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SENIORS SCAMMED FOR THOUSANDS RED DEER POLICE CHARGE TWO SUSPECTS WITH FRAUD

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Police in Red Deer have laid charges against two people accused of defrauding local seniors of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Cpl. Leanne Molzahn, media liaison for the Red Deer City RCMP, said a man and a woman were arrested during a search of a home in Clearview Meadows on Wednesday. The arrest was part of an investigation by the economic crime unit.

Police opened their investigation after receiving

complaints that an alleged victim had given substantial amounts of money to two individuals, starting in 2009, based on false information they were providing.

Police further allege that those same individuals used stolen cheques to repay money borrowed from the victim.

Investigators now believe there were at least three victims, of whom two are senior citizens.

The exact amount of money believed to have changed hands has not been released, but police allege that it is in the hundreds of thousands of dol-

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Multiple charges have been laid against Theresa Sutherland, 50 and Kevin Sveinson, 56.

Both are charged with fraud over $5,000, and possession of stolen property.

Sutherland also faces two counts of fraud under $5,000, 15 counts of uttering forged documents and six counts of theft under $5,000. Sveinson has been charged with three counts of uttering forged documents. They were released from custody after the charges were laid and are to make their first court appearance in Red Deer on May 28.

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Waving his team banner proudly Taha Gargum spins on a stationary bicycle as teammate Aaron Chan keeps him cool Thursday during the first hour of a 24-hour Bike-athon at Hunting Hills High School on Thursday. Two hundred and five participants on 25 student, staff and community teams will keep the wheels turning for an entire day and night as they raise money and awareness for positive mental health, and create a positive school climate and empower the youth in the school. Funds will also be allocated to mentoring youth in the community and funding wellness grants.

City weighs wording of plebiscite The question was constructed with legal advice to ensure it is easily understood, not leading, does not favour a particular response and the outcome provides clear direction to council.

The debate follows council’s decision on March 18 to include the question.

It was a surprising reversal of its Feb. 4 decision to reject a plebiscite.

Council directed administration to report back within six weeks outlining the costs and plans associated with the development of an education communication and awareness strategy.

ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer city council will consider the wording of the plebiscite question to be added to the Oct. 21 civic ballot at its Monday meeting.

City administration has recommended: Are you in favour of council passing a bylaw dividing the City of Red Deer into wards for municipal election purposes?

A ‘yes’ would mean a voter would support changing to a ward system while a ‘no’ would mean the voter supports the current at-large voting system.

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College president Joel Ward made the pitch for funding help for the facility, which is expected to cost $40 million to $50 million, to the county in March.

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WARDS: Mayor changed his vote on plebiscite A motion to amend the Dialogue Charter, a city work plan that focuses on communication and engagement, to include discussion around exploring systems of representation, was also brought forward.

City administration is proposing a budget of $35,000, to include $30,000 for a communications strategy and $5,000 to add the question to the municipal ballot. There is no cost to amend the work plan.

Council voted 5-3 in support of adding a question regarding ward systems on the next civic ballot in March. Mayor Morris Flewwelling and Councillors Frank Wong, Dianne Wyntjes, Tara Veer and Chris

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Lacombe County wrestling with $2.7 million surplus

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe County council found itself wrestling on Thursday with a dilemma most municipalities would welcome: what to do with a big surplus.

The county is booking a $2.7 million surplus from last year, largely because a number of construction projects didn’t complete as planned.

But some councillors were concerned ratepayers would wonder why their taxes are going up when the municipality apparently has more than enough cash in hand to do the job.

County administrators have already tweaked proposed tax rate increases to reflect the good financial picture. An initial 2.75 per cent increase has been downgraded twice and now sits at an average 1.5 per cent increase.

Coun. Brenda Knight wanted to see it reduced even more by shuffling cash from a reserve fund devoted to creating a future boat launch into a tax stabilization fund, which is used to smooth out tax increases and avoid spikes in years of high costs.

Knight suggested an additional $100,000 be shifted into a stabilization fund, on top of $132,000 already put into the fund to reduce taxes.

However, council was warned by staff that makStephan were in favour. Councillors Paul Harris, Cindy Jefferies and Lynne Mulder were opposed.

Coun. Buck Buchanan was absent.

Flewwelling, Wyntjes and Veer changed their original votes from Feb. 4 to support a plebiscite. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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RDC: Master plan to be finished by the fall The facility, which will also include regulation and Olympic-sized ice surfaces, an athletic zone featuring soccer pitches, tennis courts and baseball diamonds, motion and dance studios and classrooms, is being touted as a community asset that will be used 60 per cent by the public.

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Coun. Rod McDermand was doubtful there was enough money to go around to support local projects as well as a major undertaking like the college’s.

The county has a number of communities that need new arenas and curling clubs and will ask for county help.

“It takes away from the home initiative and gives it to Red Deer — which might be a great idea.

“But I don’t think you can do both.”

Coun. Cliff Soper was concerned about approving funding for the college before the master plan has identified local needs.

“I think it would be unwise to make a commitment to anything.”

The master plan is expected to be done by the fall.

Council unanimously voted to defer the college’s funding request until the plan has been adopted by council. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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ing 11th-hour changes to the budget would trigger a new auditor review. That would come up against a provincial government deadline requiring audited municipal finances be submitted by the end of the month.

In light of that wrinkle, McKnight withdrew her motion.

Coun. Rod McDermand said the whole issue of surpluses and where the money goes should be reviewed by council again. There are roads that need upgrading and the county lags behind other rural municipalities in the amount of money invested in broadband Internet coverage, he said.

Coun. Cliff Soper acknowledged the county was in a “unique situation” compared with other municipalities.

“It’s starting to look like there might be expectations we can do everything.”

Bottom line though, the surplus shows the county is managing its money well, he said.

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Manage Alberta forests as much for snow as for wood and both rivers and grizzlies will thrive.

“That will take us towards much healthier headwaters and create great bear habitat,” Canmore conservationist and author Kevin Van Tighem told the Red Deer River Naturalists in a presentation at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre Thursday.

Allow clearcut logging only on north slopes to protect snowpack and ensure abundant spring meltwater for rivers, said the former Banff NaKevin Van Tighem tional Park superintendent.

The practice also opens forest canopies to promote growth of low lying plants bears eat.

Minimize industrial road development to eliminate erosion traps that keep water from getting to mountain valley streams.

Restrict all-terrain vehicle access with well designed, designated routes and keep them out of waterways to significantly reduce erosion and the resulting silting of waterways.

“ATVers don’t want to lose access and are willing to help the process and build good routes. Why not have one really good quad trail instead of the eight we get with random use?”

Van Tighem said humans and bears must share the forest.

“In the 20th century, we tried to keep them scared of us and us of them. In a much more crowded world, either we share some of these landscapes with bears or there’s no room for bears.

“Besides food, bears need safety and room to move. We’ve moved to a more respectful management model and you’re doing good things for bears by helping the headwaters.”

Such help is vital if development pressures – industrial, recreational and residential – threaten water stocks.

“Future water supply is critical. Projections call for a doubling of population when we’re almost out of water now.”

Van Tighem praised the Alberta government for undertaking regional planning to balance user demands.

The Lower Athabaska Regional Plan was adopted in 2012 and the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan, taking in the Bow, Oldman and Milk Rivers’ headwaters, is in development now.

“You don’t get a good future by accident. We have a lot of chaotic land use out there (and) you get good outcomes from good planning,” he said.

“This will happen to the Red Deer River, too, perhaps in the near future.”

He hopes the plan will limit beaver trapping due to their creating and sustaining water stockpiles.

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Friday, April 26, 2013

U.S. ambassador visits city DAVID JACOBSON TOURED RDC, MET WITH MAYOR AND OTHER CIVIC LEADERS

On a trip through Alberta, from Edmonton to Calgary, U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson made it clear he wanted to make a stop in Red Deer, a place he calls his favourite in Canada.

With only months left in his term at the post, the diplomat toured Red Deer College’s Centre for Innovation in Manufacturing, as well as meeting with members of the Student Association executive committee and members of the college’s ambassador program.

“I wanted to come back, I wanted to see some people and the mayor (Morris Flewwelling) and Hazel (Morris’ wife),” said Jacobson, who first visited Red Deer shortly after his appointment to the posting in 2009.

“I know this is an anniversary celebration for the City of Red Deer, and I know the mayor has announced he is not running and I wanted to pay my respects to him.”

After his time at the college, he headed to a luncheon with the mayor and his wife and a small group

the civic leaders had assembled.

During his tour, the ambassador had an extensive look at 3D printing technology as college staff showed him how the image is captured and then what finish products look like when they come out of the printer.

“They told me I would be dazzled, and I was dazzled,” said Jacobson. “We saw 3D printing and how it worked, I had never seen this before. It is amazing, they had these moving things they had built all at one time.

“The parts moved, I can’t begin to describe how it worked, except to tell you it was stunning. It was a good example of how the colleges here work with the private sector to train people and develop technology.”

In Jacobson’s prior career, he was involved in this partnership of education institutions and the private sector.

In his role as ambassador, Jacobson tries to understand Canada so he can explain it back in Washington. He also has a duty to explain what the United States is doing and thinking to Canadians.

“By coming to places like Red Deer, obviously one trip to one place is not the end of my inquiry, seeing

Ottawa declines to investigate Suncor spill despite toxin findings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Environment Canada has ruled out any further federal investigation of a recent toxic spill from Suncor’s oilsands plant into the Athabasca River, despite suggestions from an Alberta investigation that laws may have been broken.

“Environment Canada’s enforcement branch conducted a thorough review of the circumstances surrounding the Suncor spill,” said spokeswoman Jirina Vlk in a three-sentence email.

“There was not sufficient evidence to indicate a violation of the Fisheries Act. The file has been closed.”

Her statement came in response to a letter from an environmental law firm asking what actions the federal government was taking over the spill. The letter to Environment Canada came after a provincial investigation concluded that the spilled wastewater was toxic to fish.

“It indicates that a violation of the Fisheries Act has occurred,” said Melissa Gorrie of Ecojustice, who wrote the letter on behalf of Greenpeace, Keepers of the Athabasca, the Council of Canadians, Public Interest Alberta and the Sierra Club.

On March 25, a wastewater pipe at the Suncor plant near Fort McMurray froze and burst open, sending process-affected water into a partially frozen outfall pond containing treated water.

An investigation by Alberta Environment found undiluted samples from the spill killed rainbow trout fingerlings exposed to it. The investigation concluded that the fish were probably killed by high levels of naphthenic acids, chemicals that occur naturally in bitumen.

The undiluted samples were also found to contain

CALGARY — The arrival of two giant pandas may still be five years away, but the Calgary Zoo has announced a major redesign that will cater to the new visitors and eventually include Japanese snow monkeys, seals and the return of the polar bear.

“Because one in seven endangered species is now in the care of zoos, today’s zoos can well be compared to Noah’s Ark,” president and CEO Clement Lanthier said Thursday.

“We are part of a global network of conservation organizations to preserve species in the wild using all the means at our disposal, including captive breeding, reintroduction and education.”

The polar bear exhibit at the Calgary Zoo was opened in 1973 and was demolished a year after the last bear, Misty, died in 1999.

“We appreciate that some people will question

County contributing $2k toward urgent car business plan Lacombe County will contribute $2,000 as its contribution towards a business plan touting the merits of an urgent care centre in Sylvan Lake.

The plan is expected to cost $10,000 to $15,000 and the committee lobbying for an urgent care centre has approached a number of area municipalities to share the cost.

A consultant will be hired to undertake the plan, which will be based on statistical data and designed to mesh with the family care clinic concept that is being promoted by the province.

Sylvan Lake and area residents have been fighting for several years for a facility that provides accessible medical treatment for non-life-threatening injuries and sickness, seven days a week, with extended operating hours for residents and visitors.

The Town of Sylvan Lake and the five summer villages have each put in $2,000. Eckville, Bentley and Red Deer County will also be approached.

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“Polar bears are an important part of the Canadian landscape. They are iconic and majestic. But the sad reality is they are facing huge environmental challenges.”

Lanthier said most Plans for the Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital in Red Deer to open a sister hospital in Blackfalds have been experts predict that poachieved with the recent opening of the Blackfalds Veterinary Hospital. This state of the art facility builds on the solid reputation and history of the Cedarwod Veterinary Hospital. The expanding community lar bear numbers will of Blackfalds will now enjoy its own Veterinary facility with a dedicated team to fulfill its mission of “ dwindle dramatically in Improving the health, wellness and quality of life of your pet by providing exceptional Veterinary care the next 10 to 20 years. He and services in a kind and compassionate manner”. A relaxed reception area awaits pets as they enter the suggested the Calgary Zoo hospital as well as providing for a large selection pet food. Three exam rooms, a large pharmacy and a can help by preserving the spacious treatment area provide an excellent setting for the health care team. The Blackfalds Veterinary white bears in sufficient Hospital is proud of its modern digital x-ray, complete in house laboratory, state of the art surgical suite numbers to ensure genetic and modern dental center. diversity.

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The Veterinarians, Dr. Elaine Degrandes and Dr. Lisa Loewen bring years of dedication and experience to the practice. As well Dr. Ken Hubbard, the owner and senior Veterinarian at the Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital will spend some time at Blackfalds to assist and oversee the practice. In addition to all the regular services provided at Blackfalds, its affiliation with Cedarwood provides access to Veterinarians with advanced training in Canine Reproduction, Rehabilitation, Dermatology as well as Surgery including abdomen, open chest and complicated orthopedic fractures. Dr. Degrandes also brings expertise in acupuncture and advanced oncology treatments.

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“Beaver dams trap water and are huge for water conservation. With how much water dams store and they do it for free, that’s a heck of a deal when you see what dams cost.”

These preservation measures will all result in higher river volumes so “water will flow in the summer when we need it.”

Van Tighem touches on some of these themes in his upcoming books Bears Without Fears due out next month and The Homeward Wolf coming out this fall.

“Do we have to leave the pristine beauty of the past in the past? Why can’t it be better in the future?” rfiedler@reddeeradvocate.com

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levels of salts and ammonia above provincial guidelines. Metals including selenium, boron and arsenic were found at twice the recommended levels for long-term exposure.

The provincial investigation concluded that by the time the water spilled from the outfall pond into the Athabasca River, it was probably too diluted to pose a health threat to humans.

In her letter, Gorrie points out the Fisheries Act specifically forbids releasing any “deleterious substance” into fish-bearing waters. She writes that the offence exists whether or not waters become toxic as a result.

“It is our position that the substances released into the Athabasca River as a result of the spill are clearly deleterious,” the letter says.

Gorrie pointed out Alberta continues to investigate the spill and said it was “amazing” that Environment Canada reached its conclusions so quickly.

“I’d be interested to know a bit more about their rationale,” she said. “It’s interesting Environment Canada has shut the door on the possibility of prosecuting.”

The department has not responded to her letter and made its decision known in response to a question from The Canadian Press.

Gorrie said the groups are considering a private prosecution under the Fisheries Act. “If the federal government doesn’t act, we would consider our options in moving this forward through a different avenue.”

The full lab results from Alberta’s investigation into the spill have not yet been released.

Suncor was recently given until the end of April to fix a separate problem with one of its wastewater treatment ponds, which leaked toxins into the Athabasca in March 2011.

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what’s going on in the colleges and what is going on with respect to innovation, that is part of the picture,” said Jacobson.

The ambassador’s conversation with students focused on how Jacobson came to the role, how his training led him to the role and perceptions of Americans and Canadians.

“This is something I ask to do whenever I go to a college or university, is to meet with the students,” said Jacobson. “It renews my faith in the future — to meet the best and brightest you have is a great thing to do. But it also challenges me and often times in these circumstances I get asked questions I have not been asked before and I love that.”

The incoming and outgoing RDC student association presidents, Martin Cruz and Eric Peppinck respectively, were among the students who had a chance to talk with the ambassador.

“As an incoming president I’m scared of what is going to happen and it’s such an eye-opener, coming from the ambassador, it’s not the skill it’s the communication,” said Cruz. “If you really like the job, then you’re good to go.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Friday, April 26, 2013

Tories leap to fight terror ARRESTS HELP GOVERNMENT SELL LEGISLATION The Conservatives were always going to easily pass their anti-terrorism bill.

They have a majority and the only question was when, not if.

This week, the “when” became vitally important.

After the arrest of two men in connection with a plot to TIM attack a VIA HARPER Rail train, the Conservatives had the blunt weapon they needed to batter any inconvenient arguments that this bill is infringing on personal liberties and the civil rights of Canadians.

Coincidence or not, fear intervened as parliamentarians debated an important bill and raw emotions reduced civil liberties arguments to Commons white noise in a debate with a preordained outcome.

Opposition New Democrats argued all day Tuesday that the arrest of the

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two men, Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, proved that police have the existing tools to keep Canadians safe without returning to pre-emptive detentions and jailing of those who refuse to testify.

They invoked the name of Maher Arar. They accused the government of limiting civil rights while cutting funding for our spy agency, hacking away at the Canadian Border Security Agency, lopping $195.2 million over three years from the RCMP. “This is an attack on our fundamental rights in Canada. What free and democratic society can tolerate such a reduction of rights?” asked New Democrat MP Philip Toone.

But when it came time to question Stephen Harper, during a time when Canadians might be watching — and in the clip that would likely make newscasts — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair pulled back, offering only congratulations to the police and the “brave” Toronto imam who tipped police.

A party that has visions of forming a government can’t be seen to be soft on terrorism.

Mulcair merely gave Harper the opportunity to rise in the Commons and tell Canadians: “Our government is committed to working ... with our police and security agencies to ensure we do everything we can to keep Canada safe.’’

We had been told that Al Qaida had come to Markham, Ont., after all, and

in the face of fear, concerns over civil rights are usually trampled.

We have seen it time and again south of the border, when terrorist attacks or terrorist threats leave the civil libertarians wandering in the woods, their voices smacked down by the more muscular calls for law and order and tough justice.

Governments have long used fear to their advantage.

The former George W. Bush government in the U.S. used to change the colour of its “terror threat” if it was marching into headwinds on other matters.

In this case, by abruptly changing gears last Friday and deciding to move on its long-neglected anti-terrorist legislation, Conservatives immediately faced charges of using the Boston Marathon bombings for political expediency.

Then Tuesday, it used the RCMP arrests as a fundraising tool, asking for a minimum $5 donation “so we can keep the pressure on Justin Trudeau.”

That appeal came because of an illadvised tweet from an aide to Liberal Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette who equated Harper’s anti-terrorism policies with U.S. Republican policies that would only mean more terrorists in this country.

“Trudeau’s Liberals think Conservative policies are the real ‘root cause’ of terrorism,’’ wrote Jenni Byrne, the 2011 Conservative campaign manager.

The media, she charged, ignored the Liberal story and was more interested in writing about Earth Day. The high-profile terror arrests play to the Conservatives’ strength, allowing them to preach their tough law-andorder agenda and their no-mercy-forterrorists talking points. And maybe add a few bucks to their coffers.

Security expert Wesley Wark believes there was a degree of opportunism in the Conservative move to bring the anti-terror debate to the Commons on Monday, “but not a desperate opportunism; they added a degree of triumph to a victory already at hand.’’

But no one Tuesday wanted to try to connect the other dots. It had become too perilous with two terror suspects in custody.

The government has denied its about turn a week ago on the anti-terror legislation had anything to do with imminent terror suspects Monday.

The strange timing of announcing the move of the CSIS chief, Richard Fadden, to defence and the appointment of former Reform MP Deborah Grey to the security intelligence review committee in the midst of the debate and the terror arrests?

Just coincidence, we are told.

This is not a government that needed a gift of perfect timing. But since it got it, it was going to make sure it used it to its advantage.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Education needs government help Re: Joel Ward’s letter regarding RDC (Red Deer Advocate, Friday, April 19): As a member of the Red Deer community, I would like to applaud Joel Ward’s letter in the Advocate on Friday, April 19. As a student at RDC, it is refreshing that the president has taken the necessary steps in creating an open atmosphere in order to alleviate staff and students’ stress.

Being the previous representative for the students at RDC, I would like to reassure that the students at the college are not an economic commodity for this government’s propaganda.

I would like to caution the president not to implement any new ancillary fees, to which the government has not controlled, and to be in constant contact with the current administration of the Students’ Association in order to both find out the best possible solution to this government’s lack of respect for our learners, even if that means the students help bear the brunt of it.

After reading RDC’s pitiful Letter of Expectation from the government, I realized the government had no real plan on helping the post-secondary institutions on reducing redundancies and streamlining programs with other institutions. They may be saying more with their one-on-one chats, but there is no hint to staff and students as to how post secondary administrations are to balance their budget.

According to a student, it may seem great that there is a tuition freeze, but that is only looking at the smaller picture. Some institutions are forced to lay off support staff and cut programs because of the overall shortfall this government has provided.

The staff the institutions will have to lay off indirectly help students perform better. It is well known that learning does not only happen in the classroom and some of the staff perform much-needed work behind the scenes that aid in a student’s learning.

These cuts will ultimately have an effect on the ability for post-secondary institutions provide a better learning environment.

These programs that are not good enough for the government are some students’ dreams, their future.

They are unable to afford to go to another community to finish off their program, regardless of the tuition freeze. Why doesn’t the government regulate to cost of living if they really want to support students and families? Or have student loan reform in order to properly fund these students (it is a loan after all).

Let’s just see this issue for what it is: the government is inadequately funding our post-secondary education to cover up their inability to balance a budget and properly foresee the impact the Great Recession had on our economy. This is another ploy to make our public systems into P3s or private systems, which, as many of us can see, will not work for many of our important services that look after our citizens.

Derrick Callan Red Deer

Province can’t be trusted I have some mixed emotions on the subject of closure of the Michener Centre. I appreciate the apprehension families are expressing about displacement of loved ones who remain as residents in Michener Centre into unfamiliar surroundings.

Were Alberta to have a reputation for honouring promises, my reservation may not be so honed.

However, it is deeply concerning that individualized care presently assured may not actually surface.

Review the case of “Marie” — a single Alberta mother with multiple sclerosis who approached government for assistance with the care of her young children as disease progressed — and how she was

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As the situation emerged in news articles, the public became outraged and demanded support be made available for the solid, loving mother.

Initially, government retracted their decision, insisting that a misunderstanding transpired. Supports were put in place, but this was short lived; as media attention subsided, the mother was informed once again that help was no longer available.

Rather than risk the loss of her children, the mother was forced to flee the province altogether.

Aside from this, I feel that the premise of eradicating institutions merits honour. I have met two victims of the sterilization movement that was ongoing in Alberta until 1972 — where many such individuals were housed at Michener Centre — and I am appalled that society permitted the mutilation of vulnerable persons in the first place.

Instead of supporting families in times of crisis, facing extraordinary circumstances by direct provision of medical and developmental needs, institutionalism was encouraged.

Frankly, foster custody is today’s equivalent to institutionalism of children with disability; hiding those with diversity out of sight instead of supporting natural families.

I am not well-versed enough about the Michener Centre as it functions in present day to formulate an opinion; but, listening to the voices of those whose families are directly impacted, it appears that the facility is no longer considered an institution. Rather, the centre seems to function more as a treatment placement/group-home setting (which, essentially is the direction being pursued for displaced residents).

Some of the residents have resided in group home settings previously and the results were so disastrous that no help was available and the centre has been the sole support.

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I honestly don’t know what the correct/least damaging solution is, but I do know that history must never be repeated and that begins with education, valuing all persons equally and honouring promises.

No matter how one views the situation, the ramifications of past decisions are heart-wrenching and continue to adversely plague lives.

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Terror suspect almost deported in 2004

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Fraud-related convictions almost led to the deportation of one of the men charged in an alleged plot to attack a Via Rail passenger train.

Immigration documents show federal authorities wanted to deport Raed Jaser in 2004 — something that proved difficult because he was a stateless Palestinian.

Jaser, 35, of Toronto, and Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, face criminal charges in what the RCMP says was a terrorist plot guided by al-Qaida in Iran.

Jaser came to Canada with his parents and two brothers in March 1993, flying into Toronto’s Pearson Airport from Germany, where the family says it faced persecution.

Raed Jaser, born in the United Arab Emirates in 1977, was listed as a stateless Palestinian in his refugee applica-

tion.

His father Mohammed hailed from Jaffa City but told Canadian authorities he was forced to leave, as a nonJew, when the state of Israel was established. Mohammed Jaser wound up in the UAE, where he worked for years, but left after the 1990 Gulf War, saying Palestinians were subjected to hostility and suspicion because of the conflict.

The family moved to Germany but encountered “perpetual harassment and danger,” says the father’s refugee claim.

“Ultimately we were forced to flee in fear of our lives as a Molotov Cocktail was thrown into our home while all of us were present,” Mohammed Jaser said in his personal statement to the refugee board.

However, the board rejected the family’s application for asylum, noting Mohammed had remained in Germany for a year after the firebombing inci-

dent.

Still, most of the family members managed to remain in Canada and obtain citizenship.

Unlike his parents and siblings, Raed Jaser was unable to do so because of criminal convictions, including acts of fraud in 1997 and unspecified offences in 2001, according to immigration records.

Jaser was arrested in August 2004 after authorities issued a warrant for his removal from Canada. He was allegedly working illegally and had used numerous aliases.

But he had nowhere else to go and appeared to want to remain in Canada.

“I am not a citizen of the United Arab Emirates, I can’t be,” he told a 2004 detention review. “I am a Palestinian by blood, that does not give me any rights whatsoever in my place of birth.”

Jaser staved off deportation and become a permanent resident — if not a

full citizen — of Canada.

The RCMP arrested Jaser and Esseghaier on Monday — close on the heels of bomb attacks that rocked Boston.

Esseghaier, a Tunisian citizen, was doing doctoral research on nanotechnology and has co-authored several scholarly articles.

The Embassy of Tunisia in Ottawa says it has asked for a meeting with Canadian authorities “to seek clarification on his arrest and his involvement in this case.”

Esseghaier and Jaser face several charges including conspiracy to murder for the benefit of a terrorist group.

They could face life in prison.

Jaser’s lawyer, John Norris, has said his client “denies the allegations and he will vigorously defend them. ... Mr. Jaser is presumed innocent of these charges, just as any other person who would be facing such a charge is to be presumed innocent.”

Partisan politics not Canadian dies with bullying, Harper says aid of doctor in Zurich

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper didn’t seem to see any contradiction Thursday between his government’s fondness for partisan political attacks while at the same time pledging to fight the scourge of online bullying.

Indeed, Harper seemed to bristle at the suggestion of parallels between the political discourse on Parliament Hill and the ever-present perils faced by teenagers online.

“Do not confuse democratic debate in politics with crime,” Harper said during a news conference in Ottawa.

The Conservatives have been on an relentless advertising offensive of late against Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, painting him as a pretty face and famous name who lacks the judgment and gravitas to be prime minister.

That campaign happened to overlap this week with the eighth annual Victims of Crime Week in Ottawa, during which the Conservatives promised to fast-track new laws to help protect young people from cyberbullying.

Some critics and editorial writers, however, have suggested the political tone in Ottawa offers an unsavoury echo of the very online behaviour the government is looking to prevent.

The juxtaposition between the two campaigns is jarring, said an editorial this week in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, a sentiment echoed in letters to the editor from Canadians across the country.

“When teenagers assess role models, they have an unfailing ability to call out adults for telling them not to do something those same adults do,” the newspaper wrote.

“Why should teens believe a political leader who says it’s wrong to gang up on someone and attack him publicly, when that leader and the backroom strategists are rubbing their hands in glee over the next round of attack ads?”

Harper, judging from his reaction Thursday, does not agree. He took particular umbrage at the mention of Rehtaeh Parsons, the 17-year-old Nova Scotia girl who took her own life earlier this month.

Her family alleges Parsons was sexually assaulted by four boys in 2011 and that a digital photograph of the incident was shared around her school.

“What happened with the Parsons family are terrible crimes and this government will be moving forward with measures to address them,” said Harper, who met with the family Wednes-

day to discuss changes to the Criminal Code that would make it illegal to share intimate images without a person’s consent.

Julie Vaux, Harper’s spokeswoman, went even further.

“This is no time to trivialize what happened in Nova Scotia,” Vaux said in an email. “Using this tragic example and comparing it in such a way is a slap in the face to the family.”

But NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair suggested it’s an issue worth considering.

“It is somewhat ironic that at a time when we’re talking about whether or not this type of highly partisan personal attack is generally a good idea, I think we better start practising what we preach up here.”

The Conservatives have been relentless in targeting Trudeau, who was campaigning Thursday in Labrador in advance of a byelection next month.

“Instead of defending an increasingly indefensible, mediocre record on the economy and on various decisions, they attack,” he said in Happy ValleyGoose Bay. “And they use whatever public resources they can to turn people away from politics and to foster cynicism.”

Harper has sought in the last week to directly contrast some of his own views with those of Trudeau, specifically on the issue of terrorism.

When Trudeau suggested it would be important to consider the “root causes” of last week’s attacks at the Boston Marathon, Harper lashed out, insisting it was a time for manhunts, not soul searching.

On Thursday, four days after police arrested two men accused of plotting to attack a Via Rail train with the help of al-Qaida, Harper was asked when it would be the right time to consider the root causes of terrorism.

“This is not a time to commit sociology, if I can use an expression. It’s time to treat this,” he said.

“These things are serious threats, global terrorist attacks, people who have agendas of violence that are deep and abiding threats to all the values that our society stands for.”

Former Liberal leader Bob Rae said exploring motivations is important.

“There’s never an excuse, there’s never a justification, there’s never a rationalization (of terrorism),” he said.

“What we’re talking about is dealing with causes so we can stop the causes, so we can be tough on terrorism ... and also tough on the causes of terrorism.”

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WINNIPEG — A Manitoba woman won her battle Thursday for the right to die on her own terms, with the help of a doctor, before she could be completely consumed by a disease that was robbing her of control over her body.

Susan Griffiths, 72, died peacefully with some family members by her side at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich, Switzerland, a friend confirmed.

Switzerland is the only country that allows physician-assisted suicide for non-residents.

Griffiths did not go quietly, though.

She went public with her story in the hope that Canada may change its laws.

“While it has been wonderful having some of my family around me, I am saddened that other close friends and family members are unable to be with me in my final days,” she wrote in one of her final messages — an email to The Canadian Press on Wednesday.

“I sincerely hope that Canadian laws will change soon to allow individuals like myself to make end-of-life choices at home.”

Killing oneself is not illegal in Canada, but helping someone to commit suicide is against the law.

Griffiths was already losing strength from a deadly disease called multiple system atrophy, which has symptoms not unlike Parkinson’s — an ever-increasing loss of balance, movement and control of virtually every bodily function.

She was in pain and taking dozens of pills daily. She dreaded the prospect of no longer being able to lift her arms, clean herself and — eventually — swallow or breathe.

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Conservatives back bill to keep killers behind bars

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The complexity of including the perspective of victims in Canada’s criminal justice system was encapsulated nicely Thursday in a single, 24-minute news conference on Parliament Hill.

And it highlighted a question that too often goes unasked in official Ottawa: When does justice for victims become Old Testament vengeance on criminals?

“It’s taken years for victims to try to get the message out that we are not these angry, vengeful people,” said Sharon Rosenfeldt, whose 16-year-old son Daryn was one of the victims of serial killer Clifford Olsen in 1981.

“However, there is victimization whether you want to accept it or not. There is an aftermath to crime.”

Rosenfeldt was on hand as the Conservative government announced it would back a private member’s bill designed to keep some killers behind bars for up to 40 years before becoming eligible for parole.

The measure, which capped the eighth annual Victims of Crime Week in Ottawa, is the work of Manitoba Conservative MP James Bezan, who says he was motivated by the needs of victims of crime, not a desire to punish the perpetrators.

Where victims once lobbied successfully for the right to appear and make representations at parole hearings, some now say those hearings can be too traumatic to bear. Bezan’s bill is an attempt to find a solution by effectively ending any hope of parole for certain serious offenders.

Bezan’s bill would allow judges to impose sentences of up to 40 years without parole for murders which involve a kidnapping and a sexual offence against the victim — “the most sadistic of our society,” he said.

Currently, parole eligibility kicks in after 25 years — although Bezan said his research shows that for the class of crimes his bill targets, no offender has ever been granted parole.

“I want to stress that this is not about increasing punishment to the individuals who have committed these crimes; from what we can tell, they never get out of jail anyway,” said the MP, flanked by Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and two victims advocates.

“This is about giving the families the peace of not having to go through these terrible experiences.”

Rosenfeldt followed Bezan to the microphone and launched into an attack on sentencing rules.

“This bill would give judges the discretion to sentence appropriately by using the parole ineligibility process to ensure the offender is held accountable for all of the serious crimes they have committed,” she said.

In the case of an offender whose crime involved abduction, sexual assault and murder, the offender would be sentenced only for the most serious offence of the three, making the first two essentially “freebies,” Rosenfeldt said.

The bill, however, is “about revictimization,” she insisted. “It’s nothing to do with punishment.”

Conservative Sen. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, whose daughter was raped and murdered, also spoke for Bezan’s bill.

Boisvenu got into trouble last year when he publicly advocated giving convicted murderers a rope to hang themselves in their cells.

“We all understand that Sen. Boisvenu and his family have suffered horribly in the past and, obviously, I think we understand his emotions in that regard,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the House of Commons in the aftermath.

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Canadian Korean War veteran Joel Beaman burns incense as he pays respects to fallen soldiers during a ceremony at the National Cemetery Thursday in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Quebec priest killed in Haiti

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Members of a Catholic religious order in the Quebec City area were in shock Thursday after hearing a colleague had been shot to death in Haiti just one week before he was due to return home.

Richard E. Joyal, a 62-year-old member of the Marian order, was killed as he left a bank in the capital of Port-auPrince.

Police said Joyal had just withdrawn $1,000 at about 10:30 a.m. when two men on a motorcycle approached and grabbed a bag he was carrying.

The passenger shot him three times in the back.

Father Marc Turcotte, a Marian priest, said his colleague was in Haiti to help relocate students after the earthquake of January 2010.

“It’s terrible news, it’s dreadful,” he told The Canadian Press. “I don’t understand.”

The religious congregation is in the process of closing its mission, which first opened in the early 2000s.

“We were trying to find places for a number of young people, seven or eight, where they could continue their studies,”

Turcotte said Thursday. “He (Joyal) was there in Haiti to take care of them.”

Father Irenee Breton, another Marian priest, said the mission was told it should close down its operations. “He (Joyal) was due to return here May 3,” Breton said.

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OTTAWA — A Liberal motion aimed at enhancing freedom of speech in the House of Commons was defeated Thursday.

The motion failed by a vote of 150 to 96.

The NDP backed the Liberal bid to have statements made by MPs follow an alphabetical list, rather than be determined by the parties.

In the 15 minutes before the daily question period, backbench MPs are given a minute to make a statement on anything they want.

A month ago, Conservative MP Mark Warawa formally complained that his party whip had prevented him from delivering a statement.

Ten of his colleagues backed his arguments, and called on the Speaker of the House to bolster their guarantee of free speech.

Andrew Scheer responded by reminding MPs that they could stand and signal their desire to speak at any time, and that the Speaker alone had the power to recognize them.

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Obstetricians and gynecologists group calls for HPV vaccine for boys TORONTO — Provincial and territorial HPV vaccination programs should be expanded to cover boys, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada said Thursday.

The professional organization’s CEO, Dr. Jennifer Blake, wrote to ministers of health across the country urging them to follow the lead of Prince Edward Island, which will be opening up its program to both genders.

“P.E.I. has been the first province to actually take the initiative and extend the program to boys. And so it really makes it much harder to justify not doing this right across the country,” Blake said in an interview.

All provinces and territories offer the vaccine to girls, though at different ages. The Northwest Territories starts in Grade 4. In most provinces, the vaccine is offered in Grade 6. Ontario’s program is the latest, waiting until girls are in Grade 8 before offering them the vaccine.

There are two approved vaccines on the market to protect against human papillomaviruses, which cause cervical cancer, head and neck cancers, anal and penile cancers and genital warts.

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‘New York City was next’ POLICE SAY BOSTON BOMB SUSPECTS PLANNED TO ATTACK TIMES SQUARE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The Boston Marathon bombers were headed for New York’s Times Square to blow up the rest of their explosives, authorities said Thursday, in what they portrayed as a chilling, spur-of-the-moment scheme that fell apart when the brothers realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas. “New York City was next on their list of targets,�

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators from his hospital bed that he and his older brother decided on the spot last Thursday night to drive to New York and launch an attack. In their stolen SUV they had five pipe bombs and a pressure-cooker explosive like the ones that blew up at the marathon, Kelly said.

But when the Tsarnaev brothers stopped at a gas station on the outskirts of Boston, the carjacking victim they were holding hostage escaped and called police, Kelly said. Later that night, police intercepted the brothers in a blazing gunbattle that left 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead. “We don’t know if we would have been able to stop the terrorists had they arrived here from Boston,� the mayor said. “We’re just thankful that we didn’t have to find out that answer.�

The news caused New Yorkers to shudder with the thought that the city may have narrowly escaped another terrorist attack, though whether the brothers could have made it to the city is an open question. They were two of the most-wanted men in the world, their faces splashed all over the Internet and TV in surveillance-camera images released by the FBI hours earlier.

Dzhokhar, 19, is charged with carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing April 15 that killed three people and wounded more than 260, and he could get the death penalty. Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz in Boston, would not comment on whether authorities plan to add charges based on the alleged plot to attack New York.

Investigators and lawmakers briefed by the FBI have said the Tsarnaev brothers — ethnic Chechens from Russia who had lived in the U.S. for about a decade — were motivated by anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Based on the younger man’s interrogation and other evidence, authorities have said it appears so far that the brothers were radicalized via Islamic jihadi material on the Internet instead of any direct contact with terrorist organizations, but they warned that it is still not certain.

Dzhokhar was interrogated in his hospital room Sunday and Monday over a period of 16 hours without being read his rights to remain silent and have an attorney present. He immediately stopped talking

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Pedestrians and cars traverse New York’s Times Square, Thursday. The Boston Marathon bombing suspects had planned to blow up their remaining explosives in New York’s Times Square, officials said Thursday. after a magistrate judge and a representative from the U.S. Attorney’s office entered the room and gave him his Miranda warning, according to a U.S. law enforcement official and others briefed on the interrogation.

Kelly and the mayor said they were briefed on the New York plot on Wednesday night by the task force investigating the Boston bombing.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said in a CNN interview that the city should have been told earlier. “Even though this may or may not have been spontaneous, for all we know there could be other conspirators out there, and the city should have been alerted so it could go into its defensive mode,� he said.

Asked about the delay, Bloomberg said: “There’s no reason to think the FBI hides anything. The FBI does what they think is appropriate at the time, and you’ll have to ask them what they found and what the actual details of the interrogation were. We were not there.�

Kelly, citing the interrogations, said that four days after the Boston bombing, the Tsarnaev brothers “planned to travel to Manhattan to detonate their remaining explosives in Times Square.�

“They discussed this while driving around in a Mercedes SUV that they hijacked after they shot and killed the officer at MIT,� the police commissioner said. “That plan, however, fell apart when they realized that the vehicle they hijacked was low on gas and ordered the driver to stop at a nearby gas station.�

A day earlier, Kelly said that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had talked about coming to New York “to party� after the attack and that there wasn’t evidence of a plot against the city. But Kelly said a later interview with the suspect turned up the information. “He was a lot more lucid and gave more detail in the second interrogation,� Kelly said.

Kelly said there was no evidence New York was still a target. But in a show of force, police cruisers with blinking red lights were lined up in the middle of Times Square on Thursday afternoon, and uniformed officers stood shoulder to shoulder. “Why are they standing like that? This is supposed to make me feel safer?� asked Elisabeth Bennecib, a tourist and legal consultant from Toulouse, France. “It makes me feel more anxious, like something bad is about to happen.�

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Honor guard members salute over caskets of firefighters killed as President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attend the memorial for victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Thursday.

Obama consoles families, survivors of plant explosion

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WACO, Texas — President Barack Obama consoled a rural Texas community rocked by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, telling mourners Thursday they are not alone in their grief and they will have America’s support to rebuild from the devastation.

“This small town’s family is bigger now,” Obama said during a memorial service at Baylor University for victims of last week’s explosion in nearby West, Texas, that killed 14 and injured 200. Nearly 10,000 gathered to remember the first responders killed in the blast, a crowd more than triple the size of West’s entire population of 2,700.

“To the families, the neighbours grappling with unbearable loss, we are here to say you are not alone. You are not forgotten,” Obama said to applause. “We may not all live here in Texas, but we’re neighbours too. We’re Americans too, and we stand with you.”

The April 17 explosion left a crater more than 90 feet (27 metres) wide and damaged dozens of buildings, displacing many residents from their homes.

The Insurance Council of Texas estimates it caused more than $100 million in damage, and crews were sifting the rubble to search for clues to what caused the explosion or whether foul play was involved.

The blast came about 20 minutes after a fire was reported at West Fertilizer. Ten of those killed were first responders who sped out to the nighttime blaze.

The memorial service honoured those first responders and two civilians who tried to fight the fire and were posthumously named volunteer first

responders.

Obama spoke for 16 minutes, quoting scripture and lauding the men whose flag-draped coffins laid before him. “When you got to the scene, you forgot fear and you fought that blaze as hard as you could, knowing the danger,” Obama said.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama wiped away a tear as bagpipes sounded Amazing Grace.

Obama added his appearance at the memorial service onto a long-planned trip to Texas for Thursday’s opening of George W. Bush’s presidential library at Southern Methodist University. Bush sent his sympathies in a statement read at the service by Baylor President Ken Starr, the former special prosecutor who investigated President Bill Clinton.

From his helicopter, Obama saw what looked like a massive construction site, with cranes and dozens of vehicles dotting a wide swath of brown earth.

Piles of burnt rubble and scorched earth were clearly visible. Obama could also see the school field first responders used as a staging ground.

Obama has made such a trip countless times before, touring damage and consoling survivors of other disasters including Hurricane Irene, Hurricane Sandy and a string of mass shootings. It was just one week ago that Obama was in Boston, offering solace to America at a memorial for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, another larger-than-life tragedy that compounded the nation’s grief.

After the service, the president and first lady were planning to visit privately with relatives and friends of firefighters killed in the explosion, the White House said.

CARACAS, Venezuela — A 35-year-old filmmaker from California has been arrested by Venezuelan authorities who are accusing him of fomenting postelection violence on behalf of the U.S. government.

President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday that he personally ordered Timothy Tracy’s arrest on suspicion of “creating violence in the cities of this country.” Venezuela’s interior minister said Tracy was working for U.S. intelligence, paying right-wing youth groups to hold violent demonstrations in order to destabilize the country after Maduro’s narrow election win last week.

Friends and family of Tracy told The Associated Press that he had been in Venezuela since last year making a documentary about the country, which is bitterly divided politically as the socialist heirs of the late President Hugo Chavez struggle to maintain control of a country beset by economic and political turmoil The Georgetown University English graduate was a story consultant on the 2009 documentary “American Harmony,” about competitive barbershop quartet singing, and produced the recent Discovery Channel program “Under Siege,” about terrorism and smuggling across the U.S.-Canada border as well the History Channel series “Madhouse,” on modified race-car drivers in North Carolina.

“They don’t have CIA in custody. They don’t have a journalist in custody. They have a kid with a camera,” said Aengus James, a friend and associate of Tracy’s in Hollywood, California, and director of “American Harmony.”

James described Tracy as “fearless” but also somewhat quixotic.

“This whole thing came about with him at a party in South Florida,” he said. “He met this cute girl who says, ’If you really are a documentary filmmaker you’ll come tell the story of what is happening in Venezuela,’ and if you say something like that to Tim he goes, whether or not he knows a single person there or knows anything about the political situation or the consequences.”

Tracy had been detained at least twice before

by Venezuela’s SEBIN intelligence police. The last time was five days before the April 14 presidential election when he was taking video of a pro-government rally in the port city of Puerto Cabello, said an associate who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to endanger people inside Venezuela.

The U.S. Embassy in Caracas declined immediate comment, citing citizen privacy.

In Washington, State Department spokesman William Ostick said U.S consular officials in Venezuela are attempting to meet and speak with Tracy. He declined to discuss details of the man’s arrest.

Ostick rejected Maduro’s repeated allegations that the United States is attempting to undermine Venezuela’s government.

“The United States continues categorically to reject any allegations of U.S. government efforts to destabilize the Venezuelan government or to harm anyone in Venezuela,” he said.

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DOETZEL RANKED 90TH Red Deer Rebels defenceman Kayle Doetzel is ranked 90th by the Central Scouting Bureau among North American skaters eligible for this year’s NHL entry draft to be conducted June 30 at the Prudential Centre in Newark, N.J. Other Rebels listed in Central Scouting’s final rankings are forward Rhyse Dieno at 159 and Patrik Bartosak, who is ranked No. 8 among North American goaltenders, up from 10th in the CSB midterm rankings.

Doetzel was ranked 50th in the CSB midterm rankings. Rebels forward Matt Bellerive is not listed in the final rankings after being 129th on the mid-term list of 210 players.

Rivers gets fined Boston coach Doc Rivers was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for publicly criticizing game officials after the Celtics’ loss to New York on Tuesday night.

When asked about two fouls on Kevin Garnett in the first 3:20 of the Celtics’ 87-71 loss in Game 2 of the playoff series, Rivers called them “horrendous.”

The Knicks lead the series 2-0.

Friday

● Junior B tier 2 men’s lacrosse: Strathmore at Innisfail, 8 p.m., Arena; Red Deer Renegades at Lacoka, 8:30 p.m., Ponoka Rec Complex. ● Senior women’s lacrosse: Edmonton Bandits at Red Deer, 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

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Rebels get big Telus Cup win JERRET SEMCZYSZYN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Rebels 8 Wildcats 1 Red Deer Optimist Rebel Chiefs forward Jody Sick knew Thursday afternoon’s game was an important one for his team.

After giving up a two-goal lead late in Wednesday’s game against the Saskatoon Contacts and having to settle for a tie, the Chiefs were faced with a must win scenario at the 2013 Telus Cup as they battled the Valley Wildcats from Nova Scotia.

On the shoulders of a pair of first period goals by Sick, the Chiefs cruised to an 8-1 victory to earn their second win of the tournament.

“We needed to get off to a good start,” Sick said.

“We were kind of heading into this game knowing it was do or die and we needed to win.”

The Chiefs wasted no time getting on the scoreboard early, as Sick scored just over five minutes into the game to give Red Deer the early lead.

Valley responded with six minutes remaining in the first period on a power play goal by John Deacon after finding a rebound in front of the net and putting it past Matt Zentner.

With just 3.3 seconds remaining in the first period, Sick scored his second of the period on a Red Deer power play to provide his team with at 2-1 lead heading into the second period.

The second period began with a quick goal by Jacob Schofield to increase the lead to 3-1 one minute in.

Dustin Gorgi added to the Chiefs’ lead late in the second period with a quick shot that beat goaltender Justin Ritcey short side.

One minute later, Colton Bobyk’s point shot found the twine, followed by another goal from the left point on a shot by Caleb Denham that made its way through traffic to increase the lead to 6-1 heading into the third period.

Jordie Lawson added another goal with eight minutes remaining in the third period on a deflection in front of the net, and Rory Davidson wired a wrist shot top corner to put the Chiefs up 8-1.

Sick finished the game with two goals and added an assist. He was named Red Deer’s player of the game.

When asked about his goals in the first period, Sick attributed his ability to crash the net, but also commended the plays made by his teammates.

“They were a few good plays by my teammates, and I was just kind of going to the net hard,” he said.

“It was almost like a ‘Johnny on the spot’ type situation, but it felt pretty good to bang them in.”

Sick said his team was forced to regroup after Wednesday’s tie against Saskatoon. He remained optimistic about his team’s chances moving forward in the tournament.

“We refocused last night for sure, and I think we had a different mind set coming into today’s game,” he said. “We just have to keep doing what we’ve been doing all year and stay mentally sharp. I think we’ll be alright.”

After being disappointed with his team’s effort a day earlier, Chiefs head coach Doug Quinn was pleased with his team’s work ethic and the ability to capitalize on opportunities.

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Tackle Eric Fisher from Central Michigan holds up the team jersey after being selected first overall by the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round of the NFL football draft, Thursday at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

Chiefs go big with first pick in NFL Draft

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Short on glam, slim on glitter, the NFL draft was still nothing less than a rock solid B-plus.

As in Big, as in Brawn, as in Bulk, as in Beefy.

We’re talking a scale-busting 600 pounds at the outset Thursday night with offensive tackles Eric Fisher of Central Michigan and Luke Joeckel of Texas A&M. The first seven picks were all linemen: four on offence, three on defence.

“That’s a lot of love for the big boys up front, which we usually don’t get,” Fisher said.

Unlike the last few years when bumper crops of quarterbacks reigned, this was pure muscle, and lots of it.

Actually, not a single QB was selected until Florida State’s EJ Manuel went to Buffalo at No. 16 — the lowest since 2000, when Chad Pennington

went 18th to the Jets.

Fisher became the first Mid-American Conference player selected at the top when Kansas City’s new regime led by coach Andy Reid chose the 6-foot-7, 306-pound offensive tackle.

“This is so surreal,” Fisher said.

“I’m ready to get to work right now. I’m ready to start playing some football.

I can’t process what’s going on right now.”

Fisher was followed by All-American Joeckel going to Jacksonville, defensive end Dion Jordan of Oregon to Miami, which traded up with Oakland, and Oklahoma tackle Lane Johnson to Philadelphia. Not a skill position player yet in sight — a stark change from the last four drafts, when quarterbacks went first.

The procession of linemen continued with BYU defensive end Ziggy Ansah, born in Ghana, going to Detroit.

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Blues 4 Flames 1 ST. LOUIS — Ryan Reaves still prefers pounding opponents to scoring goals.

The St. Louis enforcer recorded his first two-goal game in the NHL, and Brian Elliott earned his league-leading 10th win in April to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 4-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night.

St. Louis, which has won five of six, moved into fourth place in the Western Conference. The Blues have 58 points, one ahead of Los Angeles and San Jose. They can clinch the No. 4 seed and home ice in the opening round of the playoffs with a victory over Chicago on Saturday. Los Angeles and San Jose will meet Saturday in the final regularseason game for both teams.

The Blues have won a season-high five straight home games.

Calgary, which will miss the playoffs for the fourth straight year, has won five of eight but will end the season Friday at Chicago.

Reaves scored the first and last goals for the Blues on Thursday. He

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All he wanted to talk about after the game was his one-sided third-period beating of Tim Jackman, who initiated the fight.

“I always enjoy the fisticuffs (more),” Reaves said. “Especially when a guy jumps me and he ends up like that.”

Reeves, who has a team-high eight fights this season, has three goals in four games. He scored in the first period from close range off a pass from Adam Cracknell. His third-period goal was also a case of being in the right place at the right time.

“I don’t know what he had for pregame, but I wish I had some of that,” Cracknell said. “He was something.”

Elliott said it was nice to see Reaves’ goal-scoring celebration rather that his usual hands-in-air acknowledgment as he heads to the penalty box following a crowd-pleasing fight.

St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock said Reaves’ breakout offensive game was the result of hard work along with linemates Cracknell and Chris Porter.

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Jays struggles continue against Yankees

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Yankees 5 Blue Jays 3 NEW YORK — Nothing was working for Hiroki Kuroda in the first two innings. By the time the right-hander was lifted after the sixth, he really had impressed his manager.

With Derek Jeter making his first visit to the Bronx this season, Kuroda gave a gutsy performance, Robinson Cano hit a three-run homer and the New York Yankees used a flurry of early long balls to outslug the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Thursday night.

“This might be his best performance of the year,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.

“It says a lot because he didn’t have a whole lot.”

Vernon Wells homered again against Mark Buehrle, and Francisco Cervelli also connected for New York, which overcame a 3-0 deficit to beat the Blue Jays for the third time within a week. The Yankees took two of three in a weekend series in Toronto.

Kuroda (3-1) settled after giving up homers to Edwin Encarnacion and Brett Lawrie in the first two innings, yielding six hits and three runs before getting the third out of the second. With a little help from Cervelli, his catcher, Kuroda didn’t allow a hit after Munenori Kawasaki doubled with two outs in the second.

“All I thought about was, ’Just hang in there,”’ Kuroda said through a translator.

Cervelli knew Kuroda was struggling, yet he would never let on. His job was to figure out a way to guide his pitcher through the struggles.

“I think he started to take a little more time and throw his pitches down,” Cervelli said.

“I started to call more breaking balls.”

Jeter, out until probably mid-July because of a broken ankle, watched a no-frills New York lineup improve to 12-9.

The Yankees captain said he was meeting some of his teammates for the first time.

Joba Chamberlain and David Robertson each pitched a scoreless inning, and Mariano Rivera was perfect in the ninth for his seventh save in seven chances.

The game drew 31,445, the fourth time this month a record low has been set at new Yankee Stadium, which opened in 2009.

Toronto manager John Gibbons was ejected in the seventh inning after umpires overturned a call at first, giving Ben Francisco an infield hit.

With a runner on first, Francisco hit a soft grounder to third base. Lawrie made a low throw that first base umpire Chad Fairchild initially said Encarncion made a clean scoop and Francisco was out.

But crew chief Jeff Kellogg, who was the second base umpire, felt he had a better view of the play than Fairchild.

He called the group together and overturned the call. TV replays showed Encarnacion trapped the ball and didn’t have possession.

“My sense was that the ball was resting on the ground and his glove was around the top of the ball,” Kellogg said.

Gibbons argued with Kellogg, tossed his hat and was ejected for the 22nd time in his career.

“I asked him how could they overturn it if there is no appeal by the other side?

I thought the rule was that

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Edwin Encarnacion, left, and Melky Cabrera stand in the dugout in the ninth inning of a 5-3 loss to the New York Yankees in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Thursday. there had to be an appeal by the other side for them to get together,” Gibbons said. “That was my interpretation of the rule. They are a good umpiring crew, they’re trying to get it right.”

Gibbons added: “You kind of wish they had done that when Galarraga was pitching the perfect game.”

He was referring to Detroit’s Armando Galarraga, who lost a perfect game in 2010 on a blown call at first base with two outs in the ninth inning.

It was Gibbons’ second ejection in two games for the disappointing Blue Jays, off to a 9-14 start after bulking up

their roster during the off-season.

The left-handed Buehrle, pitching against Kuroda for the second time within a week, struggled against a team that came in hitting .199 against lefties, yielding five runs and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings.

Buehrle (1-1) has lost seven straight decisions against the Yankees dating to 2004 with the Chicago White Sox and is 1-9 in 14 starts against New York.

Encarnacion hit a two-run drive in the first, and Lawrie led off the second with a fly that landed in the second row of the short porch in right field for his first home run this

season.

Wells, a former Toronto star who was among the players New York acquired in March, homered leading off the second with a drive just beyond the 408-ft mark in centre field.

Wells is 24 for 50 (.480) against Buehrle.

“He’s got new life going over there,” Gibbons said of Wells. “He’s a very intelligent guy and you know he’s motivated.”

Jayson Nix and Brett Gardner reached on singles, and Cano sent a long drive to rightcentre for his seventh homer of the year.

“He’s fun to watch,” Wells said of Cano.

Pair of local golf Barnes out in front after first round at Zurich Classic courses now open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AVONDALE, La. — Ricky Barnes said he still owes his newborn daughter a late birthday present.

Perhaps a piece of silver would be appropriate.

Barnes birdied six of the last eight holes Thursday at rain-softened TPC Louisiana to take a one-stroke lead at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, which awards a silver cup to the winner.

Barnes finished the opening round with an eagle, seven birdies and a bogey for an 8-under 64. Boo Weekley and Lucas Glover were a stroke back, and D.A. Points and Morgan Hoffmann shot 66.

“Today it was nice because it was a pretty stressfree round,” said Barnes, who did not arrive in New Orleans until late Wednesday afternoon after the birth of his daughter Monday night.

“I think I only had to chip once in 18 holes so that’s nice.”

Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old Chinese amateur playing on a sponsor exemption, opened with an even-par 72, highlighted by a 5-wood that he hit to a foot on the par-3 17th.

“I think I played pretty good golf,” Guan said.

“Not the best but I made some ups and downs and a couple birdies.”

He tied for 58th in the Masters after becoming the youngest player to make the cut at Augusta National, and said Thursday that he will play in a U.S. Open qualifier in two weeks in Dallas.

Calgary’s Stephen Ames, Ernie Els and Rickie Fowler are in a group of 10 players at 5 under. Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., is another shot back at 4-under 68. Defending champion Jason Duffner and Ottawa’s Brad Fritsch opened with a 70.

David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., had a 71 and Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., shot a 72.

Bubba Watson, the 2011 champion, carded a 73.

Eighty-four players were at 1 under or better on the rain-softened TPC tract, with 30 players within 4 shots of the lead. Heavy rains that spawned at least two tornadoes in the New Orleans area Wednesday left TPC’s normally firm greens soft and defenceless.

Players were allowed to lift clean and place their golf balls in the fairways, which especially benefited the later players after an early mist gave way to sunny and ideal scoring conditions.

Barnes missed the cuts in seven of his last eight events. He jump-started his round with the eagle on the par-5 second hole, hitting a 3-wood from 294 yards to 12 feet.

“That kind of got the round going,” he said. “I was 3 under (after a birdie at the fourth) and those are the kind of starts I need.”

Barnes birdied the par-5 11th, had four consecutive birdies on Nos. 13-16 and finished with a birdie on the par-5 18th. He hit all 14 fairways in regulation and had 26 putts.

Barnes said a new, albeit unusual, pre-putt routine has helped his focus. He uses a left-hand low grip for the practice stroke and a “claw” grip for the actual stroke.

“If you watch a lot of guys that (putt) cross-hand, their shoulders are able to stay very level,” he said.

“It’s a good way of getting the feeling of hitting down on the ball.”

The stage might be set for another Barnes-Glover shootout, similar to the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage in New York when the duo battled in the final three rounds. Glover eventually overtook Barnes in the final round to win his only major championship.

Glover birdied his first four holes, playing the back nine first, to get to 6 under. After a bogey on the sixth, he closed the round with birdies on the eighth and ninth holes.

“Any time you can climb up the board in the afternoon, it feels pretty good,” said Glover, who had a 12:30 p.m. tee time. “I hit it like I’ve been hitting it and finally putted well.”

Weekley, fighting a sinus infection, made a 27-foot putt on the final hole to climb into a tie for second.

“It was good. It could have gotten real good if some of them putts would have fallen early in the

A pair of Sylvan Lake golf clubs are now open.

The nine-hole Lakewood Golf Resort officially opened their driving range and course Thursday at noon. Power carts will be available beginning Saturday.

For tee times call 403-887-2477.

Meadowlands Golf Club, on the south side of Sylvan Lake, also opened with temporary spring rates.

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“I left at least four on the front side that were good birdie putts. I had good looks at them.”

DIVOTS: Spectators and at least one marshal were startled when an alligator, estimated to be about 12 feet, spent some of the afternoon sunning itself on the left side of the 12th fairway before making his way back to the water through bunker. Observers said it was “Tripod,” a three-legged gator that has become somewhat of a regular at the course. ... Eight marshal captains wore Boston Red Sox hats in honour of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. ... Barnes’ only other lead after any round was the second and third rounds of the 2009 U.S. Open.

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“I thought we worked harder, but I thought we were really up-tight,” Quinn said. “We played with a little bit of fear, but it was a big goal at the end of the first period that kind of helped settle us a little bit.

Once we capitalized on a few of our opportunities and got ahead, I thought we really relaxed and finally started playing a little bit less fear and tension than we were earlier.”

Valley head coach Nick Greenough emphasized the importance of playing a full 60 minutes, especially on a stage like the Telus Cup. “For a few minutes, we got away from the fundamentals that we went over all year,” Greenough said.

“It got us to this point, and at this level you’ve got to play 60 minutes. The teams are too good and right there (Red Deer) has got a bunch of guys over there that have won the Telus Cup last year. They’ve been here and they know what it takes to win, and they want to repeat.”

Next game action for the Chiefs is Friday morning when they take on the Ottawa Jr. 67’s. Puck drop is 7:30 a.m.

DRAFT: Ton of beef Then LSU defensive end Barkevious Mingo to Cleveland, and North Carolina guard Jonathan Cooper to Arizona.

That made for a ton of beef after the first seven picks.

And they wore it well, with their designer suits that barely were ruffled when they each engulfed Roger Goodell in the now traditional bear hugs between draftee and commissioner.

“It’s called a three-piece, right?” asked Joeckel, who sported blue checks with the vested suit, along with a striped tie.

Fisher was only the third offensive tackle picked No. 1, joining Orlando Pace (1997) and Jake Long (2008) since the 1970 merger of the NFL and AFL. It’s also the first time since ’70 that offensive tackles went 1-2.

Even without a high-profile passer, runner or tackler going at the outset, the fans in the home of the Rockettes were pumped. They chanted “U-SA, U-S-A” when Goodell paid tribute to the first responders at the Boston Marathon bombings and to the victims of the West, Texas explosion. They roared when Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath began the countdown to the first outdoor Super Bowl in a cold-weather site by taking the podium and screaming: “New York; Super Bowl 48.”

The crowd didn’t seem to care that early on the picks were all heifers, not hoofers. No Andrew Lucks or RG3s at the top of this crop.

“What you’re getting is a very athletic player, a great kid, smart kid, engineering major,” Reid said of Fisher, who really began to draw attention with a strong Senior Bowl, showing he could handle the highest level of competition. “He can play any position along the line, and loves to play the game.”

Joeckel didn’t seem any less thrilled to go No. 2.

“I don’t have words for all the emotions I feel,” he said. “It’s the best feeling of my entire life.”

Miami, envisioning Jordan as the next Jason Taylor, sent its first-rounder (12th overall) and this year’s second-rounder to Oakland. Then new Eagles coach Chip Kelly got a road-grader for his uptempo offence in Johnson.

The next big trade saw the Rams move up eight spots — and send four picks to Buffalo to do so. St. Louis ended the pursuit of heft by grabbing West Virginia wide receiver Tavon Austin, who at 5-8, 174 pounds, could probably fit in the hip pocket of any of the guys picked ahead of him.

FLAMES: A lot of work “They’ve been doing a lot of work in the corners, and it’s paying off,” he said. “But I hope he doesn’t think he’s a goal-scorer now.”

Elliott made 18 saves in improving to 10-2 in April.

He has a 1.14 goals-against average and a .947 save percentage. Elliott has three shutouts in the month and has allowed only 15 goals on 282 shots.

Andy McDonald and Alexander Steen also had goals for St. Louis, which scored three times in the second period to take a 3-1 lead. It was the Blues’ first three-goal period since the second period of a 6-3 win at Phoenix on March 7.

Chris Stewart and Cracknell added two assists each for the Blues, who scored more than three goals for the first time in 11 games. McDonald put St. Louis ahead 2-1 with his seventh goal of the season midway through the second period.

Steen scored just over five minutes later off a backhand. The power-play tally came 5 seconds after Paul Byron went off for high sticking.

Calgary tied it 1-1 on a goal by Sven Baertschi at 7:58 of the second period. Baertschi took a cross-ice pass from Jiri Hudler and beat Elliott, who came out of the net and surrendered the puck with an illadvised pass off the boards.

“The communication wasn’t there,” Elliott said.

“But I knew the way we were playing that we were going to come out on top.”

Baertschi has a seven-game point streak.

“I thought we came back and showed some fight,” Baertschi said. “Just not enough.”

Calgary is 1-2 on its season-ending, four-game trip.

“They were just much better than us,” Calgary coach Bob Hartley said. “They can shoot the puck.

You give them a little room and they will make you pay.”

Blues defenceman Jay Bouwmeester pushed his league-leading, consecutive-games played streak to 634 and earned an assist against his former team.

The Blues are 10-3 since acquiring him from Calgary on April 1. St. Louis has won 11 of 14 and will carry plenty of momentum into Saturday’s showdown with Chicago.

“We took care of business, and now we’ve got one more chance to do it again,” Elliott said. “You never know what can happen in the playoffs, but the higher you can get the better.”

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Desrosiers powers Canada into U18 semifinals MCDAVID SCORES HAT TRICK, DESROSIERS EARNS SHUTOUT IN WIN OVER CZECH REPUBLIC; PLAY FINLAND IN SEMIS TOMORROW THE CANADIAN PRESS SOCHI, Russia — Connor McDavid scored a hat trick and Philippe Desrosiers earned the shutout as Canada blanked the Czech Republic 6-0 on Thursday in quarterfinal play at the world under-18 hockey championship.

Sam Reinhart, Nick Baptiste and Laurent Dauphin also scored for the Canadians, who will play Finland on Friday. The United States will face host Russia in the other semifinal.

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coming off a 6-0 shutout win over Sweden on Tuesday, made 19 saves.

“He was outstanding,” said Canadian assistant coach Jody Hull.

“It was a really tight game. It was 1-0 at one point and we ended up giving them a breakaway while on the power play and he made a great stop. We just stayed with what we were doing and that gave us a little bit of momentum. You could tell on the bench that the guys were fired up after that save.

We kind of fed off that.”

Canada led 3-0 after two periods. McDavid scored back-to-back goals in the third to put the game out of reach. The 16-year-old Erie Otters forward leads the tournament with eight goals and six assists in five games.

Jindrich Pacl stopped 31 shots in net for the Czech Republic.

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Basketball Thursday’s Games Philadelphia 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 Ottawa 2, Washington 1, OT N.Y. Rangers 4, Carolina 3, OT New Jersey 3, Pittsburgh 2 Toronto 4, Florida 0 Detroit 5, Nashville 2 Boston 2, Tampa Bay 0 Montreal 4, Winnipeg 2 St. Louis 4, Calgary 1 Columbus 3, Dallas 1 Anaheim 3, Vancouver 1

Red Deer 5 Laval-Montreal 1 Saskatoon 4 Ottawa 2 Sault Ste. Marie 6 Valley 2

WHL Playoffs THIRD ROUND Conference Finals (Best-of-7)

Friday’s games Red Deer vs. Ottawa, 7 a.m.

Valley vs. Saskatoon, 11 a.m.

Laval-Montreal vs. Sault Ste. Marie, 5:30 p.m.

End of preliminary round

EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Calgary (3) (Series tied 2-2) Wednesday’s result Edmonton 7 Calgary 3 Tuesday’s result Calgary 5 Edmonton 2 Friday’s game Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s game x-Edmonton at Calgary, 4 p.m.

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

PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games Semifinals, noon and 4 p.m.

Sunday’s games Bronze Medal Game Semifinal losers, 9 a.m.

Gold Medal Game Semifinal winners, 1 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts z-Pittsburgh 47 35 12 0 70 x-Boston 46 28 13 5 61 y-Washington 47 26 18 3 55 x-Montreal 47 28 14 5 61 x-Toronto 47 26 16 5 57 x-Ottawa 46 24 16 6 54 x-Rangers 47 25 18 4 54 x-Islanders 47 24 17 6 54 Winnipeg 48 24 21 3 51 New Jersey 47 19 18 10 48 Philadelphia 47 22 22 3 47 Buffalo 47 20 21 6 46 Carolina 47 19 24 4 42 Tampa Bay 47 18 25 4 40 Florida 47 14 27 6 34

WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Kamloops (3) (Portland leads series 3-1) Wednesday’s result Portland 3 at Kamloops 0 Tuesday’s result Kamloops 5 Portland 1 Saturday’s result Portland 4 Kamloops 0 Friday’s game Kamloops at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s game x-Portland at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

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

2013 Telus Cup SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — 2013 Telus Cup Canadian Midget Championship PRELIMINARY ROUND GP W L T GF GA Laval-Montreal 4 3 1 0 19 9 Red Deer 4 2 1 1 21 11 S.S. Marie 4 2 1 1 12 12 Ottawa 4 2 2 0 15 11 Saskatoon 4 1 1 2 10 15 Valley 4 0 4 0 6 25 Note: Two points for a win; one for a tie.

Friday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Colorado at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Pt 6 5 5 4 4 0

Thursday’s results Red Deer 8 Valley 1 Laval-Montreal 4 Ottawa 3 Sault Ste. Marie 1 Saskatoon 1 Wednesday’s results Laval-Montreal 7 Valley 1 Red Deer 5 Saskatoon 5 Ottawa 6 Sault Ste. Marie 1

GF 157 127 146 145 144 111 126 138 128 112 131 123 125 145 107

GA 116 102 128 125 129 100 112 137 144 125 140 142 152 145 168

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Chicago 46 35 6 5 75 151 98 y-Anaheim 47 30 11 6 66 137 113 y-Vancouver 47 26 14 7 59 125 114 x-St. Louis 47 28 17 2 58 126 114 x-Los Angeles47 26 16 5 57 130 116 x-San Jose 47 25 15 7 57 122 113 Detroit 47 23 16 8 54 121 115 Minnesota 46 25 18 3 53 118 120 Columbus 47 23 17 7 53 117 118 Phoenix 46 20 18 8 48 116 123 Dallas 47 22 21 4 48 130 139 Calgary 47 19 24 4 42 127 157 Edmonton 46 17 22 7 41 112 131 Nashville 47 16 22 9 41 110 136 Colorado 46 15 24 7 37 110 145 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 2 Detroit 3, Los Angeles 1 Chicago 4, Edmonton 1 Phoenix 2, San Jose 1

Tuesday’s results Laval-Montreal 7 Saskatoon 0 Ottawa 4 Valley 2 Sault Ste. Marie 4 Red Deer 3 Monday’s results

Saturday’s Games New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Nashville at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Boston at Washington, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Colorado, 5:30 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

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

Thursday’s summary Flames 1 at Blues 4 First Period No Scoring Penalties — Sobotka StL (goaltender interference) 9:40, Stajan Cal (holding) 12:48, Perron StL (boarding) 14:33, Cammalleri Cal (fighting, major), Russell StL (fighting, major) 15:16.

Second Period 1. St. Louis, Reaves 3 (Cracknell, Bouwmeester) 3:21 2. Calgary, Baertschi 3 (Hudler) 7:58 3. St. Louis, McDonald 7 (Stewart, Polak) 10:00 4. St. Louis, Steen 8 (Stewart) 15:27 (pp) Penalties — Cammalleri Cal (elbowing) 4:00, Reaves StL (high-sticking) 12:42, Byron Cal (highsticking) 15:22, Reinhart Cal (hooking) 15:27.

Third Period 5. St. Louis, Reaves 4 (Porter, Cracknell) 2:10 Penalties — T.Jackman Cal (instigator, fighting, minor-major-misconduct), Reaves StL (fighting, major) 7:37, Sobotka StL (slashing) 11:48.

Shots on goal Calgary 8 3 8 — 19 St. Louis 5 11 4 — 20 Goal — Calgary: MacDonald (L,8-8-1); St. Louis: Elliott (W,13-8-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 0-4; St. Louis: 1-5.

Attendance — 15,302 (19,150).

Baseball Boston Baltimore New York Tampa Bay Toronto

American League East Division W L Pct 15 7 .682 12 9 .571 12 9 .571 10 12 .455 9 14 .391

GB — 2 1/2 2 1/2 5 6 1/2

Kansas City Detroit Minnesota Chicago Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 11 8 .579 10 10 .500 9 9 .500 9 12 .429 8 11 .421

GB — 1 1/2 1 1/2 3 3

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Houston

West Division W L 15 7 13 9 8 12 8 15 7 15

Pct .682 .591 .400 .348 .318

GB — 2 6 7 1/2 8

Wednesday’s Games Toronto 6, Baltimore 5, 11 innings Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland 2 Houston 10, Seattle 3 Boston 6, Oakland 5 Detroit 7, Kansas City 5 Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Yankees 0 Texas 11, L.A. Angels 3 Thursday’s Games Kansas City 8, Detroit 3, 10 innings Boston 7, Houston 2 N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 3 Chicago White Sox 5, Tampa Bay 2 Texas 2, Minnesota 1 Baltimore at Oakland, Late L.A. Angels at Seattle, Late Friday’s Games Atlanta (Maholm 3-1) at Detroit (Ani.Sanchez 2-1), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (Jo.Johnson 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 1-1), 5:05 p.m.

Houston (Bedard 0-1) at Boston (Dempster 0-2), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Kazmir 0-0) at Kansas City (E.Santana 2-1), 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Ro.Hernandez 1-3) at Chicago White Sox (Peavy 2-1), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (Grimm 1-0) at Minnesota (Diamond 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Baltimore (W.Chen 1-2) at Oakland (Milone 3-1), 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 1-0) at Seattle (Harang 0-2), 8:10 p.m.

PITCHING—Buchholz, Boston, 5-0; Lester, Boston, 4-0; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 4-0; Masterson, Cleveland, 4-1; Darvish, Texas, 4-1; 8 tied at 3.

STRIKEOUTS—Darvish, Texas, 49; Buchholz, Boston, 39; FHernandez, Seattle, 37; Scherzer, Detroit, 36; Verlander, Detroit, 33; Peavy, Chicago, 33; Dempster, Boston, 33.

SAVES—JiJohnson, Baltimore, 8; Nathan, Texas, 7; Reed, Chicago, 7; Rivera, New York, 7; Perkins, Minnesota, 6; Wilhelmsen, Seattle, 6; Janssen, Toronto, 6.

Atlanta Washington New York Philadelphia Miami

National League East Division W L Pct 15 6 .714 11 11 .500 10 10 .500 9 14 .391 5 17 .227

GB — 4 1/2 4 1/2 7 10 1/2

St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 13 8 .619 13 9 .591 13 10 .565 11 9 .550 7 14 .333

GB — 1/2 1 1 1/2 6

Colorado Arizona San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego

West Division W L 14 8 13 9 13 9 10 11 6 15

Pct .636 .591 .591 .476 .286

GB — 1 1 3 1/2 7 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati 1, Chicago Cubs 0 St. Louis 4, Washington 2 Colorado 6, Atlanta 5, 12 innings Arizona 3, San Francisco 2, 10 innings Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 3 N.Y. Mets 7, L.A. Dodgers 3, 10 innings San Diego 2, Milwaukee 1 Thursday’s Games Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia 4 L.A. Dodgers 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Washington 8, Cincinnati 1 Chicago Cubs 4, Miami 3 Arizona 3, Colorado 2

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

Baltimore at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

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

Texas at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

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

Houston at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Atlanta (Maholm 3-1) at Detroit (Ani.Sanchez 2-1), 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (H.Bailey 1-1) at Washington (Zimmermann 3-1), 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Feldman 0-3) at Miami (LeBlanc 0-3), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 1-3), 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (J.Sanchez 0-2) at St. Louis (Lynn 3-0), 6:15 p.m.

Colorado (Nicasio 2-0) at Arizona (McCarthy 0-2), 7:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Burgos 1-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 0-3), 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Lincecum 2-0) at San Diego (Cashner 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

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

Houston at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

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

Tampa Bay at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

Texas at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Detroit, 6:05 p.m.

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

Cincinnati at Washington, 11:05 a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 11:05 a.m.

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

Chicago Cubs at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 6:10 p.m.

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

Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING—TorHunter, Detroit, .373; Lowrie, Oakland, .366; MiCabrera, Detroit, .361; LCain, Kansas City, .359; CDavis, Baltimore, .356; CSantana, Cleveland, .352; Mauer, Minnesota, .351.

RBI—Napoli, Boston, 26; CDavis, Baltimore, 22; Fielder, Detroit, 21; MiCabrera, Detroit, 20; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 19; NCruz, Texas, 18; Cano, New York, 17.

DOUBLES—Napoli, Boston, 11; Seager, Seattle, 10; Lowrie, Oakland, 9; Crisp, Oakland, 8; AJones, Baltimore, 8; CDavis, Baltimore, 7; TorHunter, Detroit, 7; CSantana, Cleveland, 7; Trout, Los Angeles, 7; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 7.

TRIPLES—Ellsbury, Boston, 3; Andrus, Texas, 2; Bourjos, Los Angeles, 2; MeCabrera, Toronto, 2; Dozier, Minnesota, 2; Gentry, Texas, 2; Gordon, Kansas City, 2; Maxwell, Houston, 2.

HOME RUNS—Arencibia, Toronto, 8; Cano, New York, 7; CDavis, Baltimore, 7; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 7; Morse, Seattle, 6; Rios, Chicago, 6; VWells, New York, 6.

STOLEN BASES—Ellsbury, Boston, 10; Crisp, Oakland, 7; RDavis, Toronto, 5; AJackson, Detroit, 5; Jennings, Tampa Bay, 5; McLouth, Baltimore, 5; Pedroia, Boston, 5; Reddick, Oakland, 5; Reyes, Toronto, 5; CYoung, Oakland, 5.

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

Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Cincinnati at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

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

Colorado at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

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

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

Atlanta at Detroit, 6:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING—CJohnson, Atlanta, .397; Choo, Cincinnati, .378; Harper, Washington, .364; Segura, Milwaukee, .356; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, .355; DanMurphy, New York, .346; MEllis, Los Angeles, .343.

RBI—Buck, New York, 22; Phillips, Cincinnati, 21; Braun, Milwaukee, 20; Frazier, Cincinnati, 18; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 18; Sandoval, San Francisco, 18; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 18.

DOUBLES—Pollock, Arizona, 9; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 8; Desmond, Washington, 8; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 8; GParra, Arizona, 8; Rollins, Philadelphia, 8; Schierholtz, Chicago, 8.

TRIPLES—SMarte, Pittsburgh, 3; DWright, New York, 3; EYoung, Colorado, 3; Nelson, Colorado, 2; Segura, Milwaukee, 2; Utley, Philadelphia, 2; 34

tied at 1.

HOME RUNS—JUpton, Atlanta, 11; Harper, Washington, 8; Buck, New York, 7; Fowler, Colorado, 7; Braun, Milwaukee, 6; Frazier, Cincinnati, 6; Gattis, Atlanta, 6; Rizzo, Chicago, 6; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 6.

STOLEN BASES—ECabrera, San Diego, 6; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 6; Segura, Milwaukee, 6; DWright, New York, 6; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 5; Pierre, Miami, 5; Revere, Philadelphia, 5; Rutledge, Colorado, 5.

PITCHING—Harvey, New York, 4-0; Wainwright, St. Louis, 4-1; 9 tied at 3.

STRIKEOUTS—ABurnett, Pittsburgh, 42; Harvey, New York, 39; Samardzija, Chicago, 39; Wainwright, St. Louis, 37; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 35; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 34; Ryu, Los Angeles, 34.

SAVES—Grilli, Pittsburgh, 9; Romo, San Francisco, 8; Kimbrel, Atlanta, 8; RBetancourt, Colorado, 7; League, Los Angeles, 6; RSoriano, Washington, 6; Henderson, Milwaukee, 5.

Thursday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City 001 100 010 5 — 814 0 Detroit 100 110 000 0 — 3 5 1 (10 innings) Shields, Collins (9), G.Holland (10) and S.Perez, Kottaras; Verlander, B.Rondon (8), Coke (9), D.Downs (10) and Avila. W—Collins 1-0. L—Coke 0-3. HRs—Kansas City, Gordon (2).

Houston 011 000 000 — 2 7 1 Boston 401 020 00x — 7 11 0 Humber, Blackley (5), Cisnero (7) and J.Castro; Buchholz, A.Miller (8), Bard (9) and Saltalamacchia.

W—Buchholz 5-0. L—Humber 0-5. HRs—Boston, D.Ortiz (1).

Toronto 210 000 000 — 3 7 0 New York 013 100 00x — 5 9 1 Buehrle, Lincoln (6), Cecil (7) and Arencibia; Kuroda, Chamberlain (7), D.Robertson (8), Rivera (9) and Cervelli. W—Kuroda 3-1. L—Buehrle 1-1. Sv— Rivera (7). HRs—Toronto, Encarnacion (5), Lawrie (1). New York, V.Wells (6), Cano (7), Cervelli (3).

Tampa Bay 100 100 000 — 2 5 0 Chicago 300 002 00x — 5 7 0 Hellickson, J.Wright (7), B.Gomes (8) and Lobaton; Sale, Lindstrom (8), A.Reed (9) and Flowers. W— Sale 2-2. L—Hellickson 1-2. Sv—A.Reed (7). HRs— Tampa Bay, Lobaton (1). Chicago, A.Dunn (4).

Texas 010 010 000 — 2 10 0 Minnesota 000 000 100 — 1 8 0 Tepesch, R.Ross (7), Scheppers (8), Nathan (9) and Pierzynski; Worley, Roenicke (6), Duensing (8), Fien (9) and Mauer. W—Tepesch 2-1. L—Worley 0-3.

Sv—Nathan (7). HRs—Minnesota, Willingham (3).

Los Ang. 000 000 000 — 0 7 0 Seattle 002 000 22x — 6 11 0 Richards, Maronde (8) and Iannetta; Maurer, Capps (7), Wilhelmsen (9) and Shoppach. W—Maurer 2-3. L—Richards 1-1. HRs—Seattle, Peguero (1), Seager (3).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 000 001 230 — 6 14 1 Philadelphia000 102 010 — 4 7 1 Ja.McDonald, Ju.Wilson (6), Watson (8) and McKenry; Lee, Aumont (8), Durbin (8), Valdes (9) and Kratz. W—Ju.Wilson 2-0. L—Aumont 1-3. Sv— Watson (1). HRs—Pittsburgh, G.Sanchez (3).

Los Ang. 100 000 002 — 3 6 1 New York 000 001 001 — 2 5 0 Ryu, Jansen (8), League (9) and Ra.Hernandez; Hefner, Lyon (8), Rice (8), Parnell (9) and Recker. W—Jansen 1-0. L—Rice 1-1. Sv—League (6).

HRs—New York, I.Davis (4).

Cincinnati 000 100 000 — 1 1 2 Wash.

024 000 02x — 8 12 0 Arroyo, Hoover (7), Ondrusek (8) and Mesoraco; G.Gonzalez, R.Soriano (9) and K.Suzuki. W—G. Gonzalez 2-1. L—Arroyo 2-2. HRs—Cincinnati, Votto (4). Washington, Harper (8), Espinosa (2).

Chicago 100 101 001 — 4 6 0 Miami 120 000 000 — 3 6 1 E.Jackson, H.Rondon (7), Camp (8), Marmol (9) and Castillo; Slowey, Qualls (7), M.Dunn (8), Cishek (9) and Brantly. W—Camp 1-1. L—Cishek 1-3.

Sv—Marmol (2). HRs—Chicago, Schierholtz (3), Valbuena (4).

Colorado 000 100 100 — 2 6 1 Arizona 010 200 00x — 3 8 1 J.De La Rosa, Escalona (7), W.Lopez (8) and Torrealba; Cahill, Collmenter (6), Putz (9) and Nieves.

W—Cahill 1-3. L—J.De La Rosa 2-2. Sv—Putz (4).

HRs—Arizona, Goldschmidt (5).

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Recalled LHP Zach Britton from Norfolk (PCL).

BOSTON RED SOX—Recalled C Ryan Lavarnway from Pawtucket (IL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Recalled RHP Barry Enright from Salt Lake City (PCL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Reinstated INF Adam Rosales from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Andy Parrino to Sacramento (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Placed 1B Adam Lind on the paternity list. Recalled RHP Brad Lincoln from Buffalo (IL).

National League COLORADO ROCKIES—Placed INF Todd Helton on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 20.

Recalled INF Ryan Wheeler from Colorado Springs (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS—Claimed LHP Duane Below off waivers from Detroit and optioned him to New Orleans (PCL).

Carolina League CAROLINA MUDCATS—Added C Ryan Battaglia from Mahoning Valley (NYPL). Sent C Tony Wolters to Mahoning Valley.

WINSTON-SALEM DASH—Added OF Adam Heisler from Kannapolis (SAL). Released OF Billy

Rice.

South Atlantic League KANNAPOLIS INTIMIDATORS—Added OF Ruben Sierra Jr. from extended spring training.

American Association EL PASO DIABLOS—Acquired INF Jonathan Cisneros from Fort Worth for a player to be named.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS—Signed RHP Derek Blacksher, LHP James Adkins, LHP Matt Bashore, C Joe Staley and RHP Derrick Miramontes.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES—Signed RHP Jhonny Montoya.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS—Released INF Trent Lockwood.

WICHITA WINGNUTS—Signed RHP Tyler White. Released LHP Ryan Hinson.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS—Traded INF Matt Nandin to Rockland for cash and a player to be named.

TROIS-RIVERES AIGLES—Signed RHP Tyler Wilson.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS—Signed OF C.J. Henry.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS—Placed LHP Randy Sturgill on the retired list.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association

NBA—Fined Boston coach Doc Rivers $25,000 for public criticism of officiating, following the April 23 game at New York.

FOOTBALL Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS—Traded WR Amarri Jackson to San Jose for QB Aaron Garcia and OL Devin Clark.

HOCKEY National Hockey League EDMONTON OILERS—Assigned LHP Teemu Hartikainen to Oklahoma City (AHL). Signed G Frans Tuohimaa to a two-year entry-level contract.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Recalled F Joonas Rask from Milwaukee (AHL). Assigned F Filip Forsberg and F Austin Watson to Milwaukee.

ST. LOUIS BLUES—Activated G Jaroslav Halak from the injured list.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS—Suspended Chicago D Wells Thompson one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for a reckless challenge that endangered the safety of Columbus MF AgustDin Viana during an April 20 match.

NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (x-if necessary) (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami 3, Milwaukee 0 Sunday, April 21: Miami 110, Milwaukee 87 Tuesday, April 23: Miami 98, Milwaukee 86 Thursday, April 25: Miami 104, Milwaukee 91 Sunday, April 28: Miami at Milwaukee, 1:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 30: Milwaukee at Miami, TBA x-Thursday, May 2: Miami at Milwaukee, TBA x-Saturday, May 4: Milwaukee at Miami, TBA New York 2, Boston 0 Saturday, April 20: New York 85, Boston 78 Tuesday, April 23: New York 87, Boston 71 Friday, April 26: New York at Boston, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 28: New York at Boston, 11 a.m. x-Wednesday, May 1: Boston at New York, TBA x-Friday, May 3: New York at Boston, TBA x-Sunday, May 5: Boston at New York, TBA Indiana 2, Atlanta 0 Sunday, April 21: Indiana 107, Atlanta 90 Wednesday, April 24: Indiana 113, Atlanta 98 Saturday, April 27: Indiana at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Monday, April 29: Indiana at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 1: Atlanta at Indiana, TBA x-Friday, May 3: Indiana at Atlanta, TBA x-Sunday, May 5: Atlanta at Indiana, TBA

Oklahoma City 2, Houston 0 Sunday, April 21: Oklahoma City 120, Houston 91 Wednesday, April 24: Oklahoma City 105, Houston 102 Saturday, April 27: Oklahoma City at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 29: Oklahoma City at Houston, 7:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 1: Houston at Oklahoma City, TBA x-Friday, May 3: Oklahoma City at Houston, TBA x-Sunday, May 5: Houston at Oklahoma City, TBA San Antonio 2, L.A. Lakers 0 Sunday, April 21: San Antonio 91, L.A. Lakers 79 Wednesday, April 24: San Antonio 102, L.A. Lakers 91 Friday, April 26: San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 28: San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 5 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 30: L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, TBA x-Thursday, May 2: San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, TBA x-Saturday, May 4: L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, TBA Denver 1, Golden State 1 Saturday, April 20: Denver 97, Golden State 95 Tuesday, April 23: Golden State 131, Denver 117 Friday, April 26: Denver at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 28: Denver at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 30: Golden State at Denver, TBA x-Thursday, May 2: Denver at Golden State, TBA x-Saturday, May 4: Golden State at Denver, TBA

Chicago 2, Brooklyn 1 Saturday, April 20: Brooklyn 106, Chicago 89 Monday, April 22: Chicago 90, Brooklyn 82 Thursday, April 25: Chicago 79, Brooklyn 76 Saturday, April 27: Brooklyn at Chicago, noon Monday, April 29: Chicago at Brooklyn, 5 p.m. x-Thursday, May 2: Brooklyn at Chicago, TBA x-Saturday, May 4: Chicago at Brooklyn, TBA

L.A. Clippers 2, Memphis 1 Saturday, April 20: L.A. Clippers 112, Memphia 91 Monday, April 22: L.A. Clippers 93, Memphis 91 Thursday, April 25: Memphis 94, L.A. Clippers 82 Saturday, April 27: L.A. Clippers at Memphis, 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 30: Memphis at L.A. Clippers, TBA x-Friday, May 3: L.A. Clippers at Memphis, TBA x-Sunday, May 5: Memphis at L.A. Clippers, TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Golf PGA-Zurich Classic Thursday At TPC Louisiana Avondale, La. Purse: $6.6 million Yardage: 7,425; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round a-denotes amateur Ricky Barnes 34-30 Boo Weekley 32-33 Lucas Glover 31-34 D.A. Points 33-33 Morgan Hoffmann 31-35 Charlie Beljan 32-35 Matt Jones 31-36 Luke Guthrie 34-33 Ernie Els 34-33 Rickie Fowler 32-35 Billy Horschel 32-35 Chris Kirk 33-34 Stephen Ames 31-36 Jimmy Walker 34-33 Bobby Gates 32-35 Matt Every 34-34 Harris English 36-32 Graham DeLaet 36-32 Jason Kokrak 33-35 Kevin Stadler 34-34 Jason Bohn 33-35 Brian Davis 33-35 Justin Rose 33-35 Gary Woodland 32-36 Tommy Gainey 33-35 J.J. Henry 34-34 Trevor Immelman 33-35 Chad Campbell 34-34 Chris DiMarco 35-33 James Driscoll 34-34 Nick Watney 34-35 Bob Estes 33-36 Keegan Bradley 33-36 Scott Brown 35-34 Justin Bolli 36-33 Tag Ridings 35-35 Jason Dufner 35-35 Stuart Appleby 35-35 Sean O’Hair 34-36 Brandt Jobe 38-32 Greg Chalmers 36-34 Doug LaBelle II 37-33 Alistair Presnell 36-34 D.H. Lee 35-35 Andrew Svoboda 33-37 Jin Park 34-36 Jerry Kelly 35-35 Brendan Steele 36-34 Nicolas Colsaerts 33-37 Ryan Palmer 34-36 Ken Duke 35-35 Richard H. Lee 34-36 Jeff Maggert 36-34

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Chris Stroud Steve LeBrun Lee Williams Brad Fritsch D.J. Trahan Fabian Gomez Chez Reavie Nicholas Thompson Jonas Blixt Rory Sabbatini Retief Goosen David Lynn Jeff Gove Brian Stuard Charley Hoffman Rod Pampling Billy Mayfair Aaron Watkins Jim Herman Shawn Stefani Cameron Percy Luke List John Senden Cameron Tringale Scott Stallings James Hahn Roberto Castro David Hearn Henrik Norlander John Peterson Zack Fischer John Merrick David Toms Kyle Stanley Michael Bradley Mike Weir Joey Snyder III Brendon de Jonge Martin Flores Patrick Reed Matt Fast Michael Letzig Hunter Haas Erik Compton Charlie Wi Jesper Parnevik Justin Hicks Josh Teater Colt Knost Scott Langley a-Guan Tianlang Eric Meierdierks Camilo Villegas Lee Janzen Jeff Overton Aaron Baddeley Bubba Watson Justin Leonard Joe Ogilvie Charles Howell III Steven Bowditch

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Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Sporting K.C. 4 2 2 14 8 5 Houston 4 2 1 13 11 8 Montreal 4 1 1 13 7 5 New York 3 4 2 11 13 12 Philadelphia 3 2 2 11 10 10 Columbus 2 2 3 9 9 7 Toronto FC 1 2 4 7 9 10 Chicago 2 4 1 7 6 12 New England 1 3 2 5 2 6 D.C. 1 5 1 4 4 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA 6 1 1 19 13 7 3 1 2 11 10 4 3 3 2 11 7 7 2 1 4 10 11 9

FC Dallas Los Angeles Real Salt Lake Portland

Chivas USA 3 3 1 10 10 9 San Jose 2 3 3 9 6 9 Vancouver 2 3 2 8 7 9 Colorado 2 4 2 8 6 8 Seattle 1 3 2 5 3 5 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday, April 27 New York at Toronto FC, noon Chicago at Montreal, 2 p.m.

FC Dallas at Vancouver, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at New England, 5:30 p.m.

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

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

Los Angeles at Real Salt Lake, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Chivas USA, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 28 Colorado at Houston, 3 p.m.

Lacrosse GP y-Toronto 16 x-Rochester 16 x-Philadelphia 16 Buffalo 16

NLL East Division W L Pct. 10 6 .625 8 8 .500 7 9 .438 6 10 .375

GF 194 179 170 171

GA GB 176 — 165 2 207 3 211 4

Sunday, Apr. 28 Minnesota at Toronto, 1 p.m.

West Division Saturday, Apr. 27 Edmonton at Washington, 4:45 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m.

West Division GP W L Pct. GF GA GB y-Calgary 16 9 7 .563 222 211 — x-Washington 16 9 7 .563 193 192 — x-Edmonton 16 9 7 .563 203 170 — x-Colorado 16 7 9 .438 185 202 2 x-Minnesota 16 7 9 .438 219 202 2 x — Clinched playoff berth; y — Clinched division.

Division Finals East Division Saturday, May 4 Toronto-Minnesota winner vs. Rochester-Philadelphia winner, TBA West Division Saturday, May 4 Calgary-Colorado winner vs. Washington-Edmonton winner, TBA

NLL Playoffs Division Semifinals East Division Saturday, Apr. 27 Philadelphia at Rochester, 3 p.m.

NLL Championship Champions Cup Saturday, May 11 East Division champion vs. West Division champion, TBA

Football 2013 NFL Draft Selections At New York Thursday First Round 1. Kansas City, Eric Fisher, ot, Central Michigan.

2. Jacksonville, Luke Joeckel, ot, Texas A&M. 3. Miami (from Oakland), Dion Jordan, de, Oregon.

4. Philadelphia, Lane Johnson, ot, Oklahoma.

5. Detroit, Ziggy Ansah, de, BYU. 6. Cleveland, Barkevious Mingo, de, LSU. 7. Arizona, Jonathan Cooper, g, North Carolina.

8. St. Louis (from Buffalo), Tavon Austin, wr, West Virginia.

9. New York Jets, Dee Milliner, db, Alabama.

10. Tennessee, Chance Warmack, g, Alabama.

11. San Diego, D.J. Fluker, ot, Alabama.

12. Oakland (from Miami), D.J. Hayden, db, Houston.

13. New York Jets (from Tampa Bay), Sheldon Richardson, dt, Missouri.

14. Carolina, Star Lotulelei, dt, Utah.

15. New Orleans, Kenny Vaccaro, db, Texas.

16. Buffalo (from St. Louis), EJ Manuel, qb, Florida State.

17. Pittsburgh, Jarvis Jones, lb, Georgia.

18. San Francisco (from Dallas), Eric Reid, db, LSU. 19. New York Giants, Justin Pugh, ot, Syracuse.

20. Chicago, Tyler Long, g, Oregon.

21. Cincinnati, Tyler Eifert, te, Notre Dame.

22. Atlanta (from Washington through St. Louis), Desmond Trufant, db, Washington.

23. Minnesota, Sharrif Floyd, dt, Florida.

24. Indianapolis, Bjoern Werner, de, Floida State.

25. Minnesota (from Seattle), Xavier Rhodes, db, Florida State.

26. Green Bay, Datone Jones, de, UCLA. 27. Houston, DeAndre Hopkins, wr, Clemson.

28. Denver, Sylvester Williams, dt, North Carolina.

29. Minnesota (from New England), Cordarrelle Patterson, wr, Tennessee.

30. St. Louis (from Atlanta), Alec Ogletree, lb,

Georgia.

31. Dallas (from San Francisco), Travis Frederick, c, Wisconsin.

32. Baltimore, Matt Elam, db, Florida.

2013 NFL Draft Trades Thursday, April 25 1, Oakland traded its first-round pick (No. 3) to Miami for the Dolphins’ first- (No. 12) and secondround (No. 42) picks. Miami selected Dion Jordan, de, Oregon. Oakland selected D.J. Hayden, db, Houston and (No. 42).

2, Buffalo traded its first- (No. 8) and third-round (No. 71) picks to St. Louis for the Rams’ first- (No. 16); second- (No. 46); third- (No. 78) and seventhround (No. 222) picks. St. Louis selected Tavon Austin, wr, West Virginia and (No. 71). Buffalo selected EJ Manuel, qb, Florida State; (No. 46); (No. 78) and (No. 222).

3, Dallas traded its first-round pick (No. 18) to San Francisco for the 49ers’ first- (No. 31) and thirdround (No. 74) picks. San Francisco selected Eric Reid, db, LSU. Dallas selected Travis Frederick, c, Wisconsin and (No. 74).

4, St. Louis traded its first-round pick (No. 22) and a 2015 seventh-round pick to Atlanta for the Falcons’ first- (No. 30); third- (No. 92); and sixth-round (No. 198) picks. Atlanta selected Desmond Trufant, db, Washington. St. Louis selected Alec Ogletree, lb, Georgia; (No. 92) and (No. 198).

5, New England traded its first-round pick (No. 29) to Minnesota for the Vikings’ second- (No. 52); third(No. 83); fourth- (No. 102) and seventh-round (No. 229) picks. Minnesota selected Cordarrelle Patterson, wr, Tennessee. New England selected (No. 52); (No. 83); (No. 102) and (No. 229).

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, April 26, 2013 B5

Heat on the verge of series sweep ALLAN’S PLAYOFF RECORD FOR THREES LEADS HEAT TO ANOTHER WIN OVER BUCKS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heat 104 Bucks 91 MILWAUKEE — Every game, someone different steps up for the Miami Heat.

Well, someone different and that guy named LeBron.

Ageless Ray Allen scored 23, setting the NBA career playoff record for 3-pointers in the process, and LeBron James had seven of his 22 points during a decisive run that closed out the third quarter — and maybe the Milwaukee Bucks. The Heat’s 104-91 victory Thursday night gave the defending champions a 3-0 lead, with a chance to complete the sweep Sunday afternoon at the Bradley Center. “That’s been our calling card all year, the depth that we have,� said Allen, whose five 3s gave him 322 for his career, two more than Reggie Miller. “ “As a team, you’ve got to find way to plug in the holes, and every night we find somebody different.�

Chris Bosh added 16 points and 14 rebounds for the Heat, who have won 11 straight dating to the regular season and 40 of their last 42. Chris Andersen had another big game, scoring 11 on 5-of-5 shooting and grabbing six rebounds in less than 14 minutes.

Dwyane Wade had just four points, and his 1-of-12 shooting was his worst in a post-season game. But he contributed 11 assists, nine rebounds, five steals and two blocks. “I shot the ball terrible,� Wade, who is still nursing a bruised right knee, said with a laugh. “But we played a good game. Game 3 is a tough game.

I thought, as a team, we showed a lot of guts, a lot of grit. When those guys came out hot, we stayed with it, we stayed with our game plan and were able to get a great win. There’s nothing as satisfying as winning a Game 3 on the road. But it’s over now. Now we have to focus on closing the series out.�

Milwaukee, meanwhile, will simply try and avoid being swept.

Larry Sanders and Brandon Jennings had 16 each to lead six Bucks in double figures, and Sanders added 11 rebounds while Jennings contributed eight assists. But the Bucks couldn’t maintain the 10-point lead they took in the first quarter, when they shot 57 per cent (12 of 21) and were 5 of 10 from 3-point range. Milwaukee was just 12 of 21 over the final three quarters (41 per

cent), and made only two more 3s. “I hope we’re still confident,� Jennings said. “As a team, we need to stay together.�

The defending champions still haven’t played their best game. But it hardly matters with their ability to pull off one of their patented runs.

After leading for much of the game, Milwaukee was trying to pull away early in the third. Jennings was fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all three free throws, then followed with a onehand slam after Ersan Ilyasova’s steal.

Luc Mbah a Moute made two sets of free throws, and the Bucks were back up 61-55 with 7:14 left in the third.

But the Heat have made a habit of putting the Bucks away with runs, and this game was no different.

Udonis Haslem made a layup and a pair of free throws, Mario Chalmers followed with a layup and the Heat were off on what would be a 23-7 run to close out the quarter. The Bucks got to 67-66 on a layup by Mbah a Moute, but James answered with a monster 3.

After a pair of free throws by Mbah a Moute, Chalmers stripped Monta Ellis and fed James, who sprinted to the other end for the layup as the Bucks watched helplessly.

Chris Andersen scored on a reverse, James made a layup and then fed Andersen for another layup that gave Miami a 78-68 lead going into the fourth quarter.

The Bucks never got within single digits again. “A three-, four-minute stretch just like in the first two games, where they kind of blitzed us,� Bucks coach Jim Boylan said. “We dug ourselves a big hole that we could not come back from.�

Allen made sure of that, knocking down a huge 3 from the right corner with 8:38 to play to give Miami a 90-73 lead. That broke Miller’s record of 320, and Allen added one more two minutes later. “I think about when I first stepped on this floor for the very first time, I thought about what I was going to be able to contribute to this game,� said Allen, who spent his first six-plus seasons in Milwaukee. “It’s ironic that I’m on this floor right now, because this is where it all started.�

And this could be where the playoffs end for the Bucks.

With no team ever rallying from a 3-0 deficit, Thursday night’s game was a must-win for the Bucks. Miami coach

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Miami Heat’s Chris Andersen is called for a charge against Milwaukee Bucks’ Mike Dunleavy during the first half of Game 3 in their first-round NBA playoff series on Thursday, in Milwaukee.

Erik Spoelstra said his team expected a “desperate, competitive response� from the Bucks, and the Milwaukee players were hoping for a boost by being back home — the first playoff game at the Bradley Center in three years.

Milwaukee certainly looked sharper early on. After struggling to get their entire offence going at the same time in the first two games, the Bucks finally had everything clicking in the first quarter. Sanders set the tone from the first possession, scoring on a layup and converting the three-point play after

he drew a foul.

The Bucks would shoot 57 per cent in the first quarter, getting field goals from six different players — including Jennings, whose struggles in Game 2 contributed to Milwaukee’s demise.

Jennings’ reverse layup sparked a 9-2 run that gave Milwaukee an early 18-11 lead.

He then made a 3, the first of four straight for the Bucks, and Milwaukee found itself with a 10-point lead, double its largest margin in either of the first two games.

Bulls beat cold-shooting Nets to take 2-1 series lead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bulls 79 Nets 76 CHICAGO — Every play near the basket looked like a traffic accident. There were long scoreless stretches. Shooting from outside was a dicey proposition.

It was ugly for everyone but the Chicago Bulls.

This was their type of game.

Carlos Boozer had 22 points and 16 rebounds, Luol Deng added 21 points and 10 boards, and the Bulls held off the Brooklyn Nets 79-76 in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series Thursday night. “We did what we had to do to win the game,�

Boozer said. “In the playoffs you have to win different ways. Nothing is perfect.�

Chicago had no field goals and two foul shots over the final 5:46 of its second straight win in the series.

It will try for a 3-1 lead when the banged-up teams return to the court Saturday afternoon in a quick turnaround.

Brooklyn shot 35 per cent for the second straight game. Brook Lopez had 22 points, nine rebounds and seven blocked shots, and Deron Williams finished with 18 points on 5-for-14 shooting. “When we get the ball swung to the weak side and we get some movement, we’re fine,� Williams said. “But when we just let them keep us on one side, we’re struggling. We’re struggling to shoot the ball, score the ball, and we’re playing right into what they want to do.�

Deng led the way as Chicago grabbed control in the third quarter for the second consecutive game.

The All-Star forward scored 12 points in the first 4 minutes of the period, seemingly scoring at will against Gerald Wallace as the Bulls turned a sevenpoint halftime advantage into a 16-point lead.

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“I had a few good minutes,� Deng said. “I felt like I could have shot the ball a lot better. I don’t know how many minutes, seven or so of great minutes.

They could have sent me home after that.�

Deng connected on four long jumpers before he drove inside for a three-point play off a foul on Wallace. A free throw by Boozer made it 54-38 with 7:36 remaining.

Brooklyn made one last charge when Lopez had eight points in a 10-2 spurt that trimmed Chicago’s lead to 77-74 with 14.4 seconds left. But Nate Robinson and Joakim Noah each hit a free throw and former Bulls guard C.J. Watson missed an open 3 at the buzzer. “I was surprised I was open and I just tried to get it off before the clock went out and just missed it,� he said.

Joe Johnson got a cortisone shot for his ailing left foot and finished 15 points for Brooklyn, while Noah’s foul shot was his only point of the game while dealing with his own painful right foot injury. Noah also had eight rebounds, two assists and two blocks. “I felt pretty good the whole game, other than probably about the last two to three minutes. It had kind of tightened up,� Johnson said. “But other than that, I felt all right.�

The Nets cruised to an easy victory in the playoff opener and flopped in Game 2, when they managed only 11 points in the third period of a 90-82 loss on Monday night that handed home-court advantage to

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Megan Gabert and Kelsie Caine scored tries for the Cougars.

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the Bulls. There was no word on Johnson until the starting lineups came out right before Game 3, but coach P.J. Carlesimo was more focused on Brooklyn playing with more aggression and getting off to a fast start than whether the guard was going to be able to play.

That emphasis worked at the beginning, but it quickly fell apart when the Nets went cold again on offence and the Bulls started to find their rhythm on both ends of the court. “They came out and jumped on us pretty good,�

Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. “So we had to dig out of that hole. Once we did that, I thought for the most part in the second and third quarters we played well.�

Williams had eight quick points, matching his total from all of Game 2 and helping Brooklyn to a 17-5 lead with 6:25 left in the first quarter. The Nets then went scoreless for the next 6 ½ minutes and missed 25 of 26 shots overall while Chicago moved in front.

Hinrich made a layup, Marco Belinelli hit two foul shots and Boozer made a jumper to close out a 28-4 blitz that made it 33-21 with 5 minutes left in the half.

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is the best Canadian team we’ve ever been able to ice.”

He intended to invite 28 players, but Sarah Vaillancourt suddenly retired last week. Church decided not to add another forward to replace her.

Hefford and Wickenheiser, 34, have played for Canada in every Winter Olympics since women’s hockey made its debut in 1998.

Canada won gold in 2002, 2006 and 2010 after taking silver in 1998.

The women battling for jobs on the 2014 team will train and skate together every day. They’ll play about 30 games against midget triple-A boys’ teams in Alberta.

Canada will also play half a dozen exhibition games against the U.S. women. A Dec. 20 date in Grand Forks, N.D., has already been announced. Canada and the U.S. will also participate in the Four Nations Cup in Lake Placid, N.Y., in November.

The invited players will be under the constant scrutiny of Church, as he tries to find the players who can win another gold medal.

“Consistency is a big part of it, being able to fulfil a role within the team and being able to adapt to different roles, that consistent effort and execution,” he listed as his criteria. “Be reliable in tough situations when it matter most.”

Hefford knows from previous experience how stressful and exhausting the months are heading into the Games, yet she loves it.

The winter the Canadian women are centralized in Calgary is the closest they come in their hockey careers to living the life of an NHL player.

“It’s our chance to be a professional athlete,” she says. “We have all the resources we need right there every single day.”

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Nine years ago, Sara McMann wept during the presentation of her Olympic wrestling medal.

They were not tears of joy. At the time, the Athens silver medal was more a symbol of failure than success.

“I really had my heart set on winning it and I was up 2-0 going into the second period (against Japan’s Kaori Icho),” said McMann, who makes her UFC debut Saturday at UFC 159 in Newark, N.J. “I had really worked extremely hard and done everything I could to win the gold.

“I dedicated my entire life to it, so that was devastating to me ... I was heartbroken, there’s just really no other way about it. I wanted more.”

The blow has softened with the realization that McMann had given her all.

“There’s nothing more you can do,” she said in an interview. “Once you put everything out there that you possibly could, you should be proud of what you did. And if that’s a bronze or you made an Olympic team or you were national champion or a state champion — whatever your goals were and, in what you did, you dedicated yourself fully to it, you should be happy with that.”

McMann, 32, begins another quest on the weekend at the Prudential Center against Sheila (The German Tank) Gaff on the undercard of a UFC pay-perview show that sees Jon (Bones) Jones defend his light-heavyweight title against former middleweight contender Chael Sonnen.

The McMann-Gaff fight is the third female bantamweight bout in the UFC. Champion (Rowdy) Ronda Rousey (7-0) defeated Liz Carmouche at UFC 157 in February while Cat Zingano (8-0) earned a title shot with her third-round stoppage of Miesha Tate earlier this month.

Victoria’s Sarah Kaufman (15-2) and Alexis Davis (13-5) of Port Colborne, Ont., wait in the wings for their UFC 135-pound debut.

Like McMann (60), Rousey also has an Olympic silver — in judo at the 2008 Games in Beijing.

McMann, however, has to deal with far more pain than sporting failures.

“A place like the cage does not intimidate her because she’s already been through hell,” said a 2012 CBS Sports “Courage in Sports” segment on McMann.

In January 1999, her older brother Jason disappeared. His body wasn’t found for three months and it took three years to find his killer.

And in 2004, right after the Olympics, fiancee Steven Blackford — a star collegiate wrestler in his own right — was killed when McMann’s car went off the road in Colorado.

After failing to make the U.S. Olympics team for the 2008 Games, McMann got pregnant with daughter Bella.

Two months after becoming a mother, McMann took up jiu-jitsu with an eye to set goals and compete in the sport. Friends started urging her to try MMA and, when she tried her hand at striking, she fell in love with the sport.

“I started picking things up pretty quickly and I started excelling because I was having fun learning a completely new combative sport,” she said.

McMann made her amateur MMA debut in June 2010, stopping Jasmine Reed in one minute 45 seconds. McMann didn’t know how she would feel in the moments leading to her debut, especially against an opponent who came from a boxing background.

“I was quite shocked at how relaxed I felt,” McMann recalled. “I thought it was going to be way different.

“Now it’s kind of settled out to where I get about the same amount of nerves as I would for the high-level wrestling competitions that I’ve competed in.”

Her first pro fight lasted just 1:41, ending with a submission win over Christina Marks in May 2011.

The five-foot-six McMann, who makes her home in Gaffney, S.C., has fought in a variety of promotions since and understands that MMA is an “entertainment sport.”

“It’s real competition and your wins and losses very much count. But they also want to bring out the personality. They want the drama, they want all of the dirt. This is like a sport and soap opera mixed together.”

McMann has trained full time, first in wrestling and now in MMA, since she was 19. She has studied along the way, getting a major in theatre and minor in psychology before finishing up her master’s degree in mental health counselling in 2010.

CALGARY — The oldest player on the Canadian women’s hockey team is ready for the grind of chasing her fourth Olympic gold medal.

Jayna Hefford was one of 27 players invited Thursday by Hockey Canada to come to Calgary on Aug. 6 and train full time for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

It will be the fifth time the 35-year-old forward from Kingston, Ont., moves west to become an Olympian.

She’s one of the 24 out-of-province players who will leave behind school, jobs, club teams, family and friends for seven months to pursue a spot on Canada’s Olympic women’s hockey team.

“It’s always tough to move out there and leave behind your normal life, but at the same time, it’s one of the most exciting years and it really is a short time when you get there,” Hefford says.

“It’s that seven months and it’s intense. You get to do so many cool things.”

Head coach Dan Church of Toronto and assistant coach Lisa Haley of Westville, N.S., will relocate to Calgary. Assistant coach Danielle Goyette of St. Nazaire, Que., coaches the University of Calgary women’s team.

The roster includes 22 players who took the silver medal at the world championships in Ottawa earlier this month, plus another five. Thirteen played for the Canadian team that won Olympic gold in Vancouver in 2010.

Edmonton’s Shannon Szabados, Charline Labonte of Boisbriand, Que., and Genevieve Lacasse of Kingston, Ont., are the three goal-

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The defenders invited are Jocelyne Larocque of Ste. Anne, Man., Brigette Lacquette of Waterhen, Man., Lauriane Rougeau of Beaconsfield, Que., Laura Fortino of Hamilton, Courtney Birchard of Mississauga, Ont., Meaghan Mikkelson of St. Alberta, Alta., Montreal’s Catherine Ward, Tessa Bonhomme of Sudbury, Ont., and Tara Watchorn of Newcastle, Ont. Hefford, Hayley Wickenheiser of Shaunavon, Sask., and Montreal’s Caroline Ouellette are the most veterans forwards among the 15 invited.

Marie-Philip Poulin of Beauceville, Que., scored both of Canada’s goals in a 2-0 win over the U.S. in the 2010 final. Meghan Agosta-Marciano of Ruthven, Ont., was Canada’s leading scorer and tournament MVP in Vancouver.

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Church says he’ll probably name his Olympic team in late December.

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Gordie Howe film Mr. Hockey also puts Mrs. Hockey in spotlight THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It’s called “Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story,” but the film that airs Sunday on CBC-TV gives an equal amount of face time to another key player in the famed family.

As the movie shows, late wife Colleen Howe was the support system for Howe and their hockey-playing sons Marty and Mark, particularly as the beloved patriarch made a comeback to compete alongside his boys in the fledgling pro World Hockey Association league in the 1970s.

“Gordie was this giant on the ice and this giant figure in the hockey world but he’d spent so much of his life devoted to that, that I think even in their later years without her he was kind of lost because she handled everything else,” Vancouver actor Michael Shanks, who plays Howe in the film, said in a telephone interview.

“That’s one of the reasons the movie is dedicated to her. It demonstrates this unsung hero, Mrs. Hockey, who was really where everything flowed back into.”

“She was doing things that women just didn’t do at that time,” said Hamilton-born “Beverly Hills 90210” star Kathleen Robertson, who plays Colleen. “She was very involved and very influential in all the business dealings of what it was to be Gordie Howe in that time period. She was very protective of her sons, she basically negotiated their deals, she was their manager and she was really smart and really tough.”

“Mr. Hockey” finds Saskatchewan-born Howe in his mid-40s, retired from his 25-year career on the ice and unhappily working a job in the Detroit Red Wings front office.

When sons Marty (Dylan Playfair) and Mark (Andrew Herr) are drafted into the newly formed WHA in a deal initiated by agent Colleen, Howe decides to join them and they play for the Houston Aeros in what was billed as “the first father-son team ever.”

As the film shows, the move was also labelled by some as “the biggest publicity stunt in hockey history” and had officials with the rival NHL threatening that the Howe sons would never play in their league.

But Howe wasn’t deterred.

“He’d spent so much of his life playing the game that he was a little bit lost when he wasn’t doing it,” said Shanks, former star of “Stargate SG-1” who is now on the supernatural medical drama “Saving Hope.”

“And then when the opportunity presented itself, where he saw that his two kids were drafted at a young age and he still had that fire burning, I think he just took advantage of the opportunity that he had to use his name to get back in the sport.

“But I think it was just a dream to play with his boys.”

Andy Mikita directed and Malcolm MacRury wrote the script, getting input from Marty and Mark Howe.

Herr and Playfair, whose father (Jim Playfair) is an associate coach for the Phoenix Coyotes, also got to talk to the brothers.

But neither Shanks nor Robertson got to meet with any of the Howes.

Shanks preferred that, though.

“I was actually really reluctant for any opportunity to try and talk to anybody because I didn’t want the pressure of having to live up to another person’s expectations of who or what the character was,” he said.

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“I don’t think anybody’s used to keeping their feet in skates for that length of time,” said Shanks, 42. “So I actually did some nerve damage to two of my toes just from the first day when I kept my feet in the skates the whole time.”

Robertson said Herr’s “feet were just trashed, just bloody and ripped apart” from wearing the ’70s-era skates.

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Actor Andrew Herr as Mark Howe, Michael Shanks as Gordie Howe and Dylan Playfair as Marty Howe are shown in a scene from the film “Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story,” airing on CBC on Sunday.

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Kenseth calls penalties against team ‘grossly unfair’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. — Mild-mannered Matt Kenseth is spitting mad at NASCAR. The driver for Joe Gibbs Racing spoke out Thursday, one day after his team was slapped with some of the harshest penalties in NASCAR history because his race-winning car at Kansas last week failed post-race inspection.

The failure came because one of eight connecting rods in the engine was too light — by 2.7 grams, according to Kenseth, who said the rods collectively weighed more than necessary by about 2.5 grams each.

“I think the penalties are grossly unfair,” Kenseth said. “I think it’s borderline shameful.”

Kenseth was docked 50 driver points in the standings, two more than he earned for the victory. He said he’s more upset about the penalties given to car owner Joe Gibbs and his crew chief, Jason Ratcliff.

Gibbs also was docked 50 points and suspended for six weeks during which he will earn no owner points, essentially taking the No. 20 car Kenseth drives out of contention for winning an owner’s title.

Ratcliff was suspended for six weeks and fined $200,000.

The team is appealing the penalties.

Kenseth understands that a rule is a rule, but the part found to be too light was installed by Toyota Racing Development, which builds engines for JGR at a shop in Costa Mesa, Calif., Kenseth said.

“They show up on a truck or an airplane, get taken out and bolted in the car,” he said.

TDR president Lee White said Wednesday night the company took full responsibility for the mistake and confirmed that JGR had nothing to do with it. He also said the lighter part gave Kenseth no competitive advantage.

“There was no intent. It was a mistake. JGR had no control over it,” Kenseth said with anger.

“Certainly to crush Joe Gibbs like that and say they can’t win an owner’s championship with the 20 this year ... I

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Hall savours move to midfield, helping turnaround of Toronto FC SOCCER THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — He may not get many headlines but Jeremy Hall has already become one of the new-look Toronto FC’s success stories this season.

Installed in central midfield after spending most of last season at fullback, the 24-year-old from Tampa has earned praise along with winger Reggie Lambe from manager Ryan Nelsen for being “consistent standouts.”

“It’s ridiculous how many things both those guys do that probably the fans don’t see or sometimes the media don’t see,” Nelsen said this week after practice.

“Especially Jeremy. He cleans up a lot. He’s very uncomplicated ... That’s what we’ve asked him to do and he’s doing the job brilliantly well.”

Hall says his job on the field is simple.

“I just get it (the ball) and give it,” he said, referring to the likes of attackers Lambe, Luis Silva, Hogan Ephraim and Robert Earnshaw.

“I don’t have to dribble through people like that.”

But Hall is showing vision of his own. Against Houston last Saturday, he spotted a diagonal run by Earnshaw to find him in the penalty box for a shot that bounced off the crossbar.

Later in the game, Hall scored himself with a deft shift of the ball from his left to right foot to find space for a low shot that beat Tally Hall from outside the penalty area. He has also looked after the ball.

Against Houston, Hall completed 38 of 45 passes. Earlier this month against FC Dallas, he was good on 56 of 65 passes. Hall’s role has no doubt been aided by the return to action of Silva, a creative attacking midfielder.

“With his attacking qualities, a lot of teams zone in on him,” said Hall. “So with the runs that he makes, it actually creates space for me.”

Hall is savouring the challenges of the position, trying to anticipate where the ball will go.

After games, he spends times on his laptop, using video analysis software to review his performance.

Having a vocal leader in the back in captain Darren O’Dea helps during the game, he says.

Hall is no stranger to midfielder, having played on the flank during his time with the U.S. under-17 team and the University of Maryland.

Drafted by the New York Red Bulls 11th overall in 2009, Hall was switched to defence by coach Juan Carlos Osorio in the pre-season. New coach Hans Backe moved him to midfield the next season until an injury to a teammate forced him back in defence.

Traded to Portland in November 2010, he spent time in the midfield until he was once again shifted to the backline to

fill an injury void.

“This is probably the first time I’ve actually played midfield throughout the whole season — and the first time in the centre,” said Hall.

Nelsen says he saw Hall as a central midfielder from the first time he set eyes on him during training camp.

“I immediately thought that was his position,” he said. “To tell you the truth, I didn’t consider him in any other role but that position.

Penske employees for six races.

Penske Racing’s appeal is scheduled for May 1.

Most drivers, Keselowski guessed, sympathize with Kenseth.

“I certainly feel bad for him because at the end of the day, Matt doesn’t put together the car and, heck, in this particular situation his team didn’t even put together the engine, so it’s a difficult situation at best,” Keselowski said Thursday at Richmond International Raceway, adding that he also understands that “from NASCAR’s side, they know that if you give an inch, you’ve got to give a mile.”

In the end, said Keselowski, “it’s just a question of whether the penalty fits the crime.”

Later, Kenseth was on the track Thursday practicing in injured JGR teammate Denny Hamlin’s Late Model car, which he agreed to drive in Thursday night’s Short Track Showdown for Hamlin’s charity.

He also was hoping to put the controversy of the past few days behind him, hopefully by Friday.

“My excitement for tonight is at an all-time low,” he said. “It just is right now.”

just can’t wrap my arms around that. It just blows me away. And the same for Jason Ratcliff.

“I don’t feel bad for myself at all, but for Jason and Joe, I couldn’t feel any worse. There’s no more reputable, honest, hard-working guys with good reputations moreso than those two. I feel really bad for them.”

Kenseth said he doesn’t care that the penalty may affect his reputation as a clean racer.

He said anyone with knowledge of the situation knows he and his team had nothing to do with it and gained no advantage. He understands that NASCAR has to police the sport vigilantly, but said “the penalty is way over the top for” the infraction.

He’s not alone and not the only driver hoping the appeals panel provides some relief.

Defending Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski’s team for Penske Racing was punished last week after NASCAR said it found unapproved parts in the rear suspension of Keselowski’s and Joey Logano’s cars at Texas. NASCAR took 25 points away from each driver, fined the crew chiefs $100,000 each and suspended seven

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Michener march planned OPPONENTS OF CLOSURE TO MARCH TO JABLONSKI’S OFFICE ON TUESDAY

PALLIATIVE CARE DISCUSSED Compassionate Communication in Palliative Care will be the topic of discussion at St. Andrew’s United Church Hall on May 7.

Hosted by the Lacombe Palliative Care Society, the event speaker is Bruce Arnold, an associate sociology professor at the University of Calgary.

The dinner is slated for 6 p.m. and the talk gets underway at 7.

There will be a free will offering. RSVP by May 2 to Marg Linklater at 403-782-1887 or Diane Lindquist at 403-7824554.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Supporters of Michener Centre will march down Ross Street straight to Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski’s office on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.

Friends of Michener Centre and Alberta Union of Provincial Employees are calling on the public to join Michener residents, family, and staff in the protest against closing the longstanding facility for the developmentally disabled.

Participants will meet at Coronation Park, at 4540 Ross St., and will walk to Jablonski’s office at 4814 Ross St. The province announced in March that the centre for people with development disabilities will close and that 125 residents from there will be relocated,

starting in September. A target is to have them moved out by 2014. Another 105 residents who already live in Michener Hill group homes will be allowed to stay.

The announcement to close Michener was unexpected. In 2008, the province promised that residents could remain at Michener until they die.

The average age of Michener residents is 60.

The province says it will save $110,000 per person when the 125 residents are moved out and the $1.4 million in savings would be reinvested in the Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD) system.

AUPE anticipates as many as 400 of Michener’s 640 staff will be laid off, redeployed or retrained.

Jason Heistad, AUPE vicepresident, said keeping Michen-

er open to remaining residents has a lot of support in Central Alberta.

“People realize the importance of the facility and the specialized help that is there at Michener Centre. Those services cannot be attained in other facilities. That’s why the support is there,” Heistad said.

Earlier this month, Penhold town council followed Red Deer city council and voted unanimously to oppose the closure.

On Monday, Innisfail town council voted unanimously to send a letter to Premier Alison Redford to keep Michener open.

“There is a letter going off.

We were just drafting it up today to send it off to the provincial authorities to ask them to reconsider,” said Innisfail Mayor Jim Romane.

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Locals can learn some Norwegian in May, with classes in the Scandinavian tongue scheduled at the Norwegian Laft Hus in Red Deer. The classes will run Sunday afternoons in May from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. with Katy Hotchkiss instructing. The fee for the classes is $75.

To register, email norwegianlafthus@ gmail.com or phone 403-347-2055. The Norwegian Laft Hus is in Heritage Square, at 4402 47th Ave., next to the Recreation Centre.

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Red Deer College is partnering with CAREERS: The Next Generation, a nonprofit organization that helps students earn with they learn though internships, again to put on a career expo.

The expo takes place on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Four Centres, east building of main campus of RDC, 100 College Blvd.

Students will have the chance to connect with future employers and with representatives from RDC programs to ask questions about the training they need for the jobs they want. For more information, visit www.rd.ab.ca.

trict has also called on the province to stop the closure.

Bill Lough, president of Society of Parents and Friends of Michener Services, said until now Jablonski has publicly supported Michener.

“We just feel she should stand up for what Michener has represented to the residents and the people of Red Deer,” Lough said.

A Michener rally held on April 10 at Red Deer City Hall attracted about 250 people, including united support from Alberta NDP, Liberal and Wildrose parties.

Names are still being gathered for a petition calling on government to reverse its decision.

For petition information, visit www.keepmicheneropen.com. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

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Annette Tarasoff and her grandson Riley, two, fold a quilt to be donated to a Michener Centre resident on Thursday. The quilter decided before the announcement of the centre’s closure to make the quilts for its 125 residents, but now believes it’s more important than ever. “These are filled with love and anything I can do to keep it open helps.”

PCB removal ongoing CITY NEARS HALFWAY MARK OF LONG-TERM PROJECT

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer is nearing the halfway mark of removing the remaining toxic polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) from its electrical equipment.

Under 2008 federal legislation, the city must remove oil having a PCB concentration between 50 and 500 mg per kilogram by Dec. 31, 2025.

A few years ago, the city removed oil containing 500 mg per kilogram or higher concentrations of PCBs from service.

The city is continuing to eliminate the lower concentrations. To date, the city has removed roughly 47 per cent of oil containing a PCB concentration of at least 50 mg per kilogram and less than 500 mg per kilogram.

There’s 38 pieces of equipment in the city with the concentration of which 18 were remediated, sent for disposal or removed from service and waiting for action.

Paul Goranson, the city’s Development Services Department director, said the work will be completed ahead of the 2025 deadline.

The city is continuing to meet industry stan-

dards after being slapped with a $50,000 fine for releasing 160 litres of contaminated oil from a punctured storage drum at a West Park power transformer substation in 2010. The oil was removed from the electrical transformer and replaced with non-PCB oil.

Canadian regulations allow for owners of PCB equipment to continue using it until the end of its service life. PCBs were used as a coolant in transformers for years. PCBs persist in the environment as well as in humans and animals and are believed to cause cancer.

An education component is part of the penalty. The city took out an ad in the Advocate on Wednesday explaining the charges, the legislation and the city’s plan to remove the substance.

“They are hoping that the other municipalities or anybody else who might be using PCBs to pay attention and to become more aware it’s out there,” said Goranson.

The proceeds of the $50,000 penalty under court order will be used for environmental protection or enhancement in Red Deer. This may include using the money on projects focused on the restoration of natural resources. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

An anonymous tip has led Olds RCMP to reopen its investigation into the death of a stallion after some horse pens were opened at Olds College in the middle of the night last September.

Acting Cpl. Steve Bereza said that police received an anonymous letter several weeks ago from someone claiming that a specific person at a bar was talking quite openly about what happened that night.

That person was brought in for questioning.

“Right now, we are looking at (doing a) polygraph,” said Bereza on Wednesday. “They have agreed to it.”

Sometime between 10 p.m. on Sept. 8 and 7:45 a.m. on Sept. 9, one or more persons went into the horse stables and released as many as seven animals, including five stallions, into a feed alley.

It’s likely that the stallions started fighting, resulting in the death of a 15-year-old prized stallion and leg injuries to another one.

The horses were part of the Olds College’s equine program. The college later put up a $4,000 award if information led to the arrest of those responsible.

Bereza said the letter indicated the male and possibly some others were involved.

The investigation continues.

“We do want somebody to get charged on this because of the seriousness of the event,” said Bereza.

“We don’t know who this anonymous person is and we would like to know because we’d definitely like to get a statement from them.”

At the time of the incident, veterinarian and longtime equine program co-ordinator Marion Anderson said that the program has existed for more than 40 years. This was the first time that this type of thing has ever happened, she said.

Olds College spokesman Dean Turnquist said the $4,000 award was depleted after the investigation was closed.

Part of the money was used to install surveillance cameras in the area.

“We don’t have a final tally on expenses of those surveillance cameras,” said Turnquist on Thursday.

The reward money was raised through a student-run event, and from industry partners and others.

Turnquist said the injured horse has made a full recovery and has been active in this breeding season. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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Straw bale maze open at Heritage Ranch Heritage Ranch’s first-ever strawbale maze is now ready for those members of the public who dare to venture inside.

Built from an assortment of small and large bales shaped in the image of a horse’s head, the maze will be open to the public from now through July 10.

Thursdays are Date Nights, with the maze open from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Tickets for Date Night are $25 per person, including a carriage ride from the ranch house to the maze.

Family packages are available from 3 to 11 p.m. on Fridays and 1 to 11 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays at $45 for a family of four, including pony rides for children and a carriage ride to the maze.

Learn more online at www.heritageranch.ca or by calling 403-347-4977.

Horses, horse lovers gather at Westerner Park Horses and the people who love and admire them have amassed in Red Deer for Western Canada’s biggest equestrian trade show.

The 10th running of Red Deer’s edition of the Mane Event starts today at Westerner Park.

The event features training clinics, demonstrations, evening performances (tonight and Saturday) and a trade show offering everything equine, from calendars and greeting cards to training services and barn packages.

Doors are open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Evening performances, Equine Experience, open at 8:15 p.m.

Adult admission is $15 for the day or

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Work is continuing at Heritage Ranch and the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame as workers from Pidherney’s complete water and sewer line service to the museum. The buildings at Heritage Ranch were first to be hooked into the City of Red Deer water and sewer service and the corrals at the ranch are looking more like a construction zone than a farmyard. But work should be finished on the project soon, says Heritage Ranch operator Joel Martens. $40 for the weekend, with discounts for children seven to 12 and free for those who are six and under.

Equine Experience is an additional $10 for a guaranteed seat and must be purchased with a day or weekend admission.

Visit www.maneeventexpo.com for details, including a detailed schedule of events.

Casino plans parking lot, but rezoning comes first The owner of Jackpot Casino has plans to build a large parking lot east of the casino in Parkvale.

Franklin Daines said he will take the necessary steps, including applying for rezoning and development permits. The land is currently zoned for single family dwelling and duplexes under the City of Red Deer’s Land Use bylaw.

This week, the two buildings on the site – Botterill House and a bungalow – were demolished. Daines said he does not have a timeline in place but he will ensure all the proper paper work and applications are filed with the city.

Ponoka sets second meeting on contentious bylaw Ponoka will hold another public meeting on May 7 for public input on its business hours bylaw.

Council gave the bylaw second reading at its meeting on Tuesday, accepting administration’s recommendation that the meeting be held.

An online survey on the issue on the town’s website from Feb. 27 to April 18 garnered 26 responses.

“We’re hearing lots from liquor store owners, exceptionally little from the public,” said town chief administrative officer Brad Watson.

Council also dropped provisions limiting pawn shop hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., as well as liquor deliveries

ending at 10:30 p.m. Instead, deliveries to licensed activities would be allowed in accordance with provincial gaming and liquor commission legislation.

The bylaw to restrict liquor store sales and hotel liquor off-sales to 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. passed first reading last November. It’s modelled on a Wetaskiwin bylaw that has been in effect since Jan. 1, 2010.

At a Jan. 15 public meeting, RCMP Staff Sgt. Cameron Chisholm of the Ponoka detachment said 2012 statistics showed the town’s drunk driving rate was 2.62 times the provincial rate of 450 per 100,000.

The May 7 meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Ponoka Kinsmen Centre.

Local libraries get cash to help share resources

Red Deer Public Library and Central Alberta’s regional library system will benefit in different ways from a $25,000 provincial grant.

Alberta Municipal Affairs announced on Thursday that it was giving a one-time $400,000 grant to help public libraries with the costs of sharing resources. The grant was made available with funds from the 2012-13 fiscal budget.

The public library will use its money for technology.

Library director Dean Frey said it will help build their network, but he’s not sure exactly where the money will go at this point.

Frey said the dollars isn’t unexpected, but is very much welcomed.

“It’s a real area of need for public libraries to continue to invest in The Red Deer Regional Health Foundation would technology,” said Frey. like to thank many valuable, hard working volunteers “It’s nice to get good who dedicate numerous hours throughout the news. These are small amounts (of money) but year to the Foundation. Our volunteers help us

Second hospital fire probed

BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF Fire-medics have been called to a mental health unit at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre for a mattress fire for the second time in less than eight weeks.

On Wednesday, Red Deer Emergency Services responded to a 3 p.m. call of a mattress fire inside Unit 34 on the hospital’s third floor. The ward was partially evacuated and the fire was put out by staff before fire-medics arrived. The fire was contained to the mattress in one room.

The cause of the fire

is under investigation.

Allan Sinclair, executive director for Red Deer of Alberta Health Services, said on Thursday that this fire on Unit 34 was smaller than the one that took place next door in Unit 36 on March 13. Hospital staff evacuated Unit 36 and adjacent units due to smoke and gases from the fire prior to fire crews arriving.

“This one was contained to a mattress and some bedding — far different from the fire last time when the sprinkler had to come on,” said Sinclair. The March fire was also more significant since there was more

cleanup to do, since water seeped below.

Sinclair said they do have protocols and procedures around weapons and other dangerous items, including matches.

There’s also a policy on tobacco use.

While the hospital is largely smoke free, there are exceptions for people due to compassionate reasons, Sinclair said.

“Sometimes those would be patients in mental health where they are permitted to have smoking materials while on site and usually those are kept away from patient areas,” he added.

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they mean a fair amount to us.”

Ron Sheppard, director of Parkland Regional Library System based in Lacombe, said they are on the verge of many new opportunities to expand library service in Alberta.

The grant will help cover costs as they share resources with colleagues and library users in other communities across the province, he said in a news release.

Meredith Bratland, communications co-ordinator for Parkland, said they have an extensive computer system so that people are able to get a book from Camrose to Didsbury, for example.

Right now, the sharing occurs within the Parkland region only.

“With this money, all of our libraries will be able to link together for the ultimate goal of having that resource sharing over the whole province and not just in the system,” said Bratland.

“There’s so much out there and if people can get it, then it’s wonderful.”

The regional system has a current service which allows books to be shipped out by post, so this is great for someone lives in a rural area outside town, Bratland added.

The grant is giving $25,000 to seven regional library systems and seven municipal libraries in total.

“But there’s always going to be some need to make sure there’s an opportunity to permit smoking.”

Sinclair said he couldn’t say whether the patient was smoking in the room since the investigation remains underway. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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Hockey Hall of Famer Darryl Sittler is the featured speaker at the Red Deer Regional Catholic Education Foundation’s fundraising gala at the Black Knight Inn on Wednesday.

The former Leaf great holds one record that no one has ever been close to besting — most points in a game.

On Feb. 7, 1976, Sittler recorded 10 points (six goals, four asFormer Toronto sists) against the Maple Leaf great Boston Bruins.

Sittler played Darryl Sittler will for the Leafs, be in Red Deer on the Philadelphia Wednesday.

Flyers and the Detroit Red Wings during his 15 years (1970 to 1985) in the NHL. He played his best games with the Leafs over 12 seasons before being traded to the Flyers in 1982. Sittler retired in 1985 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989.

He played 1,096 games netting 484 goals and 637 assists and 1121 career points in his NHL career.

Dinner is served at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $150. For ticket information, call the Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre at 403-343-1055, or go to www. blackknightinn.ca.

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WEST FRASER TIMBER SWING TO Q1 PROFIT OF $67M VANCOUVER — West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (TSX:WFT) swung to a profit in the first quarter as the forestry company reported improved lumber prices. The company, whose operations include Sundre Forest Products and West Fraser LVL near Rocky Mountain House, said Thursday it earned $67 million or $1.57 per share on sales of $863 million in the first quarter of 2013. That compared with a loss of $19 million or 45 cents per share on revenue of $681 million.

West Fraser said its lumber operations generated operating earnings of $122 million and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization or EBITDA of $146 million in the quarter. “The improvement over the prior quarter reflects improved prices for SPF (spruce, pine and fir) and SYP (southern yellow pine) lumber,” the company said in its earnings release. It said the outlook for both SPF and SYP lumber prices steadily improved throughout the quarter heading into the spring building season.

BITUMEN PRICE GAP COSTLY FOR IMPERIAL OIL CALGARY — A wider oilsands crude discount took its toll on Imperial Oil Ltd. during the first quarter, when the oil producer and refiner saw its profit drop by 21 per cent from a year earlier.

The Calgary-based company also said Wednesday that start up of its over-budget and delayed Kearl oilsands mine is “imminent,” which should add another 110,000 barrels of heavy oil per day to the North American market later this year. Imperial (TSX:IMO), majority-owned by U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil Corp., earned $798 million or 94 cents per share during the first three months of the year, down from about $1 billion, or $1.19 during the same 2012 period. The results beat the average analyst estimate of 93 cents, according to Thomson Reuters. Imperial said the company realized an average of $43.63 a barrel for the bitumen it produced, down 34 per cent from a year earlier.

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Factory has Canadian link JOE FRESH ITEMS MADE IN BANGLADESH FACTORY THAT COLLAPSED, KILLING MORE THAN 200

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — As rescuers continued to pull corpses and survivors from the rubble of a collapsed garment factory in Bangladesh, some consumers in Canada were shocked to learn that items from their favourite brands were made there.

The building collapsed Wednesday killing at least 238 people, many of them poorly paid workers who were forced to keep producing clothes even after police ordered an evacuation due to deep, visible cracks in the walls.

Canadian clothing line Joe Fresh was among the customers of the garment factories operating in the building.

Natalie Erb, 24, shops at Joe Fresh at least once a week for everything from yoga clothes to office wear, she said. The news out of Bangladesh has the loyal customer disturbed about her purchases.

“To be honest, I had never really done much research into where Joe Fresh manufactures their clothing, but knowing what I do now, I’m hugely disappointed in the company,” said the Halifax woman.

“I don’t know if I’ll be buying from the line any time soon, or ever again for that matter.”

Joe Fresh parent company Loblaw (TSX:L) released a statement Thursday saying some Joe Fresh items were made in the factory and offered its condolences to the victims and their families.

The company said it requires vendors to ensure products are being manufactured in a socially responsible way, prohibiting child harassment, abuse and forced labour, as well as ensuring fair pay, benefits and health and safety standards.

Spokeswoman Julija Hunter said the standards are audited on a regular basis and align with those of the industry around

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A Bangladeshi rescuer looks out from a hole cut in the concrete as he looks for survivors at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday. By Thursday, the death toll reached at least 238 people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete. the world.

“However, in light of the recent tragedies in Bangladesh we recognize that these measures do not address the issue of building construction or integrity,” she said in a statement.

Loblaw is in the process of reaching out to the Retail Council of Canada, other retailers and government to establish a review to address Bangladesh’s approach to

PSAC ups well forecast by about 5%

factory standards, Hunter said.

“We don’t have all the answers today,” she wrote. “But we are committed to taking the necessary steps to drive change, and find better solutions to ensure safe working conditions for production facilities with which we do business.”

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JAZZERCISE

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Petroleum Services Association of Canada continues to revise upward its prediction for activity in the oilpatch this year.

The trade association, which represents companies in the service, supply and manufacturing sectors of the upstream petroleum industry, said Thursday that it now expects 12,000 wells to be drilled this year.

That’s up about five per cent over the 11,475 wells that PSAC was projecting in January and the 11,400 it was calling for in its original 2013 forecast last November.

The new tally would mark a nine per cent improvement over the 2012 count, when 11,025 wells were drilled.

“Drilling activity is keeping on a steady pace this year, and we anticipate another pick up in activity in Q3 and Q4,” said PSAC president and CEO Mark Salkeld, in a release. “Even with steady levels of activity this year, continued low gas prices and the impact of infrastructure bottlenecks that are squeezing access to new markets are certainly having an impact.”

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Jazzercise Red Deer Fitness Center is busy getting ready to open up their new location and owner and instructor Tanya Rundle had some help Thursday from her daughter Grace as they hung the banner on the stage in the new facility at 7667 Gaetz Ave. in the Centre 76 complex. The fitness centre is scheduled to move from its existing space in Cronquist Business Park on May 10, with a Jazzathon in support of breast cancer research to be held at the new location on May 11. Classes that day will be offered at 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:15 p.m., all free and with child care provided. A barbecue in support of the same cause will run from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. that day.

Sears Canada chief says some of its business is struggling, needs ‘reset’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Sears Canada chief executive Calvin McDonald says there is still much work to be done as the department store retailer reconsiders what it sells in its stores and how many locations it operates.

“We don’t have our balance 100 per cent right,” McDonald said at the company’s annual meeting on Thursday.

“There are still businesses that we’re in today ... that are struggling, declining in the marketplace and we need to reset.”

A year into a major transformation McDonald outlined to shareholders the efforts that have been made and some of the plans for the future. He said the company is about “halfway through” the changes.

So far, Sears Canada has managed to save about $100 million in costs and McDonald hopes to squeeze another $100 million to $200 million over the “next few years.”

Various options are on the table after laying off about 700 employees earlier this year and closing four of its prime stores.

“We don’t intend to exit any locations but as we look at creating value through our assets ... we’re doing the right due diligence to evaluate those,” he said.

“We will continue to review our business’ processes and improve where we allocate resources and ensure that we have the right size for the volume we have today and for the future,” he said.

The adjustments won’t all necessarily impact its retail operations directly. Sears owns backroom operations that McDonald suggested could be outsourced, like the company did with its Sears Card in 2005.

Sears has been hurriedly making reworking how it operates as competition in the retail sector intensifies, encouraged partly by the entry of Target into Canada — which opened its first stores outside of the United States last month.

Other U.S. retailers like Marshalls have also made inroads into the Canadian market, adding extra pressure to standout.

“If we want to remain relevant, we’ve got to continue to adjust,” McDonald said.

Gone from its main department stores will be electronics and window coverings.

Toys are now sold only online and more changes are in the works, like a scaled down selection of its Craftsman hardware products.

“We are going to potentially exit something in retail, but play it very heavy in another channel,” he said.

Sears will substitute those lines with a wider selection of seasonal offerings and outdoor products, for example.

The company’s leadership needs to weigh its product lines against questions like, “Are we losing?” or “Is it a declining category?” McDonald said.

Other department stores have also taken a chisel to their strategy. Hudson’s Bay Company (TSX:HBC) is in the middle of a makeover that emphasizes the exclusive store-within-a-store offerings like U.K. men’s clothing store Topman.

Sears is more focused on its brands, McDonald said. In addition to the Craftsman tools, the company also sells major appliances under its own Kenmore label as well as other major brands.

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Business confidence still sliding

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The confidence level of small business operators in Alberta is at its lowest point in nearly 3 ½ years, according to a recent survey conducted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).

The national association said Thursday that its latest “Business Barometer” survey indicated a 1.4-point drop in Alberta’s small business confidence in April, pulling the index down to 65.3 out of a possible 100.

The province’s confidence rating has been trending downward in recent months, going from 71 in February to 66.7 in March.

“There is likely one of two things happening here,” said Richard Truscott, CFIB’s Alberta director. “It may mean the recent string of bad economic news about an under-performing global and national economy is finally starting to seep into the outlook of Alberta’s business owners. Alternatively, the drift downward may simply mean their optimism is flattening out to be more in line with where we are in the economic cycle.”

Across Canada, the Business Barometer index was 69.1 in Newfoundland, 67.6 in British Columbia, 67.2 in Saskatchewan, 64.1 in Quebec, 63.2 in Ontario, 61.7 in Manitoba, 58.1 in New Brunswick, 55.1 in Prince Edward Island and 53.8 in Nova Scotia.

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C4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, April 26, 2013

MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 94.30 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 92.79 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.74 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.96 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.36 Cdn. National Railway . . 98.00 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 125.62 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 81.86 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.49 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.60 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 33.97 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 46.88 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.04 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.30 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.71 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 16.07 Research in Motion. . . . . 15.15 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.36 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.58 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 43.44 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 35.69 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.74 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 49.77

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.44 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.85 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 54.60 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.65 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.91 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.46 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.44 First Quantum Minerals . 18.00 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.56 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.42 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.79 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 41.72 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.57 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 27.08

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 73.56 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.10 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.03 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.30 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.09

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 27.65 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 42.64 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.25 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.67 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 48.83 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 30.20 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 19.52 Canyon Services Group. 10.42 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 29.64 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 19.04 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.04 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.07

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher for a sixth session Thursday, boosted by another string of advances from beaten down commodity prices and strong earnings reports from the retail, resource and tech sectors.

The S&P/TSX composite index advanced 59.08 points to 12,329.51 following a 179-point

surge Wednesday as traders bargain hunted after the TSX tumbled more than two per cent last week on worries about slowing economic conditions.

“When you look at where we are, some of these commodities have all of a sudden come back to life,” said Fred Ketchen, manager of equity trading at Scotia Capital.

“If you can get a few days un-

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.75 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.32 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 28.93 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.51 IROC Services . . . . . . . . . 2.92 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.08 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.41 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.990 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.10 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 29.59 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.99 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.30 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 6.92 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.82 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 63.41 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 56.97 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.91 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.20 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . 34.46 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 26.72 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.32 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 61.26 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.69 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 75.88 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.05 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 60.48 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 27.78 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.36 der your belt and there is some consistency to it, it reinforces the confidence that people have that maybe there is a recovery in that (commodity) sector.”

Strengthening prices for oil and metals and positive economic news from Canada’s biggest trading partner pushed the Canadian dollar ahead 0.46 of a cent to 97.96 cents US. U.S. markets also advanced

as traders balanced earnings disappointments from energy giant ExxonMobil and conglomerate 3M with a strong reading on jobless insurance claims.

The Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 24.5 points at 14,700.8 as unemployment insurance claims for last week were down 16,000 to 339,000 — the lowest in six weeks. Analysts had forecast expectations of 350,000.

The Nasdaq climbed 20.34 points to 3,289.99 and the S&P 500 index rose 6.37 points to 1,585.16.

The base metals sector led TSX advances, up just over three per cent as May copper gained eight cents to US$3.24 a pound following a six-cent runup Wednesday after Goldman Sachs said it expected copper prices to rebound in the next three months.

The rising copper price is also being driven by hopes that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates to stimulate the economy next Thursday. First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) climbed 65 cents to C$18.

The gold sector was up about 0.7 per cent while gold futures jumped for a second day, with the June bullion contract rising $38.30 to US$1,462 an ounce.

The trend is partly due to bargain hunters looking for a deal after bullion plunged last week to US$1,361 an ounce, its lowest level in more than two years. It is now halfway back to levels it was before the price of gold began dropping in the second week of April. “(Gold) is in the recovery ward — now I don’t know how long that’s going to last,” said Ketchen.

Alamos Gold (TSX:AGI) improved by 96 cents C$13.89.

The energy sector was also positive, up 0.69 per cent as positive jobless news helped send the June crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange up $2.21 to US$93.64 a barrel.

Prices advanced more than $2 on Wednesday in the wake of

data showing a much weaker than forecast rise in U.S. inventories last week.

Imperial Oil Ltd. (TSX:IMO) said its first-quarter net income was down 21 per cent from a year ago, mainly because of a wider discount on the price of bitumen produced at its Cold Lake oilsands operation. The company’s profit fell by $217 million to $798 million, or 94 cents per share, down from $1.19 or about $1 billion a year earlier.

Its shares were up 42 cents to $40.51.

ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), which owns a majority stake in Imperial Oil, reported net income of US$9.5 billion in the quarter, or $2.12 per share, on revenue of $108.8 billion. Analysts expected Exxon to earn $2.05 per share, on average. Exxon shares were down $1.36 to $88.07.

The tech sector grew by 2.68 per cent as Open Text (TSX:OTC) charged ahead $7.17 or 12.42 per cent to $64.91 as it announced plans Wednesday to start paying a quarterly dividend of 30 cents a share starting in June.

At the same time, the company reported lower net profit of US$25.8 million in its third quarter compared with US$34.7 million in the same period last year.

The consumer staples group was also positive. Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. (TSX:SC) earned $119.5 million or 59 cents per share on sales of $2.49 billion in its latest quarter compared with a profit of $118.8 million or 56 cents per share on sales of $2.39 billion a year ago. Samestore sales were up 2.5 per cent for the quarter. Its shares gained 15 cents to $44.85.

Elsewhere on the earnings front, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (TSX:POT) is reporting an improved first-quarter profit, with $556 million or 63 cents per share of net income that beat analyst estimates. However the company’s guidance for the second quarter is estimated at 70 to 85 cents per share, which was below the consensus estimate

of 89 cents per share. Its 2013 guidance remains unchanged at between $275 and $3.25 per share. Potash shares were up $1.08 at $41.72.

In the U.S., net income for 3M (NYSE:MMM) was just slightly higher than a year ago at $1.13 billion, or $1.61 per share. Revenue rose two per cent to $7.63 billion. Revenue and profits were both short of analyst expectations. 3M, the maker of Scotch tape and construction and safety materials, is a good window into the broader economy. Its shares fell $3 to US$104.87.

Traders, meanwhile, looked ahead to the major report of the week on Friday with the release of U.S. economic growth data for the first quarter. Economists expect U.S. gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of three per cent in the January-toMarch period.

The TSX Venture Exchange rose 12.97 points to 964.67.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: May ’13 $1.30 lower $636.30; July ’13 $0.30 lower $619.40; Nov. ’13 $0.30 lower $551.40; Jan. ’14 $0.40 lower $552.00; March ’14 $0.30 lower $546.10; May ’14 $0.30 lower $544.00; July ’14 $0.30 lower $542.10; Nov. ’14 $0.30 lower $517.70; Jan ’15 $0.30 lower $517.70; March ’15 $0.30 lower $517.70; May ’15 $0.30 lower $517.70.

Barley (Western): May ’13 unchanged $243.50; July ’13 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $194.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $199.00; March ’14 unchanged $199.00; May ’14 unchanged $199.00; July ’14 unchanged $199.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $199.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $199.00; March ’15 unchanged $199.00; May ’15 unchanged $199.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 608,580 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 532,460.

Spain’s jobless rate jumps to record 27.2% in Q1

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID, Spain — With over 6 million unemployed for the first time ever, Spain’s jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2013, the National Statistics Institute said Thursday, in another grim picture of the recessionwracked country.

The agency said the number of people unemployed rose by 237,400 people in the first three months of the year, a 1.1 per cent increase from the previous quarter. The total out of work stood at 6.2 million people, the first time the number has breached the 6-million mark.

Unsurprisingly, the details of the report make for

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FACTORY: Shock NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said most Canadians were shocked when they saw the working conditions in Bangladesh.

“We have trade offices and missions all over the world and we should be using those assets we have to ensure that when it comes to Canadian companies engaged overseas, that there’s basic labour standards... actually being followed,” he said.

Worker Rights Consortium, a labour-rights monitoring organization, first circulated a photo of a Joe Fresh label amid the rubble in Bangladesh. The country is the “worst place in the world for apparel workers,” said the group’s executive director.

But it’s certainly not alone, said Scott Nova, and that should come as no surprise to no one.

“It has been well known for many years that most of the apparel bought and worn by people in Canada and the U.S. and Europe is made in developing countries where the industries are defined by low wages and poor working conditions,” he said from Washington, D.C. “You can try to buy stuff that’s made in Canada or made in the U.S., you can buy from a handful of niche brands that generally produce under better conditions, but 99.9 per cent of the apparel that’s offered for sale to consumers is made in sweatshops.”

grim reading.

The number of people considered long-term unemployed — out of a job for more than a year — increased to 3.5 million while the unemployment rate for those aged under 25 was a staggering 57 per cent.

The government body also said its survey found the number of households without any one working had risen by 72,400 to a 1.91 million.

“The situation is really bad, with all the cuts that there have been, there are families that are going through a bad time because a lot of families have all the members unemployed and they don’t have any income,” said shop assistant Rodrigo Limpias , 30.

Labour Ministry employment secretary Engracia Hidalgo described the figures as “dramatic” but said the government was working non-stop to try make

Spain a job creator once again.

Spain has been in recession for much of the past four years as it struggles to deal with the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector in 2008.

In just over a year in office, the conservative government has launched a series of financial and labour reforms and pursued a raft of spending cuts and tax increases that have managed to reduce a swollen deficit. Even so, the country had the highest budget deficit among the 17 European Union countries that use the euro in 2012.

“This is getting worse every day. (The government) has no solution, there are more and more people unemployed and we don’t have enough to eat,” said Maria Carmen Huerta, 55, an unemployed IT worker.

flect that activity,” said Salkeld. “While at the same time, we are seeing increased activity in both Northern Alberta with exploratory and development wells around the oilsands in situ plays, and increased activity along the Pembina Cardium fairway, as well as for the Bakken and Banff-Exshaw formations in Southern Alberta.”

the important holiday shopping period.

SEARS: Not out of hot water yet McDonald said Sears is making inroads with a younger shoppers, helped by promotional materials like its Look Report magazine which touts its seasonal clothing selection. About 40 per cent of shoppers who purchased items from the Spring edition were under 44, he said, an increase from 16 per D cent in February before I the issue hit stores.

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The national average was 62.4.

The CFIB noted in a release that the broad trends in Alberta remain positive, with “fairly healthy hiring intentions and low levels of concern about domestic demand.” Thirty per cent of survey respondents said they plan to hire full-time staff, down two points from March, while six per cent anticipated a decline in their workforce.

Forty-two per cent also said that a shortage of skilled labour was their main operating challenge.

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Researchers say playing Tetris can help treat lazy eye THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Patching has long been used to treat a lazy eye in children, although the therapy has limited success and doesn’t work at all in adults with the condition formally known as amblyopia.

Now researchers at McGill University in Montreal are testing an innovative means of improving visual function in adults with lazy eye — a puzzle video game that forces both eyes to work together to overcome the common condition.

In a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology, the researchers compared the use of the online video game Tetris with patching, a treatment in which the “good” eye is covered for a lengthy period of time. The idea is to make the weak eye do all the visual work in the hope of strengthening its acuity. The patients treated using Tetris showed a four-fold improvement in vision in their lazy eye compared with those who were patched, said ophthalmologist Dr. Robert Hess, director of vision research at the McGill University Health Centre and principal investigator of the study.

Tetris is an early video game that involves manipulating shapes made of small squares — moving them side-toside or rotating them — as they fall to the bottom of a background grid of same-sized squares. The goal is to connect different shaped blocks, putting them together in an integrated whole before they fall to the bottom.

“The game itself is sort of incidental in a way,” Hess explained Monday from Montreal.

“It just provides us with a platform to administer this training that we need to do in a way that’s enjoyable.

“The game itself is not so important as the principle behind how we manipulate the game to do some good.”

About three to four per cent of the population develops a lazy eye in very early childhood, making it the most common cause of vision problems in children. A lazy eye, which is unable to see details in sharp focus, has a number of causes, including having misaligned eyes (being cross-eyed) or having a congenital cataract that clouds the lens.

The eye itself is usually otherwise normal, as is the optic nerve that transfers visual information to the brain.

The problem is with the brain’s visual cortex, which has learned to suppress the information from the weak eye in favour of the other eye, leading to single-eye or monocular vision.

“We know the eye itself is fine; we know it’s all in the brain,” said Hess. “We’re now beginning to realize that it’s just the software that’s gone wrong.”

Typically, people with amblyopia also have little or no 3D vision, because it takes both eyes working together to provide depth of vision.

“It looks flat and boring. If you ever try walking around with a patch over one eye, the world looks miserable,” Hess said of having inadequate three-dimensional depth of field.

“It’s getting the brain to get out of this learned suppressive mode that we’re trying to do with this game.”

In the study of 18 adults with amblyopia, half played the game Tetris an hour a day for about six weeks, while the other half had a patch put over their good eye and played the game with just their bad eye.

For the first group, the idea was to make the lazy eye focus on the falling shapes, which the researchers made high contrast, and to have the dominant eye focus only on the background grid, which was rendered in low contrast.

“Using head-mounted video goggles, we were able to display the game dichoptically, where one eye was allowed to see only the falling objects and the other eye was allowed to see only the ground-plane objects,” said Hess “And it turns out the more they do that, the more the two eyes work together for the first time ever for them, the stronger it becomes and the more we can increase the contrast in the good eye, higher and higher, and bring it all the way up so the contrast is the same.

“We know they’re doing it because they’re playing a video game, where to increase the contrast, they need to get a good score. And to get a good score, they need to have combined the information in two eyes.”

Daniel Doyon, 25, didn’t find out he had amblyopia until he had an eye exam paid for by his employer. It was when he went online looking for information about the condition that he discovered the McGill study and volunteered to be a participant.

“I always thought I needed glasses, but I have one very good eye, so I’m able to read. It was never a very pressing issue,” the renewable energy analyst said from Montreal. “I thought it was something that glasses could fix.

“I did see a noticeable improvement,” Doyon said of the treatment. “The first thing, it was summer and I play beach volleyball quite a bit, and I noticed that I

Canadian chapter of Internet Society opens THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A Canadian chapter of the Internet Society, which advocates on digital issues on behalf of all web users, is officially open for membership.

Canada is the last G20 nation to have a national branch of the Internet Society launched within its borders.

The group said it will involve itself with issues including net neutrality, rural accessibility, Internet service provider concentration, and cross-ownership of content providers by Internet carriers.

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had better depth perception. I always had trouble with setting. You have to get (the ball) right in that spot for the person, and I noticed after the trial it became much, much easier.”

The researchers also measured his ability to read with his weaker eye and found that, too, had improved. “It’s not 100 per cent, but it’s much better than it was,” he said.

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Professor Robert Hess, left, director of research at the department of ophthalmology at McGill University and Dr. Simon Clavagnier, a McGill vision research associate, demonstrate the effect wearing goggles while playing the game Tetris has on a lazy eye in Montreal.

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Bylaw Authorizing Amendment to River Bend Loan Bylaw Amendment 3391/A-2013 proposes to amend Bylaw 3391/2007 which authorizes The City of Red Deer to change the repayment schedule for the River Bend Golf & Recreation Society. A copy of the proposed bylaw may be inspected by the public at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor of City Hall, during regular office hours.

The electors may submit a petition calling for a vote of the electors to determine whether the proposed bylaw should be passed. The petition must meet the formal requirements of Sections 221-226 of the Municipal Government Act and be filed with the Manager, Legislative Services within 15 days after the last date the proposed bylaw is advertised. The last date of advertisement for this bylaw is Friday, May 3, 2013. Any petition will be public information. The bylaw will be considered by Red Deer City Council at the Monday, May 27, 2013 Council Meeting. If you have any questions regarding the petition process or the use of the petition please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132

2013 Off-Site Levy Bylaw 3498/2013 Red Deer City Council proposes to pass Bylaw 3498/2013, The 2013 Off-Site Levy Bylaw which provides for a uniform levy of off-site costs in respect of previously undeveloped land. The City charges off-site levies on new development lands within the City to cover the cost of extending the trunk water, sanitary, and storm mains, arterial roadways, and associated facilities to serve these areas.

The public may inspect the proposed bylaw at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor of City Hall during regular office hours.

City Council will consider second and third reading of this bylaw at the Monday, May 13, 2013 Council Meeting in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor at City Hall.

If you want your comments included on the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Monday, May 6, 2013 otherwise, you may submit your comments at the Council meeting.

Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Development Officer Approvals On April 23, 2013, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Anders South 1. D Streight – a 2.35 metre relaxation to the distance from doors to rear property line, and a 0.4 metre relaxation to the maximum height for a proposed detached garage, located at 57 Asmundsen Avenue.

2. Sully Chapman Beattle LLP. – a 0.35 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing hot tub, located at 188 Ainsworth Crescent.

Garden Heights 3. R & K Wills – a 14.4 m2 relaxation to the maximum site coverage to a new single family dwelling with an attached garage, to be located at 14 Grove Close.

4. J Smith – area development for a 118.91 m2 detached garage, to be located at 3743 43 Avenue.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on May 10, 2013. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403342-8399.

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Details as to eligibility, conditions of sale, prices, etc. may be obtained from: Laebon Developments Ltd. 403-346-7273 If this site is not purchased for the purpose listed above by December 31, 2013 it will alternatively be developed for low density residential uses in accordance with the approved Timber Ridge Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan.

INVITATION TO TENDER THE CITY OF RED DEER Sealed Tenders clearly marked “2013 Pavement Rehabilitation – May 16, 2013”, delivered or mailed to: The City of Red Deer Purchasing Section Main Floor, City Hall 4914 - 48 Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 3T4 and received before 2:00:00 p.m. local time on Thursday May 16, 2013 will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

The Work is comprised of: A. 3322 square metres of extra depth asphalt repairs B. 247,500 square metres of asphaltic concrete pavement milling C. 39,700 tonnes of asphaltic concrete overlay paving D. 18,079 linear metres of thermoplastic pavement markings Tender Documents may be obtained from The City of Red Deer Purchasing Section, Main Floor, City Hall, 4914 – 48 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on or after Friday, April 26, 2013 for a $50 non-refundable fee.

The City of Red Deer Contract Specifications most recent Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 non-refundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer website @ www.reddeer.ca.

Contractors may view the Tender Documents at the Public Works Department, or the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices.

Inquiries regarding this Project shall be directed to: Dena Davies, P.Eng City of Red Deer Red Deer, AB T4N 3T4 Ph: 403-342-8238 Fax: 403-314-5840 Email: dena.foo@reddeer.ca

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Medical triumph comes out of Boston Study says sitting tragedy, all patients likely to survive in front of a screen 180 PEOPLE INJURED IN BOMBING, 14 LOST LIMBS

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BOSTON — In a glimmer of good news after last week’s tragedy, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive.

That includes several people who arrived with legs attached by just a little skin, a 3-year-old boy with a head wound and bleeding on the brain, and a little girl riddled with nails. Even a transit system police officer whose heart had stopped and was close to bleeding to death after a shootout with the suspects now appears headed for recovery.

“All I feel is joy,” said Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, referring to his hospital’s 31 blast patients. “Whoever came in alive, stayed alive.”

Three people did die in the blasts, but at the scene, before hospitals even had a chance to try to save them. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who police say was fatally shot Thursday by the suspects was pronounced dead when he arrived at Massachusetts General.

The only person to reach a hospital alive and then die was one of the suspected bombers — 26-yearold Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

But the remarkable, universal survival one week later of all others injured in the blasts is a testimonial to fast care at the scene, on the way to hospitals, then in emergency and operating rooms.

Everyone played a part, from doctors, nurses and paramedics to strangers who took off belts to use as tourniquets and staunched bleeding with their bare hands.

As of Monday, 51 people remained hospitalized, three of them in critical condition and five listed as serious. At least 14 people lost all or part of a limb; three of them lost more than one.

Two children with leg injuries

TORONTO — When it comes to the risk of heart disease in children, too many hours spent in front of TV, computer and video game screens is worse than other sedentary time like reading a book, a new Canadian study suggests.

Members of Team Prodigy included researchers from the University of Ottawa, University of Montreal, Concordia University, Laval University Laval and McGill University. The inter-university research team conducted a cross-sectional study of more than 500 white children between ages eight and 10 with at least one obese biological parent.

Participants wore accelerometers designed to provide an accurate measure of physical activity levels over the course of seven days. Daily screen time was self-reported over the course of a week, and food intake was recorded for one weekend day and two weekdays, said first author Jean-Philippe Chaput, a researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute.

The study showed a negative association between screen time and the heart health of kids.

For example, the study found screen time was linked to lower levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol — known as “good” cholesterol — which seems to help protect against heart disease.

“We know that when we engage in screen time, we eat more. So this excess caloric consumption with screen time is probably a key explanation here,” said Chaput, a professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Ottawa. “It’s well known that watching TV stimulates food intake. That’s the same for video game playing and using laptops and so on. So, the fact that we eat more when we engage in screen time can lead to health problems down the road as opposed to just reading a book for pleasure or relaxing on the couch without screens.”

In the study, screen time represented 55 per cent of the kids’ sedentary activities, which involve little physical movement and a low expenditure of energy.

Researchers found 40 per cent of kids met the guidelines of screen time use, which recommends two hours or less of screen time daily.

Chaput said study participants who had more than two hours of screen time daily consumed more calories than kids who met the guidelines.

Canadian guidelines recommend children and youth get at least 60 minutes of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity daily. Walking quickly, skating and bike riding are examples of moderate aerobic activities, while running, basketball and soccer are examples of vigorous-intensity activities. But among study participants, only five per cent of kids met the recommended targets, said Chaput.

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In this April 15 photo, 17-year-old Sydney Corcoran is tended to at the finish line of the Boston Marathon after two bombs exploded within seconds of each other. More than 180 people were hurt in the explosions, and at least 14 of them lost all or part of a limb. But doctors now say everyone injured in the blasts who made it alive to a hospital now seems likely to survive. remain hospitalized at Boston Children’s Hospital. A 7-year-old girl is in critical condition and 11-year-old Aaron Hern of Martinez, Calif., is in fair condition.

The surviving bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is in serious condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with a neck wound.

“Our training, our practicing, went a long way” to minimizing chaos so that hospitals and emergency responders worked effectively to treat the many wounded, said Dr. William Mackey, surgery chief at Tufts Medical Center.

“Trauma care is optimism translated into action,” said Dr. Russell Nauta, chairman of surgery at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., where the wounded transit police officer, Richard Donohue, remains in stable but critical condition.

Doctors and emergency responders approach each patient as someone who can be saved re-

gardless of how severe the injuries appear.

And some were very bad.

“The legs came hanging on muscles and skin,” said Velmahos, who did three of the four initial amputations at Massachusetts General in the early hours after the bombing.

A fifth patient at the hospital had to have an amputation Thursday. Doctors had judged there was a 5 per cent chance the woman’s leg could be saved, so they didn’t amputate right away.

“We restored the blood supply to the leg, but all the muscles and nerves were destroyed,” so the leg had to be removed, he explained.

Of the remaining five patients at the hospital with severe leg injuries, “I’m very confident that they will all keep their legs, and even more, that they will have functional legs,” he said.

Although doctors are optimistic, some patients still have lifethreatening wounds.

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Getting inspiration from history DESIGNERS AND CONSUMERS MINE FILM AND TELEVISION FOR FASHION INSPIRATION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Filmgoers are buzzing about the upcoming release of Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby,” while fashionistas are clamouring to recreate the dazzling period costumes that colour the movie.

Well before the movie’s original release date last Christmas, the runways and racks were rife with styles channelling inspiration from the Roaring ’20s. Designers including Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs and Ralph Lauren were seen embracing the esthetic, and items such as cloche hats, tiered skirts and drop-waist dresses re-emerged.

“Gatsby” costume designer Catherine Martin worked in tandem with Brooks Brothers, which manufactured more than 500 ensembles for the film, mining the archive of the menswear brand for designs from which many of the movie’s 1920s items were based.

Tuxedos, sport coats, linen suits, boater hats and wingtip brogues are among the designs donned by Jay Gatsby and Co. in the film.

The creative collaboration has led to a collection inspired by the opulent tale, the latest in a lengthy line of stylish period dramas and frothy guilty pleasures whose fashions have been coveted by consumers and inspired mainstream designers.

“The whole idea behind this capsule collection is to take the era inspiration and really make it very modern for today,” Deepak Chopra of Brooks Brothers said of the brand’s limitededition “Gatsby” line.

Signature style touches indicative of the era such as peaked lapels, rounded-collar shirts, regatta blazers and Art Deco-inspired patterns are present. But Chopra said there are modifications in keeping with a contemporary take on the ’20s, including lighterweight linens used in ivory-hued and pinstriped suits, a mid-rise fit on pants and a modernized silhouette for suits.

Toronto-based costume and set designer Sarah Armstrong isn’t surprised to see the fashions on celluloid cropping up in consumer closets, citing the ’20s in particular as an era rich with stylistic detail.

“It’s given fashion designers a really big opportunity to create a different silhouette for women and for men,” she said.

“I think also with the fabrics and the embellishments of that era — which are beading, you have a lot of embroidery — and you have a lot of really beautiful, delicate closeup detail on clothing. It gives fashion designers a big kind of excitement as far as being able to do something a little bit different that’s being done for the last few years.”

Well before the medium of TV even existed and film was in its infancy, viewers have been mimicking styles

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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan are shown in a scene from The Great Gatsby. Well before the movie’s original release date last Christmas, the runways and racks were rife with styles channelling inspiration from the Roaring ’20s. Designers including Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs and Ralph Lauren were seen embracing the esthetic, and items such as cloche hats, tiered skirts and drop-waist dresses re-emerged. donned by stars originally featured onscreen.

“Historically, the elites of pre-World War I were socialites and aristocrats.

But after the ’20s, it starts to be movie stars. It starts to be the celebrity culture in terms of Hollywood glamour,” said Alison Matthews David, assistant professor in the school of fashion at Ryerson University.

“Young women and young men would aspire to look like stars they saw on the silver screen — even in a period like the Depression.”

Matthews David recalled the 1932 drama “Letty Lynton” and the famed gown donned by Joan Crawford as the film’s titular character. The Adriandesigned white cotton organdy frock with its elaborate, fancifully ruffled sleeves became widely copied, with some 500,000 replicas sold at U.S. department store Macy’s. Women would also purchase “Letty Lynton” patterns and create their own dresses, noted Matthews David.

More than a half-century since “Lynton,” iconic fashions popularized by characters in film and TV have continued to leave a lasting imprint.

Armstrong said the prominence of activewear in the 1983 cult film “Flashdance” made a mark on women’s fashion, with Jennifer Beals transforming the slouchy, off-the-shoulder, oversized sweatshirt into an enduring style statement.

On the small screen, Armstrong said “Miami Vice” had a huge impact on men’s tailoring and men’s clothing.

While the prospect of nabbing suspects dressed in pastel-hued shirts and linen suits may seem far-fetched, they were the go-to styles donned by undercover detectives Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) in the stylish ’80s crime drama.

“You had the colours of Miami, which are very strong kind of sherbet corals, lighter tones which traditionally haven’t been very popular in men’s clothing. And then you had two very strong macho-type men in Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas... that had strong style as well,” recalled Armstrong.

“It went back to a particular era with the 1920s and 1930s and doublebreasted suits and linens and not wear-

ing collared shirts and linen pants and the different fabrics that had the huge impact on men’s tailoring and clothing of that particular era.”

While costume designers deserve full credit for bringing their fashionable visions to the screen, Armstrong and Matthews David agree that it’s the marquee names wearing the designs that help to further elevate the looks.

Armstrong said Diane Keaton pulled items from her own wardrobe for “Annie Hall,” helping propel the trend of menswear-inspired dressing among women in the 1970s.

Matthews David said the sexy, androgynous look of Marlene Dietrich and the “classic timelessness” of a Givenchy-clad Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” also lend credence to how an A-lister’s style can help further boost the appeal of their attire.

“It’s often the celebrity herself who wears it...They have star power.

They’re trendsetters.”

Chopra said the ease of access to images and information pertaining to fashions seen on film and TV is also a factor.

Sanchez, Herrera and de la Renta add spice to bridal gowns NEW YORK — Elegance and simplicity with a touch of risk: They are the basic ingredients in the newest bridal collections by Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta and Angel Sanchez that emphasized voluminous skirts, sharp pleats, sparkles and floral motifs.

These Latin designers are known to make some of the most elaborate, influential and popular gowns in the New York bridal market, which recently held a series of runway previews of gowns that likely will be headed down the aisle.

From de la Renta’s signature highly elaborate designs to Sanchez’s architectural triangular creases in the neckline, there were many sophisticated and innovative options that showed attention to detail.

“Architecture is my resource to achieve proportion, line, but to me, the materials, the detail to the ornament, help make women look beautiful. This collection really has that balance,” Sanchez said after his show on Monday.

“I don’t find it to be that daring. I see it as a collection that shows the back, that has things that remind of something sexy, but is so veiled, so discreet, so romantic, that it would never look vulgar. I tried to avoid sexiness being transformed into something obvious,” he added.

Venezuelan Sanchez stayed faithful to modern dresses with his

characteristic play on geometry. A bit of glitz came from the gemstones used to define thin belts. He also included designs that left the back uncovered and others that seemed to arise from a fairy tale.

Sanchez, who designed wedding gowns for Eva Longoria and Sandra Bullock, explained that instead of presenting two bridal collections a year this time he focused only in this one, with a total of 25 pieces. “I wanted a well-thought proposal.

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“What puts it all together in this collection is the ethereal. For me, a bridal grown has to offer lightness. Something ethereal is per se romantic.”

De la Renta made the most out of organza and lace, giving his brides floral designs and strategic use of sheer materials. He left the shoulders bare and opted for voluminous and elaborated skirts. It wasn’t an entirely white runway, with de la Renta using occasional flashes of pastel colours, start-

ing his show with a blue dress and including another in pink with details in white lace.

Silk and long veils were key elements to his collection, as well as the use of beadwork.

The Dominican Republic-born De la Renta greeted the crowd with a generous smile at the end of his show.

Elaborate embroidery on otherwise simple silhouettes defined Herrera’s collection.

The Venezuelan-born designer covered arms in lace or with a cape tied to a bow. She in-

cluded platinum, gold and even some grey in her colour palette.

“Carolina Herrera designs each wedding dress to be unique, evocative of the bride’s personal style and embodying the spirit of the wedding day — with never a reference trend,” according to her house statement offered to the press.

With this collection, the designer also launched her first blog, “The Carolina Herrera Bride,” and described it as a resource to brides around the world.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — More than 400 of the world’s top chefs are spilling the beans on their favourite places to nosh.

The personal recommendations have been compiled into “Where Chefs Eat: A Guide to Chefs’ Favourite Restaurants” (Phaidon Press), edited by London-based restaurant critic Joe Warwick.

The more than 2,000 eateries run the gamut from breakfast joints and neighbourhood favourites to high-end restaurants where money is no object.

Then there are places that professional admiration has drawn chefs to say “wish I’d opened” or others they describe as “worth the travel,” whether it’s across the country or on the other side of the world.

Nearly 75 Canadian restaurants are featured, from Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, Shirley and Sooke in British Columbia to Toronto, Singhampton, Ottawa and Montreal in central Canada to St. John’s, Portugal Cove and Bonavista in Newfoundland and

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This week, the Westminster Savings credit union in B.C. began accepting cheque deposits with its mobile app.

Meridian in Ontario and Affinity Credit Union in Saskatchewan are set to follow suit next month.

“Anything that we can imagine we can do in the branch or online our members are looking to do eventually on our phones,” said Meridian’s senior vice president and chief information officer Gary Genik.

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taurant magazine and now writes about half a dozen reviews per month for such publications as the Guardian newspaper, the London newspaper Metro, London Magazine and the Metropolitan, a monthly magazine available on the Eurostar train system.

While many would think it sounds glamorous to be paid to sample menus in restaurants three to five times a week, he said it can sometimes be tough subtly snapping shots of food without using a flash and taking notes on his smartphone.

“People think you want to go out and find a bad restaurant and give it a kicking because it’d be fun, but you don’t,” he said. “That’s an evening of your life you’re never going to get back. And actually I think sometimes that anger you get in reviews is because people resent they’ve lost that time, not that they’ve gone to look for it.

“So yeah, it is hard work sometimes, but it’s a great job. In terms of industries, you know, the restaurant industry is pretty inclusive. Most of the people who work there are really nice and in comparison to fashion which is more bitchy and cutthroat people are nice.

It’s the hospitality industry. People are hospitable. I think because I worked in it for a decade it kind of helps.”

“Do all chefs have great taste in restaurants?

“Probably not ... chefs are people too.

“I think they’re kind of tapped into their local restaurant scenes because they know who’s opening what.”

He didn’t want the new book to be a list of the world’s best restaurants because “it’s always subjective and not always fair and a little bit arbitrary sometimes.”

Instead, the huge data-collecting project was intended as a steppingoff point for people who are visiting a place for business or pleasure.

“If you’re in Toronto and don’t know anything about the restaurant scene, you want somewhere to go for breakfast, here’s some places. It’s a starting point. It’s not everywhere I need to go in Toronto, but here are some reliable choices.”

Warwick acknowledged travellers might not want to lug the 714-page hardcover tome with them when they’re sightseeing, so an app will allow people to search by country and category. The app is also easy to update if a place closes or relocates.

“The book’s lovely, but it’s not the most portable of things,” Warwick said.

“It’s like a Concise Oxford Dictionary, isn’t it? It’s for flipping through in your library.”

He said plans are in the works to do another edition in 2015.

Warwick has moved on from Res-

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Chefs who recommended Canadian places include Michael Steh, Claudio Aprile, Paul Newman, Marc Fosh, Eloi Dion, Marc-Andre Jette, Armand Arnal, Vikram Vij and Jeremy Charles.

Some entries include extra tidbits about the decor, favourite dishes or history of the establishment while others rated kudos from more than one chef.

Noma, Redzepi’s Copenhagen restaurant, along with Mugaritz in Errenteria, Spain, were the most mentioned by chefs in the “wish I’d opened” category.

“But actually more often some of the cooks in the very fancy restaurants doing very complicated food actually want something quite laid back,” Warwick said in a recent interview.

He was in Toronto to participate in a panel discussion at the Terroir Symposium for members of the hospitality industry earlier this month.

“They eat at those other places for homework.”

Warwick, 41, co-founder in 2002 of the World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards at Restaurant magazine, said diners can look up plenty of reviews on websites like TripAdvisor, “but who’s writing these reviews?”

Chefs, on the other hand, are known for their cooking or their restaurant, and their reputation is on the line if they send someone to a bad place, “so there’s a kind of trusted voice there.”

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Easy Street in 1995: (left to right) Dave Bauer, Doug Quartly, Richard Hayhoe and Daryl Hillman.

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The new Bedford Page in 2009: (left to right): Lorne Hallet, Dave Gauthier, Guy Stenberg, Ted Hiscock.

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

Oh, to be a long-haired rocker touring Alberta in the early 1970s — for Red Deer musician Lorne Hallet it meant “living a little bit of the dream.”

By the time his local country-rock group, Bedford Page, played a bittersweet farewell concert at the Westerner fair for 2,000 fans, as opening act for Tommy James and the Shondells, the band members were old enough to realize they weren’t going to be rock superstars.

It was 1976, and the 20-somethings were pulling in different directions, recalled Hallet — some were looking to get married and start families, others wanted to pursue career paths other than music.

The keyboardist, who now works in the social services field, said everybody knew the band had run its course. But what a four-year run it was.

“We played most points between Edmonton and Calgary. ... Locally, we really enjoyed a lot of support,” he recalled, so that last concert “was a really emotional time for us. We’d kind of grown up doing this. ... Having to let it go was very hard to do.”

Fortunately, good-bye doesn’t have to mean forever.

On Friday, June 28, Bedford Page will be part of a six-band Rock and Roll Reunion at the Rink fundraiser for the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. The event, slated for the Red Deer Curling Centre, will also feature local 1960s and ’70s groups The Gaetz Ave. Dance Band, Sam, The Drifters, Easy Street and Six Pak. “It’s almost like we’re getting a second chance at this,” said Hallet, who had reformed Bedford Page after a 1999 band reunion.

The group, now made up of three members of the original five-man band (Hallet, guitarist Dave Gauthier and drummer Guy Stenberg) and a new musician (bassist Ted Hiscock), continues to perform covers of ZZ-Top, Roy Orbison and the Kentucky Headhunters at special events across Central Alberta.

“That’s the most gratifying thing. ... It’s nice to see

crowds still appreciating the music when it’s played live and played well,” added Hallet.

The six local bands reuniting for the museum fundraiser in June are just a sampling of the rich pickings that were available in Central Alberta some 40 years ago. Harley Hay, a drummer for Gaetz Ave. and Sam, said not only was the groovy, flower-power era overflowing with music, in the wake of the British Invasion and the explosion of groups after Woodstock, but there were so many more local venues that booked live music.

Central Alberta hotels offered dine and dance nights, featuring local bands. Most bars preferred to hire live bands to play covers and original tunes than offer patrons canned music. And Red Deer-area musicians could get gigs at no-alcohol dance halls that catered to older teens, since the local drinking age was then 21.

There were also community hall dances, church events, weddings and school dances, said Hay, whose band regularly travelled all the way to Kelowna to perform. “One month we were booked for 23 onenighters out of 30 days!”

While the late ’60s and early ’70s music scene was synonymous with sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, Hay said there was little bad behaviour in Gaetz Ave. — or any other local group that took music seriously.

“We weren’t prudes. We met our share of fans and had a great time, but we weren’t into life in the fast lane. We were more interested in the music and the friendships,” recalled Hay. The biggest problem that he remembers from those days is the fuss made over his long hair.

One restaurant in Red Deer flat-out refused to serve long-haired hippie types. “We were hassled on a regular basis,” said Hay. “I remember clearly being pushed around in broad daylight on city sidewalks by meathead strangers just for having long hair.”

During one band trip to Medicine Hat, the musicians were approached by “thugs,” who threatened to damage their touring bus.

“Our roadie and bus driver calmly got up ... and took the fire axe from its place by the driver’s seat.

(He) stood on the bus steps holding the axe until we were all on board . . . we got the heck out of there!” said Hay. Richard Hayhoe, who now runs Old Mill Custom T-Shirts, also played all over with Easy Street and a band called The Coal Company — including eastcentral Alberta and several small towns in Saskatchewan.

One weekend, the drummer remembers travelling to a Lethbridge gig in a repainted school bus. Hayhoe recalled being surprised by the low audience turnout for the gig, even though the band had sent a lot of notices to be posted around town.

The musicians soon noticed hundreds of vehicle going by, heading for the local fairgrounds. “Guess what? It turned out that Tommy Hunter was in town and he filled the local arena!” said Hayhoe.

Another time he was en route to Hanna with Easy Street when the controls to switch to the second gas tank on his truck went on the fritz and the musicians ended up having to borrow fuel from a farmhouse.

Dozens of other stories will be shared at the reunion — and so will tons of classic rock. Hay promised nothing after 1975 will be on the play list. Audience members can expect to hear covers of Van Morrison, Del Shannon, Santana, Edgar Winter, Steely Dan, Wilson Pickett and Lighthouse tunes.

Hay, now a local music producer, writer and videographer, recalled this time period as being pivotal to his generation.

He’s looking forward to the reunion, and is particularly interested to see if fans will remember a certain tradition: Whenever The Gaetz Ave. Dance Band played Jackie Wilson’s Higher and Higher, guys in the audience would lift their girlfriends up onto their shoulders.

“They’d better start practising. ... We’re beefing up the first aid presence,” Hay added, with a laugh.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. reunion are available for $35 from the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, or at www.reddeermuseum.com/exhibits/events.

Call 403-309-8405 for more information. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

The Colony runs out of old ideas to recycle The Colony Two stars (out of four) Rated 14A The Colony is a blue-bin blockbuster, a collection of recycled ideas of sci-fi thrillers past.

From its familiar casting (Laurence Fishburne from Contagion and The Matrix, Bill Paxton from Aliens) to its multiple threats (virus, cannibals, hunger, beastly weather), it’s like a sizzle reel for a “B” movie festival.

Director Jeff Renfroe (Civic Duty) filmed it in chilly North Bay, Ont., using a leftover NORAD underground bunker. Even the title is refried, having already been used for PETER several movie and TV producHOWELL tions with variations on survivalist themes.

All of which is not to say that The Colony is completely meritless, since even a patchwork quilt provides warmth. The film has some potential as a sales tool to show investors how well Canadians can mimic Hollywood blockbusters, decent CGI and all, using a fraction of the budget.

It’s set in the post-apocalypse year 2045, when mankind’s monkeying with nature has created a new Ice Age. Famine and lethal viruses stalk the remaining humans, who have retreated to underground bunkers equipped with makeshift greenhouses to husband the last of the planet’s resources.

One such lair is Colony 7, a preserve of last-standers led by ex-military comrades Briggs (Fishburne) and Mason (Paxton). Tensions are high between the two because Briggs isn’t happy with Mason’s prescription for the terminally ill: take two bullets and don’t call him in the morning.

The situation could hardly be grimmer, but there’s more. A mysterious distress signal comes from the fellow survivors of Colony 5, who live a long, cold walk away through a frosted metropolis and across a

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Kevin Zegers and Laurence Fishburne star in a scene from The Colony. broken bridge.

Briggs sets off with an investigative team that includes brave young Sam (Kevin Zegers of Transamerica and TV’s Gossip Girl), who leaves behind his devoted girlfriend Kai (Charlotte Sullivan).

Something very disturbing has happened to Colony 5, obvious from the blood stains and the bug-eyed stare of solitary colonist Leland (played by Julian Richings, all-purpose Canuck film weirdo).

Before you can say, “Haven’t I seen this film before?” the metaphoric dinner bell clangs and a gang of something called Ferals (hint: big fangs) starts chasing our frostbitten heroes, which at least gets their blood pumping.

Regular consumers of genre films should expect no surprises from the cut-and-paste script by Pas-

cal Trottier and Patrick Tarr, which fails even to do much with its avowed environmental concerns. But Renfroe and his cast at least make a bit of an effort to spice up this reheated stew.

It’s times like these when we can really appreciate reliable guys like Fishburne, Paxton and Richings.

Also relative unknown Dru Viergever, who plays the vile Feral leader with such ferocious gusto, it’s as if he thought he was working for Quentin Tarantino or Sam Raimi.

They could all teach something to Zegers, who flatlines for much of the film — but to be fair, the script doesn’t give him much to do until the third act.

And by then, it’s run out of old ideas to recycle.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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Glee star Morrison onstage and in the recording studio

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Matthew Morrison, the man who’s been inspiring musically inclined outcasts with his catch-phrases and whiteboard on Glee since 2009, recently headlined the Washington Performing Arts Society’s annual gala. “Mr. Schue” also has a new album, Where It All Began, coming out June 4; he’s the first artist on The Voice judge Adam Levine’s new label, 222 Records.

Where It All Began is Morrison singing covers of his favorite Broadway standards.

“It’s with a full orchestra,” he said by phone from Los Angeles before the Matthew Morrison Washington gig.

“I’m singing some great Broadway standards that I kind of grew up singing. This is the kind of music that I love.”

Morrison also talked about his gig on Glee, his Broadway past, and how this whole singing-’n’-dancing thing he’s doing now was actually a total accident.

Retro romantic: “I released my [selftitled] first album last year, and it had a pop sensibility to it, but this album is the album I wanted to make before even that one. I’ve always loved these songs — that’s the world that I came from, the Broadway world. . . . My favorite song to sing is probably ‘On the Street Where You Live,’ from ‘My Fair Lady.’ And my favorite song to perform is a ‘West Side Story’ medley; it’s a mash-up of six ‘West Side Story’ songs.

I really love to sing, dance, perform. . . .

I wanted a Gene Kelly flair to what I’m trying to do.”

Family matters: “It was really by a fluke [that I started performing]. I spent the summer in fifth grade with my grandmother in Arizona . . . and

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they put me and my cousin into a children’s theater program. And I just fell in love with it . . . [Then] I went to a performing arts high school, but that was the second part of my day. So I went to a regular high school with cheerleaders and a football team, an absolutely normal high school from 8 until 1:30, and then I was on the other campus from 2 to 6.”

On going pro: “I think it was when I was in high school, when I was trying to decide what college I was going to go to. Because I had several opportunities — I was a big soccer player — to play soccer for different colleges. But my Mr. Schue, a mentor, he actually steered me in this direction. He said, ‘I’ve seen a lot of people go through this school, and you have something very special.’ “ Thank goodness, because. . . : “I’m 34 years old now, so my soccer career would be over.”

Teenage dream:”I got my first Broadway show when I was 19. I was the white break-dancer in ‘Footloose.’ . . . I’m so happy how it happened and when it happened. I don’t know if I would have been able to deal with this kind of success that ‘Glee’ was for all of us at too young an age.”

Feeling a little rusty: “I don’t have any musical numbers [on ‘Glee’] nowadays, so I probably sing maybe twice a month. Which isn’t much at all! I’m used to singing eight shows a week on Broadway.”

Off-camera clique-ing: “I think a lot of them [the actors who play students] still think of me as their teacher, as a mentor to them, because that is the parameters of how we started the show.

So I think there’s always going to be that distinction between us. I do tend to hang out with the people who play adults on the show. Jane Lynch is probably my best friend on the show, and Jayma Mays [who plays Mr. Schue’s main squeeze]. It is funny how that divide carries over off-set. Jane plays a complete witch of a crazy woman, [but] she is probably the sweetest woman you’ll ever meet.”

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“You were sleeping and I was watching you,” it might start. Or he might sing, “In came the daylight and the window showed a new season.”

Two strangers meet in hotel room 316. And what happens there, the listener decides. They may kiss and set sail into the unknown or gaze at each other and never touch.

The Oscar-winning Uruguayan musician with a salt and pepper beard has created a song with more possibilities than the estimated number of stars in the universe.

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He presented the project at the Billboard Latino Music Conference Tuesday in Miami. In Spain, it’s already become a top iTunes store app.

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The app detects the user’s location and gives the listener access to different instruments depending on their location.

The final song, Decima to the power of ten, is a tribute to the centuries-old Spanish-language poetic structure with 10 lines and a calculated syllable and rhythmic count.

Drexler spent nine months labouring over ten decimas in which all the lines could be fluidly interchanged.

The concept behind the work is infinity, an idea that has long enchanted Drexler and which he has written about, without having composed an infinite song itself.

He says the new odes are like a butterfly.

“A butterfly is beautiful,” Drexler says from a room overlooking the emerald waters of Biscayne Bay, a crowd of musicians, photographers and aspiring artists circling outside.

“You can watch it in two situations.

You can watch it fly and moving and see the beauty in the movement.”

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Actor-director Ben Affleck to receive honourary doctorate PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Academy Award-winning actor and director Ben Affleck is among six artists, writers, scientists and educators selected to receive honourary degrees from Brown University at next month’s graduation ceremonies.

The Ivy League school in Rhode Island says Affleck will receive a doctor of fine arts during commencement exercises May 26. The Massachusetts native directed, produced and starred in Argo, which won this year’s Oscar for Best Picture.

Others getting honourary doctorates are author and MIT Professor Junot Diaz; retired Stanford University bacteriologist Stanley Falkow; Tougaloo College President Beverly Wade Hogan; medical doctor and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President Risa Lavizzo-Mourey; and Miami Dade College President Eduardo Padron.

Country singer Currington charged with threatening harm to senior

EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● New Works by Susan Delaney will be featured at Café Pichinlingue until May 1. ● Typecast — Red Deer College Annual Year End Exhibition is on at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until April 29. The exhibit reflects many of the ideas and themes taught at the college, and represents a variety of subjects, materials and more. Phone 403-309-8405. ● Visual Counterpoints by Erik Cheung is on display at Harris-Warke Gallery until May 4. Cheung’s works are studies of aesthetic elements, composition, balance, and proximity. ● Selections from the Red Deer College Collection will be featured until April 30 at The Panels at Red Deer College Library. ● This is Home: We Are Guests by Roberta Murray is open at Kerry Wood Nature Centre until April 30 in Marjorie Wood Gallery. Phone 403-346-2010. ● Expressions exhibition of exquisite artworks of Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame High School students will be featured at The Hub on Ross Gallery for the month of April.

Phone 403-340-4869. ● Remarkable Red Deer: Stories from the Heart of the Parkland is now open at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery and will celebrate the centennial of the city of Red Deer.

The Grand Opening Celebration on April 14. Phone 403-3098405. ● A Nod Toward the Yucatan by Harvey A. Brink photography exhibit will be featured at The Velvet Olive April 1 to 30.

● When the City Isn’t Looking: Photographs by Bill Peters, Calgarian artist will be on display at the Kiwanis Gallery of the Red Deer Public Library at the downtown location from Feb. 26 to April 28. For more information call the Red Deer Arts Council at 403-348-2787 or visit www.reddeerartscouncil. ca ● The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates Red Deer Centennial with the opening of the exhibit Red Deer Sport History. Take a look at over 100 years Sports History and discover the impact that sport had on Red Deer and its citizens. For more information contact Debbie at debbie@ashfm.ca or visit www.ashfm.ca or call 403-3418614.

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● The Hideout welcomes Juno-nominated singer/ songwriters Peter Katz and Emma-Lee on April 28. ● The Centrium presents Dean Brody on July 20 as part of Westerner Days. Ticket price is $20 which does not include gate admission, service fees and taxes. Tickets may be purchased at Ticketmaster.ca, or phone 1-855-985-5000.

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larly at Fenway Park more than a decade ago and fans took to it.

NEW YORK — Neil Diamond is donating this week’s sales from Sweet Caroline after the tune became a source of comfort following the explosions at the Boston Marathon.

Sales from Diamond’s song are up by 597 per cent, Nielsen SoundScan said Wednesday.

Diamond’s representative said the singer will donate the recent sales of his work to marathon bombing victims.

Sweet Caroline sold 19,000 tracks this week. It sold 2,800 tracks the previous week and 1.75 million tracks to date.

The crowd-pleasing song is a staple of Boston Red Sox games. It makes no specific mention of Boston or the Red Sox, but the team started playing it regu-

Paltrow named by People magazine as World’s Most Beautiful Woman NEW YORK — People magazine has named Gwyneth Paltrow as the World’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2013.

The 40-year-old actress tops the magazine’s annual list of the “World’s Most Beautiful.”

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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Country singer Billy Currington has been indicted in Georgia on charges that he threatened bodily harm to a man over age 65.

A Chatham County grand jury indicted Currington on Wednesday on charges of making terroristic threats and abuse of an elderly person. The indictment says only that Currington threatened “to cause bodily harm” to a man named Charles Harvey Ferrelle on April 15.

District Attorney Meg Heap spokesman Daniel Baxter says a warrant was being issued for Currington’s arrest. A representative for Currington did not immediately return a phone message. It was not known if he had hired an attorney.

Currington is a native of the Georgia coast. His hits include Pretty Good At Drinkin’ Beer, That’s How Country Boys Roll and People Are Crazy.

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Friday, April 26, 2013

Friend says don’t marry a cheater

SPRING IN YOSEMITE

Dear Annie: A close friend of mine Please do your best to wish her well. is a successful professional woman Dear Annie: My daughter and son who went through a painful divorce are 32 and 28, and I am looking for a several years ago when her husband good answer when people ask me why was unfaithful. “Diane” swore off dat- I don’t have any grandchildren. ing for a long time.

They have both been in long-term A year ago, Diane began relationships in the past, seeing a man who is also although they aren’t ina successful, well-known volved with anyone now, professional from our comso it’s not looking too munity. promising. But I’m wonHowever, this man has dering how to respond a history of cheating on when people bring this his wife and even left his up. — Not a Grandma Yet marriage at one point to Dear Not: People are marry another woman, onnosy and often ask nunly to return to his wife and ofyerbizness-type quesfamily when he realized he tions. had made a mistake. But You don’t have to rehe continued to cheat. His spond. But you are cermarriage ended two years tainly welcome to hand ago, and he soon moved them your children’s in with someone else for phone numbers and sugMITCHELL several months. Two weeks gest they call and ask. & SUGAR after they split up, he beBe sure to smile when gan dating Diane. They are you do it. And then now engaged. change the subject. We Several people have think that will keep them warned Diane about this from asking again. guy, his past and the destruction he Dear Annie: My youngest daughter, seems to cause. His own grown chil- “Amy,” who is now 17, was the ultimate dren refuse to speak to him. picky eater as a young child.

I worry that this man has great poShe would not eat meat and tential to hurt Diane. wouldn’t touch any vegetables except How can I get through to her that corn. marrying him would be a huge misHer father would insist that she eat take? She says because of her success- what was placed before her, which onful practice she would have the means ly led to tears, fights and vomiting. Her to take care of herself if anything were dad and I are now divorced. to happen with the marriage, but it is Amy is now healthy, and her weight her heart I am worried about. is perfect for her height. Trips to the This leopard isn’t going to change doctor confirmed what I suspected his spots for her. — Concerned in the after reading an article in Scientific Heartland American — that Amy is a super-taster.

Dear Concerned: Diane is surely That means she has many more taste aware of her fiance’s past and has buds on her tongue than the average heard all of the warnings about his person, making her more sensitive to cheating, but they have not dissuaded subtle tastes the rest of us don’t notice. her.

Forcing Amy to eat foods that do not Some women think they are “the smell “right” to her is pointless. one,” and the man will change for her.

This is a physical condition, not It rarely happens. disobedience. Punishing a child who Diane is determined to marry the suffers from this condition is simply guy and, as she says, has prepared her- cruel. — Mom of a Super-Taster self for the consequences.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy She may feel this is her only chance Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edito be married again. Or she may be- tors of the Ann Landers column. Please lieve that all guys cheat, so what’s the email your questions to anniesmailbox@ difference. Unless she is willing to ad- comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, dress these issues, the wedding will go c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, on despite your misgivings.

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Friday, April 26 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Channing Tatum, 33; Jet Li, 50; Giancarlo Esposito, 55 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Intensity and passion prevail as the Moon continues its visit through the sign of Scorpio. We strongly desire to get to the bottom of any issue. We dig dip and we are persuasive when we are interesting in something in particular. Aspects to the Moon indicate a somewhat inclination towards slackness and self-indulgence.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, partnerships of all kinds will be your main focus this year. You will learn the art of compromise and cooperation. Remember the saying which states that it takes two to tango. For you personally, it applies equally to you this year. Don’t let indifference or hard feelings get in the way of a prosperous relationship. You have so much to give and to receive back.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have ongoing concerns and worries over your resources. You feel that you are lacking in the necessary finances in order to carry on with a project. You find that you are encountering too many roadblock and upheavals.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may receive assistance or guidance from someone today. However, an impediment such as your relationship’s situation may cause the other party to back off or retire. It is important that you reassure them of your availability if you need their help.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A government return or a profit may not turn out to be as fruitful as you had hoped.

You feel that you are being scrutinized for your past actions and now you have to face some harsh realities.

Fortunately, you remain positive about the final outcome.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s a great day to hold a face-to-face discussion with your significant other. Partnerships do require a lot of time and effort in order to keep its essential vigour flowing. You will be amazed just how receptive he or she is to your needs.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are feeling suddenly unsure of which way you should be heading to. Your direction in life doesn’t match exactly to your basic needs. Deep down inside you crave a deeper commitment towards what you do for a living.

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SUN SIGNS 22): You gain greater optimism and hope in terms of your chosen vocation. You are finally stepping into the path of success and you can almost smell victory. Pleasurable activities might have to be postponed for now as they might be too distractive at this time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You have concerns over your acquisitions and your material needs. You might argue with your mate about your lack of sufficient funds to meet certain obligations.

You will feel secure once you feel your partner’s further implication in this matter.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your connection with others becomes more real and significant. You feel a sense of mutual acceptance and responsiveness when interacting with others today. Use this healing energy to eliminate any negative

thoughts from your mind.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are more involved and engaged with children. They are the source of contentment and joy.

Their energetic and lively spirit makes you feel young at heart. You may uncover some hidden talents of yours such as singing or acting.

Give it a try!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Getting what you want may not prove as easy.

You may encounter too many obstacles and believe that there’s no hope for a brighter future. Keep in mind that this temporary sombre transition will soon fade away. Don’t get discouraged. Keep your spirits up.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Responsibilities and work start weighting heavily on you. You feel more and more pressure from your superiors. You are being asked to accomplish a multitude of tasks and deliver excellent results. Move forward slowly but surely.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Try to differentiate fact from fiction. Live your life by respecting your personal standards. Be careful when assessing your budgetary needs as your vision seems a bit distorted right now.

Avoid expensive transactions or you may regret later.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer/ columnist.

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Local writer takes youth on medieval journey The Orphan King Book 1 of Merlin’s Immortals

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raised in a monastery with four monks. Although promised room and board, and an education, he has been used as a servant.

He has no love for his caregivers, and today he will leave.

Sigmund Brouwer is no stranger to He knows far more than the monks the children in elementary and middle imagine, but there are those on the outside Schools in Red Deer; he has been a writof the monastery walls who wish Thomas er guest in their classrooms for many harm. They have been searching for him years, and is the author of many books. for years, and today he will no longer have This time he invites the reader into the “protection” of anonymity and monas“a medieval world of love and chivalry, tery walls. of ancient secrets, an evil conspiracy, I don’t want to give away the exciting noble knights, and a mysterious castle details of this story, but there is a hidden called Magnus.” cave, and a volume of information, and at Who can resist? the end of the journey a castle. Entering PEGGY First in a series, the action and mysthat castle will be very dangerous, and so of FREEMAN tery are not over with this edition. This course Thomas needs some companions. is a story for those in middle school, ages So we read: “Since dawn, three ropes had nine to 12, and will appeal to teens as hung black against the rising sun.” There is well. to be a hanging of three criminals and Thomas will The tale is set in England in the spring of 1312 attend.

AD. Thomas is a young man, an orphan who has been A hanging may be a good place as any to begin a

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journey. The three people to be hanged are a knight, a young maid and a young boy.

The knight faces charges of blasphemy, the maid is both mute and deaf (and she has stolen two loaves of bread) and the young lad, 11 years of age, is a pickpocket, and a very successful one.

Did I say that Thomas was brave and prepared?

Prepared, perhaps, but scared silly would not be an exaggeration. Courage will come from many sources.

But the last words he heard from his nurse and mentor were these: “Now you Thomas, must help us destroy the circle of evil.”

All in all, it’s a tall order to free the Castle of Magnus, destroy the circle of evil and take his rightful place in life. Thomas will need all his wits, and some very loyal friends to succeed.

Themes of loyalty, bravery and chivalry are delivered as promised.

Book 2 in Merlin’s Immortals is Fortress of the Mist.

Sigmund Brouwer was raised in Red Deer and has written many books, including the hockey series Timberwolves and Rebel Glory, plus adult novels.

Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

Why does young adult fiction keep Caro wins another big giving its heroines makeovers? lives.

Steve Jobs may be able to rock an Apple stage in dad jeans, a black turtleneck and unstylish sneakers for years, but tech titans like Marissa Mayer better rock perfect hair and heels. Michelle Obama may have had to suspend her career as a lawyer when her husband ran for president, but she’s gained new influence as a style icon.

Being gorgeous and well-groomed is, for female characters, both the equivalent of carrying a back-up power source in your purse and a form of influence of last resort.

I think smith is right that the makeover trope is tiresome, but fortunately there is a growing body of literature for young women that regards getting gussied up with a great deal more skepticism.

In “The Hunger Games,” when Katniss Everdeen is selected as a tribute in the fights to the death that entertain her post-apocalyptic country each year, she’s also assigned a stylist who rips hair out of her body, fixes flaws in her skin, and dresses her up in dramatic outfits that help her make an impression on the shallow residents of the Capitol. The franchise recognizes the political power of these displays, but also acknowledges that they’re profoundly inauthentic, disconnected from Katniss’ true self, and in the case of the medical technology that erases her scars, it literally strips Katniss of her experience.

Similarly, both the Harry Potter series, which smith cites, and Tamora Pierce’s recently concluded “Provost’s Dog” series, characters have encounters with beauty culture without sucuumbing to it.

Yes, Hermoine Granger gets made

BY ALYSSA ROSENBERG ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — Over at This Ain’t Living, s.e. smith (who, full disclosure, has guest-blogged for me at ThinkProgress) has an excellent post about one of the most pernicious trends in young adult fiction.

The transformation of heroines, no matter their other merits, into skinny beauties has become an integral part of their hero’s journies. smith writes: “I see it coming up a lot in fantasy, probably most starkly there because authors can use magic as a quickie shortcut.

“The girl-turned-vampire who becomes supernaturally beautiful in the process, shedding all that excess poundage and frazzled hair and other mortal sins to turn into an unearthly creature with the kind of beauty that turns heads, startling and amazing everyone who mocked her looks before.

“Or the girl who uses witchcraft to beautify herself, taking philtres and using powders and spells to get rid of her undesirable ugliness, sometimes as part of an initiation into a group of other witches and magic users; finally, their unusual beauty is explained, and she too is one of them, embraced into their circle with the eyelash lengthening treatment that will last a lifetime.”

This trope persists even as young adult fiction has offered young female characters roles that allow them to be physically strong, politically influential, or magically gifted.

Its persistence says something about the value we still believe beauty offers women in any number of areas of their

up for the Yule Ball, but she also decides that futzing with her hair constantly isn’t worth it, and a case of the frizzies doesn’t prevent her from playing a pivotal role in the battle to take down Voldemort — or finding the love of her life in Ron Weasley, a guy who dates more frivolous women but learns to adore Hermoine for her social activism and courage. And Beka Cooper, the main character of the “Provost’s Dog” books, gets dressed up on occasion and over time acquires a collection of opals, her favorite gemstones.

But she never loses her preference for the uniform she wears as a kind of medieval policewoman, or for braiding a spiked strap into her hair to keep anyone from grabbing it in battle.

For both of these women, their power comes from their brains — and in Beka’s case, her relatively unadorned body.

We may be a long way from the days when a makeover isn’t part of the prize pack for YA heroines. But at least authors like Suzanne Collins, J.K. Rowling, and Pierce can see that there are pleasures a woman would take in herself and her skills that aren’t dependent on how other people look at their bodies and faces.

Rosenberg writes about culture and television for Slate’s XX Factor. She also contributes to ThinkProgress and theatlantic.

award HISTORY PRIZE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Historian and author Robert Caro has won yet another award.

Caro’s latest Lyndon Johnson book, “The Passage of Power,” has received the Mark Lynton History prize.

Caro, whose many honours during the past 40 years have included the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, will receive $10,000.

On Thursday, Columbia University announced two other honours.

Andrew Solomon won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, named for the late author and journalist, for “Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

Beth Lacy won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for a book she is writing about the struggles of a furniture maker in Virginia.

Solomon will receive $10,000, Lacy $30,000.

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The Hungary Ghost a haunting story of longing, family and forgiveness

Vancouver’s Schofield wins Amazon.ca First Novel Award

SHYAM SELVADURAI’S THIRD NOVEL DELVES IN TO BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY

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BY KATHLEEN KEENAN THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Shyam Selvadurai begins each new novel by deciding where his characters will live.

“The first thing I need to do when I’m writing a novel is figure out the houses,” says the 48-year-old writer, who lives in Toronto. Sometimes he’ll wander the streets looking for the perfect home or base his description on a friend’s apartment.

“Unless I have that particularity, I can’t write it.

But once I’ve got those down, then I’m OK.” His new novel, The Hungry Ghosts (Doubleday Canada, $29.99), reflects Selvadurai’s interest in how where we live shapes who we are.

Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and immigrated to Canada with his family at age 19. He is the author of two acclaimed works of fiction, “Funny Boy” (1994) and “Cinnamon Gardens” (1998), and a young adult novel, “Swimming in the Monsoon Sea” (2005).

“The Hungry Ghosts,” a haunting story of longing, family ties and forgiveness, begins in Canada.

Shivan, a gay man of mixed Tamil and Sinhalese ancestry, is preparing to visit his dying grandmother in Sri Lanka.

Compelling flashbacks tell the story of Shivan’s childhood in his domineering grandmother’s home, his immigration to Toronto with his mother Hema and sister Renu, and his adult life in Vancouver.

Interwoven into the narrative are the Buddhist tales of hungry ghosts — “perethi” — told to Shivan by his grandmother.

Such ghosts are doomed to remain hungry and unsatisfied because of what they desired in their past lives.

But the living can free the dead from this fate by performing good deeds, as Shivan’s grandmother Daya continually reminds him.

She sees herself as one of these ghosts and Shivan as her saviour.

Selvadurai was careful to engage with these stories as literature. “I thought they were so real, so sensible,” he says. “I didn’t want to include them in a kind of cutesy, ethnographic way.”

Daya, a powerful but frustrating character who builds her family’s fortune in real estate, was supposed to be part of the novel’s back story, but “from the moment I saw her sitting on that bed polishing those ornaments, she was integral to the story,” says Selvadurai.

“She just took over in a way.”

She is based on Selvadurai’s memories of rural Sri Lankan relatives who married into the Colombo gentry and moved to the city.

“These women coming from a rural background had a more robust idea of womanhood (than the Colombo women), which was that you did participate in business and you had an equal stake in the household,” Selvadurai says.

He thinks that Sri Lankans of his generation will recognize aspects of their own grandmothers in Daya.

“We loved them, but we also feared them,” he remembers.

Shivan convinces his mother and sister to immigrate to Canada to escape his grandmother, although his mixed ancestry also presents a compelling reason to leave, given the 1983 anti-Tamil attacks in Colombo.

The novel touches on these riots, territory Selvadurai also covered in “Funny Boy.” This time, he didn’t want to dwell on the unrest.

“I have this belief that politics to fiction is like salt in food,” he says. “When you don’t have any of it, it tastes bland; when you have too much of it, it’s unpalatable.”

Instead, “The Hungry Ghosts” documents Shivan’s difficulty adjusting to Canada. Selvadurai also struggled to adapt when he arrived here as a teenager.

“Most people who come to Canada, whether as economic immigrants or refugees, are coming from circumstances in their country which are forcing them to leave,” he says.

“The whole idea of migration and dislocation is a very traumatic experience.

“If you don’t actually acknowledge the trauma, you can’t get past it.”

Although the novel isn’t autobiographical, Selvadurai says “The Hungry Ghosts” is his most personal novel yet.

“It’s very viscerally me in a way. People assume that when you’re writing about yourself in that raw, visceral way, it has to be memoir, but fiction is a better medium for me.

“From my point of view it’s a truer portrait.”

Readers have certainly responded to Selvadurai’s honest, touching work.

His first novel won the Lambda Literary Award and the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award. “Cinnamon Gardens” and “Swimming in the Monsoon Sea” were shortlisted for a number of prizes.

He dealt with the expectations for his third novel by turning to Buddhist philosophy. “One acknowledges it, one leans into the fear and then moves through the fear,” he says.

“You can put it in its place and know what you need to do, which is write the novel.” He laughs.

“That’s just the way it is, so you just kind of deal with it.”

Nevertheless, writing “The Hungry Ghosts” was difficult.

“I knew I had to write it, because it was essential for me to write it,” Selvadurai says.

“Either I wrote that book or I didn’t write at all.”

TORONTO — Vancouver author Anakana Schofield has won this year’s Amazon.ca First Novel Award.

The Irish-Canadian writer, who has a background in theatre and film, nabbed the $7,500 honour at a gala in Toronto Wednesday for “Malarky” (Biblioasis).

The story of a mother facing grief in contemporary Ireland beat out four other finalists, including Montreal-based Kim Thuy’s Governor General’s Literary Award-winning “Ru.” Other finalists included “Y”

by Vancouver native Marjorie Celona, Ottawa-based Scott Fotheringham’s “The Rest Is Silence,” and “People Park” by Toronto-based Pasha Malla.

“Malarky is a bold first novel from an author whose prose hums with electric wit and linguistic daring,” Stuart Woods, editor of Quill & Quire and head judge for the 37th First Novel Award, said in a statement.

“The novel traverses darkly comic territory with intelligence and poise, relating the story of an unnamed narrator whose resilience in the face of life’s disappointments will stay with readers long after the verbal pyrotechnics have dissipated. Anakana Schofield is a true original, and her novel is a delight.”

The winner was selected by a jury made up of John Degen, Meaghan Strimas, and Alexi Zentner.

Each finalist took home a $750 gift card to Amazon.ca.

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BALL Cornel Stanley June 5, 1961 - April 23, 2013 It is with great sorrow and sadness that we announce the passing of our Son, Brother, Uncle, and Friend.

Those who knew Cornel know all the remarkable feats he accomplished in his life.

Physically, his wheelchair limited him for 32 years, but he took advantage of that beautiful mind that he had and strived to learn all he could. In his early years, Cornel’s first love was motocross and all sports.

After his accident, he became a computer genius and a rolling encyclopedia! Cornel is survived by mother, Joyce Smela of Red Deer; father, Raymond (Lorraine) Ball of P e n t i c t o n ; s i s t e r, Tw y l a (John) Galisky of Red Deer; brothers, Barry (Tracy) Ball of Red Deer and Dwain (Lee) Ball of Blackfalds; as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Cornel faced a lifetime of various illnesses and struggles and now has had his last wish granted. ~Free At Last~ Free to walk, Free to Run, and Free to Ride into the Sunset.

We miss you and we love you.

A celebration of Cornel’s Life will be held on Monday, April 29, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Cornel’s honor may be made directly to the Canadian Paraplegic Association, Suite 305, 11010 - 101 Street, Edmonton, AB T5H 4B9 (780-424-6312). Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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CORDON Hazel Hazel Cordon of Eckville passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on April 9, 2013 at the age of 87, after a brief battle with cancer.

Hazel was born in Wetaskiwin in 1926, the first of five children born to Anton and Ethel Anderson.

In 1944 Hazel joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps (CWAC) and trained as a truck driver.

After the Second World War ended, Hazel moved to Edmonton and completed book-keeping and secretarial course. This book-keeping training, coupled with her driving experience, proved very valuable in the business she later ran with her husband. Hazel married William (Bill) Cordon in 1947 and the young couple lived for a time near his parents on the Cordon family farm in the Hespero District west of Eckville. During this time, Bill started his own trucking business Cordon Sand and Gravel ably assisted by Hazel. As well as being a mother of five children Hazel continued to be active in her community which included serving as a founding member of the Catholic Women’s League in Eckville and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Royal Canadian Legion. Hazel loved the outdoors especially camping and fishing in the west country. Hazel had a knack for crafts of every type from painting to knitting and was also a talented seamstress, sewing costumes for figure skating as well as complicated tailored suits. In her later years she loved to travel, taking bus trips with Bill and visiting Europe with her family. Hazel found a new home and a second family in the Eckville Manor where she resided for many years.

Hazel will lovingly be remembered by her children Nora (Florian) Hiebert of Red Deer, Robert Cordon of Eckville, Sandra Cordon of Rome, Italy and son Kelly of Sylvan Lake; grandson Laverne Hiebert of Calgary; granddaughter Shannon Hiebert of Langley, BC; sisters Edith Thomas of Eckville, Jean McCrady of Red Deer; sister-in-law Violet Safron of Eckville and many cousins, nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Bill; son Noel Cordon. Family members and friends are welcome to the Prayer Vigil at Our Lady Of The Assumption Catholic Church, Sylvan Lake, AB on Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 7:00 P.M. A Funeral Mass for Hazel will be held at the Our Lady Of The Assumption Catholic Church, Sylvan Lake, AB on Monday, April 29, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Hazels name to the Canadian Cancer Society #101 6751-52 Ave Red Deer, Alberta or to the Red Deer Hospice Society 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer, AB. Condolence may be forwarded though www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

ZELT Alma Salome 1913 - 2013 With a peaceful passing, Alma Zelt went to be with her Lord and Saviour on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at Extendicare Michener Hill, Red Deer at the age of 100 years, which was celebrated on January 7, 2013. She was born in Edmonton and grew up on the family farm in the Nisku area. In 1934 she married Gustav (Gus) Zelt and they moved to the Craig District where they farmed until 1958. Gus and Alma then relocated to Red Deer where they established, owned and operated the Blue Pine Motel. After selling the motel in 1969, they retired in the Mountview area of Red Deer. In 1984, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. After Gus’ passing in 1985, Alma remained in her home and continued to enjoy gardening, baking, crocheting and visiting with family and friends. In 1998, Alma moved into Victoria Park Senior Retirement Home. With failing health, she moved to the Red Deer Nursing Home in 2008 and subsequently to the Extendicare Michener Hill in 2010. She is survived by her sons Gordon (Frieda) Zelt of Red Deer and Ken (Wendy) Zelt of Sherwood Park, and daughter Doreen (Erdmann) Mundt of Los Angeles. Also left to mourn Alma’s loss are 8 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren, numerous relatives and many friends. She was predeceased by her husband (Gustav), her parents Gerhart and Emilie (Lechelt) Dreger, infant twin daughters, her sister Ruth Winkleman and brother Edward Dreger. Very special thanks to Dr. A. Phillpott and to the caring staff in Unit 2200 at Extendicare Michener Hill.

Relatives and friends wishing to pay their respects to Mrs. Alma Zelt are invited to a time of visitation at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer on Sunday, April 28, 2013 between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. A funeral service for the late Alma Zelt will be held at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd., Red Deer on Monday, April 29, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., with visitation taking place one hour prior to Alma’s funeral service. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Alma’s honour may be made to the Lutheran Hour Ministries in care of Mount Calvary Lutheran Church or to the charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

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JOSEPHISON Wally Josephison of Rimbey, Alberta passed away peacefully at his home on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at the age of 72 years, after living with cancer for the past five years. He leaves to mourn his beloved wife of 51 years, MaryAnn; his children, Kelly (Colette) Josephison of Rocky Mountain House; and Tracy (Wes) Gyori of Lacombe; as well as his cherished grandchildren: Connor, Cole, Spencer, Kalcy and Briar.

Throughout his life, Wally was dedicated to his family, his friends, and hockey. He is also survived by his many relatives and loyal friends. A Public Memorial Service in Celebration of Wally’s Life will be held at the Rimbey Community Centre, Rimbey on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. with the Reverend Deborah Laing officiating.

Interment will take place at a later date in the Wetaskiwin Cemetery, Wetaskiwin. If friends desire, memorial tributes in Wa l l y ’ s M e m o r y m a y b e made directly to Rimbey Homecare, Box 464, Rimbey, Alberta T0C 2J0; or to the Central Alberta Cancer Centre (Red Deer), c/o Alberta Cancer Foundation, 710, 10123 - 99 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3H1. Condolences to the family may also be expressed by email to: special_reflections@telusplanet.net Funeral and Cremation Arrangements for the Late Wally Josephison entrusted to the care of OBERHAMMER FUNERAL CHAPELS LTD. Rimbey, AB. 403-843-4445

LACEY Wilma On April 7, 2013, Wilma Farringdon, wife of the late Edgar Lacey, passed away in England at the age of 90.

Edgar Lacey was a pastor in Lousana and Delburne for many years before he and Wilma settled in Red Deer.

Wilma spent much of her life as a missionary in Southern India until she met and married Edgar and moved to Canada.

She is survived by her adopted daughter in India, her sister in England and nieces and nephews. She was able to spend the last number of years at Bethany Care Home, Pamber Heath Road Tadley Basingstoke Hampshire, England RG26 3TH. Interment and funeral service will be on Monday, April 29th, 2 0 1 3 a t 2 p m a t Ta d l e y, Basingstoke Hampshire, England.

Card Of Thanks The Featherstone family would like to thank everyone for the condolences of those who celebrated the life of Elgin; all the flowers/cards are appreciated.

Special thanks to the Legion Honor Guards, Ladies Auxiliary for the wonderful lunch and Bruce from Meaningful Memorials.

You all made it a very special day for Gilberta and family.

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LOST CAT Mattie is missing in Highland Green, in the Huget Cres. area. Missing since Friday April 19. She is a female tabby with grey head, black markings, body mainly dark colored, chest and stomach are tan.

She is declawed and is not wearing a collar. She is an indoor cat and is most likely frightened and hungry.

If you see Mattie or if you h a v e h e r, p l e a s e c a l l 403-304-2548 LOST set of car keys w/rem o t e d o o r o p e n e r, ( 3 keys) April 17, by downtown Kaylor Bldg. area of 47 Ave. call 403-346-7237 MISSING since March 25, 2013 from Ogdon Ave. Aprox. 1 year old Rottweiler with black fir, and light tan on chest & paws. Last wearing a pink collar. If you have my dog or any information about the wear abouts of my dog, please contact 403-307-4137 as she is missed very very much.

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Gerald & Sabine White of Red Deer are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Rachelle Wilken, to Jonathon Wood, son of Lori Church and David O’Brien of Calgary, and son of Roger Wood of Olds. The engagement took place on March 31 in Paris, France. Wedding date to be announced.

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must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Peace of mind knowing work is steady and secure

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

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Maple Leaf Environmental & Safety Ltd. is a proactive, dynamic and progressive company. We are recruiting for the position of Plant Shutdown personnel: Safety Supervisors, High angle, Bottle watch, confined space watch, EMR, EMT/P for projects throughout Western Canada. Please e-mail resume & qualifications to: kanderson@ mapleleafsafety.com or klilley@ mapleleafsafety.com Fax: 403-637-2024 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Duties will include: * Design of equipment using 3D CAD * Shop Testing of Prototypes * Support to manufacturing for existing products

Envy for the other guy’s happy girlfriend

Job qualifications:

A thin wallet and stretched bank account

* Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering * Eligibility for registration with APEGA * Strong mechanical aptitude and interest in working with equipment * Solidworks experience an asset * Creativity and attention to detail required. * 3 - 5 yrs. exp. preferred.

A full wallet and healthy bank account

Eagle operates the newest fleet of rigs, has safe operations, and offers steady work – that means more cash in your pocket, and a whole lot more!

Brochure for really cool stuff that you can’t afford to buy

Company paid benefit plan and RRSP. Please send resumes to: resume@ nexusengineering.ca

Phone: (403) 346-7789, Fax: (403) 346-9770, Email: eaglejobs@iroccorp.com

www.eaglerigjobs.com

ZEN MASSAGE CLINIC 29020626

NOW HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS

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Nexus Engineering requires a full time permanent MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEER. This position will involve the design and product development of Coil Tubing Pressure Control Equipment.

Worry about not being able to pay your bills

Really cool stuff you can afford to buy

Where would you rather be working?

Restaurant/ Hotel

Experience preferred but Working out of the Senior’s willing to train the right Centre, 4 days per week candidate. Must be able to under the Direction and organize crews and get Supervision of the Board things done in a timely of Directors. The Program matter. The right candidate Coordinator will search, plan, will start out at deliver and evaluate $100,000.00+/year, with programs for the Association company truck, benefits Tired of Standing? and complete other tasks and bonuses. Work is in Find something to sit on as assigned. the Edson, Fox Creek, in Classifieds Whitecourt area. Hiring The ideal candidate will immediately. Please possess the following: forward resumes for re• Excellent communication Sales & view to hrmng@hotmail.ca skills (vocal & written).

Distributors • Ability to work indepenStart your career! dently and as a team See Help Wanted 1693338 Alberta LTD o/a member.

Xtreme Pinook Hiring Looking for a place • Ability to establish and Sales Supervisor-retail at to live? maintain an effective Parkland Mall, Red Deer, Take a tour through the working relationship with AB. Experience - min 2 CLASSIFIEDS members, the Board, years, Good English. community professionals Supervise and co-ordinate You can sell your guitar and the general public. sales staff F/Time, Perm, for a song...

• Good computer skills Shifts, Weekends or put it in CLASSIFIEDS (MS Word, Publisher, and we’ll sell it for you!

Salary - $19.00 hourly Excel, etc.).

E-mail: Central Alberta’s Largest • An understanding of Reachiesales@gmail.com general office adminisCar Lot in Classifieds tration.

Opportunity Knocks • An understanding or desire Interested in joining a to learn the issues facing Friendly and Fast growing Tired of Standing? seniors and their families.

Find something to sit on Real Estate Team?

We offer weekly training in Classifieds Required Qualifications: classes along with a Preferred combination excellent experience CELEBRATIONS of education and work support staff.

HAPPEN EVERY DAY experience, including Management appreciates IN CLASSIFIEDS but not limited to: and recognizes sales • Recreation, social work, members accomplishand/or program planning. ments. You must carry a • Current 1st Aid and valid Real Estate License.

Professionals CPR. For a more in-depth • Clear Criminal Record information, please call check.

Carol Clark 403-350-4919.

• Possession of Class 5 Coldwell Banker driver’s license.

OnTrack Realty.

• Occasional Saturday & evening work will be required.

MECHANICAL Design Engineer

vs. the other guys

A girlfriend/wife who is happy and thinks you rock!

PROGRAM COORDINATOR OPPORTUNITY

Please submit your resume & cover letter to: THE SYLVAN LAKE SENIORS ASSOCIATION 4908 - 50 Avenue Sylvan Lake, AB T4S 1C9 Attention - Don MacKenzie, slsenior@shaw.ca Competition closes Monday May 6, 2013 @ 4PM Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Opening soon.

Looking for registered massage therapists.

403-348-5650

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Restaurant/ Hotel

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850

Binder Construction Ltd. requires: Apprentices, Carpenters and Skilled Labourers for work in Innisfail, AB. Contact Dale at 780-278-1310.

BWS FABRICATION INC.

Is looking to fill the position of

B Pressure Welder

vessel experience an asset

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

DAD’S PIZZA

PART/FULL TIME COOK Apply at East 40th Pub. 3811 40th Ave.

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Oilfield

A job at

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Enseco Energy Services Corporation is a specialized oil and gas service provider with operations covering western Canada & the US. Enseco is currently hiring the following Production Testing positions: Experienced Day/Night Supervisors Operator Assistants (Entry Level Position)

Professionals

F/T & P/T KITCHEN HELPERS Wages $12./hr.

Apply in Person w/resume to: BLACKJACK LOUNGE #1, 6350 - 67 St. Phone/Fax: 403-347-2118 JUGO JUICE - F/T Juicer/Mixer. $10/hr, 40 hrs/wk. Email: janegosselin@telus.net

The successful candidate shall possess the following skills and abilities: • Experience in the Oilfield and related equipment • Works well with others • Must be dependable, reliable, and loyal • Exercise good organizational skills on the shop floor Those individuals with the appropriate qualifications may respond in strictest confidence to careers@bwsfabrication.com or Fax 403-343-6006

Carpenters/ Cabinet Makers

F/T P/T Piecework or Hrly on site & in millwork shop. admin@ davcointeriors .com F: 403.887.7589

DAYSHIFT QC Person

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850

Howell’s Excavating Ltd. of Innisfail, AB is currently seeking:

Heavy Equipment Operators * Hydraulic Excavators * Dozers - Must be proficient at finish grade work.

- Capable of working with minimum supervision - Have a valid Drivers License Applicants must be self motivated with good work ethics and take pride in their work and equipment. It would be an asset if you have Valid Safety Tickets, but is not a requirement.

Resumes can be dropped off at 5608-49 Avenue, Innisfail, or faxed to: 403-227-5515 or emailed to: howelexc@ telusplanet.net

Job Fair

Evraz will be holding a Job Fair at the iHotel on 67th on May 2nd from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Interviews will be conducted on site as part of an immediate hiring process.

Evraz Inc. NA is the largest producer of steel and pipe in Western Canada and a recognized leader in the North American oil and gas industry. We are committed to safe, responsible work practices and strive to recruit individuals who share our dedication to continuous success. We offer employees competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package, including significant bonus opportunities.

Evraz is expanding maintenance coverage to all shifts as well as adding another premium thread line to our operations in Red Deer. We are in need of the following positions: Mechanical Maintenance Supervisor - Salary This position will be of interest to Mechanical Engineers, Engineering Technologists, Red Seal Journeyman Millwrights or Machinists or individuals with a combination of experience, education or training. Previous work experience in supervision, coordinating, prioritizing, scheduling, planning and assigning work in an industrial manufacturing setting is preferred, but not required.

Journeyman Millwrights and Machinists ($34.54 $49.16/hour) Applicants must possess a valid provincial journeyman certification or Interprovincial Red Seal certification.

Previous work experience in an industrial manufacturing setting is preferred, but not required. These are full time shift work positions.

Duties include troubleshooting and maintenance of plant equipment.

If you are looking for a career with a strong company, you owe it to yourself to attend the Evraz Job Fair. Plan to visit us at the iHotel on 67th on May 2nd from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm All potential hires will be required to attend and pass a pre-employment medical including drug screening test before being offered employment. For more information on Evraz’s North American operations, visit www.

EvrazIncNA.com Evraz..making the world stronger.

Nexus Engineering is LINE COOKS & DISHCurrently looking for WASHERS NEEDED. DAYSHIFT QC PERSON Must be willing to work varying shifts. Exc. wages • Must be able to read and benefits. Must have measuring devices reliable transportation. and blueprints for Apply in person to Sandy inspection of machined at Glenn’s Restaurant on parts.

Gasoline Alley or phone for MCMULLEN’S an app’t. 403-346-5448.

We offer competitive REFRIGERATION wages, benefits and & HEATING a RRSP plan.

ATTENTION: Please forward resumes to HVAC, Sheet metal & resume@ Plumbers. Well established nexusengineering.ca heating, refrigeration & EXPERIENCED repair plumbing company of 51 person req’d for local truck years has full time posicompany. Work involves tions available for first year LUCKY’S LOUNGE all aspects of heavy truck to journey man workers in located in Jackpot Casino, and trailer repair and disall departments. We are requires Experienced manteling. Must be offering top wages, job F/T Servers. physically fit. HD Mechansecurity, vacation/holiday Please apply in person at ic or equivelant experience pay, health/dental pack4950 47 Ave. We offer competitive ages, paid training and a No phone calls please wages, benefits weekends safe and enjoyable place off. Fax resume to to work. If you would like to POST-TIME LOUNGE 1-855-784-2330 or call join our team of top techniis now accepting resumes FILLED! cians please fax your for Bartender/Waitress F/T LICENSED h.d. truck resume to 403-347-5530 Apply w/resume or email: Mcmullens mechanic needed immed.

3731 50 TH AVE. @mcmullens.ca for rapidly growing waste No phone calls please. and recycling company.

NOW Hiring Site SuperinTOO MUCH STUFF? Exp’d in this industry is an tendants, Carpenters, asset but not req’d.

Let Classifieds Apprentice Carpenters for Email resume to help you sell it.

Full Time Work in the Red canpak@xplornet.ca Deer area. Fully paid SUNSHINE Family F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS Benefit Package, Pension Restaurant - F/T Server.

Plan, Bonuses. Good - Good hours, home every $9.75/hr, 40 hrs/wk. Email: wages. Experience in the night, $4000-$6000/mo. janegosselin@telus.net Contractor must have truck Petroleum industry an asset, Service Stations, Bulk or van. Tools, supplies & Plants. E-mail Resume ladders required. Training to tedc@kellerdenali.com provided, no experience needed. Apply to: LOOKING FOR 2ND YEAR satjobs@shaw.ca WELDER OR ABOVE INDUSTRIAL painter For 6 month project in N.E. required for a sandblasting BC. No truck or welder & painting shop. Must pass necessary. Fly in camp drug/substance testing. job. Please email resume: Fax resume to info@GTChandler.com 403-340-3800 or fax: 403-886-2223

Now Hiring Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

ALL POSITIONS ALL SHIFTS

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you. Now hiring Canyon Champions for the following positions:

Class 1 Driver / Operators: Frac—Pump Operators and Bulk Drivers; Apprentice Heavy Equipment Technician

f Team orientated f Clean Class 1 drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset

Why Canyon? f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New equipment

f f f

Career advancement opportunities RRSP Matching Program

We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

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How to apply:

Apply in person at any location or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

26 FERN ROAD back alley Thursday 25th Noon -7 Friday 26th Noon -7 Saturday 27th, 9-7

Johnstone Park

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Paid technical and leadership training

Fairview - Upper

MOVING SALE 16 Jarvis Ave. Sat. April 27th 8-6 Tools, clothes, toys, books, houswares, garden tools, furniture, & much more

North Red Deer

Out of Town MOOSE LODGE ANNUAL GARAGE SALE Thurs. Apr. 25, 5-8 Fri. & Sat. 8-8 Sun. 8-3. On corner of Willow St. & Petrolia Dr. 4 blocks S. of Westerner Grounds.

403-347-1505

Innisfail 5203 44 STREET CLOSE INNISFAIL Apr. 26th 12-6 & 27th 10-4 Household, tools, collectibles & more.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Penhold

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Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety—focused

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Indoor Multi-Family Garage Sale. Sat. April 27 8 am to 2 pm, at Firemaster Oilfield Services Inc. 4728 78A Street Close (Next to Habitat for Humanity) Breakfast and lunch concession with all food proceeds going to Red Deer Loaves and Fishes School Lunch Program.

HUGE SALE! Sat. Apr. 27, 9-5. West of Penhold Fas Gas, 8.5 kms. to RR10 left 2.3 kms. to Twp. Rd. 364. right 2.2 kms. to #1139.

403-896-3506 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, April 26, 2013 E3

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

JOURNEYMAN TECHNICIAN & LUBE TECHNICIAN Honda Red Deer is a large volume automotive import dealer in Central Alberta and we are looking for an aggressive

Journeyman Repair Technician and an experienced

Lube Technician.

Join a close-knit team of professionals in our state-of-the-art facility.

Candidates need to be very energetic, motivated, highly productive, focused on customer satisfaction and enthusiastic about working as a team.

Unlimited earning potential for the right Journeyman willing to work hard (Monday-Friday and rotating Saturdays).

Lube Tech hours are Tuesday to Friday 8-5 and Saturday 9-4 with the salary commensurate with work experience. Class 5 driver’s license is required and a health benefits package is also offered.

E-mail resumes to pskakun@ hondareddeer.ca.

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

LICENSED MECHANIC & AUTO BODY TECH. Reasonable rate.

A.J. Auto Repair & Body 11, 7836 49 Ave. Call 403-506-6258

Phoenix Oilfield Rentals Ltd. is a progressive well funded and growing company with an excellent reputation for reliable equipment as well as safe and professional work standards. Phoenix is currently seeking a field/shop apprentice mechanic for our Red Deer branch. Phoenix also has branches in Grande Prairie and Ft. Nelson serving Alberta and B.C. A high school diploma and a valid driver’s license are required. The ability to multi task in a fast paced environment, proven ability to organize tasks and manage time, willingness to learn and strong interaction skills as well as First Aid and H2S tickets would be an asset. Knowledge of gensets and pumps would be an advantage. This fulltime permanent position would begin immediately, competitive wage depending on experience with benefit package after 3 months. e-mail resumes and copy of tickets to: humanresources@ phoenixrentals.ca or fax to:(780) 986-0763

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PARTS PERSON

Trades

850

PERMOLEX LTD. is a unique grain processing facility that produces flour, gluten, fuel grade ethanol and livestock feed from wheat. We are a growing Company and advancement is possible for the right individual. We offer a friendly, open environment that respects and supports our employees and we are currently looking for an Ethanol Area Operator.

As a successful applicant you will have: * Ability to learn and operate other areas within the plant * Flexible to work on different schedules and to cover holidays. * A strong mechanical background. * Applicants with previous experience in a plant setting will be given preference. * Proof of Grade 12 is mandatory. * Ability to work well in a team environment. * Ability to maintain specifications of product(s). * Desire to improve your knowledge of plant and process. * Ability to operate and maintain numerous pieces of equipment at the same time. * A strong work ethic. * A desire to continually learn about your position, and apply yourself to the improvement of the plant. * A desire to work in a fast paced environment where decisions must be made and actions must be taken in a timely manner. * Strong troubleshooting ability. * Successful applicant to learn basic lab procedures.

Please forward your resume to Permolex attn.

Bridgette by email to bduniece@permolex.com or by fax to: 403-346-2662.

Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

REQUIRED

For Central Alberta Chevrolet Dealership

• Full time, entry level position.

• Will train.

• Good benefit package.

• Automotive experience preferred.

Apply with resume to

STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop.

MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Bernie Parent, Parts Manager bernieparent@telus.net Hwy. 2A, Lacombe www.weidnerchevrolet.ca

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850

TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599 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

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CLASS 1 drivers req’d for flat deck work. Steady year round work. Benefits, exc. wages and safety bonuses. Successful candidates must be hard working, must know your load securement and love driving as you will be traveling throughout BC, AB, SK & MB. Please fax resumes and drivers abstract to 1-855-784-2330

CLASS 3 DRIVER/ EQUIPMENT OPERATOR req’d immed. Local work, need drivers abstract.

Fax resume to 403-986-8142

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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

850 Currently seeking Newspaper carrier for morning delivery

Full-Time Heavy Duty Mechanic:

6 DAYS PER WK. ( Monday - Saturday)

The County of Stettler is seeking a Full-Time Heavy Duty Mechanic, to work in a positive and friendly atmosphere. Applicants should be familiar with varieties of on and off-road equipment; including but not limited to half-tons, gravel trucks, trailers, road construction and various other vehicles. The requirements for this position are listed below: • self-motivated, positive attitude with the ability to comprehend, work and communicate effectively with others • open-mindedness to learning new tasks • supply own tools and toolbox • sitting, kneeling, lifting, walking, and laying for extended periods of time • work independently • the ability to withstand related deadlines and pressures • general computer skills, reading text, written communication, CVIP experience

in the town of Olds Earn $500+ for hour and a half per day.

Must have own vehicle.

18+ Needed ASAP

880

880

CARRIERS NEEDED

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

DEER PARK AREA Part of Dunning Crsc & Depalme St. $61.00 mo.

ALSO Part of Dunning Crsc. and Dunning Close $62.00/mo.

ANDERS AREA Anders St. Addinell Close/ Allan St. Abbott Close/ Allan St. Allan Close/Allan St. Allsop Cres.

ROSEDALLE AREA Richards Crsc.

Richards Close Ray Ave. $58/mo.

ALSO Russell Crsc. and part of Richards Crsc. $63/mo.

BOWER AREA Broughton/ Brooks Cres.

Bettenson St./ Baines Cres.

Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St

Timberstone Area Timberstone Way Tolson Place Thomas Place Trimble Close Traptow Close Trump Place $188/mo.

INGLEWOOD AREA

Ingram Close LANCASTER AREA Langford Cres.

Lewis Close/ Law Close Lancaster Drive

Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. $61/mo.

ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area $76/mo.

ALSO Leonard Crs. and 1 block of Lancaster Dr. $75.00/mo.

SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres./ Selkirk Blvd.

Sherwood Cres.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

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Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317 F/T. SYNIK CLOTHING, Gas. Alley. Apply w/resume.

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FT CASHIER required Heritage Esso. Cash handling, receiving, stocking, cleaning washrooms, store, carwash, parking lot.

Some high school, computer literate, some experience. Able to work w/o supervision, any shift. $10-$12 Mail resume to 6020-67 St, RD T4P3M1 Fax 403-348-0972 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

LOOKER OFFICE FURNITURE

is looking for an OFFICE FURNITURE INSTALLER If you have a clean drivers licence, are hard working, flexible and have a positive attitude this job could be for you.

Team work and a great work ethic is a must! This full-time position is for install and delivery of commercial furniture.

Please email resume to ac@lookeroffice.ca

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PERMOLEX LTD. is a unique grain processing facility that produces flour, gluten, fuel grade ethanol and livestock feed from wheat. We are a growing Company and advancement is possible for the right individual. We offer a friendly, open environment that respects and supports our employees and we are currently looking for a Lab Tech ASAP. This position requires: * Follow routine protocols under the close supervision of the Q/A Manager or senior technician, * performs laboratory tests utilizing requisite lab equipment and instruments, making minor adjustments as required. *Responsible for laboratory maintenance, preparing solutions and media. * A team player * Strong time management * Be a problem solver with an eye for detail * Good working knowledge of excel * Flexibility to cover holidays * Strong work ethic The ideal candidate will preferably have a * Chemical or related Technician diploma or equivalency * 1-2 years related lab experience preferred.

Please forward your resume to Permolex attn.

Bridgette by email to bduniece@permolex.com or by fax to: 403-346-2662.

Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

MATURE HOUSEKEEPER who values honesty & integrity in her work needed for small seniors apt. in Red Deer. Criminal record & working with vulnerable people check JOB HUNTING? Read the req’d. Ref’s req’d.

Classifieds. 309-3300.

403-309-4554

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880

Red Deer WAL-MART South & North Locations are hiring for

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK

880

VANIER AREA

Good for adult with small car.

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in

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TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300 Customer Sales/Service

COLLEGE STUDENTS SUMMER WORK Flex schedule, $16 base-appt., conditions apply, training given. Apply now, start after finals 403-755-6711 www.work4students.ca/

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

880

• Warehouse Associates • Cashiers • Sales Floor Associates Please apply at

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www.yourwalmartcareer.ca

WOLF CREEK GROUP OF COMPANIES Lacombe, AB Seeking: Self motivated, hardworking individuals in the following areas: Lumberyard/Retail Sales: Store Clerks “Small Package” Estimator/Sales Yard Personnel Truss Plant: Truss Builders Insulation: Delivery and Labor Positions Experienced Fiberglass Insulators Loose Fill Blow-in Applicators There are various positions with in our companies.

Group benefits available with all positions.

No Sunday work. Great opportunities for the right individuals.

Fax Resume to 403-782-1766 or e-mail info@timbrmart.net

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Call Quitcy 403-314-4316 qmacaulay@

The salary for this full time position is commensurate with experience and is supplemented by a comprehensive benefit package. Apprentices will be considered.

reddeer advocate.com

Please respond in confidence to Kerry George, Shop Foreman For the above noted position; please submit resume, including 3 professional (job related) references, along with current 5-year driver’s abstract. Candidates selected will provide a criminal record check prior to commencement of work.

We thank all for their interest in the County of Stettler No. 6, but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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Resumes and supporting documents may be mailed or hand-delivered to: County of Stettler No. 6 6602-44 Avenue, PO Box 1270 Stettler, AB. TOC 2LO or emailed to: kgeorge@stettlercounty.ca (word or PDF format)

NO EXP. NECESSARY!!

F.T. position available IMMEDIATELY in hog assembly yard in Red Deer. Starting wage $12/hr. Call Rich or Paul 403-346-6934

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Cleaning

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ANN’S Cleaning Services - Weekly & bi-weekly.

Homes & Offices 302-0488 MATURE Exp’d bondable lady will do housecleaning, laundry & ironing. In town or country. 403-309-4640

Contractors

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Contractors

1100

LANCE’S CONCRETE

Sidewalks, driveways, shops, patios, garage pads commercial. Specialized in stamp concrete. 302-9126

Computer Services

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Red Deer Techshop Grand Opening. Website design, pc/laptop repair.

Call 403-986-2066 or visit reddeertechshop.com

Escorts

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587-877-7399 10am-midnight EROTICAS PLAYMATES AA PHILCAN CONST. Girls of all ages 598-3049 Int. & Ext. 34 yrs. exp. www.eroticasplaymates.net Bsmt. dev., decks, sheds, laminate flooring, reno’s, etc.. LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car Free Estimates Call Ken 340-8213 or cell 391-8044 PARAMOUR Allan 403-782-7165 Entertainment. Flat rates.

587-377-1898 Black Cat Concrete Garage/patios/rv pads Handyman sidewalks/driveways Services Dean 403-505-2542

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BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980 Spring & summer bookings.

Res./com. Your full service handyman. Brian 403-598-3857 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 Massage GENERAL CONTRACTOR Builder/Renovator Licensed and insured, Commercial/Residential Merco 403 392 8148

Therapy

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Massage Therapy

1280

Moving & Storage

1300

FANTASY

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

International ladies

Painters/ Decorators

MASSAGE

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Mother’s Day Special Linda’s Chinese Massage For details call 403-986-1550 or visit massagereddeer.com

THE BODY Whisperer www.mygimex.org 4606 48 Ave. 403-986-1691

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JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Personal Services

1315

LOCAL PHYSIC

avail. @ The Cone Castle #5 Fir St. Palm & Card Readings. 403-309-4640

VII MASSAGE Feeling over whelmed?

Seniors’ Hard work day?

Services Pampering at its best. #77464 Gaetz ATT’N: SENIORS Ave. www.

Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the viimassage.biz house such as roof snow In/Out Calls to removal, bathroom fixHotels. 403-986-6686 tures, painting or flooring New South location Call James 403- 341-0617 5003A -50 St. HELPING HANDS 348-5650

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Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship - in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 or visit helpinghandshomesupport.com for information.

Yard Care

1430

ROTOTILLING, power raking, aerating & grass cutting. Reasonable rates. 403-341-4745

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

SPRING LAWN CLEANUP 403-318-4346 Call 403-304-0678

Be part of our unique approach to retail.

We’re building our Store Team and we can’t wait to hear from talented people who want to be part of a new, exciting retail experience. If you’re looking for a fun, collaborative, friendly workplace with flexible hours and opportunities to grow, you’ll fit right in. Discover our in-store positions including Sales Floor, Cashier, Overnight Logistics, and much more.

Now Hiring Team Members for the following positions: t Merchandise Flow t Sales Floor – Instocks t Price Accuracy t Presentation

Apply online or visit us at our job fair: Target 4900 Molly Bannister Drive Red Deer, AB T4R 1N9 Saturday, April 27 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Sunday, April 28 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Join our team. Expect the best.

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

FUSION PRODUCTION SYSTEMS INC., a growing, well-established fabrication facility in Red Deer is hiring for the position of

For afternoon delivery once per week

EXPERIENCED MATERIAL HANDLING SUPERVISOR

• • • • • • • • •

Fusion offers a competitive salary, benefits plan and an opportunity to utilize your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

If you are a proven Team Player with experience and initiative, please forward your resume along your salary expectation and availability date to: Fax 403-347-7867

In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

Trail Appliances has always offered excellence in sales, delivery, customer service, and after-sales support.

The Company is currently looking to fill the following positions at our Red Deer locations.†

Contract Sales Administrator Part time Customer Service Rep

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for 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

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING

Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s F/T kitchen staff, servers and front counter staff.

Must be avail. eves and wknds. Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

THE Central Alberta AIDS Network is looking for a summer student in addition to p/t and casual NightReach workers to provide addictions & outreach supports to vulnerable PLACE an ad in Central populations in downtown Alber ta LIFE and reach over 100,000 potential buy- Red Deer. For more info: www.caans.org ers. 309-3300.

Employment Training

880

Misc.

Help

900

Appliance Delivery Driver Trail offers excellent training and a competitive compensation and benefit package. Start your career with a well known and respected company, become a member of the successful Trail team by applying in person to: Chris Sturdy in person at 2823 Bremner Avenue Delivery Driver applicants apply to Colin Parsons at #6 4622 61 St. Riverside Industrial District.

Security checks will be conducted on successful candidates.

WOLVERINE GUNS AND TACKLE looking to hire 6 P/T time and 2 F/T staff members.

Candidates must be able to work at least one night (until 8:30 pm) a week and every other weekend. We are looking for 2 P/T gun personnel, 2 P/T cashiers and 2 P/T archery personnel.

Also needed is 1 F/T archery personnel and 1 F/T fishing personnel. Please submit resume at the front desk. Fax 403-347-0283 or email:jamie_osmondwgt@ hotmail.ca

Employment Training

900

OILFIELD SERVICES INC.

offers a variety of

SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.

– CPR/First Aid Certification – Advanced First Aid Courses – Heart & Stroke Instructor Training – Mobile Service for Groups of 8 or more Our training center is located in Red Deer For more information on courses, dates, and mobile bookings call Murray @ 403-740-5316 To register call Tina @ 403-348-0687

Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis.

As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses.

For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500.

You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.

TRAINING CENTRE Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544 R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem)

Career Planning

920

Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

FREE

Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals Phone 403-342-2514 or 403-347-8988

CLASSIFICATIONS

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

Children's Items

1580

WICKER baby bassinet, $20. 403-755-3556

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Household Appliances

1710

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042

1720

Cozy House In Parkvale

Main Floor of House for MATURE ADULTS

Perfect location, 2 bdrms, 1 bath, In-suite laundry.

Unfinished bsm’t. No pets.

N/S. $1195& UTIL; SD $1195; Avail Now.

Great place for garden lovers.

3 bdrms, 1 bath. 5 appls.

No pets. N/S In-suite laundry. $1395 INCL. UTIL; SD $1395; Avail NOW.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

BRIGHT APT in the centre of Red Deer

Laebon Homes 346-7273

www.laebon.com

Clean 2 bdrm, 1 bath.

Coin-op laundry. Reserved Condos/ parking. NO PETS, N/S. Avail NOW. $950 & Townhouses Power, SD $950 ADAMS GOLF CLUB SET Hearthstone 403-314-0099 MASON MARTIN HOMES Or 403-396-9554 ASSAULT Right handed.

New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

1-3-5 Woods, 3-PW Irons, FULL, newly reno’d bsmt. 2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., graphite shafts, new grips, suite, 2 bdrms, inclds. utils, $189,800. 403-588-2550 bag. Very good cond. $100. washer/dryer, some furni403-346-0093 REALLY nice 1 bdrm. ture, 1.5 blks. from Bower Mall, tenant employed, cat modern condo (4th flr.) in RED Deer Gun Show downtown Lacombe, adult friendly 403-347-7817 May 4 & 5. complex. Ready for LACOMBE 1 bdrm. $850; Westerner Ag Center occupancy, all appls., 2 bdrm. $950 convenient canopy parking WEIDER NEWER CROSS 403-782-7156 403-357-7465 right outside the door. Call BOW Exercise Machine.

LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. 403-309-4554 for more Very good cond. $175 obo. SUITES. 25+, adults only info. and viewing appt.

Comes with all n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 attachments & exercise chart. 403-346-6939

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Farm Equipment

2010

MF 5465 tractor, fwd, 100 hp, 650 hrs. like new 403-347-5431

Livestock

2100

4040

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852 ONE bdrm. ADULT only apt. close to college, $780/mo., avail. May. 1, no pets 403-877-3323 Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., balcony, No pets. $800 rent/SD, heat/water incld., 403-346-5885 PONOKA, lrg. 1 bdrm apt. incld’s, laundry & all utils. $750. avail. May 1 403-993-3441, 637-2591

QUIET LOCATION 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg.

Heat/water/parking incl.

Call 403-342-2899

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

WANTED TENANT

1 & 2 bdrm. adult suite.

Heat/water/parking incl’d.

Call 403-342-2899

Space

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

METCALF barley 96% germination 403-588-7324

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rentals

2 ROUND LETAHER TOP, DARK WOOD STOOLS for breakfast island. $15/ea. (403)343-3525

Acreages/ Farms

ANTIQUE corner china cabinet, with drawer. $200.

403-877-6354

BED ALL NEW,

Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325.

302-0582 Free Delivery

CORNER DESK with hutch, rolling chair, printer cabinet with paper storage. $175 for all.

(403)343-3525

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

JACK HIGGINS books, 1 box $40 obo.

Clive Kussler books, 1 box $50. obo.

Romance books, 2 boxes. $40. obo.

Action Books, assorted.

2 boxes. $40. obo.

403-782-3847 MAGAZINE table $25; quilt 62” x 76” multi colored squares $30; dbl. blanket $5; post hole auger 5”D $20; adult sleeping bag $15; Sony Trilatron tv/remote, color w/Star Choice receiver $14; 2 sturdy footstools $4/ea; box of clothes hangers $5; 3 shelf urethane unit, white $18; GE Canister vac/attachments, works well $20; 2 braided nylon oval rugs $15/ea, 6 tall float glasses $3; 8 smoked tinted glasses $4 403-314-2026

Cats

1830

SIAMESE ALSO BELINESE ( 4) KITTENS FOR SALE $50/ea. 403-887-3649

3140

WAREHOUSE FOR SALE OR LEASE 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

3190

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820 MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Wanda 403-340-0225

CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3010

Investment Opportunities

4180

OLDS, AB: UP FOR BIDS:

bids accepted until May 6, 2013, 3 p.m. for individual or all parcels.

Future development land in the designated growth area of Mountainview county.

3 parcels: Parcel 1, 139.49 acres, parcel 2, 140.1 acres, parcel 3, 117.3 acres.

ID #1995. Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Signature Service 1-866-345-3414 www. canadafarmandranch.com

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5030

Cars

4050

Acreages

4 ACRES, bare land, LAKE KOOCANUSSA, $79,900 403-350-0345 2009 BMW 335i retractable hardtop gorgeous $38,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL

3090

2 MATCHING Raspberry colored chairs, 1 is swivel. $25/ea. 403-755-3556

WANTED

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

WALKOUT onto walking paths. Modified bi-level backing onto lake, 2 bdrms. den/bdrm. 24’ x 24’ garage, located in Blackfalds. All this for only $391,600 immed. poss.

Open Sat. - Wed. 1-5 pm.

For viewing or info on this or any Abbey Master Builder homes call Lyle Kellington 403-357-0770

11 PIECE GOLF CLUBS, Spalding Centurion, bag and cart incl.†$ 120 Phone 403-347-5385

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

QUEEN SIZE PINE HEADBOARD with bed frame & matching 3 drawer dresser. $175.

(403)343-3525

Huge & lots of storage, 2 bdrms,1.5 bath, 5 appls.

Open concept bi-level layout.

No pets. N/S. In-suite laundry. $1325& UTIL; SD $1325.

Avail NOW

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4020

Houses For Sale

7 ACRES $330,000. 20 min. to Red Deer 403-350-0345 ACREAGES FOR SALE BY 2007 Mercedes Benz CLS OWNER, 5+/- ACRES EACH: 63 AMG 508 HP $41888 1 mile west of Clearwater 348-8788 Sport & Import 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 2006 FUSION SE, 4 dr., $250,000. For more info p. everything, 68,000 kms. call 403-722-4076.

1 owner. 403-342-2480

4070

Farms/ Land

2130

LEATHER LOVESEAT & RECLINER, cream $200. for both. 403-877-6354

Exclusive Triplex on 59th Ave.

Sporting Goods

3060

1 BDRM. $740; N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed. 403-346-1458 2 BDRM. adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, lrg. suite, Avail now or May 1 $900/mo., S.D. $650.

Call 403-304-5337 2 BDRM. furn. apt. in Sylvan Lake. No pets, $1100/mo. utils. incld.

403-887-4610

1660

LEATHER COUCH, cream $200. 403-877-6354

CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-314-4397 TO ADVERTISE HERE

MINI SCHNAUZER, puppies, 3 black, 1 white, ready to go $625/ea.

403-746-0007, 877-3352

Suites

Rooms LIVESTOCK handling facility. 40 x 40 ft. sliders, For Rent sweeps, cow box, pens, shedded Firewood CLEAN, quiet, responsible, $3000 403-886-5315 Keith Furn. $525. 403-346-7546 AFFORDABLE ROOM with all amenities, Homestead Firewood $600/mo. ,403-598-6474 Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. Poultry ROOM for rent. $450 rent, 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 d.d. $350. 403-343-0421 LIVE YEAR OLD LAYING FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, hens for sale, Poplar. Can deliver Warehouse Phone 403-782-4095 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

IKEA EXTENDABLE BED, SOLID PINE. Mattress and guard rail incl. $ 110.

Phone 403-347-5385

Your Rental Key to Houses, Condos, Suites & More

F1 LABRA DOODLES, F1B GOLDEN DOODLES puppies. Visit www.furfettishfarm.ca text 306-521-1371 or call 403-919-1370

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

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Rent Spot Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca

– Titanic Memorabilia (Artist Proofs, Limited Prints), Autographed by the last Survivor – Peddle Car – Edison GramophoneCollector Coins, Stamp & Bills – Jim Robb Prints – Leather Recliner & Matching Sofas – Frigidaire Front Load Washer (1 yr old) – Dining Suites – Bedroom Suite – Craftsman Snow Blower, 13.50/27 with Electric Start – John Deere Herman Nelson 170000 BTU – Quad Blade – Kids Western Saddle and Much More Next Sale May 26 For a complete list and Directions visit: www.cherryhillauction.com Terms of Sale: Cash, Cheque, C/C, Everything must be paid for & removed on sale day (NO EXCEPTIONS), 15% buyer’s premium.

Sale subject to Additions, Deletions, Errors and Omissions.

CLUB Chair, chocolate brown leather, like new. $150. 403-596-1312

stuff

1840

Dogs

(Subject to owners approval)

for all Albertans

The

Clean 2 bdrm, 1 bath. Coin-op laundry. Reserved parking.

NO PETS, N/S. Avail NOW. $950 & Power, SD $950

Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Partial List only: 2002 Monaco Diplomat, Diesel, 40 ft, 2 Slides,

BED: #1 King. extra thick orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr. warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice @ $545. 403-302-0582.

1500-1990

Bright Apt in the Centre of Red Deer

Antique & Estate Auction Sunday April 28 11 am Sharp * Viewing 9 am

Household Furnishings

RED DEER WORKS

FARM - $860,000. On Hwy 590, easy access to Calgary /Red Deer. 155 acres of prime farm land yielding $50,000/year with exc. executive bung a l o w d e v. u p & d o w n .

1530

OILFIELD TICKETS

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

7 ACRES $330,000.

20 minutes to Red Deer 403-227-5132

Auctions

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

SAFETY

278950A5

• •

The position will be responsible for: Warehouse Management Process received material (unload, verification, Computations entry) Working with Quality Control and ensure allocation of materials Knowledge of pipe, flange, fittings and steel plates Initial receiving of product to our location Maintenance of shipping and receiving of Raw Material Product movement to the designated departments Staging job specific material for timely distribution Administering daily equipment checks and maintenance reviews Prepare any documentation pertaining to product Prepare shipping document

880

FARM FOR SALE

$860,000. On Hwy 590, easy access to Calgary /Red Deer. 155 acres of prime farm land yielding $50,000/year with an exc. executive bungalow developed up & down. Contact garthd946@hotmail.com 403-227-6740

2000 PONTIAC Grand Am 2 dr. Clean 403-318-3040

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

at www.garymoe.com

4090

Manufactured Homes

2 0 0 8 C U S T O M B U I LT modular home to move, 1315 sq.ft., 3 bdrms. 2 baths, fireplace, a.c., awning and decking, all appls., $115,000. phone 403-729-3205 for pics.

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon 403-340-0225

Locally owned and family operated

5040

SUV's

WANTED

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS

5 BDRM. house acreage, 4000-4190 10 min. S. of Pine Lake & 40 min. SE of Red Deer. $1650, $800 d.d. utils. incl., Houses 1 month last month rent, 1 For Sale yr. leasing, references & record of employment. No house pets. Avail. June 1 BLACKFALDS,1/2 duplex, 403-442-2631 or 357-9909 new, 1250 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., bsmt. finished, att. garage, EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW 2 tier deck, landscaped, whte vinyl fence around, ON ACREAGE IN RED call 403-600-1804 DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 bath, rent $2000 + DD avail.

BRAND NEW BI-LEVEL 403-346-5885 1142 sq. ft. 3 bdrm. 2 bath, close to college on city transit route, immed. poss, Houses/ $340,600 inclds. GST. For viewing call Lyle Kellington Duplexes 403-357-0770 COZY HOUSE For Sale By Owner ~ IMPRESSIVE Modified IN PARKVALE Bi-level with STUNNING Perfect location, 2 bdrms, CURB APPEAL on a 1 bath, In-suite laundry.

QUIET Close in Sylvan Unfinished bsm’t. No pets.

Lake. The IMMACULATE N/S. $1195& UTIL; SD DEVELOPMENT is sure to $1195; Avail Now. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 IMPRESS. This BEAUTIFUL home is 1342 sq. ft.

Or 403-396-9554 on upper floor. It has 4 Bedrooms and 3 Full Main Floor of House For MATURE ADULTS Bathrooms, RV Pad, many upgrades and much, much Great place for garden more. A MUST SEE to lovers. 3 bdrms, 1 bath. appreciate all that it has.

5 appls. No pets. N/S Please call or write for In-suite laundy. $1395 more details. Price INCL. UTIL; SD $1395; $530,000.00 Email: Avail NOW. mka8clr8@gmail.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 com or Call: Or 403-396-9554 403-887-1715.

FREE Weekly list of Condos/ properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s Townhouses phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer SOUTHWOOD PARK www.homesreddeer.com 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, MASON MARTIN HOMES generously sized, 1 1/2 New 2 Storey 1500 sq.ft baths, fenced yards, 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, $399,900. Dbl. att. garage.

Sorry no pets.

403-588-2550 www.greatapartments.ca MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1320 sq.ft.

SYLVAN 2 Bdrm. 1/12 bath 5 appls., avail. May 1, 3 bdrm., 2 bath. $367,900.

Dbl. att. garage. $1300 + gas & elec.

403-588-2550 403-341-9974 MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1400 sq.ft.

Manufactured Dbl. att. garage. $409,900.

Homes 403-588-2550 MASON MARTIN HOMES Newly Reno’d Mobile New bungalow 1350 sq.ft.

FREE Shaw Cable + more Dbl. att. garage. $950/month 403-588-2550 Wanda 403-340-0225 MODIFIED BI-LEVEL 1344 sq. ft. 3 bdrm. 2 full baths, walk out bsmt, triple glazed 4 Plexes/ windows, 24’ x 24’ att.

6 Plexes garage $390, 578 inclds. GST. Immed.

3 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. poss., For viewing call Lyle $975/mo. 403-343-6609 Kellington 403-357-0770

4020

3020

3030

3040

14’ or 16’ wide mobile home to move into park.

1-780-465-7107

4100

Income Property

NEW DUPLEX, 2 suites, for $389,900. 2000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath. Mason Martin Homes 403-588-2550

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 **SOLD**

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

2010 BMW Xdrive 3.0i 24,568 km. Sport & Import 7652-50 Ave 403-348-8788

RAYMOND SHORES GULL LAKE, 2012 Park model home, fully furnished.

Too many extras to list.

403-350-5524 for details.

Businesses For Sale

4140

LACOMBE kids clothing store $45,000 403-782-7156 357-7465

Lots For Sale

4160

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

2008 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon $24,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788 2001 DODGE Durango 4x4, $5000 o.b.o.

403-348-1634

Trucks

5050

FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe. 2008 GMC Sierra 1500 SLE 72,000 km Sport & Import Builders terms or owner 7652-50 Ave. 403-348-8788 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 SYLVAN LAKE - Pie lot, Well priced. Good location.

403-896-3553

Automotive Services

2006 GMC C4500 Topkick duramax diesel, 4X4, auto, $44888 7652 50 Avenue 348-8788 Sport & Import

5010

3050

Exclusive Triplex On 59 Ave.

Huge & lots of storage, 2 bdrms,1.5 bath, 5 appls.

Open concept bi-level layout. No pets. N/S. In-suite laundry. $1325 & UTIL; SD $1325. Avail NOW Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

MOVE IN READY BLACKFALDS: 2 storey, 3 bdrm, 2 1/2 bath, upgrades $376,500 2 bdrm .bungalow, 2 bath, front att. garage $319,900 Prices include all legal fees, GST, and appls.

Riser Homes Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

Specialists in Vehicle Financing regardless of Credit Quality Credit Solutions from a Reputable Dealer are your Best Bet Red Deer Toyota, the Right Choice!

297194D28

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Misc.

Help

Call or email our Finance Specialists in strictest confidence: 403-343-3736 or getyourcredit@reddeer.toyota.ca

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Trucks

5050

2002 GMC 3500 SLE C.C. 4x4, diesel dually, tow pckg. c/w 5th whl. hitch, new tires, batteries, brakes, much more.

325,000 kms. very clean, $11,500. obo. Must Sell 403-347-8349

Motorcycles

5080

2008 KAWASAKI Vulcan 900 Classic LT. 4,425 kms. exc. cond. grey/white. $6500. 403-596-1312

Motorhomes

5100

2004 BOUNDER 35’, V10 9500 mi., 2 slides. Exc. cond. $64,900. obo 403-347-0016

Holiday Trailers

5120

2006 TRAVELAIR. As new cond. Used very little. Immaculate. Sleeps 4. New generator incl. $10,500. 403-786-1052 2006 COACHMAN Captiva 29’, sleeps 9, front queen, rear bunks, 1 slide, Reduced $13,200. 403-346-1469 1980 20’ CAMP TRAILER. Great shape for older unit. $5000 obo. 403-782-2669

Tent Trailers

5130

2004 PALOMINO 2 propane bottles, c/w everything you would need. $5,500. obo. 403-896-5627

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

2 NEW P215/65/R15 BFG Radial TA Tires. Offers Offers. 403-347-0016

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519 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

PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

6010

STORESMART SELF-STORAGE NOTICE OF SALE Goods shall be sold by public auction (sale conducted by Lakeland Auction Services) on SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 at 1:00 p.m., at StoreSmart Self-Storage, 29 McKenzie Crescent, Red Deer County, Alberta, to satisfy outstanding charges for self-storage rental incurred by the following: NICK DANIELS RODERICK EPP CLAYTON HAWLEY RICHARD FERGUSON

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US tourists swim for nearly 14 hours after boat sinks near St. Lucia

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The fishing trip off the rugged north coast of St. Lucia was supposed to last all day, but about four hours into the journey, the boat’s electric system crackled and popped.

Dan Suski, a 30-year-old business owner and information technology expert from San Francisco, had been wrestling a 200-pound marlin in rough seas with help from his sister, Kate Suski, a 39-year-old architect from Seattle. It was around noon April 21.

He was still trying to reel in the fish when water rushed into the cabin and flooded the engine room, prompting the captain to radio for help as he yelled out their co-ordinates.

It would be nearly 14 hours and a long, long swim before what was supposed to be a highlight of their sunny vacation would come to an end.

As the waves pounded the boat they had chartered from the local company “Reel Irie,” more water flooded in. The captain threw life jackets to the Suskis.

“He said, ’Jump out! Jump out!”’ Kate Suski recalled in a telephone interview Thursday with The Associated Press.

The Suskis obeyed and jumped into the water with the captain and first mate. Less than five minutes later, the boat sank.

The group was at least eight miles (13 kilometres) from shore, and waves more than twice their size tossed them.

“The captain was telling us to stay together, and that help was on its way and that we needed to wait,” Kate Suski said.

The group waited for about an hour, but no one came.

“I was saying, ’Let’s swim, let’s swim. If they’re coming, they will find us. We can’t just stay here,”’ she recalled.

As they began to swim, the Suskis lost sight of the captain and first mate amid the burgeoning swells. Soon after, they also lost sight of land amid the rain.

“We would just see swells and grey,” Dan Suski said.

A plane and a helicopter appeared in the distance and hovered over the area, but no one spotted the siblings.

Several hours went by, and the sun began to set.

“There’s this very real understanding that the situation is dire,” Kate Suski said. “You come face-to-face with understanding your own mortality ...

We both processed the possible ways we might die. Would we drown? Be eaten by a shark?”

“Hypothermia?” Dan Suski asked.

“Would our legs cramp up and

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This Nov. 2009 photo courtesy of Dan Suski shows Kate Suski, right, and her brother Dan while on vacation in San Diego, Ca. The brother and sister are recovering in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia after their ship sank on April 21 during a fishing trip, forcing them to swim almost 14 hours to reach land, according to the siblings. The Suskis said they are recovering after being hospitalized with severe dehydration and tendinitis. make it impossible to swim?” the sister continued.

They swam for 12 to 14 hours, talking as they pushed and shivered their way through the ocean. Dan Suski tried to ignore images of the movie “Open Water” that kept popping into his head and its story of a scuba-diving couple left behind by their group and attacked by sharks.

His sister said she also couldn’t stop thinking about sharks.

“I thought I was going to vomit I was so scared,” she said.

When they finally came within 30 feet (9 metres) of land, they realized they couldn’t get out of the water.

“There were sheer cliffs coming into the ocean,” she said. “We knew we would get crushed.”

Dan Suski thought they should try to reach the rocks, which they could see in the moonlight, but his sister disagreed.

“We won’t survive that,” she told him.

They swam until they noticed a spit of sand nearby. When they got to land, they collapsed, barely able to walk. It was past midnight, and they didn’t notice any homes in the area.

“Dan said the first priority was to stay warm,” she recalled.

They hiked inland and lay side by side, pulling up grass and brush to cover themselves and stay warm. Kate Suski had only her bikini on, having shed her sundress to swim better. Dan Suski had gotten rid of his shorts, having recalled a saying when he was a kid that “the best-dressed corpses wear cotton.”

They heard a stream nearby but decided to wait until daylight to determine whether the water was safe to drink.

As the sun came up, they began to hike through thick brush,

picking up bitter mangoes along the way and stopping to eat green bananas.

“It was probably the best and worst banana I’ve ever had,” Dan Suski recalled.

Some three hours later, they spotted a young farm worker walking with his white dog. He fed them crackers, gave them water and waited until police arrived, the Suskis said.

“We asked if he knew anything about the captain and mate,” Kate Suski said. “He said he had seen the news the night before and they hadn’t been found at that time. I think we felt a sense of tragedy that we weren’t prepared for.”

The Suskis were hospitalized and received IV fluids, with doctors concerned they couldn’t draw blood from Kate Suski’s arm because she was so dehydrated. They also learned that the captain and mate were rescued after spending nearly 23 hours in the water, noting that their relatives called and took care of them after the ordeal.

St. Lucia’s tourism minister called it a miracle, and the island’s maritime affairs unit is investigating exactly what caused the boat to sink. Marine Police Sgt. Finley Leonce said they have already interviewed the captain, and that police did not suspect foul play or any criminal activity in the sinking of the ship.

A man who answered the phone Thursday at the “Reel Irie” company declined to comment except to say that he’s grateful everyone is safe. He said both the captain and first mate were standing next to him but that they weren’t ready to talk about the incident.

The brother and sister said they don’t blame anyone for the shipwreck.

“We are so grateful to be alive right now,” Kate Suski said.

“Nothing can sort of puncture that bubble.”

Upon returning to their hotel in St. Lucia earlier this week, the Suskis were upgraded to a suite as they recover from cuts on their feet, severe tendonitis in their ankles from swimming and abrasions from the lifejackets.

“It’s really been amazing,” Dan Suski said. “It’s a moving experience for me.”

On Saturday, they plan to fly back to the U.S. to meet their father in Miami.

Once a night owl, Kate Suski no longer minds getting up early for flights, or for any other reason.

“Since this ordeal, I’ve been waking up at dawn every morning,” she said. “I’ve never looked forward to the sunrise so much in my life.”

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Haiti playing host for first time to summit of Association of Caribbean States PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Foreign delegations are beginning to arrive in Haiti for the first regionwide summit held in the Caribbean nation.

Discussions at Friday’s meeting of the Association of Caribbean States are expected to focus on trade, investor development and disaster-risk reduction. The group includes the nations of the Caribbean and neighbouring mainland countries.

It’s the second time this year that President Michel Martelly’s Haitian government has hosted an international conference. Caribbean leaders met there in February, but this latest summit includes leaders from countries such as Venezuela, Honduras and Argentina.

Singer known for ballads, some about drug traffickers, found fatally shot MCALLEN, Texas — The death of a South Texas singer well known for his ballads, including some about the exploits of Mexican drug cartels, was being treated as a murder investigation after authorities found his body Thursday on a rural road.

Jesus “Chuy” Quintanilla appeared to have been shot at least twice in the head and was found near his vehicle, Sheriff Lupe Trevino said. Irrigation workers found his body on a roadway north of Mission in an isolated area surrounded by citrus groves, Trevino said.

Quintanilla’s family filed a missing person report Thursday morning, saying they hadn’t had contact with him since the previous night. But investigators were already on the scene, Trevino said.

Trevino wouldn’t release details about the investigation but said it was being treated as a murder investigation. He speculated that the singer was either lured or taken to the area where his body was found.

Mormon church leaders welcome Boy Scouts proposal to lift gay ban for youth SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church says it welcomes the Boy Scouts of America’s latest proposal to lift the gay ban for youth members but continue to exclude gays as adult leaders.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted a statement on its website Thursday saying it is satisfied with the proposal, which the Boy Scouts announced last week.

The church says the Scouts made a thoughtful, goodfaith effort to address one of the most complex and challenging issues facing society. It also says the proposal recognizes Scouting exists to benefits youth rather than adult leaders.

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