Red Deer Advocate, April 15, 2013

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Health Services probes response MAN DIES AFTER ALMOST 30-MINUTE WAIT FOR AMBULANCE

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Crossfit athlete Nancy McKeage of Red Deer swings from the gymnastic rings at Ignite Fitness during a training session. McKeage has qualified for the Crossfit Games for a second time, this time in the 40-44 year old masters category. During this year’s open competition McKeage also qualified for a chance to compete at the regional competition in the open ladies division. See story on Page C1.

‘Huge’ budget cut hits disabled

Alberta Health Services is probing ambulance response in Sylvan Lake after a resident claimed it took nearly 30 minutes for help to arrive for a man who collapsed and stopped breathing on a residential street.

Ryder’s Ridge resident Garry Virag said a man had been shovelling snow on Rafferty Court in the afternoon of March 19, then he was spotted lying unconscious on the sidewalk.

A resident administered CPR and 911 was called.

Virag said that after 20 minutes, ambulance sirens were heard but the ambulance drove by the Ryder’s Ridge neighbourhood where bystanders were working to revive the man. The man’s condition improved briefly and then he went into cardiac arrest a second time.

It was a further 10 minutes before the first of two ambulances found the scene after being given instructions over a cellphone and waved down by residents.

“I realize that GPS doesn’t show Rafferty Court.

It’s not on GPS yet. But there are things called maps, or listen to the … instructions that are given to you,” said Virag, who is still steamed at the response time.

“It should never have happened.”

The victim, who appeared to be in his 50s, later died.

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PDD BUDGET SLASHED $42 MILLION

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF Central Albertans with developmental disabilities will see programs meant to help give them productive lives cut as part of a provincewide reduction from the Alberta government.

Alberta Council of Disability Services members were disheartened to have the Department of Human Services announce that it would reduce the provincial Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD) budget by $42 million as of July 1.

It reports it will have a profound negative impact on the health, safety and well-being of individuals and families who rely

on these services.

The Alberta Council represents all service providers, including day homes, respite care and facility based-programs, who have contracts with the government.

Ron Bos, spokesman for the Central region of Alberta Council of Disability Services, said the budget cut is huge and will hurt various service providers.

“And it’s being done without a plan that we know about,” said Bos. “It’s difficult for all of us providers to plan for and for families not knowing what will happen.”

Bos said that they found out during the 11th hour in the provincial budget documents on March 7.

“We consider our community

access programs quite successful,” said Bos. Many of these adults have other disabilities (and often fragile mental and physical health) and these supports ensure essential care such as getting to medical appointments.

Some of these people volunteer, some have employment. Without proper funding, these people won’t be able to do these kinds of things, said Bos. “The supports we provide allow them to get out into the community and attend doctor and dentist appointments, to learn life skills in our day programs and generally do other things that Albertans get to do,” said Bos.

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The rich come clean on tax havens

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Wealthy Canadians with money stashed overseas have come forward in droves to confess their misdeeds after secret lists began circulating with the names of people apparently evading taxes in foreign banking havens.

The Canada Revenue Agency has seen the number of voluntary disclosures of foreign, unreported income rise dramatically since 2007, when it received the first such list from Liechtenstein naming 106 Canadians with accounts in secretive banks there.

The agency in 2010 received another list from the French government with information about more

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than 1,000 Swiss accounts at HSBC Private Bank (Swiss) SA, all linked to Canadian taxpayers.

And Revenue Minister Gail Shea is pursuing yet another massive list, acquired recently by the CBC, that the public broadcaster says contains the names of 450 Canadians with money in foreign tax havens.

The agency’s voluntary disclosures program encourages taxpayers who have deliberately or inadvertently failed to pay their taxes to come forward.

If the disclosure is accepted, penalties are waived and no legal action taken, as long as back taxes are paid.

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A Remarkable hit NEW PERMANENT EXHIBIT AT MUSEUM EARNS ACCOLADES of what Red Deer is all about by touring the exhibit.

“It’s wonderful. If you want to learn your history, this is the place to come,” said Joanne Ruggles, of Red Deer.

Robert Zielke, of Red Deer, said the city keeps growing and growing and it’s good to reflect back on what it was like in the past.

The exhibit will hopefully encourage younger generation appreciate all that they have, said Viktor Zielke, of Red Deer.

Mayor Morris Flewwelling, who was the museum’s director for 20 years, said his favourite part of the exhibit is the video and digital recordings that really bring the community to life.

Visitors can listen to people who helped shape Red Deer and learn why residents came to call Red Deer home, he said.

Flewwelling has come to the exhibit about three times and still has more he wants to examine.

“What’s important isn’t just the artifact, it’s the story that goes with it,” Flewwelling said.

The museum didn’t want to just tell the story of how the area was developed, but rather what made its residents tick, he said.

Not only will Remarkable Red Deer be a legacy for Red Deer’s Centennial, it will also be a place of learning into the future, Flewwelling said.

“Red Deer’s museum is now on the threshold of a renaissance and a rebirth.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by SUSAN ZIELINSKI

Actor Paul Sutherland, one of the Ghosts of Red Deer greeting visitors to the museum’s Remarkable Red Deer exhibit, answered questions during the grand opening of the new exhibit on Sunday.

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PDDS: Less access With these kinds of financial cutbacks, Bos wondered how this will affect the government’s decision to move 125 residents because it is closing Michener Centre in Red Deer. The plan is to place them around Alberta.

“It would mean creating new capacity because there’s not a lot of new right now,” said Bos. The government announced it would set aside $10 million to help build or renovate existing group homes for those from Michener.

“At the same time, they’re reducing funding and community access, which will have ripple effects on residential programs everywhere,” said Bos. “In fact, the residential capacity may be reduced, but it’s difficult to tell. We just have that one $42-million cut.” ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

DISCLOSURE: Spike The program has seen a spike in disclosures of offshore accounts since 2007, to a record 4,064 in 2011-2012 — more than double the level three years earlier.

Offshore disclosures represented just one sixth of the program caseload in 2008-2009, but since then are approaching one third.

Documents detailing the surge were obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. The voluntary disclosure program, or VDP, is available only if the agency has not already launched a probe into an individual’s unreported income.

None of the 106 Canadians on the Liechtenstein list, for example, can take advantage of the VDP because tax auditors here were already tipped.

Members of this group, with about $100 million in Liechtenstein assets, were pursued separately.

But negative publicity around the Liechtenstein, Swiss and other lists — and tough-talking government officials — appear to have driven many nervous account-holders into the arms of the taxman.

In the three years to March 31, 2012, almost 11,300 disclosures about offshore income arrived at the offices of the Canada Revenue Agency, acknowledging more than $1 billion in unreported income. Federal tax and interest owing was assessed at about a quarter of that amount.

A CRA spokesman said a series of measures to ensnare offshore taxevaders do appear to be increasing the number of voluntary disclosures.

“These efforts have resulted in successful compliance actions that have received widespread media attention, such as the CRA’s efforts to address the Liechtenstein accounts,” Philippe Brideau said in an email.

“Canadians who may be engaging in these types of activity are seeing the results of our efforts, and realizing they are better off to come forward voluntarily and possibly avoid being penalized or face prosecution or jail time.”

The released documents reveal that fewer than 1,000 disclosures of offshore assets that had arrived by Dec. 30, 2012, involved the banking hotspots of Liechtenstein (59), HSBC (204) and Swiss-based UBS (675).

But the individual disclosures for these three locales are larger, on average about $300,000 each, or together worth a quarter of the unreported $1 billion.

Depositing funds in a foreign tax haven is not against the law in Canada, but failing to report any income related to such accounts is.

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Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery’s new permanent exhibit on the history of the Red Deer area earned accolades from visitors at its grand opening on Sunday.

The $1.5 million exhibit — Remarkable Red Deer: Stories from the Heart of the Parkland — takes up 4,800 square feet of display space and features more than 400 photographs and 300 artifacts from the MAG collection and Red Deer Archives.

Several of Red Deer’s prominent buildings like Stephenson Hall Block, the train station, Club Cafe and Capitol Theatre, are featured with interactive stations for visitors to learn about the area’s rich and sometimes quirky history.

Technologies used within the exhibit impressed its visitors.

“The audio stimulus, and then the visual stimulus, are so complementary that you’re engaged. It’s capturing your attention, but not drawing away from the different elements. I think it’s fantastic,” said Wendy Moore, of Red Deer, on Sunday.

Background sounds, like the chugging train, help create an experience for visitors and so do the many details that capture the different decades within the exhibit, said Leslee Burton, of Red Deer.

Bev Hanes, of Red Deer, said the interactive stations are engaging and visitors to the city will get a good idea public broadcaster to turn over its leaked list of potential tax evaders.

The CRA “has not asked for the source of the information and will treat any information you provide with strict confidentiality in the same manner it treats all taxpayer information it receives,” said the letter from Andrew Treusch.

The CBC has already said it will not release the list, to protect journalistic integrity.

Any prospect of the Canada Revenue Agency coming into possession of the CBC list, however remote, may prompt even more wealthy investors to come forward with their tax-haven account information.

As an added incentive, the March 21 federal budget announced a new program to pay snitches for ratting out overseas tax evaders, among other measures to raise the profile of the issue.

AMBULANCE: Following up Virag said he doesn’t know if a faster response would have made a difference — but it bothers him that it might have.

“The guy deserved a chance and he didn’t get it.

“It was very upsetting.”

Alberta Health Services says it is looking into the incident.

“Our sympathy goes out to the family of the patient involved. AHS is reviewing this incident to determine details of the call and the EMS response,” says an emailed response from communications adviser Heather Kipling.

“Out of respect for the family and as the review is ongoing, AHS will not comment further at this time.”

Virag said he wrote a letter to the town to try to ensure that

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something is done to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Sylvan Lake Mayor Susan Samson has assured him the town is following up on the incident.

Better signage to the year-old neighbourhood was already planned and will be in place soon.

Virag, 65, who was once an RCMP officer and is a former volunteer firefighter and Bowden town councillor, is also encouraged that health officials are reviewing what happened.

“We got a ball rolling here and that’s what has to happen. If they don’t get any feedback about what’s wrong, or what’s going on, nothing ever changes.”

Samson said the town will send a letter expressing its concern to Alberta Health Services and Health Minister Fred Horne.

Samson said slow ambulance response times are worrying, especially in Sylvan Lake, which lacks an urgent care centre and relies on Red Deer’s hospital for emergency care.

“It just really compounds the problem,” she said.

The town wants to get to the bottom of why the ambulances apparently took so long and whether it was because they had to be called in from outside the community.

Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Wildrose MLA Kerry Towle said her party has heard a number of concerns from Albertans that the province’s central ambulance dispatch system isn’t working and ambulances are struggling to find addresses.

Part of the problem with the system is that ambulances with local knowledge are often “flexed” into Red Deer and other crews less familiar with an area get called in to cover for them.

Towle wants to know if that scenario happened in this case. She also plans to speak with Virag. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Guiding a master in need BRAIN INJURED WOMAN TRAINING SERVICE DOG TO MEET HER NEEDS

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF In about two years Nickolas the St. Bernard will be a fully-trained service dog who will help guide, balance and calm his owner Carla Schneider.

Schneider, 43, of Bentley, said Nickolas has some “big paws to fill” after her former service dog Angus died suddenly from an infection last August.

But Schneider and her husband have a feeling Nickolas is the right dog for the job. “(Angus) would greet my husband at the car when he got home and he’d take his ball cap off his head and carry it inside the house and give it to me.

“When this little guy (Nickolas) met us, he sat down on my husband’s lap, he took the ball cap off his head and he brought it over and gave it to me.

He did it about six times during the visit,” said Schneider about the pup that was seven-months old at the time.

“He just kind of picked us.”

Training started immediately that afternoon on Feb. 24 when they brought him home from the breeder. Nickolas practised how to get in and out of their vehicle.

Schneider trained her first service dog Angus after she was in a serious vehicle collision in 2004 in Red Deer and sustained a brain injury that affects her memory.

She lost sight in her right eye so her balance and depth perception is poor.

Her lungs are severely scarred making breathing difficult at times.

She can’t lift or carry things due to damage to her neck, shoulders and back.

She said she has no option but to train Nickolas herself because organizations don’t train service dogs for brain injury survivors.

“I could only get a dog that does one job. I could only get a guide dog, or I could only get a mobility dog, or an anxiety dog.”

Schneider said despite her physical limitations, training Nickolas is good for her because it makes her focus her thinking which helps the brain.

Nickolas is learning how to guide Schneider from walking into objects she can’t see on right side.

When she loses her balance, she will be able to hold onto Nickolas’ back and eventually he’ll be strong enough so she can lean on him to get back up when she falls.

He’ll be there to keep her calm when she’s out in public where there’s noise and commotion. He will also learn how to pull a cart when she goes shopping for groceries.

Training Nickolas will cost about $20,000 that

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Carla Schneider gets her new service dog ready for a training session. Once trained the nine month old St. Bernard named Nickolas will help Schneider do many daily tasks and also be there for her when she needs help getting up from in the event of a fall. will include the cost of regular trips to Red Deer, Sylvan Lake, and Edmonton so he can have repeated exposure to people and repetitive visits to different locals, like restaurants, stores and health care facilities.

She said two to three trips per week to Red Deer are needed for training.

Normally, Schneider would only go to Red Deer once a month to visit her doctor.

A special harness must also be built for Nickolas for when he’s on duty.

The Carla Schneider Service Dog Fund has been established at Servus Credit Union to accept donations to help cover the cost of training Nickolas.

The cost of training her former dog Angus was covered by a service dog pilot project run through Alberta Seniors and Community Support Services. It has since been discontinued.

Schneider said she’d be house-bound without a service dog, and a St. Bernard allows her to stay active even in the winter.

“The labs and the German shepherds are wonderful dogs.

“But when we’re talking minus 30 degree weather and I have to go uptown to get my medicine at the drug store or groceries at the grocery store, it’s just too cold for those dogs to go out.”

St. Bernards are sturdy, strong and don’t need to run.

They’re happy just to walk. And they are very gentle dogs, she said.

“There is absolutely nothing aggressive about this dog. The first time I met him, he rolled over on his back and gave me his belly. A sure sign of submission.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Dahlia and gladoilus society opening first garden on Prairies their efforts at the August show.

McArthur, who has been growing dahlias and gladiolus for well over 50 years, said everyone wants the big dahlias blooms that can be 30 cm in diameter.

“They’re as easy to grow as the others. But they’re not as productive and when you grow a bigger flower you end up having to do a little more maintenance.

“For the average gardener, I think they’d want to go to more of a smaller dahlia.

“They’re earlier and they’re more profuse. A little less maintenance and much better show in your front yard or garden. They are significant.”

Dahlias have to be started inside in Alberta’s climate to reach their full potential and can’t be planted before the frost is gone, he said.

Gladiolus can also add a lot of colour to Alberta gardens, McArthur said.

“They are stately flower and they are in most cases really easy to grow.

“They are a flower that is very, very showy when they come. The only thing is they are later in the season.”

Gladiolus are planted early and can handle a bit of frost and still keep growing, he said.

For more information visit www.albertadahliaandgladsociety.com. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Lacombe County needs feedback on recreation Lacombe County is looking for feedback from residents on recreation.

A regional recreation plan is in the works and an online survey has been created to gather input on what direction residents would like to see the county go. The survey will be posted online from Wednesday to May 17.

A telephone survey can be done by calling 403-782-6601. A paper copy is also available.

The survey will take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

County residents who complete the survey in the first two weeks will

be entered into a draw for an iPad. A second draw will be held on the closing date for an iPhone.

Following the survey a series of stakeholder meetings will be held

throughout the county in June.

Meetings will include presentations on the strategic direction for recreation, survey results and recommendations for future facility

development.

Prior to each presentation an open house will take place so the public can view plans and speak to council members and county staff.

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Lorne McArthur, president of the Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society, is preparing dahlias in his greenhouse for the Piper Creek Trial Garden.

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The only dahlia trial garden in Canada will be located just south of Red Deer for hybridizers to grow new varieties of the flower starting this spring.

Members of the Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society have been attending flower shows and judging courses to become certified judges of the American Dahlia Society to judge dahlias at the local trial garden.

Lorne McArthur, president of the Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society, said Piper Creek Trial Garden will be the first dahlia trial garden on the Canadian prairies.

“When we started the club, that’s what we wanted to do. This is our fourth year as an organization.

“The big thing was to get certified judges to judge the quality,” McArthur said.

“Right here in Alberta we have a number of hybridizers who develop new varieties and they have trouble getting into trial gardens in the States. There’s only seven trial gardens in the States and they’re full.”

In the past there were trial gardens in Canada on the east and west coast.

Piper Creek Trial Garden will be located at McArthur’s home at Echo Glen Farm in Red Deer

County, across from the City of Red Deer’s Waste Management Facility on 40th Avenue.

Growers must submit three tubers for the garden which have to be in their fourth growing season.

A maximum of about 30 varieties can be tested in the trial garden that will be about nine by 30 metres in size.

There’s room for about 100 plants.

Tubers from growers in New Jersey, Oregon, and Montana have already arrived.

Some tubers destined for the trial garden have already sprouted in McArthur’s greenhouse.

“It’s very exciting,” he said.

An open house for Piper Creek Trial Garden will be held on July 27 for everyone to see what’s blooming in world of dahlias.

Once the plants are in the ground, the public is welcome to check in regularly to watch their progress.

On Saturday, Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society held its annual Dahlia Tuber, Gladiolus Corm and Mignon Dahlia Sale at Bower Mall Shopping Centre.

Members of the non-profit organization donated extra tubers and corms to sell to raise money to host Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society’s 4th Annual Show to be held Aug. 24 and 25 at Bower Place Shopping Centre.

McArthur said people who purchased tubers and corms on the weekend will hopefully display

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Muzzling scientists is undemocratic Access to information is a basic runs counter to current Government foundation of democracy. Canada’s policies on matters such as environCharter of Rights and Freedoms al- mental protection, oil sands developso gives us “freedom of ment, and climate change” thought, belief, opinion and and that this “impoverishes expression, including freethe public debate on issues dom of the press and other of significant national conmedia of communication.” cern.”

We must protect these The complaint and inrights. As we alter the chemvestigation follow numerical, physical and biological ous similar charges from properties of the biosphere, scientists and organizations we face an increasingly such as the Canadian Sciuncertain future, and the ence Writers’ Association best information we have and the World Federation to guide us comes from sciof Science Journalists, and ence. publications such as the sciDAVID That scientists — and ence journal Nature. HunSUZUKI even librarians — are dreds of scientists marched speaking out against what on Parliament Hill last July appear to be increasing efto mark “the death of eviforts to suppress informadence”. tion shows we have cause for concern.

The list of actions prompting these The situation has become so alarm- grievances is long. ing that Canada’s Information ComIt includes shutting the world-remissioner is investigating seven gov- nowned Experimental Lakes Area, axernment departments in response to ing the National Round Table on the a complaint that they’re “muzzling” Environment and the Economy, elimiscientists. nating funding for the Canadian FounThe submission from the University dation for Climate and Atmospheric of Victoria’s Environmental Law Cen- Sciences and prohibiting federal scitre and Democracy Watch alleges that entists from speaking about research “the federal government is preventing on subjects ranging from ozone to clithe media and the Canadian public mate change to salmon. from speaking to government scientists All of this has been taking place as for news stories — especially when the the federal government guts environscientists’ research or point of view mental laws and cuts funding for en-

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vironmental departments through its omnibus budget bills. It has justified those massive environmental policy changes in part by saying the review process was slow and inefficient, but research by scientists at the University of Toronto, published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, “found no evidence that regulatory review in Canada was inefficient, even when regulators had an ongoing load of over 600 projects for review at any given time.”

The government appears determined to challenge any information, person or organization that could stand in the way of its plans for rapid tar sands expansion and transport and sale of raw resources as quickly as possible to any country with money.

The results have been astounding. An Environment Canada document leaked to the Climate Action Network states, “Media coverage of climate change science, our most high-profile issue, has been reduced by over 80 per cent.”

In the environmental movement, we’ve become accustomed to attacks and attempts by government and its proxies to silence us. We’ve been called everything from “radicals” to “un-Canadian” to “money-launderers”.

Federal Treasury Board President Tony Clement even blamed the David Suzuki Foundation and me for opposition to the proposed TransCanada west-to-east pipeline, a project we

have yet to say a word about! Some of the ongoing media slurs have been even sillier. Are they that threatened by credible scientific research that might stand in the way of their current liquidation policies?

Canada is a large country with the longest coastline in the world, and is particularly sensitive to climate fluctuations, especially in economic sectors like agriculture, fisheries, forestry and tourism. We aspire to be an “energy superpower”. Surely, understanding the effects of climate change should be at the top of our agenda.

In a truly open and democratic society, ideas, policies and legislation are exposed to scrutiny, debate and criticism.

Information is shared freely. Governments support research that makes the country stronger by ensuring its policies are in the best interests of the people. A government that values its citizens more than its industrial backers does not fear information and opposition.

Countries where governments hold a tight rein on information, shut down or stifle research that runs counter to their priorities, and demonize and attack opponents are never good places to live. We have to make sure Canada doesn’t become one.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Communications Manager Ian Hanington.

LETTERS Minister sending bad signals to Alberta’s educational policy makers Universities and colleges have an uphill battle in front of them after Advanced Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk’s recent “letters of expectation” to the public institutions (Greg Neiman, An opportunity, or else, Advocate, March 28, 2013).

The university and college sector should not just be the training branch for corporations.

That’s a very old issue. Ever since the time of Plato, Aristotle and Pericles, the same question arose — how does a society prepare people, not only youth, for full participation as citizens? Higher education and training evolved to pursue this goal.

It was imperfect. Hazards were many. Employers and their representatives in government continue to be successful in fobbing off education and training costs onto public taxpayers.

Trying to restrain costs for students who would not have to leave to get degrees, diplomas and certificates further hogties the system.

Generally, the educational philosophy literature says that education and training should not just be “instrumental” to prepare wellequipped, dutiful employees.

Higher education should be probing, questioning, critical, and pleased to explore knowledge areas that may, or may not, have immediate practical application.

Many related issues follow out of that view. How badly does commercializing research distort its purposes? Can independent inquiry be sustained if education buildings, programs, and even courses are named after rich donors?

How well can students be evaluated through grading practices known to lack scientific grounding?

How well does the system deal with scandals in which university and college money is used to attend political party fund-raising functions?

Those are some of the multitude of questions in front of the Red Deer College board or any institution hoping to become a university.

Lukaszuk delivered bad signals to those whose job is to make policy about education issues.

Ken Collier Red Deer

Albertans don’t support privatizing public education MORE THAN 500 ALBERTANS GAVE THE SAME MESSAGE: GOVERNMENT FUNDING SHOULD ONLY GO TO PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEMS

BY KELLY ERNST SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE In the recent Alberta budget, millions of dollars were devoted to funding private education, even though there appears to be very little public support for this. The Sheldon Chumir Foundation asked Albertans about their vision of public education in recent consultations in nearly a dozen communities. A majority of Albertans surveyed said that they did not support spending public dollars on private education. Why does the provincial government continue to transfer public dollars to private education without a clear mandate to do so?

According to Alberta Education’s funding manuals, base funding for private education is up to 70 per cent of public funding per student. The 2013 Alberta budget allocated $206 million toward private education, a 5.1 per cent increase from the previous year.

Budget projections show that the allotment for private education will increase by 16 per cent over the next three years to $226 million.

The rationale offered for increasing support for private education is to keep up with a 5 per cent enrollment increase from last year. This is misleading. The total private student population has only increased 4 per cent from 2003. Private enrollment isn’t soaring: there is simply a greater proportion of private students now receiving public funding — from 72.6 per cent in 2003 to 96.7 per cent today.

The public system — comprising all Catholic sep-

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arate and public school divisions — experienced an annual enrollment increase of more than 2.7 per cent last year. Yet the funding increase to the public system was not proportional at 0.76 per cent in the coming year and just over six per cent in three years.

Is the disproportionate increase in public dollars for private education justifiable?

Does the provincial government even have a mandate to support the already generous funding of private education in Alberta? If not, then public dollars should not be funding private education. Even if there is broad public support for more publiclyfunded private education, to what degree should public dollars fund private interests?

From Fort McMurray to Lethbridge and points in between, more than 500 Albertans gave the same message: government funding should go to public education systems, full stop.

There was very little support for allocating public dollars to funding private interests. In related questions, 99.5 per cent of respondents stated that the Alberta government should be funding public education, whereas only one in 10 suggested that the government should have any role in funding private interests.

Even among the minority of individuals surveyed who had themselves attended private schools, nearly two thirds stated that private schools should not receive any public dollars. Only 25 per cent of those who received private schooling agreed that public dollars should fund any private education, and only five per cent agreed with providing full per student public funding to private schools.

There is a serious disconnect between public views concerning the funding of public education and what is actually allocated in the Alberta budget.

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Albertans surveyed clearly described the consequences of further changes to create an education system focused on increasing privatization and hyper-choice. Parents shared many stories about how dividing our school systems into an increasing number of private and alternative schools fragments neighbourhoods and subdivides our society into polarized units.

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Feds restore gun licence fees “The government will not renew the current fee waiver in the current climate of fiscal restraint,” said the Canada Gazette post, dated April 13.

Two other measures that the government says are designed to encourage compliance with firearms regulations will be extended by one year, however.

Gun owners who let their possession-only licences expire have been allowed to re-apply since 2008 without having to pay to go through a firearms safety course, as the regulations require. That break continues to May 2014.

And an amnesty on criminal charges for failing to licence or register non-restricted weapons for people “who were taking steps to comply with these requirements” has also been extended.

EXPECT $18 M ANNUALLY IN REVENUE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Conservative government is ending a seven-year waiver on gun licence renewal fees next month in an effort to collect about $18 million annually from firearms owners.

New changes to the firearms regulations were quietly posted in the Canada Gazette on the weekend that restore the $60 licence fee for non-restricted weapons.

The Conservatives brought in a twoyear waiver on the fees in May 2006 and had extended it every year until now.

The Canada Gazette notes that although the long-gun registry was ended by legislation last year, it remains in effect by court order in Quebec.

And the amnesty provisions are pitched as a means of keeping Quebecers registering those rifles and shotguns.

“Accordingly, the extension of the Amnesty Order would encourage compliance by owners of non-restricted firearms with the licensing requirements across Canada, and in Quebec, with the registration of non-restricted firearms,” states the government document.

The Conservatives ended the longgun registry last spring for a savings of about $2 million annually, a figure confirmed in documents prepared for

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews but never publicized by the government.

Last September the Conservatives began phasing back in the higher $80 licence fee for restricted and prohibited weapons that had been waived.

In May 2012 Conservative MP Candice Bergen told the House of Commons that the fee waivers were being phased out, but she framed it as the government providing “extra time” for people to renew their five-year licences at no cost.

“This is good news for law-abiding gun owners and good news for taxpayers,” she said at the time.

According to the Canada Gazette, non-restricted gun licences alone are expected to bring in $18 million in additional revenue each year.

LIBERAL LEADERSHIP

Trudeau sweeps to party helm OVERWHELMING FIRST-BALLOT SWEEP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau called for an end to internal Liberal party divisions and an end to the partisan politics of division Sunday night as he was anointed party leader in a landslide, first-ballot win.

Trudeau, eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and the Liberals’ undisputed star, swept more than 80 per cent of the available points in a final field of six candidates.

Despite the foregone conclusion of Trudeau’s coronation, a downtown Ottawa hotel was packed with hundreds of Liberal supporters for an announcement that was delayed by about 40 minutes beyond schedule.

“This is the last stop of this campaign but it is the very first stop of the next one,” Trudeau told the adoring crowd when the tally was finally announced.

The leadership buzz around Trudeau, 41, has lifted Liberals off the mat after the third-place party suffered its worst electoral defeat ever in 2011.

Polls suggest the telegenic and personable Trudeau appears to be confounding — at least for now — predictions of a polarized, two-way election fight in 2015 between Tom Mulcair’s NDP and Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.

“We are fed up with leaders who pit Canadians against Canadians. West against East, rich against poor, Quebec against the rest of the country, urban against rural,” Trudeau said in his acceptance speech.

“Canadians are looking to us, my friends. They are giving us a chance, hopeful that the party of Wilfrid Laurier can rediscover its sunny ways.”

But he also implored the Liberal family to end a generation of infighting — a point that been inadvertently driven home earlier when former prime minister Jean Chretien pointedly neglected to mention his successor Paul Martin in a speech glorifying the Liberal past.

“The era of hyphenated Liberals ends right here, right now, tonight,” Trudeau said in one of his biggest applause lines of a 20-plus-minute speech.

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Justin Trudeau, his wife Sophie Gregoire and their children Xavier and Ella-Grace, celebrate after he won the Federal Liberal leadership Sunday in Ottawa.

Liberal MP Joyce Murray, whose leadership platform included co-operating with New Democrats and Greens to unseat Harper in the next election, finished a very distant second behind Trudeau with 10 per cent of the vote.

The Conservative party immediately put out a release congratulating Trudeau on his leadership win and then slamming his inexperience, a theme the ruling party appears likely to plumb repeatedly.

“Justin Trudeau may have a famous last name, but in a time of global economic uncertainty, he doesn’t have the judgment or experience to be prime minister,” Conservative spokesman Fred DeLorey said.

Just the prospect of the fluidly bilingual Montreal MP’s victory had already boosted the Liberals back into contention in public opinion surveys. They are now running even with or ahead of the ruling Conservatives. The NDP has been relegated to its traditional third place slot after vaulting into official Opposition status in 2011 for the first time in its history.

Chretien told a Liberal crowd hungry for good news that “today marks the beginning of the end of this Conservative government,” while party president Mike Crawley made a point of noting that more people voted in this leadership contest than ever before in Canada.

Whether Trudeau can maintain the momentum

until the next election in 2015 remains to be seen.

But he has so far defied his detractors who were certain six months ago, when he launched his leadership bid, that his popularity would prove to be fleeting.

Money magnet Trudeau’s final financial report is yet to be posted but he has previously reported raking in almost $1.1 million from some 8,500 donors to his leadership campaign.

The contest was an experiment for Liberals, who decided to allow a new class of supporters — not just dues-paying, card-carrying members — to vote for the next leader.

Almost 300,000 supporters signed up to participate in the contest. But just over 40 per cent of them actually registered to vote.

The results were weighted to give each of the country’s 308 ridings equal clout. Each riding was allotted 100 points, assigned proportionally to each candidate’s share of the vote in that riding.

A total of 30,800 points were up for grabs and Trudeau won on the first ballot with 24,668 points.

The Liberal party believes it has gained valuable contact information from the supporter sign-ups, which it hopes will help build the kind of modern data base required for political fundraising and voter identification in election campaigns.

Women more likely than men to get sub-par treatment THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — British Columbian researchers have found that women with HIV-AIDS are more likely than men to receive sub-standard care and treatment, putting them at higher risk of death or transmission to others.

The B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV-AIDS conducted two studies to try to find out why the number of new cases of HIV-AIDS among women has been trending upwards.

The first study measured the quality of HIV care that both men and women received within the first year of their diagnosis.

Tracking nearly 3,900 people who were starting antiretroviral drug regimens, the ten-year study that began in 2000 found women were 25 per cent more likely than men to experience sub-optimal care.

More than half of the women in the study group hadn’t been able to suppress the virus in their first six months of treatment, leaving them more susceptible to ill health and increased risk of transmission.

A possible reason for this, the study suggested, was the fact that nearly half of the women undergoing their first year of treatment hadn’t been tested to see if they’d be resistant to the antiretroviral drugs.

This was true in on-

HIV-AIDS RESEARCH ly 36 per cent of cases among the men.

The study also found that 17 per cent of the women were given antiretroviral drug regimens that were not recommended for their particular cases, as opposed to only 9 per cent of the men.

The study didn’t examine the reasons for the “serious inequities” in care that it found between genders.

However, Dr. Robert Hogg, one of the study’s authors, said in a release that the findings “highlight the need for women-centred care ap-

proaches to ensure that women are receiving comprehensive and highquality HIV care.”

Hogg is the director of the centre’s epidemiology and population health program.

The second study examined the use of health services by 231 HIV-positive women.

It found those women in the group who earned

less than $15,000 per year, or used illicit drugs were much less likely to access the health services they needed.

Geographical setting and a general lack of trust in health providers were also cited as factors that were preventing these marginalized women from getting the proper care.

Hogg said the socio-

economic and geographic barriers undermining access to treatment and care must be addressed in order to reverse the upward trend in HIVAIDS among women.

The results of the two studies were discussed at a national HIV-AIDS conference that ends Sunday.

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Bottled seafood recalled THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A health warning concerning certain St. Thomas brand bottled seafood products has been expanded.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to consume St. Thomas Bottled Lobster, Bar Clams and Bar Clam Stew because they may be contaminated with the bacteria that can cause botulism, a lifethreatening illness.

All sizes and codes of the products, made on or after January 4, 2011, are affected by the alert.

The products were sold in New Brunswick and possibly in other provinces as well.

There have been no reported illnesses associated with the products.

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Leah Parsons, mother of Rehtaeh Parsons, and her partner Jason Barnes, right, attend a protest near the Halifax Regional Police headquarters in Halifax on Sunday. The girl’s family says she ended her own life following months of bullying after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by four boys and a photo of the incident was distributed. Police have recently reopened their investigation into the incidents.

Dozens attend protest for teen who committed suicide after bullying

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — The mother of Rehtaeh Parsons dabbed her eyes with a tissue as dozens of people chanted in front of the Halifax district RCMP office on Sunday to demand justice for the young woman who took her own life after months of bullying.

People held signs and wrote messages on a banner for the 17-year-old, who hanged herself and was taken off life-support about a week ago.

Leah Parsons, Rehtaeh’s mother, attended the rally and could be seen crying and hugging people in the crowd as various speakers took to a microphone to voice their concerns.

Rehtaeh Parsons has gained widespread international attention since her family blamed her death on bullying that was linked to an alleged sexual assault by four boys at a house party in 2011.

The peaceful protest was organized by the online hacker group Anonymous, which claims

it knows the identities of the boys accused of being involved in the sexual assault.

Dave Rossetti, an event organizer, told the crowd that the group is demanding the RCMP continue the investigation and that the province’s Justice Department open an investigation into how the Mounties have handled the case.

“We’re a group of concerned citizens who have recognized an injustice in the system,” said Rossetti, prompting a fury of cheers and applause from the crowd.

“Protect the innocent. We want justice, and that is your job.”

Kim Wall, 46, said she came to the protest because Parsons’ story affected her on a personal level.

Wall said she was sexually assaulted several times as a teenager in the suburb of Cole Harbour, but the boys were never brought to justice by police or her school.

“I learned that this is the treatment I could expect and that this was the justice I had to accept,” Wall said.

“I raised my daughter to know that she could expect this because that’s the unfortunate part of being born a woman.

“Let’s change this now. Don’t accept that justice.”

The RCMP announced on Friday that it would reopen its investigation into an alleged sexual assault of Parsons in 2011.

Last Monday, her family went public with her suicide, which they said stemmed from months of bullying that was the result of the alleged assault by four boys when she was 15-years-old.

At the time, the RCMP and Nova Scotia’s Public Prosecution Service said there were insufficient grounds to lay charges.

The family contends it took 10 months for investigators to interview the boys, but the RCMP have said they can’t confirm or deny that.

The rally come a day after an emotional funeral service for Parsons at a church in Halifax, where an mix of people — from teenagers to politicians — came to say goodbye.

Quebec courtrooms become Twitter-free zones

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Quebec courtrooms will become Twitter-free zones come today as new rules governing the use of electronic communications and technology come into effect.

As other Canadian jurisdictions weigh whether to allow tweets and texts from the confines of a courtroom, Quebec judges have decided to put an end to the practice.

The new directives ban emails, tweets and text messages from the courtroom without the consent of a judge, although lawyers and journalists will be able to use the electronic devices for taking notes.

The rules come at a time when many reporters use popular social media tools like Twitter to relay information in real time and draw readers to their websites.

A spokeswoman for the Quebec Court says judges from her tribu-

nal as well as Superior Court and the Court of Appeal drafted the guidelines together. They came after months of discussions.

“It is prohibited to broadcast or communicate text messages, observations, information, notes, photographs, audio or video recordings from inside the courtroom to the outside,” says the directive.

Reactions to the proposed ban have been mixed. One Montreal defence lawyer who herself is prolific on Twitter welcomed the rules, saying neither the legal community nor journalists were ready for social media in the courtroom.

A columnist countered that the rules are a step backward and that it will be up to the courts to adapt.

Groups representing the media have been critical of the rules, calling them hasty and overblown.

Brian Myles, president of the Quebec Federation of Journalists, says he believes the judiciary act-

ed too quickly and overreached in applying a blanket rule to all courts after just a few experiences with the technology.

“Twitter is a tool of the 21st century and it allows journalists to bring the citizen into the courtroom,” said Myles, adding that magistrates made the rules without consulting anyone.

Filming and taping hearings is prohibited so tweeting and microblogging provide a way for journalists to report on court hearings with a “sense of urgency and immediacy,” he said.

“When you deprive reporters of this tool, you deprive citizens of useful information that allows them to understand better the justice system.”

Quebec court spokeswoman Annie-Claude Bergeron said the guidelines were drafted after careful consideration, with the issue of decorum in mind.

She added the guidelines are not set in stone.

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Russian officials are becoming increasingly concerned about polar bear poachers in their country using Canadian documents to disguise illegally hunted pelts.

“I think it is a real problem,” said Nikita Ovsyanikov, one of Russia’s top polar bear scientists and a member of the polar bear specialist group, the leading international research consortium on the mighty and controversial predators.

Ovsyanikov claims that Canadian documents required to bring hides into the country are being separated from the shipments they originally accompanied and sold separately. The certificates are then applied to skins from Russian polar bears to make them appear as if they have been legally hunted and imported.

Canada is the only country in the world that allows sport hunting of polar bears, which makes it the only country to issue certificates under the Convention on Trade In Endangered Species that allow polar bear products to cross borders.

“I’m aware of two cases where not pelts, but certificates were offered for sale on the Internet,” Ovsyanikov in an interview with The Canadian Press from Moscow. “The price was $1,000 so it was quite a profitable business.”

Groups such as the International Fund for Animal Welfare have raised similar concerns.

They have released an Internet screen grab from last October showing what appears to be a Canadian CITES certificate along with a polar bear rug. The price is 30,000 rubles — about $1,000.

“It was marked ‘Sold,’ ” translated Maria Vorontsova, a member of the Fund’s Moscow branch.

“It was referring to the certificate, not the hide.”

Ovsyanikov said polar bear hides sell in Russia for up to $50,000. Such pelts are increasingly popular among Russia’s elite. Canadian auction houses have said they can’t meet demand for the hides, most of which go to Russia.

Russian officials, supported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, used concerns over the Canadian documents aiding poachers to argue that all trade in polar bear parts should be banned at the recent CITES meeting in Bangkok.

However, Canadian scientists aren’t sure there’s a problem. Geoff York of the World Wildlife Fund said his group looked into the accusations about a year ago and failed to find much evidence.

University of Alberta scientist Andrew Derocher said there is a regular, if unofficial, polar bear harvest among aboriginals in the Russian Arctic. Some of those hides are probably hitting the market and some may be laundered with Canadian documents, he said.

“It sounds like there is a market in these documents. It’s a really messy situation.”

But Derocher said Canadian hunts are well-managed and sustainable and the issue should be Russian law enforcement.

“We haven’t really got good information from Russia to show that their populations are at risk from harvesting or poaching.”

Environment Canada said it has no knowledge of its documents being misused.

“Although we have been monitoring the allegations, to our knowledge they remain unsubstantiated,” said spokesman Danny Kingsberry in an email.

“Environment Canada has seen no evidence that Canadian CITES certificates are being used to illegally launder poached Russian bears. The department continually monitors our permitting process to ensure that it remains secure.”

Ovsyanikov said the market is probably much larger than officials know. He said that few examples have been found of CITES certificates for sale because few are looking for them.

“There was no monitoring from the authorities,” he said. “That is what we are criticizing — that law enforcement is not actively concentrating on this problem.”

Ovsyanikov maintains that legal bear hunting in Canada isn’t helping. Even legal hides just stimulate demand, he said, part of which will be filled by poachers.

“Canadian polar bear science is constantly repeating the major threat to polar bears is global warming,” he said. “This is true.

“It’s a global threat and it’s a long-acting threat.

But commercial trade, it is an immediate threat which we could eliminate if we could stop hunting and commercial use of polar bears.”

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Aussie, Aussie, Aussie SCOTT GIVES AUSTRALIA FIRST GREEN JACKET WITH WIN AT MASTERS CARLOS QUENTIN

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TAKING HIS LUMPS San Diego Padres slugger Carlos Quentin dropped his appeal and began serving an eight-game suspension for rushing the mound and inciting a brawl in which Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke broke his left collarbone. With the suspension starting with Sunday’s game against Colorado, Quentin will miss the Padres’ three-game series at Dodger Stadium beginning Monday night. Quentin charged the mound after he was hit in the upper left arm by a pitch from Greinke. The two players lowered their shoulders and Quentin slammed into Greinke, who broke his left collarbone in the wild fight that ensued.

Quentin has said he felt justified rushing the mound because Greinke hit him with pitches during the 2008 and 2009 seasons,

Today

● Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup tournament at Red Deer Arena — Fort St. John vs. Stony Plain, 4 p.m.; Rosetown vs.

Bentley, 8 p.m.

Tuesday

● Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup tournament at Red Deer Arena — Clarenville vs. Fort St. John, 4 p.m.; Bentley vs.

Kenora, 8 p.m.

Wednesday

● Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup tournament at Red Deer Arena — Stony Plain vs. Clarenville, 4 p.m.; Kenora vs.

Rosetown, 8 p.m.

Thursday

● Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup tournament at Red Deer Arena — Quarter-final games at 4 and 8 p.m.

Friday

● Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup tournament at Red Deer Arena — Semifinal games at 4 and 8 p.m.

Saturday

● Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup tournament at Red Deer Arena — Championship game, time TBA.

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Adam Scott and his caddie Steve Williams reacts to his putt dropping on the second hole of a playoff to win the Masters golf tournament, Sunday, in Augusta. Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Adam Scott barely had time to think about an Australian in a green jacket when a sudden roar from the 18th green and a quick look at the TV reminded him it’s never been easy. Not for him in the majors. And certainly not for the Aussies at Augusta National.

He thought for a second it was over when he made a 20-foot birdie putt, the kind that always wins the Masters. In the scoring room, one last cheer on a soggy Sunday caused Scott to look up at the television after Angel Cabrera produced a great shot of his own, a 7-iron to 3 feet for birdie to force a playoff.

Not again.

“The golf gods can’t be this cruel to Australia,” Greg Norman, the symbol of heartache at Augusta, said in a text to friends who were watching nervously.

Scott knocked in a 12-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole to win that green jacket, personal redemption for his own failure last summer in the British Open and an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters.

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

“We like to think we’re the best at everything. Golf is a big sport at home, and this is the one thing in golf we hadn’t been able to achieve,” Scott said. “It’s amazing that it’s my destiny to be the first Australian to win.

It’s incredible.”

Halfway around the world on Monday morning, commuters cheered on buses going into Brisbane, the capital of Scott’s home state of Queensland. A speech by the prime minister was interrupted to give an update on the playoff.

The celebration was sweet, especially for the 32-year-old

Scott. It was only last summer when Scott threw away the British Open by making bogey on his last four holes to lose by one shot to Ernie Els. He handled that wrenching defeat with dignity and pledged to finish stronger if given another chance.

“Next time — I’m sure there will be a next time — I can do a better job of it,” he said that day.

Scott was close to perfect, and he had to be with Cabrera delivering some brilliance of his own.

Moments after Scott made his clutch birdie on the 18th hole for a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead — “C’mon, Aussie!” he screamed — Cabrera answered with one of the greatest shots under the circumstances, setting up an easy birdie and a 2-under 70. They finished at 9-under 279.

They both chipped close for par on the 18th in the first playoff hole, and Cabrera’s 15-foot birdie putt on the 10th grazed the right side of the cup. Scott his 6-iron into about 12 feet, leaving him one putt away from a green jacket.

Under darkening clouds — no sudden-death playoff at the Masters had ever gone more than two holes — Scott said he could barely read the putt.

That’s when he called over caddie Steve Williams and asked him to take over. Williams was on the bag for 13 of Tiger Woods’ majors, and read the putt that helped Woods to the 1999 PGA Championship.

“I said, ‘Do you think it’s just more than a cup?’ He said, ‘It’s at least two cups. It’s going to break more than you think,’ ” Scott said. “He was my eyes on that putt.”

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Generals ready to open Allan Cup

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR After months of preparation, the Allan Cup tournament opens today at the Red Deer Arena.

The Bentley Generals, the host team, are ready and raring to go.

“Yeah, it’s finally here. We’ve waited a long time for it,” Generals head coach Brandin Cote said Sunday, as the coaching staff and players enjoyed a team meal. “We just finished our last formal skate and a good, intense 45-minute practice. The guys are feeling good and they’re anxious to start.”

The Generals, who captured the Chinook Hockey League and provincial senior AAA titles this year, will open the six-team Canadian championship tournament tonight at 8 p.m. versus the Saskatchewan/Manitoba champion Rosetown Redwings.

“It’s going to be a very competitive game,” said Cote. “We played them in an exhibition game in November and tied them at Rosetown. Neither team had a full roster, so both teams are going to look significantly different tomorrow. But we know

what they’re all about — a lot of our guys are very familiar with a lot of their players from playing against them over the years.”

R o s e t o w n reached the final of the 2012 Allan Cup in Lloydminster, then fell 4-1 to the Southeast Prairie Thunder of Manitoba.

“They (Redwings) will be ready to go, they’ll want to take us down,” said Cote.

“That first game, especially in our pool, is going to be very competitive in terms of trying to get first place in our division and avoiding the quarter-final. It’s going to be intense and exciting and there’s going to be a great atmosphere. We’re all looking forward to it.”

The Generals will conclude pool play Tuesday with an 8 p.m. clash with the Ontario representative Kenora Thistles. The other pool consists of the Fort St. John, B.C., Flyers, Clarenville Caribous of Newfoundland and Stony Plain Eagles.

The Flyers and Eagles open the tournament today at 4 p.m.

The Generals have been idle — at least in terms of actual on-ice competition — since winning the Alberta senior AAA crown March 23.

“But we’ve had seven or eight practices over the last two and a half weeks,” said Cote. “The guys have showed a lot of commitment while staying in shape and focused and going over all the little details with the coaching staff. We’re finely tuned and ready to get things going.”

The Allan Cup preparations have been in the works since the Generals were named as hosts and an organizing committee was formed a year ago.

“This has been building for awhile,” said Cote. “The organizers have done a real good job in terms of advertising and promoting the tournament and I know the organizing committee has worked very hard to get things where they need to be. It’s going to be a well-organized event for everybody — for the fans, players . . . for everyone involved.

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Royals spoil Jays sweep with walk-off single

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Royals 3 Blue Jays 2 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The way the Toronto Blue Jays had been playing, manager John Gibbons was perfectly content with leaving Kansas City having won two out of three.

Just imagine how he’d have felt if they could have held on Sunday.

Alex Gordon drove home Chris Getz with a single in the ninth inning, and the Royals rallied from a pair of one-run deficits to beat the Blue Jays 3-2 and avoid a three-game sweep.

“I thought we played great all three games,” said Gibbons, whose team limped into town after losing six of their first nine. “Although it’d have been nice to win this one, we’ll feel good about going home. ... We played three good games here.”

That’s the bright spot, of course.

Besides losing the series ender, the Blue Jays also lost star shortstop Jose Reyes until the All-Star break after he severely sprained his left ankle while sliding into second Friday night. Reyes remained with the team through the weekend, and watched the Blue Jays’ Brandon Morrow and Royals starter Er-

vin Santana engage in quite a little pitcher’s duel on Sunday.

The Royals finally broke through off Toronto reliever Darren Oliver (0-1) with one out in the ninth. Gordon swatted the first pitch he saw from Oliver into the outfield, and Getz slid home easily ahead of the tag as Kansas City players spilled out of the home dugout.

“We didn’t hit it well all day, but Ervin kept us in the game,” Gordon said. “I was just trying to put a good swing on it and make something happen.”

Kelvin Herrera (1-0) pitched a perfect ninth inning for the Royals, while Alcides Escobar and Lorenzo Cain drove in the other runs that kept them in the game.

Edwin Encarnacion homered and drove in both runs for the Blue Jays, who had won six straight and eight of 10 against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium. That included a four-game sweep in their only series in Kansas City last season.

“We’re happy,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “Toronto is a tough team, and it’s a team that a lot of people predicted to win the AL East. They have a lot of good offence over there.”

The Blue Jays struck in the first inning when Melky Cabrera and Jose Bautista delivered

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Munenori Kawasaki beats the tag by Kansas City Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar during the third inning of a baseball game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday. back-to-back base hits. Jarrod Dyson bobbled Bautista’s routine single in centre, and that sent Cabrera to third base. He scored moments later on Encarnacion’s groundout.

Dyson atoned for his bobble with a leadoff triple in the third inning. After Gordon extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a check-swing single that

went about 15 feet, Escobar hit a deep sacrifice fly to right field that knotted the game 1-all.

Encarnacion, who’d been 5 for 44 on the season, gave Toronto the lead back in the sixth.

He sent the first pitch of the inning skimming over the wall in left field for a homer.

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B2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, April 15, 2013

Flames exact revenge on Oilers

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Calgary Flames goalie Joey MacDonald makes the save on Edmonton Oilers’ Taylor Hall, as Jiri Hudler, defends during first period NHL hockey action in Edmonton, on Saturday.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 4 Oilers 1 EDMONTON — Revenge was sweet for the Calgary Flames on Saturday.

Sven Baertschi had a goal and an assist as the Flames put another crimp in the diminishing playoff plans of the rival Edmonton Oilers, coming away with a 4-1 victory.

The triumph comes just over a week after an embarrassing 8-2 loss to Edmonton at home in Calgary.

“They really took it to us in that game,” said Flames winger Tim Jackman, who had two assists on Saturday.

“We wanted to put that game behind us and we did with this game. It was a good road win. It’s the Battle of Alberta and they were fighting for a playoff spot. We’re playing every game as hard as we can and trying to prove to the or-

ganization that we all want to be here.”

Flames goalie Joey MacDonald, who stopped 28 shots for the win, agreed that it was a satisfying victory.

“They kind of embarrassed us at home and when you lose 8-2 you really want to come back and beat them,” he said. “We were pretty mad about that.

I thought it was one of our best games.

We didn’t give up a lot of chances. We want to finish off this season on a winning note and prove to everybody that we are going to have a young team that is going to work hard every night.”

Mikael Backlund, Dennis Wideman and Max Reinhart also scored for the Flames (16-21-4), who have won three of their last four on the heels of a fire sale of veteran players at the trade deadline. Calgary improved to just 5-13-2 on the road this season.

Lennart Petrell replied for the Oilers (16-18-7), who have lost five in a row

on the heels of a five-game winning streak. The losing skid puts Edmonton’s playoff hopes in serious jeopardy as it is six points back of eighth place in the Western Conference with just seven games remaining.

“It was certainly disappointing,” said Oilers head coach Ralph Krueger. “The fans deserved a much better game than that. We really have to look ourselves in the mirror after this one. We have to figure out what kind of team we want to be. There are still seven games ahead of us and we have some serious analysis to do right now.

“With a flatness like that down the stretch, you have to question everything.”

Oilers forward Taylor Hall was the picture of frustration.

“Where’s the compete and the passion? That was missing tonight,” he said. “We got scored on on the first shift. It’s a really sad way to finish the season if that’s the way we’re going to play. We have to play like there’s no scoreboard the rest of the year, like there’s no standings either.

“Our third period was abysmal.

There were not a lot of won battles or won races to the puck. We’ve got to be proud of what we’re doing, proud that we’re Oilers. We have to work and compete.”

Calgary got on the board just 26 seconds in on the first shot of the game.

Edmonton did a bad job clearing the puck, allowing Backlund to get the puck and ring it off the post and in behind starting goalie Nikolai Khabibulin.

The Oilers tied the game up just over a minute later as a Ryan Jones pass hit a skate in front and popped out to Petrell who powered the puck past MacDonald.

It appeared that Edmonton had taken the lead five minutes into the first period, but a video review determined that Nail Yakupov had directed the puck into the net with his skate.

Calgary went up 2-1 two minutes into the second period as Khabibulin was able to stop Jackman in tight, but couldn’t prevent Wideman from coming in as the trailer on the play and slamming home the rebound late on a power play.

The Flames made it 3-1 five minutes

into the second period as Oiler veteran Ryan Smyth fell and coughed up the puck in the slot, allowing Baertschi to score his first of the season on a low shot.

Calgary put the game away midway through the third period after another giveaway by the Oilers in their own zone allowed Jiri Hudler to make a backhand pass out front to Reinhart, who picked the top corner to score his first career NHL goal.

“We have a lot of guys injured so we have a lot of young guys in the lineup right now that are just enjoying being in the NHL,” Jackman said. “They are fun to watch and fun to have around.

We’re not in the playoff race, so to have them come in and show how much they want it brings the best out of everybody.”

The Flames return home to face the Minnesota Wild on Monday. The Wild then travel to Edmonton to play the Oilers on Tuesday.

Notes: It was the fourth and final meeting between the two teams this season. The Flames won the first outing on Jan. 26, but the Edmonton Oilers swept a home-and-home series last week... Edmonton came into the game having won four of the past five meetings with Calgary after losing nine straight to the Flames. Calgary, though, had still won seven of its last 10 in Edmonton... The Oilers last won a season series over its provincial rival in the 2008-09 season... After defeating Calgary 8-2 in their last meeting, the Oilers have now been outscored 17-4 in their last five games... Edmonton was without forward Ales Hemsky, who is expected to miss at least three games with a foot injury. Ryan Jones took his place in the lineup... Calgary was without a couple of its biggest offensive weapons as Curtis Glencross missed the game with an illness and Alex Tanguay was out with an MCL sprain that should keep him out for the remainder of the season... MacDonald made his first back-to-back start of the season for the Flames. Calgary came into the contest with three wins in its last 10 games. MacDonald was in net for all three... It was the 100th career NHL game for Edmonton’s Ryan NugentHopkins and the 600th for Calgary’s Mike Cammalleri.

DeRozan lifts Raptors to win over Nets

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 93 Nets 87 TORONTO — Two games from the end of their NBA season, the Toronto Raptors prefer to see themselves as a work in progress, with every game being a chance to improve for next season.

DeMar DeRozan poured in 36 points — one point shy of his career high — and Rudy Gay added 26 points and 10 rebounds and the Raptors beat Brooklyn 93-87 on Sunday, playing spoiler in the Nets’ fight for a favourable post-season position.

“Obviously it means nothing for the standings or our record next year. It’s just the mentality that we’re trying to start having — not giving up, working hard,” Gay said. “This is a jumpstart for next year.”

Amir Johnson added 10 points and nine boards for the Raptors (32-48), who have won five of their last six games.

Deron Williams led the Nets (47-33) with 30 points, Brook Lopez finished with 16 and Andray Blatche added 15. Former Raptor Reggie Evans had 16 rebounds to go with zero points, and picked up a technical for slapping the ball out of Gay’s hands after the whistle.

The Nets, who will play in the post-season for the first time since 2007, are in the hunt for the third seed in the Eastern Conference — but the Raptors clearly weren’t interested in doing them any favours.

Toronto, which will miss the post-season for the fifth consecutive season, led by double digits for most of the afternoon, and thanks largely to the cohesion of DeRozan and Gay, were up by as much as 21 points before taking a 70-59 advantage into the fourth quarter.

“They’re learning each other,” Casey said of DeRozan and Gay. “I know I get killed for that word (learning), but it’s a process. Those guys, you can’t just throw two guys out there and say ’run this, run that.’ The guys have to get a rhythm, a comfort level, knowing where they want the ball, how they want the ball.”

DeRozan and Gay were teamed up in Toronto in a mid-season trade, but critics wondered how the two would co-exist.

There was certainly enough scoring to go around Sunday. DeRozan shot 12-for-22 and went 3-for-4

from three-point range, while Gay was 10-for-19 from the field and connected on three of six three-point attempts.

“We’re definitely going to be something to reckon with,” DeRozan said on his partnership with Gay. “I don’t see any team being able to stop us, especially if we’re playing like we played tonight.”

The Nets, who arrived in Toronto on a four-game winning streak, poured it on in the fourth and a pair of free throws by Williams and one by Blatche pulled Brooklyn to within three points with 4:42 to play. Gay had a steal and four points within 30 seconds and the Raptors were back up by eight.

A three by Joe Johnson cut Toronto’s lead to four with 23 seconds left, but two free throws by DeRozan sealed Toronto’s victory.

“I really think (DeRozan) went from good, promising young player to a very solid guard,” said Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo.

The Raptors shot 44 per cent on the night and outrebounded the Nets 48-38.

“They’re a team that’s definitely capable of getting hot and they were hot tonight,” Joe Johnson said of Toronto. “It’s different when you’re playing and you know your season is going to be over in a few days. You go out there and just play loose, have fun, freelancing. They were knocking down shots from every which way. Give them credit. They were pretty hot tonight.”

Terrence Ross returned after missing a game with an ankle injury but didn’t play. Jonas Valanciunas didn’t dress for the second straight game (sore neck).

DeRozan had 11 first-quarter points including a driving reverse layup that gave the Raptors an early 12-point lead.

It was shortlived as a Nets run cut the difference to a point, before Gay drained a three-pointer from four feet beyond the arc at the buzzer to put Toronto up 24-20 to end the first.

The Raptors held the Nets to 12 points and 27 per cent shooting in the second quarter, and stretched their lead to 21 points before taking a 51-32 advantage into half-time.

Williams drained three wide-open threes in the final 3:28 of the third — nine of his 15 points in the quarter — and the Nets pulled to within 11 with one quarter left.

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Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan drives to the hoop between Brooklyn Nets forwards Jerry Stackhouse and Kris Humphries during second half NBA action in Toronto on Sunday.

Armitage rink keeps rolling at senior curling worlds

BY ADVOCATE STAFF FREDERICTON, N.B. — The Red Deer freight train is rolling right along at the world senior men’s curling championship.

Rob Armitage and his Red Deer rink ran their record to 3-0 Sunday with a 7-3 win over England’s Michael Sutherland, who fell to 1-2. The Armitage foursome, consisting also of third Keith Glover, second Randy Ponich and lead Wilf Edgar, scored three in each of the second and sixth ends on open draws by the skip.

“So far, so good,” Glover told Al Cameron, the Canadian Curling Association director of communication and media relations. “We just hope to to get onto the ice, keep making some shots and get rolling through the rest of the week.”

The Canadian men are back in action tonight against Australia’s Hugh Millikin, who won the 1986 Canadian mixed championship in Kamloops,

B.C., representing Ontario. Canada, the Aussies and Sweden’s Karl Nordlund are all unbeaten in their roundrobin pool with 3-0 records.

“I’m sure we’re going to have some tight games, no doubt,” said Glover.

“It’s pretty easy to curl when you’re six or seven up. But Rob is curling well — everyone is curling well right now. We just have to keep it going.”

The Armitage quartet, representing Canada after winning the 2012 national championship, opened the worlds with a pair of convincing victories Saturday — 10-0 over Germany’s Klaus Unterstab in the first draw and 7-2 over Kari Keranen of Finland. The Canadians broke the second game open when Armitage, who was scored at a scorching 98 per cent, drew the four-foot to score three in the sixth end.

“We’re 2-0 and that’s what’s expected,” said Armitage. “We’ve got the high seed so we’ve played a couple of the teams that aren’t ranked at the top even though they were both

decent teams. It’s a good start and now we’re down to where we’re feeling comfortable with the ice and I think we’ll play well from here on in.”

Armitage and his supporting cast curled 91 per cent as a team in the opening game and 88 per cent against Finland.

Meanwhile, Cathy King’s St. Albert foursome — the 2012 Canadian champs — improved to 2-0 in the senior women’s category Sunday with a 21-1 victory over an inexperienced Russian team skipped by Liudmila Murova (0-2).

“It was a little bizarre; just something we’re not used to in Canada, right?” said King, whose team is tied for first place in its round-robin pool with Austria’s Veronika Huber. “Unfortunately they don’t have a lot of strategy and that’s what happens.

We’re just trying to make our shots and unfortunately they had a tough time making theirs.”

SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING CALGARY — Despite being the third smallest club on hand, the Red Deer Synchronized Swim Club turned in an impressive performance at the Wildrose Classic provincial championships during the weekend.

The duet team of Tessa Wilson and Cassandra Woods won the 16-18 year-old title while Kallan Packard and Mercedes Patrick were second in the 13-15 year-old division and Kyra McMurray and Mya Freeman third in the 11-12 year-old class.

Larissa Kaube won the solo routine and was second overall in the 16-18 year-old division while Emma Dickman was second and Hope Sorokan fourth in the 13-15 year-old category.

In the team competition, the team of Kia Risling, Trinny Allier-Ortiz, Nana Hayes and Leanne Hansen won the 11-and-over novice title with Wilson, Dickman, Woods and Darby Livingstone taking second in the 16-18 yearold class.

The team of McMurray, Freeman, Packard, Patrick, Sorokan, Kaube and Amy Hovdestad was third in the 13-15 year-old division.

In figures, Hayes was first, Risling third, Allier-Ortiz fourth and Leanne Hansen sixth in the novice class while Wilson was first, Livingstone third and Woods fifth in the 16-18 year-old category. The 13-15 year-old division saw Patrick take fourth and Dickman fifth.

The Red Deer Club will compete in the Canadian Prairie Invitational, next month, in Regina

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MASTERS: Highlight “The winning putt might be the highlight putt of my career,” Williams said. “Because he asked me to read it.”

With that long putter anchored to his chest, the putt was pure. The Masters had been the only major that never had a champion use a long putter. Scott’s win means four of the last six major champions used a putter pressed against their belly or chest, a stroke that might be banned in 2016.

What mattered more to Scott was that the Masters had been the only major an Australian had never won.

He was among dozens of golfers who routinely rose in the early hours of Monday morning for the telecast, only to watch a horror show. The leading character was Norman, who had four good chances to win, none better than when he blew a six-shot lead on the last day to Nick Faldo in 1996.

There was also Jim Ferrier in 1952 and Bruce Crampton 20 years later.

Scott and Jason Day tied for second just two years ago. Norman, though, was the face of Aussie failures at the Masters, and Scott paid him tribute in Butler Cabin before he slipped on that beautiful green jacket.

“Australia is a proud sporting nation, and this is one notch in the belt we never got,” Scott said. “It’s amazing that it came down to me today. But there’s one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that’s Greg Norman.

He’s been incredible to me and all the great golfers. Part of this belongs to him.”

Reached at his home in south Florida, Norman told The Associated Press, “I’m over the moon. Sitting there watching Adam, I had a tear in my eye. That’s what it was all about. It was Adam doing it for himself, and for the country.”

Norman was so nervous watching TV that he went to the gym when the final group made the turn. He headed home for the last four holes — Day, Scott and Marc Leishman all had a chance to win — and was texting with friends as his emotions shifted with every putt.

“I can only imagine how everyone else felt when I was playing,” Norman said.

Scott was just as gracious in victory as he was last summer at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He and Cabrera flashed a thumbs-up to each other after their shots into the 10th hole in the playoff, and they walked off the 10th green with their arms around each other when it was over.

“Such is golf,” Cabrera said. “Adam is a good winner.”

It was a riveting conclusion to a week filled with several awkward moments. There was the one-shot penalty called against 14-year-old Guan Tianlang that nearly kept the Chinese teen from becoming the youngest player to make the cut. There was the illegal drop by Woods, who was given a twoshot penalty over questions and confusion about why he was not disqualified for signing an incorrect card.

And at the end, there was shot-making at its finest.

Scott didn’t make a bogey after the first hole, and he really didn’t miss a shot the rest of the day. He just couldn’t get a putt to fall until it really mattered. Then, he made two of them.

Day closed with a 70, his second close call at the Masters in three years.

This one hurt far more because he had a two-shot lead when he stepped to the 16th tee.

He ran off three bold birdies down the stretch — getting up-and-down from the back bunker on the 13th, a 10-foot putt on the 14th, and capitalizing on a break at No. 15 when his drive ricocheted out of the trees into the fairways, allowing him to reach the green in two.

His lead vanished just as quickly, however. Day chose to hit putter from behind the 16th green, came up 5 feet short and missed the par putt. He hit into a bunker on the 17th for another bogey.

“I think the pressure got to me a little bit,” Day said.

The tournament unfolded behind him, and it turned out to be quite a show.

Scott hit the ball beautifully the entire day and watched one putt after another turn away from the hole. But he also received perhaps the biggest break of the tournament when his shot into the par-5 13th spun back off the green and was headed down the slope into the tributary of Rae’s Creek when it suddenly stopped, a blessing from a day spent in the rain. He got up-anddown for birdie, and he two-putted for birdie on the 15th.

Cabrera wasn’t so fortunate. Playing in the group behind, his approach hit the bank and tumbled down into the water, leading to a bogey that cost him the lead. Cabrera answered with a 15-foot birdie putt on the 16th, however, that gave him a share of the lead.

And then came a one-two punch of birdies. For the fans who endured a soggy final round, this made up for it.

Two players. Two clutch birdies.

Two different celebrations.

Scott screamed at the top of his lungs and clapped hands forcefully

CUP: Great week “It’s going to be a great week all around and it’s going to exciting for Red Deer and our team as the host, for sure.”

The Generals are 100 per cent healthy heading into the event.

“We have some extra guys and we’re chomping at the bit,” said Cote. “This is something that’s important to our organization, but at the same time we’re trying not to put too much pressure on ourselves.

“We know we have a team that has the possibility to win it, but at the same time we recognized every other team is going to be gunning for us and will be battling for the same thing. We’re expecting every team’s best game, but we’ll stick with the program and hopefully at the end of the day it will work out in our favour.”

The Generals will carry a 26-player roster which includes netminders Travis Yonkman, Dan Bakala and Dustin Butler, who played at the University of Calgary this season and dressed as the Vancouver Canucks’ emergency backup versus the host Calgary Flames last week. Either Yonkman or Bakala will start tonight.

Following pool play, the secondand third-place teams in each division will cross over for Thursday’s quarterfinals at 4 and 8 p.m. The winners will take on the first-place clubs in Friday’s 4 and 8 p.m. semifinals and the championship game will be played Saturday at a time to be determined (TSN will televise the game). gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

JAYS: Huge “That’s huge,” Gibbons said. “That’s a good sign for Eddie.”

Kansas City matched him in the bottom half, though, when Billy Butler sent a blooper to right field, reached second on a two-out single by Eric Hosmer, and then managed to chug home on Cain’s base hit to left field — the big DH looked as if he needed oxygen when he got back to the dugout.

The fact that the game was 2-all at that point was a testament to some nice defence.

And some fairly clutch pitching.

Santana put the leadoff runner aboard in the second and third innings but got some help from a pair of inning-ending double plays. He also left two stranded in the fifth, thanks to a nice play by Dyson of tracking down Emilio Bonifacio’s fly ball in centre field.

His greatest Houdini act may have come in the eighth, when Santana walked Encarnacion to put runners on first and second with two outs. He struck out J.P. Arencibia to escape the inning.

Morrow didn’t have nearly as much trouble, retiring eight straight at one point. He wound up striking out three and issuing only an intentional walk in six innings.

“I didn’t have my best stuff, but I made a lot of good pitches and kept us in it,” Morrow said. “I had a nice rhythm with my fastball, hitting in and hitting out. I think I did a good job of keeping them off balance.”

NOTES: Royals RHP Jeremy Guthrie, who turns 34 on Monday, will start Tuesday’s interleague game at Atlanta.

Blue Jays RHP Gavin Floyd will start Monday against the White Sox. ... Blue Jays 3B Brett Lawrie (ribs) made a rehab start for Class A Dunedin at 2B on Sunday. ... Royals 3B Mike Moustakas got the day off from the starting lineup.

He was 1 for 17 on the homestand.

Prairie Fire fall to Calgary Hilltoppers FOOTBALL The Central Alberta Prairie Fire dropped a 39-14 decision to the Calgary Hilltoppers Friday at Lacombe to see their Calgary and Area Midget Football League record slip to 0-2.

The Prairie Fire

trailed 29-0 at the half before coming together in the second half.

Matt Russell of Hunting Hills, on a nine-yard run, and Quade Smith of Olds, on an 85-yard punt return, scored touchdowns for the Fire.

Smith was also solid on defence while Owen Smith of Lindsay Thurb-

er had an interception and Bryce Maki of LTCHS recorded a sack.

After facing the top two teams in the league in their first two games the Prairie Fire play at home again Saturday when they host the Northern Raiders at 11 a.m. at ME Global Athletic Park in Lacombe,

Redwings looking to get back in Allan Cup final

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF When the Rosetown Redwings lost 4-1 to the South East Prairie Thunder of Manitoba in the Allan Cup final last year it didn’t sit well with them.

By the time they left Lloydminster they were looking forward to this season.

“Definitely ever since then we set out sights on returning and winning,” said Redwings head coach Keegan McAvoy, who has “75 per cent” of last year’s team back this year.

The Redwings will get a good indication as to where they sit in the sixteam tournament when they face the host Bentley Generals tonight at 8 p.m. at the Arena.

“That’s for sure,” said McAvoy.

“They’re one of the best teams in Canada, a power house, and have done a good job of putting their team together.

We’ve been anticipating that game for a long time.”

The teams do know a little bit about each other meeting, and tying in an exhibition game in Rosetown.

“But I’m sure they’ve changed a bit since then, and so have we,” said McAvoy, who feels the team is deeper than last year.

“We feel we have four strong lines and six solid defencemen,” he said.

“We added some depth, plus the guys have an extra year under their belts.

They’ve been to the tournament once so they understand what it’s all about and what it takes.”

He also understands finishing first in their pool, which gives them a day off prior to the semifinals, is important.

“Having that extra day off (on Thursday) is very important. If not you could play four games in four days.”

The Redwings face Kenora, Ont., Thistles on Wednesday. The top teams earn a bye into Friday’s semifinals while the other teams meet in the

cross-over quarter-finals Thursday. The final goes Saturday.

While Kenora isn’t ranked as high as the Generals, McAvoy isn’t taking them lightly.

“Every team at this level can beat every other team,” he said. “The thing is we can’t get to high, or to low, we have to be ready for everyone.”

Offensively the team is led by Jared Jagow, who had 36 goals and 15 assists in 17 games in league play while Casey Lee had 24 goals and 24 assists in 17 starts. Kyle Ireland also added 21 goals and 22 helpers in 20 games.

They added to their offensive with the addition of Shane Endicott while former Red Deer Rebel Derrick Endicott and Brennan Turner were additions to their defence and former Kelowna Rocket Kelly Guard, who plays with Shellbrook, was picked up to fill out the goaltending ranks.

Mark Hinz, who had four goals and 19 assists in 15 league games, adds offence from the blueline.

McAvoy, who is in his first full season behind the bench, had three tough series to get out of their zone, including against the South East Prairie Thunder.

“We faced some adversity, but I believe that will only benefit us coming in here.”

McAvoy sees his team as a well-balanced, “structured” squad which likes to push the pace.

“We try to control the pace of the game and create turnovers in the neutral zone,” he said. ● Fort St. John Flyers and Stony Plain Eagles open the six-day tournament today at 4 p.m. . . . The Clarenville Caribous of Newfoundland are the other team that pool. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Lakers top Spurs in wake of Bryant injury THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lakers 91 Spurs 86 LOS ANGELES — An empty chair sat in front of Kobe Bryant’s locker Sunday night, and the Los Angeles Lakers realized they would have to fill it together.

With their playoff hopes likely on the line against powerful San Antonio, the Lakers cobbled together a group effort that kept them in the hunt.

Dwight Howard had 26 points and 17 rebounds, and the Lakers staged a dramatic rally in the fourth quarter to win their first game since losing Bryant for the season, beating the Spurs 91-86 Sunday night to stay in playoff position.

Steve Blake scored 23 points for the Lakers (4437), who lead Utah (4238) by 1 ½ games for the eighth post-season spot

in the Western Conference after their seventh win in eight games — even with Bryant watching from home following surgery on his torn Achilles tendon. The Lakers weren’t exactly relishing a future without their leading scorer, but they warmed to the challenge down the stretch.

“It definitely gives us confidence that if we play as hard as we did tonight, we can beat anybody,” said Pau Gasol, who had seven points and 16 rebounds.

Bryant limped off the Staples Center floor Friday night, his 17th NBA season finished. He’ll be largely immobile for the next few weeks, but he tweeted a plan to call in at halftime with adjustments for his teammates.

Most of the Lakers said they didn’t actually hear from Kobe, but they knew he was proud.

“Whew!! Well done my

dudes. Well done. UNO MAS (hash)playoffs,” Bryant tweeted after the game.

The Lakers all shared Bryant’s playmaking and defensive duties, working together imperfectly but effectively. Blake filled in for injured point guard Steve Nash and provided an unexpected scoring punch along with top reserve Antawn Jamison, who scored nine of his 15 points in the fourth quarter.

“We knew everybody doubted us, but that’s fine,” Howard said.

“We’re going to push even harder. I told our guys before the game, ‘Nobody believes we can win. We’ve just got to go out there and play like it. We’re all professional athletes. We’ve all done some great things in our career, so why not just go out there and play hard, and let everything happen?”’

TRAMPOLINE AND TUMBLING Red Deer Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club members won 12 titles in the provincial trampoline championships at Calgary during the weekend.

Kyle and Keegan Soehn struck gold in the senior men’s synchronized event, while Keegan Soehn was golden in each of the senior men’s trampoline and double mini trampoline (DMT) competitions.

Also winning gold were Kalena Soehn and Madeline Potter (U18 women’s synchronized), Zachary Blakely and Logan Chaput (espoir men’s synchronized), Chaput in national U18 trampoline, Sam Peters in provincial 3 men’s trampoline and DMT, Calvin Burton and Ashton Henfrey (provincial 3 men’s synchronized), and Henfrey in provincial 1 tumbling and provincial 2 trampoline.

Other Thunder Country medal winners and top-10 finishes: Silver — Kyle Soehn, senior trampoline; Alexandra Potter, national U18 DMT; Zach Blakely, espoir DMT; Logan Chaput, national U18 DMT; Everett Dool/Spencer Kooman, provincial 2

synchronized; Kooman, provincial 2 trampoline and DMT; Bronze — Sam Peters, provincial 2 tumbling; Lauren Howse/ Laura Anusch, provincial 3 synchronized; Everett Dool, provincial 2 trampoline.

Top 10: Fourth — Kyle Soehn, senior DMT; Kalena Soehn, espoir trampoline and DMT; Calvin Burton, provincial 3 trampoline; Maria Crichton, provincial 2 trampoline; Brenyn Chapman, provincial 1 trampoline and DMT; Fifth — Sam Peter/Evan Burton, provincial 3 synchronized; Sixth — Alexandra Potter, national U19 trampoline, provincial 3 tumbling; Calvin Burton, provincial 2 tumbling; Isabelle MacPherson, provincial 2 DMT; Seventh — Calvin Burton, provincial 3 DMT; Ashton Henfrey, provincial 2 DMT; Spencer Kooman, provincial 1 tumbling; Eighth — Madeline Potter, national U18 trampoline and DMT; Everett Dool, provincial 2 DMT; Samantha Dancey, provincial 1 trampoline; Amarissa Unreiner/ Brooke Hutchinson, provincial 1 synchronized; Ninth — Isabelle MacPherson, provincial 2 trampoline, provincial 1 tumbling.

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with his caddie after his 20-foot birdie putt curled around the left side of the cup — just like Phil Mickelson’s winning putt in 2004 — and dropped in the back.

Cabrera, going after a third major championship, started walking when he hit his 7-iron from 163 yards and pumped his left fist when it landed and the gallery erupted. He affectionately hugged his son and caddie, Angel Jr., as they walked off the green toward the scoring room.

“It was a split second I thought I’d won,” Scott said. “That was the putt we’ve seen so many guys make to win, and what I thought is it’s time for me to step up and see how much I want this.

To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.”

For Woods, it was another one that got away.

Not even that two-shot penalty on Friday — the product of a wedge that hit the flag and caromed back into the water — would have mattered. Woods figured he would need a round of 65 to win, and he made two bogeys before his first birdie. Even a mild charge on the back nine wasn’t going to help him, and he closed with a 70 to tie for fourth with Marc Leishman (72).

“I played well,” Woods said. “Unfortunately, I didn’t make enough putts.”

He now has gone eight years without winning the Masters, and he has been stuck on 14 majors since the 2008 U.S. Open. Woods is 0-for-15 in the majors since then, a drought Jack Nicklaus never endured until he was 44.

Brandt Snedeker, tied with Cabrera for the lead going into the final round, closed with a 75 and finished five shots behind.

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Basketball WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA y-Chicago 41 32 5 4 68 134 85 x-Anaheim 42 27 10 5 59 125 105 d-Vancouver 41 23 12 6 52 112 100 Los Angeles 42 24 14 4 52 120 104 San Jose 41 21 13 7 49 102 102 St. Louis 41 23 16 2 48 110 104 Minnesota 41 22 16 3 47 105 103 Detroit 42 20 15 7 47 106 107 Dallas 41 21 17 3 45 116 121 Columbus 42 19 16 7 45 102 107 Phoenix 41 18 16 7 43 110 110 Edmonton 41 16 18 7 39 103 115 Nashville 43 15 20 8 38 98 118 Calgary 41 16 21 4 36 110 141 Colorado 42 14 22 6 34 100 131 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

WHL Playoffs THIRD ROUND Conference Finals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Calgary (3) Thursday’s game Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Friday’s game Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 23 Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 24 Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 26 x-Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 28 x-Edmonton at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 30 x-Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Kamloops (3) Friday’s game Kamloops at Portland, 8 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum) Saturday, Apr. 20 Kamloops at Portland, 8 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum) Tuesday, Apr. 23 Portland at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 24 Portland at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 26 x-Kamloops at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 28 x-Portland at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 30 x-Kamloops at Portland, 8 p.m. x — If necessary.

Elson Maxwell Dieno Gaudet Dumba Bleackley Volek Thiel Millette Fleury Johnson DePape Bellerive Hamilton Underwood Pouliot Feser Musil Bartosak Doetzel Fafard Ness

Red Deer Rebels Playoff scoring Final GP G A Pts 9 5 4 9 9 4 4 8 9 2 6 8 9 0 5 5 9 2 2 4 9 2 1 3 9 2 1 3 9 2 0 2 6 0 2 2 9 0 2 2 9 0 2 2 9 1 0 1 7 0 1 1 9 0 1 1 9 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0

PIM +/6 3 10 0 4 1 18 -1 14 -4 0 -1 2 -3 4 1 4 1 4 4 2 1 2 -2 16 2 2 -1 4 4 0 — 0 0 2 -1 2 — 0 -2 16 0 0 -4

Goaltenders MP 548

Bartosak

GA 18

SO GAA 1 1.97

Sv% .941

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF y-Pittsburgh 42 32 10 0 64 141 x-Montreal 41 26 10 5 57 128 d-Washington42 23 17 2 48 129 Boston 41 26 11 4 56 116 Toronto 41 23 13 5 51 128 Ottawa 41 21 14 6 48 101 N.Y. Islanders42 21 16 5 47 119 N.Y. Rangers41 21 16 4 46 100 Winnipeg 42 21 19 2 44 109 Buffalo 43 18 19 6 42 111 New Jersey 41 15 16 10 40 96 Philadelphia 41 17 21 3 37 108 Tampa Bay 42 17 22 3 37 133 Carolina 41 17 22 2 36 107 Florida 41 13 22 6 32 99

GA 102 100 118 91 113 89 122 96 123 128 113 126 131 131 142

First Period 1. Buffalo, Ennis 10 (Vanek, Ehrhoff) 4:09 (pp) Penalties — Stamkos TB (slashing) 3:56, Crombeen TB (hooking) 13:44.

Second Period 2. Buffalo, Hecht 4 (Gerbe) 8:00 3. Buffalo, Porter 4 (Flynn, Ott) 12:37 4. Tampa Bay, Pouliot 8 (Brewer, Lecavalier) 13:30 Penalties — None Third Period No Scoring Penalties — Ehrhoff Buf (delay of game) 6:23, Malone TB (hooking) 8:55.

Shots on goal Tampa Bay 7 15 11 — 33 Buffalo 10 8 4 — 22 Goal — Tampa Bay: Garon (L,5-9-2); Buffalo: Enroth (W,4-2-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Tampa Bay: 0-1; Buffalo: 1-3.

Attendance — 18,991 (19,070).

Blackhawks 2 at Blues 0 First Period No Scoring Penalties — Brookbank Chi (roughing), Bolland Chi (cross-checking), Polak StL (roughing) 8:42, Bollig Chi (slashing), Perron StL (slashing) 13:24, Stalberg Chi (roughing), Berglund StL (interference) 18:04, McDonald StL (hooking) 18:28.

Second Period 1. Chicago, Bickell 9 (Stalberg) 4:31 Penalties — Steen StL (slashing) 10:46, Steen StL (goaltender interference) 15:01.

Third Period 2. Chicago, Hossa 15 (Toews) 6:34 (sh) Penalties — Kruger Chi (interference) 3:56, Keith Chi (tripping) 6:16, Bolland Chi (roughing), Sobotka StL (roughing) 18:05.

Shots on goal Chicago 10 9 7 — 26 St. Louis 11 7 12 — 30 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (W,17-4-4); St. Louis: Elliott (L,8-7-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Chicago: 0-3; St. Louis: 0-3.

Attendance — 19,385 (19,150).

Saturday’s Games Columbus 3, Minnesota 2, SO Buffalo 1, Philadelphia 0 Colorado 4, Vancouver 3 Toronto 5, Montreal 1 N.Y. Rangers 1, N.Y. Islanders 0, OT Washington 6, Tampa Bay 5, OT Carolina 4, Boston 2 Pittsburgh 3, Florida 1 Dallas 2, San Jose 1 Calgary 4, Edmonton 1 Los Angeles 2, Anaheim 1 Sunday’s Games Chicago 2, St. Louis 0 Buffalo 3, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 3, Nashville 0 Monday’s Games Ottawa at Boston, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Calgary, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Red Wings 3, Predators 0 First Period

Tuesday’s Games Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Flames 4 at Oilers 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Backlund 7 (Baertschi, Brodie) 0:26 2. Edmonton, Petrell 3 (Jones, Horcoff) 1:43 Penalties — Cammalleri Cal (interference) 10:38, N.Schultz Edm (hooking) 13:46, Smid Edm (crosschecking) 15:34, Paajarvi Edm (hooking) 20:00.

Second Period 3. Calgary, Wideman 6 (Jackman, Brodie) 1:55 (pp) 4. Calgary, Baertschi 1, 5:13 Penalties — Eberle Edm (hooking) 5:46, Hudler Cal (hooking) 14:30, Reinhart Cal (tripping) 19:59.

Third Period 5. Calgary, Reinhart 1 (Jackman, Hudler) 10:19 Penalty — Petry Edm (interference) 14:29.

Shots on goal by Calgary 15 11 12 — 38 Edmonton 11 11 5 — 27 Goal — Calgary: MacDonald (W,7-6-1); Edmonton: Khabibulin (L,3-5-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 1-5; Edmonton: 0-2.

Attendance — 16,839 (16,839).

Sunday’s summaries Lightning 1 at Sabres 3

No Scoring Penalties — Franzen Det (interference) 10:33, Colaiacovo, Det (tripping) 14:40.

Second Period 1. Detroit, Zetterberg 9 (DeKeyser, Datsyuk) 6:23 Penalties — Klein Nash (slashing) 7:47, Beck Nash (slashing) 15:40.

Third Period 2. Detroit, Franzen 9 (Filppula, Cleary) 17:01 3. Detroit, Abdelkader 9 (Zetterberg, Datsyuk) 18:41 (en) Missed penalty shot — Butler Nash, 6:26.

Penalties — None Shots on goal Detroit 9 16 7 — 32 Nashville 13 4 5 — 22 Goal — Detroit: Howard (W,17-12-6); Nashville: Rinne (L,14-15-7).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Detroit: 0-2; Nashville: 0-2.

Attendance — 17,113 (17,113) at Nashville, Tenn.

NHL Scoring leaders TORONTO — Unofficial National Hockey League scoring leaders following Saturday’s games: SCORING G A Pt Crosby, Pgh 15 41 56 Stamkos, TB 26 26 52 St. Louis, TB 11 41 52 Kunitz, Pgh 21 26 47 Ovechkin, Wash 27 19 46 P.Kane, Chi 20 26 46 E.Staal, Car 16 28 44 Getzlaf, Ana 14 30 44 Backstrom, Wash 6 38 44 Tavares, NYI 24 18 42 Kessel, Tor 15 27 42 Toews, Chi 20 21 41 Kadri, Tor 17 24 41

Baseball Boston New York Baltimore Toronto Tampa Bay

American League East Division W L Pct 7 4 .636 6 5 .545 6 6 .500 5 7 .417 4 7 .364

GB — 1 1 1/2 2 1/2 3

Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 7 5 .583 7 5 .583 5 6 .455 5 7 .417 4 7 .364

GB — — 1 1/2 2 2 1/2

Oakland Texas Seattle Houston Los Angeles

West Division W L Pct 9 4 .692 8 5 .615 6 8 .429 4 8 .333 4 8 .333

GB — 1 3 1/2 4 1/2 4 1/2

Saturday’s Games Boston 2, Tampa Bay 1, 10 innings Baltimore 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 Cleveland 9, Chicago White Sox 4 Detroit 7, Oakland 3 N.Y. Mets 4, Minnesota 2 Toronto 3, Kansas City 2 L.A. Angels 5, Houston 4 Texas 3, Seattle 1

Monday’s Games Tampa Bay (Hellickson 0-1) at Boston (Dempster 0-1), 9:05 a.m.

Chicago White Sox (Floyd 0-2) at Toronto (Buehrle 0-0), 5:07 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Blanton 0-2) at Minnesota (Correia 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Houston (Bedard 0-0) at Oakland (Milone 2-0), 8:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS Fielder Det AJones Bal TorHunter Det CDavis Bal Reyes Tor

AB 42 47 54 37 38

R 9 12 10 7 5

Atlanta New York Washington Philadelphia Miami

National League East Division W L Pct 11 1 .917 7 4 .636 7 5 .583 6 6 .500 2 10 .167

St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 7 5 .583 6 6 .500 5 7 .417 4 8 .333 3 8 .273

San Francisco Arizona Colorado Los Angeles San Diego

GB — 3 1/2 4 5 9 GB — 1 2 3 3 1/2

West Division W L Pct 9 4 .692 8 4 .667 8 4 .667 7 5 .583 2 10 .167

GB — 1/2 1/2 1 1/2 6 1/2

H 18 20 22 15 15

Pct. .429 .426 .407 .405 .395

Home Runs CDavis, Baltimore, 6; Morse, Seattle, 6; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 5.

Runs Batted In CDavis, Baltimore, 19; Fielder, Detroit, 19; MiCa-

Home Runs JUpton, Atlanta, 7; Buck, New York, 6; Fowler, Colorado, 6; Harper, Washington, 5.

Runs Batted In Buck, New York, 19; Phillips, Cincinnati, 14.

Pitching Maholm, Atlanta, 3-0; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 3-0; Harvey, New York, 3-0.

Sunday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto 100 001 000 — 2 7 0 Kan. City 001 001 001 — 3 10 1 Morrow, Cecil (7), Delabar (7), Oliver (9) and Arencibia; E.Santana, K.Herrera (9) and S.Perez. W—K. Herrera 1-0. L—Oliver 0-1. HRs—Toronto, Encarnacion (2).

Chicago 000 002 010 — 3 8 0 Cleveland 100 000 000 — 1 6 1 Peavy, Thornton (8), A.Reed (9) and Flowers; Myers, Shaw (7), Pestano (8), C.Perez (9) and Y.Gomes. W—Peavy 2-1. L—Myers 0-2. Sv—A. Reed (4). HRs—Chicago, Konerko (2), De Aza (3).

Cleveland, Bourn (2).

Tampa Bay 000 000 000 — 0 3 1 Boston 004 000 01x — 5 8 0 Cobb, J.Wright (7) and J.Molina; Buchholz, A.Miller (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—Buchholz 3-0. L— Cobb 1-1.

Saturday’s Games Atlanta 3, Washington 1 San Francisco 3, Chicago Cubs 2 N.Y. Mets 4, Minnesota 2 St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 0 Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 1 Miami 2, Philadelphia 1 L.A. Dodgers 7, Arizona 5 Colorado 9, San Diego 5

Sunday’s Games Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland 1 Boston 5, Tampa Bay 0 Kansas City 3, Toronto 2 N.Y. Mets at Minnesota, ppd., rain L.A. Angels 4, Houston 1 Detroit 10, Oakland 1 Seattle 4, Texas 3 Baltimore 0 at N.Y. Yankees 3

G 12 11 12 11 10

brera, Detroit, 13; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 13.

Pitching Buchholz, Boston, 3-0; Masterson, Cleveland, 3-0.

Sunday’s Games Philadelphia 2, Miami 1 Atlanta 9, Washington 0 Pittsburgh 10, Cincinnati 7 N.Y. Mets at Minnesota, ppd., rain Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 3, 10 innings San Francisco 10, Chicago Cubs 7, 10 innings Colorado 2, San Diego 1 Arizona 1, L.A. Dodgers 0 Monday’s Games St. Louis (Lynn 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 1-1), 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Lee 2-0) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 1-1) 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 2-0) at Miami (LeBlanc 0-2), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Gee 0-2) at Colorado (Nicasio 1-0), 6:40 p.m.

San Diego (Stults 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

Houston 010 000 000 — 1 7 0 Los Ang. 101 000 02x — 4 9 0 Humber, R.Cruz (8) and Corporan, J.Castro; C.Wilson, S.Burnett (7), S.Downs (8), Frieri (8) and Conger. W—C.Wilson 1-0. L—Humber 0-3. Sv—Frieri (2). HRs—Los Angeles, Trout (1), Hamilton (2).

Detroit 220 400 110 — 10 14 0 Oakland 000 100 000 — 1 3 1 Ani.Sanchez, Porcello (8) and Avila; Parker, Scribner (4), Blevins (6), Resop (8), Cook (9) and D.Norris.

W—Ani.Sanchez 2-0. L—Parker 0-2. HRs—Detroit, A.Jackson (1).

Texas 010 020 000 — 3 6 1 Seattle 010 102 00x — 4 10 0 Tepesch, Kirkman (6), Scheppers (8) and Soto; Maurer, LaFromboise (7), Pryor (7), O.Perez (8), Wilhelmsen (9) and J.Montero. W—Maurer 1-2. L— Tepesch 1-1. Sv—Wilhelmsen (5). HRs—Seattle, Ibanez (2).

Baltimore 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 New York 000 030 00x — 3 7 2 W.Chen, McFarland (7) and Wieters; Kuroda and Cervelli. W—Kuroda 2-1. L—W.Chen 0-2. HRs— New York, Gardner (2).

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS Segura Mil AdGonzalez LAD CJohnson Atl DanMurphy NYM CCrawford LAD

G 10 12 10 11 12

AB 36 44 37 42 43

R 3 3 6 10 11

H 15 18 15 16 16

Pct. .417 .409 .405 .381 .372

NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia000 001 001 — 2 12 0 Miami 000 000 100 — 1 5 0 Halladay, Papelbon (9) and Quintero, Kratz; Slowey, Qualls (6), Rauch (8) and Brantly, Olivo. W—Halladay 1-2. L—Rauch 0-2. Sv—Papelbon (3). HRs— Philadelphia, L.Nix (2).

Curling World Senior Men’s Curling Championships FREDERICTON — Round-robin standings for Canada and results Sunday at the 2013 world senior men’s curling championship, Apr. 13-20 at the Grant Harvey Centre (all times Eastern): ROUND ROBIN Group B Country W L Australia 3 0 Canada 3 0 Sweden 3 0 Denmark 2 1 U.S. 1 1 England 1 2 Finland 1 2 Russia 0 2 Germany 0 3 Netherlands 0 3 Sunday’s results Fourth Draw Japan 6 Italy 5 Switzerland 5 Ireland 4 New Zealand 6 Scotland 5 Norway 9 France 4 Fifth Draw Canada 7 England 3 Australia 5 Russia 4 U.S. 10 Germany 4 Sweden 7 Finland 5 Denmark 8 Netherlands 5 Sixth Draw Switzerland 6 France 4 Italy 14 Czech Republic 5 Norway 9 Latvia 5 Scotland 13 Japan 1 Ireland 6 New Zealand 5 = Saturday’s results First Draw Canada 10 Germany 0 Finland 9 England 6 Denmark 10 Russia 1 Sweden 5 Netherlands 3

y-clinched division z-clinched conference

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB z-Miami 64 16 .800 — y-New York 53 27 .663 11 y-Indiana 49 31 .613 15 x-Brooklyn 47 33 .588 17 x-Atlanta 44 36 .550 20 x-Chicago 43 37 .538 21 x-Boston 41 39 .513 23 x-Milwaukee 37 43 .463 27 Philadelphia 33 47 .413 31 Toronto 32 48 .400 32 Washington 29 51 .363 35 Detroit 28 52 .350 36 Cleveland 24 56 .300 40 Orlando 20 60 .250 44 Charlotte 19 61 .238 45 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L y-Oklahoma City 59 21 y-San Antonio 58 22 x-Denver 55 25 y-L.A. Clippers 54 26 x-Memphis 54 26 x-Houston 45 35 x-Golden State 45 35 L.A. Lakers 44 37 Utah 42 38 Dallas 40 40 Portland 33 47 Minnesota 30 50 Sacramento 28 52 New Orleans 27 54 Phoenix 24 56 x-clinched playoff spot

Pct .738 .725 .688 .675 .675 .563 .563 .543 .525 .500 .413 .375 .350 .333 .300

Saturday’s Games Charlotte 95, Milwaukee 85 Boston 120, Orlando 88 L.A. Clippers 91, Memphis 87 Minnesota 105, Phoenix 93 Sunday’s Games Miami 105, Chicago 93 New York 90, Indiana 80 Philadelphia 91, Cleveland 77 Toronto 93, Brooklyn 87 Denver 118, Portland 109 Dallas 107, New Orleans 89 Houston 121, Sacramento 100 L.A. Lakers 91, San Antonio 86

GB — 1 4 5 5 14 14 15 17 19 26 29 31 32 35

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Monday’s games Seventh Draw, 9 a.m.

Germany vs. Denmark; Sweden vs. U.S.; England vs. Russia; Australia vs. Finland.

Eighth Draw, 12:30 p.m.

Latvia vs. Ireland; Italy vs. Switzerland; New Zealand vs. Czech Republic; France vs. Japan.

Ninth Draw, 4 p.m.

U.S. vs. Netherlands; Finland vs. Germany; Canada vs. Australia; Denmark vs. England; Russia vs.

Sweden.

Tuesday’s games Draw 10, 5:30 a.m.

Norway vs. New Zealand; Japan vs. Latvia; Czech Republic vs. France; Ireland vs. Italy; Scotland vs.

Switzerland.

Draw 11, 12:30 p.m.

Italy vs. Latvia; Switzerland vs. Czech Republic; Norway vs. Ireland; France vs. Scotland.

World Senior Women’s Curling Championships FREDERICTON — Round-robin standings for Canada and results Sunday at the 2013 world senior women’s curling championship, Apr. 13-20 at the Grant Harvey Centre (all times Eastern): ROUND ROBIN Group A Country W L Austria 2 0 Canada 2 0

U.S. Japan New Zealand Ireland Russia

1 1 0 0 0

0 1 1 2 2

Sunday’s results Third Draw Sweden 8 Switzerland 2 Fourth Draw Canada 21 Russia 1 Italy 6 Czech Republic 5 U.S. 11 Ireland 2 Scotland 7 Australia 2 Austria 11 Japan 5 Saturday’s results First Draw Canada 8 Ireland 2 Second Draw Sweden 13 Italy 0 Austria 11 Russia 7 Japan 10 New Zealand 2 Switzerland 11 Finland 6 Scotland 8 Czech Republic 3 Monday’s games Third Draw, 5:30 a.m.

Canada vs. Japan; Australia vs. Czech Republic; Finland vs. Italy; U.S. vs. Russia.

Fourth Draw, 9 a.m.

New Zealand vs. Austria.

Fifth Draw, 12:30 p.m.

Scotland vs. Sweden.

Tuesday’s games Sixth Draw, 9 a.m.

Japan vs. U.S.; Finland vs. Scotland; Italy vs.

Switzerland; Russia vs. Ireland; Canada vs. New Zealand.

Seventh Draw, 12:30 p.m.

Australia vs. Sweden.

Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Boston, 6 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Golf Masters Sunday At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Final (x-won playoff on second hole; a-amateur) x-Adam Scott 69-72-69-69 — Angel Cabrera 71-69-69-70 — Jason Day 70-68-73-70 — Marc Leishman 66-73-72-72 — Tiger Woods 70-73-70-70 — Thorbjorn Olesen 78-70-68-68 — Brandt Snedeker 70-70-69-75 — Sergio Garcia 66-76-73-70 — Matt Kuchar 68-75-69-73 — Lee Westwood 70-71-73-71 — Tim Clark 70-76-67-73 — John Huh 70-77-71-68 — Fred Couples 68-71-77-71 — Ernie Els 71-74-73-69 — Dustin Johnson 67-76-74-70 — David Toms 70-74-76-67 — Nick Watney 78-69-68-72 — Branden Grace 78-70-71-69 — Henrik Stenson 75-71-73-69 — Jason Dufner 72-69-75-73 — Gon. Fernandez-Castano 68-74-73-74 — Bill Haas 71-72-74-72 — Steve Stricker 73-70-71-75 — Bo Van Pelt 71-74-70-74 — Stewart Cink 75-71-73-71 — Luke Donald 71-72-75-72 — Jim Furyk 69-71-74-76 — Freddie Jacobson 72-73-72-73 — Bernhard Langer 71-71-72-76 — Rory McIlroy 72-70-79-69 — Justin Rose 70-71-75-74 — Charl Schwartzel 71-71-75-73 — Richard Sterne 73-72-75-70 — Michael Thompson 73-71-79-67 — Zach Johnson 69-76-71-75 — Martin Kaymer 72-75-74-70 — John Senden 72-70-75-74 — Rickie Fowler 68-76-70-78 — Robert Garrigus 76-71-72-73 — Brian Gay 72-74-74-72 — Ryo Ishikawa 71-77-76-68 — Paul Lawrie 76-70-75-71 — Ryan Moore 71-72-81-68 — D.A. Points 72-75-72-73 — Vijay Singh 72-74-74-72 — Thomas Bjorn 73-73-76-71 — K.J. Choi 70-71-77-75 — David Lynn 68-73-80-72 — Lucas Glover 74-74-73-73 — Peter Hanson 72-75-76-72 —

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Trevor Immelman Jose Maria Olazabal Bubba Watson Keegan Bradley Sandy Lyle Phil Mickelson Scott Piercy a-Guan Tianlang Kevin Na John Peterson Carl Pettersson

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Masters Champions 2013 — x-Adam Scott 2012 — x-Bubba Watson 2011 — Charl Schwartzel 2010 — Phil Mickelson 2009 — x-Angel Cabrera 2008 — Trevor Immelman 2007 — Zach Johnson 2006 — Phil Mickelson 2005 — x-Tiger Woods 2004 — Phil Mickelson 2003 — x-Mike Weir 2002 — Tiger Woods 2001 — Tiger Woods 2000 — Vijay Singh 1999 — Jose Maria Olazabal 1998 — Mark O’Meara 1997 — Tiger Woods 1996 — Nick Faldo 1995 — Ben Crenshaw 1994 — Jose Maria Olazabal 1993 — Bernhard Langer 1992 — Fred Couples 1991 — Ian Woosnam 1990 — x-Nick Faldo 1989 — x-Nick Faldo 1988 — Sandy Lyle 1987 — x-Larry Mize 1986 — Jack Nicklaus 1985 — Bernhard Langer 1984 — Ben Crenshaw 1983 — Seve Ballesteros 1982 — x-Craig Stadler 1981 — Tom Watson 1980 — Seve Ballesteros 1979 — x-Fuzzy Zoeller 1978 — Gary Player 1977 — Tom Watson 1976 — Raymond Floyd 1975 — Jack Nicklaus 1974 — Gary Player 1973 — Tommy Aaron 1972 — Jack Nicklaus 1971 — Charles Coody x-won playoff

Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF Montreal 4 1 1 13 7 Houston 4 2 0 12 10 Sporting K.C. 3 1 2 11 7 Columbus 2 1 3 9 9 New York 2 3 2 8 9 Philadelphia 2 2 2 8 7 Toronto FC 1 2 3 6 8 New England 1 2 2 5 1 Chicago 1 4 1 4 5 D.C. 1 4 1 4 2

GA 5 7 3 6 10 8 9 2 12 7

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA FC Dallas 5 1 1 16 11 7 Chivas USA 3 2 1 10 10 8 Los Angeles 2 1 2 8 8 4 Vancouver 2 2 2 8 7 7 Real Salt Lake 2 3 2 8 6 7 Colorado 2 3 2 8 6 7 San Jose 2 2 2 8 5 7 Portland 1 1 3 6 9 8 Seattle 0 3 2 2 2 5 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday’s Games

Philadelphia 1, Toronto FC 1, tie Seattle FC 0, New England 0, tie Vancouver 1, Real Salt Lake 1, tie New York 2, D.C. United 0 FC Dallas 1, Los Angeles 0 Colorado 1, Chivas USA 0 Sunday’s Games Montreal 1, Columbus 1, tie Houston 2, Chicago 1 San Jose at Portland, Late Wednesday, April 17 Sporting Kansas City at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 20 Houston at Toronto FC, 2 p.m.

Seattle FC at Colorado, 4 p.m.

New England at New York, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at FC Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Columbus at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Chivas USA at Real Salt Lake, 7 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 21 Philadelphia at D.C. United, 3 p.m.

Portland at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Lacrosse NLL East Division GP W L Pct. y-Toronto 16 10 6 .625 x-Rochester 15 7 8 .467 x-Philadelphia 15 7 8 .467 Buffalo 15 6 9 .400 West Division GP W L Pct. x-Edmonton 15 9 6 .600 x-Calgary 15 8 7 .533 x-Washington 15 8 7 .533 Minnesota 15 7 8 .467 Colorado 15 6 9 .400 x — Clinched playoff berth. y — Clinched division.

GF 194 169 157 162

GA GB 176 — 156 2 1/2 190 2 1/2 201 3 1/2

GF 192 210 176 205 169

GA 158 200 179 186 188

GB — 1 1 2 3

Week 15 Sunday’s result Edmonton 14 Rochester 10 Saturday’s results Philadelphia 10 Toronto 9 (OT) Rochester 15 Calgary 14 Buffalo 15 Washington 10 Minnesota 17 Colorado 12 Week 16 Saturday, Apr. 20 Rochester at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 8 p.m.

End of 2013 NLL regular-season schedule

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions

Australia 8 U.S. 4 Second Draw Ireland 5 Scotland 4 Latvia 5 France 4 Japan 7 Czech Republic 3 New Zealand 9 Italy 4 Switzerland 7 Norway 4 Third Draw Canada 7 Finland 2 Sweden 7 Denmark 3 Australia 7 Germany 5 England 7 Netherlands 2

Monday’s Games Miami at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

New York at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Washington at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Memphis at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Utah at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Denver at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Houston at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Named Tim Wakefield special assignment instructor/baseball operations.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed INF Erick Aybar and RHP Kevin Jepsen on the 15-day DL, Aybar retroactive to April 10. Recalled OF J.B Shuck from Salt Lake (PCL). Selected the contract of LHP Michael Roth from Salt Lake. Designated OF Scott Cousins for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Kip Wells on a minor league contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed OF Yoenis Cespedes on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Michael Taylor from Sacramento (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed SS Jose Reyes on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of SS Munenori Kawasaki from Buffalo (IL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Activated OF Cody Ross from the 15-day DL. Placed OF Jason Kubel on the 15-day DL. CHICAGO CUBS — Placed RHP Kyuji Fujikawa on the 15-day DL. Recalled RJP Rafael Dolis from Iowa (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Sent 1B Joe Mahoney to Jupiter (FSL) on a rehab assignment.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Sent SS Jeff Bianchi to Huntsville (SL) on a rehab assignment.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Sent 3B Chase Headley to Lake Elsinore (Cal) on a rehab assignment.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Signed D Chad Ruhwedel to a two-year contract.

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Charlotte RW Jared Staal one game and Albany LW Jean-Sebastien Berube two games.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed INF Angel Sanchez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 10.

Selected the contract of INF Tyler Greene from

Charlotte (IL). Designated LHP Charlie Leesman for assignment.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Sent OF Fernando Martinez to Oklahoma City (PCL) on a rehab assignment.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed OF Wilkin Ramirez on the paternity list.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent 3B Brett Lawrie to Dunedin (FSL) on a rehab assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Assigned 2B Darwin Barney to Iowa (PCL) on a rehab assignment. Claimed RHP Kameron Loe off waivers from Seattle. Placed C Steve Clevenger on the 60-day DL. Sent 3B Ian Stewart to Iowa (PCL) on a rehab assignment.

Agreed to with RHP Kevin Gregg on a minor-league contract.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled RHP Phil Irwin from Indianapolis (IL). Optioned INF Josh Harrison to Indianapolis.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled INF/OF Kyle Blanks from Tucson (PCL). Optioned RHP Thad Weber to Tucson.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled C Jhonatan Solano from Syracuse (IL). Placed C Wilson Ramos on the 15-day DL. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Golden State G Jarrett Jack $25,000 for verbal abuse of a game official at the conclusion of an April 12 game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

FOOTBALL National Football League PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Announced it matched the offer by New England for WR Emmanuel Sanders.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Reassigned D Ryan Button from South Carolina (ECHL) to Providence (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Renewed their affiliation agreements with Hershey (AHL) and Reading (ECHL) for next season.

American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Signed F Sebastian Collberg to a professional tryout contract.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, April 15, 2013 B5

Johnson continuing to grow as fencer

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF If this year was a bit of a learning experience for Nathaniel Johnson he has a lot to look forward to.

Moving up from the junior ranks Johnson found himself up against the top open epee fencers in the province, but he wasn’t about to take a backseat.

The Red Deer Fencing Club veteran stepped right in and has won his share of tournaments this season and Sunday he walked away with silver at the provincial championships at the Collicutt Centre, losing only to Lucas Caparini of Medicine Hat. “It could have been better, but still it was a solid result . . . he’s very good,” said Johnson. “But that’s what you want at the provincials, the very best in the final.”

The 20-year-old Johnson, who is taking apprenticeship in mechanics at RDC, dominated the U20 ranks last year, winning the Western Canadian junior title for the second straight year.

“I wasn’t as solid this year, although I did win some gold,” he said. “Last year I was in the top 16 nationally, but this year it’s a recovery year after junior and I’m up against more experience, which can outwit youth. I just have to push on toward next year.”

Johnson does have one big event — the Western Canadians — remaining this season where he hopes to win gold.

Johnson got involved in the sport nine years ago, but it wasn’t until “three or four” years ago that he started to compete seriously.

“I enjoy the sport, it’s something different,” he said when asked how he became involved. “Not everyone does it and it’s quick-paced with high endurance. They say it’s like physical chess. You have to have fast feet, fast mind and fast hands and it’s an individual sport.”

He added that it was kind of fun to be able to poke his friends and then walk out together.

Plus the fact Red Deer has had a high calibre club for several years made it easy to learn the sport and compete at a high level. Johnson added that it was when new coach Petar Toshkov came to the club that he took a step forward in his development.

“After the first semester with him we realized I can do better and decided to take it to the next level,” he said. “Since then it’s been going good and hopefully I’ll go further with it.”

At six-foot-two Johnson does have a reach advantage over some of his opponents, but not when it comes to quickness.

“Because of the height I tend to be a bit slower as the younger kids are smaller and quicker. I do have a reach advantage and you have to take advantage of what you’re given.”

Photo by GREG MEACHEM/Advocate staff

Red Deer Fencing Club’s Nathaniel Johnson (right) takes on a competitor during the provincial fencing championships at the Collicutt Centre over the weekend.

One of Johnson’s teammates, Zac Zanussi, is one of the top U20 athletes in the province and pushes Johnson at practice,.

“He’s two years younger than I am, but we push each other in practice, and it’s good to have that. It’s good to push yourself and for others to push you.”

Zanussi finished fifth in the men’s open competition and second to Caparini in the U20 category.

Jordan Lindoff was eighth, Thomas Usher 12th, Devyn Hurray 14th and Jacob Sysak 15th in the open category with Hurry fifth and Thomas Lyver seventh in the U20 division.

Shawn Rowland won the men’s U13 title with Will Ferguson third and Hunter Nicholas seventh.

Former Red Deer Club member, Karis Langvand, who was playing out of Calgary while attending the University of Calgary, won the women’s open epee title with Karen Lyver sixth. Langvand, who is one of

the top ranked athletes in the country, does return to Red Deer each weekend to help coach and will be rejoining the club after the weekend.

Joshua Ballantyne was second in the men’s U15 division with Riley Norman third, Rowland sixth, Cory Wilson seventh, Jared Nikonetz 10th and Megan Ostrikoff 14th.

Ballantyne was third in the U17 category with Hurry third, Thomas Lyver fifth, Norman seventh and Rowland 11th.

Greer McIvor placed third in the women’s U17 division while Robert Forsstrokm was third, Shane Carritt fifth, Lindoff sixth, Usher ninth, Karen Lyver 10th and Louise Zanussi 13th in the men’s veteran division.

The Red Deer Club only competes in the epee division. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Red Wings get big win to take back playoff spot

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Red Wings 3 Predators 0 NASHVILLE — The Detroit Red Wings have given themselves a little breathing room, at least for the moment.

Henrik Zetterberg had a goal and an assist, and the Red Wings beat the Nashville Predators 3-0 Sunday night for a crucial two points in their chase to extend their streak of playoff berths.

The Red Wings got their first win in four games, the last two shootout losses, and moved into sole possession of eighth in the West, two points ahead of Dallas and Columbus. Johan Franzen also scored a goal, Justin Abdelkader added a late empty-netter and Pavel Datsyuk had two assists. Jimmy Howard made 22 saves for his third shutout this season.

Detroit coach Mike Babcock said they got two big points that tied the Red Wings with seventh-place Minnesota with 47 points.

“There’s a lot of us in that mud puddle trying to find a way to swim,” Babcock said of tight pack in the standings.

Pekka Rinne made 29 saves for Nashville, which lost its sixth straight.

Nashville hoped to spoil the Red Wings’ playoff chase in their final game in Music City as Central Division rivals before realignment. Their final game is April 25 in Detroit in a rivalry where

Nashville measured itself against the Original Six team from its inception before beating the Red Wings in the playoffs last year.

“Howard, again, came up huge,” Detroit defenceman Niklas Kronwall said.

The Red Wings hadn’t won since April 5. They began the day tied with Dallas and Columbus with 45 points, with the pressure mounting to uphold a tradition featuring 21 consecutive playoff appearances. Howard, who had his 14th career shutout, certainly helped as he stopped 13 shots in the first period before Detroit started firing pucks at Rinne over the final 40 minutes.

“We control our own destiny,” Howard said. “It’s upon us and the dressing room to get the job done. I think a lot of people would be happy to see us miss the playoffs. We have to go out there and play with the same sense of urgency when we get out to Calgary.”

Nashville was seven points behind that trio of teams fighting for the Western Conference’s eighth and final playoff spot.

With five games left after playing Detroit, that hope is slim for a franchise that has turned to a forced youth movement because of injuries.

Predators coach Barry Trotz said the players are getting real valuable experience and showing team officials what they can and can’t do.

“It’s not probably a great answer for the fans from that standpoint,” Trotz said. “But it’s reality. We can’t do anything about all the veterans and all our top players, especially up front, that are hurt. We don’t have any excuses for it. We just got to try to play through it and get a win. We have to spoils somebody’s party here.”

The Predators started Filip Forsberg, the 18-year-old forward they got from Washington at the trade deadline in exchange for veteran Martin Erat.

He arrived Saturday from Sweden and was the sixth rookie in the lineup Sunday night for a team with three forwards already heading toward season-ending surgeries with Patric Hornqvist, Brandon Yip and Mike Fisher also scratched for injuries.

He skated on a line with David Legwand and Taylor Beck, filling in for Hornqvist, and got to play against Zetterberg.

“He is one of the best Swedish players ever in the NHL,” Forsberg said.

Forsberg, drafted at No. 11 overall in 2012 by the Capitals, showed off some of his offensive instincts with his first NHL shot. He broke out on a 1-on3 and had a wrister from the slot that Howard stopped at 7:54 of the first.

Forsberg also was on the ice when Nashville got its first power play of the night at 10:33 of the first when Franzen went to the box for interference.

The rookie can play in five games

without burning a contract year. Trotz said he’ll leave that decision to general manager David Poile, though injuries may force that decision too.

Rinne, the two-time Vezina Trophy finalist, used his back to block a shot onto the top of the net at 2:13 of the second and had fans chanting “Pekka, Pekka” after a flurry of saves 5:00 into the period.

Rookie Danny DeKeyser, who chose Detroit over teams including Nashville, took a shot that hit off the back boards and around to Zetterberg for the easy tap-in goal at 6:23 for a 1-0 lead. That was Zetterberg’s first goal in 11 games.

“Peks is a world class goaltender and you know when he gets the lead he seems even harder,” Howard said. “It was imperative, and I think a weight lifted off our shoulders when we got the first one.”

Nashville had a chance to tie in the third when Bobby Butler got a penalty shot attempt after being hooked by Jakub Kindl on a breakaway attempt at 6:24. But Butler lost the puck before attempting a shot in front of Howard, summing up the Predators’ woes in this skid.

Franzen scored on a backhander over Rinne’s glove at 17:01 in the third to seal the victory. Nashville took its timeout with 1:57 left and pulled Rinne. Abdelkader had an easy goal at 18:41.

Yankees pitching leads shutout win over Orioles Yankees 3 Orioles 0 NEW YORK — Hiroki Kuroda gave the Yankees a start they could lean on right when they needed it.

Kuroda pitched a five-hitter for his fifth major league shutout and Brett Gardner hit his first home run off a left-handed pitcher since July 2010, leading the New York over the Baltimore Orioles 3-0 Sunday night.

“I thought his sinker was excellent,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.

“Look at all the groundball outs he got.”

Kuroda (2-1) struck out four and walked none, lifting the Yankees back over .500 at 6-5. New York’s rotation was looking fraught coming in. Phil Hughes had been hit hard by the Orioles the previous day, and Andy Pettitte’s scheduled return from back spasms had been pushed back to next weekend’s series at Toronto.

The Japanese right-hander hadn’t had much to be confident about, either. He took a line drive off the middle finger on his pitching hand in his first start and had to come out, then was shaky against Clevelandm, when he allowed four walks and five hits.

On Sunday night, Kuroda was locked in. He got 18 groundball outs, and the

Orioles didn’t get a runner past first base until Nick Markakis took second on Adam Jones’ bouncer to third in the ninth. That brought the Orioles down to their final out, and Kuroda struck out Chris Davis for the third time.

“I was able to throw my sinker with precision,” Kuroda said through an interpreter.

Kuroda’s eighth inning ended with a snappy double play started by shortstop Jayson Nix, who ranged far to his left to scoop up Nate McLouth’s grounder up the middle and flipped to Robinson Cano covering the bag for a 6-4-3 double play.

“He kept his pitch count down, that’s why I kept running him out there.” Girardi said. “I think he’s got outstanding command and he really knows how to pitch.”

Orioles starter Wei-Yin Chen (0-2) matched him until the fifth. Brennan Boesch led off with a single and scored on Nix’s sacrifice fly, and Gardner hit a drive high off the right-field foul pole.

Gardner had gone 178 at-bats without a home run off a lefty — 198 including the post-season — since connecting off Toronto’s Ricky Romero on July 3, 2010.

“On the mound, I was thinking too much and that cost the big inning for us,” Chen said through an interpreter.

A prototypical leadoff hitter with

BADMINTON OLDS — A pair of Red Deer athletes — Sarah and Kahn Daviduck — captured gold in the U19 division of the provincial junior B badminton championships during the weekend.

Sarah Daviduck was 3-0 in pool play

and defeated Laura Scantlebury of Okotoks 21-8, 21-10 in the final. Kahn Daviduck was 2-0 in his pool and beat Christopher Tung of Calgary 21-17, 1421, 21-11 in the final.

speed and a good on-base percentage, Gardner wasn’t always a fixture atop the Yankees’ lineup — especially against left-handed starters. This season, he’s led off in all 11 games.

Chen allowed three runs and six hits in six innings. dropping to 0-6 with a 4.37 ERA in 10 starts since winning Aug. 19 at Detroit. He’s winless in three starts this season, though in his previous outing he held Boston to two runs in 6 1-3 innings of a 3-1 loss.

“He pitched real well, gave us a chance to win,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. “We just weren’t able to score any runs. With very few exceptions, he was just as good as Kuroda.”

NOTES: Chen was the only Orioles pitcher who made more than 20

starts last season, his first in the major leagues. ... Pettitte is expected to make his next start Friday at Toronto after his turn in the rotation was pushed back. The Yankees had the 40-year-old in line to start Sunday but he experienced back spasms Thursday night, initially leading the team to push his outing back to Tuesday or Wednesday. Ivan Nova is set to start Tuesday, followed by CC Sabathia and Hughes. ... Showalter said that OF-INF Conor Jackson has decided to retire. The 30-year-old Jackson had been the Orioles’ last player cut in spring training. ... It was a breezy 51 degrees when the game started. ... The Yankees have 18 homers in 11 games this season.

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Bryant out for season with torn Achilles tendon EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Kobe Bryant had surgery Saturday on his torn Achilles tendon, ending his season with two games left in the Los Angeles Lakers’ playoff chase.

Lakers trainer Gary Vitti thinks Bryant will need at least six to nine months for recovery from the most serious injury of his 17-year NBA career.

Given Bryant’s history of swift recovery from countless minor injuries, Vitti and Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak both believe the 34-year-old guard could be back for their season opener in the fall.

“I think that’s a realistic goal for him, based on what he was talking about this morning,” Kupchak said at the Lakers’ training complex after visiting Bryant at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic.

Bryant completely tore his left Achilles tendon late in the Lakers’ 118116 win over Golden State on Friday night, falling to the hardwood after pushing off his planted foot in an ordinary move toward the hoop. Although he stayed in the game to hit two tying free throws with 3:08 to play, Bryant’s season was over.

Bryant’s foot will be immobilized for about a month to prevent him from stretching out the tendon, followed by a lengthy rehabilitation process. Nobody knows how the injury will affect Bryant’s play, but his decision to have surgery less than 24 hours after getting hurt suggests he’s determined to get back on top swiftly.

“He’s already taken the challenge,” Vitti said. “For us, it’s going to be trying to slow him down.”

And while it’s far too early to predict exactly when Bryant will be back, the Lakers say they wouldn’t consider parting ways with their franchise player, who will make nearly $30.5 million next year. If the Lakers used the amnesty clause on Bryant in early July, they could save possibly $80 million in luxury taxes.

“That’s not even something that we’ve discussed,” Kupchak said.

“That’s the furthest thing from our mind right now.”

While the rest of the Lakers prepared for their final two regular-season games in a tumultuous season, Bryant’s injury left many Lakers fans wondering whether the club had done enough to protect Bryant from himself.

The fourth-leading scorer in NBA history has logged heavy minutes all

season on his high-mileage legs, basically dictating his own playing time while the Lakers chased a playoff spot.

He has played far more minutes than any other NBA player over 30, including nearly 46 minutes per game in the seven games leading up to Friday night.

“Shame they ran him into the ground,” tweeted Clippers forward Matt Barnes, Bryant’s teammate with the Lakers in the previous two seasons.

Bryant simply doesn’t like to sit out, even when he’s hobbling — as he was Friday night after hyperextending his left knee early in the second half.

While Achilles tendon tears can occur in athletes under any level of stress, even first-year coach Mike D’Antoni acknowledged he might have forced Bryant to sit out a bit more if the Lakers weren’t desperate for every victory to stay in playoff position.

“He’s a warrior,” D’Antoni said. “All I do is respect what he wanted to do for the franchise and the city. He’s earned the right to do certain things. ... I would have probably (made Bryant rest more) if we were comfortably in the playoffs.

When you’re trying to win at all cost, maybe you make some decisions that you’d better not.”

Kupchak said the Lakers’ leadership doesn’t hold D’Antoni responsible for not overriding Bryant’s decisions.

Bryant has played more than 38 minutes per game this season, tops among his teammates.

“I don’t think Mike is at blame here one bit,” Kupchak said. “Even if you take Kobe out of a game, there’s a lot of times where he’ll just get up and put himself back in the game. ... I spoke to Kobe about 10 days ago about the 48-minute thing ... and I said, ’I have concerns.’ His message to me was, ’Mitch, I hear what you’re saying, but we’ve got to get into the playoffs, and I’m playing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”’

Los Angeles (43-37), which hosts San Antonio on Sunday and Houston on Wednesday, is one game ahead of the Utah Jazz (42-38) for the final post-season spot in the Western Conference. Utah holds the tiebreaker, which means the Lakers must finish one game ahead to make the playoffs for the 16th time in Bryant’s career.

Even if the Lakers hang on for a likely first-round matchup with defending conference champion Oklahoma City, the NBA playoffs will go on without Bryant for the first time since 2005.

Yale wins first NCAA hockey title with win over Quinnipiac PITTSBURGH — Jeff Malcolm stopped 36 shots and Yale won its first NCAA hockey championship with a 4-0 victory over top-seeded Quinnipiac on Saturday night.

Clinton Bourbonais, Charles Orzetti, Andrew Miller and Jesse Root scored for the Bulldogs (22-12-3), who avenged three earlier losses to the Connecticut-rival Bobcats this season by stunning the nation’s No. 1 team on the biggest stage of all.

Bourbonais scored with 4 seconds left in the second period to give Yale the lead, then the Bulldogs (30-80-5) added three more in the third to win going away. Yale became the first ECAC team since Harvard in 1989 to capture the national title.

Quinnipiac’s Eric Hartzell stopped 27 shots, but the Hobey Baker finalist was beaten between the legs three times, including a breakaway goal by Miller midway through the third to give Yale a commanding 3-0 lead.

The victory was sweet revenge for Yale after Quinnipiac dominated the season series, sweeping all three meetings and outscoring the Bulldogs 13-3. The Bobcats trailed for all of 18 minutes in the three games combined and Hartzell allowed only one goal in the previous eight periods against Yale.

Yet Quinnipiac coach Rand Becknold insisted the Bulldogs weren’t the same team the Bobcats steamrolled 3-0 three weeks ago in the ECAC tournament consolation game. Yale tripped up national powers Minnesota and North Dakota to make the Frozen Four for the first time since 1952, then edged UMass Lowell 3-2 in overtime in the semifinals Thursday.

The nation’s oldest hockey program embraced the roll of underdog against the surging Bobcats, who have gone from Division III after-

thought to the top team in the country in less than two decades.

That rapid ascension culminated with Quinnipiac putting together a season for the ages, rolling through a 21-game unbeaten streak at one point and into the NCAAs as the top seed.

The Bobcats certainly looked like it after rallying by Canisius in the opening round, then blowing through Union and St. Cloud State to roar into the title game.

Yale, however, hardly appeared intimidated. The two rattled the boards at Consol Energy Center with a series of collisions, some of them legal, some of them not so much.

It led to a series of power plays, including two-man advantages for both sides in the second period. Hartzell — the backbone of the best penalty killing team in Division I — never faltered. Neither did Malcolm. He was spectacular at times, including a fabulous toe save to stuff the Bobcats at the doorstep.

The Yale fans serenaded Malcolm with “Happy Birthday” during one stoppage in play, and the 24-year-old goalie celebrated by taking turning away Yale’s nemesis one breathtaking stop at a time.

“You always want the game’s best stars in the post-season,” Miami guard James Jones said. “That’s when everyone is watching. That’s when our audience is captivated. You want our best players out there to give fans the best product. Unfortunately, things like this happen, and you just wish him a speedy recovery.”

Bryant’s injury inspired an outpouring of support across the league, with everyone from LeBron James to Chris Paul tweeting words of support.

“I love the fact that he got up and made two free throws with a torn Achilles,” Boston coach Doc Rivers said. “I’d have been lying on the floor crying like a baby. ... He is as tough as a competitor as we’ve seen — ever. You know, he’ll be missed. I would love him

NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Rush 14 Knighthawks 10 EDMONTON — Playing on their home field finally proved to be an advantage for the Edmonton Rush on Sunday.

Zack Greer had four goals and four assists as the Rush took a step closer to securing their first home playoff spot in franchise history with a 14-10 victory over the defending NLL champion Rochester Knighthawks.

The win improved the Rush’s home record to just 2-5.

“We accomplished a lot today,” said Rush head coach and GM Derek Keenan. “We dug ourselves in a bit of a hole early, which is tough to explain, but we really stuck with our game plan and eventually it paid off.

“We regrouped and got a couple of power-play goals that got us back in and went from there.”

Jarrett Davis added four goals to go with two assists for the Rush (9-6), who moved into sole possession of first place in the NLL West, one game up on both Washington and Calgary.

Alex Turner had two goals for Edmonton, with Corey Small, Mark Matthews, Curtis Knight and Cory Conway also scoring.

“We got off to a slow start, but the defence settled in and once we got a hold of things, we got back to our game plan,” Davis said. “We knew they were tired (having played in Calgary on Saturday night) so we just wanted to stick with it.”

Stephen Keogh, Dan Dawson and Joe Walters all had two-goal games for the Knighthawks (7-8), who have lost two of their last three.

Dawson, for one, was thoroughly disgusted by his team’s play in the game.

“We didn’t show up to play today,” he said. “Our decision-making was terrible. We were taking stupid penalties and throwing the ball away and we don’t have any trust in each other. We lost to a better team that puts the ball in the back of the net when it gets second chances. We just need to be smarter.”

Mike Accursi, Cory Vitarelli, Johnny Powless and Cody Jamieson also scored for Rochester.

“We were very undisciplined,” said Hawks coach Mike Hasen.

“Their speed created a lot of that. We had times where we matched their speed, but there were quite a few times that we just didn’t and that’s when we got in trouble. Their power play is dynamite. We got caught in the second half. We are not a rookie team and the guys in this room know that they screwed up

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and will be better for it next week.”

Rochester started the scoring three minutes in as Powless made a beautiful behind-the-back pass in front to Keogh, who beat a surprised Aaron Bold in the Edmonton net.

The Hawks were up 4-0 on just five shots on net by the midmark of the opening frame on goals by Accursi, Dawson and Vitarelli. Brodie MacDonald came in to replace Bold in the Rush net.

MacDonald would finish with 32 saves on 38 shots.

“He’s been basically sitting on the bench for two years and he came in tonight and showed that he’s a really good goalie,” Keenan said. “We’ve got a lot of confidence in him and it gives the whole team confidence looking forward that we’ve got two really great goalies.”

The move seemed to spark Edmonton, which roared back with two power-play goals on Knighthawks goalie Matt Vinc by Small and Greer to make it 4-2 after the first.

Momentum continued to reverse course in the second quarter as the Rush tied the game 4-4 on Greer’s second of the game followed by a goal six minutes in

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Bryant fought back tears in the locker room moments after learning his tendon was torn, and he wrote a lengthy Facebook post about his injury early Saturday morning, saying his “frustration is unbearable.”

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WINE TASTING Worldwide wines and local food will be on offer at Red Deer College’s annual Alumni Wine Tasting Festival on April 19.

The event, to take place in the Cenovus Energy Learning Common at the college from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., will feature jazz music along with the food and drink. There will be 15 beverage vendors and food from 14 businesses at the event, hosted by the RDC Alumni Association. Proceeds support scholarships and alumni programs.

Two new annual student bursaries will be announced at the event: the True-Line Homes Skilled Trades Bursary and the TrueLine Homes Business Skills Bursary. Tickets are $50, available at Sunworks (4924 Ross St.), the RDC Campus Store or by phone at 403-343-4016.

FREE TREAT FOR TEENS Volunteering youth will be able to treat themselves to some free frozen yogurt from April 22 to 26 at Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt locations in Red Deer. During the week, the shop will give away free cups of frozen yogurt (to a value of $5) between 4 and 6 p.m. to any teenager who can present a signed volunteer form showing at least three hours of volunteer work. There are two Menchie’s locations in Red Deer — in Southpointe Common (2004 50th Ave.) and in Taylor Plaza (6730 Taylor Dr.)

CAMPING SOON It might not look it and it might not feel like it, but camping season will soon be upon us. Campers can now make reservations for the City of Red Deer’s Lions campground.

The campground is set to open on May 1, depending on the weather. Campers can book their spot by calling 403-342-8183 or online at www. reddeerlions campground.com or www.reddeer.ca/ campground.

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With age comes strength

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Nancy McKeage is on her way to compete in the 2013 Reebok CrossFit Games Masters competition to be held July 23 to 25 in Carson, Calif.

The 41-year-old says with age, comes strength thanks to CrossFit. “I’ve never been stronger actually and I’ve went through a lot of sporting careers and I’ve never physically been stronger,” McKeage said.

In the 40 to 44 age category, McKeage tied for ninth place in the world out of 2,882 athletes during the CrossFit Open competition, held March 6 to April 7.

She now advances to the international games.

The Red Deer resident also finished first in Western Canada in her age class out of 101 athletes and sixth overall in Western Canada out of all 974 female athletes of every age.

In the Open, competitors submit their results after a CrossFit workout each week for five weeks.

Only the top 20 men and women in each of the five master age categories from around the world are invited to compete at the international Masters competition in July.

McKeage also qualified to attend the Western Canada regional CrossFit competition in Vancouver in June, but she doesn’t expect to compete.

CrossFit is a strength and conditioning exercise program developed in 2000 that requires all-out physical exertion. Workouts are always a different combination of aerobic movements and weight lifting that use barbells, dumbbells, gymnastics rings, pull-up bars, kettle bells, medicine balls and boxes for box jumps.

“It’s high intensity, constantly varied, functional movements. The idea is to give you a really intense workout using functional movements, like squatting and lifting, in a short amount of time. The result is your heart rate remains high the rest of the day.

“You’re flexibility improves. You’re strength improves. Your cardiovascular fitness improves. You get a big bang for your buck,” McKeage said.

CrossFit workouts look intimidating, but can be modified to each person.

McKeage started CrossFit in 2008 as a way to get core strong after having two children, now age five and seven.

“It’s all modified for you.

“It’s awesome to see people come in who can’t do a proper pull-up or push-up and within a few weeks they’re on their way to trying and get a master pull-up and their push-ups are that much better,” said McKeage who trains at Ignite Fitness in Red Deer.

The functional movements of CrossFit — pulling, pushing, lifting, squatting — are movements people do for every day activi-

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Crossfit Athlete Nancy McKeage of Red Deer holds a handstand at Ignite Fitness during a training session this week. McKeage has qualified for the Crossfit Games for a second time, this time in the 40-44 year old masters category. During this years open competition McKeage also qualified for a chance to compete at the regional competition in the open ladies division.

‘IT’S HIGH INTENSITY, CONSTANTLY VARIED, FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENTS. YOU’RE FLEXIBILITY IMPROVES. YOU’RE STRENGTH IMPROVES. YOUR CARDIOVASCULAR FITNESS IMPROVES.’ — NANCY MCKEAGE

ties, like lifting a bag of groceries or a child, she said. “It’s more of a way of keeping fit for life.”

After starting CrossFit, it didn’t take long for the former University of Alberta volleyball player and triathlete to realize she missed competition and by 2010 made it to her first international CrossFit Games. At age 38, she placed 32nd.

McKeage said reaching the podium in July would of course be great. But she’ll be focused on giving each workout all she can.

“If I come off the workout not being able to go a second faster, that would have been a good day, that would have been a good workout.”

Athletes at CrossFit Games don’t know what exercises will be included in their workouts until right before the competition.

McKeage said she doesn’t excel at any

one CrossFit exercise, but it helps that she is consistent across the range of movements.

“There’s definitely some movements I’m not as strong at as others. I hate thrusters.

It’s a hard movement. It’s a lot of weight going down and up. I’m not particularly strong at push-ups.

“I like the gymnastic things. I like the pull-ups, muscle-ups, handstand push-ups,” McKeage said.

McKeage is training two-and-a-half hours a day, five days a week, to prepare for the July games.

McKeage will be back to work as a physical education teacher at Hunting Hill High School in the fall where her husband, also a teacher in the department, both incorporate CrossFit into their classes. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Education includes safety outside school EDUCATION ASSISTANT MONITORS STUDENT SAFETY AT BUSY INTERSECTION

BY RANDY FIEDLER ADVOCATE STAFF Ruth Van Koughnett is a different kind of educator for an hour each school day.

The educational assistant at Eastview Middle School dons a yellow safety vest to become a traffic cop to monitor student safety at the 40th Avenue and 39th Street intersection.

“It’s a really busy corner for about half an hour,” she explained.

“The traffic flow has become heavier in the last few years.”

Although many schools’ staff oversee parking lots, Eastview is an exception because of the junction’s “sheer volume of traffic and kids,” said principal Dean Pasiuk.

Former principal Stu Henry, now a Red Deer Public Schools’ deputy superintendent, assigned the monitor in 2006 after two students were struck – one seriously – within a week.

“It really helped settle that intersection,” he said.

Van Koughnett spends each morning from 8:30 to 8:55 and afternoon from 3:33 dismissal to 4 ensuring students cross safely, including skateboarders, and cyclists use helmets and don’t ride through crosswalks. Problems are rare and dealt with firmly and quickly.

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Ruth Van Koughnett, an Eastview Middle School educational assistant, watches students cross 39th Street at 40th Avenue Thursday morning. aren’t being safe.”

She also watches for vehicles blocking crosswalks.

“Drivers running red lights are a problem and sometimes I have to step out and say, ‘There’s a crosswalk here.’ ” She calls the corner “safer now than in past years,” crediting a City of Red Deer traffic study.

Still, some drivers remain impatient and unsafe.

“I understand the panic to get to work, but I have a job to do: get those kids across safely.”

The bike lane that runs along 40th Avenue remains confusing for drivers, yet Van Koughnett feels that will improve in time.

“It takes a while to get a system going. I appreciate the city trying to get people more active, but that means a change in a lot of people’s days.”

Afternoons see far less traffic and risk since students dropped by parents ride buses home.

“I can see all three bus stops near the intersection.”

A bonus for students is her

rapport with them and her sunny disposition.

“I try to know all the kids,” said Van Koughnett with a hug a periodic reward for her greetings.

Pasiuk said although a girl was struck last year — “it was just a bump, but it could have been much worse” — the corner’s safety record is “remarkable. It’s mostly because of Ruth. If not for her, I’m sure we’d have a plethora of accidents.” rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

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A patient gets a shot during a flu vaccine program in Calgary. Influenza experts say making a vaccine to protect against the new H7N9 flu virus that has emerged in eastern China could prove to be problematic.

Making vaccine for new H7N9 flu virus could be a challenge, experts say TORONTO — Making a vaccine to protect against the new H7N9 flu virus that has emerged in eastern China could prove to be problematic, influenza experts have acknowledged.

There hasn’t been enough time to produce even the seed strain to make H7N9 vaccine, let alone small batches of a prototype vaccine for testing. So researchers haven’t had a chance to see how a vaccine against this new flu strain might work in people.

But clinical trials of vaccines made to protect against other viruses in the H7 family have shown the vaccines don’t induce much of an immune response, even when people are given what would be considered very large doses.

“In all cases where these vaccines were trialed, it was found that the vaccines were poorly immunogenic,” said Nancy Cox, the virologist who heads the influenza branch at the U.S. Centers for Diseases Control in Atlanta.

“And so this is a signal that we might be facing challenges with producing an immunogenic vaccine using this particular virus. But that remains to be determined.”

Cox and CDC flu expert Dr. Tim Uyeki touched on the potential problem in a perspective article on the H7N9 situation published online Thursday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

The perspective accompanied an article by Chinese clinicians describing the first three H7N9 infections that came to light in their country. The article outlines how sick the patients became — in a word, very — and what the genetic sequences of the viruses recovered from them indicate about the path H7N9 took through nature to get to people.

Chinese authorities are still trying to determine how many species carry the virus in China and how people are coming in contact with it. As such, many questions remain about how this virus erupted in such an explosive manner.

In less than two weeks since it was first reported, there have been 38 confirmed cases and 10 deaths due to H7N9 in China. The available genetic evidence suggests several flu viruses from wild birds swapped genes to come together in this particular viral constellation.

As for the symptoms the illness caused, they included encephalopathy (inflammation of the brain), septic shock, acute respiratory distress syndrome and rhabdomyolysis, which is a breakdown of muscle tissue.

“Some of them had multi-organ fail-

ure,” said Uyeki. “This is very, very severe disease, and rapidly progressive.

And it’s similar to H5N1 (bird flu), but it’s a little hard to make comparisons based upon three cases and limited data.”

Among the concerning issues about this virus is the question of how a vaccine might work, if one is needed.

A standard dose of flu vaccine is 15 micrograms (mcg). Seasonal flu shots, most of which protect against three strains of flu at once, contain 45 mcg — 15 mcg per strain.

It is generally felt that with a new virus, people would need two shots apiece, given a couple of weeks apart.

That’s because the immune system needs to be first introduced to a virus (primed) and then given a second exposure, which boosts the antibodies to protective levels. So in a best case scenario, each person would need twice as much vaccine to protect against a new virus as he or she would get to protect against a seasonal flu strain.

But studies with previous H7 vaccines have shown poor responses in healthy adults who get a total of 180 micrograms of vaccine divided into two 90 microgram doses, said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

That means that even with 12 times the dose people get for seasonal flu, healthy adults don’t get a great response to the vaccine. And given that the immune system wanes later in life, one would assume the challenge would be uphill from there.

“If we can’t get a good response there” — with healthy adults — “the question is: Why would you ever expect a better response in the older population,” noted Osterholm, whose team produced a major report on flu vaccine last year, called the CIDRAP Comprehensive Influenza Vaccine Initiative.

A per person dose of 180 mcg would sharply reduce the amount of vaccine available during a pandemic.

The latest global production estimate is 1.4 billion trivalent (three-inone) shots in a year, Osterholm said, or 4.2 billion 15 mcg doses. Dividing that by 12 would suggest something in the order of 350 million people could be vaccinated in the first year of a pandemic — if all went well with production.

Making flu vaccine is a finicky business and hitches in production are not uncommon.

A number of the vaccine manufacturers have products called adjuvants that can boost the impact of flu vac-

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cine, allowing less vaccine to be used for each person.

Adjuvants can stretch supplies significantly. During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Canada and a number of European countries bought vaccine that included an adjuvant.

The United States did not.

Since that pandemic, studies in several European countries have linked use of GlaxoSmithKline’s adjuvant, AS03, with an increase in the incidence of narcolepsy among young people. (A study looking to see if rates also rose in Canada is still underway.) Given the questions swirling around that situation, some countries may not feel safe to use an adjuvant with an H7N9 vaccine, Osterholm noted.

“If you add all those together, it doesn’t paint a really very optimistic picture about influenza vaccine being a really significant weapon against this, should a pandemic emerge quickly,” he said.

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A tiny magnetic bracelet implanted at the base of the throat is greatly improving life for some people with chronic heartburn who need more help than medicine can give them.

It’s a novel way to treat severe acid reflux, which plagues millions of Americans and can raise their risk for more serious health problems.

It happens when a weak muscle doesn’t close after swallowing as it should. That lets stomach juices splash back into the throat. Drugs like Nexium and Prilosec reduce acid. But they don’t fix the underlying problem, called GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Rodd Foster had it so bad he used to sleep sitting up to keep his dinner down. Tricia Carr worried she would develop complications like the one that killed her mother.

Both Californians got help from the new device, approved a year ago by the federal Food and Drug Administration and also sold in Europe.

The treatment was “life-changing,” said Foster, a 61-year-old plumbing contractor from Canyon Country, Calif. “It’s been 30 years since I’ve been able to eat normally and now I can eat anything anytime.”

The Linx device, made by Torax Medical Inc., of St. Paul, Minn., is a ring of titanium beads with magnets inside. Doctors place it around the weak muscle at the base of the esophagus in a half-hour operation using a scope and “keyhole” incisions in the belly.

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Genetic testing deal near Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is reportedly nearing a deal to buy Life Technologies Corp., a maker of genetic testing equipment, for almost $12 billion.

Thermo Fisher’s bid for Life Technologies topped $70 a share, beating out bids from other suitors, including the Blackstone Group, the Carlyle Group and other private equity firms, according to published reports. Life Technologies’ stock closed Friday at $68.

Life Technologies, based in Carlsbad, Calif., said in January that it had hired Deutsche Bank and the boutique bank Moelis & Co. to help with its strategic review.

That’s usually a sign a company is considering putting itself up for sale. Since that announcement, the company’s stock has climbed 24 per cent.

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A man sits at a bench as two other men use the ATM machines of a branch of bank of Cyprus in central capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday. President Nicos Anastasiades said that he will remind EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barosso and EU Council chief Herman Van Rompuy for the ‘need for a change of EU policy’ toward Cyprus by offering additional assistance.

Cyprus president wants banking sector stabilized

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus’ president on Sunday chided the central bank chief to not act in ways that catch the government by surprise, but to move to stabilize the bailed-out country’s troubled banking sector.

President Nicos Anastasiades’ didn’t say what Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades did to raise his ire. But he suggested Demetriades’ actions led to Friday’s resignations of three Central Bank Board members.

Demetriades, an appointee of the previous left-wing administration, told the Sunday edition of Phileleftheros that his co-operation with the government and parliament is a given in order to deal with the country’s severe financial crisis, but that the central bank’s independence must be respected.

He also said in the Phileleftheros interview that he and his family have received death threats “for months” but didn’t elaborate, citing security reasons.

Lawmakers have criticized Demetriades over his role in talks with the country’s eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund that culminated in a 23 billion euro ($30 billion) rescue package.

Under the bailout’s terms, Cyprus has to raise 13 billion of the overall amount by imposing losses on deposits over 100,000 euros in the country’s two

largest banks — Bank of Cyprus and Laiki.

Laiki, which took heavier losses from bad Greek debt and loans than the larger Bank of Cyprus, will be broken up in to a “good” bank which will be folded into the bigger lender and a “bad” bank which will be wound down.

As part of its bank restructuring, and to prevent a run on the country’s banks, Cypriot authorities have imposed a series of capital controls — the first that any country has applied in the eurozone’s 14-year history — including a daily 300 euro withdrawal limit.

Officials said the restrictions would be lifted gradually until trust in banks is restored. On Sunday, authorities further loosened controls by raising the monthly domestic bank-to-bank transfer limit for individuals from 10,000 t0 50,000.

For businesses, the transfer limit has been raised from 50,000 to 300,000 euros, but documents justifying the transfer must be presented. Money transfers to banks outside Cyprus of up to 2,000 euros monthly per person and business have also been permitted, as have domestic cashless payments of up to 300,000 euros per person or business per month.

Cyprus’ economy is projected to shrink by 13 per cent of gross domestic product over the next two years.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Bank of Canada will have the full attention of traders this week when it makes its next scheduled announcement on interest rates.

Part of the announcement on Wednesday is a foregone conclusion — the bank will leave its key interest rate unchanged at one per cent, the same level it has been for two-and-a-half years because of economic weakness here and around the globe.

And after a weak employment report last week showing the economy lost about 52,000 jobs during March, interest rate hikes are likely further off then previously thought.

“The jobs report did make rate hikes even more of a distant prospect,” said Doug Porter, chief economost at BMO Capital Markets.

Most economists haven’t expected the bank to raise rates before the third quarter of 2014.

“And frankly even next year is a bit of a question mark, a lot depends on how the U.S. economy unfolds over the next six months or so,” he said.

As usual, traders will be anxious to see how the central bank views the economy unfolding.

“We have had a run now of quarters where growth has consistently come in below what the bank expected,” said Porter.

“It will be interesting if they continue to look for the economy to pop back up to a better than 2.5 per cent pace over the next year and a half. Frankly, I think that’s a heroic assumption to believe we can get back up to growth rates of above 2.5 per cent anytime soon.”

Meanwhile, traders will be anxious to see if a dismal read on American retail sales during March could signal the end of a strong rally on U.S. markets that has pushed key indexes to record highs.

They will also look to see if economic worries further punish commodities and push the TSX further into negative territory for the year.

The Dow industrials ended last week up 2.05 per cent and 13.43 per cent year to date while the resource-heavy TSX ended the week flat and down 0.77 per cent for the year so far.

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The Ralph Salomons Commercial signs that have dotted Central Alberta for decades have taken on a new look. The “Ralph” is missing.

The well-known Red Deer real estate company, which specializes in the sale and leasing of commercial and industrial property, recently underwent a restructuring. Founder Ralph Salomons sold the business to his son Brett and longtime associate Kelly Babcock, and its name was shortened to Salomons Commercial.

The changeover took place last month.

“We had 95 signs we had to switch out,” said Brett, adding that the company’s website also underwent major changes.

Ralph will remain on the scene, said Brett, including as the company’s broker.

“Nothing’s really changed on the front end of things.”

However, Brett and Babcock will now do most of the leasing and sales work, and Ralph will focus on land development — an area he enjoys, said his son.

Louisiana meat recall expanded The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a Louisiana-based meat packing company has expanded a recall of meat products because of possible bacterial contamination. No illnesses have been reported. The Manda Packing Company recall announced this past week now includes 468,000 pounds of roast beef, ham, turkey breast, tasso pork, ham shanks, hog headcheese, corned beef, and pastrami.

The agriculture department said Friday the products were recalled because of possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.

The products were shipped to retailers in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service listed eight types of meat sold under 41 different names with various “sell by” dates.

Its news release said some of the products may have been sliced at retail delis.

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Florida billionaire William Koch, left, and his lawyer John Hueston hold bottles of wine outside Manhattan federal court, Friday, in New York.

A Manhattan jury concluded the wines were sold to Koch fraudulently at a 2005 auction by a California businessman. The jury awarded him $12 million Friday in punitive damages a day after awarding him $380,000 in compensatory damages. Koch said it’s the best he’s felt since winning the America’s Cup in 1992.

An investment attraction officer with Central Alberta: Access Prosperity has been elected to the board of Economic Developers Alberta.

Matt Cornall, who served as Sylvan Lake’s economic development officer until joining Central Alberta: Access Prosperity late last year, has been named secretary of the not-for-profit provincial organization.

The president of Economic Developers Alberta is Richard Pauls of Airdrie, with Kent McMullin of Edmonton the past-president, Jeff Penney of Fort McMurray vice-president and Deana Haley of Calgary the treasurer. Directors’ terms are for two years.

“Economic developers play an essential role in helping Alberta communities build, grow and diversify their economies,” said Pauls.

Overcoming the emotional in investing

TALBOT BOGGS

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Investing can be an emotional business.

When stocks are soaring, greed can take over and create the temptation to buy and make more money.

When stocks fall, fear can set in and create the temptation to reduce losses and sell.

Most financial experts will advise investors to stay the course during periods of market volatility, remain invested and not try

to “time” the market — buy at the low and sell at the high — because no one knows for sure when those lows and highs will come.

A common and sound principle says that what’s important in investing is not timing the market but the amount of time invested in the market.

In the second of a series of reports by BMO Bank of Montreal that examined the mindset of Canadians when dealing with personal

finances, 40 per cent said emotions play a role in their investment decisions.

Nearly 60 per cent of Canadians admitted they have invested on impulse at least once, two thirds said they have not been in total control of their emotions when investing and only 16 per cent were very familiar with the actual investments they hold in their portfolios.

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INVESTING: Be in right frame of mind “While we’re only human, wise investing means more than simply following your heart,” said Serge Pepin, vice-president of investment strategy with BMO Asset Management. “It’s critical not only to take the time to understand the market environment before making any financial moves, but also to ensure you’re in the right frame of mind to make such decisions.”

In the survey, 40 per cent of Canadians said they are not confident when investing.

Only 25 per cent do careful and extensive research before making investment decisions and 35 per cent admitted they are not even familiar with the companies in which they have invested.

“Reading the business pages of newspapers and magazines, doing research online and seeking advice from financial professionals can help to ensure an informed investment decisionmaking process,” Pepin said.

There are several ways investors can help to manage their emotions and hopefully make good, rational investment decisions. Perhaps the most important is to know yourself.

“From the novice to the professional, it’s important to take time to understand what you want to achieve,” said Pepin.

“Know what your goals are and what your risk profile is and then make sure your investments are right for you based on your profile and goals. Sitting down with a professional can really help you determine what those are.”

There are some technical vehicles which can give investors some clues about investor confidence and how markets might perform in the future, such as the Chicago Board Option Exchange VIX index and the Montreal Stock Exchange MVX index, which measure the volatility of stocks in the coming 30 days.

Sometimes referred to as the investor fear gauge, the VIX has become known as the premier barometer of investor sentiment and market volatility.

There are three variations of volatility indexes. The VIX tracks the S&P 500, the VXN tracks the Nasdaq 100 and the VXD tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The lower market volatility is, as measured by VIX, the more likely investors are to be complacent. The reverse also is true. When volatility spikes higher, investors tend to be more nervous and wary of committing their capital to what they may view as a riskier asset class.

A study of VIX over many years has found that returns in the market increase with volatility. High volatility periods were followed by average monthly returns of 6.3 per cent for S&P 500 stocks. In contrast, low volatility periods were followed by average returns of only 5.4 per cent over the following six months.

“The VIX and MVX may be good indicators, but they are just that — indicators,” said Pepin. “They may be a signal of where the markets are going but you really need to look at as many factors as you can. Looking at just one could steer you in the wrong direction.”

Regardless of volatility measurement tools, investors still have to come to terms with the amount of risk they are willing to accept and should return to the principle of asset allocation: investing over different markets and asset classes to maximize potential returns and minimize risk.

“Start with a solid base of good, sound investments and then use what’s left to take advantage of opportunities as they arise,” Pepin said. “And meet with an adviser periodically to make sure your portfolio continues to meet your goals. Life and events change over time and you may need to tweak your investments to meet your current situation and needs.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

CYPRUS: Bank probe didn’t get all information Parliament’s Ethics Committee is now looking at whether Demetriades should be investigated for allegedly failing to provide lawmakers with all information regarding an independent probe into how Bank of Cyprus and Laiki got into trouble.

Parliament has no authority to remove Demetriades from his post.

However, Anastasiades last week rescinded the previous administration’s appointment of Central Bank Deputy Governor Spyros Stavrinakis, a close associate of Demetriades.

The developments prompted a letter by European Central Bank Governor Mario Draghi that was leaked to local media warning that any bid to push

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Demetriades out would contravene European laws.

Anastasiades denied any such move was afoot, saying Draghi had been “misinformed” about the intentions of the government “which fully respects the central bank’s independence.”

But Anastasiades said that although he was saddened by the way the situation has unfolded, he would dispatch his own letter to Draghi giving his version of events.

“Mr. Draghi will be informed about some incidents which I hope will be taken to heart that had there been the proper supervision by European institutions, we wouldn’t be in the position we’re now in,” Anastasiades said.

In a written statement, government spokesman Christos Stylianides dampens down the matter, saying what’s needed now is the “utmost unity” despite “disagreements on a philosophic and pragmatic level.”

Meanwhile, Anastasiades told Russian businessmen Sunday that his government will amend existing laws to grant citizenship to non-resident depositors who lost 3 million euros from their Cypriot bank accounts as a result of the bailout.

An estimated 20 billion out of the overall 68 billion euros held in Cypriot banks accounts at the end of January were believed to belong to Russians.

Anastasiades told a Russian business conference being held at the coastal resort of Limassol that he would reduce the minimum amount that a foreign national would need to invest in Cyprus in order to make them eligible for Cypriot citizenship from 10 million to 3 million euros.

The Cypriot president also said he would also drop a condition requiring citizenship applicants to keep 15 million euros in Cypriot banks for a fixed five-year term, saying that the amended law would allow immediate access to that money.

“We believe that a number of measures to be adopted could on the one hand mitigate to some extent the damage the Russian business community has endured, restore trust and confidence, and on the other hand demonstrate our friendly feelings, gratitude and recognition,” Anastasiades said.

SIGN: Weakness Data on Friday showed that U.S. retail sales for March moved down 0.4 per cent, indicating that the imposition of higher payroll taxes at the first of the year and weak hiring have made consumers more cautious about spending.

Robert Gorman, chief portfolio strategist at TD Waterhouse, thinks this sign of economic weakness could be just the thing to trigger a retracement.

“We have been anticipating some kind of retracement which would put a bit of what I call healthy fear back into people and I think frankly this is the sort of thing that could very well do that,” he said, noting that his firm had a target for growth in the high single digits on U.S. markets for the year.

Another trigger for a step back could be the first quarter earnings season, which has got off to a relatively weak start in the U.S. “Heading into the earnings season, companies’ earnings guidance revisions were about four-to-one negative to positive, which is a very, very high ratio and not good,” said Gorman.

“So, that would lead you to think that while earnings growth is still going to be OK, you’re going to have more companies coming in at the low end of expectations than perhaps we have seen.”

If such a retracement is in the cards, it would inflict further damage on the TSX. “If the U.S. market corrects due to concerns about the strength of the economic recovery... we can expect the more economically-sensitive sectors of the TSX to fall, dragging down our Composite Index quite sharply,” said Gorman.

“If a U.S. correction is more about a soft earnings season and profit-taking, reaction in Canada would likely be less pronounced as our market has not had the run to the upside we have seen in the States.”

In other economic news, traders will look to February manufacturing shipments data on Tuesday. Economists expect shipments rose by 0.5 per cent.

March inflation data for Canada will be released on Friday. Economists expect the Consumer Price Index to come in flat for the month after increases in gasoline and hospital services led the way to a 0.7 per cent jump in February.

BMO Capital Markets thinks the CPI could actually shrink by 0.1 per cent, reflecting stabilizing fuel prices.

The major U.S. report is March housing starts which come down on Tuesday.

The consensus called for starts to come in at an annual rate of 930,000, which would be up 1.4 per cent from the previous month.

“I still think that’s probably the biggest positive going for the global economy right now is the turnaround we’re seeing in U.S. housing,” said Porter.

“The big picture here is that the U.S. housing sector is on the mend and it’s a recovery that will unfold over a number of years. It took six years to take down. It will take a number of years to put back together again.”

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Bob Deluce (left), President and CEO of Porter Airlines sits with Bombardier’s President Mike Arcamone in an example of a Bombadier CS100 aircraft as he announces the Airlines purchase of 12 of the planes, with an option for a further 18, at a news conference in Toronto.

Toronto island airport not the same issue it was a decade ago: observers THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Porter Airlines’ expansion plans may be headed for months of turbulence, but not the fierce opposition it faced a decade ago to change at the waterfront airport, says a political observer.

On Wednesday, the airline announced it had placed a conditional order for 12 Bombardier CS100 jets, with 18 options worth about US$2.08 billion. The aircraft will allow it to fly to Los Angeles, Florida, Calgary and the Caribbean from Toronto.

The plan immediately stirred vocal opposition from local political and community leaders.

But University of Toronto assistant professor Zack Taylor said this time around, the success of the airline may blunt some of the negative outcry to its latest growth plans.

“This airport is a lot less threatening to people than it used to be,” said Taylor, whose focus is on local politics.

He said most people have become used to Porter’s service, except perhaps island residents and those living in nearby condos.

In 2003, former Toronto mayor David Miller rode to a 36,000-vote election victory, in part due to his opposition to expanding the waterfront airport.

But Taylor called that election a “unique confluence of events” that resulted in the island airport becoming a symbol of Miller’s vision of the waterfront being the centre of a clean city.

“I think that was a very unique moment that won’t be repeated.”

He said the next municipal election won’t take place until the fall

of 2014 and other issues will likely dominate.

Still, Taylor said it’s far too premature for Porter to claim victory, especially because you can’t count out “articulate, highly educated middle-class professionals” to mobilize.

Ultimately, he said it will come down to technical issues about the plane and the runway extension.

Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said the airline needs to clear several hurdles but believes it will likely be able to use the 107-seat plane at the Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport.

He said the aircraft’s noise emissions are significantly lower than other jets, similar to the Q400 currently in use and the proposed runway extension would still likely fit within the airport’s marine exclusion zone.

The CSeries will also have much lower takeoff and landing frequencies because of longer flight routes, said Spracklin.

“Coupled with a strong economic case... we see little reason for an economically-focused government to not approve Porter’s plan,” he wrote in a report.

Among the required approvals is a change to the tripartite agreement signed in 1983 that sets out permitted aircraft at the airport.

The deal was signed

by Ottawa, the city of Toronto and a predecessor of the Toronto Port Authority, whose board is appointed by all three levels of government.

Joseph D’Cruz, a professor of strategic management at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Business, said the outcome is uncertain because of the many play-

ers and interests.

He said the federal government will likely support Porter, especially since it has financially assisted the development of Bombardier’s new aircraft.

“There’s good reasons why the feds should support it because this aircraft, CS100, is an import development for Canada,” he said.

D’Cruz added that it could prompt support from the Toronto Port Authority by funding the runway extension.

“If that happens then I think we will have a situation where there’s momentum behind this development.”

He said Porter will succeed if it can win over “fence sitters” whose opinion can influence politicians at city hall.

Nearly half of Torontonians approve the use of jets at the airport, according to a Forum Research survey published in the Toronto Star. Forty-seven per cent of the 850 adults polled supported jets, compared to 37 per cent who opposed.

“There’s only a small role for rational analysis here. A lot of it has to do with positions of individuals which are really baked very deeply into their psyche,” said D’Cruz.

Meanwhile, Ontario’s minority Liberal government has had little to say about Porter’s plans.

Transportation Minister Glen Murray called the airport a federal area of regulation.

“We certainly value the island airport as a very important asset,” he told reporters following the Porter announcement.

“This has not been an issue in which the Ontario government has been approached.”

Redline Communications sees growth in wirelessly connected oil fields

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Redline Communications is aiming to be a pioneer in the “digital oilfield.”

The company provides oil and gas producers with a secure, high-capacity wireless communication network to monitor their operations in harsh or remote areas.

“The digital oilfield is a brand new industry, a nascent industry, that we’ve really taken a hold of and we’re growing very well,” says Redline CEO Eric Melka.

“So we have an opportunity to be able to do more.”

Last year, half of Redline’s US$50 million in revenues came from the oil and gas industry.

Melka says a digital connection to an oil field allows a company to remotely monitor and manage it in real time.

For example, Redline can build a network in an oilfield that can handle phone calls between staff, transfer files and share data as well as monitor drilling and production and do video surveillance.

Melka, who has been restructuring and refocusing Redline over the past three years, notes that oil fields are too big and remote to monitor by cellphone or a short-range WiFi network.

“So the networks with our customers are growing,” Melka said.

Redline Communications Group Inc.

(TSX:RDL) had its contract expanded last year for the Shell Oil joint venture petroleum development project in Oman.

That project is wirelessly connecting thousands of oilfields, eliminating the need for workers to drive from well to well to collect information.

The company hasn’t been without problems. It deployed a network technology in recent years that didn’t take off.

Accounting irregularities led to a cease trade order on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the settlement of a class action lawsuit.

The management team was replaced and Melka came on board to turn things around for the 150-employee company, which has its head office in Markham, Ont., north of Toronto.

One of Melka’s main areas of growth has been energy, which he calls recession proof.

Redline’s energy customers include BP, Chevron, Encana. But it has military customers such as the U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy and telecom customers such as Toronto’s TeraGo Networks and France’s Orange.

Technology analyst Noel Atkinson of Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon USA Ltd. noted that Redline has strong demand from the oil and gas industry.

“We believe Redline is the early leader worldwide in this segment, which could represent a market opportunity in excess of $3 billion,” Atkinson said in a recent note.

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NATALIE MCMASTER

Fiddling sweetheart a master on stage Seven hundred fans, five, before demonstratyoung and old, jammed ing that she can still do into Red Deer’s Memo- a mean step dance — rial Centre to see Cana- while playing lightningda’s fiddling sweetheart, fast fiddle.

Natalie MacMaster.

MacMaster pulled off And from their exu- some jaw-dropping footberant rework. But she sponse, a also hammed it full 600 of up by doing Mithem must chael Jackson’s have been moonwalk, and ex-pat Nova twirled her leg Scotians. like Charlie “Anyone Chaplin’s cane. else here Not to be from Cape upstaged by Breton?” his neighbour, asked MacMorin, who had M a s t e r , earlier played prompting an emotional LANA loud whoops piano solo, also MICHELIN from the did some imcrowd at Fripressive step day night’s dancing, all concert. The while holding place names shouted on to the bottom of his out included New Wa- tie to keep it from flopterford, Baddeck, Glace ping around.

Bay, Chéticamp, Iona, When a lady in the auand Inverness, dience shouted for him MacMaster is from the to take off the tie, Moran rural community of Troy, did one better and took N.S., where the age-old off his whole dress shirt Celtic fiddling tradition and belt, strewing them still thrives at house across the stage. parties and community “You’re getting a little dances. peek at what we have to She invited the Memo- put up with,” said Macrial Centre audience to Master, with a mock-weapretend they were at a ry chuckle. house party as they lisShe later got the tened to her and her re- crowd clapping during markably talented four- an infectious fiddling jig, piece band. accompanied by flute “I don’t have kitch- and banjo. en parties, I have livAs well, she played ing room parties at my a stirring Celtic song, house,” she said — “al- w h i c h h e r g r a n d m a though, you’d still have loved, while joined by to come in through the MacIsaac on bagpipes. It kitchen.” was reminiscent of a RivFans didn’t have to erdance melody. strain their imaginations But perhaps the most much as MacMaster and affecting moment came her supporting musi- in the second half of the cians provided a casual, concert when MacMaster yet high energy evening and Morin jointly played of traditional instrumen- Professor Blackie, written tal music that was trans- for Scottish scholar John planted from the Scottish Stuart Blackie, who died Highlands to the eastern in 1895. coast of Canada.

The tune was so stirTo add to the sponta- ring and wistful it made neity, there was no set me wish that MacMaster list for Friday’s concert. had varied the pacing The 40-year-old fiddler more often. apparently prefers to But the crowd really wing it, playing a differ- enjoyed her lively, toeent show every night. tapping numbers, includRed Deer’s concert ing Hull’s Reel, written started with MacMaster by the late John Morris playing a foot-stomping, Rankin, and the jaunty rollicking reel, accented Calgary melody, Fly in by the trill of the flute, the Pudding. played by another Cape MacMaster proved her Bretoner, Matt MacIs- previous assertion (made sac. in an interview) that a MacIsaac later as- fiddle tune is a fiddle tounded us by playing tune. two flutes in two differ“Even I can hardly tell ent ranges at the same them apart sometimes . time — you almost had to . . The key is in how you see it to believe it. play it.”

A lovely reflective Whether her delivery piano intro, performed is purposely tongue-inby MacMaster’s Troy cheek or she puts her neighbour, Mac Morin, whole soul into the mulaid the framework for sic, MacMaster is a higha quiet melody, which ly engaging performer gradually gained more who’s probably loved as momentum and a new much for her down-tocountry feel — especially earth stage presence as when Saskatchewan mu- her impeccable fiddling. sician Shane Hendricklmichelin@reddeeradvoson jumped in with the cate.com electric bass guitar.

Percussionist Eric Breton, from Montreal was to compliment many of MacMaster’s fiddle tunes with interesting and unusual sound effects, including bongos, castanets and a wooden box with a playable lid.

The way he coaxed different sounds out of these simple instruments wowed the audience.

“You guys are great!

What a nice, bubbly crowd,” said MacMaster, who’s touring with her eight-month-old baby.

She explained her supportive husband, Donnell Leahy of the band Leahy, is home with their other four children.

“I’m wearing lipstick and sparkles. It’s almost like a day at the spa!” joked the mom-of-

Lacombe’s Georgia Graham shortlisted for literary award A Lacombe children’s author and illustrator has been shortlisted for the 2013 Alberta Literary Awards.

The Writers’ Guild of Alberta announced that Georgia Graham is one of three nominees for the R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature. She was recognized for Where Wild Horses Run, published

by Red Deer Press.

She both wrote and illustrated the book that was also named the silver medal winner of the 2012 Independent Publishers Award.

Awards jurors looked at 203 submissions to select 27 finalists

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE in nine categories. Finalists represent extraordinary literary work written by Alberta authors and published in 2012.

Winners will be announced and awards presented at the Alberta Book Awards Gala on Saturday May 25 in Edmonton.

Graham is up against Marion Brooker of Edmonton for her book Tadeo’s Search for Circles, published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside, and Joan Marie Galat of Spruce Grover, for her book The Discovery

of Longitude, published by Pelican Publishing Co. Graham has written and illustrated other children’s books, including The Lime Green Secret.

Nana’s Summer Surprise, written

by Heather Hartt Sussman and illustrated by Graham, comes out this spring.

The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is the largest provincial writers’ organization in Canada.

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South Korean rapper PSY, in a checkered jacket, performs his new song “Gentleman” in his concert titled “Happening” in Seoul, South Korea Saturday. PSY’s first new single since his megahit “Gangnam Style” was released in 119 countries on Friday, his agency said.

‘Gentlemen’ — laugh at this PSY HOPES NORTH KOREANS WILL ENJOY HIS NEW SINGLE billion views since its release in July.

PSY acknowledged that the massive success of Gangnam Style added to the pressure as he worked on his latest single, but he said he tried to remain true to himself and his Korean roots.

“I tried to find Korean words that people from any country can easily sing along,” he said

of “Gentleman,” which contains lyrics both in English and Korean.

PSY co-composed the music and wrote the lyrics, which poke fun at a self-claimed gentleman who enjoys his time at a dance club.

Audiences have questioned whether PSY will be a one-hit wonder known only for Gangnam Style.

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PSY released his latest single, “Gentleman,” in 119 countries on Friday, hoping to replicate the success of Gangnam Style, the smash YouTube hit that made him an international star almost overnight last year.

The choreography for Gentleman — including the “arrogant dance,” as PSY called it — was unveiled at a concert in Seoul on Saturday before more than 50,000 fans. The music video has been uploaded onto YouTube.

PSY, whose real name is Park Jae-sang, said Saturday that he regretted the current tensions between the two Koreas.

The situation has been grabbing global headlines, with North Korea becoming increasingly belligerent with war rumblings, leaving its neighbours wary of a possible missile test by Pyongyang.

“It’s a tragedy. We are the only countries divided right now,” PSY said at a news conference ahead of the concert.

North and South Korea, which are divided by heavily fortified borders, are technically still at war, with the 1950-53 Korean War ending with a cease-fire, not a peace treaty.

PSY said he hoped North Koreans would enjoy his new music.

He said his job was to make all people, including North Koreans, laugh.

“Hopefully my Gangnam Style, my Gentleman, my music videos and my choreography ... they might enjoy them too,” he said.

When the Gangnam Style video went viral last year, it spun legions of parodies.

Even North Korea’s government created a parody video of the hit, showing that the secretive country is wellversed in South Korean popular culture.

North Korea used its Gangnam Style parody to criticize Park Geun-hye, then the presidential candidate for South Korea’s ruling party.

Park was inaugurated as South Korea’s new president in February.

PSY’s Gangnam Style video, featuring his much-mimicked horseriding dance, made him one of the best-known Koreans in the world. It’s the most watched video of all time on YouTube, gathering more than 1.5

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Green living show highlights trends, innovation

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — With an expanding slate of ecofriendly products coming to market, companies are rising to meet the growing demand among consumers keen on going green.

“We came from a consumer population that was really based in conspicuous consumption, and that movement has really changed to a consumer that is very conscientious in their purchases,” said Laurie Simmonds, president and CEO of Green Living Enterprises.

Simmonds said the LOHAS market — an acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability — has given rise to a segment of ethically minded consumers who are making the connections between health and the environment, and being more conscientious about where they spend their dollars.

In addition to allowing visitors to test-drive fuelefficient cars, the latest in environmentally friendly goods and services will be showcased at the Green Living Show, which runs from Friday to Sunday at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto.

“We’ve certainly moved past the days of the lightbulb and just the sort of basic concepts, and we’ve really started to expand the tentacles into all sorts of different types of products and services,” said Green Living Show manager Robert Orlovski.

He highlights trends and innovations set to be featured which emphasize eco-friendly living.

1. Upcycling. While the concept isn’t entirely new, much like the broader green movement, there are a greater number of options in the market showcasing upcycled goods, Orlovski said.

The process of upcycling involves taking items that have already been manufactured and repurposing them into new goods, like crafting preworn garments into good-as-new apparel.

Companies like TerraCycle upcycle and recycle traditionally non-recyclable waste into consumer products, such as transforming candy wrappers into usable totes.

“It gives them a second or third life without much of the energy that goes into recycling,” said Orlovski.

2. Wheat-based paper. A homegrown company has a paper innovation that is virtually tree-free — and it has the backing of a Hollywood A-lister.

American actor and eco-activist Woody Harrelson is co-owner of Step Forward Paper, which is made with 80 per cent wheat straw waste, an agricultural byproduct after the grain and chaff have been removed from a wheat plant.

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A young moose explores the area just off a walking path at Mackenzie trails during the evening of Thursday, April 11. It was one of three moose wandering the area.

Spending on drugs grows at slowest rate in 16 years

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A new report suggests spending on drugs in Canada continues to grow, but at the slowest rate in 16 years.

The report says the slowed growth in prescription drug spending is due to the fact that patents expired for several blockbuster drugs, which meant people could buy cheaper generic versions of the medications.

The report says Canadians spent $33 billion on drugs in 2012, or an average of $947 per person.

The report, from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, says drugs continue to make up the second-largest share of health spending, after hospitals and ahead of the cost of doctors’s salaries.

Drugs made up 16 per cent of health spending in 2012.

And prescription drugs made up 84 per cent of total drug spend-

ing in 2012.

Another factor in the slowing of the growth of drug spending was a change in generic drug pricing policies.

The report notes that many public drug programs reduced the amount they would pay for generic drugs. That has led to prices for many of those drugs being capped at between 25 per cent and 40 per cent of the cost of their brand name competitors.

Friend worried about wife shutting out sister-in-law

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Dear Annie: You sometimes print I feel terrible about this situation readers’ pet peeves. Here’s mine: and don’t know whether there is anyI cringe every time I hear “Waddya thing I can do. I’m afraid if I say any- got,” “I don’t got,” “I got” and so forth. thing, I will lose her friendWhatever happened to the ship. -- Feeling Helpless words “going” and “have”?

Dear Helpless: You are It’s one thing to hear right that Missy could use “ain’t” and “ain’t got” all professional help. She is the time in popular songs. drowning in bitterness and But it really kills me to anger and taking it out on hear TV professionals everyone around her inspeaking improperly. Have stead of dealing with her iswe become so lazy that evsues. We also feel sorry for erything we hear is accepther spineless husband, who able? -- Albany, N.Y. should have stood up to his Dear Albany: Language, wife long ago and now risks particularly English, is a losing everyone he loves. fluid entity. It changes over There’s not much you time. Words once considMITCHELL can do to remedy this. You ered slang become stan& SUGAR could gently ask Missy dard. Made-up words enter whether it’s worth losing the lexicon. Some of these her children and grandadaptations are beneficial. children. Should Missy beOthers, not so much. One moan her relationships to would hope that profesyou, first recommend that she talk to sional broadcasters would be more cirher doctor (sometimes these extreme cumspect about proper language, but personality issues are due to medi- too many people, including professioncal problems), and then suggest that als and those who write for them, are she and the kids go together for family unaware of exactly what that means.

What isn’t taught and reinforced, in school and in life, becomes forgotten.

Dear Annie: This is for “Heartbroken in Florida”: My condolences on the loss of your husband to the devastating disease of alcoholism. Please know there is hope for a serene and happy life regardless of your current circumstances. Consider attending at least six Al-Anon meetings, a support group for family members and friends who live or have lived with alcohol abuse. I did this years ago.

You can contact Al-Anon at al-anon. org or through their toll-free number for group meeting information at 1-888-4Al-Anon (1-888-425-2666). -- Extremely Grateful in Wisconsin Dear Grateful: Thank you for the useful suggestion. We hope it helps.

Annie’s snippet for Income Tax Day (credit William Simon): The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

their conversations. Your limelight is tivities. being created. Prepare your stage to VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You may shine. find it a bit challenging to maintain a GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A health clear conversation today. However, you concern or a specific obligation may are open to new perspectives regardgive you some reason for worry or con- ing your career choice and you may get cern. Do not dwell on this some guidance relating to thinking for too long. You some professional sphere. are a very resourceful perSomeone is willing to ofson whom people rely on for fer you a helping hand. some good advice or opinion.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): CANCER (June 21-July Your partner’s financial 22): A quiet feeling of wellsituation may finally imbeing and clarity of where prove. You may benefit as you are standing in life sets a consequence of this. It peace within yourself. You is also possible that your feel reassured when your debts will be lessened or position is defined and your that you will be getting road is free of any impedimore help from others at ments. Even if others are not this time. Your credit situin accordance with you, don’t ation also improves.

ASTRO give up. Keep on moving.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. DOYNA LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): 21): Possible new relationYour wishes and your perships are bound to hapsonal drive are in mutual pen around this time. You agreement today. You are rely on seriously commitclosely attuned to your peers, ted relationships and you feeling that you are slowly catching up want an official alliance. Romance and with your restrained group which sets partnering up becomes more promia liberating sense to your soul. Engage nent in your life. yourself further in group-related acSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Your work situation or your daily routine will become less of a harsh reality. Tensions can be alleviated and the relationships with your colleagues will be more cooperative and they will turn out to be more tolerating to you than usual.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): New romantic affairs can become both fun and challenging. You are eager to let your guard down and experience some new feelings, but you are being held back by some feelings of inadequacy or insecurity. Give yourself a chance.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You will be thinking more and more how to beautify your living environment and how to make it more esthetically pleasing. The relationships with your parents can be improved at this time which will turn out to be an enjoyable experience for you both.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A potential love can flourish through your network of friends. A contact you have neglected up until now may suddenly be on your mind. It is also possible that you can find love through one of your siblings.

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Monday, April 15 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Emma Watson, 23; Seth Rogen, 31; Emma Thompson, 54 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Venus, the planet of love and beauty enters the sign of Taurus. Venus feels at home here while releasing its most potent energies. We will seek more comforting environments and more fulfilling relationships. Satisfaction can be easily achieved through nurture and care.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, be prepared to have a very chatty year ahead. Your relationships with others will feel like smooth sailing where both parties find each other on the same page. You may change your network and create a new one.

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Missy has five grown children. Four of them remain in touch with “Aunt Martha.” As a result, three months ago, Missy sent them letters stating she was no longer going to be a mother, grandmother or great-grandmother to their families. For some reason, she is still close to the fifth child, even though that one also talks to Aunt Martha.

This makes me so sad. I attended her granddaughter’s bridal shower, and Missy wasn’t there. The granddaughter’s wedding is next month.

Missy and her husband are the only grandparents this child has, and they won’t attend.

I don’t care if Missy dislikes her sister-in-law, but I cannot fathom how she can take it out on her grandchildren.

I think she needs professional help.

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BRUCE Karen (Enghoj) 1942 - 2013 The family of Karen is incredibly sad to announce that she passed away quietly at home in Red Deer on April 11, 2013. Marvin and Karen had just returned from an 8 day trip to the Mayan Riviera, Mexico where they had joined their children and grandchildren to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

The family is overjoyed now to have the many pleasant memories of this remarkable holiday. She, Babe, grew up in Killam, Alberta, the daughter of Chris and Karen Enghoj, and married Marvin Bruce on April 13, 1963 in Killam. They have three daughters Sonja, Marilyn and Gail, and three grandchildren of whom she was immensely proud. Karen loved sports, having played fastball when she was young.

She was also an accomplished figure skater, a figure skating instructor, and a curler. As an avid fan of curling, one of her favorite things to do was to sit with her coffee and watch a bonspiel on TV. Karen loved her family, gardening, sewing, playing cards, making everyone’s favorite foods, and making ‘home’ such a special place. She had a close circle of good friends she enjoyed meeting for coffee or lunch, or chatting on the phone with. She will be greatly missed by her loving husband Marvin; daughter Sonja Smith and grandson Andrew; daughter Marilyn and Terry Ablett, and granddaughters Megan and Erin; daughter Gail and Darren Smith; sister Norma and John Hancar; brother Bernie and Connie Enghoj; and brother Gordie Enghoj. She was predeceased by her parents, Chris and Karen Enghoj, and sister Kathleen Karbonik. A memorial service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to the Red Deer Hospice Society or Gaetz Memorial United Church.

Condolences may be sent to 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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CALNAN 1961 - 2013 Michael Shawn “Mike” Calnan of Red Deer passed away on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at the age of 52 years. Funeral arrangements for Mike will be announced at a later date.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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MARILYNNE Mundy July 13, 1949 - Mar. 28, 2013 My beloved wife passed away peacefully at the Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband George Mundy of Lacombe; son Charles (Mel) of Lacombe; daughter Gina (Tony) of Red Deer; one granddaughter Myah; three grandsons Cassidy, Jack and Daxton; her mother Susan Olsen o f B a s h a w ; s i s t e r Ly n d a Cardiwal of Edmonton; and brother Duane (Mary) Olsen o f B a s h a w. A M e m o r i a l Service will be held at the Bashaw Community Centre at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Memorial donations are gratefully accepted to any charity of y o u r c h o i c e . To e x p r e s s condolences to Marilynne’s family, please visit www.womboldfuneralhomes.com Arrangements Entrusted To BASHAW FUNERAL HOME ~ A Wombold Family Funeral Home ~ 780.372.2353

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SEIBEL Virginia Audra 1921 - 2013 Vi r g i n i a A u d r a S e i b e l o f Evergreen, Alberta passed away peacefully with family at her side at the Red Deer Hospice on Sunday, March 31, 2013 at the age of 92 years. Virginia was born on March 28, 1921 in Hardesty, Alberta to Leroy and Helen Sankey. She worked at the Red Deer Laundry and as a nursing aid at the Michener Centre for many years.

Virginia and her husband, John, retired to Quesnel, British Columbia so she could be closer to her brothers and sisters. There, they purchased the Baker Creek Cabins.

Virginia then went to work at the Quesnel Laundry and Dry Cleaners for some years.

Virginia and John decided to move to Kelowna, British Columbia where John built two more houses and Virginia worked as a cabinet maker for a trailer company. They lived in Kelowna until John’s passing in 1990. After John’s passing, Virginia moved back to Alberta to be near her family at Norma and Dan’s farm in the Evergreen Community. Left to cherish Virginia’s memory are her children, son; Daniel (June) Seibel of Prince George, British Columbia, daughters; Norma (Daniel) Greenwood and Barbara Seibel, of Evergreen, Alberta. Virginia will also be lovingly remembered by her three brothers; Bill (Molly) Sankey of Prince George, British Columbia, Fay (Lynette) Sankey of Quesnel, British Columbia and Russel Sankey of Pemberton, British Columbia.

As well as, four sisters; Darlene Pilkington of Quesnel, British Columbia, Phyllis Sage and Birdie Kenney of Bassano, Alberta and Dot (Gary) Lind of Quesnel, British Columbia.

Virginia is also survived by her fifteen loving grandchildren, twenty four great grandchildren and twelve great great grandchildren. Virginia was predeceased by her husband John in 1990, two grandsons, one granddaughter, two brothers and one sister. A memorial service celebrating Virginia’s life will be held at the Evergreen Community Hall on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. with Leanne V. Hall officiating. A private family interment will take place at the Evergreen Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4R 3S6.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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RICHERT Frances Thompson Jan. 29, 1916 - April 11, 2013 Frances Thompson Richert was born on a farm at Norton, AB, south of Medicine Hat, on January 29, 1916. She was the fifth child of Thompson and Frances Mary Atkinson.

Frances had her schooling at Medicine Hat and High River, AB. She met her best friend, Cornelius Richert, in 1940 and they were married on September 8th of that year.

Two boys, Bruce George and Jack Clayton, were born in 1941 and 1943 respectively.

They raised their boys at Abbotsford, BC, until they both went to pursue their chosen careers. Cornelius and Frances became Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1942 and, as such, became very active at different places in Western Canada. In 1997, their son, Jack and wife, Stella, invited them to move to Red Deer, AB, where Cornelius passed away on April 23, 1998, after 56 years together. Frances was predeceased by her eldest son, Bruce, in 1969. Frances showed a great interest in her five grandchildren; Tammara (Owen) Grendus of Calgary, Merle (Natira) Ladyville of Belize, C.A., Leland (Carmen) of Rocky Mountain House, Launi (Danielle), and Dennis (Gina) both of Red Deer, and six great grandchildren; Carleen, Reuben, Elijah, Rhys, Presley, and Alexis.

Frances will be warmly remembered by her zeal and innovative suggestions for friends and family. A private family service will be held at a later date.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to In Memoriam EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL MELROSE, Delena (Del) 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Oct. 2, 1920 - April 15, 1999 Phone (403) 347-2222 Dear Ma, 14 long and lonely years have passed sine we lost you. ~Sadly missed and always loved Bob, Donna, Dick, Cheri, Wendy and families

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He went missing from his farm yard north of Markerville April 11. He is a bit shy of unfamiliar males, but is generally friendly.

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RATTRAY Reclamation Ltd is seeking a versatile individual with a background in farming duties.

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LEGAL ASSISTANT Johnston Ming Manning LLP has a full time Legal Assistant position available in our Real Estate Department.

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JOHNSTON MING MANNING LLP 3rd Floor, 4943 50th St., Red Deer, AB.,T4N 1Y1 Fax: (403) 342-9173 Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca We would like to thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Immediately. All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, First Aid We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits. Please include 2 work reference names and numbers Please fax resume to : 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

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* 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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SEEKING TRANSPORTATION DESIGN ENGINEER & TECHNOLOGIST. Above industry standard wages, benefits plan, vehicle allowance, profit sharing.

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LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced F/T Servers.

Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please TDL GROUP CORP O/A TIM HORTONS 6020 67th Street, Red Deer, AB T4P 3M1 Food Counter Attendants Full Time/Shift Work Nights/Overnights/Early Mornings/Weekends $11.00/hour Email resume applyab@timhortons.com or fax 403-203-7430

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.

Sales & Distributors

830

L&N Your No.1 Supplier Ltd. o/a Himalayan Secret in Red-Deer, Req’s F/T Shift sales people for Cosmetics & Make-Up. $14/hr. & Supervisor with 1 to 2 years experience $17.50/hr.

Email: himalayancanada@gmail.com WESCLEAN - Red Deer F/T sales position in well established territory Base salary, commission, and car allowance E-mail resume to: mdoll@wesclean.com or fax to 403-347-8803

Trades

850

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:

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.

Class 1 & 3 Drivers Tractor Operators Loader Operator Labourers Flag People Fax resume: 403-885-5137 Email resume: office@ccal.com

IMMEDIATE OPENING

ARMOR INC

is looking for licensed diesel & suspension mechanic for light duty automotive performance shop.

Diesel and transmission exp. preferred.

Top wages offered.

Bring resume to: 106 -6439 67 St. RD Phone 403-346-9188 or email donavan@armorinc.ca LOOKING for Experienced Framers for framing and metal farm commercial buildings. 403-318-6406

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.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Truckers/ Drivers

860

BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net

Must be able to work in a fast paced environment where decisions must be made, and actions must be DO you want regular home taken in a timely, safe and times, dedicated truck, a company that cares, beneprofessional manner fits, exc. wages, safety bonus, year round steady Strong organizational abilities with planning work work? We are looking for tasks on a daily, monthly CLASS 1 drivers for flat deck work. Must know your and annual basis. cargo securement, be hard working and enjoy driving Ideal candidate will be a journeyman electrician with as you visit the 4 western plant, emergency system, provinces. Please contact plc and/or instrumentation 1-877-787-2501 or fax resume to 1-855-784-2330 experience.

Please fax your resume to Permolex at fax number (403) 346-2662 attention Ray or email rweleschuk@ permolex.com 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

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

DELIVERY PERSON Permanent P/T required 3-4 hrs. per day 4 days/wk Apply in person Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive, (directly behind Nutters)

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* Full Time hours * Great benefit program after 3 mos. * Most weekends off * Competitive Wages

TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

Adams Close/ Adair Ave. BOWER AREA

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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

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.

Carriers Needed Riverside Meadows Morning delivery 6 days /wk by 6:30 a.m.

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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 !!

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

880

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830

For afternoon delivery once per week

SUNNYBROOK AREA

In the towns of:

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

Currently seeking Newspaper carrier for morning delivery

Call Quitcy 403-314-4316 qmacaulay@ reddeer advocate.com

NOW HIRING

Alberta is Booming and so are We.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for

**********************

in the town of Olds Earn $500+ for hour and a half per day.

Must have own vehicle.

18+ Needed ASAP

Duties include: - Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow Attributes: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

6 DAYS PER WK. ( Monday - Saturday)

SERVICE WRITER

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

Sherwood Crsc

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.

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 THE BURNT LAKE GENERAL STORE is looking for F/T Customer Service person for shift work. Please apply in person, Hwy. 11 West.

No phone calls please.

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

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

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)

Career Planning

Canada wide search.

Apply now

Employment Training

Auto Service Advisors Parts Assistants Auto Technicians

920

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

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ACCOUNTING Payroll Administrator Computerized Accounting Computerized Payroll Accounting and more!

(Journeyman, Apprentices)

Sales Representative

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

(Computer experience)

Great Benefits & Wages

TARRABAIN MOTORS LacLaBiche, AB Apply by Email: tarrt@telus.net ATTN: Tammy Tarrabain

Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

FULL TIME SALES POSITION

BUSINESS IS BUILT ON INFORMATION

Looking L ooking ing ng g for

a job? ?

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Here’s what we offer: • Large Inventory – 2 locations to sell from • Flexible Hours • Excellent Reputation • Excellent Pay Structure • Excellent Benefit Plan

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Action Group Bethany Care Society Canadian Blood Services Catholic Social Services CBI Home Health Comfort Keepers Extendicare Nurse Next Door Red Deer Parkland CLASS The Redwoods Retirement Residence 11. St. John Ambulance 12. Symphony Senior Living Inglewood & Aspen Ridge 13. We Care Home Health Services

Everything you need to know to keep your business humming . . .

Mini Job Fair Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9 a.m. - Noon Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4911 – 51 Street, Red Deer

every day in the Business Section of the Red Deer Advocate.

For more information, call 403-340-5353

Call For Home Delivery Government

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One of Alberta’s premium used vehicle operations is looking for a full-time sales consultant.

Experience is an asset, but not a requirement.

Contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview. Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

Lancaster Dr

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

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Illingworth Close

VANIER AREA

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

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

INGLEWOOD AREA

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Baile Close Boyce St./ Byer Close Barrett Dr/ Beatty Crsc..

Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St

GREENHOUSE WORKERS BLACKFALDS Central AB Greenhouses We have some seasonal positions available commencing immediately and ending June 1, 2013.

Duties include planting seedlings, watering plants, moving plants from one area to another, loading plants onto carts and loading trucks. This position is labor intensive and includes working weekends and some evenings (approx.

65 hrs./wk.). Must have own transportatin. We will train. Wage is $11.50/hr.

Fax resume to 403-885-4146 or email to: ar-cag@telus.net.

Please note that only those to be interviewed will be contacted.

LANCASTER AREA

• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

Hardworking need only apply. Bring resume to: Metal Strip & Coatings 4617 63rd Street Mon-Fri 8-5.

No Phone Calls Please.

QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS

ANDERS AREA

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Good for adult with small car.

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THE TASTY BAKERY

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK

Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. $61/mo.

ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area $76/mo.

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WE OFFER:

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

Timberstone Area Timothy Drive Towers Close Turner Crsc.

Tobin Gt. $110/mo.

UNC

* SANDBLASTER *GENERAL LABORER

* 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.

We are currently seeking full time

CARRIERS NEEDED

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

314-4300

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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a DRILLER. Locally based, home every night!

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

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SERVICE RIG

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, April 15, 2013 D3

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

Cameras & Accessories

1570

SONY handicam, exc. cond. $200 obo 403-307-1586

Clothing

1590

NEW ladies Power Walk runners size 9 $20 403-340-1120

EquipmentMisc.

1620

FORK LIFT, Komatsu. 2000 lb. rating $3500. 403-347-6455

EquipmentHeavy

1630

Condos/ Townhouses

1760

KITSON CLOSE

LIGHT brown recliner, like new, $60; tiger torch & hose, $30; Black & Decker 7 1/4” skill saw, $10.; (2) 2 ton hydralic jack, $10. ea. beige coffee and end table $60, 403-887-4981

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s avail. May 1 403-304-7576 / 347-7545

TIM Horton Bunn coffee maker $25; large cockatiel cage with stand $25; newer plastic canary cage $50; NEW 3 BDRM. 2 baths small bird cage $5 townhouse in Sylvan lake, 403-340-1120 avail May 1, 5 appls., fenced yard, n/s, $1450, d.d., $1450, 403-848-3641 Pets &

Supplies

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Manufactured Homes

LARGE bird cage on stand incl. accessories, $45 obo 403-347-0293

FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Mauricia 403-340-0225

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

F1 LABRA DOODLES, F1B GOLDEN DOODLES puppies. Visit www.furfettishfarm.ca text 306-521-1371 or call 403-919-1370

Sporting Goods

2 bdrms,1 bath, 5 appls.

No pets. N/S. In-suite laundry. $950 & Gas & ELECT; SD $950; Avail MAY 1st.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

1860 1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1650

ALBERTA LAMB! Fresh, frozen. Locally grown.

Locally butchered.

Phone 403-782-4095

Firewood

1660

AGRICULTURAL

FURN. EXECUTIVE SUITES

2000-2290

Horses

Completely furn. 1, 2, & 3 bdrm. apts, condos, & townhouses. Immed., a/c, cable, internet & phone.

Short or long term. No pets. $1595 - $2995/mo.

403-347-7791 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

MODERN SUITE FOR MATURE ADULTS

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

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

wegot

Lower walk-out suite 2 bdrms, 1 bath, 6 appls. No pets.

N/S. In-suite laundry. $1150 & UTIL; SD $1150; Avail May 1st.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Acreages/ Farms

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

MORRISROE MANOR

3010

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

5 BDRM. house acreage, 10 min. S. of Pine Lake & 40 min. SE of Red Deer. $1650, $800 d.d. utils. incl., Garden 1 month last month rent, 1 yr. leasing, references & Supplies record of employment. No 60 TOPPING onion sets, house pets. Avail. June 1 a l s o c a l l e d w i n t e r o n - 403-442-2631 or 357-9909 ions,potted, ready to plant EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW 2/$1, lawn sprinkler $5; ON ACREAGE IN RED box of assorted flower pots DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 bath, $8 403-314-2026 rent $2000 + DD avail.

403-346-5885

1680

Household Appliances

1710

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Household Furnishings

1720

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

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 4 GLASS goblets diamond pattern on pedestals 4/$16; oval bowl, mother of pearl antique, $45; Chinese evergreen $4; X-mas cactus, $10; 8 pc. sets cup/saucer bone china rose pattern all/$16; 12 ramekin dishes, clear glass diamond cut all/$9; 8 water glasses diamond cut all $6; 6 tall sherry style glasses all/$4/50 403-314-2026

Houses/ Duplexes

NOW RENTING 1& 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/ onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat and hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL

3020

Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., balcony, No pets. $800 rent/SD, heat/water incld., 403-346-5885

3 FLR, 3 Bdrm house w/3 bath, new paint & carpets & deck at 7316-59 Ave. Avail. to over 40 tenants.

No pets. Off street parking for 3 vehicles. Rent $1600, D.D. $1600. 403-341-4627

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

DUPLEX Michener Hill 3 bdrm., Avail. Immed., $1350/mo./dd utils. incld.

403-392-7044

Condos/ Townhouses

Rooms For Rent

3030

3090

1 BDRM. bsmt, shared kitchen, prefer employed or student. Avail. immed 2 BDRM., 2 bath Lancaster 403-342-7789, 396-7941 condo. $1150 incl. all utils.

N/S, No pets. Text or call Warehouse 780-885-7351

Space

CLEAN & BRIGHT TOWNHOUSE IN SUNNYBROOK

3140

WAREHOUSE FOR SALE OR LEASE

Open concept 3 bdrms,1.5 bath, In-suite laundry.

Unfinished bsm’t. No pets.

N/S. $1245 & UTIL; SD $1245; Avail May 1st.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

4860 sq. ft., new, bright, two 14’ O.H. doors, heated, fans, can be divided into 2 bays. Call 403- 318-4848 to view

Mobile Lot

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

wegot

homes

3190

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot

2007 TOYOTA Camry LE sunroof, $9888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

4000-4190

Houses For Sale

4020

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com MASON MARTIN HOMES New 2 Storey 1500 sq.ft 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, $399,900. Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550 MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1320 sq.ft.

3 bdrm., 2 bath. $367,900.

Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550

www.laebon.com

Laebon Homes 346-7273

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

2007 MERCEDES BENZ GL320 4matic, lthr., nav., sunroof, $31888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2005 MINI COOPER lthr., 5 spd, 77596 kms., $17888.

348-8788 Sport & Import 2005 FORD Focus 4 dr, 101,900 kms $4900 403-886-5199

2005 CHRYSLER Crossfire 80,954 kms, $12,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import 2000 PONTIAC Grand Am 2 dr. Clean 403-318-3040

MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2550

4050

Acreages

ACREAGES FOR SALE BY OWNER, 5+/- ACRES EACH: 1 mile west of Clearwater Trading Store, Caroline.

Treed w/pine, poplar & spruce, offering scenic views of the Clearwater valley & Rocky Mountains. $175,000. Natural gas & power on property, Telus on property lines. One acreage incl. a rustic 2 storey log cabin & water well for $250,000. For more info call 403-722-4076.

1999 FORD Crown Victoria LX. 206,000 km.

Exc. Cond. 403-309-2410

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

at www.garymoe.com

Manufactured Homes

4090

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Mauricia 403-340-0225

Income Property

4100

NEW DUPLEX, 2 suites, for $389,900. 2000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath. Mason Martin Homes 403-588-2550

Businesses For Sale

Locally owned and family operated

5040

SUV's

4140

Successful & busy Dry Cleaners for sale in Stettler, Alberta.

URGENT SALE as owner leaving country soon. Annual sale of about $150,000. Please contact Mahinder Dhillon at (780) 655 5038 or (403) 742 4558

Lots For Sale

4160

FOR SALE:

2008 Lexus RX 350

In very good condition, equipped to be towed behind a Motorhome,64,000 km’s Asking price $23,000 Ph. 403-347-6817 2001 DODGE Durango 4x4, $5000 o.b.o.

403-348-1634

112 ACRES of bare land, located in Burnt Lake area structure plan, great investment property with future subdivision potential. Asking 1.2M 403-304-5555 FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe.

Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

wegot

1996 GMC Jimmy, red, new trans. $2500 obo 596-0391

Utility Trailers

5140

CAR DOLLY. Never used.

403-347-6455

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

wheels

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

CLASSIFICATIONS

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519

5000-5300

Automotive Services

5010

2010 MAZDA 3 GT sunroof 33986 kms., $15888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Tenders

REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585 WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

314-4300

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Public Notice

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Preference will be given to those with strong credentials in newspaper and new media advertising: however if you have a proven history in media sales of any genre, we encourage you to apply.

As a successful candidate, you will be an integral part of a dynamic sales team. You will be resourceful, effective and capable of partnering with new clients in the development and growth of their business.

Crossroads Gas Co-op Ltd. is preparing to construct system upgrades and new gas services to Applicants during the upcoming 2013 construction season. The work consists mainly of the installation of polyethylene gas lines between 26mm and 114mm throughout the Crossroads Gas Co-op Ltd. franchise area.

Also 48mm to 88mm Aluminum etc. is used on some projects.

Tender packages which include all specifications and typical drawing are available at Crossroad’s office at 36060 Range Road 282, Innisfail. The mailing address is:

Crossroads Gas Co-op Ltd. PO Box 6319, Innisfail, AB T4G 1T1 Phone: 403.227.4861 Sealed Tender Bids will be received until 4:30 PM (MDT) on May 7, 2013 and must be clearly marked “SEALED TENDERS FOR 2013 CONSTRUCTION, CROSSROADS GAS COOP LTD.” Crossroads Gas Co-op Ltd. reserves the right to refuse any Tender.

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BALI, Indonesia — Indonesian investigators on Sunday began working to determine what caused a new Lion Air passenger jet to miss a runway while landing on the resort island of Bali, crashing into the sea without causing any fatalities among the 108 on board.

The National Transportation Safety Committee is examining the wreckage of the Boeing 737-800 that snapped in half before coming to a stop in shallow water near Bali’s airport on Saturday, said Transportation Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan.

He said aviation authorities had already removed the plane’s flight data recorder and were planning to tow the aircraft to a beach. Divers were searching for the cockpit voice recorder located in the tail. Experts are examining what could have caused the crash, including whether wind shear may have played a role.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board announced Sunday that it was sending a team of investigators to assist Indonesian aviation authorities in their probe because the Boeing aircraft was designed and manufactured in the U.S. The team will include advisers from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing.

The crash marked Lion Air’s sixth accident in 11 years, and has renewed questions about how safe it is to fly in Indonesia. The country has struggled to clean up its poor air safety record while improving oversight.

All 101 passengers and seven crew members were safely evacuated from the budget carrier’s flight, which came from Bandung, the capital of West Java province. Some swam from the wreckage, while others were plucked from the water by rescuers in rubber boats. Dozens suffered injuries, but most had been released from local hospitals by Sunday.

“I couldn’t wait to land in Bali when the cabin suddenly turned dark. I heard a sound like an explosion and water was coming in,” recalled Irawati, a 60-year-old woman who uses one name, like many Indonesians.

“I heard people shouting frantically: ’The plane crashed! Get out! Get out!’ I did not even have the energy to move my body,” she said. “I was so weak and frightened, and I was asking a flight attendant for help before I passed out.”

Irawati told The Associated Press from her hospital bed that when she regained consciousness, the pilot and co-pilot were putting a life jacket on her and helping her down a rubber ladder. She was then pulled onto a surfboard by rescuers. She suffered neck injuries.

Another survivor, Andi Prasetyo, said there was no warning of any problem.

“The cabin crew had already announced that we would be landing shortly, and I was so excited when I saw the ocean getting closer, but suddenly ... it fell,” he said. “I can’t believe that the plane actually landed on the sea, and everything changed to dark. It was full of horrific screaming. None of us remembered about the life jackets under our seats. Everybody rushed to get out of the plane.”

Officials said there were three foreigners on board — two Singaporeans and a French national — all of whom suffered slight injuries.

Lion Air spokesman Edward Sirait said the plane crashed about 50 metres (164 feet) ahead of the runway. The weather was cloudy with rain at the time of the incident.

He said the Boeing 737-800 Next Generation plane was received by the airline last month and was declared airworthy. The plane had landed in two other cities on Saturday prior to the crash.

Given that the aircraft was new, Sydney-based aviation expert Tom Ballantyne said a technical or mechanical problem would seem unlikely. He said it was fortunate that the plane landed flat in shallow water rather than nose-diving or hitting deep water, where it could have quickly been submerged.

“I’m surprised. The airplane split in two upon impact,” he said, estimating it was likely travelling close to 300 miles (483 kilometres) per hour.

“It was coming into land and hit the water very hard. It’s a miracle nobody was killed,” Ballantyne said.

It was unclear whether human error may have played a role in the accident, and Sirait said the pilot was experienced, logging 10,000 flying hours.

However, Indonesian aviation analyst Ruth Simatupang, a former investigator at the National Safety Transportation Committee, suspects some sort of miscalculation involving the landing.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — Voters chose Sunday between the hand-picked successor who campaigned to carry on Hugo Chavez’s self-styled socialist revolution and an emboldened second-time challenger who warned that the late president’s regime has Venezuela on the road to ruin.

Nicolas Maduro, the longtime foreign minister to Chavez, pinned his hopes on the immense loyalty for his boss among millions of poor beneficiaries of government largesse and the powerful state apparatus that Chavez skillfully consolidated.

Maduro’s campaign was mostly a near-religious homage to the man he called “the redeemer of the Americas,” who succumbed to cancer March 5. He blamed Venezuela’s myriad woes on vague plots by alleged saboteurs that the government never identified.

Challenger Henrique Capriles’ main campaign weapon was to simply emphasize “the incompetence of the state,” as he put it to reporters Saturday night.

Maduro, 50, was favoured to win, but his early big lead in opinion polls was cut in half over the past two weeks in a country struggling with the legacy of Chavez’s management of the world’s largest oil reserves. Millions of Venezuelans were lifted out of poverty under Chavez, but many also believe his government not only squandered, but plundered, much of the $1 trillion in oil revenues during his tenure.

Venezuelans are afflicted by chronic power outages, crumbling infrastructure, unfinished public works projects, double-digit inflation, food and medicine shortages, and rampant crime. Venezuela has one of the world’s highest homicide and kidnapping rates.

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lieve in messiahs,” said Jose Romero, a 48-year-old industrial engineer who voted for Capriles in the central city of Valencia. “This country has learned a lot and today we know that one person can’t fix everything.”

In the Chavista stronghold of Petare outside Caracas, the Maduro vote was strong. Maria Velasquez, 48, who works in a government soup kitchen that feeds 200 people, said she was voting for Chavez’s man “because that is what my comandante ordered.”

Reynaldo Ramos, a 60-yearold construction worker, said he “voted for Chavez” before correcting himself and saying he chose Maduro. But he could not seem to get his beloved leader out of his mind.

“We must always vote for Chavez because he always does what’s best for the people and we’re going to continue on this path,” Ramos said.

He said the government had helped him get work on the subway system and helps pay his grandchildren’s school costs.

The governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela deployed a well-worn get-out-thevote machine spearheaded by loyal state employees. It also enjoyed the backing of state media as part of its near-monopoly on institutional power.

Capriles’ camp said Chavista loyalists in the judiciary put them at glaring disadvantage by slapping the campaign and broadcast media with fines and prosecutions that they called unwarranted.

Capriles is a 40-year-old state governor who lost to Chavez in October’s presidential election by a nearly 11-point margin, the best showing ever by a challenger to the longtime president.

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Residents sit as they wait on line to vote in the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, early Sunday. Interim President Nicolas Maduro, who served as late President Hugo Chavez’s foreign minister and vice president, is running against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. analyst with the Washington Office on Latin America thinktank .

At his campaign rallies, Capriles would read out a list of unfinished road, bridge and rail projects. Then he asked people what goods were scarce on store shelves.

Capriles showed Maduro none of the respect he earlier accorded Chavez. Maduro hit back hard, at one point calling Capriles’ backers “heirs of Hitler.” It was an odd accusation considering that Capriles is the grandson of Holocaust survivors from Poland.

The opposition contended Chavez looted the treasury last year to buy his re-election with government handouts.

It also complained about the

steady flow of cut-rate oil to Cuba, which Capriles said would end if he won.

Venezuela’s $30 billion fiscal deficit is equal to about 10 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product.

Maduro, a former union activist and bus driver with close ties to Cuba’s leaders, constantly alleged that Capriles was conspiring with U.S. putschists to destabilize Venezuela and even suggested Washington had infected Chavez with the cancer that killed him.

He focused his campaign message on his mentor: “I am Chavez. We are all Chavez.”

And he promised to expand anti-poverty programs.

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siderably lighter than in the October election that Chavez won, when more than 80 per cent of the electorate turned out, although government officials said it was due to the improved efficiency of the system.

A few dozen people gathered outside the Caracas centre where Maduro voted, in contrast to the thick crowds that waited for Chavez during last year’s contest. The acting president punched the air as he got out of his car.

“For him, for the giant, for my father,” Maduro said of Chavez after casting his ballot.

After Capriles voted, the opposition candidate declared: “I have no doubt that today, Venezuela wins.”

BBC in awkward spot as ‘Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead’ climbs charts ahead of Thatcher funeral

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This May 6, 1997 file photo shows comedian Jonathan Winters posing at a hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Winters, whose breakneck improvisations inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others, died Thursday, April 11, 2013, at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes. He was 87.

Groundbreaking comic Jonathan Winters dead at 87

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Winters, the cherubfaced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87.

The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime friend. He was surrounded by family and friends.

Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy.

Facial contortions, sound effects, tall tales — all could be used in a matter of seconds to get a laugh.

“Jonathan Winters was the worthy custodian of a sparkling and childish comedic genius. He did God’s work. I was lucky 2 know him,” Carrey tweeted on Friday.

On Jack Paar’s television show in 1964, Winters was handed a foot-long stick and he swiftly became a fisherman, violinist, lion tamer, canoeist, U.N. diplomat, bullfighter, flutist, delusional psychiatric patient, British headmaster and Bing Crosby’s golf club.

“As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things,” he told U.S. News & World Report in 1988.

“I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.”

The humour most often was based in reality — his characters Maude Frickert and Elwood P. Suggins, for example, were based on people Winters knew growing up in Ohio.

A devotee of Groucho Marx and Laurel and Hardy, Winters and his free-for-all brand of humour inspired Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Tracey Ullman and Lily Tomlin, among many others.

But Williams and Carrey are his best-known followers.

“First he was my idol, then he was my mentor and amazing friend. I’ll miss him huge. He was my Comedy Buddha. Long live the Buddha,” Williams said in

a statement Friday.

Williams helped introduce Winters to new fans in 1981 as the son of Williams’ goofball alien and his earthling wife in the final season of ABC’s Mork and Mindy.

The two often strayed from the script.

“The best stuff was before the cameras were on, when he was open and free to create,” Williams once said. “Jonathan would just blow the doors off.”

Carson, meanwhile, lifted Winters’ Maude Frickert character almost intact for the long-running Aunt Blabby character he portrayed on The Tonight Show.

“Beyond funny. He invented a new category of comedic genius,” comedian Albert Brooks tweeted.

In other Twitter posts, Richard Lewis called Winters “the greatest improvisational comedian of all time” and Roseanne Barr added “a genius has vacated this realm.”

Winters’ only Emmy was for best-supporting actor for playing Randy Quaid’s father in the sitcom Davis Rules (1991).

He was nominated again in 2003 as outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for an appearance on Life With Bonnie.

He also won two Grammys: One for his work on The Little Prince album in 1975 and another for his Crank Calls comedy album in 1996.

“I knew him for 55 years and he’s always been silly, every moment of his life,” veteran announcer Gary Owens, who collaborated with Winters on four comedy albums, recalled warmly Friday in an interview with the AP. He spoke by phone with him just two days ago, Owens said, and although frail, Winters still broke into a routine in which he was being pecked in the head by a pet peregrine falcon he claimed to keep by his bed.

Winters received the Kennedy Center’s second Mark Twain Prize for Humor in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.

In later years, he was sought out for his changeling voice, and he contributed to numerous cartoons and animated films. He played three characters in the The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle movie in 2000.

LONDON — Opponents of the late Margaret Thatcher are taking a kind of musical revenge on the former prime minister, pushing the song “Ding Dong!

The Witch is Dead” up the British charts in a posthumous protest over her polarizing policies.

By Friday the online campaign had propelled the “Wizard of Oz” song to No. 1 on British iTunes and into the top five of the music chart used by the BBC to compile its weekly radio countdown.

David Karpf, who studies online campaigns, said the chart battle was an example of a new kind of protest enabled by social media — “A way for people to signal protest en masse without shouting from the rooftops.”

“It’s a form of symbolic protest,” he said.

The unusual campaign has caused a headache for the BBC. With the ditty near the top of the charts, the broadcaster faced the prospect of airing the words “The Wicked Witch is Dead!” on its Sunday countdown show, just days before Thatcher’s funeral, scheduled for Wednesday.

Some lawmakers from Thatcher’s Conservative Party had called for the publicly funded broadcaster to drop the song, while others warned that such a move would mean censoring a form of dissent.

The BBC, caught between allegations of censorship and complaints about poor taste, split the difference, saying it would broadcast only part of the tune — along with a news item explaining why it was there.

BBC director-general Tony Hall said that while the broadcaster found the campaign “distasteful and inappropriate,” he and other executives had decided the song should not be banned — but should not be broadcast in full, either.

“We have agreed that we won’t be playing the song in full, rather treating it as a news story and playing a short extract to put it in context,” he said in a statement.

Ben Cooper, controller of Radio 1 — which broadcasts the chart show — said the clip would be “four or five” seconds long, though he did not say what part of the song would be aired.

The controversy — which made the front pages of many national newspapers — serves as a strange musical coda to Thatcher’s time in office. The woman known to many as the Iron Lady was in power for 11 years, during which she wrenched Britain from the economic doldrums and successfully retook the Falkland Islands after Argentina’s 1982 invasion.

Many still resent Thatcher for her uncompromising stance against the country’s labour unions and what they saw as her inhumanity toward the working class. The campaign to send “Ding Dong!” to the top of the charts began soon after she died Monday of a stroke at London’s Ritz Hotel.

Fans of Margaret Thatcher fought back by dusting off a 1980 punk song called “I’m in Love with Margaret Thatcher,” in a tongue-in-cheek bid to compete.

This is not the first time activists have harnessed the Internet to mete out musical punishment. In 2009, a Facebook-driven campaign ensured the antiestablishment group Rage Against the Machine beat a Simon Cowell-backed pop singer to the coveted Christmas No. 1 slot in Britain.

Karpf said the pro- and anti-Thatcher song race was a new variant on what he called a “buycott” — where competing groups use mass purchases to stake out political or cultural positions.

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Israeli soldiers place flags at graves of fallen soldiers at a military cemetery on the Mount of Olives, overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday. Israel will mark its annual remembrance day for soldiers and civilians killed over the years in the region’s wars and conflicts starting Sunday at dusk. In the background lies the golden Dome of the Rock, one of Islam’s holiest sites, and part of a compound referred to by Jews as the Temple Mount because of the biblical Jewish temples that once stood there.

Israel celebrates 65th birthday as success despite threats

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — In 65 years, Israel has surpassed the dreams of its founders, emerging as the Middle East’s strongest military force, a global high-tech powerhouse and a prosperous homeland for the Jewish people.

Yet it remains a divided society, and its most intractable problem — peace with its Arab neighbours — has yet to be resolved. On the eve of the 65th anniversary of its creation, the Jewish renaissance in the Holy Land remains a work in progress.

Dominating the short term is Iran’s nuclear program, which Israel believes is aimed at developing an atomic weapon that could be used against the Jewish state, despite Iranian denials. Unrest along Israel’s borders is equally worrisome.

Over the longer term, reaching peace with the Palestinians remains elusive, with the sides unable to agree even on how to restart negotiations. Palestinians consider creation of Israel a catastrophe that caused a stubborn refugee problem.

The 46-year occupation of Palestinian territories also ignites domestic and international tensions.

Without a partition, Arabs could one day outnumber Jews, threatening Israel’s democratic nature.

Israel began observing its annual Memorial Day on Sunday evening, honouring fallen soldiers and victims of militant attacks. At 8 p.m., air raid sirens sounded nationwide to mark a minute of silence. A two-minute siren was set for Monday morning.

At sundown Monday, the country abruptly shifts its mood to mark its 65th Independence Day with fireworks, military processions and picnics. The transformation from grief to joy is an annual ritual meant to show the link between the sacrifices and the accomplishments.

“Today there are also those who rise up against us and threaten to destroy us. They did not succeed in the past, and they will never succeed,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Memorial Day ceremony Sunday. Netanyahu’s older brother, Yonatan, was killed in a military operation in 1976.

Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948.

Israel marks the day according to the lunar Hebrew calendar. This year the Hebrew date comes out April 15-16 on the calendar used in the West.

Since Israel’s creation, it has been in a constant state of conflict with its neighbours, most recently eight days of exchanges last November with Palestinian militants firing rockets from the Gaza Strip. It has signed peace treaties with just two Arab nations, Egypt and Jordan. Yet the country is thriving in other ways. It has weathered the global financial crisis better than most, with unemployment below 7 per cent and a growing economy. As a “startup nation,” it has pioneered breakthroughs, including Wi-Fi technology, the computer firewall and instant messaging.

In the past decade, Israeli scientists have won six Nobel prizes in chemistry and economics.

It has absorbed immigrants from more than 100 countries to host the world’s largest Jewish population, evolving from a largely agrarian backwater to consistently rank high in measures of standard of living. Israel has given the world international supermodels, and its war history has inspired Oscar-nominated films and a TV series that was adapted into “Homeland,” the award-winning American show.

“The state of Israel is truly a fantastic success story, perhaps among the greatest success stories of the 20th century,” said Tom Segev, an Israeli author and historian. “There’s an Israeli culture, a renewal of the Hebrew language. The most amazing thing is that we now have a third generation of Israelis for whom the country is a given.”

WASHINGTON — A promised path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally may leave out hundreds of thousands of them.

Bipartisan Senate legislation would make legalization and ultimately citizenship available only to those who arrived in the U.S. before Dec. 31, 2011, according to a Senate aide with knowledge of the proposals. Anyone who came after that date would be subject to deportation.

The bill, expected to be introduced this week, also would require applicants to document that they were in the country before the cutoff date, have a clean criminal record and show enough employment or financial stability that they’re likely to stay off welfare, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the proposals had not been made public.

Although illegal immigration to the U.S. has been dropping, tens of thousands of people still arrive annually, so the cutoff date alone could exclude a large number of people. The aide said hundreds of thousands could be excluded overall. That came as a disappointment to immigrant rights groups that had been hoping that anyone here as of the date of enactment of the bill could be able to become eligible for citizenship.

“The goal is to deal with the 11 million folks who are here without status, and the wider road that we can create for them to get on that path that they can ultimately get residency and citizenship, the better,” Angela Kelley, vice-president for immigration policy at the liberal Center for American Progress, said Friday. “A cutoff date that lops off all of 2012 and whatever part of 2013, that’s going to be at least a couple hundred thousand people. It’s not ideal.”

But Republicans in the eight-member immigration negotiating group have sought strict criteria on legal enforcement and border security as the price for their support for a path to citizenship, which is still opposed by some as amnesty.

The aide said that Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who’s working to sell the plan to conservatives, pushed Democrats in the group for an even earlier cutoff date, while the Democrats proposed Jan. 1, 2013.

The date negotiators settled on was a compromise but also an outcome Rubio can tout to conservatives.

Indeed Rubio’s chief of staff, Cesar Conda, took to Twitter this week to describe the bill as tough on illegal immigration.

“Freezes illegal population. No special pathway.

No amnesty,” Conda wrote. “Registration for provisional status will not be open-ended and there will be a physical presence requirement barring recent arrivals.”

Rubio is to appear on all five network and cable talk shows this Sunday — as well as Univision and Telemundo — to discuss the legislation. Negotiators are aiming to introduce the bill on Tuesday.

Tiny hymnal from 1640, possibly first book printed in what is now the U.S. NEW YORK — A tiny hymnal from 1640 believed to be the first book ever printed in what is now the United States is going up for auction, and it could sell for as much as $30 million.

Only 11 copies of the Bay Psalm Book survive in varying degrees of completeness.

Members of Boston’s Old South Church have authorized the sale of one of its two copies at Sotheby’s Nov. 26.

“It’s a spectacular book, arguably one of the most important books in this nation’s history,” said the Rev. Nancy Taylor, senior minister and CEO of the church, which was established in 1669. Samuel Adams was a member and Benjamin Franklin was baptized there.

At one time, the church owned five copies of the 6-by-5-inch hymnal. One is now at the Library of Congress, another at Yale University and a third at Brown University.

Taylor says the church voted to sell one of its two remaining copies— both in “excellent condition” — to increase its grants, ministries and “strengthen our voice in general as a progressive Christian church.”

The book was published in Cambridge, Mass., by the Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It came just 20 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.

The hymnal was supposed to be a faithful translation into English of the original Hebrew psalms — puritans believed selected paraphrases would compromise their salvation. The 1,700 copies were printed on a press shipped over from London.

A yellowed title page, adorned with decorative flourishes, reads: “The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Faithfully Translated into English Metre.” At the bottom, it says: “Imprinted 1640.”

Historians believe an almanac may have come off the press before the

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No copy of the almanac exists today.

He notes that in the Americas, in general, books were printed in what is now Mexico as early as 1539.

The Bay Psalm Book is “an iconic piece.

It’s the beginning of literate Amer-

ica,” said Dimunation. “American poetry, American spirituality and the printed page all kind of combine and find themselves located in a single volume.”

“But there’s also something much more modest and humble about this piece, which makes its survival all the most extraordinary,” he said, noting that the hymnals were utilitarian books that were subjected to a lot of wear and tear.

The last time a copy came on the auction block in 1947, it sold for a record auction price of $151,000. At the time, it surpassed auction prices for the Gutenberg Bible, Shakespeare’s First Folio and John James Audubon’s “Birds of America.”

The book was on view at Sotheby’s through Sunday.

It will travel to several cities, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dallas.

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