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Police squad targets organized crime BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF A specialized team tackling organized crime was officially introduced in Red Deer on Thursday. Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) has set up the Red Deer Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU), a team of undercover officers who have been working in the city since November to tackle drug trafficking networks, thefts, gang activity, and marijuana grow operations. The team will target street-level criminals, as well as probe larger crime groups inside and outside Alberta’s borders. Sgt. Gerald Ouellet, officer in charge of the Red Deer unit, said the officers have been working out of the Red Deer city RCMP detachment, primarily assisting detachments in the region. Up to 10 individuals are in the unit now but it
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‘Our investigations tend to be lengthy because organized crime groups are very sophisticated.’ — Sgt. Gerald Ouellet Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team will be beefed up to 15. “Organized crime knows no boundaries,” said Ouellet. ALERT has established regional teams across Alberta since setting up in 2006. Others are located in Calgary, Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Fort McMurray, Medicine Hat and
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Lethbridge. These teams include municipal police, RCMP and sheriffs who work together across all jurisdictions. They lead investigations and also help other police partners like Calgary Police Service. The Red Deer RCMP also has a general investigation section, which delves more into serious crimes within Red Deer. The new unit will have more of a regional approach and focus on organized crime. “Our investigations tend to be lengthy because organized crime groups are very sophisticated,” said Ouellet. RCMP Supt. Warren Dosko said this unit will help bring about a safer community for Red Deer. “We’ve certainly used them to date in our serious crimes (investigations) and they’ve been a significant value over the last three to four months,” said Dosko.
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Workers decry lack of progress, call it ‘stalling’ BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF
supporters on Thursday. The legislature wrapped up its session about three weeks sooner than expected Wednesday, ending with a flurry of bills being passed, including a legislated four-year deal for the province’s teachers.
Extendicare Michener Hill staff say their employer is bargaining in bad faith. They took their complaint to the street on Thursday at an information rally in front of the Red Deer seniors’ facility. About 350 front-line Alberta Union of Provincial Employees have been without a contract since Dec. 31. The union says Extendicare is calling for rollbacks but refuses to provide the AUPE with documents to back up such proposals. “They’re stalling. They’re delaying. We’re just trying to push negotiations along. One way of doing that is by letting the members come out and walk around and show how upset they are about contract negotiations,” said AUPE president Guy Smith who was at the Red Deer rally. When talks broke down for their first contract in 2011, Red Deer members voted to go on strike but agreed to take part in mediated talks rather than walk off the job. On Thursday, about 100 AUPE members were joined by a some residents and family members who said residents’ care is suffering at the facility because there is not enough staff. “The fact is the company is here to make a profit. The way they do that is by cutting back on staff and charging residents more, cutting back on pay for staff. It’s the same old story we’re hearing over and over again. Unfortunately it seems to be the future for seniors care in this province,” Smith said. Kerin Carr, of Red Deer, said her 86-year-old mother an Extendicare resident has been forced to stay in bed for long periods of time because there’s not enough staff to operate equipment to lift residents in and out of bed. “Last week for three days she was not out of bed from noon on because there was only one person to take care of 12 people,” Carr said. “The first of April I came in at 6:30 p.m. and my mother hadn’t eaten.
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Wearing 14th and 15th century knights armor Matthew Barnett, left, and Dan Smith of the Living Backwards Historical Society in Edmonton demonstrate a battle scene using pole axes to a group of boys at the G.H. Dawe Community Centre. More than 600 grade five boys from Red Deer took part in the second annual Grow Boys conference Thursday. Through a variety of events the boys from several Elementary schools in the city explored the deeper meanings of respect, understanding, relationships and responsibility. The knights in shining armor attended to show what it meant to be and become a knight of old.
Session a failure, Smith tells supporters The spring session of the Alberta legislature ended late Wednesday, a session Wildrose leader Danielle Smith labels a huge failure for the government.
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Nordegg evacuees may return home today BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Nordegg residents may be allowed to return home today if the out-of-control wildfire that forced their evacuation is contained. “That’s not a guarantee we’ll be able to do that but it’s what we’re hoping we’ll be in a position to do,” said Mike Haugen, Clearwater County director of community and protective services, on Thursday. “The fire is still posing a threat to that community although over the past little while the threat has been reducing. “We’re hoping that by (today) the threat is reduced to
a point where we can lift the evacuation.” The 741-acre wildfire, located 1.5 km from the hamlet, was about 90 per cent contained on Thursday. Heavy equipment and helicopters continued to reinforce guards around the fire while firefighters and helicopters worked to extinguish ground fire and hot spots. Barry Shellian, fire information officer with Rocky Mountain House Wildfire Management Area, said the fire has weakened thanks to lower temperatures, reduced wind and higher relative humidity. “At one point it was going up and candling, torching trees in the crown. Now it’s residual ground fire with smol-
dering and occasional flaring of dry surface fuels,” Shellian said. Ground fires can go deep into the organic layers and must be dug up. In some spots fire have gone down half a metre or more, he said. “What we’ll be doing is using infrared scanning on helicopters and planes to assist. It will still take us some time to get rid of all that ground fire because it’s really labour intensive.” Conditions in area are still extremely dry and over 100 firefighters, various heavy equipment and 10 helicopters continue to fight the fire. “Reinforcements of manpower, heavy equipment and
aircraft have been very successful in eliminating any forward spread of that fire,” Shellian said. Haugen said the May long weekend is one of the busiest for the Nordegg area. He said even if the evacuation order is lifted it won’t necessarily mean ATV trails affected by fire will be open for use. “When the evacuation is lifted, there’s still going to be firefighting operations going on.” Wildfire hazard for Rocky Mountain House Wildfire Management Area is high, but safe campfires were still allowed in the area. People should check — https://albertafirebans.ca —
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Just in time for the long weekend fuel prices in Red Deer have jumped 12 cents per litre this week.
Fuel prices take big jump BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF This weekend will be longer than most and, if you will be hitting the road and haven’t already filled your tank, your fuel bill will be bigger than most, too. The cost for a litre of regular gasoline shot up to 122.9 cents at a number of Red Deer stations on Thursday, while most others were displaying 115.9 cents per litre. While an uptick, local gasoline costs remain among the lowest in the nation, with data compiled by Calgary-based energy consulting firm MJ Ervin showing Red Deer had the fifth lowest average regular grade gas price among Canadian cities earlier in the week. Even so, that mark represented the highest average price locally since October and a seven-cent increase over the week prior. A rise in fuel prices seen all across the country on Thursday coincided well with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s (CTF) annual Gas Tax Honesty Day information blitz. Through the event, the CTF aims to draw attention to the billions of dollars governments collect in gas taxes every year at the pump. Every province charges a consumption tax on fill-ups and a federal excise tax of 10 cents per litre also applies. The GST is then charged on top of the gasoline cost with the other taxes included, a practice that adds $1.6 bil-
lion to government coffers, which the CTF says is unethical. “Governments have a right to shake us down for taxes, but they should be open and up front about it,” said CTF Alberta director Derek Fildebrandt. “High gas taxes are one thing, but taking tax is unethical.” According to CTF statistics, Albertans pay $15.55 on average in taxes every time they fill up their tank and the average two-car family in the province will pay $787 this year in gas tax alone. The organization also called for gas tax revenues to be used exclusively for road infrastructure. Fildebrandt said municipal governments in particular too often have designs on spending such revenue on any manner of project not benefiting drivers. “(Gas taxes) are supposed to be a user fee for the people who use roads. Roads are not cheap to build and maintain, so it’s only fair that drivers pay their way by paying for gas taxes. “That being said, those gas taxes should then be used exclusively for the building and maintaining of roads,” he said. The CTF’s Gas Tax Honesty Report released on Thursday showed Albertans paying $1.12 on average for a litre of gas, approximately 15 cents below the national average. Alberta is also the lowest-taxed jurisdiction on gasoline, with 21.8 per cent of the cost of a fill up being tax. Last year leading up to the Victoria Day long weekend, the average local gas price was 110.9 cents per litre. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com
Smith cited the education deal, along with cuts to care for those with developmental disabilities and to university funding as ways she says the government has gone wrong. “We’ve got a government that is breaking promises left, right and centre, and the biggest broken promise of them all is going back into massive debt after having been proudly debtfree for a decade,” she said. On the announced closure of Michener Centre, Smith said her party is fighting against what she called a “pretty brutal surprise” for the families of residents. She said she respects the government’s efforts to integrate those with developmental disabilities, but that it is not necessarily a move that will work for Michener residents. “Those are wonderful, worthy goals, but for some people who are extremely developmentally delayed and are not capable of taking care of themselves or being in a workplace, the outcome we expect is compassion and we have to make sure we have seamless supports for those who are requiring aroundthe-clock nursing care.” The government is showing an extreme lack of compassion, she said, when it comes to those who are vulnerable and can’t speak for themselves. “Many of the people in the Michener Centre fall into that category. They’re not going to be rehabilitated. They’re not going to be able to work. They require comfort as they continue to live out the rest of their lives and there aren’t many facilities that can do that,” stated Smith. The leader of the Opposition said she will be busy this summer on the barbecue and parade circuit, and will be doing a tour of First Nations to hear their concerns about the Aboriginal Consultation Levy Bill passed earlier this week. The legislature is set to return on Oct. 28. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com
CRIME: Partnership “We see that relationship growing where we’re working in partnership and sharing intelligence.” The new unit is jointly funded by the province and the City of Red Deer.
for updated fire ban information. Shellian said people who visit the area this weekend need to follow safe recreation protocol. “It is our backyard and we want to share our backyard with everyone who wants to come out and enjoy it and we want people to respect the land and leave it better then they found it,” Shellian said. As of Thursday morning, 22 wildfires were burning in Alberta’s forests. The province has had 263 wildfires that have burned over 4,569 acres. All burning permits have been suspended in the forested areas of Alberta. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com
Last August, council supported contributing half of the costs, up to $150,000, towards renovating undeveloped space in the downtown city detachment. Dollars would come from municipal reserves and the detachment building surplus. The city also agreed to provide six municipal RCMP members — three Mounties already working at the detachment and the remaining new officers to be funded over the next several years. Each officer costs $130,000 to $140,000 annually. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com
STAFF: Phenomenal but not enough of them “She’s diabetic. Supper’s at 5 p.m. But there was nobody there to feed her because she was still in bed because they didn’t have anyone to get her up.” She said staff are phenomenal, but there just aren’t enough to provide basic care. “There is nothing worse than listening to your mom cry, ‘I have to use the bathroom Kerin, please let me use the bathroom.’ “And I have to say there’s not enough staff. They won’t let you get up. That’s pretty heart-breaking.” AUPE information rallies at Extendicare facilities also took place in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge on Thursday. Extendicare resident Marguerite Schumacher, 93, said she’s never joined a union rally in her life — but it was time. Schumacher is a retired nurse and administrator who started Red Deer College’s nursing program and went on to become dean of nursing at University of Calgary. In 2012 she received the Women of Excellence Award presented by the Red Deer & District Community Foundation. “I believe we’ve got to do something. “There just isn’t enough staff and there’s not enough equipment. What else can we do,” said Schumacher who attended the rally in her wheelchair. “The caregivers work hard. They do the best they can. But they get tired too. There is a limit to what anyone can do.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
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Workshop involves Redford defends session groups in drug, alcohol abuse ‘road map’ BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
WORKSHOP WAS ABOUT GATHERING PERSPECTIVES BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Sometimes municipalities know the best solution to their drug problems, according to Donald MacPherson, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition director. MacPherson was the keynote speaker at a daylong workshop on Thursday in Red Deer. The city’s Social Planning Department sees the workshop as an opportunity to involve as many social groups as possible in the development of a drugs and alcohol abuse road map. “You have some significant issues around substance abuse problems in Red Deer and they aren’t going to go away, they’re probably only going to get worse,” said MacPherson. “People are probably only going to get more marginalized and more ill and more problematic the less people deal with it.” Scott Cameron, Red Deer’s Social Planning Department manager, said the workshop was about gathering perspectives from community members about drug and alcohol abuse. “It is a sensitive issue, people may have strong feelings on one side or the other, so part of this is about understanding the conversation,” said Cameron. “Where is the common ground, where do we start in terms of developing some sort of road map?” Up to this point, there have been some focus groups the city has talked with in regards to developing a strategy. The city is analyzing the focus group data. “This is a broader community con-
versation and from the city’s perspective, we’ll continue to work with the various community partners to analyze what we’re hearing and see where that takes us,” said Cameron. MacPherson’s experience in Vancouver translates into Red Deer’s development of the strategy. “Developing a successful strategy takes political leadership, political buy-in, leadership at all levels for bringing sectors together, involving people who use drugs in the discussion so you know you’re not missing the mark and keeping the process going,” said MacPherson. “It is a complex issue, you will never have 100 per cent consensus. How do you get close enough to consensus before you move things forward?” MacPherson said Red Deer is way ahead of similar sized cities just by talking about the problem and working on developing a strategy. “Red Deer is doing a lot of the groundwork here,” said MacPherson, adding the next important step would be to get some financial support from the provincial government. “It was an important enough topic that council wanted to have a conversation about it,” said Cameron. “Instead of continually talking rhetorically about it, let’s have a real honest conversation about what does this mean to us.” The information gathered from the workshop today will be considered by the department and then brought back out to the community again for reaction and discussion. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Alison Redford is dismissing opposition accusations her team took a baseball bat to democracy in a spring legislature sitting that featured last-minute, pell-mell lawmaking. “I think it was a really good session in terms of what we were able to accomplish in terms of legislation,” Redford told reporters Thursday as she stood in front of many caucus members on the steps of the legislature. “I’m proud of the work that our caucus has done. I’m proud of the work that ministers have done.” The spring sitting wrapped up Wednesday and the house will not sit again until Oct. 28. In November, Redford faces a mandatory review of her leadership by members of her Progressive Conservative party. The three opposition parties said that the spring sitting continued the trend under Redford of little legislation being introduced and key bills that are brought forward are held until the end and rammed through the debate process. “I wouldn’t look at this as a session of accomplishment. I think it has been a session of failure, and it’s the reason why they (Redford’s Tories) are desperate to get out of here and go home for the summer,” said Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith. Critics point mainly to the recent Children First Act. The act was passed earlier this week, just seven days after it was introduced and debated. The bill makes broad changes to care for children across a number of other acts, and clarifies that police, social workers, educators and foster parents can share private information about children in need. Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton and the opposition parties say they still have concerns that there are not enough safeguards in place to prevent a child’s private information from falling into the wrong hands. NDP critic Rachel Notley said the act
fails in other areas, too. “It’s an act that lays the groundwork for the government to privatize and fracture even more the services which provide child protection in this province,” said Notley. “And the government chose to bring it through literally in the middle of the night,” she added, referring to the debate on amendments earlier this week that ran past 4 a.m. Liberal house leader Laurie Blakeman said a bill imposing a wage deal on teachers and a bill allowing government to collect a levy from industry for aboriginal consultation were also rammed through at breakneck speed. Blakeman said normally politicians are given at the very least a day for every stage of debate on a bill to allow for consultation, research and discussion. She said Redford’s team is now cramming those stages into one day. “(It’s) parliamentary process that I’ve never seen used,” said Blakeman. “It’s meant to make sure that nobody else gets to comment on (the bill) and (and) we don’t get to talk to stakeholders,” she said. The NDP said Redford has passed 16 bills this year and passed 16 last year. That is about half the average yearly legislation completed under Redford’s predecessor Ed Stelmach and a third of the work done under former premier Ralph Klein. “These guys have just stopped working. They’ve stopped working in the legislature,” said Notley. “They do everything behind closed doors.” Redford said the government accomplished a lot by delivering a budget that walks the line between austerity and funding crucial services, including the construction of 30 new schools with more to come. “The house may not be sitting, but we’re not slowing down,” she said.
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Whose illness matters? WHY DO WE GIVE SO MUCH LATITUDE TO THE DRUNK AND STUPID IN EMERGENCY ROOMS? Over the course of my life, I’ve had cause to visit the hospital emergency ward on a few occasions. Once, when I broke my nose at a volleyball camp. Once, when I broke my collarbone in a minor hockey game. Once, when had a surprise allergic reaction to Brazil nuts. And most reLEO cently, when I PARÉ was struck with a humdinger of a viral infection, which left me virtually incapacitated for the better part of two weeks. When my condition took a significant turn for the worse, my wife took me to emergency. It was a Saturday night and since I wasn’t visibly bleeding or broken, we were prepared for a lengthy wait. I went through the usual routine, describing my symptoms to the ‘judge,’ who ranked the urgency of my case
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against all the others in the waiting room. My wife stayed with me and while we waited, there was little else to do but people watch. It didn’t seem overly busy at first. There were a few anxious moms sitting with their toddlers. One kid had a bump the size of a golf ball on his forehead and another had a nasty rattling cough that made everyone else in the room cringe with pity each time he barked. Every so often, a new person would come through the door. Some were moaning with pain, some vomiting into buckets. For obvious reasons, those people were admitted in very short order. The later it got, the more steady the stream of newcomers. What bothered me most were the clearly inebriated jokers coming in with their various party-related injuries. Most of them entered the emergency room accompanied by two or three buddies, laughing and joking about their pal’s injuries. One particularly annoying posse entered with their buddy who was holding a T-shirt over a cut on his head. Eavesdropping on their raucous conversation, we quickly
deduced he’d earned his head injury in a bar fight. According to his pals, he totally kicked someone’s ass. Everyone who’d been waiting for hours clenched their teeth as the bleeding moron was immediately taken away to see a doctor. Another young guy came riding in on a wheelchair pushed by his lady friend. I could smell booze on him as he wheeled passed us to the admitting desk. During a cellphone conversation, he cackled and joked loudly and claimed to have “shattered his ankle.” Naturally, he was taken in without delay. Not 20 minutes later, we saw him leave the hospital without so much as a splint on his “shattered ankle.” Another kid came in with an injured hand. His mom said he’d hurt himself in a fight in which he’d been “sticking up for his friends” against some older boys. If you ask me, the kid looked more proud than hurt. While all these dummies zipped to the front of the queue with their selfinflicted injuries, the sick and injured little kids waited, their mothers growing visibly angrier with every passing hour. By midnight, we’d been waiting more than three hours and were about to give up. My name was finally called.
I spent that night in the hospital and as I was talking to the nurse I said, “You guys must deal with some real gems on weekends, hey?” The nurse just laughed and said, “You should see it on Thursday nights!” I asked, “Why Thursdays?” “It’s Ladies Night at lots of the bars,” she said. “That’s when we see the most action.” The whole experience got me thinking about our overloaded health-care system and all the reports we read about Alberta’s notorious emergencyroom wait times and general lack of medical resources. Could all of those problems be alleviated if we could somehow eliminate the drunken morons from our emergency rooms? I understand that in a civilized country, people who are broken or bleeding must be attended to, regardless of how they earned their injuries. But at the very least, we should make sure sick little kids take priority over some drunken teenager with bruised knuckles. Leo Paré is the Advocate’s online editor. Contact him by email at lpare@reddeeradvocate.com or follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/LeoPare
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The high cost of corporate welfare BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE If business leaders ever wonder why a chunk of the public has a disdain for business and calls for higher corporate taxes or sector-specific increases (higher royalty rates for energy and mining, higher stumpage fees in forestry) or just increased business taxation in general, here’s a clue: too many companies are addicted to corporate welfare. Crony capitalism is problematic all on its own. Addiction to it only reinforces the perception that businesses can’t be bothered to compete on merit, in an open market, but prefer to plead for political favours and protection at taxpayers’ expense. Before highlighting the cost of corporate welfare, it helps to understand what it is (and is not). Reduced tax rates (when neutrally applied across the economy) are not subsidies. To assert they are is akin to a claim that where personal taxes are reduced, that means individual taxpayers are subsidized. Not only is that fallacious, it is philosophically challenged: that notion presumes money first belongs to governments — not individuals — and that anything less than a 100 per cent tax rate constitutes a “subsidy.” It is the view of the serf: governments generously allow us to keep some money, which by rights is theirs first. In the context of resources, be it royalty rates on oil, gas or minerals, or stumpage rates set on the cutting of timber, another mistaken subsidy definition often crops up: that anything less than some theoretical higher rate is a subsidy.
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However, resource rents are just that: rents. As with any property owner, governments should set resource rents at a level that extracts the maximum market rent available. However, just as it’s unwise to get greedy and risk losing tenants, governments risk losing those who might otherwise mine and drill but will exit a province or country when rents are exorbitant. In other words, getting the balance right matters and for everyone’s interest. If neutrally-applied tax rates and revenue-maximizing resource rents are not subsidies, what then is a useful definition? Here are some clearly identifiable subsidies: When government cuts a cheque to an individual business, not for the purchase of some good or service but simply to give away taxpayer cash. Government loans to businesses also count as a subsidy, given that such loans are often interest-free, and in some cases, not repaid. The 2009 bailout of automakers is a good example. The last time I did a net calculation in that situation, even after repayments and the value of the shares held by the federal and Ontario governments, and even if those shares were cashed in, taxpayers will still be out $5.5 billion. Over 16 years I’ve looked at many files on crony capitalism and dug through numbers provided by federal and provincial governments and Statistics Canada. The level of subsidies to business is astonishing: between 1994 and 2007, more than $202 billion was disbursed by the federal and provincial governments alone. It appears businesses of every size and in every sector are in the crony capitalism game. Tax dollars
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loaned or given away range from thousands of dollars for everything from ice cream shops and muffler shops, to billions for selected automotive and aerospace companies. No sector is exempt — and that includes energy companies. Most companies don’t take cash from taxpayers. But enough do to make some Canadians think free markets and wealth creation are a sham and only benefit the very rich or only the very well connected. That’s plenty dangerous for entrepreneurs. It also harms businesses that do not seek government aid but would be affected by higher taxes or higher levies on their industries. A dynamic business environment is essential for jobs and higher living standards. So too privatelyfunded research and subsequent inventions widely applied that improve our lives — think Steve Jobs and his efforts, or researchers who patent a new drug to combat some illness that would otherwise require surgery. But the quickest way to dissipate any sympathy for brilliant entrepreneurial activity is to engage in crony capitalism. So here’s some free advice for thoughtful leaders in business: For those not on the dole, great — stay off it, and stand up publicly for the principle of neutrality vis-à-vis those who do engage in crony capitalism. The latter damage the public view of capitalism more than a thousand Occupy Wall Street movements could ever do. Mark Milke is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and author of several reports on corporate welfare. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia. com).
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B.C. NDP election loss not issue of leadership: party BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The surprising electoral loss of British Columbia’s New Democrats this week should not trigger a leadership race, the party’s president said Wednesday as Leader Adrian Dix remained behind closed doors for another day. Moe Sihota said there were many factors in the electoral upset that saw the heavily favoured New Democrats lose ground in the legislature to the incumbent Liberals, and a “revolving door” on the leader’s office is not the solution. “I think it’s fair to say that neither us nor the Liberals really expected the result that transpired,” Sihota said. The former New Democrat cabinet
minister said there have not been calls within the party for Dix to step down as leader. It was a team effort, and the entire team will be looking at the campaign, he said. “We don’t have an 801 Club in the party,” he said, referring to media reports in the days prior to the election when the Liberal were trailing in polls, a small contingent of Liberals planned to call for Clark’s resignation at 8:01 p.m. on election night — one minute after the party lost the election. “I think that the challenges that we face are deeper and different, and we need to reflect on the totality of those. “It’s not simply a matter of saying let’s replace the leader and away you go.” Two years ago Dix took the helm after Carole James was pushed out in a
party revolt. Despite an expensive 28-day election campaign, NDP coffers could accommodate a leadership race but that is not what is needed, Sihota said. A variety of factors were in play in the vote Tuesday, Sihota said, including complacency among party supporters. “People just thought we were going to win and didn’t come out and vote,”
Sihota said. “And, to a lesser degree, I think the split with the Greens was a variable. But, again, more than anything else, I think both us and the Liberals underestimated the potency of the argument of fear.” The New Democrats were reduced to 33 seats, from the 36 they held before the campaign began. The Liberal gained five seats, to hold 50 or the 85 ridings in B.C.
Canadian astronaut Hadfield describes feeling banged-up after return to gravity BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield says his body feels confused and banged-up by the effects of gravity after a five-month stay in space. After floating around weightlessly for months, suddenly, he needs to keep his own head aloft. He feels dizzy. And because there are no callouses on his feet anymore, he says, he feels like he’s walking on hot coals. A first trip to the gym was excruciating, he says, because it felt like two people had jumped on him when he was trying to do a situp. ”My neck is sore and my back is sore,” Hadfield told a news conference from Houston on Thursday. ”It feels like I played a hard game of rugby yesterday or played full-contact hockey yesterday and I haven’t played in a while.” Hadfield returned to Earth on Monday night after his stay aboard the International Space Station — a trip that included a period as commander of the orbiting station. The 53-year-old astronaut said his body is confused at the moment. ”My body was quite happy living in
space without gravity,” he said. “(It’s) a very empowering environment where you can touch the wall and do somersaults, where you can move a refrigerator around with your fingertips and never worry about which way was up. “Well, that all changed when our Soyuz slammed back into the Earth. And my body is catching up with the change. And so the symptims are dizziness. It’s like when you come off a ride at the CNE or something.” Hadfield has also announced that his use of social media, which earned him an international audience, won’t end. He had 20,000 Twitter followers when he blasted off with Russian space colleague Roman Romanenko and NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn on Dec. 19, 2012. Upon his return to Earth this week, Hadfield was hovering around one million followers. Hadfield said the point of using social media was not to gain fame — but to teach people about space exploration. He said it felt rewarding to receive a message from someone who said he didn’t even know Canada had a space program, until he saw Hadfield’s tweets.
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Duffy quits Conservative caucus over expenses BY JENNIFER DITCHBURN THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Senator Mike Duffy resigned from the Conservative caucus to sit as an independent Thursday night amid a controversy over his housing claims, leaving a trail of unanswered questions about the expenses and why the prime minister backed him for so long. The employment status of Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, remains unchanged — despite his secret gift to Duffy to help repay the improper expenses. Duffy resigned before what would have been a humiliating showdown for him next week. Conservative sources said the vast majority of his Senate colleagues had signed a petition calling for his ouster from caucus and they were prepared to confront Duffy with that petition at a meeting next Tuesday evening. It’s a stunning change of attitude for the Conservatives, who for the past four years have used Duffy at myriad party events to raise money, promote candidates and slag the opposition. “It is clear the public controversy surrounding me and the repayment of my Senate expenses has become a significant distraction to my caucus colleagues, and to the government,” Duffy said in a statement late Thursday evening. “Given that my presence within the Conservative caucus only contributes to that distraction, I have decided to step outside of the caucus and sit as an independent Senator pending resolution of these questions.” Only a week ago, the Conservative government hailed Duffy’s leadership for repaying the funds the Senate said he owed. Senate Leader Majory LeBreton declared the matter closed. But then it came to light that Wright had cut Duffy a personal cheque to cover the repayment in March. Harper’s office characterized it as a personal gift, but this week Duffy called it a loan.
The Canadian Press reported Thursday that Duffy campaigned for the Conservatives during the April 2011 election while claiming to be on Senate business. That report was said to be the last straw, according to one senior Conservative. “There are a growing number of questions about Mr. Duffy’s conduct that don’t have answers,” said one government official who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. “Mr. Duffy will have to answer as an independent Senator.” “Mr. Duffy’s claim that he had secured a bank loan came as a complete surprise. All of the revelations relating to the expenses during the campaign are new.” Still, the Conservative leadership in the Senate and the prime minister’s office were aware that Duffy had not fully participated in an independent audit of his living and housing expenses. At issue is whether Duffy and two other colleagues, former Liberal Senator Mac Harb and former Tory Senator Patrick Brazeau, actually had a primary residence outside of the national capital region when they submitted housing and living expenses. As soon as Duffy had made the $90,000 repayment, facilitated by Wright, his lawyer told the firm Deloitte that they were no longer co-operating. He failed to produce financial and credit-card statements, as well as a calendar of his activities. The auditors were forced to concede in their report that they could not ascertain what expenses Duffy was claiming on certain occasions. That included several days in April 2011 when he was campaigning for the Conservatives. Harb — now sitting as an independent —is contesting a Senate demand that he repay $51,482 in housing-related expenses. Brazeau is also fighting the Senate’s demand that he repay $48,744 in housing expenses, and is asking for a public meeting with the secretive committee that’s making the demand.
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report, who accused Harper of missing the point: aboriginal women and girls are often too traumatized to co-operate with police. The RCMP has also complained that its investigative hands are tied without hearing from alleged victims or knowing who they are. Given the concerns raised in the report, “I am satisfied there are reasonable grounds for me to initiate this complaint,” McPhail said in a statement released Wednesday. Human Rights Watch researchers visited 10 communities in northern B.C. last summer, where they documented accounts from aboriginal women of how they were allegedly mistreated by police. The communities are connected to B.C.’s Highway 16, the so-called “Highway of Tears,” a notorious stretch of road where a number of women have disappeared. The commission will examine how Mounties in those communities use force, and how they police public intoxication, conduct searches and handle reports of missing persons and domestic violence.
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Obama takes action on controversies REPUBLICANS STILL UNSATISFIED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred federal tax agency Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist attack on U.S. diplomatic missions abroad. The efforts did little to satisfy Republicans, who see the controversies as an opportunity to derail Obama’s second-term agenda. The leader of the House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner, suggested the White House had violated the public’s trust, and he promised to “stop at nothing” to hold the administration accountable. “Nothing dissolves the bonds between the people and their government like the arrogance of power here in Washington,” Boehner said. “And that’s what the American people are seeing today from the Obama administration — remarkable arrogance.” A trio of headaches has consumed the White House for nearly a week: The targeting of conservative political groups by the Internal Revenue Service; new questions about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year; and the Justice Department’s seizure of journalists’ phone records. Of the three controversies, the president’s advisers see the IRS matter as the most likely to linger. At
least three congressional committees are planning investigations into the tax agency that touches the lives of nearly every American. Obama, who was criticized by both opponents and allies for his measured initial response to the IRS targeting, vowed to ensure the agency acts “scrupulously and without even a hint of bias.” “I think we’re going to be able to fix it,” he declared during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Soon afterward, Obama appointed senior budget official Danny Werfel to temporarily run the IRS, one day after Acting Commissioner Steven Miller’s forced resignation. The White House is expected to nominate a permanent commissioner later this year. However, the president knocked down the prospect of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS, saying the congressional investigations and a separate Justice Department probe should be enough to nail down who was responsible for improperly targeting tea party groups for sometimes burdensome scrutiny when they applied for taxexempt status. Tea party groups generally advocate limited government. They emerged after Obama took office and take their name from the 1773 protest in Boston by American colonists against taxation without representation in the British government. The news conference marked Obama’s first comments on the government’s widely criticized seizure of telephone records of reporters and editors of The Associated Press in an investigation of news leaks. The president spoke of the importance of striking a balance between “secrecy and the right to know” but said he would make no apologies for trying to protect
classified information that could put Americans at risk. “I’ve still got 60,000-plus troops in Afghanistan, and I’ve still got a whole bunch of intelligence officers around the world who are in risky situations,” he said. “Part of my job is to make sure that we’re protecting what they do, while still accommodating for the need for information.” The president said he continues to have confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder, who has been the target of intense criticism from lawmakers after the phone record subpoenas were made public. The IRS and phone records controversies have coincided with a revival in the Republican-led investigations into the September attacks in Benghazi, which claimed the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. Congressional Republicans held new hearings on the Benghazi attacks last week, and a congressional official also released details of emails that Republican lawmakers said suggested a government effort to downplay the role of terrorism in the attack, which occurred two months before the presidential election. The White House, which has long disputed allegations of a coverup, released 100 pages of documents Wednesday in an effort to put an end to protracted controversy. Obama, who angrily cast the investigations as a “sideshow” earlier this week, tried to turn the focus Thursday to Congress. He urged lawmakers to provide more money to strengthen security at U.S. diplomatic missions around the world.
Tornadoes wallop North Texas; leave six dead GRANBURY, Texas — Habitat for Humanity spent years in a North Texas suburb, helping build many of the 110 homes in the low-income area. But its work was largely undone during an outbreak of 12 tornadoes Wednesday night that killed six people and injured dozens. On Thursday, authorities combed through debris in Granbury, while residents awaited the chance to see what was left of their homes. Witnesses described the two badly hit neighbourhoods as unrecognizable, with homes ripped from foundations and others merely rubble. Granbury, about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth, bore the brunt of the damage. The National Weather Service’s preliminary estimate was that tornado had wind speeds between 166 mph and 200 mph. Other tornadoes spawned from the violent spring storm damaged nearby Cleburne and Millsap. “I tell you, it has just broken my heart,” said Habitat for Humanity volunteer Elsie Tallant, who helped serve lunch every weekend to those building the homes in a Granbury neighbourhood and those poised to become homeowners. Hood County Commissioner Steve Berry said Thursday he couldn’t tell one street from another in Granbury’s Rancho Brazos Estates neighbourhood because of the destruction. Half of one home was torn away while the other half was still standing, glasses and vases intact on shelves. Trees and debris were scattered across yards, and fences were flattened. Sheet metal could be seen hanging from utility wires. The weather service said the preliminary storm estimate for the Granbury tornado was an EF-4, based on the Fujita tornado damage scale. An EF-5 is the most severe. Of the homes in the Rancho Brazos Estates, 61 of them were built by Habitat for Humanity, according to Gage Yeager, executive director of Trinity Habitat for Humanity in Fort Worth. He said most of those homes were damaged, including at least a dozen that were destroyed. Habitat for Humanity volunteer Bill Jackson said the Habitat homes, built primarily for lowincome people, were insured and can be rebuilt, he said. But that doesn’t alleviate Tallant’s pain. She’d gotten to know the people who had waited for years to become homeowners. “We were going to dedicate a house this weekend, and her home
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Crooks passing fake polymer bank notes BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — It was only two years ago that the head of the RCMP said the country’s new polymer bank notes would go a long way to deterring the threat of counterfeiting. Today, police in British Columbia are warning that several of the fake $100 bills have been detected floating around Metro Vancouver. Mounties are now asking consumers to check the security features on the notes and compare them with a genuine bill if they are suspicious. RCMP spokesman Sgt. Duncan Pound says the note are so secure that retailers are almost overconfident in the bills, so they aren’t checking the money. The $100 bills were issued in 2011, and were followed by $50 notes in March 2012, $20 notes in November 2012, and the unveiling of the $5 and $10 notes this past April. The RCMP says almost 50,000 counterfeit Canadian bank notes were passed in the country last year.
Double amputee completes trek CALGARY — Sore, but in good spirits, double-amputee Spencer West completed a gruelling 11-day trek from Edmonton to Calgary on Thursday. West covered the 300 kilometres partly on his hands and partly in a wheelchair. Throngs of children were cheering as a widely grinning West and his two best friends, David Johnson and Alex Meers, crossed the finish line at a Calgary school. It was an emotional scene as Johnson and Meers embraced West and planted kisses on the top of his head. “They’re just as sore as I am. My poor buddy Dave, his knee his bothering him. My poor buddy Alex, his ankle is quite destroyed. We really leaned on each other in these past few days,” said West. The aim of the journey was to help raise funds for Free the Children, which has the goal of providing 100,000 people in developing countries with a permanent source of clean drinking water. West says he also wants to help Canadians understand how far people in developing countries — mostly women — have to walk to gather water for their families. He said he was inspired by Albertans he met along the way. “We have been so humbled by the
incredible response and we put out the call to Albertans and they answered tenfold.” For instance, West said a man on a motorcycle stopped him on Wednesday to hand him a bag of cash, explaining that it was his entire tax return. The journey also took them through the troubled community of Hobbema in central Alberta, which West admits he was “a bit” worried about visiting. West’s legs were amputated when he was five years old because of a genetic disorder called sacral agenesis.
Grade 5 kids urge Harper to drop mean attack ads OTTAWA — Some Grade 5 students have some advice for Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Stop being mean to Justin Trudeau. Seven students from an Ottawa-area Catholic school have written to Harper asking that he pull Conservative attack ads, which began running within hours of Trudeau claiming the Liberal leadership last month. The letter-writing campaign comes as a new poll suggests the attack ads may have backfired. Indeed, the ads were more likely to leave a negative impression about Harper and the Conservatives than they were about Trudeau and the Liberals, according to The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey. Teacher Natalie Casault said the
idea came from the students themselves during a lesson on government last month. To the kids, she said the ads looked just like cyberbullying, which they’d learned about a couple of weeks earlier.
Subway terrorism charge dropped MONTREAL — Charges of committing a terrorist hoax have been dropped against four people arrested last year when Montreal’s subway system was paralyzed at the height of rush hour by smoke-bomb attacks. Jean Pascal Boucher, a spokesman for the director of criminal and penal prosecutions, says the Crown decided there was insufficient evidence to support the charge. Three woman face charges of mischief and conspiracy while a man faces an additional charge of possession of a prohibited weapon. The four accused are free on bail pending their next court appearance on Sept. 3. At least three smoke bombs were tossed into several subway stations in Montreal on May 10, 2012, shutting down the entire system for hours during the key morning commute period. Media reports at the time tied the attacks to hardcore student protesters who considered the main protest groups too timid and not far-reaching enough in their goals.
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CALGARY — An Alberta man convicted of killing five people when his cement truck smashed into the back of their car says he’ll wait until his statutory release next month rather than face another National Parole Board hearing. A two-member board panel was unable to reach agreement after a hearing Thursday on Daniel Tschetter’s application for full parole. The board said another hearing would have to be organized quickly with two new panel members. But Tschetter told reporters he would drop his request. “I’m not going to go to another hearing,” he said. “I’m going to go now until my (statutory release), because every time you go to a hearing you’ve got to realize you’re opening up old wounds. “The hearings don’t get any easier. They get tougher.” An aunt of one of the young victims, 16-monthold Zachary Morrison, pointed out that reliving the memories of what happened is difficult for the families of everyone who died too. “After all these years, it isn’t getting any easier,” said Tracey Grieder, who attended with her husband Herb. “We just wanted to come and make sure we can face him down and let him know that it still is painful for us.” Tschetter said he had considered not having Thursday’s hearing in the first place since his release date was just a month away. “In one sense I didn’t want to, but four weeks early ... being out sooner was very tempting,” he told the parole panel. “You do get a little mental fatigue of being incarcerated. It can be difficult. I just want to go back to having a normal life.” Tschetter, 55, had already been spotted driving dangerously before his truck slammed into a vehicle stopped at a red light in Calgary in December 2007. The impact was so violent that pieces of the car were scattered for hundreds of metres along Macleod Trail, a busy north-south thoroughfare. Little Zachary; his mother, Melaina Hovdebo, 33; Chris Gautreau, 41; and Gautreau’s two daughters, Alexia, 9, and Kiarra, 6, were all killed on impact. Tschetter was sentenced in October 2009 to 5 ½ years in prison for manslaughter and obstruction of justice. He is also banned from ever driving a commercial vehicle again. Last September, he was granted day parole, which requires him to live at a half-way house.
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Sutter staying with Rebels WILL STAY ON AS HEAD COACH AND GM FOR NEXT SEASON BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR
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THOMA HIRED AS HEAD COACH OF WEYBURN RED WINGS Former Red Deer Rebels defenceman and assistant coach Bryce Thoma is the new head coach of the Weyburn Red Wings of the SJHL. Thoma, who played for the Rebels from 1999 to 2003 and was part of the Memorial Cup championship team in 2001, was an assistant coach under Jesse Wallin and Brent Sutter for a total of five years. Thoma, who was the head coach of Team Alberta in the Western Canada Under16 Challenge Cup last November in Calgary, left the Rebels in April and was hired as the Red Wings bench boss on Thursday.
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● Bantam AAA baseball: Fort McMurray at Red Deer, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park. ● Woody’s RV World Marathon: 8 a.m. start; start and finish at Camille J. Lerouge School.
Timing is everything, and now was not the time for Brent Sutter to leave his dual post as GM/head coach of the Red Deer Rebels. Sutter announced Thursday that he’s removed the interim tag from his two-pronged position and will stay on as the GM/bench boss of his WHL club for the 2013-14 season. Determined to forge a new identity for his team, the Rebels owner and president felt he couldn’t move away from the bench at this time. “I’ve had the opportunity to evaluate what we have here since November (when he replaced Jesse Wallin as head coach) and determine the direction we want to go and need to go, not just on the ice but off the ice, too,” said Sutter. “There needed to be change here and
we’ve started implementing it. From talking to Jeff (associate coach Truitt), our frontoffice staff and even the players during our exit meetings . . . the right thing for me to do was return as head coach.” Sutter wants more size and grit on his squad and has directed his scouting staff to identify those types of players. In short, he’s hoping to build a team that’s difficult to play against while being a club that’s in the mix on a regular basis. “The most important thing is your culture. Any coaches, players or other personnel that come into the organization, they come to the culture, the culture doesn’t go to them,” said Sutter. “There’s a certain way we want this team to play and a certain way we want to do things. “I’m not saying that what was done in the past was wrong, but we needed change. We made change and now we have to follow through on it and it just doesn’t happen
overnight. We have some good prospects and we have to develop them the right way and when they’re ready we have to make room for them and we have to have the right team around them for them to progress and the team to progress.” Meanwhile, Truitt has signed a multiyear deal to remain with the team as an associate coach and Sutter has hired a new assistant coach in Steve O’Rourke, who was formerly an assistant with the Abbotsford Heat of the AHL. O’Rourke has also served as the GM/head coach of the Langley Rivermen of the BCHL and last winter was the head coach of the bantam AAA team at the Okanagan Academy in Penticton, B.C. He played in the WHL with the Tri-City Americans and Moose Jaw Warriors before attending the University of Lethbridge.
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Bruins edge Rangers in overtime THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bruins 3 Rangers 2 OT BOSTON — Brad Marchand scored with 4:20 left in the first overtime and the Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in the first playoff game in 40 years between the Original Six teams. Marchand, Boston’s top goal scorer in the regular season, got his first of the post-season on a pass from Patrice Bergeron. Marchand had carried the puck up the right side, passed it to Bergeron and kept going toward the net. Bergeron passed across the slot and Marchand tipped it past goalie Henrik Lundqvist from the left side of the crease. The Bruins carried the play throughout overtime. They applied constant pressure, but couldn’t score during a power play when Derek Dorsett was penalized for interference at 2:20 of overtime. Boston nearly won in regulation, but Johnny Boychuk’s shot from the right point clanged off the left post with onetenth of a second remaining. Then he hit the
left post at the other end of the ice at 6:34 of overtime. Zdeno Chara gave Boston a 1-0 lead at 12:23 of the second before Ryan McDonagh tied it with 1.3 seconds left in the period. Derek Stepan put the Rangers ahead 2-1 just 14 seconds into the third period, and Torey Krug tied it on a power play with his first NHL goal in four career games. Game 2 of the best-ofseven Eastern Conference semifinals is set for Sunday night in Boston. Both teams advanced with Game 7 victories Monday night. The Bruins overcame a three-goal deficit with 11 minutes left in regulation and beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4 on Bergeron’s goal in overtime. The Rangers beat the Washington Capitals 5-0 behind Lundqvist’s second consecutive shutout. On Thursday, the Bruins played without three injured veteran defencemen: Andrew Ference, Dennis Seidenberg and Wade Redden. Three rookies started on defence: Dougie Hamilton, Matt Bartkowski and Krug, who was called up from Providence of the AHL after
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Boston Bruins left wing Brad Marchand beats New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist for the game-winning goal during overtime in Game 1 of an NHL Eastern Conference semifinal in Boston, Thursday. Seidenberg was hurt early in the first period Monday night. The Bruins ended Lundqvist’s shutout streak at 152 minutes, 23 seconds when he gave up a Chara’s soft goal. Lundqvist appeared to have a good view of the 50-foot slap shot from just in front of the middle of the blue line and got a piece of the puck, but it trick-
led by him. That lead nearly held up through the second period. But when Boychuk passed it from in front of his net to Tyler Seguin in the right circle, Rick Nash hit Sequin’s stick and the puck went to McDonagh at the left point. McDonagh’s rising slap shot soared over the right arm of goalie
Tuukka Rask. Stepan then made it 2-1 on a 30-foot shot from the slot through Rask’s legs, two goals in 15.3 seconds. Krug tied the game with teammate David Krejci in front of the net trying to screen Lundqvist. The shot from just inside the top of the left circle went under Lundqvist’s left arm.
Canada ousted by Sweden in worlds quarter-finals
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Canada goalie Mike Smith sits on the ice as the puck enters the net as Sweden scores their second goal during quarter-final action at the world hockey championship in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday. Sweden’s Loui Eriksson stands in front of Smith.
Sweden 3 Canada 2 SO STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The quarter-final of the IIHF World Championship has become a hurdle Canada just can’t get over. Canada was eliminated from medal contention in the round of eight for a fourth straight year. It was a 3-2 shootout quarter-final loss to host Sweden that knocked Canada out this time. Canada last advanced to the semifinals in 2009 en route to a silver medal. Current head coach Lindy Ruff was behind Canada’s bench that year too. Canada last won a world title in 2007. For all the skill, experience and firepower this Canadian team had at forward, shootouts were not its forte in Stockholm. Thursday’s loss in extra shots was Canada’s second of the tournament following a 3-2 shootout loss to Switzerland in the preliminary round. Fredrik Pettersson scored the winner in the fourth round
and Canada’s Jordan Eberle was stopped by Jhonas Enroth as the Swedes moved onto a semifinal meeting Saturday with archrival Finland. The United States and Switzerland meet in the other semifinal. In the two shootouts combined, Canada scored twice on 12 chances. Eberle and Matt Duchene were both 1-for-4. Claude Giroux was a combined 0-for-2. Steve Stamkos and Matt Read were also stopped on their single attempts. “When you look at the numbers of some of our shooters, how good the numbers are, that’s the one thing we let slip away,” Ruff said. “Shootouts are strange. You want curse at shootouts sometimes and then you want to second-guess the personnel you use when you don’t score and you’re happy when you do score. “You would think you’d be able to put it away, but it’s a split second. You’ve got a chance to be a hero or you end up being a bum.”
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Bradley shoots course record at Byron Nelson BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IRVING, Texas — Keegan Bradley had no thoughts about a course record, or the possibility of a 59, after consecutive bogeys in the middle of his opening round at the Byron Nelson Championship. Until his 136-yard wedge shot on his final hole Thursday. “It was going right at it. (A 59) crossed my mind for a second, and it would be unbelievable if I buried this,� Bradley said. “But I had 3 feet to shoot 60. I was actually very nervous, uncomfortable over it and thank God I made it.� Bradley shot 10-under 60, completed by that short birdie at the 428-yard ninth hole, to break the TPC Four Seasons course record and match the best round ever at the Nelson. He topped his career PGA Tour best by three strokes and equalled Phil Mickelson’s opening 60 at Phoenix as the best round on the tour this season. After missing the fairways off the tees and making bogeys at No. 18 and then No. 1, the latter starting his back nine when he drove into a bunker and had a par putt lip out of the cup, Bradley was at 3 under. He made a 17-foot birdie putt at the 221-yard second hole,
and was 7 under his final eight holes with an eagle-birdie-birdie finish. “It was rare to match up a ball-striking day and make everything. ... It happened today,â€? Bradley said. “The hole looked huge. Even the putts I missed almost went in.â€? The 60, with 10 birdies and an eagle 3 at the 542-yard seventh, gave Bradley a three-stroke lead over 2011 Masters champion Charl Schwartzel. Robert Karlsson, Harris English and Ted Potter Jr. shot 64, and two-time major champion Angel Cabrera, Ryan Palmer and Camilo Villegas were at 65. Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., and Calgary’s Stephen Ames opened with a 67. Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., is another stroke back at 68. Ottawa’s Brad Fritsch shot a 69. Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old amateur from China, shot 70 in his second tournament since making the cut at the Masters. The eighth-grader also made the cut in New Orleans three weeks ago. Guan was among 97 players at par or better — 76 were under par — on the 7,166-yard course after 1 ½ inches of rain fell on the course Wednesday night from a storm system that spawned at least 13 tornadoes and killed at least six people in North Tex-
as. There was no significant damage to the course, where players were able to lift, clean and place their golf balls in the fairways. “Seems like you don’t get many of those opportunities, so being out here first was a bit of an advantage,� said Schwartzel, who hit all 18 greens in regulation. “So much rain, it softened up. Played long off the tee, but it’s a big advantage going into the greens with the second shot. ... You could attack flags.� Arron Oberholser shot 60 in the second round of the 2006 Nelson on the Cottonwood Valley course across the street that used to be used the first two rounds. Sam Snead shot 60 in the 1957 tournament at Glen Lakes Country Club, which at the time tied the PGA Tour record. Five players have shot 59 in official PGA Tour events. Al Geiberger had the first in the 1977 Memphis Classic, while Paul Goydos and Stuart Appleby had the last three years ago. Ryo Ishikawa had the lowest round on a major tour, shooting a 12-under 58 on the Japan Tour in 2010. Bradley, the nephew of former LPGA Tour star Pat Bradley, got his first PGA Tour victory when he won a onehole playoff with Palmer at the Nel-
son two years ago. Bradley has four consecutive top-10 finishes earlier this season, but missed the cuts in his last two tournaments. Palmer’s opening 65 came two days after attending the funeral of one of his best friends, who was killed in a car accident last week. Palmer found out about Clay Aderholt’s accident while at The Players Championship, where with a heavy heart and his friend’s initials on his cap he tied for fifth. “Trying to get back in the swing of things,� said Palmer, who lives in nearby Colleyville. “Being at home is nice, my own bed, so that made it easier when I got back (from the funeral) Tuesday night.� Palmer gave the white cap that he wore Sunday to Aderholt’s wife and signed it to his 4-year-old son. He gave a black cap with the initials to his late friend’s father. “We will always remember him and maybe we can honour him even more on Sunday afternoon,� Palmer said. Defending Nelson champion Jason Dufner shot a 70 in a group with good friends Bradley and Matt Kuchar (69). “It was a regular round with Duff and Kuch. It felt like a Saturday morning round with my buddies,� Bradley said. “It felt easy.�
Anthony helps Knicks stay alive for one more game BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Knicks 85 Pacers 75 NEW YORK — Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks broke out just enough to stay in it. Anthony scored 28 points and the Knicks avoided elimination in the Eastern Conference semifinals with an 85-75 victory over the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 on Thursday night. Reserves J.R. Smith and Chris Copeland each had 13 points for the Knicks, who trail 3-2 and will need a victory Saturday in Indiana to force a seventh game back here Monday. They are trying to become the ninth NBA team to overcome a 3-1 deficit to win a series. “I was totally impressed because we met the challenge,� Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. “I think as a coach you come into games like this and you want to see who’s going to step up and make plays, and I thought we did that tonight. We were the better team in terms of doing that.� Anthony, who didn’t make a basket in the fourth quarter of either game in Indiana, made a jumper midway through the fourth quarter after Indiana closed within four points. He followed with two free throws, Raymond Felton made a layup, and the Knicks were never in jeopardy again.
Paul George had 23 points, six rebounds and six assists for the Pacers. They played without point guard George Hill because of a concussion and committed 19 turnovers. “We’ve just got to play more solid. There’s no other way to put it,� Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. But George battled foul trouble and couldn’t contain Anthony quite as well as he had while the Pacers easily won the previous two games. Anthony made his first two shots as New York raced out to a 7-0 lead in a game it never trailed. He finished only 12 of 28, but got plenty of bench help. David West had 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Pacers, who were trying to reach the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2004. “We didn’t play well. It was a bad game for us and we were still there,� George said. The winner will face the defending NBA champion Miami Heat in a series that will start Wednesday. New York didn’t really shake its scoring slump, shooting only 41 per cent from the field, but put together a few runs during the game to open just enough space against a Pacers team that shot 36 per cent and was a dismal 19 of 33 at the free throw line. They clearly missed Hill after learning about four hours before the game they would be
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New York Knicks’ Raymond Felton goes up for a shot against Indiana Pacers’ Ian Mahinmi in the second half of Game 5 of an Eastern Conference semifinal in the NBA playoffs, at Madison Square Garden in New York, Thursday. without him. Vogel said Hill was hurt after a collision with Knicks centre Tyson Chandler during the first half of Indiana’s 93-82 victory on Tuesday. Hill finished the game and scored 26 points, but experienced some headaches and showed concussion symptoms since and wasn’t able to pass the league’s con-
cussion tests so he could play Thursday night. The Knicks went back to their regular lineup, reinserting Pablo Prigioni, after going with a bigger group in Game 4 in a futile effort to match Indiana on the boards. The smaller group did a better job, getting outrebounded only 43-40. The Knicks finally opened
it up midway through the third quarter with a 12-4 run, started by Smith’s bank shot and featuring a 3-pointer and follow shot from Copeland, who got more playing time while Woodson gave little to veterans Amare Stoudemire and the slumping Jason Kidd, who missed his only shot and remains scoreless in the series.
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Woody’s runners to honour Boston victims BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Victims of the recent Boston Marathon bombing will be honoured prior to the start of the 10 kilometre race in Sunday’s Woody’s RV Marathon. “We are doing a moment of silence right after the playing of O Canada before the 10k to remember the people who were killed in Boston,” Woody’s RV Marathon co-chair Jason Hazlett said Thursday. Hazlett added that the tragedy has not affected the Red Deer running community in a negative fashion. “I don’t think so. If anything it’s probably made us stronger in that respect,” he said. “This idea of terrorism . . . do you shy away from it or do you fight it and show that you’re not going to be scared by it? I think we’re seeing the latter here in Red Deer. “I have friends who have qualified for the Boston Marathon and they’re bound and determined to head to Boston next year.” Matt Richards of Red Deer and Julian Price of Sylvan Lake ran in this year’s Boston Marathon and are also entered in the 15th Annual Woody’s RV Marathon, which starts (at 8 a.m.) and finishes at Camille J. Lerouge school. A total of 1,604 runners had registered for the 2013 Marathon as of Thursday morning, with 1,004 from Central Alberta, including 575 from Red Deer. Of the runners who have confirmed their entry, 183 will be in the full marathon, 910 in the half marathon and 505 in the 10k race. The number includes
defending men’s and women’s full marathon champions Brendan Lunty of Camrose and Ronnie Rouse of Calgary, half marathon defending men’s champ Dusty Spiller of Red Deer, and Jordanna Cota of Red Deer, the top female in the 2012 10k run. The 10k run, introduced in 2011, continues to grow in popularity. Hazlett noted that the event sold out in February. “To have 500 runners and to fill that within three months is absolutely incredible,” he said. “The number of new runners that we see all over the trails in Red Deer is fantastic. I see new runners all the time and I run on the trails just about every day. It’s fantastic for the city.” Registration for the half marathon has dropped slightly from 2012, however . . . “We have a bit of a dip in the half, but interestingly enough we actually have more runners in the full this year,” said Hazlett. “The way you can look at it is some of the runners in the half are graduating up to the full marathon, which is great to see.” The Woody’s RV Marathon is ranked by Alberta Athletics as the third-best road race in Alberta. Hazlett sees the course, which winds through the Waskasoo Park system, as a big reason for the lofty rating. “What we constantly hear from runners is that our trails make this race one of the best, that this is not your typical road race,” said Hazlett. “We are a race within the city, but not within the city where you don’t see the traffic and so forth. You just see the river off to your left and to your right as you run the course.”
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Pair of late goals gives Kings win over Sharks BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kings 4 Sharks 3 LOS ANGELES — Captain Dustin Brown tied it with 1:43 left and Trevor Lewis scored the tiebreaking power-play goal 22 seconds later, propelling the Los Angeles Kings to a stunning 4-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night and a 2-0 series lead. Brown scored during a 5-on-3 advantage and Lewis provided the winner on a loose puck with 1:21 left, sending Staples Center into shocked celebration. The defending Stanley Cup champions won their 12th straight home game since March and their sixth straight post-season game. Marc-Edouard Vlasic scored his first career playoff goal with 11:04 to play for the Sharks, who were doomed by two late penalties after rallying from an early two-goal deficit. Jonathan Quick made 28 saves for the Kings, and Antti Niemi stopped 27 shots for the Sharks. Game 3 is Saturday night at the Shark Tank.
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REBELS: Experience “With Steve, we’re adding someone with experience and knowledge. He’s going to be a great fit here for us,” said Sutter. “With my situation, being GM as well as head coach, it’s going to be tough to be on the ice every day (for practice). It can be very taxing, so I’ve surrounded myself with good people. Having Jeff back and adding Steve to our staff is a big bonus. Coaching is going to be a team effort.” Equipment manager Dave ‘Radar’ Horning, who’s been with the club since 1995, has also inked a multi-year contract extension, and the Rebels have hired Jordan Aube to replace outgoing athletic therapist Terence Robertson. Aube is a former trainer at the University of Manitoba and has also worked with the Winnipeg Jets and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Also returning for the 2013-14 WHL season are strength and conditioning coach Al Parada; goaltending consultant Brent Belecki; video coordinator Craig Kinney; mental performance consultant Derek Robinson; assistant to the GM Davis Claffey; and dressing room attendent Mikel McIver. “We have a staff here who can provide everything we possibly can for our players for them to succeed and by the same token allow our team to get better,” said Sutter. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
LOSS: Worst feeling Mike Smith of the Phoenix Coyotes suffered both shootout losses in addition to earning wins of 3-0 and 2-1 over Sweden and the Czech Republic respectively in the round-robin.
This year’s Woody’s Marathon will again feature runners young and old. The youngest runner, a sevenyear-old boy, will participate in the 10k event, while the oldest — 75-year-old Roger MacMillan of Fort Saskatchewan — is returning to run the full marathon. “I know that I’ve chatted with this gentleman (MacMillan) several times when he’s finished the marathon and he loves coming to the Woody’s,” said Hazlett. “And to have 10 12-year-olds entered in the 10k is amazing to see. Good for them.” ● The Central Alberta Ronald McDonald House is the Woody’s Marathon charity of choice for the third consecutive year. “We certainly couldn’t support a better organization,” said Hazlett. “We did a tour of the House last year and it’s absolutely incredible for what it provides people visiting our hospital here in Red Deer.” ● Calgary gymnast Kyle Shewfelt, a three-time Olympian who won a gold medal for Canada at the 2004 Athens Games, is the keynote speaker for the pre-race pasta dinner Saturday at the Black Knight Inn. ● The vast majority of registered participants (1,515) are from Alberta, with 26 coming from Saskatchewan, 16 from B.C., two from each of Newfoundland and Ontario and one from each of the Northwest Territories, Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Texas and Utah. ● Each event will offer new medals this year commemorating the 15th year of the Marathon. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Katie Griffiths is following her in brother’s footsteps to play golf in the NCAA. Griffiths has signed a letter of commitment to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., on Thursday. “It’s something I’ve been working towards since I was young and my dad (Bob) got me to change over from hockey to golf,” said the 17-year-old Notre Dame student. Griffiths played hockey until Grade 8, but didn’t give it up completely. In fact she got back into it last winter, playing with the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs major midget team. “It was fun and a good way to finish my hockey career,” she said. Griffiths had several scholarship offers to the States, but only visited JSU. “I talked with several other coaches, but after visiting Jackson I had my mind set on going there,” she said. Former NFL running back and kick returner Eddie Payton, older brother of NFL great Walter Payton, is the golf coach. Last year the
JSU women’s team finished second in the Southwest Conference championships to Alabama State. “They have a solid program and good coaching,” said Griffiths, who has spent a good deal of time over the last couple of years competing, and training, in Arizona during the winter. While at home she has competed against her brother Zak, who just finished his second year at the University of Nevada, Reno. In fact both siblings will be home this summer. “We’ve always been competitive and pushed each other . . . it’s a lot of fun,” she said. “This summer I’ll be at home and play in some junior events to prepare for next season.” She’ll play out of River Bend Golf Course and plans on playing on the McLellan Ross/Sun Junior Tour as well as the Maple Leaf and Canadian Junior Tours. She’s also looking forward to the provincial junior championship, which she missed last year because of an elbow injury. She’ll leave for Jackson in the middle of August to “get orientated and set up” prior to the season. Griffiths sees her driving and putting as her strengths.
Katie Griffiths “I’d like to say my putting and I can usually hit the ball farther because I did play hockey,” she said. “It was good to help build strength.” But she also know what she has to work on. “My short game,” she said. “But there’s always different parts of the game to work on.” ● Zak is looking at possibly playing in a number of pro events this summer, if he qualifies, and then may turn his attention toward the PGA Tour. He’ll take time to see if he wants to return to Reno, or try to turn pro. drode@reddeeradvocate.com
“It’s the worst feeling obviously,” Smith said. “Every time we put the Canada sweater on you are expected to win. This is tough to take.” Stamkos and Giroux scored for Canada on Thursday. Smith, who played in his first world championship for Canada, made 30 saves in regulation and overtime. Enroth of the Buffalo Sabres stopped 39 before the shootout. Jacob Markstrom made a pair of saves when Enroth left the game briefly in overtime. Swedish coach Par Marts said it was because Enroth needed hydration. Canada has three practices as a team before playing seven games in 10 days in the round robin. The NHL’s lockout-shortened season ended three weeks later than usual, so there was no time for a proper training camp or exhibition games. Despite their lack of prep, the team won six games, lost two in a shootout and finished second in their pool to the Swiss. Eberle has now been on Canadian teams that have lost those four quarter-finals in a row and Duchene has experienced it three times. “It doesn’t get any easier,” Duchene said. “Third time losing for me losing in this game and the fourth time for a couple of other guys. It hurts. “I can’t believe we lost. I thought we had the team to do it this year. It just shows you one game, anyone can win. We don’t like that penalty shot rule, that’s for sure. It sucks we couldn’t keep playing overtime.” Despite heaping the pressure on Canada for the quarter-final by declaring themselves the underdog, Sweden had its swagger by the end of the preliminary round because of the arrival of forwards Daniel and Henrik Sedin and defenceman Alex Edler from the Vancouver Canucks. Canada added defenceman P.K. Subban of the Montreal Canadiens and Dan Hamhuis also from the Canucks after the tournament started.
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Hockey NHL Playoffs CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh 1, Ottawa 0 Tuesday, May 14: Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 1 Friday, May 17: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, May 19: Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 22: Pittsburgh at Ottawa. 5:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 24: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 26: Pittsburgh at Ottawa, TBD x-Tuesday, May 28: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, TBD Boston 1, N.Y. Rangers 0 Thursday, May 16: Boston 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, OT Sunday, May 19: N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 21: Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23: Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. x-Saturday, May 25: N.Y. Rangers at Boston TBD x-Monday, May 27: Boston at N.Y. Rangers, TBD x-Wednesday, May 29: N.Y. Rangers at Boston, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 1 Detroit 0 Wednesday, May 15: Chicago 4, Detroit 1 Saturday, May 18: Detroit at Chicago, 11 a.m. Monday, May 20: Chicago at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23: Chicago at Detroit, 6 p.m. x-Saturday, May 25: Detroit at Chicago, TBD x-Monday, May 27: Chicago at Detroit, TBD x-Wednesday, May 29: Detroit at Chicago, TBD Los Angeles 1, San Jose 0 Tuesday, May 14: Los Angeles 2, San Jose 0 Thursday, May 16: San Jose 3, Los Angeles 4 Saturday, May 18: Los Angeles at San Jose, 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 21: Los Angeles at San Jose, 8 p.m. x-Thursday, May 23: San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 26: Los Angeles at San Jose, TBD x-Tuesday, May 28: San Jose at Los Angeles, TBD Thursday’s summary Rangers 2 at Bruins 3 (OT) First Period No Scoring Penalties — None Second Period 1. Boston, Chara 2 (Krejci, Horton) 12:23 2. N.Y. Rangers, McDonagh 1 (Nash, Brassard) 19:58 Penalties — Pyatt NYR (boarding) 2:22, Chara Bos (hooking) 4:38, McQuaid Bos (interference) 13:52. Third Period
Golf 3. N.Y. Rangers, Stepan 3 (Hagelin, Callahan) 0:14 4. Boston, Krug 1 (Hamilton, Marchand) 2:55 (pp) Penalties — Eminger NYR (holding) 1:09, Bergeron Bos (hooking) 16:16, Moore NYR (interference) 17:51. First Overtime 5. Boston, Marchand 1 (Bergeron, Chara) 15:40 Penalty — Dorsett NYR (interference) 2:20. Shots on goal by N.Y. Rangers 8 13 9 5 — 35 Boston 11 9 12 16 — 48 Goal — N.Y. Rangers: Lundqvist (L,4-4-0); Boston: Rask (W,5-3-0). Power plays (goals-chances) — N.Y. Rangers: 0-3; Boston: 1-4. Attendance — 17,565 (17,565). RBC Cup Canadian Junior A Championship PRELIMINARY ROUND GP W Brooks (West2) 4 3 Surrey (West1) 4 3 Summerside (host) 4 2 Minnesota (Central) 4 1 Truro (East) 4 1
L 1 1 2 3 3
GF 19 14 16 9 6
GA 9 12 9 19 23
Pt 6 6 4 2 2
Tuesday’s results Minnesota 5 Truro 3 Summerside 3 Brooks 1 Wednesday’s result Surrey 5 Minnesota 0 Thursday’s results Brooks 5 Surrey 2 Truro 4 Summerside 2 End of preliminary round PLAYOFFS Saturday’s games First place vs. Fourth place, 11 a.m. or 3 p.m. Second place vs. Third place, 11 a.m. or 3 p.m. Sunday’s game Championship Semifinal winners, 4 p.m. Participating Teams West 2 — Brooks (Alta.) Bandits (AJHL champion) Central — Minnesota Wilderness (Dudley-Hewitt Champion) Host — Summerside Western Capitals West 1 — Surrey (B.C.) Eagles (Western Canada Champion) East — Truro (N.S.) Bearcats (Fred Page Champion)
PGA-Byron Nelson Thursday At TPC Four Seasons Resort Irving, Texas Purse: $6.7 million Yardage: 7,166; Par: 70 (35-35) First Round (a-amateur) Keegan Bradley 29-31 Charl Schwartzel 31-32 Ted Potter, Jr. 30-34 Harris English 31-33 Robert Karlsson 33-31 Ryan Palmer 31-34 Angel Cabrera 34-31 Camilo Villegas 34-31 Will Claxton 31-35 Sang-Moon Bae 34-32 Scott Piercy 34-32 Sean O’Hair 34-32 Marc Leishman 32-34 Charles Howell III 32-35 Graham DeLaet 35-32 Nathan Green 35-32 Martin Flores 34-33 James Driscoll 31-36 Lee Williams 33-34 Alexandre Rocha 34-33 Patrick Reed 32-35 Louis Oosthuizen 33-34 Ben Crane 32-35 Stephen Ames 32-35 Chad Campbell 33-34 Casey Wittenberg 34-33 Scott Gardiner 34-33 Ben Curtis 33-35 Freddie Jacobson 33-35 Martin Kaymer 33-35 Y.E. Yang 33-35 Trevor Immelman 33-35 Seung-Yul Noh 34-34 Colt Knost 34-34 Duffy Waldorf 31-37 D.H. Lee 34-34 Joe Ogilvie 34-34 Ricky Barnes 34-34 Brian Harman 34-34 Charley Hoffman 34-34 Jeff Maggert 35-33 Michael Bradley 33-35 Mike Weir 37-31 Wes Short, Jr. 35-33 Jeff Overton 35-33 William McGirt 34-34 Tag Ridings 34-34 Robert Streb 32-36 Troy Matteson 34-34 Lee Janzen 33-35 Jimmy Walker 34-34
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Alberta Downs Weekend Entries Saturday Post time: 1:15 p.m. First Pace, purse $3,000 (DD, EX, SF, TR). 1 Smoken Blue Water (Q. Schneider) 2 River Blues (J. Marino) 3 Hf Pajama Party (K. Clark) 4 Miss Dezilou (T. Redwood) 5 Shes A Ladro (W. Tainsh Jr) 6 Sweetycamtoplay (G. Hudon) 7 Chatter Box (J. Chappell) Second Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Kg Super Sonic (C. Brown) 2 Frees B (T. Cullen) 3 Domino Theory (W. Tainsh Jr) 4 Alcars Britefriday (P. Giesbrecht) 5 Too Young Man (G. Hudon) 6 Rango (T. Redwood) 7 Notacent Tobemade (G. Schedlosky) 8 Hes Country (Q. Schneider) 9 Hey Scoob (J. Jungquist) Third Pace, purse $4,900 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Cenalta Fireworks (R. Goulet) 2 Keystone Maddie (P. Giesbrecht) 3 Jennas Ideal (T. Cullen) 4 American Passion (G. Hudon) 5 Tu Wong Fu (J. Chappell) 6 Skade (K. Hoerdt) 7 Kiss My Crouper (R. Grundy) 8 Brendons No Fly (T. Redwood) 9 Outlawcherishafool (C. Kolthammer) ae Glitteronthebeach (T. Cullen) Fourth Pace, purse $6,000 (EX, SF, TR, W4). 1 Arroway (J. Gray) 2 Strikes N Charges (D. Lupul) 3 Outlawdangruswatrs (K. Hoerdt) 4 Kg Art Dreamer (G. Hudon) 5 Outlaw Highvoltage (P. Giesbrecht) 6 Revoler (W. Tainsh Jr) 7 Mr Brightside (J. Chappell) 8 All Canadian Mjjz (P. Davies) 9 Nobody Can (J. Marino) Fifth Pace, purse $3,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Hollywood Hotel (G. Hudon) 2 Frisco (T. Cullen) 3 Cenalta Spirit (T. Redwood) 4 Rope The Wind (W. Tainsh Jr) 5 Make It So (J. Chappell) 6 Kg Cody (P. Giesbrecht) 7 Saltwater Cowboy (J. Campbell) 8 Gaucho Hanover (R. Hennessy) 9 Farm Team (P. Davies) ae Psymadre (B. Piwniuk) Sixth Pace, purse $7,500 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Hilldrop Shady (W. Tainsh Jr) 2 Gts Jake (J. Jungquist) 3 Cowboy Caper (K. Hoerdt) 4 Kg Explorer (R. Goulet) 5 Bachelor Pad (B. Clark) 6 Playbook (K. Clark) 7 Hollywood Warrior (G. Hudon) 8 Greek Ruler (J. Chappell) Seventh Pace, purse $8,000 (EX, SF, TR, W3). 1 Trust The Artist (K. Hoerdt) 2 Sixdaysontheroad (W. Tainsh Jr) 3 Flak Jacket (J. Gray) 4 Mr Saratoga (J. Chappell) 5 Timberline Court (G. Hudon) Eighth Pace, purse $5,600 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Contesta Hanover (K. Clark) 2 Barona Lilac (K. Hoerdt) 3 Isle Of Shoals (C. Kolthammer) 4 Shirley Girl (G. Hudon) 5 Outlawlookslikrain (P. Davies) 6 Artprize (J. Campbell) 7 Cloud Nine (B. Clark) 8 Gts Jerilyn (J. Gray) Ninth Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Modern Man (C. Brown) 2 Steveofdestruction (J. Campbell) 3 Ok Excalibur (T. Cullen) 4 Art By Dylan (K. Hoerdt) 5 Payoff (W. Tainsh Jr) 6 Mackenzie Seelster (P. Giesbrecht) 7 Stiletto Spur (K. Clark) 8 Blue Star Ruler (J. Marino) 9 Lakers R Electric (Q. Schneider)
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BRIEFS Red Deerians finish well at PGA event Roy Hide of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club and Scott Anderson of the River Bend Golf Course both finished in the money at the PGA of Alberta’s first Player Tour event of the season at River Spirit Golf Club in Calgary. Hide had rounds of 82-68 for a 150 total, which earned him $376, while Anderson had rounds of 76-75 for a 151 total and pocketed $91. Darryl James of the National Golf Academy at Shaganappi took top spot and $1,800 with a 143 total following rounds of 72-71.
Rocky naming field after Northcott Long time Rocky Mountain House resident and baseball coach Harold Northcott will be honoured by naming baseball diamond No. 5 to Harold
Sunday Post time: 1:15 p.m. First Pace, purse $3,000 (DD, EX, SF, TR). 1 Whosurhero (J. Jungquist) 2 Mystical Fellow (K. Clark) 3 Burn The House (G. Hudon) 4 Two Pack Habit (T. Redwood) 5 The Enemy Within (J. Marino) 6 Pinot Prince (P. Davies) 7 Mjjz Shannon D (Q. Schneider) 8 Outlawishfulthinkn (C. Kolthammer) Second Pace, purse $3,800 (EX, SF, TR). 1 Artability (Q. Schneider) 2 Jellos Fellow (P. Davies) 3 Camtonite (R. Hennessy) 4 Shaker Boy (J. Campbell) 5 Modern Cowboy (W. Tainsh Jr) 6 Arctic Muscles (C. Brown) 7 Barndougle (G. Clark) 8 Blasty Cam (T. Redwood) Third Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Arctic Flame (C. Brown) 2 Minettaszoombyyall (W. Tainsh Jr) 3 Alashazam (J. Campbell) 4 Caracas (P. Davies) 5 Yankee Mystique (P. Giesbrecht) 6 Fortunate Design (K. Clark) 7 Down Home Stylish (K. Hoerdt) 8 Im The Reason (J. Marino) 9 Wrangler Raine (R. Goulet) ae Baja Beach (J. Chappell) Fourth Pace, purse $4,000 (EX, SF, TR, W4). 1 Western Superstar (Q. Schneider) 2 Tinhorn Creek (K. Clark) 3 Pedal Steel (J. Marino) 4 Masada Rocks (K. Hoerdt) 5 Shade Of Pale (G. Hudon) 6 Life On Homicide (J. Jungquist) 7 Intended Gold (P. Giesbrecht) Fifth Pace, purse $3,600 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Im A Wildcat (W. Tainsh Jr) 2 Dieselystic (J. Gray) 3 Location Baran (P. Giesbrecht) 4 Attitude Adjuster (G. Hudon) 5 Hesacamcracker (R. Hennessy) 6 Man Alive (J. Jungquist) Sixth Pace, purse $2,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Knickfree (J. Chappell) 2 Nevermissabeat (R. Grundy) 3 Skirmish (W. Tainsh Jr) 4 Silent Rescue (K. Hoerdt) 5 F Train (B. Piwniuk) 6 Tajwon (T. Cullen) 7 Outlaw I See Red (J. Gray) 8 Katies Gun (P. Giesbrecht) 9 Passing Breeze (J. Marino) ae National Interest (J. Chappell) Seventh Pace, purse $4,900 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Senga Nanjeing (R. Grundy) 2 Rascal Shark (P. Davies) 3 Caleo Bay (K. Clark) 4 Timely Promise (W. Tainsh Jr) 5 Brenin (J. Gray) 6 Aerial Time (J. Chappell) 7 Rays Crown Royal (K. Hoerdt) 8 Burn The Floor (R. Hennessy) 9 Little Bit Faster (T. Redwood) Eighth Pace, purse $5,600 (EX, SF, TR, W3). 1 Blue Star Admiral (W. Tainsh Jr) 2 Cenalta Octane (R. Grundy) 3 Lisvinnie (R. Hennessy) 4 Big N Bad (J. Marino) 5 Beren Hanover (K. Clark) 6 Premium Attaction (K. Hoerdt) Ninth Pace, purse $3,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Fancy Camelot (T. Cullen) 2 Thats Witty (J. Campbell) 3 Keystone Vanyla (W. Tainsh Jr) 4 Mood Light (R. Goulet) 5 Tap Out (J. Marino) 6 Reservations Only (P. Davies) 7 Just Saucy (P. Giesbrecht) 8 Canyacrackher (R. Hennessy) 9 Sealedwithapromise (J. Gray) Tenth Pace, purse $3,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Js Honeybet (T. Redwood) 2 Sharon Blew Bye (Q. Schneider) 3 Overnight Success (T. Cullen) 4 G I Joan (K. Clark)
Northcott Field on May 25 at 11 a.m. Northcott, who was a pitching coach with Baseball Canada, worked with baseball in the Central Alberta community for over 20 years.
Bantam AAA Braves down Okotoks Dawgs The Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves downed the host Okotoks Dawgs Red 10-6 in bantam AAA baseball league action Wednesday. The Braves used four pitchers with Austin Kelts-Larsen, starting and going two innings, allowing two runs on two hits and two walks. Kobe Scott worked three innings of no hit ball and fanned six while Hayley Lalor went 1 2/3 innings, allowing four hits and Austin Hammond threw one pitch to get the final out. Zach Olson had two singles, three stolen bases, two runs and a run batted in, Scott had a single and two walks, Andrew MacCuaig a RBI single and a walk and Carter O’Donnell a pair of walks. Braves host Fort McMurray in a weekend triple header at Great Chief Park, with games at 3 and 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday.
5 Barona Java (J. Marino) 6 Market For Romance (W. Tainsh Jr) 7 Brave Rustler (P. Giesbrecht) 8 Hollywood Jubilee (J. Chappell) 9 Fly Bye Elly (J. Gray) Monday Post time: 1:15 p.m. First Pace, purse $3,200 (DD, EX, SF, TR). 1 The Cracken (G. Hudon) 2 Western Shoot Out (R. Grundy) 3 Minettas Leader (J. Jungquist) 4 Cams Wizard (W. Tainsh Jr) 5 Uptown Spirit (T. Redwood) 6 Da Terror (T. Cullen) 7 Wigesjet (J. Chappell) Second Pace, purse $4,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Western Olympian (K. Clark) 2 B R Money Matters (J. Gray) 3 Balzac Billy (J. Jungquist) 4 Total Rhythm (K. Hoerdt) 5 Terrorizer (P. Giesbrecht) 6 Hollywood Lenny (Q. Schneider) 7 Somethinsgoinon (B. Clark) Third Pace, purse $3,400 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Hf Nancys Babygirl (T. Redwood) 2 Cracklin Millie (G. Hudon) 3 Artninspiration (K. Hoerdt) 4 Glitteronthebeach (T. Cullen) 5 Kim Chee (K. Clark) 6 Westwood Chaos (J. Jungquist) 7 Julie Caesar (P. Giesbrecht) 8 Westcoast Royal (C. Brown) Fourth Pace, purse $3,200 (EX, SF, TR, W4). 1 Eternal Grace (V. Sifert) 2 Drinkin Her Pretty (K. Clark) 3 Bite Size (P. Giesbrecht) 4 Rs Dottie West (J. Gray) 5 Ida Apache (R. Grundy) 6 Miss Reserve (B. Clark) 7 My First Promise (J. Jungquist) Fifth Pace, purse $3,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Ruths Shadylady (J. Jungquist) 2 Last Luck (J. Marino) 3 Red Star Jenny (K. Hoerdt) 4 Truly Cruisin (P. Davies) 5 Apalamine (T. Cullen) 6 Baja Beach (J. Chappell) 7 Justabitfaster (G. Hudon) Sixth Pace, purse $3,600 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Hollywood Monroe (G. Hudon) 2 Cinderella Smiles (P. Giesbrecht) 3 Tequila Boom Boom (R. Hennessy) 4 Liz Lover (J. Jungquist) 5 Me Myself And I (B. Clark) 6 Crafty Cracker (W. Tainsh Jr) 7 Whitehouse Secret (P. Davies) Seventh Pace, purse $5,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Big Bang Theory (G. Hudon) 2 Barona Josie (W. Tainsh Jr) 3 Jennas Pass (K. Clark) 4 Blue Star Classic (J. Gray) 5 Millbanks Ariel (J. Marino) 6 Ashlynn Grace (J. Chappell) 7 Phoenician Gal (T. Cullen) 8 Outlaw Blue Danube (J. Campbell) Eighth Pace, purse $8,000 (EX, SF, TR, W3). 1 Feelin Flush (T. Cullen) 2 Blue Star Beauty (W. Tainsh Jr) 3 Just Fiction (J. Marino) 4 Call Me Up (J. Campbell) 5 Callmeaftermdnight (K. Hoerdt) Ninth Pace, purse $2,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Cantcatch P (J. Chappell) 2 Charm N Wits (P. Davies) 3 Tajerine Dream (W. Tainsh Jr) 4 Power Maid (P. Giesbrecht) 5 Samnmadie (J. Jungquist) 6 Wrangler Diva (T. Redwood) Tenth Pace, purse $3,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR). 1 Mjjz R Us (P. Davies) 2 National Interest (J. Campbell) 3 Modern Look (P. Giesbrecht) 4 Wrangler Hitech (J. Marino) 5 Western Chrome (R. Goulet) 6 Canbec Hooligan (T. Cullen) 7 Dees Promise (J. Chappell) 8 Kg Rowan (G. Hudon) 9 K B Hercules (J. Gray)
Lightning girls soccer team downs Eckville The Hunting Hills Lightning got three goals from Marissa Mand in downing Eckville 11-0 in Central Alberta High School Girls’ Soccer League play Wednesday. Danielle Hauser had two goals with singles added by Rachelle Fallis, Emily Gopal, Darbie Hauser, Rachel Kuz, Jaden Robinson and Sarah Stewart.
Bantam Rage split league games The Red Deer Pro Flo Bantam Rage recorded a win and a loss in Calgary Women’s Fastball League action Wednesday. Kirsten Baumgardt and Kaylee Domoney combined on a five-hitter while fanning six batters in a 1-1 draw with the Calgary Adrenaline. Jade Lee had two singles for the Rage, while Breanna BurkhardSmith contributed a triple. In the second game, the Rage slipped past the Adrenaline 6-5. Burkhard-Smith slammed a home run and Erika Marshall stroked a pair of singles in a losing cause.
New York Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto
American League East Division W L Pct 25 16 .610 24 17 .585 23 17 .575 20 20 .500 17 24 .415
GB — 1 1 1/2 4 1/2 8
Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Minnesota Chicago
Central Division W L Pct 22 17 .564 22 17 .564 20 17 .541 18 19 .486 17 21 .447
GB — — 1 3 4 1/2
Texas Seattle Oakland Los Angeles Houston
West Division W L Pct 27 14 .659 20 21 .488 20 22 .476 15 25 .375 11 30 .268
GB — 7 7 1/2 11 1/2 16
Thursday’s Games Seattle 3, N.Y. Yankees 2 Boston 4, Tampa Bay 3 Texas 10, Detroit 4 Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, Late Friday’s Games Houston (Lyles 1-1) at Pittsburgh (J.Gomez 2-0), 5:05 p.m. Seattle (Maurer 2-5) at Cleveland (U.Jimenez 3-2), 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Hellickson 1-2) at Baltimore (Hammel 5-1), 5:05 p.m. Toronto (Buehrle 1-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 5-2), 5:05 p.m. Detroit (Porcello 1-2) at Texas (Tepesch 3-3), 6:05 p.m. Boston (Buchholz 6-0) at Minnesota (Worley 1-4), 6:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Sale 4-2) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 3-2), 8:05 p.m. Kansas City (Shields 2-3) at Oakland (Parker 2-5), 8:05 p.m. Saturday’s Games Seattle at Cleveland, 11:05 a.m. Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m. Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 2:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 2:05 p.m. Houston at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Boston at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Detroit at Texas, 6:05 p.m. Kansas City at Oakland, 7:05 p.m.
Seattle, 64; Dempster, Boston, 61; Buchholz, Boston, 60; Masterson, Cleveland, 60; Verlander, Detroit, 60. SAVES—Rivera, New York, 16; JiJohnson, Baltimore, 14; Nathan, Texas, 12; Reed, Chicago, 12; Wilhelmsen, Seattle, 11; Janssen, Tor onto, 10; Perkins, Minnesota, 8.
Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami
National League East Division W L Pct 22 18 .550 21 19 .525 19 22 .463 15 23 .395 11 30 .268
GB — 1 3 1/2 6 11 1/2
St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee
Central Division W L Pct 26 14 .650 25 16 .610 24 17 .585 17 23 .425 16 23 .410
GB — 1 1/2 2 1/2 9 9 1/2
San Francisco Arizona Colorado San Diego Los Angeles
West Division W L Pct 24 17 .585 23 18 .561 21 20 .512 18 21 .462 17 22 .436
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Thursday’s Games N.Y. Mets 5, St. Louis 2 Pittsburgh 7, Milwaukee 1 Cincinnati 5, Miami 3, 10 innings San Francisco 8, Colorado 6 Washington at San Diego, Late Friday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Harvey 4-0) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 1-5), 12:20 p.m. Cincinnati (Cingrani 2-0) at Philadelphia (Lee 4-2), 5:05 p.m. Houston (Lyles 1-1) at Pittsburgh (J.Gomez 2-0), 5:05 p.m. Arizona (Cahill 2-4) at Miami (Slowey 1-3), 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 4-2) at Atlanta (Maholm 4-4), 5:30 p.m. Milwaukee (W.Peralta 3-3) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 4-2), 6:15 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 4-1) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 4-3), 6:40 p.m. Washington (G.Gonzalez 3-2) at San Diego (B.Smith 0-0), 8:10 p.m. Saturday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Chicago Cubs, 11:05 a.m. Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 2:05 p.m. Houston at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Arizona at Miami, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m. San Francisco at Colorado, 6:10 p.m. Washington at San Diego, 6:40 p.m.
Sunday’s Games Seattle at Cleveland, 11:05 a.m. Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m. Houston at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m. Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m. Boston at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m. Kansas City at Oakland, 2:05 p.m. Detroit at Texas, 6:05 p.m. American League Leaders BATTING—Loney, Tampa Bay, .367; MiCabrera, Detroit, .366; Mauer, Minnesota, .349; Machado, Baltimore, .343; Pedroia, Boston, .340; Altuve, Houston, .333; AGordon, Kansas City, .331. STRIKEOUTS—Darvish, Texas, 86; Scherzer, Detroit, 68; AniSanchez, Detroit, 66; FHernandez,
Sunday’s Games Arizona at Miami, 11:10 a.m. Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m. Houston at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m. L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m. Milwaukee at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m. San Francisco at Colorado, 2:10 p.m. Washington at San Diego, 2:10 p.m.
Basketball Monday, May 20 x-Indiana at New York, 6 p.m.
NBA Playoffs SECOND ROUND Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7)
WESTERN CONFERENCE Oklahoma City (1) vs. Memphis (5) (Memphis wins series 4-1) Wednesday’s result Memphis 88 Oklahoma City 84 Monday’s result Memphis 103 Oklahoma City 97 (OT) Saturday’s result Memphis 87 Oklahoma City 81
EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami (1) vs. Chicago (5) (Miami wins series 4-1) Wednesday’s result Miami 94 Chicago 91 Monday’s result Miami 88 Chicago 65 Friday’s result Miami 104 Chicago 94
San Antonio (2) vs. Golden State (6) (San Antonio leads series 3-2) Thursday’s result San Antonio at Golden State, Late Tuesday’s result San Antonio 109 Golden State 91 Sunday’s result Golden State 97 San Antonio 87 (OT) Sunday, May 19 x-Golden State at San Antonio, TBA x — If necessary.
New York (2) vs. Indiana (3) (Indiana leads series 3-2) Thursday’s result New York 85 Indiana 75 Tuesday’s result Indiana 93 New York 82 Saturday’s result Indiana 82 New York 71 Saturday, May 18 x-New York at Indiana, 6 p.m.
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Brooks secures first at RBC Cup after preliminary round THE CANADIAN PRESS SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — The Brooks Bandits clinched first place in the preliminary round of the RBC Cup with a 5-2 win over the Surrey Eagles on Thursday. Brandon Bruce, Mark Reners and Tyson McCallum scored in the first seven minutes for Brooks at the national junior A hockey championship. The victory means the Bandits will face the Minnesota Wilderness in a Saturday semifinal, while the Eagles will face the Summerside Western Capitals in a rematch of the 1997 national championship game. Summerside fell 4-2 to the Truro Bearcats in the late game. Anthony Petruzzelli and Cam Maclise had the other goals for Brooks (3-1), which won a rematch after losing 4-1 to the Eagles in the Western Canada Cup championship game on May 4. Dan O’Keefe and Trevor Cameron scored for Surrey (31), which trailed 5-0 before the game’s midway point. Brooks hit the scoreboard first just over a minute into the game, as Bruce buried a loose puck behind Surrey netminder Michael Santaguida. That ended Santaguida’s shutout streak at just over 91 minutes, dating back to the Eagles’ overtime win over Summerside on Monday night. Reners made it 2-0 at 5:37, finishing off a pretty feed from Dakota Mason, and McCallum, making his tournament debut,
snapped one past Santaguida 1:15 later. Petruzzelli pushed the lead to 4-0 just past the five-minute mark of the second period, picking off an ill-advised Surrey pass and beating Santaguida. Maclise then scored his tournament-leading fifth goal at 7:43, collecting the rebound of an Anthony Paskaruk shot and making it 5-0. The Eagles finally got on the board nine minutes in to the second period, as O’Keefe drove the net to tip a centring feed from Drew Best past Brooks goaltender Michael Fredrick, cutting the Bandits lead to 5-1. Cameron scored arguably the best goal of the tournament thus far to round out the scoring at 15:04 of the second, picking up the puck at his own blue-line before dancing around a Brooks defenceman and Fredrick for a short-handed goal. Surrey got no closer, managing just six shots in the third period as it lost for the fifth time in 26 playoff games. Despite the shaky start Santaguida finished with 31 saves, while Fredrick made 22 stops to record the win. Later Thursday, the Bearcats earned their first win of the tournament in its last game. Philip Fife, Kyle Morrsion, Adam Guy and Zack EvansRenaud scored for Truro (1-3), which had been mathematically eliminated on Tuesday after a loss to Minnesota. Scott Trask and Craig MacLauchlan scored for Summerside (2-2).
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6-foot-5 blueliner Nikita Zadorov, are there when Toronto goes to draft and Domi is still available, might they fit the Leafs’ needs more than another smallish forward? Or what about bruising Windsor power forward Kerby Rychel, son of another ex-Leaf, Warren Rychel? One really can’t imagine Tanenbaum would interject his opinions into a process like the entry draft. Tie Domi, other than being an alumni, has no official capacity with the Leafs. Then again, this is the Leafs. Influence, over the years, has been brought to bear on the hockey department from the strangest of sources. Bloodlines have certainly influenced NHL drafts and player moves in the past. Teams with Sutters acquired other Sutters. Carolina currently owns three members of Thunder Bay’s talented Staal family. In 1992, the Leafs would have faced an intriguing choice with the No. 8 pick, with the son of former captain Darryl Sitter rated in top 10. But Philadelpia took Ryan Sittler one pick before the Leafs. One more note on Max Domi. One of his challenges as a junior hockey player is that he’s a Type 1 Diabetic, which might or might not be a factor in where he’s taken. This is also accompanied by a footnote in Leaf history. With the ninth pick in the 1969 draft, the Leafs selected forward Ernie Moser, who never played a NHL game. Like many other clubs, Toronto was scared off a promising centre from Flin Flon because he was a diabetic. The Flyers weren’t. They took Bobby Clarke with the No. 17 selection and never regretted it. A strong showing by Max Domi in this Memorial Cup, of course, could increase his draft stock significantly, particularly after he was overshadowed in the OHL playoffs by teammate Bo Horvat, who has surpassed Domi in the Central Scouting rankings. For the first time ever, the tournament will feature the top three NHL draft prospects in Portland defenceman Seth Jones and the dynamic duo of the Mooseheads, Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin. The Winterhawks face Halifax on Saturday night in a marquee clash of top prospects. The event opens today with London facing the host Saskatoon Blades, a team in the midst of one of the strangest major junior seasons in recent memory. Last fall, the Blades
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started the season so poorly there were suggestions that like the 1990 Dukes of Hamilton, they might have to pull out of the tournament in there home city. While Sportsnet highlighted the Blades in a 24/7 style documentary all season long, the Lorne Molleken-coached squad turned their season around dramatically, at one point winning 18 straight games. Shockingly, they were then swept by Medicine Hat in the first round of the Western Hockey League playoffs, and when they face the Knights on Friday night, it will be their first game in 51 days.
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Twenty-four years ago, the Memorial Cup was held in Saskatoon and included 19-year-old enforcer and Maple Leaf draftee Tie Domi of the Peterborough Petes, who spent most of his time riding shotgun for star centre Mike Ricci. Starting Friday night, the Memorial Cup, now attached to a major sponsor in Mastercard, is again being held in Saskatoon, and lo and behold the next generation of the Domi clan will be at centre stage. Just like his dad back in 1989, Max Domi of the London Knights will be a prominent performer over the next 10 days in a star-studded tournament featuring a glittering array of NHL-bound talent, including the three players expected to go one, two and three in the June entry draft. Domi, in case you’ve never seen him play, is nothing like his father on the ice. Tie Domi fought his way out of Belle River, Ont. to the NHL and ultimately became one of the most popular Leafs in the past 25 years. Max, by contrast, is a marvellously skilled centre who also plays the wing and led the Ontario Hockey League champions in scoring this season. Stocky and well under 6-feet in height like his father, Max Domi is, really, the kind of player Tie spent years in the NHL “protecting,” if you believe in the role of designated policemen. Max is rated by NHL Central Scouting to possibly go in the second half of the draft’s first round, or could even slip into the second if there’s a run on Europeans or goalies. On the other hand, there are whispers some clubs see him as a top 10 pick. That’s where this gets interesting. During his last year’s in Toronto, Tie Domi, as politically savvy during his career as any NHLer, became friends with Larry Tanenbaum, chairman of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. When the Pat Quinn years were winding down, many criticized that relationship, suggesting it gave Domi a special status on the team. Well, Tanenbaum is still chairman, albeit in a somewhat altered atmosphere at MLSE with Rogers and Bell now sharing majority ownership of the Leafs, Raptors and the rest of the MLSE empire. The Leafs currently hold the No. 21 pick in the draft, and Max Domi, depending on how the dominoes fall, could be available when GM Dave Nonis and chief scout Dave Morrison come to choose in Newark on June 30. Might Tanenbaum see fit to influence the Leaf choice? Or are those days long gone? This isn’t to suggest Max Domi would be a poor pick for the Leafs, although playing for the same team as his father did might come with unwelcome attention. That said, if Halifax Mooseheads goalie Zachary Fucale, 6-foot-5 Rimouski centre Frederik Gauthier or even Domi’s London teammate,
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Auction selling off troves of Gretzky items BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — It started almost two decades ago with a $20 hockey stick once wielded by a forgotten player for a string of mediocre teams. It ends at the auction block this week when millions of dollars are likely to change hands. This may be the world’s largest game-worn collection of memorabilia from the world’s best player from the sport’s last dynasty. Shawn Chaulk owns a hoard of everything Wayne Gretzky. He says it’s all for a singular cause that only a fullblooded hockey lover can savour. “When you’re a fan, fans are usually at a distance,” he recently told The Canadian Press in the basement office of his home in Fort McMurray. The space is a forest of game-used Gretzky hockey sticks, a dressing room of game-worn Gretzky jerseys and a trainer’s bag full of assorted pucks, gloves, helmets and skates — all touched, used and sweated in by the Great One himself. “You love the game. You love the athletes, at a distance. At best, you get to attend an event and see them in person. Again, from a distance. And that’s as close as we get. This was all to help me get closer to the game.” The online auction begins Friday through Montreal’s Classic Auctions. Among the of hundreds of items on sale are: ● the puck Gretzky shot to score his 500th goal, as well as the jersey and skates he was wearing at the time. ● gloves and helmets worn during Stanley Cup victories and regular-season games. ● skates replete with scuffs and repairs. ● Gretzky’s early-1980s Oilers Nike track suit. ● No. 99 practice jersey. ● Gretzky-used equipment bag. Chaulk, however, will not be entirely stripped of his Gretzky trove after the auction. Here’s what he’s not selling:
● a stick from Gretzky’s first pro team, the World Hockey Association’s Indianapolis Pacers, on which the equipment manager stamped the name “Gretsky.” ● the jersey Gretzky wore during the entire 1981-82 season in which, as an Edmonton Oiler, he compiled more than 200 points and broke Phil Esposito’s scoring record of 77 goals in one season. ● replica Stanley Cups once owned by former Oilers owner Peter Pocklington, who is reviled for trading Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings in 1988. ● the jersey Gretzky wore the infamous night in 1986, when, in a division final against Calgary, Steve Smith scored in his own net to eliminate the Oilers from the playoffs. Chaulk is 45 years old and didn’t start collecting anything until he was in his 20s — and that involved golf. He had read an article about Arnold Palmer, which included a chat with the golf great’s secretary. “She talked about how once a week she opens all his mail from fans, lays out all his autograph requests and he signs them and she sends them off,” Chaulk recalled. “I thought, ’Wow.”’ He wrote to the magazine. which forwarded the letter to Palmer. In due course, he returned a signed autograph. Chaulk thought that was terrific. “I’d go to the post office and drop 300 letters in the mail,” he said. “Some days I’d get up to 50 cards back in the mail.” He ended up with 50,000 signed hockey cards in his collection, many accompanied by letters. Chaulk’s correspondents included Montreal Canadiens legends Maurice and Henri Richard and Jean Beliveau. But the cards, now sold or donated, were just a gateway. Before long, and as his contracting business prospered, Chaulk was dabbling in signed photographs, prints, jerseys. Then one afternoon he was in an Edmonton pawn shop, looking over cards. He spotted an old hockey stick
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Shawn Chaulk poses with his collection of Wayne Gretzky memorabilia in Fort McMurray, on April 16. Chaulk will have a variety of these items for sale at an upcoming auction. Chaulk’s Gretzky collection goes on sale in an online auction on Friday. hanging on the wall. The man behind the counter told him it had been used by Wayne Presley, a journeyman who played for five NHL teams between 1984 and 1997. “I didn’t realize you could put your hands on that type of thing,” said Chaulk, awe still in his voice more than a decade later. “I didn’t know it was available to the fan. And there I am in a pawn shop and there’s a game-used stick there. I asked to see it and held it and went ‘Wow! Will I ever get closer to the game?’ I spent my $20. That was my first piece of the game.” But not his last. Chaulk moved on from Presley and decided to focus on Gretzky. If game-used sticks were available,
he wanted them from the Great One. Chaulk now has more than 100 sticks that once hit the ice in Gretzky’s hands: Titans, Eastons, wood and aluminum. They cover his entire career — from the 1977 world juniors to his last NHL game on April 18, 1999, with the New York Rangers. The final step in Chaulk’s fullblown collector’s bug came in 2005, when a major Gretzky collection hit the block. “I saw, in one single auction, the amount of stuff that can surface from a single player. That was the turning point for me. I knew I wanted to collect game-worn equipment and that would be my focus.” Chaulk bought a jersey at that sale and hasn’t slowed down since.
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SASKATOON — The 2013 MasterCard Memorial Cup won’t be short on intriguing storylines. First there are the hosts who want to make amends for an up-anddown season. Add to the mix a record-setting powerhouse from Nova Scotia, a club from Ontario that scored in the final second of Game 7 to advance, and a team from Oregon that used a coach’s suspension as a rallying cry. Oh, and then there’s three of the top prospects for this year’s NHL draft, not to mention at least five others who could go in the first round. The annual 10-day tournament to decide the Canadian Hockey League championship begins Friday with the host Saskatoon Blades taking on the Ontario Hockey League’s London Knights in a game that features teams that took very different routes to get here. The second matchup of the round-robin format goes Saturday with the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League meeting the Portland Winterhawks of Western Hockey League. The Blades’ 2012-13 campaign included a rough start, an 18-game winning streak and a shocking first-round sweep — all of which were documented by a reality television crew that tracked their every move. The Knights, meanwhile, cruised through the regular season and the first three rounds of the playoffs before finding themselves down 3-1 in the OHL final against the Barrie Colts. London fought back to win three straight, clinching the league title in dramatic fashion when Bo Horvat scored with less than a second to go in the deciding game to give the Knights a 3-2 win. The Blades will have not played a game in 51 days when they step onto the ice at Credit Union Centre against the OHL champions, while the Knights come in having clinched their league title just four days earlier. “Since we were awarded (the tournament) a year and a half ago the focus was on the start of the Memorial Cup,” Blades coach Lorne Molleken said. “We’re all excited to get things underway. Our players, I can tell you, they’re tired of practising. “We’re ready to play.” Knights coach Dale Hunter is also confident his team will be ready, despite the travel and quick turnaround. “We had a tough series against Barrie,” he said. “That’s what hockey’s all about. You get three or four days rest and they’re kids. If you’re a hockey player all you want to do is play games so I think they’ll be anxious to play.” London, which won the Memorial Cup as the host back in 2005, lost in last year’s final in overtime to Shawinigan. “Every game is like a Game 7 here. It pretty much controls your destiny for the rest of the tournament,” Knights forward Max Domi said. “Last year were we a pretty young team. “We look at ourselves as a pretty experienced group and we’re expecting big things.” Following Friday’s opener, Saturday will provide a mouth-watering game for scouts and fans alike. The matchup between Halifax and Portland will feature Winterhawks defenceman Seth Jones, ranked as the No. 1 North American skater by NHL Central Scouting, and Mooseheads forwards Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin, who sit at No. 2 and No. 3. The Mooseheads suffered only six losses in the regular season, a record for the QMJHL and just one shy of the all-
nents and know we’re playing a good team. Our guys are really ready to go and it’s going to be an exciting game, but at the same time you need to be in control.” On the Winterhawks side, apart from Jones’ standout campaign, the team had to deal with the season-long suspension of coach and general manager Mike Johnston for transgressions that included providing flights to players’ families and a cell phone for the team’s captain.
RDC marketing and events coordinator P.J. Swales will be extra busy next March. Swales, along with his staff, will host both the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s volleyball and basketball championships. “They’ll be on back-to-back weekends, so it will be busy, but an exciting time,” said Swales. “It’s two of the top championships in the conference.” RDC goes into next season as defending champions in both sports, one of the main reasons they bid for the finals. “We promised the teams if they won
the league we’d bid for the championships and fortunately we got both,” added Swales. RDC, which hosted women’s volleyball and men’s soccer last season, also looked at bidding for the ACAC women’s soccer finals, but felt Medicine Hat would be deserving. “They’re looking at bidding for the national championships and this would be a good opportunity for them to hone their hosting skills.” RDC was awarded the finals at the conference’s spring meeting. The possibility of a Westerner Canadian men’s hockey playoff was also discussed, but will be down the road, especially with the financial cutbacks this year. drode@reddeeradvocate.com
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FOOD TRUCKS TO GATHER Friday food fun will be back for the summer starting on May 24. Hosted by Cool Beans Bus, Food Truck Fridays will feature a variety of culinary options throughout the summer. Among the other food trucks that will make regular Friday appearances alongside Cool Beans Bus at 4740 50th St. are Peppermint Andy’s, The Stache, Chester’s Chips, Chedda’ Heads and Model T Smokies. Food offerings will range from grilled cheeses and pulled pork tacos to gourmet coffee and ice cream. The events will run every Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The May 24 kickoff will feature a live band and free coffee.
GARAGE SALE FOR PETS Red Deer’s “biggest garage sale” is back to benefit Central Alberta pets. The Red Deer and District SPCA fundraiser, to be held this year at the Pidherny Centre (formerly the Red Deer Curling Centre), will run over three days from May 24 to 26. In its 13th year, the sale will take place from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on May 24, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both May 25 and 26. Donations of items will be accepted until Tuesday, and can be dropped off between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the centre, located at 4725 43rd St. The SPCA will gladly accept most goods, although it will not take clothing, computers, mattresses, shoes, large appliances or televisions. For more information, contact the SPCA at 403-3427722.
JOB FAIR Local businesses interested in recruiting some young talent are invited to take part in the first Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School job fair on May 24. The school’s 1,800 students have been preparing for the event by updating their résumés and practising their interview skills. Businesses looking to hire for summer, partand full-time positions, and those offering continuing employment for graduating students are welcome to attend. There is no cost for businesses to attend the job fair. The event will run from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the school. Interested businesses can call 403-356-5315 for more information.
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Fungus deforming city trees THE SCOURGE OF BLACK KNOT BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF City parks workers have their hands full this spring dealing with an ugly fungus that’s deforming trees before slowly killing them. Unless more Red Deer residents take action to prevent the scourge of black knot, city tree pruners will be fighting a losing battle, said the parks department’s urban forester, Elaine Johnson. “We’ve had a problem with this for a long time, and I’ve been trying to get people’s attention. ...” Parks workers have conducted eradication “blitzes” of unsightly black knot in some natural areas, with the help of volunteers, “but unless everyone is on the same page ... we’ll barely be keeping up,” she added. The imported European fungus that resembles charred rope or blackened sausage along tree branches is already so rampant on private property in Red Deer that the city’s parks department is no longer planting Schubert chokecherry or Mayday trees, which are most prone to the blight. Johnson said the fungus spores are borne by the wind, so the best preventive action is to cut off affected branches about 10 cm below the knot, then put the infested tree clippings into sealed garbage bags bound for the landfill. Although getting rid of the fungus is relatively simple — and only requires sanitizing pruning sheers afterwards with alcohol or bleach — a surprising number of Red Deer
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Becky Vincent and Kayla Perley, City of Red Deer parks labourers working in the Urban Forestry dept. hold up examples of Black Knot, a fungus that infects a number of different trees. These branches were trimmed from Schubert chokecherry trees near the Red Deer Curling Club. landowners are not following through, allowing the disease to spread to neighbouring properties. Johnson believes some people are either unwilling to prune — “One guy I spoke to said he doesn’t care” — or haven’t yet spotted black knot in their trees. The urban forester urges landowners to look now, before in-coming leaves completely obscure the tree fungus that attacks areas of new growth. Black knot, which has been present in Red Deer for more than a decade, is not pretty.
It starts as an irregular olive green swelling on tree branches that then turns black and hard. Johnson recalled a fellow forestry student once described it looking “like cat crap on a branch,” and the apt description has stuck in her mind. “It’s an ugly, nasty aesthetic,” she added. The look is so “horrible,” she imagines the fungus causes trees a slow and painful death by weakening their branches and making them more prone to breakage. She hopes more homeowners
will become informed and help deal with the problem. Meanwhile, drought conditions are causing trouble for local spruce trees. Johnson said more are coming down with spruce spider mites or the common cytospora disease that turns needles red. To help spruce trees recover, she recommends a good watering. “We’ve had no rain now since last August. The best remedy is to water and prune the dead wood, if it doesn’t recover.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate. com
Sheer guts and precision ROCKY MAN ONE OF THE FEW SURVIVING AIRMEN WHO TOOK PART IN THE FAMOUS DAMBUSTERS RAID BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF From his perch in the transparent nose of a Lancaster bomber, Fred Sutherland couldn’t see whether the ingenious bouncing bomb had done its work 70 years ago. “We didn’t know what happened up in the front,” Sutherland recalls of that moonlit mission to Germany overnight on May 16-17. He was then a 20-year-old front air gunner. With the four-engined bomber’s engines screaming as the pilot tried to gain height after dropping bomb, the answer came crackling through the intercom from the rear gunner. “He said, ‘It’s gone. It’s gone.’ “We were talking quite a bit. We were kind of excited. We couldn’t believe it.” Sutherland’s crew, in a display of sheer guts and precision under fire, dropped their spinning bomb just perfectly. It bounced off the water a few times and then settled against the massive walls of the Eder dam, where it blew a giant hole, sending millions of tonnes of water cascading into the valley below. Sutherland, 90, is one of only three surviving members from the famous “Dambusters Raid” on the night of May 16-17, 1943. Codenamed Operation Chastise, the targets were dams in the German industrial heartland. The mission: to blow holes in the massive structures to disrupt power and water supplies. Of the 133 air crew in 19 planes that flew out, 53 airmen were killed and only 11 planes returned. Thirty Canadians participated, including six from Alberta. Fourteen were killed and one became a prisoner.
Four of the survivors died later in the war. The operation was so top secret that Sutherland and the other air crews had no idea what they were training for in the weeks they spent honing their skills at flying only a few dozen metres off the ground and water at night. “We didn’t know what we were going for. You couldn’t even talk about it. “Our crew figured it was the U-boat pens,” he said, referring to massive concrete enclosures the Germans had built at a number of European ports to house their deadly submarine fleet. “We didn’t know it was the dams until the day of the raid.” Raised in Peace River, he was only 18 when he joined the air force in 1941. He was in a holding unit in Saskatchewan when bored with the routine, he answered a call for volunteers to be air gunners in early 1942. He and the 14 others who signed up may have had youthful enthusiasm, but that was about it, he says. “We didn’t know anything about anything.” Within weeks he was sent to England, where he did more training before being posted to his first squadron. Sutherland had plenty of flying experience before the dambusters raid. He had already survived 25 missions when the crew volunteered for this mysterious mission by a specially formed squadron led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson. On the night of the raid, Sutherland’s plane made it safely to the first target, a dam on the Mohne River. Their plane circled as others made their run. After a number of attempts the dam was breached amid a
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Fred Sutherland of Rocky Mountain House was a nose gunner on a bomber that made the Second World War’s famous Dam Buster raid in Germany. massive explosion and Sutherland’s crew was ordered to attack a secondary target, the nearby Eder Dam. It was not an easy target. The dam was in a hollow in the landscape only about 1.6 km long and there was fog hanging
over the target. The first plane in their group made six unsuccessful runs at the target before taking a break to allow others to try.
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Facebook threats back in court next week A Red Deer teenager accused of threatening to open fire at a local high school remains in custody pending his next court appearance. The 16-year-old boy, whose name cannot be published under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was brought into Red Deer youth court on Thursday to deal with a series of charges arising from the alleged incident. Now represented by defence counsel Pat
Penny, the youth was arrested on April 4 by Red Deer City RCMP, who had been alerted by Calgary Police to threats posted on a Facebook page. He is charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, sexual assault, overcoming resistance, possession of an illegal drug, breaching conditions of release and breaching conditions of a sentence or disposition. A psychiatric evaluation was provided
to the court on Thursday but was not addressed. Judge Harry Gaede told the accused, who remains in custody at the Calgary Young Offenders Centre, that ADHD is no excuse. “I also suffer from ADHD, but I made it here. You have a choice,” said Gaede. The youth is to return to court in Red Deer on May 23.
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BRIEFS Gasoline Alley intersection closed Summer construction will force the closure of a Gasoline Alley intersection. Red Deer County is advising residents that the intersection at Leva Avenue and Lantern Street will be closed starting Wednesday. A roundabout is bring built at the intersection over the summer and the construction is tentatively scheduled to be completed by September. Signs and barricades will be in place and a detour will be in effect. Public transit will continue to operate and all businesses will remain open. Both the 12 and 12A transit routes will be affected. The 12 route will bypass the area by turning left onto Lake Street, right at Laura Avenue, right on Lantern Street, left on Liberty Avenue, then left at Waskasoo Avenue and then right back onto Lantern Street. Meanwhile, 12A will continue on a similar path, but instead it will turn left at the intersection of Lantern Street and Waskasoo, right at Laura Avenue and continue on its regular route. There will be temporary bus stops along both routes during the construction. More information will be released as the project progresses. For more information on the project, plans and closures, visit www.rdcounty.ca.
Huntington’s disease discussed Huntington Society of Canada is hosting an information forum on Sunday, May 26, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Black Knight Inn. A panel of professionals will talk about the disease, genetics, the latest studies, share personal stories and discuss the services available at resource centres in Edmonton and Calgary.
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Taking part in the 10th annual Go Girl conference for grade five girls a group of students from Red Deer chase down a loose rugby ball at the Collicutt Centre, Out in front are Bryanne Wandler, left, Amanda Allison, centre and Crishel Subaran, right. All grade five girls from Red Deer Public and Catholic schools were invited to the one day event which celebrated wellness for girls. This year 638 girls registered to attend the event which strives to introduce girls to a variety of group and individual physical activities. The panel will include Dr. Wayne Martin, of Edmonton, clinical research nurse Pam King, of Edmonton, and outreach genetic nurse Janis Bell, of Red Deer. The session will also allow families affected by the disease to meet and build connections. For more information, contact Sally Vincent at the Edmonton centre at 1-780-434-3229 or Karl Lottes at the Calgary centre at 1-403-532-0609.
Lacombe seniors centre gets cash Seniors in Lacombe are set to benefit from some federal cash going towards the Kozy Korner. Announced on Tuesday by Wetaskiwin MP Blaine Calkins, the facility for seniors will receive $10,135 through the New Horizons for Seniors Program. The money will provide for a replacement of flooring and upgrades to the centre’s washrooms. The federal government is providing more than $33 million for approximately 1,750 community projects through the New Horizons program, according to a press release.
Gull Lake resort appeal heard An appeal hearing over a developer’s plans to build a boat launch and do other work along the shore of Gull Lake wrapped up on Wednesday. The two-day hearing concerning Delta Land Co. Inc., through the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board was
held in Edmonton. Co-developer Lance Dzaman was appealing a stay that was put in place to limit construction at a proposed RV resort on Gull Lake. Issued in December, the stay prohibited the developer from doing any work affecting the bed, bank, shore or waters of the lake. That prohibits work on a boat launch, the channel to a proposed 175-slip inland marina and a beach. Dzaman said he believed the hearing went well for their cause. “I came to show that Alberta Environment had done their due diligence and offered the licences as they should have been,” said Dzaman on Thursday. “Those licences were for groundwater and a marina and a beach.” The stay was connected to appeals launched last year by the Gull Lake Water Quality Management Society, and a pair of local property owners. The appeals questioned Alberta Environment approvals for the 1,125-lot RV resort. Craig MacLeod, president of the Gull Lake Water Quality Management Society, declined comment on Thursday. A decision isn’t expected for about 30 days.
The breached Möhne Dam taken by Flying Officer Jerry Fray of No. 542 Squadron from his Spitfire PR IX. Six barrage balloons are above the dam.
Another Lancaster dropped its bomb but it hit the top of dam, severely damaging the plane. The first Lancaster made a seventh attempt and finally succeeded in dropping its bomb. Sutherland’s plane was the last remaining and it flew in and dropped its load right on target. “We had to go in at 60 feet with lights on. It was kind of scary,” he says. Their plane had to swoop in over the bank and airspeed, height and dropping point had to precise. Since altimeters of the day were not precise enough, spotlights in the nose and fuselage were configured so the circles of light converged at the necessary bombing height. It was an ingenious solution, and it worked, but it also gave away the bombers’ positions. Pilot Les Knight, an Australian, the engineer and the navigator did an amazing job, he says. “Everything had to be perfect. It was just like clockwork.” The danger wasn’t over, though. Pilot Les Knight immediately had to pull back hard to clear the web of power lines running from the generator plants at the dams. “There were high-tension wires everywhere.” Sutherland would keep climbing back into bombers after that historic raid. Four months to the day, he and other crew members bailed out over Holland when their plane hit trees and was
damaged during attempts to breach a canal. Sutherland and four others eventually made their way back to England with help from the Underground. Two other crew members were captured. The pilot, the same Knight from the dam attack, died trying to crash land the stricken bomber. After his tours were over, Sutherland became an air gunnery trainer. He was released from the air force in 1944 and married his wife Margaret days after getting
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back to Canada that January. “I had to get my father’s permission to sign the papers because I wasn’t 21 yet.” He moved to Rocky Mountain House in 1964 to become forest superintendent. The couple are still together and have three children and six grandchildren. Last weekend, the Bomber Command Museum, in Nanton, held a special 70th anniversary commemoration and honoured Sutherland, who, unfortunately, could not attend. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
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Harley Richards, Business Editor, 403-314-4337 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com
Hospitality shifts to Olds RED DEER COLLEGE’S HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED AT OLDS COLLEGE Red Deer College’s hospitality and tourism program, which was among the casualties of recent budget cuts at the college, will be offered at Olds College beginning in September. Olds College confirmed on Thursday that it will offer certificates and diplomas in hospitality and tourism, as Red Deer College did in the past. But it said it would use the next year to modify the program to reflect the resources available on campus. “The Pomeroy Inn and Suites at Olds College, Chartwells, meat program, brewery, restaurant, conference services, event planning and franchise exposure are all things our future students will be able to enjoy as part of their learning experience on campus,” said Jason Dewling, vice-president of academics and research at Olds College. “We also enjoy hospitality program relationships with two other post-secondary institutions in the Dominican Republic and
Hawaii, and want to leverage those international destinations and our current assets and partners to make our revamped hospitality and tourism programs a ‘destination program.’” Red Deer College announced last Thursday that it will suspend its hospitality and tourism program, as well as its virtual assistant distance certificate, as of September. The college’s early learning and child care diploma will be suspended by 2014, although students in the certificate program will able to complete their diploma, and the certificate program will continue to be offered. Meanwhile, Red Deer College’s automotive service technician certificate will only be available via the apprenticeship route, the pharmacy technician certificate will be offered on campus but not through distance education, and the health care aide program won’t be offered on campus. The Alberta government’s March 7 Alberta budget reduced Red Deer College’s
operating grant by 7.3 per cent, leaving the college with a $6 million budget shortfall. Olds College said in a release that Red Deer College had agreed earlier this year to accept office administration students after Olds College decided to defer intake into that program. “This is an excellent example of two Campus Alberta partners working together to provide programming within our region that aligns to the strengths of each institution,” said Olds College president Tom Thompson. “By playing to each college’s strengths, we avoid unnecessary duplication of programming and can provide high quality and greater access to the students of Alberta.” Red Deer College has historically had 40 students in the certificate and 20 in the diploma streams of its hospitality and tourism program. Olds College plans to build on these numbers.
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Telus buys Mobilicity Telus announced a plan Thursday to buy struggling wireless carrier Mobilicity for $380 million, a deal observers say that will prompt higher prices for monthly cellphone service if it is allowed. “Maybe you want to talk to your provider and renegotiate your deal now,” said John Lawford of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. Mobilicity was part of a new wave of small wireless companies to challenge Telus (TSX:T), Rogers (TSX:RCI.B) and Bell (TSX:BCE) after the last wireless spectrum auction. The Telus offer is subject to conditions including approval by the federal Competition Bureau, Industry Canada, and Mobilicity’s debtholders. The Vancouver-based telecommunications company said the purchase needs quick regulatory approval because the moneylosing carrier can’t make it financially on its own.
BlackBerry hints at tablet BlackBerry executives delivered a lengthy list of new announcements this week at the smartphone maker’s annual conference, but the buzz has already shifted to what the company may be still hiding up its sleeve, including the possibility of a small tablet device. The rumours piqued the interest of developers and technology industry insiders at BlackBerry Live, a three-day conference in Orlando that wrapped up on Thursday. In some circles, it nearly overshadowed the company’s launch of a new lowerpriced phone and the unlocking of BlackBerry Messenger to nonBlackBerry devices. Whether or not a smaller tablet — or a phablet — is really on deck for the BlackBerry this year is debatable, but rumours travel fast and run rampant at events like this one. — The Canadian Press
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks to business leaders during a meeting in New York, Thursday.
Technology will be key to conquering climate change HARPER ADDRESSES AMERICAN ACADEMICS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — Global warming will only be brought under control by deep international collaboration and intense investment in technology — not yelling on street corners, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says. Harper was in New York all day Thursday, addressing an influential group of American academics at the Council on Foreign Relations and meeting separately with a tight-knit group of business leaders. With several dozen protesters outside the venue and a couple of probing questions from the floor about Canada’s environmental record, Harper defended his regulatory approach to emissions reductions as the most effective, practical way to achieve concrete results. And he urged other countries, rich and poor alike, to step up with concrete plans of their own. “It’s not just a matter of setting targets. We actually have to have ways of reaching them,” a relaxed Harper told a packed room. The world can’t simply rely on economic downturns as a way to diminish greenhouse gases, he added. “We’re not going to simply be able to put caps on economic growth as a way of achieving environmental targets.”
Nor will protesting in the streets bring about any actual change, he added. “It is not a matter of just getting on a street corner and yelling, and that will somehow lead to a solution,” Harper said, a reference to the placard-waving activists protesting the Keystone XL pipeline behind a barricade outside the building. “These are real challenges where environmental needs intersect and often appear to be at cross-purposes with economic and social development. “And unless we realize that and take these things seriously, we’re going to keep talking around the real issue. I think if we admit there are real problems with real difficult solutions and real difficult choices that have to be made — that everybody has to contribute to — then I think we’ll make progress.” Harper was clearly in his element during the hour-long forum, joking with audience members and offering extensive, analytical answers to questions — a sharp contrast to his clipped, abrupt style at news conferences in Canada. The key for every country dealing with climate change is to develop low-carbon technology for the energy sector and beyond, he said. “That is the thing that will allow us to square economic growth with emissions reduction and environmental protection. “And I’m convinced that if we cannot square those two things, we cannot make progress globally.”
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Alberta Milk is reaching out to a new generation. The non-profit organization, which represents the province’s dairy producers, is holding a forum in Red Deer on May 28 and 29. The event is geared to the children of existing dairy farmers and others who are interested in getting into the business. The opportunities and challenges that exist in the industry will be discussed, with speakers from Dairy Farmers of Canada, Holstein Canada, the Alberta government’s Next Generation Advisory Council and the Agricultural Products Marketing Council. “The most valuable resource we have is the future,” said Hennie Bos, chairman of Alberta Milk. “We felt we needed to do what we could to ensure that young dairymen and dairy women have the skills and education they need to be strong leaders and advocates for our industry.” The Next Generation Form will begin at noon on May 28 and concludes by 4:30 on May 29. Additional information can be obtained from the Alberta Milk website or by calling Karlee Conway at 780577-3305.
Stress workshop planned Feeling stressed? Central Alberta Rural Manufacturers Association may be able to help. The Red Deer-based organization will conduct a workshop on Wednesday, May 26, that will discuss stress and how to deal with it. Presenter Vicky Walker of Empor Consulting will talk about the different kinds of stress, how it affects people — both good and bad, and how to manage it. The workshop will run from 8:30 a.m. to noon, and will take place at CARMA’s office at No. 9, 4646 Riverside Drive. Cost is $100 for CARMA members and $200 for non-members, not including GST. To register, email brenda@carmagroup.ca or call 403-347-2276.
More risks lie ahead, bank warns RISKS, COSTS FROM MONETARY STIMULUS AND ITS REMOVAL BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Slashing interest rates and printing wads of money may have saved the global economy from catastrophe, but taking back all the monetary candy opens the world to new risks, the Bank of Canada warns in a research paper. The paper, written by economists Eric Santor and Lena Suchanek as part of the institution’s quarterly Bank of Canada Review, says efforts to stimulate the economy through the 2008-09 recession appear to have worked but risk remains. “Exiting too soon could undermine the recovery, while too slow an exit could lead to excess liquidity and contribute to inflationary pressures,” they write. The economists also make clear the successes so far have not come without costs — mostly punishing savers by pushing down interest rates and yields on safe invest-
ments, such as government bonds. The paper appears more directed at central bank policies in hard-hit economies such as Europe, Japan and the U.S., which radically increased the money supply through a policy known as quantitative easing. The Bank of Canada never took that step, but did slash interest rates to close to zero in 2009 and still retains a super-low overnight rate of one per cent. In a report issued Wednesday by the C.D. Howe Institute, former Bank of Canada special adviser Paul Masson argued that it was time for Canada’s central bank to start hiking interest rates. He cited some of the same risks to keeping rates low for long periods as the new Bank of Canada paper — creation of asset bubbles, as households take advantage of easy money conditions to purchase homes. As well, market distortions and risks as low yields hammer pension funds and insur-
ance companies, which might be driven to riskier ventures to meet their longer-term liabilities. The Bank of Canada economists, however, do not offer an opinion on when to begin pulling back the stimulus, but agree that almost five years of super-low interest rates have come at a cost. Removing stimulus poses new risks, the economists add, including that central banks themselves could suffer losses from the risky assets they acquired. A bigger problem may arise if all the money central banks have poured into the system comes back to haunt them by spiking inflationary pressures. Still the authors say the central bank experiment with monetary easing was worth the potential price. “On balance, research to date suggests these measures were, and remain, effective. Without them, economic outcomes would have been much worse,” they say.
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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.
Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 91.83 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 96.85 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.75 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.66 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.89 Cdn. National Railway . 103.60 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 138.75 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 79.29 Capital Power Corp . . . . 21.67 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.85 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 35.10 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 47.72 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.59 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.65 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.39 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.78 Research in Motion. . . . . 15.02 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.41 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.80 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 43.85 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.34 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 49.32 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 13.62 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 84.33 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.20 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.62 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.11 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 12.52 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange closed higher Thursday despite a pullback on Wall Street amid a round of disappointing reports that suggested the U.S. economy is not recovering as much as some would like to believe. The S&P/TSX composite index rose 33.95 points to 12,507.60, while the Canadian dollar fell 0.19 of a cent to 98.12 cents US. It was a different story on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones index retreated 42.47 points to 15,233.22 and the S&P 500 fell 8.31 points to 1,650.47. The Nasdaq dipped 6.38 points to 3,465.24. The declines came after a reported speech by John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, who said the U.S. central bank will consider stopping its monthly US$85- billion bond purchases if the economy continues to improve. The indexes were also driven down by a flurry of weaker-than-expected figures. The U.S. Labor Department reported the number of Americans seeking unemployment aid rose by 32,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 360,000, the most since late March. The jump comes after applications fell to a five-year low. The U.S. economy has added an average of 208,000 jobs a month since November but most of the job gains have come from fewer layoffs — not increased hiring. Meanwhile, U.S. officials also reported that inflation fell last month as a result of a 8.1 per cent drop in gasoline prices. The consumer price index was down 0.4 per cent in April from March. For the 12 months that ended in April, overall prices rose 1.1 per cent — the smallest year-overyear increase in 2 1/2 years. The rate is still below the U.S. Federal Reserve’s two per cent inflation target, which it says it needs to meet before ending quantative easing. Meanwhile, the Commerce Department said U.S. builders started housing construction at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 853,000 in April, a 16.5 per cent drop from the March pace of 1.02 million. But applications for building permits rose 14.3 per cent to a rate of 1.02 million, the highest in five years.
Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.23 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.36 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 57.30 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.50 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 22.97 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.61 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.56 First Quantum Minerals . 18.85 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.40 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.96 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.53 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 44.67 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.61 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 27.77 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 26.87 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 43.92 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.25 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.04 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 50.01 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 29.72 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.15 Canyon Services Group. 11.26 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.38 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.750 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 18.78 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.38 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 90.70 In corporate news, the world’s largest retailer reported its first-quarter profit rose 1.1 per cent as it struggled with a sales slump. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. blamed a payroll tax increase, delayed tax refunds and bad weather for the profit and sales results that missed Wall Street expectations. It also offered a profit outlook that came in below analysts’ projections. Its shares were down nearly two per cent, or $1.36, at US$78.50. Gorman said Wal-Mart’s dismal earnings may be showing the effects of increased Social Security taxes that kicked in earlier this year, resulting in consumers having less money for discretionary spending. In Toronto, the industrials sector was the leading advancer, up by 1.21 per cent as shares by flight simulator and training company CAE Inc. (TSX:CAE) closed above its 52-week high by gaining more than six per cent, or 66 cents, to $11.26. The Montreal-based company reported it earned $43.8 million or 17 cents per share for the period ended March 31, down from $53.2 million, or 21 cents per share a year ago. However, excluding $10.1 million of restructuring, integration and acquisition costs, it earned $53.9 million or 21 cents per share. Revenue in what was the company’s fourth quarter grew to $587.9 million from $506.7 million last year. Telus (TSX:T) announced that it was prepared to buy small wireless carrier Mobilicity as part of a $380-million deal. The purchase is subject to various conditions, including approval by the Competition Bureau and Industry Canada and by Mobilicity’s debtholders. Telus shares climbing more than one per cent, or 39 cents, to $37.34 Commodity prices also showed some small gains. The June crude contract jumped 86 cents to US$95.16 a barrel, while July copper was up three cents at US$3.29 a pound. But June gold bullion dropped $9.30 to US$1,386.90 an ounce. MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Thursday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,507.60 up 33.95 points TSX Venture Exchange — 932.86 down 4.01 points
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HARPER: Wants emitters to sign on Environmentalists immediately responded, saying the prime minister was being disingenuous because his government has cancelled supports for green energy development, and has supported giving oil companies free rein. “If Stephen Harper wants to drive clean energy technological development, he should put (a) stop (to) letting oil companies use the atmosphere as a free dumping ground, by putting a price on pollution to level the playing field,” said Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada. At a diplomatic level, Harper said all major emitters need to sign on to an international protocol that commits them to emissions reductions. As the standard of living in China and India improves, even marginally, Harper said domestic populations will demand improvements to the environment they live in, pushing their governments to act. Indeed, major emitters are trying to reach such an agreement by 2015 that would commit them to significant action by 2020. But Harper did not come across as optimistic on that front. “We’ll just keep failing unless we actually get together and realize these are issues that don’t have simple quick answers.” Harper also addressed global growth, the challenges to the North American standard of living, security in the Middle East, and the role of the G20 in global governance. He defended public medicare, warned the Obama administration against any rash action in Syria, and highlighted the need to improve pro-
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Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 43.85 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.17 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 30.17 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 39.69 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.17 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.41 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.810 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.40 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 32.09 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.60 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.00 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.13 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.86 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 61.51 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 58.37 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.46 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.32 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.06 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 28.48 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 47.44 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 59.57 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.93 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 74.04 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.02 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 61.03 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 29.68 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.40
TSX 60 — 716.41 up 1.47 points Dow — 15,233.22 down 42.47 points S&P 500 — 1,650.47 down 8.31 points Nasdaq — 3,465.24 down 6.38 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 98.12 cents US, down 0.19 of a cent Pound — C$1.5568, up 0.86 of a cent Euro — C$1.3136, up 0.39 of a cent Euro — US$1.2889, up 0.13 of a cent Oil futures: US$95.16 per barrel, up 86 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,386.90 per ounce, down $9.30 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.945 per oz., down 17.5 cents $769.83 kg., down $5.63 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 932.86, down 4.01 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 134.88 million shares. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: July ’13 $1.90 lower $626.10; Nov. ’13 $1.00 higher $545.20; Jan. ’14 $0.20 lower $546.30; March ’14 $0.20 lower $543.10; May ’14 $0.20 lower $537.70; July ’14 $0.20 lower $535.80; Nov. ’14 $0.20 lower $511.40; Jan ’15 $0.20 lower $511.40; March ’15 $0.20 lower $511.40; May ’15 $0.20 lower $511.40; July ’15 $0.20 lower $511.40. Barley (Western): 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: 266,900 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 266,900.
ductivity in both Canada and the U.S. as the centre of economic growth migrates away from the West. The audience was largely appreciative. “I think he’s got a very coherent and logical presentation on the issues,” said Atlanta-based lawyer Gordon Giffin, who was the U.S. ambassador to Canada under Bill Clinton. Giffin said Harper’s explanation of what Canada and the provinces are doing to use technology to reduce emissions intensity was particularly poignant. “I don’t think people here have a good sense of that, and I think Canada gets unfairly criticized in some circles as if Canada doesn’t have environmental policies in place that actually in many cases exceed that of the United States.” Harper’s trip to New York was part of a blitz by the federal government to bolster Canada’s environmental reputation around the world as Ottawa seeks better market access for its oil and gas. The Obama administration is expected to make a decision in coming months on whether to allow the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Alberta bitumen to the Gulf Coast, allowing the Canadian oilpatch to demand better, global prices for its products. The pipeline has been controversial in the U.S., having become a lightning rod for the debate of jobs against the environment. Without being asked, Harper launched a strenous defence of the project, arguing that if the oil doesn’t flow by pipeline — a relatively safe option — then it will simply flow by rail, a much dodgier environmental prospect. Scientists, environmental economists and activists around the world have denounced the project in droves, saying the oil would be better left in the ground to avoid provoking a large increase in emissions.
Pension board reports 10.1 per cent return ASSETS GROW TO $183 BILLION BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board says it’s working to strengthen its foothold in emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil as it strives to keep up with shifts in the global economy. “If you look at market cap and GDP, the trend is clear that the balance of economic activity is moving, at least on a proportional basis, to the developing world,” said Don Raymond, the board’s chief investment strategist. “We will broadly mirror that in both our active and passive portfolio activities.” The fund, which invests the money not needed by the Canadian Pension Plan to pay benefits, earned a 10.1 per cent return in its latest fiscal year compared with 6.6 per cent the previous year, while its assets grew by $21.7 billion from a year ago to $183.3 billion. Of that growth, $16.2 billion came from investment income after operating costs, while another $5.5 billion came from contributions. However, the fund fell $286 million short of its benchmark reference portfolio after factoring in operating expenses. CPPIB president and chief executive Mark Wiseman said the fund’s long-term investment strategy means yearly comparisons with the benchmark are not an accurate gauge of success. He called the fund “extremely efficient,” noting that its operating expenses make up 28.9 cents for every $100 of invested assets. “In some years, we’re going to ex-
ceed benchmark and in some years we’ll be below benchmark, because our portfolio is different than that theoretical set of indices,” Wiseman said. “What we believe very strongly is that in the long term, over successive years, the investment portfolio will substantially outperform the benchmark.” Wiseman said CPPIB will be growing its Hong Kong and London offices as it works to build networks in challenging foreign markets, where it can be tough to identify good investment opportunities. “We’re not ’hot money,’ which means that we can take our time and build our experiences in a market and have a stick-with-it-ness that other investors don’t have,” he said. “What we’re doing is really gaining experience and building our capabilities on the ground so that we can develop the right type of partners, the right type of relationships in those markets.” Currently, CPPIB has less than seven per cent of its assets in emerging economies, even as 63 per cent of its assets are invested internationally. Earlier this month, the board teamed up with GE Capital Real Estate to invest a total of US$403 million in office buildings in Tokyo. The Canadian fund will hold 49 per cent, while GE Capital Real Estate will own 51 per cent in the joint venture. CPPIB completed 36 deals over $200 million each in the fiscal year ended March 31, including a financing deal with Formula One Group, the company behind F1 auto racing, and a joint venture to expand its real estate holdings in Brazil.
Rising cost of food causing Canadians to shop more carefully parts of their life, such as using their vehicles less, in order to deal with rising food prices. TORONTO — A recent survey of Ca“In light of concerns over escalating nadian adult consumers found a large food prices, more Canadians are lookmajority of them believe the price of ing for cost-saving strategies they can the food they buy has gone up in the use on their next trip to the grocery past year and more than half said they store,” said Jason are doing more Round, head of the comparison shop‘IN LIGHT OF CONCERNS bank’s financial ping than before. unit. OVER ESCALATING FOOD planning The Ipsos Reid According to study done for the PRICES, MORE CANADIANS the survey, 84 per Royal Bank sugof responARE LOOKING FOR COST- cent gests the average dents across the monthly food bill SAVING STRATEGIES THEY country said their for the 3,024 peoCAN USE ON THEIR NEXT food prices have ple it surveyed last increased over the TRIP TO THE GROCERY month was $411 past year. per household. Ontario — STORE.’ The online surwhere competition vey asked: “On av— JASON ROUND OF RBC between grocery erage, how much retailers has been would you say you intense for several spend on groceryears — was the ies/food (not inonly province becluding eating out or going to restau- low the national average, with 80 per rants) per month?” cent of respondents saying they felt Ontario had the lowest provincial food prices had gone up. average at $379 per month and Quebec The other regional averages were: had the highest at $448 per month. British Columbia 86 per cent; Alberta, In British Columbia, the average 88 per cent, Saskatchewan/Manitoba was $415; Alberta, $440; Saskatchewan- 89 per cent, Quebec 86 per cent and Manitoba, $401 and Atlantic Canada, Atlantic Canada 88 per cent. $420. The survey, conducted April 2 to The online survey also found about 15, found 57 per cent of respondents one-third of the respondents said food across the country said they comparihas a significant impact on their daily son shop more than before and 41 per budget. cent said they were more budget conAbout 15 per cent of the respon- scious or less likely to make impulsive dents said they were looking at other purchases. BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Road Closure Announcement The Market at Red Deer Saturdays, May 18th-October 12th The following road will be closed each Saturday morning to accommodate the Market at Red Deer. Road closures will be in effect from 6:00am-1:00pm. 43 Street between 48 Avenue and 44 Street Barricades will be set up to close the road; roadway will be pedestrian only. For further information please contact Public Works at 403-342-8238. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Harvesting energy from the ocean Ocean thermal energy conversion, OTEC, is the all the salt and minerals it contains are left behind. process of using the heat differential between tropi- Once the steam has been used to power the turbine, cal surface waters of the ocean and the it is then condensed back to effectively LORNE cool waters found at depth. desalinated fresh water. The use of seawater’s temperature difOJA Cooling is also an advantage of an ference was first proposed by Jacques OTEC plant, both for the air conditioning Arsene d’Arsonval in 1881. It was not until of buildings and the cooling of agricul1930, however, when one of his students, tural land, which allows for sub-tropical Georges Claude actually managed to get a crops to be grown in tropical latitudes. plant operational at Matanzas, Cuba. The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority The process works by flash generating steam to (NELHA) has researched the process and found 100 drive a low pressure turbine and generate electric- crops that do very well when grown with soil cooling ity. There are three basic types of systems for ac- technology. complishing this feat. The first is by converting the Aquaculture also can benefit from ocean thermal warm salt water into low pressure steam in a vacuum energy conversion. Salmon, abalone clams, oysters, chamber, a process referred to as an open system. A steelhead, lobster — all can be efficaciously grown, closed loop system uses a heat exchanger to transfer in pools supplied with the nutrient rich cold water water temperature to a working fluid such as am- pumped from a kilometre down. monia, which then flashes into vapour used to drive Hydrogen production is also viable using OTEC the turbine. The third hybrid method flashes the sea technologies. Using electrolysis to convert the fresh water into steam and then the steam is used to flash water into hydrogen can provide hydrocarbon-poor the ammonia into vapour. countries with fuel for running industry and transProducing electricity is not the only creation of portation. an ocean thermal energy conversion system. As sea Mineral extraction from sea water has been inwater is flashed into steam in the evaporator tank, vestigated by the Japanese. There are about 57 trace
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Looking to add mulch to your established trees and flower beds? • The City’s Waste Management Facility has evergreen mulch for sale at $7 per 160 kg (equivalent to a cubic yard). • Residents can buy mulch from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday. • Mulch is available either by the bag or by the front-end loader bucket. A minimum $7 charge will apply. • Residents will need to fill their own bags, supplied at the scale house. A bag weighs approximately 13 kg. • Mulch improves moisture retention, provides nutrients, and prevents erosion. • Compost is also for sale at the facility for $3 per bag or $15 per cubic yard.
City of Red Deer administration offices will be closed on: Monday, May 20
For more information, go to www.reddeer.ca/ envservices or call The City of Red Deer Blue Line at 403-340-BLUE (2583).
Road Closure Notice Woody’s R.V. World Marathon – Sunday May 19th, 2013 The following roads will be closed this long weekend to accommodate the staging of the Woody’s R.V. World Marathon 42ndA Avenue from 55th Street to 58th Street Saturday May 18th at 10:00am to Sunday May 19th at 4:00pm. 55th Street Hill from 52nd Street (& 40th Avenue) to 45th Avenue Sunday May 19th from 7:45am to 8:30am 45th Avenue from 55th Street to McKenzie Trails Sunday May 19th from 8:00am to approximately 8:45am In addition, the right hand west bound lane of the 55th Street hill will be closed from 8:00am until approximately 2:30pm on Sunday May 19th to accommodate runners approaching the finish line. Traffic will be 30km/hr during this time. Expect delays along Riverside Drive by the North end on/off ramp from 8:30am to 8:45am. This is to allow runners to cross Riverside Drive. Motorists are advised to use caution and expect delays. For further information please contact Public Works at 403-342-8238. Your cooperation is appreciated.
Development Officer Approvals On May 14, 2013, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Discretionary Use Deer Park 1. Davenport Church of Christ – a community garden, to be located at 68 Donlevy Avenue. Edgar Industrial Park 2. Schlumberger Canada Ltd. – a 139.36m2 temporary tent structure, until May 14, 2016, to be located at 1, 7659 Edgar Industrial Drive. Garden Heights 3. Asset Builders Corp. - a new 2 bedroom secondary suite, to be located within a single family dwelling at 127 Garrison Circle. Highland Green 4. Vietnamese Garden Restaurant – a 30 seat restaurant, to be located at 9, 88 Howarth Street. Railyards (Downtown) 5. Fetch Haus Inc. – a dog grooming business, to be located at 5, 4946-53 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 31, 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.
minerals in sea water and the viability of mining them is increasing with research. OTEC can provide a continuous source of recovered minerals as it operates. Countries like Japan, India, the U.S. and China are all working on OTEC projects. Tokyo Electric Power Company’s first OTEC plant became operational in 1981. India has been working on developing and commissioning a 1MW closed loop plant since 1984. Hawaii has been working on developing various prototype ocean thermal energy conversion plants since 1974. In April of this year, China, through a company based in Hong Kong, the Reignwood Group, in co-operation with Lockheed Martin, announced the development of the world’s largest OTEC pilot power plant to date at 10 megawatts. Ocean thermal energy conversion is a long explored method of harvesting the sun’s energy that bodes well for the future. Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.
RED DEER TRANSIT On Monday May 20thTransit Service will operate on the Sunday / Holiday schedule. First bus from the City Centre Terminal is 8:45 AM. Last bus from the City Centre Terminal is 6:45 PM. Transit Administration Offices and Customer Service are closed. There is NO SERVICE on Route 12 / 12A Gasoline Alley / Springbrook.
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LOT SALE FOR THE PURPOSES OF: SOCIAL CARE FACILITY
Transit schedule information can be found on-line at www.reddeer.ca/transit Red Deer Transit Action Bus: Limited Action Bus service will be provided. No County Action Bus service. Action Bus phone lines are closed.
RECREATION FACILITIES
Collicutt Centre Monday, May 20 – OPEN 11:00 am to 5:00 pm GH Dawe Community Centre Monday, May 20 – OPEN 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Michener Aquatic Centre Saturday, May 18 – CLOSED Sunday, May 19 – CLOSED Monday, May 20 – CLOSED Recreation Centre Saturday, May 18 – CLOSED Sunday, May 19 – CLOSED Monday, May 20 – CLOSED Riverbend Golf and Recreation Area Monday, May 20 – OPEN Dawn to Dusk
Social Care Site
In accordance with The City of Red Deer Neighbourhood Planning and Design Guidelines & Standards (2008) and the approved Lancaster Vanier Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan, the property within legal land description NE1/4 Sec 2 TWP 38 Rge 27 W4M, and located within the new Lancaster East neighbourhood, is available for sale as a site for the possible development of a Social Care Facility. Details as to eligibility, conditions of sale, prices, etc. may be obtained from:
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Melcor Developments Ltd. 403-343-0817
Sealed Tenders clearly marked Riverside Drive Sanitary Trunk Remediation, closing Thursday, May 30, 2013, delivered or mailed to the Purchasing Section – Main Floor at:
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 Lancaster Vanier Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan.
The City of Red Deer 4914 - 48 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3T3 and received before 2:00:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, May 30, 2013 will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted. The Work is comprised of approximately: • Remediation of Approximately 1,980m of 1,050mm ID concrete sanitary sewer main supplied by Inland Pipe; • Remediation of 14 manholes, all of size 1,800mm dia. Supplied by Proform Concrete c/w A-Lok gasket pipe to manhole connections; • Exfiltration testing c/w supply of labour, materials (plugs, etc.) and water; • CCTV Camera inspection of entire sanitary trunk; • Site restoration including grading, landscaping and seeding of all disturbed areas. Tender Documents are to be obtained directly from The City of Red Deer Engineering Services Department, Third Floor, City Hall, on or after 1:00 pm, Thursday, May 16, 2013 for a $50 non-refundable fee. The City of Red Deer Contract Specifications 2012 Edition may be obtained from the Engineering Services Department for a $40 nonrefundable fee, or may be viewed on The City of Red Deer Website @ www.reddeer.ca. Subcontractors may view the Tender Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices. An optional pre-tender meeting will be convened at 2:00 pm local time, on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The meeting will be held in City of Red Deer Civic Yards Building 300, 7721 – 40 Avenue, Parks Meeting Room PK-135. Inquiries regarding this Project may be directed to: Joel Sawatzky, P.Eng. Ayaz Ahmad, M.Eng., P.Eng. Stantec Consulting Ltd. The City of Red Deer 1100, 4900 – 50 Street Engineering Services Red Deer, AB T4N 1X7 Department 4914 – 48 Avenue 403.341.3320 Red Deer, AB T4N 3T3 403.342.8158
LOT SALES FOR THE PURPOSE OF: SOCIAL CARE FACILITY PLACE OF WORSHIP FACILITY (Clearview North Neighbourhood)
In accordance withThe City of Red Deer Neighbourhood Planning and Design Guidelines & Standards (2008) the properties within legal land description NW1/4 Sec 22, TWP 38, Rge 27, W4M, and located within the new Clearview North (Ridge) neighbourhood, have been identified by Genstar Titleco Limited for sale as sites for the possible development of a Place of Worship (church) and a Social Care Facility. Details as to eligibility, conditions of sale, prices, etc. may be obtained from: Ray Watkins, G3 Development Services Inc. 780-907-9663, or Paul Boskovich, Genstar Development Company 403-256-4000 If these sites are not purchased for the purposes listed above by June 28, 2013 (place of worship site) and December 31, 2013 (social care site), they will be alternatively developed for residential uses in accordance with the approved Clearview North Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan.
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Into the heart of Darkness
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Chris Pine, left, as Kirk, Zoe Saldana as Uhura and Zachary Quinto as Spock in a scene from the movie Star Trek Into Darkness. Below, Benedict Cumberbatch as the new galaxy-threatening super villain John Harrison.
J.J. ABRAMS SENDS STAR TREK IN AS MANY DIRECTIONS AS HE CAN — BUT GREAT CHARACTERS PULL IT ALL TOGETHER Star Trek Into Darkness Three stars (out of four) Rated: PG
the original 1960s TV series, some serious and others played for laughs. Capt. James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and his loyal crew of the Enterprise pingNo one could say that pong all over the galaxy, Star Trek into Darkness finding adventure wherever doesn’t give you bang for they roam: on a primitive your buck. jungle world, on a Klingon It crams almost a TV seabase, near the moons of Juson’s worth of events into piter and even in 23rd-cena single frantic movie, an tury San Francisco and Lonobservation I make more as don back on good ol’ Earth. admiration than complaint. There’s at least one moYou barely get a chance to ment in the spotlight for catch a breath as this saga each of the familiar and takes off like a starship and returning crew members: just keeps going, from its InKirk, Spock (Zachary Quindiana Jones-style opening to), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Dr. PETER to its cosmos-rattling finale. “Bones” McCoy (Karl UrHOWELL And all in 3D, no less. ban), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), After the relatively simSulu (John Cho) and Chekov ple origin story of his first (Anton Yelchin), along with Star Trek prequel of 2009, new hire Carol Marcus, a director/producer J. J. Abrams seems weapons specialist played by Alice eager to shoot off in as many directions Eve. and cliffhanger subplots as he can — And don’t forget Bruce Greenwood’s and that includes an actual leap off Capt. Pike, back to offer more fatherly a cliff. There are frequent hat-tips to scolding to his rule-breaking protégé familiar characters and incidents from Kirk. They both have to pay heed to
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another new character, Peter Weller’s take-no-prisoners Starfleet Admiral Marcus. You’d have to do a Vulcan mind meld with director/producer J.J. Abrams to completely follow his reasoning for this all-in approach. It could be as simple as the addition of Damon Lindelof to the writing duo of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, Lindelof having shown from Prometheus and TV’s Lost that he’d sooner tell a dozen stories than just one. (For Into Darkness, he works in a very clever tip to Prometheus that sharp-eyed viewers will enjoy.) Even more puzzling is Abrams’ continued and expanded use of blue lens flare, a stylistic tic that was curious in the first film and is now downright annoying. He and his team have earned these indulgences, though, since the first prequel did such a solid job of introducing the new/old characters and establishing them as the younger versions of well-loved Star Trek figures. The new film develops the growing bond and frequent sparks between
Kirk and Spock, finding both drama and humour in the former’s impulsiveness and situational ethics against the latter’s steadfast adherence to all things logical and truthful. There’s a noticeable maturity, too, in how Pine and Quinto approach their roles. But the masterstroke of Into Darkness is the casting of Benedict Cumberbatch, the BBC’s new Sherlock Holmes, as the new galaxy-threatening super villain.
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Brandt’s own brand of country music FAITH WOVEN INTO HIS NEW ALBUM; PERFORMS SOLDOUT SHOW IN RED DEER ON WEDNESDAY BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Sure, there’s a division between church and state, and prayers are no longer said in schools — but Paul Brandt wants to know who took the gospel out of country? There was a time when virtually all country artists — Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams — would regularly put out inspirational albums of religious music. Now a division seems to be appearing between the two genres. More and more artists tend to be considered either country or Christian. But Brandt doesn’t want to have to pick sides. He has decided to put the Christian back into country with his latest bluegrassflavoured album, Just As I Am. “I don’t believe in a separation between musical genres. I don’t understand why that should be,” said Brandt, who performs a soldout show on Wednesday at CrossRoads Church in Red Deer County. He has noticed that the ideas of tolerance and political correctness don’t always intersect. In fact, some supposedly broad-minded folks only want what’s not objectionable to anybody — hence Christmas concerts being converted into religious-free winter celebrations. But Brandt revealed, “I can’t make music in a vacuum.” Since his faith is interwoven in all of his decisions, Brandt figured it was high time he tried recording faith-based music. “I figured it would be OK, as long as you don’t take a message and try to cram it down anyone’s throat, but deliver it with respect and gentleness attached to it.” The Calgary native, who was initially raised in a “old school” Brethren church that banned musical instruments and dancing, reached back into his childhood for many of the songs on Just As I Am — which includes duets with Patty Loveless, Ricky Skaggs, Dan Tyminski, The Whites, High Valley and others. The most personal tune on the album is probably the least known. Brandt said his grandparents, who emigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe, used to sing Free As a Bird to him when he was a boy. The meaningful gospel song “is an interesting piece of
music that sounds like it’s from Eastern Europe. It even seems like it would rhyme in Russian. It has that kind of feel to it,” he added. Tyminski, who provided the singing voice for George Clooney’s character in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? (remember the Soggy Bottom Boys?) croons with him on the tune. “It has a real bluegrassy feel, so he was the perfect choice.” Brandt really wanted Loveless as a duet partner on Amazing Grace. He left a message through her management company asking if she wanted to be part of his gospel project and was surprised and excited when he saw a Georgia area code pop up on his phone. “When she agreed to be on the one song, I just about fell off my chair!” Their recording of Amazing Grace has a retroAppalachian sound, complete with harmonies and a call-and-answer chorus. Brandt hopes he gave this cherished old chestnut a fresh presentation. I’ll Fly Away was recorded with John Anderson, “who has a great voice,” said Brandt, while Skaggs contributed his pipes to Life’s Railway to Heaven. Brandt admitted to conferring a lot with family and friends on which songs should be included on the album, “because I didn’t want to screw this up ... this, more than any other project, has been a labour of love.” So far, he’s been pleased with the feedback — particularly with one Internet comment his CD received from a country music fan. “He said, ‘I don’t care what you believe, if you love country music, you should get this album.’ ” Since Brandt has always thought that the music should stand up, regardless of the message, “I thought that was a great pat on the back.” The former pediatric nurse-turned-musician credits his parent’s firm stance against television, and the wonderful language he discovered in the Bible, for spurring his early interest in writing. “There’s no way I would be writing poetry at eight years old if it wasn’t for King James Bible English.” Once his family switched to a slightly more liberal church in his early teens, Brandt seized the opportunity to learn to play the guitar. At age 21, he was signed to Warner Records. By 1996, he became the first Canadian male artist to
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Paul Brandt doesn’t believe in separating gospel from his country music. He performs on Wednesday at the CrossRoads Church just west of Red Deer. reach the Billboard Top 10 in the U.S. since Hank Snow in 1974 with his meteoric single, My Heart Has a History. Brandt later started his own Brand-T Records in order to gain more creative freedom. The awardwining singer has carried on recording such popular songs such as Leavin’, Alberta Bound, Didn’t Even See the Dust and his remake of the C.W. McCall classic, Convoy. Now that he’s a married father of two young children, age two and a half and five, Brandt admitted that it’s harder getting things done at home. “You have to become more focused on what you do. I’ve learned to take advantage of short bursts of creativity.” Half the proceeds from the 7 p.m. concert, with opening act Gordon Mote, will go towards local church projects and the other half will go towards Brandt’s foundation, which is rebuilding a church and creating a soccer field and playground in Haiti. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
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McConaughey knee-deep in a real Southern role BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — With his perennially tan skin and all-the-way-reclined Texas drawl, Matthew McConaughey embodies the American South like few other modern marquee stars. Too bad movies so often get the South so sideways. “A lot of times, depictions of the South are too stereotypical,” McConaughey said during a phone interview this week. “And you go there, and the people that (the movie) was about are like: ‘That was (BS).’ And a lot of times it is.” His acclaimed new coming-of-age drama, Mud, is different, says McConaughey. The sweet-natured tale — from Take Shelter writer-director Jeff Nichols — centres on Ellis (portrayed with remarkable sensitivity by 16-year-old Tye Sheridan), a clever teen from rural Arkansas living in a houseboat along the Mississippi River with loving parents who seem on the verge of divorce. So Ellis and his adoring pal Neckbone (Jacob Lofland) venture up and down the river, exploring the mostly untouched wilderness sprouting all around them. That’s where they first come across McConaughey’s titular drifter, a magnetic if mysterious fugitive with a heart of gold and a pistol tucked in his jeans. He needs the kids’ help, and an unlikely friendship blossoms. Michael Shannon, seemingly enjoying himself, plays Neckbone’s goofy yet well-meaning uncle. The kids in the film are not affluent, their homes and clothes tattered. But Mud doesn’t depict its deep-South denizens as the backward hicks often represented in media, and draws out plenty of positives in its portrayal of life in a part of North America that isn’t stacked with concrete and skyscrapers.
“It’s authentically set in the South,” McConaughey said. “You capture small towns, rural South, how time trickles by, where the kids hang out, how the kids talk, how they have a party, where they light a fire on Friday night, how you go from door to door delivering your fish, Piggly Wiggly, family, all those things are very accurate and (capture) how that place in the South is. “But its themes are not bound to the South. They’re just straight human.” Indeed, early in the film we learn that Mud is on the run after committing murder. The man he shot had roughed up Juniper (a glammed-down Reese Witherspoon), Mud’s perpetually troubled childhood sweetheart and the object of his never-wavering infatuation. An orphan, he’s returned to the town where he grew up to find her, but he’s relegated to living in the woods and communicating through the teen boys because a gang of toughs are tracking him for retribution. The story, then, is about love, and as head-in-the-clouds Mud determinedly marches in seeming futility to reclaim his lost sweetheart, the younger boys come to understand the value of a dream, reality be damned. “Mud’s really got the youngest heart in the whole doggone story,” McConaughey says. “Even though he’s a 40-year-old man.” The first time we see Mud he’s traipsing around a beach, with McConaughey’s sandy curls dishevelled, his tooth chipped and a cigarette dangling precariously from his mouth while he chats up the boys. (He had previously witnessed and marvelled as some “wonderful” older men managed to simultaneously talk and smoke without ever taking the cigarette from their lips, and pulling the trick off himself was aided by the ridge created by the cracked tooth). It was one dimension of a physical role. In another memorable sequence, Ellis sneaks some canned beans out of his house that a grateful and ravenous Mud proceeds to consume with his fingers, in a matter of seconds.
EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES Reflections from a Century will be open until Aug. 5 at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibit celebrates Red Deer’s Centennial, and features over 50 works chosen from significant artists of Central Alberta. Dave More is curator. See www.reddeermuseum.com, or phone 403-309-8405. Hang-ups and Insights: Fifth Annual IB and AP Art Show with Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School and Hunting Hills High School will be open at Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from May 28 to June 22. Gallery on Main in Lacombe May Spring Gala Anniversary Art Show and Sale is happening May 24 to 26. On Friday, take in the wine and cheese reception from 5 to 8 p.m. On Saturday there will be art demonstrations by Dee
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Matthew McConaughey as Mud, the title character in a new coming-of-age movie set in the U.S. South. “Actually, they were pretty good,” said McConaughey. “I haven’t had Beanie Weenies since I was probably 12 years old and I had ’em that night. After the third can, I was done. But we got it in about three takes.” For McConaughey, this was the latest impressive performance in a charmed string of roles in well-received films that also included The Lincoln Lawyer, Bernie and Magic Mike. Nichols wrote the role with the 43-year-old in mind, and McConaughey says the director told him he made that choice because of the actor’s “inherent likability.” Indeed, Mud is meant to simultaneously charm and menace. On the one hand, he’s a naif who constantly spins implausible yarns and spouts out-there philosophy, and on the other, well, he’s an admitted killer whose black pistol always seems present in the frame. McConaughey focused in on Mud’s storytelling. The actor, who lives with his wife and three kids in Austin, Tex., would try to turn minutiae from his day-today life — something his kids would do, something that caught his eye on the way to work — into absorbing tales. Even if it required a bit of Mud-style dishonesty. “I would practise telling stories better than they even happened,” he said with a laugh, before channelling the
Poisson doing colored pencil, Vivian Bennett doing people portraits acrylic on canvas from 1 to 4 p.m. On Sunday there will be demonstrations by Theresa Potter doing stained glass and Karoll Brinton doing acrylic on canvas, as well as easy listening music by Doug and John from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Middle Schools Awesome Art Show will be featured in the Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from April 30 to May 26 and features artwork from Central, Gateway Christian, West Park and Glendale Middle Schools. Works by Sandy Proscilo will be featured at Café Pichinlingue until May 31. Down the Rabbit Hole with Mary: A selection of the strange, the diverse and the traditional will be featured until May 31 at The Hub. Watercolour paintings circa 1937 by Frank L. Beebe will be on display at Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre this month. These paintings are from the teaching collection of E.A. and Marjorie Wood, on loan from Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Phone 403-346-2010. Works by Danny Lake may be viewed at The Velvet Olive Lounge until May 31.
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He’s disaffected and dangerous former Starfleet ace John Harrison, a terrorist whose true agenda is slowly revealed but whose callous disregard for human life is chilling. Cumberbatch plays Harrison as if he’s the evil twin of Holmes. He coolly assesses every situation with an eye to maximizing his advantage and he uses deception whenever necessary. He’s the dark heart of Into Darkness, and that symbolic connection with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is duly noted. His presence is felt amongst the ping-ponging cast members even when he’s not onscreen, like Conrad’s Mr. Kurtz (or Francis Ford Coppola’s Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now). Harrison is considered such a threat to the universe, Kirk is given the controversial mandate from Admiral Marcus to have him removed with the proverbial extreme prejudice, via torpedoes that a boldly going starship shouldn’t be packing. This weaponizing of the peaceable Enterprise leads to ethical dilemmas that the film doesn’t fully explore, but you can’t mistake the parallels between the 23rd-century war on terror and the ongoing 21stcentury version of same. It’s not like the film gives you much chance to ponder weighty matters. The prime directive is
to entertain, and it does so with brio. The pulse-raising action sequences include a chase between two starships and a death-defying space walk — make that a space zoom — where two men navigate an asteroid field with only spacesuits to protect them. My only serious quibble with Star Trek into Darkness is that so much of the plot revolves around situations where Kirk and his crew have to take matters into their hands and do something manually because the automatic function has failed. This gets almost laughable after a while. On the other hand, Star Trek has always been more about the
people than the machines, as awesome as those machines may be. Humanity must always triumph over technology. To this concept, Abrams and his crew remain rightly steadfast,
leaving us satisfied and looking forward to more adventures with Kirk, Spock and the good starship Enterprise. Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic. www.carnivalcinemas.net 5402-47 St. Red Deer MOVIE LINE 346-1300
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spirit of his character. “If it ain’t true, it oughtta be.” Still, for all Mud’s magnetism, McConaughey never wanted the audience to feel completely comfortable with the character. “You have to believe that he could be dangerous. You gotta believe that this could not end well,” he said. “It’s the danger that’s part of the allure as well for him, for the kids.” Like that river on which it’s set, Mud unspools in languid and winding fashion — and a conversation with McConaughey is rather similar. The easy-going actor seems to consider each question carefully, and occasionally follows twisty tangents. For instance, he takes time to discuss other movies as they come to mind, including Spike Jonze’s Adaptation or the Paul Newman classic Hud, an all-time favourite of his that inspired him with its depiction of a “complete bastard” that he couldn’t help but like. After a 20-plus minute chat, he laughingly notes — not quite inaccurately — that “you probably only asked me three questions and I talked for the whole time.” It’s just another indication that the one-time romcom mainstay has finally unearthed deeper roles, and he’s sure passionate about Mud. “As you can see, I like talking about it,” he added with a laugh.
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. Phone 403-309-8405. The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum celebrates Red Deer Centennial with the opening of the exhibit Red Deer Sport History. Take a look at over 100 years Sports History and discover the impact that sport had on Red Deer and its citizens. For more information contact Debbie at debbie@ashfm.ca or visit www.ashfm.ca or call 403-3418614. To be included in this listing, please email event details to editorial@reddeeradvocate.com, fax to 403-341-6560, or phone 403-314-4325.
On stage East 40th Pub will have Dean Ray as entertainment on May 24 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. 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. Down With Webster will perform on July 19 as part of the Westerner Days Exposition. The concert is free with gate admission. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the concert begins at 8:30 p.m. Please arrive early as seating is in a first come, first served basis. All ages show. To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.
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This TV publicity image released by ABC shows Eric Stonestreet, as Cameron, left, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell in a scene from the comedy Modern Family. The ACLU is lobbying for the gay couple on Modern Family to get married.
ACLU lobbies Modern Family producers to script a wedding ters in the story grapple with their desire to get married, makes it real for a bigger part of America,” said James Esseks, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Project at the ACLU. Supporters are invited to “RSVP” to the wedding online. The ACLU plans to deliver the online “guest list” to the show’s producers but said it had not yet contacted the show. Esseks said the petition was a departure for the group, but that along with filing lawsuits, lobbying for bills or organizing ballot initiatives, the group saw public education and changing the culture as part of its mission. He applauded what Modern Family has done already for pub-
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The ACLU is lobbying for the gay couple on Modern Family to get married. ACLU Action started a campaign to urge the show’s producers to write a wedding episode for Mitchell and Cameron, fathers of an adopted child and one of three couples at the heart of the show. The ACLU says it is appealing to the fictional family to draw more attention to the real issue as it awaits Supreme Court decisions on two important marriage equality cases. “Mitch and Cam are a couple that America has come to know and love, and seeing them get married, and seeing the charac-
lic perception of gay couples. “It’s a popular show, they’re a lovable, very real couple, and it would be great to see them walk down the aisle,” he said. ABC referred questions to 20th Century Fox Studios, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Show creator Steven Levitan tweeted a link to the campaign with a simple “Wow.” Jessie Tyler Ferguson, who plays Mitchell, tweeted: “Love this! Thank you ACLU! Maybe once Prop 8 is overturned!” Online: http://modernfamilywedding. com
Hip-hop’s Dr. Dre, industry biggie Jimmy Iovine donate $70 million for new USC academy Iovine is the co-founder of Interscope Records, chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M and a mentor on American Idol. Together, the two men started Beats Electronics LLC, the parent company of the Beats by Dr. Dre line of popular high-end headphones and other music devices. HTC Corp. bought a majority share in Beats in 2010, but later sold half of the shares back to the founders. Iovine and Young are now majority owners. Iovine, whose daughter Jessica recently graduated from USC, said that among today’s high-school graduates is “a new kid with different
skills” that reflect the high-tech and digitally connected world they’ve grown up in. “This is about treating what a kid is today,” he said. “This place is a dream factory. This place is where you don’t have to get stuck in calculus to succeed at this school.” Young said he would have loved to attend a program like the one he’s establishing at USC rather than developing his business and creative skills on the job. Neither he nor Iovine are college graduates.
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The new Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy at the University of Southern California will offer a curriculum aimed to help young innovators create the next iPod or Facebook. The hip-hop mogul best known as Dr. Dre and the co-founder of Interscope Records appeared at a news conference Wednesday alongside USC President C. L. Max Nikias to announce the new program funded by a $70 million donation by the two music superstars. The university president characterized the donation as the largest gift from the entertainment industry to American higher education. The Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation will provide a special four-year program for undergraduates whose interests span fields from marketing to computer science to visual design and other arts. It will include oneon-one faculty mentoring with professors from programs around the university and interaction with entertainment industry luminaries. The academy “will be a new standard in higher
education,” said its dean and executive director Erica Muhl. “Somebody is going to design the next iPod, the next Facebook, the next breakthrough in how we live,” she said. “We want that to happen at the Iovine-Young Academy.” It will accept its first class of 25 students in the fall of 2014. Full scholarships will be offered. Iovine and Young have been friends, collaborators and business partners for 20 years. Young is best known as a producer, rapper and co-owner of Death Row records. He later started his own record label, Aftermath Entertainment.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. unveiled a streaming music service called All Access that blends songs users have already uploaded to their online libraries with millions of other tracks. Google made it available in the U.S. Wednesday for $8 a month to early birds who sign up for service before June 30. In addition to a 30day free trial, the offer shaves $2 off the price of popular paid subscription plans from Spotify and Rhapsody. The service is an attempt by the world’s dominant Internet company to carve itself a bigger piece of the digital music pie as more people listen to streaming music on mobile devices. The announcement Wednesday at Google’s annual developers conference in San Francisco kicks off a wave of developments as technology giants go beyond core music fans and look to entice more casual listeners. Rival Apple Inc. is expected to debut a digital radio service later this year that will drive more people to its iTunes music store; Google-owned YouTube is also working on a paid subscription music plan with a deeper catalogue of songs than it has now; and Sweden’s Spotify is exploring a way to make a version of its paid streaming plan free with ads on mobile devices, according to a person in the music industry familiar with the matter. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the developments because the deals and features on the services have not been finalized. Google is playing catch-up in the digital music space after launching its music store in November 2011. Apple’s iTunes Store, which launched in 2003, is the leader in song downloads and Spotify claims about 6 million paying subscribers worldwide. But Google’s massive reach on mobile devices that use its Android operating system means
it could narrow the gap quickly. Some 44 per cent of active smartphones in the U.S., or about 53 million, are powered by the Android software, according to research firm eMarketer. Google said about 900 million Android devices have been activated worldwide. All Access is expected to roll out soon in 12 other countries where Google currently sells music, including 10 European countries such as the U.K., France and Germany, as well as Australia and New Zealand. After the early-bird period, the monthly fee will go back up to the industry standard $10. Google’s All Access allows users to search for songs, albums or artists directly, or peruse 22 different genres. Google also offers up recommendations based on your listening behaviour and your existing library of songs. You can listen to any of millions of tracks right away, or switch to a “radio” format that creates a playlist of songs that you might like. Radio playlists can be adjusted on the fly by deleting or re-ordering upcoming songs. You can cache songs on the device for playback outside of cellphone or Wi-Fi service. “This is radio without rules,” said Chris Yerga, engineering director of Android. “This is as lean-back as you want or as interactive as you want.” The combination also means people can listen to their own specialized music or bootleg recordings alongside the millions of tracks available from Google. All three major recording labels — Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group Corp. — are part of the All Access service. According to research firm eMarketer, over 96 million Americans are expected to stream music on mobile devices at least once a week in 2013, up from 85 million a year ago. About 147 million Americans are expected to stream music on the go at least once a month this year.
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kids keen to try their hand at bowling can finesse their skills at throwing strikes as the weather warms up â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and without having to leaving home. From cartoon-branded models to colourful inflatable pins, variations of the popular sport were among the games and activities highlighted at the Hot Toys of Summer event held on Wednesday. The Canadian Toy Association featured more than 110 items to help keep idle kids busy during the upcoming season. Association chair Kerry George said about half of the toys on display at the annual event retail for under $25. Parents may experience a little deja vu seeing some of the items geared toward youngsters which update games and activities that likely kept them entertained as kids. George said one notable difference among some contemporary toys is the use of eco-friendly materials, like the PVC-free Green Toys Tractor crafted from recycled milk jugs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you think about 20 years ago ... you think about boys, and they love to play with their diggers and sandboxes. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still the case today,â&#x20AC;? she said in an interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boys still love to dig and play in the sand and the dirt. ... So thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just new stuff that comes up where they can continue to do that.â&#x20AC;? George said building blocks and construction toys remain strong with brands like Lego, Mega Bloks and Playmobil along with German-made Anker Stone Blocks crafted from natural materials, including chalk, colour pigments, linseed oil and quartz. She said bubbles continue to be big with the younger crowd, from colourful solutions with the traditional built-in wand to machines cranking out the globules at the push of a button. Reptiles seem to be reigning supreme among toys for the season, with George noting that dinosaur items in particular â&#x20AC;&#x153;seem to be hot.â&#x20AC;? In addition to models of TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dino Dan, the reptiles are also going the transformer route with some toys showing the prehistoric creatures converting into vehicle form. Fans of the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will see the crime-fighting reptiles as action figures, squishy collectible Mashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ems and emblazoned on splat-catch paddles with accompanying villain splat balls. For the more artistically inclined, sidewalk chalks in a multitude of hues â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and even glittery varieties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will keep pavement Picassos occupied. George said there are also charms crafted from clay as well as bracelet-making kits, including braided wristbands and threaded friendship bracelets.
Principal and securityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tattoos not appropriate for school setting Dear Annie: The principal of the school where pooling for a long time. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hurt and Wondering I teach has some big tattoos on her neck. She says Dear Hurt: We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Alice is angry, jealous they are Chinese symbols for â&#x20AC;&#x153;good fortune.â&#x20AC;? I think or anything else. We think she is 14 years old and has they look trashy. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind tattoos, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a new phone. Like many kids, she wants to text more think large markings on oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands and neck are than she wants to talk. Also, now that she is a teenagappropriate for school. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t convey er, she may be less inclined to be so tight MITCHELL authority, and I have a hard time taking with a 12-year-old, even if she likes you. & SUGAR orders from her. You can try to engage her by asking her to The last time she entered my classshow you the features on her phone, but room, she pointed to a poster listing class really, your best bet is to work on forming rules and said she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like that it had friendships with the other girls in gymtorn edges. I gently said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been nastics. Please try. preoccupied with my studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reading skills, math Dear Annie: The letter from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tired of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Go See a and grammar, so the torn edges will have to wait a Counsellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? displayed ignorance. You give excelbit.â&#x20AC;? She left the classroom looking uncomfortable. lent advice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go Seeâ&#x20AC;? must not understand that some The school security guards also have tattoos and problems are too complicated to explain in a couple not simply the names of their girlfriends or boy- of paragraphs. A counsellor may spend several sesfriends. They picture playing cards, dice and other sions with someone to determine the best advice. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motifs that I consider more appropriate for a biker like a family doctor who advises a patient with chest bar. During the last parent-teacher conference, one pains to see a cardiologist. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Denham Springs, La. parent exclaimed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Did you recruit the security Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and guards from the county jail?â&#x20AC;? Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers colWhy is it acceptable for teachers, court officers umn. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ and other professionals to tattoo their hands and comcast.net, or write to: Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mailbox, c/o Creators necks when it makes them look like street thugs? Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. How do they expect kids to listen to them when they look like that? I warn my older pupils that visible tattoos may bar them from certain jobs. Most of them take my advice. The ones who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t are harder to place for summer internships. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; N.Y. Dear N.Y.: The proliferation of tattoos on the faces, hands and necks of professional sports players and TV reality stars makes this type of artwork seem more mainstream and acceptable. But just as there are dress codes for businesses, there are also dress codes for schools. If the students are not permitted to show such visible tattoos, neither should the administration and security personnel, who presumably set the example. If you believe this undermines the principalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authority, you can register a complaint with the school board. Dear Annie: I am 12 years old and carpool to a gymnastics class with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alice,â&#x20AC;? who is two years older. For a long time, we were decent friends and had good times. But last year, Alice got a phone and stopped talking to me. She is always texting. I have tried so hard to get Alice to talk to me. I have brought games and joke books, but, Annie, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tuesdays & Wednesdays at 7pm been going on for so long, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure I want to be friends anymore. The main problem is, when we arSundays at 2 pm rive at gymnastics, none of the other girls talk to me, only Alice. So now I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anyone. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why Alice treats me this way. Is she angry or jealous? Should I give her a second chance? Our moms our friends, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably be car-
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Then we hear from Samaya, Marta and Lawura. Samaya is the only girl in a family of five children, her parents are dead. Sending her to school is a financial sacrifice for the family, but she works very hard and hopes to bePEGGY come a nurse. FREEMAN Marta is 18 and from a large family, because her father has three wives. She works
In 2012, I reviewed a book entitled 9 Degrees North: ABC’s of North Ghana. Now, Full of Promise adds to the story. Tools for Schools Africa Foundation is a registered Canadian charity begun in Red Deer with the shipment, in 2006-2007, of two 40-foot containers of school books and supplies. Today, 63 ambitious and bright girls, attend school because of this charity. Something to celebrate! The ABC book used the wonderful work of many artists, and this is a book with a heart warming personal touch. The girls tell their own stories in their own words. Those who put the book together did not edit their speaking, so we hear the heartfelt thanks, and the future plans directly from the students. They’re delighted to be going to school; they are ambitious and hopeful. First, a map showing Northern Ghana, then we are introduced to Ayisha K, who tells us about being a school prefect. A prefect must set an example of citizenship and industry for the other students. Ayisha enjoys the responsibility and she does very well.
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Ghanian life, but the students’ words make this book sing. There are 24-plus beautiful, happy women pictured in this book. The president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson, is quoted here: “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough. ...” These girls have big dreams. Women and men from our city dreamed a dream and this is the result. The Department of Architecture from University of Manitoba helped by building a residence there. The world is such a small place when you and I can help a young person make their life and their country a better place to live. A win-win situation in anybody’s language. Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.
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From the moment he first appeared in Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990, Easy Rawlins, was an instant favourite of discerning readers and literary critics alike. So the disappointment was palpable when the black private detective, drunk and in despair over a lost love, deliberately drove his car off a California cliff at the conclusion of Blonde Faith, the eleventh novel in the series. At the time, Easy’s creator, Walter Mosley, said he’d had his fill of Easy and that it was time to move on to other creative work. In the six years since, he has remained productive, turning out political nonfiction, science fiction, young adult novels and fine crime novels featuring three new protagonists. But now, at long last, Easy is back in Little Green, where we find him awakening from a two-month-long coma to discover, as usual, that people he cares about need his help. The Easy Rawlins novels have always been distinguished by the writer’s remarkable literary style and the seriousness of his purpose, for these books have never been mere whodunits. Taken together, they are nothing less than a history of race relations in post-Second World War Los Angeles. Little Green more than lives up to the high standard the author has set. This isn’t the first time Mosley has brought a character back to life. He appeared to have killed off Easy’s dangerous sidekick, Mouse, only to have him return from oblivion two books later. Now, as a badly broken Easy regains consciousness, Mouse is one of the first faces Easy sees. Easy’s resurrection will remind readers of the way Arthur Conan Doyle sent another beloved character, Sherlock Holmes, to an apparent death in a plunge from Reichenback Falls in The Final Problem, only to bring him back to life in The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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Dr. Robert Bruce Drysdale of R e d D e e r, p a s s e d a w a y peacefully with his family around him at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at the age of 77 years. Born in Montreal Quebec, Bruce moved to Alberta to pursue graduate studies, completing his PhD at the University of Alberta in 1983. A long time e d u c a t o r, h e s e r v e d a s Science Coordinator for the Red Deer Public School Board from 1985 to 1995. Bruce developed the school program at Sunnybrook Farm Museum and was an active member of the Red Deer Te n n i s C l u b , R e d D e e r Legion Pipe Band, and former Board Member of the Red Deer Symphony. Fan and long time supporter of the Red Deer Rebels Junior Hockey Club. Bruce is survived by his loving wife Vicky; his daughters Heather (Graham), Margie (Dale); his sons Rob, and Ian (Joanne); grandchildren Jennifer, Brian, G r a c e , L i n e t t e , T r e v o r, B r a d l e y, N a t h a n , A m y, Joseph, and Liam; his sister Patricia (Donald), nephews and their families. Predeceased by his parents Kenneth & Grace Drysdale (both 1995). A Memorial Service to celebrate Bruce’s life will be held at the Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 - Ross Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, May 17th , 2013 at 1:00 p.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to support the Heart Function Clinic at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, c/o the University Hospital Foundation, 8440 112 Street NW, Edmonton AB T6G 2B7 or to the Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 - Ross Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1X2. Condolences to Bruce’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca Bruce MacArthur MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944
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SERVICE Ruby “Stella” Jan. 1, 1931 - May 9, 2013 Stella passed away peacefully on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at the Red Deer Hospice. She was predeceased by her husband, Matt Service in 1972 and long-time friend, Jack Gilmartin in 2010; her parents, William and Minnie Raby; sisters, Mina McKee, Sadie Wilson and Ruth McCormick and one brother, Ralph Raby. She leaves to mourn several nieces and nephews as well as numerous friends and neighbors. A celebration to honour Stella’s life will be held on Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at Davenport Place Clubhouse, 2300 Danielle Drive, Red Deer. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Stella’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6. 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. Phone (403) 347-3319.
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HAWLEY, Michael Oct. 30, 1984 - May 19, 2001
REGISTRY AGENT - CSR Work for a company that gives you respect, recognizes your achievements and supports your efforts to succeed. We require customer-minded people that are motivated, reliable and quick learners. Deliver resumes to: One Stop Licence Shop #7-5105 76A Street Close or e-mail to: cherdav@telus.net
Dental
Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.
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RECEPTIONIST/ BOOKKEEPER
1508766 Alberta Ltd.
www.parklandfuneralhome.com
Edith Young passed away, at the age of 101, on May 15, 2013, at Westpark Lodge, Red Deer. Edith was born April 25, 1912. She was predeceased by husband Orlie; son Frankie; and grandson Dylan. She will be sadly missed by daughter Joyce (Teslin YK); sons George (Pat), Jim (Barb), John, Dave (Lynette); seven grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren, all of Alberta. Thanks to all who celebrated Ediths life at her 100th birthday. Edith touched many lives as a teacher and as a friend. A family service will be held in her honor.
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COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager)
Brad and Kelly Olsen Owner/Funeral Director
Taylor Dr. ˜ Red Deer
Safe in the arms of Jesus
FOUND: NINTENDO 3DS at McKenzie Trail. Identify to claim. 403-396-0289
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 Start your career! See Help Wanted
Your loving family.
YOUNG Edith
FOUND LEFT FOOT, BLUE OLD NAVY BABY SHOE SIZE 4, 12 - 18 MONTHS Has a dog design with bones on top of shoe. Please contact 403-340-8835
Personals
“ONLY locally owned & operated Funeral Home in Red Deer”
SHAW Audrey Vera 1919-2013 Audrey Shaw of Red Deer passed away peacefully at Harmony Care Home on May 13th at the age of 93 years. She is survived by a son William Shaw (Barbara Dalton), a daughter Elizabeth (Tim) Fargey, four grandchildren, Adrienne Shaw (Adrian Leslie), Megan Shaw (Nick Spisic), Shannon Fargey (Randy Scharien) and Scott (Kirsten) Fargey, and great-granddaughter Ryan Fargey. Audrey was pre-deceased by her husband Judge Bill Shaw in 1983. A private family service will be held with interment to follow in the Red Deer Cemetery.
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Found
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DRYSDALE 1935 - 2013
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CLASSIFIEDS Friday, May 17, 2013
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DENTAL RECEPTION/ OFFICE MANAGER for hygiene department. Looking for mature, professional with exc. communication skills. Must be efficient and multi task with ease, and have the ability to follow through on policies and implement them amoung staff. Must be reliable and able to work extended hours. Exp. is an asset but not req’d. Yearly Term position with strong potential for permanent position. Wage to be determined. Fax resume or drop off in person to Associates Dental, Attn: Corinne. 403-347-2133
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F/T RDA II with Ortho Module an asset. Position open in a busy family dental practice in Rocky Mountain House. Competitive salary, benefit package & uniform allowance & 4 day work wk. If you are willing to work in a team environment and are pleasant and ambitious we look forward to your resume. Fax resume to 403-845-7610
Hair Stylists
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JUST CUTS is looking for F/T HAIRSTYLIST No clientele necessary. Call Jen at 403-340-1447 or Christie 403-309-2494
Janitorial
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ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black THE LENDING CUPBOARD Society is in need of a person to do janitorial cleaning. Cleaning days are anytime on Tuesday, Thursday and sometime on a weekend so the facility is clean for Monday morning. This is a paid position and starts on June 3. If you are interested please contact Paul at 403-356-1678 or email paul.lendingcupboard@ shaw.ca
Medical
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LPN & RN Positions Available! Both positions are part time with no evenings or weekends. Please bring in your resume to 215-5201-43rd Street or fax to 403-341-3599.
Oilfield
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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:
* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 lkeshen@1strateenergy.ca Please specify position when replying to this ad. We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.
A RED DEER BASED Pressure Testing Company req’s. Operators for testing BOP’s throughout AB. Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email mikeoapt@gmail.com Only those selected for interview will be contacted.
Experienced Oilfield Construction Lead Hands Experienced Oilfield Construction Labourers Industrial Painters Alstar Oilfield is looking for a highly motivated individuals to join our Team in both Hinton and Fox Creek. Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction industry since 1969. If you have a Desire to be Part of a Growing Company Please email your resume to: hr@alstaroilfield.com Please Quote Job # 72095 on Resume For detailed job description Please email hr@alstaroilfield.com Or visit our Career Section at: www.alstaroilfield.com “Committed to enriching the lives of our workforce, while providing quality energy construction solutions”
E2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 17, 2013
ASSISTANT DISTRICT MANAGER JOIN OUR FAST GROWING TEAM!!
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Qualifications Include:
5-10 yrs experience in the Production Testing Industry Valid Driver’s License Business Management Skills Organizational Skills Project Management Experience
Duties required:
Coordinating field Operations Manage crew and personnel Flexible work schedule - after hours on call rotation Financial Management - Cost control
Please visit our website at: www. cathedralenergyservices.com or apply by email to: pnieman@ cathedralenergyservices.com wtopp@ cathedralenergyservices.com Your application will be kept strictly confidential. Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds
Oilfield
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CLASS 1 LOW BED TRUCK DRIVER HINTON, ALBERTA
Alstar Oilfield is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our Team. Alstar has been serving the oil and gas construction industry since 1969.
Oilfield
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COLTER ENERGY SERVICES USA INC Join Our Fast Growing Team and Secure Your Future with our Optimum Benefit Package & RRSP’s!!
Production Testing
Anders Park
Johnstone Park
75 ANQUETEL ST . Thurs. May 16, 4 -7, Fri. & Sat. 10-6, Sun. 11-5. Multi family. Lots of everything!
83 JENNINGS CRES May 16, 17 & 18 Thurs. 1-7, Fri. & Sat. 9 - 7 MOVING, furniture, household items, tools, etc...
Anders on the Lake
Kentwood Estates
MULTI family garage sale, 10 ATKINS Close May 17, Fri. 3-8 Sat. 9-3. Household, electronics, baby/children items, etc
16 KIRBY ST. May 18, Saturday Only 9-5 MOVING SALES Toys, household goods, furniture, etc....
MOVING - 3 BARNER AVE. May 16th & 17th 5-8, May 18th 9-3 Furniture, household, lawn mower patio set, yard tools, dishes, linens, decor items, etc.
Deer Park 33 DONLEVY AVE Back Alley - TOOL SALE May 17 & 18, Fri. 12-8 & Sat. 8 - 6 Drills, battery, elec. compressor, welder, welding table, grinders, misc. items 92 DUNHAM CLOSE Friday 17th, 3-5 & Saturday 18th, 9-5 Household, shop items & much more! MULTI-FAMILY New & used. Golf, sports equipt, household, Thur. May 16, 4-8, Fri. noon - 8, Sat. & Sun. 8-4 15 Duffield Ave.
Fairview - Upper 16 FOX CRES. May 16, & 17 Thurs. 2 -7, Fri. 9 - 7 10” table saw & stand, lrge folding door, jeans, books...
Highland Green Moving Sale All must go! Low Prices! 16 Hunter Close. Fri. May 17, 2-4, Sat. noon-4. Rain or Shine!
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45 KELLY STREET (Rear garage) Saturday May 18th 8-4 DOWNSIZING, Free & Almost Free Stuff.
Riverside Meadows
MULTI FAMILY Thurs. May 16, 2-8, Fri. 2-8, Sat. 9-2. You won’t believe the huge amount at this sale and the LOW LOW PRICES! 5826-57 Ave. back alley Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS
Rosedale Lancaster Green HUGE SALE! 49 LEUNG CLOSE Fri. 17th, Noon -7 New clothing from retail business & much more.
92 RAMAGE CR. Fri. May 17, 5-8, SAT. 9-3. Toys, books, some furniture, household items, and more
Woodlea Oriole Park 23 ORILLIA Park Rd. Thurs. May 16, 5-8 Fri. & Sat. 10-7 New F. Eamor saddle, bikes, patio set, exercise bike, etc.
5321-43 AVE. (BACK ALLEY) May 18, Saturday 9 - 4 Moving, household, furniture, tools, misc. items.
Integrated Production Services (IPS)
is a leading Oil & Gas Service Company providing Production Enhancement solutions for many of the top producers throughout Canada and the USA.
IPS offers industry competitive salaries, incentive/commission plans, and benefits for all field employees. We are proud of our reputation as a Safety leader within the industry and we continually strive to improve the delivery of our services. Interested candidates for the above positions should forward their resume to people@ipsadvantage.ca” LOCAL SERVICE CO. REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 LOCAL Testing company seeking experienced Well Testers. Positions available immediately. Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants. MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits. Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@gmail. com LOOKING FOR JOURNEYMAN WELDER For 6 month project in N.E. BC. No truck or welder necessary. Fly in camp job. Please email resume: info@GTChandler.com or fax: 403-886-2223
4548 44 ST. back alley MAY 18, Saturday 9 - 5 ONE DAY ONLY! Household and lots of misc. GREAT VARIETY Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY
Pines 4 SEASON SALE 39 PATTERSON CRES Fri. 17th 4-8, Sat. 18th 10-4, Sun 19th 11-3 Gorgeous floral, ceramics, garden decor & more. RAIN OR SHINE
227 POPLAR Ridge Estates May 17, 18,19 & 20 Fri. Sat. Sun & Mon. 9 - 6 Tools, nuts, bolts & screws Misc. household.
Sylvan Lake MASSIVE YARD SALE! 1000’s of items. Household - Kitchen Sporting Goods Collectables - Furniture Something for everyone! 3817 Lakeshore Drive May 18 & 19 9am to 4pm Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.
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Oilfield
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Professionals
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Restaurant/ Hotel
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Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND NOW HIRING FOR:
Oilfield Equipment Operator/Mechanic
- Class 3Q Driver license w/clean abstract required - Diesel mechanic experience or ticket req’d. - Picker & Rig experience preferred - Drug testing required - Competitive pay w/ benefits Fax or Email resume only: Admin@chcinc.ca or fax: 403-343-3626 Suitable applicants will be contacted.
Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants
must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for. Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Start your career! See Help Wanted
PROFLO is currently seeking qualified PRODUCTION TESTING ASSISTANTS All candidates must have a valid driver’s licence, transportation, H2S, first aid & PST or CSTS. Email resume to: info@proflo.net or fax to: 403-341-4588
MECHANICAL Design Engineer 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. Duties will include: * Design of equipment using 3D CAD * Shop Testing of Prototypes * Support to manufacturing for existing products Job qualifications:
Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT
* Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering * Eligibility for registration with APEGA * Strong mechanical aptitude and interest in Professionals working with equipment * Solidworks experience an asset CONTRACT Financial Controller for family-owned * Creativity and attention to detail required. construction company. * 3 - 5 yrs. exp. preferred. Classifieds...costs so little Proficient with Simply Accounting, Excel, and Saves you so much! Company paid benefit Word Software. Tired of Standing? plan and RRSP. Responsible for monthly Find something to sit on account reconciliations Please send in Classifieds including: resumes to: resume@ * bank nexusengineering.ca CELEBRATIONS * Accounts Receivable Classifieds HAPPEN EVERY DAY * Accounts Payable Your place to SELL * GST IN CLASSIFIEDS Your place to BUY * Capital assets Central Alberta’s Largest * Inter company accounts * Loans/capital leases Car Lot in Classifieds Restaurant/ * Prepaid Expenses
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* Preparation of monthly consolidated financial statements * Preparation of semimonthly payroll, monthly payroll remittances, record of employment forms and T4s. * Administration of payroll benefits PROVIDENCE * Preparation and filing of Trucking Inc monthly GST returns. Is now hiring experienced: * Preparation of annual WCB return * Preparation of subcontractor Picker operator T5018s * Previous exp. in the Bed Truck Operator construction industry would be an asset. Preparation of April 30th Winch truck Operator * year-end working paper files for external All candidates must be accountants able to pass a pre-employ- * Attention to detail ment drug screen. We * Exc. communication skills offer exceptional wages * Approx. 55 hrs. per and benefits for exceptional month with the ability to people. Fax resume and provide additional hours abstract to 403-314-2340 as needed. or email to safety@ Fax resume to 403-309-1944 providencetrucking.ca You can sell your guitar TOO MUCH STUFF? for a song... Let Classifieds or put it in CLASSIFIEDS help you sell it. and we’ll sell it for you!
Oilfield
Hotel
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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 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds
LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Experienced P/T Servers. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please
THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T BARTENDER and SERVER Must have experience! Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.
Sales & Distributors
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1511018 Alberta Ltd. O/A Micabella Cosmetics req’s sales people F/T, P/T for women’s cosmetics in Red Deer Malls $15/hr. Shift. canadacarts@gmail.com
ALLMAR,
a leader in the architectural openings industry is seeking to fill the position of
COUNTER SALESPERSON.
Prior work in sales and the construction industry an asset. We offer $18-$20/hr, in-house training, and career advancement opportunities. Applicants please send resume to: HR@allmar.com HONEST, reliable, full time sales position available. Must be able to load & unload mattresses. Apply in person to Mike’s Mattress 7619 50 Avenue Red Deer NEARLY NEW BOOKS permanent part time, drop off resume at #4 5106 47 Ave. Red Deer
Trades
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C & C COATINGS in Innisfail is seeking F/T Laborers, sandblasters, powder coaters, and painters. Competitive wages and benefits. Fax resume to: 403-227-1165. CARPENTERS HELPER and P/T (could turn into F/T) mature hot shot driver. Must be able to work on own, and clean drivers abstract. Fax resume to 403-986-0020
CURRENTLY HIRING operators on various types of Construction equipment. Also seeking Gravel truck drivers with Class 1 license. Fax: 346-8490 or email lclark@ settersconstruction.ca
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ARC Resources Ltd. is a leading edge oil and gas company with operations across Western Canada. An industry leader, socially responsible operator, and key contributor to the communities in which we work, ARC has consistently delivered top performance and measureable results since inception in 1996. At ARC, our strong track record of success has been built on our core belief that outstanding people combined with a great corporate culture creates a winning environment.
Field Operator
Out of Town Parkvale
Oilfield
SERVICE RIG
If you have…. Personnel in Minot, ND: • Minimum 5 Years with Day & Night Class 1 Supervisors • Low Bed Experience WHO WE LOOKING FOR ? & Field Operators hauling Cats, Excavators, Applications and Side Booms Engineer • Qualified Day & Night • Clean Abstract Integrated Production Supervisors • Winch Tractor Experience Services is looking for an - (Must be able to provide • Off Road Oilfield experienced Applications own work truck.) Experience Engineer to provide pre-job • Field Operators planning, real time moni- Valid First Aid, H2S, If you Desire to be toring, post job follow up driver’s license required! Part of a Growing Company and technical support to Please email your resume our Open Hole Please see your website to: hr@alstaroilfield.com Completions Group. @ www.colterenergy.ca Or fax to 780-865-5829 Candidate must be a or contact us at Please Quote highly motivated self 1-877-926-5837 Job # 72096 on Resume starter with a strong operational and technical Your application will be “Committed to enriching background. Candidates kept strictly confidential the lives of our workforce, must have an Engineering while providing quality Degree or industry related Fluid Experts Ltd. energy construction solutions” Technologist Degree. Fluid Experts of Red Deer This position can be based is seeking experienced JAGARE ENERGY out of Calgary or Red PRODUCTION TESTING Class 1 Operators Deer, Alberta. now hiring Day Supervisors, to haul clean fluids for the Night Operators, and Oil & Gas Industry. Home Helpers. Must have valid every night, company Field Service Class 5 drivers license. benefits with exceptional Representative RSP’s and benefits pkg. pay structure. Must be able Integrated Production incentives. Email resumes to work on their own with Services is seeking highly to: jagare2@gmail.com or minimal supervision. motivated, experienced mikeg@jagareenergy.com Compensation based on individuals who are able experience. Fax resume to work un-supervised You can sell your guitar w/all tickets and current installing Open Hole for a song... drivers abstract to: Completion Systems in or put it in CLASSIFIEDS 403-346-3112 or email to: Western Canada. This and we’ll sell it for you! roger@fluidexperts.com position is based out of Red Deer, Alberta.
TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300
Bower
Oilfield
PRESSURE CONTROL SPECIALIST
Nexus Engineering is currently seeking a mechanical individual for their shop to perform testing of all BOP’s and Pressure Control Equipment. Duties include heavy lifting, manual labour, operating forklift and overtime as necessary. We offer a competitive wage, benefits and RRSP plan. Experience is not mandatory, but a definite asset. Email resume to: resume @nexusengineering.ca
Oilfield
We are currently seeking a Field Operator for our Pembina (Drayton Valley) area. You will be responsible for the maintenance, surveillance, monitoring, and reporting of production volumes of a large number of oil wells and facilities. As an enthusiastic team player with a strong work ethic, you have a post-secondary technical diploma or certificate complemented by three to five years of related experience and knowledge in all facets of oil and gas field operations. Familiarity with SCADA systems and instrumentation is also beneficial.
Applicants are encouraged to visit the ARC website and view the Virtual Field Tour: www.arcresources.com/operations/virtual-field-tour Please submit your resume online, no later than May 31, 2013, to: www.arcresources.com/careers/career-opportunities We thank you for your interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
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www. A R C R E S O U R C E S . com
Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time. If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you. Now hiring Canyon Champions for the following positions:
Class 1 Driver / Operators: Fracturing, Coiled Tubing and Nitrogen Apprentice Electronics Technician; Apprentice Heavy Equipment Technician Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety—focused
f Team orientated f Clean Class 1 drivers abstract f Oil and Gas experience an asset
Why Canyon? f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New equipment
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Paid technical and leadership training Career advancement opportunities RRSP Matching Program
We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.
How to apply: email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca
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Oilfield
RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 17, 2013 E3
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DRYWALL CREW req’d immediately for huge project in Blackfalds. Must have all tools & own trans. Exp.’d only. 403-872-1686
Heavy Duty Mechanic
Red Deer Shop req’s Journeyman or 4th yr. apprentice with CVIP license. Manufacturing and Hydraulic system experience an asset. Good hours, competitive wage & benefit package. Fax resume to: 403-309-3360.
JEETS PLUMBING & HEATING Service Plumbers. Journeyman, w/service exp. Competitive wages. Fax resume: 403-356-0244 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS
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Trades
Trades
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LICENSED MECHANIC & AUTO BODY TECH. Reasonable rate. A.J. Auto Repair & Body 11, 7836 49 Ave. Call 403-506-6258 NEEDED F/T Service Person TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires for after sales service and set up of manufactured and modular home. Must QUALIFIED have exp. in roofing, siding, 3rd and 4th yr. flooring, drywall, paint etc., Competitive wages and JOURNEYMAN health plan avail. Apply to ELECTRICIANS James at M & K Homes, 403-346-6116 With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages NEW EMPLOYMENT & benefits. OPPORTUNITIES Fax resume to: 403-314-5599 Experienced
Screedman Roller Operator Transfer Machine Operator Email resume to: office@ccal.com Fax resume to: 403-885-5137
WE ARE......
Newcart Contracting (1993) is looking for
17 Time Presidents Award Winner Locally Owned and Operated One of the Most Respected Ford Dealerships in Alberta
Safety Supervisors & Safety Watch People
YOU ARE.....
A Licensed Technician or 4th Year Apprentice YOU WILL RECEIVE.....
A Positive Growing work environment Great Benefits Package
UP TO $40.00/Hr Flat RATE Signing BONUS or Relocation Assistance (depending on experience) Ford experience not required
or jdenham@fourlaneford.com sdavis@fourlaneford.com
Truckers/ Drivers
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Apply in person at:
4412-50 St., Innisfail, AB or by Fax: 403-227-4544
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Trades
860 DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH
for the Plant Turnaround Season. Must have valid H2S, CSTS/PST, First Aid/CPR, Confined Space, and WHIMIS Safety Tickets. Fax resume to 403-729-2396 or email: resumes @newcartcontracting.com No phone inquiries please. Noise Solutions Delburne, AB accepting Resumes for Welders,Assemblers, Sheet Metal Workers & Field Crew Email to lgoddard@noisesolutions. com Fax 403-749-2259 Attn. Lorna NOW Hiring Site Superintendants, Carpenters, Apprentice Carpenters for Full Time Work in the Red Deer area. Fully paid Benefit Package, Pension Plan, Bonuses. Good wages. Experience in the Petroleum industry an asset, Service Stations, Bulk Plants. E-mail Resume to tedc@kellerdenali.com PIDHERNEY’S Requires Experienced Heavy Equipment Operators for work in the Coronation and Red Deer areas. Fax or email resume to: 403-8455370 / hr@pidherneys.com REQ’D IMMED. 3rd. yr, 4th yr. or licensed tech. Apply in person at OK Tire South 3218 49 Ave. Red.
WE are currently seeking full time
Carpenters and Apprentice Carpenters
Responsibilities include; framing, building forms, door and window installation, and various tasks that arise daily. The successful candidate will have the ability to perform a wide variety of tasks and be a team player. They will have outstanding communication, interpersonal and organizational skills. Must also be able to read and interpret blue prints, drawings and specifications. Applicants must be a Journeymen Carpenter or Apprentice Carpenter. Please email your cover letter and resume to info@tcdi.ca
WE ARE GROWING, NOW HIRING
F/T MEAT CUTTER Competitive wages. Apply in person or fax resume to 403-885-5231.
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ACADEMIC Express Adult Education and Training
Spring Start
GED classes days/evening
Fall Start
Class 1 Drivers
Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.
SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION
• Top wages paid based on experience
Requires Full Time
Carpenters Helpers & Labourers
• Flexible work schedule • Possible career advancement opportunities
Valid safety tickets an asset
JOURNEYMAN WELDER REQ’D.
Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370 Or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com
Trades
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• Based out of Red Deer & Rocky Mountain House, AB
For local work. Competitive Wages & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca
Indoors, great hours, diversity and fabrication. Competitive wage and benefit pkg. Fax resume to 403-309-3360.
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Clark’s
PLUMBING & HEATING CORP.
Plumbing & HVAC Service Technicians NEEDED!!! This is a Monday – Friday position located in Lac La Biche, (furnished living accommodations provided for out of town employees) Clark’s has immediate openings for qualified, experienced heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) Technician and Plumbers. The successful candidates will: • hold a current Journeyman’s ticket • be experienced in all aspects of HVAC or Plumbing service • must pass a Pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening • Provide a current Drivers Abstract • be a motivated self-starter • take pride in doing great work and willing to work long hours if needed • be energetic, positive, and keen to work with a rapidly expanding company • be 100% dedicated to customer service and satisfaction Clark’s offers top wages,10% holiday/vacation pay, overtime after 8 hrs, training, Health and Dental packages. We are a COR Certified and ISNetworld Compliant, safety-conscious company that provides a safe and enjoyable workplace.
Fax Resume to 780-623-7451 or Email: sales@cpandh.ca
403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca
ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK
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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED To deliver the Morning Advocate. 6 days per week Vehicle needed
LANCASTER East half of Lampard Cres. ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area. ALSO Leonard Cres. & 1 Block of Lancaster Ave. ALSO Part of Lanterman Cres. ALSO Lamont Close Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info
1 day per week in the town of Bowden, Innisfail, and Olds. Packages come ready to deliver. No collecting! Please call Quitcy 403-314-4316
FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:
Anders St. Addinell Close/ Allan St. Abbott Close/ Allan St. Allan Close/Allan St. Allsop Cres. BOWER AREA Broughton/ Brooks Cres. Bettenson St./ Baines Cres. Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St
flexible summer schedules, $16 base/appt. cust. sales/service, conditions apply, will train. Call Now! 403-755-6711 www. summeropenings.ca/ DISPATCHER req’d. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential. Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295
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GREENHOUSE WORKERS BLACKFALDS Central AB Greenhouses We have some seasonal positions available commencing immediately and Central Alberta’s Largest e n d i n g J u n e 1 , 2 0 1 3 . Duties include planting Car Lot in Classifieds seedlings, watering plants, moving plants from one area to another, loading plants onto carts and loading trucks. This position is labor intensive and NEWSPAPER includes working weekends CARRIERS and some evenings (approx. REQUIRED 65 hrs./wk.). Must have own transportatin. We will train. Wage is $11.50/hr. For afternoon Fax resume to delivery 403-885-4147 or email to: once per week ar-cag@telus.net. Please note that only those to be interviewed will In the towns of: be contacted.
Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler
LANCASTER AREA
Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303
Lewis Close/ Law Close
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
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SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave. Savoy Cres./ Selkirk Blvd. Sherwood Cres. VANIER AREA
OPERATOR 2 POSITION
Vanson Close/ Visser St.
Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt,
Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info
is now accepting applications for a full time Operator 2 position.
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The position includes Plant Operations and Sanitation duties.
TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300
Applicants must have a minimum Grade 12 diploma and must be available for shift work. Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.
F/T SORTERS NEEDED for recycling line in Red Deer. No exp. necessary. Start immediately. Email to canpak@xplornet.ca
Application Closing Date: March 21, 2013. Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:
Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta T0C 0B0 FAX: (403) 747-2660 email: mlyle@rahr.com
IN SERVICE SHOP, exp’d with farm equipment and the ability to weld. Apply fax 403-341-5622
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The Red Deer Advocate is looking for friendly and outgoing telephone sales people to join our team. Work 3-4 days per week 4:00 - 8 :00 p.m Great earning potential for the right person. If this is for you please drop off your resume at: The Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer or email to: dsibbet@ reddeeradvocate.com or rholt@reddeeradvocate.com
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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
CARRIERS NEEDED
EARN EXTRA Help CASH!!!
DSM INC.
Call Jamie 403-314-4306 For more information
Trades
AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED
looking for laborers, in the Innisfail area. Salary is $14.75/hr. Fax resume to: 403-314-0676.
DEERPARK Dowler & Douglas St. Area $605.00/mo
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ANDERS AREA
DEER PARK AREA Dawson St. & 1 Block of Davison Dr. ALSO Dandell Close Davison Dr. & 2 blocks of Dowler St. ALSO Dunham Close ALSO Duncan Cres. ALSO 3 blocks of West Duston St. & Dale Close ALSO Densmore Cres. & East part of Donnelly Cres.
COLLEGE/UNIV STUDENTS
Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH
PIDHERNEY’S IS GROWING! We currently require a
EARTHWORKS CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN For work in and around the Red Deer area
This successful individual will possess the following quali¿cations: • Minimum 3 – 5 years running crews • Have blueprint knowledge and experience • Various types of construction project experience an asset • Understand Alberta Transportation Speci¿cations • Must be a team player Pidherney’s offers competitive wages based on experience & bene¿t packages.
Please fax resume to 403-845-5370 or email to hr@pidherneys.com
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CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430
To Advertise Your Business or Service Here
Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Accounting
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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351
Contractors
1100
SIDING, Soffit, Fascia preferring non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.
1130
Massage Therapy
1280
MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 THE BODY Whisperer www.mygimex.org 4606 48 Ave. 403-986-1691
VII MASSAGE Feeling over whelmed? GUTTERS CLEANED & REPAIRED. 403-391-2169 Hard work day? Housecleaning. Free up Pampering at its time in your schedule. I best. #7 7464 Gaetz have 20 yrs experience, honest and reliable. Call Escorts Ave. www. for an appointment. Janet viimassage.biz 250-489-8889. EROTICAS PLAYMATES In/Out Calls to Girls of all ages 598-3049 Hotels. 403-986-6686 www.eroticasplaymates.net
Cleaning
1070
Eavestroughing
1165
Contractors
1100
AA PHILCAN CONST. Int. & Ext. Bsmt. dev., decks, sheds, laminate flooring, reno’s, etc.. Call Ken 340-8213 or cell 391-8044 ARM & HAMMER CONST. Floors, garages, driveways exposed agg., stamped & colored. 403-391-1718 BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542
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If you want to stay busy and be home every night then Pidherney’s might be for you!
ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK
and
Pidherney’s requires experienced local: REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY experienced Sand Blaster, oilfield painters and general laborers. Must have safety tickets and clean driving record. Please fax resume and docs to (403) 748-3036 or email to tayriver1@hotmail.com
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life
F/T GROCERY CLERK
Community Support Worker
For work in the Red Deer/Rocky Mountain House area
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Trades
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850
Trades
Misc. Help
LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car
Handyman Services
1200
BUSY B’S HANDYMAN SERVICES LTD. Spring & summer bookings. Res./com. Your full service handyman. Brian 403-598-3857
Massage Therapy
1280
BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980
FANTASY
DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301
Now Open
MAMMA MIA !! Soffit, Fascia & Eaves. 403-391-2169
MASSAGE International ladies
Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Private back entry. 403-341-4445 HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269
RED DEER’S BEST
Misc. Services
1290
5* JUNK REMOVAL
Property clean up 340-8666
Painters/ Decorators
1310
JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888 PAINTING SERVICE Res./Com. Celebrating 25 years. 25% off paint. 403-358-8384 PRO-PAINTING at reasonable rates. 304-0379
Seniors’ Services
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ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the house such as roof snow removal, bathroom fixtures, painting or flooring Call James 403- 341-0617 SENIORS need a HELPING HAND? Cleaning, cooking companionship - in home or in facility. Call 403-346-7777 or visit helpinghands.com for info.
Yard Care
1430
GARDEN ROTOTILLING & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957 IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial. Serving central Alberta. 403-318-4346
Moving & Storage
1300
BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315
GARDENS ROTOTILLED 304-7250 LAWN AERATING Call 403-304-0678 LITTLE R&R AERATION Call Randy 403-341-3780 ROTOTILLING, power raking, aerating & grass cutting. Reasonable rates. 403-341-4745
E4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 17, 2013
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Misc. Help
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Employment Training
900
TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS
Industries #1 Choice!
“Low Cost” Quality Training
EASTVIEW 84 Papers $441/month $5292/yr. WESTPARK 81 Papers $425/month $5103/yr. WESTLAKE 81 Papers $420/month $5040/yr. Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317 Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.
Warehouse Shipper/ Receiver
Competitive starting wages plus regular increases. Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Excellent benefits package. Opportunities to advance. Must be dependable, hardworking and seeking a long-term career. Apply in person, or email to: hartleytj@eecol.com 4747 - 61st Street RESIDENTIAL APT MANAGER 23 suite apt. complex. Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration. Bondable. Reply to Box 1043, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9
If you’re looking for a challenging position with one of the world’s leading snack food companies, here’s your chance to join the largest sales team in Canada as a Weekend Part Time Account Merchandiser in Red Deer, AB. We’re looking for someone who pays great attention to detail, has a interest in building displays, and can ensure that our product is always well stocked and looking great. So if you’re an excellent communicator, have great people skills, a class 5 driver’s license, and a flawless driving record, we invite you to apply online at www. fritolay.ca or fax your resume to (780) 577-2174 ATTN: Elaine Diesbourg. WEED SPRAYER required. No exp. necessary. Must have valid Class 5 Driver’s License. Fax resume to 403-2275099, e-mail to cdsprung@ telus.net or call Cory @403-304-8201
Employment Training
900
OILFIELD SERVICES INC.
offers a variety of
SAFETY COURSES to meet your needs.
Standard First Aid , Confined Space Entry, H2S Alive and Fire Training are courses that we offer on a regular basis. As well, we offer a selection of online Training Courses. For more information check us out online at www.firemaster.ca or call us at 403 342 7500. You also can find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @firemasterofs.
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403.341.4544 24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544
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)
RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works! APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are
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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990
Antiques & Art
1520
ANTIQUE ARMIOR $275 obo. 403-747-2597
Auctions
1530
Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers
Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms. Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855 BUD HAYNES SPECIAL Gun Auction Sat. June 1, 2013 @ 9 am Bay 4, 7429 49 Ave. Reinhold Stolle Collection, Marcien Caron’s Mountie memorabilia; 200 12-6 Prohibs, varied antiques, modern Military, blk. powder & ammo, 600+ lots. Ph: 403-347-5855 www.budhaynesauctions.com
• Class 5 Drivers Licence. *abstract may be required • Must be able to tow trailers/5th wheels • Cleaning of units • Some evenings & weekends may be required • Full time seasonal position (May 01-Sept. 30)
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Apply by: Email: unclebens@telus.net Fax: 403-346-1055 or drop off resume at reception Attn: Charles (rental manager)
Unreserved Real Estate Acreage Sale for Barrie Wilson Pine Lake, Alberta Sunday, June 16, 2013 Time: 1:00 p.m.
Selling by Totally Unreserved Auction Unit #43 being a Park Model Mobile Home & Lot Located in Phase 2 of the Gated Community of Whispering Pines at Pine Lake, Alberta which is adjacent to the Golf Course, Club House, Restaurant and Several Other Amenities. Open House: June 1st & 8th or by Appointment from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
NEW NAME NEW MANAGEMENT
Real Estate Transaction are being Handled by Morrison Realty (403) 783-0556
Local growing RV and Marine Dealership requires the following personnel:
RV AND MARINE SALES
For More Information, Photos & the Terms & Conditions, please view our website at www.allenolsonauction.com
ALLEN B. OLSON AUCTION SERVICE LTD. Rimbey, Alberta License No. 165690 (403) 843-2747 Sale Site 1-855-783-0556 Toll Free E-mail: abolson@telusplanet.net Homepage: www.allenolsonauction.com
RV TECH AND
MARINE TECH
• Excellent wages & benefits package Please apply in confidence to:
Clothing
301490E17,18
Ryan McDonald 7414 - 50 Ave. Red Deer Fax: 403-347-3388 Email: rmcdonald@gorv.ca
900
1590
NEW ladies Power Walk, made by Natural Sport runners size 9 $20 403-340-1120
EquipmentHeavy
1630
TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
Firewood
– CPR/First Aid Certification – Advanced First Aid Courses – Heart & Stroke Instructor Training – Mobile Service for Groups of 8 or more
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
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WANTED: USED LAWN LOUNGER for young senior. Preferably with cushions, but will take with-out. FOUND
Musical Instruments
1770
VIOLIN, full size with case and 2 bows. $200. 403-986-2004
1660
AFFORDABLE
Homestead Firewood
Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227
Pets & Supplies
1810
SMALL DOG KENNEL $50. 403-346-7375
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Cats
SIAMESE also Belenese (3) KITTENS FOR SALE $50/ea. As well as some free kittens to give away. 403-887-3649
Sporting Goods
1860
ATTENTION GOLFERS, 2 remote control golf club caddys. 1 - Electronic caddy $700. 1- X3R Stewart Golf Dream Machine. $1000. 403-346-6989, 373-2574
Travel Packages
1900
TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.
YOUR CAREER IN
TECHNOLOGY
Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275
Garden Supplies
Web Designer Network Administrator Help Desk Support Analyst PC Support Specialist and more!
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COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE 6’-20’ , equipment for digging, wrapping, basketing, hauling and planting. J/V Tree Farm. John 403-350-6439. ROTTOTILLER, Mantis Electric, w/ kick stand, border edger, aerator, dethatcher & cord management system. $300. 403-227-2653 290213C15-F24
Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.
Household Appliances
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Suites
AGRICULTURAL 2000-2290
Horses
2140
PASTURE for rent, 3 min. East of R.D. 403-347-0293 WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly. 403-651-5912
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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200
APPLS. reconditioned lrg. WANTED • 3250-3390 selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances Acreages/ 403-342-1042 Farms BEAUMARK APARTMENT SIZED FREEZER. EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW Asking $100. 403-341-9908 ON ACREAGE IN RED DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 baths, FRIDGE $75 rent $2000 + DD Marilee 403-341-9990 Avail. now. 403-346-5885 leave msg.
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Cottages/Resort Property
MASON MARTIN HOMES New bungalow 1350 sq.ft. Dbl. att. garage. 403-588-2550 MUST SELL New 2 Storey 1550 sq.ft 3 bdrm, bonus room, 2.5 bath, $379,900. Dbl. att. garage. 403-588-2550
OPEN HOUSE
MASON MARTIN HOMES 1-5, Sat. 18th & Sun. 19th 639 Oak St. Springbrook 403-588-2231 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!
www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273
Condos/ Townhouses
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MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2231
Farms/ Land
4070
One of a kind property! Approximately 182 acres bordering the Red Deer River. Located about 16 kms east of Red Deer. Contact Dmitri at 403-305-0513
RAYMOND SHORES GULL LAKE, 2012 Park model home, on professionally landscaped lot. Fully furnished. Too many extras to list. 403-350-5524 for details.
Businesses For Sale
4140
FAMILY BUSINESS - GAS BAR & CONVIENCE STORE FOR SALE/LEASE Email: kjsservices@live.ca Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds
Lots For Sale
4160
FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe. Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820
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Manufactured Homes
MUST SELL By Owner. Sharon 403-340-0225
LOVE GOLF?
Walk-out view lot (.40 acres) overlooking pond, backing W. at Wolf Creek Village. Power, municipal water & sewer to be connected. 10 NEW DUPLEX, 2 suites, yr. Golf membership avail. for $389,900. 2000 sq.ft. valued $30,000. Controls 2 bdrm., 2 bath. Mason in place to protect your Martin Homes 403-588-2550 investment. 403-782-4599
Income Property
4100 4130
Cottages/Resort Property
Out Of Town Property
COTTAGE in Caroline West Country. Great hunting & quadding. Priced to sell under $100,000. 403-740-6592
GOLF, SKI, HIKE, WATER SPORTS, etc. WHITEFISH, MT. Townhouse in Mountain Park subdivision. Over 3700 sq.ft., 4 bedrooms & 3.5 baths. Features include 22’ vaulted ceiling in Great Room with floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, hardwood floors, Dacor stainless steel appliances, in-floor radiant heat, walk-out lower level & more. Slate spa shower & large walk-in closets with built-in cabinetry. House is fully wired for surround sound, security smart home. $599,900 For more information call 403-396-5516.
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159 ACRES, 1288 sq.ft. bungalow, New windows, siding, shingles & fireplace. Good well, underground power, valley location with creek, garden, fruit trees, fences, corrals, steel bins, barn. Seeded to grass. Good hunting, fishing. Immed. poss. $229,000. Preeceville, Sask. 306-547-3319 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT
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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300
FAMILY APT. Near Downtown RD
2 bright bdrms, 1 baths, recently updated. 2 appls. Coin-op laundry. No pets. N/S. Starting @ $950 & Power; SD $950; Avail NOW. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554 LARGE 2 bdrm. bsmt. suite in Blackfalds, own entrance, washer, dryer, fridge, stove, utils. incld, 403-782-7745 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111
159 ACRES, 1288 sq.ft. bungalow, New windows, siding, shingles & fireplace. Good well, power, creek, garden, fruit trees, fences, corrals, steel bins, barn. Immed. poss. $229,000. Hunting, fishing Preeceville, Sask. 306-547-3319
RAYMOND SHORES
GULL LAKE, 2012 Park model home, on professionally landscaped lot, fully furnished. Too many extras to list. 403-350-5524 for details.
MORRISROE MANOR
1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852
NOW RENTING 1& 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/ onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat and hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955
OPPOSITE HOSPITAL
Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., balcony, No pets. $800 rent/SD, heat/water incld., 403-346-5885 PENHOLD 1 bdrm., incl. heat/ water. $685 avail. June 1, no pets 403-348-6594
QUIET LOCATION
SUNNYBROOK
CLASSIFICATIONS
Houses For Sale
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2 bdrm. adult bldg. lower flr. Utils. incld’d $800. mo. Call 403-347-4007
LOGS
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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
2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer
4601 49 STREET
3190
Cute Little HOUSE! BAG for waterbed and heating pads, accessories 2 bdrm 1 bath. GARAGE. $75; blue armchair $20; Fridge/Stove/Washer/Dryer. fold out sponge loveseat Avail. NOW! No pets, N/S. ONLY $1195 + Utils. $40 403-356-1856 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 MAPLE WOOD shelving, Or 403-396-9554 $50; maple wood desk SPLIT level house in w/hutch, $135. newer part of Anders, 4 403-346-3708 bdrm.. 2 baths, laundry, parking in back, fenced NEW KING SIZE CLASSIFICATIONS backyard and deck, n/s, no BOX SPRINGS. pets, $1650/mo., + utils & Sealy Posturepedic. $90. 4000-4190 d.d., close to mini mall 403-343-0745 403-357-0320 OLDER LARGE SYLVAN, avail .immed. 2 Houses HIDE-A-BED. units. 2 bdrm. + hide-aFloral design. Asking $75. For Sale bed, incl., cable, dishes, Great for rec room. bedding, all utils. $1000 Must be able to pick up. -$1400/mo. 403- 880-0210 780-884-5441 WESTPARK, entire house QUEEN SIZE FUTON 5 bdrms., 2 baths, new W/WOODEN FRAME, carpet/paint, fireplace, $40. 403-747-2597 dble. garage, RV parking, WANTED private yard, all appls., Antiques, furniture and $1450 + utils. estates. 342-2514 N/S, no pets. Avail. July 1 2 Birds w/1 Stone Call Alex @ 403-519-2944 WATERBED solid wood SYLVAN LAKE gordonalexandercameron w/drawers and headboard, 1. Executive home five @gmail.com queen $150 403-356-1856 bdrms., three baths, $554,900. (see photo) 2. Modern condo, two Condos/ Stereos bdrms, two baths. Townhouses TV's, VCRs $265,000. Call 403-887-2414 for details. 2 BRDM. Condo Sylvan SPEAKER w/Ipod hookup Lake w/parking. $1200 all$30 obo; Ipod docking station stereo $30; X box with inclusive. Call 403-630-8515 for appointment. 6 games $60 obo; PS 2 ALIX: 2 bdrm. 1 bath, 5 w/6 games $60 obo appls, shows like new. 403-782-3847 $1000 + utils. Avail. June 1, 403-341-9974 Misc. for SOUTHWOOD PARK 486 WISHART STREET, Sale 3110-47TH Avenue, RED DEER 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, 6 yr old 3 bdrm + office/den 20 QUART roasting oven generously sized, 1 1/2 1300 sq. ft. bi-level. Maple $20; 19.2 volt cordless baths, fenced yards, hardwood, 5 piece ensuite variable spd. reversible full bsmts. 403-347-7473, with jetted tub, fireplace, drill, $35; Craftsman spiral Sorry no pets. wet bar, finished oversized cutting saw $50, 6 cu. ft. www.greatapartments.ca garage, underground steel wheel barrow $40, sprinklers, central vac, in-floor Coleman propane lantern Riverfront Estates $10 403-347-2603 Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, heat, water softener. Kitchen bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, has maple cabinets, stain3 TARPS, 14’ X 10’, 12’ X less appls, breakfast bar & blinds, large balcony, 9’, 9’ X 7’ $6/EA; trolley pantry. Fenced yard, deck no pets, n/s, $1195 platform on castors 37” x or $1225 along the river. & ground level stone patio. 24” $15; 2 claw bars All appls. & window coverings SD $1000. avail. 29”/$10; 16”/$5; 2 wood incl. $ 478,000. Call June 1, 403-304-7576 cutting drill bits 1 5/8” x 403-597-1149 or 403-304-8002 347-7545 9 1/2”L $10; 1 3/8” x 18” L $10; garage hand towel BLACKAFALDS WESTPARK paper roll large $3; hand 11/2 blocks west of hospital! Bi-level, saw $5; car safety bar $5; 3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. 2 year old, 3 bdrms., 2 tow rope $10; hitch bar balcony, no pets, n/s, baths, landscaped w/large w/pin and 1 7/8” ball $15; rent $1195 SD $1000. trees, laminate & carpet & hitch bar w/pin $7; post Avail. June 1, lino on dev. main flr. Large hold auger 5” cut manual 403-304-7576, 347-7545 deck, fenced yard. $20; garbage can with lid, Incld’s 4 kitchen appls. galvanized $10; plastic Will consider trade for wrap 15” w/roll large $8; Manufactured farm. 403-600-2257 flower pots various sizes Homes $3, shelf 64”l x 9 1/2”w and FREE Weekly list of 1 3/4” thick $5; 15 - 8 track Newly Reno’d Mobile properties for sale w/details, tapes/case $15; 16 cas- FREE Shaw Cable + more prices, address, owner’s sette tapes $16; phone #, etc. 342-7355 $950/month 403-314-2026 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer Wanda 403-340-0225 www.homesreddeer.com FOOD Dehydrator, with 7 trays, Ronco. LUXURIOUS 1 1/2 DUPLEX 4 Plexes/ Exc. Cond. $50. in gated community in Red 6 Plexes 1 Pair of men’s calf high, Deer. 2 bdrm. + den, 3 bath. rubbher boots, size 12. Phone 403-506-9491 $25. GLENDALE MASON MARTIN HOMES 403-227-2653 2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., New bi-level, 1320 sq.ft. $950 incl. sewer, water & GARDEN CULTIVATOR, garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. 3 bdrm., 2 bath. $367,900. small electric drive, $30. Dbl. att. garage. June 1. 403-304-5337 403-347-1501 403-588-2550 HUGE TRI-PLEX GOLF carry bag $25 obo; MASON MARTIN HOMES on 59th Ave Action Spy books, 4 boxes New bi-level, 1400 sq.ft. Modern open concept, $60 obo 403-782-3847 Dbl. att. garage. $409,900. 2 large bdrms, 1.5 bath, 403-588-2550 JANOME SEWIST 521 In-suite Laundry. NO PETS, SEWING MACHINE. N/S. Avail NOW. Asking $200. 403-341-9908 $1325 & UTIL Hearthstone 403-314-0099 REDWOOD Slabs, (2) Or 403-396-9554 1 for $100, 1 for $75. 403-340-0675
Sale Conducted by:
• Experience preferred but not essential. We will train the right individual. • Benefit Package and winter holidays • Unlimited earning potential
Call Today (403) 347-6676
3 BDRM, 3 bath home , nice deck, new paint & carpet, for over 40 couple with no pets at 7316-59 Ave. Rent $1500/Sec. $1500. Ph: 403-341-4627
Mobile Lot
3040
Rental Department/ Delivery Driver
Employment Training
1720
3020
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Career Planning
Household Furnishings
Houses/ Duplexes
homes
278950A5
Part Time Account Merchandiser
1710
MEDIUM SIZE DEEP FREEZER. $100. 403-346-7375
SAFETY
NEWS PAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for early morning delivery by 6:30 am
Household Appliances
1 bdrm. apt. avail. May 15 Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets. 403-346-6686
THE NORDIC
486 Wishart Street. 6 yr old 3 bdrm + office/den 1300 sq. ft. bi-level. Maple hardwood, ensuite, fireplace, wet bar, garage, sprinklers, fenced yard, deck & patio & more. All appls. & window coverings incl. $ 478,000. Call 403-597-1149 or 403-304-8002
The
Rent Spot
Your Rental Key to Houses, Condos, Suites & More
CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-314-4397 TO ADVERTISE HERE
4601 49 STREET
1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444
Cute Little HOUSE! 2 bdrm 1 bath. GARAGE. Fridge/Stove/Washer/Dryer. Avail. NOW! No pets, N/S. ONLY $1195 + Utils.
3090
Hearthstone 403-314-0099 or 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca
Rooms For Rent
2 BDRM. bsmt, shared kitchen, prefer employed or student. Avail. immed. 403-342-7789, 358-0081 FURN. room, all utils. and cable incld, $425/mo. Text any time or call between 5 pm - 9 pm 403-598-6467 ROOM $600. Blackfalds. All incld’d, furn. 588-2564 ROOM for rent $550./mo. Call 403-352-7417 ROOM for rent. $450 rent, d.d. $350. 403-343-0421
Pasture
3180
PASTURE LAND Avail. for 10 cow/calves, in North Red Deer. 403-346-5885
Walk-out view lot (.40 acres) overlooking pond, backing W. at Wolf Creek Village. Power, municipal water & sewer to be connected. 10 yr. Golf membership avail. valued $30,000. Controls protect your investment. 403-782-4599
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Suicide car bombing kills 15 in Afghan capital including 2 children BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in a blast so powerful it rattled the other side of the Afghan capital. U.S. soldiers rushed to help, some wearing only T-shirts or shorts under their body armour. A Muslim militant group claimed responsibility for the morning rush hour attack, saying it was carried out by a new suicide unit formed in response to reports that the U.S. plans to keep bases and troops in Afghanistan even after the 2014 deadline for the end of the foreign combat mission. The group, Hizb-e-Islami, said its fighters had stalked the Americans for a week to learn their routine before striking — a claim which raises questions about U.S. security procedures. Two children were among nine Afghan civilians killed in the attack. “I can’t find my children. They’re gone. They’re gone,” their father screamed before collapsing to the ground as neighbours swarmed around to comfort him. Two American soldiers were killed, as were four American civilian contractors with DynCorp International. DynCorp, a U.S. defence contractor based in Falls Church, Va., said its employees were working with U.S. forces training the Afghan military when the blast occurred. It was the deadliest attack to rock Kabul in more than two months and followed a series of other assaults on Americans, even as U.S.-led forces are focusing more on training while leaving the fighting militants to their Afghan counterparts. Thursday’s bombing pushed the monthly toll for the U.S.-led coalition to 18, making May the deadliest month so far this year. By comparison, 44 international troops were killed in the same period last year. The overall number of coalition deaths has dropped as Afghan forces increasingly take the lead. The suicide bomber detonated his explosivesladen car at about 8 a.m. and set nearby buildings on fire. The blast left body parts scattered on the street along with the mangled wreckage of one of the U.S. vehicles. Kabul Deputy Police Chief Daud Amin said it was difficult to count the dead. “We saw two dead bodies of children on the ground,” Amin said. “But the rest of the bodies were scattered around.” Thirty-five Afghans were wounded, according to the Health Ministry. Kabul had been enjoying a relative lull in attacks in recent weeks. The last major assault was March 9, when suicide bombers struck near the Afghan Defence Ministry while U.S. Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel was visiting. President Hamid Karzai condemned Thurs-
Authorities say criminal activity not ruled out in Texas plant blast BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST, Texas — Investigators have completed their scene investigation but not ruled out criminal activity as the cause of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed 15 people and flattened part of a tiny Texas town, officials said Thursday. The April 17 blast at West Fertilizer injured 200 and levelled part of the tiny town of West. Officials have spent one month combing through debris and speaking to hundreds of witnesses. “At this time, the state fire marshal’s office and ATF are ruling the cause of this fire is undetermined,” State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy said at a news conference Thursday. A criminal investigation continues. Possible causes of the fire that triggered two explosions have been narrowed to a 120-volt electrical system at the plant, a golf cart or an intentionally set fire, officials said. The golf cart was parked in the seed room and had been recalled by its manufacturer. All that was found of it were a brake pad and an axle. “There’s a history of golf carts actually starting fires,” said Brian Hoback, national response team supervisor for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The batteries hold a charge and
when they fail they can ignite the materials around them. Kelly Kistner, assistant state fire marshal, said investigators estimated that between 28 and 34 tons of ammonium nitrate on the site exploded. But there were about 150 tons of the chemical on the site at the time, including 100 tons in a rail car that did not explode. The chemical that exploded was stored in wooden bins. Kistner said the ammonium nitrate was the equivalent of 15,000 to 20,000 pounds of dynamite. Investigators had ruled out other possible causes, including smoking or a weather-related fire. Officials have determined that ammonium nitrate exploded, but they do not know what started the initial fire. The fire created the conditions for an initial smaller explosion, which Kistner said was only “milliseconds” before the larger explosion. Bryce Reed, a paramedic who responded to the blast, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge he possessed bomb-making materials, but authorities have stressed they have nothing linking Reed to the blast. Federal investigators allege Reed had materials for a pipe bomb that he gave to someone else. The dead included 10 first responders and two volunteers trying to fight the initial fire, which was reported 18 minutes
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before the blast. Rachel Moreno, a spokeswoman for the Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office, said the death toll had officially reached 15 with the determination by a local justice of the peace that an elderly man who died after being evacuated from the nursing home had been an explosion-related death. The nursing home’s medical director previously had said the man died of his pre-existing ailments. Two months before the explosion, the plant reported it had the capacity to store as much as 270 tons of ammonium nitrate, though how much was actually on site when the blast occurred is unknown. Ammonium nitrate is a chemical used as a fertilizer that also can be used as a cheap alternative to dynamite. It was the chemical used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The fire marshal’s office had previously ruled out several possible causes for the initial fire, including another fertilizer stored on site, anhydrous ammonia; a rail car on the site that was carrying ammonium nitrate; and a fire within a storage bin of ammonium nitrate. Daniel Keeney, a spokesman for Adair Grain Co., which owned and operated West Fertilizer, has said the company is co-operating with authorities, but declined to comment further.
U.S. man gets prison, treatment for gruesome beating death of Idaho zoo Patas monkey BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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day’s attack, saying it was the work of “terrorists and enemies of Afghanistan’s peace.” A spokesman for the Hizb-e-Islami militant group, Haroon Zarghoon, told The Associated Press that one of its operatives carried out the attack on two vehicles of U.S. advisers. Zarghoon says the organization has formed a new cell to stage suicide attacks on U.S. and other coalition troops. “The cell had been monitoring the movement and timing of the American convoy for a week and implemented the plan Thursday morning,” Zarghoon said. He said the cell was established in response to reports that the U.S. plans to keep permanent bases and troops in Afghanistan even after the NATO withdrawal. The U.S. has said it wants no permanent bases in Afghanistan after 2014, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai raised eyebrows last week when he announced he had agreed to an American request to keep nine bases. A small American force is expected to remain in the country to assist Afghans in keeping security, but the exact number or mission has not yet been decided. Hizb-e-Islami is headed by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a 65-year-old former Afghan prime minister and onetime U.S. ally. The militia has thousands of fighters and followers in the country’s north and east. The U.S. heavily financed Hekmatyar’s government during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. In recent years, Afghan and NATO troops have been trying to hunt him down. In 2010, U.S. bombs targeted his military chief, Kashmir Khan, in Kunar province; Khan was wounded but survived. However, Hekmatyar’s son-in-law has held peace talks with Karzai and American officials. Hizb-e-Islami has a political arm with a significant number of seats in parliament, though it has tried to distance itself from Hekmatyar and violence. Several of Karzai’s senior aids in the past have been affiliated with Hekmatyar. In a further sign of the complexities of the Afghan insurgency, Hizb-e-Islami is also a rival to the Taliban insurgency, even though both movements share the goal of driving out foreign troops and establishing a state that would follow a strict interpretation of Islamic law. Hekmatyar and the Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Omar, are said to be bitter personal enemies. Thursday’s attack was the second in eight months claimed by Hizb-e-Islami, the last one in September when a female suicide car bomber killed least 12 people in Kabul. At the time, Hizbe-Islami said the attack was revenge for the film “Innocence of Muslims,” which was made by an Egyptian-born American citizen and infuriated Muslims for its negative depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.
BOISE, Idaho — A man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo last fall and brutally beating to death one of two Patas monkeys has been ordered to spend up to a year in a treatment program at a state prison. Michael Watkins, 22, was sentenced Thursday for his role in the Nov. 17 crime that caused shock and outrage in Idaho’s capitol city and beyond. Watkins pleaded guilty in March to felony attempted grand theft for illegally entering the zoo, built in a city park a few blocks from the downtown, and animal cruelty, a misdemeanour under state law. Fourth District Judge Lynn G. Norton rejected defence attorney requests that Watkins deserved probation and would be punished enough by the shame of being “forever known as the man who killed the monkey at Zoo Boise.” Instead, Norton said she wanted a punishment that fits the crime but allows the young father of a seven-month-old son to turn his life around. Prosecutors say Watkins, fueled by a night of excessive drinking at downtown bars with a
friend, broke into the zoo with a plan to capture one of the monkeys. Once inside, he manipulated a lock to get into the primate enclosure and removed the Patas monkey by wrapping it in his jacket and tried throwing it over a fence, according to court records. But the monkey resisted, tried running away and a chase through a small section of the zoo ensued. Ultimately, Watkins lost control of the situation and resorted to violence, kicking the monkey and clubbing it multiple times in the head and upper body and leaving it to die from those injuries, Ada County Deputy Attorney Shawna Dunn said in court Thursday. The monkey’s death stirred shock and outrage in the community, but also traumatized zoo employees who tended to the Patas pair, zoo officials said. It also caused concern about the welfare of the survivor because Patas monkeys are extremely social and the prospect of having it live alone prompted zoo administrators to find a new home or others to adopt. Ultimately, the Rosamund Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York, donated two companions in December.
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Punk was ahead of its time as mainstream fashion influence BUT MET EXHIBIT CATCHES IT UP
NEW YORK — Punk and high fashion can now share the same stage, and a new Costume Institute exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Punk: Chaos to Culture celebrates that influence. It’s an enduring irony that probably makes punk’s rebellious originators cringe — and might make those wearing expensive couture dresses with heavy hardware and sexy slashes a little uncomfortable, too. But when you rip back the shock value of dresses made with garbage bags, others held together by safety pins or staples, skirts with strategic slashes and Tshirts fronted with provocative sayings, punk largely stood on the principles of individuality and authenticity, both so greatly valued in a DIY, Internet-savvy culture. “Despite its best intentions, punk has come to symbolize integrity and authenticity,” said Andrew Bolton, curator of the exhibit, at a preview. Punk was born in the 1970s out of a movement that embraced anarchy, and its fashion reflected that. “Punk fashion started from the street and percolated up, and suddenly couture seemed out of touch and not relevant,” said Hamish Bowles, Vogue’s international editor at large. “Designers had to find a way to get in on it.” By now, the Dolce & Gabbana graffitisplashed ballgowns or Burberry leather jacket covered in ultra-sharp spikes worn over a delicate lace cocktail dress would be very much at home on the catwalk or in the pages of Vogue. And as the collective eye has adjusted to some of the distressed looks that seemed so revolutionary then, leading designers of the day, including Vivienne Westwood, who with partner Malcolm McLaren put naked men on shirts that gave literal meaning to graphic Ts, have since designed Oscar gowns for the likes of Helen Mirren. What might be more unsettling to exhibit visitors is how nostalgic they might feel for the accoutrements that dot the recreated WestwoodMcLaren’s Kings Road shop, Clothes for Heroes, in London, including a heavy-handset telephone, cassette tape and big-box TV set. And the site of a recreated — and dirty — rock club CBGB’s bathroom inside the hallowed Met is equally impactful and interesting. Bowles said punk was the forerunner to grunge, which also made some tastemakers cringe when Marc Jacobs first put it on the runway in the early ’90s. Just look at where the flannel shirt and henley T — and Jacobs’ prestige — are now, however. “Punk was so potent and powerful, it was a movement that just clicked,” said Bowles. “Even if it was subliminally, it changed how we all think about dressing, even to people who might have been revolted by it at the time.” Bolton said he wanted to represent the two driving forces of punk fashion: the angrier, political statements coming from London punks and the more music-centric, club-kid predecessors in New York. They eventually came together to wear leather garments that played on the themes of peace,
love, war, pornography and bondage; hardware decorations such as grommets, studs, zippers and spikes that made them seem tough and untouchable; chaotic silhouettes that put pants where the sleeves should go, fronts where the backs belong and bare spots where one is expecting a little coverage; and materials that quite literally came from the street, including plastic trash bags, discarded newsprint, even mailing envelopes. Again, there’s a paradox in that the rebellious punks could have inspired all the politically correct slogans that remind us to “reduce, reuse and recycle.” Top designers certainly tapped into them, too, with Gareth Pugh’s dress that uses bits of garbage bags for a featherlike effect, John Galliano’s
Christian Dior newsprint dress and the bubblewrap looks from Alexander McQueen’s 2006 Rubbish Collection. Overt sexuality certainly was part of the punk culture, and how could dramatic designers resist that? Gianni Versace’s safety-pin dress practically made Elizabeth Hurley a household name in 1994, and the red harness gown that Hilary Rhoda wore in the Dior 2007 haute couture show also on display certainly turned heads. Then, there is the barely there finale look by Maison Martin Margiela. To call it minimalist doesn’t do it justice. Rhoda hosted the joint red-carpet report by Vogue and the Met for a fundraising gala that gave a sneak peek of Chaos to Couture to celebrities, designers and
top models. She said she tried to go with a punkinspired look, a sheer sparkly top and leather pants by Wes Gordon, that would capture the edgy spirit of punk without looking like a costume. Singer Debbie Harry of Blondie and designer Westwood, both key punk players, attended, and both were represented in the exhibit inside. (Harry wore a studded Tommy Hilfiger jacket and a skull hair accessory. Westwood was dressed in a pastel ballgown and cape covered with a “Truth” pin of Bradley Manning, the army private involved in the Wikileaks espionage case.) Online http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/punk
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Katy Perry attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit celebrating PUNK: Chaos to Couture in New York.
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