanley Cup finals two years after they won the NHL championship.

“You still have to be patient because, you know, you trust in your players,” he said. “They’re a good team. We have to be better in a number of areas, but we’re getting points, and we also know that the prize is after the regular season. We’re committed to fixing these things.

IGINLA: Captain He was named Calgary’s captain prior to the 200304 season when the Flames reached the Stanley Cup final and lost in seven games to Tampa Bay. That was the longest post-season Iginla experienced in Calgary. The Flames lost in the first round five times during his career.

The Flames have not made the playoffs since the 2008-09 season and will have a difficult time ending that drought without the face of their franchise. Calgary (13-15-4) is currently 14th in the Western Conference.

When general manager Jay Feaster approached Iginla about a month ago about a possible trade to benefit the struggling Flames, the Edmonton native obliged by waiving the no-trade clause in his contract.

Iginla provided the GM with a select list of teams he would consent to join. Iginla had more time than most traded players get to contemplate his departure, which accounts for his ability to control his emotions Thursday.

“It kind of gave me a chance to prepare because this has been home,” he said. “It’s a very difficult day and feeling right now because this has been my home and become home. I’ve grown up here.

“I understand it’s a new journey and I appreciate the fans that do wish me well, to go and try to win, Pittsburgh is a great opportunity.”

From the three offers under consideration, Iginla and Feaster chose Pittsburgh, a star-studded team featuring superstars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. Iginla assisted on Crosby’s overtime winner that gave Canada an Olympic gold medal in men’s hockey at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

“I talked to Jay and wanted it to be a mutual thing that they were happy with the deal they got,” Iginla said. “If I was going to leave here, I wanted the best opportunity to try to win.

“I guess I had some choice in Pittsburgh. Getting the opportunity as a player to go and play on a team with the two best players in the world and team on the roll that they’re on and the success they’ve had, as a player I wanted that opportunity.

“I do really want to win a Stanley Cup. I would have obviously loved it to be in Calgary.”

Iginla is in the final year of a five-year, $35-million contract extension he signed in 2007. He’s scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent on his 36th birthday July 1.

When negotiations heated up Wednesday, the Flames chose to protect their trade asset by scratching him from their game against Colorado at night.

So in Iginla’s last game as a Flame at the Saddledome, he scored the winner in Sunday’s 3-2 victory over St. Louis.

“To think I played my last game in Calgary at home . . . I look back and wish I would have known it was the last one,” he said. “I’ll remember that last goal and the crowd’s reaction was awesome.”

OILERS: Video review Columbus looked to have tied the game with twoand-a-half minutes to play in the second period as Khabibulin bobbled a high shot and Calvert slid into the net feet first and knocked the puck in while being hauled down by Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.

However, upon video review, it was determined that Calvert directed the puck in with his skate on the play.

The Blue Jackets quickly recovered, though, scoring just a minute later as Anisimov unleashed a deadly high wrist shot from in tight that Khabibulin could only wave at.

Edmonton rallied back to tie the game 3-3 just 31 seconds later as Ryan Jones dished the puck to Yakupov on a two-on-one and he elected to drop it to Horcoff coming in as the trailer. Horcoff dumped it into a wide-open net.

There was yet another early goal just 27 seconds into the third as Hemsky coughed up the puck in the Edmonton zone and Atkinson was able to score his second of the game on a shot that deflected of Oiler defenceman Ladislav Smid’s stick.

Dubnyk came in to take Khabibulin’s place in the Edmonton net.

The Oilers once again bounced back to tie the game 4-4 two-and-a half minutes later as Bobrovsky got a piece of a Potter point shot but it still somehow got through him.

Following Hemsky’s dramatic game-winning goal, Gagner added an empty netter to put the game away.

The Blue Jackets are right back at it on Friday night in Calgary. Edmonton next plays host to the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.

Notes: It was the third and final meeting between the two teams with Edmonton taking the first match 3-1 and Columbus winning the second game 4-3 in a shootouta Coming into the contest, the Oilers had won four straight against the Blue Jackets at home and were 17-4-1 in Rexall Place. ... The Oilers kept the young trio of Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Eberle together after they combined for eight points in Edmonton’s 3-0 win over St. Louis on Tuesday. Oilers forward Eric Belanger was placed on injured reserve on Tuesday with a groin injury. Edmonton’s Sam Gagner recorded his 250th NHL point.

COX: Greater impact Vancouver has pretended all season there’s a strong market for veteran goalies, but it’s clear there isn’t. That means Kiprusoff, if dealt, may go for much, much less than Iginla despite the fact the Finnish netminder could have a much greater impact on the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs.

Pittsburgh, meanwhile, has added Iginla, Morrow and defenceman Douglas Murray in recent days, sacrificing only top blueline prospect Joe Morrow as an asset of any significance.

The road to the Stanley Cup final in the Eastern Conference quite obviously goes through Pittsburgh.

Fans in Calgary, meanwhile, can only sit back and cheer for one of their fan favourites to emerge with a championship ring.

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Points uses mom’s putter to success

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

D.A. Points blasts out of the sand from the fairway bunker on No. 18 during the first round of the Houston Open golf tournament, Thursday, in Humble, Texas.

Points shot an 8-under-par 64 to take the first round lead.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HUMBLE, Texas — The march to the Masters for Rory McIlroy looks more like a crawl.

McIlroy only had four birdie putts on the front nine, none closer than 20 feet. He took two chips to reach the second green. He found the water on the third-easiest hole at Redstone Golf Club and made double bogey. What he salvaged Thursday in the Houston Open was a 73, along with some optimism.

“I think I’m still a little bit tentative on the golf course and not committing

to my shots fully,” McIlroy said. “But I think that just takes time and, hopefully, another three rounds this week and some good scores will give me confidence going into the Masters.”

D.A. Points, using an old putter he once took from his mother, opened with five straight birdies on his way to an 8-under 64, giving him a one-shot lead over Cameron Tringale and John Rollins. Also coming to life was Angel Cabrera, the Argentine with two majors and a house at Redstone. He had a 66.

McIlroy, playing in the afternoon when the wind kicked up, was happy just to stay in range. Right when it

LOCAL

BRIEFS Midget Rebels drop game four, deciding game goes Saturday EDMONTON — The Alberta Midget Hockey League championship series is going down to the wire.

Brock Rezansoff scored with three minutes remaining in the third period Thursday to give the Edmonton Southside Athletics a 1-0 win over the Red Deer Optimist Rebels Chiefs, forcing a fifth and deciding game in the best-of-five series Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Arena.

Jordan Papirny stopped all 21 shots he faced in the Southside net, while Matt Zentner made 28 saves in a losing cause.

The AMHL champion will travel to Vancouver to face the North West Giants in the Pacific Region final, with the winner advancing to the Telus Cup tournament April 22-28 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Vancouver North West captured the B.C. Major Midget League championship two games to one over the Okanagan Rockets.

Spartan Race coming to Red Deer The Reebok Spartan Race, the world’s leading obstacle racing event, is coming to Red Deer.

“The unique obstacle course will demand every ounce of strength, ingenuity and animal instinct you thought you lost three generations ago,” said Spartan Race founder Joe Desena in a news release.

He added that the course details are kept secret until competitors experience them first hand on race day.

Three races will be held in Alberta and 60 races world wide in 2013.

The eight-mile race will be held Sept. 7 and will combine running on trails with a series of obstacles, including jumping over fire, climbing eight-foot walls and crawling through mud. Heats of up to 250 competitors will start each 30 minutes, beginning at 8 a.m.

Spartan Races are designed for everyone, young and old, male and female and from beginners to marathon runners.

Storm and Hoosier Daddy advance to A final in women’s basketball The Collins Barrow Storm and Hoosier Daddy advanced to the A final of the Red Deer Women’s Basketball League.

The Storm downed the Big Ballers 59-46 and Hoosier Daddy defeated the Spartans 63-49 in the semifinals.

Erika Pottage led the Storm with 15 points with Lauren Rieger their player of the game. Aimee Sandham had 17 points and was the Ballers player of the game.

Hoosier Daddy was led by Lindsay Morrison, who pumped in 18 points while Jodi Marshall took player of the game.

Marisa Prins had 15 points in a losing cause with Megan Stober named the Spartans top player.

Meanwhile on the B side, the Bank and the Funk advanced to the final.

The Bank downed the Rampage 64-31 and the Funk stopped the Shooting Stars 48-36.

Amanda Nhan led the Bank with 21 points while Roxy Parchowski had 16 for the Rampage. Both players were named players of the game.

Shalene Rascher led the Funk with 13 points while Mandy Klopstra was their player of the game.

Candance Stamp had 10 points for the Stars with Chandra Visser the player of the game.

Meanwhile, Triple Threat beat Vertically Challenged to take fifth place on the A side.

Both the A and B finals and third place games are set for April 8.

Well’s downs Tagish in semifinals Well’s Furniture downed Taggish Lakers 71-50 in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association Division 2 semifinal play.

Jon McComish had 17 points and David McComish 14 for Wells while Thomas Bennett had 16 and Keiran Swayn nine for the Lakers.

looked as if the 23-year-old from Northern Ireland was headed for a big number, he rattled off three quick birdies and got it back to even par before he failed to convert a superb flop shot into par.

“I fought back well. I didn’t get too down on myself,” McIlroy said. “It would have been great to finish even par, but I made a couple of shots back, so that’s not too bad.”

Even so, the Houston Open is his final stop before the Masters, and it’s not as if McIlroy has loads of rounds behind him. Thursday was only the ninth round he has completed in five tournaments this year. And he no longer has the No. 1 ranking, taken back

by Tiger Woods last week at Bay Hill.

The first step is making the cut at Redstone on Friday, and seeing more good shots.

“My swing is not as free flowing because I’m working on a few things and getting into a couple of bad habits,” McIlroy said. “But it’s definitely feeling more natural than it has been the last few weeks.”

Points first borrowed the Ping Anser from his mother during his junior years in Illinois, and like most golfers, he abandoned it once he stopped making putts. But he recently asked Ping to clean it up for him and add some weight. He also got a putting lesson — no, not from Steve Stricker — and he was on his way.

“Maybe I’m an idiot for not having used this putter the whole time,” Points said. “It worked well today.”

Points, whose only win came with actor Bill Murray at his side at the Pebble Beach National Pro-am, made all five of his opening birdies from inside 15 feet. He dropped only one shot along the way.

A mild wind gained strength in the afternoon, and Rollins still managed a 65.

“I knew the conditions were going to be tough out there, knew the greens were fast, so that makes it tough as well,” Rollins said. “I just kept the ball in front of me and gave myself a lot of opportunities and got a solid round out of it.”

Phil Mickelson was at 4 under and right in the mix until he hit his tee shot into the water on the sixth hole and made double bogey, nearly hooked a 3-wood into the hazard on the next hole and three-putted for bogey, and then made bogey on the par-3 ninth from a bunker to wind up at 72.

“It was a disappointing finish,” Mickelson said. “I feel really good with the putter, and I believe that as the tournament goes on, I’ll get better.”

Mickelson played with defending champion Hunter Mahan, who didn’t hit the ball his best and it finally caught up with him at the end for a 74. Also in the group was Geoff Ogilvy, who needs to finish in the top 50 in the world to get into the Masters. Ogilvy is currently at No. 50, though he will lose spots through the formula this week. He had three penalty shots in his round of 73.

Lee Westwood hit two shots in the water and still salvaged a bogey and was in the large group at 68 that included Riviera winner John Merrick and Jimmy Walker.

Charles Howell III had a 69 in his bid to get into his hometown major at Augusta National. Howell would need to finish at least in fourth place alone to have any chance of moving into the top 50.

Points was just trying to see some reasonable results, having made only two cuts all year. He did manage to join a group of stars in the Tavistock Cup earlier this week and, upon leaving home Tuesday, he grabbed a handful of putters. One of them once belonged to his mother.

Regnier and Schmidt presented leadership awards

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A pair of veteran RDC athletes scored big this week.

The $3,000 BMO Student Athlete Leadership Awards were awarded to fifth-year Queens soccer player Amber Regnier, and Kings volleyball player Trent Schmidt at the 10th Annual RDC Kings & Queens Scholarship Breakfast at the Westerner on Thursday.

The awards are handed out annually at the fundraising breakfast.

Schmidt, a third-year management certification student, said not only is it incredible to be recognized for an award for his and his teammate’s accomplishments but it helps him financially.

Regnier said as a student athlete she appreciates the support from the community.

“There’s no way we would probably be able to play without the athletic scholarships,” said Regnier, 24, who graduates this year from the education program.

“It’s a big commitment. They do put a lot of emphasis on academics. We’re not just here to play soccer or volleyball. School does come first. It is a big commitment but it is totally worth it to be able to represent your school and Red Deer. It’s amazing.”

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Volleyball player Trent Schmidt, a third-year management certification student and Notre Dame grad, and soccer player Amber Schmidt, a fifthyear bachelor of education major from Rimbey, each received a $3,000 BMO Student Leadership Awards at Thursday’s Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast.

Syracuse takes down top-seeded Indiana

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — It took winning a national title for Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim to get over a late-shot loss to Indiana the last time the schools played in the NCAA tournament.

This meeting, 26 years later, was never close enough to come down to the final seconds, thanks mostly to Boeheim’s trademark 2-3 zone defence. Now he has the Orange one victory from getting back to the Final Four.

Limiting Indiana to its lowest output of the season while forcing 19 turnovers and blocking 10 shots, fourth-seeded Syracuse used Michael Carter-Williams’ 24 points to upset the No. 1 seed Hoosiers 61-50 Thursday night and reach the East Regional final.

“Our perimeter defence was tremendous,” Boeheim said. “This is one of our best defensive teams ever. They play it well.”

After getting past preseason No. 1 Indiana, Syracuse (29-9) will face No. 3 seed Marquette on Saturday night in an all-Big East matchup for a berth in the Final Four. Boeheim and the Orange haven’t been to the national semifinals since Carmelo Anthony led them to the 2003 title.

Marquette beat No. 2 seed Miami 71-61 in Thursday’s first game in Washington.

Syracuse, which is leaving for the Atlantic Coast Conference this summer, lost at Marquette 74-71 during the Big East regular season on Feb. 25.

Less than a half-minute into Thursday’s game, as Indiana star Victor Oladipo headed to the free-throw line, the arena’s overhead scoreboard showed a replay of “The Shot,” as it’s come to be known — Keith Smart’s baseline jumper in the final seconds that lifted Bob Knight’s Hoosiers past Boeheim’s Orange in the 1987 national title game.

MARCH MADNESS Boeheim said he wasn’t able to put that behind him until 16 years later, when he got his title.

Boeheim entered Thursday with 50 wins in the tournament, fourthmost in history, and more than 900 victories overall, with so much of that success built on his unusual zone defence, 40 minutes of a puzzle for opponents to try and solve.

Indiana (29-7), like most teams outside the Big East, isn’t used to seeing that sort of thing, and it showed right from the outset.

Didn’t matter that Indiana ranked third in the country this season in scoring, putting up 79.5 points per game — and never fewer than 56 — while making 48.6 per cent of its shots.

The Orange held Indiana to 33 per cent shooting and frustrated the Hoosiers — from the players down to the coach, Tom Crean.

“Let’s face facts. We haven’t seen a zone like that,” Crean said.

“They’re very good. They’re where they’re at for a reason.”

Cody Zeller was held to 10 points on 3-of-11 shooting. Victor Oladipo scored 16 for Indiana, none easily.

“Credit them,” Oladipo said.

“They did a great job with their zone. They’re well-coached.”

At one point early on, Crean scanned a sheet of notes, then shoved it into his navy blue suit jacket’s inside pocket.

No help there.

Then, more than 5 ½ minutes in and his team still without a field goal, Crean called a timeout while trailing 11-3. By then, the Hoosiers had four turnovers and were in the process of missing their first five shots.

Always moving, Crean called over freshman forward Jeremy Hollowell to give him a talking-to and a slap on the backside. Later, Crean got down on a knee and

used a white towel to help dry a wet spot on the floor in front of his team’s sideline. Crean barked “Are you sure?!” at an official after one non-call when Indiana let yet another possession go astray.

Boeheim, in contrast, looked on calmly, taking it all in with his arms crossed over his midsection or with his chin resting on his right fist. He seemed something like an interested observer rather than active participant in the proceedings.

Sure must have liked what he saw, though.

The Hoosiers needed more than 10 minutes of action to record their second field goal, and they didn’t crack double figures in points until Zeller’s tip-in with 14 minutes elapsed made it 22-11.

Even with no one guarding them, the Hoosiers couldn’t put the ball in the basket, failing to make their free throws consistently. They started 3 for 8, and Zeller and Oladipo each had an 0-for-2 trip to the line in the first half.

It all helped Syracuse build an 18-point edge, at 29-11 with about 3 ½ minutes left in the first half, on C.J. Fair’s inside basket. Fair finished with 11 points, while Brandon Triche — whose uncle, Howard, was on the 1987 team that lost to Indiana — scored 14.

Christian Watford finally made Indiana’s first 3 — on the team’s seventh attempt from beyond the arc — with 1 ½ minutes to go in the half, cutting the deficit to 11 and earning a palm slap from Oladipo. But Syracuse took a 34-22 lead into the locker room.

Oladipo’s 3 made it a six-point game with 14 minutes left and Syracuse ahead 38-32. That’s when Carter-Williams really took over, scoring 10 during a 14-5 run that put the Orange up 52-37 with 9 minutes to go.

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WHL Playoffs All Times Local FIRST ROUND Conference Quarter-finals (Best-of-7)

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA d-Chicago 32 25 4 3 53 108 71 d-Anaheim 33 22 7 4 48 104 87 d-Vancouver 34 19 9 6 44 92 86 Minnesota 32 20 10 2 42 90 78 Los Angeles 33 19 12 2 40 97 82 Detroit 33 17 11 5 39 90 83 San Jose 32 15 11 6 36 80 82 St. Louis 33 17 14 2 36 94 93 Nashville 34 14 14 6 34 87 95 Dallas 32 15 14 3 33 87 97 Edmonton 33 13 13 7 33 83 95 Phoenix 34 14 15 5 33 92 98 Columbus 34 13 14 7 33 79 92 Calgary 32 13 15 4 30 89 108 Colorado 33 11 18 4 26 83 108

EASTERN CONFERENCE Red Deer (4) vs. Prince Albert (5) (Red Deer wins series 4-0) Wednesday’s result Red Deer 3 Prince Albert 2 Tuesday’s result Red Deer 3 Prince Albert 1 Saturday’s result Red Deer 3 Prince Albert 2 Edmonton (1) vs. Kootenay (8) (Edmonton leads series 3-1) Wednesday’s result Edmonton 4 Kootenay 0 Tuesday’s result Edmonton 7 Kootenay 1 Sunday’s result Kootenay 2 Edmonton 1 (OT) Friday’s game Kootenay at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Mar. 31 x-Edmonton at Kootenay, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 2 x-Kootenay at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader Thursday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 4, Philadelphia 3, SO Florida 5, Buffalo 4, SO Toronto 6, Carolina 3 Pittsburgh 4, Winnipeg 0 Ottawa 3, N.Y. Rangers 0 Phoenix 7, Nashville 4 Los Angeles 4, St. Louis 2 Edmonton 6, Columbus 4 Colorado 1 at Vancouver 4 Detroit at San Jose, Late

Saskatoon (2) vs. Medicine Hat (7) (Medicine Hat wins series 4-0) Wednesday’s result Medicine Hat 3 Saskatoon 1 Tuesday’s result Medicine Hat 5 Saskatoon 2 Friday’s result Medicine Hat 3 Saskatoon 0

Friday’s Games New Jersey at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Columbus at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Calgary (3) vs. Swift Current (6) (Calgary wins series 4-1) Thursday’s game Swift Current 1 at Calgary 3 Tuesday’s result Calgary 1 Swift Current 0 (OT) Monday’s result Swift Current 3 Calgary 2 (OT) WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Everett (8) (Portland leads series 2-1) Wednesday’s result Portland 7 Everett 3 Saturday’s result Portland 4 Everett 1 Friday’s game Portland at Everett, 7:35 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 30 Everett at Portland, 7 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum) Monday, Apr. 1 x-Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 3 x-Everett at Portland, 7 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum) Kelowna (2) vs. Seattle (7) (Seattle leads series 3-1) Wednesday’s result Kelowna 4 Seattle 0 Tuesday’s result Seattle 3 Kelowna 2 (OT) Saturday’s result Seattle 2 Kelowna 1 (OT) Saturday, Mar. 30 x-Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 2 x-Kelowna at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 3 x-Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Kamloops (3) vs. Victoria (6) (Kamloops leads series 2-1) Thursday’s game Kamloops at Victoria, Late Tuesday’s result Victoria 2 Kamloops 1 Saturday’s result Kamloops 6 Victoria 4 Saturday, Mar. 30 x-Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 1 x-Kamloops at Victoria, 7:05 p.m. (Bear Mountain Arena) Wednesday, Apr. 3 x-Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Spokane (4) vs. Tri-City (5) (Spokane leads series 2-1) Thursday’s game Spokane at Tri-City, Late Tuesday’s result Tri-City 5 Spokane 4 (OT) Saturday’s result Spokane 6 Tri-City 4 Saturday, Mar. 30 x-Spokane at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 2 x-Tri-City at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 3 x-Tri-City at Spokane, 7:05 p.m. x — If necessary.

Thursday’s summary Hitmen 3 Broncos 1 First Period 1. Swift Current, Gordon 2 (Nedomlel, Black) 11:24 (pp) 2. Calgary, Virtanen 1 (Rask, Rissling) 15:04 Penalties — Cave SC (tripping) 3:00, Merkley SC (tripping) 5:33, Virtanen Cal (high-sticking) 10:57, Rissling Cal (hooking) 17:43.

Second Period 3. Calgary, Rask 3 (Chase, Kosterman) 12:07 4. Calgary, Peterson 1 (Sylvester) 17:48 Penalties — Brooks Cal (charging) 2:04, Virtanen Cal (boarding) 4:13, Peterson Cal (delay of game) 12:41, Bews SC (hooking) 12:52.

Third Period No scoring.

Penalties — Kosterman Cal (delay of game) 7:17, Black SC (butt-ending), Humphries Cal (cross checking) 17:24.

Shots on goal Swift Current 11 11 13 — 35 Calgary 8 10 8 — 26 Goal - Swift Current: Laurikainen (L, 1-1-2); Calgary: Driedger (W,3-0-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Swift Current: 1-6; Calgary: 0-3.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF d-Pittsburgh 35 27 8 0 54 121 d-Montreal 33 21 7 5 47 104 d-Winnipeg 35 18 15 2 38 88 Boston 32 21 7 4 46 94 Ottawa 34 19 9 6 44 89 Toronto 35 19 12 4 42 108 New Jersey 33 15 11 7 37 82 N.Y. Rangers33 16 14 3 35 78 N.Y. Islanders34 16 15 3 35 100 Carolina 32 15 15 2 32 89 Washington 33 15 17 1 31 94 Buffalo 34 13 16 5 31 91 Tampa Bay 33 14 18 1 29 105 Philadelphia 33 13 17 3 29 87 Florida 35 10 19 6 26 85

GA 84 83 103 72 72 100 89 81 110 96 93 107 99 103 123

Saturday’s Games Boston at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Nashville at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Winnipeg, 1 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Washington at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s summaries Oilers 6 Blue Jackets 4 First Period 1. Columbus, Atkinson 4 (Calvert) 0:10 2. Columbus, Calvert 5 (Atkinson, Anisimov) 12:04 3. Edmonton, Paajarvi 7 (Gagner, Hemsky) 15:09 Penalties — Anisimov Clb (tripping) 17:03.

Second Period 4. Edmonton, Eberle 10 (Hall, Nugent-Hopkins) 0:39 5. Columbus, Anisimov 9 (Nikitin) 18:34 6. Edmonton, Horcoff 6 (Yakupov, Jones) 19:05 Penalties — Collins Clb (high-sticking) 7:53, Boll Clb (fighting), Brown Edm (fighting) 10:10, Petrell Edm (interference) 14:30.

Third Period 7. Columbus, Atkinson 5 (Anisimov) 0:27 8. Edmonton, Potter 1 (Paajarvi, Gagner) 3:06 9. Edmonton, Hemsky 9 (Gagner) 16:52 10. Edmonton, Gagner 13 (unassisted) 19:18 (en) Penalties — Paajarvi Edm (high-sticking) 8:36.

Shots on goal Columbus 12 8 10 — 30 Edmonton 8 8 9 — 25 Goal - Columbus: Bobrovsky (L, 11-8-6) (25-20); Edmonton: Khabibulin (21-17), Dubnyk (W, 9-10-6) (0:27 third) (9-9).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Columbus: 0-2; Edmonton: 0-2.

Canucks 4 Avalanche 1 First Period Vancouver, Burrows 9 (H.Sedin, D.Sedin) 4:27 Penalties — Burrows Vcr (holding) 8:53.

Second Period No scoring.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 2. Colorado, Duchene 13 (Parenteau, Hejda) 4:02 3. Vancouver, D. Sedin 10 (Burrows, Hamhuis) 11:32 4. Vancouver, H. Sedin 9 (Schneider) 18:36 (en) 5. Vancouver, Higgins 8 (unassisted) 19:20 (en) Penalties — Pinizzotto Vcr (tripping) 8:09.

Shots on goal Colorado 11 10 12 — 33 Vancouver 8 7 5 — 20 Goal - Colorado: Varlamov (L, 9-16-3); Vancouver: Schneider (W, 12-5-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Colorado: 0-2; Vancouver: 0-0.

Jets 0 at Penguins 4 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 20 (Crosby, Martin) 15:03 2. Pittsburgh, Malkin 6 (Neal, Niskanen) 18:32 Penalties — None Second Period 3. Pittsburgh, Pa.Dupuis 16 (Kunitz, Crosby) 4:12 4. Pittsburgh, Pa.Dupuis 17 (Vokoun) 18:37 (sh) Penalties — Adams Pgh (tripping) 10:12, Martin Pgh (high-sticking) 17:16.

Third Period No Scoring Penalties — Niskanen Pgh (interference) 1:17, Orpik Pgh (delay of game) 1:21.

Shots on goal Winnipeg 8 6 6 — 20 Pittsburgh 12 15 16 — 43 Goal — Winnipeg: Montoya (L,3-1-0); Pittsburgh: Vokoun (W,9-3-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-4; Pittsburgh: 0-0.

Maple Leafs 6 Hurricanes 3 First Period 1. Toronto Bozak 10 (Kessel,van Riemsdyk) 3:58 Penalties — Westgarth Car, McLaren Tor (fighting) 3:59.

Second Period 2. Toronto Franson 3 (Kessel, Phaneuf) 9:03 (pp) 3. Carolina E. Staal 15 (Semin) 11:29 (sh) 4. Carolina Semin 9 (Corvo) 15:52 (pp) Penalties — Orr Tor (hooking) 4:17, Kostka Tor (high-sticking) 6:08, Nash Car (tripping) 7:25, Ruutu Car (interference) 11:09, Toronto bench (too many men - served by Kessel) 14:39, Harrison Car (boarding) 19:32.

Third Period 5. Carolina J. Staal 8 (Ruutu, Corvo) 6:55 6. Toronto Phaneuf 7 (Lupul, Bozak) 14:35 7. Toronto Lupul 7 (unassisted) 16:50 8. Toronto McClement 6 (Kulemin, Phaneuf) 19:15 (en) 9. Toronto Kulemin 6 (Bozak, Gunnarsson) 19:57 (en) Penalties — E. Staal Car (closing hand on puck) 12:30, Semin Car (misconduct) 19:15.

Shots on goal Carolina 7 10 5 — 22 Toronto 13 8 15 — 36 Goal - Carolina: Peters (L, 2-4-0); Toronto: Reimer (W, 12-4-4).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Carolina: 1-3; Toronto: 1-4.

Islanders 4 at Flyers 3 (SO)

First Period 1. Philadelphia, Hartnell 3 (Giroux, Simmonds) 4:14 (pp) 2. Philadelphia, Knuble 3 (Giroux) 17:25 Penalties — Visnovsky NYI (interference) 3:47, McDonald NYI (fighting, major), Hartnell Pha (fighting, major) 6:21, Hartnell Pha (tripping) 17:46.

Second Period 3. N.Y. Islanders, Tavares 21 (Moulson, Streit) 19:00 Penalties — Foster Pha (cross-checking) 9:43, B.Schenn Pha (tripping) 20:00.

Third Period 4. N.Y. Islanders, McDonald 5 (Aucoin, Grabner) 10:04 5. N.Y. Islanders, McDonald 6 (Martin, Cizikas) 15:37 6. Philadelphia, Hartnell 4 (Simmonds, Read) 19:30 (pp) Penalties — Gervais Pha (delay of game) 10:58, Nielsen NYI (delay of game) 18:28, L.Schenn Pha (interference) 19:59.

Overtime No Scoring Penalty — Tavares NYI (holding) 5:00.

Shootout N.Y. Islanders wins 2-1 N.Y. Islanders (2) — Nielsen, miss; Boyes, goal; Tavares, miss; Bailey, goal.

Philadelphia (1) — Read, miss; Giroux, goal; B.Schenn, miss; Simmonds, miss.

Shots on goal N.Y. Islanders 14 10 9 3 — 36 Philadelphia 9 14 11 2 — 36 Goal — N.Y. Islanders: Nabokov (W,16-10-3); Philadelphia: Bryzgalov (L,13-14-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — N.Y. Islanders: 0-5; Philadelphia: 2-2.

Senators 3 N.Y. Rangers 0 First Period No scoring.

Penalties — Gryba Ott (slashing) 6:20, Hamrlik NYR (hooking) 17:10.

Second Period 1. Ottawa, Benoit 2 (Zibanejad, Neil) 19:11 (pp) Penalties — Wiercioch Ott (interference) 12:36, Stralman NYR (tripping) 17:48.

Third Period 2. Ottawa, Latendresse 5 (Zibanejad, Silfverberg) 12:16 3. Ottawa, Greening 6 (Neil, Methot) 17:58 (en) Penalties — Silfverberg Ott (hooking) 6:48, Condra Ott (high-sticking) 13:48 Shots on goal New York 4 10 10 — 24 Ottawa 9 12 8 — 29 Goal - N.Y. Rangers: Lundqvist (L, 14-13-2); Ottawa: Bishop (W, 8-4-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Tampa Bay: 0-4: Ottawa: 1-2.

Sabres 4 at Panthers 5 (SO) First Period 1. Florida, Matthias 11 (Strachan, Huberdeau) 3:28 Penalties — Hodgson Buf (tripping) 8:35, Leino Buf (unsportsmanlike conduct) 19:20.

Second Period 2. Florida, Fleischmann 8 (Kopecky, Campbell) 0:43 (pp) 3. Buffalo, Gerbe 4 (Ennis, Stafford) 1:36 4. Buffalo, Sekera 2 (Ott) 14:56 5. Buffalo, Stafford 5 (Ehrhoff, Regehr) 19:04 Penalties — Kaleta Buf (charging), Scott Buf (roughing), Gudbranson Fla (roughing) 4:46, Matthias Fla (interference) 6:42, Leopold Buf (hooking) 11:34.

Third Period 6. Florida, Matthias 12 (Mueller) 5:23 7. Buffalo, Foligno 5 (Leopold, Myers) 11:33 (pp) 8. Florida, Huberdeau 13 (Mueller, Campbell) 13:51 (pp) Penalties — Matthias Fla (hooking) 2:59, Kulikov Fla (delay of game) 9:52, Ott Buf (tripping) 12:37, Shore Fla (high-sticking) 16:33.

Overtime No Scoring Penalties — None Shootout Florida wins 2-1 Buffalo (1) — Pominville, goal; Ennis, miss; Stafford, miss; Ott, miss.

Florida (2) — Mueller, miss; Huberdeau, goal; Matthias, miss; Santorelli, goal.

Shots on goal Buffalo 7 14 16 3 — 40 Florida 12 13 13 2 — 40 Goal — Buffalo: Miller (L,11-14-5); Florida: Markstrom (W,4-7-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Buffalo: 1-4; Florida: 2-5.

Kings 4 at Blues 2 First Period No Scoring Penalties — Lewis LA (roughing) 8:15, Jackman StL (slashing) 12:06, Backes StL (holding) 19:25.

Second Period 1. Los Angeles, Brown 13 (Kopitar, Scuderi) 4:42 2. St. Louis, Tarasenko 7 (Perron, Sobotka) 10:55 (pp) 3. Los Angeles, Lewis 5 (Stoll, King) 12:49 Penalties — Perron StL (tripping) 6:16, Brown LA (tripping) 9:57.

Third Period 4. St. Louis, Tarasenko 8 (Pietrangelo, Shattenkirk) 6:44 5. Los Angeles, Richards 8 (Carter, Toffoli) 17:17 6. Los Angeles, Williams 5 (Brown, Voynov) 18:44 (en) Penalties — Clifford LA (slashing) 12:21, Backes StL (roughing) 18:44.

Shots on goal Los Angeles 13 14 13 — 40 St. Louis 7 8 7 — 22 Goal — Los Angeles: Quick (W,12-10-2); St. Louis: Halak (L,6-5-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Los Angeles: 0-4; St. Louis: 1-3.

Coyotes 7 at Predators 4 First Period 1. Phoenix, Hanzal 9, 1:46 2. Phoenix, Vrbata 5 (Klesla, Hanzal) 3:42 3. Phoenix, Moss 4 (Klinkhammer, Klesla) 3:50 4. Phoenix, Lombardi 3 (Klesla, Boedker) 7:08 5. Phoenix, Yandle 6 (Vrbata, Doan) 8:26 (pp) 6. Nashville, Legwand 8 (Blum, Bourque) 9:03 7. Nashville, Clune 4 (Josi, Hornqvist) 9:33 8. Phoenix, Vrbata 6 (Klesla, Hanzal) 15:57 9. Nashville, Bourque 11 (Legwand, Beck) 16:29 Penalty — Clune Nash (roughing) 7:53.

Second Period 10. Phoenix, Vermette 8 (Bissonnette, Schlemko) 2:44 Penalties — Ekman-Larsson Pho (interference) 3:17, Bissonnette Pho (slashing) 13:12, Schlemko Pho (tripping) 16:24.

Third Period 11. Nashville, Weber 7 (Fisher, Erat) 10:02 Penalties — Fisher Nash (high-sticking) 3:15, Klesla Pho (hooking) 6:00, Klesla Pho (roughing), Yip Nash (roughing) 9:08.

Shots on goal Phoenix 13 9 7 — 29 Nashville 17 11 10 — 38 Goal (shots-saves) — Phoenix: LaBarbera (W,2-51); Nashville: Rinne (20-16), Mason (L,1-4-1)(3:50 first)(9-6),.

Power plays (goals-chances) — Phoenix: 1-2; Nashville: 0-4.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Placed RHP Chris Tillman on the 15-day DL. Agreed to terms with 2B Tucker Nathans on a minor league contract.

Reassigned OF Trayvon Robinson to their minor league camp.

BOSTON RED SOX—Placed SS Stephen Drew on the 7-day DL, retroactive to March 27. Optioned RHP Daniel Bard to Portland (EL) and 1B Mauro Gomez and INF Brock Holt to Pawtucket (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS—Optioned RHP Bruce Rondon and RHP Luis Marte to Toledo (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS—Assigned RHP Edgar Gonzalez to Oklahoma City (PCL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Agreed to terms with RHP Cesar Arreaza and 3B Freddy Sandoval on minor league contracts. Optioned RHP Louis Colemans to Omaha (PCL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Assigned RHP Bobby Cassevah outright to Salt Lake (PCL).

NEW YORK YANKEES—Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Bootcheck on a minor league contract.

Released OF Juan Rivera.

TEXAS RANGERS—Assigned LHP Brad Mills outright to Round Rock (PCL).

National League CINCINNATI REDS—Released C Miguel Olivo from his minor league contract.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Agreed to terms with RHP Adam Wainwright on a five-year contract for

2014-18.

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Placed RHP Joe Wieland on the 60-day DL, retroactive to Feb. 26.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Signed general manager Brian Sabean and manager Bruce Bochy to three-year contracts. Agreed to terms with RHP Ramon Ramirez on a minor league contract and assigned him to Fresno (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Agreed to terms with OF Israel Mota on a minor league contract.

Assigned 1B/OF Micah Owings and INF/OF Carlos Rivero to their minor league camp.

American Association WINNIPEG GOLDEYES—Released RHP Andrew E. Walker.

FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS—Signed DT Arthur Jones and DE Albert McClellan.

CHICAGO BEARS—Signed RB Armando Allen, T Jonathan Scott, LB James Anderson and DB Kelvin Hayden.

CLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed QB Jason Campbell and P Jake Schum.

HOUSTON TEXANS—Signed RB Greg Jones.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Traded DE Clifton Geathers to Philadelphia for FB Stanley Havili. Resigned OT Jeff Linkenbach.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS—Signed LB Chad Kilgore. Named Brad Childress spread game analyst.

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Agreed to terms with DL Vaughn Martin.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS—Signed LB Marvin Mitchell.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed WR Michael Jenkins.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—Agreed to terms with LB Victor Butler on a two-year contract.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Signed LB Darryl Tapp.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES—Traded F Jarome Iginla to Pittsburgh for the rights to LW Kenneth Agostino, F Ben Hanowski and a 2013 first-round draft pick.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Activated D James Wisniewski from injured reserve.

MINNESOTA WILD—Recalled G Matt Hackett from Houston (AHL). Assigned F Jake Dowell to Houston.

ST. LOUIS BLUES—Assigned G Brian Elliott to Peoria (AHL) for conditioning.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Re-signed F Casey Wellman to a two-year, two-way contract.

American Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Signed F Wade Megan to an amateur tryout contract.

LACROSSE Major League Lacrosse OHIO MACHINE—Traded M Roy Lang and 2015 first-round draft pick to Hamilton for G Scott Rodgers, D Chad Wiedmaier and a 2014 secondround draft pick.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Miami 56 15 .789 — x-Indiana 46 27 .630 11 x-New York 44 26 .629 11 x-Brooklyn 42 29 .592 14 x-Chicago 39 31 .557 16 x-Atlanta 40 32 .556 16 Boston 37 34 .521 19 Milwaukee 35 36 .493 21 Philadelphia 28 43 .394 28 Toronto 26 45 .366 30 Washington 26 45 .366 30 Detroit 24 48 .333 32 Cleveland 22 48 .314 33 Orlando 18 54 .250 38 Charlotte 17 54 .239 39 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-San Antonio 54 17 .761 — x-Oklahoma City 53 19 .736 1 x-L.A. Clippers 49 23 .681 5 x-Denver 49 24 .671 6 x-Memphis 47 24 .662 7 Golden State 41 32 .562 14 Houston 39 32 .549 15 L.A. Lakers 37 36 .507 18 Utah 36 36 .500 18 Dallas 35 37 .486 19 Portland 33 38 .465 21 Sacramento 26 46 .361 28 Minnesota 25 45 .357 28 New Orleans 25 47 .347 29 Phoenix 23 49 .319 31 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

Adult Tania Makarenko: senior 2 (under 39), gold individual poomsae .

Nicole Burt: masters 1 (under 49), gold individual poomsae .

Ian Brown: senior black belt, executive division, silver sparring.

Youth Sydney Makarendo: cadet (13-and-under), silver individual poomsae, gold team poomsae.

Teegan Conroy: cadet (13-and-under), bronze individual poomsae, gold team poomsae.

Tatum Adair: cadet (13-and-under), gold individual poomsae, gold team poomsae, gold sparring.

Nicolas Contreras: cadet (113-and-under), gold

individual poomsae.

Alysha McCheyne: junior A (14-17), goldindividual poomsae, silver sparring.

Grace Mamo: junior A (14-17), silver individual poomsae.

Natalie Mamo: junior A (14-17), bronze individual poomsae.

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Wednesday’s Games Boston 93, Cleveland 92 Charlotte 114, Orlando 108 Philadelphia 100, Milwaukee 92

Thursday’s Games Milwaukee 113, L.A. Lakers 103 Indiana 103, Dallas 78 Sacramento at Phoenix, Late Friday’s Games Washington at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Charlotte at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Miami at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Denver, 7 p.m.

Utah at Portland, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Chicago at Dallas, noon Orlando at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Utah, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Portland at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Golf PGA-Houston Open Thursday At Redstone Golf Club, Tournament Course Humble, Texas Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,441; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round D.A. Points 34-30 — 64 Cameron Tringale 33-32 — 65 John Rollins 33-32 — 65 Jason Kokrak 33-33 — 66 Angel Cabrera 34-32 — 66 Jeff Overton 33-34 — 67 Brian Davis 33-34 — 67 Steve Wheatcroft 32-35 — 67 Billy Horschel 32-36 — 68 Charley Hoffman 34-34 — 68 Matt Jones 33-35 — 68 Lee Westwood 35-33 — 68 John Merrick 33-35 — 68 Bud Cauley 33-35 — 68 Jimmy Walker 34-34 — 68 Bill Haas 35-33 — 68 Greg Owen 34-34 — 68 David Lingmerth 36-33 — 69 Charles Howell III 36-33 — 69 Brandt Jobe 36-33 — 69 Harris English 35-34 — 69 Tim Herron 35-34 — 69 Jin Park 33-36 — 69 Dustin Johnson 36-33 — 69 Henrik Stenson 34-35 — 69 Ben Crane 34-35 — 69 Hunter Haas 34-35 — 69 Joe Ogilvie 36-34 — 70 Tag Ridings 36-34 — 70 Louis Oosthuizen 35-35 — 70 Aaron Baddeley 36-34 — 70 Brendan Steele 35-35 — 70 Ken Duke 37-33 — 70 Nicholas Thompson 35-35 — 70 Boo Weekley 32-38 — 70 Kevin Chappell 35-35 — 70 Kevin Stadler 36-34 — 70 Keegan Bradley 33-37 — 70 Scott Stallings 33-37 — 70 Scott Brown 35-35 — 70 Robert Streb 35-35 — 70 Kelly Kraft 33-37 — 70 Brendon de Jonge 37-34 — 71 Justin Hicks 35-36 — 71 Chris Kirk 39-32 — 71 Justin Leonard 32-39 — 71 Charlie Beljan 34-37 — 71 Arron Oberholser 37-34 — 71 Stewart Cink 35-36 — 71 Jonas Blixt 35-36 — 71 Scott Langley 36-35 — 71 Shane Lowry 37-34 — 71 Jason Bohn 35-36 — 71 Nick Watney 36-35 — 71 Jerry Kelly 34-37 — 71

Wes Short, Jr. Troy Matteson Graham DeLaet Colt Knost Chris Stroud Bob Estes Randy Lowry Doug LaBelle II John Mallinger David Lynn Phil Mickelson Michael Thompson Russell Henley Bo Van Pelt Scott Verplank Kyle Stanley Ben Curtis John Senden Jonathan Byrd George Coetzee Chez Reavie Daniel Summerhays Patrick Reed D.H. Lee Chad Campbell Pat Perez Trevor Immelman Gary Woodland William McGirt Seung-Yul Noh Jordan Spieth Richard H. Lee Hank Kuehne Brian Harman Geoff Ogilvy Retief Goosen David Mathis Brad Fritsch Steven Bowditch Alistair Presnell Martin Flores Rory McIlroy Steve Stricker Michael Bradley Stuart Appleby Troy Kelly Ricky Barnes Cameron Percy Lee Williams Ross Fisher James Driscoll George McNeill Hunter Mahan Joey Snyder III Ryan Palmer Brian Stuard James Hahn Josh Teater Sang-Moon Bae Carl Pettersson Brandt Snedeker Greg Chalmers

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Baseball Kansas City Baltimore Seattle Detroit Oakland Cleveland Minnesota Boston Chicago Tampa Bay Texas Houston Toronto New York Los Angeles

Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W L 24 7 18 9 21 11 18 14 15 12 16 15 16 15 16 16 13 13 15 16 15 17 14 16 14 17 13 18 9 18

Pct .774 .667 .656 .563 .556 .516 .516 .500 .500 .484 .469 .467 .452 .419 .333

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Atlanta 20 15 .571 San Francisco 15 13 .536 Colorado 16 14 .533 St. Louis 16 14 .533 Arizona 16 15 .516 Philadelphia 16 15 .516 New York 14 14 .500 Chicago 16 18 .471 San Diego 16 18 .471 Washington 14 17 .452 Miami 13 16 .448 Pittsburgh 13 18 .419 Milwaukee 12 17 .414 Cincinnati 11 19 .367 Los Angeles 11 19 .367 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Wednesday’s Games Washington (ss) 11, Atlanta 2 Minnesota 7, Pittsburgh 4 Philadelphia 4, Detroit 1 Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 1 St. Louis 10, Washington (ss) 1 Miami 5, Boston 1 Chicago White Sox 5, Cleveland 4 L.A. Angels 6, Texas 3 Oakland 6, Colorado 5 Milwaukee 9, Kansas City (ss) 1 Cincinnati 7, San Diego 3

Seattle 10, L.A. Dodgers 7 San Francisco 8, Arizona 6 N.Y. Mets 6, Houston 2 N.Y. Yankees 11, Baltimore 8 Kansas City (ss) 9, Chicago Cubs 9, tie, 10 innings Thursday’s Games Atlanta 2, Houston (ss) 0 Houston (ss) 11, Detroit 4 Philadelphia 7, Toronto 2 St. Louis 1, Miami 0 Pittsburgh 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Washington 5, N.Y. Mets 1 Seattle 6, Chicago Cubs 4 San Diego 6, Cleveland 4 Arizona 9, Texas 3 Kansas City 8, Cincinnati 3 Milwaukee 6, Colorado 2 Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 4, tie, 10 innings Boston 6, Minnesota 1 L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, Late Oakland at San Francisco, Late Friday’s Games St. Louis vs. N.Y. Mets, 10:10 a.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m.

Boston vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Washington, 12:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Kansas City, 1:05 p.m.

Toronto at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

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

San Diego vs. Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Oakland at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Mets vs. Baltimore, 10:05 a.m.

Toronto at Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.

Detroit at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

Minnesota vs. Boston, 11:35 a.m.

San Diego vs. Texas, 12:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Houston, 12:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (ss) vs. Cleveland, 1:00 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 1:00 p.m.

Seattle vs. Colorado, 1:05 p.m.

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

Cincinnati (ss) vs. Arizona., 2:10 p.m.

Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Montreal 4 0 0 12 Columbus 2 1 1 7 Houston 2 1 0 6 Philadelphia 2 1 0 6 Sporting K.C. 1 1 2 5 D.C. 1 2 1 4 New England 1 1 1 4 Toronto FC 1 2 0 3 New York 0 2 2 2 Chicago 0 3 1 1

GF GA 6 2 7 4 6 4 4 4 4 3 2 4 1 1 3 4 4 6 1 9

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA 3 1 0 9 7 5 2 1 1 7 8 6

FC Dallas Chivas USA

Los Angeles 2 0 1 7 6 San Jose 2 1 1 7 4 Vancouver 2 1 0 6 4 Real Salt Lake 1 2 1 4 3 Portland 0 1 2 2 5 Colorado 0 3 1 1 2 Seattle 0 2 1 1 1 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

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Saturday, March 30 Los Angeles at Toronto FC, noon Philadelphia at New York, 1:30 p.m.

FC Dallas at New England, 2 p.m.

Portland at Colorado, 4 p.m.

Montreal at Sporting Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Seattle FC at Real Salt Lake, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Chivas USA, 8:30 p.m.

Lacrosse

Martial Arts Red Deer Master Rim’s Taekwondo Alberta Open Results

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GP 12 10 12 10

NLL East Division W L Pct. 8 4 .667 5 5 .500 5 7 .417 4 6 .400

GF 149 105 129 109

GA 134 124 152 103

GB — 2 3 3

GP x-Edmonton 13 x-Calgary 12 Washington 12

West Division W L Pct. 8 5 .615 7 5 .583 7 5 .583

GF 171 172 143

GA 139 162 140

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Minnesota 11 4 7 .364 134 Colorado 12 4 8 .333 138 x — clinched playoff berth.

Week 13 Friday’s games Buffalo at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Toronto at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Washington, 8 p.m.

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B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, March 29, 2013

Great expectations for Blue Jays ROSTER MAKEOVER HAS TORONTO IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS A WORLD SERIES CONTENDER

SEASON PREVIEW whether the knuckleballer would get a personal catcher.

Other Jays were more accommodating or subtle. Sergio Santos gracefully yielded the closer’s role to Janssen while Happ was dignified in maintaining he belonged in a major leagues as a starter.

But the biggest story was Romero, the former Opening Day starter who was expected to be the Jays’ fifth starter in the retooled rotation. It soon became clear that elbow surgery had not fixed his arm issues. While his arm no longer hurt, his knees still ached from tendinitis. His control, speed and confidence were clearly off.

While Romero works on new mechanics in the minors after going 1-1 with a 6.23 ERA in five outings this spring, Happ has been rewarded with a $8.9-million, two-year contract after going 1-1 with a 1.90 ERA in seven Grapefruit League appearances.

Cabrera has quietly fitted in with a .379 spring training batting average gong into play Thursday. His 22 hits included 10 for extra bases.

With the Romero issue resolved for the time being, the Toronto rotation will consist of Dickey, Morrow, Buehrle, Johnson and Happ. Buehrle and Happ are left-handers.

Gibbons sees the glass-half full when it comes to the Romero situation.

“A lot of teams we’ve had in the past, you’re looking for that third starter (not the fifth),” he said.

The bullpen features left-handers Brett Cecil, Aaron Loup and Darren Oliver and right-handers Steve Delabar, Esmil Rogers, Jeremy Jeffress, Santos and Janssen.

At 42, Oliver has yet to slow down.

Loup, named the Jays’ rookie of the year last season, continues to impress.

And if Janssen stumbles, Santos can

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Right from Day 1 of spring training, manager John Gibbons looked to keep his feet on the ground about the 2013 Blue Jays.

“There’s something there, we think,” he said of the revamped Toronto roster. “But of course we haven’t played a game that matters. Nothing’s hit the fan yet.”

“But I think it’s going to be good. I think there’s something special about this group,” he added.

More than a month later, after several storms in a spring training teacup, Gibbons hasn’t changed his mind.

“I sense something special about this group, you don’t always get that,” Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS he said this week. “They’re just a tight Toronto Blue Jays will have some heavy expectations to go with their expanded little group. Sometimes you have a ton payroll this season. of talent but they all go their own way.”

Expectations have been sky high tista and Encarnacion. move back into the closer role. in Toronto since Blue Jays ownership Encarnacion’s spring was interruptThe Jays will open with eight reopened the vault and general manager lievers given that third baseman Brett ed by a jarred right index finger in his Alex Anthopoulos started wheeling Lawrie (rib injury) will begin the sea- final at-bat of the World Baseball Clasand dealing. son on the disabled list. It’s expected sic on March 19. X-rays on the finger A team that went 73-89 to finish either Cecil or Jeffress will give way were negative, and he returned to acfourth last season in the American tion Thursday after letting the swelling once Lawrie returns.

League East is projected to make the The outfield is expected to feature subside. playoffs and possibly the World Series, Upgrades were needed all over after Cabrera, Rasmus and Bautista. bringing back memories of the glory With Lawrie injured, veteran Mark 2012. The Jays ranked 11th out of 14 AL days of 1992 and ’93.

DeRosa and Izturis will share third teams with a .245 batting average, alAll-star shortstop Jose Reyes, rightwith Reyes at shortstop, Bonifacio though they ranked fifth in home runs hander Josh Johnson, left-hander Mark at second and Encarnacion at first. with 198. The injury-ravaged pitching Buehrle and infielder Emilo Bonifacio Arencibia catches, with veteran Henry staff ranked 11th with 4.64 ERA and arrived via a blockbuster trade from gave up a league-worst 204 home runs Blanco as his backup, and Lind at DH. the Miami Marlins.

Speedy outfielder Rajai Davis and 574 walks.

NL Cy Young-winner R.A Dickey Chemistry in the Jay’s clubhouse comes off the bench. came over from the Mets.

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Red Deerians are encouraged to come out on Wednesday to learn about a plan to shift transportation planning in the city.

Presented to council last week, the draft Mobility Playbook is a forward-looking plan to improve transportation options for Red Deerians, with the goal of increasing walking, cycling and public transit usage as the city grows. Presentations will take place both at 5 and 6 p.m. in the Gull Lake Room of Red Deer Lodge (4311 49th Ave.).

Following consultation, city staff will make recommendations and present a final report.

Red Deer public board adds voice to keep Michener open

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Public School District is urging the provincial government to reverse its decision to close Michener Centre.

The province announced earlier this month that it was closing the longtime home to residents with various developmental disabilities.

The school board decided on Wednesday to throw its support behind advocates who want to keep the 90-year-old Red Deer care facility on sprawling grounds open.

Board chair Lawrence Lee said that while the closure would have no direct impact on the district’s schools or its students, the board felt it could re-

‘WE FEEL WE HAVE GONE THROUGH A SIMILAR SCENARIO TO WHAT MICHENER CENTRE IS GOING THROUGH, SO WE VERY MUCH UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE THE CHALLENGE AND COMPLEXITY OF TAKING A POPULATION DOWN TO FREE UP A FACILITY.’ — RED DEER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT CHAIR LAWRENCE LEE

late to people who want to see Michener stay open.

“We feel we have gone through a similar scenario to what Michener Centre is going through, so we very much understand and appreciate the challenge and complexity of taking a population down to free up a facility,” said Lee on Thursday.

“We go through the same struggles and challenges within our school jurisdiction, basically eliminating all the congregated programs we used to have.”

In the last four years, the school district has closed 34 programs for special needs students where they were congregated.

The programs were set up in sites all over the city, including within schools and industrial areas.

Initially, parents and staff had concerns.

“Thankfully, we made the right decision and we had the right staff to basically assess them,” said Lee. “We followed the recommendations given by the experts like our district psychologist.”

The district kept 11 programs for students with complex needs.

The school district is a very strong supporter of having students with diverse learning needs integrated into regular classrooms, he said.

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Whitehead reaches top 20 in Much VJ search

Do you want to be a smarter patient? If so, come out to the Red Deer Lodge on April 15. From 7 to 8:30 p.m., family doctor and president of The Red Deer Primary Care Network Peter Bouch, will talk about how patients can get the most out of their doctor visits. He will also note the top five screening tests one should get to take control of their health.

Admission is $5; food and beverages will be served. To reserve your seat, call 403343-9100 or email hbadmin@rdpcn.com.

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF

VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION Sylvan Lake residents who spend their time and talent making their community a great place to live can be nominated for a Volunteer Impact Award. An awards gala evening will be held on April 26 in the local community centre to honour outstanding individuals, organizations and businesses for their contributions to the town. The nomination deadline is April 15. To put a name forward, or purchase tickets to the gala, contact Brittney Buehler of the Sylvan Lake Volunteer Centre at 403-887-1137, ext.

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Bruce Carr rides Short Stuff, a four-metre-long custom bike be built by hand, down 57th Avenue Wednesday. He was testing the six-speed bike for his son Aaron, 14. “A lot of trial and error went into it and it’s built for style, not speed,” said Carr.

County sharing fieldhouse costs

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe County reaffirmed its commitment to covering a share of the operating and construction costs of Blackfalds’ new fieldhouse.

Council voted on Thursday to pick up a portion of operating costs based on the percentage of county users, estimated at 15 per cent.

Based on preliminary numbers, the county expects to pay $46,000 to $49,000 a year for the first three years.

Councillors expressed concern earlier this month that the costsharing agreement was too open ended and would leave the county facing too much financial risk if Blackfalds’ operating estimates were out of whack.

County commissioner Terry Hager said staff from the two municipalities met to discuss the

BLACKFALDS FIELDHOUSE numbers and he is confident the town’s estimates are as good as can be expected.

“We’re reasonably comfortable with the costs, but we can’t give you a guarantee on that,” said Hager.

Council unanimously voted in favour of the operating cost-share agreement, which expires in 2014.

As well, council voted to provide another $750,000 contribution towards construction costs of the $15-million fieldhouse, now under construction and expected to be finished late this year.

The county earlier approved $750,000, after staff recommended a total contribution of $2.25 million, based on county user numbers.

Council considered providing the full amount last June, but opted to limit the initial contribution until a recreation master plan is

finished.

But Coun. Dana Kreil said on Thursday the plan is taking longer than anticipated and Blackfalds should not have to wait.

“I don’t think we should hold their project hostage because our recreation plan is taking a little longer than anticipated,” said Kreil.

The motion passed 5-1 with Coun. Rod McDermand absent.

Coun. Keith Stephenson voted against the $750,000 contribution because he was concerned with the way the motion was worded. It suggested the last $750,000 — that would take the total contribution up to $2.25 million — was still up for debate.

Stephenson said he believes the county should have made it clear the latest donation was the second of three instalments. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

The secret is out.

Red Deer’s Kyle Whitehead has made it to the top 20 of MuchMusic’s new VJ search.

He learned on Thursday, March 21, that he was part of the reality show that would see him try to outwit and outplay other contestants vying for the music host job.

The 24-year-old graphic designer and marketing specialist gave his employer one day notice that he was going on “this sporadic trip.”

“Friday morning I was out of the office, packing up and getting my belongings together and Monday morning I was in Vancouver,” said Whitehead from Banff.

He also told his family immediately when he got word.

But friends had to wait until Wednesday, when he was given the go-ahead.

Whitehead, who travelled with his punk-rock band Run Romeo Run to Toronto to take part in Canadian Music Week leading up to the prestigious Juno Awards in 2012, is excited about the new opportunity.

“There were 600-some applicants who applied for this thing and now it’s down to 20,” said Whitehead.

“It’s so intense and full of drama. It’s stiff competition.”

Chosen with the help of fans, the top 20 face a series of challenges on the road to prove they have what it takes to become a Much VJ. Kicking off in Vancouver, the tour bus rolls through eight Canadian cities, seeing contestants face the first-ever series of road eliminations.

It goes through Banff, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Toronto.

Filming began on Monday.

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BRIEFS Public trustees reject raise Red Deer Public School trustees will not take a raise.

The school board decided on Wednesday that its existing rates would remain.

Trustee remuneration for honourarium and per diems was set to automatically go up according to the Alberta Average Weekly Earnings Rate. The proposed rate was just above 3.3 per cent.

“Given the current economic climate, we thought we wouldn’t take the increase that we traditionally followed,” said board chairman Lawrence Lee on Thursday.

“We believe in setting an example.”

The remuneration is reviewed every year.

Honourariums, based on 2012 figures, are just over $19,300 a year for the chair, just over $16,400 for the vice-chair and just over $14,700 for trustees.

Trustees also receive a fixed per diem ($194.28 per day) and vouchered expenses while on school district business outside the city, concerning matters for which they have been appointed and/or authorized by the board to attend.

More court time set into shootings New court appearances have been set up for two men arrested in connection with an alleged shootout in a rural subdivision east of Red Deer.

Police were called to a home in Balmoral Heights, directly east of Red Deer, just after midnight on Tuesday, March 19, to investigate reports that a man had been shot.

Moments later, Red Deer City RCMP allege discovering two men suffering gunshot wounds after a collision in the Northwood Estates mobile home park at the north side of the city.

Arrested at the scene were Brad Voykin, 23, of Red Deer County and city resident Joshua Hill, 26.

Voykin is to appear in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday, charged with attempted murder with a firearm, extortion using a firearm, two counts of robbery with a firearm and possession of a prohibited firearm.

Hill is due back in court on April 11 on charges of attempted murder with a firearm, extortion using a firearm, two counts of robbery with a firearm and breaching conditions of a recognizance.

Both men remain in custody pending bail hearings.

The alleged victim was last reported to be in stable condition at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

Water, sewer tenders to go out Lacombe County will tender the second part of a multimillion-dollar water and sewage servicing project to serve industrial areas west of Blackfalds.

The cost of the Aspelund Road Servicing Project

County’s help sought for Eckville area trout pond An Eckville-area landowner went fishing for Lacombe County support on Thursday to save a popular trout pond.

Ernie Beskowiney said the pond on land he now owns just north of Hwy 11, about eight km southeast of Eckville, has long been overseen by the Sylvan Lake Fish and Wildlife Association and regularly stocked with trout by the province.

Anglers can be seen on the pond daily and on summer weekends, the parking lot is full, he said.

“It’s well used.”

However, over the last five or so years the fish and wildlife association’s number of active members has dwindled and they no longer have enough able-bodied people to maintain the trout pond, which is used by anglers year-round.

Litter has been collecting and grass remains uncut around the pond, which has a number of picnic areas on site. Vandalism has also become a problem.

“My concern is liability,” said Beskowiney. “We’ve been living on edge for quite a few years now.

“We’re at the point where we were just going to barricade it off and let it go.”

That is a fate he hopes to avoid, and approached the county to see if it was willing to take on maintenance of the pond, which is spring fed and fish can survive in it through all seasons.

Alberta Sustainable Resource Development staff who stock the pond said it’s got some of the best water in Central Alberta, he told council.

Keeping the pond would also provide another attraction for visitors once Beskowiney completes a model railroad he plans to build nearby on his land.

The railroad, which would be open for charitable events and involve a miniature steam en-

gine pulling cars that passengers can ride, is expected to be ready in about three years.

Beskowiney’s proposal to have the county take over seemed to get some bites.

“I’m certainly very much in favour of the county discussing this,” said Coun. Cliff Soper.

Coun. Dana Kreil said her husband and his friends used to ride their bikes as boys to the trout pond to do some fishing.

She hopes the county can work something out to make sure the pond stays open.

County staff plan to review Beskowiney’s request and report back to council on options and costs. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

is estimated at $5.5 million.

Nearly $5 million of that would come out of Municipal Sustainability Initiative funding from the province.

The remainder would come out of a reserve fund.

It is hoped estimates will come in lower than projected.

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BOARD: Believe in inclusion “We’ve always believed in inclusion, so as we got funding and getting those (extra staff) into those classrooms, we did that,” said Lee. “But that’s for a certain type of learner with the cognitive ability to adjust to those settings. We’ve toured the Michener Centre and seen some of those clients and some of them don’t have the capacity to be moved from a very familiar setting.”

On March 11, the province announced that 75 of Michener Centre’s 125 residents will be moved to group homes, and 50 medically fragile residents will be moved to seniors care facilities. About 110 residents are already living in Michener Hill group homes.

Moving residents will begin in September and the target is to have all of them moved by January 2014.

Lee added they can’t support the closure because the people who are living there don’t have a voice, and the school board wants to help.

“We feel we have a public responsibility to speak out for those people,” said Lee. District superintendent Piet Langstraat said that parents are always consulted if changes to their children’s learning is made.

“The board sees the parallel in this in that the families and guardians were provided with less than a week’s notice about the closure,” he said.

“The collaboration with individuals who speak on behalf of the residents appears to not have occurred, and that’s a concern for all of us,” Lang-

The first phase, which involved running water and sewer lines under Hwy 2 to connect to Blackfalds, cost about $770,000.

Engineering bills will add about another 20 per cent to the project completed last year, but the price tag will still come in far below the original $2.1-million estimate. straat said. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

MUCH: In, out on spot “We had a 14-hour drive to Banff (on Wednesday) ... and we keep trekking east,” said Whitehead. “We go through these challenges and we interview people and whoever drops the ball gets let go by the producer on site.”

Whitehead said if someone is eliminated, it happens on the spot and the person is driven to the airport and flown home.

He came into this show thinking he was social and a Type A personality.

But he said he’s learning there are some people in the competition who are way more bubbly and sporadic.

“I’m almost taking the role of being the guy in the middle,” said Whitehead.

Besides Whitehead, the only other Albertan is Madison Pinder of Calgary.

Public voting comes back into play when they hit the top 10 finalists, he added.

“I would encourage all of Central Alberta to back me and tune into the show and vote when that time comes,” said Whitehead.

The finalists for the MUCH VJ Search will be featured in the reality TV show, hosted by Lauren Toyota, starting on Monday at 4 p.m. MDT and air every Monday to Friday on MUCH. For all the gossip from the tour, go on facebook. com/GarnierCanada & @GarnierCAN on Twitter.

People can check out www.muchmusic.com/vjsearch.

The winner is announced on April 26. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS — Canada is expected to lag several Group of Seven countries in the first quarter even as the global economy begins to rebound, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said Thursday.

The international economic think-tank estimates that the Canadian economy will show growth of just 1.1 per cent in the first three months of this year, much slower than the United States or Japan and below the G7 average.

However, it is expected to pick up steam and grow by 1.9

per cent in the second quarter, slightly above the average.

Statistics Canada reported later Thursday that Canada’s gross domestic product grew by 0.2 per cent month-to-month in January, the beginning of the first quarter.

The agency’s report for the full quarter won’t be out until May 31.

The G7 countries — Canada, the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France and Italy — are expected to post an average growth rate of 2.4 per cent in the first quarter ending March 31 and 1.8 per cent in the second ending June 30.

The OECD believes the U.S. economy advanced 3.5 per cent

in the first quarter, which ends this month, but that its growth will moderate in the second quarter to 2.0 per cent.

Likewise, the OECD expects Japan’s growth will be a robust 3.2 per cent in the first quarter but slow in the second to 2.2 per cent.

Among the European G7 countries, Germany will be the only one growing faster than Canada — 2.3 per cent in the first quarter and accelerating to 2.6 per cent in the second.

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Manufacturing helsps drive GDP rises The manufacturing sector helped drive the Canadian economy’s return to better than expected growth in January after ending 2012 with a mild contraction in December. However economists cautioned that growth remained below the two per cent pace for the year expected by the Bank of Canada. Statistics Canada said Thursday that Canada’s gross domestic product grew by 0.2 per cent in the month after shrinking 0.2 per cent in December.

CIBC World Markets economist Emanuella Enenajor said the manufacturing sector showed surprising strength given previous reports of softer sales.

In its latest outlook, the central bank said it expected growth to gain momentum as the year progresses and result in 2.0 growth in GDP this year followed by 2.7 per cent growth in 2014 — higher than other estimates.

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the first quarter then expand by a modest 0.5 per cent in the second.

Italy’s economy is expected to shrink in both quarters, dropping 1.6 per cent in the first and 1.0 per cent in the second.

In an interim assessment that focused on the G7, the OECD said that the European Central Bank needs to do more to encourage banks to lend and economies to grow.

It notes that countries that use the euro are making progress in reducing their debts, but that some should be allowed to meet their targets more slowly to temper the impact on their economies.

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Shift in Keystone thinking coming: Colorado governor

Dollar rises as economy grows The Canadian dollar closed higher Thursday amid figures from the start of the year that showed the economy grew at a faster than expected clip after faltering at the end of 2012. The loonie was up 0.05 of a cent at 98.43 cents US after Statistics Canada reported that real gross domestic product in January grew by 0.2 per cent. That was better than the 0.1 per cent gain economists had expected and followed a 0.2 per cent dip in December.

“The big surprise in the report was the 1.2 per cent increase in manufacturing production — with that sector seeing gains in activity despite softer sales,” said CIBC World Markets economist Emanuella Enenajor.

Other data showed that the U.S. economy grew at a slightly faster but still anemic rate at the end of last year.

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A board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, shows the closing number for the S&P 500 index.. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed at a record high Thursday, beating the mark it set in October 2007. The S&P rose six points to 1,569, a gain of 0.4 percent, beating its previous record by four points. The index is still shy of its all-time trading high of 1,576.

Sophear Restaurant & Bar promising great new dishes OPENING IN PREMISES OF FORMER NEW YEAR RESTAURANT

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Despite the success of their Blue Dragon Restaurant in Red Deer and Bamboo Hut in Sylvan Lake, the Sok family has been constrained by the size of the kitchens in those Asianthemed restaurants.

They plan to address this limitation at their next eatery: Sophear Restaurant & Bar. Tentatively scheduled to open on April 8 at 6712 Gaetz Ave. — the former premises of New Year Restaurant — Sophear will give the Soks the elbow room they need to really get adventurous in the kitchen. Pete Sok lists stuffed chicken wings, shrimp lollipop, duck tacos and lemongrass chicken lettuce wraps as among the dishes his family plans to include on their new menu.

That menu, he said, will focus on modern Asian cuisine from regions like Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.

“We have greats chefs in our family,” said Sok, who will operate the business with his brothers Pon and Dan, and his sister Sue. “We’ve taken recipes from our grandparents, aunts and uncles, our sister Sue — who is an absolute wonderful chef — and the inspiration from the food that our parents Soyi Vong and Chan Nan Sok had given us.

“We’re going for authentic Asian flavours with more of a modern flare,” he said, adding that the Asian influence will spill over to the martinis and cocktails served in Sophear’s bar.

“I’m hoping to just be able to provide our city with some new and exciting flavours, both food and beverage.”

‘WE’RE GOING FOR AUTHENTIC ASIAN FLAVOURS WITH MORE OF A MODERN FLARE. I’M HOPING TO JUST BE ABLE TO PROVIDE OUR CITY WITH SOME NEW AND EXCITING FLAVOURS, BOTH FOOD AND BEVERAGE.’ — PETE SOK

Sok has a chef de cuisine diploma from Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa. He and his brothers worked in the local restaurant industry for a number of years before buying the Blue Dragon from Sue and converting it to Cambodian and Thai cuisine. Three years ago, they acquired the Bamboo Hut. Sok and his siblings bought New Year Restaurant, which was a Chinese food institution in Red Deer, earlier this year when its owners decided to retire. They’ve spent the past month renovating the building, including adding a bar.

The restaurant will have seating for 69, with the bar able to accommodate 65.

Sophear means “wise man” in the Cambodian language of Khmer, said Sok, and is his birth name.

Sophear Restaurant & Bar will be open daily at 11:30 a.m., with dining until 9 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, and until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The bar will operate until 11 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, and until midnight Friday and Saturday. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

The governor of Colorado thinks Americans who oppose the proposed Keystone XL pipeline may be changing their minds.

John Hickenlooper has wrapped up a three-day visit to Alberta, which included a tour of the oilsands with Alberta International and Intergovernmental Relations Minister Cal Dallas.

Hickenlooper hasn’t taken a political stance in support of the pipeline, but said the public needs to focus on facts when it comes to Alberta oil. Its environmental footprint is roughly the same as that of similar products from California or Venezuela, but Alberta oil is safer to transport by pipeline and costs less.

Meanwhile, the governments of Alberta and Colorado have agreed to work together to share ideas, best practices and information related to cleaner energy.

“Expectations are high for North American energy producers and governments to continue to raise the bar on environmental management,” said Hickenlooper.

“Colorado looks forward to building a co-operative relationship with Alberta that will see both jurisdictions excel as continental leaders in responsible energy development.”

Dallas, who is the MLA for Red Deer South, praised Hickenlooper for spearheading a U.S. initiative to increase the use of natural gas vehicles. He said he’d like Alberta and other provinces to consider a similar initiative under the Canadian Energy Strategy.

Alberta exports, on average, $2.27 billion in products yearly to Colorado. More than 28 Colorado companies provide equipment, parts and services to the oilsands.

With files from The Canadian Press.

Alberta business confidence falls Business confidence in Alberta slipped sharply in March, according to the latest survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

The national business association calculated the level of optimism among small and medium-sized businesses in the province at 66.7 on a 100-point scale.

That was down from 71 in February.

Although Alberta’s business confidence rating exceeds the national average of 62.9, it slipped below the figures for Saskatchewan (71.5) and Newfoundland and Labrador (69.4).

“Although still well above the national average, the Alberta numbers show a decline in optimism,” said Amber Ruddy, CFIB’s Alberta policy analyst.

“The economy is not quite running on all cyl-

inders, but we are seeing steady modest growth over the long term.”

Thirty-one per cent of Alberta respondents did say they expect to hire full-time staff in the next few months, and 55 per cent said the state of business was “good”— up five points from February.

The business confidence ratings for the other provinces were 66.4 in Quebec, 65.7 in British Columbia, 64.5 in Manitoba, 61.9 in Ontario, 60.4 in New Brunswick, 60.4 in Nova Scotia and 56.4 in Prince Edward Island.

The CFIB’s March results were based on 1,121 responses from a random sample of the association’s 109,000 members.

It said index levels normally range between 65 and 70 when the economy is growing at its potential.

Innisfail milk cow wins top awards at Dairy Classic At least one surprise emerged from the recent Calgary Stampede Dairy Classic Championship Show.

CRF Lheros Rudolph Pete Joel, a nine-year-old milk cow from Wendon Holsteins of Innisfail, not only won the mature cow class but was named grand champion in the black and white Holstein breed.

Not bad for an animal with very little experience in the show ring.

“We bought her from Colpitts Ranches (near Calgary) when they were phasing out their

dairy operation,” said Don Chalack of Wendon Holsteins in a release.

“I went there to look at some cattle, and I saw this cow out in the pasture, and she was about a three-year-old at that time.

“We bought the cow and never did actually show her until last year. We took her to the Dairy Classic for the first time in her life — and she goes and wins the mature cow class, right out of the blue.”

Chalack said CRF Lheros Rudolph Pete Joel’s success at the show can be explained

by her excellent conformation — which obviously caught the judges’ eyes.

“She has a great udder, and great feet and legs — those are the two things they need for longevity.”

Wendon Holstein is a small dairy operation with a genetics program.

This year’s Dairy Classic Championship attracted nearly 75 cows from Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Other Central Alberta winners included Crasdale Destry Stellar of Wendon Holsteins,

which was junior champion among red and white holsteins; and Crestomere RL Lovable of Ponoka’s Crestomere Holstein, which was junior reserve champion in the same class.

Mosnang Gold Chip Wink of Rimbey’s Mosnang Holsteins Ltd. topped the field in the junior yearling heifer Holstein category; while MS Chassity Domain Chaya-ET of Ponoka’s Morsan Farms Ltd. was judged the best among two-year-old Holstein females.

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 29.84 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.08 First Quantum Minerals . 19.32 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 34.18 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.77 Inmet Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . 67.65 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 8.04 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.90 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Thursday on the final day of first-quarter trading with the market finding support from a surprise profit from tech giant BlackBerry amid the rollout of its new touchscreen Z10 smartphone.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 50.25 points to 12,749.9.

BlackBerry shares (TSX:BB) (NASDAQ:BBRY) closed up 29 cents or almost two per cent at $15.09 after the company posted a profit of US$98 million or 19 cents per share compared with a loss of $125 million or 24 cents per share a year ago.

But the quarter, which ended March 2, didn’t include Z10 sales from the United States since major U.S. carriers didn’t start rolling out the smartphone until last week. And BlackBerry’s subscriber base, which had been growing until the third quarter, fell to 76 million from 79 million, a sign that more people ditched their BlackBerry in favour of competitors’ phones.

The TSX was in the red for much of the session as another round of worry about the future of the eurozone weighed on sentiment during the final day of a shortened trading week ahead of the Easter holiday weekend.

The Canadian dollar shed early gains to close up 0.05 of a cent at 98.43 cents US amid January gross domestic product figures that showed Canada’s economy grew at a faster than expected clip after faltering at the end of 2012.

Statistics Canada reported that real gross domestic product in January grew by 0.2 per cent. That was better than the 0.1 per cent gain economists had expected and followed a 0.2 per cent dip in December.

U.S. indexes registered gains going into the weekend amid other data that showed that the U.S. economy grew at a slightly faster but still anemic rate at the end of last year.

The Dow Jones industrials index gained 52.38 points to another record high of 14,578.54.

The Nasdaq composite index was 11 points higher to 3,267.52 while the S&P 500 index closed at an all-time high, jumping 6.34 points to 1,569.19, surpassing a previous record from Oct. 9, 2007.

The Commerce Department says the economy grew at an annual rate of 0.4 per cent in the October-December quarter. That was slightly better than the previous estimate of 0.1 per cent growth. The revision reflected stronger business investment and export sales.

Traders looked to Cyprus where banks reopened after a nearly twoweek shutdown as the tiny Mediterranean country negotiated a bailout agreement with international creditors that will see many large depositors lose a big chunk of their money.

The TSX ended the week flat after the Cyprus bailout agreement was clinched in the early hours of Monday morning. Early relief gave way to concern that the Cyprus bailout agreement may be a model for the future.

The industrials group led advancers, up 1.64 per cent with Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP) ahead $3.48 to $132.54.

The utilities sector was up 1.4 per cent as Canadian Utilities (TSX:CU) gained $1.59 to $80.51.

The financials sector was ahead 0.49 per cent with CIBC (TSX:CM) ahead 75 cents to $79.68.

May copper shed early gains and closed four cents lower at US$3.40 a pound and the base metals sector gained 0.4 per cent. HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) rose 16 cents to C$9.77.

The energy sector was slightly lower as May crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed 65 cents to US$97.23 a barrel.

The gold sector was down about 0.49 per cent as June bullion fell $11.50 to US$1,595.70 an ounce.

Iamgold Corp. (TSX:IMG) faded five cents to C$7.33.

The TSX Venture Exchange edged up 1.21 points to 1,099.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Thursday: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,749.90 up 50.25 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,099 up 1.21 points TSX 60 — 731.34 up 3.31 points Dow — 14,578.54 up 52.38 points (record high) S&P 500 — 1,569.19 up 6.34 points (record high) Nasdaq — 3,267.52 up 11 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 98.43 cents US, up 0.05 of a cent Pound — C$1.5440, up 0.62 of a cent Euro — C$1.3025, up 0.41 of a cent Euro — US$1.2820, up 0.47 of a cent

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 63.94 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 59.11 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.68 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.35 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 34.99 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 27.23 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 45.77 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 62.25 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.96 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.61 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.29 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 61.20 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.72 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.58 Oil futures: US$97.23 per barrel, up 65 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,595.70 per oz., down $11.50 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $29.898 per oz., down 19.2 cents $961.22 kg., down $6.17 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 1,099 up 1.21 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 134.7 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA Canola: May ’13 $12.50 lower $625.50; July ’13 $13.40 lower $608.80; Nov. ’13 $10.50 lower $554.50; Jan. ’14 $11.00 lower $555.00; March ’14 $11.50 lower $551.50; May ’14 $11.50 lower $549.40; July ’14 $11.50 lower $547.50; Nov. ’14 $11.50 lower $523.10; Jan ’15 $11.50 lower $523.10; March ’15 $11.50 lower $523.10; May ’15 $11.50 lower $523.10.

Barley (Western): May ’13 unchanged $243.50; July ’13 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $244.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $244.00; March ’14 unchanged $244.00; May ’14 unchanged $244.00; July ’14 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $244.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $244.00; March ’15 unchanged $244.00; May ’15 unchanged $244.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 413,260 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 413,260.

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U.S. growth is slightly better than previous estimate THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a slightly faster but still anemic rate at the end of last year. However, there is hope that growth accelerated in early 2013 despite higher taxes and cuts in government spending.

The economy grew at an annual rate of 0.4 per cent in the OctoberDecember quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That was slightly better than the previous estimate of 0.1 per cent growth. The revision reflected stronger business investment and export sales.

Analysts think the economy is growing at a rate of around 2.5 per cent in the current January-March quarter, which ends this week.

Steady hiring has kept consumers spending this year. And a rebound in company stockpiling, further gains in housing and more business spending also likely drove faster growth in the first quarter.

The 0.4 per cent

growth rate for the gross domestic product, the economy’s total output of goods and services, was the weakest quarterly performance in almost two years and followed a much faster 3.1 per cent increase in the third quarter. The fourth quarter was hurt by the sharpest fall in defence spending in 40 years.

For all of 2012, the economy grew 2.2 per cent after a 1.8 per cent increase in 2011 and a 2.4 per cent advance in 2010. Since the recession ended in mid-2009, the economy has been expanding at sub-par rates as a string of problems from higher gas prices to Europe’s debt crisis have acted as a drag on the U.S. economy.

Growth appears to be strengthening this year even after taxes increased on Jan. 1 and automatic government spending cuts totalling $85 billion started to take effect on March 1.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim eco-

nomic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points. The CBO is predicting just 1.5 per cent growth for 2013.

But so far, the economy is showing signs of holding its own against the fiscal drag.

Employers have add-

ment benefit applications fell this month to a five-year low.

Sales of previously occupied homes rose in February to the highest level in nearly three years, while builders broke ground on more houses and apartments.

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Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.39 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 73.31 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.05 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.74 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.74 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.18 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.47 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 55.21 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.83 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.72

Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.04 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 28.60 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 26.84 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 40.39 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.41 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.94 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 49.35 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.57 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.94 Canyon Services Group. 11.12 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 31.46 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.650 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.76 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.22 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 90.11 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.41 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.35 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.16 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.52 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 3.03 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.18 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.92 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 1.190 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.39 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 30.44 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.42 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.90 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.36 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 52.60

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 99.06 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 91.92 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.46 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.03 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.10 Cdn. National Railway . 102.10 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 132.54 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 80.51 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.20 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.50 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 31.84 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 47.30 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 25.31 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.15 General Motors Co. . . . . 27.82 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.10 Research in Motion. . . . . 15.09 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.43 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 42.52 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 44.81 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 70.16 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.85 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.50

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Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On March 20, 2013 the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications: Discretionary Use Approvals: Anders Park East

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This frame grab made available by NASA TV shows a view of the SpaceX Dragon capsule on the end of the International Space Station’s robotic arm. The spacecraft delivered more than a ton of supplies to the International Space Station.

SpaceX Dragon cargo ship splashes into Pacific

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The SpaceX Dragon capsule returned to Earth on Tuesday with a full science load from the International Space Station.

The privately owned cargo ship splashed down in the Pacific, off the coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, five hours after leaving the orbiting lab. The California-based SpaceX confirmed the Dragon’s safe arrival via Twitter.

“Special delivery! Dragon now being recovered in the Pacific,” the company said in a tweet.

The capsule brought back more than 1 ton of science experiments and old station equipment. It’s the only supply ship capable of two-way delivery. NASA is paying SpaceX more than $1 billion for a dozen resupply missions.

The unmanned capsule will be shipped to Los Angeles — arriving Wednesday night — and then trucked to Texas for unloading.

Earlier in the day, astronauts released the unmanned capsule from the end of the space station’s giant robot arm. The 250-mile (400-kilometre)-high parting was a poignant moment for the three space station’s residents, who helped to snare the Dragon three weeks earlier.

“Sad to see the Dragon go,” astronaut Thomas Marshburn told Mission Control. “Performed her job beautifully. Heading back to her lair. Wish her all the best for the splashdown today.”

The Dragon used old-NASA-style parachutes to plop into the ocean; company officials indicated all appeared to go well during the re-entry.

SpaceX launched the capsule from Cape Canaveral at the beginning of March. Mechanical trouble delayed the capsule’s arrival at the space station by a day. SpaceX flight controllers at company headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., managed to fix the problem within hours.

Bad weather at mission’s end in the Pacific recovery zone kept it in orbit an extra day.

Within hours of the splashdown, NASA planned to retrieve the science samples meticulously collected over the weeks and months by space station astronauts, as well as experiments that flew up with Dragon, including hundreds of flowering weeds.

Mouse stem cells stayed behind on the space station, at the request of the Japanese researchers.

Old space station equipment and other items aboard the Dragon will be removed by SpaceX in McGregor, Texas. In all, more than 1 ton of gear — 2,668 pounds (1,210 kilograms) — was loaded into the capsule.

SpaceX — Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

— is run by billionaire Elon Musk, who made his fortune as a co-creator of PayPal. He also owns the electric car maker Tesla Motors.

This was the second flight of a Dragon to the space station under the $1.6 billion contract with NASA, and the third delivery mission altogether for SpaceX. The next flight is slated for late autumn.

A competitor, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia, plans a test flight of its Antares rocket and a dummy payload next month. That launch will be conducted from Wallops Island, Virginia. It, too, has a NASA contract to deliver supplies.

Russia, Japan and Europe also periodically send up supplies, but SpaceX has the only craft capable of returning goods. All the others burn up upon reentry.

Three astronauts are aboard the space station right now. They will be joined by three more following Thursday’s Soyuz launch from Kazakhstan.

With its space shuttles now museum pieces, NASA is paying Russia to launch U.S. astronauts until SpaceX or another American company comes up with spaceships than can safely fly crews. Musk anticipates that happening by 2015 with a modified Dragon.

Largest quake yet linked to drilling waste injection

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A team of scientists have determined that a 5.6 magnitude quake in Oklahoma in 2011 was caused when oil drilling waste was injected deep underground.

That makes it the most powerful quake to be blamed on deep injections of wastewater, although not everyone agrees. Oklahoma’s state seismologists say the quake was natural.

The Nov. 6 earthquake near Prague, Okla., injured two people, damaged 14 houses and was the strongest Midwestern quake in decades.

The new report says there was a smaller quake at the site of an old injection well, and that triggered the larger tremor. Records show the well pressure rising dramatically in 2006. The scientists say both combine to make a strong case that waste injections caused the quake.

The report was released Tuesday by the journal Geology.

Cognidyn Engineering & Design – an 8 unit multiattached dwelling to be located at 25 Howarth Street.

You may appeal discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative & Governance Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on April 12, 2013. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

Development Officer Approvals On March 25, 2013, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use

CITY OF RED DEER Easter Holiday Hours of Operation City of Red Deer administration offices will be closed on: Friday, March 29 and Monday, April 1

Friday March 29 2013 (Good Friday) Transit Administration Offices and Transit information phone lines will be closed. Transit service will operate on SUNDAY / HOLIDAY service hours. First departure from the City Centre Terminal is 8:45 AM and the last departure is at 6:45 PM. There is NO SERVICE on Route 12/12A Gasoline Alley/Springbrook.

Red Deer Transit Action Bus phone lines will be closed.

Limited Action Bus service will be provided.

Sunday March 31 2013 (Easter) Transit Administration Offices and Transit information phone lines will be closed. No Transit Service.

Red Deer Transit Action Bus phone lines will be closed.

Regular Sunday Action Bus service will be provided.

Monday April 1 2013 (Easter Monday) Transit Administration Offices and Transit information phone lines will be closed. Transit service will operate on a regular weekday schedule. Last departure from the City Centre Terminal will be at 11:15 PM. Red Deer Transit Action Bus phone lines will be closed.

Limited Action Bus service will be provided.

Transit information is available on-line at www. reddeer.ca/transit RECREATION FACILITIES

Clearview Ridge 1. Kor Alta – a 986.25 m2, 2 storey commercial building, to be located within Clearview Market at 8 Conway Street.

Vanier Woods 2. Ted Olson Construction Ltd. – a 0.55 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a single family dwelling with an attached garage, to be located at 52 Vienna Close.

Discretionary Use Vanier Woods 3. A Lazenby 0/A Tangled – a home based salon and spa business, to be located at 55 Vanier Drive.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on April 12, 2013. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8399.

INVITATION TO TENDER Sealed Tenders clearly marked Queens Business Park, Phase 2 & 3 Stripping / Grading / Underground / Road Base, closing Tuesday, April 16, 2013, delivered or mailed to the Purchasing Section – Main Floor at: The City of Red Deer 4914 - 48 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3T3 and received before 2:00:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

The Work is comprised of approximately: 132,000 cu.m. Topsoil and Wetland Stripping, Haul Offsite 20,000 cu.m. Topsoil Stripping, Stockpile Onsite 180,000 cu.m. Borrow Excavation from Existing Fill Stockpile 181,000 cu.m. Common Excavation 65,000 cu.m. Waste Excavation (includes Transition Material), Haul Offsite 53,000 cu.m. Waste Excavation, Stockpile Onsite 3,300 lin.m. Water Main Installation, 150mm 300mm 2,400 lin.m. Sanitary Main Installation, 150mm - 375mm 3,700 lin.m. Storm Main Installation, 300mm 1200mm 17 each Type 1-S Vaults --- 1200mm (10), 1900mm (7) 22,000 sq.m. - 600mm Depth Sub-base Course 24,000 sq.m. - 450mm Depth Sub-base Course 36,000 sq.m. - 200mm Depth Granular Base Course 9,800 sq.m. - 150mm Depth Granular Base Course 20,000 cu.m. Road Coring to construct Shallow Utility Berms Tender Documents are to be obtained directly from The City of Red Deer Engineering Services Department, Third Floor, City Hall, on or after 10:00 AM, Tuesday, April 2, 2013, for a $50 non-refundable fee. The City of Red Deer Contract Specifications 2012 Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 nonrefundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer Website @ www.reddeer.ca.

Subcontractors may view the Tender Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices.

Inquiries regarding this Project may be directed to: Andrew Phillips, C.E.T. The City of Red Deer Engineering Services Department 4914-48 Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 3T3 403.342.8158

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Collicutt Centre Friday, March 29 - OPEN 11am to 5pm Saturday, March 30 - OPEN 6:30am to 10:30pm Sunday, March 31 - OPEN 11am to 5pm Monday, April 1- OPEN 5:30am to 10:30pm GH Dawe Community Centre Friday, March 29 - OPEN 11am to 5pm Saturday, March 30 - OPEN 10am to 10pm Sunday, March 31 - OPEN 11am to 5pm Monday, April 1- OPEN 6:30am to 10pm Michener Aquatic Centre Friday, March 29 - CLOSED Saturday, March 30 - CLOSED Sunday, March 31 - CLOSED Monday, April 1- CLOSED Recreation Centre Friday, March 29 - CLOSED Saturday, March 30 - CLOSED Sunday, March 31 - CLOSED Monday, April 1- CLOSED Riverbend Golf and Recreation Area Clubhouse Friday, March 29 - OPEN 9am to 5pm Saturday, March 30 - OPEN 9am to 5pm Sunday, March 31 - OPEN 9am to 5pm Monday, April 1- OPEN 9am to 5pm

INVITATION TO TENDER THE CITY OF RED DEER Sealed Tenders clearly marked “2013 Contracted Bridge Maintenance”, delivered or mailed to: The City of Red Deer Purchasing Section Main Floor, City Hall 4914 - 48 Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 3T4 and received before 2:00:00 p.m. local time on “April 23, 2013” will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

The Work is comprised of: – Repair cracking in concrete girders at sole plates (4 locations) – Install flashing at abutment/slope protection interface (70 lm) – Installation of Beram along abutment/slope protection interface and wingwall/slope protection interface (225 lm) – Install drip strip on abutment breastwall (14.5 lm) – Grind abutment seat to prevent standing water (5 m2) – Apply penetrating sealer to approach slab, backwalls, girder ends, corbels and abutment seats (300 m2) – Route/epoxy expansion joint end dams (20 lm) – Extend deck joint drains (2 locations) Tender Documents may be obtained from Stantec Consulting Ltd. 1100-4900 50th Street, Red Deer AB T4N 1X7, on or after “April 3, 2013” for a $50 non-refundable fee. The City of Red Deer Contract Specifications most recent Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 non-refundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer website @ www.reddeer.ca.

Contractors may view the Tender Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices.

Technical Inquiries regarding this Project shall be directed to: Lauren Chorney Stantec Consulting Ltd. 1100 - 4900 50th Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X5 Phone: 403-356-3256 Fax: 403-342-0969 Email: lauren.chorney@stantec.com Processing Inquiries regarding this Project shall be directed to: Shelly Flahr The City of Red Deer Purchasing Section 4914 48 Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 3T4 Ph: 403-342-8273 Fax: 403-341-6960 Email: purchasing@reddeer.ca

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Ways for men to spring forward and checks that are tone on tone (on the fabric). It will look like a solid from a distance, but then again, when you get up close, you’ll see (the pattern).”

4. Fresh coats. From Monet-inspired linings in trench coats to patterns dotting coats and the undersides of collars, expect to see subtle details making a strong statement in spring outerwear.

“We’re all about style at six steps,” says Austria.

“From a distance, it’s going to look like a regular jacket, but up close you’re going to see the added details. The contrast stitch, the lapels.”

Austria says there’s also a big trend towards the jersey blazer, which is unconstructed and free of shoulder pads, almost reminiscent of a sweater jacket. Stewart says the concept of the soft, relaxed jacket for spring speaks to the climate as well as the notion of comfort.

“During the warmer weather, you want to be wearing something that is as light as possible, but to wear a jacket just completes the outfit,” says Stewart.

“Without a jacket, a lot of gentlemen don’t necessarily feel completely put together, and a jacket can just take you into any situation and you look appropriately dressed.”

Stewart suggests opting for an unlined jacket which can be in a cotton or cotton-linen blend. She says they’re also showing a lot of knit jackets for the season.

“It almost has the feel of a cardigan... when you put it on but they’re done in very, very light yarns.

But you just have that element of extreme comfort,” she says.

5. Fun with footwear. From low-heeled brogues to comfortable slip-on driving shoes, Stewart says footwear swathed in suede is a great warm-weather style option.

And not unlike the extensive apparel offerings, Stewart says there’s considerable colour popping up in footwear, like brightly-hued oxfords.

“I think most men are comfortable in wearing a little bit of colour in their shoes. So whether it’s just a coloured lace or full-in colour throughout the entire shoe or the coloured sole, it’s a nice way to add that fashion element but without being too over the top.”

Online: Gotstyle: www.gotstylemenswear.com Harry Rosen: www.harryrosen.com

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A model wears a soft-constructed jacket and coloured chinos available at Harry Rosen.

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Men will soon be packing away the parkas and shelving heavy sweaters to make way for spring styles — and they’d be wise to leave plenty of closet space.

“I find menswear right now the best it’s ever been.

It’s just more exciting, fun, colourful,” says Melissa Austria, founder of Toronto menswear boutique Gotstyle.

While menswear doesn’t change as rapidly as womenswear, it remains rooted in the classic staples — albeit with a twist, notes Shannon Stewart, assistant general merchandise manager for Harry Rosen.

“The polo is a great example. It’s been around for decades and decades and we keep reinventing it really through colour and through silhouette,” Stewart says.

Whether you’re a fashion-forward fella or a style neophyte, Austria and Stewart have some tips on ways men can spring forward with their seasonal wardrobe.

1. Rainbow brights. It’s not just flashes of colour in neckties, pocket squares, socks and collared shirts: a rainbow full of saturated shades are brightening up all facets of menswear.

“The overriding theme for the season is the sheer amount of colour,” says Stewart. “Even from a psychological point of view, it just has an impact on a person. It instantly lifts their mood — and it can instantly lift a wardrobe.”

Austria says the colours span the spectrum from reds to brighter greens to blues, oranges and yellows.

“It’s a more toned-down silhouette. So, it’s going to be a toned-down (coloured) chino that you’re going to wear with a crisp white shirt. It’s going to be a polo shirt that you’re going to wear with dark jeans,” she says. “It doesn’t have to be that intimidating for guys.”

Colourful patterns are also in the mix for spring, with smaller-scale houndstooth print, finer stripes and smaller grid checks in shirting, notes Austria.

While some men may have no qualms about donning pants in a bold hue or pairing a variety of shades within one look, both Austria and Stewart say more style-shy guys should start by opting for one core coloured piece.

Unsure of which shade to select? Stewart recommends blue which she says is a “go-to colour” for many men.

“If they stay in that colour family of blues but maybe go a little bit lighter or a little bit more punchier with the blue, it’s a simple way of just taking the blue up a notch from the usual navy or denim blue.”

2. Tie one on. Bowties are broadening beyond tuxedos and geek chic as a sleek alternative to neckties awash in vibrant hues, graphic patterns and even available in reversible varieties.

“Even if a man isn’t planning on buying a new suit for the season, through dress shirts and ties... or bowties, you can easily freshen up a suit that you may have purchased within the last couple of years,” says Stewart.

“We’ve seen a return to men wearing bowties which is kind of fun. It’s definitely a modern look, you have to be a little bit more confident in it; but it’s just a great way to inject a little bit of life into the wardrobe.”

Austria says the use of colourful, lighter-weight summer scarves which has made a splash on the other side of the Atlantic is poised to make waves closer to home.

“If you go to Europe, they’ve been showing them for 10, 15 years; and now we’re slowly starting to see the guys embrace that in North America, because they’d usually only wear the scarves in winter and that’s it,” she says.

3. Smart suiting. Austria says formal wear for men is true blue heading into spring after being “greydriven” for some time.

Austria says the new blue is a lighter hue and distinct from the midnight navy and darker shades of the classic colour.

“You can tell that it’s blue and it’s really fresh,” she says. “I just find it more vibrant. And then getting away from the stripes and doing more plaids

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Long before comedian Gerry Dee became a goofy blowhard teacher on Mr. D, the CBC TV series, he taught in a real-life high school.

Like his TV persona, Dee studied kinesiology and applied for a gym teacher’s position, but got stuck for three years teaching geography and history to Grade 12 students.

Knowing little about these subjects, he admitted that he mostly faked it. “Teachers are the best liars,” said Dee, in one of his standup comedy routines for Last Comic Standing.

His performance centred on an insecure Dee instructing his students not to read past Chapter 3 (lest they ask questions “that I don’t know yet.”)

The 44-year-old comic later admitted to the competition’s judges that, yes, this was based on a true story and, yes, there was one smarty pants who did read ahead and asked him a question he didn’t know about the Mayans.

“I taught the whole year, basically, by lying,” he said, drawing chuckles from the judging panel. (The Toronto native won third place in the fifth season of Last Comic Standing.)

Dee, who will perform his latest standup routine on Sunday, April 7, at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre,

Who: Comedian Gerry Dee, with speciall guest Mark Forward When: 7:30 p.m., Sunday, April 7 Where: Red Deer Memorial Centre e Tickets: $59 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre e will undoubtedly lean on other teaching experiences, since that source never runs dry. There was enough material for a book — Dee wrote Teaching: It’s Harder Than it Looks — and a show and a standup act, said the situational comedian.

Dee, who is married with children, is also inspired by family, friends and neighbours. For instance, he noticed while living in an Italian area of Toronto that nobody cares to know your name if you’re not also Italian.

Dee said he’s been called Jimmy, Johnny, Tony, Jackie — “sometimes I was Jenny. I don’t know where Jenny came from.”

He recounted on stage how his Italian neighbours would routinely stand around watering their driveways to keep them clean. One neighbour snuck outside at night with a slipper hidden behind his back to nail the dirty raccoon who left paw prints on the

concrete.

“He said, ‘Where are you, nice rac-ca-coon? I don’ta have no-thing behind my back!’ ” quipped Dee, affecting an Italian accent.

Unlike his comic counterpart Ron James, who also has a TV show, Dee admitted he doesn’t read enough to be inspired by political events. “Ron is way more intelligent than I’ll ever be. I have tremendous respect for Ron.” This latest tour is described as being about “the real Mr. Dee,” and will also feature a performance by comic Mark Forward, who plays Mr. Leung on the Mr. D show.

But Red Deer fans should expect the live show to be a little edgier than Dee’s TV series. Dee said, “It’s a little more suited to those 16 and older, as opposed to the show (on Wednesdays at 8 p.m.), which could be for eight-year-olds.”

There’s a bit of “language,” he added. “But it’s not too crazy. It’s nothing your kids haven’t already heard at school.”

The comedian, who has also made appearances on CBC’s The Hour and had a role in Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, said he looks forward to doing standup because live audiences keep him on his toes.

“You’re up there by yourself and you either get laughs or you don’t get laughs. ... In the studio, I never know if anyone’s laughing.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

G.I. Joe: Retaliation as dull as a Rock G.I. Joe: Retaliation 1.5 stars (out of four) Rated: PG Another week, another kidnapped U.S. president, terrorized White House and nuclear threat the outraged and outcast good guys have to stop.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation is all that and less. Who’d have thought that just a week after the release of Olympus Has Fallen we’d feel inclined to retroactively upgrade it, in comparison to the newcomer, for being a model of energy, concision and honest intent?

Olympus Has Fallen is no masterpiece, but it has a strong narrative line — America gets attacked, kicks asses — and an R rating stateside PETER that appropriately reflects the HOWELL huge amount of violence and blood on the screen.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a case of ADHD masquerading as a movie, hiding behind incoherent directing, writing and editing to minimize mayhem so as to secure a kid-friendly and lucrative PG-13 American rating.

It’s like a giant explosion on a distant planet, observed but not felt.

This multimedia franchise has bizarrely devolved over the decades. It began as a controversial 1960s action figure that required human involvement. It morphed into a formula 1980 cartoon series with catchphrase wisdom for kiddies: “Knowing is half the battle.”

Now G.I. Joe is reduced to an incomprehensible blur of throbbing testosterone tin men (and women), who rattle their swords, rat-tat-tat their machine guns and shout inanities at each other to no intelligent purpose. Even when something really big happens — say a major world city being blown up — the effect is like being hit with a clown’s Nerf bat.

The film is as dull as a Rock. The stolid Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson joins grumpy Bruce Willis as the new top squarejaws of the changing cast, most of the original players having wisely opted for better

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The stolid Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson joins grumpy Bruce Willis as the new top squarejaws of the changing cast of G.I. Joe: Retaliation. gigs or early story exits.

The only reason I give Retaliation a half-star higher rating than the even worse G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra from 2009 is that Jonathan Pryce gets to chew acres of shrubbery as both the Real President and the Evil President. He’s more fun here than when he played a Bond villain.

Pryce is frequently hilarious as Evil Prez, earning what few laughs the movie has by doing his best Dr. Evil impersonation — such as a scene where he threatens world leaders with global devastation and

then calmly starts playing Angry Birds on his iPhone.

Evil Prez is running America while Real Prez is held captive in the White House basement. This part of the convoluted plot picks up from where the first movie ended, after terrorist Cobra chameleon Zartan (Arnold Vosloo) shape-shifted into the Commanderin-Chief. It’s the most dastardly deception since the Beatles replaced Paul McCartney with a double (you knew about that, didn’t you?).

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Urban Mapping by artist Robert Dmytruk currently on display in the Harris-Warke Gallery in Sunworks will be on exhibit until this weekend. The Canadian artist lives in Edmonton and has a wide range of experiences in the visual arts. The urban landscape is a world within, says Dmytruk.

“The metropolis embraces green belts and concrete, traffic noise and jackhammer, exhaust and controlled environment, bird song and mechanically produced sound,” says Dmytruk.

EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● This is Home: We Are Guests by Roberta Murray is open at Kerry Wood Nature Centre until April 30 in Marjorie Wood Gallery. Phone 403-346-2010. ● Exhibit at Gallery IS from noon to 9 p.m. on Friday and on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. See galleryis.arts@yahoo.ca ● Expressions exhibition of exquisite artworks of Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame High School students will be featured at The Hub on Ross Gallery for the month of April.

The exhibit will be part of First Friday on April 5 from 4 to 6 p.m. and the opening reception will take place on April 12 from 4 to 6 p.m. Free of charge. Phone 403-340-4869. ● Remarkable Red Deer: Stories from the Heart of the Parkland opens March 25 with the Grand Opening Celebration on April 14 at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery and will celebrate the centennial of the city of Red Deer. Phone 403-309-8405. ● Blooming Spring —Artwork by Dee Poisson will be featured at The Gallery on Main in Lacombe until April 6. ● Collaboration and Mentorship with artists Kelli Condon and Keoni Barker at The Hub on Ross Gallery will be on display until March 29. ● Works by Harvey Brink — Artist’s Picks at Café Pichilingue can be viewed at this location until March 31. ● Urban Mapping by artist Robert Dmytruk from Summerland, B. C. will be displayed at the Harris-Warke Gallery until March 23. ● Works by Troy Johnston are on display at The Velvet Olive Lounge until March 31. ● When the City Isn’t Looking: Photographs by Bill Peters, Calgarian artist will be on display at the Kiwanis Gallery of the Red Deer Public Library at the downtown location from Feb. 26 to April 28. For more information call the Red Deer Arts Council at 403-348-2787 or visit www.reddeerartscouncil. ca ● Red Deer College Visual Art Faculty and Staff Ex-

hibition — Conversations with the Collection — features new work to be exhibited beside pieces from the Red Deer College Permanent Art Collection at the library until March 28. ● The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates Red Deer Centennial with the opening of the exhibit Red Deer Sport History. Take a look at over 100 years Sports History and discover the impact that sport had on Red Deer and its citizens. For more information contact Debbie at debbie@ashfm.ca or visit www.ashfm.ca or call 403-3418614.

To be included in this listing, please email event details to editorial@reddeeradvocate.com, fax to 403-341-6560, or phone 403-314-4325.

LIVE DATES ● The Hideout welcomes Rising Star Recording of the Year nominee Mo Kenney with singer/songwriter Ron Sexsmith on March 28, and Juno-nominated singer/songwriters Peter Katz and Emma-Lee on April 28, and The Steel Wheels with Americana and fresh-sounding acoustic fervour on April 10. ● Lotus Nighclub presents Swollen Members with Cityreal as guests on April 1. ● The Centrium presents on April 17 punk/emo rock band from Vancouver — Marianas Trench. Special guests are Down With Webster, and Anami Vice. Doors open at 6 p.m. and show gets going at 7 p.m. Ticket sales are through Livenation.com or from Ticketmaster. Ticket prices are $29.50 and $45 (plus FMF and service charges). Reserved seating for this all ages show.

To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.

Ashley Judd putting family ahead of politics TWEETS SHE WON’T RUN FOR US SENATE AGAINST MCCONNELL OF KENTUCKY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FRANKFORT, Ky. — Actress Ashley Judd announced Wednesday she won’t run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky against Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, saying she had given serious thought to a campaign but decided her responsibilities and energy need to be focused on her family.

The former Kentucky resident tweeted her decision.

“Regretfully, I am currently unable to consider a campaign for the Senate. I have spoken to so many Kentuckians over these last few months who expressed their desire for a fighter for the people & new leader,” Judd wrote.

“While that won’t be me at this time, I will continue to work as hard as I can to ensure the needs of Kentucky families are met by returning this Senate seat to whom it rightfully belongs: the people & their needs, dreams, and great potential. Thanks for even considering me as that person & know how much I love our Commonwealth. Thank you!”

Her publicist Cara Tripicchio confirmed Judd’s decision.

The 44-year-old Judd had hinted last week that she was nearing a decision about the race.

Now living in suburban Nashville, Tenn., Judd

has said little publicly about her intentions. However, she has been meeting with several Democratic leaders, including Gov. Steve Beshear, to discuss a possible run.

Defeating McConnell would be the Democrats’ biggest prize of the 2014 election. His seat is one of 14 that Republicans are defending while Democrats try to hold onto 21, hoping to retain or add to their 55-45 edge.

The star of such films as Double Jeopardy and Kiss the Girls is known for her liberal political views and she would have been running in a largely conservative state where Republicans hold both Senate seats and five of the six seats in the U.S. House.

Former State Treasurer Jonathan Miller, a Judd supporter, said she would have been a strong candidate.

“As a Kentuckian and someone who was really enthusiastic about her as a candidate, this wasn’t the news I was hoping for,” Miller said.

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Comedian Louie Anderson says he’s been in pain all week from a recent diving mishap during a taping of the ABC celebrity diving show Splash.

Anderson, who weighs more than 180 kg (400 pounds), was trying to do a flip from the five-metre board when he slammed into the water, landing on his face and chest.

“If I were lying down right now, you would have to help me up,” the 60-year-old Anderson said Wednesday.

“It’s been almost a week and it still hurts almost as much.”

Anderson, who skipped diving practice Tuesday night to take the stage in Sioux Falls, S.D., for a show benefiting the Brennan Rock & Roll Academy, Central Alberta Theatre said he asked the Splash staff after the accident if he was suffering internal bleeding or damage but was told no.

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There was much rejoicing by NBC suits Tuesday morning. Their long “When is Comcast gonna toss these NBC bums out?” ratings nightmare was over.

The Voice and Revolution — two of the three franchises that stunningly pulled NBC out of the cellar it had settled into many seasons ago and into first place in the fall — were back.

Armed with the two programs — two hours of the singing show and one hour of J.J. Abrams’s serialized kudzu-covered saga — NBC finished Monday night as the runaway fave among 18- to 49-year-old viewers (who are the unicorns of Madison Avenue), attracting nearly 5 per cent of the population in that age bracket.

Among all viewers, NBC (11.3 million) finished behind only ABC (13 million).

The previous Monday night, NBC managed to attract just 6 million viewers with the aspirational “fat farm” show The Biggest Loser and rich folks murder mystery Deception. Just 2.2 percent of the nation’s 18to 49-year-olds bothered to watch NBC’s prime time that Monday; in both metrics, NBC finished fourth.

That had been NBC’s story line for years, until last fall, when the network finally figured out what programming worked best for the two nights after its strong Sunday football franchise: Singing.

Armed with two nights of The Voice, and with a healthy assist from the Eric Kripke-created Revolution, NBC suddenly found itself in first place for the first time in, like, forever.

Sadly, football last aired on NBC in January, and The Voice and Revolution have been dark since the end of the November “sweep,” so NBC returned to the ratings underworld — like Persephone, only without the toga.

On Monday, NBC re-emerged from its ratings inferno: From 8 to 10:01 p.m., the spring-season debut of The Voice opened bigger in both ratings metrics compared with its fall kickoff — despite the swap-out of two of the show’s more charismatic coach-judges, Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green, for competish newbies Usher and Shakira.

The Voice also beat its competitors in the key age bracket by hefty margins: 104 per cent better than ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, 88 per cent bigger than CBS’ comedy slate and 124 per cent better than the Fox drama duo Bones and The Following.

And the singing competition grew steadily throughout its two-hour broadcast, which meant viewers liked what they saw — including the two added stars.

At 10:01 p.m., the return of Revolution finished first in its time slot among 18- to 49-year-olds (although about 3.4 million shy of time-slot front-runner Castle on ABC with all viewers).

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BY KIYOMI TAKANO ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Architect Shigeru Ban, 55, is acclaimed worldwide for his use of unconventional but ubiquitous materials.

For people who have been affected by disasters in Japan and overseas, his style has a special relevance.

The exhibition “Shigeru Ban: Architecture and Humanitarian Activities,” running through May 12 at Art Tower Mito in Mito, presents an opportunity for visitors to think about the role of architects in society.

Ban’s entire career is illustrated through 63 of his projects. The exhibition includes miniature models, building materials and even entire structures — albeit small ones. The exhibition includes shelters for those who lost their homes in the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, and public buildings that aim to foster connections with people from all walks of life.

One remarkable part of the exhibit displays paper tubes that stand like the columns of an ancient Greek temple inside the exhibition venue.

Ban started making buildings with paper, his signature material, in the 1980s after discovering the usefulness of prefabricated paper tubes made of recycled paper. After developing them through trial and error, he had them certified as a building material.

When he designed the Japanese pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany, his dome constructed using paper tubes received a great deal of attention. “[Paper tubes] are inexpensive and easy to obtain across the world,” Ban said. “Because they are lightweight, even amateurs can use them to build structures. They also are sufficiently strong.”

Ban made use of such merits in postdisaster reconstruction projects.

In the wake of the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, he built the Paper Log House and the Paper Church in Kobe, which was hardest hit in the disaster. A decade later, the church was donated to an area hit by a major quake in Taiwan and is still in use.

After the 1995 earthquake, Ban set up the Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN), a nonprofit organization providing support to disaster-hit areas in Japan and overseas.

He has also taught many students while serving as a professor at Keio University from 2001 to 2008 and at Kyoto University of Art and Design since 2011. In his classes, he makes students aware of the social contributions of architects by involving them in the actual building of the structures.

Ban has also contributed to the region hit in the 2011 disaster.

He devised a paper partition system, which was installed at facilities for evacuees to help them maintain a degree of privacy.

For Onagawa in the region, he designed temporary housing facilities for evacuees. Each unit is constructed using stacked shipping containers.

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Top: The apotheosis of Shigeru Ban’s design methods can be found in the Centre Pompidou-Metz, an annex of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, completed in eastern France in 2010.

Above right: Paper tubes, Ban’s signature material, at the exhibition; Ban started making buildings with paper in the 1980s.

Above left: Architect Shigeru Ban, 55, is acclaimed worldwide for his use of unconventional but ubiquitous materials. to the same specifications worldwide and are therefore easy to obtain anywhere, Ban said.

Ban previously used shipping containers as building blocks for a portable museum for an exhibition tour held in Japan and the United States.

Ban was also commissioned to design a temporary church constructed from paper tubes for victims of the massive earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2011. The building is slated to be completed around May. “I’ve slightly altered existing industrial products and used them for other purposes,” Ban said.

He said that he adopts the same approach whether designing temporary housing facilities or luxury brand shops.

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REVIEW: Half-way decent martial arts scenes Evil Prez has everybody fooled, except for sharpies such as the shapely new female “Joe,” Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki), who gets suspicious when she discovers that, unlike Real Prez, the imposter doesn’t use such empty phrases as “you know” and “kind of” in his official speeches.

Sounds like an improvement, you know, except Evil Prez also has an itchy trigger finger (“I’m the quicker blower-upper, baby!”) and a yen for world domination. He and his hench-thingies mastermind a nuclear frame-up and ambush that leave the Joes decimated and disbanded. Surviving members Roadblock (Johnson), Lady Jaye and Flint (D. J. Cotrona)

In the latter category, the Nicolas G. Hayek Center, a collection of wristwatch showrooms of the Swatch Group in Tokyo, has a glass shutter facade that makes the building look open and inviting. Ban said this approach to design is normally used for factories.

The apotheosis of his design methods can be found in the Centre Pompidou-Metz, a remote annex of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, completed in Metz in eastern France in 2010.

The building has a large roof suggesting either a straw hat or the roof of a circus tent. To attract people who are not necessarily interested in art, the first floor is designed to be open and to make it easier for visitors to come and go.

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are on the run and attempting to unmask the presidential imposter and save the world, without attracting undue attention.

That’s tough to do when all guys like Roadblock want to do is shoot things with cannons or drive tanks down the street. But just like their cartoon equivalents, they have techno gadgets to assist them.

They’ve also got group founder and namesake Gen. Joe Colton (Willis), who bizarrely keeps calling Jaye “Brenda” and who comes out of retirement to offer ferocity and firepower. The latter include grenades that he keeps in his fruit bowl.

Meanwhile, over in the Far East, a whole other movie is happening: a marginally better one, involving fellow action figures Snake Eyes (Ray Park), Storm Shadow (Byung-hun Lee), Jinx (Elodie Yung) and others too tedious to mention.

The Easterners get up to a couple of halfway decent martial arts scenes, and their adventures eventually interact with the main Joe job, like a pair of explosive Venn diagrams. The plots and subplots are so tortuous, it’s like Mission: Impossible with grunting.

museum, slated for completion in 2015, is also intended to be open to the local community.

Before the 2011 disaster, the Art Tower Mito had asked Ban to hold an exhibition at the recommendation of Arata Isozaki, 81, the renowned architect behind the Mito building who also has served as an art adviser. After Mito was shaken by the 2011 disaster, holding the exhibition there became even more meaningful.

Curator Sayako Kadowaki said: “I wanted to display 3-D works so that visitors can feel and experience [Ban’s style]. I also wanted to show [his] paper tube installations.”

Visit http://arttowermito.or.jp/ for more details.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation was originally supposed to open in June 2012, but was held back until now, reportedly for 3D supersizing that achieves precisely nothing. There were also reshoots and other salvage efforts.

It’s clear from frame one that the project was too much for director Jon M. Chu, whose previous credits include two Step Up dance movie sequels and the pop doc Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. We might have expected more from screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. They co-wrote the very funny Zombieland, but here they’re just zombies.

And what of rising star Channing Tatum, whose leather-necked Duke character was given extra screen time as part of those reshoots? He wisely ducks out early, but not before a scene where Duke plays a video war game with Roadblock and gets thoroughly disoriented and abused.

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SUN SIGNS 21): Your intentions are clear and precise.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): The road ahead might seem too predictable and a bit gloomy. Trust your intuition in that your most recent actions and decisions are made upon a mix of solid information and personal knowledge.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): Your relationships with others will tend to have a blend of serious approach to them and a touch of excitement.

You want to be taken seriously and you work diligently towards building that image without ruining the fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will experience a deeper insight when it comes to your philosophy of life or from some teachings which you may have followed thus far.

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Changing our minds and experiencing volatility within our opinions will be hard to avoid.

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Escapist romantic novel takes gritty turn, is framed in Bali bombings THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Paradise Guest House Ballantine Books

by Ellen Sussman The tranquil beauty of beachside Bali is the alluring backdrop for The Paradise Guest House, and Jamie Hyde, a plucky and passionate adventure guide, is the delectable heroine at the novel’s heart.

But while the book may be escapist romantic fiction set in an exotic locale, it is framed by the searing trauma of the 2002 terrorist bombings at two Bali nightclubs, a chaotic, central event in the narrative. For Jamie, as well as for Gabe Winters, the man who finds her amid the fiery bombing rubble, this is no easy trip.

For both, the search for love has been marred by the pain of loss.

Author Ellen Sussman opens the story with Jamie, an American, returning to Bali in 2003 for the anniversary of the bombing, uncertain of her own emotions and hoping to find Gabe. In fragments of flashback and reflection, Jamie’s need to reconnect with Gabe, who teaches at a local school, begins to become clear. Later his own fractured feelings — about love, about Jamie — come into focus as well.

The pace of the novel can be slow at times, and the frequent shifting between past and present events may muddle the plot for some.

Jamie and Gabe also voice their angst a hint too much as they reflect on what they did or didn’t do in times of crisis. But The Paradise Guest House, while crafted around a horrific event, is a good-hearted book, respectful of its subject matter. And with well-drawn, genuinely likable lead characters, it takes readers on an edgy island adventure over memorable emotional terrain.

Jim and Bob Burgess, the brothers who are the title characters of Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, The Burgess Boys, grew up fatherless in a small Maine town after an accident in the family car when they were young.

They were smart, though, and became lawyers in New York City. Now Jim, at 55, is a high-powered corporate attorney who once gained national media attention. Bob, at 51, is a legal aid lawyer with a more modest sense of himself. As the novel unfolds, they are drawn back to their hometown, revisiting old scars while struggling with a new shock to the family psyche.

This is Strout’s first book since her 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Olive Kitteridge, and her extraordinary narrative gifts are evident again.

Olive Kitteridge is built on the scaffolding of separate short stories that, to lesser or greater degrees, involve the title character, a teacher in a coastal Maine town. The Burgess Boys follows a more traditional, more sweeping novelistic track, with the marital discord and conflicted feelings of the Burgess brothers set around their attempts to help a young nephew avoid jail.

Like Olive, who can be stern and not necessarily likable, the Burgess brothers are not depicted in a wholly agreeable light but become unforgettably alive to the reader. They have their foibles from the start: Bob, who is divorced and a bit sloppy, drinks and worries too much; Jim, married to a discontented heiress, is self-absorbed and belittles Bob, whom he calls “slob-dog.”

Their sister, Bob’s twin Susan, also divorced, lives in a cold, quiet house in Maine with her friendless teenage son, Zach — the nephew who lands in serious legal trouble, even facing a possible hate crime charge, after throwing a frozen pig’s head into the mosque of Somali immigrants.

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Starting Tuesday, libraries can offer ebooks from Penguin Group (USA) at the same time that the hardcover comes out, a switch from the previous policy of delaying downloads for six months, the publisher told The Associated Press.

While vastly more ebooks are available to libraries compared with a few years ago, Penguin and other publishers have limited digital access for fear of losing sales. The American Library Association has been calling for less restrictive terms.

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Penguin has for months been tracking ebook usage at libraries through pilot programs around the country. The effect of library downloads on commercial revenues has been acceptable and the publisher was comfortable with making new releases available, the director of online sales and marketing, Tim McCall, said Wednesday.

That means libraries can provide e-editions of Hosseini’s “And the Mountains Echoed” starting with its official date of publication, May 21.

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and dark-skinned Muslims, along with efforts by both sides to bridge the distance, is a developing element throughout the book. But the distance between Bob and Jim — painfully wide at times, lovingly close as well and turning on “a terrible secret” from childhood — gives the novel a level of intrigue and human depth with lasting impact.

Strout’s writing style is all her own, at times almost effortlessly fluid, with superbly rendered dialogue, sudden and unexpected bolts of humour and, just as a scene seems to be low-key, carried away by startling riffs of gripping emotion.

Many sections open with descriptions of sunlight or the deepening darkness of nightfall, as if to set the scene with a prose painting of the surroundings.

These invariably are keen, lovely lines, such as this one describing the bustling Park Slope neighbourhood in Brooklyn where Jim and Bob settled: “The autumn clouds, magnificent in their variegated darkness, were being spread apart by the wind, and great streaks of sunshine splashed down on the buildings on Seventh Avenue.”

It’s not clear why the narrator is a woman from the Burgess hometown in Maine, the fictional Shirley Falls, who was younger than the brothers but heard gossip about the childhood accident that killed their father. When she decides to write their story, even her mother voices doubt: “You don’t know them,” she said. “Nobody ever knows anyone.”

Maybe so. But Strout knows and vividly evokes the territory of Maine and New York City, her characters, their inner lives and fears and — beyond the saga of a family in crisis — the healing power of mercy.

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Please provide picture & phone number. Reply to Box 1037, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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Personals

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager)

BOYCE - DOUGLAS Mar. 23, 1952 - Mar. 26, 2012 Missing you - your love, laugh & smile. Always loved, forever remembered.

Harold Boyce & family.

Say Thank You...

WANTED F. roommate, 30 - 45, must have a job, no kids, must be thin, good shape and like travelling.

Fringe benefits. Rent. $350./mo. Reply to Box 1038, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

wegot

jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

LIVE IN CAREGIVER FOR 49 yr. old F, exc. living cond., 403-346-3179

Jenna Cecilia Cartwright July 3, 1989 - March 29, 2011 JOHNSON 1931 - 2013 Mr. Gerald Oliver Johnson of Leduc, passed away at the Leduc Community Hospital on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at the age of 81 years. He spent his full career with Canada Post, starting in Red Deer and then in Leduc. Gerry is survived by his loving wife of 57 years Barbara and son Mitchell, both of Leduc; as well as his brother Don (Rose) of Edmonton. Cremation has taken place and a private family memorial will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be m a d e d i r e c t l y t o S TA R S (Head Office), 1441 - Aviation Park NE, Box 570, Calgary, Alberta T2E 8M7.

Condolences to Gerry’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca Bruce MacArthur MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Red Deer 587-876-4944

My dear Momma, No one knows the loneliness I feel without you. I was only two.

I have my dog to make me laugh.

I have my blanket to hug and kiss, I take it everywhere.

My family tells me I inherited your giggle and laughter, and also tell my family “I love them” just like you did Momma. I’m in Jazz class and I’m dancing for you Momma.

All my love, your little daughter Jayda Rose ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You had my name and you had my heart Love your Nana, Cecilia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In earthly things she can be found, A falling leaf, a growing tree, In every breeze that’s falling free.

We miss you every day, our precious child.

Love Nana & Grandpa and family

710

A Classified Announcement in our

“Card of Thanks”

Can deliver your message.

309-3300

Email: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-348-5456 or 403-505-7846

Clerical

720

P/T Accounts Receivable Position

One regular day per week plus additional days during busy times and to cover for vacations. Hours and days may be somewhat flexible.

Accuracy and attention to detail a must. Large amount of invoicing and data entry. Working knowledge of Sage 50/Simply Accounting, Excel & MS an asset. Email: janeaustin103@gmail.com Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

E2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, March 29, 2013

730

Computer Personnel

INTERMEDIATE TECHNICAL ANALYST POSITION INSL, Integrated Network Solutions ltd, provides IT Network, Server and application solutions for the best business clients throughout Western Canada. We have an opening for an Intermediate Technical Analyst. This position is responsible for assisting in designing, implementing, and maintaining IT solutions for our clients. You must be a graduate from an accredited IT program. Qualifications for this position include a minimum of 5 years of experience with Microsoft Server, Microsoft Office 365, IP in-depth knowledge, light MS-SQL, light IIS and Apache web services. Microsoft certifications are an asset to this position. Preference will be given to candidates within the Red Deer, Alberta area. Please send your resume into resume@insl.ca.

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

770

CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr.

Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Legal

780

HOWARD & COMPANY Real Estate Appraisers requires a F/T Office Assistant. Experience in MS Office and office skills are an asset.

Please send resumes to: davidhorn@ howardandcompany.com or drop off at Unit 906, Second floor, Parkland Mall, Red Deer.

POSITION FILLED

Legal Assistants Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrender Glass LLP t/a Altalaw

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

740

Dental

Janitorial

RDA LEVEL II / ADMINISTRATOR required for Dr. Rogers office. We are growing and would like to include a new F/T team member to our office. Mon-Fri, great hours, no evenings or weekends.

Please fax 403-340-2160 or email rogersgentle@shaw.ca No phone calls please.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Requires the services of an experienced Corp/Comm Legal Assistant as well as a Real Estate Conveyancer.

Part-timers for summer and vacation relief welcome to apply. Please email resume to ssimmons@altalaw.ca or fax to the attention of Office Manager on 403.343.0891.

LICENSED Personal and Commercial Insurance professionals wanted. All levels of experience are welcome. Join a great team at Mooney Insurance.

Please email your resume to hr@rogersinsurance.ca You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

800

Oilfield

1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 lkeshen@1strateenergy.ca

800

NEW Red Deer Based busy & growing oilfield trucking company looking for EXPERIENCED WINCH TRUCK DRIVERS. Successful candidates will receive top wages & benefits.

Valid Class 1 licence is necessary & oilfield tickets is an asset. Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug & alcohol screen test.

Please forward all resumes to: danacg@shaw.ca

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D

Please specify position when replying to this ad.

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

Immediate Positions Available Experienced Day Supervisors Night Supervisors Must be able to provide truck

EXPERIENCED PIPELINE LABORERS & HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS,.

Must have all safety tickets.

Competitive wages.

Fax or email: 403-749-3367 cccenca@telus.net

POWER TONG OPERATOR

Phone Shirley for job specifics at 403-843-6004 Fax resume to 403-843-2899 Only qualified applicants need to apply.

Please send resume to 403-340-0886 or email: pnieman@ cathedralenergyservices.com website: www. cathedralenergyservices. com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Position Summary: This role is responsible for providing a broad scope of administrative and personal support to a medical specialist in the field of Pediatrics.

Primary Focus: The primary focus of this position is to provide support to the physician within the environment of a medical practice, through the coordination of administrative, operational and support duties.

You will find success based on your ability to: • Assist the physician in monitoring and coordinating all administrative, operational and support duties, including following-up and reporting on all active issues.

• Establishing a friendly and efficient reception environment, sensitive to patient needs, and interactions with the physician.

• Preparing a variety of correspondence of a highly confidential and diverse nature, including letters and reports, ensuring a high degree of grammatical accuracy.

• Developing a thorough understanding of patient needs and support thereof within the confines of patient confidentiality.

• Arranging all aspects of the physician’s calendar and scheduling.

• Arranging meetings with external parties, arranging facilities and catering as necessary.

• Although providing administrative support is the primary objective, various sundry duties are also required from time to time.

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a DRILLER. Locally based, home every night!

Qualified applicants must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

As the ideal candidate you possess: • A High School Diploma.

• Medical terminology training and experience is preferred.

• Post-secondary education in office administration is preferred.

As the ideal candidate you have: • Proficiency and experience with Apple computer systems, utilizing Mac OS based software including Microsoft Entourage / Outlook, MS Office (Word, Excel) as well as Internet based (online) systems.

• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

• Excellent organizational, strong multi-tasking and prioritizing skills.

• Strong initiative and ability to work independently, including multitasking and dealing with changing priorities and with deadlines.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills showing confidence working with various health professionals, patients and their families.

• The ability to problem-solve.

• The ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships.

• An excellent attendance record, reliability and personal suitability must be demonstrated through employment records and references.

• The ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.

• The ability to provide positive patient support.

• Strong interpersonal skills.

• The ability to perform a variety of duties with limited supervision.

• The ability to work overtime from time-to-time.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Remuneration in line with industry standards, based on qualifications and experience.

E-mail your resume to mdpmanagement@shaw.ca.

Only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

293550C29,30

Hours are regular office hours Monday to Friday

WE are looking for Rig Managers, Drillers, Derrick and Floor hands for the Red Deer area.

Please contact Steve Tiffin at stiffin@galleonrigs.com or (403) 358-3350 fax (403) 358-3326

810

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION requires

F/T Safety Officer

w/construction exp. to help implement & maintain safety programs.

Fax resume to: 403-343-1248 or email admin@shunda.ca

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

DAD’S PIZZA

PART/FULL TIME COOK Apply at East 40th Pub. 3811 40th Ave. Harvard Park Business Centre Ltd is looking for an experienced cook for our kitchen. Starting ASAP. Banquet experience is a plus and knowledge on dealing with large groups.

Fax resume to 403-886-5003.

LUAU Investments Ltd. (O/A Tim Hortons) Food Counter Attendant F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) Must be avail. weekends $11.00 per hour.

4217 - 50 Ave. 6721 - 50 Ave. 7111 - 50 Ave. timhire@telus.net

TIM HORTONS

SERVICE RIG

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires CLASS 1 BED TRUCK Operators for Central Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

Trades

850

Cen-Con Concrete Inc.

NIGHT OWLS

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND

Administrative / Personal Assistant to Medical Specialist – Red Deer.

800

Oilfield

Professionals

RETIREMENT & SAVINGS PLAN BENEFITS COMPETITIVE WAGES

790

Medical

Oilfield

requires F/T Customer Service Night shift and afternoon shift..

Premium paid on night shift.

Has a f/t employment opportunity in our prepping/forming crew.

Carpentry experience would be an asset.

Must have a driver’s license.

We offer competitive wages, combined with a deluxe benefit pkg.

Drop off resume to: 7809 48 Ave. or fax to 403-340-1246. email: tarific@telusplanet.net

CONNELLY INDUSTRIAL INSULATION is seeking ticketed Alberta Asbestos workers and Mechanical Commercial Insulators. Email resume to: info@ connellyinsulation.com Eagle Builders is expanding its facility to double production. We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts:

* Concrete Finishers * General Labourers Top Wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included. Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at www. eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply online or fax resumes to Human Resources 403 885 5516 or e-mail: HR@eaglebuilders.ca.

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

FURIX Energy Inc is hiring for the following positions Sandblasters Apprentice Welders Journeymen welders with CWB and 400BBL tank manufacturing experience.

Level 1 Q/A QC Inspector

Health/Dental benefits, Please email your resumes paid training, free to Darryl@furixenergy.com uniforms. Apply in person or fax to 403-348-8109.

4217 - 50 Ave. timhire@telus.net Heavy Duty Red Deer Cultural Heritage Mechanic: Society requires a Required : Apprentices will PART TIME COOK be considered. Experience to provide catering services in all make and models of diesel engine is required at the CRONQUIST HOUSE. for this full time position.

Food service experience, Knowledge of air compresthe Food Sanitation & Hygiene sors, generator units and Certificate, & excellent communication skills essential. pumps would be an asset.

The successful applicant Please send resume to must have excellent comemail: rdchs@telus.net munication skills, both oral or fax 403-347-8759 & written. The position info, call 403-346-0055 requires a person who has SUNSHINE Family a strong work ethic and be Restaurant - F/T Kitchen able to work with minimal Helper. $11.41/hr, supervision in a fast paced 40 hrs/wk. Email: work environment. janegosselin@telus.net We wish to thank all applicants for their interest.

Only those considered will Sales & be contacted.

Distributors Forward Resume: Fax (403)343-2199 CUSTOM Energized Air is E-Mail: true@hertz.com a leader in compressed air technology and requires an LICENSED mechanic for truck maintenance on 20 Outside Sales Rep truck fleet. Reply to Box for our solutions driven 1036, c/o R. D. Advocate, sales team. Experience in 2950 Bremner Ave., Red air compressors and Deer, AB T4R 1M9 or fax pneumatics a definite resume to 403-346-0295 asset, but will train the right candidate. Base + S M A L L R U R A L M E AT commission + mileage + benefits. For Red Deer & SHOP in central AB looking for F/T meat cutter. area. Apply: del.trynchuk@cea-air.com K n o w l e d g e o f c u t t i n g hanging carcasses NOT HAPPY IN YOUR needed. Rental house current store? Busy Red avail. within walking disDeer import dealership tance of meat shop. is seeking a Finance Please call 403-843-4383 Manager. Above avg wage earn 10-20K/month, full STAIR MANUFACTURER benefit pkg, demo plan.

Req’s F/T workers to build Relocation incentive stairs in Red Deer shop. available. Its time you get MUST HAVE basic carpaid for your hard work!!!! pentry skills. Salary based Email resume to on skill level. Benefits kingofcars@hotmail.com avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Central Alberta’s Largest Industrial Bend. email: Car Lot in Classifieds earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

830

Oilfield

Truckers/ Drivers

860

BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

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 DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 MEGA CRANES is looking for a ticketed crane and boom truck operator. Must have Class 1. Good wages, benefits, 10% holiday pay, RRSP’s, and most evenings and weekends off. Fax resume to 885-4269 or email cathy@megacranes.com Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Misc.

Help

880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Clearview Area Castle Crsc.

Clark Crsc. & Crawford St. $155/mo.

Clearview Ridge Clearview Dr. & Crossley St. area $202.00/mo.

Deerpark Area 3 blks of Duston St. Denmark Crsc & West half of Donnelly Crsc. $94/mo.

Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. $61/mo.

ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area $76/mo.

Good for adult with small car.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Timberlands Area Talson Place, Thomas Place Trimble Place, Traptow Place Timberstone Way $152/mo.

Michener Area West of 40th Ave. North Ross St. to 52 Street. $236/monthly Good for adult with small car.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

Misc.

Help

880

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

NO EXP. NECESSARY!!

F.T. position available IMMEDIATELY in hog assembly yard in Red Deer. Starting wage $12/hr. Call Rich or Paul 403-346-6934

Carriers Needed 4 days/wk Flyers & Sun. Life IN PINES Patterson Cres. & Pamley Ave. Piper Dr. & Pennington Cres.

Pallo, Payne & Parsons Cl. Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

Carriers Needed Riverside Meadows Morning delivery 6 days /wk by 6:30 a.m.

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB Life, one day a wk. in Rimbey & Sylvan Lake ALSO Adult Carriers needed in Sylvan Lake & Bentley Please call Debbie for details 314-4307 EXPERT RV PARK MODELS, BOWDEN

General Handyperson Needed Duties include: Service & repair of Park Model homes, exterior & interior repair & reno. Willing to do some travel, if needed for repair/service of Park Models. Drug & alcohol free, fast paced environment.

2 positions avail. Wage depending on exp.

Fax: 403-210-4815 Attn: Ian or email: ian@experthome.ca

GAMES MUSIC - F/T Sales Clerk. Submit resume to 5209 50 Ave Red Deer

800

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

Escorts

1165

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD.

Spring & summer bookings.

Res./com. Your full service handyman. Brian 403-598-3857 BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, GREYSTONE Handyman textured & t-bar ceilings, Services. Reasonable 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980 rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

CUSTOM HOMES

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia preferring non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Escorts

1165

EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages 598-3049 www.eroticasplaymates.net IF you demand the best call Applebottoms 403-550-0558

Massage Therapy

1280

ASIAN Executive Touch Exclusive for men. Open 10 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 5003-50 St. 403-348-5650

Fantasy Massage GRAND OPENING APRIL 1

Gentle Touch Massage

4919 50 St. New staff. Daily Specials. New rear entry, lots of parking. 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269 LINDA’S CHINESE MASSAGE

COUPLES SPECIAL

2nd person is 1/2 price.

Open daily 9 am-9 pm.

403-986-1550 #3 4820-47 Ave

Massage Therapy

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE

Feeling overwhelmed?

Hard work day? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave.(rear entrance if necessary) www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels.

403-986-6686 Open all holidays. 7 days/wk

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca HOUSEHOLD ITEM REMOVAL 403-346-3844

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

Personal Services

1315

SPECIALIZING in reuniting loved ones back to stay.

Stops divorce 100% guaranteed. Call toll free 1-888-382-4111 Start your career!

See Help Wanted Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the house such as roof snow removal, bathroom fixtures, painting or flooring Call James 403- 341-0617 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 Better For Cheaper with a Low Price Guarantee. helpinghandshomesupport.com

Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you. Now hiring Canyon Champions for the following positions:

Class 1 Driver / Operators: Nitrogen – Pump Operators and Bulk Drivers; Journeyman Parts Technician; Electronic Technician; Apprentice Heavy Equipment Technician Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety—focused

f Team orientated f Clean Class 1 drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset

Why Canyon? f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New equipment

f f f

Paid technical and leadership training Career advancement opportunities RRSP Matching Program

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

How to apply: email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

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Accounting

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, March 29, 2013 E3

MEGA CRANES is looking for a YARD person with Class 1. Fax resume to 885-4269 or email cathy@megacranes.com

900

SAFETY TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

ANDERS AREA Adams Close/ Adair Ave.

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

For afternoon delivery once per week

BOWER AREA

(across from Totem)

In the towns of: Baile Close Boyce St./ Byer Close Barrett Dr/ Beatty Crsc..

Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St

920

Career Planning

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

FREE

INGLEWOOD AREA

Lancaster Dr

Sherwood Crsc VANIER AREA Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.

1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

6 DAYS PER WK. ( Monday - Saturday)

Employment Training

900

offers a variety of

SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis.

As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

900

1530

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

1610 1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

Musical Instruments

1770

ROCKER amplifier RX-100 $50 403-227-2976

1840

HEALTHCARE

1860

Browning Gr1 BAR rifle, 300 Win Mag $800. Beretta A300 12GA S/A 2-3/4 mod $325. 403-340-6865.

PROFESSIONAL exercise ball, Thera-Band, red, 55 cm. diameter $35 403-227-2976

Collectors' Items

1870

WILD game dishes, 6 pc. setting, with cream and sugar, 22K gold trim, rare find, never used $200 403-314-2026

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Household Appliances

1710

1720

WANTED

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

290211C11-F25

Auctions

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Mauricia 403-340-0225

wegot

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

1 BDRM. apt. in Penhold, $740/mo. Avail. immed.

Incl. most utils, no pets.

Call 403-886-5288 2 BDRM. furn. apt. and office space in Sylvan Lake.

No pets, n/s. $1100/mo. utils. incl.

403-887-4610

2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Pasture/Land Wanted

2180

1300 SQ.FT. 1/2 DUPLEX IN RED DEER. Gated community, The Fountains, near RDG.C.C. Great location. For more info phone 403-506-9491 FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

2190

I’M LOOKING FOR 4 Good Round Horse Hay Bales 403-350-7421

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Antique & Classic Autos

5020 2006 CHEVY Silverado. stnd. trans, 186,000 km. $5700 obo. 403-392-1313

Call for more info 403-588-2550

MOVE IN READY SPRING INTO A RISER HOME. EASTER SPECIAL

*This weekend only!*.

BLACKFALDS: 2 storey, 3 bdrm, 2 bath, upgrades, a must see! $376,500 2 bdrm. 2 bath. $297,900.

Inclds. all fees, sod & appls.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

4090

WANTED F. roommate, 30 - 45, must have a job, no kids, Rent. $350./mo.

Reply to Box 1038, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9. Also see ad under personal column.

3090

Rooms For Rent

Manufactured Homes

1977 Lincoln Continental mint, new cond, only 7000 orig. miles. “You won’t believe your eyes” $25,500 Call Keith 403-350-5346

2005 BMW 745 LI $21888 Sport & Import 348 8788 2000 PONTIAC Grand Am 2 dr. Clean 403-318-3040

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Gun control back on Obama’s plate

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — An emotional Barack Obama urged U.S legislators on Thursday to remember the victims of the mass shooting in Connecticut three months ago, saying “shame on us if we’ve forgotten” the 20 youngsters massacred by a young man with an assault rifle.

At the White House appearance, the president — surrounded by the mothers of the Connecticut shooting victims — called on Americans to pressure lawmakers into backing gun control initiatives currently making their way to the Senate floor.

Obama expressed astonishment that so soon after December’s slaughter at an elementary school in Newton, Conn., there appeared to be fading political will to tackle gun control.

“That’s not who we are,” he said. “Less than 100 days ago that happened ... and the entire country pledged we would do something about it and this time would be different. Shame on us if we’ve forgotten .... I haven’t forgotten those kids.”

Obama urged lawmakers: “Don’t get squishy.”

“What we’re proposing is not radical, it’s not taking away anyone’s gun rights, it’s something that if we are serious, we will do.... Now’s the time to turn that heartbreak into something real.”

Obama had barely finished speaking when a Republican senator emerged to illustrate the very resistance that is confronting the president’s efforts to push meaningful gun control measures through Congress.

Utah’s Mike Lee reiterated his pledge to filibuster Obama’s gun control proposals along with fellow Republicans Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

“The proposals the president is calling for Congress to pass would primarily serve to reduce the constitutionally protected rights of law-abiding citizens while having little or no effect on violent crime,” Lee said in a statement.

“It is deeply unfortunate that he continues to use the tragedy at Newtown as a backdrop for pushing legislation that would have done nothing to prevent that horrible crime.”

Obama made his White House remarks as investigators in Connecticut released details of the stunning cache of weapons and ammunition they recovered at the home shared by Adam Lanza, the perpetrator of the Newtown shooting, and his mother, who was also gunned down by her son last December.

“These weapons were legally purchased under our current laws,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said following the release of the details of police search warrants.

“I don’t know what more we can need to know be-

Arsenal found in the home of school shooter

fore we take decisive action to prevent gun violence.

The time to act is now.”

Also recovered from the Lanza home: a book entitled “The NRA Guide to the Basics of Pistol-Shooting” and two NRA certificates bearing Ryan and Nancy Lanza’s names.

The National Rifle Association, a powerful lobby group that contributes significant funding to the campaigns of lawmakers, claimed Thursday that the police records are false.

“There is no record of a member relationship between Newtown killer Adam Lanza, nor between Nancy Lanza, A. Lanza or N. Lanza with the National Rifle Association,” the organization said in a statement.

“Reporting to the contrary is reckless, false and defamatory.”

The NRA has long insisted it merely advocates for the Second Amendment rights of average American citizens. In recent years, however, there’s been increasing evidence that the lobby group receives funding from gun manufacturers and private security firms.

Gun control is a hot-button issue in the United States, the most heavily armed nation on Earth.

There are estimated 300 million guns in circulation, with at least one firearm in as many as 45 per cent of the nation’s homes.

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FINDINGS SHED NEW LIGHT ON SCHOOL MASSACRE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW HAVEN, Conn. — An arsenal of weapons including guns, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, a bayonet and several swords was found in the home of the gunman who carried out the Newtown school shooting using four weapons, according to search warrants released Thursday.

Adam Lanza left his house for the last time taking four guns with him — two loaded handguns and a Bushmaster rifle. A fourth gun, a loaded 12-gauge Saiga shotgun, was found in the passenger compartment of his Honda Civic.

The weapons used in the shooting had all apparently been purchased by Lanza’s mother, Nancy, with whom he lived.

Lanza used the weapons to kill 26 people inside Sandy Hook Elementary School and take his own life within five minutes of shooting his way into the building, prosecutor Stephen J. Sedensky III said in a statement accompanying the release of the warrants in the Dec. 14 massacre. Lanza was found dead in the school wearing military-style clothing.

The inventory of the evidence seized from Lanza’s home and the car he drove to carry out the massacre provided glimpses into the world of a troubled young man, but it does not answer the question of what could have motivated the attack. Investigators say it will take until June or later to complete the investigation.

The massacre was one of a string of high-profile mass shootings that galvanized a heated ongoing debate on gun control in the United States. A package of gun control measures is making its way through Congress. It does not include an assault weapons ban, though states like Connecticut are considering imposing one.

President Barack Obama, speaking Thursday at the White House alongside parents of the Newtown victims, said gun control votes in the Senate next month are the country’s best chance in more than a decade to reduce gun violence. He said powerful foes of gun control hope Americans will forget the shock of the school shootings in Newtown.

“Shame on us if we’ve forgotten,” Obama said.

Authorities said Lanza killed all 26 victims inside Sandy Hook Elementary School with a Bushmaster .223-calibre rifle before taking his own life with a Glock 10 mm handgun. He says Lanza had another loaded handgun with him inside the school as well as three, 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster.

Prosecutors said 154 spent .223 casings were recovered at the scene. A loaded 12-gauge shotgun was found in the Honda Civic Lanza drove to the school with two magazines containing 70 rounds of Winchester 12-gauge shotgun rounds.

At the house, investigators found books about autism and Asperger’s syndrome as well as an National Rifle Association guide to pistol shooting.

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US lawmakers rush to catch up on gay marriage, sensing shift in states WASHINGTON — Opinion on gay marriage in the United States has been shifting for years. Now lawmakers are hurrying to catch up.

In less than two weeks, seven senators — all from moderate or Republican-leaning states — announced their support for gay marriage. Their proclamations reflect a profound political change: For the first time, elected officials from traditionally conservative states are starting to feel it’s safer to back gay marriage than risk being the last to join the cause.

“As far as I can tell, political leaders are falling all over themselves to endorse your side of the case,” Chief Justice John Roberts told lawyers urging the Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down a law barring legally married gay couples from receiving federal benefits that other married couples receive.

The country’s top court heard two landmark gay marriage cases this week, its first major examination of gay rights in a decade. The focus on the cases obscured the sudden emergence of support among lawmakers across the street in the Capitol.

Among Republicans, whose party platform opposes gay marriage, the shift in position mostly has been limited to former lawmakers and prominent

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Jaycee Philen, 9-months, of Tomball, cries as she gets her photo taken by her mom, Jamie Philen in the blue bonnets near Chappell Hill, Texas on Hwy 290, Thursday.

Cyprus reopens banks with limits

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NICOSIA, Cyprus — Banks in Cyprus reopened for the first time in nearly two weeks Thursday and prohibited people from withdrawing all their savings and triggering further chaos in the country’s financial system.

The limits on transactions, which include caps on withdrawals and money leaving the country, are a first in the 14-year history of the euro.

Across Cyprus, large but orderly lines formed ahead of the opening of banks for six hours from noon, and guards from private security firms reinforced police outside some ATMs and banks in the capital, Nicosia.

People filed calmly into banks across the country once they had opened, and no crowd issues were reported.

The country’s president, Nicos Anastasiades, expressed his “warm gratitude and deep appreciation towards the Cypriot people for the maturity and spirit of responsibility they have shown at a critical time for the stability of the Cypriot economy,” a statement from his office said.

In Nicosia, one 70 year-old pensioner who only gave his name as Ioannis arrived at the bank some two hours ahead of the scheduled opening time.

“I had to come this early, I came from my village 20 kilometres away, what do they want me to do, keep coming and going?” he said. strategists. Still, a change in tone was palpable this month when Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican with a gay son, declared his support.

Rather than criticize Portman, Republican leaders shrugged. Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, cautioned in a USA Today interview that the party should not “act like Old Testament heretics.”

Banks have been shut since March 16 to prevent people draining their accounts as politicians scrambled to come up with a plan to allow Cyprus to qualify for 10 billion euros ($12.9 billion) in bailout loans for its stricken banking sector.

The deal was finally reached in Brussels early Monday, and imposes severe losses on deposits of over 100,000 euros in the country’s two largest banks, Laiki and Bank of Cyprus. Laiki will be broken up, with its good assets being absorbed by Bank of Cyprus. The exact amounts of the losses have not yet been officially announced.

Some individuals and businesses, spotting that Cyprus’s economy was in trouble and that a tax on deposits was being discussed, had managed to move their money out Cyprus well before the banks closed their doors last week.

According to European Central Bank figures, deposits in Cyprus’s banks slipped 2.2 per cent last month, to 46.359 billion euros, the lowest figure since May 2010 and down from a peak of 50.5 billion euros in May 2012. The figure excludes deposits from other banks and the central government.

“I anticipated, not this to happen, but I anticipated issues last year, when Greece had a question of whether it will remain in euro and the consequences of that,” said Athos Angelides, who runs a business importing and distributing hair salon products. “So luckily we transferred money in the middle of last year over to the UK.”

sides of the UN mission remains crucial to ensuring the protection of women and children, “and to prevent the continuation of the horrible streak of sexual violence” in the Congo.

British Ambassador Mark Lyall welcomed the resolution’s adoption as an important step toward peace and a time when the women of eastern Congo “no longer need to fear sexual violence and children are protected from the impact of conflict.”

UN authorizes brigade to take military action against rebels in eastern Congo Putin justifies raids on NGOs The UN Security Council authorized a new “intervention brigade” for Congo on Thursday with an unprecedented mandate to take military action against rebel groups to help bring peace to the country’s conflict-wracked east.

The resolution, which the council adopted unanimously, gives the brigade a mandate to carry out offensive operations alone or with Congolese army troops to neutralize and disarm armed groups.

The brigade is unprecedented in UN peacekeeping because of its offensive mandate. The resolution, however, states clearly that it would be established for one year “on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent” to the principles of UN peacekeeping.

The resolution, sponsored by France, the United States and Togo, would give the brigade a mandate to operate “in a robust, highly mobile and versatile manner” to ensure that armed group can’t seriously threaten government authority or the security of civilians.

U.S. deputy ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis said co-ordination between the military and civilian

MOSCOW — Russian authorities are raiding nongovernmental organizations to make sure they comply with a law intended to stem foreign meddling in Russian politics, President Vladimir Putin said.

Activists have criticized the sweeping searches of as many as 2,000 NGOs across the country as an attempt by the Kremlin to intimidate its critics. France and Germany have summoned Russia’s ambassadors to explain the searches, while the U.S., Britain and the EU have expressed concern.

Russia’s rights ombudsman, Vladimir Lukin, asked Putin about the raids, saying they have been conducted for no apparent reason.

Putin responded that the goal was to “check whether the groups’ activities conform with their declared goals and whether they are abiding by the Russian law that bans foreign funding of political activities.”

Hours before he spoke, the prosecutor general’s office said the raids aimed to weed out underground groups and combat money laundering.

A recent law requires all NGOs with foreign funding that engage in vaguely defined political activities to register as “foreign agents.”

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Kim puts NKorea’s rockets on standby IN RESPONSE TO U.S. SENDING B-2 BOMBERS TO SKOREA FOR MILITARY DRILLS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s leader said Friday that his rocket forces are ready “to settle accounts with the U.S.,” an escalation of the country’s bellicose rhetoric and a direct response to U.S. nuclear-capable B-2 bombers joining military drills with South Korea a day earlier.

Kim Jong Un’s comments in an early morning meeting with his senior generals are part of a rising tide of threats meant to highlight anger over the military drills and recent U.N. sanctions over Pyongyang’s nuclear test. North Korea sees U.S. nuclear firepower as a direct threat to its existence and claims the annual military drills are a preparation for invasion. Pyongyang also uses the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a justification for its own push for nuclear-tipped missiles that can strike the United States — a goal that experts believe to be years away, despite a nuclear test last month and a long-range rocket launch in December.

A full-blown North Korean attack is unlikely, though there are fears of a more localized conflict, such as a naval skirmish in disputed Yellow Sea waters. Such naval clashes have happened three times since 1999. North Korea’s threats are seen by outside analysts as efforts to provoke South Korea to soften its policies and to win direct talks with Washington that could result in aid. Kim’s comments are also seen as ways to build domestic loyalty and strengthen his military credentials.

Kim “convened an urgent operation meeting” early Friday, signed a rocket preparation plan and ordered his forces on standby to strike the U.S. mainland, South Korea, Guam and Hawaii, state media reported. Many analysts say they’ve seen no evidence that Pyongyang’s missiles can hit the U.S. mainland.

But it has capable short- and mid-range missiles, and Seoul is only a short drive from the heavily armed border separating the Koreas.

Kim said “the time has come to settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists in view of the prevailing situation,” according to a report by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. The stealth bombers’ flight indicates that U.S. hostility against North Korea has “entered a reckless phase, going beyond the phase of threat and blackmail.”

U.S. Forces Korea said that the B-2 stealth bombers flew from a U.S. air base in Missouri and dropped dummy munitions on an uninhabited South Korean island range on Thursday before returning home.

While B-2 bombers have been used in past military

exercises, including one in 2000 that included flights over South Korea, this is the first time that dummy munitions were dropped, according to the Pentagon.

The statement follows an earlier U.S. announcement that nuclear-capable B-52 bombers participated in the joint military drills.

Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters Thursday that the decision to send B-2 bombers to join the military drills was part of normal exercises and not intended to provoke North Korea. Hagel acknowledged, however, that North Korea’s belligerent tones and actions in recent weeks have ratcheted up the danger in the region, “and we have to understand that reality.”

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. was making sure its defences were “appropriate and strong” as North Korea continues to test and seeks to extend the reach of its weaponry.

Washington and Seoul say the military drills are routine and defensive.

North Korea has already threatened nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul in recent weeks. It said Wednesday there was no need for communication in a situation “where a war may break out at any moment.” Earlier this month, it announced that it considers void the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953.

But there were also signs that Pyongyang is willing to go only so far.

A North Korean industrial plant operated with South Korean know-how was running normally Friday, despite the North’s shutdown two days earlier of communication lines ordinarily used to move workers and goods across the border. At least for the moment, Pyongyang was choosing the factory’s infusion of hard currency over yet another provocation.

Pyongyang would have gone beyond words, possibly damaging its own weak finances, if it had blocked South Koreans from getting in and out of the Kaesong industrial plant, which produced $470 million worth of goods last year. South Korean managers at the plant reported no signs of trouble Friday.

The Kaesong plant, just across the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone that separates the Koreas, normally relies on a military hotline for the governments to co-ordinate the movement of goods and South Korean workers.

Without the hotline, the governments, which lack diplomatic relations, used middlemen. North Korea verbally approved the crossing Thursday and Friday of hundreds of South Koreans by telling South Koreans at a management office at the Kaesong factory.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber flies over near Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday. A day after shutting down a key military hotline, Pyongyang instead used indirect communications with Seoul to allow South Koreans to cross the heavily armed border and work at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.

Those South Koreans then called officials in South Korea.

Both governments prohibit direct contact with citizens on the other side, but Kaesong has separate telephone lines that allow South Korean managers there to communicate with people in South Korea.

Factory managers at Kaesong reached by The Associated Press by telephone at the factory said the overall mood there is normal.

“Tension rises almost every year when it’s time for the U.S.-South Korean drills to take place, but as soon as those drills end, things quickly return to normal,” Sung Hyun-sang said Thursday in Seoul, a day after returning from Kaesong. He is president of Mansun Corporation, an apparel manufacturer that employs 1,400 North Korean workers and regularly stations 12 South Koreans at Kaesong.

“I think and hope that this time won’t be different,” Sung said.

U.S. Army vet charged for fighting with al-Qaida in Syria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A U.S. Army veteran, who boasted on Facebook of his military adventures with Syrian rebels, was charged Thursday with firing rocket propelled grenades as part of an attack led by an al-Qaida group against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Eric Harroun, 30, of Phoenix, was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction — specifically, a rocket propelled grenade launcher — outside the U.S. According to an FBI affidavit, Harroun, who served three years in the Army before being medically discharged, was engaged in military action in Syria, siding with rebel forces against the Syrian government, from January to March of this year.

Harroun told FBI investigators that he travelled to Turkey in November hoping to join the Free Syrian Army, a rebel group. In January, he crossed the border and made contact with the

Free Syrian Army, which outfitted him with two Russian rifles, according to the affidavit.

Within days, Harroun participated in an attack on a Syrian army encampment that was carried out jointly by the Free Syrian Army and the al-Nusrah Front, commonly known as “alQaida in Iraq” and designated a terrorist group by the U.S., according to the affidavit.

After that battle, Harroun retreated in the back of an al-Nusrah truck. Harroun told the FBI that at the al-Nusrah camp, he was initially treated like a prisoner but was later accepted by the other members and participated in several attacks with them, according to the affidavit.

Harroun said al-Nusrah fighters would ask him why the U.S. had designated them as terrorists, according to the affidavit.

Harroun used RPG launchers in the attacks and once, on his Facebook page, claimed credit for downing a Syrian helicopter. According to the affidavit, Harroun told the FBI that he shot an estimated 10 people in his various

battles, though he was unsure if he had ever killed anyone.

On the Facebook page, Harroun also stated that “the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist” and that he intended to travel to the Palestinian territory because of Israeli atrocities there, according to the affidavit. The affidavit states that Harroun served in the Army from 2000 to 2003, when he received a medical discharge after he was injured in a car accident.

An Army spokesman said Harroun served at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri and Fort Riley in Kansas, and that his record listed no overseas deployments.

The federal public defender was appointed to represent Harroun at an initial public appearance Thursday, and a detention hearing was scheduled for Tuesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Peterson said Harroun faces up to life in prison.

Harroun flew back to the U.S. Wednesday through Dulles International Airport. He was arrested after being questioned by FBI agents there.

The public defender for the East-

ern District of Virginia, Michael Nachmanoff, declined comment Thursday, saying he had not yet had time to review the case in any depth.

Last year, Nachmanoff’s office represented a northern Virginia man, Mohamad Soueid, who pleaded guilty to spying on U.S.-based Syrian dissidents on behalf of the Assad regime. Soueid said he was motivated to help the Syrian government because of his fear that Islamic extremists would take hold in Syria if Assad’s secular regime were overthrown.

Harroun is not charged with providing material support to a terrorist group, but instead conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction outside the U.S., a law that applies to U.S. nationals operating anywhere in the world. The statute makes no distinction or exception for an individual who may be fighting a hostile regime.

Harroun appeared to make no effort to hide his activities in Syria. His Facebook page includes multiple photos of him wielding military rifles and a photo of Assad, with the caption “Wanted Dead or NOT alive!!!!”

Pope washes young women’s feet on Holy Thursday Suspect in Colorado prison BREAKS TRADITION THAT RESTRICTS HOLY THURSDAY RITUAL TO MEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME — In his most significant break with tradition yet, Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of two young women at a juvenile detention centre — a surprising departure from church rules that restrict the Holy Thursday ritual to men.

No pope has ever washed the feet of a woman before, and Francis’ gesture sparked a debate among some conservatives and liturgical purists, who lamented he had set a “questionable example.”

Liberals welcomed the move as a sign of greater inclusiveness in the church.

Speaking to the young offenders, including Muslims and Orthodox Christians, Francis said that Jesus washed the feet of his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion in a gesture of love and service.

“This is a symbol, it is a sign.

Washing your feet means I am at your service,” Francis told the group, aged 14 to 21, at the Casal del Marmo detention facility in Rome.

“Help one another. This is what Jesus teaches us,” the pope said.

“This is what I do. And I do it with my heart. I do this with my heart because it is my duty. As a priest and bishop, I must be at your service.”

In a video released by the Vatican, the 76-year-old Francis was shown kneeling on the stone floor as he poured water from a silver chalice over the feet of a dozen youths: black, white, male, female, even feet with tattoos.

Then, after drying each one with a cotton towel, he bent over and kissed it.

Previous popes carried out the Holy Thursday rite in Rome’s grand St. John Lateran basilica, choosing 12 priests to represent the 12 apostles whose feet Christ washed during the Last Supper

before his crucifixion.

Before he became pope, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio celebrated the ritual footwashing in jails, hospitals or hospices — part of his ministry to the poorest and most marginalized of society. He often involved women.

Photographs show him washing the feet of a woman holding her newborn child in her arms.

That Francis would include women in his inaugural Holy Thursday Mass as pope was remarkable, however, given that current liturgical rules exclude women.

Canon lawyer Edward Peters, who is an adviser to the Holy See’s top court, noted in a blog that the Congregation for Divine Worship sent a letter to bishops in 1988 making clear that “the washing of the feet of chosen men ... represents the service and charity of Christ, who came ’not to be served, but to serve.”’

While bishops have successfully petitioned Rome over the years for an exemption to allow women to participate, the rules on the issue are clear, Peters said.

“By disregarding his own law in this matter, Francis violates, of course, no divine directive,” Peters wrote. “What he does do, I fear, is set a questionable example.”

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said he didn’t want to wade into a canonical dispute over the matter.

However, he noted that in a “grand solemn celebration” of the rite, only men are included because Christ washed the feet of his 12 apostles, all of whom were male.

“Here, the rite was for a small, unique community made up also of women,” Lombardi wrote in an email. “Excluding the girls would have been inopportune in light of the simple aim of communicating

a message of love to all, in a group that certainly didn’t include experts on liturgical rules.”

Others on the more liberal side of the debate welcomed the example Francis set.

“The pope’s washing the feet of women is hugely significant because including women in this part of the Holy Thursday Mass has been frowned on — and even banned — in some dioceses,” said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author of “The Jesuit Guide.”

“It shows the all-embracing love of Christ, who ministered to all he met: man or woman, slave or free, Jew or Gentile.”

For some, restricting the rite to men is in line with the church’s restriction on ordaining women priests. Church teaching holds that only men should be ordained because Christ’s apostles were male.

“This is about the ordination of women, not about their feet,” wrote the Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a traditionalist blogger. Liberals “only care about the washing of the feet of women, because ultimately they want women to do the washing.”

Still, Francis has made clear he doesn’t favour ordaining women.

In his 2011 book, “On Heaven and Earth,” then-Cardinal Bergoglio said there were solid theological reasons why the priesthood was reserved to men: “Because Jesus was a man.”

On this Holy Thursday, however, Francis had a simple message for the young inmates, whom he greeted one-by-one after the Mass, giving each an Easter egg.

“Don’t lose hope,” Francis said.

“Understand? With hope you can always go on.”

One young man then asked why he had come to visit them.

Francis responded that it was to “help me to be humble, as a bishop should be.”

chief’s death threatened to kill guard while in prison

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER — The man suspected in the death of Colorado’s prisons chief threatened to kill a guard while he was in prison, the beginning of a long history of misconduct behind bars, according to his prison record released to The Associated Press on Thursday after an open records request.

Within nine months of entering prison in 2005, Evan Spencer Ebel misbehaved so badly he was placed in solitary confinement, the documents show.

He spent much time there because of continued threats and attacks against prison workers and other inmates.

Ebel had a swastika tattooed on his body, joined a white supremacist gang, and was nicknamed “Evil Ebel.”

Ebel, 28, died last week after a shootout with Texas authorities. Authorities are investigating whether he’s linked to the death of Tom Clements, the director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, who was shot and killed at his home March 19, and the killing of a pizza deliveryman two days earlier.

According to his prison record, Ebel got into a fight within a day of arriving at his first permanent prison in 2005.

Prison officials blacked out the part of the document that says whom he fought with.

Six months later, he told a female guard “that he would kill her if he ever saw her on the streets, and that he would make her beg for her life,” according to the record.

Shortly after that, he was placed in solitary confinement.

Ebel was enrolled in two programs aimed at helping prisoners get out of solitary, but he was kicked out both times because of disciplinary problems.

The most recent attempt came in October 2011 when Ebel joined the “Thinking for a Change” program.

Documents say he was removed after completing 15 of the required 20 classes.

Ebel was in solitary confinement when he was released from Sterling Correctional Facility on Jan. 28, his mandatory parole date under the law.

His records flagged him as very high risk, with a high chance of re-offending.

It’s not clear what he did between his release and his death last week in the shootout in Texas.

The gun Ebel used in the shootout was matched to the one used to kill Clements. Authorities say he got the weapon from Stevie Marie Vigil, 22, who bought it in early March at a gun shop in Englewood.

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