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When Arash Usmanee steps into the ring on Aug. 23, he’ll be fighting for his place in

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BY DOUG ROWE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE On Aug. 23, in Verona, N.Y., Red Deer boxer Arash Usmanee will be fighting for the super-featherweight championship of the world. If he wins, he will be the first man from Alberta to ever achieve that honour.

“History when it is made, only happens once, you can’t make it happen again,” said Usmanee, 31. “It (the historical significance of the fight) is more important than anything. I am not fighting for money. I want this history and it is the most important thing for me to do!”

Six months ago, fighting for a world championship seemed like a distant

hope for the professional boxer. After losing a controversial decision to Rances Barthelemy on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights, for the No. 2 ranking in the International Boxing Federation, the Canadian fighter saw his ranking drop and his dreams fade.

However, in a scene taken from the movie Rocky, IBF Champion Argenis Mendez and his team went on public record, that Usmanee was the real winner of the fight against Barthelemy, and therefore deserved to be their next title defence.

“I thank him for recognizing that and giving me the opportunity and acknowledging that I won the last fight,” said Usmanee.

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Caterham blat lures sports car owners from U.S., England

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Getting sports car owners to ship their pride and joy almost 7,000 km for a 10-day drive through some of Canada’s most picturesque regions was not a tough sell.

Terry Johns, a race car driver and instructor at Fort Saskatchewan’s Stratotech Park, is one of two Alberta owners of a Caterham, a sports car that is rare in Canada but is popular and beloved in Europe.

“When you look at cars like the Corvette or the Viper, the Caterham will eat these things for breakfast,” said Johns, who moved from England to Red Deer in 2005.

Costing anywhere from $50,000 to $120,000, Caterhams were never officially imported to Canada by the manufacturer, leaving people who wanted the vehicle having to import them individually.

“Most of us English people think North Americans buy cars by the pound, the bigger they are the better value for money they are,” said Johns.

“The Caterham is a very small car, weighs just over 1,000 pounds (453 kg) and when you stand beside it, it comes up to the top of your knee.”

But what the Caterham lacks in size and mass, it makes up for in performance.

He and 15 other owners of Caterhams are going on a blat, called a cruise in Canada, from Red Deer out to Vancouver Island, by way of Jasper.

Six of the owners and their wives have had their cars shipped from England. They arrived in Calgary with their cars on Tuesday and will spend two nights in Red Deer before they embark on their journey. People are also coming from Texas, California, Alaska, Florida and other parts of Canada to

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John Mccallum shows off his Caterham 7 in the Red Deer Advocate Parking lot on Tuesday afternoon. The vehicle, which has only been on the road for a month, will be part of a rally featuring many foreign vehicles. participate in the drive.

“It is going to be the biggest gathering of Caterhams ever in Canada,” said Johns. “It is a very rare car here in Canada.”

Caterhams were first made in 1957 and Johns calls them the performance yardstick for sports cars.

Johns bought his first Caterham in 1975 when he still lived in England.

He had wanted one for a few years and sold his Jaguar to raise the money for his first Caterham. On top of racing, he helps people in North America who are trying to acquire Caterhams.

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“Many of the people coming have never been to Canada before,” said Johns. “We’re driving amongst the wildlife and we’re going to warn them about Canadian drivers and their observation skills.”

Originally they had planned to start in Wetaskiwin and go through Edmonton to get to Jasper, but Johns changed his mind and decided it would be more scenic to start in Red Deer and head to Nordegg before going north to Jasper. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Some foolhardy Central Albertans have floated down the Red Deer River on flimsy, plastic blow-up mattresses, wearing nothing but their bathing suits.

Others have drifted for miles downstream while straddling rubber tires, with no oars or life-jackets in sight.

One party-hardy group was all set to hit the river while seated around the sides of a round rubber dinghy — its centre loaded with ice and beer cans, recalled Bob Dixon, Red Deer County’s senior patrol officer.

“There are a dozen recipes for disaster . . . People have no idea . . . ” added Dixon, who admitted he has pretty much seen it all when it comes to folks failing to have foresight, or observe water safety rules.

Each sunny summer weekend, patrolling county peace officers give out warnings and $115 liquor fines and some people still think they can sneak alcohol onto their boats or rafts.

Under the Provincial Gaming and Liquor Act, consuming alcohol in public places — including while floating down a river — is prohibited.

“Usually we try to educate people to get them to comply,” said Dixon.

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University of Alberta looks at reducing number of professors to cut budget EDMONTON — The University of Alberta is looking at reducing its number of professors as it continues to struggle with a multimillion-dollar funding shortfall.

The province announces a post-secondary funding cut of about seven per cent in March.

In response, the university originally proposed a three-year plan, which would have seen its budget reduced by $28 million a year.

But the university officials say they have been in-

formally told by the province to “move more rapidly” to balance the budget.

That means the school is now considering a fasttracked two-year solution, which would see $56 million cut from next year’s budget.

To try and make up the difference, the university announced on Tuesday that it will be offering voluntary severance packages to staff.

“About 75 per cent of our operating budget is in the form of compensation — salary and benefits,” said acting provost Martin Ferguson-Pelland. “So it’s without a doubt an area that we have got to address and look to see whether or not we can make some significant savings.”

NDP MLA David Eggen is worried about some of the potential implications of cutting staff.

“We’ll end up with larger class sizes, students will have to pay more, and the quality of instruction will suffer,” he said. “You can’t just take that much money out — 10 per cent of the whole budget — and not expect to see devastating consequences.”

Water from Kootenay River now safe to drink after B.C. fuel spill in creek CASTLEGAR, B.C. — Some of the water restrictions put in place after a tanker truck spilled its load of jet fuel in a southeast B.C. creek have been lifted.

Health officials say it’s now safe for residents to use water from the Kootenay River above and below the Brilliant Dam. The river has also been cleared for recreational users, but the Interior Health Authority says containment booms are still up in the water and wires and chains used to keep the booms in place could be safety hazard.

The do-not-use order remains up for those who draw water from Lemon Creek and the Slocan River.

The health authority says garden vegetables, fruit, eggs and dairy milk that were in contact with the fuel vapor are safe to consume, as long as they don’t smell like fuel.

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USMANEE: Approaching the summit Even though Usmanee has won five Canadian amateur championships, is a two-time Ringside World champion, a former North American Boxing Association superfeatherweight champion and World Boxing Council Continental Americas lightweight champion, he has fought in relative obscurity for most of his boxing career.

The loss on Jan. 4 — the first of his professional career — has actually turned into a big win for the former Red Deer Boxing Club fighter. Since the controversial decision, he has received more fan mail, support, interviews, and recognition than he has ever received in his previous 13 years of boxing.

The support has included ESPN colour commentator Teddy Atlas, who was vehement that Usmanee was the real winner of the Barthelemy fight.

“The bad thing is I got a ‘L’ on my record and the good thing is that I have three times the amount of people following me than I did before,” explained the boxer. “I want to thank my people . . . My Afghan, my Canadians, my friends, my family, Islamic, nonIslamic, my fans from all over the world. Everybody who is watching me, I appreciate them very much!”

“At times like that last fight, you have no idea how difficult it is to come up from a fight like that and how discouraging it is as a fighter when you win like that and then you get robbed. It totally takes the passion, the desire to follow your passion. But when you hear fans, genuine fans telling you from their heart, that kind of boosts you to say, ‘I am going to give it another go.’”

The loss has also given Usmanee a chance to be more than just an athlete. He is now attracting media attention in his homeland having recently been interviewed by an Afghani radio station and the Afghani sport website: SportAf. The Canadian is extremely proud of his Afghani heritage. Having lost his father to a Russian rocket, he is very aware of how violence plagues his homeland, and he wants to make a difference.

In Usmanee’s mind, Mendez is the man to beat in his division. The fighters match up on paper remarkably well. The boxer from the Dominican Republic, like Usmanee, has extensive amateur pedigree, with well over 200 fights, and is a former Pan American Boxing Championships gold medalist. As a professional, the Canadian has a 20-1 record with 10 KO’s, while Mendez comes in at 21-2, having stopped 11 of his opponents.

“We are matched up pretty well. Our records are pretty close. He was a high level amateur. I fought a few undefeated guys (as a professional). He has not fought too many, but the last few fights he has fought pretty tough, world calibre opponents. We were brought up the right way and the last few fights we have both been fighting world calibre opposition.

Our experience is about the same level.”

One advantage the Canadian does have going into this bout is that the world has not yet seen the best of Arash Usmanee. Two weeks into training for the Barthelemy bout, Usmanee injured his shoulder, an injury that would have forced most athletes to withdraw from the contest.

“Prior to that fight, a month and a half before, I sprained my shoulder. After that, I didn’t do any upper body work and . . . in my opinion I didn’t have enough sparring for the fight. Those are major things.

“Everything is 100 per cent heading into this fight!”

Usmanee has also moved his camp from Montreal

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A large group of rafters relax as they pass the Great West Park boat launch on the Red Deer River on Tuesday afternoon. While the river usually has more rafters and tubers on the weekend, several groups of people could be spotted heading downstream. to Las Vegas where he is now training with former world light heavyweight champion Eddie Mustafa Muhammed. He believes the former champion is providing him with a different ideology on the sport of boxing.

“As a pro every fight counts and every fight is very important, but all of those fights point in this direction and to this summit. Everything that I have done has prepared me for this moment right now. Like being on top of Mount Everest and just about to throw down your flag. It is the highest point in my career. It is very important, it is the summit.”

Doug Rowe is a Red Deer freelance writer

SAFETY: Life-jackets must be carried at all times But peace officers have come across boating parties who have already consumed copious amounts of beer while still in the parking lot.

Since this makes them less than lucid before even getting to the river, these people are usually slapped with fines, added Dixon.

“You’re not making good decisions if you have consumed alcohol or have heat stroke” — which brings him to the subject of preparedness — or lack there of.

Too many people get into a boat or raft with just the clothing on their back, which might consist of a bathing suit or skimpy shorts and a T-shirt, with shoes and life-jackets seemingly considered optional.

Actually, Dixon said life-jackets must be carried at all times. “A lot of people don’t realize that when you get on a raft on the river, this is considered a vessel and you are supposed to have life-jackets with you, along with safety gear,” including signalling devices.

Being a strong swimmer won’t matter if you get pulled underwater by an undertow and get snagged on log, he added, noting that the river bottom chang-

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es configuration after each spring of high water flow.

Sections of the river that used to be shallow can get carved deeper by debris.

“You may have rafted down the river 100 times, but each time is a different experience.”

Dixon also urges that sturdy vessels be used for river trips. Hidden debris or rocks can easily tear flimsy water mattresses, he added, and the next thing you know you are stuck on an island waiting for rescue — or seeking help at a farmhouse after trekking across a field.

Innisfail RCMP, the county fire department and technical rescue team were all involved in a search for five 12-14 age girls who got lost while floating down the river last week from Red Lodge Provincial Park near Bowden. The girls turned up some eight hours after they disappeared, having to walk back to the park without proper footwear.

Dixon believes that they, like many tubers, couldn’t recognize their bearings from the perspective of the river and overshot the park limits.

A lot of boaters also seriously underestimate the amount of time it takes to get from point A to point B on the river.

When the flow slows after spring snow has melted, vessels might only float at a rate of a few kilometers an hour down the Red Deer River. “If you need to go down the river three or four miles, and you’re only going one to two miles and hour, it will take you two to three hours to get there,” said Dixon, who has known people who have had to travel six to eight hours to get to their pickup destinations.

That’s a lot of time to be cooking in the direct sun, which intensifies around water.

Dixon said he can’t stress enough the need to bring sunscreen and plenty of drinking water on river trips — as well as a hat and extra clothing that allows you to cover up.

Heat stroke and dehydration can sometimes be serious enough to require hospitalization, added Dixon, who would like Central Albertans to think ahead and enjoy safe trips down the river, so that emergency resources are only used for true emergencies. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Entertaining bear video raising awareness

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — An Internet video is teaching hundreds of thousands of people around the world that backscratching is one of the bear necessities for grizzlies in the foothills of Alberta.

Taken over a three-day period and posted to YouTube by Alberta Parks conservation officer in late July, the flick, titled What goes on when you are not there, shows a variety of wildlife captured by motion-sensor cameras as they visit what’s known as a “communications” or “rub” tree.

As of Tuesday, the video had more than 1,462,000 views and had been fea-

tured on Good Morning America and the ABC Nightly News and even the Colbert Report.

There are several different animals in the video, but the grizzlies are the stars, rubbing up against the tree, at one point, four at a time. Set to folksy music, they appear to be dancing.

“Kananaskis Country is one of the few places that does have a healthy grizzly bear population and these rub trees are very important in their social structure. They aren’t scratching an itch, it’s all about scent,” said Glenn Naylor, who put the video together.

“Every bear that goes to those trees leaves a mark and rubs its scent on the tree. Over time, these trees become destination points for bears so if you

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can find them you know you’re going to get bears showing up there.”

Using video editing software, Naylor put the thousands of images together and then got permission from Toronto guitarist Ewan Dobson to use his music in the background.

“I was very pleased. It turned out to be very entertaining,” said Naylor.

“The bottom line is it’s getting giving Alberta Parks, Kananaskis Country and our research into bears a huge profile. There’s a lot of spinoffs to this now. It is raising awareness.”

Comedian Stephen Colbert had fun with it on his satirical show.

“I’ve said it before folks, but I’m anti-bear,” he deadpanned, with stripper music playing in the background

over the video.

“And that brings me to the No. 1 threat to America — stripper bears.

Folks, these Godless torquing machines are turning our forests into their very own episode of Griz gone wild.

“Who can resist these hot stripper bears? They’re topless and bottomless though they really should consider waxing.”

Naylor said he has done another video involving cougars on a kill and there is another one on the way.

“It’s called Rabbit With a Death Wish,” he said. “I’ve already got the images.” http://www.youtube.com/ watch?vAihvuZiDhsg

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BATH, N.Y. — An Alberta man who was pulled out of a pond in western New York state while trying to rescue a dog has died in hospital.

Authorities say 55-year-old Earl Gallant of Three Hills, Alta., died last Saturday morning at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa. He was pulled out of a pond last Wednesday night at Campers Haven campground in the Steuben County town of Bath, 100 kilometres south of Rochester.

Gallant and some other campers had been playing with remote control cars near the pond when the dog went into the water and started struggling. The 14-year-old Labrador retriever, named Max, had bad hips and belonged to a friend of Gallant, said investigator Jennifer Cole with the New York State Police.

Gallant told the group he could swim and offered to help, she said.

“Shortly after he went in, he was struggling himself and he went under the water . . . the dog pretty much got out on its own.”

Officers found Gallant in 3.6 metres of water. He had been submerged for 13 minutes. He was given first-aid and rushed to hospital.

Cole said the man wasn’t trapped in weeds. “It just appears he might have run out of steam.”

Brothers hailed as heroes for rescue

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KIMBERLEY, B.C. — Two Alberta brothers are being celebrated as heroes after rescuing a five-year-old boy from an underwater vehicle in southeast B.C. on Saturday.

Kimberley RCMP Cpl. Chris Newel said the two men, both in their fifties, were enjoying their long weekend at Whiteswan Lake when a vehicle crashed through the forest and plunged into the water.

A mother had been driving her 16-year-old daughter and five-year-old son along a forest service road toward a number of campsites when she lost control, Newel said, and the vehicle headed straight into the lake.

The mother and daughter were able to escape and swim to shore, but Newel said the son remained trapped in his car seat as the vehicle sank to about two metres below the surface.

The brothers, from Lethbridge and Turner Valley, Alta., immediately jumped into the lake and swam to the boy’s aid. After several attempts, they finally managed to free the child.

“There was a multitude of things that came together at the right time to have a good ending to this,” said Newel, adding the outcome likely would have been tragic if the brothers had not been there.

Newel said a few other people also need to be credited with the boy’s rescue, as they performed CPR on him when he was pulled to shore and got all three of the vehicle’s passengers to hospital.

The five-year-old is reportedly doing well, but several medical tests still need to be performed before he is released. Newel said the mother and daughter suffered no notable injuries.

The RCMP are still investigating why the mother lost control of the vehicle, and brought in an analyst to do a scene examination.

However, Newel said they may “never know the exact reason.”

“It’s your typical gravel forestry road,” he said. “It’s fairly easy to lose control in those types of situations.”

Newel said the vehicle has already been pulled from the lake.

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Jackie Scott, left, who was born out of wedlock in England in 1945 to an English mother and a Canadian soldier and is seeking a judicial review of her exclusion from citizenship based on the 1946 Canadian Citizenship Act, listens to her lawyer Jay Straith as he speaks to reporters outside Federal Court in Vancouver, B.C., on July 22, 2013. Canadian citizenship laws may need to be overhauled if a so-called “lost Canadian” wins her legal battle.

Jackie Scott, 68, was refused citizenship even though she came to Canada with her British mother and Canadian father at the age of two.

Girl with rare disease awaits word on funding

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A government member of the Alberta legislature added his voice Tuesday to the demand for immediate action to save a young girl wasting away due to a rare enzyme deficiency.

Stephen Khan, in a message posted on Facebook, wants Alberta Health Services to fast-track a decision on whether it will fund treatment for the disorder, which causes cellular waste to build up in the body. Khan is the Progressive Conservative member for St. Albert, where three-year-old Aleena Sadownyk lives.

“I urge AHS to move quickly in rendering a positive decision for the Sadownyk family,” wrote Khan.

“Every day is an eternity for this young family, all the while knowing that a treatment for this debilitating disease is at hand.”

Sadownyk has cellular waste building up in her joints and around her heart. A drug called Naglazyme can arrest the build up, but can’t do much for the damage already done.

The drug costs at least $300,000 a year to administer and has yet to be approved for use in Canada. It has been approved in numerous other countries including the United States.

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Aboriginal leader questions motivation behind shooting EDMONTON — An Alberta aboriginal leader wants an agency that investigates police shootings to determine whether racism was a factor in a weekend traffic stop that ended with two men being shot.

Muriel Stanley Venne, chairman of the Aboriginal Commission on Human Rights and Justice, says the incident may be another reminder of the discrimination against aboriginal people by the justice system.

Lance Cutarm, 30, died while his brother, Larron Cutarm, 41, suffered chest wounds after the vehicle they were riding in was stopped Saturday by a Mountie at Pigeon Lake.

Their father, Larry Cutarm, says

receiving the synthetic enzyme through special exemptions funded by provincial governments in B.C., Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan.

Khan said he has been working with health officials for a month trying to get the drug approved under the Short Term Exceptional Drug Therapy program.

Under the short-term program, the enzyme replacement would be provided for six months.

Health Department spokesman John Muir said Tuesday that an arm’s-length panel of medical experts is looking at the application.

He said the panel wants to move carefully given the drug has not been approved for use in Canada.

“We don’t want to be in a position where anyone is rushing a clinical review. We want to ensure that this drug is most appropriate for an individual and it’s done on a case-by-case basis,” said Muir.

He said the government received the request in mid-July and that the reviews generally take a few weeks to complete.

He said about 1,000 applications are made a year under the program and that 94 per cent are approved.

Sadownyk has already been denied funding for the treatment under the Alberta Rare Diseases Funding Pro-

gram.

The Wildrose party wrote to Health Minister Fred Horne last week, criticizing the delays, urging he intervene personally to OK the treatment for Sadownyk.

“There have been major barriers thrown up in accessing this drug for Aleena, and each day of delay provides another opportunity for the irreversible symptoms of the disease to progress,” Wildrose critic Heather Forsyth said in a correspondence to Horne.

Muir said it would be improper for Horne to intervene.

“You don’t want to make it about politics at all. You want to leave those medical decisions to clinicians who have that expertise,” he said.

He said the Sadownyk family was denied funding under the rare diseases program because the drug didn’t qualify as it had not received general market approval through Health Canada.

The disease is called MPS VI, or Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome. Patients lack the enzyme in blood that breaks down cellular waste. The waste then accumulates in the bones, tissues, and organs, leading to stiffened joints, heart and airway blockages, and potential death.

Nine children have the disease in Canada.

he was driving his three sons and his brother to a home after stopping to buy liquor when they were stopped.

He says he was placed in handcuffs as soon as he got out of his truck and the others in the vehicle tried to prevent the officer from beating him when the shooting happened.

The Alberta Serious Incident Re-

sponse Team is investigating.

“The Aboriginal Commission on Human Rights & Justice is gravely concerned after an incident that began as an impaired driving investigation ended with the shooting by an RCMP officer leaving one aboriginal man dead and another wounded,” Stanley Venne said in a news release Tuesday.

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Thanks, loved the coffee HOW SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS RIPPLE THROUGH SOCIETY A nationwide surge in caffeinated generosity briefly had lineups growing at Tim Hortons outlets all over Canada in the past couple weeks.

Anonymous patrons at the coffee and doughnut chain are leaving hundreds of dollars behind to buy a double-double for those next in line, thus sharing cups of joy that have spread as fast as social media can carry GREG a message.

NEIMAN Last week in Red Deer, there was a Facebook and Twitter flurry following a $500 donation left at a restaurant here. Nearly everyone with a smartphone was left smiling.

CBC News reports the trend reached from Yellowknife to St. John’s within days. One donor in Edmonton bought $800 worth of coffees for staff at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, as a way of saying thanks for the care given her father.

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erts on their digital rolodexes.

These kinds of events happen in cycles. And cycles like this spread quickly in our era of both instant communication and instant gratification.

Elizabeth Dunn is an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. She asserts that “people actually get more happiness from spending money on others than spending money on themselves.”

Giving stuff to other people may be a trait hardwired into our brains, she says. It’s what has allowed humanity “to achieve the monumental feats of co-operation that have made our species so successful.”

This kind of thing has even been the subject of scientific study. First, researchers asked their subjects what they thought would make them happier: spending money on something they want or spending the same amount on someone else. Predictably, most would rather spend the money on themselves.

But after they actually spent the money, people reported they felt much better when they bought something for someone other than themselves. As little as a $5 purchase could do the trick.

Happiness, even this fleeting kind, is widely affordable.

So imagine the boost to your psyche if you hang around to watch what hap-

pens when the gift is many times that $5. How good we must feel!

Re-enter the pundit, who wonders what the difference must be between a $500 donation for coffees for people quite able to get coffee for themselves, and a $500 donation to a charity that would provide a hot meal to people who cannot afford one at all.

Somehow, people might prefer the coffee route to happiness, says another expert, Nicole Nakoneshny, a vicepresident at consulting firm KCI and editor of Philanthropic Trends Quarterly in Toronto. She told CBC News that Canadians may be redefining their views on public generosity.

Check the Imagine Canada website and you’ll find that in 2009, there was a significant drop in the percentage of Canadians claiming a tax benefit for charitable gifts. This could not be fully explained by the fact there was a recession on, they said. And even if one factored in the role of tax shelters (whose role I certainly do not understand), the drop was without precedent, and “cause for considerable concern” at Imagine Canada.

Not so much for Nakoneshny.

There are still a lot more Canadians giving to charity than buying coffee.

In Alberta in particular, we have the second-highest participation rate in

Canada (just points of a percentage behind Ontario) and the second-highest median donation rate of $370 a year.

I used to say that people who earn $50,000 a year should be giving at least $500 a year to charity, or they’re not pulling their weight in society. Well, that’s only happening in Nunavut, and there, only for 9.4 per cent of the population.

Nakoneshny says we may be measuring the wrong things. Many small donations that are never reported on tax forms are buying a lot of happiness for a lot of people, she says. With the rise of online vehicles like crowdfunding, people are finding different ways to back a worthy cause that aren’t recorded in official stats.

As a perennial volunteer and fundraiser, I’d obviously rather pick up a few more big cheques. But I do know from experience that even putting a coin or two into the change box at the grocery store gives your day a very nice boost indeed. Dunn, who’s actually studied this scientifically, suggests we all should give it a try. “It’s definitely a cool phenomenon,” she says.

So ... have a good day, eh?

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

World’s most important hamburger The most important hamburger in the history of the world was cooked (but only half-eaten) in London on Monday. It was grown in a lab, not cut from a cow, and it tasted — well, not quite good enough to fool the experts, but then they forgot the ketchup, mustard, cheese, onion, bacon, tomato and lettuce. Not to mention the fries.

“I miss the fat, there’s a leanness to it,” said food writer Josh Schonwald, “but the general bite feels like a hamburger.” Austrian food critic Hanni Ruetzler agreed: “It’s not that juicy, but the consistency is perfect. This is meat to me. It’s not falling apart; it’s really something to bite on.” Even in a blind tasting, she added, she would say that it was real meat and not a GWYNNE soya copy.

DYER Of course she would. It was real meat, grown from a cow’s stem cells just like the flesh of its own body. It tasted lean because the stem cells the experimenters used were only programmed to make muscle tissue, not fat (they’re working on that). The real test was whether tens of billions of lab-grown muscle cells could be organized into something with the consistency of proper meat, not mush, and the lab-burger passed that test with flying colours.

But why would anybody want to pass that test?

What’s wrong with just eating cows — and sheep and pigs and chickens? Far beyond the objections of vegetarians and animal-rights activists, what’s wrong with eating “natural” meat is that there are too many of us, eating too much of it, and we’re running out of land to grow it on.

“Right now, we are using 70 per cent of all our ag-

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“You are going to need alternatives. If we don’t do anything, meat will become a luxury food and will become very expensive. ...”

“Livestock also contributes a lot to greenhouse gas emissions, more so than our entire transport system,” explained Post, a medical physiologist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

“Livestock produces 39 per cent of global methane, five per cent of the CO2, and 40 per cent of the nitrous oxide. Eventually, we will have an eco-tax on meat.”

On meat raised in the open air, that is.

Whereas meat grown in the lab is a potentially inexhaustible resource, and it does far less environmental damage. According to an Oxford University study published in 2011, a tonne of “cultured” beef would require 99 per cent less land and between 82 and 96 per cent less water than its “natural” rival, and would produce between 78 and 95 per cent less greenhouse gas. It would also use 45 per cent less energy.

These are seriously impressive numbers. If Post’s process can scale up successfully, then in 10 or 20 years we could be producing enough meat for a growing global population even though many people are eating more meat per capita as their incomes rise. Moreover, we would be able to turn most of that 70 per cent of agricultural land back into forest and prairie, or switch it to growing grain for human consumption.

“There are basically three things that can happen going forward,” said Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who bankrolled Post’s research. “One is that we can all become vegetarian. I don’t think that’s really likely. The second is we ignore the issues, and that leads to continued environmental harm. The third option is we do something new.”

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“Some people think this is science fiction, I actually think that’s a good thing. If what you’re doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough. ... We’re trying to create the first cultured beef hamburger. From there I’m optimistic we can really scale (up) by leaps and bounds.”

You probably can. Post’s technique involves extracting stem cells from cow muscle tissue and growing them “in vitro” for three weeks, providing nutrients and growth-promoting chemicals. Then the mass of new cells is transferred to smaller dishes where they find themselves between two electrodes — and self-organize into strips of muscle tissue.

Then you give the new muscle tissue some exercise (to bulk it up) by applying small shocks that make it contract. And then it’s hamburger meat, ready to be cooked. Growing an actual steak would be more complex, but in theory it could be done by getting the strips of muscle tissue to take shape on a biodegradable lattice that includes artificial blood vessels to deliver nutrients and oxygen to the interior of the steak.

So let’s assume that you can produce this beef in industrial quantities, complete with fat cells so that it tastes just like the meat that comes from the slaughterhouse. Could you get people to buy it?

No problem. Just price it about 20 per cent cheaper than the “real thing.” Those of us who are keeping up with the Joneses will buy the premium product; the rest of us will buy the one that’s just as good but costs less.

Oh, and why didn’t they eat the whole hamburger on Monday? Because there was no way that you could share out what was left equally between so many journalists, and they sometimes get quite nasty if they’re thwarted. So Mark Post said he’d take it home to his children.

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Boys remembered as fun-loving free spirits

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Python behaviour puzzles experts AFRICAN ROCK PYTHONS KILLING HUMANS LIKE ‘GETTING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING TWICE’ THE CANADIAN PRESS

CAMPBELLTON, N.B. — The deaths of two young boys who police believe were killed by an African rock python while they slept at a friend’s apartment has rattled the northern New Brunswick city of Campbellton where the children were remembered Tuesday as fun-loving free spirits.

Noah and Connor Barthe, aged four and six, were found dead Monday morning after the 45-kilogram snake escaped its enclosure in the apartment, slithered through a ventilation system above and fell through a ceiling into the living room where they were sleeping, police said.

Dave Rose, the great uncle of the boys, said Noah was looking forward to starting kindergarten this fall, joining his older brother at elementary school, before “this awful tragedy.”

“We appreciate the outpouring of sympathy that’s been shown,” Rose told a news conference in Campbellton.

Rose said the boys were spending the day with family friend Jean-Claude Savoie, who took them shopping and to a farm before they returned to his apartment for a sleepover.

“They were two typical children, they enjoyed life to a maximum,” Rose said.

Other relatives and friends of the boys and their family said they could not fathom what happened.

“It’s like a bad dream,” said Shawna MacEachern, who has been a friend of the boys’ mother, Mandy Trecartin, since childhood. “She loved her babies.

They meant everything to her. She was an awesome mother.

“They were both so sweet. They were fun-loving typical little boys.”

Trecartin’s Facebook page shows a mother devoted to and proud of her boys. It features dozens of photos depicting them swimming in a kiddie pool, frolicking at a playground and posing with her for a family portrait.

“My two super handsome boys sporting their Christmas PJ’s,” Trecartin wrote on a photo of the boys with their arms wrapped around each other in front of a Christmas tree last year. She could not be reached for comment.

Her last photo of the boys dated July 30 shows them playing a handheld video game console together.

It is extremely rare for an African rock python to kill humans, reptile experts said Tuesday after hearing of the deaths of two boys in New Brunswick who police say were killed by such a snake.

“It’d be like getting struck by lightning twice in one day,” said Matt Korhonen, general curator at Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo in Ottawa.

“The fact that this snake escaped . . . and killed two kids is very much a freak accident.”

Korhonen, who has Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS Noah Barthe, left to right, Mandy Trecartin and Connor Barthe pose in this worked at the Ottawa reptile zoo since 2000, undated photo posted on the Facebook page of Mandy Trecartin. RCMP in said rock pythons are Campbellton, N.B., said the boys, aged four and six, were found dead Monday not known for killing morning after a 45-kilogram, 4.3-metre long snake escaped its enclosure from an humans, though they exotic pet store called Reptile Ocean, slithered through a ventilation system and are an aggressive species of serpent that got to an apartment upstairs where the children slept. can grow to be very large and powerful.

“We’re all overwhelmed here,” said Stephanie “That doesn’t mean Bernatchez, who shares a mutual friend with Trecarthat they attack and kill people,” he said. “It’s tin and whose children sometimes played with the just that they’re very nervous.” boys.

The RCMP said the 45-kilogram python es“They could have been hit by a car, but a snake? caped from a floor-to-ceiling glass tank inside That’s not something people around here expect.” an apartment in Campbellton, N.B., through a Bernatchez said the boys were well-raised and vent and slithered through a ventilation pipe courteous. before the weight of the animal forced the pipe “They were two kids who were very well brought to collapse, sending it to a living room where up,” she said. “Kind, polite — they loved being toNoah and Connor Barthe slept Sunday night. gether and playing together. They were sociable, The bodies of the four- and six-year-olds were played well with other kids.” discovered Monday morning and the snake has The RCMP said the boys were found dead Monday since been put down. at around 6:30 a.m. in an apartment located above Reptile Ocean, an exotic pet store.

Heroin, opioid addicts need better treatment: paper

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Addiction to heroin and other opioids is a long-term, chronic disease that can’t simply be fixed with a few weeks or months on methadone, a group of British Columbia-based researchers argue in a newly released paper.

Designing treatment based on the belief that most addicts can become drug-free quickly — or even at all — is ineffective and dangerous, the report warns.

The paper, published in the August edition of the journal Health Affairs, says research has repeatedly

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Liberal senator with young bride resigns Senate OTTAWA — A Liberal senator who made headlines in 2011 when he married a woman more than four decades his junior has stepped down amid ongoing health concerns.

Rod Zimmer’s departure, made known in a letter to the governor general, was circulated around the Senate on Tuesday, and comes against the backdrop of an ongoing scandal over improper expense claims.

A spokesman for Liberal Sen. Jim Cowan, the leader of the Opposition in the Senate, says Zimmer’s resignation is strictly health related, and has nothing to do with the ongoing expense review.

His resignation letter was submitted late Friday and took effect immediately, according to a copy of the notice, obtained by The Canadian Press.

Zimmer, 70, has represented Manitoba in the upper chamber since being appointed in 2005 by former prime minister Paul Martin.

A long-time Liberal fundraiser and executive at CanWest Corp. and Manitoba Lotteries, Zimmer has been in and out of hospital several times this year, most recently in May with a respiratory ailment.

He also spent nearly three weeks in hospital last spring battling pneumonia.

Inquest may shed light on why Manitoba man died after 34-hour ER wait WINNIPEG — Winnipeg’s health authority has admitted it failed a homeless aboriginal man in a wheelchair who died during a 34-hour wait in a hospital emergency room, but says race or his social status didn’t play a role in the lack of treatment.

William Olsen, lawyer for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, told the inquest into the death of Brian Sinclair that no single person was responsible for what happened to the

shown detoxification programs that use short-term bouts of methadone or similar therapies, reducing dosages over a period of weeks or months, are ineffective, with as many as 95 per cent of patients who complete such programs failing to stay clean.

One of the paper’s authors, Bohdan Nosyk of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, said treatment programs that focus on abstinence as the end goal represent “the most damaging” aspect of opioid treatment in North America.

“This is a chronic disease, something that is going to have to be fought day by day over a long period — potentially a lifetime,” Nosyk said in an interview

double-amputee.

But he said there is no doubt errors were made.

“A perfect storm occurred,” Olsen told Judge Tim Preston Tuesday in his opening statement. “The WRHA failed him ... at all levels of the organization.”

Sinclair went to the emergency room of Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre Sept. 19, 2008, with a bladder infection and spoke with a nurse. He stayed in the emergency room waiting room until a fellow patient notified a security guard that he was dead. Preston will hold hearings through August then again in October to determine how Sinclair was dealt with.

Canada Games athletes evacuated after domestic disturbance near residence LENNOXVILLE, Que. — More than 40 athletes were evacuated from a university residence at the Canada Summer Games on Tuesday after police were called to a domestic disturbance at a house across the street.

“According to the initial information obtained, an armed man was in a house on Winder Street,” said Martin Carrier, spokesperson for the Sherbrooke Police. “Due to the proximity of residences housing Canada Games athletes, an evacuation order was called.”

Carrier said the 62-year-old suspect, who has no ties to the Canada Summer Games, gave himself up at around 2:45 p.m. ET and was taken to hospital. The suspect could face charges.

“We supported the police and we want to be clear that at no time was any athlete in trouble or in danger,” said Games CEO Luc Fournier.

Family and friends mourn victim of falling steel plate MONTREAL — The family and friends of a language teacher who was killed when he was hit by a falling slab of steel gathered Tuesday for his funeral.

Saad Syed, 32, was walking to work past a construction site in downtown Montreal on Monday when the huge metal plate broke loose from a payloader and hit him.

He was rushed to hospital but was declared dead of his injuries.

His funeral was held at the Islamic Centre of Quebec.

Tuesday.

“That’s difficult for people to accept. I still think there’s a demand that they want this problem dealt with quickly.”

Nosyk said public health policies in Canada generally acknowledge that reality, but, in practice, some physicians and patients still hold onto the notion that treatment with methadone or its lesserknown counterpart, buprenorphine, should be a temporary stop on the way to abstinence.

The situation is worse in the United States, said Nosyk, where detoxification is an essential part of official drug-treatment policy.

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Yemen probes al-Qaida threat

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANAA, Yemen — Yemen was thrust back into the forefront of the international fight against terrorism Tuesday when the U.S. and Britain evacuated embassy staff due to a threatened attack, a suspected U.S. drone killed four alleged members of al-Qaida, and militants shot down a Yemeni army helicopter.

As Westerners flew out of the country, Yemeni authorities launched a wide investigation into the al-Qaida threat to multiple potential targets in the impoverished Arab nation. Security officials said they believed the terror network was seeking retaliation for a U.S.-backed military offensive that has dealt serious setbacks to the terror network’s most active branch, including the death of its No. 2 leader in a January drone strike.

The Yemeni army, meanwhile, surrounded foreign installations, government offices and the airport with tanks and troops in the nation’s capital, Sanaa, as well as the strategic Bab alMandeb straits at the entrance to the Red Sea in the southern Arabian Peninsula, drawing parallels with security measures following the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Aden harbour that killed 17 American sailors.

Authorities also set up checkpoints across Sanaa, searching cars and individuals, especially after night fell. Top government officials, along with military and security commanders, were told to stay vigilant and limit their movements.

Although the immediate threat seemed to be focused on Yemen, the U.S. has temporarily shut down 19 diplomatic posts in the Middle East and Africa. A U.S. intelligence official and a Mideast diplomat told The Associated Press that the closures were triggered by the interception of a secret message between al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and Nasser al-Wahishi, the leader of the Yemen-based alQaida in the Arabian Peninsula, about plans for a major terror attack. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Zawahri

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A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. The U.S. military evacuated non-essential U.S. government personnel from Yemen on Tuesday due to the high threat of attack by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa. also made a public statement on July 30 that exhorted Muslims to kill Americans “in every spot on Earth.”

Yemeni investigators looking into the threat said they believe the motive of the attack was retaliation for the killing of Saudi-born Saeed al-Shihri, who was released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay after nearly six years and later became the No. 2 al-Qaida leader in Yemen. Al-Shihri was later killed in a November drone strike, the militant group acknowledged.

The terror network has suffered a series of setbacks after the military launched an offensive in June with the help of U.S. forces that has succeeded in uprooting it from strongholds in the south. The group had taken advantage of the instability after the Arab Spring wave of revolutions that led to the resignation of Yemen’s longtime leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Yemen’s current president, Abdo Rabby Mansour Hadi, met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House last week, where both leaders

cited strong counterterrorism co-operation.

Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said the U.S. Air Force transported State Department personnel out of Sanaa early Tuesday. The department said in a travel warning that it had ordered the departure of nonemergency U.S. government personnel “due to the continued potential for terrorist attacks,” adding that U.S. citizens should leave immediately because of an “extremely high” security threat level.

Gas explosion rocks city, killing eight Manning’s BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A natural gas explosion wrecked a tall apartment building in the Argentine city of Rosario on Tuesday, killing at least eight people, injuring 63 and causing an evacuation of much of the downtown.

Dozens of people were trapped in the upper floors of the burning building as a huge plume of smoke went up over the country’s third-largest city.

The building’s front and back facades were ripped open, exposing the shattered remains of apartments inside.

Firefighters working from above and below pulled people out of windows and off balconies as the bottom floors burned. The explosion damaged other buildings for blocks around, and fearing a collapse, police closed buildings and schools in a five-block radius.

Rescuers were still looking for people in the rubble.

Rosario Civil Defence Chief Raul Rainone said the explosion appeared to have been caused by a gas leak and confirmed that at least eight people were killed in the blast.

The Litoral Gas company cut off gas flow to much of downtown.

Municipal Health Secretary Leonardo Caruana told Todo Noticias that the injured were being treated in hospitals across the city and that three of

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Firemen stand in debris caused by a gas explosion that has severely damaged a multi-story apartment building in Rosario, Argentina, Tuesday. them had critical injuries.

The fire took three hours to extinguish and left the building in serious danger of collapse, firefighters said.

Buildings were damaged for several blocks surrounding the blast, which sent bricks and glass and cement crashing onto the street. Eleven

schools were evacuated, and several shops and other apartment buildings were damaged.

Security Secretary Sergio Berni offered the services of the border police and coast guard to help local authorities.

Car bomb kills 18 in Damascus suburb

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — A car bomb in a proregime district near the Syrian capital killed at least 18 people on Tuesday while rebels captured a major air base in the north and swept through a string of villages in the heartland of President Bashar Assad’s minority Alawite sect in the west.

The push by the opposition fighters is shaping up to be one of their strongest campaigns against government forces, which have recently captured significant territory in central Syria.

The powerful car bomb struck in Damascus’ suburb of Jaramana late on Tuesday, killing 18 and setting several buildings and many cars on fire, the state-run SANA news agency said.

Syrian state TV footage showed firefighters battling the blaze as residents stared in disbelief amid debris and mangled cars.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Rebels fighting to oust Assad have frequently targeted areas where regime supporters and members of the government and security forces live. Rebel groups linked to al-Qaida have claimed some of the deadliest car bombings and suicide attacks in the capital and beyond.

In the north, rebels captured a major air base, depriving Assad’s forces

of a main post near the border with Turkey and opening up a key road for supplies for their fighters from the neighbouring country.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said members of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant led the battle for the Mannagh helicopter base.

After months of trying to take it, the rebels launched an all-out offensive on Monday, when a Saudi suicide attacker blew up his vehicle outside the command centre, the Observatory said. They captured the sprawling compound before dawn Tuesday, according to another activist group, the Aleppo Media Center.

State media denied the base had fallen, and SANA said the nation’s “armed forces are confronting terrorists with great courage” inside the base. Assad’s regime refers to opposition fighters as terrorists, claiming they are part of conspiracy by the West and Gulf Arab countries like Saudi Arabia to destroy Syria.

At least 10 rebels, including foreign fighters were killed in the fighting, according to the Observatory, which also said rebels had taken prisoner a number of government troops. It did not say how many soldiers died in the fighting.

Rebel victories have been compara-

tively rare in recent months, and Assad’s forces have been on the offensive in central Syria.

Mannagh, in the northern Aleppo province, is deep inside territory dominated by the Syrian opposition. Rebels have been trying since last year to capture it, but faced strong resistance.

FORT MEADE, Md. — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s possible sentence for disclosing classified information through WikiLeaks was trimmed from 136 years to 90 years Tuesday by a military judge who said some of his offences were closely related.

The ruling was largely a victory for defence attorneys, who had argued for an 80-year maximum. Still, the 25-yearold soldier could spend most, if not all, of his remaining years inside a prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

The sentencing phase of Manning’s court-martial is in its second week. He was convicted last week of 20 counts, including six Espionage Act violations, five federal theft counts and a federal computer fraud charge for leaking more than 700,000 documents from a classified government computer network while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2010.

Manning says he leaked the material to expose wrongdoing by the military and U.S. diplomats. He contends he selectively leaked material that wouldn’t harm service members or national security.

At his sentencing hearing, prosecutors are presenting evidence that the leaks damaged U.S. interests. They have focused mainly on the impact of more than 250,000 State Department diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks began publishing in November 2010.

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UN to blame for cholera outbreak in Haiti: study PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti should be held accountable for introducing cholera into the Caribbean nation, a Yale University report said Tuesday.

In the report “Peacekeeping Without Accountability,” researchers from Yale Law School and the Yale School of Public Health said there is ample scientific evidence to show U.N. troops from Nepal inadvertently brought cholera to Haiti in October 2010. It said the world body should take responsibility.

The U.N. has said it enjoys legal immunity from such claims, and rejected an earlier effort by a Boston-based human rights group that sought compensation on behalf of a group of cholera victims who blamed peacekeepers for the outbreak.

The Yale report said the world body “violates obligations under international law by not providing a forum to address the grievances of cholera victims.” By failing to hold itself accountable for causing Haiti’s cholera outbreak, “the United Nations violates the very principles of accountability and respect for law that it promotes worldwide,” it said.

Wildfire rages near Athens ATHENS — Greek authorities announced a series of emergency measures Tuesday to prevent the outbreak of wildfires during a week of high winds and warm temperatures, after firefighters and soldiers spent the night battling a large blaze north of the country’s capital.

Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said the fire risk was “exceptionally critical” for the rest of the week due to strong winds and dry conditions.

With hot, dry summers and seasonal winds that often reach gale force in July and August, Greece has seen swathes of its forest and agricultural land ravaged by fires over the years. In 2007, massive wildfires that swept through woodland and villages, mainly in southern Greece, killed more than 70 people.

Dendias, who held an emergency meeting at the fire service’s operational headquarters, announced a ban on all pedestrian and vehicular traffic through forests and woodland near urban areas from sunset to sunrise, and in some cases throughout the day as well.

Police will be deployed to patrol the forests, augmenting the motorcycle fire service and military patrols already being carried out, he said.

U.S. daredevil survives ‘coffin jump’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SERENA, Ill. — A U.S. daredevil parachuted gently into field Tuesday after managing to free himself from shackles and a locked coffin while plummeting through the air.

Anthony Martin waved to the cameras and the crowd that turned out to watch his stunt after he landed in Serena, Illinois, about 70 miles (112 kilometres) southwest of Chicago.

After being dragged from a plane at about 14,500 feet (4,400 metres) up, the coffin whipped wildly from side-to-side with Martin inside. One of the two skydivers who were steadying the box was hit in the face, but everyone landed safely.

Martin, 47, said that after freeing himself, he got clear of the coffin and tracked it as it fell to the ground, just as he did when he first pulled off the stunt 25 years ago on just his 17th skydive.

Martin, who is from Wisconsin, began studying the art of escape at age 6 after his father shattered his early fascination with magic by explaining the trickery behind a floating pen illusion.

“I thought that skill and knowledge could surpass trickery and magic,” he said.

Martin took locks apart until he understood how the mechanisms operate and are put together.

“At 10 I had pretty much started to specialize in escapes,” Martin says. “By the time I was 13, the sheriff was locking me in his handcuffs. And I was getting out.”

Jumping from a raft into a lake at age 11 — naturally, with his hands cuffed behind his back — whet Martin’s appetite for high risk escapes. So in February 1990, he performed his most dangerous water stunt, in which he was locked in a cage and lowered

through a hole in the ice and into the frigid water at a Wisconsin quarry. It took him one minute and 45 seconds to emerge.

“It was very, very cold,” Martin said. “It doesn’t take long for your fingers, even with gloves, to get numb and lose effectiveness ... you have to work very quickly.”

Martin first pulled off dropped coffin stunt in an August 1988 on just his 17th skydive.

During Tuesday’s jump, Martin laid in-

side a plywood box with his hands cuffed to a belt around his waist and his right arm chained to the inside of the box. The casket’s door was then held tight with a prison door lock for which no key exists; a locksmith scrambled the tumblers.

The box was dragged from the plane and two skydivers helped stabilize it by holding handles on its side while a drogue similar to the parachutes used to slow drag-racing cars and fighter jets further steadied it.

Egypt urged to release Islamist prisoners

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — Two U.S. senators urged Egypt’s military-backed government to release detained members of the Muslim Brotherhood before starting negotiations with the group, warning of worsening relations “if Egypt is not moving to democracy.”

But Egypt’s interim presidency denounced “foreign pressure” in a sign of its growing impatience with international mediations.

Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham spoke after meeting with top military and civilian leaders in Cairo as part of a flurry of international efforts to resolve a standoff between the government and supporters of

the ousted president, Mohammed Morsi.

McCain said “we urge the release of political prisoners,” referring to Brotherhood members who were detained after the military ousted Morsi, an Islamist, a month ago.

“In democracy, you sit down and talk to each other,” Graham said, adding, “it is impossible to talk to somebody who is in jail.”

Graham warned that U.S.-Egyptian relations might otherwise be harmed.

“Some in Congress want to sever the relationship. Some want to suspend the aid,” he said. “We have to be honest to where the relationship stands. ... We can’t support Egypt that is not moving to democracy.”

Egypt’s new government has held firm to a political road map announced July 3, when the military ousted Morsi following

mass protests calling on him to step down.

U.S. and other international officials have urged the inclusion of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood in the political process going forward.

Top Egyptian officials said reconciliation is a priority but only after the Brotherhood renounces violence. They cite sectarian violence in southern Egypt, cases of torture of anti-Morsi protesters and the blocking of main roads.

Ahmed el-Musalamani, a spokesman for interim president Adly Mansour, told reporters that “foreign pressure has exceeded international standards.” He said Egypt will protect “the revolution” — referring to June 30, the day hundreds of thousands of Egyptians revolted against Morsi’s rule.

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Molson Coors Q2 profits grow North American beer maker Molson Coors saw its shares jump Tuesday after the company’s secondquarter profit beat expectations despite dismal June weather and weakened consumer demand.

The Montreal and Denver-based brewer reported that it earned US$278.4 million profit or $1.51 per diluted share for the period ended June 29. That was up from US$105.1 million or 57 cents per share a year ago after recording fewer acquisition-related items and higher sales volumes than last year.

Shares of the brewing company (TSX:TPX.B) gained five per cent to $55.49 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Adjusting for numerous items, Molson Coors earned US$278.6 million or $1.51 per share, up from $250.1 million or $1.38 per share a year earlier.

Canadian sales to retailers were down 4.3 per cent and sales volume for Molson Coors Canada fell 2.6 per cent, which the company attributed to a weak Canadian market and unfavourable weather in key regions.

Pay TV mergers touted Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen says pay TV distributors may have to merge to even the playing field if the government doesn’t curb the power of TV networks in fee disputes. Ergen made the comments during a conference call with investors Tuesday following Dish’s announcement that it posted a secondquarter loss. His comments came amid the backdrop of a fee dispute that has cut off CBS programming to some 3 million Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas for five days.

Ergen complained about the power of major entertainment companies, calling them “essentially monopolies.”

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Garry Bush of Western FRACVAP displays a container of fracking fluid on Tuesday. Bush has developed a system that filters the contaminated water so that it can be reused or released into the air via an evaporation tower.

Cleanup of fracking fluids believed only months away FRACVAP SYSTEM EXPECTED TO CLEAN WATER THAT’S BEEN CONTAMINATED WITH SAND, HYDROCARBONS AND FRACKING CHEMICALS ing water would render it safe to drink, he said, and it would certainly be suitable for reuse in fracking.

Another option would be to pump the processed water into evaporation towers. There, it would saturate the air while leaving any lingering impurities behind.

officials.

“It’s going to happen a lot faster than most people think,” he said of FRACVAP’s commercializaA Red Deer businessman thinks tion. he’s a few months away from adAs more units are produced, dressing one of the fracking industhey’ll be sold or rented out, said try’s most vexing problems.

Bush. The selling price would be Garry Bush has been talking in the $800,000 range. with several major energy comA pair of 50-foot trailers should panies about his be able to carry the FRACVAP system, system, he said, with ‘IT’S (FRACVAP’S COMMERCIALIZATION) which he said can a separate office unit clean water that’s been GOING TO HAPPEN A LOT FASTER THAN also required. contaminated with Processed water MOST PEOPLE THINK,” sand, hydrocarbons could be stored in a and fracking chemi— GARRY BUSH large, transportable cals. bladder, he said.

“I’m hoping to get Two to four trained this started in a month,” he said of Regardless, the system would personnel would be needed to opmanufacturing. provide energy companies with erate a FRACVAP unit, said Bush.

“Half of this is already assem- a relatively cheap and more ef“They have to have knowledge bled down in Baltimore.” ficient way to deal with the large in chemistry, they have to have Leading the project is Western volumes of contaminated water knowledge in water separation, FRACVAP, a division of Bush’s that result from fracking. they have to have knowledge in Tri-Pac Engineering, which speBush said his system will be the oil industry — and knowledge cializes in using chilling systems able to process a cubic metre of and ‘maintenancability’ to keep to recover oil and gas vapours. Al- water, or 1,000 litres, every min- this thing operating.” so involved is Maryland compres- ute.

Bush is optimistic his system sor company J.J. Crewe & Sons What’s needed to transform will have a huge impact on the oil Inc. FRACVAP from concept to real- and gas industry by addressing Bush, who holds trade tickets ity is $250,000 to $300,000 from an one of the more controversial enin refrigeration, air-conditioning industry partner to help fund the vironmental impacts of fracking. and gas-fitting, explained that the cost of construction.

“I’m going after the global marFRACVAP system involves a seOnce that money is in place, ket.” ries of centrifugal, chemical, fil- Bush estimates that it will take Additional information about tration and other processes — re- less than two months to complete the FRACVAP system can be moving not only particulates and the fabrication work. found online at www.westernchemicals, but also residual crude He said he’s received a positive fracvap.com. oil. Adding ozone to the result- response from energy company hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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High Arctic names Doran as international president

Blue Horizon, Cielo close agreement

High Arctic Energy Services Inc. (TSX: HWO) has named Kevin Doran its international president.

Previously the Red Deer-based company’s vice-president of international operations, Doran has been with High Arctic since 2006. A release issued by the company said he “has been instrumental in building its business in Papua New Guinea” and that “the new title reflects his overall responsibility for that business region and other international areas.”

High Arctic has also announced that Dennis Sykora’s position as executive

Blue Horizon Industries Inc. (CNSX: BH) has confirmed that its subsidiary Blue Horizon Bio-Diesel Inc. and its partner Cielo Gold Corp. (CNSX: CMC) have closed their previously announced asset purchase agreement.

Cielo has purchased certain assets and liabilities of Blue Horizon BioDiesel for $4.5 million. The purchase price will be paid through the issuance of common shares in Cielo.

Don Allan, president and CEO of Blue Horizon Industries, said the deal will help commercialize Blue Horizon Bio-Diesel’s interest in green renewable-diesel plants.

OTTAWA — Canadians may soon be paying more for new home loans as Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. begins to clamp down on guarantees for mortgage-backed securities.

The government agency has notified banks, credit unions and other mortgage lenders that they will each be restricted to a maximum of $350 million of new guarantees this month under its National Housing Act Mortgage-Backed Securities (NHA MBS) program.

This year, the federal Crown corporation was given authority to guarantee up to $85 billion under the program but by the end of July, $66 billion had already been committed.

“As a result of this unexpected increase in issuance volumes to date and to better manage volumes going forward, CMHC will be introducing a formal allocation process in late August,” CMHC said in an Aug. 1 note to lenders.

Analysts say the cap will make it harder and more expensive for banks to obtain funds to lend to their customers, which would likely be passed on by way of a bump in mortgage rates.

“The combination of steps the government has taken in the last year, coupled with the beginnings of a sell-off in the bond market... will put a bit of upward pressure on mortgage rates,” said CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld.

“Overall, the days of very cheap mortgages are going to be replaced by cheap mortgages.”

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Officials from Arizona hunt for partnerships Arizona appeals to many Central Alberta pleasure travellers. But it’s also got a lot to offer business people here.

That’s the case a representative of the Arizona Commerce Authority will be making next week during a visit to Central Alberta.

Mike Carroll will speak with business people and others here, tour the region and try to plant the seeds for crossborder partnerships.

Carroll’s itinerary

will include a networking dinner and reception at the Holiday Inn & Suites on Gasoline Alley on Wednesday, Aug. 14, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Cost to attend is $25, with the deadline for registration Aug. 12. Additional information can be found online at http://arizonaandalberta. eventbrite.ca or by contacting Shanna Doupe of Central Alberta: Access Prosperity at shanna. doupe@accessprosperity. ca or 403-356-4935.

The basic language of online investing

PATRICK O’MEARA

EASY MONEY

Do-it-yourself (DIY) investing, more often referred to in today’s world as online investing, has a language all of its own. Understanding this language can help you succeed in managing your investments.

First, lets begin by understanding the two basic types of accounts you can open with an online broker. The type of account you open determines both the risks you will be taking, and how you will be

funding your investments.

A cash account is exactly what it means; you can invest up to the maximum amount of cash you deposit into the account. The total that you are risking in the market is the total cash deposit you make into the account.

Remember that a cash account can be either registered, such as a tax-free savings account or a registered retirement savings plan; or non-registered, which means that

you do not get the benefits of taxfree (TFSA) or tax-deferred (RRSP) savings.

On the other hand, a margin account allows you to borrow funds from your online broker based at a pre-set margin rate. Think of margin as a down-payment.

For example, a stock may have a margin requirement of 30 per cent.

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MARGIN: Leverage very risky This means that if you buy 100 shares at $10 a share you must have a minimum of $300 cash in your account.

Your on-line broker will loan you the remaining 70 per cent, or $700, charging you interest of course.

The interest rate is usually referred to as the call money rate.

As I have discussed in previous articles, borrowing to invest — sometimes also referred to as leverage — is a very risky proposition. I do not recommend it for the majority of do-it-yourself investors.

For example, a cash investment of $1,000 would incur no interest expense, and if the stock rose 20 per cent over time (let’s assume one year) you would reap the full capital gain. On the other hand, if the stock declined over the year, your loss would be -20 per cent.

In contrast, using leverage could potentially result in a return on investment of as much as 53 per cent but at much higher risk.

How much more risk? If this same stock fell by 20 per cent in price, and you had borrowed money to invest, you could suffer as much as a 76 per cent loss.

So margin accounts are not for the faint of heart.

Setting aside which type of account you choose to open, you also need to keep in mind that the price you pay for a stock will not be a single price that fits all investors.

Buying and selling a stock is surely about price.

This might seem obvious but not for the reasons you would think.

Warren Buffet is quoted as saying “price is what you pay, value is what you get.”

This is never more true than in the stock market.

In fact, one investor’s price is not necessarily the same price that other investors pay.

Two investors buying at the same date and time can, of their own volition, pay different prices. Why? It is all about the conditions that you accept at the time of purchase.

When investing, you can choose to buy “at the market” or “at a limit price.”

At the market means that you are willing to pay the current price for a stock. Think of at the market as paying list price for a home or a car that you want to buy.

In contrast, if you do not want to pay list, you can process a limit order in which you specify a price that you are willing to pay. The risk is that your buy order will not get processed because no other investor is willing to sell at your limit price.

The same is true when selling your investments.

You can sell “at the market,” or request a “limit order” that specifies the lowest price at which you are willing to sell your stock.

Investing is not just about returns or making money. It is also about managing the risks that you take to earn those returns.

Stop loss orders can help investors manage downside risks.

For example, if you purchased a stock at $10 a share that later rose in value to $12, you could lock in all or a part of the profits by initiating a stop loss order at, say $11.50.

If the price of the stock drops below the stop loss price of $11.50, your online broker will sell on your behalf, locking in a profit of $1.50.

Of course, as an online investor you need to realize that too much trading (buying and selling) can diminish your return on investment (ROI). Remember, trading costs — money that reduces your ROI. Indeed numerous studies have shown that online investing can encourage a feeling of excitement about trading that overtakes the reason for investing: making a profit.

So, to be successful in an online investing environment you need to have a long-term buy and hold philosophy that emphasizes investing in securities that deliver a consistent internal rate of return, a solid understanding of your personal risk profile (refer to my previous two articles) and a good understanding of the language of online investing.

Finally, remember that in the final analysis you are in control of your financial destiny.

Easy Money is written by Patrick O’Meara, a former instructor at Red Deer College’s Donald School of Business, who is now chair of finance and accounting programs at Centennial College in Toronto. He can be reached at theinnovativescholar@gmail.com.

RATES: Minor hike seen TD economist Diana Petramala, who specializes in the housing market, estimated rates could rise anywhere from 20 to 65 basis points, or the equivalent of 0.2 to 0.65 of a percentage point.

She noted that historically, this is a minor increase.

“Affordability will still remain in the housing market,” she said.

The conversion of loans into securities with CMHC backing is a way for lenders to tap funds from a broad range of investors and enable banks to issue more mortgages at a lower cost.

Analysts said Canadian banks should have no difficulties securing international markets for funding, but it will come at a higher cost. CMHC-backed securities are attractive for both banks and investors since they are largely default-proof.

Fearing an overheated housing market could infect the larger economy, and result in defaults which the government must bear, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has taken a number of steps in recent years to stem the flow of mortgage credit.

Last summer, he introduced tighter rules for mortgage lenders and borrowers — a change that the real estate and lending industries say was the main reason for a slowdown in residential property sales that began last August and continued through the first part of 2013.

As well, the finance minister acted to limit taxpayer exposure to a housing crash by setting limits on banks’ ability to buy bulk insurance from CMHC. Still, Flaherty has been frustrated that banks were priming the house mortgage pump too aggressively, oblivious to the fact that Canadian household debt continued to climb.

At 165 per cent of annual income this spring, household debt reached heights similar to the peak in the United States prior to the 2007 crash that literally broke several banks.

This spring, the minister went so far as to publicly chastise some banks for dropping their mortgage rates too low.

The moves worked for awhile, but in the past few months, housing has been on an upswing, with starts again reaching unsustainable levels near 200,000 annually, sales picking up and prices continuing to record new highs.

“We are starting to see the impact of the changes wearing off... prices in most markets are now rising faster than income,” Petramala said. “So it makes sense that the federal government, CMHC, may want to limit some of the risk-taking in the housing market.”

In last month’s monetary policy report, the Bank of Canada cited the recent developments in the housing market as the top made-in-Canada risk to the economy.

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Workers from Right Side Roofing and Siding remove shingles in preparation for replacement on the AMA and Academy of Learning buildings on 30 Street on Tuesday afternoon.

Exports point to export rebound as sign economy set for strong second half THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s export sector began to exhibit signs of a rebound in June, posting a 1.4 per cent gain that analysts said sets the economy on the road to stronger growth in the latter half of the year.

The bottom-line trade performance was mildly positive — the deficit narrowed to $469 million in the last month of the second quarter, but May’s negative balance was revised to $781 million from the previously reported $330 million.

The consensus for June had been for a weaker month with a deficit of about $600 million based on the expectation that difficulties in the United States stemming from the budget sequester program cutbacks would dampen consumption in the spring and early summer months.

But Canadian exporters posted a strong month. In dollar terms, shipments rose 1.4 per cent to $39.6 billion with metals, motor vehicles and aircraft recording significant increases.

In volume terms, the gain was even bigger at 2.1 per cent, which bodes well for economic output.

Meanwhile, imports increased 0.6 per cent in June to $40 billion, pushed higher by imports of oil and bitumen and aircraft. Prices

of imports grew 1.1 per cent, while volumes decreased 0.5 per cent.

Analysts responded positively to the news although they noted the revision of the May data means net trade will be a slight drag on growth in the second quarter, which most now expect to be in the neighbourhood of one to 1.5 per cent.

But with the sequester drag starting to fade, the rebound in exports — including a 1.5 per cent improvement in shipments to the U.S. — suggests the growth path of the economy is proceeding as anticipated.

“Going forward, this sort of sets us up well in terms of the hand off and that’s what everybody is looking to,” said Francis Fong, an economist with the TD Bank.

“Everything is focused on the second half of the year, and hinging on the U.S. economy picking up and us included. This is consistent with that whole story of the second quarter, maybe not so great, but looking forward it does look more positive.”

As if on cue, the U.S. also posted a strong trade performance in June, with the deficit narrowing to a threeand-a-half year low to $34.2 billion.

The Canadian dollar moved slightly higher on the Tuesday morning trade reports, inching up 0.13 of a cent to

96.38 cents US prior to the opening of stock markets.

Economists were looking for a tell in the June numbers as to whether the Alberta flooding would disrupt shipments and activity, an impact the Bank of Canada predicted could — along with a short-lived Quebec construction strike — drain 1.3 percentage points from second-quarter growth.

But there was little in the numbers to suggest the flooding played a major role.

Economist Jimmy Jean of Desjardins Capital Markets pointed that energy exports did fall 1.4 per cent, but other commodities saw a surge — metals rose 11.6 per cent and metal ores 3.4 per cent.

Exports of farm products also fell by 9.4 per cent, but it was the sixth consecutive decline in the sector, Jean noted.

On the positive side, exports of motor vehicles rose 5.5 per cent, and aircraft shipments lifted by a massive 24.2 per cent.

Overall, exports to the U.S. were up 1.5 per cent to $29.4 billion, while shipments to other countries rose 1.4 per cent to $10.2 billion.

Imports from the U.S. fell 0.8 per cent to $25.6 billion, while exports to countries other than the United States rose 1.4 per cent to $10.2 billion.

Airlines report load factors down from year ago as capacity added

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada’s two largest airlines reported Tuesday that their flights for July were not quite as full compared with a year ago as both Air Canada and WestJet increased capacity.

Air Canada reported a system load factor — the proportion of seats filled on its flights — of 85.6 per cent, down from 85.9 per cent a year ago.

The decrease came as system traffic as measured by revenue passenger miles increased 1.9 per cent and capacity measured by available seat miles increased 2.3 per cent.

The results included the addition of Air Canada Rouge, which began operations on July 1, and the regional airlines that operate flights under contract for Air Canada.

Meanwhile, WestJet’s (TSX:WJA) July load factor slipped to 83.1 per cent as traffic increased 8.3 per cent and capacity grew 11.1 per cent over the month last year.

The Calgary-based airline said it was the second-highest July load fac-

tor it has recorded. It flew nearly 1.7 million passengers in July, a year-overyear increase of 6.5 per cent or about 103,000 additional people.

WestJet launched its Encore regional service at the end of June, while Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) also began service with a new secondary airline, Rouge, in July. WestJet’s June load factor was 76.8 per cent.

WestJet also said Tuesday it has signed a code-share agreement with China Southern Airlines.

The agreement is for select WestJet flights connecting between Vancouver and Edmonton, Kelowna, Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Prince George, Calgary, Toronto and Regina.

“WestJet and China Southern Airlines have had an interline agreement since March 2012 and we are very pleased to see this evolve into a codeshare,” said Chris Avery, WestJet’s vice-president of corporate development. It’s the 10th code-share agreement for WestJet, which has made previous deals with partners including American Airlines, Air France, British Airways and KLM.

CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) says it’s building a $1.5-billion extension to its pipeline system in northeastern British Columbia that will help deliver natural gas to an export terminal planned for Prince Rupert, B.C. The North Montney Mainline will extend TransCanada’s existing Groundbirch pipeline by adding some 305 kilometres of new large-diameter pipe.

Progress Energy, a subsidiary of Malaysian energy giant Petronas, has signed up to ship two billion cubic feet per day on the North Montney Mainline. TransCanada says it’s also in talks with other potential customers.

Progress is planning to build a liquefied natural gas terminal near Prince Rupert so the resource can be exported to lucrative Asian markets.

The North Montney Mainline will link up with a separate $5 billion pipeline that TransCanada is building to connect northeastern B.C. gas with Progress’ Prince Rupert terminal, called Pacific Northwest LNG. TransCanada aims to file a regulatory application later this year for the North Montney line.

The southern segment of the North Montney line should be up and running by the second quarter of 2016, the northern portion a year later, and the export delivery facilities in 2019.

IMF lauds Page for work as watchdog THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The International Monetary Fund is giving high marks to Kevin Page for his work as Canada’s first parliamentary budget officer, but is studiously avoiding picking sides in the PBO’s ongoing feud with the Harper government.

In a review of global budget watchdogs, the IMF devotes nine pages to the trials and travails of Page’s five years trying to shine a torchlight in the government’s murky budget process — and especially on the toxic responses he got from Harper’s ministers.

“Despite the controversy that has often surrounded the PBO, the office has built up a good reputation, both domestically and internationally, and gain(ed) credibility,” the report states.

“The strategy of being front and centre on the fiscal policy issues of the day, combined with transparent reporting, and an active media approach, has proven successful in raising the media profile and the influence of the council.”

The report concludes that the tensions between the government and Page stem from early confusion about the roles and responsibilities of the budget office, which was located in the office of the Library of Parliament and hence gave Page “fewer teeth” than similar officers around the world.

The confusion became real when Page, determined to operate transparently, decided from the outset to make his reports public, whereas the “Library of Parliament provides confidential services to members of Parliament.”

Page went further in courting the media, the IMF notes, even offering briefings on how best to understand and use his reports.

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Tuesday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 84.63 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.72 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.55 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.91 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.90 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.68 Cdn. National Railway . 102.80

Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 128.88 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.91 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.91 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.60 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 36.06 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 45.61 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.14 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.75

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market finished Tuesday with a tripledigit decline as weaker gold stocks led a wider downwards shift, despite encouraging trade data from the United States.

The S&P/TSX composite index was down 133.93 points to 12,469.32.

The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.13 of a cent to 96.38 cents US after Statistics Canada said the trade deficit was $469 million in June, an improvement from a May deficit of $781 million, which was bigger than initially reported.

Meanwhile, south of the border, the U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in June to its lowest level in more than 3 1/2 years. The Commerce Department says the U.S. deficit for June fell 22.4 per cent to $34.2 billion.

That’s the lowest since October 2009 and down from May’s revised imbalance of $44.1 billion.

On Wall Street, the Dow was down 93.39 points to 15,518.74, the Nasdaq fell 27.18 points to 3,665.77 and the S&P 500 was down 9.77 points to 1,697.37.

In commodities, December bullion pulled back $19.90 to US$1,282.50 an ounce, falling to its lowest level in nearly three weeks. The TSX gold sector was the biggest decliner as Goldcorp (TSX:G) fell $1.73 to $26.26 while Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) slid $1.12 to $16.25.

The TSX metals and mining sector was off 1.2 per cent as the September copper rose half a cent to settle at US$3.17.

The September crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange moved down $1.26 to settle at US$105.30 a barrel.

BlackBerry (TSX:BB) shares were seven per cent higher, up 64 cents to $9.91, after Samsung announced that BlackBerry Messenger will soon be available on its smartphones in Africa. The BBM service is expected to roll out across Android and Apple’s iPhones in the coming months.

Stocks appear to have come off the boil in recent sessions as the run of corporate and economic news that marked the turn of the month has slowed down.

The main focus in markets remains on when the U.S. Federal Reserve will start to reduce its monetary

stimulus. At present, the Fed is buying $85 billion worth of financial assets a month in an attempt to keep long-term borrowing rates low and inspire growth. Economists remain divided on whether the Fed will start the so-called tapering in September or wait until later in the year.

In earnings, Molson Coors Brewing Co. (NYSE:TAP) (TSX:TPX.B) delivered a bigger profit in the second quarter, handily beating analyst estimates. The North American beer maker says its profit from continuing operations in the second quarter was US$276.7 million — $1.50 per share, or $1.51 with discontinued operations included. Analysts had estimated US$1.38 per share of adjusted earnings and US$1.41 of net income. Its shares were up $2.80 to $55.49.

Cheese and dairy producer Saputo Inc. (TSX:SAP) reported a $136.7 million first-quarter profit, up from $121.8 million a year earlier. It also raised its dividend by two cents to 23 cents per share. The company expected to immediately benefit from its acquisition of Morningstar Foods in January, which it recently bought for US$1.45 billion. However, Saputo says it faced higher non-cash charges related to the deal, as will as higher interest expenses. Its shares dropped 45 cents to $47.24.

And WestJet (TSX:WJA) says its July load factor slipped to 83.1 per cent as traffic increased 8.3 per cent and capacity grew 11.1 per cent over the month last year. The company’s stock gained 20 cents to $21.56. Its rival, Air Canada, said its load factor was 85.6 per cent, down from 85.9 per cent a year ago. The decrease came as system traffic as measured by revenue passenger miles increased 1.9 per cent and capacity measured by available seat miles increased 2.3 per cent. Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) shares dipped six cents to $2.12.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Tuesday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,469.32 down 133.93 points TSX Venture Exchange — 912.83 down 10.73 points TSX 60 — 714.49 down 8.52 points Dow — 15,518.74 down 93.39 points

General Motors Co. . . . . 35.96 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.05 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.38 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 41.07 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 49.94 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 31.32 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 14.10 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.43 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 84.80 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.21 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 12.56 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.90 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 13.68 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.47 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.51 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 59.70 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.87

OTTAWA — With European trade talks in hiatus if not limbo, Canada’s trade minister is turning his attention to market-liberalizing opportunities in Asia this month.

Trade Minister Ed Fast will be travelling to Brunei on Aug. 21 for a meeting with counterparts of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), piggy-backing that event with a ministerial meeting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Aug. 22-30.

The announcement of a TPP ministerial meeting one month earlier than planned in Brunei ends rumours that Vancouver would host the next round, but also heightened speculation that the 12-country group was close to completing the technical work.

The U.S. has set an ambitious goal of end of the year for completion of the TPP talks, with a possible announcement of a deal in principle coming as early as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in October.

Trade analyst Stuart Trew of the Council of Canadians says there is little chance the TPP could be wrapped up this year.

Trew said the goal was to have an agreement in principle for leaders to

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 16.25 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.07 First Quantum Minerals . 16.20 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.26 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.36 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.13 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 30.54 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.79 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.47 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 26.54 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 51.00 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 47.43 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.90 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 50.33

Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 32.02 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.46 Canyon Services Group. 12.37 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.39 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.760 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 18.42 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 2.652 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 91.47 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 45.85 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.65 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.29 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.37 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.87 Penn West Energy . . . . . 12.43 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.610 Precision Drilling Corp . . 10.84 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.63 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.41 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.64

Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.79 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 57.27 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 63.83 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 57.81 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.54 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.97 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.60 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.49 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 47.98 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 61.52 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.39 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 77.98 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.65 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 64.04 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 33.17 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.11

S&P 500 — 1,697.37 down 9.77 points Nasdaq — 3,665.77 down 27.18 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 96.38 cents US, up 0.13 of a cent Pound — C$1.5924, up 0.39 of a cent Euro — C$1.3807, up 0.03 of a cent Euro — US$1.3307, up 0.21 of a cent Oil futures: US$105.30 per barrel, down $1.26 (September contract) Gold futures: US$1,282.50 per oz., down $19.90 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.147 per oz., down 36.4 cents $679.88 per kg., down $11.70 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 912.83, down 10.73 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 113.10 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $18.10 lower $475.50; Jan. ’14 $17.10 lower $480.30; March ’14 $16.50 lower $485.70; May ’14 $14.90 lower $490.00; July ’14 $14.60 lower $492.90; Nov. ’14 $14.60 lower $475.00; Jan ’15 $14.60 lower $475.00; March ’15 $14.60 lower $475.00; May ’15 $14.60 lower $475.00; July ’15 $14.60 lower $475.00; Nov. ’15 $14.60 lower $475.00.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’13 unchanged $189.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $194.00; March ’14 unchanged $194.00; May ’14 unchanged $194.00; July ’14 unchanged $194.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $194.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $194.00; March ’15 unchanged $194.00; May ’15 unchanged $194.00; July ’15 unchanged $194.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $194.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 243,960 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 243,960.

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announce in October, but insiders say there are at least five major issues still to resolve, including the big ones on market access and tariff elimination.

If successful, the TPP would constitute Canada’s biggest trade deal since the North American agreement two decades back, encompassing a combined population of about 790 million people.

The TPP, however, also includes countries with which Canada already has signed trade agreements, particularly the U.S. and Mexico.

Officials still hold out hopes that Ottawa will eventually be able to hammer out a deal with the European Union this fall, after leaders and officials on the continent return from the traditional August break.

The Conservative government has made expanding exports through a series of new trade deals with Europe, the TPP countries, Japan and India a centrepiece of the strategy for future economic growth.

But as critics have noted, Ottawa has not been able to pen a significant deal in 20 years.

Fast was expected to confirm his participation in Brunei at a late afternoon event in Vancouver, at the opening of a new Namco Bandai Studios Inc. online game development studio.

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Saputo Inc. Chairman Lino Saputo addresses shareholders during the company’s annual general meeting in Laval, Que., Tuesday.

Saputo boosts dividend but warns of challenges

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAVAL, Que. — Dairy and cheese giant Saputo boosted its dividend Tuesday but warned that stagnant domestic growth and intense competition will eat into the benefits of a recent acquisition in the United States.

“We’re used to seeing year over year increases in profit, but Canada is very, very challenging and we’re fighting every single day to keep our markets and to keep our margins so it will be a challenge going forward,” said chief executive Lino Saputo Jr. in an interview at the company’s annual meeting.

With limited per capita consumer growth for decades and several key players fighting to steal market share, Saputo has been fighting back to preserve its leading position.

The company cut costs by closing two Canadian plants last year and is opening a new large distribution centre in Montreal to replace several smaller facilities.

Additional efforts could be considered over the coming year depending on volumes, cross-border shopping and competition, he said.

“I think the low-hanging fruit, we’ve picked them. Right now we don’t have anything else to announce but I guess we’ll have to be creative to see where else we can cut. Sometimes it could be just synergizing a couple of activities together.”

The Quebec-based company had also been expected to benefit from its US$1.45 billion acquisition in January of Morningstar Foods, a subsidiary of Dean Foods Company.

However, the most recent quarter also saw higher non-cash charges related to the Morningstar deal, as will as higher interest expenses. The company’s income tax rate was also higher than last year, rising to 29 per cent from 28.1 per cent.

Saputo (TSX:SAP) raised its dividend 9.5 per cent or two cents per share to 23 cents per share as it earned $136.7 million in the first quarter. This was up from $121.8 million for the same period last year.

The company earned 69 cents per diluted share, up from 60 cents a year earlier, on both a net and adjusted basis.

However, Saputo missed analyst forecasts as its adjusted profit was expected to surge to 73 cents per share, according to analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.

Saputo’s revenue did slightly better than analysts expected — rising to $2.17 billion in the three months ended June 30, up from $1.7 billion a year earlier and $2.05 billion in the quarter ended March 31.

Saputo said he is evaluating several acquisition opportunities but declined to say if any are imminent or will materialize.

The company has $2.7 billion in financing to support one or several deals.

The United States remains a focus for expansion, along with Latin America and Oceania.

“We have an appetite for acquisitions, but it has to be the right acquisition at the right time (and) at the right price.”

Even without a transaction, Saputo’s U.S. division hasn’t yet fully capitalized on Morningstar, which produces dairy and non-diary products, including creams and creamers, ice cream mixes, whipping cream, aerosol whipped toppings, iced coffee, half and half and valueadded milk.

Saputo’s global expansion has reduced the contribution of its Canadian operations to about 48 per cent of revenues, from 85 per cent when the company went public. Those numbers should continue to dwindle, the CEO noted.

GE scraps plans for nation’s largest solar panel plant, planned for Colorado THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AURORA, Colo. — General Electric Co. is permanently scrapping plans to build the largest solar factory in the U.S. near Denver.

GE blamed the cancellation on a glut of solar panels on the market and falling prices, The Denver Post reported Tuesday (http://bit. ly/1ctY22F ).

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The factory was to have been bigger than 11 football fields and have an annual capacity of 400 megawatts. State officials said it would create 350 jobs.

GE put the project on hold last month.

A research centre that developed the thinfilm solar-cell technology for the plant will be closed, with 50 people losing their jobs, according to Lindsay Thiel, a

GE spokeswoman.

The research centre, formerly a startup named PrimeStar, was in Arvada, another Denver suburb.

“We have decided that it is not in the best interest of GE, our customers or the Denver community to move forward with the build-out of this facility,” Thiel told the newspaper in an email.

At least 10 states were vying for the PrimeStar

plant in 2011. GE said it would go to Aurora that fall, and company executives attended the next year’s State of the State address by Gov. John Hickenlooper, who personally cited the plant in his speech.

Thiel said the company has decided to permanently end plans for the plant.

“With the continued price declines of and overcapacity for solar panels, solar module manufacturing is very competitive, and only the most competitive technology at the most competitive cost position will succeed,” Thiel said.

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PEREZ NOT TALKING Indians reliever Chris Perez has closed out the local media.

Cleveland’s colorful closer, who has not spoken on the record to reporters for several weeks, left Progressive Field on Monday night after blowing a save in a 4-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers before the clubhouse was open. With Perez long gone, his teammates were left to answer questions about the demoralizing loss, which dropped the Indians four games out of first place in the AL Central.

Manager Terry Francona downplayed Perez’s snub, which came after he failed to protect a 2-0 lead.

The right-hander yielded a three-run homer to Alex Avila and failed to record an out.

Today ● Major women’s soccer:

Edmonton Angels at Red Deer Renegades, 7:30 p.m., Edgar Industrial Park.

Thursday ● Senior men’s baseball: Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends vs. Printing Place Padres, doubleheader starting at 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1; North Star Sports vs. The Hideout Rays, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2.

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Left: Calgary Stampeders’ Bo Levi Mitchell (19) throws against Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ in Winnipeg Friday. Middle, Toronto Argonauts quarterback Zach Collaros throws during first half CFL pre-season game action. Right, Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Drew Willy throws a pass against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Guelph, on Saturday July 27. All three will be back on the bench this week as their teams’ respective starters return to action.

Back to backup jobs MITCHELL, WILLY AND COLLAROS YIELD QUARTERBACK DUTIES TO TEAMS’ STARTERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS They all made headlines last week but it’s back to the sidelines for backups Bo Levi Mitchell, Zach Collaros and Drew Willy.

The Toronto Argonauts and unbeaten Saskatchewan Roughriders will have starters Ricky Ray and Darian Durant back this week while veteran Kevin Glenn is available for the Calgary Stampeders.

All three missed their respective teams’ last games with injuries and had the benefit of a bye week to heal.

Ray returns to the Argos on Thursday night in Montreal af-

ter missing their 38-12 home win over B.C. on July 30 with a knee injury. Ray will wear a brace when East Division-leading Toronto (3-2) faces the Alouettes (2-3).

On Friday night, Durant will lead the Riders (5-0) into McMahon Stadium against Calgary (41) in a battle for top spot in the West Division.

Incumbent Drew Tate was scheduled to start for the Stampeders but the club announced Tuesday he had suffered a setback with his injured right forearm and would be re-examined by doctors.

If Tate can’t play, Glenn would start after missing Calgary’s 37-24 win over Winnipeg

on July 26 with a shoulder injury. Tate’s last game action was in a 36-21 loss to Saskatchewan on July 5.

With both Tate and Glenn ailing, No. 3 Mitchell stepped in and threw for 376 yards and three touchdowns against Winnipeg. That earned Mitchell the CFL’s offensive player of the week award.

Toronto headed into its bye week on a victorious note thanks in large part to Collaros. The second-year pro was 21-of-25 passing for 253 yards and three TDs versus B.C. in his first CFL start.

Ray was the CFL passing leader prior to being hurt with 1,203 yards. He has completed

Woods has major chance to end Grand Slam drought

● Parkland baseball: Championship tournament at Eckville; games at 6:45 p.m. ● Sunburst/Provincial senior AAA baseball: Parkland White Sox at Red Deer Riggers, third game of best-of-three semifinal, if necessary, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

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4-6, 7-5 in his first-round match.

Raonic said he felt no added pressure to keep the Canadian winning streak going.

“I’m very proud and happy for the guys that have been winning,” he said.

“But it doesn’t affect myself personally.

“It’s great to have this kind of good results, but I’ve got to take care of my business for myself.”

The late match saw two-time defending Rogers Cup champion Novak Djokovic make short work of Florian Mayer with a 6-2, 6-1 win.

Vancouver’s Peliwo, who became the first Canadian male to win a junior grand slam event at Wimbledon in 2012, staved off a match point with what he called a “lucky” shot at the net for a 3-6, 7-5, 3-1 win over 39th-ranked Jarkko Nieminen.

The Finnish left-hander was forced to retire in the third set with a hamstring injury.

Pospisil, of Vernon, B.C., upset one of the hottest players on the ATP Tour as he outlasted 20th-ranked American John Isner 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) before a roaring crowd on centre court.

“I’m feeling very good about my game lately,” said Pospisil, who was coming off a victory last week in a Challenger series event in Vancouver.

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Tiger Woods is leaving nothing to chance in his last chance this year to win a major.

Fresh off a seven-shot victory at a World Golf Championship — his fifth win of the season — Woods showed up at Oak Hill late Monday afternoon and spent most of his time chipping and putting, trying to learn the nuances of the greens. Remember, his failure to adjust to the greens is what derailed him at the British Open two weeks ago.

He also spent time with Steve Stricker talking about putting, which must have been a daunting sight for the other players.

The last time Stricker gave him some putting tips was in early March, and Woods went on to win three of his next four tournaments.

The stakes are higher than usual for him at the PGA Championship.

This isn’t the first time Woods has gone into final major trying to make sure his season doesn’t end without one. One difference from previous years is that Woods now is piling up wins just about everywhere except the majors.

The Bridgestone Invitational was his fifth win of the year. Only twice in the last 30 years has a player had at least that many PGA Tour wins in a season without a major — Woods in 2009 and Woods in 2003.

For someone who has been stuck on 14 majors the last five years, Woods didn’t sound like he was in panic mode.

“I think winning one major championship automatically means you had a great year,” he said Tuesday after playing nine holes and spending even more time in the practice area, fine-tuning a game that already is in great shape.

“Even if you miss the cut in every tournament you play, you win one (major), you’re part of history.

“This year, I think it’s been a great year so far for me, winning five times,” he said. “And you look at the quality of tournaments I’ve won — The Players and two World Golf Championships in there — that’s pretty good.”

It used to be major or bust for Woods, but when asked if he had adjusted his standards during this five-year drought, Woods offered a simple, “No.” Still a great year without a major?

“Yeah,” Woods said, offering nothing more than a smile.

Even so, he conceded that the 15th major has been tougher to get than he would have imagined. So much has transpired since that U.S. Open playoff victory at Torrey Pines in 2008 — reconstructive surgery on his left knee that wiped out the rest of the 2008 season; revelations of multiple extramarital affairs at the end of 2009 that led to divorce and cost him millions in corporate endorsements; more injuries that forced him to skip two majors in 2011.

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Canada’s Milos Raonic returns to Jeremy Chardy from France during first round of play at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament Tuesday in Montreal.

Canadians all advance RAONIC, PELIWO, DANCEVIC, POSPISIL MOVE TO SECOND ROUND

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Friday

Championship tournament at Eckville; games at 9 a.m., noon, 3 and 6 p.m. ● Rugby: Calgary Knights at Red Deer Titans, men’s third division, noon, Titans Park; Lethbridge at Red Deer Titans, men’s second division, 2 p.m., Titans Park.

75.4 per cent of his passes with eight TDs and no interceptions.

A lingering sprained right foot forced Durant to watch Willy lead Saskatchewan past Hamilton 32-20 on July 27 in Guelph, Ont. In just his second CFL start, Willy was 14-for-25 passing for 269 yards and three TDs as the Riders remained the league’s lone unbeaten club.

Durant has factored heavily in Saskatchewan’s early-season success. He was 74-of-107 passing (69.2 per cent) through the Riders’ first four games for 1,021 yards, with a league-leading 12 touchdowns and no interceptions.

MONTREAL — It was a record day for Canada at the men’s draw of the Rogers Cup. Milos Raonic, Filip Peliwo, Frank Dancevic and Vasek Pospisil all pulled off three-set victories Tuesday to advance to the second round of the Masters 1000 hardcourt tennis event.

With Jesse Levine’s win on Monday, it put five Canadians into the second round — one more than made it that far in 1992.

“It’s amazing,” said Dancevic, a Niagara Falls, Ont., native who downed Lu Yen-Hsun of Taiwan 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-1.

“It’s a Masters series event and pretty much everyone you play here is at a high level, ranked in the top-50, so to have four guys through the first round shows a lot about how far Canadian tennis has come along.

“It’s really great to see and it’s been showing up more and more in all the tournaments.”

It was a first win in an ATP event this year for Dancevic, who has been doing well of late in lower-level tournaments.

In the feature evening match on centre court of the US$3.49-million tournament, the 13th-seeded Raonic, of Thornhill, Ont., used his booming serve to overcome an otherwise so-so outing to defeat France’s Jeremy Chardy 6-3,

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TICATS APPOINT GIBSON: The Hamilton Tiger-Cats appointed Glenn Gibson as their new president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.

Gibson takes over as president from Scott Mitchell, who remains the Ticats chief executive officer as well as the CEO of owner Bob Young’s Canadian business operations.

Gibson, a Hamilton native, had served as a consultant with the Ticats the last two years.

The move wasn’t surprising. Mitchell had said he wanted to name his successor as president before the Ticats moved into their new stadium next season.

Mitchell was appointed Ticats president in January 2007. During his tenure Hamilton made three playoff appearances but never finished above .500 or reached the Grey Cup. Hamilton’s last CFL title came in ’99 with the late Ron Lancaster as head coach.

POPP RETURNS: Montreal GM Jim Popp makes his first appearance this season as interim head coach Thursday night versus Toronto.

Popp replaces Dan Hawkins, who was fired Thursday after just five games with Montreal (2-3).

It will mark the third time in Popp’s 18-year tenure as GM that he’s also had to handle the club’s coaching duties.

Popp took over from Rod Rust in ’01 before hiring Don Matthews as head coach. Popp returned to the sidelines in ’06 when Matthews became ill and led the Alouettes to a Grey Cup appearance.

He remained as coach in 2007, guiding Montreal to an 8-10 record before losing in the East Division semifinal to Winnipeg. Following the ’07 campaign, Popp hired Marc Trestman as the Alouettes head coach.

Over five years, Trestman led Montreal to two Grey Cup wins in three appearances before being hired this off-season as head coach of the NFL’s Chicago Bears.

Popp has a CFL regular-season coaching record of 10-13 and is 1-3 in the playoffs.

Under Popp, former CFL head coach Doug Berry — who was an advisor with Montreal — will handle the offence as offensive co-ordinator Mike Miller is taking a reduced role.

Montreal’s offence, a strength under Trestman, struggled under Hawkins.

The Alouettes are last overall in passing, net yards and total first downs while veteran quarterback Anthony Calvillo — pro football’s all-time leading passer — is fifth in passing with 1,035 yards and has five TD tosses against four interceptions but an efficiency rating of just 79.5.

Montreal will be without veteran receiver Jamel Richardson (knee) for the remainder of the season while running back Brandon Whitaker (shoulder) isn’t expected to play against Toronto.

NOTES: There’s much to like about Saskatchewan’s start to the season but consider the Riders have turned the ball over just once through five games.

By comparison, Winnipeg (1-4) has surrendered seven interceptions and seven fumbles, both league highs . . . Saskatchewan’s Kory Sheets (league-high 712 rushing yards) is on pace to break Mike Pringle’s single-season mark of 2,065 yards. But also on a recordsetting pace is Calgary running back Jon Cornish. The native of New Westminster, B.C., is second overall in rushing with 501 yards, putting the 2012 top Canadian on pace to surpass the 1,457 yards he ran for last year when he broke Normie Kwong’s 56-year-old single-season rushing record for Canadians . . . Edmonton linebacker JC Sherritt was the CFL’s top defensive player last year after registering a league-record 130 tackles. Sherritt is tied with Montreal safety Kyries Hebert for fifth in tackles this year with 31, trailing Alouettes linebacker Chip Cox (39), teammate Damaso Munoz and Toronto linebacker Robert McCune (34 each) and Winnipeg linebacker Henoc Muamba (32). Hebert is also the CFL’s sacks leader with seven . . . Calgary has knocked Saskatchewan from the ranks of the unbeaten three times in the last five years: in 2008 when the Riders began 6-0 as well as 2010 and last year when they opened each time with three straight wins. If the Riders win Friday night, not only will they improve to 6-0 but also win the season series with Calgary and earn the tiebreaker if the two teams end the season tied in the standings.

WOODS: Opportunites

TENNIS: Polansky falls “From the baseline I wasn’t feeling too comfortable because the conditions are extremely different from Vancouver.

“I felt a little bit of difficulty controlling the ball from the baseline.”

The only Canadian to fall thus far was Peter Polansky, also of Thornhill, who got to the main draw through the qualifying tournament but then lost to ninth-seeded Kei Nishikori on Monday.

The Canadian men had already reached a milestone this year when they defeated Italy to reach the Davis Cup semifinals for the first time.

And with Raonic ranked 13th and Pospisil recently risen to 71st, it is the first time Canada has had two players in the world’s top 75 since Andrew Sznejder and Grant Connell in 1990.

“We have a lot of capable and good players that can play at a high level,” said Pospisil, who beat a top-20 player for the first time.

“It’s just thrilling, really. There’s so many of us right now in the second round.”

While Canada may be on the rise, the United States has taken a mighty fall.

Isner’s loss means that when next week’s rankings come out, there will be no American in the top-20 for the first time in 40 years of ATP rankings.

Isner reached the Rogers Cup semifinals last year and didn’t defend those points.

At Wimbledon in June, for the first time in 101 years no American reached the third round.

Isner, who was coming off a win and a an appearance in a final in his last two tournaments, wasn’t talkative after the match and said he just wanted to go home.

Peliwo looked ready for an early exit when he fell behind 3-0 in the second set and then was taken to match point with 32-year-old Niemenin leading 5-4. But he found a way out of that jam and went on to win the set and the match.

“Basically, I went to the net after a rally, hit a pretty lame volley, kind of popped it up,” said the Peliwo 19-yearold said.

“He hit a forehand, I kind of moved to the right expecting it down the line and I guess he changed his mind a bit and hit it right towards my direction.

“I just threw my hands up like that.

Just reflex.”

Peliwo is ranked 353rd in the world, but the victory over 39th-ranked Niemenin should put him into the top-300.

“It’s definitely the best feeling I’ve had in a while,” he said. “It’s such a big win for me.

“Ranking-wise, I’ll get a lot of points. Confidence, to be able to say I beat a top-40 player. I’m still trying to realize what I did.”

Peliwo will face 66th-ranked Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan in the second round on Wednesday.

Levine, of Ottawa, will be in tough against fourth-seeded Rafael Nadal, the former world No. 1 and two-time Rogers Cup champion.

Raonic goes up against Mikhail Youzhny.

Dancevic takes on 15th-seeded Jerzy Janowicz, who beat Julien Benneteau 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.

The very thing that irritates him about his recent record in the majors is what gives him hope — he keeps giving himself opportunities.

“I’ve had my opportunities there on the back nine on probably half of those Sundays for the last five years, where I’ve had a chance and just haven’t won it,” Woods said. “But the key is to keep giving myself chances, and eventually I’ll start getting • Wheels them.”

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TORONTO — A large banner featuring Serena Williams hangs prominently on the side of the Rexall Centre stadium for this week’s Rogers Cup. The north side of the stadium may belong to the top-seeded American, but the east side is reserved for one of the rising stars of the women’s tour.

Eugenie Bouchard cuts a steely pose on her banner, with fist clenched and a look of intensity that appears to go against the grain of the soft-spoken Canadian.

Bouchard is being given her share of the spotlight at this US$2.369million tournament.

On Tuesday night, she showed that she’s ready.

The 19-year-old from Montreal was in fine form for her first-round singles match, posting a tidy 6-3, 6-1 over Alisa Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS Kleybanova. Bouchard mixed up her effective Eugenie Bouchard of Canada hits a backhand on her ground strokes with way to defeating Alisa Kleybanova of Russia in their some slick cut shots that Rogers Cup women’s tennis match in Toronto on left her Russian oppoTuesday. nent stymied.

There were more service breaks than holds ments this year. She posted a thirdearly in the 79-minute match, which round victory over U.S. Open winner forced the Canadian to adjust her Samantha Stosur last April at the Famstyle. ily Circle Cup and upset Ana Ivanovic “I just decided to go for it and start- to reach the third round at Wimbledon. ed to play aggressive,” Bouchard said.

She’ll have her work cut out for her “That definitely helped me.” in the second round on Wednesday.

It has been a busy week for the Bouchard is scheduled to meet defend2012 Wimbledon junior champion. ing champion and No. 6 seed Petra Bouchard teamed with Monica Seles Kvitova of the Czech Republic. for an exhibition against the Williams “Yeah, time to take the defending sisters and dropped her first-round champ down,” she said with a smile. doubles match with partner Kirsten “Obviously she’s a great player. She’s Flipkens of Belgium. won a (grand slam tournament). But Bouchard battled some early nerves you know, I’m just really excited I will when she appeared on centre court for play at home on centre court in front of her opening singles match Tuesday but the crowd. It’s always so fun for me. quickly settled in. The 62nd-ranked “I’m going to try my best and we’ll wild-card entry looked smooth and see what happens.” quite comfortable for someone in her Kleybanova currently holds the No. first full season on the pro circuit.

599 position in the world rankings. The “Yeah, I am relaxed,” she said. “It’s former top-20 player is a cancer surfun. It’s just fun being home where vivor who was playing her first WTA people know you a bit more. But be- Tour match in over a year. sides that I know I need to stay focused “I was pretty excited to go out on what I need to do or else I will lose there,” she said. “I love playing on stamy concentration. dium court and being in front of the “So I put pressure on myself and crowd. that’s really all I think about — my own expectations.”

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Moskowy is a three-time medalist SHERBROOKE, Que. — Elliott Moskowy of Red Deer is a three-time medalist in Special Olympics swimming at the Canada Summer Games.

Moskowy captured his second silver medal Tuesday in the 100-metre backstroke with a time of one minute 19.86 seconds.

Earlier the 22-year-old won the 100m freestyle in 1:04.30, which was 2.89 seconds ahead of second place, and was second in the 50m breaststroke at 39.16 seconds.

Moskowy has two more events on his calender, competing in the 50m backstroke today and the 50m freestyle Thursday.

Meanwhile, Hidde Geurts Elliott Moskowy of Innisfail was fifth in the 50m breaststroke and 100m backstroke in the Special Olympics and took ninth in the 100m freestyle.

In the regular competition, Brianna Bailey of Red Deer Country finished seventh in the 200m breaststroke after placing 17th in the 400m Individual Medley and 10th in the 50m breaststroke.

Marshal Parker of Sylvan Lake won the B final and placed ninth in the 50m butterfly in a time that would have left him sixth in the A final. He also was ninth in the 100m freestyle preliminaries, but didn’t swim in the B final and

was also fifth in the 100m backstroke, which should have placed him in the A final, but he once again didn’t swim.

Alberta’s female volleyball team, which is coached by Chris Wandler and managed by Mandy Carroll of Red Deer, advanced to the semifinals with a 25-20, 25-12, 25-17 win over Quebec in the quarter-finals Tuesday.

Earlier Alberta finished second in their pool as they defeated Prince Edward Island, the Yukon and Saskatchewan 3-0 and edged Ontario 3-2 while losing 3-1 to B.C. Team Alberta’s baseball squad finished with a 2-4 record and in third place in their pool.

Alberta defeated Quebec 14-0 and 5-4 while losing 12-2 and 10-0 to B.C. and 7-1 and 4-2 to Ontario. Red Deer’s Joel Mazurkewich was two-for-15 while playing five games.

The Alberta girls’ soccer team lost 4-2 to B.C. in medal round play Tuesday. Earlier they downed the Yukon 8-0 as Red Deer’s Kaitlyn Lomsnes scored twice, and lost 5-1 to Nova Scotia.

The Alberta softball team, which is coached by Aaron Clements and includes outfielder Jocelyn Peterman of Red Deer, has won three of eight starts and is tied for sixth with Nova Scotia.

They finish their regular schedule today against last-place New Brunswick.

Alberta opened strong beating Nova Scotia 10-3 and PEI 6-2 before losing 9-1 to B.C. and 11-2 to Quebec. They downed Newfoundland 7-0 before losing 7-0 to Manitoba and 4-0 to Saskatchewan.

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rough is thicker than usual, not nearly as severe as Merion, but enough to get players’ attention to hit whatever club his necessary off the tee to keep it in the short grass.

Woods tied for 39th and never broke par when the PGA Championship was last held at Oak Hill in 2003, though that’s a pretty small sample to argue if this course suits him. Remember, he was finishing his first full year without a swing coach. And while he won five times that year, Woods won only one tournament over the last six months.

He is back to No. 1 in the world by a mile. He is the favourite at every major, even though he’s gone 17 majors without winning. He is the centre of attention, and that only ramps up when he arrives fresh off a seven-shot win.

“I think Tiger is a factor no matter what — even coming in not with that kind of form,” Masters champion Adam Scott said.

“He’s been up there in majors recently and just has not finished it off.

But, obviously, he put it all together last week at a venue he’s extremely comfortable with, so I don’t know that Tiger’s confidence is ever really down.

It’s hard to imagine when you’ve won 80 times or something. He’s obviously going to be feeling good about where his game is at.”

This will be the 20th time that Woods goes into a major having won in his previous tournament. And while he has won four of those majors — the U.S. Open in 2000, Masters in 2001 and PGA Championship in 2006 and 2007 — only Mickelson (five) and Ernie Els (four) from his generation have won that many majors in a career.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Early standings East Division W L Pct GB Boston 69 46 .600 — Tampa Bay 66 46 .589 1 1/2 Baltimore 61 51 .545 6 1/2 New York 57 55 .509 10 1/2 Toronto 52 60 .464 15 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 66 45 .595 — Cleveland 62 51 .549 5 Kansas City 57 53 .518 8 1/2 Minnesota 49 61 .445 16 1/2 Chicago 42 69 .378 24 West Division W L Pct GB Oakland 64 48 .571 — Texas 63 50 .558 1 1/2 Seattle 52 60 .464 12 Los Angeles 51 60 .459 12 1/2 Houston 37 75 .330 27 Tuesday games Texas at L.A. Angels, late Baltimore at San Diego, late Toronto at Seattle, late Today’s Games Oakland (Colon 14-3) at Cincinnati (H.Bailey 6-10), 10:35 a.m.

Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 8-5) at San Diego (Stults 8-10), 1:40 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 2-2) at Seattle (Harang 5-10), 1:40 p.m.

Detroit (Fister 10-5) at Cleveland (Salazar 1-0), 5:05 p.m.

Boston (Dempster 6-8) at Houston (Cosart 1-0), 6:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Deduno 7-4) at Kansas City (Duffy 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 9-10) at Chicago White Sox (H.Santiago 3-7), 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 6-4) at Arizona (Delgado 4-3), 7:40 p.m.

Texas (Ogando 4-3) at L.A. Angels (Hanson 4-2), 8:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Early standings East Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 69 45 .605 — Washington 54 59 .478 14 1/2 Philadelphia 51 61 .455 17 New York 50 60 .455 17 Miami 43 68 .387 24 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Pittsburgh 68 44 .607 — St. Louis 66 46 .589 2 Cincinnati 62 51 .549 6 1/2 Chicago 49 63 .438 19 Milwaukee 47 65 .420 21 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 62 50 .554 — Arizona 57 55 .509 5 San Diego 52 60 .464 10 Colorado 52 62 .456 11 San Francisco 50 61 .450 11 1/2 Tuesday’s Games Baltimore at San Diego late Milwaukee at San Francisco late Today’s Games Oakland (Colon 14-3) at Cincinnati (H.Bailey 6-10), 10:35 a.m.

Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 8-5) at San Diego (Stults 8-10), 31:40 p.m.

Atlanta (Medlen 8-10) at Washington (Zimmermann 13-6), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 7-8) at Philadelphia (Hamels 4-13), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 3-6) at Pittsburgh (Morton 3-3), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (Chacin 10-5) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 8-3), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Nolasco 7-9) at St. Louis (S.Miller 11-7), 6:15 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 6-4) at Arizona (Delgado 4-3), 7:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Estrada 4-4) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 11-6), 8:15 p.m.

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Boston 003 055 200 — 15 15 0 Houston 321 102 010 — 10 11 2 S.Wright, Workman (2), D.Britton (6), R.De La Rosa (9) and Lavarnway; Lyles, Keuchel (5), Cisnero (6), Zeid (7), Lo (9) and J.Castro, Corporan.

W—Workman 2-1. L—Lyles 4-6. HRs—Boston, Ellsbury 2 (7), J.Gomes (9). Houston, Grossman (2), Wallace (9), Elmore (2).

Minnesota 310 102 000 — 7 8 0 Kansas City 000 000 000 — 0 4 1 A.Albers, Fien (9) and C.Herrmann; Shields, W.Smith (7) and Kottaras. W—A.Albers 1-0. L— Shields 6-8. HRs—Minnesota, Dozier (10), Morneau (11), Colabello (3).

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HRs—Tampa Bay, Longoria (22). Arizona, C.Ross (8).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Atlanta 000 020 000 — 2 8 1 Washington 001 000 000 — 1 5 0 Teheran, Avilan (7), Walden (8), Kimbrel (9) and McCann; G.Gonzalez, Krol (8), Stammen (9) and W.Ramos. W—Teheran 9-5. L—G.Gonzalez 7-5.

Sv—Kimbrel (35). HRs—Washington, Harper (17).

Chicago 041 000 003 — 8 12 0 Philadelphia 112 031 01x — 9 13 2 E.Jackson, H.Rondon (6), Bowden (8) and Castillo; K.Kendrick, Diekman (7), De Fratus (8), Papelbon (9) and Ruiz. W—K.Kendrick 10-8. L—E. Jackson 7-12. HRs—Chicago, Do.Murphy (1), Rizzo (18). Philadelphia, Ruf (4), Ruiz (2).

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Colorado 000 011 000 — 2 6 0 New York 200 000 01x — 3 6 2 Bettis, Ottavino (6), W.Lopez (7) and W.Rosario; Mejia, C.Torres (6), Atchison (8), Hawkins (9) and Buck. W—Atchison 2-0. L—W.Lopez 1-4. Sv— Hawkins (1). HRs—Colorado, Blackmon (2).

Los Angeles 000 001 000 — 1 9 0 St. Louis 000 020 03x — 5 8 1 Kershaw, Howell (7), League (8), Marmol (8) and A.Ellis; J.Kelly, Choate (6), Maness (6), Siegrist (7), Rosenthal (7), Mujica (9) and T.Cruz. W—J.Kelly 3-3. L—Kershaw 10-7. HRs—St. Louis, Beltran (20), Ma.Adams (9).

MONDAY’S LATE LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas 000 032 000 — 5 7 1 Los Angeles 100 000 100 — 2 5 0 M.Perez, Frasor (7), Cotts (8), Nathan (9) and Pierzynski; Williams, Kohn (6), Blanton (7) and Iannetta. W—M.Perez 4-3. L—Williams 5-8. Sv— Nathan (33). HRs—Texas, A.Beltre (24).

Toronto 000 000 030 — 3 7 1 Seattle 000 000 100 — 1 8 0 Dickey, Loup (8), Janssen (9) and Thole, Arencibia; Iwakuma, Medina (8), O.Perez (8) and Quintero. W—Dickey 9-11. L—Iwakuma 10-5. Sv— Janssen (20). HRs—Seattle, Smoak (11).

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Tennis ROGERS CUP At Montreal Results Tuesday from the Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium (seedings in parentheses): Men’s Singles Second Round Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Florian Mayer, Germany, 6-2, 6-1.

Richard Gasquet (7), France, def. Martin Klizan, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-2.

Kei Nishikori (9), Japan, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.

First Round Tommy Haas (10), Germany, def. David Goffin, Belgium, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Milos Raonic (11), Canada, def. Jeremy Chardy, France, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.

Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, def. Nicolas Almagro (12), Spain, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3.

Fabio Fognini (13), Italy, def. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, 1-6, 6-1, 6-1.

Nikolay Davydenko, Russia, def. Gilles Simon (14), France, 2-6, 6-1, 6-1.

Jerzy Janowicz (15), Poland, def. Julien Benneteau, France, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.

Alex Bogomolov Jr., Russia, def. Michael Llodra, France, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.

Frank Dancevic, Canada, def. Lu Yen-Hsun, Taiwan, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-1.

Filip Peliwo, Canada, def. Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, 3-6, 7-5, 3-1, retired.

Vasek Pospisil, Canada, def. John Isner, United States, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4).

Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, def. Jurgen Melzer, Austria, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Marcel Granollers, Spain, def. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 6-4, 6-4.

Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine, def. Kevin Anderson, South Africa, 7-6 (0), 6-4.

Men’s Doubles Andreas Seppi, Italy, and Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, def. Jesse Levine, Canada, and Vasek Pospisil, Canada, 6-4, 6-3.

Pablo Andujar, Spain, and Rafael Nadal, Spain, def. David Ferrer, Spain, and Feliciano Lopez, Spain, 6-7 (2), 6-1, 12-10.

Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Poland, and Marcin Matkowski, Poland, def. Benoit Paire, France, and Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland, 7-6 (6), 6-2.

Dominic Inglot, Britain, and Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, def. Andre Begemann, Germany, and Rohan Bopanna, India, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Women’s Singles Second Round Agnieszka Radwanska (3), Poland, def. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 6-2, 6-3.

Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, def. Angelique Kerber (8), Germany, 6-7 (0), 6-2, 7-5.

First Round Maria Kirilenko (11), Russia, def. Petra Martic,

Croatia, 6-2, 6-1.

Samantha Stosur (12), Australia, def. Julia Glushko, Israel, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3.

Kirsten Flipkens (13), Belgium, def. Venus Williams, United States, 0-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Jelena Jankovic (15), Serbia, def. Anna Tatishvili, Georgia, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3.

Ana Ivanovic (16), Serbia, def. Su-Wei Hsieh, Taiwan, 6-1, 6-2.

Lauren Davis, United States, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5.

Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, def. Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, 6-1, 7-5.

Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, def. Alexandra Dulgheru, Romania, 6-4, 6-3.

Francesca Schiavone, Italy, def. Chanelle Scheepers, South Africa, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Sharon Fichman, Canada, def. Stephanie Dubois, Canada, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2.

Eugenie Bouchard, Canada, def. Alisa Kleybanova, Russia, 6-3, 6-1.

Alize Cornet, France, def. Elena Vesnina, Russia, 6-3, 6-3.

Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain, def. Jamie Hampton, United States, 6-4, 6-4.

Women’s Doubles Second Round Sara Errani, Italy, and Roberta Vinci (1), Italy, def. Katalin Marosi, Hungary, and Megan MoultonLevy, United States, 6-4, 3-6, 10-5.

First Round Sania Mirza, India, and Zheng Jie (5), China, def. Natalie Grandin, South Africa, and Darija Jurak, Croatia, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 10-2.

Liezel Huber, United States, and Nuria Llagostera Vives (6), Spain, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, and Flavia Pennetta, Italy, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6).

Julia Goerges, Germany, and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, and Galina Voskoboeva (7), Kazakhstan, 7-5, 6-4.

Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, and Martina Hingis, Switzerland, def. Angelique Kerber, Germany, and Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2.

Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, and Olga Govortsova, Belarus, def. Silvia Soler-Espinosa, Spain, and Klara Zakopalova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 2-6, 10-5.

Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, and Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, def. Janette Husarova, Slovakia, and Petra Martic, Croatia, 4-6, 6-4, 10-5.

Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Eva Hrdinova, Czech Republic, def. Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, and Varvara Lepchenko, United States, 6-2, 6-3.

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WOMEN: Great experience “It’s a great experience for me every time I go on the court.

You know today I went out, tried to do my best and obviously did, you know. But she played really well.”

Toronto’s Sharon Fichman advanced with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 win over Stephanie Dubois of Laval, Que. The Canadians are friends and have played doubles together in Fed Cup competition in the past.

“It really is a shame that we had this draw and obviously it was a really tough match because we know each other’s game so well,” she said. “It was three sets and it was definitely a tough one, but I’m happy to get through it.”

There was only one mild upset on the day as Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia eliminated eighth-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany in second-round play. The unseeded Cibulkova, ranked No. 20 in the world, needed almost three hours to complete the 6-7 (0), 6-2, 7-5 victory.

“It was a really tough match,” Cibulkova said. “Angelique, she was putting everything back. Her defensive game is really good and I just had to be patient and aggressive today.

“So it was not easy. My serve was not working like I was expecting but in the end I made it, so I was really happy.”

Flipkens, the No. 13 seed in the singles draw, started slow be-

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PUNT RETURNS No Yds. Avg. 28 263 9.4 25 187 7.5 21 216 10.3 20 104 5.2 20 124 6.2 19 162 8.5 18 131 7.3 16 90 5.6 15 56 3.7 13 165 12.7

L 27 34 41 19 19 44 17 23 14 81

KICKOFF RETURNS No Yds. Avg. 18 352 19.5 18 370 20.6 18 335 18.6 17 455 26.8 16 460 28.8 16 343 21.4 16 301 18.8 15 324 21.6 6 64 10.7

L 28 33 33 108 104 40 48 29 19

CFL 2013 West Division GP W L T PF Saskatchewan 5 5 0 0 183 Calgary 5 4 1 0 162 BC Lions 6 4 2 0 143 Edmonton 6 1 5 0 128

PA Pt 87 10 133 8 142 8 169 2

East Division GP W L T PF 5 3 2 0 156 5 2 3 0 122 6 2 4 0 129 6 1 5 0 135

PA Pt 128 6 139 4 187 4 173 2

Toronto Montreal Hamilton Winnipeg

WEEK SEVEN Byes: B.C., Edmonton, Hamilton, Winnipeg Thursday, Aug. 8 Toronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 9 Saskatchewan at Calgary, 5 p.m.

WEEK EIGHT Friday, Aug. 16 Hamilton at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 17 Montreal at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

Calgary at BC Lions, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 18 Edmonton at Toronto, 5 p.m.

CFL statistics after Week Six as provided by the league: SCORING Touchdowns (Ru-running; Rc-receiving; Rt-return; O-other points; Pt-total points): TD Ru Rc Rt O Pt Harris, BC 5 4 1 0 0 30 Simpson, Wpg 5 5 0 0 0 30 Cornish, Cal 4 3 1 0 0 24 Gable, Ham 4 2 2 0 0 24 Green, Mtl 4 0 4 0 0 24 Goltz, Wpg 4 4 0 0 0 24 Sheets, Sask 4 4 0 0 0 24 Arceneaux, BC 3 0 3 0 0 18 Bagg, Sask 3 0 3 0 0 18 Barnes, Tor 3 0 3 0 0 18 Charles, Edm 3 2 1 0 0 18 Dressler, Sask 3 0 3 0 0 18 Ellingson, Ham 3 0 3 0 0 18 Getzlaf, Sask 3 0 3 0 0 18 T.Smith, Sask 3 0 3 0 0 18 Stamps, Edm 3 0 3 0 0 18 C.Taylor, BC 3 0 3 0 0 18 West, Cal 3 0 3 0 0 18 Collaros, Tor 2 2 0 0 0 12 Etienne, Wpg 2 0 2 0 0 12 Gore, BC 2 0 2 0 0 12 Kackert, Tor 2 1 1 0 0 12 Koch, Edm 2 0 1 1 0 12 Lamar, Ham 2 0 1 1 0 12 Lewis, Cal 2 0 2 0 0 12 McCarty, Edm 2 0 2 0 0 12 McDaniel, Cal 2 1 1 0 0 12 Ray, Tor 2 2 0 0 0 12 Steele, Tor 2 2 0 0 0 12 Watt, Tor 2 0 2 0 0 12 Whitaker, Mtl 2 2 0 0 0 12

Parades, Cal Whyte, Mtl Milo, Sask Congi, Ham Shaw, Edm Palardy, Wpg Prefontaine, Tor McCallum, BC O’Neill, BC Waters, Tor Renaud, Wpg Schmitt, Sask Bartel, Ham Maver, Cal Watt, Tor

Paredes, Cal Whyte, Mtl Milo, Sask Congi, Ham Shaw, Edm Palardy, Wpg Prefontaine, Tor McCallum, BC O’Neill, BC Waters, Tor

Sheets, Sask Harris, BC Cornish, Cal Simpson, Wpg Whitaker, Mtl Charles, Edm Gable, Ham Kackert, Tor Burris, Ham Reilly, Edm Lulay, BC Goltz, Wpg J.White, Edm Lamar, Ham Devine, Mtl Walker, Ham Collaros, Tor Mitchell, Cal Ford, Wpg Walter, Cal

Owens, Tor Grant, Ham Durie, Tor Harris, BC Ellingson, Ham Koch, Edm Lewis, Cal Dressler, Sask S.Green, Mtl Moore, BC C.Taylor, BC Stamps, Edm Giguere, Ham Coehoorn, Edm Arceneaux, BC Bruce, Mtl McDaniel, Cal Richardson, Mtl Getzlaf, Sask Kackert, Tor Watson, Wpg

Burris, Ham Lulay, BC Reilly, Edm Calvillo, Mtl Ray, Tor Durant, Sask Pierce, Wpg Goltz, Wpg Glenn, Cal Tate, Cal Mitchell, Cal Collaros, Tor Willy, Sask

PLACEKICKING C FG 14 16 11 14 18 12 13 11 11 10 12 9 13 8 7 6 6 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 FIELD GOALS A 16 15 12 15 13 12 12 8 5 2

S 0 3 0 3 3 1 2 1 3 1 5 3 2 2 0

Pt 62 56 54 49 44 40 39 26 21 8 5 3 2 2 1

M 16 14 12 11 10 9 8 6 4 1

L 41 43 47 40 47 48 44 37 40 44

Avg. 6.0 5.5 6.5 5.4 5.3 5.8 4.5 5.3 5.6 8.7 8.4 3.8 3.4 5.8 4.8 3.8 3.3 3.6 2.5 3.5

L 37 23 23 75 25 70 13 57 15 22 23 13 11 18 21 15 15 26 11 16

PASS RECEIVING No Yds. Avg. 39 427 11.0 28 408 14.6 25 336 13.4 25 189 7.6 24 395 16.5 24 292 12.2 24 285 11.9 23 319 13.9 23 347 15.1 23 357 15.5 23 235 10.2 22 401 18.2 22 309 14.0 21 270 12.9 19 384 20.2 19 211 11.1 18 211 11.7 18 197 10.9 15 222 14.8 15 117 7.8 15 215 14.3

L 33 51 48 48 39 35 32 38 58 43 34 46 61 42 77 33 45 21 33 48 37

RUSHING C Y 118 712 83 459 77 501 76 412 53 279 51 294 28 125 26 189 25 139 24 208 23 193 21 80 20 68 17 99 16 76 16 60 16 52 13 47 13 33 12 42

PASSING A C Pct. 199 131 65.8 180 119 66.1 160 93 58.1 158 95 60.1 130 98 75.4 107 74 69.2 106 64 60.4 78 45 57.7 62 44 71.0 52 38 73.1 46 36 78.3 35 28 80.0 29 17 58.6 PUNTING

Shaw, Edm Whyte, Mtl Renaud, Wpg Bartel, Ham Schmitt, Sask Maver, Cal Prefontaine, Tor O’Neill, BC McCallum, BC Inman, Tor

Sanders, Sask Taylor, Cal Devine, Mtl Lamar, Ham Owens, Tor J.Johnson, Wpg Burnett, Edm T.Brown, BC K.Williams, BC Koch, Edm

Owens, Tor Taylor, Cal T.Brown, BC Devine, Mtl Lamar, Ham Charles, Edm Ford, Wpg Sanders, Sask K.Williams, BC

CFL STATISTICS

AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE

SENIOR AAA

Yds. 1803 1468 1217 1035 1203 1021 845 476 513 468 425 365 316

TD 10 10 6 5 8 12 2 2 2 5 5 3 3

Eff. 103.1 100.4 71.9 79.5 124.0 136.9 72.2 73.5 93.0 124.5 142.0 107.1 130.8

Yds. 1965 2025 2270 1684 1485 1277 940 845 600 88

INTERCEPTION RETURNS No Yds. 2 64 2 26 1 47 1 46 1 42 1 37 1 19 1 17 1 17 1 10 1 6 1 6

TD 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

Parks, BC Emry, Mtl J.Robinson, Tor D.Washington, Wpg W.Brown, Sask Ferri, Sask R.Williams, Sask Elimimian, BC J.Johnson, Wpg Carter, Tor Ball, Tor Morley, Cal

FUMBLE RETURNS No Yds. 2 9 1 38 1 13 1 5 1 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

TD 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

TEAM OFFENCE (Yardage includes losses) Yards Pass Hamilton 2333 1842 B.C. 2267 1478 Saskatchewan 2154 1337 Calgary 2061 1406 Toronto 2027 1634 Edmonton 1970 1382 Winnipeg 1860 1316 Montreal 1473 1035

Rush 491 789 817 655 393 588 544 438

TEAM DEFENCE (Yardage includes losses) Yards Pass Calgary 1634 1183 Montreal 1782 1299 B.C. 1791 1157 Saskatchewan 1928 1616 Toronto 2115 1409 Winnipeg 2197 1748 Edmonton 2267 1398 Hamilton 2431 1620

Rush 451 483 634 312 706 449 869 811

Bowman, Mtl Gainey, Mtl Ball, Tor Bolden, Cal Banks, BC Anderson, Wpg Hebert, Mtl Hurl, Sask Cox, Mtl Black, Tor Rwabukamba, Edm Mayo, Cal Berry, Mtl

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Buffalo 0 0 0 .000 0 New England 0 0 0 .000 0 N.Y. Jets 0 0 0 .000 0 Miami 0 1 0 .000 20

PA 0 0 0 24

Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Tennessee

W 0 0 0 0

South L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pct .000 .000 .000 .000

PF 0 0 0 0

PA 0 0 0 0

Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland Pittsburgh

W 0 0 0 0

North L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pct .000 .000 .000 .000

PF 0 0 0 0

PA 0 0 0 0

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

W 0 0 0 0

West L 0 0 0 0

Pct .000 .000 .000 .000

PF 0 0 0 0

PA 0 0 0 0

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 1 0 01.000 24 N.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000 0 Philadelphia 0 0 0 .000 0 Washington 0 0 0 .000 0

PA 20 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0

Atlanta Carolina New Orleans Tampa Bay

W 0 0 0 0

South L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pct .000 .000 .000 .000

PF 0 0 0 0

PA 0 0 0 0

Chicago Detroit Green Bay Minnesota

W 0 0 0 0

North L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pct .000 .000 .000 .000

PF 0 0 0 0

PA 0 0 0 0

Arizona San Francisco Seattle St. Louis

W 0 0 0 0

West L 0 0 0 0

Pct .000 .000 .000 .000

PF 0 0 0 0

PA 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0

Thursday, Aug. 8 Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Tennessee, 6 p.m.

Cincinnati at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Denver at San Francisco, 7 p.m.

Seattle at San Diego, 8 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 9 N.Y. Jets at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Jacksonville, 5:30 p.m.

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

Houston at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Kansas City at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Arizona at Green Bay, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Oakland, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 10 N.Y. Giants at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 11 Buffalo at Indianapolis, 11:30 a.m.

fore defeating American Venus Williams 0-6, 6-4, 6-2.

“I wasn’t really expecting to play that well in the first set,” Williams said. “So I think that in the second, I just kind of didn’t handle it well. But I was pretty close there to closing that match out and then got down in the third.”

In other first-round matches, No. 11 seed Maria Kirilenko of Russia beat qualifier Petra Martic of Croatia 6-2, 6-1 while Ivanovic, the No. 16 seed from Serbia, defeated Su-Wei Hsieh of Taiwan 6-1, 6-2.

“It’s good to be back here,” Ivanovic said. “I’m really looking forward to consistency and especially coming off how I played well last week.

“I hope (to) keep that momentum going and to keep playing well here.” Ivanovic reached the semifinal at the Southern California Open last weekend before losing to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.

Also Tuesday, No. 15 seed Jelena Jankovic of Serbia topped Georgian qualifier Anna Tatishvili 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3, Ekaterina Makarova of Russia beat Anastasia Rodionova of Australia 6-1, 7-5 and American qualifier Lauren Davis edged Svetlana Kuznetsova 3-6, 7-5, 7-5.

France’s Alize Cornet beat Russia’s Elena Vesnina 6-3, 6-3; Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia defeated Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania 6-4, 6-3 and Italy’s Francesca Schiavone defeated South Africa’s Chanelle Scheepers 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.

In the late matches, third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland beat Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer 6-2, 6-3 while Stosur, the No. 12 seed from Australia, defeated Julia Glushko of Israel 5-7, 6-2, 6-3.

Riggers advance SPRUCE GROVE — For the second day in a row the Red Deer Riggers got outstanding pitching as they advanced into the Sunburst Baseball League and provincial senior AAA final.

The Riggers, behind the complete game pitching of Matt Davis, downed the Parkland White Sox 4-2 Tuesday to sweep the best-of-three semifinal. They won 5-3 Monday behind the pitching of Josh Edwards.

Davis allowed seven hits and two runs — one earned — while striking out four. He hit two batters and walked two.

The teams exchanged single runs in the first inning with Parkland taking a 2-1 lead in the second. However, the Riggers managed to score single runs in the fourth, sixth and seventh innings to take control.

Jaret Chatwood led the way with three hits while Jason Chatwood and Kerry Boon added two hits each and Kevin Curran picked up a double.

Mike Ronnie, Curtis Bailey and Curtis Mazurkewich all came through with a sacrfice fly.

“We did what we had to and got outstanding pitching,” said Riggers veteran right-hander Joel Peterman.

“It was a good effort and a lot better than last year when we lost to them.”

The Riggers face the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics in the final, who beat St. Albert 10-2 and 8-0 to sweep the series.

The final may start Friday or Sunday at Great Chief Park.

BASEBALL

Jays quick to get past Seattle

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Toronto 7 Seattle 2 SEATTLE — Jose Reyes homered on the first pitch of the game, added an RBI single to cap Toronto’s big fourth inning, and the Blue Jays handed Seattle ace Felix Hernandez his first loss since late May with a 7-2 win over the Mariners on Tuesday.

The Blue Jays battered Hernandez (11-5) and knocked him out after just five innings, matching his shortest start of the season.

A leading contender for a second AL Cy Young Award, Hernandez got no help from his defence that committed three errors that led to three unearned runs while he was on the mound.

Despite lasting just five innings, Hernandez’s ERA only rose from 2.30 to 2.39.

Hernandez had not lost since May 25, a span of 12 starts.

Toronto’s Josh Johnson (2-8) pitched well with his potential spot in the rotation at stake. Johnson threw five scoreless innings and won for the first time since June 23, snapping a six-game losing streak.

AMATEUR GOLF

Pasula shoots four-over par VICTORIA, B.C. — Red Deer’s Brett Pasula shot a four-over par 76 to sit in a tie for 96th following the opening round of the 72-hole Canadian Amateur Men’s Golf Championship Tuesday.

Andrew Harrison of Camrose had a 75 and is tied for 68th in of the field of 250.

Corey Connors of Listowel, Ont., holds the lead with a sixunder par 66, one stroke ahead of a pair of Americans.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013 B7

NHL Newton says he’s talked with fellow Heisman winner Manziel Canucks sign

first-round picks Horvat, Shinkaruk

CAN RELATE TO PRESSURES OF STARDOM

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (1) keeps loose on the sidelines during the team’s NFL football training camp at Wofford College on Monday, in Spartanburg, S.C. it through my (eyes). If you say no to this particular person you are going to be a (jerk). You are going to be the person that people look at as, ‘What’s up? We came out here and supported you and cheered for you and you can’t sign an autograph?’ Never mind that you signed 300 other autographs before. But that’s the nature of the beast.”

Manziel has struggled to stay out of the news since leading Texas A&M to an 11-2 record and an upset win over No. 1 Alabama en route to becoming the first fresh-

man to win the Heisman. The latest potential problem involves an ESPN report that the NCAA is investigating whether he was paid for signing hundreds of autographs last January.

If it is found that Manziel was paid for his autograph on memorabilia it could potentially violate NCAA amateurism rules and put his eligibility in risk.

Newton said he hopes “that everything works out in the best for him so he can get back to what he likes to do and that’s playing football.”

Canadian basketball success on the world stage a dream for Jermaine Anderson

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — International basketball isn’t just off-season fun for Jermaine Anderson. It’s a spotlight and dream for a player who has never competed in the NBA. So as Anderson spoke about how important it was for Canada’s senior men’s team to come together at training camp, Tristan Thompson walked over and wrapped an arm around the 30-year-old guard.

Anderson looked relieved — no longer does he have to shoulder the burden of Canada’s success alone.

“I’m the young guy now,” said Anderson.

Anderson, Thompson and their teammates worked out Tuesday on the Toronto Raptors’ practice court at the Air Canada Centre ahead of two exhibition games against Jamaica on Thursday and Saturday.

The 20-player camp will determine who’ll be on the roster when Canada travels to Venezuela for the FIBA Americas Championship from Aug. 30 to Sept. 11. The top four tournament teams qualify for next year’s FIBA World Cup in Spain.

Anderson, who played professionally last season in Germany, has made over 75 appearances for Canada and has been a member of the senior men’s team since 2004.

Winning now with the national team is a priority for the player nicknamed Rock.

“It’s everything,” he said.

“Ever since I came here my goal has always been to play in as many world championships as

possible and to get to the Olympics, so the goal hasn’t changed.”

The trick will be to convince the rest of the team those goals are achievable. But if the future can be measured by how many NBA players are on the roster, Canada has reason to be confident.

Thompson (Cleveland Cavaliers), Cory Joseph (San Antonio Spurs), Andrew Nicholson (Orlando Magic) and Joel Anthony (Miami Heat) are all NBA regulars while Anthony Bennett (No. 1 overall this year to Cleveland), Kelly Olynyk (No. 13 to Boston) and phenom Andrew Wiggins (projected to go first overall in next year’s draft) are all waiting in the wings.

But the final product in Venezuela will also include international players such as Anderson and Jevohn Shepherd, and perhaps even one current CIS player in Carleton’s Philip Scrubb.

Bringing the team together quickly is no easy feat. Players have little time to learn coach Jay Triano’s systems, get used to new teammates and learn the international game.

“It’s very tough. That’s why we have to work every day,” said Anderson. “We can’t waste any time.

A lot of these teams, like Brazil and Argentina, have been together for 10-plus years. So we’re kind of behind the 8-ball.

“But as long as we continue to work, put team first and check our egos at the door then we should be successful.”

A high-tempo scrimmage showed off some of the team’s potential Tuesday.

Thompson was fiery, arguing

fouls with an official while Joseph flashed terrific speed at point guard as well as some chemistry with his brother, Devoe Joseph.

“Guys are competing,” said Thompson. “At the end of the day it’s still a tryout.

“Not all these guys here are going to come with us to Venezuela so guys are competing for spots and minutes.”

Thompson, 22, won bronze with Canada’s under-18 team at the 2008 FIBA Americas Championship and played on the U-19 world squad.

Anderson said Thompson is already bringing the leadership and focus the team needs from its young players.

“He makes it easier on us,” said Anderson. “He came here with the right attitude.

“He came here with the leadership role and he’s helping us out as well.”

Another potential leader may be Nicholson.

The 23-year-old is making his national senior team debut and using the camp to improve his game. He knows there are suddenly more eyes on the squad now than there has been in a long time.

“There’s a lot of hype around it.

There should be,” he said. “You know we’ve got a lot of good talent around here. We’re just building towards the future.”

The first step is the two-game series against Jamaica, a team Anderson called “extremely athletic.”

Following that, the roster will be decided and the expectation will become firm results, not just hype.

VANCOUVER — Hunter Shinkaruk has added another unforgettable moment to his summer to remember.

The Vancouver Canucks announced Tuesday that they have signed Shinkaruk, who was selected in the first round (24th overall) in this year’s NHL entry draft.

“It’s a huge honour,” said Shinkaruk. “This summer has been full of pretty exciting things that I dreamed of. The fact that I signed with an NHL team today seems surreal.”

Shinkaruk, an 18-year-old Calgary native, signed a three-year deal. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

The Canucks also signed their other 2013 firstround draft pick, Bo Horvat, an 18-year-old Rodney, Ont., native, who was selected ninth overall after Vancouver traded goaltender Cory Schneider to the New Jersey Devils for the pick.

In addition to being drafted in the first round and signing with the Canucks, Shinkaruk’s memorable summer has include a chance to try out for Canada’s world junior team and informal skates with such NHL stars as Sidney Crosby and Jason Spezza in Halifax.

Now, Shinkaruk is in Lake Placid, N.Y., for a summer evaluation camp and international competition with other hopefuls seeking spots on the Canadian team that will compete at the world junior championships in Malmo, Sweden during the Christmas holidays.

But, even if he has to miss the tourney, he has his heart set on playing for the Canucks.

“That’s absolutely my goal,” said Shinkaruk. “I’ve done everything so far this summer that I can to try to solidify my spot on that roster. Obviously, it’s not going to be an easy job. They obviously have a lot of great players.”

The 5-10, 181-pound centre will receive serious consideration from new Canucks coach John Tortorella and general manager Mike Gillis because the Canucks potentially have openings at centre on their third and fourth lines, depending how Jordan Schroeder recovers from off-season shoulder surgery and might fit into the forward rotation.

Tortorella and Gillis have stressed that they will attempt to give young players jobs as the club deals with a league-wide reduction in salary cap from $70.2 million to $64.3 million.

Shinkaruk captained the WHL’s Medicine Hat Tigers in 2012-13, recording 49 goals and 37 assists. He led the Tigers in playoff scoring with three goals and three assists.

Internationally, Shinkaruk was a member of the Canadian team that won a bronze medal at the 2012 under-18 world championships. He earned gold with Canada’s entry at the 2011 Ivan Hlinka Memorial tournament.

He has already had a chance to familiarize himself with the Canucks by attending their summer prospects camp.

“I think it just got me a little bit more comfortable with everyone who’s there, basically everyone who’s involved with the team now,” he said. “I’ve really got that all out of the way.

“So when I come to camp, really, it’s just going to be (about) how well I play. Now, I have all the gear and everything, so I’m comfortable with all that stuff.

It was great to get down and see the city and meet everyone. I’m so excited to be a Canuck. It’s a great place. I think it’s just going to allow me to be a little bit more relaxed when I get to camp.”

Shinkaruk has two sets of cousins in Vancouver, and he knows the city well from having played for a New Westminster, B.C., select team for about three springs. He will familiarize himself further with the Canucks organization while playing for Vancouver’s prospects team in a pre-season tournament in Penticton, B.C., in early September.

The tournament will include Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets and San Jose Sharks prospects.

“It’ll be the first time that I put on the Vancouver Canucks jersey and play in it, so I’m looking forward to that,” he said.

“Hopefully, I can make my mark in that tournament on what kind of player I am.”

Shinkaruk, who loves to score goals and bills himself as a good skater who is creative with the puck, has battled perceptions about his size throughout his life. Always among smaller players as a youth, he has grown to 5-10 from 5-7 over the past three years, and now feels he has the size necessary to compete in the NHL. “When I was younger, I was really small,” said Shinkaruk, who has played three seasons for Medicine Hat. “And, even my first year and my second year (of junior), but I’ve grown a lot since then. I feel like it’s more a perception than it is a reality now.”

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TEXAS RANGERS

Lewis done for season

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Texas Rangers aren’t getting Colby Lewis back in their rotation this season. His comeback from right elbow surgery has been thwarted by a troublesome hip.

Lewis said Tuesday that he will have surgery to remove bone spurs from his hip that has bothered him for a couple of years.

Lewis, the team’s most successful post-season pitcher, said the repaired elbow has felt good. But the pain in his hip was getting to the point that it affected his pitching.

“My consistency to repeat my delivery is not there, and I think it just has basically put myself in a situation where I haven’t give my arm a chance to get right either,” Lewis said. “My arm, it feels great at times. Then, if my mechanics aren’t perfect because of my hip, it gets sore at certain times.”

The surgery will be done as early as the end of this week. Recovery time is six to eight weeks.

General manager Jon Daniels said Lewis’ recovery from the surgery in July 2012 to repair a torn right flexor tendon “was going very well.” Lewis was pitching in rehab games in the minor leagues and had been expected to rejoin the Rangers rotation by maybe the end of this month..

“He’s dealt with hip issues over the years. The guy has an unbelievable pain tolerance and work ethic.

He’s pushed through it as far as he could,” Daniels said. “It’s just got to the point where he felt, and we felt, our medical staff felt like he was probably putting his arm at risk by pushing through it further.”

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Cam Newton can relate to what Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel is going through.

And the Panthers quarterback said Tuesday he’s spoken to Manziel a few times this off-season about coping with the pressures of being a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback living college life in the limelight.

Newton wouldn’t discuss the specifics of the conversations, saying they are personal, just between him and Manziel.

But he said Manziel “has to go through these types of situations to know how to handle them in the future. When somebody comes up to you and asks for your autograph, you don’t know if they’re going to do it for good or bad” purposes.

Like Manziel, Newton was under media scrutiny at Auburn during an NCAA investigation into pay-for-play allegations.

Newton was not found to have committed any wrongdoing and wasn’t suspended from any games.

“For any college athlete you are vulnerable to so many things,” Newton said. “You think everybody loves you for who you are.”

Newton said that was a tough lesson to learn while he was at Auburn.

“When I was there at college so many people wanted from me and I wanted to give so much,” Newton said.

“Like I would sign this and give my time and this, this and that. And nobody was looking at

B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013

Cooper returns to practise with Eagles FOLLOWING VIDEO OF SLUR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — Wide receiver Riley Cooper returned to the Philadelphia Eagles Tuesday after a four-day excused absence to undergo sensitivity training after he was caught on film yelling a racial slur before a Kenny Chesney concert.

Cooper, in his fourth year out of the University of Florida, seemed remorseful during an eight-minute press conference with the media after the Eagles and New England Patriots began what will be a three-day practice routine before Friday night’s preseason opener.

“It’s great to be back doing what I love to do, play football,” Cooper said.

“I realize being in the NFL you have responsibility to behave on and off the field. I realize that.”

“I realize how many people I hurt, how many families I hurt, how many kids I hurt. It’s going to be tough. I’m going to live with this every day the rest of my life. It’s one of those things you can’t let affect your play on the field.”

Video of Cooper’s racial slur surfaced Wednesday. He was immediately fined an undisclosed amount by the team, but was not suspended. Ironically, two days earlier he was promoted to the starting lineup after Jeremy Maclin suffered a season-ending injury.

Last Friday, Eagles coach Chip Kelly announced that Cooper was given time off to seek counselling. Kelly did not put a timetable on his return. Four days later, he was back at practice and

NFL caught two touchdown passes against the Patriots’ defence.

“My concern wasn’t how he practiced,” Kelly said after practice.

“It’s just him with the team itself and to get the chance to make sure he got to talk to every single guy so that they understood how we felt, what he did, and understand that he’s truly sorry for what he did.”

Cooper said he talked to every one of his teammates, face to face, and apologized.

“I told them I don’t want you to forgive me. That puts the burden on you.

I want it all on me. I apologized,” he said.

“They could tell it was from the heart. They know I’m not that kind of person. It feels good to have the support of the guys.”

After one of his touchdown passes, he got a chest bump from teammate and fellow wide receiver Jason Avant, who is an African-American, and high fives from several other teammates.

“I took a few days,” he said. “It’s been a tough, tough road. I talked to Chip. He asked me if I’m ready to come back. I told him I was. I wanted to get back on the field and get back out here with my guys.”

Kelly emphasized that since the leave was an excused absence and not a suspension, Cooper was able to return once he felt he was ready.

“I deferred to who he went to go visit with,” Kelly said. “Again, it wasn’t like he was suspended and he had to go through a set of things to come back.

We just excused him, because everybody that met with him — and Riley

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper pauses during the NFL football team’s training camp in Philadelphia. Cooper has been fined by the team for making a racial slur at a Kenny Chesney concert that was caught on video, leading him to say he’s “ashamed and disgusted” with himself. himself — felt that he needed to go talk to someone.”

Kelly felt that going forward the team is in a good position with Cooper “We’ve got a pretty good pulse on where we are right now,” he said. “Our players have been fantastic with us in terms of feedback, so it’s really certainly a situation that, as I said, isn’t something that we just kind of put in the back seat and get moving forward.

We’ll make sure we keep our eyes and ears open and continue to monitor the

situation.”

That includes owner Jeffrey Lurie, who issued the following statement, Tuesday.

“I want to make this clear; the words Riley Cooper used were totally unacceptable. His words may have been directed at one person but they hurt everyone,” Lurie wrote. “Riley has apologized to the team and community and has made a personal commitment to work hard to try and gain their trust and earn his position on the team.”

Packers sign quarterback Vince Young FOLLOWING POOR SHOWING BY BACKUP BJ COLEMAN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREEN BAY, Wis. — Vince Young says the Green Bay Packers are getting a more mature, stronger person. What kind of quarterback the team is getting in the 30-year-old Young remains to be seen.

“That’s the mystery of it, sort of the intrigue,” general manager Ted Thompson said Tuesday after Young completed his first practice in a Packers uniform.

The Packers are hoping that Young, out of football last year after being cut by the Buffalo Bills, can pick up the offence quickly enough to make a serious run at the backup job behind Aaron Rodgers.

After five up-and-down years as the Tennessee Titans’ starter and one year as a backup to Michael Vick with the Philadelphia Eagles, Young says the Packers are getting someone who has experienced both success and failure on the field (31-19 career record as a starter, two Pro Bowl selections, a 74.4 career passer rating) and has grown up off the field while getting married and trying to navigate through financial problems.

If the Packers get a more reliable backup than incumbent No. 2 quarterback Graham Harrell or third-stringer B.J. Coleman, signing Young to a oneyear deal will prove well worth the risk.

“Back in the day, I was a young Vince. Now, I’m more mature and definitely learned from things that happened in the past,” Young said. “I’m married now, a grown man, 30 years old. I’ve definitely been through the

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Former University of Texas and NFL quarterback Vince Young throws during Texas’ Pro Day in Austin, Texas. The Green Bay Packers announced they have signed Young as a backup quarterback, Tuesday. highs and the lows and different things like that. It’s the way you come out of it to stay strong. I’m stronger than I’ve ever been.”

Young doesn’t have much time to learn the playbook and make an impression, but said he isn’t fazed by the odds being against him. “(It’s) no challenge. I’ve been through pretty much everything you can think of,” Young said. “I’m just happy, enjoying this and just happy to be here and being here with some special, special guys. My whole thing is to continue to keep working and get myself better and just staying ready — you never know.”

Harrell was solid but unspectacular during the first 10 days of training camp and Coleman, a seventh-round pick in 2012 who spent last year on the practice squad, did little to impress his coaches. He threw a pair of interceptions in practice on Thursday and did so again in Saturday’s scrimmage.

One interception came in the end zone; another was returned 66 yards for a touchdown.

“We’re adding more competition to the room,” coach Mike McCarthy said.

“I thought (Saturday night) was one of the better scrimmage-type environments that Graham has performed in.

B.J. did not take the step that I was

hoping for, but he’s a young player. I’m not giving up on B.J. Coleman because I think he has, definitely a future, a bright future. (So) that is a room that there will be more competition. And Vince Young was available.”

McCarthy said he wasn’t sure whether Young would know enough of the playbook to see action in the team’s preseason opener Friday night against Arizona, although the coach said he hoped Young could play.

Young, who is listed at 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds on the Packers’ official roster, appeared to be in good shape, even though he acknowledged he was rusty.

McCarthy made it clear that Young wasn’t brought in merely to run readoption plays on the scout team against the No. 1 defence, and that the coaches had already started tweaking his fundamentals.

“Vince Young is a very talented player. You look at his history, it speaks volumes about his ability to play. It’s just a matter of getting comfortable with him,” McCarthy said.

Young’s comeback attempt began with him participating in Texas’ predraft pro day, and while he said he had other teams show interest in him, Green Bay was the right place for him to resume his NFL career.

“I’m still fighting and I haven’t quit,” Young said. “I really feel like that year off really helped me out a lot.

It opened my eyes and a lot of things like that. I’m just happy to have the opportunity to play here. Right now, I’m just taking it day by day, trying to get a grasp of the offence, ask questions, kind of pick Aaron’s and the rest of the guys’ heads so I can try to catch up to speed with the guys.”

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GUIDED WALKS The Wetaskiwin Volkssport Walking Club will conduct guided walks of two popular Red Deer trails on Saturday. There will be a morning walk from Heritage Ranch to Bower Ponds and an afternoon walk around Gaetz Lake Sanctuary. Registration for the morning walk is at 9 a.m. at Heritage Ranch at 25 Riverview Park with the walk starting at 9:30 a.m.

Registration for the afternoon walk is 12:30 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 6300 45th Ave. with the walk starting 30 minutes later. Walkers can bring water and snacks or a picnic lunch. For more information, call 780361-5530.

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BOWDEN SUNMAZE A sunflower maze made from more than 100,000 sunflowers and thousands of lilies will be among the highlights at Bowden SunMaze and Eagle Creek Farm on Saturday and Sunday.

Visitors can challenge themselves in the maze or purchase and pick flowers from the farm store. Free wagon rides will be provided. The farm is located four km west of Bowden on Hwy 587. Turn right on rural route 14, travel north for 2.5 km and watch for signs. The event is part of the Red Deer Summertime Country Drive where select museums, historic sites, craft stores, you-picks, produce growers and antique vendors remain open for the weekend.

For more details go to www.countrydrive.ca.

DAIRY QUEEN MIRACLE TREATS Dairy Queen restaurants in Red Deer are trying to set a Canadian record for the amount of money they raise for children’s hospitals through their Miracle Treat Day fundraiser.

Dairy Queens in Red Deer will donate all the proceeds of every Dairy Queen Blizzard sold on Miracle Treat Day, Thursday. So far, the downtown Dairy Queen store on 43rd Street has sold 20,000 paper balloons for a $1 each and raised $2,400 in bottle drives in its bid to be No. 1 in Canada.

The Deer Park store is at 15,000 and the south end DQ Grill and Chill is at 13,000. On Miracle Treat Day, the downtown DQ will have a bouncy castle race for a $3 fee and a dunk tank for $5 for three throws. The downtown Red Deer store was the top DQ in Canada in 2010.

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Central Alberta Mountain Club member Frank Weber, 84, of Red Deer, celebrated his climb at Sentinel Pass near Lake Louise at Banff National Park in 2012.

An growing number of Central Albertans are taking advantage of mountain playgrounds

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Hiking and Alberta go hand-in-hand.

No wonder more Central Albertans are taking to the trails in parks, the West Country, Rocky Mountains, Central Alberta and Red Deer.

Bertha Ford, one of the original organizers of the Red Deer Ramblers, said interest is climbing so high that more hiking clubs are needed.

The Ramblers, which started 16 years ago, has about 110 members this year. Luckily, only about 40 at most have shown up for hikes, she said.

“Now that we’re on the web, I’ll bet I’ve had 20 to 25 people find me,” Ford said.

The Ramblers go on day and multi-day trips in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia and have some devoted hikers.

“We have people from Canmore who join us if we’re in the area. We have a lady who comes from Grand Forks (B.C.) and hikes with us all the time.

She loved our group and she comes out regularly to hike with us now.”

Ford can’t resist the pull of the mountains.

“I love nature and I love walking so I wanted to find people who would go to the mountains. We’re quite close and they’re so beautiful.”

Ford said all ages are welcome, but they must be able to hike 10 km and do moderate elevations.

“We go slow. I’m 73. I can keep climbing but I have to go slow and we do go slow. Our stopping time is often longer than our hiking time.”

She said in the great outdoors, hikers need to be really prepared.

“You’ve got to wear proper clothing. You can’t wear cotton. You’ve got to have plenty of water.

You’ve got to have proper boots. You can’t just go in running shoes.

“I’ve been on hikes in the mountains where people started out in shorts and by the end of the hike we were wearing everything we had in our backpacks. You’ve got to carry extra fleece. You’ve got to carry rain gear. You’ve got to have toques and hats.”

Animal sightings do happen and Ramblers have seen bears — from a distance, Ford said.

“It’s not a problem if you’re smart. If you know about bears, you should be travelling in groups. If you’re in bear area, you should be travelling with a minimum of four people and you should be carrying bear spray. You should be careful. You should be on the lookout, making noise.

“You don’t take any smelly food. You don’t drop food. You don’t throw out apple cores.

“You don’t throw out peels. You don’t leave food anywhere.”

If hikers want to take it to the next level — scrambling — the Central Alberta Mountain Club may be for them.

“Scrambling means that you use both your hands and your feet to get up it. It’s one step below actual mountain climbing where you have to start bringing additional gear,” said club president Marilyn Strilchuk, Central Alberta Mountain Club, which started in 2000 and hikes all over Central Alberta and into the Rocky Mountains.

In addition to scrambling they go on regular hikes, easy to advance levels, and multi-day backpacking.

“We are so fortunate to have world-class hiking opportunities that we can do on a weekend. People just don’t realize how fortunate we are.

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Central Alberta Mountain Club members enjoy the solitude of Larch Valley at Banff National Park.

Bertha Ford, one of the original organizers of the Red Deer Ramblers, said interest is climbing so high that more hiking clubs are needed.

Central Alberta Mountain Club members watch their step at Dry Island Buffalo Jump.

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BRIEFS More Red Deer taxis coming Six more taxis will hit Red Deer streets this fall after a taxi plate draw in late August.

The City of Red Deer has added the additional licences because the 2013 municipal census confirmed Red Deer has increased by 5,232 people.

Only qualified applicants can apply for the taxi licence draw.

Applicants must have been involved in the taxi industry for two years or longer as a taxi driver, or as broker for more than 1,200 hours a year, said Shelley VanSomeren, city licence and permit inspector.

The taxi plate draw will be at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28, in the Wapiti Room at City Hall. Applications are available from the Inspections and Licensing Department on the third floor of Red Deer City Hall.

A $21.60 non-refundable fee for each application (only one per broker or driver) must be remitted to the city by 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 14.

Applicants must submit proof they are a qualified by 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 6.

For more details, call city Inspections and Licensing at 403-342-8182 or go to licensing@reddeer.ca.

Sylvan library to grow Sylvan Lake’s library is getting a makeover.

Red Deer’s Berry Architecture and Associates has been hired to design the revamp, which will see the library expand into space left by the departing archives, which are moving into a space in the newly completed municipal government building.

About 1,000 square feet will be added and used to create a much-needed public meeting space, said Frank Peck, chair of the library’s building committee. Existing meeting rooms will be turned into additional space for books.

Peck said the library is undersized for the 13,000-plus community.

The changes, which will see major renovations to the inside to better serve the public, will buy some time until a new library is built.

“It’s really needed,” said Peck of the upgrade. “For the size of this town (the library) is small.”

A bigger library is expected to be part of the town’s proposed multiplex redevelopment, a $16.5-million project that is in the early planning stages

and will likely be built in the next few years. Town council has already put aside $400,000 in its budget for the project.

Tenders are expected to go out in October or November and it’s expected construction will start early next year. Meanwhile, the town will debuts its new municipal government building on 50th Street on Aug. 19. It replaces the current town hall on nearby 50th Avenue that the town administration had outgrown.

The $7.2-million two-storey replacement was built on time and on budget, said Mayor Susan Samson.

As part of that project, the archives will be given double its current space in the basement of the new building.

Raven Bridge cash found The province has come through with some cash to replace the Raven Bridge in the west end of Red Deer County.

The crossing is about 13 km west of Spruce View on Secondary Hwy 54 and had been due for replacement previously but provincial funding was not available. The government has since notified the county the money is now there.

Council approved a tender from Calgary-based Volker Stevin Contracting Ltd. of $2.23 million for the project.

That is below the engineering estimate of $2.56 million. The province has agreed to provide $1.06 million.

County Coun. Dave Hoar said the funding was good news. “I hope this isn’t the only bridge they can fund and we can get on with some of the other projects they put on hold.”

Construction on the bridge will start this year and be completed in 2014.

County joins boat launch plan Red Deer County has agreed to join the search for a new boat launch on Sylvan Lake.

Council approved a request to back an application for provincial funding by municipalities around the lake to research lake access options.

A regional collaboration grant will be used to fund a detailed study of the suitability of an unofficial boat launch site at Range Road 21 in Red Deer County as an established launch point.

Consultants would also be hired to draft an intermunicipal agreement on the funding, construction and operation of a launch, as well as examining the broader issues of providing public access on the lake.

County manager Curtis Herzberg said council’s support of the grant application does not imply any future financial commitment to a boat launch.

That will be a decision of a future

council.

Red Deer County has a small stake in the lake access issues compared to other municipalities, especially Lacombe County, which has a number of lake-area developments coming. Other municipalities expected to participate in the grant application are five summer villages and the Town of Sylvan Lake.

Turning Range Road 21 into a fullfledged boat launch will likely prove controversial. Residents in the summer village of Half Moon Bay are lobbying the county to close a portion of Range Road 21 just west of the Town of Sylvan Lake to vehicle traffic because of persistent littering and traffic problems. However, the Town of Sylvan Lake and Lacombe County do not want to see it closed because lake access points are already in short supply.

Roundabout leaves surplus Red Deer County will put savings on the Gasoline Alley roundabout project into other roadwork.

When the final bills are in, it is expected that the Leva Avenue roundabout, which opened last Friday, will come in about $1.1 million below its $6.4-million budget, says a report to council. The province contributed about $1 million to that project.

Savings will be pushed into other work to fix seasonal “road boils” on county gravel roads as well as patching work on Range Road 284 and Township Road 382. Other money will go towards the cost of installing traffic lights at Hwy 2 and McKenzie Road, a project expected to cost $670,000 more than the original $600,000 budgeted.

The county also saved some money by cancelling a $440,000 road project on Range Road 284.

Mayor Jim Wood was pleased to see the Leva Avenue project come in under budget and ahead of schedule.

Traffic is already flowing more smoothly in the area, which had become a bottleneck in the increasingly busy Gasoline Alley commercial area.

Kick it To the Curb Sylvan Lake residents who want to reduce, reuse and recycle can participate in Kick It To The Curb on Saturday and Sunday.

Place safe and reusable items on the curb with a free sign placed on it.

The printable signs are available under the Go Green tab at www.sylvanlake.ca. Acceptable items include kitchen items, unwanted gifts, electronics, and furniture.

Participants are asked to register their items prior to Saturday by calling 403-887-2800.

Registration is not required, but those items that are registered will appear on the Sylvan Lake Facebook Page and online at www.sylvanlake. ca.go-green. Residents are asked to remove any leftover items from the curb by the end of Sunday. Remaining items can be taken to the Sylvan Lake Drop N’ Swap tent located at the Waste Transfer site at no charge.

For more information, go to www. sylvanlake.ca.

Mirror man’s body found Police have discovered the body of a Mirror man reported missing last week. On July 27, Bashaw RCMP requested the public’s help in finding William ‘Bill’ Graham, 66.

He was last seen leaving the Alix dump at noon on Friday, July 26.

His body was discovered in his vehicle parked near Nevis on Sunday.

RCMP say no foul play is suspected but they continue to investigate.

Bail hearing set Facing more than 20 charges, including two counts of firearms trafficking, a Red Deer man will have his bail hearing this afternoon.

Brandon Kevin Wattie, 27, faces multiple counts stemming from several incidents over the last four years.

Wattie and his attorney Michael Scrase of Red Deer appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday before Judge B.R. Fraser, who set Wattie’s show/cause hearing for today.

Wattie asked that it be an in-person court appearance.

Charges stemming from incidents in 2009 include two counts of trafficking weapons and firearms, two counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm, two counts of possession of a firearm, a Ruger 10/22, knowing it was obtained by the commission of an offence and one count each of possession of stolen property from the proceeds of a crime and break and enter with intent.

Charges from 2010 include break and enter with intent, theft under $5,000 and mischief to property under $5,000.

Charges from 2012 include two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, two counts of failure to stop and evading a peace officer and one count of operating a motor vehicle without a licence or insurance.

His most recent charges, from 2013, include careless use and storage of a firearm, pointing a firearm, possession of a dangerous weapon in a public place, uttering threats and mischief to property under $5,000.

He was arrested by Red Deer RCMP on the most recent charges.

Pay hike in works for Red Deer County’s next mayor and council ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer County’s next mayor and council will get a six per cent pay increase over four years.

The increase, recommended by a four-person independent committee, kicks in after the Oct. 20 municipal elections.

Mayor compensation will increase this fall to $81,707

from $80,500. Councillors will see their pay go to $57,347 from $56,500.

In the last year of their four-year term, the mayor will be making $85,439 and the six councillors $59,967.

Remuneration committee member and former Red Deer College president Ron Woodward said a key goal is to make compensation for council transparent and easy to understand.

He praised council’s com-

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HIKING: Club has good safety record Some people come to Canada as their trip of a lifetime and they’re thrilled to have the opportunity to get on the trails,” said the 59-year-old, who has been hiking for 30 years.

One of the reasons she got involved was to stay fit.

“It’s so much nicer to be on a hiking trail than putting in time on a treadmill in a gym. There is always something new to see.

“I love being in the outdoors. I always take a camera with me. I’ve met some really wonderful people on various hikes.”

About 18 families and 60 individuals are club members.

A limit is put on the number of hikers per destination to keep track of everyone and for safety.

Strilchuk said the club has a good safety and injury record because they do encourage people to hike according to their health and experience level.

“We want to make sure everyone is going to have an enjoyable experience and progress at a reasonable pace to get to more challenging hikes.”

Weather is always a roll of the dice.

“Every year is so different. This year, there are incredible amounts of snow in the mountains.

“We had a good hiking season last year. It was so long and warm. I remember still hiking in Yoho National Park up the ice line trail in mid October. The temperatures were in the mid 20s and sun was shining,” Strilchuk said.

Red Deer Area Hikers has been operating for

mitment to following recommendations during the committee’s last review in 2010.

That review led to council’s expense claims, meeting attendance and quarterly reports being posted on the county’s website.

Among other changes recommended is boosting the annual budget for conference, seminar and workshop attendance to $55,000 from $50,000.

The mayor is allocated $8,500 and councillors $6,500.

15 years. It started out as the Thursday Hikers organized by Red Deer resident Jim Muza in 1998. He got hooked on hiking as a snowbird in the United States. Muza, who has since died, wanted to focus on short hikes in and around the city.

Yolande Stubbs, who is in her 70s and has been hiking with the group for 10 years, said Muza charted every hike to the kilometre and led every hike.

“Our favourite out-of-town trip is Rocky Mountain House and the fort out there. It’s all nature.

“You’re next to the river. You go into the interpretive centre where there’s lots of information.

“We bring a lunch. If we cut that one out, a lot of people would be disappointed,” said Stubbs, whose husband Art, 74, joined the group shortly after her.

Per diems for attending outof-county meetings remain unchanged at $105 for a half day and double that for a full day.

Council members are also eligible for a mileage allowance set at the provincial rate of 50 cents per kilometre.

Mayor Jim Wood thanked the committee for its work, noting one of council’s toughest jobs is setting its own pay and ensuring it remains fair compensation.

Coun. Dave Hoar said the

Red Deer Hikers operates on a drop-in basis and attracts 10 to 30 people weekly to their 9 a.m. hikes.

Stubbs said only poor weather will cancel the hikes that run from May to September.

Lynn Danyluk, co-ordinator with the Red Deer Area Hikers, said most of the hikers are retired, a few do shift work, and there are newcomers to the city who want to get to know Red Deer.

“Although I’d been in Red Deer most of my adult life, there are parts of these trails that I didn’t even know and I’m a runner,” Danyluk said.

“A lot of people aren’t familiar with how extensive the Pines Escarpment is,” she said about one of her favourite city trails.

The group meets at the northwest parking lot of the curling facility Pidherney Centre and uses many of the Red

current practice of approving pay for the next council as recommended by a committee is better than the old system where one of a new council’s first orders of business was to approve its own pay increases.

It is very clear now how the job will be compensated.

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Deer trail system routes.

“It’s so diverse and there are many different locations. Each one is different and unique. When we go to Heritage Ranch, we don’t just stay on the path. We go off the asphalt path and go right back into the trails there,” Danyluk said.

Red Deer Hikers pace themselves to the slowest person in the group. They don’t leave anyone behind.

Stubbs said most people who participate are in good physical condition no matter what their age.

“We have more than one over 80 and they can keep up.”

For more information, visit www. reddeerramblers.com, www.camchiking.ca.

For more on Red Deer Area Hikers, call Stubbs at 403-347-5778. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Purchase financing monthly payment is $625 (the sum of twelve (12) monthly payments divided by 26 periods gives payee a bi-weekly payment of $288 with a down payment of $2,750 or equivalent trade-in. Cost of borrowing is $7,168.14 or APR of 5.89% and total to be repaid is $44,992.14. Offers include a Delivery Allowance of $4,000 and freight and air tax of $1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel dill charge and all applicable taxes. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after Manufacturer Rebate deducted. Bi-Weekly payments are only available using a customer initiated PC (Internet Banking) or Phone Pay system through the customer’s own bank (if offered by that financial institution). The customer is required to sign a monthly payment contract with a first payment date one month from the contract date and to ensure that the total monthly payment occurs by the payment due date. 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Offers include freight and air tax of $1,700 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees(administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Additional payments required for PPSA, registration, security deposit, NSF fees (where applicable), excess wear and tear, and late fees. Some conditions and mileage restrictions apply. Excess kilometrage charges are 12¢per km for Fiesta, Focus, C-Max, Fusion and Escape; 16¢per km for E-Series, Mustang, Taurus, Taurus-X, Edge, Flex, Explorer, F-Series, MKS, MKX, MKZ, MKT and Transit Connect; 20¢per km for Expedition and Navigator, plus applicable taxes. Excess kilometrage charges subject to change, see your local dealer for details. All prices are based on Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price. ***Estimated fuel consumption ratings 2013 F-150 4X4 5.0L V8 6-speed automatic transmission: [15.0L/100km (19MPG) City, 10.6L/100km (27MPG) Hwy]. 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SYNC is optional on most new Ford vehicles. ▼Offer only valid from August 1, 2013 to September 2, 2013 (the “Program Period”) to Canadian resident customers who currently (during the Program Period) own or are leasing certain Ford Pickup Truck, Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), Cross-Over Utility Vehicle (CUV) or Minivan models (each a “Qualifying Loyalty Model”), or certain competitive pickup truck, SUV, CUV or Minivan models (each a “Qualifying Conquest Model”) and purchase, lease, or factory order (during the Program Period) a new qualifying 2013/2014 Ford truck (excluding Raptor and chassis-cabs), SUV or CUV (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). Some eligibility restrictions apply on Qualifying Loyalty and Conquest Models and Eligible Vehicles – see dealer for full offer criteria. Qualifying Loyalty/Conquest Models must have been registered and insured (in Canada) in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months preceding the date of offer redemption. 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Aug. 7 1929 — Ottawa bans immigrants from entering Canada under labour contracts, except farm or domestic workers.

1929 — Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King joins British PM Stanley Baldwin and Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) and

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1867 — John A, Macdonald starts campaigning for first general elections following Confederation. The election lasts until Sept 20.

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FEELS LIKE MEAT BUT LOW-FAT FLAVOUR DISAPPOINTS

BY MARIA CHENG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANNIE ANNIE

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A new cultured beef burger, made from beef grown in a laboratory from stem cells of cattle, is cooked by chef Richard McGeown during the world’s first public tasting event for the food product held in London on Monday.

HOROSCOPES Wednesday, Aug. 7 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Charlize Theron, 38; David Duchovny, 53; Michael Shannon, 39 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon glides through dramatic Leo and sets a fun-loving vibe to the day. Games, laughter and enjoying a good company amongst dear ones represent activities that are highly favoured by the king of the jungle. In addition to that, Jupiter opposes Pluto today.

This signals that our perspectives in life and our faith will undergo a tremendous change and transformation.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, you are embarking on a journey of new occurrences and experiences. You will concentrate ASTRO most of your efforts and time DOYNA into your goals and purposes for which you hold a strong faith and a healthy dose of optimism. Sentimentality will hit you hard this year and will evoke more meaning and substance to everything you put your heart and soul into.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It would be crucial for you to maintain a healthy status and to know what your standards are. You may feel that a certain association or acquaintances from your network are being too invasive or that they are trying to smother you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may feel frustrated by the ongoing heavy forces making you feel restrained and tested. Higher ups might be trying to abuse of your eminence or simply, deteriorate your core belief system. If ongoing work strategies are not functioning, implement new ones in order to overcome this exasperating energy.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You may experience some irritating situations involving foreign travel or while travelling overseas. There’s a discrepancy between what you value as your freedom in relationships and what you can bring on a more intimate level.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You have strong material desires and it may seem that you are putting certain pressures on your partner. Be careful with your finances at this time and about the sharing of personal information. You do not want certain things exposed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your state of wellbeing seems to be affected by certain difficult co-workers with whom you cannot find common language.

They act as harsh impediments to your daily work routine and they might act against your own set of values. Put your foot down.

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“I’m a vegetarian, but I would be first in line to try this,” said Jonathan Garlick, a stem cell researcher at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston. He has used similar techniques to make human skin but wasn’t involved in the burger research.

Experts say new ways of producing meat are needed to satisfy growing carnivorous appetites without exhausting resources. By 2050, the Food and Agriculture Organization predicts global meat consumption will double as more people in developing countries can afford it.

22): Looking for an ideal love or the perfect mate might not be as easy as you had hoped. It’s a formula you cannot decipher. Colleagues might seem to invade your personal space or just step on your nerves.

Leave your modesty aside and stand up for yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Power struggles may appear within the household environment. It is a time when you are feeling tested and scrutinized for your domestic, paternal abilities. A child may prove to be a tad too manipulative or demanding right now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Communicating the right words to the right individuals may seem like a challenge at this point. You just feel misunderstood.

Be careful who you invite in your own personal space. Donít become paranoid of everyone you have over, but be inquisitive about your guests.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may stumble upon financial problems due to risky investments or some outstanding frustrating bills. Be vigilant in your close neighbourhoods or towards any stranger you’re engaging into a conversation with.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your self-esteem and your self-worth are undergoing major shake ups in terms of your values. You may feel that life is making heavy demands on you and that you need to compromise with life lessons more than you can handle.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may experience chance encounters that have a very karmic feel to them. You may be attracting the wrong type of person. Secret, clandestine affairs might bring you a dose of frustration. Fight for your values.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are still uncertain about exposing your romantic life, which you prefer to keep well hidden behind closed doors. Social conditions or pressures from your friends seem to interfere with your happiness due to a certain power struggle.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer/columnist.

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the burgers this way would probably be healthier than getting it from naturally chunky cows, Omholt said before Monday’s test. He was not involved in the project.

Post and colleagues made the meat from the muscle cells of two organic cows. The cells were put into a nutrient solution to help them develop into muscle tissue, growing into small strands of meat.

It took nearly 20,000 strands to make a single 140-gram (5-ounce) patty, which for Monday’s taste test was seasoned with salt, egg powder, breadcrumbs, red beet juice and saffron.

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LONDON — They bit, they chewed, but had hoped for more flavour.

Two volunteers who participated in the first public frying of hamburger grown in a lab said Monday that it had the texture of meat but was short of flavour because of the lack of fat.

Mark Post, whose team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed the burger, hopes that making meat in labs could eventually help feed the world and fight climate change. That goal is many years distant, at best.

Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, appeared on a video shown at the event and announced that he funded the 250,000-euro ($330,000) project because of his concern for animal welfare.

“I would say it’s close to meat.

I miss the salt and pepper,” said Austrian nutritionist Hanni Ruetzler, one of the volunteer tasters.

Both shunned the bun and sliced tomatoes to concentrate on the meat.

“The absence is the fat, it’s a leanness to it, but the bite feels like a conventional hamburger,” said U.S. journalist Josh Schonwald. He added that he had rarely tasted a hambuger, as he did on Monday, “without ketchup or onions or jalapenos or bacon.”

Monday’s taste test, coming after five years of research, is a key step toward making lab meat a culinary phenomenon. Post called it “a good start.”

Brin expressed high hopes for the technology.

“We’re trying to create the first cultured beef hamburger. From there I’m optimistic we can really scale by leaps and bounds,” he said on the video.

Post said it’s crucial that the burger has the “look, feel and taste like the real thing.”

Despite the tasters concern about flavour, scientists say that can be tweaked.

“Taste is the least (important) problem since this could be controlled by letting some of the stem cells develop into fat cells,” said Stig Omholt, director of biotechnology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Adding fat to

Dear Annie: I left my hometown when I was 19 and have lived in a nearby state for the past 27 years.

Two of my children are grown and on their own, and my youngest currently lives with my ex-husband overseas.

My mother is now in her 70s and has many medical problems, lives alone and rarely leaves the house. I am also in a long-distance relationship with a man from my childhood who lives near my mother.

I am planning to move back to my home state to help my mother and also pursue this relationship.

However, I am torn between moving back there and being able to see my children, who live in various places.

MITCHELL It breaks my heart for my & SUGAR mother to be all alone, and I know I am running out of time to have her in my life.

I also feel this man is “the one,” and I want to be with him.

Annie, I spent nearly 30 years caring for my kids. I plan to see them every few months and create a visitation schedule for my son to be with me.

Am I being selfish to move away? — Torn Between Kids, Parents and Boyfriend Dear Torn: Absolutely not. You aren’t abandoning young children.

Your kids no longer live with you, so you are free to go where you wish.

As long as you can visit your children and work out a time for your youngest to be with you, you are under no obligation to remain in your current home.

You have spent 27 years taking care of your kids, and now you are quite unselfishly going to take care of your mother. You deserve to also take care of yourself.

Dear Annie: I recently invited some friends to my home for an informal Sunday supper.

We’ve known one another for 10 years and usually go out to restaurants. This is the first time we’ve had them over to our home.

Since then, I have not received any kind of invitation from them.

Worse, one of them recently said they had such a good time that we should do it again. But no one volunteered to use their home. Someone suggested I do it.

I have done a lot of entertaining in the past, and going over my guest lists, I realize that very few people have returned the favor.

Before my husband died last year, he said flat out that he was tired of entertaining people who do nothing for us in return.

One of our neighbors was invited twice to our home, and I have yet to be inside her house. Is reciprocity some old social rule that no longer exists? — Still Waiting Dear Still: No, but many people no longer feel obligated to follow any social rules at all.

We think your particular problem is home entertainment.

Too many people are embarrassed by the condition of their houses or by their cooking skills.

They don’t realize that their friends aren’t interested in comparing furniture and appetizers. They simply want to enjoy the company.

The solution for you is to entertain in your home only those who will reciprocate, and socialize with the rest in neutral settings such as restaurants.

Dear Annie: “Too Good of a Cook” complained that her eight grown children and grandchildren visited often but never offered to help with the groceries or cooking.

My parents owned a vacation home, and each year, the family gathered for one long holiday weekend.

It was not fair for our parents to host all of the families and feed them, as well.

To ensure that everyone had a nice vacation and still contributed their fair share, each family was responsible for one day of meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

That meant they also had to shop, prepare, cook, serve and clean up.

This worked well for many years. Our parents have passed, but those were great years with warm memories — and tasty meals. — Colorado River Family

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Sci-fi with soul WITH THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING ELYSIUM

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — In the desert of big-budget summer moviegoing comes, like fresh water, Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, a dystopic science-fiction thriller bristling with more ideas than all this year’s superheros and action films combined.

Like Blomkamp’s first and previous film, the South African alien apartheid allegory District 9, Elysium is a rogue burst of originality — a futuristic popcorn adventure loaded with contemporary themes of wealth discrepancy, immigration and health care.

Blomkamp, a 33-year-old South African native with a background in digital effects and a head for sociopolitical tumult, has emerged as a rare thing in today’s movies: a maker of science fiction with soul.

“What’s somehow gone away from science fiction is that it’s meant to represent ideas,” says Blomkamp. “It’s meant to be this looking glass through which you can look at society a different way.”

Whereas most science fiction today is all sleekness and impressive spaceships, metaphor — not exactly the stuff of movie posters — comes first for Blomkamp, who sees his film in the tradition of Fritz Lang’s similarly allegorical Metropolis.

Set in the year 2154, Elysium finds the Earth a dilapidated slum, with the wealthy living in an orbital space station, a kind of floating Beverly Hills hamster wheel modeled after Syd Mead’s Stanford torus design for a space habitat.

Elysium, guarded fiercely by a defence secretary played by Jodie Foster, looms in the sky as an unreachable oasis of high-quality living and limitless health care. (Every home is equipped with beds that immediately cure illness.) The First and Third World divide has gone cosmic.

In dusty Los Angles (shot in a Mexico City slum), Matt Damon stars as a reformed car thief working in a giant factory in grueling conditions, overseen by an infinitely more rewarded CEO (William Fichtner).

When a radiation mishap gives Damon’s character days to live, he endeavours to reach Elysium at all costs.

“I sit there a lot of the time wrestling with balancing metaphor and also balancing entertainment,” says Blomkamp. “Anything I do creatively comes from a place of instinct. I don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I want to make a film about wealth discrepancy.’ It seems to happen organically.”

Los Angeles holds particular fascination for Blomkamp, who lives with his wife and frequent writing partner Terri Tatchell in Vancouver. He considers its segregated sprawl, close to the border of Mexico “a milder version” of his hometown of Johannesburg.

But his relationship with Hollywood is considerably more at odds.

“I would be as far from the film industry as physically possible as I could,” he says.

Blomkamp first caught Hollywood’s eye for his commercial work and shorts, including Alive in Joburg, which he would later expand into District 9.

Peter Jackson and his wife and producing partner Fran Walsh were particularly impressed by Blomkamp and helped get him hired to helm a big-budget adaption of the video game Halo.

But after months of development, the film was shut down.

It was an early lesson for Blomkamp on the loss of control in directing studio films based on material not his own.

“I count my lucky stars every day,” he says now of the Halo fallout, since it led to Jackson and Walsh’s suggestion that he turn Alive in Joburg — a documentary-styled story about aliens marooned in Johannesburg — into a feature.

Famously made for just around $30 million, District 9 had the look of a much more expensive film, boasting far more political subtext than often makes it into the multiplexes.

It starred Blomkamp’s longtime friend Sharlto Copley (the two first met when a teenage Blomkamp began doing 3-D animation work for Copley’s production company) as an Afrikaner bureaucrat who mutates into one of the interned aliens. Parts of it were shot in Soweto.

The success of the film (it made $210.8 million worldwide) led to numerous studio offers of major franchise movies, including entreaties regarding Star Wars and Star Trek.

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Vancouver’s Hey Ocean! will entertain for free at the family-friendly Shake the Lake Festival this weekend.

Action sports and music festival set to take off at Sylvan Lake

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Hey Ocean! and Acres of Lions are among 10 acclaimed Canadian bands set to entertain for free at the family-friendly Shake the Lake Festival this weekend.

The action sports and music festival runs from Friday to Sunday in Sylvan Lake.

This year, all of the musical entertainment, the skateboarding competition, and the rest of the Friday and Saturday events will unfold outdoors on the grassedover site of the former Sylvan Lake Hotel on Lakeshore Boulevard and 50th Street in Sylvan Lake.

On Sunday, the whole festival, including a major BMX contest, will move indoors to the Sylvan Lake multiplex.

But for the first two days, live music will return to downtown Sylvan Lake, once famous for its dance halls, said festival organizer Sean McIntyre.

He noted the musical acts, like all the other entertainment are “100 per cent free,” thanks to a lot of generous sponsors.

Friday night’s headliner at 9 p.m. is Hey Ocean!, an indie folk-rock band from Vancouver.

Nominated in the Breakthrough Band category for the 2013 Juno Awards, the three-member group has toured North America and opened for Bedouin Soundclash

SHAKE BY THE LAKE and Sarah Harmer.

Hey Ocean! is making waves with its quirky, pop tunes as well as thoughtful ballads, including the singles Islands and Big Blue Wave. Some of the group’s songs have been played on the TV shows One Tree Hill and Entertainment Tonight Canada.

Across the Georgia Strait, Victoria’s Acres of Lions is becoming known for its alt-rock sound. The four-person band signed to Cordova Bay Records is set to headline on Saturday night at the festival.

Acres of Lions has played at Junofest and Edgefest and is slated to perform at the Vans Warped Tour in Toronto.

The group, whose music was featured on the Degrassi TV show, was twice a Top 20 finalist in B.C.’s Peak Performance Project.

Two Red Deer rock bands, Half Chance Heroes and Oldbury, are also set to play at Shake at the Lake. And the other musical acts are: ● Edmonton “piano rock band” Forester. ● The alt-rock group Phao, Lethbridge’s answer to what you’d get if you crossed Paramore with Nickelback. ● Vancouver pop-rock trio Halfway to Hollywood. ● Singer/songwriter Bryan Finlay of Edmonton. ● Coaldale synth-pop band

Stars from Streetlights. ● Edmonton’s From Love to Forfeit, which was featured rock band of the month by SONiC 102.9 radio.

Besides the musical entertainment, the festival will also feature the Vans Lake Jam skateboard contest from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday.

It will be held on an eight-metre-long half-pipe ramp built on the same site in downtown Sylvan Lake.

Also downtown from 4 to 10 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday will be assorted vendors and a family fun zone with an obstacle course, bouncy castles, an activity centre and mini golf.

The festival moves to the Sylvan Lake Multiplex on Sunday.

The big event will be the sixth annual BMX Bonesaw Jam competition for over $6,000 of cash and prizes.

It will run from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Festival vendors and the family fun zone will also be held at the multiplex.

A full schedule of festival events is expected to be available by today on the website, shakethelake.ca. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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We love you Matt Matthew Evaskevich of Hythe, Alberta, passed away on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at the age of 28 years. For those of you who wish to pay their respects to Matthew Evaskevich, visitations will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Saturday, August 10, 2013 between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Feel free to bring a small item to leave with Matt if you wish. A Celebration of his life will follow at 2:00 p.m. at Eventide Funeral Chapel.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family through eventide@arbormemorial.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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WITYSHYN Marie 1928 - 2013 Mrs. Marie Wityshyn of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Friday, August 2, 2013 at the age of 84 years. Marie will be lovingly remembered by her husband Tony; sons, Dale (Lianne) of Calgary, Alberta and Dean (Tammy) o f P e a c e R i v e r, A l b e r t a ; daughters, Val of Red Deer, Alberta and Suzie (Peter) of Edmonton, Alberta. Marie will also be missed by 23 grandchildren, 23 greatgrandchildren, 5 brothers and 2 sisters. Marie was predeceased by parents Ed and Ethel, daughter Lynne, brother Tom, sister Sharon and son-in-law Ervin. In honour of Marie, her life will be celebrated at Living Stones Church, 2020 - 40 Ave., Red Deer on Thursday, August 8, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. w i t h P a s t o r P a u l Va l l e e officiating. Memorial contributions in Marie’s name may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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GRANT Peter It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our husband, father, brother and g r a n d f a t h e r, P e t e r H a r r y Grant. Peter passed away on Thursday, August 1, 2013 at the age of 72 years. Peter w a s b o r n i n Va n c o u v e r, British Columbia on April 13, 1941 to Harry and Freda Grant. He grew up with his younger brother Marty on a farm outside of Lacombe.

Peter began working as an accountant in Lacombe in 1959; followed by stints in Stettler and Calgary and returned to Lacombe in 1965 where he worked as a public accountant until 2008 when he retired.

Formal retirement did not last long and he continued to support the community as an accountant until March 2013.

Peter had a genuine interest in people, a strong sense of community and a passion for helping others develop. Many people in Central Alberta have benefited from Peter’s active involvement with Rotary, Ducks Unlimited and the Central Alberta Agricultural Society. His attention to detail, which combined with his professional expertise and mentorship skills assisted many young professionals reach their goal of becoming Certified General Accountants. His love of sports and strong leadership helped aspiring athletes develop their skills in hockey and baseball. Peter had a passion for all things nature; he loved the outdoors and was an avid hunter.

Peter always enjoyed playing a round of golf as it gave him the opportunity to mix with old friends and gain new ones.

His competitive nature and love of animals, specifically fine thoroughbreds and Black Angus cattle, were in perfect harmony as a race horse and cattle owner and enthusiast.

Peter enjoyed traveling; whether on family vacations or trips to his favorite places such as Thailand, Peter enjoyed meeting and learning about new people, their cultures and experiences and making new friends wherever he went. Peter will be lovingly remembered by his wife Supaporn (“Ann”); daughter Carmen; son Travis; son Jason; his wife Tracey and grandchildren Camryn and Reid; the mother of his children Donna Mae Grant; his brother Martin and Dianne Grant; his brothers and sisters in law John and Mary Beth Williams; Linda and Chuck Richter; Brian and Debbie Williams; Barb and Dick Switzer; Sandy Williams; Bonnie and Brian Olthuis; Donald and Tammy Williams; the Chanaka family; thirty-one nieces and nephews; and twenty-one grand nieces and nephews.

Thank you to Dr. Ken Smit for his outstanding medical care, support and compassion over the past five years and especially during Peter’s second battle with cancer over the past six months. In addition the family would like to thank all of the nurses and support staff at the Lacombe Community Care Centre and Red Deer Regional Hospital. A Celebration of Peter’s Life will be held on Thursday, August 8, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at the Lacombe Memorial Centre, 5214 50th Avenue, Lacombe. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of Peter directly to The Lending Cupboard.

The Lending Cupboard Society (LCS), 5406C - 43 St., Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 1C9, (403) 356-1678 or online at: www.lendingcupboard.ca.

Photos, memories and condolences may be shared with Peter’s family through eventide@arbormemorial.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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GROVE David Aug. 28, 1927 - April 25, 2013 A special memorial gathering will be held to celebrate David Grove’s life on Saturday, August 10, 2013. Please join Dave’s family and friends as we share stories, laughs, hugs and a few tears in his memory. It will take place at The Pioneer’s Lodge, 4324 46A Avenue, Red Deer at 2 p.m.

Bring some of your favourite “Dave” stories to share.

EVASKEVICH Matthew

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YANZ Wayne Edward Wayne passed away peacefully at Red Deer Hospice on Friday, August 2, 2013 after a courageous battle with brain cancer at the age of 68.

He will be remembered and forever loved by his wife Linda; children, Renee (Kory) Kocur and Michael (Kelly) Yanz; and precious grandchildren Dylan, Joel, Ryan, Jenna and Matthew. Wayne was predeceased by his dear mother Anne, in 2008 and his f a t h e r E d w a r d , i n 2 0 11 .

Wayne was known for his kind and gentle manner and an incredible sense of humor. He just loved life. But above all, he loved God and his family. His grandchildren lit up his life and brought him many years of love and laughter. Wayne’s laughter would fill a room. He had an amazing number of friends, many of whom shared his passion for sports, including handball, hockey and e s p e c i a l l y g o l f . Wa y n e enjoyed many golf trips with his buddies over the years and achieved four holes in one. He grew up in Regina, graduating from Central Collegiate and University of R e g i n a . Wa y n e i n i t i a l l y taught school in Stoughton, SK. where he met his soul mate Linda, whom he married in 1968. They just celebrated their 45th wedding a n n i v e r s a r y. Wa y n e a n d Linda resided in Regina for four years where Wayne worked for Sears, Texaco and Canada Post. He then became area manager for Butler Manufacturing, residing in Saskatoon and Red Deer.

Over his 35 years with Butler, Wa y n e w a s r e p e a t e d l y awarded top salesman and was so well respected by his many builders. He had just retired in January and was so looking forward to many days of golf and travel. Wayne lived every day of his terminal illness with courage, grace, dignity and great love for his family. His final days were spent at Red Deer Hospice where he and Linda received amazing and loving care and support. The staff became like an extended family. The greatest comfort-the only comfort -is knowing Wayne is in the safest place of all, in Heaven, with no tears, pain, sorrow or cancer, only love and life eternal. Funeral Service will be held at Christ Lutheran Church, 4825 Dewdney Avenue, Regina, SK on Friday, August 9, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to Red Deer Hospice Society at 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB. T4R 3S6. To leave an online message of condolence, please visit www.speersfuneralchapel.com

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ADAM & EVE UNISEX REQ’S P/T / F/T HAIR CUTTING PERSONNEL. Above average earnings.

Submit resume in person at Parkland Mall.

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BALDWIN On August 1, 2013 Wayne Cecil Baldwin of Edmonton (formally of Red Deer) passed away at the age of 71 years. Wayne will be loving remembered by his wife of 40 years Betty; four children Wanda (Glen), Brenda (Bruce), Cori (Todd), Kevin (Jo-Anne); six grandchildren Janet, Brendan, Johnathan, Logan, Amy, Kirsten and three great granddaughters Cassidy, Emily, Hanna. A celebration of Wayne’s life will be held on Friday August 9, 2013 at 1 pm, Grace Point Community Church at 720 62 Street SW, Edmonton Alberta.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

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Lost

NURSING is your passion, Leadership is your edge..

LOST set of keys between The WestPark Lodge, Red Southbrook and Collicutt Deer’s premiere Assisted on July 26. Please phone Living facility needs you as a 403-396-9244 LOST: yearling black Heifer and yearling black bull, in Donalda area 403-883-2284 or 403-740-6772 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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CHAINSAW Found in Red Deer on road at 59 ST and 53 Ave about 12:40 PM on Friday July 26, you tell me what type it is and what you were driving, it’s yours again!

403-309-5580 FOUND: Ray Ban Prescription Sunglasses.

Found on Dunning Close.

403-896-3219 PRESCRIPTION Glasses, Ray Ban, found on road on Sifton Ave. Please call 343-1806 to claim.

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Personals

Site Director

The WestPark Lodge is committed to enhancing the quality of life for seniors, by respecting their independence and privacy while providing assistance with daily living and personal care. We are looking for a Registered Nurse to provide leadership and direction to staff, and oversee resident care and hospitality services.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated management experience, ability to manage budgets, motivate staff, as well as have exceptional interpersonal and public relations skills. If you believe this is the opportunity for you, please submit your resume to ngaudet@ cicl-seniors.com or call 780-757-9134 for more details. www.westparklodge.com www.cicl-seniors.com

Oilfield

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CEDA INTERNATIONAL is currently looking for EXPERIENCED LABOURERS AND OPERATORS for PERMANENT roles based out of Red Deer.

We are able to provide work year-round.

Please send your resume to: jobs@cedagroup.com

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager) Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds NEEDED: Keyboard player.

403-304-2744 or 896-9120

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Fitness & Sports

COLTER ENERGY SERVICES IS NOW HIRING

PITCHERS/PLAYERS Wanted. RD men’s hardball league. Age 30+ 403-302-7778

WELL TESTING: Supervisors Night Operators Operators

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Clerical

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Have current Safety certificates including H2S Be prepared to work in remote locations for extended periods of time Must be physically fit Competitive wages, benefits and RRSP offered

Please email resume with current driver’s abstract to: www.colterenergy.ca Under Career Opportunities

CORE LABORATORIES

FULL TIME ADMIN Technical Field ASSISTANT 3 Month Contract Position, Service Sales with possibility of becoming Representative full time. Candidate must be available to start Core Laboratories immediately. The right Petroleum Services Division person must have strong is the world’s most people skills, be highly recognized and highly organized and detail respected rock and fluid oriented. Strong office and analysis laboratory serving computer experience is the oil and gas industry. required. Duties include; Our Calgary location has order desk, paperwork an entry level opening for management and an energetic Technical reception cover. If you Field Sales Representative enjoy the challenges of a to serve our clients fast paced working in Central Alberta. environment and like to work hard and have fun, Reporting to the Sales then please apply to Supervisor, you will be an info@chandlerconsulting integral part of the Sales .net or fax 343-6874.

Team and be responsible for building client relationships LOOKING for receptionist at busy hair salon. No exp. and pursuing the Reservoir Fluid Services needs of necessary. Please bring resume to Just Cuts North existing and prospective oil and gas clients in Central #250 6130-67 St. Red Alberta. As a Technical Deer. Attn: Jenn Field Sales Representative Part-Time Admin you must have strong interpersonal skills and Assistant Required be driven to provide (Temporary-Maternity leave.)

Family-owned business in exceptional customer service in a team environment.

Red Deer is looking for a A technical diploma or self-motivated individual, degree in chemical or with strong communication petroleum technology is skills and a good work desired.

Related sales, ethic. Duties include laboratory or industry answering and assisting experience would be an customers over the phone, asset for this position. daily accounting, maintaining employee files, and When submitting resume, assisting the Management please reference Team with clerical and ‘34 Sales’. administrative requirements at multi-locations Deadline August 16, 2013 within Red Deer. Must have own transportation.

Interested applicants Health/Dental Benefit Plan should forward their is available. Ability to resume and cover letter multi-task in a fast paced indicating this position to: environment, and experiCore Laboratories, ence with Microsoft Excel 2810 - 12th Street N.E., is an asset. Your Calgary, AB T2E 7P7, advanced people skills fax to (403) 250-4048 or and organizational acumen email: ps.calgary. will make you an excellent recruiting@corelab.com candidate.

Please email resume with We thank all applicants references to for their interest in timhire@telus.net Core Laboratories but we Only those selected for can only respond to those interviews will be we wish to interview. contacted.

No phone calls please.

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013 Oilfield

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Fluid Experts Ltd.

Fluid Experts of Red Deer is seeking experienced

Class 1 Operators

to haul clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry. Home every night, company benefits with exceptional pay structure. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

Compensation based on experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: sharon@fluidexperts.com

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D Day Supervisors (5- 10yrs experience)

Night Supervisors (2-4yrs experience)

JOIN OUR FAST GROWING TEAM!!

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 for areas including Sask. and US. 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

Competitive Wages, Benefits, Retirement and Saving Plan!

QUALIFICATIONS: • • • • • • •

Must be able to Provide own work truck Leadership and Supervisory skills- mentor and train crew Strong Computer Skills Operate 5000psi 10,000 psi (sweet and Sour wells) Collect Data - pressure, rates, temperatures Assist in Rig in and Rig out of equipment Tr a v e l t o a n d f r o m locations across Western Canada REQUIREMENTS:

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PROVIDENCE Trucking Inc Is now hiring experienced

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Va l i d 1 s t A i d , H 2 S , Driver’s License required!

Must be willing to submit pre access fit for duty test, as well as drug and alcohol Travel & be away from home for periods of time 21/7 Ability to work in changing climate conditions

Winch truck operator website: (heavy haul) www.cathedralenergyservices.com Methods to Apply: Swamper HRCanada@ (with Class 1 license)

All candidates must be able to pass a pre-employment drug screen. We offer exceptional wages and benefits for exceptional people. Fax resume and abstract to 403-314-2340 or email to safety@ providencetrucking.ca RIG WORK

VACUUM/WATER TRUCK OPERATORS NEEDED Scheduled days off.

Fax resume & drivers abstract to 403-786-9915

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cathedralenergyservices.com pnieman@ cathedralenergyservices.com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

UFA Rocky Mountain House Currently seeking Full & Part Time Truck Drivers Benefits Offered Fax Resume to 403-845-7903 OR Email to dmatthews89@yahoo.com CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

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WELLHEAD ISOLATION SERVICE TECHNICIANS AND TRAINEES ISOLATION Equipment Services Inc., an expanding Oil Service & Supply Company is seeking quality

Service Technicians and Trainees.

Previous experience with service rigs, fracturing, or similar industry experience with oilfield tickets is an asset. Class 1 or 3 driver’s License applicants will get primacy. (Drivers with Class 5 & 5Q will be considered if Applicant has relevant oilfield experience) A current driver’s abstract required. Off-road driving experience is an asset.

MUST HAVE valid H2S and AB/BC First Aid Tickets BENEFITS * Excellent monthly guarantee * Excellent job bonus * Northern Allowance Program * Excellent Benefit Plan and Travel Expenses. * Retirement Plan. * Lucrative Quarterly Safety Bonus Program. * Christmas Bonus Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to: Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop off at 239 Clearview Drive, Red Deer County ATTN: Lori Enzie

Oilfield

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Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Trades

850

LUAU Investments Ltd. (O/A Tim Hortons) FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR 1 yr previous experience.

NOW HIRING SERVICE RIG F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd Must be avail. weekends is seeking an exp’d $13.00 per hour FLOORHAND 4217 - 50 Ave. Locally based, home every 6721 - 50 Ave. night! Qualified applicants 7111 - 50 Ave. for work in must have all necessary timhire@telus.net valid tickets for the position Red Deer LUAU Investments Ltd. being applied for.

(O/A Tim Hortons) Bearspaw offers a Apply at: Food Counter Attendant very competitive salary Email: careers@ F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) and benefits package Must be avail. weekends along with a steady clarkbuilders.com $11.00 per hour. work schedule.

Fax: 1-888-403-3051 4217 - 50 Ave. Please submit resumes: 6721 - 50 Ave. Attn: Human Resources www.clarkbuilders.com 7111 - 50 Ave. Email: timhire@telus.net hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or RAMADA INN & SUITES Mail to: Suite 5309, REQUIRES 333-96 Ave. NE ROOM ATTENDANTS. Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Exp. preferred.

TEAM Snubbing Services Only serious inquiries apply.

Rate $13.50/hr. now hiring experienced Drop off resume at: operators Email: APPLY NOW 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer janderson@ or fax 403-342-4433 teamsnubbing.com NOW HIRING fax 403-844-2148 THE RUSTY PELICAN is G.M. Tech or ASEP. now accepting resumes for With good communications TREELINE F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS skill and work ethics WELL SERVICES must be avail. nights and to work with award winning Has Opening for all weekends. Must have: G.M. dealership in positions! Immediately.

Lacombe Alberta.

All applicants must have • 2-3 yrs. post secondary Good hrs & bonus. for current H2S, Class 5 with education. production.

Q Endorsement, (No GDL • 2-5 yrs. training Training provided . licenses) and First Aid. • 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp.

Apply to confidential We offer competitive • Provide references email: wages & excellent benefits. bert.rumsey@telus.net Please include 2 work The hourly rate will be reference names and $13.10. numbers.

Call 403-347-1414 Please fax resume to: or Fax to: 403-347-1161 403-264-6725 WEEKENDS OFF! Or email to: Mon.- Fri. 10 - 2. Wanted tannis@treelinewell.com food truck attendant for our No phone calls please.

Busy road construction nonmobile food truck Looking for a new pet? company looking for (open year round). Duties Check out Classifieds to include, food prep., working FINISHING find the purrfect pet. the sandwich line during HOE & DOZER lunch rush & sometimes OPERATORS take orders from customers.

Minimum 5 yrs. exp, work Located at the junction of 7 days a week at least 12 Professionals 2A & 11A in Red Deer. hrs. a day, overtime and Reliable transportation a subsided pay. Please must. Salary based on Innisfail Insurance Fax: resume to experience. Start date 403-309-1944 or email to: Services Ltd. Aug. 12. Apply in person info@tblconstruction.ca is accepting applications only, with resume at for LICENSED BROKER, Walter`s Coffee Now. F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS Level 2 status commercial - Good hours, home every experience an asset, full or night, $4000-$6000/mo. part time dependant upon Sales & Contractor must have truck the applicants experience. Distributors or van. Tools, supplies & The successful candidate ladders required. Training must be a self-motivated CUSTOM Energized Air is provided, no experience professional, possessing a leader in compressed air needed. Apply to: excellent communication technology and requires an satjobs@shaw.ca and interpersonal skills.

Outside Sales Rep Applicants must enjoy GOODMEN for our solutions driven working in a very busy sales team. Experience in ROOFING LTD. team oriented air compressors and Requires environment. Salary to pneumatics a definite commensurate with asset.

Base + commission SLOPED ROOFERS experience. Please + mileage + benefits. For LABOURERS forward resumes to: Red Deer & area.

Apply: & FLAT ROOFERS Carol Peterson del.trynchuk@cea-air.com Box 6039 Valid Driver’s Licence LOOKING for Liquor store Innisfail, AB T4G 1S7 preferred. Fax or email sales clerk, full time jobs, Fax: 403- 227-3910 $11/hour ,must be able to info@goodmenroofing.ca cpeterson@ or (403)341-6722 work night and weekends innisfailinsurance.com to pass criminal check, NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! LOOKING for massage drop off resume in person, therapist to work within a 112 5th St. SE Sundre AB. Chiropractic Clinic in Lacombe. Call 782-7771

Carpenters & Labourers

810

Trades

850

820

DINO’S TAKE OUT LOOKING FOR EXP’D P/T AND F/T DELIVERY DRIVER. Please apply in person w/resume to: 130, 3121 49 AVE. Red Deer

F/T & P/T COCKTAIL WAITER /WAITRESS Apply in Person w/resume to: BLACKJACK LOUNGE #1, 6350 - 67 St.

FRATTERS Speakeasy Venue is looking for an experienced chef/cook & front end mgr. Competitive wages,great atmosphere.

Stop in 1-5 weekdays or email at info@fratters.com 5114 - 48 ST.

Oilfield

Teachers/ Tutors

840

DANCE INSTRUCTOR Join our dynamic team and share your passion and love of dance with students of all ages and abilities.

Now Hiring for Fall 2013.

Submit resume and cover letter to: office@ reddeerdancemagic.com GUITAR INSTRUCTOR: Are you a musician looking to share your passion for music with those in your community? Join our dynamic team and share your talents & love of music with students of all ages and abilities. Now Hiring for Fall 2013. Submit resume & cover letter to: office @reddeerdancemagic.com

Trades

850

Drywall BOARDER only.

Must have 3 yrs experience. $30-35/hour depending on exp. (403) 358-6701 EXP’D Roofers required.

403-986-1961 after 6 p.m.

Renovation Specialist Needed Immediately.

Carpentry experience, window & door R&R, siding replacement, small projects, decks, fences, sheds ext. Own transportation to and from work.

Clean class 5 Drivers License for company work truck. Located in Lacombe and serving Red Deer and Central Alberta. Punctual, good customer service skills, able to work independently and efficiently. Wages depended on experience and excellent benefit program after 6 Months.

Please e-mail resumes’ including experience & references to carey@timbrmart.net or Fax: Attention Carey to 403-782-1766.

Trades

Requires Full Time

Carpenters Carpenters Helpers • & Site Foreman For local work.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

Requires Full Time

For local work.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca SIGN FABRICATOR/ INSTALLER NEEDED Must have min. 3 years exp. & Class 5 license.

Computer/design skills an asset. Please apply by fax only to: 403-341-4014

VALVE TRAINEES WANTED Advantage Valve in Sylvan Lake is moving into a new facility and expanding.

We are looking for valve trainees. Knowledge in API, ANSI and Actuated Valves with ability to deal with customers in service would be an asset. We offer competitive wages & benefit package.

EMAIL: cliff@ advantagevalve.com or FAX: 403-887-1463

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COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY WORKER fast-paced, physical workplace. $11/ hour. Bring resume to Mustang Laundry, 6830-59 Avenue or email mustanglaundry@airenet. com.

CRYSTAL GLASS is seeking MOBILE REPAIR OPERATOR. Must have vehicle, pay is hourly and commission. Will train.

Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax 346-5390 or email: branch208@crystalglass.ca CUSTOMER SERVICE A locally owned industrial supply company is looking for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ aesreddeer.com 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 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

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

Kauns Seed Farm

Central AB based trucking company requires

Owner Operators

& Company Drivers in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref.

403-586-4558

Now hiring for full time/part time position. Applicant must have Ag experience.

Duties would include Seed Plant, Farm Equipment, and Truck Operation. Must have Class 1 license. Seed Cleaning experience would be an asset. Phone 403-886-4562

Truckers/ Drivers

LOOKING for laborers and flaggers for road construction. Fax 403-309-0489

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303 SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help 3 pm-11 pm. weekends Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

SUBWAY All Locations

P/T FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS Are you looking for a part time job while your kids are in school?

Are you a student looking for evenings and weekends?

If so, Subway has a Position for you!

Please apply at www.mysubwaycareer.com or drop resume off in person at 180, 6900 Taylor Drive or Email to career@rdsubway.com or Call us at 403-342-0203.

THE BURNT LAKE GENERAL STORE is looking for F/T Customer Service person for shift work. Please apply in person, Hwy. 11 West.

No phone calls please.

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CLASS 1drivers req’d for road construction. Truck and pup exp. Living allowance incld. Fax 403-309-0489 DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds MEGA CRANES is looking for a ticketed crane and boom truck operator. Must have Class 1. Good wages, benefits, 10% holiday pay, RRSP’s, and most evenings and weekends off. Fax resume to 885-4269 or email cathy@megacranes.com

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www.ferus.com

PROFESSIONAL

DRIVERS WANTED

Ferus requires experienced Professional Class 1 drivers with three years or more experience to operate a variety of late model liquid carbon dioxide and liquid nitrogen equipment out of our Blackfalds base.

We offer: • Industry competitive wages based on an hourly pay schedule • Automatic pay increases • Training Completion Bonus • Daily per diem allowance • Recognition and incentive programs • Mechanic-maintained equipment • Travel Compensation PLUS: • Flexible Spending Account • Group RSP Savings Plan • Comprehensive Health and Dental Plan • Career Advancement Opportunities We offer a work rotation of 15 days on & 6 days off.

Preference will be given to applicants with off-road experience.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment please send your resume & driver abstract to

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Help

Ferus is looking for a talented and reliable full time Millwright or Heavy Duty Mechanic with field compression experience to join our production team out of our Joffre facility. The ideal candidate must be able to work alone, with minimal supervision. They must be an open, honest team player and be willing to work with other trades.

The candidate will be responsible for: • Performing planned & breakdown maintenance; • Installing, troubleshooting & maintaining equipment based on manufacturer’s recommendations & specifications; • Conducting equipment inspections & detecting potential problems.

The candidate will require the following skills: • Millwright Journeyman Certificate; Interprovincial certificate preferred • Millwright/Heavy duty mechanic with field compression or plant experience • Basic computer skills; maintenance database knowledge preferred • A combination of other equivalences & experience may be considered • Occasional travel will be required Ferus offers competitive industry rates and an excellent benefits package, including a Group Savings Plan. If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, Please email your resume by August 21st, 2013

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Central Alberta’s Fastest Growing Business Equipment Dealership Requires the Following Full Time Personnel

Authorized Dealer

Copier/Printer Service Techs - Applicants must have strong mechanical backgrounds as well as some basic IT Training. Copier/Printer Repair is a Definite Asset

Sales Person - A strong background in electronic sales is an asset. Training will be provided.

Document Management Specialist Applicant must have excellent computer & customer relation skills. This position requires applicant to learn, present & support all Konica Minolta Document Management Software.

Salaries, Commissions & Benefits will be discussed at time of interview.

Please forward Resumes to; msmith@ibpcopy.ca or Fax 403-342-2592.

Only Those chosen for interview will be contacted.

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We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

www.ferus.com

Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

Joffre Plant

To: humanresources@ferus.com or fax 1-888-879-6125 Please reference: Ad #MW-JF-0713

Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry.

humanresources@ferus.com or by fax to 1-888-879-6125 Please Reference: Driver #0513

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Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

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Fracturing Operators Nitrogen Pumper Operators Cement Operators/Cement Bulk Drivers Coil Tubing Supervisors / Operators Bulk Plant Operator Heavy Duty Journeyman Mechanics / Apprentices

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FAST TRACK PHOTOS Call 403-309-3300 to get your vehicle pictured here

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1984 CORVETTE new engine, $8888 348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2001 BMW Z3 loaded, 5 spd. manual, 2 tone leather int. new windshield & tires. $11,500 obo 403-755-2760

2004 FORD Freestar.

Perfect in every way.

190,000 km. All options incl. remote start. New tires. New windshield. Asking $8000.

587-377-3547

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 LAND Rover Range Rover, 4X4, supercharged V-8, loaded, $33,888. 7652-50 Ave. Sport & Import

2010 CAMARO 1LT,3.6L, Synergy Green

2004 KIA Sorento LX, 4X4, 77859 kms., $8,888.

2006 GMC Sierra 2500 HD Exc. cond. Loaded, $10,900.

403-340-3562

2007 SUBURBAN 1500 LT loaded, new tires. DVD, 103,000 km. 403-346-2608

2010 CHEV Silverado LT 4X4, Z-71, dual exhaust, cold air intake, iron cross bumpers, 23,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 530 XI BMW. Original Owner, 143,000 km.

Exc. Cond. ALL WHEEL DRIVE. Regularly Maintained, Fully Loaded! $27,850.

Call 403-350-4323

2007 TOYOTA FJ Cruiser, C Package, auto., loaded 75,000 kms. Very nice, trades considered. $19,900.

403-598-0682

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

speed, lthr., $22,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 BMW 328 Xi sunroof, lthr., $20,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 BMW 335i, lthr., 65,955 kms, nav., $25888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 DODGE Journey RT sunroof, leather,

2007 CHEV Monte Carlo LS

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

348-8788 Sport & Import

option package, sunroof, 29,638 kms., $23,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

1990 VANGUARD 28’ 460 Ford, air, cruise, sleeps 6, rear bed, full shower & bath, 73,500 kms. $12,000.

403-302-8061

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1991 International dump truck, 3406 B Cat, runs like a clock, 13 spd., good trans., $10,000. ***SOLD***

2002 T-BIRD hard-top, convertible, red, int. ext. like new, 81,000 hwy. kms. $23,000. firm.

403-347-4915

1992 30’ FLEETWOOD Southwind, fully self contained, very good cond, sacrifice $11,000 403-347-7893 598-3104

2003 CHEV 2500, 4x4 S/C, loaded, leather. very nice shape in and out. sunroof. $4950. ***SOLD***

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1993 BMW 323 iS 196,000 km. Like new.

Lots of extras. $9900.

403-357-4848

2003 CHEV Avalanche,

2005 Gulf Stream 40’ 4 slides, 8.1 GMC workhorse, loaded, 1 owner, beautiful cond. $66,000.

780-372-2079

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 LUCERNE CX, 131,000 kms., well maint. $12,500.

403-346-1623

1997 DODGE Ram 1500 145,000 km. Manual, 4x4, gas, canopy. $6500 obo.

403-728-3161 or 304-4239

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 BMW X5 panoroof, lthr., $16,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 F150 4X4 S/C XLT Loaded, only 171,000 kms. $7950.

403-348-9746

2008 MERCEDES BENZ CLK 350 sunroof,

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2003 Ford Excursion 4X4, 7.3 L diesel, $16,888.

2006 CHEVY Trailblazer SS 1 owner, exc. shape. $16,999.

403-357-4848

2007 HONDA CRV EXL, awd, lthr., sun roof, command start, 134,000 kms. $16,500. obo.

343-6156

2008 SMART Passion

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE

2006 CRESTLINER Sport Fish SST. C/W 225 Evinrude Etec, elec. down riggers, 110 low ramce, all safety gear. Asking $50,600.

403-340-2535

2007 INFINITY G35X, lthr. sunroof, nav., $20,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2012 Silverado LT 4x4 for sale. Power seats, mirrors, step rails. 13,000 km. $29,900. 403-843-1162, Ron

1999 MALIBOU 21’8”, w/trailer, Inboard V8, 325 hp $20,000.

403-607-2958

2004 LAND ROVER SE3 Freelander AWD, $8,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2005 BMW Z4 3.0L 6

4 dr, box cover, loaded, no leather only 165,000 kms. $7350. 403-348-9746

348-8788 Sport & Import

VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

FWD, 93492 kms., $10,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

nav., 20,415 kms, $32,888. **SOLD** Sport & Import

convertible, $8,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

$18,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 MERCEDES

BENZ GLK 350 lthr., sunroofs, 98,295 kms., $29,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 SILVERADO 1500 LTZ silver, 90,000.

403-346-2608

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WE ARE HIRING !!!

It’s getting busier around here and we can’t keep up.

We are looking for some key individuals to join our dynamic sales team.

• Above Average Sales Commission • Awesome Spiff Programs

• Great Working Environment • Award Winning Vehicles

GARY MOE MAZDA

Locally Owned And Family Operated

81 Gasoline Alley East, Red Deer

www.garymoe.com

403.348.8882

308853H7

If this looks like it’s for you and you have prior sales experience, please stop by the dealership or email jasonarsenault@garymoe.com

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

1530

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Children's Items

1580

BACKPACK WITH MATCHING LUNCH KIT. Pink, good cond. $10.

403-314-9603 SMALL NEWBORN 1-6 MONTH CO-SLEEPER Wooden, Colonial bed, 31”x20” & 15” high. $25.

Exc. cond. 403-343-3363

Clothing

1590

CHOCOLATE BROWN SUEDE JACKET. Size Large. $25. 403-314-9603

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Farmers' Market

1650

EAST HILL SASKATOONS U-Pick Open Mon. - Fri. 12 pm - 7 pm, Sat. - Sun. 9 am - 5 pm. $10/4L. 403-392-6025 THE JUNGLE FARM Strawberries Now Avail.

Monday-Saturday 8-6.

Also available, pickling cucumbers.

Call 403-227-4231 www.thejunglefarm.com Follow us on Facebook.

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 ALL SEASONED BIRCH 403-350-1664 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Appliances

1710

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

MOVING

- 5 pc OAK BEDROOM SUITE, TREADMILL, BEIGE & WOOD 3 PC. LIVINGROOM AND TABLES, TRIPLE DRESSER WITH MIRROR, 2 METAL DESKS, LEGAL FILING CABINETs, 6 PC. CEDAR PATIO SET, CHRISTMAS TREE WITH TRIMMINGS, 14” COLOUR TV, JD SP LAWN MOWER, ETC. SEE PHOTOS ON KIJIJI. MAKE AN OFFER. (403)782-5489 - LACOMBE RV Queen Mattress.

Like new. 60”x74”x6”. $65. 403-755-3556 SOFA & LOVESEAT Light beige in colour. $200. 403-341-5430 TABLE, wood pedestal with 4 chairs. $150. FIRM. 403-341-5341 lve. msg.

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

SONY GETTO BLASTER $35 obo.

GAMEBOY ADVANCE w/3 games, $70 obo.

PS2 w/8 games, $60 obo.

PS1 w/8 games, $40 obo.

403-782-3847

Misc. for Sale

1760

BOX CONTAINING coffee maker, Gooseneck lamp, 6 new gold placemats & more. $20 for the box.

403-314-9603

Riverside Meadows (Raventhorpe Manor) 2 bdrm, 1 bath apt style condo, 2 apps, laundry in the bldg, $825 + pwr, $775 SD, small dog ok w/ pet fee, N/S, PM 437 SEPT 1ST Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

2 bdrm, 2 bath condo on 3rd floor, 6 apps, walk in closet, $1190 + pwr, $1140 SD, No pets, N/S, PM 554 SEPT 1ST Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

Woodland Manor

2 bdrm, 1 bath, newly reno’d, adult only, 6 apps, $1150 + pwr, $1100 SD, No pets, N/S PM 558 SEPT 1st Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

Manufactured Homes

3040

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390 RED DEER COUNTY

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

EASTVIEW

2 bdrm, 2 bath main floor of a house, 2 apps, $1100 + util, $1050 SD, No Pets, N/S PM 569 AVAIL NOW Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

JOHNSTONE PARK

3 bdrm, 1.5 bath, 2 story home, 5 apps, $1,625 + util, $1575 SD, No Pets, N/S, PM 573 AVAIL NOW Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca NEWER 2 bdrm.. lower unit duplex, 27 Iverson Close D.D. $500, rent $1100+ utils., 2 car off street parking pad, 5 appls., avail immed.

403-742-9615 ask for Don

ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm, 2 bath, 5 apps, $1750 + util, $1700 SD, No Pets, N/S, PM 46 AVAIL NOW Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

2 BDRM CONDO FOR A STEAL!!

This 2 bdrm 1 bath 3rd flr condo has assigned parking, a dishwasher & plenty of space. With Heat & Water incl. this is a steal at just $1025/mo. A central location will let you bike or walk to the downtown area.

Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to have a look.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

2 BDRM., 2 bath condo, in Anders $1300 rent & d.d. + utils. Avail. Sept. no pets.

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. Ref’s. req’d. 403-346-6521 selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 2ND. floor 1 bdrm. condo, avail. Aug. 15, 60 Lawford 403-342-1042 Ave, Red Deer, rent $1150 inclds. 4 appls, power, waHousehold t e r, g a s , c o n d o f e e s .

403-783-9823 Furnishings

1720

3030

SYLVAN LAKE (Broadway Rise)

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

Condos/ Townhouses

3 BDRM. TOWNHOUSE -GREAT VALUE!!

This 3 bdrm., 1.5 bath Townhouse in North Red Deer is ready for a new family! Vacant now, this could be the home you’ve been looking for. With 5 appls, off-street parking, fresh paint and tonnes of storage this home will go quick. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to get a look inside!

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 3 BDRM., 1.5 bath, all appls. incl. $1100 + $1000 d.d.

No pets, N/S. Aug. 15th.

403-848-0576 / 877-1913

GLENDALE

3 bdrm, 1.5 bath townhouse, 5 apps, 1080 sq/ft., built in 1983, $1100 + util, $1050 SD, No Pets, N/S, PM 90 SEPT 1ST Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca INGLEWOOD 2 bdrm, 2 bath executive condo. Heated underground parking. N/S, no pets. Professional single or couple preferred.

403-350-3722 / 780-479-1522

Kelloway Cres.

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1495 SD $1000 Avail Sept. 1.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545

KITSON CLOSE

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1495 SD $1000. n/s Avail. Sept. 1 403-304-7576 / 347-7545

3 bdrm, 2 baths double wide mobile home built in 2005, 5 apps, $1100 includes h2o, $1050 SD, 1 pet okay, N/S PM461 SEPT 1ST Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

3 BDRMS FOR THE BUDGET MINDED

At just $995 this is perfect for a young family. Kiddiecorner to school & park.

Easy access to Red Deers extensive trail system and public transportation.

Space for a price that can’t be beat. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to take a walkthrough the property.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

CLEARVIEW

3 bdrm, 1 bath, 4-plex, 4 app, $975 incl h2o, $925 SD, No Pets, N/S PM 494-A AVAIL AUG 15TH Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

ORIOLE PARK

2 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1025 rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. avail.

Sept.1. Call 403-304-5337

Riverside Meadows 3 bdrm, 1 bath, 4-plex, 4 apps, $900 + 25% h2o 100% gas and heat, $850 SD, No Pets, N/S, PM 31-D SEPT 1ST Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

Suites

3060

CO OP HOUSING

2 bdrm, 2 baths, 4 apps, $920 incl h2o, $1050 shares, pets are okay with pet deposit $100 per pet, N/S PM232-D AVAIL SEPT 1ST Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

DOWNTOWN

1 bdrm, 1 bath suite, 2 appl, free laundry in bldg, adult only, $750 + pwr, $700 SD, No pets, N/S, PM 19-5/7 AVAIL NOW Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

4020

Houses For Sale

PENHOLD, 2 bdrm apt.

3 flr. no pets. avail. immed. $840./mo. $500 s.d. 403-886-5288

Riverside Meadows 1 bdrm., 1 bath suite, 2 appl. $750 + pwr, $700 SD, No pets, N/S, PM 124-302 AVAIL SEPT 1ST Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

STYLISH 2 BDRM. just south of Hospital This 3rd floor 2 bdrm. apt. is in a quiet,

adult only building.

In a quiet & calm location, assigned off street parking & a dishwasher, this could be the home you are looking for. Perfect for young professionals. Just $995/mo.

Come take a look at a bldg you will be proud to show off and call home.

Call Lucie now at 403-396-9554 before it’s gone.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

FAIRVIEW

2 bdrm., 1 bath bsmt suite, 4 apps, $ 950 + 40% util, $900 SD, No Pets, N/S, PM 528-Bsmt AVAIL NOW Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed.

403-346-1458

Highland Green

2 bdrm, 1 bath, 2 app, balcony, $875 + pwr, No Pets, N/S, PM 526-6 AVAIL NOW Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

Live the Sylvan Lifestyle

Brand New Laebon Home, 2 bdrms. 2 baths, Open concept floor plan for under $300,000.

Call Jennifer 403.392.6841 MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1320 sq.ft.

3 bdrm., 2 bath. $367,900.

Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550 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

SUNNYBROOK

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

WASKASOO

1 bdrm, 1 bath suite, 3 newer appl, laundry in bldg, $900 + power, $850 SD , small dog ok w/monthly fee, N/S PM 524 AVAIL SEPT 1ST Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 ext 412 www.simproperties.ca

New 3 bdrm. home

in Sylvan Lake Move right into this popular Laebon floor plan 1,172 sq. ft. 4 stainless steel appliances, 2 baths Call Jennifer 403.392.6841

Rooms For Rent

3090

2 BDRM. bsmt, shared kitchen, prefer employed or student. Avail. immed.

403-342-7789, 396-7941 FURN. room for NS 40+ Female. 403-755-7570

Storage Space

3160

SINGLE GARAGE

Why Rent, Buy New Well-designed 2 bdrm. home in Red Deer.

4 stainless steel appliances, great location close to amenities. $314,800.

Call Chris 403.392.7118

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

3190

MOBILE HOME PAD, in Red Deer Close to Gaetz, 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

MORRISROE MANOR

Cars

5030

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2231

AFFORDABLE WATERFRONT ON SHUSWAP LAKE, with own dock/buoy.

Beautiful property in 2002 T-BIRD hard-top, Sorrento only $229,000. convertible, red, int. ext.

If you are 55+ look at like new, 81,000 hwy. kms.

Property Guys ID Nr 65213 $23,000. firm. 403-347-4915 or call Roger†403-350-8089 1998 Mercury Mystique.

Tanja 250-804-6436 220,000 km. $800 obo.

403-505-8928 1997 HONDA, 5 spd., 2 dr., very clean. 403-318-3040 1994 FORD T-Bird, 2 dr., loaded. clean. 352-6995 LAKEFRONT HOUSE - BUFFALO LAKE ROCHON SANDS Built in 2010, 2560 sq ft of living, 6 bdrms, 3 bath, a/c, infloor heat, custom sound system, oversized dbl. det. garage & landscaping w/large fire pit, play structure & gazebo MLS CA0012577, PRICE $784,000 Brian Lynn Cell: 403.741.5060 new home in gated community on golf course overlooking Pine Lake. Open floor plan, vaulted ceilings chef kitchen fully developed basement, master suite has fireplace and beautiful ensuite, golf course and clubhouse and pool just outside your door.

Vendor may take trades and carry financing Glen or Bill 780-482-5273 group.6@outlook.com

1993 BMW 323 iS, 196,000 km. Like new. Lots of extras. $9900. 403-357-4848 1988 TRANS AM GTA 75,000 miles. $4000 firm.

403-588-0362

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

4160

Lots For Sale

2001 DODGE Durango 4x4, $5000 o.b.o.

403-348-1634

5050

Trucks

2012 Silverado LT 4x4 for sale. Power seats, mirrors, step rails. 13,000 km. $29,900. 403-843-1162, Ron

2010 CHEV Silverado LT 4X4, Z-71, dual exhaust, cold air intake, iron cross bumpers, 23,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 CHEV 2500 4x4, crew cab, loaded, blue, nice shape in and out $8850.403-348-9746

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

Locally owned and family operated

SUV's

5040

FINANCIAL

2002 CHEV Avalanche, 4 dr, box cover, loaded, no leather only 165,000 kms. $5950. 403-348-9746

CLASSIFICATIONS 4400-4430

For Sale By Owner

Build your dream home on this beautiful treed 1.75 acres. Land is located just east of the Red Deer City limits near the Balmoral Golf Course.

Roads to property from Red Deer are paved.

Asking $329,000.

Call 403-227-6893 for more details.

Money To Loan

4430

LOW INTEREST FINANCING

Borrow up to 20K and pay $387./mo. at 8%. Personal & small business loans.

Bad credit OK. Call Toll Free 855-331-5322

2007 TOYOTA FJ Cruiser, C Package, auto., loaded 75,000 kms. Very nice, trades considered. $19,900. 403-598-0682

4090

wheels

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

2007 LAND Rover Range Rover, 4X4, supercharged V-8, loaded, $33,888.

7652-50 Ave. Sport & Import 1989 JEEP Loredo, auto, 4x4. Good cond. 318-3040

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

1060

Contractors

1100

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Eavestroughing

1130

Massage Therapy

ONE OF A KIND

1985 Vanguard 24’, completely re-built inside & out. Better than new! All work done by Gord Schmitt RV Services in Lacombe. Can be seen at 25 Fulmar Cl, Sylvan.

Make me an offer I can’t refuse. **SOLD**

5110

Fifth Wheels

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta (403) 341-9995

1010

5100

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Manufactured Homes

Accounting

1997 DODGE Ram 1500 145,000 km. Manual, 4x4, gas, canopy. $6500 obo.

403-728-3161 or 304-4239

Motorhomes

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

1790 SQ. ft. bungalow, like new in Rosedale, 3 +1 bdrm, 3 bath, dble. front garage. Call Century 21 Dan Wind 403-341-0294

2003 Ford Excursion 4X4, 7.3 L diesel, $16,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

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Not all stem cells Longer lives, are created equal but not BEST STEM CELLS FOR BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT AT BONE ENDS

BY SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Stem cells from bone marrow have been helping people with diseases like leukemia to rebuild a healthy blood system for half a century.

But now Canadian researchers have determined that not all stem cells are created equal — and that might lead to better bone marrow transplants for more patients.

Scientists at Hamilton’s McMaster University have discovered that stem cells located in bone marrow at the ends of bones are superior at regenerating blood cells, including immune system cells, than those found in the shafts of bones.

“They all do the job, but they’re a little bit different,” said principal researcher Mick Bhatia, scientific director of the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster.

“They have to regenerate the blood system, otherwise we can’t even consider them a stem cell,” said Bhatia, explaining that stem cells give rise to other cell types and are also capable of renewing themselves.

He likened these superior-performing stem cells, and their durability over time, to elite athletes.

“You can have someone who can run and get to the Olympics, but there are ones that run that speed for a lot longer and a lot faster,” he said.

“It makes them all professional athletes, but there are different gradients.”

Bhatia said it turns out that what boosts their quality is what’s going on at the ends of bones, which supply what’s known as a niche, or home, for the regen-

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Mick Bhatia, stem cell scientist at McMaster University. Researchers have found that the highest quality blood stem cells reside in a certain part of the bone. erative cells.

Bone-making cells that make up this niche send chemical messages to the stem cells that allows them to perform differently from those in the middle of the bone.

“It’s not the athletes themselves, but the effect the arena has on them,” he said.

In studies employing specially bred mice and donated samples of human bone removed as part of unrelated surgeries, Bhatia’s team found stem cells from bone ends regenerate better and last longer than those elsewhere along the bone.

Bone marrow transplants are routinely performed in hospitals, pro-

viding a life-saving treatment for patients with certain kinds of cancer, immune disorders and severe anemia.

But they aren’t always successful: doctors may not be able to capture enough blood stem cells for a particular patient, based on the person’s weight; the amount of blood regeneration may not be sufficient; or in some cases, immune cells in donor marrow may attack the recipient’s body, a nasty condition known as graft-versus-host disease.

Bhatia said the team wants to look into ways of retrieving the more robust stem cells, as well as finding a way to winnow out immune cells from marrow to prevent

graft-versus-host rejection.

“Bone marrow transplants work, we’ve known that for 50 years,” he said.

“The problem is we haven’t been able to make them usable or applicable to all of the people that need them.

“So what this finding is doing, knowing where these blood stem cells are and where they perform the best, will allow us to make bone marrow transplants more efficient and make it more available to more people.”

Dr. Armand Keating, director of the Cell Therapy Program at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, called the findings “interesting and important.”

But Keating, who was not involved in the research, said he’s not sure how much impact it will have for patients, since only about a quarter of transplants now involve marrow taken directly from bone.

Most use stem cells retrieved through the blood — a drug cocktail causes stem cells to migrate from the bone marrow — or from umbilical cord blood.

“Having said that, there is now increasing evidence that if you use peripheral blood-mobilized cells ... you get more chronic graft-versus host,” he said.

The disease can be acute or chronic, and symptoms include abdominal, skin and eye disorders.

“That really has an impact for quality of life in a transplant recipient.

So under some circumstances, we are advocating for considering doing bone marrow transplants again instead of peripheral blood. And under that setting, it might be useful.”

The study is published in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

Large U.S. military study questions link between combat duty, suicide

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Combat appears to have little or no influence on suicide rates among U.S. troops and veterans, according to a military study that challenges the conventional thinking about war’s effects on the psyche.

Depression and other types of mental illness, alcohol problems and being male — strong risk factors for suicide among civilians — were all linked to self-inflicted deaths among current and former members of the military.

But the researchers found deployment and combat did not raise the risk.

“The findings from this study are not consistent with the assumption that specific deployment-related characteristics, such as length of deployment, number of deployments, or combat experiences, are directly associated” with suicides, the authors wrote.

The results echo smaller studies focusing on a specific branch of the military, but this is the first to look at a sampling from the entire military population, said lead author Cynthia LeardMann, a researcher with the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego.

More than 145,000 people from all branches took part, including active-duty service members, reservists and retirees, and they were followed from 2001 to 2008, a period in which the U.S. waged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The findings were published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

A recent increase in the military suicide rate has raised concerns about a possible link between suicide and deployment, including long or repeated tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But the new results should lay those concerns to rest, said Dr. Nancy Crum-Cianflone, another

researcher with the Navy centre.

She is leading a larger study on the health effects of serving in the military. The newly released findings are based on a subset of participants in that study.

The 2001-08 study looked at a small portion of the thousands of suicides among active-duty service members and veterans during that time.

There were 78 suicides among the study participants, or an average of almost 12 per 100,000 people followed for one year.

The rate was about two times higher among men and people with depression, and a little higher than that among those with alcohol problems. But it was four times higher among those with bipolar disorder.

Pentagon data show there were 349 suicides last year alone among active-duty troops, the most since 2001.

Crum-Cianflone said the military suicide rate climbed sharply between 2005 and 2009, to about 20 per 100,000 people followed for one year.

At the same time, there was an increase in the number of people with mental illness in the military.

The reason for that is unclear, the study authors said.

The suicide rate in the general population also increased in recent years, to almost 18 per 100,000 in 2010, according to a JAMA editorial.

David Rudd, scientific director for the non-profit National Center for Veterans Studies, said the study provides only a snapshot and doesn’t answer whether combat exposure increases the lifetime risk of suicide.

Rudd said evidence suggests most service members who attempt suicide had pre-existing psychiatric problems and may have been suicidal before entering the military.

That, he said, suggests a need

for better screening and treatment.

In the study, depression was present in about 23 per cent of those who committed suicide and almost 11 per cent of those who didn’t take their lives. Six per cent of the suicides involved bipolar disorder, compared with less than 1 per cent of the non-suicides. Alcohol-related problems afflicted 30 per cent of the suicides and 14 per cent of the non-suicides.

Post-traumatic stress syndrome was uncommon and by itself was not found to be a suicide risk factor.

But Dr. Charles Hoge, a study co-author and retired Army psychiatrist, said: “Service members with PTSD often experience coexisting depression or alcohol problems, which would increase their risk” of suicide.

Rachel Yehuda, director of traumatic stress studies at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, said the study “calls into question the previously assumed relationship between length of combat exposure and suicide” but doesn’t address other ways combat affects mental health.

Hoge said service members are routinely and extensively screened for mental illness before enlisting and afterward and those who are seriously ill are rejected.

But he noted that some mental illnesses typically emerge first in young adulthood.

He said the military has made great efforts to offer treatment to those affected.

“There’s been a huge increase over the last several years in the number of mental health professionals working at military facilities,” Hoge said.

These include combat stress teams in the field and counsellors back home.

Online: JAMA: http://www.jama.com

too long, are just fine

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Ninety birthdays maybe, but not 120: Americans hope to stretch out life expectancy another decade or so, but they’re ambivalent, even skeptical, about a fountain of youth.

A new poll by the Pew Research Center explores attitudes about a scientific quest: Creating treatments that one day might slow the aging process and let people live decades longer than is normal today.

Scientists already can extend the life span of certain laboratory animals — mice, worms, flies — with various techniques.

They’ve also tried with monkeys, although the evidence in that species is mixed.

There’s no way to know if there ever will be some type of Methuselah pill for humans.

But with the field growing, Pew took the public’s pulse and found most ‘WE ARE VERY Americans wouldn’t want a treatment that would INTERESTED IN let them live to 120.

NOT ONLY LIFE Fifty-six per cent said EXTENSION, no thanks — although two-thirds expect most BUT EXTENSION other people would want OF THE HEALTH to try such a step, said the report issued Tuesday.

SPAN,’ SAID Few expect such a radDR. MARIE ical idea to become reality, at least by 2050, alA. BERNARD, though most of those surDEPUTY veyed expect other medical advances that could DIRECTOR OF more gradually extend THE NATIONAL life expectancy, such as better cancer care.

INSTITUTE ON When asked about livAGING, WHICH ing to 120 or beyond, the PAYS FOR survey found 51 per cent of people said that would MUCH OF THIS be bad for society.

RESEARCH. They worried about a strain on natural resources, and that such treatments probably would be available only to the rich rather than to everyone.

What is the ideal life span? To most Americans, it’s between 79 and 100; the median answer was 90 years, Pew reported. In the U.S., a child born today can expect to live 78.7 years. Women’s life expectancy is longer, 81 years, than men’s, 76.2.

With a rapidly greying population that is bringing concern about the growth of Alzheimer’s disease and an overburdened Medicare system, caution about the idea of one day living even longer may not be surprising.

But longevity pioneer Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California, San Francisco, wonders if the public understands the real goal of such research, which is better health.

Many of the experimental animals whose lives have been extended look and act far younger — and are far healthier — than their untreated counterparts of the same age, she said.

“It would be the equivalent of a 90-year-old person that you think is looking like a 45-year-old,” Kenyon told The Associated Press.

Because aging itself underlies the development of many chronic diseases as our bodies break down, the theory is that slowing the aging process might help keep people healthier for longer — even if it’s never as dramatic as what has happened with animals.

“We are very interested in not only life extension, but extension of the health span,” said Dr. Marie A. Bernard, deputy director of the National Institute on Aging, which pays for much of this research.

Research into life extension began with the discovery that severely restricting calories in lab animals — they regularly consume 25 per cent to 30 per cent less than normal — makes them live longer.

Remarkably, they also were healthier than their litter mates.

That led to the discovery of various genetic alterations that control life span. Kenyon’s research, for example, found that altering a single gene doubled the life span of roundworms, which stayed healthy until near the end. Other researchers have discovered similar aging-related gene mutations in different species.

What about people? Some research has found healthy centenarians are more likely to harbour similarly protective genes.

The next step is to find medications that might somehow switch on those protective pathways, rather than drastic dieting or gene manipulation.

A number of candidates have worked in animals.

Just last month, NIA researchers reported that a low dose of the diabetes drug metformin improved the health and longevity of middle-aged mice.

No anti-aging pill is ready to try in people yet.

Aging specialists say for now, common-sense is the best medicine: Eat a healthy diet, maintain a healthy weight and exercise.

Asked about the poll, graduate student Katie Lebling, 24, of Washington said good health is key to how long she’d like to live: “It depends on how happy I am, if I was able to move or if I’m just sitting in a rocking chair.”

If good health was a given, others wouldn’t mind living to 120. “I’m curious to see how things now would be then,” said John Gold, 38, a San Francisco software engineer.

The Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project survey was conducted from March 21 to April 8, 2013. The nationally representative survey involved interviews, conducted on cellphones and landlines, with 2,012 adults.

It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

Aging America is a joint AP-APME project examining the aging of the baby boomers and the impact that this so-called silver tsunami will have on the communities in which they live.

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