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Pharmacists protest drug price cuts

FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013

In the spotlight

BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF About 50 Central Alberta pharmacists rallied in downtown Red Deer on Thursday to protest government cuts to generic drug prices.

They joined many of their Central Alberta counterparts who closed stores to pass out information to patients as part of the provincewide protest.

“Pharmacists are gravely concerned for their patients and their profession,” said pharmacist Max Bearisto to the crowd. The group later marched from City Hall Park through downtown to the 49th Avenue and 49th Street corner to garner support and atMax Bearisto tention from passing midday motorists.

The province will pay 18 per cent — down from 35 per cent — of brand name drug prices for generic counterparts after June 1. The province initially planned to make the change on May 1 but delayed the start date.

Pharmacists say this will end drug maker rebates, a major source of revenue, forcing closures and layoffs, especially among small community independents. It may also bring drug shortages since makers won’t get the same level of profit.

Bearisto called “insulting” the $40 million that Health Minister Fred Horne announced Wednesday to cover the costs for generics that pharmacists bought at the older, higher prices. The money is also intended to keep isolated rural pharmacies open and train more pharmacists to perform more billable tasks.

“It’s a Band Aid solution for a profession that’s going to need some intensive care.”

Dev Aggarwal, owner of West Park Pharmacy, told the group “I’m not sure I can sustain the same (financial) model and give good care to my patients.

“I have a $240,000 inventory that’s going to be worth half June 1. I’m not some clothing store who can say everything is half price now.”

Vikki Cole, a 30-year veteran pharmacist at Innisfail Pharmacy, said the province must negotiate changes that threaten livelihoods.

“For them to just dictate it’s going to happen isn’t impressive.”

Please see PROTEST on Page A2

Photo by WAYNE MARTIN/contributor

The Red Deer Centennial Committee was testing water-related images that will be projected in conjunction with Red Deer’s River of Light event on June 30.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer’s water tower is getting ready for the big show.

If you were in the vicinity of the tower on Wednesday night, you may have noticed some images projected on the tower.

The Red Deer Centennial Committee was testing water-related images that will be projected in conjunction with Red Deer’s River of Light event on June 30.

For three nights starting on June 28, the tower will project images starting at dusk.

Sheila Bannerman, Red Deer Centennial Committee chairperson, said the images will be mostly of water and shapes.

“As part of the public education project, we’re highlighting our relationship to water and use of water in the city,” said Bannerman. “It’s partly our relationship to water and our relationship to the Red Deer River.”

Bannerman said the water tower is a cool focus point that is clearly related to the use of water. Only one side of the water tower was tested on Thursday but the entire tower will be used to reflect images. No more testing is planned.

The River of Light is the flagship event of the

Homecoming Weekend celebrating the centennial.

The committee is using Creatmosphere, a London-based art and conceptual lighting studio, to put on the light show on the Red Deer River. The team worked with the City of Calgary to put on a light show celebrating the Bow River in 2010.

“None of us wanted to re-create what Calgary had,” said Bannerman. “We were looking for something very specific to Red Deer and reflected our environment and our community.”

Bannerman said the Red Deer River, a central element of Red Deer, was a logical choice to highlight during the centennial celebrations.

Illuminated recycled rain barrels will float from Fort Normandeau to Three Mile Bend on the Red Deer River on June 30.

“It’s canola,” said Bannerman. “It’s oil and it’s water. It also reflects Red Deer’s commitment to the environment and recycling because the barrels are recycled.”

After the trip down the river, the barrels will be picked up by those who purchased or sponsored the barrels.

Residents will be able to watch the lights from both sides of the river from 10:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.

The light barrels are available for $70 from www. reddeer2013.ca. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Province working on plans to relocate Michener residents

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF The provincial government is anticipating a good number of residents from Michener Centre will be moved to their former hometowns or places where their families or guardians now live.

Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski said on Thursday that the province is working on plans for where the 125 residents will live.

The government announced in March that the long-serving residential dwellings for people with development disabilities will close and that 125 residents from there will be relocated, starting in September. A target is to have all moved out by January 2014. Another 105 already live in Michener Hill group homes and will stay.

Jablonski said that 50 seniors will be relocated to hometowns or where their families or guardians choose. Twelve will be going home to Calgary, where

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MICHENER DEBATED IN THE LEGISLATURE A2 there is space, including Graduated Supports run by Persons with Developmental Disabilities. Families will be consulted in each case.

The remaining 63 will be moved according to families wishes. A total of $10 million has also been set aside so that group homes or community agencies can build housing for Michener residents.

That renovated or new housing could be in Red Deer, said Jablonski.

“Getting them back to their home communities in good, safe and comfortable group homes is also an advantage for families,” added Jablonski.

Bill Lough, president of the Society of Parents and Friends of Michener Services, doubted that this move will be good for anyone.

He said the average age of residents within Michener Centre is 60 and so the 50 people who Jablonski said are being relocated are very elderly and medically fragile. This group has had the same

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caregivers for years.

Building new group homes or renovating new ones just doesn’t make sense, he added, since they could be a couple of blocks from where Michener is found.

Lough said moving these residents anywhere from Michener is debatable due to the care that they may receive.

“I don’t think the hospitals or the long-term care facilities are prepared for this extent of care,” said Lough. “This is a game of optics. Government says they have no problem handling it ... we have very severe doubts that the level of care can be duplicated.”

He said he’s spoken with service providers in Calgary and Red Deer and they do not have any residents similar to those at Michener.

Lough anticipates that the government has plans to move everyone out of Michener, particularly when it reneged on a 2008 promise to keep the residents there until they die.

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PROTEST: Worried about the future Chanelle Willson, a fourth year pharmacy student from Red Deer who represented Drumheller’s Value Drug Mart at the rally, worries for her future.

“I’m graduating into all this. Wages and hours are impacted and it’s a little scary.”

Todd Prochnau of Sylvan Lake’s Shoppers Drug Mart said the free advice pharmacists give patients “prevent abuse of the health-care system on a daily basis and government isn’t aware of that.

“I’ve never been more proud than today to be a pharmacist.”

Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith, who joined a rally at the legislature in Edmonton, said “Once again, this government thinks it knows best.

“By forcing pharmacists to sell drugs at a price point they can’t afford, they are putting Albertans who need their medicine at risk.” rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

MICHENER: Petition has about 2,000 names A petition calling for the reversal of the government’s decision has so far gathered just under 2,000 names.

Jablonski said there’s no minimum number of signatures required on the petition, but it must be valid in order to be presented in the legislature.

“If you want to split hairs on this ... it’s a matter of expressing a voice,” said Lough, adding the key is that the government knows how many are against the closure.

As well, the City of Red Deer is negotiating with

Questions over what will happen to Michener Centre and its residents when it closes were a hot topic during question period in the Alberta legislature on Wednesday.

Calgary-Shaw Wildrose MLA Jeff Wilson questioned Infrastructure Minister Wayne Drysdale about the estimated value of the hundreds of acres of prime real estate in Red Deer, and what the plans are for the site once the facility closes.

Drysdale replied the policy is that when another government agency is no longer requiring property or buildings, it’s turned over to Infrastructure for disposal.

“That hasn’t been done yet, so until Infrastructure has it turned over to them from the other department, we won’t be dealing with it until it’s ours.”

Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski mentioned that some of the 125 residents are medically fragile and have lived there all their lives, some for over 50 years.

“They are happy and they are thriving,” said Jablonski.

She wondered where they’d be able to find safe and suitable homes with specially trained caregivers for 125 persons with developmental disabilities.

“I’m informed that there are suitable homes,” said Frank Oberle, associate minister of Services for Persons with Disabilities. “Obviously, we have to work with AHS, with service providers.”

Jablonski wondered whether the specially designed Marwayne dental clinic would remain open. It has space for wheelchairs and other disability equipment and specially designed dental chairs and equipment.

Oberle replied that his immediate concern is the development of care plans and the transition of residents. He said they will look at the future of Michener’s dental services and other services there, such as physical therapy and nursing, alongside the needs of the individuals who remain. That planning is underway right now, Oberle said.

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the province over keeping the lease on Michener Centre swimming pool.

The contract ended March 31, but has been extended.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — This is the weekend Canadian politics begins gearing up for the next election.

In Ottawa, the Liberals will select a new — and likely very different — leader. In Montreal, the Opposition New Democrats will use their policy convention to retool the party’s message and policies to better suit a government in waiting.

And the Conservatives will begin cranking up their famously effective defensive machine to keep both at bay.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is billing his party’s event as a critical moment.

“I’m confident that whether it’s on renewing the terminology in the (party) constitution or giving ourselves exactly the vision and determination we need to carry this through in the next election, it’s going to be a great weekend for us,” Mulcair told The Canadian Press.

Stacked up against Sunday’s Liberal leadership results-fest, with presumptive front-runner Justin Trudeau the centre of attention, the constitutions, resolutions and workshops of an NDP convention might seem dry. Both parties insist the timing was pure coincidence.

But history has shown that policy conventions can be game changers for parties with brand troubles — even propelling some to future victory. Tony Blair’s New Labour in the UK, or even Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, both had crucial, moderating policy conventions before winning elections.

Anne McGrath, former chief of staff to late NDP leader Jack Layton, said all social democratic parties come to a point where they need to modernize and consider how they’re perceived by the public.

“It’s not going to be just about what resolutions get adopted, it’s going to be about how we actually conduct debates, and what the consciousness is of the people that are there about the importance of presenting the party as a replacement for this government,” said McGrath, now managing director of Ensight Canada.

The NDP rank and file will vote on a change that’s been haunting conventions since 2009 — modernizing the preamble of the party’s constitution.

A panel of party wise men and women came up with a more moderate statement that drops numer-

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ous references to “socialism” and “socialist,” as well as the document’s anti-free market language.

Leader Tom Mulcair has been disdainful of the old turns of phrase, many of them with roots in the Canadian Co-operative Federation (CCF) of yore.

“We’ll continue to fight for labour rights, but we’re also going to start making sure that we also put on the table a vision for how to have a sustained economy where were not taking everything for our generation and leaving nothing but debt for future generations.”

The NDP’s discussion mirrors to some extent the debate Britain’s Labour Party had at a convention in 1994, with new leader Tony Blair leading the charge for the party to abandon a constitutional clause that committed to “social ownership.”

The discussion in the Labour party had preceded Blair — his predecessor John Smith had already started laying the groundwork. Similarly, Layton’s slow, delicate efforts to move his party more towards the centre predated Mulcair’s leadership.

Longtime NDP observer David McGrane, a political science professor at the University of Saskatchewan, said he’ll be looking for some of the same trends inside the NDP as with Blair’s New Labour party — a moment where the party membership accepts the need to become moderate.

“There has been a culture change within the NDP itself, and it’s matured in a lot of ways ... if the vast majority of delegates are onside with this, that shows a sort of culture change,” McGrane said.

“They’re accepting a modernization, but also a professionalization of the party, the idea that the party needs to have a good marketing skills, and they start with putting together a good preamble — one’s that quite wishy-washy, actually.”

But even if the NDP gets a handle on a more moderate offering for voters, there is the Trudeau factor to contend with. The popular son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau has been giving the party new buoyancy in recent polls.

Mulcair might like to model his NDP on the success of New Labour in Britain, but the parallels between the charismatic Blair — only 43 when he was elected prime minister — and 41-year-old Trudeau might be easier to draw.

Mulcair, for his part, said he remains unperturbed.

Numbers are unofficial.

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Pharmacists protesting a 50 per cent cut to generic drug prices march along 49th Street Thursday. Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

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Premier not worried about over-exposure

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Alison Redford said she’s not worried that her frequent trips to Washington, D.C., to promote the Keystone XL oil pipeline will create an overexposure problem with the American public.

Redford has visited Washington four times since she became premier 18 months ago. She has attracted the attention of anti-Keystone protesters, including some who repeatedly interrupted her speech to the Brookings Institution last week.

“The challenge is to make sure that your story is heard,” Redford told reporters prior to her annual leader’s dinner in Calgary on Thursday.

“If you are lucky enough to be one of those people where your story is heard too much and no one wants to hear from you anymore then you’ve just done an excellent job.”

Redford said there are key discussions in committee rooms at both the Congressional and Senate levels regarding Keystone XL and it is essential to keep Alberta’s message front and centre.

“I’ll tell you that every opportunity that we have to go to Washington ... to talk to decision makers is critical and particularly so right now,” she said.

“From our perspective it’s important to be there to keep saying what we’ve been saying, to make sure people know what we’re doing in Alberta, what our values are, what our environmental record is.”

The pipeline has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate over climate change. Republicans and business and labour groups have urged the Obama administration to approve the pipeline as a source of much-needed jobs and a step toward North American energy independence.

Environmental groups have been pressuring President Barack Obama to reject the pipeline, saying it would carry “dirty oil” that contributes to global warming. They also worry about a spill and have mounted an aggressive advertising campaign critical of Keystone.

“I think some of them are absolutely ridiculous,”

Redford said.

“There are a lot of those ads and we’ve got to pay attention to them. That’s one of the reasons that we invested in ads to make sure the record is clear and the facts are on the table.”

The Obama administration is considering whether to approve the pipeline, which would carry 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta across six U.S. states to the Texas Gulf Coast, which has numerous refineries. A decision is expected later this summer.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it is important to keep an open dialogue with the United States over Keystone XL. “We are doing that at every level of the government and in coordination with the province of Alberta and others,” Harper said at an event in Calgary on Thursday. “We really do have a Team Canada approach to this.

“This is a matter that I think is vital to both the economic growth and the energy security in all of Canada and the United States as well.”

He said he was glad to see Redford working hard to “tell our story of the actions we are taking here in Alberta and across the country.”

‘Corpse flower’ set to bloom New Remand Centre EDMONTON

WILL STINK LIKE ROTTING MEAT

not safe enough to work in: jail guards

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta jail guards say a massive new remand centre that is preparing to accept its first inmates isn’t safe enough to work in.

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees says it found five pages of design flaws after recently touring the sprawling $569-million Edmonton facility, which is designed to hold up to 2,000 people who have been charged and are waiting for trials.

Union president Guy Smith has asked the provincial government to delay the transfer of prisoners as early as this weekend from the old remand centre until changes are made.

“It is absolutely essential for all involved that this new building, with all the potential it has to be a facility that works for inmates and also for our members, is as safe as possible,” Smith said Thursday.

“At this time, we don’t believe that it is safe enough to move inmates into.”

The union said it is also not satisfied with some of the new approaches to be used that will require guards to work with inmates much more closely.

Smith said the union has filed a formal complaint under Alberta’s Occupational Health and Safety Act that the government is required to respond to.

The law allows employees to turn down work if there are reasonable and probable grounds that a job would put their health or safety in imminent danger.

Justice Minister Jonathan Denis told reporters Thursday in Calgary the complaints had not been raised with him before.

“I was actually very surprised to hear that because I have met with some of the union officials and they did not bring any of these issues up,” he said.

“We’ve done our own hazard assessments. Officer safety is always paramount and we have not identified any issues that they have mentioned,” Denis said.

“I am willing to keep talking about the topic but the remand centre will open as planned.”

The new state-of-the-art remand centre is spread over a site larger than 26 football fields. It was built to replace the sometimes violent, overcrowded downtown remand centre.

Older centres were designed to hold inmates for less than 10 days. Now some inmates can spend up to two years waiting for their cases to be heard.

Officials have said the new jail will help deal with an influx of inmates expected from new federal anticrime legislation and to take pressure off other correctional facilities.

Clarke McChesney, head of the union local that represents 580 correctional peace officers who will work at the jail, said his people are worried.

The union declined to explain specific design problems, due to safety concerns should prisoners become aware of them.

Inmates at the old facility, including gang members, are anxious about the change, as well, McChesney said. And, he suggested, if the transition is handled poorly, an already toxic atmosphere could explode. He called it a potential powder keg.

“What we don’t want to do is put officers in more danger,” he said.

“The sheer enormity of the building, the amount of offenders that are going to be moved in a short period of time, make it a volatile situation.”

The union said changes it wants could take anywhere from two weeks to six months to address.

EDMONTON — A giant plant is preparing to bloom in Edmonton, but visitors should be prepared to hold their noses.

Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the “corpse flower,” is expected to open in two to three weeks inside one of the city’s landmark glass pyramids at the Muttart Conservatory.

Staff horticulturist Sarah Birmingham said the day the flower opens, it will emit a stench like dead bodies or rotting meat.

The promised putrid smell has led staff to nickname their newest attraction Putrella, she said.

Those preparing for the big day are even thinking about handing out souvenir barf bags.

“I don’t think it will assault your senses so much that it’s going to make you physically nauseous, but you never know,” Birmingham said with a smile.

“But if you’re coming to see it, you should be aware that it stinks and take a deep breath before you come in. Take a picture and let the others do the same thing. Then you can go outside and get some fresh air.”

The tropical plant is found in the wild in Sumatra, an island in Indonesia, but is also grown in greenhouses around the world. Each time it blooms, it’s an event.

Another corpse flower bloomed this week in Miami and one opened last year in Niagara Falls, Ont. The Edmonton flower will be the first to bloom in Western Canada, said Birmingham.

She said Putrella came from Boston last summer as a 125-kilogram tuber, the size of a tire, packed in dirt. In March, a bud cracked through the soil and last weekend staff became certain it would flower.

It can take years for the plant to develop a flower and the bud grows several metres tall before opening.

It’s an amazing sight: a giant, purple-reddish bloom, like something out of the Little Shop of Horrors movie.

Birmingham said anyone who wants to see Putrella will have to hurry because its bloom will only last for a few days and its unforgettable scent will last for

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

The “corpse flower” at the Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton is shown in a City of Edmonton handout photo. Staff at the conservatory predict its “corpse flower” will open in two to three weeks. only one.

“Everyone’s really excited about it. There’ve been 4,000 hits on our Facebook page in last three hours.”

She said the Muttart will announce the bloom on Facebook and its website as soon as it happens. Visiting hours might also be extended for a few days.

The agreement calls for a three-year salary freeze for nearly 40,000 Alberta teachers, followed by an increase of two per cent plus a one-time lump sum payment in 2015-16.

Edmonton Public School Board voted against the deal, as did the Calgary Public school board, while Catholic boards in both cities have accepted it.

School boards have until May 13 to vote on the deal.

“It’s proof to me that this negotiated agreement is putting our education system on the right path forward,” Johnson said in the news release.

More than half of 62 school boards give thumbs up to teachers deal EDMONTON — Alberta’s education minister says more than half of school boards in the province have given the thumbs-up to the teachers’ new contract.

Jeff Johnson said Thursday that 33 of the 62 boards have officially come out in favour of the fouryear-deal.

He says several others have indicated their support for the deal, which must also be ratified by the local teachers union.

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On the trail of tax cheats CBC VS. THE TAX CHEATS — AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Should the CBC be compelled to release the information it has on Canadians who hold secret offshore bank accounts?

As a taxpayer currently filing my own annual income statements for tax purposes, I really do want to say yes.

But as a journalist — and looking at the global picture — I also conclude GREG that a greater NEIMAN measure of justice will likely be done if we maintain our tradition of journalistic integrity to our sources. Besides, when it comes to matters touching on the most wealthy, the most privileged and the best-connected of people, I trust the CBC more to deal with the matter in a way that’s fair to me, than I trust the federal government right now.

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In time, I expect the world will have rather much fewer super-wealthy tax cheats in it, and governments everywhere will have rather more incentive to be diligent in pursuing tax cheats when they don’t know exactly how much information the media has on hand to reveal.

By all reports, there’s a lot of information involved. It’s 30 years worth of data involving 130,000 people worldwide. In volume alone, it’s said to be 162 times more data than was contained in the blockbuster WikkiLeaks release of U.S. government secrets in 2010.

CBC was the only Canadian recipient of the 2.5 million files leaked to 38 members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Canada publishes no estimate of the tax revenue lost when wealthy individuals secretly sock their billions into offshore accounts. But if the super-rich in Canada are tax cheats in the same proportion as in other countries, the loss to the Canadian treasury would be about $7 billion a year, according to the think tank Tax Justice Network.

That’s about a quarter of the government’s annual budget deficit.

The CBC has documents on some 450 Canadians.

So far, the CBC has only reported one case from among its files. Regina lawyer Tony Merchant, noted as the

“king of class action suits,” and spouse of Liberal senator Pana Merchant, was reported to have about $1.7 million in offshore in accounts where Pana and the couple’s three sons are listed as beneficiaries. The money was transferred while Merchant was involved in a battle with Revenue Canada over taxes owed.

That’s about all we know for now — and that’s far from a legal conviction.

But in an editorial published by the CBC’s Jennifer McGuire, more information will be published in coming months as they sift through the data.

Just the same, Canada’s most wealthy do keep good company. So far, a smattering of reports in 37 other countries has revealed these tidbits: ● In the U.K., statements have been found about a property tycoon already in jail for hiding $600 million offshore during divorce proceedings; ● In Russia, the deputy premier’s wife has been named publicly, as have managers of top military contractors; ● In Germany, the former husband of movie star Brigitte Bardot was revealed to keep a network of accounts in tax havens; ● In France, the treasurer of president Francois Holland’s election campaign has come under scrutiny; ● In Italy, the former head of information security for Telecom Italia (who was arrested in 2007 for illegally

obtaining information on 4,000 people, including politicians and journalists) is once more in the news; ● In Greece, the government is said to have little clue about the offshore accounts of Greek citizens.

Who knows, maybe somebody at cash-strapped CBC is working a dodge.

In delivering Canada’s Action Plan, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced that anyone blowing the whistle on major tax cheats can expect up to 15 per cent of taxes recovered as a reward, if the recovery is over $100,000.

Around the same time, the Canada Revenue Agency announced a $300-million budget cut, to take place over three years, killing about 3,000 jobs; and $100 million of that was in the department that works on compliance programs.

As I said, I trust the CBC more to ensure that tax cheats are named and prosecuted than I trust the federal government. That may be a failing on my part, exacerbated while my own federal tax bill is being tallied.

For now, up to 450 Canadians with offshore accounts have some space to come clean and work a deal with Revenue Canada, before the headlines hit the fan.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

This little piggy went to market RAISING PIGS A WONDERFULLY TRAUMATIC ORDEAL When I was 13 years old, Dad output increased even more. Every brought home six wiener pigs for my couple of months, Dad would bring brother and I. home a load of peas from the elevator The idea, I suppose, was to teach and Aric and I would shovel the entire us about hard work or retruckload into the old hamsponsibility — or something mer mill, which ground the along those lines. peas into a fine chop.

While it wasn’t all rainMan, did they love that bows and sunshine, raising stuff. More than once I was those pigs turned out to be knocked to the ground by a life-changing ordeal that overenthusiastic swine Aric and I will reminisce while trying to haul a fivefondly over for the rest of gallon pail of food to the our days. trough.

As far as pigs go, they When friends would were a motley crew of miscome to visit, we often matches. We named them played in the pig pen, feedaccording to their physiing them out of our hands LEO cal attributes and unique or trying to ride them like PARÉ personalities — Long Pig, broncos.

Brown Pig, Big Pig, Small One day, with a couple Pig, Mean Pig and Kratchof pals watching, the aptly mer (named for the farmer named Mean Pig, took exwho sold him). ception to my taunting and turned on Each day after school, we’d bound me with all 45 kg (100 pounds) of her out of the bus and sprint to the barn lady-pig might. Bowling me over and where we’d roll around in the straw pinning me in the stinking muck, she and chase the squealing little meat stood with front hooves on my chest, bags around their pen until they were opened her mouth inches from my face tired enough to let us hold them. and bellowed a bone-chilling howl that Some of the shine wore off the first resonated in my head for days afterday Dad made us shovel out the pen. ward.

I often pondered out loud how it was Needless to say, I never messed physically possible for six tiny pigs with Mean Pig again. to crank out so much poop in just one One fateful Saturday afternoon, Dad week. announced that it was ‘nuttin’ time’ As the pigs grew, their food intake for the three male pigs. I had assumed increased dramatically and their poop that meant we would be taking them

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As the months passed and the poop piled up, the pigs became more like pets than livestock, so it was a pretty emotional day for Aric (seen here) and I when it came time to take the pigs to market. to the veterinarian, where they’d be anesthetized and undergo a peaceful surgical procedure.

When Dad started sharpening up his old pocket knife, I knew there would be nothing ‘peaceful’ about it.

Aric and I were tasked with first catching, then pinning down the frantic hogs while Dad played surgeon down at the business end.

Have you ever held down the head of a screaming 200-pound hog while he has his testicles extracted with a pocket knife?

If not, don’t bother putting it on your bucket list.

As the months passed and the poop piled up, the pigs became more like pets than livestock, so it was a pretty

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emotional day for Aric and I when it came time to take the pigs to market.

We loaded them into the old horse trailer, drove into town and scratched them all behind the ears as we unloaded them. Even though we both knew this day was coming for some time, we couldn’t help shed a few tears as we drove away.

Childhood on the farm comes with a few rough life lessons, but looking back, raising those pigs did my brother and I more good than Dad could ever have hoped for.

And the ham was delicious.

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Michener Services needs to continue for a number of very good reasons.

The decision to disperse the residents needs to be reversed.

First, they are the best service providers for a unique group of persons with serious mental and physical disabilities. Their families and guardians are all in agreement that Michener Services provides the best level of care available in Alberta.

Some of those who advocate moving all persons with disabilities to group homes, scattered around Alberta, fail to understand that the same service delivery model does not fit everyone’s needs. Just consider the number of different hospitals, schools and seniors housing options we provide — and some of those involve the centralization of services for a specific population such as persons with dementia.

At Michener Services, we have just such a unique population, which is being well served by the present facility, staff and programs.

There is no rational reason to discontinue this service, at this location; other than a faulty, ideological fixation that Michener is an institution and institutions are bad.

The fact is, today’s Michener is superior to any agency in serving the needs of their very challenging and very vulnerable folks.

Second, closing Michener Services would remove about 50 nursing home and continuing care beds from the Red Deer community. We don’t have enough nursing home level care available now and seniors are often kept longer than necessary in hospital waiting for placement.

We should not be removing 50 beds from the system, making it even harder for the frail, elderly to get the care they need.

What is the provincial government thinking?

Third, keeping the south site of Michener open does not require building new buildings, nor more capital costs.

In my opinion, the present buildings, which have been upgraded and well maintained over the past years, are adequate and uniquely suited to meet the needs of these special people.

Why would the provincial government want to spend more to move residents against the wishes of those who love them? Why If saving money is the motivation, why hasn’t the provincial government sold off the north site (Deerhome) as their own 2008 report proposed? It’s certainly valuable real estate.

But if providing the best possible care to a group of elderly, multi-handicapped folks is important to us as Albertans, we must ask our provincial government to reverse their decision and allow Michener to fulfil its mandate.

Rev. Stuart Fraser Former chaplain Michener Services

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people who ride bicycles, drive and park vehicles, walk on sidewalks or breathe air. All of these people stand to benefit from a safe, accessible, and widely-used system of commuter cycling facilities.

As for taxpayers’ input, I would point out that those advocating for commuter cycling facilities in Red Deer are taxpayers every bit as much as those arguing against them. Perhaps what Mr. Wallace means is that “nobody came to my door to ask me about bike lanes and I didn’t bother to fill out the online survey.�

Maybe something akin to the Kelowna system would work in Red Deer and maybe it wouldn’t. However, it would be foolhardy and expensive to simply adopt that system without careful analysis and experimentation with its application in Red Deer. There are some problems with the pilot lanes that have been installed — some real and some sophistry — but we now know what some of those problems are, and after the conclusion of the pilot project, the city will be in a position to assess and address each of those problems in any future projects.

Terminating the pilot project before reliable information, data, and feedback can be gathered would entirely defeat the purpose of the pilot project, rendering it a true waste of money, and it would not serve the interests of anybody, including those opposed to bike lanes.

Jane Mueller Red Deer

Don’t let a vocal few spoil opportunity for real change Who did you vote for in the last federal, provincial and municipal election? Why did you vote for him/her?

What guide did you use to determine your vote?

Contrary to what Cameron Kennedy, John Stewart, Mayor Morris Flewwelling, certain council members and Lorna Watkinson Zimmer’s personal opinions and comments, there is no short and fast rule or anything that prohibits municipal politics and candidates from running and aligning themselves with whomever they choose.

Do not be fooled by their comments and shenanigans.

It is not past or present politicians or journalists who will reveal and determine if the group, Red Deer First, is a necessary want and need to reinvent and realign how Red Deerians want to be governed and who they want governing them. It is the voting and democratic process that will determine that outcome.

It is, of course, quite predictable these past and present politicians and journalists will do and say anything to stop any group that does not want to play by their rules and support their way of doing things in Red Deer.

This is what those do, when their own dictate is challenged. This is what those do, when their status quo is challenged. This is what those do, when they want to preserve things exactly the way they are.

But one needs to ask why? Better yet, ask yourself — to whose advantage will keeping everything exactly the same benefit?

The interesting part of politics and democracy is having one challenge the dictate of a group who believe their dictate is sacrosanct. But the most interesting part of this process, is when it is challenged to its limits in our own backyard.

Remember the Reform Party and Preston Manning, channelling the disproportionate politics of East versus West in Canada? If the time was not ripe, the Reform Party would not have come to fruition. Let’s not forget what the Reform Party did and achieved as an Alberta protest party and how it synthesized the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada into the party it is today. If the Reform Party never had come about, would Stephen Harper be our prime minister today?

Think about it.

In his letter to the editor published on April 3, Carmen Wallace states that “[Councillor Chris] Stephan is right to introduce a notice of motion to cancel the pilot project on bike lanes. This was brought on us without the taxpayers’ input. The bicycles association, along with a very few vociferous people, managed to convince council that bike lanes were needed in Red Deer.�

Mr. Wallace goes on to explain that he is “very opposed to bike riding on sidewalks� and that he was “in favour of bike lanes� and goes on to suggest that Red Deer adopt a system of bike lanes similar to that used in Kelowna.

The bike lane pilot project is just that — a pilot project. It is an initiative intended to gauge what works and what doesn’t work to facilitate safe commuter cycling in Red Deer.

This pilot project was introduced in response to a number of suggestions, including advocacy by the Red Deer Association for Bicycle Commuting (which I assume is the “bicycles association� referred to in Mr. Wallace’s letter; I’m not sure what “vociferous people� he refers to, as I have only encountered vociferous opposition to the bike lanes).

3 Days-Sunday April 14, Dinner In other letters to the editor and in other foMonday & Tuesday April 15 &16-Lunch & Dinner rums, I have read numerLunch $15 each, Dinner $22 each ous statements that the bike lanes were installed to satisfy “special interest groups.� I’m not sure exactly what is meant #104 6751-52 Ave., Red Deer by that term, but would 403-986-6319, rueonthairestaurant@hotmail.ca agree that it is accurate if “special interest groups� includes those

I wish Red Deer First, those courageous trail blazers, the best of luck in forging new pathways in municipal politics.

F.J. Guedoud Calgary

Embarrassed by withdrawal from anti-drought group Canada’s “quiet� withdrawal last week (ironically World Water Day) from United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (spread of drought) is shameful!

A total of 194 countries and the European Union are all part of the convention. Canada was one of the first countries in 1994 to sign on and now is the first country to walk away, further isolating Canada from rest of the global community; the withdrawal amounts to “a departure from global citizenship,� Robert Fowler, former Canadian ambassador to the UN. It appears opting out of the Kyoto protocol, muzzling scientists and passing Bill C-45, which removes protections for the majority of our lakes, is yet another way the federal government handles environmental issues.

Canada’s contribution to the United Nations Convention to combat drought has been approximately $350,000 yearly. Surely we didn’t pull out of the convention because of the cost, when we can spend $10 million to rent polar bears, or $1 billion for a G8 two-day event — and we can’t afford $350,000 to study drought and help find solutions?!

All this at a time when as Maude Barlow, head of the advocacy group Council of Canadians, is quoted as saying, “Drought is a life and death issue for millions.� David Suzuki has said, “Nature pays no attention to boundaries.�

As a global citizen, I’m embarrassed to be a Canadian.

Shirley Challoner Red Deer

Centennial special section is definitely a ‘keeper’ I want to congratulate and thank the Red Deer Advocate for the Centennial supplement to the March 17 newspaper.

It is a wonderful collection of information and good stories, great pictures and good journalism.

Surely it is a “keeper.�

Read it Red Deer citizens and keep it for your families to read in years to come.

Well done, Red Deer Advocate!

Norma Martin Red Deer

Ralph Klein deserved more respect from Advocate I was shocked and disgusted to read your feature story wherein the Advocate devoted almost one half of Page A2 March 30 to very negative comments about the late Premier Ralph Klein.

While this news release was credited to The Canadian Press (an acknowledged left-wing propaganda machine), the Advocate editorial staff should have shown more class than to publish

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such derogatory dribble, one day after Ralph’s death.

This blatant lack of respect for Mr. Klein’s family, friends and colleagues is an inexcusable example of the leftwing ideology of the Advocate editorial staff.

I remember the glowing tributes the Advocate paid to the late Jack Layton for several editions after his death. I don’t recall seeing anything negative printed about him.

Wake up, Advocate editors, and realize that Central Alberta is not, and probably never will be, a socialist hotbed.

I am probably not the only reader who was offended by your obvious lack of respect for one of Canada’s great leaders.

Don Edgecombe Sylvan Lake

Bikes, walkers can share paths, with use of bells After all the bike lane controversy, how about a much less expensive solution.

Both my husband and I enjoy taking walks when the sidewalks are clear and we don’t mind sharing the sidewalks with cyclers.

Since most bikers run very quiet, it can be quite startling when one suddenly whizzes by.

One sidestep could cause an accident.

Why not do as Europe has for generations, require bicycles to have bells?

I’m sure most pedestrians wouldn’t mind just stepping aside as they hear the bell warning that a bicycle is coming from behind them.

Much safer for both.

Janey Collier Red Deer

Penalize fish hut owners who fail to remove structures People who choose to put up fishing huts on Sylvan Lake should be required to register and put down a significant damage deposit.

Each hut would be tagged. Tags of huts not dissembled by the date set would be collected and those people would not receive their damage deposit back.

It wouldn’t be that difficult to patrol occasionally to make sure huts have the required registration tag.

I think it’s disgusting that some huts are allowed to simply be abandoned and sink to the bottom of the lake.

It’s time to make people more accountable for their environment.

Diane Cingel Red Deer

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This role requires scheduling flexibility as well as the ability and time to review a significant amount of material to prepare for meetings and hearings. The time commitment required is variable but is estimated to be between 50 and 100 days per annum. The majority of hearings will be held in Calgary and there is a periodic requirement for travel.

Applicants should have experience in participating on boards and/or committees and are required to provide complete resumes highlighting relevant experience as well as the names of three references.

The Law Society of Alberta values diversity in its workforce and equal access to opportunity. We thank all candidates for their interest in this position. All inquiries and applications will be handled with the highest level of confidentiality.

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Canadian in Mauritanian prison AARON YOON WAS RECRUITED TO TRAIN AT AL-QAIDA CAMP, SAY MAURITANIAN AUTHORITIES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — A young Canadian who headed to North Africa to study the Qur’an is now serving two years in a Mauritanian prison after authorities say he was recruited to train at an al-Qaida camp in northern Mali, an official said Thursday.

Aaron Yoon, 24, reportedly had travelled to Morocco with two Canadians accused of taking part in the terror attack on a BP-operated natural gas plant in southeastern Algeria earlier this year.

Mauritanian authorities say Yoon had ties to alQaida’s affiliate in Africa — al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM. “This Canadian citizen stated to investigators that he had come from Morocco to study the Qur’an and Islamic law before being indoctrinated by salafist jihadists who recruited him to join AQIM in the north of Mali,” said a Mauritanian judicial official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to journalists.

CBC has reported that Yoon has denied involvement in terrorist activities.

Yoon was convicted last July on charges of having ties to a terrorist group and of posing a danger to na-

tional security, the Mauritanian official said.

The Jan. 16 attack and four-day siege on a gas facility in southern Algeria ended with the deaths of 37 hostages and 29 terrorists.

Chad’s government claimed that the mastermind of the attack, Moktar Belmoktar, has been killed in fighting in northern Mali, but the claim has not been independently verified.

The Canadian government has said its officials continue to provide assistance to Yoon as they would for any Canadian detained abroad.

“This assistance should not be construed as a belief of his Aaron Yoon guilt or innocence,” a spokesman for Diane Ablonczy, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs, has said.

CBC News has reported that Yoon said the Canadian government has failed to assist him.

The public broadcaster aired excerpts of an interview last week with a man it said was Yoon speaking

from prison.

The man claimed he had been tortured and beaten behind bars, and denied being involved in terrorist activities.

He also told CBC he didn’t know how the two Canadians killed in Algeria earlier this year had become linked with militants.

Yoon is reported to have travelled overseas with Ali Medlej and Xristos Katsiroubas, the two men whose bodies were found at the site of January’s Algerian gas plant siege. All three men were from London, Ont. RCMP were called in to help Algerian authorities with their investigation of the siege.

Police in Canada held a news conference last week saying investigators are continuing to gather evidence and determine the circumstances that led to Medlej and Katsiroubas departing Canada.

The two men are believed to have played key roles in the January attack.

Police have asked members of the public to contact them if they have any information about individuals leaving Canada to take part in terrorism plots.

Officials have released no other details for fear it could end up compromising the investigation.

Halifax vigil remembers Rehtaeh Parsons Baird criticized for

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — People filled a park in Halifax on Thursday night to remember Rehtaeh Parsons, holding candles and burning incense as native drummers played a drum song dedicated to the 17-year-old girl.

Many held photocopied pictures of Rehtaeh on a sunny evening as a native elder read a prayer: “We pray for an end to violence against young women and girls.”

A number of politicians attended the vigil, including Premier Darrell Dexter and Halifax Mayor Mike Savage.

The girl’s family says Rehtaeh hanged herself last week and was later taken off life-support following months of bullying after she was sexually assaulted by four boys and a photo of the alleged incident was distributed.

Marilyn More, the minister responsible for the status of women, was appointed earlier in the day to oversee the provincial government’s response to the girl’s death.

She will work with the ministers of justice, education, health and community services to assess support services for people who face sexual violence.

In Calgary, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the story has shocked him and his wife, Laureen.

“I can just tell you Laureen and I as parents of a teenage daughter we’re just sickened seeing a story

like this,” he said.

“I think we’ve got to stop just using just the term bullying to describe some of these things. Bullying to me has a connotation of kind of kids misbehaving.

What we are dealing with in some of these circumstances is simply criminal activity,” he said.

“It is youth criminal activity. It is violent criminal activity. It is sexual criminal activity and it is often Internet criminal activity.”

Harper said the government will continue to encourage anti-bullying strategies.

“Obviously we are looking at ways to combat this and to deal with this when it happens,” he added.

Dexter told the legislature he wanted a timely response to satisfy the public’s concerns about Rehtaeh’s case.

“I will do everything in my power to create a community that is better equipped to prevent these situations, rather than a community that struggles to find a way to deal with them,” Dexter said.

He also said Rehtaeh’s family wanted him to publicly denounce violence as a means of addressing bullying.

“The family has asked today that I implore Nova Scotians not to take matters into their own hands.”

The RCMP have said they are aware of reports that some are suggesting harm against people involved in the Rehtaeh Parsons investigation.

meeting Israeli minister in East Jerusalem

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says he did not cross a line by holding a meeting with Israel’s justice minister in her East Jerusalem office.

Baird met Tuesday with Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni across the Green Line in disputed territory, which the Palestinians and the United Nations consider occupied land.

Baird says where he has coffee with someone is “irrelevant” to the larger discussion of Middle East peace and does not signal a shift in Canadian foreign policy.

“I’m just not interested in getting into the semantic argument about whether you have a meeting with one person on one side of the street (and) it’s OK, and you have a meeting on the other side of street, and it’s not,” he said during a news conference in London, following a meeting of G8 foreign ministers.

“We’re focused on trying to have an impact on the difficult and serious challenges, that being security for Israelis, an end to the conflict, and the legitimate aspirations for a state from those in the Palestinian side.”

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Man arrested for alleged death threat against Montreal police commander MONTREAL — A man has been charged with uttering death threats against a high-profile Montreal police spokesman.

Authorities say the 43-year-old man was arraigned Thursday in connection with alleged threats against Cmdr.

Ian Lafreniere.

Montreal police spokesman Danny Richer says it was a tip from citizens who noticed alleged Internet threats against Lafreniere that led to Wednesday’s arrest.

Police say the charges have nothing to do with the case of a woman who was charged with criminal harassment last week after she posted a photo online of graffiti showing Lafreniere with a bullet in his head.

Jennifer Pawluck was released under conditions and ordered to appear before a judge at a later date.

Quebec appeals court upholds ruling freeing 31 Hells Angels due to trial delays MONTREAL — Quebec’s appeals court is upholding a lower court decision to free 31 Hells Angels and associates because it would have taken too long to put them on trial.

In a two-to-one decision, the province’s highest court has rejected the Crown’s attempt to appeal the controversial decision.

Superior Court Justice James Brunton ordered the release of the 31 in 2011 after he decided it would take too long for their trial dates to come around.

He stressed at the time his decision had nothing to do with guilt or innocence — but with the fact the justice system was ill-equipped to deal with the complex file.

While two of the appeals court justices upheld Brunton’s decision, one agreed with the Crown that the trial judge erred by releasing the accused.

They had been arrested as part of a massive police operation in 2009.

Charges against the more than 150 accused included murder, gangsterism, drug trafficking and conspiracy.

Some have pleaded guilty while others — as many as 100 — are still awaiting trial.

The 31 who were released were not facing murder charges but were looking at charges of gangsterism and drug trafficking.

Since Brunton’s decision, the federal government has moved to help the justice system manage megatrials better.

Harper says he has concerns about the number of foreign workers in Canada CALGARY — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he has concerns about the growing use of temporary foreign workers in Canada.

Harper says the reality is that some employers need to bring in outside workers to fill jobs.

But he says foreign workers should only be filling spots temporarily in fields where there are “absolute and acute” labour shortages.

Harper says reforms are being drafted to ensure the program is being used only for that purpose.

In 2012, there were more than 213,000 foreign workers in Canada and another 160,000 immigrants who arrived under the federal skilled worker program.

Trudeau vows to stay positive

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — In an era in which parties stockpile dirt on one another in the political equivalent of mutually assured destruction, Justin Trudeau admits he’s taking a gamble by offering to unilaterally disarm.

But the Liberal leadership front-runner is betting Canadians would rather have a leader who sticks resolutely to the high road than another purveyor of negative attacks ads and the other dark arts of modern politics — like exploiting wedge issues and regional divisions.

“You’re absolutely right, it’s a bit of a gamble I’m taking,” Trudeau said during a wide-ranging interview with The Canadian Press.

The former school teacher said the choice before him reminds him of what he used to tell students about the Cold War. “You point a gun at someone’s head and they point a gun back at you, and you’ve got a room full of people watching, you’ve only got two ways out of it. Either one of you pulls the trigger ... or else one of you chooses to put the gun down and say, ‘Well,

if you’re going to shoot me, you’re going to shoot me unarmed in front of all these people.’

“And I like to believe that Canadians will respond to the latter.”

The Montreal MP, eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, is expected to handily secure the leadership Sunday.

He fully expects he’ll quickly face a barrage of Conservative attack ads, similar to the ones that so effectively trashed the party’s past two leaders, Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff.

“The Conservatives are going to attack because that’s what they do. This is the one way they know how to do politics and they’re better at it than anyone else,” Trudeau said.

While he’s vowing to remain resolutely positive, Trudeau stressed he’s no naive Boy Scout; he doesn’t intend to simply let attacks go unanswered.

“We’re working on trying to figure out how to respond in way that’s strong enough for Canadians to see that I won’t be pushed around but not based around attacks and negativity,” he said.

“I’m not going to sit back but I’m also not going to be dragged down to the same level as they are because across the country I have seen Canadians sick and tired of the negativity and the fighting.”

But it’s not just attack ads Trudeau is promising to eschew. He’s rejecting the entire thesis that successful political marketing means identifying potential supporters and then targeting those sympathetic segments of the population with messages tailored specifically to their concerns.

The Conservatives have used that approach successfully in Canada, as have Democrats in the United States to elect President Barack Obama.

Trudeau acknowledged that “micro-targeting” of voters is “an extremely effective way of doing politics.”

But he contended it’s a negative approach in a country as diverse as Canada.

And, as practiced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, he maintained it has exacerbated regional, linguistic, cultural and religious tensions and ultimately made Canada harder to govern.

Ontario government ducking responsibility for care at veterans centre: critics

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A federal audit has clearly shown that Ontario’s Liberal government is ducking its duty to oversee quality of care at Canada’s largest veterans facility, activists and opposition critics say.

They’re urging the province to force regular inspections and proper accountability at the Sunnybrook Veterans Centre, where complaints about neglect and other issues prompted Veterans Affairs Canada to order the audit.

To date, however, the province has insisted Sunnybrook can look after itself, and that the facility answers to Ottawa.

“This denial of responsibility is typical for the (Liberal) government,” said Chris-

tine Elliott, health critic for the Progressive Conservatives.

The audit ordered by Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney finds that Ottawa’s responsibility extends to ensuring Sunnybrook spends the $26 million in federal tax dollars appropriately, while Ontario is responsible for enforcing standards of care.

The audit cites a 1988 agreement among Sunnybrook, Ottawa and the province that says Ontario “shall use its best efforts” to ensure the facility meets its obligations under provincial quality rules and standards.

Unlike similar facilities in Ontario, the 500-bed veterans centre is excluded from the provincial Long Term Care Homes Act which, among other things, mandates annual inspections with results posted publicly.

Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews,

whose ministry gives the centre about $29.2 million a year, did not respond to repeated requests to discuss the issue.

However, in a brief statement late Thursday, the minister said she was pleased the audit showed care at the centre aligns with provincial and professional standards.

“The clinical care is of a high quality, and appropriate monitoring is occurring,” Matthews said.

“As the report notes, its operations are also aligned with many of the principles and standards of care outlined in the Long Term Care Homes Act.” Mike Blais, president of Canadian Veterans Advocacy, called on Premier Kathleen Wynne — Sunnybrook is in her riding — and Matthews to take immediate action in light of the federal audit.

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Hitmen end Rebels’ season SUTTER DISAPPOINTED AT LACK OF URGENCY

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

ILYA KOVALCHUK

KVALCHUK SKATING Ilya Kovalchuk will not play for the reeling New Jersey Devils until his injured right shoulder feels comfortable. After skating with nine other players on Thursday, Kovalchuk was uncertain whether he would be able to play for the defending Eastern Conference champions on Friday against the Ottawa Senators. The Devils have dropped eight consecutive games (0-4-4) and their chances of making the playoffs are dwindling with eight games remaining in the 48-game, lockoutshortened season. They are four points out of a playoff spot and their situation is even more tenuous because they have won only 15 games this season, posting 10 points from overtime losses and shootouts.

New Jersey’s slide, the longest for the franchise since 198586, coincides with Kovalchuk’s injury against Florida March 23.

Today ● Midget football: Calgary Hilltoppers at Prairie Fire, 8 p.m., Lacombe ME Global Athletic Park.

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Hitmen 5 Rebels 1 CALGARY — The Red Deer Rebels picked a bad time to go AWOL. The Rebels seemed to be stuck in neutral all evening and dropped a 5-1 decision to the Calgary Hitmen, who closed out the best-of-seven WHL Eastern Conference semifinal Thursday in front of 6,416 fans at the Saddledome.

The Hitmen, who won the series 4-1, will meet the defending league champion Edmonton Oil Kings in the conference final.

“There was no push on our part tonight.

Our play wasn’t up to standard,” said a disheartened Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

“There has to be a lot of urgency and desperation in a situation like this and we just didn’t have that tonight.

“To be quite honest, as coaches we were shocked by it.

“Because the (earlier) games were all tight, we thought we would really make that push to get the series back to Game 6 in our building.”

Instead, the Rebels’ season came to a grinding conclusion.

“We just had a lot of guys who might have played their worst game of the playoffs,” said Sutter.

After recording seven shots in the open-

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Red Deer defenceman Rebel Brandon (7) Underwood helps defend against a shot as goaltender Patrik Bartosak watches the puck Thursday in Calgary against the Hitmen. ing period, the visitors managed just 10 the rest of the way, including a measly two in the second period — the first of which came nearly 14 minutes into the frame.

Of course, it didn’t help that the power plays were 8-3 in favour of the Hitmen.

“We didn’t have anyone going tonight.

We didn’t have control of the puck and we took a lot of penalties,” said Rebels captain Turner Elson.

“Just nothing was going for us tonight.”

The Hitmen opened the scoring with a bad goal on Rebels netminder Patrik Bartosak, who couldn’t squeeze a shot from above the circle by Greg Chase and had the puck trickle through his pads just 2:32 into the contest.

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Garcia is back for more TIES MARC LEISHMAN FOR LEAD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUSTA, Ga. — Sergio Garcia might have written himself off too quickly at the Masters.

When last seen walking off the course at Augusta National, the impetuous Spaniard was moping about his bad luck at this tournament and said last year it was increasingly evident he would never be fitted for a green jacket.

Garcia matched his best score at the Masters on Thursday, a 6-under 66 with no bogeys on his card, to share the lead with Marc Leishman of Australia. And he still wasn’t entirely happy, although this time with good reason.

He hit the ball so well his score could have been so much better.

“To tell you the truth, if I manage to make a couple of the putts that kind of stayed around the lip, I could have been probably 7- or 8-under par through 10,” Garcia said.

“It was that good. And it wasn’t like I was hitting pitching wedge every single time. I was hitting 4-irons and 5-irons and 6-irons, so it wasn’t that easy.”

It sure felt easy for several players in a gentle opening round — even for an eighthgrader.

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Sergio Garcia, of Spain, walks to the 15th green during the first round of the Masters golf tournament Thursday, in Augusta, Ga. Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old from China and youngest to compete in a major in 148 years, played well beyond his age and holed a 15-foot putt from just off the 18th green for a respectable round of 73 and a reasonable chance of making the cut.

Tiger Woods wasn’t far off as he began his quest for a fifth green jacket.

Wild at the start, including a tee shot that knocked a cup of beer out of a spectator’s hand, Woods settled into a groove and opened with a 70 as his girlfriend, Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn, watched on a few holes.

In his four Masters wins, Woods has never opened with a score lower than 70. His key is not to shoot himself out of the tournament.

“It’s a good start,” he said. “Some years,

some guys shot 65 starting out here. But right now, I’m only four back and I’m right there.”

Garcia and Leishman had a one-shot lead over Dustin Johnson, who has a game that fits perfectly for Augusta and he finally brought it.

Johnson hit a 9-iron for his second shot on the par-5 13th and made a 15-foot eagle putt, and he smashed his drive on the par5 15th and hit pitching wedge just through the green for an easy birdie.

Fred Couples, the 53-year-old wonder at his favourite major, made bogey on the 18th and still was in the large group at 68. There were a dozen rounds in the 60s, and nearly half the field shot par or better.

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Flyers expect tough going at Allan Cup

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Fort St. John Flyers head coach Darrel Leahy isn’t one to make any wild predictions.

In fact when asked how his team compares to the other five teams in the Allan Cup, which opens Monday at the Red Deer Arena, he had to think a bit.

“It’s difficult to tell,” he said.

“We don’t play as many games against triple-A competition as they do in Alberta for instance. The only triple-A team we faced was Powell River in the Savage Cup (B.C. championship). Other than that we played Bentley twice, in November and January, in exhibition play and that was it.”

And the Flyers didn’t have

their complete roster against Bentley.

“We were closer to it in January,” he said.

The Flyers made a trip to Innisfail and played the Alberta senior AA champion Eagles in a pair of exhibition games three weeks ago, losing both, but didn’t bring their full team.

“We’ve had a couple of weeks off, which has been good for us,”

said Leahy.

“We played as tough five games in five day series (against Powell River) and that takes a lot out of you.”

What they didn’t have to do this year was face Bentley in a bestof-five series for the McKenzie Cup, which also is over five days.

“That’s tough, it’s something that should be looked at,” he said.

“No other region has that tough a schedule to reach the Allan Cup. Most play best-ofthree. No matter who wins our Alberta-B.C. playoff it wears them down and then there’s the injuries.”

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The Caribous, who won the Allan Cup in 2011, won their league title last year, which earned them a berth in the Cup. With the Bentley Generals hosting, a second Alberta team also qualified.

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Ryckman’s hockey started at home TIGERS’ DEFENCEMAN LEARNED ABOUT WHL EARLY ... IN RED DEER

BY DARREN STEINKE MEDICINE HAT NEWS

BRENDAN RANFORD

PLAYER OF THE WEEK Kamloops Blazers forward Brendan Ranford is the WHL and CHL player of the week for the period ending April 7. Ranford collected eight points, including three goals, in three games and had a plus/ minus rating of plus-5.

Ranford, a 20-yearold from Edmonton, was selected by Philadelphia in the 2010 NHL entry draft but never signed with the Flyers. Now in his fifth and final WHL season, he produced 87 points (22-65) in 70 regular-season games this season and now sits tied for third in playoff scoring with 19 points (5-14) through 10 games. The left winger has appeared in 348 WHL regularseason games and has produced 137 goals and 220 assists for 357 points.

WHO’S HOT Kamloops right winger JC Lipon has garnered at least one point in each of the Blazers’ 10 playoff games. In fact, the member of the 2013 Canadian JC Lipon national junior team leads all post-season scorers with 21 points (5-16).

WHO’S DEPENDABLE Edmonton Oil Kings left winger Trevor Cheek sits atop the WHL playoff plus/minus Trevor category at Cheek plus-14 in nine games.

THEY SAID IT “We knew we could do it, we’ve done it before. We just needed to keep pushing, it was only a matter of Griffin time.” — Reinhart Edmonton defenceman Griffin Reinhart, to Sean Rooney of the Medicine Hat News, in reference to the Oil Kings’ rally from a onegoal deficit to complete a second-round playoff sweep of the Medicine Hat Tigers Wednesday.

He might have been a WHL mainstay on the back end, but Derek Ryckman can still recall learning about the league as an impressionable fan.

Thanks to the fact he grew up in Red Deer, the overage defenceman with the Medicine Hat Tigers said he discovered the WHL through watching his hometown Rebels.

“We had season tickets to the Rebels games,” Ryckman, who stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 205 pounds, said earlier this week before the Tigers were swept out of the playoffs by the Edmonton Oil Kings. “Usually the most times that I went is when they were in their ’01 to ’03 seasons, kind of their dynasty going to the finals three times there and winning the Mem Cup in ’01.

“I remember Martin Erat and Jim Vandermeer and Derek Meech, those kind of players. Then you have Dion Phaneuf and Cam Ward.”

Like anybody that came from Red Deer, Ryckman also admitted he kind of went through that phase of being in awe of Rebels owner, head coach and general manager Brent Sutter. Over the years, the childlike awe was tempered.

“I’ve met him (Sutter) a couple of times off the ice,” said Ryckman. “He is a great guy.”

As for his own hockey playing career, Ryckman first started playing for minor hockey teams in the town of Blackfalds, just outside of Red Deer, before hitting the atom age group. From there he kept coming up through the Red Deer minor system.

In the WHL ranks, he never got to play for the Rebels but he has collected a lot of good memories from being a part of the league.

Way back in the 2007 WHL bantam draft, Ryckman was selected in the sixth round and 119th overall by the Lethbridge Hurricanes.

He made the Hurricanes as a 16-year-old player coming out of Alberta’s 15-year-old midget league.

As a rookie he was part of the last Hurricanes team to make the WHL post-season — in the 2008-09 campaign. He remained in Lethbridge until a trade early in his 19-year-old season landed him with the Tri-City Americans. Another trade before the start of his overage campaign brought Ryckman to the Gas City.

Ryckman was the old vet this season on the Tigers blue-line, which contains five players in their 17 or 18-year-old seasons.

For Ryckman, it still seems like yesterday when he was a pup back in Lethbridge.

“It has been weird,” said Ryckman.

“Looking back . . . when I was 16 it doesn’t seem that long ago when I was a young guy

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Derek Ryckman, front, in action as defenceman with the Medicine Hat Tigers. and was looking up to guys like Ben Wright and Mitch Versteeg. Now I am that guy.”

His WHL career had its ups and downs.

As a 17-year-old he missed 41 games with a shoulder injury that required surgery. Last year he helped the Americans reach the Western Conference championship series, where they lost to the Portland Winterhawks.

Ryckman found his final WHL campaign to be memorable. On the ice, the defensive defenceman appeared in 65 regular season games, collecting a goal and six assists and posting a plus-8 rating in the plus/minus department.

Off the ice, he became good friends with overage goaltender Cam Lanigan, who was acquired in an October trade with the Winterhawks. Ryckman also formed a good bond with overage centre Elgin Pearce, who was acquired in a late September trade from the Kootenay Ice. “I think all three of us 20s — me, Pearce and Lanny — we really just clicked,” said Ryckman. “We do a lot of hanging out off the ice. It has been a great year with those two.”

Lanigan said he first met Ryckman at an under-16 Alberta provincial camp and the two have kept crossing paths ever since.

The netminder has enjoyed the chance to play on the same team with the towering defender.

“On the ice he is one of our strongest, physical and steadiest D-men,” said Lanigan. “Off the ice he is probably one of the funnier guys, if not the funniest in the room.

“We know a lot of the same guys. We’ve played with a lot of mutual best friends. We just kind of clicked and developed into a good friendship.”

Tigers associate coach Darren Kruger said Ryckman took his game up another level when Medicine Hat swept the Memorial Cup hosting Saskatoon Blades in the first round of this year’s playoffs. Ryckman had three assists and was a plus-five.

“He was outstanding,” said Kruger. “He blocked a lot of shots and killed a lot of penalties.

“It was probably the best hockey he has played all year. It couldn’t have come at a better time.”

After a hard fight, Tigers swept from playoffs They swept the Saskatoon In the end, it wasn’t enough.

Blades out of the WHL playoffs.

“We started real hard, unforOn Wednesday, the Medicine tunately we didn’t quite finish it Hat Tigers suffered the same off,” said Tigers head coach and fate. general manager Shaun ClousThe Tigers, who made short ton. “The guys played as hard work of the 2013 as we could. We comMemorial Cup host peted shift-in, shiftBlades in an Eastern out all night against Conference quartera really, really talfinal, were patsies ented team.” for the Edmonton Oil Losing netmindKings. The defender Cam Lanigan, so ing WHL champions brilliant versus the completed a semiBlades, turned aside final sweep of the 38 shots. Outstanding Medicine Hat crew in the earlier series, Wednesday, prevailLanigan did his best ing 4-2 on the road. to extend the semiOne night after final.

GREG being pounded 9-2 “We really wanted in Game 3, the Tigers to come and give our MEACHEM actually appeared owners and the fans headed for a victoand ourselves somery after leading for thing to be proud most of the night. about,” said Lanigan.

However, Henrik Samuels- “Even if it was going to be our son batted a puck out of the air last day, we really wanted to go to tie the game early in the third out on a high note.” period and defenceman GrifOil Kings head coach Derfin Reinhart scored a go-ahead ek Laxdal was appreciative of marker a mere 39 seconds lat- the Tigers’ spirit. “We knew it er. Samuelsson added a short- wasn’t going to be easy,” said handed empty-netter in the fi- Laxdal. “It’s tough to close out a nal minute, and just like that team, they’re going to play right the Tigers’ season was over. to the end.”

“I’m really proud of the guys, ● Meanwhile, the Kamloops they played so hard tonight and Blazers closed out their Westit shows we didn’t give up,” Ti- ern Conference semifinal with gers forward Boston Leier told the Kelowna Rockets WednesSean Rooney of the Medicine day.

Hat News.

Kale Kessy was the hero, pot“We played it a shift at ting his 11th goal in 10 playoff a time, we didn’t really think games in overtime to give the what the end score was going Blazers a 4-3 win and a sweep of to be. We just played our hearts the best-of-seven set. out.”

The Rockets, like the Tigers,

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went down fighting, rallying back from a 3-1 deficit to force the extra frame with two thirdperiod tallies.

One glaring statistic from the contest — the Blazers were three-for 11 with a man advantage, while the Rockets were zero-for-one. That’s right — 11 power plays to one. ● Swift Current Broncos GM/ head coach Mark Lamb told Broncos radio voice Shawn Mullin that the manner in which video review is handled by the league will be changed.

This, coming on the heels of a first-round playoff loss to the Calgary Hitmen, who took a 3-1 lead in the quarter-final series with a overtime goal in Game 4, a marker that should have been called back due to a glaring glove pass.

“They have to deal with that and they’re going to deal with it,” Lamb told Mullin.

“It was one of the worst things that’s ever happened in hockey . . . not just in our league. When you’re in overtime and there’s a glove pass and there’s an overtime goal, it’s devastating to the franchise.

They’re going to acknowledge it and there’s going to be some changes.” ● WHL scouts are bound for Disneyland.

The league’s eighth annual U.S. prospects camp is set for today to Sunday in Anaheim and the crop of players that will be on display is anything but Mickey Mouse, insisted WHL director of player development and recruitment Tyler Boldt.

“We are very excited about the group of players we have assembled for this year’s camp,” said Boldt.

“This camp will give our clubs one more opportunity to evaluate the top-rated players in the eastern U.S. before the WHL bantam draft.”

The camp provides a unique opportunity for U.S. born hockey players to participate with other top ranked 1998 and 1999-born players, and receive elite-level instruction from many of the WHL’s top coaches.

Virtually all of the WHL’s 22 member clubs will have scouts in attendance at the U.S. prospects camp. Medicine Hat Tigers’ rookie Steve Owre, Saskatoon Blades forward and New York Rangers prospect Shane McColgan, and Spokane Chiefs’ forward Liam Stewart are WHL players who have been identified at the camp. ● Brendan Ranford will be sporting a Colgate Smile in the not-too-distant future.

Ranford has been missing a front tooth since catching an uppercut from Carter Berg of the Chilliwack Bruins during a exhibition game in 2009, but has been undergoing dental work that will conclude with an implant.

The Kamloops Blazers overage star forward is wearing a mask during the WHL playoffs as he undergoes the dental work that follows gum surgery and a bone graft in preparation for the implant. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Detroit 11 Toronto 1 DETROIT — Josh Johnson put his team in another tough spot with one of the worst outings of his career.

The Toronto right-hander was knocked out of the game in the second inning Thursday — the latest poor start a Blue Jays’ pitcher — and the Detroit Tigers rolled to an 11-1 victory at chilly Comerica Park.

Miguel Cabrera tripled, scored twice and even stole a base for the Tigers, and Doug Fister (2-0) allowed a run and eight hits in eight innings.

Johnson (0-1) allowed six runs and seven hits in 1 1-3 innings — the shortest start of his career.

“I haven’t thrown a slider for a strike yet, and I need that pitch. When I’m throwing it for strikes, it is something that the hitters have to think about, but this is two starts now, and it hasn’t happened,” Johnson said. “I didn’t have anything today. They were all over my curveball for some reason, and the fastball was just hanging over the plate.”

Prince Fielder had four RBIs and Torii Hunter added three for the Tigers. The temperature at game time was 35 degrees — the coldest for a Detroit home game since 1996, according to STATS. “It certainly was uncomfortable pitching out there today, but look what the other guy did,” Johnson said. The Blue Jays have not lived up to expectations early because of poor pitching. Their starters are now 1-4 with a 7.59 ERA. Detroit manager Jim Leyland said before the game he was looking forward to his team’s upcoming road trip out west, but the Tigers didn’t let the rough weather slow them. In fact, they looked ready to run.

Cabrera caught Toronto napping in the first, stealing third before Johnson even started his pitching motion. Victor Martinez’s RBI single made it 1-0.

“Miggy stealing, getting a triple — we were running around a lot today,” Tigers catcher Alex Avila said. “Had to — it was pretty cold outside.”

Mark DeRosa tied it with a sacrifice fly, but Johnson got only one out in the second. That was Omar Infante’s sacrifice fly that made it 2-1. Austin Jackson and Hunter followed with consecutive RBI singles, Cabrera’s triple brought home another run, and Fielder added a run-scoring single to chase Johnson.

Toronto, a chic pick to win the AL East after ac-

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Detroit Tigers’ Omar Infante, right, slides home safely ahead of the tag of Toronto Blue Jays catcher J.P. Arencibia on a Torii Hunter’ two-run single in the fifth inning of a baseball game in Detroit, Thursday. quiring Johnson, Jose Reyes and R.A. Dickey in the off-season, has lost three straight series to start the year for the first time since 1978. The Blue Jays lost four straight series to start that season.

“We definitely need a good outing pretty soon to help the bullpen, and things aren’t going to get much easier in Kansas City,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “These were tough conditions, but look what Fister did with them. It’s definitely not easy to pitch in, but that’s not an excuse.”

The Tigers blew a 6-1 lead in an 8-6 loss to Toronto on Wednesday, but they had no trouble holding on this time. Jackson had three hits and three runs for Detroit.

He’s reached base in all nine games this year.

NOTES: Fister struck out five and walked one. ...

Detroit had 16 hits. ... The Tigers still haven’t made an error this season. ... Johnson’s shortest previous start was 2 2-3 innings at San Diego last season. ...

The Tigers hosted a game in 34-degree weather on April 9, 1996, against Seattle at old Tiger Stadium. ... Detroit plays at Oakland on tonight in a rematch of last year’s AL Division Series, won by the Tigers in five games. Detroit RHP Max Scherzer (1-0) faces Oakland RHP Bartolo Colon (1-0). ... Toronto is at Kansas City on Friday night. The Blue Jays send LHP J.A. Happ (1-0) to the mound against RHP Luis Mendoza (0-0).

Eagles fought way past Chiefs for Allan Cup berth

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF The Stony Plain Eagles may have lost the Alberta senior AAA hockey final to the Bentley Generals, but they certainly didn’t just back into the Allan Cup. The Eagles had to overcome a 3-0 deficit to beat the Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs in the best-of-seven provincial semifinal, which earned them a spot along with the host Generals in the Allan Cup, which opens Monday at the Red Deer Arena.

“That was a tough series (against the Chiefs),” said Eagles head coach Mike Thompson. “We got out of the gate extremely slow before we tightened up our defence which changed the series around.

“We also got some timely scoring and some excellent goaltending from Wade (Waters).”

The Eagles may have relaxed a bit after winning the series, but Thompson wasn’t sure they would have defeated the Generals in any case.

“We were missing some of our guys in the third and fourth games, but they are what you see and will be the class

of the tournament,” he said. “They have so much depth and so much skill they’ll be hard to beat.”

The Eagles, who open the Allan Cup against the Fort St. John Flyers at 4 p.m. Monday, are healthy, thanks to a couple of weeks off.

“Everyone of our regulars and our affiliates are healthy,” said Thompson. “We’ve been working hard in practice and ready to go.”

The Eagles do have solid goaltending by Waters with Brant Middleton, Doug Auchenberg and Justin Cox leading their offence, along with Jordan Cameron, who was added from Drayton Valley. Defenceman Joel Andresen, who was a fifth round pick by the Los Angeles Kings in 2002, is expected to anchor the defence. He played this season with the Provost Blades.

Thompson expects his defence and goaltending to be the key in the sixteam championship.

“I believe in generating offence from good defence,” he said. “Overall we have a team that has to out-work, grind it out and be hard to play against.

We do have some skill, but not at the level of some of the other teams. Our strength is our work ethic.”

Middleton and Auchenberg both

finished the regular Chinook Hockey League season with 23 points. Middleton had a team-high 12 goals and Auchenberg led the team with 15 assists. Cox played only eight games and had six assists.

The Eagles get a bye Tuesday and face the Clarenville Caribous of Newfoundland Wednesday at 4 p.m.

Thompson knows there will be no easy opponent.

“We have a lot of players who have played with or against players from Fort St. John, so we know them a bit, and they’re a big, strong team,” he said.

“Clarenville won the Allan Cup two years ago, so they’ll be tough.”

The Eagles won the province last year, but didn’t have a great finish to the Allan Cup. “We ran out of gas,” said Thompson, who feels they have the depth this year to play as many games as it takes to get the job done.

“We could play five games in six days, so you need the depth.” ● The Generals, Rosetown Redwings and the Kenora Thistles are in the other pool. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF The last time the Clarenville Caribous didn’t win the Herder Memorial Championship, emblematic of supremacy in the Newfoundland Senior Hockey League, they went on to win the Allan Cup. “It was a good consolation prize,” joked Caribous head coach Ivan Hapgood, whose team lost in the Herder semifinals in 2011, but because they won in 2010 they competed at the Allan Cup in 2011.

They won their league title again in 2012, which earned them a berth in this year’s Allan Cup, which opens Monday at the Red Deer Arena, but lost in the final of the league championship this season.

Hapgood feels this year’s edition of the Caribous is the “deepest team” they’ve had.

“It is similar to 2011 in that we’re coming in after losing in the league playoffs, but this team is deeper than the 2011 team,” he said. “We’re overall healthy, although we’ll be missing a couple of guys because injury or work.”

But the Caribous, who added eight players for the Allan Cup, have talent up and down their lineup. They have 12 players back from their championship team and 12 players with “major junior” experience.

They also have a number of players with professional experience, including forward Andrew Sweetland, who played in both the ECHL and the American Hockey League in 2010-11.

That season the six-foot-two, 204 pound Sweetland had 21 goals in 38 games with the ECHL’s Elmira Jackals and

four goals and three assists with Binghamton of the AHL. Twenty-eight year-old Steve Yetman, six-foot-one, 209-pounds, played in the minor pros in the States and in Europe while the six-foottwo, 208-pound Dustin Russell played a year of minor pro after graduating from the Quebec Major Hockey League.

“We have a bunch of guys with some pro experience,” said Hapgood. “But that’s typical of teams in the Allan Cup. Teams have guys who weren’t quite good enough for pro, or played some pro and are back to finish off their careers.

“But it’s a good brand of hockey.”

The Caribous don’t see their first action until Tuesday when they face the Fort St. John Flyers at 4 p.m. They clash with the Stony Plain Eagles Wednesday at 4 p.m.

Hapgood knows both the Flyers and Eagles.

“We played Fort St. John three years ago and I was an assistant coach with Grand Falls last year and we played Stony Plain.

They’re both good teams and in this tournament any team can win on any given day. I know that Bentley is loaded, but there’s not much separating any of the teams. Anybody can win this.”

The Caribous do know the Generals as well, beating the Alberta team 5-3 in the Allan Cup final in 2011.

What the Caribous won’t have is former Tampa Bay draft pick, Devon O’Brien, in goal, but both regular netminders, Jason Churchill and Roger Kennedy, played in the QMHL. ● The Generals, Rosetown and Kenora, Ont., are in the other pool. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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WHL Playoffs All Times Local SECOND ROUND Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Medicine Hat (7) (Edmonton wins series 4-0) Wednesday’s result Edmonton 4 Medicine Hat 2 Tuesday’s result Edmonton 9 Medicine Hat 2 Sunday’s result Edmonton 2 Medicine Hat 0

5. Calgary, Humphries 1 17:58 (sh-en) 6. Calgary, Peterson 3 (Clayton) 18:40 (sh-en) Penalties — Fafard RD (interference) 4:32, Gaudet RD (high-sticking) 6:32, Virtanen Cal (tripping) 17:30.

Shots on goal Red Deer 7 2 8 — 17 Calgary 11 8 15 — 34 Goal — Red Deer: Bartosak (L, 5-4); Calgary: Driedger (W, 8-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Red Deer: 0-3; Calgary: 1-8.

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF y-Pittsburgh 41 31 10 0 62 138 x-Montreal 40 26 9 5 57 127 d-Washington 41 22 17 2 46 123 Boston 40 26 10 4 56 114 Toronto 40 22 13 5 49 123 Ottawa 40 20 14 6 46 99 N.Y. Islanders 41 21 16 4 46 119 N.Y. Rangers 40 20 16 4 44 99 Winnipeg 42 21 19 2 44 109 New Jersey 40 15 15 10 40 96 Buffalo 41 16 19 6 38 107 Philadelphia 40 17 20 3 37 108 Tampa Bay 40 17 21 2 36 127 Carolina 40 16 22 2 34 103 Florida 40 13 21 6 32 98

Calgary (3) vs. Red Deer (4) (Calgary wins series 4-1) Thursday’s result Calgary 5 Red Deer 1 Tuesday’s result Calgary 3 Red Deer 2 (OT) Monday’s result Red Deer 2 Calgary 1 WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Spokane (4) (Portland wins series 4-0) Wednesday’s result Portland 5 Spokane 0 Tuesday’s result Portland 3 Spokane 1 Saturday’s result Portland 3 Spokane 0 ——— Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) (Kamloops wins series 4-0) Wednesday’s result Kamloops 4 Kelowna 3 (OT) Tuesday’s result Kamloops 5 Kelowna 4 (OT) Sunday’s result Kelowna 5 Kamloops 1 SUMMARY THURSDAY Hitmen 5 Rebels 1 First period 1. Calgary, Chase 2 (Clayton, Kosterman) 2:32 2. Red Deer, Elson 5 (Feser, Gaudet) 3:33 3. Calgary, Jones 1 (Macek, Rask) 10:37 Penalties — Zgraggen Cal (interference) 8:02, Dumba RD (hooking) 14:20, Fafard RD (slashing) 15:41, Chase Cal (high-sticking) 19:53.

Second period 4. Calgary, Brooks 1 (Chase, Jones) 4:32 (pp) Penalties — Musil RD (high-sticking) 2:51, Bellerive RD (tripping) 7:04, Dumba RD (roughing) 17:54, Jones Cal (hooking) 18:27, Elson RD (highsticking) 18:39.

Third period

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts 39 30 5 4 64 41 27 9 5 59 40 23 11 6 52 40 21 12 7 49 39 23 14 2 48 40 22 14 4 48 40 22 16 2 46 40 19 15 6 44 40 18 16 6 42 39 19 17 3 41 40 17 16 7 41 40 16 17 7 39 41 15 18 8 38 39 14 21 4 32 40 13 22 5 31

x-Chicago d-Anaheim d-Vancouver San Jose St. Louis Los Angeles Minnesota Detroit Phoenix Dallas Columbus Edmonton Nashville Calgary Colorado

GA 101 95 113 87 112 89 121 96 123 111 127 125 122 129 139

GF 129 124 109 101 109 115 103 101 108 109 95 102 96 103 94

GA 83 103 96 100 98 101 100 104 107 118 104 111 110 138 125

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Games San Jose 3, Detroit 2, SO N.Y. Islanders 2, Boston 1 Ottawa 3, Philadelphia 1

Washington 3, Carolina 1 Montreal 5, Buffalo 1 Pittsburgh 6, Tampa Bay 3 Winnipeg 7, Florida 2 St. Louis 2, Minnesota 0 Colorado at Los Angeles late Today’s Games Ottawa at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Philadelphia at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Vancouver at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 5 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at Washington, 5 p.m.

Boston at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Columbus at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

SUMMARY FRIDAY Jets 7 Panthers 2 First Period 1. Winnipeg, Gagnon 2 (Wheeler, Ladd) 3:54 2. Florida, Brennan 3 (Fleischmann, Goc) 4:46 3. Winnipeg, Kane 15 (Jokinen) 5:04 4. Florida, Fleischmann 9 (Brennan) 6:31 5. Winnipeg, Ladd 16 (Little, Byfuglien) 12:46 Penalty — Matthias Fla (holding) 1:27.

Second Period 6. Winnipeg, Clitsome 4 (Little) 10:05 (pp) 7. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 7 10:33 8. Winnipeg, Kane 16 (Wellwood, Bogosian) 11:58 Penalties — Parros Fla (tripping) 9:56, Postma Wpg (interference) 14:31, Parros Fla (unsportsmanlike conduct) 17:21, Gudbranson Fla (checking to the head) 19:00.

Third Period 9. Winnipeg, Thorburn 2 (Hainsey, Bogosian) 11:53 Penalty — Wheeler Wpg (hooking) 5:31.

Shots on goal Florida 9 11 7 — 27 Winnipeg 17 6 12 — 35 Goal — Florida: Markstrom (L, 6-9-1), Clemmenson (start 11:58 of second); Winnipeg: Pavelec (W, 18-18-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Florida: 0-2; Winnipeg: 1-3.

Baseball Baltimore Boston New York Tampa Bay Toronto

AMERICAN LEAGUE EARLY STANDINGS East Division W L Pct 5 4 .556 5 4 .556 4 4 .500 4 5 .444 3 6 .333

GB — — 1/2 1 2

Kansas City Detroit Chicago Minnesota Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 6 3 .667 5 4 .556 4 5 .444 4 5 .444 3 5 .375

GB — 1 2 2 2 1/2

Oakland Texas Seattle Houston Los Angeles

West Division W L 7 2 6 3 4 6 3 6 2 6

Pct .778 .667 .400 .333 .250

GB — 1 3 1/2 4 4 1/2

Thursday’s Results Detroit 11, Toronto 1 Washington 7, Chicago White Sox 4 N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, ppd., rain Baltimore 3, Boston 2 Oakland at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 1-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 1-1), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 0-0) at Cleveland (Masterson 2-0), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Cobb 1-0) at Boston (Doubront 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Niese 1-0) at Minnesota (Worley 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 1-0) at Kansas City (Mendoza 0-0), 86:10 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 1-0) at Oakland (Colon 1-0), 8:05 p.m.

Houston (B.Norris 1-1) at L.A. Angels (Hanson 1-0), 8:05 p.m.

Texas (Darvish 2-0) at Seattle (Iwakuma 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay at Boston, 11:05 a.m.

Baltimore at N.Y. Yanke1es, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.

Detroit at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

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

Houston at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

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

Houston at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

Detroit at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

LINESCORES THURSDAY Toronto 010 000 000 — 1 9 0 Detroit 150 040 10x — 11 16 0 Jo.Johnson, E.Gonzalez (2), E.Rogers (5), Delabar (7) and Arencibia; Fister, Alburquerque (9) and Avila. W—Fister 2-0. L—Jo.Johnson 0-1.

Baltimore 010 010 100 — 3 9 0 Boston 002 000 000 — 2 8 0 Tillman, Matusz (6), Strop (7), O’Day (8), Ji.Johnson (9) and Wieters; Aceves, Mortensen (6), A.Miller (7), Uehara (7), Tazawa (8), A.Wilson (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—Matusz 1-0. L—Mortensen 0-1. Sv—Ji.Johnson (4). HRs—Baltimore, C.Davis (6).

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. CSantana Cle 7 26 5 13 .500 Berkman Tex 8 25 4 12 .480 AJones Bal 9 39 11 18 .462 Rios CWS 9 35 6 15 .429 Lowrie Oak 9 34 10 14 .412 Reyes Tor 9 34 5 14 .412 TorHunter Det 9 42 7 17 .405 Infante Det 8 30 4 12 .400 CDavis Bal 9 30 7 12 .400 Moss Oak 8 25 6 10 .400 Home Runs CDavis, Baltimore, 6; Morse, Seattle, 6; Crisp, Oakland, 4; Middlebrooks, Boston, 4; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 4; Rios, Chicago, 4; 8 tied at 3.

Runs Batted In CDavis, Baltimore, 19; Fielder, Detroit, 14; Butler, Kansas City, 11; MiCabrera, Detroit, 11; AJones, Baltimore, 10; Moss, Oakland, 10; Morse, Seattle, 9; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 9.

Pitching Ogando, Texas, 2-0; Masterson, Cleveland, 2-0; Fister, Detroit, 2-0; Lester, Boston, 2-0; Guthrie, Kansas City, 2-0; Pettitte, New York, 2-0; Buchholz, Boston, 2-0.

Atlanta Washington New York Philadelphia Miami

Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Milwaukee

NATIONAL LEAGUE EARLY STANDINGS East Division W L Pct 8 1 .889 7 2 .778 5 4 .556 4 5 .444 1 8 .111

GB — 1 3 4 7

Central Division W L Pct 5 4 .556 5 4 .556 3 6 .333 3 6 .333 2 6 .250

GB — — 2 2 2 1/2

West Division W L 7 3 6 3 5 3 5 4 2 6

San Francisco Arizona Los Angeles Colorado San Diego

Pct .700 .667 .625 .556 .250

GB — 1/2 1 1 1/2 4

Thursday’s Results San Francisco 7, Chicago Cubs 6 Washington 7, Chicago White Sox 4 L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

Today’s Games San Francisco (M.Cain 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Villanueva 0-0), 12:20 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 0-0) at Washington (Detwiler 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 0-0) at Pittsburgh (A.Burnett 0-2), 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Lannan 0-0) at Miami (Nolasco 0-1),

5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Niese 1-0) at Minnesota (Worley 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 0-0) at St. Louis (S.Miller 1-0), 6:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 2-0) at Arizona (Corbin 1-0), 7:40 p.m.

Colorado (Garland 1-0) at San Diego (T.Ross 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 11:05 a.m.

San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 6:10 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 6:40 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Philadelphia at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

LINESCORES THURSDAY INTERLEAGUE Chicago 010 201 000 — 4 13 1 Washington 102 300 01x — 7 10 0 Axelrod, H.Santiago (4), Lindstrom (7), Crain (8) and Flowers; Haren, Mattheus (6), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and W.Ramos. W—Haren 1-1. L— Axelrod 0-1. Sv—R.Soriano (5).

NATIONAL LEAGUE San Fran 000 430 000 — 7 9 2 Chicago 014 000 010 — 6 12 2 Vogelsong, Affeldt (7), S.Casilla (8), Romo (9) and Posey; Feldman, Takahashi (5), Bowden (7), Camp (8), Russell (9) and Castillo. W—Vogelsong 1-1. L—Feldman 0-2. Sv—Romo (6). HRs—Chicago, Rizzo (3).

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H CCrawford LAD 8 28 8 13 Segura Mil 7 24 2 11 Harper Was 9 36 8 15 Carpenter StL 9 35 11 14 AdGonzalez LAD 8 28 1 11 Aoki Mil 8 36 6 14 Cuddyer Col 8 31 5 12 Buck NYM 9 32 7 12 MYoung Phi 9 32 5 12 Choo Cin 9 35 10 13

Pct. .464 .458 .417 .400 .393 .389 .387 .375 .375 .371

Home Runs JUpton, Atlanta, 6; Buck, New York, 5; Fowler, Colorado, 4; Harper, Washington, 4; 10 tied at 3.

Runs Batted In Buck, New York, 15; Frazier, Cincinnati, 10; Rizzo, Chicago, 9; JUpton, Atlanta, 9; Utley, Philadelphia, 9; 6 tied at 8.

Pitching Zito, San Francisco, 2-0; Zimmermann, Washington, 2-0; Stammen, Washington, 2-0; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 2-0; Harvey, New York, 2-0; Minor, Atlanta, 2-0; Lee, Philadelphia, 2-0.

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct y-New York 51 27 .654 x-Brooklyn 46 32 .590 x-Boston 40 38 .513 Philadelphia 31 47 .397 Toronto 30 48 .385

GB — 5 11 20 21

z-Miami x-Atlanta Washington Orlando Charlotte

Southeast Division W L Pct 62 16 .795 43 36 .544 29 50 .367 20 59 .253 18 60 .231

GB — 19 1/2 33 1/2 42 1/2 44

y-Indiana x-Chicago x-Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 49 29 .628 43 35 .551 37 41 .474 27 52 .342 24 54 .308

GB — 6 12 22 1/2 25

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division W L Pct y-San Antonio 57 21 .731 x-Memphis 53 25 .679 x-Houston 44 34 .564 Dallas 38 40 .487 New Orleans 27 52 .342

GB — 4 13 19 30 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct x-Oklahoma City 57 21 .731 x-Denver 54 24 .692 Utah 41 38 .519 Portland 33 45 .423 Minnesota 29 49 .372

GB — 3 16 1/2 24 28

Pacific Division W L Pct 52 26 .667 45 33 .577 42 37 .532 28 50 .359 24 55 .304

GB — 7 10 1/2 24 28 1/2

y-L.A. Clippers x-Golden State L.A. Lakers Sacramento Phoenix

z-clinched conference

x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

Thursday’s Games Chicago 118, New York 111, OT Oklahoma City at Golden State late Today’s Games Chicago at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 5 p.m.

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

Milwaukee at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Sacramento at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Utah, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Portland, 8 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Milwaukee at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Boston at Orlando, 5 p.m.

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

Phoenix at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Transactions BASEBALL American League SEATTLE MARINERS—Acquired RHP Aaron Harang from Colorado for RHP Steven Hensley and cash.

TEXAS RANGERS—Recalled RHP Justin Grimm from Round Rock (PCL). Placed LHP Matt Harrison on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 7.

Recalled RHP Justin Miller from Frisco (Texas) and placed him on the 60-day DL. Florida State League FSL—Suspended Daytona OF Jorge Soler five games for his actions during a game against Clearwater.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS—Signed RHP Chase Johnson and LHP Jake Laber.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS—Signed RHP Marco Gonzalez. Acquired INF Brandon Gregorich from Schaumburg to complete an earlier trade.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS—Signed RHP Drew Gagnier and OF Eldred Barnett.

ST. PAUL SAINTS—Signed C Dwight Childs.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES—Signed OF Nick Van Stratten.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS—Signed RHP Craig Heyer.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS—Signed RHP Pat

Moran, OF Chris Edmondson and RHP Alex Kreis.

Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM—Signed RHP Nate Eppley.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS—Signed RHP Jordan Wellander.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS—Signed RHP Ross Davis to a contract extension. Signed RHP Mitch Mormann.

BASKETBALL International Basketball League IBL—Announced the addition of the Seattle Flight as a branding team for the 2013 season.

FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS—Acquired RB Dion Lewis from Philadelphia for LB Emmanuel Acho.

DENVER BRONCOS—Signed DL Mitch Unrein to a one-year free-agent tender.

DETROIT LIONS—Signed K Havard Rugland.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Signed LB Josh McNary and placed him on the reserve-military list.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Re-signed WR Julian Edelman.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS—Agreed to terms with OT Jason Smith on a one-year contract.

OAKLAND RAIDERS—Signed S Reggie Smith and RB Rashad Jennings.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Signed QB Brady

Quinn. Signed S Chris Maragos to a restricted freeagent tender.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Signed WR/KR Jamaze Massey.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL—Suspended New Jersey D Anton Volchenkov four games for elbowing Boston F Brad Marchand in the head during an April 10 game.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Assigned C Boone Jenner to Springfield (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS—Recalled F Greg Rallo from San Antonio (AHL).

American Hockey League PROVIDENCE BRUINS—Signed F Matt Lindblad to an amateur tryout agreement.

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Announced D Brendon Nash was reassigned to Charlotte (ECHL) and F Zach Hamill was reassigned to Milwaukee (AHL).

TORONTO MARLIES—Announced F Tyler Biggs was reassigned to the team from Oshawa (OHL).

ECHL ECHL—Fined Greenville’s Brandon Wong an undisclosed for his actions during an April 10 game against Reading.

BAKERSFIELD CONDORS—Named James Oliver general manager.

ALLAN: Many returnees “We have more than half our team back from the championship year,” said Leahy, who has both netminders — Troy Hunt and Clayton Pool — and at least half of their defence back from that year.

Hunt is in his ninth season with the Flyers while Pool lives in Abbotsford and is a pickup. The defence is anchored by six-footthree 265-pound Tyler Loney.

The majority of the forwards are veterans, led by Todd and David Alexander, Paul Weins and Luke Middleton. The Flyers have only four first-year players on their roster and only three of those played during the season. ● The Generals and Rosetown play the other opening game Monday at 8 p.m. . . . The Kenora, Ont., Thistles are the other team in the pool and face Bentley Tuesday at 8 p.m. . . . Top teams in each pool receive a bye into the Friday semifinals while the other teams in each pool meet in cross-over quarterfinal games Thursday at 4 and 8 p.m. . . . The final goes Saturday on TSN with a time yet to be announced. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

MASTERS: Weir shoots even Three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson recovered from a rough start by running off four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the back nine to salvage a 71, while Rory McIlroy had a 72.

Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., who won the tournament in 2003, shot an even-par 72.

Woods said he struggled with the slower pace of the greens, and so did defending champion Bubba Watson, who opened with a 75.

“They’re soft and they are slow, and consequently we have 45 people at par or better,” Mickelson said.

“But that means I’ve got to change my whole mindset and just get after these pins, because the ball’s not running like it used to and I’m giving this course way too much respect because of my past knowledge.”

It’s not about respect for Garcia. Augusta National is the ultimate love-hate relationship, and Thursday was a rarity. He loved it.

Garcia began his round with an approach that danced by the hole and left him a tap-in birdie.

He rolled in a 20-foot birdie on the par-3 sixth, and then shot up the leaderboard with a pair of tough, downhill putts from 8 feet on the ninth and 15 feet on the 10th.

“It’s obviously not my most favourite place,” he said.

“But you know, we try to enjoy it as much as we can each time we come here. Sometimes it comes out better than others, but today it was one of those good days. Let’s enjoy it while it lasts.”

That was a far different attitude than last year on the weekend, when he went from one shot out of the lead going into the third round to back in the pack with a 75. He told Spanish reporters that day he had been trying his entire career to win a major and “I don’t feel capable of winning. ... After 13 years, my chances are over. I’m not good enough for the majors. That’s it.”

Not so fast. Garcia struggled off the tee on the back nine, and he three-putted for par at the 13th. He also made tough par saves on the 11th and 17th for his first bogey-free round at the Masters since 2002.

“The last eight holes mean a lot that I kept my composure, even though I didn’t hit it as well as I did the first 10 holes,” he said. Composure is everything to Garcia, a 33-year-old who still acts like a kid.

Only three weeks ago, he hit a tee shot at Bay Hill that settled on a large branch in a tree. Garcia climbed the tree, played a remarkable backhanded shot to the fairway and then jumped some 10 feet to the ground. He withdrew a few holes later when the rain arrived.

He smiles. He sulks. And he always says what he’s thinking, which sometimes gets him in trouble. Garcia doesn’t regret his comments at Augusta last year, only that he didn’t choose his words carefully. He chalked it up to frustration, but says he is trying just as hard as he did when he was 19 and challenged Woods at Medinah in the 1999 PGA. “Every time I tee it off, I try to play as well as I can, hope that my best that week is really, really good,” Garcia said. “And if I manage to do that, I will have a chance at winning. If my best is not that good, then I’ll struggle a little bit. Today, my best was pretty good. And I’m looking forward to doing the same thing the next three days.”

REBELS: Hitmen quick to pounce After Elson pulled Red Deer even 61 seconds later — breaking over the blueline, taking a drop pass from Brooks Maxwell and, from his off wing, beating netminder Chris Driedger — the Hitmen took advantage of poor clearing attempts to take a 3-1 lead.

Zane Jones, stationed in front of the net, redirected a shot past Bartosak midway through the first period, and Calder Brooks netted a power-play tally early in the middle frame while unchecked in the low slot.

“They were all bad goals,” said Sutter.

“We’ve worked with the kids all season about things you can’t do in the defensive zone . . . putting pucks in the middle of the ice on the backhand.

“Their second and third goals were soft because guys couldn’t get the puck out (of the zone).”

The Hitmen sealed the deal with a pair of empty-net goals — courtesy of Spencer Humphries and Elliott Peterson — in the final two minutes of the game. With Calgary forward Jake Virtanen serving a tripping infraction, Bartosak was on the bench in favour of a two-man advantage.

Driedger, who was big-time busy in Games 3 and 4 in Red Deer, appreciated his teammates’ defensive performance.

“In the second period I had two shots and I think one was after the whistle,” said the Hitmen stopper. “Yeah, this was definitely a change.

“I just needed to make sure I was staying on the ball. That was the challenge for me, but it was nice to kind of have a night off.”

Driedger felt the outcome was due to a combination of a so-so outing by the Rebels and a solid effort by his club.

“It might have been a bit of both,” he suggested.

“The Rebels played well but we came out pretty hard. We just wanted to close out the series, we didn’t want to go back to Red Deer. We played a full 60 (minutes) tonight.”

It was as if the Rebels never recovered from a 3-2 overtime loss in Game 4 Tuesday at the Centrium.

“But that’s a pride thing. It’s playoffs and you’re not going to win every game in overtime,” said Sutter. “We just weren’t there tonight, and again, some guys really struggled. Probably the majority.

“We played hard in the earlier games in the series, but the will to want to keep pushing wasn’t where it had to be tonight, and that’s what leaves a sour taste in your mouth.”

After giving up the soft opening goal, Bartosak was excellent the rest of the way.

He finished with 29 saves, including several of the stunning variety.

But he couldn’t work a miracle.

“This wasn’t the way I wanted my last (WHL) game to go, but I’m proud of the guys and what they’ve done all year,” said the 20-year-old Elson, who has a pro contract with the Calgary Flames.

“We battled from eighth place to fourth place (in the conference) and made it past the first round of playoffs. There are a lot of good, young players on this team and this was a good learning experience for them.

“The Rebels are going to be a dominant team next year.

You’ll have to watch out for the Red Deer Rebels next year.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Coach fears fan sabotage CONCERNS HIGHLIGHT THE DANGER OF FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS

BY ROB HARRIS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANCHESTER, England — England coach Roy Hodgson on Thursday urged the football authorities to beware of neo-Nazi groups trying to cause trouble at matches.

UEFA has proposed new, tougher anti-racism sanctions from next season, including a ‘THE ONE THING partial closure of stadiums for a first inciTHAT CONCERNS dent of racist abuse YOU A LITTLE BIT IS by fans — rather than just a fine — WHAT HAPPENS AT and a full closure for THE STADIUM, IT’S a second offence.

FIFA President VERY DIFFICULT TO Sepp Blatter, meanCONTROL EVERY while, has backtracked on calls for ELEMENT. ONE DOES teams to be punished FEAR SABOTAGE, with relegation after WITH GROUPS OF serious racist abuse over fears fans would PEOPLE COMING deliberately provoke IN WHO HAVE incidents.

Hodgson, who NOTHING TO DO has also coached in WITH FOOTBALL Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland AND WHO ARE and Italy, appears to share Blatter’s con- PERHAPS OF A NAZI cerns, highlighting PERSUASION AND the danger of farWHO COULD CAUSE right extremists.

“The one thing AN AWFUL LOT OF that concerns you PROBLEMS.’ a little bit is what happens at the sta— ENGLAND COACH ROY dium, it’s very diffiHODGSON cult to control every element,” Hodgson said at the SoccerEx conference in Manchester.

“One does fear sabotage, with groups of people coming in who have nothing to do with football and who are perhaps of a Nazi persuasion and who could cause an awful lot of problems.”

Hodgson didn’t specify which countries he thought might be afflicted by the trouble.

FIFA’s punishments only apply to its international competitions, and UEFA can only enforce its sanctions in European fixtures.

UEFA, though, is asking its 53 members at next month’s congress to adopt the proposed tougher antiracism sanctions that include a 10-match minimum ban for players found guilty of abuse.

The English Football Association, which is hosting the congress, isn’t sure if it wants to emulate European football’s governing body.

“We wouldn’t necessarily get to the same solution as UEFA,” FA chairman David Bernstein said. “It’s not a race to be first past the post, we’ll do it at our own pace in our own way.

“I’m delighted UEFA have come up with this strong penalty and I fully support them doing it. But English football must come to its own decision in its own time, which will be very soon.”

The moves follow two high-profile incidents in England in recent seasons, with Liverpool striker Luis Suarez receiving an eight-match ban for racially abusing an opponent and Chelsea captain John Terry being suspended for four matches for the same offence.

Howard happy to have revolutionized curling SAKIC, SYDOR AND HOWARD AMONG CANADA’S SPORTS HALL OF FAME’S CLASS OF 2013

BY GREGORY STRONG THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Only a handful of curlers have accomplished as much as Russ Howard did over his long career.

Even fewer can say they helped revolutionize the game.

Howard, who will be inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame this October, said one of his favourite memories was creating the so-called Moncton Rule — the forerunner to the Free Guard Zone — which helped create more offence in curling.

“It has really changed the sport,” Howard said Thursday from his hometown of Moncton.

“Now that I’m a TV guy, you can see the (ratings) and the numbers are growing big-time because the sport is so much more exciting, partly because of that rule.”

The rule, implemented in the early 1990s, forced teams to deal with the rocks in play rather than rely on the option of consistently clearing them out.

It also created more scoring, comeback opportunities and excitement.

Howard won national and world titles in 1987 and 1993 and added an Olympic gold medal with skip Brad Gushue of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2006.

Howard was named in the Hall’s athlete category Thursday along with former NHL star Joe Sakic, cyclist Alison Sydor, Paralympian Andre Viger and the 1992 Olympic champion women’s coxless four rowing team of Kirsten Barnes, Brenda Taylor, Jessica Monroe-Gonin, Kay Worthington and Jennifer Walinga.

“I knew I had done pretty well in my career as a curler but you don’t parallel it with other athletes in other sports, especially the big-time sports like hockey and football, baseball, stuff like that,” Howard said.

“So it’s pretty cool.”

Former Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president Murray Costello and sport development architect Dr. Jean-Guy Ouellet will be inducted as builders.

The official induction ceremony will be held Oct. 16.

Howard is the 14th curler to be named

SPORTS HALL OF FAME ‘I KNEW I HAD DONE PRETTY WELL... AS A CURLER BUT YOU DON’T PARALLEL IT WITH OTHER ATHLETES IN OTHER SPORTS, ESPECIALLY THE BIG-TIME SPORTS LIKE HOCKEY AND FOOTBALL, BASEBALL, STUFF LIKE THAT.’ — RUSS HOWARD

to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and the first since the Sandra Schmirler team (Schmirler, Jan Betker, Joan McCusker and Marcia Gudereit) was inducted in 2000.

Sakic, who had 1,641 career regular-season points over 20 seasons in the NHL, won league championships with the Colorado Avalanche in 1996 and 2001.

He also won titles at the Winter Olympics, world hockey championship, World Cup of Hockey and the world junior championship.

“When I heard the news I kind of thought back because it was my goal just to play in the National Hockey League,” Sakic said.

“And then to represent your country and to (be honoured) by Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, it’s pretty amazing.

“It’s something that I never would have ever dreamed of.”

Sydor won Olympic silver at the 1996 Atlanta Games and won world titles in 1994, ’95 and ’96.

She was a three-time medallist at the Pan American Games and

earned 17 career World Cup mountain bike victories.

Viger, who died in 2006, was one of best wheelchair racers of alltime.

He won 10 medals over five appearances at the Paralympic Games and held world records at several distances.

The coxless four team that won Olympic gold at the Barcelona Games in 1992 is considered one of Canada’s best-ever rowing crews.

Walinga was forced to withdraw just a day before the competition but Worthington stepped in and helped the crew win a gold medal.

Costello, an International Ice Hockey Federation vice-president, has helped Canada become a powerhouse in the sport of hockey.

He has spearheaded numerous development and skills programs that continue to be used today.

“It’s always nice to be recognized in your own sport but to be recognized across all sports through Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame is very special indeed,” Costello said.

“Especially when you consider the people you’re being inducted with, the accomplishments they have in other sports.

“It puts you in a very select group, one that you’d never thought you’d be a part of. That too makes it very special.”

Ouellet, who held the position of Director of Mission Quebec, designed and implemented programs to prepare athletes from the province to represent Canada at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

The programs were the basis for the high performance sports model in Quebec and are used today as a model for other provinces and countries around the world.

“The Class of 2013 is truly an inspiring group of Canadian sports heroes,” said Colin MacDonald, chair of the Hall’s board of governors.

“We are proud to be able to share the stories of their achievements so that we can inspire all Canadians to be the best they can be in all aspects of life.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Devils defenceman Anton Volchenkov was suspended for four games by the NHL for elbowing Boston Bruins forward Brad Marchand in the head.

The league announced the suspension Thursday, roughly 12 hours after the second-period hit left Marchand wobbly in the Bruins’ 5-4 win at the Prudential Center. He did not return.

Volchenkov, who had a hearing with the league via telephone on Thursday morning, receiving a 5-minute major and a game misconduct on the play.

The suspension will cost him $91,891.88, with the money going to the players’ emergency assistance fund.

Brendan Shanahan, the NHL’s senior vice-president of hockey operations and player safety, said Volchenkov extended his elbow on the play rather than making a full body check.

The timing of the suspension could not be worse for the Devils, who have lost eight straight games (0-4-4) and are in danger of missing the playoffs with eight games left in the regular season.

The suspension could put them down two defencemen.

Team captain Bryce Salvador was hit on the wrist by a shot by Bruins defenceman Zdeno Chara, who has one of the hardest shots in the league. X-rays on the wrist were negative on Thursday but coach Peter DeBoer said that Salvador has a significant bruise and his status will be day to day.

The Devils will face the Ottawa Senators here on Friday night. If Salvador can’t go, New Jersey has Peter Harrold and Adam Larsson on the current 25man roster.

Larsson could not play on Wednesday because he was hit in the right foot in practice on Tuesday by a shot by, of course, Volchenkov.

The 31-year-old Volchenkov appeared resigned to being suspended after skating with nine other players on Thursday morning, noting hits in the head tend to lead to suspensions.

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Rutgers addresses coaching fallout the dean of Rutgers-Newark School of Law in Newark, to become the new top in-house lawyer for the university.

Barchi said he expects Farmer to be on the job on 12 to 18 months, a time full of legal decisions related to taking on the medical schools.

Some intrigue remains about the coming changes in the fallout of the basketball department’s turmoil.

State Senate President Stephen Sweeney attended the meeting to ask for one member of the board, Mark Hershhorn, to resign or be removed.

As chairman of the athletics committee, Hershhorn saw the video of Rice in December.

He has said he called for Rice to be fired. But Sweeney faults him for not taking the matter to the full board.

Hershhorn left the meeting early and did not lead the athletic committee’s closed-door discussion of the situation.

He issued a statement this week saying Sweeney’s positions were “reckless, shocking and were made without any personal knowledge of the facts.”

Another decision for the school is who will lead the basketball team.

Several players gathered outside the board meeting Thursday to endorse assistant David Cox for the job, saying he’s held the team together during the last two difficult weeks.

They also said that Rice’s behaviour did not bother them as much as it seemed to trouble the rest of the world.

“Even though the stuff on that tape looks bad,” said forward Kadeem Jack, “we never felt threatened.”

REVIEW ORDERED, NEW TOP LAWYER HIRED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers University took steps Thursday to publicly address the fallout from the scandal over its men’s basketball coach, announcing an expected independent review and hiring a respected former state attorney general as the new top lawyer for the school.

The measures, announced at the first board of governors meeting since coach Mike Rice was fired last week, were intended to get the university back on track during a time of transformation.

Rutgers is absorbing most parts of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, including two medical schools, and is working on a strategic plan for how to catapult the school to be among the highest-regarded public universities in the nation.

The meeting centred mostly on those overarching issues, though the dozens of journalists at the meeting — and an appearance from the president of the state Senate — showed the deep interest in the Rice situation, and questions remained over the fate of one board member.

Rice was suspended, fined and ordered to anger management counselling in December after a former basketball program employee gave school officials a video showing the head coach hitting and kicking players and using gay slurs as he yelled at them during

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Rutgers University President Robert Barchi announces he accepted the resignation of athletic director Tim Pernetti, on April 5, 2013 in New Brunswick, N.J. Barchi also announced the resignation of John Wolf, who was interim senior vice-president and university counsel. practice.

ESPN reported on the video last week, and Rice was fired, an assistant coach resigned and so did Tim Pernetti, the school’s popular 42-year-old athletic director.

Pernetti, who was named last month as one of five finalists for the Sports Business Journal’s athletic director of the year award, said in his letter of resignation that his first instinct last November was to fire Rice.

But it’s not clear whether he recommended that action

to anyone else.

Gerald Harvey, the vice chairman of the board of governors, said the independent investigation is intended to figure out how the university could have followed proper procedures last year, including consulting with internal and external lawyers, and still decide not to fire Rice immediately.

“The decision seems to have been a very poor decision,” he asked, addressing reporters after the meeting.

“How did that happen?”

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The university has not announced who will conduct the investigation. Harvey said it should be done quickly, but not rushed.

John Wolf, who was interim senior vice-president and university counsel, resigned from his leadership position last week and on Thursday, he and University President Robert Barchi announced he was leaving the university entirely after 29 years.

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Brendan Burke, who had revealed his homosexuality to his family in 2007, died in a car accident in 2010 while working as a student manager and video assistant for the men’s hockey team at Miami (Ohio) University.

“The NHL sets the standard for professional sports when it comes to LGBT outreach and we are incredibly grateful for their help and support,” Patrick Burke said in a statement.

“We will work with League and NHLPA officials, teams and players to ensure that we create a more inclusive hockey community at all levels.”

You Can Play will conduct seminars at the NHL’s rookie symposium and make its resources and personnel available to each individual team as desired.

The NHL and its players will work with You Can Play to integrate the project into their Behavioral Health Program to enable players to confidentially seek counselling or simply ask questions regarding matters of sexual orientation.

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St Louis Cardinals’ starting pitcher Jake Westbrook allowed only five hits against the Cincinnati Reds.

Adams holds the career record with a .473 batting average at Slippery Rock. He tore up rookie ball in 2009 with a .365 average at Johnson City.

“That guy’s hit everywhere he’s been since the day he signed,” Carpenter said. “I’ve never seen him not mash the baseball.”

The eye-opener has been the down time has not affected production.

For the first time in his career, Adams is not playing every day and has appeared in only four games.

Extra work in the batting cage and video study on relievers he might face gives him plenty to do before the game. During the game, input on pitching patterns helps keep the kid engaged.

“In the minor leagues, there really wasn’t much video,” Adams said.

“Here, you have any type of video you want.”

Matheny gave Adams plenty of time to prepare mentally and physically before his pinch homer on Tuesday.

“He’s always on the top step, he’s not just sitting around like he’s on vacation,” Matheny said.

“He’s very clear about that bench position, that you’re going to probably have to work twice as hard as everybody else.”

DALLAS — Former NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to buy cocaine and marijuana to set up a drug-distribution network, a move that leaves him facing significant prison time.

Hurd, 27, pleaded guilty in federal court in Dallas to one count of possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute. His trial was scheduled to begin Monday, and a federal judge had refused his attorney’s request to delay it.

Prosecutors and Hurd’s attorneys have been in plea discussions for months, according to one of his attorneys, Jay Ethington.

One sticking point was what allegations Hurd would acknowledge in a plea agreement, which will factor into his recommended sentence on the indictment, Ethington said in September.

Hurd was a player for the Chicago Bears when was arrested in December 2011 outside a Chicago-area steakhouse after accepting a kilogram of cocaine from an undercover officer, according to documents prosecutors filed in the case.

Prosecutors alleged he told the officer and an informant at the steakhouse that he wanted to purchase up to 10 kilograms of cocaine a week for $25,000 per kilogram. His arrest shocked his teammates and led to his release from the team.

Months later, he was back in court after failing two drug tests and allegedly trying to arrange another drug buy.

Two men linked to Hurd’s alleged attempts to buy drugs have pleaded guilty and were prepared to testify against him.

Hurd played college football at Northern Illinois and then five seasons with the Dallas Cowboys before signing a contract with the Bears in 2011 that was reportedly worth up to $5.15 million.

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ST. LOUIS — Jake Westbrook waited patiently by his locker, placed on hold by a nearby media throng surrounding the St. Louis Cardinals’ unlikely rookie star.

Minutes earlier, Westbrook put the finishing touches on his first shutout in nearly seven seasons, but he could not complain about the lack of attention.

Exaggerating only slightly, Westbrook pointed out that burly Matt Adams was, after all, hitting .700.

When the 24-year-old Adams earned one of the team’s final bench spots with a strong spring, manager Mike Matheny said he’d try to give the former 23rd-round pick a couple starts a week.

After Adams homered for the second straight game Wednesday, helping the Cardinals take two of three from the defending NL Central champion Reds, Matheny fielded questions from those eager to see more of the backup first baseman who’s made three starts the first nine games.

“We like having his bat in there whenever we can get him in there,” Matheny said. “And we like having the other guys in there, too. It is a challenge to try to keep them all right, get them right.”

Adams’ gaudy .643 average would lead the NL by nearly 200 points if he had enough at-bats to qualify. He’s made the most of just 14 trips to the plate with nine hits and plenty of pop from the sixth and seventh spots, belting his first career pinch homer off Bronson Arroyo for the go-ahead runs on Tuesday.

Adams is tied for the team lead in homers with Matt Holliday, who has 17 more at-bats. He’s second with seven RBIs, just one behind Carlos Beltran with 14 fewer atbats.

At 6-foot-3 and 260 pounds he has a slugger’s physique.

“You just watch his batting practice, too,” Matheny said. “The ball has trajectory and it has carry. He has that kind of lofting power that not too many guys have.”

Success hasn’t inflated his ego. Adams, who flashed potential last season in his first taste of the majors, led the team with 17 RBIs this spring, and said it’s only natural that he’s improved.

He says that very softly.

“I feel like I’m more of an all-around hitter. Better on off-speed pitches, laying off the ones in the dirt and making them get it up for me,” he said. “I want to give myself and the team the best at-bats I possibly can.”

Matheny has roster flexibility to get Adams more playing time.

Regular first baseman Allen Craig got a day off Wednesday and also can play the corner outfield spots. Utilityman Matt Carpenter, who is batting .400, has started at third base and second base after appearing at five positions in 2012.

Second baseman Daniel Descalso also can play shortstop.

Catcher Yadier Molina, centre fielder Jon Jay and rookie shortstop Pete Kozma have started every game, but everyone else has already gotten days off.

“There’s going to be some bouncing around, guys getting more days off than they’re accustomed to, at least for right now,” Matheny said. “A lot of times, that stuff has a way of working itself out.”

Matheny has no doubt Adams is for real, pointing to impressive numbers at every stop in the minors. He led Triple-A Memphis with 18 homers in just 67 games last season, was the Texas League player of the year for Double-A Springfield in 2011 with 32 homers and 101 RBIs and led the Class A Midwest League with 88 RBIs along with 22 homers in 2010.

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HELP SAVE STETTLER’S ELEVATOR Enjoy a host of singing star impersonators to help raise money for the Stettler grain elevator on Sunday.

The P&H Elevator Preservation Society presents Louisiana Hayride at 7 p.m. at the Stettler Community Hall. Impersonators of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison and more perform during the recreation of a classic radio program.

Proceeds will be used for the society’s ongoing renovations to the P&H grain elevator including giving it a new paint job this summer. Tickets are $30 and available at Panda Flowers at 4816 50th St. in Stettler or by calling the shop at 403-7422725. Information on the society’s efforts is available online at www. stettlergrainelevator. com.

Rimbey selling wastewater $405,000 DEAL WOULD SELL WASTEWATER TO ENCANA FOR OILPATCH USE

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Rimbey is closing a $405,000 deal to sell the town’s wastewater to Encana for oilpatch use.

The Calgary-based energy company wants to use 180,000 cubic metres of untreated sewage for natural gas liquids extraction in what is known as the Duvernay resource play in west Central Alberta.

Three rigs are operating and a fourth is planned by year end, says the company.

Rimbey Mayor Sheldon Ibbotson said the deal is a good one for the town and would use a little under half of the town’s annual sewage production.

The rest of the wastewater — which is treated but not drinking water quality — is

piped to the Red Deer River.

“It’s revenue that we can use for our operations and our capital programs in the future.”

The town is in line for $505,000 from the province’s Municipal Sustainability Initiative fund. Encana’s deal will boost available cash by another 80 per cent and will go into a reserve to fund future infrastructure.

Final Alberta Environment approvals are required before the deal is closed, but that does not look like it’s going to be a problem, he said.

It’s a one-year deal, but there is potential that it will be extended if the wastewater proves effective in Encana’s operations.

Ibbotson said while the deal diverts water that would have gone to the Red Deer River, the original source of the water is from town wells.

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SCOTT TO SPEAK AT BANQUET Canadian Olympic crosscountry ski champion Beckie Scott will be the guest speaker at the 2013 Red Deer Community Sports Awards on April 21 at the Sheraton Hotel.

The awards honour individuals and groups who excel in their sport or volunteer their time and effort to better the community. Tickets are $35 each. Doors open at 5 p.m. and opening remarks are at 5:30, with dinner to follow.

Tickets are available at the Recreation Centre, 4501 47A Ave. For more information, contact Rob Meckling at 403309-8541 or at rob. meckling@reddeer.ca.

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LAW DAY SATURDAY See what happens on any given day at the Red Deer courthouse, on Saturday. Law Day is a celebration that promotes access to justice, and to highlight the legal services and resources available in the community. The Red Deer courthouse will be open for public tours, mock trials, police dog demonstrations, children’s activities and information sessions from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the courthouse. The opening ceremonies begin at 10:30 a.m.

Mock trials are slated for 11 a.m. to noon and 1 to 2 p.m. For more information, call 403-340-5499.

If Encana did not use the wastewater, it would need to find it elsewhere.

Encana spokesman Doug McIntyre said the company looks where it can for alternate sources of water outside fresh or surface water.

“As part of our water management strategy, we regularly look for opportunities to use unutilized sources where we can,” he said.

“These type of arrangements really help to reduce our surface water requirements.”

In northeastern B.C., the company has tapped into saline sour water unfit for agricultural use for its operations.

In the Farmington area, also in northeastern B.C., water was drawn from aquifers far below those used for water wells or drinking water. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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A group of passionate Red Deer Rebels fans show their support for the team prior to Game 5 of the Rebels playoff series against the Calgary Hitmen at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Thursday.

Charges against former sheriff in courthouse incident stayed Aggravated assault charges were stayed in the case against a former Alberta sheriff who forcibly removed a cancer survivor from the Red Deer courthouse in a December 2011 incident.

The Crown stayed the charges against Thomas Bounds on Thursday.

In December 2011, Red Deer resident Bill Berry mistakenly entered the courthouse through the open exit doors without going through security check.

Berry is unable to speak and breathes through a tube in his neck.

He tried to communicate with a sheriff who approached him after he missed the security screening.

A sheriff pushed Berry toward the exit, grabbed and placed him in a bear hug while trying to drag him from the courthouse.

Video surveillance captured on several cameras in the courthouse show

BILL BERRY CASE a chain of events from when Berry entered the building to when he was followed out by a sheriff and two medics.

An investigation by the Solicitor General’s Office’s Law Enforcement and Oversight Professional Standards Unit concluded that Bounds used “excessive” and “unjustified” force in the incident.

The RCMP did not recommend charges.

However, Berry did not give up his fight. In February, Berry was granted permission to lay a charge of aggravated assault against the former sheriff, who no longer works for the provincial government.

A stay does not mean that the charges have been dropped, only that the Crown chooses not to act on them at this time.

Olds College students in the applied science degree program spent a recent day showcasing their hard work over the past two semesters.

The science symposium, which ran all day on April 4, is the culmination of two semesters of work, the bulk ‘THERE ARE ALWAYS of which took place CHALLENGES WHEN in the most recent YOU’RE TRYING TO semester.

Their instructor, RENOVATE A GREEN Annelise Doolaege, OR THE FAIRWAYS said through the first AT A GOLF COURSE semester of the horticulture program stuBECAUSE YOU dents thought about what they wanted to WANT TO GET THEM present on. Within BACK INTO PLAY AS the bachelor of apQUICKLY AS YOU plied program science, there are three CAN.’ majors: landscape management, pro— INSTRUCTOR duction management ANNELISE DOOLAEGE and golf course management.

Golf course management students looked at bio-stimulants to improve the germination and emergence of turf grass.

“There are always challenges when you’re trying to renovate a green or the fairways at a golf course because you want to get them back into play as quickly as you can,” said Doolaege.

Students in project management took on a few tasks.

One worked with the Stettler Elementary and Middle Schools looking to renovate their landscape.

“There is interest now in many school sites to look at sustainable landscaping,” said Doolaege.

“To make it more community based and also to bring curriculum out into the garden from inside the classroom.”

The students designed a landscape that would include outdoor classroom space as well as community gardening opportunities.

“Outside of the school year, you have community members coming in to grow vegetables,” said Doolaege.

It could also include fruit-producing shrubs and trees, which could potentially be used in the classroom for nutritional education.

Another landscape team, working with a client, developed a maintenance manual for people building green roofs anywhere in Alberta.

One group from the production major looked at the use of bio-char, an ancient organic material.

“Greenhouses are looking to use less peat moss, which is a non-renewable resource,” said Doolaege.

“So what are the alternatives out there?”

The idea is to develop chambers to produce biochar on site and reduce the reliance on peat moss or coir, derived from coconuts.

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Mobile vendors rejected for Sylvan Lake

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Roving hotdog stands and other mobile vendors will not be allowed in Sylvan Lake’s beachfront area.

Town council voted unanimously on Monday to prohibit mobile vendors in its updated business licensing bylaw.

Mayor Susan Samson said a number of business people were opposed to the competition posed by mobile vendors and council agreed.

Samson believes the lakeshore area’s commercial strip needs to be a little more “robust” before it is ready for the addition of mobile vendors.

“We’ve got a lot of properties for sale,

we’ve got a lot of empty businesses, we’ve got a lot of empty locations. We still have a great number of seasonal businesses on the lakefront.”

Samson hopes to see the area develop to the point where more businesses are open year-round, shops are full and restaurants are drawing lineups.

“We don’t have that yet. So I think we would be premature to bring in mobile vending at this time.”

Samson fully expects mobile vendors will be back before council in a few years.

“It’s not something that’s going to go away,” she said.

“We will, in years to come, look at it again and one day the time will be right, but that time isn’t now.”

There are already plenty of signs busi-

ness is picking up with the redevelopment of the marina, new restaurants proposed and a new hotel opening.

There is some flexibility in the bylaw for mobile businesses outside the lakeshore.

For instance, Taber corn sellers or temporary windshield crack repair enterprises can still set up in mall parking lots or similar locations away from the main drag.

The bylaw also prohibits rickshaws and pedicabs and provides updated licensing regulations for special events and tourist homes.

Steps to regulate escort agencies were originally proposed. But that proved controversial and council opted to take escort agencies out of the bylaw to deal with separately. That will come back to council later. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Seniors to help raise awareness of elder abuse Central Alberta seniors will have new opportunities to volunteer, mentor younger generations and help raise awareness of elder abuse.

The federal government has announced new funding through the New Horizons for Seniors Program.

Four organizations in the Red Deer riding will receive $78,300 for their projects that vary in nature from Elder Safe Spaces and Capacity Building to Sylvan Lake’s Senior Community Connection Project.

“Our government recognizes the diversity of skills, knowledge and experience that seniors contribute to our society and the economy,” said Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen. “Through initiatives such as the New Horizons for Seniors Program, we are helping to ensure that seniors maintain a high quality of life and continue as active, participating members of the communities.”

Dreeshen made the announcement this week on behalf of Human Resources Minister Diane Finley and Alice Wong, minister of human resources and skills development.

Since its beginning, the New Horizons for Seniors Program has given dollars to more than 12,200 projects in hundreds of communities across Canada. Ottawa will provide more than $33 million in funding for about 1,750 community projects.

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Workers continue construction on the K-5 Catholic School located at 60 Clearview Drive during the afternoon of Wednesday, April 10. The school is scheduled to open in 2014.

Moo More gets more room

Ocean ecology display coming A travelling display specializing in river and ocean ecology will offer special books and films for people to borrow from the Parkland Regional Library.

The library has partnered with the Central Alberta Chapter of Trout Unlimited Canada to bring in a selection of 11 new books and two DVDs on topics of river and ocean ecology, with a special focus on fish and insects.

For the past three years, Parkland and Trout Unlimited have worked together to build a collection of materials related to marine creatures and their environments to share between the region’s libraries.

This year’s donation was $1,500 and the 26 titles from last year’s donation are in circulation throughout the regional system.

Any Parkland public library can sign up to host the travelling display.

Some of the new titles include: Bugwater, A Walk around the Pond: Insects in and over the Water, Northern Pike: Ecology, Conservation and Management History and Trout: An Illustrated History.

For more information, visit www. prl.ab.ca.

Teen speaker coming A teen motivational speaker will reach more than 7,500 school students

thanks to the fundraising efforts of a Eastview Middle School student.

Jacob Stennes, 14, along with the help of his mother, Grade 8 teacher Monique Stennes-Koot, raised $25,000 to bring American Josh Shipp to Red Deer for two days.

The teen and his mother saw the impact the motivational speaker had on students at Eastview and wanted to bring Shipp’s positive messages to as many students as possible in Red Deer.

On Wednesday, he will speak to audiences at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School, Notre Dame High School, and the Memorial Centre.

On Friday, April 19, Shipp will be at Eastview Middle School, Memorial Centre and Hunting Hills High School.

They also raised enough money to give the schools a copy of Shipp’s Identity Program and his book, The Teens Guide to World Domination.

Red Deer exhibit funds raised Nearly half the money needed to complete the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery’s Remarkable Red Deer exhibit has been raised.

Museum executive director Lorna Johnson said $218,000 of the $500,000 to be raised locally for the $1.5-million exhibit is pledged.

The remainder, which she hopes will come in by year’s end, will be used to add more highly interactive displays to the oil and gas, and contemporary agriculture sections.

The detailed city history exhibit to mark Red Deer’s centennial officially launches from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday and tours will be free until July 1.

Assessment ordered for teen Psychiatric assessment has been ordered for a Red Deer teenager facing numerous charges laid over allegations that he threatened to open fire at a Red Deer high school.

The 16-year-old boy was arrested on April 4 by Red Deer City RCMP after Calgary Police alerted the detachment to threats posted on a Facebook page.

He is charged with uttering threats, possession of a controlled substance and breaching probation.

The boy, whose name is withheld under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was brought into Red Deer youth court on Thursday from the Calgary Young Offenders Centre. A young woman who identified herself as his sister appeared as his agent. Judge Jim Holmes ordered that a lawyer be appointed for him.

The accused boy is to remain in custody pending his next court appearance, set for Red Deer youth court on Thursday, May 9.

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Sylvan Lake is getting a little more Moo. Town council approved owner Steve Pritchard’s application for a 2,900-square-foot addition to the popular Moo More ice cream shop at Lakeshore Drive and 44th Street. Pritchard also owns the The Big Moo Ice Cream Parlor further west on Lakeshore Drive.

Pritchard plans additional storage and retail space in the $100,000 addition, which will also see the front parapet wall rebuilt and the roof redone.

The changes will see an additional entrance on 44th Street.

Council approval was needed for the changes because the ice cream shop is located in the town’s Waterfront Direct Control District.

Mayor Susan Samson said the expansion is another good sign for the community and its merchants.

She pointed to the new Best Western Hotel, the move by Hockey Central Sports Memorabilia Inc. to the former premises of Smuggler’s Inn and Ricardo’s Ristorante and the creation of a new sports bar, and the redevelopment of the marina.

“There are lots of positives happening and lots of inroads being made.”

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“The students were doing an experiment in our greenhouse and then they would have all of that data to support their client,” said Doolaege.

Another group looked at putting a rooftop greenhouse on top of Olds College.

And one group looked at developing an interior green wall.

“Those two did a survey and asked for student, staff and faculty input,” said Doolaege. “To find the interest at these new and innovative structures and the opportunities would be considered if the college were to go in that direction.”

Specifically with the green indoor wall, there is an opportunity to grow herbs, which Doolaege said would be useful in a cafeteria.

For the two weeks left in the semester, the students have the chance to reflect on the process, what they accomplished and what they could do differently if given the same opportunity again.

“We see a real improvement every year,” said Doolaege. “I think that’s because we as instructors get better, I think our clients — we work with folks who have a chance to come and listen to the symposium — get a better understanding of the capability in the students and we have mentors that work with each student group.

“Every year, you see improvements.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Revenues for speciality, pay TV, videoon-demand reached nearly $4B: CRTC GATINEAU, Que. — Revenues for specialty, pay, pay-per-view and video-on-demand TV services have climbed more than 35 per cent over the last five years to reach nearly $4 billion in 2012, according to Canada’s broadcast regulator.

In 2012, those services created 226 new jobs, directly employed 6,176 people and paid $487 million in salaries, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said Thursday. Specialty television services continued to capture the largest share of total revenues at $3.1 billion, the CRTC said in a news release.

Expenses increased to $2.9 billion in 2012 from $2.7 billion in 2011. As a result, profits before interest and taxes dipped slightly from $934.2 million in 2011 to $916.6 million in 2012.

In 2012, these television services spent $1.39 billion on Canadian programming, representing a 9.6 per cent increase over the previous year.

New house prices up 0.2% in February OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says its new housing price index rose 0.2 per cent in February, following a 0.1 per cent increase in January. The agency says Calgary was the top contributor to the advance, up one per cent from January — the biggest month-tomonth increase in that region since May 2007.

It says increases in material and labour costs were the primary drivers for higher prices in Calgary.

The largest monthly price advances in February came in Regina, where prices were up 1.4 per cent, and in Halifax, where prices were up 0.9 per cent from January.

— The Canadian Press

Friday, April 12, 2013

TORONTO — Royal Bank’s top executive apologized Thursday to the workers who are being affected by the bank’s outsourcing arrangement with a foreign company, saying RBC should have been more sensitive and helpful to them.

The apology follows a backlash against the bank after some of its Canadian information technology workers complained they were being replaced by foreign workers working for a company contracted by RBC. Chief executive Gord Nixon

said in an open letter, to be published in Friday newspapers, that the bank is also reviewing its supplier arrangements and policies to balance its desire to be a successful business and a “leading corporate citizen.”

He repeated assurances that all of the affected workers — about 45 people — will be offered comparable job opportunities at the bank, which is Canada’s largest bank by assets.

“RBC has been in the news this week in a way no company ever wants to be,” Nixon said in a letter distributed Thursday afternoon.

“While we are compliant

Natural gas gets glowing review in report

with the regulations, the debate has been about something else.

The question for many people is not about doing only what the rules require — it’s about doing what employees, clients, shareholders and Canadians expect of RBC. And that’s something we take very much to heart.”

He issued four commitments in the letter, starting with the apology.

“All will be offered comparable job opportunities within the bank,” Nixon says.

He also committed to a review of the bank’s supplier agreements and to keep its call centres that support the bank’s

domestic and U.S. business in Canada.

“Fourth, we are preparing a new initiative aimed at helping young people gain an important first work experience in our company, which we will announce in the weeks ahead,” Nixon said.

In earlier statements and an interview that Nixon gave to CBC, the bank had said it expected and believed that its outsourcing supplier had complied with all relevant Canadian rules.

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FRACKING

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Red Deer was one of eight Canadian cities to host meetings last year about natural gas production and use.

Organized by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, the Canadian Gas Association, the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources and the Canadian Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance, the gatherings included representatives from business, labour, academia, non-governmental and environmental organizations, and aboriginal communities. Industry officials were also in attendance, and provincial and federal government representatives were invited to attend as observers.

Dave Collyer, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said the objective of the meetings was to hear Canadians’ perspectives on natural gas — including the associated challenges and opportunities — and to identify appropriate actions in response.

There were 20 participants at the Red Deer meeting, not including industry representatives. It took place last May. The other venues were Fort St. John, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax and Moncton.

A report on the results, which was issued on Thursday, said natural gas is seen as an affordable, secure and reliable fuel.

The potential economic benefits from increased domestic use and exports of liquefied natural gas were recognized, as was natural gas’s environmental superiority over other fuels.

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A worker uses a dipstick to check water levels and temperatures in a series of tanks at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. hydraulic fracturing operation at a gas drilling site outside Rifle, Colo., on Friday, March 29, 2013. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” can greatly increase the productivity of an oil or gas well by splitting open rock with water, fine sand and lubricants pumped underground at high pressure. Companies typically need several million gallons of water to frack a single well. In western Colorado, Encana says it recycles over 95 per cent of the water it uses for fracking to save money and limit use of local water supplies.

City expected to host oil, gas expo

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Red Deer is expected to play host to a new energy sector trade show this fall.

The Red Deer Oil & Gas Expo is scheduled to take place Sept.

11 and 12 at Westerner Park.

Event organizer Dwayne MacArthur, a local businessman, said he’s booked the Prairie and Stockmen’s pavilions, as well as outdoor space, for the show.

“Registrations have been going extremely well, so our booth space is filling up a lot more rapidly than we thought it would.

“I’m very optimistic that we’ll be able to utilize all the space we have rented.”

An oil and gas trade show should be a natural fit for Central Alberta, said MacArthur.

“Red Deer is the centre of the service industry for the oilfield,” he said, noting that many companies have their head of-

fices here.

But he also expects to attract exhibitors from Edmonton to Calgary, with some from even farther afield already committing to the event.

“We have people from Fort St. John and Dawson Creek that will be attending.”

MacArthur believes the Red Deer Oil & Gas Expo will be a good place for companies to showcase new technologies to prospective customers.

“We want them to be able to go and make everybody aware of this new information that they have, and the new way they do things.”

However, he also sees the event as a way to raise awareness about the energy sector, and hopes to attract a broad section of the public.

“There is no charge for the show,” said MacArthur. “We are not just having certain oil and gas people come, . . . absolutely everyone is welcome to come and learn.”

He plans to organize the Red Deer Oil & Gas Expo every two years, and said he’s already booked space at Westerner Park for 2015. This will avoid conflicts with the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show and the Calgary Global Petroleum Show, which are held on even-numbered years.

MacArthur expects the 2013 Oil & Gas Expo to benefit from the fact the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors will hold its fall conference for service rig operators in Red Deer on Sept. 11. And CAODC’s conference for drilling rig operators will take place the next day in Nisku.

Cindy Soderstrom, CAODC’s manager of communications and corporate services, agreed that Red Deer would be a good location for an oil and gas trade show.

“Dwayne has certainly been talking to us about it,” she said.

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Drop in PC sales hits Microsoft

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — If fewer people are interested in buying a new personal computer, then fewer investors want to own stakes in companies whose fortunes are tied to the sales of laptop and desktop machines.

That logic ruled Thursday as Wall Street reacted to fresh evidence that PCs are turning into a dying breed of technology as consumers and businesses embrace smartphones and tablet computers as their preferred computing devices.

The stocks of PC software maker Microsoft Corp. and PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co. absorbed significant hits on the news that PCs suffered an unprecedented sales decline during the first three months of the year. Other companies connected to the PC industry, such as Intel Corp., also were affected, although not to the same degree as the industry bellwethers.

Microsoft’s stock fell $1.35, or 4.4 per cent, to close at $28.93, while HP’s shed $1.44, or 6.5 per

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This photo taken Tuesday March 26, 2013 shows three hybrid computers running on Windows 8, from left to right, the Iconia W510 by Acer, the Yoga 13 by Lenovo and the Surface Pro by Microsoft, in Los Angeles. Since Windows 8’s debut in October, there have been a range of hot-looking devices that try to combine elements of tablets and traditional PCs. cent to finish at $20.88. Intel shares decreased 43 cents, or nearly 2 per cent, to $21.83.

First-quarter shipments of

PCs plummeted by 11 per cent to 14 per cent from a year earlier, according to separate estimates issued late Wednesday by

Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp.

By either measure, it was biggest decrease recorded by either research firm since they began tracking PCs sales.

For IDC, the data goes back to 1994 — just before Microsoft released a revamped PC operating system called Windows 95, which played a major role in triggering a sales boom that turned laptop and desktop machines into a household staple.

Microsoft hoped to revive PC demand last year with the debut of the most dramatic makeover of Windows since the 1995 redesign. The changes imbued Windows with some of the qualities of mobile software, including touch-screen controls and a display of applications in a mosaic of interactive tiles.

Although Microsoft says it’s happy with the more than 60 million copies of Windows 8 that have been sold since its October release, analysts have been disappointed.

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COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 95.97 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 91.70 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.96 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.03 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.60 Cdn. National Railway . . 98.77 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 124.81 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 80.37 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.73 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.10 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 31.86 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.29 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.15 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.01 General Motors Co. . . . . 29.72 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.79 Research in Motion. . . . . 13.82 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.40 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.83 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 44.18 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.65 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.69 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.77 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 72.00 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.15 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.00 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.08 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.87 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Thursday as traders stepped back after a string of gains that brought the TSX back into positive territory for the year.

The S&P/TSX composite index lost 53.54 points to 12,481.37 while the Canadian dollar was up 0.36 of a cent to 98.94 cents after earlier running up to a two-month high of 99.15 cents US. U.S. indexes added to three days of gains as the number of Americans seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell 42,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 346,000, which beat expectations of 360,000.

The Dow Jones industrials were up 62.9 points to 14,865.14 while the Nasdaq composite index climbed 2.9 points to 3,300.16 after International Data Corp. reported global PC shipments fell 14 per cent in the first quarter, the biggest decline ever.

The S&P 500 index edged up 5.64 points to 1,593.37.

The gains pushed the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 further into record territory. The Dow has jumped 13.4 per cent year to date while the S&P 500 has charged ahead almost 11.75 per cent as investors react to a resurgent housing sector and the conviction that the Federal Reserve won’t be ending its stimulus program of buying bonds any time soon.

The TSX is only about 50 points in the positive column for the year as of the close Thursday and indications are that it will continue to badly underperform New York, in large part because it is so resource based.

The TSX tech sector was the leading decliner, down two per cent with BlackBerry (TSX:BB) down $1.11 or 7.43 per cent to $13.82.

The base metals sector lost 1.47 per cent even as May copper shed early declines to rise two cents to US$3.43 a pound. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) declined 38 cents to C$28.70.

The gold sector was off about 1.5 per cent while June bullion was up $6.10 to US$1,564.90 an ounce.

Iamgold (TSX:IMG) faded 26 cents to C$6.26.

But Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) gained 19 cents to C$25. Barrick shares tumbled almost nine per cent Wednesday after a Chilean court suspended work on its Pascua-Lama mine after indigenous communities complained that the project is threatening their water supply and polluting glaciers.

Gold slid 1.7 per cent on Wednes-

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.60 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.05 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 54.78 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.79 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.78 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 25.00 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.79 First Quantum Minerals . 18.88 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 31.51 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.41 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.88 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.26 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.82 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 28.70 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 27.28 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 41.10 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.70 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.57 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 49.21 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.49 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.41 Canyon Services Group. 10.32 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.94 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.730 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.67 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.15 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.22 day, partly on speculation that Cyprus will sell 400 million euros of the precious metal as part of its financial bailout.

The May crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange declined $1.13 to US$93.51 a barrel.

Prices backed off after the International Energy Agency lowered its expectations for global demand for crude in 2013 by 45,000 barrels to 90.6 million barrels a day.

The energy sector dropped 0.68 per cent while Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) shed 58 cents to C$30.94.

The financial sector gave back 0.39 per cent as Manulife Financial (TSX:MFC) moved down 23 cents to $14.42.

Royal Bank (TSX:RY) shares were off nine cents to $61.29 as chief executive Gordon Nixon made a public apology to the workers who are being affected by the bank’s outsourcing arrangement with a foreign company.

On the earnings front, shares in Hudson’s Bay Company (TSX:HBC) gained 25 cents to $15 after it posted fourth-quarter earnings that were down compared with a year ago as its Lord & Taylor operations in the United States felt the impact of hurricane Sandy. The retailers net earnings from continuing operations were $93.6 million or 81 cents per share, down $5.6 million from a year ago.

Astral Media Inc. (TSX:ACM.A) had $41.2 million or 73 cents a share in net earnings in the latest quarter, up eight per cent from the year-earlier period. Revenue also increased slightly, rising to $237.1 million from $233.5 million.

The Montreal-based radio, television and outdoor advertising company is seeking regulatory approval to be acquired by BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE).

Its shares edged a penny lower to $48.87.

Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX:CJR.B) shares fell $1.11 to $24.60 after it said Thursday that net income attributable to shareholders in the latest quarter fell to $5.9 million or seven cents per diluted share. That was down from $31.6 million on 38 cents from a year earlier. Corus cited a $25-million pre-tax debt refinancing charge as well as “soft” business results that saw a double-digit slide in quarterly revenue to $183.7 million.

The TSX Venture Exchange added 0.8 of a point to 1,048.54.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at closeThursday.

Stocks:

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 41.17 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.33 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.38 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.30 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 3.00 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.15 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.19 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 1.100 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.78 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 29.68 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.23 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.13 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.06 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.79 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 63.12 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 57.90 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.35 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.96 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 35.39 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 26.89 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.60 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 63.82 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.42 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.93 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.34 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 61.29 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.63 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.86

S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,481.37 down 53.54 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,048.54 up 0.80 point TSX 60 — 714.16 down 3.85 points Dow — 14,865.14 up 62.90 points, record high S&P 500 — 1,593.37 up 5.64 points, record high Nasdaq — 3,300.16 up 2.91 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 98.94 cents US, up 0.36 of a cent Pound — C$1.5548, up 0.02 of a cent Euro — C$1.3243, down 0.12 of a cent Euro — US$1.3103, up 0.36 of a cent Oil futures: US$93.51 per barrel, down $1.13 (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,564.90 per ounce, up $6.10 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $29.051 per oz., down 20.5 cents $933.99 kg., down $6.59 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 1,048.54, up 0.80 point. The volume at 4:20 p.m.

ET was 119.18 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA Canola: May ’13 $2.20 higher $625.30; July ’13 $2.10 higher $612.50; Nov. ’13 $2.90 higher $561.00; Jan. ’14 $2.00 higher $560.10; March ’14 $2.50 higher $553.60; May ’14 $2.50 higher $551.50; July ’14 $2.50 higher $549.60; Nov. ’14 $2.50 higher $525.20; Jan ’15 $2.50 higher $525.20; March ’15 $2.50 higher $525.20; May ’15 $2.50 higher $525.20.

Barley (Western): May ’13 unchanged $243.50; July ’13 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’13 $10.00 lower $234.00; Dec ’13 $9.00 lower $235.00; March ’14 $9.00 lower $235.00; May ’14 $9.00 lower $235.00; July ’14 $9.00 lower $235.00; Oct. ’14 $9.00 lower $235.00; Dec. ’14 $9.00 lower $235.00; March ’15 $9.00 lower $235.00; May ’15 $9.00 lower $235.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 420,720 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 420,720.

IGate brought its own employees into Canada on temporary foreign worker visas so they could be trained at RBC for the services they’ll be providing to the bank.

The controversy sparked an investigation by the federal government.

The government has said that the temporary foreign workers program is only intended to allow foreign workers when no Canadians are available to fill the job.

“Employers cannot pay temporary foreign workers less than a Canadian would earn in the same job,” said Alyson Queen, a spokeswoman for Human Resources Minister Diane Finley.

“It is a requirement of the program that employers will only be able to pay temporary foreign workers 15 per cent less than the average prevailing wage if there are Canadians being paid 15 per cent less. Therefore, no Canadians will be undercut.”

In 2012, there were more than 213,000 foreign workers in Canada, compared with over 160,000 immigrants who arrived under the federal skilled worker program.

The rapid growth of the temporary foreign worker program has raised concerns that Canadian companies are filling job vacancies with cheaper workers from overseas rather than actively finding Canadians to fill the jobs.

GAS: Identified challenges Meeting participants identified challenges, including impacts on the environment and the communities where the resource is developed. Other concerns were related to the competitive global market, skilled labour shortages, and the challenge of achieving a balance between environmental protection and efficient and timely regulatory approvals.

Collyer acknowledged that the perspectives of those at the meetings in Red Deer and Fort St. John — where natural gas production is common — diverged sometimes from those at the meetings elsewhere in the country.

One example was the issue of water, with the Red Deer meeting focused on the volumes of water used in gas production, while discussions elsewhere tended toward the risk of groundwater contamination.

“I think it’s fair to say that the less familiar people are with industry operating practices, and fracking in particular, the more uncertain they are about the potential for environmental impact, and particularly the impact on water quality,” he said.

The Red Deer meeting also revealed a higher level of concern about the competitiveness of Canadian natural gas in the North American and global markets, said Collyer, particularly in light of the large volumes of gas being produced from shale deposits in the United States.

“I think people in Red Deer clearly understand that the economy in Alberta and Western Canada is largely dependent on our ability to produce and sell oil and natural gas, and they see the changed market circumstances, which is changing the economic outlook for natural gas in North Amer-

ica.”

Collyer said industry will continue to seek input from Canadians.

“We’ve got plans in 2013 to do more local community outreach, in Alberta and British Columbia in particular.”

He said it’s important to find out what people think, particularly with new sources of natural gas making the fuel more abundant and affordable.

“The market has, in a way, turned on its head,” said Collyer, recalling how North America has moved from shortages to surpluses.

That’s resulted in changed perceptions about where natural gas should fit into the energy mix, and environmental and social concerns about new production techniques.

“All of that creates the case for getting out and talking with people and making sure we understand their perspectives and can address their concerns,” he said. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

EXPO: Raise awareness “A lot of our service rig companies are based out of there and we actually host our service rig executive committee meetings in Red Deer every month.

We think if Red Deer is more aware of oil and gas, that’s a good thing.”

Four years ago, an oil and gas trade show in Red Deer resulted in fraud charges against the organizers after it was cancelled and exhibitors were not refunded their money.

MacArthur said he’s well aware of that incident, and is working hard to ensure people receive good information about the Red Deer Oil & Gas Expo. It’s joined the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce and has applied for an associate membership in the CAODC. Additional information about the Red Deer Oil & Gas Expo can be found on its website at www.reddeeroilandgasexpo.com. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

PC: Windows 8 to blame In its report, IDC blamed Windows 8 for accelerating the sales decline by confusing too many people who had become accustomed to using the old operating system. Another problem: The PCs designed to run on Windows 8 are coming in a befuddling array of styles and are demanding significantly higher prices than older models, at a time when the initial out-of-pocket expense for a smartphone is as low as $99 and tablet computers go for less than $200. In a sign of how sensitive consumers have become to prices, Amazon. com Inc.’s top-selling laptop is a $249 Samsung laptop running a new operating system based on Google’s Chrome Web browser.

Count Sterne Agee’s Shaw Wu among the analysts worried about the future of Microsoft and its partners in the PC industry. “We frankly believe (Microsoft’s) strategy of forcing user interface changes that nobody wants has proven to be a disaster,” Wu wrote in a Thursday research note.

Nomura Securities analyst Rick Sherlund also took a dimmer view of Microsoft’s future prospect as he lowered his recommendation on the company’s stock from a “buy” to “neutral.”

In a Thursday note, Sherlund asserted that about half of all consumers now see little reason to buy a PC or any other device running on Windows.

Cyprus bailout swells to $30 billion THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS, Belgium — The cost of bailing out Cyprus has swollen to euro 23 billion ($30 billion), with the crisis-hit country having to take on the lion’s share of the measures needed to avoid bankruptcy, according to a draft document by the country’s international creditors.

The draft document, obtained by The Associated Press Thursday, says the country will have to find 13 billion euros ($17 billion) — an increase on the 7 billion euro contribution agreed during the country’s chaotic bailout talks last month. The money will be raised by imposing heavy losses on large bank deposits, levying additional taxes, privatizations and a part-sale of the central bank’s gold reserves.

The so-called troika of international creditors — the European Commission, the European Central Bank and

the International Monetary Fund — are set to grant the Mediterranean island nation a 10 billion euros ($13 billion) rescue loan package to recapitalize Cyprus’s shaky banking system and keep the government afloat.

As part of the original deal, Cyprus agreed to overhaul its bloated banking industry by breaking up its secondlargest bank, Laiki, and imposing losses on savers who have more than 100,000 euros in another lender, the Bank of Cyprus.

In the latest draft document, the troika has revised the cost of bailing out Cyprus amid a gloomier economic outlook, adding an extra 6 billion euros to the bill.

“The sheer size of the increase has underlined the extent of the enormous challenges facing Cyprus itself,” Jonathan Loynes of Capital Economics said in an analyst note.

The document also shows that the troika expects the break-up of

Laiki to raise 10.6 billion euros. Those funds will be used to prop up the Bank of Cyprus.

Cyprus will also have to sell off parts of its gold reserves.

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This image provided by Karl Deisseroth’s lab shows a three-dimensional rendering of clarified mouse brain seen from below. Scientists have made mouse brains transparent, permitting a comprehensive and exquisitely detailed view of their inner structures, providing a major new tool for research.

‘Stupendous’ see-through mouse brains a new research tool

BY MALCOLM RITTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Stanford University scientists have found a way to make see-through mouse brains: You take the brain out of the mouse, soak it in chemicals for a couple of days, and voila: It becomes transparent.

That’s not just a parlour trick. It lets scientists see both anatomical and chemical details in their natural, three-dimensional setting.

And how big a deal is that? Listen to these neuroscientists: “What these guys have done is just stupendous,” said Dr. Bernardo Sabatini of Harvard Medical School. “You can just peer into the brain” and get “incredible” images, he said.

Sabatini said he was eager to try it himself, and so did Arthur Toga at the University of California, Los Angeles, who called it “extraordinary ... a great advance.”

“It’s exactly the technique everyone’s been waiting for,” said Terry Sejnowski of the Salk Institute, who reckoned it will speed up brain anatomy research by 10 to 100 times.

The advance was reported online Wednesday in the journal Nature by Dr. Karl Deisseroth and coworkers at Stanford. Some other

labs are already working to apply the technique outside the brain, such as in breast cancer biopsies, Deisseroth said.

Mouse brains are a mainstay of neuroscience research.

Deisseroth’s team also showed the technique can work on small pieces of human brain tissue that had been stored for years after being removed from the cadaver of a person with autism.

They’re now trying the technique on a complete human brain.

The technique is a basic tool that should apply to a variety of brain research.

It’s too soon to know if it might lead to discoveries that could have a benefit for treating diseases like Alzheimer’s or schizophrenia.

Deisseroth said the goal was to supplement rather than to replace current methods of studying brain anatomy.

Although the new approach can’t be used in living animals, it provides more anatomical detail than brain scans like an MRI. Scientists can get fine detail by cutting the brain into very thin slices and studying each one, but experts said it’s difficult to reconstruct a three-dimensional understanding of anatomy that way.

Even a mouse brain, small enough to fit on a coin, takes hundreds of slices to get through.

Scientists have been able to make brain tissue transparent before, but experts called the new technique much more useful.

To create transparent mouse brains, the Deisseroth team had to remove the fat that provides structure but also blocks light.

The first step was to soak the brain in chemicals that would get inside and form a mesh.

Once that mesh was in place to support the tissue, the scientists washed out the fat. The result: a see-through brain.

Specialized stains can then make selected structures like brain cells visible and also reveal important chemical data, like the location of particular proteins.

The stains can show details of brain circuits and the connections between different areas, as well as details of individual cells.

“If the entire mouse brain is transparent, that makes a very large fraction of neuroscience research much easier,” which in turn makes more experiments feasible, said Dr. R. Clay Reid of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.

“This will make a lot of neuroscientists happy.”

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British physicist Stephen Hawking urges continuing space exploration FOR HUMANITY’S SAKE

BY ALICIA CHANG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Stephen Hawking, the British physicist who spent his career decoding the universe and even experienced weightlessness, is urging the continuation of space exploration — for humanity’s sake.

The 71-year-old Hawking said he did not think humans would survive another 1,000 years “without escaping beyond our fragile planet.”

Hawking made the remarks Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he toured a stem cell laboratory that’s focused on trying to slow the progression of Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Hawking was diagnosed with the neurological disorder 50 years ago while a student at Cambridge University.

He recalled how he became depressed and initially didn’t see a point in finishing his doctorate.

But he continued his studies.

“If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way,” he said.

Renowned for his work on black holes and the origins of the cosmos, Hawking is famous for bringing esoteric physics concepts to the masses through his bestselling books, including A Brief History of Time, which sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

Hawking has survived longer than most people with Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

ALS attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control

the muscles.

People gradually have more and more trouble breathing and moving as muscles weaken and waste away.

There’s no cure and no way to reverse the disease’s progression.

Few people with ALS live longer than a decade.

Hawking receives around-the-clock care, can only communicate

by twitching his cheek, and relies on a computer mounted to his wheelchair to convey his thoughts in a distinctive robotic monotone.

Despite his diagnosis, Hawking has remained active.

In 2007, he floated like an astronaut on an aircraft that creates weightlessness by making parabolic dives.

“However difficult

life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at,” he said Tuesday.

Dr. Robert Baloh, director of Cedars-Sinai’s ALS program, said he had no explanation for Hawking’s longevity. Baloh said he has treated patients who lived for 10 years or more.

“But 50 years is unusual, to say the least,” he said.

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On April 9, 2013, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Downtown 1. Omicron Construction Management Ltd. - an 30 seat outdoor seasonal patio in connection with Famoso Neopolitan Pizzeria, to be located at B, 5016 51 Avenue.

Discretionary Use South Hill 2. Dr J Ario Chinnery – a medical office, to be located at 106 3939 50A Avenue.

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 26, 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.

Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On April 3, 2013 the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications: Discretionary Use Approvals: Downtown ABS Origin Inc. (on behalf of Mr. Lube) – redevelopment of the site located at 4705 – 49 Avenue.

Golden West Group 2 Architects – site development for eight commercial buildings to be located at 6712 & 6714 Golden West Avenue.

You may appeal discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative & Governance Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on April 26, 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.

INVITATION TO TENDER THE CITY OF RED DEER Sealed Tenders clearly marked 2013 Bridge Resurfacing – 49th Avenue / Waskasoo Creek (Str. #5) (05/07 – 2:00:00) 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 May 7, 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: • Spot milling PMA on bridge deck (approximately 37.5 m2 & max depth 30mm); • Micro-surface application to bridge deck wearing surface (approximately 259.5 m2 & 15mm depth); • Remove and replace asphalt plug joints (approximately 30.5 m); • Milling ACP & removal of waterproofing membrane on bridge approaches (approximately 151.5 m2, 80mm depth on approach slabs and 50mm depth on roadway); • ACP overlay to bridge approaches (approximately 29 tonnes); • Demolition and reconstruction of concrete curb and gutter (approximately 6 lineal m); • Semi-integral abutment conversion at bridge sidewalk / approach side walk interfaces (2 locations); and, • Pavement Markings.

Tender Documents may be obtained from Lex3 Engineering Inc. on or after April 16, 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.

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Closet connection A SIGN OF SURE STYLE IS A WARDROBE THAT COMPLEMENTS ITS SURROUNDINGS

BY SAMANTHA CRITCHELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Does your outfit blend into the woodwork?

We’re not talking in a boring, bland way, but in a complementary one. Perhaps your wardrobe is a reflection of your broader taste, and there’s no place better to see that than in the way you decorate your home.

If you’re true to your style from your clothing closet to the linen closet — and then the kitchen cabinets — you’re probably not the type to bounce from trend to trend, style experts say. Instead, you probably have a strong point of view that evolves and is enhanced over time.

Designer Nanette Lepore has gone so far to make a rug out of a favourite print she used in a fashion collection, and the pigmented colours she likes to wear are the ones on her walls, too.

“I want to create an environment you want to come home to,” she says.

The home gives a picture window into your personal style because you live with it a lot longer and that tends to show off what you truly value, says jewelry designer Cathy Waterman. It’s not glitz and glamour for her, for example; she likes craftsmanship with a dash of drama.

Super-fancy sparkly jewels are hardly a party of her everyday routine, Waterman says, but finely made flatware is.

A glimpse into tastemakers’ closet connections: ● Terron Schaefer, Saks Fifth Avenue chief creative officer Terron Schaefer says anyone who knows him would expect the streamlined decor — and very neat closet — in his apartment.

There are many black-and-white photographs in black or stainless steel frames, and, even though he is a collector of interesting objects such as Indonesian eating utensils and aerospace propellers, there is little clutter.

He admires beautiful shapes, and

he wants to give them the chance to be noticed, so he doesn’t have too many of anything nor does he switch things out too often, explains Schaefer, who also serves as a buyer on NBC’s “Fashion Star.”

“All my hangers are lined the same way, and all my shoes have shoe trees. ... I essentially wear a uniform of suits and shirts, and there so similar that I can get dressed in the dark with confidence,” he says. The other day, he wore a cashmere jacket that was 20-yearsold. It was emblematic of his classic style, he says.

But there’s often the touch that gives Schaefer a conversation piece: For his outfit, it could be a bright pocket square or cool tie. In his dining area, it’s the unfussy table — with bicycle wheels as legs. ● Nanette Lepore, fashion designer There is nothing precious about Lepore’s home, she says. “I want the same thing from my house as I want for my collection. I like to make live-in clothes. I want to think of my clothes as go-to clothes, not special-occasion-only clothes.”

“I feel like my personal style is very eclectic and I like to decorate that way.

I like a lush, romantic room that feels warm and homey and very personal,” says Lepore, who is launching a home collection this fall.

She’s a fan of prints and rich colours, and they’re an important part of her decor just like her runway. Of course, she can’t swap out her furniture as often as she might a dress — but, she says, she holds on to dresses for a long time, too. The key are the accessories, whether it’s shoes and a handbag, or a throw pillow and new sheets.

“I think people most people want to layer when they get dressed or when they decorate.”

The catwalk trick she brings home with her? Good lighting. ● Cathy Waterman, jewelry designer While she’s known for pieces that shine, her personal wardrobe and her

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This photo provided by HL Group shows designer Kelly Wearstler’s closet.

“Whenever I work with clients that are uncertain about where or how to start in terms of home decor, I ask them to go into their closet and to describe to me what they find. What color, style, and textures they find. We build from there. I can use this feedback as a foundation,” says Wearstler. decorating sensibility are driven by craftsmanship and art. She has a lifestyle that puts her more often in the garden, kitchen or studio than the red carpet, Waterman explains.

Her tastes are very eclectic, artsy and dramatic, and when she likes something, she really likes it: Take fairy tales, she says. Her closet is home to velvet cloaks and capes, and the flatware collection she recently created

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BY SAMANTHA CRITCHELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Model Natalia Vodianova was honoured as an inspiration to women at the annual DVF Awards, in part because as a globe-trotting jet-setter, she hasn’t forgotten her roots in Russia.

Actually, it’s her around-the-world lifestyle, rubbing shoulders with fashion’s glitterati, that allows her to help back home, the 31-year-old model said.

Vodianova founded the Naked Heart Foundation in 2004. The charity started as a project to build a playground for the surviving children of the Beslan school massacre. It has now grown to 90 play parks in 68 Russian towns.

“I conduct most of my fundraising in the fashion industry. It’s very international, and we have a lot of events outside of Russia, and even those in Moscow or St. Petersburg bring international celebrities and performers,” she said. “I activate all my resources.”

The DVF Award was presented to Vodianova last week at the United Nations by designer Diane von Furstenberg as part of The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation that honours leadership and courage.

Vodianova said it was particularly special because it was the first time she’s been celebrated outside of Russia for her charity work. Plus, von Furstenberg is more than a business acquaintance.

“It’s so hard to put into words our relationship so it doesn’t sound cheesy. I love her. She’s my role model, my confidante, someone I share vacations with. We are friends, and I consider her a part of my family,” Vodianova said.

The designer returned the compliment, telling The Associated Press in an email: “Natalia is a beautiful, strong and determined young woman.

I was first drawn to her beauty and then I discovered her enormous heart when she came to me in 2004 wanting to help the children who had suffered from the Beslan tragedy. I saw that she was a woman who could make things happen.”

Vodianova’s now a veteran of the runway, having walked in more than 175 fashion shows, from Calvin Klein to Yves Saint Laurent, but

she said a von Furstenberg show was the first one she ever opened and closed.

“My English at the time was really poor, but she made me feel really good about myself” she said.

“She made it very personal. It was more than I fit her ‘look.’ Diane said she liked my personality.”

Vodianova makes Paris her home with her three children.

She went to modeling school in Paris and lived there in her teens after being “discovered.” She has also lived in London and New York.

Travel is part of the modeling gig, and even though she doesn’t like being away from home so often, she’s thankful to have work and to be successful at it, she said. Vodianova has been the face of many ad campaigns, including Stella McCartney, Givenchy and David Yurman.

She is very active on social media and is “always available on my Blackberry.”

“I very much continue my day job that pays my bills, and it gives me the constant exposure that I need to be good for Naked Heart. It’s tough when I have to go film a commercial for a week in India — that’s a week away from my family — it’s what I like to do, love to do and have to do.”

Online: http://www.nakedheart.org/

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo released by The DVF Awards shows model Natalia Vodianova with her DVF Award in New York. Vodianova was recognized for her charity with children in her native Russia. She founded a charity called the Naked Heart Foundation in 2004.

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The Toronto Fashion Incubator has announced the four finalists for the TFI New Labels fashion design competition.

This year, TFI has partnered with Target for the annual contest, a showcase for a select group of up-and-coming Canadian designers.

SEVENTHIRTYONE from Victoria-born designer Defne Husrevoglu and Maiko Suzuki of Japan are among the labels vying for the title. The duo currently resides in Toronto.

Chalo Barrueta and Christopher Paunil of Christopher Paunil, Paria Shirvani and Sarah Stevenson Design round out the finalists.

Designers will be competing for a $25,000 cash award from TFI supporter and philanthropist Suzanne Rogers, as well as the chance to create an exclusive collection to be sold in Target stores across Canada.

The TFI New Labels winner will also receive a full-page editorial feature in Flare magazine.

Montreal-based designer Melissa Nepton was crowned the winner of the Target Emerging Designer Award in February, earning a chance to design a line for Target’s Quebec-based stores. Both exclusive lines are slated to arrive in stores in 2014.

TFI is a non-profit, small business centre that offers support and mentorship to budding Canadian fashion designers and entrepreneurs.

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Fax 403-341-6560 editorial@reddeeradvocate.com Left: Maria #3, played

by Brittany Martyshuk (right), spills tea on Francois #3, played by Tyler Johnson, during a scene from the play Summertime.

Right: Francois #1, played by Chase Cownden (left), speaks wtih Mimi, played by Victoria Day. Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/ Advocate Staff

LOVE IS IN THE AIR Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Maria #1, played by Julia van Dam (left), spills tea on Francois #1, played by Chase Cownden, during a scene from the play Summertime.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

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Summertime will arrive when the unusual and risqué comedy by Charles Mee opens on Wednesday in Studio A of the Red Deer College Arts Centre.

Granted, it’s a little early to be feeling warm August breezes.

But this is the time of year when thoughts are supposed to turn to love — and this play is all about love: first love, romantic love, married love between a man and woman, same-sex love, adulterous love, the love between parents and children, and even platonic love between friends.

Quite appropriately, the Red Deer College theatre studies department has opted to set Summertime, an abstract stage production with realistic themes, in the 1970s. After all, the Decade of Love was when passions were explored in all their various permutations.

The play’s two main characters start out with a professional interest in each other — James works for a photographer and wants Tessa to translate some English book captions into Italian.

But not long after James flies in to meet Tessa at her parents’ upscale cottage on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, he develops a more personal attachment to her.

While Tessa is also attracted to James, she’s reluctant to get involved, having rather nebulous feelings about the whole relationship thing. Much of her problem is rooted in her parents’ unconventional marriage.

Her mother, Maria, appears to subscribe to Woody Allen’s laissez-faire philosophy of “the heart wants

What: RDC Theatre Studies presents Charles Mee’s risqué surreal comedy Summertime When: 7:30 p.m., April 17 to 21 (also at 1 p.m. on April 20) Where: Studio A, Red Deer College Arts Centre Tickets: $20.20 ($16.20 students/seniors) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre what it wants.” While attached to her husband, Frank, Maria is open about having a lover named François, who hangs around the cottage with them.

Frank seems cool with this arrangement. But then, Frank can’t really point fingers at Maria after also gaining a lover named Edmund.

“It’s no wonder that Tessa struggles. All of them are right there!” said Summertime’s director, RDC instructor Lynda Adams, with a laugh.

Having lived through the 1970s and known several real-life couples who tried open marriages, Adams concludes they don’t work over the long term.

Besides the jealousy pitfall, most humans are hardwired to focus their romantic attentions on one person at a time. “Not one of them stayed married,” said Adams, who has herself been married for 47 years.

Mee appears to suspend romantic judgment in Summertime, letting his characters’ love affairs play out as they will. But that doesn’t mean that audience members won’t come away with their own strong opinions, said Adams, who believes the play’s plot

line will present plenty of fodder for post-theatre discussion.

Like all the best comedies, she said Summertime offers poignant moments along with the laughter.

“There has to be the other side,” as certain characters come to sobering realizations.

While Mee’s themes are realistic and relatable, his poetic writing and dream-like atmosphere (the set will have lots of real trees, legally chopped down by students near Rocky Mountain House) give Summertime a surreal feel.

Adams will take this further by triple casting four roles. Three actors will play Tessa, three more will play James, as well as Maria and Francois, and two actors will play the Cook in order to give all 21 first-year students a chance to act in the 13-character play.

All of the actors making up these small “Greek choruses” will be on stage at the same time. Sometimes they will speak together, and sometimes they will alternate lines, as was successfully accomplished in the previous stylistic RDC production of The King is the King.

While the danger is that so much abstraction will divert the audience’s attention from Mee’s realistic theme, Adams believes that love is so fundamental, viewers will stay tuned — particularly when they get used to the character-as-chorus effects.

The biggest challenge she faces in directing this production is co-ordinating so many actors on stage at the same time. But Adams said the students have been a joy to work with. “The actors have really been finding the humanity” in Mee’s story (which contains strong language and adult themes). lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Danny Boyle’s Trance fails to bewitch Trance Two stars (out of four) Rating 18A Danny Boyle seems to have had a blast making Trance. It’s a pity he makes it so difficult to share in his joy.

The genre-hopping British filmmaker describes this serpentine psycho-thriller as a form of personal therapy, something he did to relieve stress while also directing last summer’s Olympics opening ceremony.

He stopped and started the movie to accommodate his Olympic priorities, which may account for why it has such a patchwork feel to it. More PETER difficult is the lack of feeling HOWELL it summons for the three principal characters, played by James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel.

Trance begins as a heist picture, one in which Goya’s fearsome masterpiece Witches in the Air presents itself as an object to contemplate and to covet at

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a London auction house. The painting’s theme, an unsuspecting traveler consumed by witches, is actually more interesting than the filthy lucre part.

But it does sell for a cool $42 million, under the watch of auction official Simon (McAvoy), who has already told us via voiceover narration how easy it used to be for hoods to snatch paintings and how tough it is today, thanks to elaborate new security measures. This doesn’t stop determined criminals, however, and one presents himself in the person of crooked nightclub kingpin Franck (Cassel), who figures he’s pulled off the perfect crime — until suddenly he hasn’t.

The Goya slips from Franck’s fingers and he blames Simon, but a knock on the head removes all memories the auctioneer has of what just went down.

If Simon knows what happened to the painting, it’s no longer top of mind.

Enter hypnotherapist Elizabeth (Dawson), whom Franck resorts to in desperation after he and his thugs fail to crack Simon’s nut through torture (didn’t these guys see Zero Dark Thirty?). The hope is that Elizabeth, by putting Simon into a trance state, will be able to unblock his memory.

At this point, you almost want to break into applause for the brazen way Boyle and screenwriters Joe Ahearne and John Hodge employ the old amnesia plot device, which is more appropriate to comedy

than drama. Even one of Franck’s thugs moans, “Everyone knows that amnesia is bollocks!”

It may well be, but for a while in Trance it’s a reasonably effective device, pushed along by the film’s danceable soundtrack (masterminded by Underworld’s Rick Smith, a Boyle regular). The picture looks great, too, its bright colours seeming to have melted off an impressionist’s canvas, recalling the palette cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle brought to Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours.

The problem with Trance is that Boyle and his writers want to mess with more than just Simon’s brain. The story becomes twisted and unreliable to the point of being downright silly, as motivations shift and finding the missing Goya starts to seem like the furthest thing from everybody’s mind.

Narrative clarity isn’t the issue; lack of character empathy is. We are given no compelling reason to care for these people, even though McAvoy and Cassel both deliver competent performances and Dawson goes one further, approximating a femme of noir intrigue.

By the time the three leads start doffing their clothing, in what seems like a bald attempt to restore the movie’s fading pulse, viewers may find themselves something well short of bewitched or entranced.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star critic.

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Mystery of Faith is a mixed media piece of artwork created on six 12-inch-square canvas tiles. The piece is by Edmonton artist Eric Cheung as part of his Visual Counterpoints exhibit and will be on display at the Harris-Warke Gallery until May 4.

EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● Typecast — Red Deer College Annual Year End Exhibition is on at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until April 29. The exhibit reflects many of the ideas and themes taught at the college, and represents a variety of subjects, materials and more. Phone 403-309-8405. ● Delaney and Anderton at Dose Coffee on Little Gaetz Ave. features figure drawing, oil landscapes and acrylic landscapes. ● 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 is now open at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery and will celebrate the centennial of the city of Red Deer.

The Grand Opening Celebration on April 14. Phone 403-3098405. ● A Nod Toward the Yucatan by Harvey A. Brink photography exhibit will be featured at The Velvet Olive April 1 to 30. ● 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

Come celebrate spring with the Kvitka Ukrainian dancers.

The Red Deer Ukrainian dance club will hold its year-end concert at 2 p.m. on Sunday at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

Everyone is welcome to attend — so come and enjoy the energetic, toe-tapping performance that will hopefully summon some warmer weather.

Admission is by donation.

Call 403-347-2344.

Youth orchestras raising money for school in Kenya

● The Hideout welcomes Juno-nominated singer/ songwriters Peter Katz and Emma-Lee on April 28. ● The Centrium lineup for April 17 features 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.

Central Alberta Theatre Two local youth orchestras will join forces this weekend for a fundraising concert to benefit a school in Kenya.

The Red Deer Youth Orchestra and 2013 Season Rosedale Valley Strings will perform a 4214-58 St. Red Deer program of classical music at 3 p.m. on Last of the Sunday at St. Andrews Church at 5226 Red Hot Lovers 51st Ave. in Lacombe.

By Neil Simon April 11-13, April 18-20, April 25-27 Admission is by donation. And all CAT ONE ACT FESTIVAL proceeds will go towards renovating a June 13-15, 20-22 300-student middle school in Dandora, Nickle Studio Tickets available at the Black Knight Inn Kenya, which is supported by the Lawww.blackknightinn.ca combe charity, A Better World.

403-755-6626 This is the third-annual benefit concert held by the two GALAXY CINEMAS RED DEER orchestras 357-37400 HWY 2, RED DEER COUNTY 403-348-2357 in support SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY APRIL 12, 2013 of the local TO THURSDAY APRIL 18, 2013 charity.

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Red Deer Ukrainian dance club holding its year end concert

Arts Council at 403-348-2787 or visit www.reddeerartscouncil. ca ● 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.

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For a buzz-magnet of a bicultural, ambitious young Los Angeles band, La Santa Cecilia had some strange habits. The members didn’t like to travel far by car. Nor did they like to fly. They avoided certain states, especially Arizona. Invitations to gig in foreign countries were a mixed blessing.

When they did venture too far out of their geographic comfort zone (ground zero: historic Olvera Street, “La Placita Olvera,” in downtown L.A.), the lineup tended to change. Someone instead of cofounder Jose “Pepe” Carlos would play the accordion.

“For us it was like, if something happens to this guy, what are we going to tell his parents?” says Marisol “La Marisoul” Hernandez, the lead singer.

But as of Wednesday in Washington — 25 years after Carlos’s family brought him to the United States illegally from Mexico when he was 5 years old — he and the band are done hiding and pretending. La Santa Cecilia plans to arrive in town before noon — by plane, after a show in Tucson — and perform at an afternoon rally on the West Lawn of the Capitol, where organizers say “tens of thousands” of demonstrators will call for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

“I felt it was really, really important to put myself out there in order to inspire other people,” Carlos says. “We’re not afraid anymore.”

La Santa Cecilia reflects a pivotal moment in the evolving cultural understanding of undocumented immigrants. As more voters and politicians seem to warm to the idea of embracing those who arrived illegally — and the Senate prepares to debate the matter — greater numbers of undocumented immigrants are “coming out” and announcing their status.

Their stories, in turn, have become the stuff of mainstream movies — including Under the Same Moon (2007) and the Oscar-nominated A Better Life (2011) — and grist for an expanding musical playlist.

Undoc pop still is often delivered in Spanish — by such troubadors as Los Tigres del Norte and altrappers Calle 13. But not always — witness pieces by Lila Downs, Rage Against the Machine and Washington-based Emma’s Revolution.

Scarcely a month ago, La Santa Cecilia — formed five years ago and named for the patron saint of musicians — released the single El Hielo, or Ice. The title is a bilingual pun on the initials of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Set to a bouncy bossa nova groove, the lyrics in Spanish sketch the stories of three hardworking undocumented characters who fear deportation and separation from their families because, Hernandez croons in the chorus, “ICE is loose out on the streets.”

This week the band followed with an unusually crafted music video for the song by film director Alex Rivera. It was viewed 15,000 times in the first 24 hours. Rivera, whose 2008 science fiction drama Sleep Dealer also addressed immigration, cast undocumented immigrants in nearly every role in El Hielo.

It’s just a four-minute song, but with multiple back-stories of performance and performers, the song and video crystalize the controversy of the moment.

At the band’s scheduled performance of El Hielo on the Capitol grounds Wednesday, the coy and clandestine dance of art and life within this crusade will come into public focus in a way that might not have been possible a few years ago.

The rally, which will highlight stories of undocumented immigrants, will feature a variety of entertainers, politicians and movement leaders, organized by groups including CASA of Maryland and the Service Employees International Union.

For Carlos, the risk of going public diminished when he qualified for “deferred action” recently, the Obama administration program that allows those who came here as youngsters to be shielded from deportation.

But it still feels like a dramatic step, Carlos says, because deferred action is no guarantee of permanent legal status, and there’s no returning now to the shadows.

When Carlos and his bandmates sat down to create El Hielo with co-writer Claudia Brant, they wanted to tell stories like his and that of singer Hernandez’s mother, who crossed the border without papers before later obtaining legal status.

She is the “Eva” in the first verse who cleans houses and fears her boss will report her as illegal if she fails in her job.

“This is our story, and this is the story of a lot of people,” Hernandez says.

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Vincent van Gogh once said that he could sit in front of Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum for a fortnight with just a crust of bread to eat. The painting now hangs in the renovated museum’s one very large, very grand space: Cuypers’s Gallery of Honor.

Cuypers’s Gallery of Honor.

Inside, it’s more or less a masterpiece a minute, leading up through Vermeer, Frans Hals and the other great masters, with Rembrandt van Rijn’s Night Watch a major highlight.

Here, like Vincent, you could linger a long, long time in front of Vermeer’s The Milkmaid, The Jewish Bride, or dozens of other marvelous pictures.

Because so many highlights are

gathered together, the tension tends to drop once you leave the Gallery of Honor. The biggest innovation of the new installation is that the Rijksmuseum’s fine collection of sculpture and decorative arts is now displayed side by side with the pictures, as in the new galleries at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.

In one way, this is good. The 17thcentury Dutch were among the first

New festivals quickly gaining traction with fans, musicians

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — Grace Potter & The Nocturnals know a little something about summer festivals after using the circuit to build their following.

So when they started their own festival, Grand Point North Festival in Vermont, they had a lot of specific ideas.

“It’s significantly smaller than most festivals and that’s intentional,” Potter said. “We also built the dream of Grand Point North around really showcasing the city of Burlington, Vt., because that’s the other character in the play. So many of my favourite festivals do that.”

America’s festival scene is no longer just the big four — Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits.

Grand Point North is one of several new festivals — some artist curated — that are thriving as the culture spreads across America.

Each has its own personality.

For Potter and her band, it’s about recreating the sense of discovery they always feel when they play up to 10 festivals a year.

Here’s a peek at some new festivals the seeker in you might want to check out: — Grand Point North Festival, Sept.

13-14: Potter and her band’s festival is inspired by fellow Vermont residents Phish, whose small city-sized festivals could pop up anywhere and include anyone. In its first year the festival drew bands like The Avett Brothers, Dr. Dog and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Lineup highlights: To be announced.

— Orion Music and More, June 8-9: The members of Metallica mean it when they say music and more. Last year, the festival included a classic car exhibit, the Metallica museum and guitarist Kirk Hammett’s horror movie memorabilia collections. Oh, and an eclectic lineup of bands. This year’s festival will be held on Detroit’s Belle Isle. Lineup highlights: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rise Against, Bassnectar and

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Festivalgoers run toward the main stage to catch the beginning of Kendrick Lamar’s set during the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., in 2012. a reunited Infectious Grooves will join Metallica.

— Solid Sound Festival, June 2123: This festival at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art reflects curator Wilco’s musical sensibilities.

There’s a definite improv feel to some of the acts and the museum setting lends a certain versatility that other festivals don’t have. Lineup highlights: Neko Case, Low, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Yo La Tengo and White Denim with Wilco and several side projects.

— Hangout Music Festival, May 1719: One of the faster growing new festivals, the beach setting in Gulf Shores, Ala., and relatively small crowds — tickets are capped at 35,000 — offer a different kind of vibe than most. Fans can step out of condos and directly into the festival, which is held surf side. Lineup highlights: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

— Outside Lands Festival, Aug. 9-11: The rapidly growing festival reflects San Francisco culture and has been held in the scenic Golden Gate Park since its inception in 2008. It draws as many as 60,000 people and has grown into a regular stop on the festival circuit.

Lineup highlights: To be announced April 16.

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AMSTERDAM — Vincent van Gogh once said that he could sit in front of Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum for a fortnight with just a crust of bread to eat.

It would be interesting to know what he would have made of the lavishly renovated and remodeled Rijksmuseum, which is reopening after a decadelong restoration — five years longer than planned — and which cost $500 million, overshooting the budget by tens of millions of dollars.

Vincent would still recognize the original building, designed by the architect Pierre Cuypers and opened in 1885. Part of the project, rightly, has been devoted to refurbishing this masterpiece of 19th-century architecture.

Added to it are a new entrance atrium, a cafe, and all the smart appendages that 21st-century museums require. The collection itself has been rearranged and reinstalled, and is still what Van Gogh saw: the world’s finest array of 17th- century Dutch art. Personally, I love Dutch art, and you’ve got to love it to love the Rijksmuseum.

It isn’t, like the Louvre or the Prado, an ex-royal collection with a selection of art from throughout Europe. Nor is it an institution, like London’s National Gallery, that has set out to form a representative collection of post-Renaissance painting.

With a few exceptions — a fine Goya portrait and excellent Far Eastern pieces in a brand new pavilion — what you see here is Dutch.

The best of the best is contained in one very large, very grand space:

societies to discover the pleasures and pains of middle-class consumption.

Pictures and other luxuries were not just for aristocrats; successful traders also liked to flaunt their wealth.

So it is instructive to see eye-poppingly ornate glass and silverware next to a painting of the same in a gigantic image of a banquet by Adrian van Utrecht.

If you like blue Delft china, the Rijksmuseum certainly has it, including some flower holders suitable for containing tulips — that hot asset which, for a time, became the object of an early market bubble.

The downside is that, quite often, the decorative arts upstage the pictures. A fantastic bronze by Adrian de Vries blows away everything else in the same gallery. Nothing on the walls can compete with the almost 4 meter (13 feet) model of the warship William Rex from 1698.

On other floors, there are extensive galleries of 19th- century art, mainly for specialists, and — a new addition to the Rijksmuseum — 20th-century works.

Basically, the Rijksmuseum is now a cool version of a 19th- century monument to national artistic splendor, repackaged for 2013.

The reason you come here is to soak yourself in the painting and culture of the people who almost invented modern bourgeois life.

While in Amsterdam, make time to look at the works of Vincent, that wonderfully non-bourgeois Dutchman whose own museum reopens May 1.

The Rijksmuseum reopens to the public on April 14. Tickets and information from www.rijksmuseum.nl.

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Canada’s national anthem on July 1, 1980, 100 years after it was first sung on June 24, 1880.

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Sister’s kids may need help Dear Annie: My sister, “Suzie,” has always been a bit of a flower child, and my parents think it’s funny.

Suzie dropped out of high school to pursue her “career” in something — art, music, dance, yoga, whatever. I usually gave her a place to stay when she got evicted and didn’t want our parents to know, which was pretty often.

Suzie and her husband (I’m not sure whether they’re legally married) have been better since my nephews were born.

What concerns me is that she won’t take the kids to the doctor when they get sick. She just gives them some herbal remedy and sends them to bed. The boys aren’t very clean, often have the sniffles and are almost always in clothing that’s the wrong size.

MITCHELL Suzie is homeschooling the & SUGAR boys, even though neither she nor her husband graduated high school. My oldest nephew is seven and cannot read, count to 10 or say his ABCs. Suzie insists that the children be fed only vegan and organic products.

When the boys stay with us, which is fairly often lately, we feed them healthy balanced meals that they wolf down like they’re starving. The oldest boy told me they usually eat oatmeal with some peanut butter in it.

I believe both boys are anemic.

The family has, on occasion, lived in their car. Suzie recently said they are going to “live on the road” for a while and the boys will adjust.

I think my nephews are being neglected. She’s leaving the boys with me for two weeks this summer, and I’m tempted to have Child Protective Services evaluate them. My wife agrees.

My parents don’t. I’m scared Suzie will bolt with the kids if she gets wind of my suspicions. She’s done it before.

I want the best for my nephews. How do I go about it? — W.C. Dear W.C.: Don’t wait until summer. Call Child Protective Services anonymously, and ask them to investigate the home environment now. (You need not inform your parents.) CPS may determine that the kids are in a loving, healthy-enough environment, in which case, please stop trying to wrest control from Suzie, and concentrate instead on making your home a safe, stable place for your nephews. And if CPS determines that the kids need to be removed from Suzie’s care, we hope you will offer to take them.

Dear Annie: My wife and I recently went out for dinner with her parents, who are healthy, active seniors. Upon being seated, they spent the entire evening commenting on others. Engaging them in conversation was impossible.

Every time we’ve gone out with her parents, they have complained afterward: The restaurant was too noisy, crowded, hot, cold, drafty, dark, the portions were too small, cold, spicy, the service was slow, the seating was uncomfortable, etc.

I don’t know why they bother dining out when they never seem to enjoy it.

I find their behaviour rude and insulting and have told my wife not to expect my attendance at any future restaurant meals.

She thinks I am being unreasonable, that that is just “who they are.” I realize they are not going to change, but after nearly 20 years of this, I say count me out.

Any suggestions? — At My Wits’ End Dear Wits’ End: These are your wife’s parents.

Please be more tolerant, although you don’t need to punish yourself. For your wife’s sake, be willing to endure their “company” a few times a year. You can decline the rest of the time.

Dear Annie: Bravo to “Frustrated Viewer in Canada” for complaining about the TV networks playing music over the dialogue and the actors who mumble and talk with their backs to the camera.

Producers might be interested to know that a lot of us have gone back to reading books instead of watching the programs we used to enjoy. — Nancy Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Erik Hall holds his daughter, Lake, as his fiance, Savannah Perry, peer over the shoulder of Dr. Timothy Crombleholme during an office visit at Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colo. The Lafayette, Colo., couple received the all-clear from Crombleholme following a so-called exit procedure where doctors operated on Lake to remove a lung cyst while she was still attached to the umbilical cord during birth.

Baby born with lung cyst doing fine after exit procedure saved her life

BY P. SOLOMON BANDA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Lake Annabelle Hall wouldn’t be alive today if doctors at Children’s Hospital of Colorado hadn’t operated on a cyst on her left lung before she was born.

Doctors pulled her halfway out of her mother’s womb, leaving her connected to her the umbilical cord and placenta, which served as life support for her while a team of 43 doctors and nurses operated on her.

She is now 5 months old after the medical procedure for a rare condition that saved her life.

Dr. Timothy Crombleholme performed the surgery just before Lake’s birth Nov. 6, and last week, Lake’s parents got the all clear from Crombleholme.

“No more surgeries,” said Lake’s mother, Savannah Perry of Lafayette, Colo.

“Lake is a normal, healthy, young baby girl just like any other baby born without any issues,” added Lake’s father, Erik Hall.

Pioneered in the 1980s, the socalled “exit procedure” and other pre-birth surgeries used to be done only a handful of times per year at major hospitals. Now, specialty centres such as the Colorado Fetal Care Center at Children’s Hospital perform pre-birth surgery dozens of times a year.

In Lake’s case, Perry’s doctor discovered an abnormality during a routine 20-week visit during her pregnancy. Crombleholme examined Perry and soon realized that it was a lung cyst that would keep her from breathing as soon as Lake was born.

“You could push air in, but it wouldn’t come out,” Crombleholme said. “She wouldn’t make it out of the delivery room.”

Crombleholme decided to wait until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to attempt the surgery to remove the cyst and clear Lake’s airway right before birth. Lake’s left lung had grown larger than the other as fluid became trapped inside.

Crombleholme assembled a group for the operation to remove the cyst that included teams of doctors and nurses with special-

ized roles — a team for Perry who would undergo a cesarean operation, a team for Lake while still inside the womb, a team for Lake while Crombleholme operated on her outside the womb, and a team for Lake after her birth.

Hours of planning and meeting with the group were crucial.

Once a baby is outside its mother’s womb, doctors have only about hour to an hour and a half to perform the procedure on the fetus.

Once Lake was out of Perry’s womb it took Crombleholme nine minutes to remove the cyst and close the gaping incision on her right side. It took another 10 minutes to run a tube down Lake’s tiny windpipe to make sure it was clear. Then doctors cut the umbilical cord, marking Lake’s official birth.

For her first four months Lake was given oxygen to help her breathe. On Thursday when Perry and Hall visited the centre, Crombleholme told them Lake’s chest examinations were normal.

“I’m done,” Crombleholme said as a beaming Perry and Hall held their cooing baby girl.

Manitoba man issues plea for kidney on Facebook

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — A 31-year-old Winnipeg man living on dialysis has issued a plea on Facebook for a kidney donor.

Andrew Blacklaw’s kidneys completely failed two years ago.

He is on dialysis six days a week but the transplant list currently has a five-year wait.

Doctors say he might not live that long, so he’s posted a plea on Facebook to find a match.

He needs someone with an A or O blood type.

Blacklaw says his greatest fear is that he will die and leave his son without a father.

“People are being so positive and trying to help that I think that is just a matter of time to find that right person but I believe that I’ll find it way before they’ll find a donor for me,” said Blacklaw.

Around 700 Manitobans are waiting for a kidney, but finding a match is tough. Only 50 transplants were performed in this province last year.

“Kidney disease is on the rise in our province due to the high rate of diabetes and hyper tension,” said Val Dunphy, the executive director of the Manitoba chapter of the Kidney Foundation of Canada.

you to utilize your resources towards improving your core identity and your subconsciousness. You will uncover other types of means that contribute to a higher self.

Friday, April 12 CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will inCELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: vestigate your rights and your share within Claire Danes, 39; Andy Garcia, 57; David an alliance or within your marriage. You are Letterman, 66 beginning a long and detailed exTHOUGHT OF THE DAY: amination of your attitude towards The Moon continues to travel the public and your audience. through the unwavering Taurus.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This is Rich foods, music and nature reyour period to review your daily lated activities appeal to us to a habits, your work atmosphere greater extend. Pluto, the planet and your general lifestyle. You of transformation and healing, will submit yourself to a thorough is going in hibernation mode transition that will force you to put for a while. We will feel a cerspecial attention and care to your tain pressure to rid ourselves of usual routine in order to improve things, habits or people that no it. longer serve their purpose. This VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): also signals a period of thorough You might experience some examination of our psychologiASTRO struggling times when trying to cal patterns. It’s time to do some unlock your creative, self-expresDOYNA restoration of our souls. sive side. This practice won’t be HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today that difficult if you are able to recis your birthday, the year ahead ognize and identify your true indiindicates that your focus will viduality in a way where you can be channelled towards issues such as your budget, your acquisitions and your posses- unleash your fears.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It is necessary sions. This year you will find a greater need for additional security and a more comfort- to your wellbeing to spot all the makings of able lifestyle. Your emotional strength and your foundation. Revise your domestic and your endurance will help you achieve a more parental role and see if there are certain issues that no longer serve their purpose. Old stable living.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are step- methods may have to be changed into new ping into a new milestone that will ask you ones.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will be to reconsider your career choice and your asked to let go of certain convictions or ideas vocation. Have you made the right choice in pursuing your chosen profession? Are you that is no longer useful. You may have to heading towards the right goals in your life? adjust the tonality in your voice in order to convey your messages more clearly. It’s time These types of questions will persist.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): During this to do some mind maintenance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Matetime, you will find out that certain beliefs which you had been ignoring in the past can now be rial security and the creation of your comfort applied in your daily life. You are in the quest zone will be one of the main areas of review of truth and you may uncover many layers of for you. Your concepts of a savings or budgetary plans may have to have a different self-discovery.

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You can finally put an end to a style or a manner which you realized that no longer suits you. Review your leadership abilities.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): During this phase, your humanitarian side may awake.

You may put to better use your efforts into helping the poor. Your psyche will undergo a major change that will empower you. You

can find out how you could use your hidden resources.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Go over your dreams and wishes. You may completely change your long-term goals and alter your vision for your future. You will come to the realization that money may not be totally what you are looking for.

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Doctors use brain scans to ‘see’ and gauge pain

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In a provocative new study, scientists reported Wednesday that they were able to “see” pain on brain scans and, for the first time, measure its intensity and tell whether a drug was relieving it. Though the research is in its early stages, it opens the door to a host of possibilities.

Scans might be used someday to tell when pain is hurting a baby, someone with dementia or a paralyzed person unable to talk. They might lead to new, File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS less addictive pain medicines. They might even help In a photo from video provided by Intuitive+Surgical, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., maker of the da Vinci robotic verify claims for disability.

“Many people suffer from chronic pain and they’re system, doctors are seen using the device to perform a surgery. Surgeons say the advantages of the system not always believed. We see this as a way to confirm include allowing them to operate sitting down and use small robotic hands with no tremor. But critics say a or corroborate pain if there is a doubt,” said Tor Wa- big increase in robot operations is due to heavy marketing and hype. ger, a neuroscientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

He led the research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. So far it is only on pain felt through the skin — heat applied to an arm. More study needs to be done on more common kinds of pain, such as headaches, bad backs and pain from disease.

Independent experts say the research shows a way to measure objectively what is now one of life’s most subjective experiences.

Pain is the top reason people see a doctor, and there’s no way to quantify how bad it is other than what they say.

A big quest in neuroscience is to find tests or scans that can help diagnose ailments with mental and physical components such as pain, depression hand controls.

BY LINDSEY TANNER appears to be an increase in proband PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder.

The arms are tipped with tiny lems really just reflects a change THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Although many studies have found brain areas surgical instruments and one has in the way the company reports that light up when pain is present, the new work is a video camera that lets the sur- them. the first to develop a combined signature from all CHICAGO — Robotic surgery is geon view the operation on the Q: If I need an operation, these signals that can be used to measure pain. being done more and more often computer screen. should I have robotic surgery?

“This is very exciting work. They made a huge for a variety of operations. But Q: What are the pros and cons A: Ask your doctor about the breakthrough in thinking about brain patterns,” said experts say there’s a lack of strong risks and benefits of using a roDr. David Shurtleff, acting deputy director of the Na- evidence that it’s any better than of using the robot?

A: Robot hands don’t shake and bot versus standard less invasive tional Institute on Drug Abuse, which helped spon- standard surgery in most cases — they can twist and rotate in more surgery. sor the research. and it’s usually costlier. directions than human hands.

And ask how many robotic op“We need a brain-based signature for pain. SelfQ: What exactly is robotic sur- However, robotic operations ofreport doesn’t cut it. It’s not reliable, it’s not accuerations your surgeon has done. A gery? ten cost much more than more rate.”

A: A multi-armed robot called conventional surgery. They also 2010 New England Journal of MediThe research involved four experiments at Coda Vinci is used for many opera- sometimes take longer. But pa- cine essay by a doctor and a health lumbia University approved by a panel to ensure no tions done with small incisions tients often spend less time in the policy analyst said surgeons must participants were harmed. do at least 150 procedures to behospital.

In all, 114 healthy volunteers were paid $50 to $200 and tiny instruments.

Prostate removal is one of the Q: Does the robot ever break or come adept. But there is no expert to be tested with a heating element placed against a consensus on how much training most common.

Da Vinci also is cause problems? forearm at various temperatures, not severe enough used for removing the uterus, gallA: The U.S. Food and Drug is needed. to cause burns or lasting damage.

If you’re considering a hysterbladder, certain complex cancer Administration is looking into a Some of the experiments required them to stand ectomy, your doctor was recently surgeries and weight-loss operagrowing number of reports of malit for 10 to 20 seconds. functions and complications, in- advised by the American College “It’s like holding a hot cup of coffee that you really tions.

Q: How does the robot do sur- cluding problems that resulted in of Obstetricians and Gynecologists want to put down but can’t quite yet,” Wager said. deaths and injuries. There’s no that robotic surgery shouldn’t be Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI gery?

A: A surgeon sits at a computer proof the robot was directly in- the first choice because there’s scans, which don’t require radiation as X-rays do, no good data it’s as good as the recorded changes in brain activity as measured by console in the operating room, di- volved. recting the long robot arms with The robot’s maker says what cheaper alternatives. blood flow.

Computers were used to generate signatures or patterns from these readings.

The first set of experiments on 20 people developed signatures for pain versus the anticipation of it or mild warmth on the arm. The second experiment validated these signatures in 33 other people and found they predicted how much pain they said they felt. that time was to use a informed consent docu- Wednesday by the con“It’s really what seems to be a true measure of the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS particular range of ox- ment that parents had to sumer advocacy group experience that the patient’s having,” and it gives ygen, and researchers sign to enrol didn’t spell Public Citizen, asked the a number to pain severity that can guide care, said Federal health offi- in the study, funded by out those risks, accord- university to take steps one expert with no role in the studies, Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Brain and Mind Research cials say the parents of the National Institutes ing to the government’s to ensure consent forms premature babies en- of Health, randomly Office for Human Re- in future studies outline Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Researchers took their work a step further with rolled in a study of oxy- assigned babies to re- search Protections. all the risks. the third experiment, which involved 40 people who gen treatment several ceive either the low end In a letter to the UniIn a statement, uniyears ago weren’t proprecently lost a serious love relationship and were or the high end of that versity of Alabama at versity’s vice-president erly informed of the feeling intensely rejected. range.

Birmingham, which led for research Richard Besides the heat tests, they had scans while being risks: a kind of blindness The study’s stated the study, the govern- Marchase said although shown a picture of their former partners and then a or death. intent was to deter- ment agency concluded slightly more babies who Oxygen has been a picture of a good friend. mine how much oxygen the research had violat- received lower-dose oxResearchers found the brain signatures for social mainstay of treatment for minimized the chances ed regulations requiring ygen in the study died, very premature babies. or emotional pain were different from the ones for But too much has long of blindness without in- that patients be fully in- those death rates still physical pain. creasing the risks of oth- formed of the risks of a were lower than was usu“That’s very provocative,” said Dr. Allan Ropper, been known to cause a er problems including clinical trial. al for premature babies kind of blindness called a neurologist at Brigham and Women’s and Harvard The March 7 letter, getting standard care at retinopathy of prematu- death or brain damage.

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Rita Moreno: it takes spirit, talent to survive in show business Rita Moreno: A Memoir (Celebra),

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The award-winning actress Rita Moreno opens up — way, way up — in a memoir driven less by recollections from her career than by her effort to overcome crippling self-doubts.

Fans eager to learn what it was like to dance for Gene Kelly (in Singin’ in the Rain), share a soundstage with Yul Brynner (in The King and I) and perform the choreography of Jerome Robbins (in West Side Story) aren’t likely to be satisfied with Moreno’s brisk treatment of her work.

Yet, Moreno wasn’t shaped by the roles she played. She focuses her story on a journey of self-discovery, and it’s that introspection that gives her memoir its punch.

Her success story is so American. Her mother brought 5-yearold Rosita Dolores Alverio to the United States from Puerto Rico to seek a better life — as much or more for herself as for her daughter. She left her husband (the first

of five) and her young son in Juncos, a village little Rosita saw as a sensual place of beauty and wonder.

New York City was a forest of a different sort, cold and indifferent with overt racism. Rosita didn’t speak English when she arrived, further marking her as an outsider, but she learned the language — and how to dance.

Guided by Paco Cansino, Rita Hayworth’s teacher and uncle, Rosita began performing at 9 and dropped out of school as her career blossomed. The stage name Rosita Moreno was one of two legacies from a stepfather she despised. The other was a house in the Long Island suburbs, far from the ethnic ghettos of the city.

MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer declared Moreno to be “a Spanish Elizabeth Taylor” and hired her. The first movie star she met in Hollywood was Clark Gable, who told her: “Rosita. Great name, kid.” A casting agent disagreed, deciding that it was too Italian and changing it to Rita.

Moreno was a talented beauty but pigeonholed in films as a “spitfire” or some other kind of exotic nonwhite. Even after she won an Oscar as a supporting ac-

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tress in West Side Story, released in 1961, many doors remained closed. As she neared and then passed 40, she fought to continue her career in spite of the burdens of age and ethnicity.

No wonder Moreno, now 81, thought from the beginning that it would all come crashing down eventually. Outward confidence aside, she was bedeviled by doubts and fears and secretly believed that she was faking it all.

Her relationships with domineering men, particularly Marlon Brando, reflected her low self-esteem. She broke up with Brando a half-dozen times, returning to the notorious narcissist again and again. Driven to despair by an abortion and a suicide attempt — both stemmed from her affair with Brando — she managed to summon the strength to begin years of psychic healing.

That may well be Rita Moreno’s greatest accomplishment.

Surrounded by the Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy — she is one of the few to win all four top show business awards — she is a survivor who defeated her own demons as well as those conjured by others. Her book celebrates that victory and the spirit behind it.

by a doctor who witnessed the twoyear epidemic that killed thousands of Africans.

Perhaps The Fever Tree could have risen to Out of Africa quality with more research or more realistic, less predictable characters.

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It’s lovely in the way of a beach sunset or a spring day or a rest under a shady tree with a glass of lemonade.

It’s the story of Frances, who’s forced to abandon her upper-class life in late 19th-century England after her father dies.

Left with no viable means of support, Frances travels to South Africa to marry Edwin, an old family friend and physician.

At one point, Frances rages: “I can pin my hair in five different styles; I can paint, embroider, and play the piano; but what else can I do?”

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It’s all quite accessible and tremendously appealing — like that lemonade or sunset.

McVeigh’s story line isn’t new or compelling, but for some reason, The Fever Tree is a page turner.

Her prose is well put-together, like a woman who’s aging gracefully.

The South African landscape is vivid, but her characters aren’t particularly deep or complicated. Nor is the plot.

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Bad things happen to good people and vice versa.

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Private investigator Dana Cutler returns in Sleight of Hand, Phillip Margolin’s best book in years. Deception is prominent, and the villain is truly vile.

Charles Benedict is a criminal defence lawyer, amateur magician and cold-blooded killer.

Ten years earlier, millionaire Horace Blair persuaded the prosecutor in his DUI case to marry him.

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Two days before the payout, Benedict slips her a date-rape drug and videotapes the deed.

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As it takes her across the country, she realizes the pieces don’t fit and she might have been set up.

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BUCKLAND Edna 1915-2013 Edna Buckland was born March 23, 1915 in Plevna, Ontario, the fifth daughter of Ervin and Grace Albert. She passed away Monday, April 8, 2013 at the Rosefield Care Centre in Innisfail. Edna will be sadly missed by her family and all who knew her. She is survived by her son, Donald (Pat) Buckland, daughters; Grace (Gordon) Penner and Gloria Knievel, twelve grandchildren, twenty-six great grandchildren, and nine great, great grandchildren. Edna is also survived by sister-in-law, Anna Buckland of Red Deer, numerous nieces, nephews, and friends. Edna was predeceased by her husband, Ralph, her parents; Ervin and Grace Albert, daughter-in-law, Rebecca Buckland, son-in-law, Ernest Brittain, sisters; Mary Russell, Myrtle Scott, Elizabeth Siebold, and Iva Williams, brothers-in-law; Jim Scott, Jim Russell, John Stotz, Bill Siebold, Walter Williams, Eddie Bergquist, Jack Buckland, Bob Buckland, Bert Buckland, Dick Buckland, and Doug Buckland, sistersin-law; Betty Buckland, Ida Buckland, Susie Buckland, Ada Buckland, Lue Bergquist, and Hilda Buckland. A Funeral Service for Edna will be held at the Elnora Community Hall on Monday, April 15, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. Interment will follow at the Elnora Cemetery.

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CAIRNS Donald 1928 - 2013 Mr. Donald Malcolm Cairns of Red Deer passed away at Bethany CollegeSide on Monday, March 18, 2013 at the age of 84 years. Don was born in Huntingdon, Quebec on November 6, 1928. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife Lottie of 60 years, his children Diane (George) Stasyk, Doug (Donna) Cairns, Dave (Lynn) Cairns, Monica Olsen and Pam (Larry) Corsiatto, thirteen grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren, his sister Helen Munro of Huntingdon and sister-in-law Ida Lemke of Edmonton. In honor of Don, a memorial service will take place at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Boulevard, Red Deer on Monday, April 15, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor Don Hennig officiating. Memorial donations in Don’s name may be made directly to Heart and Stroke Foundation, #202, 5913-50th Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4C4 or the charity of one’s choice.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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Card Of Thanks KUNDERT The family of the late Grace Kundert would like to thank friends and family for the comforting messages, flowers and cards sent during this sad time. Thank you to the staff at Harmony Home and Westpark Lodge for their affection and tender care of Mom over the years.

Thank you to Dr.Tillier for his compassionate care of Mom and to Dr. Odendaal for his continued care. Also, thank you to Steve Bacovsky and National Motor Coach of Calgary. Your generous nature has touched the family deeply and will always be remembered.

Shirley, Kathryn, Patricia, Elizabeth, Janet and their families SOVDI FAMILY We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the many people who have made these past months more comforting to us. Thank you for the flowers, gifts, cards, meals, calls and most of all your love. It will never be forgotten. Thank you.

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DYKES Phyllis May With saddened hearts Dorothy, Cheryl, and Gail announce the passing of their beloved mum, Phyllis May Dykes on March 25th, 2013. Phyllis was born in Grays, Essex County, England on October 8th, 1927 the second child of seven. Phyllis was in London during the blitz bombing of World War II and that is where she met her future husband, Canadian Thomas Dykes a gunner in the 37 Battery, 17 Field Regiment, 5th Canadian Armoured Division and they were married there. She travelled to Canada on the first bomber converted to passenger use landing in Halifax, and then travelled by train to Red Deer where her husband’s family owned a mink ranch near the Waskasoo area south of Red Deer. Phyllis and Tom eventually moved to the North Hill in Red Deer and started their own mink ranch. For several years they won awards for their mink pelts at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto and also at the Montreal Fur Show before retiring from the mink business in 1957. Phyllis worked at the Red Deer Adviser before she was employed by the Alberta Fish and Wildlife office in Red Deer and worked there until her retirement in 1987. She also worked part time for Boucher’s Telephone Answering Service. Phyllis was active in the Red Deer Toastmistress Club, the Legion Ladies Auxiliary, and the Canadian War Bride Society. Phyllis also served her church St. Luke’s Anglican teaching Sunday school, doing visitations, and serving on the Alter Guild. She also volunteered at the Golden Circle and the Red Deer Museum. Phyllis is lovingly remembered by her daughters, Dorothy Edmundson, Cheryl Pyne, and Gail (Bob) Lewis; grandchildren, Doug Sparrow, Colleen (Rob) Whitley, and Karen (Jason) Park; and great grandchildren, Morgan and Blake Sparrow, Patrick and Michael Whitley, Henry and Gwendelynn Park; one sister Doreen in England; and a dear family friend Joyce Piebiak; as well as her extended family and many other friends. Phyllis was predeceased by five of her siblings and son-in-laws Dale Pyne and Jim Edmundson.

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BAUMGARTE 1927 - 2013 In loving memory we announce the passing of our dear mother and grandmother, Lieuwkje “Lucy” Theresia Baumgarte (nee van der Hoff) of Red Deer, Alberta at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on April 7, 2013 at the age of 86 years. Lucy was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on January 26, 1927. It was in Holland where she met and married her husband of 59 years, Pieter, on June 16, 1947. Lucy and Pieter immigrated to Canada on April 14, 1968. Lucy is survived by her children Maria (Dan) Marianych, Gary, Martina, Ron, and Yvonne (Edward) Klop; 13 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Also to cherish Lucy’s memory are three brothers and one sister as well as numerous nieces and nephews all in Holland.

She was predeceased by her husband Pieter and one brother in Holland. A Funeral Mass will be held at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, 4304 - 49 Avenue, Innisfail, Alberta on Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. with Father Adam Daniluk officiating. For those wishing to pay their respects, viewing will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. prior to the Funeral Mass. Memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer & District S.P.C.A., 4505 - 77 Street, Red Deer AB T4P 2J1.

Condolences to Lucy’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca Bruce MacArthur MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS FUNERAL SERVICE Red Deer & Central Alberta 587-876-4944

Making a Difference

E2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, April 12, 2013

800

RATTRAY Reclamation Ltd is seeking a versatile individual with a background in farming duties.

The position will involve minimal disturbance lease construction and reclamation in the central Alberta area. Duties will include operating tractors and various attachments, fencing and other manual labour, Competitive wages and benefits are available, current oilfield safety tickets are an asset.

Please email resume to drattray@rattrayrec.com or fax to (403)-934-5235

SERVICE RIG

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND 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

Oilfield

800

Foreman/Supervisor

Experience preferred but willing to train the right candidate. Must be able to organize crews and get things done in a timely matter. The right candidate will start out at $100,000.00+/year, with company truck, benefits and bonuses. Work is in the Edson, Fox Creek, Whitecourt area. Hiring immediately. Please forward resumes for review to hrmng@hotmail.ca

Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions:

* Downhole Tool Supervisors * Coil Tubing Rig Managers * Crane Truck Operators * Nitrogen Pump Operators * Fluid Pump Operators * Mechanics Competitive wages and benefits. Priority given to applicants with relevant experience, Class 1 Drivers license and valid oilfield tickets.

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780

Opening soon.

Looking for registered massage therapists.

403-348-5650

F/T & P/T KITCHEN HELPERS Wages $12./hr.

Apply in Person w/resume to: BLACKJACK LOUNGE #1, 6350 - 67 St. Phone/Fax: 403-347-2118

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

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for a well experienced F/T SERVER ALSO F/T BARTENDER. Must have experience!

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

X-STATIC

IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR

Experienced P/T Cocktails Servers & Door Security Apply in person after 3 pm.

OLD DUTCH FOODS LTD,

The Innovative Snack Food Company is looking for Weekend Merchandisers!

We are looking for people who enjoy a fast paced and friendly environment.

This position is Saturday and Sunday only with 8 to 16 hours per weekend.

A dependable vehicle is required. We offer a competitive hourly wage of $15.00 per hour, and mileage for traveling in your own vehicle.

Interested candidates please forward your resume to Old Dutch Foods Ltd, 7863-49 Ave Red Deer T4P-2B5, fax to 347-9155 or email harvey.rue@ olddutchfoods.com

Trades

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ARROW ARC WELDING is looking for WELDING APPRENTICE LOCATED BY Gull Lake.

Phone Brian 318-6760 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.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES CENTRAL CITY ASPHALT LTD.

830

Oilfield

800

• WELDERS • PIPEFITTERS • ELECTRICIANS • ELECTRICAL SHOP FOREMAN • MILLWRIGHTS • HEAVY DUTY MECHANICS • NATURAL GAS TECHNICIANS • GENERAL LABORERS • PARTS TECHNICIAN/ SHIPPER-RECEIVER • ELECTRICAL ESTIMATORS

This position requires someone who displays a team player outlook, effective communication skills, the ability to multi-task, and the ability to work in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will have prior experience working in a law firm, and a minimum of 3 years experience working as a Legal Assistant in residential real estate.

We offer an excellent working environment, a great benefit package, and the opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Please respond in confidence with a cover letter and resume to:

JOHNSTON MING MANNING LLP 295652D12-21

3rd Floor, 4943 50th St., Red Deer, AB.,T4N 1Y1 Fax: (403) 342-9173 Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca

• Full Time work • Positions for both our Shop Fabrication & local Field Work • Overtime Eligible

• Competitive Compensation • Benefits/RRSP Package • Apprentice Tuition Reimbursement

Submit resumes by email at info@fuelenergy.ca or by fax at 403.343.3994

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Trades

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LOOKING for Experienced Framers for framing and metal farm commercial buildings. 403-318-6406 LOOKING for Framers/ carpenters 403-357-9816 OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYMENT WTIH TJ PAVING. Looking for Exp`d Class 1 Driver to move equipment and haul material. Exp`d Asphalt Roller Operator. Exp`d Skid Steer Operator. Comp.

Wages. Great working atmosphere. FAX Resume to 403-346-8404 or email tjpaving@hotmail.com

PERMOLEX

TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

is looking for a

Journeyman Electrician

You have: Plant Maintenance experience with Allen Bradley PLC, Motor diagnosis, VFD and Soft starters and Scale systems.

Ability to work safely in a team environment with other Trades people, Operators, Contractors and Apprentices.

Able to recommend changes for improvements and provide input for projects.

Must be a pro-active individual with a sense of ownership to all the duties with Safety as the priority.

Must have a strong work ethic, with a solid troubleshooting ability on a wide variety of systems.

Successful applicant will need a strong desire to continually learn about the position, and apply yourself to the improvement of all areas of the plant on daily basis.

We are currently seeking full time

Site Managers.

Responsibilities include; supervision and coordination of all site activities.

Maintaining schedules, multiple site personnel and trades, enforce safety policy and ensure the project is completed within contract specifications and scope. The successful candidate will have exceptional communication, interpersonal and organizational skills. They will be able to handle a fast paced work environment and be a team player.

Applicants must have a min. of 3-5 yrs. exp. and Journeyperson Certificate.

Email your cover letter and resume to info@tcdi.ca Application deadline: April 24th, 2013.

Truckers/ Drivers

860

BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers Sales & and/or Lease Operators.

Dozer Operator Distributors We offer lots of home time, Class 1 & 3 Drivers benefits and a bonus Tractor Operators L&N Your No.1 Supplier Ltd. program. Grain and super o/a Himalayan Secret Loader Operator B exp. an asset but not in Red-Deer, necessary. If you have a Strong organizational Labourers Req’s F/T Shift sales people clean commercial drivers abilities with planning work Flag People for Cosmetics abstract and would like to tasks on a daily, monthly & Make-Up. $14/hr. start making good money. and annual basis.

Fax resume: 403-885-5137 & Supervisor with 1 to 2 fax or email resume and Email resume: years experience $17.50/hr. comm.abstract to Ideal candidate will be a office@ccal.com Email: journeyman electrician with 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net himalayancanada@gmail.com IMMEDIATE OPENING plant, emergency system, DO you want regular home plc and/or instrumentation times, dedicated truck, a WESCLEAN - Red Deer ARMOR INC experience.

F/T sales position in well company that cares, beneis looking for licensed diesel established territory fits, exc. wages, safety & suspension mechanic Please fax your resume to bonus, year round steady Base salary, commission, for light duty automotive Permolex at fax number and car allowance work? We are looking for performance shop.

(403) 346-2662 attention CLASS 1 drivers for flat E-mail resume to: Diesel and transmission Ray or email mdoll@wesclean.com or deck work. Must know your exp. preferred. rweleschuk@ fax to 403-347-8803 cargo securement, be hard Top wages offered. permolex.com working and enjoy driving Buying or Selling Bring resume to: as you visit the 4 western your home?

Tired of Standing?

106 -6439 67 St. RD provinces. Please contact Check out Homes for Sale Phone 403-346-9188 or email Find something to sit on 1-877-787-2501 or fax rein Classifieds donavan@armorinc.ca in Classifieds sume to 1-855-784-2330

We are currently looking for Journeyman and Apprentices for all the below disciplines:

Johnston Ming Manning LLP has a full time Legal Assistant position available in our Real Estate Department.

Oilfield

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Restaurant/ Hotel

830

Fuel Energy Canada, a Service & Fabrication Company for the Oil & Gas Industry, is looking for the following positions for our Red Deer Facility

LEGAL ASSISTANT

We would like to thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Sales & Distributors

ZEN MASSAGE CLINIC

Water management company looking to hire a qualified

Wise is a leading oilfield services provider that is committed to quality and safety excellence. By empowering positive attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values, our employees care for the success of one SERVICE RIG another.

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd Please forward all resumes is seeking a DRILLER. to: jobs@wiseisi.com or by Locally based, home every night! fax to 403-340-1046 Qualified applicants must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Professionals Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary Al-Terra Engineering and benefits package (Red Deer) Ltd. along with a steady SEEKING work schedule.

TRANSPORTATION Please submit resumes: DESIGN ENGINEER Attn: Human Resources & TECHNOLOGIST. Email: hr@ Above industry standard bearspawpet.com wages, benefits plan, vehicle Fax: (403) 258-3197 or allowance, profit sharing.

Mail to: Suite 5309, Experience a diverse 333-96 Ave. NE variety of projects in Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Red Deer & all over Alberta.

TREELINE P.Eng., E.I.T, or C.E.T designation with a minimum WELL SERVICES of 2-5 years experience.

Has Opening for all Please email resumes to: positions!

Tyler Broks, R.E.T Immediately. All applicants tbroks@al-terra-rd.com must have current H2S, or fax 403-340-3038.

Class 5 with Q EndorseOr visit website: ment, First Aid www.al-terra-rd.com We offer competitive wages & excellent beneEYEWEAR fits. Please include 2 work reference names and LIQUIDATORS numbers requires Please fax resume to : OPTICAL ASSISTANT 403-264-6725 Training provided.

Or email to: Apply in person with tannis@treelinewell.com resume to: 4924 59 St. No phone calls please.

Red Deer, AB.

Legal

810

Professionals

Must be able to work in a fast paced environment where decisions must be made, and actions must be taken in a timely, safe and professional manner

PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET is currently accepting resumes for SERVICE ADVISOR POSITION. Must have good communication skills and have the ability to work independently or with a group..

Excellent company benefits.

Please submit resume in person along with wage expectations to Joey.

RELIABLE, competent person required for deliveries, inventory, and stock control. Must have clean drivers abstract, be physically fit, and be able to operate a forklift.

Non-smokers preferred.

Please fax resume to 403-309-8302 or email brad@ comfortecheating.com

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

P/T CLASS 1 Truck Driver req’d to haul feed with B-Train Tanker to our farm in Ponoka. 1-2 days per wk, or 3-4 days every other week, approx. 8-10 hrs. per day, flexible hrs. Must have clean driving record Fax resume (403)784-2726 or Phone 403-704-0257

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* SANDBLASTER *GENERAL LABORER

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

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ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in Timberstone Area Timothy Drive Towers Close Turner Crsc.

Tobin Gt. $110/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.

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK

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

Currently seeking Newspaper carrier for morning delivery

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 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

Carriers Needed

6 DAYS PER WK. ( Monday - Saturday) in the town of Olds Earn $500+ for hour and a half per day.

Must have own vehicle.

18+ Needed ASAP Call Quitcy 403-314-4316 qmacaulay@ reddeer advocate.com CASUAL POSITIONS

Dietary Aid/ Housekeeping

positions available. Must be able to work in a team environment. Mandatory criminal record check required. Salary according to union scale. Please apply in writing to Lisa Manning-Eaton, Lodge Manager, 4277 46A Ave. or by fax to: 403-343-1728

Riverside Meadows Morning delivery 6 days /wk by 6:30 a.m.

F/T Customer Service Representative. Must be avail. weekdays and Sat’s. Some outside work req’d. Computer skills an asset. Fax resume to 403-347-0788

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

F/T SYNIK CLOTHING, Gasoline Alley. Exc. hours.

Exc. pay, based on exp.

Apply w/resume in person.

880

SERVICE ’S WRITER

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WE OFFER:

* Full Time hours * Great benefit program after 3 mos. * Most weekends off * Competitive Wages

BEN

Duties include: - Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow Attributes: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

Hardworking need only apply. Bring resume to: Metal Strip & Coatings 4617 63rd Street Mon-Fri 8-5.

No Phone Calls Please.

BATTERY DOCTORS Exp. not req’d but heavy lifting is involved, mechanical skills an asset. Hours: Mon. to Fri. 8-5. Apply in person at 1, 4801 78 St. No phone calls please.

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Morning Advocates Mon. through Fri. before 6:30 a.m. and Sat. by 8:00 a.m. in East Rosedale area $643/mo.

Reliable vehicle needed !!

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WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

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• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

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Oilfield

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.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; Frac—Pump Operators and Bulk Drivers; Apprentice Heavy Equipment Technician Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety—focused Why Canyon? f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New equipment

f Team orientated f Clean Class 1 drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset f f f

Paid technical and leadership training Career advancement opportunities RRSP Matching Program

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Cleaning

1070

ANN’S Cleaning Services - Weekly & bi-weekly.

Homes & Offices 302-0488

Contractors

1100

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

CUSTOM HOMES

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

How to apply: email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

Escorts

1165

EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages 598-3049 www.eroticasplaymates.net

Escorts

1165

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

The Ultimate Playmates.

Never rushed. Come in and get the attention you have been missing in your life. #1 body rub in Red Deer. 403-986-SEXY (7399)

Handyman Services

1200

Massage Therapy

GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Painters/ Decorators

1310

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL JD’S Maintenance serWALK-INS WELCOME vices, ( spring painting, 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 special, save 20%) Quality work, 403- 550-1646.

VII MASSAGE

Feeling overwhelmed?

Hard work day?

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave. www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels.

403-986-6686 South location 5003A-50 St. 403-348-5650

BUSY B’S HANDYMAN Misc.

SERVICES LTD. Services Spring & summer bookings.

Res./com. Your full service handyman. Brian 403-598-3857

1280

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. Locally owned.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship - in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 or visit helpinghandshomesupport.com for information.

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Yard Care

1430

SPRING LAWN CLEANUP IRONMAN Scrap Metal Call 403-304-0678 Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial. Celebrate your life with a Classified Serving central Alberta.

ANNOUNCEMENT 403-318-4346

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, April 12, 2013 E3

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CARRIERS NEEDED

880

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Dr SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Crsc

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 FULL TIME MAINTENANCE AND LABOUR PERSON REQUIRED ASAP. Knowledge of Plumbing, Electrical, Carpentry, Painting.

Must have own tools, own vehicle an asset with valid drivers license.

Monday - Friday 8 - 5.

Come and join our team.

Please fax resume 403-346-1086 GRAYSON EXCAVATING LTD. requires experienced foremen, pipelayers, equipment operators, Class 1 drivers, topmen and general labourers for installation of deep utilities (water and sewer). Fax resume to (403)782-6846 or e-mail to: info@ graysonexcavating.com Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

920

Career Planning

RED DEER WORKS

The Town of Olds No collecting!

Packages come ready for delivery!

Also for the afternoon in Town of Penhold!

Also afternoon delivery in Town of Springbrook 1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

Please contact QUITCY

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.

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PS2 w/6 games. $80 obo.

XBOX w/6 games. $80 obo. 403-782-3847

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for

VANIER AREA

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

TV's, VCRs

SONY STEREO w/surround sound. $180 obo. 403-782-3847

INGLEWOOD AREA

Illingworth Close

KITCHEN TABLE WITH YEAR-AROUND boarding 4 Chairs. Padded, back & close to Red Deer. Riding front. Exc. cond. Bought at rings, box-stalls, paddocks.

Sim’s. $150. 403-343-1112 Phone 403-342-0475

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

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wegot

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Antiques & Art

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

1520

ANTIQUE SHOW & SALE One day only. Sat. Apr. 13, 9:30-4. Olds Legion, Admission $3.

Info. 403-227-6622

Auctions

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

THE TASTY BAKERY GENERAL HELP P/T OPPORTUNITY No early mornings, No late nights No Sundays, Apply in person at: Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive (directly behind Nutters) Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Employment Training

900

OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

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 GREENHOUSE WORKERS www.firemaster.ca BLACKFALDS or call us at 403 342 7500.

Central AB Greenhouses You also can find us on Facebook or We have some seasonal follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

BUD HAYNES Antique Auction

Sat., April 20 @ 11 am Bay 4, 7429 49 Ave R.D. Estate Laurie Alho, Calgary & Guest Consignors: Over 40 Antique radios & 1000’s of tubes, horn shaped speaker, parts!!

Antique cocks, outstanding Can. bdrm. suite, European table w/chairs, two small ant. desks, ant oak diners, oak dressers, rustic kitchen cupboard, Royal Doulton vases, balloon lady, W. Churchill Toby jug, 10 place R. Doulton dinnerware, lg. oak barrel butter churn, 1950’s beer signs, tall oak desk, china & collectable’s, N. in boxes die cast model cars, truck etc., collectable Bisque head dolls, ant. lamps: Aladdin hanging saloon, telephone & smoker’s tables, Nice Selection! ( Preview 9 a.m.)

Snack Bar Avail.

Ph: 403-347-5855 www.budhaynesauctions.com

positions available comTired of Standing? mencing immediately and Cameras & e n d i n g J u n e 1 , 2 0 1 3 . Find something to sit on Accessories Duties include planting in Classifieds seedlings, watering plants, moving plants from one TOO MUCH STUFF? SONY handicam, exc. area to another, loading cond. $200 obo Let Classifieds plants onto carts and 403-307-1586 help you sell it. loading trucks. This position i s l a b o r i n t e n s i v e a n d Central Alberta’s Largest EquipmentCar Lot in Classifieds includes working weekends and some evenings (approx.

Heavy 65 hrs./wk.). Must have own transportatin. We will TRAILERS for sale or rent train. Wage is $11.50/hr.

Job site, office, well site or Fax resume to storage. Skidded or TRAINING CENTRE 403-885-4146 or email to: wheeled. Call 347-7721.

OILFIELD TICKETS ar-cag@telus.net.

Industries #1 Choice!

Please note that only “Low Cost” Quality Training those to be interviewed will 403.341.4544 Tools be contacted.

24 Hours CELEBRATIONS Toll Free 1.888.533.4544 CRAFTSMAN 10” table HAPPEN EVERY DAY R H2S Alive (ENFORM) saw with stand IN CLASSIFIEDS $100 403-347-1637 R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space THE BURNT LAKE GENERAL STORE Farmers' R WHMIS & TDG is looking for F/T Customer R Ground Disturbance Market Service person for shift R (ENFORM) B.O.P. work. Please apply in ALBERTA LAMB! Fresh, person, Hwy. 11 West. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. frozen. Locally grown.

No phone calls please. (across from Totem) Locally butchered.

Phone 403-782-4095

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Misc. for Sale

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2 BOXES OF ROMANCE PAPERBACK BOOKS. $45 obo. 403-782-3847 2000 LB. remote control winch, $65; New Woods outdoor 24/hr timer; $10; New sz. 11 black leather, zippered boots, $25; 20’ tow ropes (2) $10. ea. leather brown recilner $60 403-887-4981

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Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

– CPR/First Aid Certification – Advanced First Aid Courses – Heart & Stroke Instructor Training – Mobile Service for Groups of 8 or more

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Our training center is located in Red Deer For more information on courses, dates, and mobile bookings call Murray @ 403-740-5316 To register call Tina @ 403-348-0687

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

Garden Supplies

YOUR CAREER IN Web Designer Network Administrator Help Desk Support Analyst PC Support Specialist and more!

290213C15-F24

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

1680

60 TOPPING onion sets, also called winter onions,potted, ready to plant 2/$1, lawn sprinkler $5; box of assorted flower pots $8 403-314-2026

TECHNOLOGY

Call Today (403) 347-6676

FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Mauricia 403-340-0225

3050

GARDEN SHEDS Most sizes, delivery avail.

403-314-1870 http://willowrun constructionltd.webs.com

Household Appliances

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Acreages/ Farms

3010

5 BDRM. house acreage, 10 min. S. of Pine Lake & 40 min. SE of Red Deer. $1650, $800 d.d. utils. incl., 1 month last month rent, 1 yr. leasing, references & record of employment. No house pets. Avail. June 1 403-442-2631 or 357-9909

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1 BDRM. bsmt. suite, utils. incl., washer & dryer, $700 403-346-1292 after 4

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1 BDRM. $740; N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed. 1-403-200-8175

2 BDRM. furn. apt. in Sylvan Lake. No pets, n/s. $1100/mo. 403-887-4610

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4 GLASS goblets diamond pattern on pedestals ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious 4/$16; oval bowl, mother of suites 3 appls., heat/water pearl antique, $45; DUPLEX Michener Hill 3 incld., Oriole Park.

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May 1, MATURE ADULTS Acreages BTU side burners, full 403-348-9059 leave msg.

Lower walk-out suite 2 bdrms, cover, new full propane 1 bath, 6 appls. No pets. bottle, $200. Nice Shape.

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403-304-5555 SYLVAN LAKE HURRY!! CALL TODAY Only 1 large building lot left for sale in Lakeway Landing. Quiet close location in New Lakeway Landing Subdivision Sylvan Lake. Ready for immediate construction Call Keith Bickerton @ 403-350-5346 ************************** Mara Lake, B.C. We have for sale a beautiful view lot in Mara View Estates. Located in very private 15 lot Close and ready for you to construct your new home. Asking $175,000. For info call Keith 403-350-5346 today!

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Estate of Marion Roberta Smith who died on September 10, 2012 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by May 19, 2013 and provide details of your claim with: J. MacDonald Johnston, Q.C. at Johnston Ming Manning LLP Barristers and Solicitors 4th Floor, 4943 - 50 Street Red Deer, AB. T4N 1Y1 If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have. 295097D12,19

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Texas stabbing suspect fantasized about cannibalism, other acts

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Daniel Rac, 5, looks into the coffin of his friend Carlos Enrique Rac, 12, who died by food poisoning in Santo Domingo Xenacoj, west of Guatemala City, Thursday. Four people, including two children, died and 96 others were hospitalized for food poisoning after the victims ate fruit & vegetables that weren’t properly cleaned in the town of Santo Domingo Xenacoj, said the fire department. A doctor at one of the hospitals said the medical exams show the deaths were caused by E. coli bacteria.

HOUSTON — A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Texas college told investigators he had fantasized about cannibalism, necrophilia and cutting off people’s faces and wearing them as masks, according to a court document made public.

Dylan Quick also told an investigator that he had researched mass stabbings on his home computer about a week before Tuesday’s attack at Lone Star College, according to a search warrant affidavit.

“He stated that he had read numerous books about mass killings and serial killers which are also located at his residence,” the affidavit said.

Quick is being held without bond on three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for Tuesday’s attack that injured 14 people. Only one person remained hospitalized Thursday, and that person was listed in good condition.

Quick’s next hearing is May 10. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.

Quick’s attorney, Jules Laird, said Thursday he was still looking into his client’s background. Laird said he didn’t think the 20-year-old had a history of mental illness, but he said Quick was on suicide watch and will stay in jail as he undergoes a psychological evaluation.

“Not every question has an answer that satisfies you or that says this is the root cause of why he did this ... with a knife. We are going to see if we can reach that,” Laird said.

The affidavit released later in the day named nine items that were seized from Quick’s home, including one listed as “Hanibal Lecter Mask.”

Hannibal Lecter is the cannibalistic serial killer from the 1991 movie The Silence of the Lambs.

Other items seized included a lap-

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Note from DNA Nobel winner Francis Crick sells for $5.3 million A letter that scientist Francis Crick wrote to his son about his Nobel Prize-winning DNA discovery was sold to anonymous buyer at a New York City auction on Wednesday for a record-breaking $5.3 million.

The price, which far exceeded the $1 million pre-sale estimate, topped $6 million when the commission is included, according to Christie’s. The price was a record for a letter sold at auction, Christie’s said, eclipsing an Abraham Lincoln letter that sold in April 2008 for $3.4 million including commission.

On Thursday, the molecular biologist’s 1962 Nobel Prize medal in physiology or medicine will be offered by Heritage Auctions, which estimates it could fetch over $500,000.

The items are among a dozen artifacts Crick’s heirs are selling to benefit scientific research.

In the March 19, 1953, handwritten letter to his 12-year-old son, Michael, Crick describes his discovery of the structure of DNA as something “beautiful.” The note tells his son how he and James Watson found the copying mechanism “by which life comes from life.” It includes a simple sketch of DNA’s double helix structure, which Crick concedes he can’t draw very well.

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Life Flight personnel rush a victim wounded in a stabbing attack on the Lone Star community college system’s Cypress, Texas campus into Memorial Hermann Hospital Tuesday in Houston. More than a dozen people were wounded when a suspect went building-to-building in an apparent stabbing attack at the college campus authorities said. The attack on the Lone Star Community College System’s campus in Cypress sent at least 12 people to area hospitals, including four people taken by helicopter, according to Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department spokesman Robert Rasa. top and an animal dissection kit.

The affidavit said Quick told the investigator that in preparing for the campus attack, he had sharpened various things, including a hairbrush and pencils, to use as weapons. However, authorities have said Quick used only a razor utility knife to slash at his victims. They said a scalpel was found in a backpack he was carrying when he was arrested.

Authorities have said students tackled Quick and held him down until police arrived.

Texas does not permit people to

carry handguns on campuses, but lawmakers are considering allowing concealed permit holders to take their weapons into college buildings and classrooms. Opponents argue that allowing guns into campus buildings increases the chances for violence.

Laird said Quick had been homeschooled for most of his life and that he had been enrolled at Lone Star in part so he could be around other people and “get some type of feel for what the rest of the world is like as opposed to just living at home ... and being home-schooled by his mother.”

The seven-page letter, written to his son in boarding school, concludes: “Read this carefully so that you will understand it. When you come home we will show you the model. Lots of love, Daddy.”

of the largest marches in Santiago in more than two decades.

The size of the protest showed the strength of the student movement in an election year, said student leader Camila Vallejo.

“This symbolizes that the student and social movement didn’t go home and that that the movement is here to stay,” student leader Vallejo told local ADN radio.

Chilean students stage widespread protests demanding education reform SANTIAGO, Chile — Tens of thousands of students flooded the streets of Chile on Thursday in one of the largest demonstrations demanding free education.

After two years of student marches that have paralyzed Chile’s major cities and generated expectations of change to a troubled system, the crisis over education reform remains a key electoral issue ahead of November’s presidential election.

Thursday’s protests were mostly peaceful. Students waved flags, chanted slogans and danced in the streets in a festive atmosphere recalling the creative marches of 2011, when thousands dressed as superheroes, staged mass kiss-ins and danced like zombies to Michael Jackson’s ’Thriller.’

But the marches, which are often infiltrated by violent anarchist groups, also ended with clashes between police and hooded vandals. Police arrested 109 people, including 24 minors, and at least six police agents were injured.

Student organizers estimated the crowd in the Chilean capital on Thursday at about 150,000 people. City officials said the number was closer to 80,000. Local media called it one

Auditor’s report warns Afghan militants could obtain U.S. contract funds WASHINGTON — Militant groups in Afghanistan could still obtain U.S. government contracts and siphon off American taxpayer dollars because administrative flaws and misunderstandings are hampering a law aimed at weeding out corruption, a top auditor warned Thursday.

The special inspector general for Afghan reconstruction, John F. Sopko, said weaknesses mar procedures that the Defence Department tightened in 2012 to comply with a new federal law aimed at preventing militants from obtaining U.S. contract payments.

Sopko said nearly $2 billion in government contracts was awarded in 2012, but he did not identify how much money was in jeopardy.

The U.S. military has estimated that up to $360 million ended up in the hands of Taliban and criminal elements in Afghanistan over the past decade, according to a 2012 Associated Press report.

Sopko said his new audit detected flaws in a provision that Congress added last year to a defence authorization bill.

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NKorea hints at missile launch

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PYONGYANG, North Korea — Hinting at a missile launch, North Korea delivered a fresh round of war rhetoric Thursday with claims it has “powerful striking means” on standby. Seoul and Washington speculated that it is preparing to test-fire a missile designed to be capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.

On the streets of Pyongyang, North Koreans shifted into party mode as they celebrated the anniversary of leader Kim Jong Un’s appointment to the country’s top party post — one in a slew of titles collected a year ago in the months after his father Kim Jong Il’s death.

But while there was calm in Pyongyang, there was condemnation in London, where foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations slammed North Korea for “aggressive rhetoric” that they warned would only further isolate the impoverished, tightly controlled nation.

North Korea’s provocations, including a long-

range rocket launch in December and an underground nuclear test in February, “seriously undermine regional stability, jeopardize the prospects for lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula and threaten international peace and security,” the ministers said in a statement.

In the capital of neighbouring South Korea, the country’s point person on relations with the North, Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, urged Pyongyang to engage in dialogue and reverse its decision to pull workers from a joint industrial park just north of their shared border, a move that has brought factories there to a standstill.

“We strongly urge North Korea not to exacerbate the crisis on the Korean Peninsula,” Ryoo said.

President Barack Obama warned the unpredictable communist regime that his administration would “take all necessary steps” to protect American citizens.

In his first public comments since North Korea escalated its rhetoric, Obama urged the north to end its nuclear threats, saying it was time for the isolated

nation “to end the belligerent approach they have taken and to try to lower temperatures.”

“Nobody wants to see a conflict on the Korean Peninsula,” Obama added, speaking from the Oval Office alongside United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was headed to Seoul on Friday for talks with South Korean officials before heading on to China.

“If anyone has real leverage over the North Koreans, it is China,” U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress on Thursday.

“And the indications that we have are that China is itself rather frustrated with the behaviour and the belligerent rhetoric of ... Kim Jong Un.” In the latest threat from Pyongyang, the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, a nonmilitary agency that deals with relations with South Korea, said “striking means” have been “put on standby for a launch and the co-ordinates of targets put into the warheads.” It didn’t clarify, but the language suggested a missile.

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Counteroffensive launched in south near Jordan

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive in the south, capturing a town and killing at least 45 people including women and children, opposition activists said Thursday.

The attack on the town of Sanamein followed a rebel advance in the area in recent weeks. They opposition fighters captured army bases and a major town in the strategic province of Daraa along the border with Jordan.

“They slaughtered any person they found,” an activist in the nearby town of Busra al-Harir who goes by the fake name of Hamza al-Hariri told The Associated Press via Skype. He would not give his real name for fear of government reprisals.

“This is the ugliest massacre since the one in Houla,” he added, referring to a region in the central province of Homs where more than 100 civilians were killed by government forces in May last year.

Rebels advancing in the south in recent weeks have been aiming to secure a corridor from the Jordanian border to Damascus about 60 miles away in preparation for an eventual assault on the capital.

Regional officials and military experts note a sharp increase in weapons shipments to opposition fighters by Arab governments, in co-ordination with the U.S., in the hopes of readying a push into Damascus — the ultimate prize in the civil war that has killed more than 70,000 in two years.

Rebels already control vast portions of northern Syria bordering Turkey.

State-run Syrian TV said the armed forces “wiped out terrorist groups” in Sanamein and the nearby town of Ghabagheb. It added that troops were targeting rebel hideouts in different parts of Daraa. They included the villages and towns of Tafas, Jasssim, Dael and Tseel and the report said they had inflicted casualties in those areas.

The city of Daraa, the provincial capital, was the birthplace of the uprising against President Bashar Assad in March 2011 The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group reported clashes on Thursday in the city of Daraa and said there were casualties among regime troops.

State-run Syrian TV said government forces killed or wounded dozens of gunmen in the city of Daraa, including foreign fighters.

The Observatory said at least 45 people, including five children and seven women, were killed in the attack on Sanamein. It said they were killed by “shooting, shelling and field execution,” a reference to people reported to have been shot at close range.

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In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela’s acting President Nicolas Maduro greets supporters as he campaigns in Cabimas, Zulia state, Venezuela, Thursday. Maduro, late President Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor, will run for president against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles on April 14.

Shooting suspect dies in hospital

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Serbian veteran suspected of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage and then turning the gun on himself and his wife died Thursday, hospital officials said.

Ljubisa Bogdanovic, 60, died from head wounds, Belgrade Emergency Hospital said. His wife Javorka Bogdanovic, 60, was recovering from surgery and her condition is serious but stable.

Bogdanovic went on a pre-dawn, house-to-house rampage Tuesday in a village near Belgrade, including killing his mother, his son and a 2-year-old cousin, police say.

Milovan Kostadinovic, a neighbour who said he and his family survived only because a police patrol showed up in the village after a call by Bogdanovic’s wife, said “he should have suffered more for what he did to us.”

“I’ve heard that he died,” Kostadinovic said. “It’s better that way. I feel better now that I know he passed away.”

Authorities are searching for motives in the worst peacetime shooting rampage in Serbia. Bogdanovic had no criminal record or history of mental illness.

He fought in the Balkan wars in the 1990s and lost his job a year ago at a wood processing factory.

Residents of the village of Velika Ivanca, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) southeast of Belgrade, have said Bogdanovic first killed his son and his mother before leaving his home and going house to house, shooting his neighbours.

They expressed deep shock, describing the suspect as a quiet and helpful man.

Funerals for the victims are on Friday in the village.

U.S. boys unaware of kidnapping attempt

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TAMPA, Fla. — Two young U.S. boys seem unaware their parents kidnapped them and believe their sailboat trip to Cuba was only a vacation, not an attempt to flee U.S. authorities, the children’s grandparents said Thursday.

Last week, the maternal grandparents were granted custody. Police say Joshua Hakken then broke into their Florida home, tied up his mother-in-law, took the 4-year-old and 2-year-old and set sail for Cuba. Authorities searched by air and sea for the sailboat Hakken had recently purchased. They were found in Cuba, thanks to a crucial tip from the person who had sold the boat.

Joshua and Sharyn Hakken arrived in Florida early Wednesday with their sons and the family dog, accompanied by authorities, after being handed over

by Cuban officials. The children were “happy and sleepy” on a flight back to the U.S., sheriff’s spokeswoman Debbie Carter said in an email Wednesday.

Grandparents Patricia and Bob Hauser said they want to get the boys back to a normal schedule and “just be carefree little boys again.”

“We haven’t asked the boys anything about the journey,” Patricia Hauser said at a news conference.

“We’re just letting them tell us as things come out, if they feel like talking. We’re just treating it like a vacation.”

The grandparents have legal custody of the boys, who appeared briefly during the news conference to say “hi.” Cole jokingly struck a pose on the lawn for the cameras and stuck out his tongue. Chase held up his toy cars.

Their parents, Joshua and Sharyn Hakken, were charged with kidnapping the boys and ordered to remain in jail without bond. They’ll face a judge during a pretrial detention hearing Friday.

The Hakkens are being represented by the public defender’s office, which has also declined comment.

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Single fill-up only. STEPS TO REDEEM THIS OFFER: 1. Make an in-store purchase of $100 or more (excluding taxes, prescriptions, tobacco, alcohol, gift cards, phone cards, gas bar, post office, dry cleaning, lottery tickets, and other provincially regulated products) at Real Canadian Superstore from Friday, April 12, through Thursday, April 18, 2013. 2. Present this coupon along with the valid Superstore receipt to the gas bar cashier at time of gas purchase by Wednesday, April 24, 2013 and save cents per litre, as detailed above, off fuel (not valid on pay-at-pump transactions). Save an additional 10 cents per litre of fuel when paying with a President’s Choice Financial® MasterCard®. One coupon per family purchase and/or customer account.

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We will not match competitors’ “multi-buys” (eg. 2 for $4), “spend x get x”, “Free”, “clearance”, discounts obtained through loyalty programs, or offers related to our third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners etc.). We reserve the right to cancel or change the terms of this promise at any time. *We Match Prices! Look for the symbol in store. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES (note that our major supermarket competitors may not). Due to the fact that product is ordered prior to the time of our Ad Match checks, quantities may be limited. We match select items in our major supermarket competitors’ flyers throughout the week. Major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us based on a number of factors which can vary by store location. We match identical items (defined as same brand, size, and attributes) and for fresh produce, meat and bakery, we match a comparable item (as determined solely by us).

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