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Festivals thrill region

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF It was a weekend full of summer celebrations throughout Central Alberta as numerous festivals and events brought music, dancing, laughter and joy to the region.

With the Latin Fiestaval in downtown Red Deer,

Jazz at the Lake in Sylvan Lake, Norwegian LaftHus at Heritage Square and the Sunnybrook Farm Pioneer Days festival there was plenty for people to do.

Christian Greiffenstein of the Fiestaval, said they had about 600 to 700 people come downtown for the daylong celebration of everything latin.

“It went really well with a good turnout,” said

Greiffenstein.

“Red Deer is responding pretty well to the kind of programming we’re bringing. We always want to see bigger numbers, especially this year we invested a little more in the entertainment thinking more people would come out.”

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While the staff at the Bowden SunMaze like Natasha Zyderveld and her mother Katrina, of Olds, waited for the sunflowers to bloom, the lilies and other ornamental flowers showed their colours on the farm northwest of Bowden. The SunMaze is open for people to wander through and will likely be in full bloom soon. Other activities on the Eagle Creek Farm about 7 km northwest of Bowden include you-pick vegetables and flowers and a corn maze. For further information log on to www.sunmaze. ca. See related story on page A7.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate

Council to review budget COUNCILLORS WILL CONSIDER NEW FUNDING REQUESTS AND MAKE POTENTIAL ADJUSTMENTS ON THE $288.5-MILLION OPERATING BUDGET AND $107.5-MILLION CAPITAL BUDGET FOR 2013 costs, a provision in the funding allocation under Alberta legislation.

Elaine Vincent, city director of corporate services, said offsite levies are not handled consistently across municipalities so it is left to each municipality to determine how best to handle them.

Vincent said the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association

mending the purchase of an additional $70,000 Action Bus funded from the Federal Gas Tax Fund.

This new vehicle would help adRed Deer city council will dress the increasing demand for delve into the books for a midspecialized door-to-door public year budget review on Tuestransportation. Approval at this day. time would put a new Action Bus Starting at 9 a.m. at City Hall, into the system in the first quarter council will be briefed on the of 2014. city’s major work plans, its fi● According to city documents, nancial outlook and as of July 31, capital projects. $722,545 has been COUNCIL WILL BE BRIEFED TUESDAY ON THE Council will conspent on costs insider new funding re- CITY’S MAJOR WORK PLANS, ITS FINANCIAL curred during the quests and make poOUTLOOK AND CAPITAL PROJECTS. June 2013 flood. tential adjustments Council will be on the $288.5-million briefed on the exoperating budget and penditures related $107.5-million capital budget for is working on a consolidated ap- to initial response, cleanup and 2013. proach but it is a work in prog- remediation work.

Exemption of $4 million in off- ress.

Administration will work withsite levies for a proposed multiCouncil will consider directing in the 2013 operating budget to neighourhood park/high school administration to develop an off- complete the operational work sites and recreation site with site levy bylaw to exclude the high with no additional requests. sports fields for three school dis- school and recreation site from However, if there are any capitricts will be on the table. the service basin and amend the tal costs then additional requests The site is in the northeast budget for this item to $6,342,000, will be forwarded to council. corner of the intersection of 67th and adds reference to the potenUnless there is an emergent Street and 30th Avenue. tial of a Francophone high school need, the plan is to bring these In its 2013 capital budget, city on the site. items to council as part of the 2014 council approved $9,492,000 for In other budgetary issues: capital budget deliberations. the land acquisition, site servic● At the time of the 2013 capiAn estimated $155,259 will be ing, planning and offsite levies tal budget discussions, it was in- needed in future expenditures on with a provision that cost shar- dicated that $1.2 million would the operational side to complete ing be negotiated between the be needed for the Lancaster East the work. school boards before allocation storm pond construction in 2014.

While difficult to assess, adof funds.

The developer has since acceler- ministration estimates another But the city has met with ated the plans and engineering is $361,278 would be needed on the school boards and all three have requesting the funds be moved to capital side. indicated they are unable to pro- the 2013 budget. vide any capital or other funding ● Administration is recomPlease see CITY on Page A2

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Pipeline proponents: pushing pipe dreams?

HISTORIANS DUBIOUS OF RAILWAY COMPARISONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — To hear some proponents of the Energy East project tell it, when the taps open on the $12-billion oil pipeline the moment will be as significant as when the last spike was driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway almost 128 years ago.

Linking western crude to eastern markets would be a huge undertaking — it’s the most expensive project in TransCanada Corp.’s (TSX:TRP) more than 60-year history — but some observers are dubious Energy East will one day be worthy of its own Heritage Minute.

Tugging at Canadians’ patriotic heartstrings is a “smart and usable PR strategy” to get the public onside with the project, said Claire Campbell, a historian at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

“But I don’t think it is going to be written about as the new national dream by historians 100 years from now.”

Sean Kheraj, a historian at York University in Toronto, said it’s far from the first time Canadian business leaders and politicians have used nationalistic rhetoric to drum up support for controversial proposals.

For instance, Canada’s first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, used lofty language to entice Parliament to spend huge amounts of public funds on the railway in the late 1800s.

“It seems very clear that there’s an express political purpose behind this to try and use nationalism as a way to motivate consent from Canadians for permission to construct the project,” Kheraj said.

Earlier this month, TransCanada announced with great fanfare that it had enough commercial support to go ahead with Energy East, which would send 1.1 million barrels of crude a day across six provinces.

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FESTIVALS: Events held in Red Deer, Sylvan Lake There were a few more people than usual, but not quite what they were hoping for.

This has raised questions on whether the Fiestaval would be able to go for a fifth year in 2014.

“We want to do it again for sure,” said Greiffenstein. “We don’t have as much support from the city as we’d like to.”

Greiffenstein said they would look for municipal funding or corporate sponsors going forward in hopes on bringing the Fiestaval back to the city next year.

Out in Sylvan Lake the festivities were in full swing as jazz music, and variations thereof, blasted across the community.

Eric Allison, Jazz at the Lake Festival board president, said they were very happy with how the 11th year of the summer event has gone.

“We have sold out most of our concerts,” said Allison.

“It has just been an amazing weekend. At the P.J. Perry concert at the Alliance Church we used every chair, they had to reset the room twice and used every single chair. It was just packed in there.”

Drawing in people of all ages, younger kids with their grandparents, parents and everyone in between Allison said they already have to start planning next year’s jazz festival because of its continued popularity.

“The festival started so small as a two-day event back in 2003 and it has just grown,” said Allison. “It’s taken on a life of its own and it requires lots of time and volunteers, and blood, sweat and tears.”

Also in Red Deer, Heritage Square was taken over by the Norwegian Laft Hus Society as they had a celebration of their heritage including a troll hunt, Scandinavian dancers, medieval skits, games, facepainting, music and goats grazing on the roof of the LaftHus. Over at Sunnybrook Farm there was a Pioneer Days festival all weekend featuring tractor pulls and parades, a threshing demonstration, home-made pie, children activities, a concession and face painting.

A fifth festival, the Central Music Festival, was cancelled early last week due to lack of ticket sales and lack of volunteers. Organizers hope to have the festival return in 2014. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

PIPELINES: Nation-building touted It was an important milestone, but just one of many hurdles Energy East needs to clear before shovels can hit the ground, not the least of which would be obtaining regulatory approval. Environmentalists have vowed to fight the project and it’s not clear whether Quebec is behind it.

At a news conference, company CEO Russ Girling likened Energy East to “bold ventures” like the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Trans-Canada Highway and the company’s own cross-country natural gas mainline.

Photo by MURRAY CRAWFORD/Advocate staff

Goats Ellie and Ella graze the roof of the Lafthus as part of a weekend event at Heritage Square in Red Deer.

The event celebrated Norwegian heritage and culture and was just one of several festivals in Central Alberta.

“Each of these enterprises demanded innovative thinking and a strong belief that building critical infrastructure ties our country together, making us stronger and more in control of our own destiny,” he said.

TransCanada referred to the thousands of jobs that would be created during construction and their associated economic spinoffs, as well as the “energy security” it would provide eastern Canadians — a 700,000 barrel-per-day market whose fuel mostly originates from abroad.

Building the pipeline will require droves of tradespeople, such as pipefitters and welders, generating benefits to the stores and restaurants that serve them and the hotels that house them, TransCanada executives said. However, once pipelines are up and running, they require relatively little manpower to operate, so those effects will likely be temporary.

Provincial politicians, albeit the two that stand most to gain from the project, were also vocal in their support. Alberta Premier Alison Redford called it “truly a nation-building project” and her New Brunswick counterpart, David Alward, called it a “game changer and historic opportunity” for the country as well as his province, home to the country’s largest oil refinery.

But, according to Campbell, the historian, it was the railway’s championing by the federal government that made it the “quintessential example” of a nation-building project.

In the case of Energy East, Ottawa’ benefits would be in the form of increased tax revenues, with Al-

berta oil no longer landlocked and flowing to more lucrative markets.

Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver expressed support for the project, but Alberta and New Brunswick played a much more active role in promoting it.

“That’s where I think the analogy of a pipeline with a railway in 1885 is a little disingenuous,” said Campbell.

Warren Mabee, an energy expert at Queen’s University, said the railway was more of a national project than a pipeline because of its flexibility. It helped grow industries ranging from agriculture to tourism.

A pipeline is “not the sort of thing that keeps giving back the way that the railways did,” he said.

CITY: New items ● Council will consider re-assigning $900,000 from its GreenTRIP funding to purchase two buses to be part of the Lacombe and Blackfalds Regional Transit Service, conditional on a successful negotiation of an agreement between the three municipalities.

Other new items on the table for consideration are one-time funding for an annual municipal census, funding requests for sports organizations and one-time funding for placements in aboriginal and other diversity-related employment programs.

This is the second year the city has conducted a mid-year budget review. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Canadian filmmaker and doctor arrested in Cairo

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A friend of two Canadians who were arrested in Cairo says consular staff told him the pair were fine but still hadn’t heard if they were being charged.

Justin Podur said that Canadian consular staff told him they had seen Toronto based filmmaker and York University professor John Greyson and Tarek Loubani, an emergency room doctor in London, Ont. The pair were being held in a Cairo prison.

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UNREST IN EGYPT A6 tian official to request confirmation of the nature of the charges and call for all evidence against the two Canadians be released,” the statement said.

Podur said that consular staff informed him they would be checking on the two Canadians again on Monday.

Earlier Podur said he was “very much” concerned about his friends’ safety.

“They’re in an Egyptian prison in one of the worst weeks in Egyptian history,” said Justin Podur.

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He says Greyson was travelling to explore the possibility of making a documentary about Al Shifa hospital in Gaza.

The two professors arrived in Cairo on Aug. 15 but their journey to Gaza was delayed due to unrest.

“Given all the unrest it was quite problematic and dangerous to travel to the border,” Podur says and adds “across the Sinai is dangerous, the border crossing itself is dangerous.”

Podur says they were arrested around 10 p.m. on Fri-

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Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Caitlin Workman confirmed that two Canadians have been arrested and says Canada’s embassy in Cairo is in contact with local authorities and is providing consular assistance, however, she says privacy concerns prevent her from releasing any further information.

Lynne Yelich, the minister of state for consular affairs, issued a statement Sunday evening saying she was very concerned about the arrests and has demanded more information.

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College abuzz over accolade RED DEER COLLEGE HERALDED AS ONE OF 25 MOST INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PROVINCE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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Edmund Aunger and his wife Elizabeth Sovis were avid cyclists, relying on the Trans Canada Trail. Sovis was killed on a ride when the couple had to use a highway in 2012 in Prince Edward Island and Aunger has since taken up the cause of completing the Trans Canada Trail, a nation-wide trail-system connecting the country.

Man takes up cause of cycling Trans Canada Trail WIFE KILLED IN COLLISION WHILE CYCLING IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ed she would spend the first few years of her retirement getting the Trans Canada Trail built, specifically in Alberta.

“I quit my job shortly afterwards and decided I would try to work to get the Trans Canada Trail finished,” said Aunger.

Aunger plans to fulfill his

and fulfulled their end of the bargain in completing the trail, while municipalities like Red Deer, Calgary or Edmonton do a great job of Last year Edmund Aunger’s having their own trails. wife died in a collision while the Because of the municipal-cenEdmonton couple was bike riding tricity of trail development Aungin Prince Edward Island. er has found he has to crisscross Elizabeth Sovis had recently his way through Alberta to ride retired and, as an avid cyclist, had Trans Canada Trails. wanted to work After cycling from towards helping Blackfalds to La‘EVERY SUMMER WHEN WE DID OUR the completion of combe he has to go CYCLING I MADE THE PLANS AND TRIED the Trans Canada out to Pigeon Lake for Trail.

TO KEEP TO TRAILS. ALBERTA AND the next stretch, and The two had just then to the other side SASKATCHEWAN ARE THE TWO WORST started a holiday of Hwy. 2 to Wetaskion P.E.I. when they PROVINCES IN CANADA FOR BUILDING THE win for the next sechad to bike four kition of the Trans CanTRANS CANADA TRAIL.’ lometres on a highada Trail. way to get to their “We tried to ride — EDMUND AUNGER bed and breakfast, in Alberta and it was something Sovis very frustrating bewould never have attempted un- wife’s goal of supporting the com- cause we would get started on a der normal circumstances. pletion of the trail by cycling from trail and it would end and we’d “There was a route marked on Victoria to Charlottetown over the have to go out on the highway and our cycling guide that was for cy- next four years. pick up the trail somewhere else clists,” said Aunger.

This year he has cycled from and then go back on the highway,” “It turned out to be a two-laned Victoria to Red Deer, but plans to said Aunger. highway with no shoulders. Some- finish up in his hometown of EdSovis felt strongly about riding thing my wife never would have monton within a week. in Alberta, but due to the frustracycled on. We wouldn’t have even “Every summer when we did tion they mostly rode in Quebec, gone to P.E.I. if she had known our cycling I made the plans and B.C. and Manitoba, where Aunger she’d have to cycle on the high- tried to keep to trails,” said Aung- said the trails were better and acway.” er. tually connected.

The couple got 2.5 kms in to the “So we wouldn’t have to go on He wants an action plan to enfour km stretch when she was hit the roads and it was a problem. sure the completion of Alberta’s by a van and killed.

Alberta and Saskatchewan are part of the Trans Canada Trail, as Aunger said they chose P.E.I. the two worst provinces in Cana- promised, by July 1, 2017. because it supposedly had the da for building the Trans Canada The original goal of the Trans best, safest and most complete Trail.”

Canada Trail was to be completed network of Trans Canada Trail in He said while provincial gov- by Canada’s 150th birthday. the country. ernments like Alberta and SasUpon retirement Sovis decid- katchewan haven’t stepped up mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Flood money won’t be taken from funds earmarked for north PREMIER REDFORD SAYS PROJECTS IN PEACE COUNTRY NEED TO BE DONE TO KEEP THE ECONOMY CHUGGING ALONG THE CANADIAN PRESS PEACE RIVER — Alberta Premier Alison Redford says money earmarked for infrastructure projects in northern parts of the province won’t be diverted to pay for flood expenses in the south.

Redford told reporters Friday in Peace River that any funding for flood-damaged Calgary and southern Alberta will be in addition to what has been already promised for other projects in the province.

She says projects in Peace Country need to be done to keep the economy chugging along in those areas.

Redford’s Conservative government has already announced

an initial $1 billion to kick-start recovery from devastating floods that hit the province in June.

The City of Calgary has estimated it will cost more $400 million to fix its buildings and other infrastructure damaged in the flood.

The Insurance Bureau of Canada and the Alberta government say it is still too early to come up with an accurate, overall damage estimate from the floods that ravaged High River, Calgary and other communities.

“Even though we ended up with some difficult circumstances in southern Alberta earlier in the summer, we’re not going to divert infrastructure funding that’s been

committed for the north to deal with that issue,” Redford said.

“We’re going to have to deal with some infrastructure build in the south, no doubt, but that will be in addition to what we’ve already put in place.”

The premier attended several events in the area, including Northern Sunrise County’s 10th anniversary, as well as the Metis Settlements’ 75th anniversary in Paddle Prairie.

“It is truly a privilege to be the premier of a province that has continually shown leadership by recognizing the unique status of Metis people,” Redford wrote on her Facebook page.

“We all should be proud of what we’ve

accomplished together over the last 75 years.”

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School isn’t even back in session, but Red Deer College is abuzz over a recent accolade.

The Central Alberta college was named one of the 25 most innovative organizations in the province

by Alberta Venture magazine in the August issue, the only post-secondary institution in the province to make the list.

Red Deer College President Joel Ward said they were surprised to get the call from the magazine.

The magazine lauded the college’s centre for innovation in manufacturing, which was built to train technical specialists in the design and development of prototypes, products and proJoel Ward cesses.

“It has gotten the kind of attention it deserves based on the work that has been done,” said Ward.

“Just this past year we’ve done 500 engagements with industry, post-secondary partners and small business.

“I think some of our clients must have called the magazine to talk about what we’re doing.”

The piece on RDC mentions the work the college is doing with Red Deer’s Better Made Wheelchairs to develop on innovative braking system for its chairs.

“The unique aspect of our centre for innovation is the combination between the creative and the technical,” said Ward.

“I think we were very unique and intentional in putting those ‘JUST THIS PAST two things together. We YEAR WE’VE DONE asked ourselves how do we connect ideas, 500 ENGAGEMENTS people, processes and WITH INDUSTRY, methods and then what POST-SECONDARY kind of facility and talent would we need to PARTNERS AND ensure that.”

SMALL BUSINESS. The centre for innovation is aimed at I THINK SOME OF helping develop a workforce that looks to OUR CLIENTS MUST the future.

HAVE CALLED THE Ward pointed to two MAGAZINE TO products the college helped work on, which TALK ABOUT WHAT led to big financial WE’RE DOING.’ outcomes. One was the trauma clamp, which — RED DEER COLLEGE was designed by a CaPRESIDENT JOEL WARD nadian doctor, who was in Afghanistan, in the centre.

“We assisted in multiple prototypes of that device through 3D modelling and AutoCAD and this Edmonton based company won a world top innovation of 2012 award and the Alberta science and technology for outstanding science and technology startup,” said Ward.

“Our participation was small, but it was critical for their success.

We were able to create multiple iterations for them through 3D modelling and printing, until the final product came out.

“We got the assist, but they got the goal.”

The other was the canine stifle joint, an implant for a dogs knee.

They worked with rapid proto-typing and the implant has since been licensed.

“We feel like we are an important part of the process to enable companies to do these things they wouldn’t otherwise be able to do,” said Ward.

“The millions of dollars of equipment they have access to, they could never buy on their own. It’s taking a public institution and publicly funded institutions and making it available to small and medium enterprise and other folks who lack capacity, but have great ideas.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Carbon taxes war on poor A CATASTROPHIC WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY

BY ELIZABETH NICKSON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Rumour in the oilpatch has it that U.S. President Barack Obama’s price for the Keystone XL pipeline to go ahead is the imposition of a carbon tax.

While the oil companies don’t really care — they will make so much off of Keystone that a tax would be a blip — the same can’t be said for the poor and middle classes.

For a look at the cost of any new green regulations, let’s look at B.C.’s carbon tax, “the first in North America.” It is just the kind of fiction that fiction was made for.

A report (written by the strongest proponents of the tax) was recently released claiming that the carbon tax on gas — B.C. drivers now pay more to fill their tanks than anywhere else in North America — has resulted in less driving and a drop of carbon emissions by 17.4 per cent.

But Willis Eschenbach, a reporter

for the world’s most viewed climate site, Watts Up With That, now a Hall of Fame Honouree as best science blog on the web, did the number crunching and found that the 17.4 per cent reduction was based entirely on B.C. residents buying less gas. But while B.C. drivers may be buying less gas in province, trips across the border have sky-rocketed — by 150 per cent — because gas there is one-third cheaper.

As for claims the tax is revenue neutral, tell that to the trucker filling up at the most expensive gas pumps in Canada, or the greenhouse operator in Delta paying an extra $35,000 for the privilege of growing food.

B.C’s dubious achievement led its premier, Christy Clark, a mistress of green manipulation if there ever was one, to recently announce that the rest of Canada must follow her province’s lead, no matter the cost to single parents, young families, working-class drivers, and old people needing to heat their homes. For make no mistake about it, it is they who live in fuel poverty and who all too often have to choose between heating and food.

And where did the money from the carbon tax go?

According to B.C.’s Auditor-General,

two-thirds of funds brokered by the Pacific Carbon Trust went to Encana, the biggest gas company in Canada, and to the powerful Nature Conservancy of Canada. No matter that both organizations were going to undertake their carbon projects anyway; they were glad to take the money, which came from schools and hospitals that are mandated to be carbon neutral: a cool million dollars from Vancouver and Surrey area schools alone.

This redistribution of revenue from the poor to the rich, however, pales in comparison to the misery foisted on indigenous peoples in the developing world. Oxfam International documents how more than 22,000 Ugandans were evicted to make way for a carbon offset tree plantation established by a London-based firm called New Forests. There are dozens of such projects, from Africa to India to Norfolk County in Ontario, where the province’s richest farmland is being reforested for carbon capture and credit to benefit the wealthiest in Canada.

In 2009, Deloitte Financial warned Australia that its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), which requires offsets of large emitters, “have already been subject to fraud, mis-

statement and the involvement of organized crime in the U.K. and Europe.”

Maybe it should be called the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scam.

Even Deloitte, however, missed the potential for public sector abuse, which in B.C. is considerable. For tens of thousands of public servants and contract workers, carbon is a gold rush. Taxpayers have contributed to the $100-million endowment enjoyed by the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium at the University of Victoria, the Climate Action Secretariat, LiveSmart BC and hundreds of projects listed in the Annual Climate Neutral Report.

We also pay for the Western Climate Initiative busily devising trans-national carbon regulation.

Carbon taxes are a catastrophic waste of public money and have created elites that will fight to the death to keep their privileges, no matter the damage caused to the vulnerable.

Elizabeth Nickson is a senior fellow at the Frontier Center for Public Policy (http://www.fcpp.org). She is author of Eco-fascists, How Radical Conservationists are Destroying Our Natural Heritage (Harper Collins). This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia. com).

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

What’s in a name? Plenty when they are all the same We moved into Oriole Park in Red Deer in 2010 and started using the city pathways hoping to get a feel for the city. We usually carried a small garbage bag and picked up garbage as we walked.

In our walks, we discovered the Oriole Park Fitness Park, in Oriole Park of all places!

In the past three months that we have run the pathways, the fitness park became garbage central with fast-food bags, napkins, containers and cups scattered around the area.

Imagine my anger on a recent Sunday morning on finding sod, dirt, rocks and cement chunks dumped in the grass area beside the fitness park and parking area.

After picking rocks, etc., I thought I should notify the city staff to rake and clean the area before mowing it, so I checked the sign to better pinpoint the area. What a surprise! I was no longer in the Oriole Fitness Park, but at Waskasoo Park, according to the sign.

No — it is not Waskasoo Park south of the river — but north of Heritage Ranch.

No — it is not Waskasoo Park where Piper Creek flows through either and it is not in the Waskasoo area of the city. It is not Waskasoo Park on the east side of the river by the Red Deer Cemetery or by Kerry Wood Nature Centre. It is not Waskasoo Park on the west side of the river by Riverside Drive, nor east of the Pines, nor the northeast park in Northlands!

This is like the Oxbow Dog Park that is nowhere near the Oxbow area of Oriole Park!

Little wonder visitor could not find downtown, thus the need for a sign.

The mental exercise of finding a garbage can and naming city areas must come from the same jug.

Thank goodness for postal codes!

Ed Powell Red Deer

We can’t ignore the little things that keep us alive Scientists believe life appeared on Earth almost four-billion years ago, about half a billion years after our relatively young planet formed. It would be fascinating to see how life arose and managed to hang on.

If scientists were to invent time travel to take us back through Earth’s history, we’d see little life for most of the four-billion years. Plenty was happening but at a microscopic level as organisms worked out all the intricacies of survival: finding food and energy, evading predators, fighting DAVID off disease (even bacteria get SUZUKI virus infections), reproducing and eliminating waste.

Once those fundamental details were worked out, more complex cells arose by incorporating other cells within themselves to perform specialized functions like capturing energy from the sun (photosynthesis) or generating energy from stored molecules. The stage was set for the final blossoming of life into forms visible to creatures like us: multicellularity.

Once an organism was made up of many cells, a divi-

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sion of labour was possible. Various cells specialized in movement, eating, digestion, excretion and reproduction. All of this occurred in the last fifth of life’s existence as seas and land filled with wondrous animals and plants.

It’s a magnificent story and we only know the barest outlines. We tend to focus on big life forms like trees, elephants and whales. That’s understandable.

They’re often spectacular. But our bias toward the big and impressive overlooks the importance, and beauty, of what are often dismissed as “creepy crawlies,” such as worms, insects, fungi and bacteria.

I was an avid bug collector as a boy. To me, insects were endlessly riveting. Many of them display spectacular colours and patterns and occur in shapes and forms that are far more bizarre and surprising than any Hollywood sci-fi creation. My childhood fascination evolved in college to a focus on heredity in an insect, a common fruit fly, which has revealed so much about genetic principles in humans.

In our concern with protecting grizzlies and polar bears, whooping cranes and redwood trees, wolves and caribou, we give short shrift to the small creatures that keep the planet livable. Tiny organisms and plant roots filter water as it percolates through soil; insects, bacteria and fungi help plants, animals and dung decompose to create soil; bacteria in legumes capture atmospheric nitrogen and fix it in soil; all green things exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen as they capture sunlight that animals like us can consume and store for our own use. In fact, bacteria directly produce up to half the oxygen we breathe. Microbes in the human body outnumber cells by 10 to one, and many of them keep us alive by helping us digest food and combat infection, among

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Years ago, scientists in Norway showed that a single teaspoon of soil from a beach contained more than 4,000 different species of bacteria. Another teaspoon taken from a nearby deciduous forest yielded a similar number of species, most of them different from the beach group. Soil is not dirt or inert material; it is a complex community of living organisms, yet modern farming techniques often wipe them out.

Scientists estimate that for every human, there are 200-million insects on Earth. They are important parts of ecosystems, providing services such as pollination, food and pest control. Of all insect species, very few are harmful to humans, yet we spray powerful chemicals that kill all insects just to get at the tiny fraction that causes problems for us.

Because all life forms have evolved ways to find food, avoid being eaten, heal from infection, reproduce and eliminate waste, we have much to learn if we show some respect and patience to see how they create solutions. Scientists discovered penicillin as a fungus’s way of warding off bacteria. They found cancer-fighting vincristine in the rosy periwinkle and taxol in yew trees. Restriction enzymes, vital tools of genetic engineers, are used by bacteria to fight viral infection.

We focus on charismatic species like whales, pandas, cedar trees and seals as poster children for conservation. But the small things that keep the biosphere going for creatures like us are probably more threatened because we ignore them. If we spend time studying them, they have much to teach us.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www. davidsuzuki.org.

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Prisons scolded for Khadr status PRISONS OMBUDSMAN WANTS SYSTEM TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT OMAR KHADR’S MAX SECURITY CLASSIFICATION well with others and did not present with violent or extremist attitudes,” Zinger writes.

The classification is important as it affects Khadr’s day-to-day prison existence, such as his access to programs, as well as on his potential for parole.

The Toronto-born Khadr, 26, spent a decade in the notorious U.S. prison on Cuba.

assessment.

He cites an American military psychiatrist as saying Khadr showed no signs of aggressive or TORONTO — Prison authorities dangerous behaviour, and “conignored favourable information in sistently verbalized his goal to unfairly branding former Guanconduct a peaceful, pro-social life tanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr as a Canadian citizen.” as a maximum security inmate, “Our office questions the ratioaccording to Canada’s prison omnale for not using these profesbudsman. sional and expert assessments on In a recent letter file,” Zinger writes to a top prison official to Anne Kelly, se‘THE OCI HAS NOT FOUND ANY EVIDENCE obtained by The Cananior deputy comdian Press, the Office THAT MR. KHADR’S BEHAVIOUR WHILE missioner of the of the Correctional Correctional SerINCARCERATED HAS BEEN PROBLEMATIC Investigator urges anvice of Canada. other look at Khadr’s AND THAT HE COULD NOT BE SAFELY Dennis Edney, classification.

Khadr’s EdmontonMANAGED AT A LOWER SECURITY LEVEL.’ “The OCI has not based lawyer, said found any evidence — IVAN ZINGER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INDEPEN- over the weekend that Mr. Khadr’s beDENT OFFICE OF THE CORRECTIONAL INVESTIGATOR that Zinger’s conhaviour while incarcerns are more evicerated has been dence of a Conserproblematic and that he could not He was transferred to Canada vative government campaign to be safely managed at a lower se- last September to serve out the re- demonize Khadr. curity level,” the letter states. mainder of an eight-year sentence “This report contradicts the fic“I recommend that Mr. Khadr’s handed down by an American mil- tion put out by the Canadian govsecurity classification be reas- itary commission for war crimes ernment that Omar Khadr poses a sessed taking into account all he pleaded guilty to committing as security risk,” Edney said. available information and the ac- a 15-year-old in Afghanistan.

“The government has long tual level of risk posed by the ofHe spent the next several known Guantanamo officials fender, bearing in mind his sole months in segregation in Mill- viewed Omar as a ’good kid’.” offence was committed when he haven penitentiary west of KingsLast week, Edney asked the was a minor.” ton, Ont., classified as a maxi- courts to force the inmate’s transIn his letter, Ivan Zinger, exec- mum-security inmate before his fer to a provincial jail, calling his utive director of the independent transfer to Edmonton Institution incarceration in Edmonton InOffice of the Correctional Investi- in late May. stitution illegal given that Khadr gator, calls the case “unique and Prison officials have defended was 15 when he committed the ofexceptional.” the maximum-security classifica- fences to which he pleaded guilty.

He says Khadr has shown no ev- tion, arguing among other things Alberta’s Court of Queen’s idence of problematic behaviour that Khadr poses a moderate es- Bench is expected to hear the apwhile in Canadian custody and cape risk and sparks high public- plication Sept. 23. notes the Americans had catego- safety concerns.

However, rookie Public Safety rized him as minimum security.

Zinger’s letter — written a day Minister Steven Blaney is sticking “According to a psychological before the inmate was moved to to the hard line of his predecesreport on file, Khadr interacted Edmonton — takes issue with the sor, Vic Toews.

350 years later, King’s Daughters arrive at Montreal port KING’S DAUGHTERS (OR FILLES DU ROY) ARE CREDITED WITH HELPING TRANSFORM THE YOUNG, SPARSELY-POPULATED COLONY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — They came by ships, in arduous, sometimes monthslong journeys across the Atlantic.

Nearly 800 women, over the span of a decade in the second half of the 17th century, arrived in New France under the patronage of Louis XIV. The so-called King’s Daughters (or Filles du Roy) are credited with helping transform the young, sparsely-populated colony, which was largely made up of single men at the time.

Today, many North Americans with francophone roots can trace their ancestry back to these early settlers, including many prominent public figures.

Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Hillary Clinton are thought to be among them, some genealogists believe.

Three-dozen women

reenacted the epic journey these pioneers took, sailing into Montreal’s Old Port on Saturday to mark the 350th anniversary of the first arrival.

Hundreds more, many of whom claimed to be ancestors of some of the original 36, came to watch the spectacle unfold.

“I’m very proud, it’s very emotional,” said Francine Balthazar, a 63-year-old Montrealer who has traced her family tree back to the King’s Daughters.

She believes to be related to 10 of the women who arrived on the first ship, back in 1663.

The reenactment was part of a series of events held across the province this summer to mark a development that defined part of the early history of Canada.

By 1672, when the last ship had sailed, the population of New France had risen to 6,700, more

than double the number a decade earlier, setting the foundation for what would ultimately become the province of Quebec.

Organizations have sprouted up across North America, filled with amateur historians intent on finding out more about their ancestry.

Groups are active from Quebec to Virginia.

Jean Beaudoin, who came to the reenactment with his wife, said one of his early ancestors — a settler after which he was named — ended up marrying one of the King’s Daughters. They had 14 children.

Beaudoin said it was easy to imagine what it would have been like for his namesake to watch the ship roll in.

“People were seeing each other for the first time, they wanted to stay here so they had to get a wife,” said the 68-yearold Montrealer.

“If they weren’t able

Rail company behind fatal Quebec derailment to operate through October 1

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OTTAWA — A Canadian government agency has determined that the U.S. rail company whose runaway train crashed into a small Quebec town, killing 47 people last month, has adequate insurance to keep operating for the next month and a half.

The Canadian Transportation Agency said the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway provided evidence it had adequate third-party liability insurance coverage to operate from Aug. 20 to Oct. 1, 2013. The agency’s decision late Friday reversed an Aug. 13 order that would have halted the railroad’s operations from early next week.

The agency said the rail company provided new facts and information demonstrating it had adequate thirdparty liability insurance for the short term. However, agency spokeswoman Jacqueline Bannister said Montreal, Maine & Atlantic must show it has the funds to pay the self-insured portion of its operations, or the regulator will suspend its operations from Aug. 23.

On July 6, an unmanned train, with 72 tankers of crude oil, came loose, derailed and crashed into the centre of the town of Lac-Megantic near the Maine border in eastern Quebec. Several tankers exploded, destroying 40 buildings. An estimated 1.48 million gallons (5.6 million litres) of oil were spilled.

The rail company was granted creditor protection on Aug. 8 after the company said it couldn’t afford the cleanup and reconstruction costs for the town.

In its bankruptcy filings, the railway’s Canadian subsidiary said it only had $25 million in insurance coverage, while estimating the environmental cleanup alone will exceed $200 million. The railway and its Canadian counterpart, Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Canada Co., also cited debts to more than 200 creditors following the disaster.

A company attorney has said he expects executives to explore putting the rail company up for sale within weeks.

Montreal, Maine & Atlantic also faces a series of class-action lawsuits on behalf of the victims.

to get a wife it’s the end of their history in New France.”

Dressed in the bodices and cloth headwear of the period, the women were greeted by men and cheering crowds as they came to shore.

One by one, men presented themselves to the women in courtship.

Later, the newlyformed couples were taken by horse and carriage to a “suitor’s ball” at a nearby historic site.

Eric Michaud, who played a police lieutenant in the reenactment and believes he’s related to one of the King’s Daughters, said playacting gave him a new appreciation for what it must have been like for both sides, as they prepared to make a life for themselves in the colony.

“The men are waiting and they know the women are coming,” he said.

“You can imagine the anticipation.”

REPORT CALLS FOR CHANGE BY 2030

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — Access to justice in Canada is being described as “abysmal” in a new report from the Canadian Bar Association, which also calls for much more than “quick fix” solutions.

The summary report, released Sunday at the association’s conference in Saskatoon, says there is profoundly unequal access to justice in Canada.

“Inaccessible justice costs us all, but visits its harshest consequences on the poorest people in our communities,” says the report.

Report author Melina Buckley says one of the biggest concerns is the growing number of people who represent themselves in civil cases.

Buckley says many people earn just enough money so they don’t qualify for legal aid, but they also don’t make enough to pay for a lawyer. Those people often find themselves on their own in court, she says.

The problem is especially pronounced in family law cases.

“They describe that as just being a terrible experience,” said Buckley in an interview.

“They find the whole process leading up to it is hugely stressful, has all kind of side effects in terms of their abilities to continue parenting their kids because they’re stressed. Sometimes they lose their jobs or have to go part-time, all kinds of health and other situations. They tend to get alienated from friends and families because they become so obsessed by it.

“And then quite often they don’t have the kind of outcomes that we would consider just and fair.”

Buckley says that also puts more of a burden on the system.

For example, a case that would normally take three days with a lawyer on each side, tends to instead take 10 days, she says.

There are also more pressures on court staff who must walk a fine line between helping people with something like forms and legal advice that they can’t provide.

“They have to say ‘Look, I’m sorry, that’s legal advice. I can’t do that.’ And of course the person who has that need doesn’t care, they need the answer.

And if you can’t point them to where they can (get it), it’s obviously very frustrating, very high stress for people working within the courts,” said Buckley.

Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said access to justice is a growing problem for many Canadians.

Peoples’ lives can be ruined if they can’t get access to justice, McLachlin said Saturday at the conference.

“We know that there are a lot of needs. People just swallow their pain and their loss and live with it, I guess, in some unsatisfactory way feeling they can’t get justice,” said McLachlin.

The full report will be released in the fall, but the 59-page summary released Sunday makes several recommendations.

Among other things, the report calls for more federal funding for civil legal aid. Buckley says the federal government can’t say how much it contributes to civil legal aid because the amount is included in overall funding to provinces and the decisions on how to spend the money is made at the provincial level.

The report says by 2020, all Canadians living at and below the poverty line should be eligible for full coverage of essential public legal services.

Another goal is to have all law schools in Canada have a student legal clinic to help low-income people by 2020. All 31 targets are expected to be completed by 2030.

“We think very serious and radical reforms need to be made to the justice system. We think they’re all doable. We call it an ambitious, but possible vision, and we think 17 years is about the right amount of time,” said Buckley.

Change doesn’t fall solely on governments or the bar association. The report also says law schools and other stakeholders must be involved.

Buckley says the creation of an access to justice commissioner could make sure everyone works together.

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More help needed for Idaho wildfire ADDITIONAL CREWS ARRIVE TO HELP BATTLE WIND-FUELED FIRE, 2,300 RESIDENCES EVACUATED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAILEY, Idaho — More people were forced from their homes outside the posh central Idaho ski town of Ketchum as a wildfire stoked by strong winds made a push to the north.

The number of residences evacuated by the blaze rose to more than 2,300 by Saturday evening. But despite the adverse conditions and extreme fire behaviour, some progress was made on the Beaver Creek Fire’s south end, where crews conducted mop-up along the borders of blackened foothills.

Lightning ignited the blaze Aug. 7. Fire officials estimated it grew to 144 square miles (373 square kilometres) Friday night, fed by dry timber and underbrush. The fire is 6 per cent contained.

More than 700 firefighters have been deployed to the mountains west of this affluent region, where celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis own pricey getaways. Five more hotshot crews arrived Saturday, and more are expected to arrive this weekend to continue focusing on protecting homes in a sparsely populated county.

“It was a good day from the standpoint that we had no injuries, no lives lost, and no homes and property burned,” fire spokeswoman Lucie Bond said. “Firefighters have been going house-to-house to decrease the risk. We’re simply not going to leave homes un-

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A helicopter makes a drop while battling the Beaver Creek Fire on Saturday, north of Hailey, Idaho. protected.”

Elsewhere, in northern Utah, about 10 homes were destroyed when a wildfire raced through the community of Willow Springs, about 60 miles (96 kilometres) southwest of Salt Lake City, late Friday. As of midday Saturday, the Patch Springs Fire had burned more than 50 square miles (130 square kilometres). It was 20 per cent contained.

The Beaver Creek Fire is

the nation’s top-priority wildfire, in part because it’s burning so close to homes and subdivisions. Early Saturday, the firefight was hampered by thick smoke that engulfed Hailey, a town with 7,900 inhabitants which is 14 miles (23 kilometres) south of Ketchum, home of the Sun Valley Ski Resort.

Smoke stretching across the tight Big Wood River Valley also grounded the air attack

on the blaze, putting more pressure on fire crews building fire lines on the ground.

But by midday, the smoke had cleared enough to scramble helicopters that targeted fires burning in the mountains and foothills that shoulder Hailey and north to Ketchum.

Fire managers also turned to a huge DC-10 tanker to resume retardant drops all across a fire that is burning hotter and faster than the Cas-

tle Rock Fire that threatened these towns in 2007.

“This fire is consuming everything,” fire spokeswoman Madonna Lengerich said. “The fire is so hot, it’s just cremating even the biggest trees.”

Ketchum, with a population of 2,700, and Sun Valley, with 1,400 people, were under “pre-evacuation orders,” with authorities telling residents to be ready to leave if necessary.

Many in those towns heeded the advice as the exodus heading south on Highway 75 continued to slow traffic through the valley.

Ketchum’s tony retail and dining districts, normally buzzing this time of year with tourists and summer residents, resembled a ghost town. Dozens of retail shops, bars, outdoor cafes and restaurants on the town’s main street closed their doors Saturday. Even The Casino, the city’s oldest bar, closed its doors to the surprise of residents. The Casino was established in 1936.

“I’ve never seen it like this,” said Dale Byington, general manager and 23-year veteran of The Sawtooth Club.

The business was one of a handful of restaurants open on or near Main Street, but it closed early Saturday because of a lack of business.

“The only reason I opened was to give people here a place to go and get some food and drink, but that’s not going to happen,” Byington said.

Fire officials are hoping the weather co-operates Sunday, when temperatures are expected to cool.

Bloodshed continues in Egypt as another 36 killed CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian police fired tear gas Sunday in an attempt to free a guard from rioting detainees, killing at least 36 as the country’s military leader vowed to tolerate no more violence after days of clashes that killed nearly 900 people.

The deaths of the prisoners, captured during the fierce fighting in recent days around Cairo’s Ramses Square, came as Gen. Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi also called for the inclusion of Islamists in the government. Meanwhile, security forces detained Muslim Brotherhood members in raids aimed at stopping more planned rallies supporting ousted President Mohammed Morsi — which the military-backed government says fuels the violent unrest.

The suspects killed were part of a prison truck convoy of some 600 detainees heading to Abu Zaabal prison in northern Egypt, security officials told The Associated Press. Detainees in one of the trucks rioted and managed to capture a police officer inside, the officials said, Security forces fired tear gas into the truck in hopes of freeing the badly beaten officer, the officials said. The officials said those killed died from suffocating on the gas.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.

However, the officials’ version of event contradicted reports about the incident carried by state media. The official website of Egyptian state television reported that the deaths took place after security forces clashed with militants near the prison and detainees came under fire while trying to escape. The official MENA state news agency also said the trucks came under attack from gunmen.

State media also said all those killed and the gunmen belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that Morsi hails from. The officials who spoke to AP said some of the detainees

belonged to the Brotherhood, while others didn’t.

The differences in the accounts could not be immediately reconciled Sunday night.

The violence adds to the ever-rising death toll in days of unrest. On Saturday alone, clashes between Morsi supporters and police killed 79 people, according to a government tally released Sunday and carried by MENA. That raised the death toll for four days of unrest across the country to nearly 900 people killed. Some 70 police officers were killed in clashes with protesters or retaliatory attacks during the same period, according to the Interior Ministry.

The clashes began Wednesday when security forces dismantled two encampments in Cairo of Morsi supporters, who demanded his reinstatement. The military overthrew Morsi in a bloodless July 3 coup after millions took to the street demanding him to step down.

Egypt’s military-backed interim government declared a state of emergency after Wednesday’s clashes and imposed a curfew, turning the capital into a ghost town after 7 p.m. every night. The government also began taking harsher measures to crippling the Brotherhood.

Security forces arrested hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members early Sunday morning in raids on their homes in different cities, aimed at disrupting planned rallies to support Morsi. The Cabinet also held an emergency meeting to discuss potentially banning the group, a long-outlawed organization that swept to power in the country’s first democratic elections a year ago.

A possible ban — which authorities say would be implemented over the group’s use of violence — would be a repeat of the decades-long struggle between the state and the Brotherhood. It also would drain the group’s financial resources and allow for mass arrests of its members. That likely would diminish the chances of a negotiated solution to the crisis and push the group

Search for survivors continues in Phillippine ferry sinking, death toll at 39 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CEBU, Philippines — As the MV Thomas Aquinas cruised toward Cebu city in the central Philippines, navy marshal Richard Pestillos prepared for a brief stop while some passengers watched a band and others soaked in the night breeze on the deck.

Then the scene turned chaotic when the ferry, with 870 passengers and crew, and a cargo ship collided late Friday, ripping a hole in its hull, knocking out its power and causing it to list before rapidly sinking as

people screamed, according to witnesses.

“The sea was very calm and we could already see the lights at the pier,” Pestillos said.

“Then very suddenly ... there was a loud bang then the grating sound of metal being peeled off.”

Coast guard officials said at least 39 died and more than 80 were missing in the latest deadly sea accident in the Philippines, which happened 570 kms south of Manila.

Frequent storms, badly maintained vessels and weak enforcement of safety regulations have been blamed for many of the accidents, including

in 1987 when the ferry Dona Paz sank after colliding with a fuel tanker, killing more than 4,341 people in the world’s worst peacetime maritime disaster.

Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III said 751 passengers and crew of the Thomas Aquinas were rescued. There were no signs of additional survivors late Sunday, although Davide told reporters that he had not given up hope.

Coast guard deputy chief Rear Adm. Luis Tuason said some of the missing could still be trapped in the sunken ferry.

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A friend of Ammar Badie, the son of Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader Mohammed Badie, who was killed Friday by Egyptian security forces during clashes in Ramses Square, cries while attending his burial in Cairo’s Katameya district, Egypt, Sunday. Egyptian authorities raided homes of Muslim Brotherhood members Sunday in an apparent attempt to disrupt the group ahead of mass rallies by supporters of the country’s ousted president. again underground.

The Brotherhood has shown no signs of backing down though.

Under the banner of an anti-coup alliance, the group held protests Sunday, though many appeared smaller in scale than others held in recent days.

In the coastal city of Alexandria, protesters clashed with residents. In the southern city of Assiut, security forces

fired tear gas to disperse hundreds rallying in front of a mosque.

“They think they can end the movement,” said Muslim Brotherhood senior member Saad Emara. “The more killings, the more people join us.”

However, the government blames Islamists for series of attacks on churches and police stations, increasing public anger against the group.

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NEW TRAFFIC SIGNALS A new set of traffic signals are going up at the intersection of 67th Street and Carrington Drive on Tuesday.

The yellow and red lights will flash at this intersection to alert motorists of the new signals. The signals will be fully operational on Thursday. Drivers approaching a flashing yellow signal may proceed through the intersection with caution. Drivers approaching a flashing red signal must stop, observe the right of way and proceed when safe. Pedestrians and drivers are asked to be aware of this new signal and use caution in the area.

FREE FAMILY SWIMMING NIGHTS Red Deerians are once again invited to dive into two nights of free family swimming, courtesy of local Tim Hortons restaurant owners. The first Free Family Swim Night will be held at G.H. Dawe Community Centre on Wednesday and the second at Collicutt Centre on Friday. Both events will run from 6 until 10 p.m., and families are encouraged to come down to splash and play at the pools. The August events follow two free family swimming events presented by Tim Hortons earlier this summer. For more information on recreation opportunities in Red Deer, visit www. reddeer.ca/rpc.

A&W TO RAISE MONEY FOR MS ONE BURGER AT A TIME A&W restaurants in Central Alberta will raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada one Teen Burger at a time. One dollar from every Teen Burger sold during Cruisin’ for a Cause on Thursday will be donated to the MS society to help fund research and services for those with the disease. Last year, the campaign raised more than $1.4 million across Canada.

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Murdoch Piercey of Calgary holds a bunch carrots pulled from the ground at the Bowden Sun Maze and you pick gardens. Along with his brothers Ewan, and Lochlan and their mother Stacey Ibach the family spent a recent morning at the farm west of Bowden getting lost in the maze, petting the farm animals and picking some fresh vegetables.

Help yourself to a harvest U-PICK FARM OPERATIONS HAVE LET PEOPLE STOCK UP ON THE SUMMER TREATS

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF After a summer of growing, some farmers are focusing on harvest, but other farms invite people to help them harvest, and let them keep the fruits or vegetables of their labour.

Throughout Central Alberta, u-pick farm operations have let people stock up on the summer treats.

Pete and Jan Wasylyshyn run Prairie Perfect Orchards near Innisfail. Pete said they just started picking a week ago and the season has been good so far.

“It’s not an early season by any means, but it is a very good season,” said Pete. “We have a very good crop, the trees are maturing and they’re now seven to eight years old so they’re really putting on the size of fruit we’ve been looking for.”

They have all six of the Saskatchewan prairie hearty cherries and by the end of August their apples will be coming in. A couple of weeks ago they finished up their honey berries.

“All of our trees and fruit are chemical free,” said Pete.

Prairie Perfect Orchards is open from They usually have a three-week window Wednesday to Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 for their Saskatoon berries. p.m., they are closed on Tuesdays.

“Each year, through a little word-ofOut at Eagle Creek Farms near Bowden mouth and return customers, we’re seethe picking seaing a little more son runs until and more,” said ‘IT’S NOT AN EARLY SEASON BY early September.

Wedlund. “Still “It’s picking up not what it could ANY MEANS, BUT IT IS A VERY really well now, be, but we are 30 GOOD SEASON.’ we have lots of miles out of Red carrots, potatoes, Deer.”

— JAN WASYLYSHYN OF beets, onions and An incomPRAIRIE PERFECT ORCHARDS flowers in the uplete list of area pick,” said John u-picks includes Mills, of Bowden Sun Maze and Eagle Creek Billyco Junction Gardens on Prentiss Road Farms. south of Lacombe. They have strawberries, “We’re open until it freezes.” raspberries, Saskatoon berries and apples.

Eagle Creek Farms is open Monday to They are open Friday to Monday from 10 Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sun- a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Tuesday to Thursday days it is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. from 1 to 7:30 p.m.

Over at the Saskatoon Orchard near LaThe Jungle Farm near Innisfail features combe the season has wound down with the strawberries, lettuce, artichokes, cucumlast day of picking taking place this past bers, pumpkins, tomatoes and more. They weekend. are open for the Strawberry season from 8 “It was a pretty good year, average I a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday and startguess,” said Carol Wedlund, of the u-pick. ing Aug. 30 they switch to fall hours, Satur“We had some hail damage in late July so day, Sunday and holiday Mondays from 11 that impacted us a bit, but overall it turned a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment out pretty good.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Before the oil, Alberta gushed missionaries BOOK TELLS STORY OF PRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTE missionaries after their schooling, which helped Alberta and the little “Miracle on the Prairies” Three Hills does not gain international fame, often belong in the same according to Callaway. breath as Los Angeles or “A lot of people think Chicago, but a new book the reason Alberta betells the story of how the came world famous was town’s Prairie Bible In- because of the oil gusher stitute was once of equal that took place in 1947 stature to schools in the up at Leduc. In reality, American meAlberta was put tropolises. on the world “What intermap in large ested me was part because of that here was a a place like PBI school that, at that was sending its peak in the all kinds of Prot50s and 60s, was estant missionthe same size as aries around schools in Chi- Tim Callaway the world to cago and Los dispense the Angeles. Moody fundamentalist (Bible Institute) in Chi- gospel.” cago, Biola (College) in The Airdrie pastor L.A. and Prairie were grew up attending the all about the same size, school where his parents in the neighbourhood of also served as staff dur1,200 to 1,500 students, ing its heyday. and here’s Prairie out in He was taught a brand the middle of nowhere,” of American fundamensaid Tim Callaway, au- talism that rejected thor of Training Disci- popular culture and plined Soldiers for Christ: advanced education esThe Influence of American tablishments that were Fundamentalism on Prai- shifting towards theologrie Bible Institute. ical liberalism.

Those students went “We weren’t alout into the world as lowed to go to theatres.

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

We weren’t allowed to smoke, drink. Women had to wear very very conservative clothing.

The leadership at Prairie would openly preach against that sort of thing — the worldliness of modern fashion, how Hollywood was responsible for the world going to hell in a hand basket, that type of thing.

All of these distinctives of American fundamentalism were present at PBI,” explained Callaway.

The school was founded in 1922 by charismatic Kansan L.E. Maxwell who came up to educate on the invitation of an Three Hills farmer.

The American influence on the school was huge, with most of the administrators and about half of the students coming from south of the border.

In his book, Callaway details how it was a common practice for Americans to come up to Canada during the early 1900s and open bible schools — some 200 were established, of which about 30 remain today.

The cover of Tim Callaway’s book

Callaway researched the story of PBI during Maxwell’s 60 year tenure for his doctoral dissertation to “fill a gap in the historical narrative” of the rarely written about school. The book is a modified form of that endeavour.

“For anybody who loves history, it’s a fascinating story of this out of

the way place in Alberta that grew this massive school that became internationally famous.”

The book, published

by WestBow Press, is available through online bookstores such as Amazon, Indigo Chapters and Barnes & Noble. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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Japan’s trade deficit nearly doubles TOKYO — Japan’s trade deficit ballooned in July as the cost of imports surged because of a cheaper yen and energy needs.

The Finance Ministry reported Monday a trade deficit of 1.02 trillion yen ($10 billion) for July, almost double a year earlier.Exports jumped 12 per cent while imports surged nearly 20 per cent.

The dollar has risen in recent months, a plus for exports. But that also makes imports more expensive when translated into yen.

All but two of Japan’s 50 nuclear plants have been turned off for safety checks after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster sent three reactors into meltdowns. That has meant Japan has imported much more oil and gas. Japan, once known for giant trade surpluses, has posted trade deficits for 13 straight months.

Chinese blame trading frenzy on computer design error BEIJING — A trading frenzy that caused Chinese stock prices to swing wildly last week was caused by a design flaw in a brokerage’s computer, the market regulator said Sunday.

The avalanche of orders Friday from Everbright Securities Ltd. caused China’s main market index to surge nearly 6 per cent in 3 minutes before it dropped back. It ended the day down 0.6 per cent.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission said its investigators concluded the buying frenzy was not the result of human error.

It said Everbright’s computer system had design flaws in systems that should limit orders and prices.

Everbright’s orders caused trading volume to spike up more than 50 per cent above Thursday’s level. Prices of major companies such as PetroChina Ltd. and state-owned banks surged by their maximum daily limit of 10 per cent before falling back.

Detroit creditors’ deadline today DETROIT — Banks, bond insurers, employee pension systems and others standing to lose big if a federal judge declares Detroit insolvent are expected to legally file their objections to the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Monday is the deadline for creditors to file eligibility objections to Detroit’s bankruptcy petition — marking the beginning of legal challenges for those hoping to recoup all or most of what Detroit owes them.

The deadline is just one of several steps that could lead to federal Judge Steven Rhodes allowing Detroit into bankruptcy protection while it restructures. If the petition is denied, creditors can sue Detroit if it defaults on payments.

— The Associated Press

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Harley Richards, Business Editor, 403-314-4337 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Economic upswing imminent PIECES FALLING IN PLACE TO LIFT CANADA OUT OF ECONOMIC DOLDRUMS “(So) swing the hammer hard enough at your little toe, and you can still feel a lot of pain. Europe is also significant in determining global prices for Canada’s resources,” he added.

Shenfeld calculates that recovering European markets will lift Canadian exports by two per cent, not an insignificant amount.

appeal, resulting in higher interest rates, Shenfeld said. Still, the overall boost to confidence would more than make up for OTTAWA — Canada’s economy has any downside. looked anything but world-beating during Europe is not the only reason for optithe first half of this year, but economists mism. Scotiabank economists pointed out say the restraints that have handcuffed that recent rebounds in retail and housing exports and jobs growth are beginning to in the United States, as well as manufacturbreak. ing, point to a stronger second half south The biggest confidence booster of the border, where about 70 per may have been the news last week cent of Canadian exports land.

CANADIANS SHOULD BE CHEERING that the troubled Eurozone burst In addition, Japan posted a 2.6 out of a prolonged recession earliNONETHELESS BECAUSE THE CONTINENT’S per cent annualized growth rate er than expected, posting a modest this spring, while the United KingMALAISE WAS FELT ON THIS SIDE OF THE but still significant 1.1 per cent andom’s growth came in at 2.4 per nualized expansion in the second ATLANTIC AS WELL. cent, leaving well behind fears of a quarter. triple-dip recession there.

— CIBC CHIEF ECONOMIST AVERY SHENFELD As CIBC chief economist Avery By contrast, Canada’s second Shenfeld noted in a brief to cliquarter is expected to come in at ents, with Canadian exporters fixabout 1.5 per cent when the data is ated on the United States and China, it’s And given Europe’s importance as a released at the end of the month. easy to ignore the potential good a resur- market for Chinese goods, a recovery would Back to Europe, the Scotiabank econgent Europe could bring. also likely boost demand for Canadian com- omists — Aron Gampel, Adrienne War“ ‘Viva Europa’ is admittedly too strong modities in the world’s largest emerging ren and Erika Cain — noted that, in the a rallying cry for now,” he said, but Ca- economy. past, Canadian exports across the Atnadians should be cheering nonetheless David Madani of Capital Economics cites lantic accelerated dramatically during because the continent’s malaise was felt on Canada’s aerospace industry as a big ben- recovery periods, jumping 14 per cent this side of the Atlantic as well. eficiary from a recovered Europe, which, annually between 2003 and 2007, and Representing only about nine per cent of he said, could support business investment 16 per cent annually in 2010 and 2011 Canadian exports, shipments to the conti- and employment. in the immediate aftermath of the most nent nevertheless fell 21 per cent from the On the negative side, a financially se- recent slump. end of 2011, accounting for more than 70 cure Europe would likely lead to higher per cent of the fall-out in Canada’s exports bond yields in Triple-A rated Canada as during that period. the country loses some of its “safe haven” Please see EU on Page A9

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In throwback play, new daily newspaper launches in California OWNERS BETTING THAT CONSUMERS WILL REWARD AN INVESTMENT IN NEWS INKED ON PAPER AND DELIVERED TO THEIR DOORSTEPS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONG BEACH, Calif. — The latest experiment in American journalism is a throwback: a new daily newspaper to compete against an established one in a big city.

With today’s debut of the Long Beach Register, the ambitious owners of the Orange County Register are expanding their bet that consumers will reward an investment in news inked on paper and delivered to their doorsteps.

The competition is the Long Beach Press-Telegram, which was founded more than a century ago and maintains an average weekday circulation of about 55,000.

As a result of the budding newspaper battle, this city of 468,000 is joining the likes of Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston as what has become a rarity in 21st century America — the two newspaper town.

Never mind shrinking circulations and online news migration.

“We believe that a city with the size and vibrancy of Long

Beach should be happy to support a great newspaper of the variety we want to provide,” said Aaron Kushner, who since buying the Orange County Register a year ago with a partner has surprised industry watchers by expanding reporting staff and page counts.

“If it is, we’ll make healthy money. If it’s not, that’ll be unfortunate for everyone. But we believe we’ll be successful.”

By launching the Long Beach Register, Kushner, publisher of the Register and CEO of Freedom Communications, is taking his contrarian instincts outside of Orange County.

Media business analyst Rick Edmonds said the last time he can recall a major U.S. city adding a new daily paper was around World War II, when Chicago got the Sun-Times and New York got Newsday.

A brewing newspaper war in New Orleans between that city’s Times-Picayune and a challenger based about 80 miles away in Baton Rouge, La., is the closest to what’s unfolding in Long Beach.

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Publisher Ian Lamont, right, and editor Paul Eakins pose with a prototype Page One in the Long Beach Register newsroom as the staff prepares for its first day of publication at its office in Long Beach, Calif. Published by the Orange County Register, the Long Beach Register makes its five-day-a-week debut today.

‘Seasonal’ treats await at tea house BLAKE ANDERSON, PAVLA HRUZKOVA ARE 2013 OPERATORS OF ELLIS BIRD FARM TEA HOUSE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR They grew up thousands of kilometres apart, met somewhere in between, and are now sharing a kitchen in Central Alberta.

Blake Anderson and Pavla Hruzkova are the 2013 operators of the Ellis Bird Farm Tea House. There, they’re serving up teas and specialty coffees, homemade soups and sandwiches, a variety of salads, and desserts like vanilla Bavarian cream.

Many of their ingredients come from Central Alberta farms, or a small garden that the couple maintains on the bird sanctuary southeast of Lacombe.

“We try to stay seasonal,” said Anderson, adding that customers appreciate locally sourced food.

Born and raised in Olds, Anderson has long had a passion for food himself. After

studying engineering at Dalhousie University in Halifax for two years, he switched to the culinary arts, learning about baking at the Nova Scotia Community College in Dartmouth and enrolling at Stratford Chefs School in Ontario.

Anderson spent some time travelling and working in Europe, ultimately ending up at a café and backpackers’ hostel in Mallaig, Scotland.

It was there that he met Hruzkova, a Czech citizen who had studied hospitality in her native country and was working at the same hostel.

The couple travelled to Canada several years ago. They worked at Lake Louise and Canmore, before taking over the food services operation at the Olds Legion.

Operating as Terre It Up Catering, they assumed responsibility for the Ellis Bird Farm Tea House this year.

Anderson thinks the converted farm-

house, which can accommodate 25 to 30 diners, has great potential.

“They haven’t really tapped the market that they said they could.

“I think it’s still being discovered.”

His and Hruzkova’s goal is to see the tea house become a destination in its own right, drawing people to Ellis Bird Farm.

After this season, they plan to resume their travels — this time exploring Thailand. But Anderson said they want to return to the Tea House next year, and perhaps expand the garden there so that they can produce more of the food they serve.

Ellis Bird Farm Tea House is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday, and also on holiday Mondays.

Lunch is served until 3:30 p.m., with customers urged to make reservations by calling 403-885-4477. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Costs turning summer wedding bells blue

TALBOT BOGGS

MONEYWISE

Summertime in Canada is wedding time.

While a wedding can be a magical event, it takes a lot of planning and, in many cases, a good deal of money.

In addition to selecting the guest list, the location, dress and tuxedos, associated events like showers, stags and rehearsal dinners, couples ultimately have to decide how much they plan to spend on their dream day.

The wedding industry is estimated at more than $4.5 billion a year.

Canada averages about 156,000 weddings a year.

The average cost of a full-blown wedding today in Canada can be more than $32,000, according to Wedding Bells Magazine.

A smaller, festive wedding can run around $20,000 while you might get away with $10,000 for a small, cosy, intimate affair.

Flowers can set you back up to

$1,500, $12,900 for a bridal gown, $9,400 for the venue — such as a club or public hall — $2,300 for a photographer and $4,700 for a honeymoon.

According to a survey by BMO Bank of Montreal, the high cost of organizing and putting on a wedding today are causing 67 per cent of soon-to-wed couples to delay their marriage.

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NEWSPAPER: Have to try

EU: Uptick in exports “The improving economic conditions currently in the EU point to a renewed uptick in the value of Canadian exports if the new-found economic momentum is sustained and commodity prices remain at profitable levels,” the analysts said, putting the potential gross domestic product gain for Canada at 0.2 percentage points.

Two-ticks of a point is not large, but in an economy anticipated to grow at sub two per cent for the second consecutive year, it represents a more than 10-per-cent improvement in the growth rate.

Shenfeld cautions Canadians shouldn’t expect a “straight-line” expansion or exceptional numbers going forward, but believes the soft patch in the economy that began in the third quarter of 2012 and continues to this date — underscored by July’s 39,000 jobs loss — may be nearing an end.

WEDDING: Big expense Thirty-one per cent of those married within the past five years said they postponed an engagement or wedding because of finances. Couples planning to marry in the next five years expect to spend an average of $14,281 on wedding expenses.

Housing costs were ranked as the top barrier to getting married, followed by employment status — either being unemployed or underemployed –— and then debt.

The survey also found that fewer couples are expecting to get help from their families to cover wedding expenses.

Soon-to-be-newlyweds expect to cover, on average, 53 per cent of their wedding costs with money they’ve saved themselves.

“When you factor everything from the rings to the venue, dress and honeymoon, getting married can be a significant financial commitment,” said Janet Peddigrew, vice-president of BMO Bank of Montreal.

“An important first step for any couple thinking about getting married is to determine what kind of celebration is financially realistic. One way to do this is by sitting down with a financial adviser to create a plan that takes all aspects of the wedding into account.

To manage rising costs, soon-to-wed couples are employing a number of strategies to save money, including having smaller weddings, making their own decorations, centrepieces or invitations, getting a friend to act as the disc jockey or photographer, holding the wedding on a less popular day, and having a destination wedding.

Because marriage creates some new and important financial and tax planning challenges, it’s important for couples to discuss such things as creating a realistic household budget based on income, and decide how much they want to spend on the wedding and future things like mortgage and retirement savings.

It’s also important for them to understand marital assets.

Generally, all assets acquired during a marriage are shareable between both spouses, while the assets that each spouse brings into a marriage are not.

However, there are some notable exceptions depending on the jurisdiction in which you live.

Weddings often can result in a financial nest-egg for the couple, and one of their first joint decisions might be what to do with it — pay off student debt or a loan to finance the wedding, use it toward a down payment for a home, or put it into a retirement savings plan (RRSP) or a tax free savings account.

Money can be a hugely important aspect of marriage. Spouses need to work together to accomplish their financial goals before and after marriage. Candid discussion and good planning before the wedding can ensure that couples start off their married life together on the right foot.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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A Hamleys employee steers the Lego Mindstorms EV3 with an iPad application at the toy store Hamleys in London,. The Lego based prototype robot with advanced technology can walk, talk, think and nearly anything the user can imagine and is part of Hamleys toy preview for Christmas 2013.

New Lego robot kit keenly anticipated in Silicon Valley

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JOSE, Calif. — Few are more excited about Lego’s new Mindstorms sets rolling out next month than Silicon Valley engineers.

Many of them were drawn to the tech sector by the flagship kits that came on the market in 1998, introducing computerized movement to the traditional snap-together toy blocks and allowing the young innovators to build their first robots.

Now, 15 years later, those robot geeks are entrepreneurs and designers, and the colorful plastic bricks have an outsized influence in their lives.

Techies tinker at Lego play stations in workplaces. Engineers mentor competitive Lego League teams.

Designers use them to mock up larger projects ideas. And executives stand Lego creations on their desks alongside family photos.

“Everyone I work with played with them as children. We sit around talking Lego. It’s a shared common experience,” said Travis Schuh, who reaches into his bin of plastic blocks when he needs a quick prototype at the Silicon Valley medical robotic firm where he works.

The new Mindstorms sets, on sale Sept. 1, are simpler for the younger crowd and more versatile for sophisticated users than two earlier versions.

The sets are designed for kids over 10 and make it easy to build basic, remote-controlled robots, including a cobra-like snake that snaps Lego brick fangs.

Some shoot balls, others drive

along colour-coded lines.

But for $349, far more expensive than typical building toys, customers get a much more complex and powerful system.

“There’s actually a lot of engineering that goes into Lego bricks and the systems you can prototype out of them are pretty sophisticated,” says Stanford University engineering professor Christian Gerdes, who uses them in his classroom.

Professional hackers will also find plenty to do with the new Mindstorms, as the open source software uses Linux for the first time, and controller apps are integrated for tablets and mobile phones.

San Francisco-based software engineer Will Gorman is one of those adult users. As a kid, he tore apart his first Mindstorms kit to create a Lego toilet flusher robot, then a Wii-playing robot that bowled a perfect game and then a Lego Mars Curiosity Rover.

“I don’t consider myself an adult really,” said the 36-year-old father of two last week, setting up yet another creation on a table in a sunny Redwood City library overlooking San Francisco’s bay wetlands.

ProtoTank co-founder Adam Ellsworth, whose headquarters are on the third floor of TechShop San Francisco, says, “there is a culture of design in the Silicon Valley, and Lego bricks are how so many of us started.”

“This place is just one big Lego station,” he added, raising his voice above the buzz of laser cutters and 3-D printers.

“Taking an idea, a concept, and finding the right way to turn it into something real, that’s fundamen-

tally what you’re doing with Lego bricks.”

Denmark-based Lego first sold their plastic bricks 55 years ago, and watched them grow into one of the world’s most popular toys.

But company officials say Mindstorms, designed for children but quickly snapped up by adults, changed their market.

“In the last 15 years, we have worked hard to balance the needs and wants of this shadow market while at the same time engaging kids,” said Michael McNally, a brand director at LEGO Systems, Inc. Kellen Asercion, a Stanford University engineering graduate student, first snapped Lego bricks together around the time he started kindergarten, and he was still building when he graduated high school.

“Lego sets are almost singlehandedly responsible for my interest in engineering,” he said.

Many Bay Area engineers also grew up competing in the First Lego League, which also launched in 1998 with 200 teams. Since then the league has expanded — last year more than 280,000 children around the world, ages 6-18, participated.

Organizers expect 600 teams participating in Northern California this fall.

“We have a culture that only celebrates superheros in the worlds of entertainment and sports.

“We need to create superheros in the world of innovation,” said Dean Kamen, who founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), which includes the First Lego League.

Stock markets to feel pressure from traders THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Stock markets will be under pressure this week as traders focus on upcoming moves from the U.S. Federal Reserve and troubles brewing in the retail sector.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index was higher last week as commodity prices elevated amid uncertainty about what the U.S. economic future holds. The trend will likely continue this week, if the TSX can overcome negative sentiment stateside.

“A lot of people are pausing,” said John O’Connell, chairman and CEO of Davis Rea. “You’re at one of those points in time where people begin to reassess positions and probably do a little bit of trimming.”

Bonds yields have recently been soaring, with the 10-year U.S. Treasury note touching multi-year highs near 2.8 per cent.

And key commodity prices are rising, with oil getting a boost partly on supply concerns from the

unrest in Egypt. Though not an oil exporter, the country controls the Suez canal that links the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea, giving it a crucial role in maintaining global energy supplies.

Gold prices have also been up as traders moved to the perceived safe-haven of the precious metal. And copper is on a tear, rising six per cent since the start of August.

“All of the things that were tailwinds before are sort of turning into headwinds,” O’Connell said.

On Wednesday, minutes of the July meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee will be released, possibly providing clues as to when the Federal Reserve plans to begin winding down its massive bond-buying program.

It’s widely expected that asset purchases from the Fed will slow next month, though nothing has been made official yet.

Adding pressure to the economic outlook for the rest of the year are U.S. retailers, who last week delivered a dismal earnings results and reduced expectations.

Nordstrom Inc. was the latest to cut its full-year sales outlook, matching similar moves earlier by both Wal-Mart Stores and Macy’s Inc. This week, more U.S. retailers will deliver their latest results and expectations, including

J.C. Penney, Target, the Gap, Home Depot, Best Buy, Staples and Sears.

The retail sector is a closely-watched part of the U.S. economy as consumer spending makes up roughly 70 per cent of economic activity.

In Canada, retail sales will likely show a drop of 0.4 per cent in June when statistics are released on Thursday, according to consensus expectations compiled by the Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO).

The decline is expected

to be entirely from the floods in southern Alberta.

The consumer price index for July, scheduled for release on Friday, is expected to show inflation rose 0.2 per cent, which would be the third straight monthly increase.

In the U.S., existing home sales on Wednesday will likely show a modest uptick of 0.4 per cent, according to census expectations from BMO.

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“How will it play out?” asked Edmonds, of the Poynter Institute, a journalism foundation in St. Petersburg, Fla. “Don’t really know until it happens.”

Long Beach is a diverse city better known for its sprawling container ship port — one of the world’s largest — than its beaches.

While its oceanfront drive features a large aquarium and the historic Queen Mary ocean liner, it also has big city problems including gangs.

Bordering Orange County’s urbanized north, it is in Los Angeles County, about 20 miles south of downtown LA. In their small, sunlight-flooded newsroom, reporters for the new Register were greeted Thursday by two boxes of doughnuts and the kinds of issues that bedevil startups: who sits where, how come this outlet has no power, and how to get an Internet connection?

After a round of introductions, editor Paul Eakins told his staff that with at least 16 pages to fill each day, the paper would both cover “hyperlocal” news and welcome contributions from readers. In all, the paper has about 20 editorial employees.

Write about a boy becoming an Eagle Scout? Yes. Opening of the new dog park? You bet.

“I don’t think they quite know what’s coming,” Eakins said of readers.

The plan today is to distribute 10,000 copies, publisher Ian Lamont said.

It will be wrapped around the Orange County Register, so readers will get coverage of Long Beach’s schools, sports, courts, happenings and City Hall — plus news from around the region and world. There will be no separate Long Beach paper on weekends.

Several reporters at the Long Beach Register are Press-Telegram alums, and though Eakins downplayed any rivalry, at the staff meeting there were gentle jabs about besting an old employer.

For their part, the Press-Telegram’s bosses are giving no ground.

“We’re not going to let a competitor come into our city and take it,” said Michael A. Anastasi, vicepresident of news and executive editor of the Los Angeles News Group, which owns the Press-Telegram and eight other daily papers in the area.

The competition’s certain winners, Anastasi said, will be local residents.

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Stealth snowmobile tested 007, NORTH OF 60: CANADIAN FORCES TEST MACHINE FOR COVERT ARCTIC OPS

BY ANDY BLATCHFORD THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian military has been secretly test-driving a $620,000 stealth snowmobile in its quest to quietly whisk troops on clandestine operations in the Arctic.

The Canadian Press has learned that soldiers have taken the new hybrid-electric snowmobile prototype on trial runs to evaluate features such as speed, noise level, battery endurance and acceleration.

The Department of National Defence even has a nickname for its cutting-edge, covert tool: “Loki,” after the “mythological Norse shape-shifting god.”

Word of the federal hunt for a stealth snowmobile first surfaced two years ago when National Defence’s research and development agency posted a public tender.

That 2011 tendering document, however, offered few details on the future of these missions, except for the top priority: silence.

The project kicked off at a time when the Conservative government was laying out promises to boost Canada’s military muscle in the Far North, in a once-vaunted package of Canadian Forces upgrades the feds have largely failed to implement.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is scheduled to arrive in the Arctic on Sunday for a six-day tour of the region, where his government’s main focus has gradually moved from improving the country’s northern military capabilities to promoting economic development.

The stealth-snowmobiles flat, snow-packed track. tions on why Canada’s miliproject has withstood that po“The prototype must be at tary wants the unconventional litical shift. least nearly as capable and snow machine.

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“pursuing the development of a ’silent’ snowmobile for winter operations in Canada, specifically in the Arctic.”

The Canadian Press obtained the contract, which listed the revised price tag at nearly $620,000.

The winning bid came from CrossChasm Technologies, which is based in Waterloo, Ont., and also has an office in Montreal.

Simon Ouellette, the firm’s director of project development, refused to discuss the stealth snowmobile due to a confidentiality agreement with National Defence.

One Arctic policy expert questioned whether the cost of developing such a vehicle is money well-spent, particularly since he doesn’t believe there are any significant security threats in the Far North.

“I don’t see a whole lot of evidence that criminals and terrorists are scooting around Canada’s North on snowmobiles and that we have to sneak up on them,” said Michael Byers, a former federal NDP candidate who teaches international law at the University of British Columbia.

Byers said he’s not sure whether defence officials have an accurate picture of Canada’s actual needs. Perhaps, he added, they have an obsession with high technology.

“I can’t help but wonder whether they’ve been watching too many (James) Bond movies.”

Army scrambles to buy snowmobiles amid spending deep freeze

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — National Defence has quietly struggled to equip army reserve units that are meant to operate in the Arctic with snowmobiles and it says a recent tranche of new machines will be the last for nearly a decade.

In addition, the Arctic response companies will be asked to make do with older, heavy 1980s all-terrain vehicles, which until a few years ago were headed to the scrap heap.

The transport concerns are on top of reports last year that showed, despite the Arctic being a long-standing priority for the Conservative government, the army did not — until recently — have enough cold weather gear, most notably parkas.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper leaves Sunday for his annual pilgrimage to the North, which will include a visit with Canadian Rangers, aboriginal reservists who patrol the region on behalf of the military.

A series of documents, obtained by The Canadian Press under access to information legislation, show the army has been preoccupied with equipping soldiers in the Arctic and fulfilling the Harper government’s mandate to show the flag.

There is a program to purchase over

snow-transport — known as the Domestic and Arctic Mobility Enhancement project. But it is not slated to look at new acquisitions until the 202½2 timeframe, a defence spokeswoman confirmed.

The spending freeze is in effect despite the government’s long-trumpeted military build-up and plans to exercise troops more often in the region, notably at the newly inaugurated Arctic warfare training centre in Resolute Bay, Nunavut.

Internal army documents warned in late 2011 that there were “insufficient numbers of (snowmobiles) in the Army to meet the needs of (Arctic Response Company Groups) and the training requirements.”

Officials discussed the possibility of renting equipment.

The response units, a key pillar of the army’s plan to enforce Canadian sovereignty in the North, could not be formed until they had over snow transport and even then, “there were insufficient numbers in the field force to enable cold weather training,” said the Nov. 3, 2011 memo to former army commander, the now-retired lieutenantgeneral Peter Devlin.

Since then, the defence department has replaced 310 snow machines, out of a total fleet of 963, including 69 allocated to the Rangers.

It has also purchased 310 small all-

terrain vehicles.

Both are in the process of arriving this year.

A spokeswoman for the army, Colleen McGrann, says those recent deliveries mean “there are no plans at this time to purchase (additional) Arctic vehicles” until the mobility project kicks in eight years from now.

It also comes at the same time as word that the research branch of National Defence has spent $620,000 on a prototype “stealth” snowmobile.

Defence analyst and Arctric expert Michael Byers said there’s no reason defence should hold off spending on ordinary snow machines.

“This is not big ticket military procurement.

“You can buy a high-performance snowmobile for $10,000, which is presumably less than a seat cushion on an F-35,” said Byers, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia.

“The numbers are simply not on the same scale as most defence procurement. I am concerned about the delays because this should be ridiculously easy.”

In addition, the army’s inventory of 47 heavy, tracked all-terrain BV-206 vehicles will remain in service, despite an order from the vice chief of defence staff in 2009 that the old, boxlike transports were not to “used, nor

upgraded” with the exception of those overhauled for use guarding the Vancouver Olympics site.

With looming budget cuts, expected to chop as much as $2.5 billion out of defence spending, the prohibition surrounding the BV-206s was reversed and commanders ordered the fleet be “invigorated as much as possible.”

The army spent $1.8 million last year and plans another $3.8 million this year to maintain and operate the Swedish-built transports, originally purchased by Canada in the 1980s.

The North is “a priority” of the Conservative government, a spokesman for Harper said in a statement announcing the prime minister’s annual Arctic sojourn.

Whereas previous photo-op friendly trips have seen thundering defence displays, including submarines, frigates, CF-18 flypasts and special forces soldiers, references to the military were muted in Friday’s statement.

Economic development, which is “progressing like never before,” took centre stage.

Harper will hop-scotch across the North, beginning in the Yukon and ending in northern Quebec.

TSB investigators to arrive at Vancouver Island plane crash site is also recovering in the hospital, but the pilot died from the crash’s resulting flames.

Dianne Ignace, a member of the Hesquiaht First Nation and a gift shop owner in Hesquiaht Village, said on Sunday that she remembers speaking last Wednesday with the five hikers.

Ignace said they were experienced hikers who

bought some fudge, cedar bark roses, water and a glass ball. There were at least two women in the group, and the youngest member appeared to be around 50 years old, she said.

Bill Yearwood with the Transportation Safety Board said the authority is expected to give an update on the investigation on Tuesday.

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TOFINO, B.C. — Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board were expected to arrive at the site of a float plane crash on Vancouver Island on Monday to try to determine the cause of a crash that killed two of the six people on board three days earlier.

BC Coroners Service personnel as well as police were forced to hike into the forested area near Tofino, B.C. on Saturday, after air travel was ruled out because of poor weather conditions.

Two people escaped unharmed in Friday’s plane crash, and Vancouver Island Health Authority said on the weekend that the other two people who were injured are both now in stable condition at a Victoria hospital.

Police have said there was a pilot and five passengers on the plane that was operated by Air Nootka.

None of the identities have been officially released, but Nanaimo resident John Young, who said he was one of the four survivors, spoke to Global BC on Sunday.

“We started to go down, and the pilot said, ‘Mayday, we are going

down,”’ Young said. “I saw a tree looming and the wing must have hit the tree. Then we hit the ground, I could hear people moaning, and the pilot was yelling ‘Open the doors, open the doors!”’

Young is recovering from a shattered sternum, broken ribs, broken clavicle and thirddegree burns to his legs.

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Little change in U.S. obesity rates

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Adult obesity still isn’t budging, the latest government survey shows.

The national telephone survey found 13 states with very high rates of obesity last year. Overall, the proportion of U.S. adults deemed obese has been about the same for years now.

“A plateau is better than rising numbers. But it’s discouraging because we’re plateauing at a very high number,” said Kelly Brownell, a Duke University public policy expert who specializes in obesity.

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention does the survey each year, and recently released 2012 results.

At least 30 per cent of adults were obese in 13 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. In 2011, a dozen states reached that threshold. Louisiana and Mississippi led the list. In both, nearly 35 per cent of adults were obese.

Colorado was lowest, with less than 21 per cent obese. It’s not surprising states in the South and Midwest top the charts year after year, experts say.

Many states in those regions have higher poverty rates.

“When you have a limited income,

you have to buy foods that are cheap.

And foods that are cheap tend to have a lot of sugar and salt and fat,” said Dr. George Bray, an obesity expert at Louisiana State University.

The CDC defines someone as obese if their weight-to-height ratio — called a “body mass index” — hits 30 or higher. A 5-foot-9 person would be considered obese at 203 pounds or more.

The CDC’s annual telephone survey asks adults their height and weight.

Overall, nearly 28 per cent of Americans were obese, the 2012 survey found. That’s roughly the same as it’s been since 2008.

Another CDC survey — which weighs and measures participants — is

considered more accurate. Since the middle of the last decade, that survey has found that around 35 per cent of U.S. adults are obese. The story may be different with children. A CDC study released last week showed — for the first time — slight drops in obesity for low-income preschoolers in 18 states.

Experts called that report encouraging, but note it studied children fed through a federal program which provides food vouchers and other services. The decline in obesity was largely attributed to program changes — instituted in 2009 — that eliminated juice from infant food packages, provided less saturated fat, and made it easier to buy fruits and vegetables.

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Researchers have created a tool to peek inside the brain and measure varying levels of consciousness, offering the hope that one day doctors might track consciousness nearly as easily as they check blood pressure.

Experimental tool aims to measure level of consciousness in badly injured brains

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — When people have a brain injury so severe that they can’t squeeze a loved one’s hand or otherwise respond, there are few good ways to tell if they have any lingering awareness or are in a vegetative state. Now researchers have created a tool to peek inside the brain and measure varying levels of consciousness.

The work reported Wednesday is highly experimental, not ready for bedside use yet — and if it pans out, a big question is how to use it without raising false hope. No one knows what level of consciousness at a certain point after injury really predicts recovery.

But it offers the hope that one day doctors might track consciousness nearly as easily as they check blood pressure.

“Consciousness can grow and shrink,” said Dr. Marcello Massimini, a neurophysiologist at Italy’s University of Milan who led the research to quantify just how much that is happening under different circumstances.

It seems obvious — consciousness fades during deep sleep, and doctors can slip us under with anesthesia. Yet scientists don’t have a good way to measure consciousness, especially when the very ill appear to be unconscious. It’s important to try to distinguish if patients are at least minimally conscious, and not in a vegetative state, because the sooner there’s some sign of awareness, the better the chance of recovery.

Today, doctors check if those patients can do things like blink or move a limb on command, or react to touch or pain. If not, scans of the brain’s electrical activity may offer clues. Scientists even have put

Court says disabled man can have a vasectomy LONDON — A man who lacks the capacity to give informed consent can be given a vasectomy after he made repeated requests not to have more children, a British court ruled Friday.

The 36-year-old man, known only by his initials DE, has an IQ of 40, lives with his parents and has a long-term girlfriend who also has severe learning disabilities.

In 2009, DE’s girlfriend became pregnant and had a child. According to the court ruling, DE insisted he did not want any more children. People with his IQ level have a mental age of between six and nine, according to an independent psychiatrist cited in the ruling.

His doctors and parents then applied to the court for the vasectomy, since DE doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand the procedure’s implications.

The judge ruled that it is “overwhelmingly in DE’s best interests” to have a vasectomy.

Experts said DE was able to consent to a sexual

relationship and that a vasectomy would give him a measure of independence. Attempts to teach DE how to use condoms had failed.

Britain’s Court of Protection regularly makes decisions for people lacking mental capacity. It has previously authorized the sterilization of some intellectuallychallenged women, but this is the first time a vasectomy has been authorized on the grounds that it is in the man’s “best interests.” It will still be up to DE’s doctors to decide if the procedure should go ahead.

“The court simply concluded... that a vasectomy was in the patient’s best interests because fatherhood was not,” Charles Foster, a medical ethics expert at Oxford University, said in an email.

Experts said another child would cause DE major “psychological

harm” and that his relationship had nearly broken down when his child was born.

“This is not a decision the court made lightly,” said Penney Lewis, a legal ethics expert at King’s College London, adding that the judge had an obligation to choose the least intrusive method. “This is a man who already has a child and has repeatedly expressed his opinion he does not want any more.”

Lewis said the case shows the burden of evidence needed for a court to order a sterilization procedure.

“There were extensive efforts made by everybody involved to improve his quality of life by other means,” she said. “It would be hard to imagine a (similar) case where the benefits would be more obvious than this one.”

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seemingly unconscious patients inside MRI scanners and told them to imagine throwing a ball. How the brain reacts can indicate if they’re aware and just can’t show it, what’s called locked-in syndrome. But all these tests have drawbacks.

The new work, reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine, aims for an easier, more objective measure. It’s based on the theory that consciousness depends on the complexity of activity in the brain, how well different regions connect and process information. For example, when you’re deeply asleep, the neighbour’s car alarm may not wake you but your brain still processes that you heard it.

When you’re wide awake, it also processes how annoying the alarm is and how often it goes off.

Massimini’s team combined two wellknown medical devices. First, a coil delivers a powerful pulse of magnetism that travels through the skull to stimulate the brain, essentially knocking on it to say “wake up.” Then an EEG, which measures brain waves through electrodes attached to the scalp, records the patterns of activity as neurons fire in response.

The final trick: The researchers created a formula to compare the complexity of those resulting brain patterns by “zipping” them, like digital files are compressed so they can be emailed. They called the resulting numerical measurement the PCI, or pertubational complexity index.

The team compared tests from 32 healthy people who were awake, asleep, dreaming or anesthetized, and 20 people with a variety of serious brain injuries.

The two patients with locked-in syndrome clearly were aware, scoring nearly as high as awake and healthy people, they reported.

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Long-term results from a major federal study ease worries about the safety of a hormone-blocking drug that can lower a man’s chances of developing prostate cancer.

The drug cut prostate cancer risk by 30 per cent without raising the risk of dying of an aggressive form of the disease as earlier results hinted it might.

The new work could prompt a fresh look at using the drug for cancer prevention. Experts say it could prevent tens of thousands of cases each year, saving many men from treatments with seriously unpleasant side effects.

The drug is sold as Proscar by Merck & Co. and in generic form as finasteride to treat urinary problems from enlarged prostates. It’s also sold in a lower dose as Propecia to treat hair loss.

A decade ago, the drug was found to cut the risk of prostate cancer. But there was a small rise in aggressive tumors among its users.

Some researchers said that by shrinking the prostate, the drug was just making these tumors easier to find in a biopsy sample — not causing them.

But the concern led the Food and Drug Administration to turn down the drug for cancer prevention and warnings were added to its label.

Now, with 18 years of follow-up from that earlier study, researchers report that men on the drug were no more likely to die than those not taking it.

That’s reassuring because if the drug were truly spurring lethal tumors, there would have been more deaths among its users as time went on, said Dr. Michael LeFevre, a family physician at the University of Missouri.

LeFevre wrote an editorial that appears with the study in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. He is one of the leaders of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of doctors who advise the federal government. The group has not taken a stance on finasteride for prevention but has advised against screening with PSA blood tests.

Screening does more harm than good, the panel has said, because although 240,000 new prostate cancers are diagnosed each year in the United States, only about 30,000 prove fatal. That means many men are treated for cancers that grow too slowly to be life-threatening, and often suffer sexual and urinary problems as a result.

The study, led by Dr. Ian Thompson at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center in San Antonio, was done to see whether finasteride could lower the risk of prostate cancer in men who were getting screened with annual PSA blood tests, as many still choose to do.

Researchers assigned 18,882 men 55 or older with no sign of prostate cancer on blood tests or a physical exam to take finasteride or dummy pills for seven years. When the study ended, those who had not been diagnosed with prostate cancer were offered biopsies to check for hidden signs of the disease.

For the new analysis, researchers tracked the study participants for a longer time — 18 years in all since enrolment began. Only about 10 per cent of men on finasteride developed prostate cancer versus 15 per cent of those on dummy pills. Aggressive tumors were found in 3.5 per cent of men on the drug versus 3 per cent of the others. Yet 78 per cent of both groups were alive after 15 years.

That means the drug cannot be recommended to prolong life, just to ease suffering by preventing disease, LeFevre said.

“You may be preventing cancers that don’t need to be prevented” because so few are life-threatening, but screening is finding these tumors anyway and leading to unnecessary treatments, he said. Reducing that number is a valid reason to use a prevention drug, he said.

Finasteride’s other impact is financial. Proscar and a similar drug, GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s Avodart, cost about $4 a pill. Generic finasteride is available for less. Insurers cover it when prescribed to treat urinary problems but may not pay if it’s used solely for cancer prevention.

The drug also can cause hot flashes, fatigue, weakness, low sex drive and trouble having sex.

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Comedian Cris Nannarone hosts a funfilled quest to discover the best burgers, tacos and pizza across North America in a new series that showcases each specialty for a month — Burger Wars has launched this month, Taco Wars airs in September and Pizza Wars in October.

Waging hamburger warfare COMEDIAN CRIS NANNARONE SEEKS BEST BURGER, TACO AND PIZZA IN NEW TV SERIES

BY LOIS ABRAHAM THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — If Cris Nannarone has any say in the matter, octopus or beef tongue won’t cross his lips. But as host of a new food competition series, the comedian says he was sometimes tricked or bullied into tucking into meals featuring those creatures.

The new three-in-one series features Nannarone on a quest to discover the best burgers, tacos and pizza across Canada and the United States.

In each episode, he goes into three kitchens, whether it’s a five-star restaurant, diner or food truck, to learn what goes into each chef’s specialty.

At the end of each episode, the three contender chefs are judged.

“You couldn’t pay me to have the beef tongue,” Nannarone said during a recent visit to Toronto. “On the show they tricked me.

“My producer went as far as learning Spanish and spoke Spanish behind my back so I wouldn’t know what he was planning and told the owner, ‘Don’t tell Cris what you’re making for him because he won’t eat it.”’

But it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t like the food he’s served, Nannarone says, because he doesn’t determine the winner of each episode. A team of nine

judges — “just average people like me” — sample the items from the three contenders on “judgment day” and vote in a secret ballot.

“When I open up the envelope and read the name of the winner I’m seeing it for the very first time. I don’t have any prior knowledge to know who’s going to win,” Nannarone says, adding that this makes the show unique.

“I have judges so I can go into a place, try a burger and if I don’t like the burger it’s OK. I can say I don’t like the burger because I don’t know any better. I’m not a chef. I’m not classically trained in ... culinary arts. I just like to eat. ...

“So when I go into a restaurant and they fry me up a bison burger with avocado and foie gras, stuff I would never order in a million years, I can say to the viewers I like it or I don’t like it. It doesn’t matter,” says Nannarone.

He admits to being out of his element when he’s in the kitchen with “these very, very talented amazing chefs, trying their amazing meals. You can actually see me be convinced that ‘oh, yeah, beef tongue is actually quite good, quite delicious.’

“They’re so good at what they do. You forget what you’re eating,” he adds.

Calgary’s Pyramid Productions came up with the concept for the show. Burger Wars airs Mondays on CMT in August, Taco Wars in September and Pizza Wars in October.

The show features man-on-the-street segments, with Nannarone walking up to people and asking them where to go to get a good burger, tacos or pizza in their city.

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Nannarone, who has appeared in TV series and movies such as Heartland (2012), Boot Camp (2008), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (2000) and MacGyver (1989), has spent the past 20 years travelling around North America as a standup comedian, but he says he’s learned to see some of the cities he’s visited in the past differently when he’s there with a production crew.

Stops include Los Angeles, Banff, Alta., Toronto, Calgary, Chicago, Vancouver, Victoria, Phoenix and Las Vegas.

“I’m like a five-year-old when I’m on the road.

When I go someplace I’ve never been before it’s a big deal to me. I’ve always wanted to go to Chicago and I got to try Chicago deep-dish pizza in Chicago. I think I cried on that episode. It was a big deal.

“I’ve been to Vegas many times. I’ve never seen Vegas the way I saw it on this show.”

Being of Italian heritage, he prides himself on being a pizza connoisseur but is not a fan of the thin-crust Neapolitan-style pizza that is becoming popular in North America, preferring thick crust and plenty of toppings.

While he found the fare in L.A. and Vancouver to be generally light, healthy or organic, he claims Toronto is the home of “monster” burgers.

“Nobody would ever believe me that the best taco you’re ever going to have is in Las Vegas. And one of the best burgers you’re going to have is in Las Vegas,” he says.

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Go to Las Vegas for a good taco. You’re going to find it off the strip.”

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GRETZKY SAYS YES TO JOHNSON Paulina Gretzky and golfer Dustin Johnson announced their engagement on Sunday through their popular Twitter accounts. Johnson posted a photo of Gretzky’s hand with an engagement ring on her finger with the caption “She said yes!!!” Gretzky, the daughter of hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, retweeted the picture and several congratulatory messages from friends and family.

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RAY THROWS THREE TOUCHDOWN PASSES IN ARGONAUTS’ FOURTH STRAIGHT WIN THE CANADIAN PRESS Argonauts 36 Eskimos 33 TORONTO — Another near-perfect performance from Ricky Ray ensured the Toronto Argonauts’ impressive start to the CFL season stayed on course.

The veteran quarterback threw three touchdowns and tied a club record for consecutive completions Sunday as the red-hot Argonauts won their fourth straight, 36-33 over the Edmonton Eskimos.

Ray, who finished the night 30-of-35 for 413 yards, including TD passes to Jason Barnes, John Chiles and Chad Owens against his former team, says his comfort level is a big reason why the numbers have been so staggering.

“It feels like you’re just seeing everything and trusting everything,” said Ray, who has thrown for 851 yards and eight touchdowns in Toronto’s last three wins. “There’s no second guessing or double clutching or worrying about anything.

You’re just seeing it and throwing it. That’s a good feeling.”

Ray’s 17 straight completions in the first half tied the Argonauts’ club record set by Mike Rae in 1975 in a game against the Montreal Alouettes.

“When you look at each play individu-

ally you feel like you should be able to complete every one,” Ray added. “We’re just in a good stretch right now.

There’s going to be some games where I’m not going to complete this many passes.”

Ray came over to Toronto in a lopsided trade with Edmonton prior to last season and was instrumental in helping the Argonauts with the 100th Grey Cup on home turf at Rogers Centre.

“I’ve always thought Ricky was one of the most accurate quarterbacks in the league,” Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich said. “He’s in a system that fits him now with playmakers at receiver and at tailback and now he’s a year into it. At this point he’s just hot. He’s always going to be good but at this point he’s just red-hot and things are taking off for him.”

Despite the victory, Milanovich was not happy with his team’s performance in the fourth quarter as the Eskimos cut the Toronto lead late.

“Those guys are not satisfied and clearly we are not happy but I’ll never apologize for a win,” he said. “They played well. We give them credit but we had a chance to put that thing away and we didn’t do it.”

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Edmonton Eskimos slot back Shamawd Chambers, right, makes a touchdown catch past Toronto Argonauts defensive back Jalil Carter, left, during CFL action in Toronto, on Sunday.

Lions corral Cornish and Stampeders

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Wednesday

● Senior baseball: Annual Doug Bradford Memorial tournament, Great Chief Park.

Thursday

● Senior baseball: Annual Doug Bradford Memorial tournament, Great Chief Park.

Friday

● Senior baseball: Annual Doug Bradford Memorial tournament, Great Chief Park.

Saturday

● Senior baseball: Annual Doug Bradford Memorial tournament, Great Chief Park. ● Men’s Rugby: Calgary Rugby Union, Red Deer Titans vs.

Hornets. noon Div III; 2 p.m., Div II, Titans Park. ● WHL: Rebels open camp, rookies 7:30-9 p.m., Centrium.

Sunday

● Senior baseball: Annual Doug Bradford Memorial tournament, Great Chief Park. ● WHL: Rebels camp, rookies 9-10:30 a.m., 3-4:30 p.m. Rookie goalie session, 1-2 p.m.

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B.C. Lions quarterback Travis Lulay, left, completes a touchdown pass to Andrew Harris, not shown, while under pressure from Calgary Stampeders’ Keon Raymond during the first half of a football game in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday.

Lions 26 Stampeders 22 VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions accomplished their mission Saturday night.

They succeeded in their goal of limiting star Calgary running back Jon Cornish, while handing the Stampeders a 26-22 loss at B.C. Place Stadium.

“We ran through our plan totally,” said Lions nickelback Korey Banks, who forced Cornish to fumble in the second quarter, setting up a touchdown that put B.C. ahead to stay.

“He’s a great back and he runs behind a great (offensive) line. Calgary was as good as advertised. They were 5-1 for a reason. We knew it was going to be a tough fight. We come out and played our best.”

The Lions improved to 5-2 and moved into a tie for second place with the Stampeders, who are also 5-2. B.C. avenged a onesided season-opening loss to the Stampeders and ended their winning streak at four games.

But the win was not all about defence.

Tim Brown returned a kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown and Andrew Harris scored on a 40-yard passing play. Backup quarterback Thomas DeMarco also scored a touchdown for B.C., the first of his CFL career.

The Lions earned their remaining points from a Paul McCallum field goal, three converts and a late safety conceded

by Calgary.

Cornish did score a touchdown for Calgary, on a short run, but the Lions held him to

73 yards rushing and just 10 through the air. The effort was a stark contrast from his previous game when he ran for 175 yards and four touchdowns against Saskatchewan, and the June 28 season opener against B.C. when he scored four TDs. Marquay McDaniel also scored a touchdown for Calgary, while Rene Paredes furnished two field goals and a pair of converts. B.C. also surrendered a safety.

“I think if you look at the film we made a lot of mistakes,” said McDaniel. “Not to take anything away from B.C. They played great. But I think when we look at the film, I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of mistakes out there.

Calgary general manager and coach John Hufnagel lamented his team’s struggles to close the gap on B.C.’s seemingly precarious 21-16 half-time lead.

“We really had a poor third quarter, and that’s because we did not do a good job catching the football,” said Hufnagel. “I didn’t think it was the quarterback’s play that hindered us.

We need to catch the football.”

The Lions, who have had trouble scoring in the first quarter this season, got off to a quick start as Harris caught a short pass from Travis Lulay and scampered into the end zone from 40 yards out on B.C.’s first drive.

Harris gained the upper hand on Cornish in the ongoing rivalry between the two Canadian tailbacks.

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Canada gets vindication in men’s relay at Worlds WIN BRONZE AFTER GREAT BRITAIN DISQUALIFIED, BOLT WINS THIRD GOLD WITH JAMAICA WIN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TRACK AND FIELD

MOSCOW — Circumstance robbed Canada of a bronze medal one year ago at the London Games. On Sunday, the medal and a measure of vindication came back to the team.

Canada’s men’s relay team won bronze at the world track and field championships in the 4x100-metre race after Great Britain disqualified.

The victory helped provide some closure for Justyn Warner and Gavin Smellie, who were both on the relay team that lost a bronze medal to disqualification in 2012.

“I’m so ecstatic, especially thinking back to last year and what happened,” said Smellie. “To come back and get bronze, I’m just so happy. We competed to the best of our ability and we leave here with a bronze medal.

“This isn’t just for us, it’s for everybody, we’re going to take these medals home and show them to our families, share them with all of Canada.”

Warner, from Markham, Ont., Dontae Richards-Kwok of Mississauga, Ont., and Toronto natives Smellie and Aaron Kingsley Brown finished third in 37.92 seconds behind first-place Jamaica (37.36) and the United States (37.66).

Great Britain was disqualified when race footage appeared to show the team complete their second baton exchange well outside the zone. Canada launched an appeal and won to move into third.

“This is huge, Great Britain are a great team, but I’m happy for us,” said Warner.

“Overwhelmed we did it, we put all the work together. I’m at a loss for words and

just so happy. Rules are rules, we dealt with it last year. Canada again ... is one of the top teams.”

The bronze is Canada’s fifth medal at the event, the most successful in the country’s history at the world championships.

“We did it, to run what we ran and not be there the first time around was really hard to take,” said Richards-Kwok. “We did everything we could. We really wanted to come out and get it done, and we did.”

Usain Bolt meanwhile is perfect yet again, and with three gold medals in Moscow, the Jamaican great became the most successful athlete in the 30-year history of the world championships.

The 4x100-metre relay gold erased the memories of the 100 title he missed out on in South Korea two years ago because of a false start.

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Rays edge Blue Jays in extra innings

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rays 2 Blue Jays 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jose Lobaton came up big again for the Tampa Bay Rays.

Lobaton hit a solo home run in the 10th inning and the Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 2-1 on Sunday.

Lobaton sent a 2-1 pitch from Brad Lincoln (1-2) with one out into the right-field seats. Lobaton had a gameending triple in the ninth Friday.

“It’s different,” Lobaton said. “Walk-off triple, that was amazing. Walk-off homer, run the bases like that, is unbelievable. It’s something that you want to do all the time. Hopefully it’s not the last one.”

Lobaton’s parents were at the ballpark for both of his key hits.

“Seriously, that’s pretty cool for him,” Rays manager Joe Maddon said. “Very, very cool.”

Jake McGee (3-3) struck out one during a perfect 10th.

Tampa Bay took two of three from Toronto, which hasn’t won a series at Tropicana Field since April 2007.

Rays starter Chris Archer allowed one run and four hits over seven innings.

Blue Jays right-hander Todd Redmond, a St. Petersburg, Fla., native, gave up one run and six hits over six-plus innings in his first start at Tampa Bay. “We wasted great pitching out there,” Blue Jays manager

John Gibbons said. “If you’re going to play in prime time, you’ve got to win those games.

We’ve had so many of them over the course of the season and we haven’t been able to win them.”

Evan Longoria put the Rays up 1-0 in the first with his 24th homer, an opposite-field drive to right that resulted in a video review after a fan in the front row caught the ball just above the fence.

“One bad pitch to Longoria, one of the best-hitting third basemen in the game right now,” Redmond said. “You do that, and you pay the price.

(The fan) probably reached over a little bit, but it was probably just far enough to where it didn’t matter.”

The Blue Jays tied it 1-1 when Edwin Encarnacion connected for his 31st homer this season with two outs in the seventh. He nearly put Toronto ahead in the ninth, but his two-out drive off Fernando Rodney hit off the top of the left-field wall and the slugger wound up with a double.

“Very, very lucky right there,” Maddon said.

Archer retired nine in a row before Anthony Gose started the fourth with a single. Gose stole second and went to third on Jose Bautista’s one-out flyball, but was left stranded when Encarnacion flew out.

Gose was the only Toronto baserunner until Encarnacion’s seventh-inning homer.

After the home run, Adam Lind and Brett Lawrie had

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Anthony Gose, left, safely advances to third base on a fly-out by Jose Bautista as Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria, right, is late with the tag during the fourth inning of a baseball game in St. Petersburg, Fla., Sunday. consecutive singles before Mark DeRosa grounded out.

The Rays got a one-out double from Longoria in the fourth and Yunel Escobar hit a leadoff double to begin the fifth, but Redmond worked out of both jams without allowing a run. Redmond also got an inning-ending double play from Wil Myers with two on during the sixth.

Tampa Bay also wasted a scoring chance in the sev-

enth with no outs when pinchrunner Sean Rodriguez was caught in a rundown between third and homer after pinchhitter Jason Bourgeois failed to get a bunt down.

NOTES: Tampa Bay LHP Matt Moore, on the 15-day disabled list with left elbow soreness, played catch after being shut down for three days after experiencing elbow discomfort during a 55-pitch bullpen session Wednesday. The All-

Star plans to throw again Monday. ... Blue Jays SS Jose Reyes was out of the lineup for the second straight game due to right knee soreness. ... Myers started in right field after being the designated hitter the previous three games. Maddon has said Myers is physically fine, but that he wanted to get the rookie off his feet for a few days. ... Rays INF Ryan Roberts accepted an outright assignment to Triple-A Durham.

Blue Bombers fire offensive co-ordinator Crowton MARCEL BELLEFEUILLE TO TAKE OVER PLAY-CALLING DUTIES

CFL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have shuffled their personnel again.

Gary Crowton was fired as the team’s offensive co-ordinator and quarterbacks coach Sunday as the team continues to stumble on the field.

Marcel Bellefeuille will take over co-ordinator duties in Winnipeg (1-6) for the rest of the year. The Blue Bombers have lost five in a row, including a

37-18 loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Friday in Winnipeg.

“No one in our organization is happy with the way we have performed so far this season,” said Bombers head coach Tim Burke.

“Our offence has not played up to their standards and we need to make this change in order to give us a chance at remaining in the hunt for the post-season.

“I wish Gary all the best in his future endeavours.”

Bellefeuille was added to Winnipeg’s coaching staff on Aug. 12 after spending last season with the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League.

He was Hamilton’s head coach from 2009-2011 and has an extensive background in the CFL, working as a position coach and offensive co-ordinator with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Montreal Alouettes and Ticats.

Crowton isn’t the first casualty of Winnipeg’s rough start to the season.

Embattled CEO and president Garth Butchko resigned from his position and was replaced by former Blue Bomber player Wade Miller on Aug. 10.

Miller’s first act as acting CEO was to fire general manager Joe Mack and name assistant general manager Kyle Walters as the acting general manager on Aug. 13.

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WIN: Very disappointing Backup quarterback Zach Collaros also threw a TD for Toronto (5-2), which is on its longest winning streak since 2007 and leads the East Division by six points over the second place Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

The Eskimos (1-6), meanwhile, sit last in the West and have lost their last three games by a combined nine points.

“The loss is very disappointing.

Devastating actually,” Edmonton head coach Kavis Reed said. “It’s a lot about details. A lot of things we’re not doing well ... I’m not doing well.

“I have to look at myself in the mirror as to how things have turned out.”

Edmonton quarterback Mike Reilly was 35-of-46 for 511 yards and three touchdowns as the Eskimos lost their fifth consecutive game.

“People can talk about the numbers but they should have been higher,” Reilly said. “I missed a couple of throws. Drives stalled. We didn’t play the entire four quarters.”

Grant Shaw added four field goals for Edmonton, which was without injured star linebacker and reigning CFL defensive player of the year J.C. Sherritt.

“If I throw for 100 yards and win I’m happy,” Reilly said. “It doesn’t matter how much it is if we lose.”

Leading 17-16 at the half, Toronto stopped Edmonton on its first drive of the third quarter and stretched its advantage to eight when Ray hit a wide open Chiles with a 31-yard touchdown pass.

“It’s crazy. (Ray’s) accuracy is just amazing,” said Chiles, who finished with five catches for 135 yards. “The way he’s spreading the ball and getting it to all the different receivers, I think he’s doing a great job.”

Edmonton conceded a safety for a 26-16 Argonauts lead with just under five minutes to go in the quarter and Toronto followed that up with an efficient four-play, 64-yard drive that was capped off by a six-yard TD pass from Ray to Owens that made the score 3316.

Shaw missed a 28-yard field goal for a single point with just over ten minutes to go in the fourth before Reilly connected with Shamawd Chambers on a 22-yard touchdown pass with about five minutes left on the clock to make it 33-23.

After Edmonton’s two-point conversion failed, the Eskimos got the ball back and Shaw kicked a 30-yard field goal to cut Toronto’s lead to seven with two minutes to play.

The Argonauts took the ball on their 35 and Ray found Chiles on a 49-yard pass play to set up Noel Prefontaine’s 26-yard field goal, his second of the night, that effectively killed off Ed-

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Canada’s 4x100-meter men’s relay team shows off their bronze medal at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday. monton’s hopes.

Reilly then hooked up with Fred Stamps, who finished with six catches for 172 yards, with one second left on the clock.

STAMPS: Lewis hurt in first half The Lion gained 117 all-purpose yards as he rushed for 56 on 13 carries and gained 61 more on three pass receptions.

“I don’t even know what the stats were,” said Harris. “I’m just happy we got the win.”

Cornish enabled the Stampeders to draw even at 7-7 as he bulldozed two yards into the end zone late in the first quarter.

But B.C. quickly took the lead again, with Brown returning Paredes’ ensuing kick-off 97 yards for a touchdown.

Parades had a chance to tackle Brown near the sideline, but he turned away and did not make contact while Brown twisted in the opposite direction and angled his way into the end zone.

Brown said he saw Paredes, but he also got a block that enabled him to go away from him.

A safety conceded by McCallum helped the Stampeders reduce their deficit to 14-9. Calgary took a 16-14 lead midway through the second quarter after Kevin Glenn connected with Marquay McDaniel on a 14-yard touchdown pass.

But a rare miscue by Cornish enabled the Lions to take a 21-14 lead.

After catching a Glenn pass, Cornish was hit hard by B.C. nickelback Korey Banks and the ball popped into the hands of linebacker Adam Bighill.

Although the ball did not hit the ground, it was ruled as a fumble, with Banks credited for the force. But he downplayed his effort.

“I’d rather get the win than turnovers,” he said. “We encircled the ball from the first quarter to the fourth quarter.”

B.C. got the ball on Calgary’s 28-yard line. Four plays later, backup quarterback Thomas DeMarco plunged across the goal-line.

“It was a great feeling to get back into the end zone,” said DeMarco, a second-year pro who had not hit paydirt since college and has yet to throw a TD pass in the CFL. The touchdown came after a pass interference penalty on Calgary’s Chris Randle, who tugged on Emmanuel Arceneaux in the end zone, giving B.C. the ball at the Stampeders one-yard line.

DeMarco was searching for the ball after the game, hoping that someone from the club had secured it for him.

“If I can find it, I’ll keep it,” he said.

Lulay completed 16 of 28 passes for 223 yards, but was intercepted three times. Glenn was good on 22 of 38 pass attempts for 199 yards with no picks.

Calgary managed to get in scoring range in the closing seconds, but a Glenn incompletion on a third-and-one situation gave the Lions the ball and the victory. The Stampeders’ passing game was hurt by the loss of veteran Nik Lewis in the first half.

Hufnagel said he suffered a broken leg.

“For the next half-dozen games, yes, he’ll be out of the lineup,” said Hufnagel. “Yes, he is instrumental to our football team, but that’s the game. Not one person is bigger than the team.

“We just wish Nik a speedy recovery.”

WORLDS: Rising to the occasion And, in combination with a similar

100-200-4x100 triple from Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Bolt was instrumental in giving Jamaica the first ever sweep in those six sprint events.

Bolt was trailing American Justin Gatlin when he got the baton on the anchor leg, but a botched U.S. handover and his superlative speed were enough to see him, and his country, win.

He gritted his teeth, dipped at the line, and then grinned.

“I wasn’t really worried about Justin. I knew if he got the baton in front of me, I could catch him,” Bolt said.

“So it was just going out there to run as fast as possible.”

And when he does, nobody has stopped him when it mattered — in a half decade, and counting.

“It’s not just about the talent. It’s about rising to the occasion. He understands what that means,” Gatlin said.

Bolt had already won the 100 and 200 metres. It was his second such sprint triple at the world championships, matching the two he has won at the Olympics.

With his victory, Bolt moved to the top of the all-time world championships medals table with eight gold and two silver, edging Carl Lewis, who has eight gold, one silver and one bronze.

“It is just great,” Bolt said of the comparison.

“I’ll continue dominating. I’ll continue to work hard. For me, my aim is to continue hard into the greatness thing.”

And again the Luzhniki Stadium and its 40,000 fans were turned into a Bolt party.

With palpable relief after a week of all-business during his earlier races, Bolt finally let go.

His arms across his chest, he kicked his legs as he went down lower and lower to imitate a traditional eastern European dance to the delight of the crowd.

“I’m not even sure which country it’s from. It just went along with the music, so I did it,” Bolt said.

Twenty minutes earlier, FraserPryce became the first woman in world championship history to sweep the sprint events, anchoring Jamaica to gold in the 4x100 relay.

Unlike Bolt, Fraser-Pryce got the baton with a big lead. With her pink hair extensions swaying in the air behind her, she kept on building on it to cross in a championship record of 41.29 seconds.

Canada’s team of Crystal Emmanuel of York, Ont., Shai-Anne Davis of Richmond, B.C., Kimberly Hyacinthe of Lachenaie, Que., and Khamica Bingham of Caledon, Ont., combined to finish sixth.

Lost in the excitement and a string of upsets was that the United States failed to lead the gold medal standings for the first time since the inaugural world championships in Helsinki 30 years ago.

Instead, Russia topped the table with seven gold, edging the United States and Jamaica with six. In the overall standings, the U.S. team dominated with 25, holding a wide lead over the host nation with 17.

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Baseball

Football

Boston Tampa Bay Baltimore New York Toronto

American League East Division W L Pct 73 53 .579 70 52 .574 67 56 .545 64 59 .520 57 67 .460

GB — 1 4 1/2 7 1/2 15

Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee Chicago

Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 73 51 .589 66 58 .532 64 59 .520 54 68 .443 49 74 .398

GB — 7 8 1/2 18 23 1/2

Los Angeles Arizona Colorado San Diego San Francisco

Texas Oakland Seattle Los Angeles Houston

West Division W L Pct 71 53 .573 70 53 .569 57 66 .463 55 68 .447 41 82 .333

GB — 1/2 13 1/2 15 1/2 29 1/2

Saturday’s Games Boston 6, N.Y. Yankees 1 Baltimore 8, Colorado 4 Detroit 6, Kansas City 5 Chicago White Sox 8, Minnesota 5 Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 2 Texas 15, Seattle 3 Cleveland 7, Oakland 1 L.A. Angels 6, Houston 5, 10 innings

Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Gee 8-8) at Minnesota (Gibson 2-3), 12:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Price 6-5) at Baltimore (Tillman 14-3), 5:05 p.m.

Houston (Harrell 6-13) at Texas (Garza 2-1), 6:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 1-1) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 7-6), 8:05 p.m.

Seattle (Harang 5-10) at Oakland (J.Parker 8-6), 8:05 p.m.

Boston (Lester 10-7) at San Francisco (Lincecum 6-12), 8:15 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m., 1st game Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m., 2nd game Minnesota at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Boston at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

H 160 156 130 158 142 125 143 136 121 153

Pct. .360 .333 .327 .326 .322 .310 .306 .306 .305 .301

Home Runs CDavis, Baltimore, 45; MiCabrera, Detroit, 40; Encarnacion, Toronto, 31; Bautista, Toronto, 28; ADunn, Chicago, 28; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 28; NCruz, Texas, 27.

Runs Batted In MiCabrera, Detroit, 120; CDavis, Baltimore, 115; Encarnacion, Toronto, 92; AJones, Baltimore, 89; Fielder, Detroit, 85; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 81; DOrtiz, Boston, 78; Trout, Los Angeles, 78.

Pitching Scherzer, Detroit, 18-1; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 143; Tillman, Baltimore, 14-3; Colon, Oakland, 14-5; CWilson, Los Angeles, 13-6; Masterson, Cleveland, 13-9; Darvish, Texas, 12-5.

Atlanta Washington New York Philadelphia Miami

GB — 1 2 1/2 18 1/2 19

West Division W L Pct 72 51 .585 64 58 .525 58 67 .464 56 68 .452 55 68 .447

GB — 7 1/2 15 16 1/2 17

Saturday’s Games Arizona 15, Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 4, Chicago Cubs 0 Baltimore 8, Colorado 4 L.A. Dodgers 5, Philadelphia 0 Milwaukee 2, Cincinnati 0 San Francisco 6, Miami 4 Washington 8, Atlanta 7, 15 innings San Diego 8, N.Y. Mets 2

National League East Division W L Pct 76 48 .613 60 63 .488 56 66 .459 54 69 .439 47 75 .385

GB — 15 1/2 19 21 1/2 28

Chicago 102 020 000 — 5 8 3 Minnesota 011 000 000 — 2 10 0 H.Santiago, Lindstrom (7), A.Reed (9) and Phegley; Deduno, Pressly (6), Perkins (9) and Doumit. W—H. Santiago 4-7. L—Deduno 7-7. Sv—A.Reed (31).

HRs—Chicago, Al.Ramirez (4).

Seattle 000 011 011 — 4 10 2 Texas 000 011 010 — 3 5 0 E.Ramirez, Medina (8), Farquhar (9) and Quintero; Darvish, R.Ross (8), Nathan (9) and Pierzynski.

W—Medina 4-3. L—Nathan 3-2. Sv—Farquhar (7).

Cleveland 010 020 000 — 3 9 1 Oakland 210 020 02x — 7 12 1 Kazmir, Allen (6), Rzepczynski (7), Shaw (8) and Y.Gomes; Milone, Otero (5), Doolittle (7), Cook (8), Balfour (9) and D.Norris. W—Otero 2-0. L—Kazmir 7-6. HRs—Cleveland, Raburn (15). Oakland, C.Young (11), Callaspo (6).

Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Gee 8-8) at Minnesota (Gibson 2-3), 12:10 p.m.

Colorado (Manship 0-2) at Philadelphia (E.Martin 1-2), 5:05 p.m.

Arizona (Delgado 4-3) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 11-9), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 12-3) at Miami (Fernandez 8-5), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 14-6) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 6-11), 6:05 p.m.

St. Louis (S.Miller 11-8) at Milwaukee (Estrada 5-4), 6:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 13-5) at San Diego (Cashner 8-7), 8:10 p.m.

Boston (Lester 10-7) at San Francisco (Lincecum 6-12), 8:15 p.m.

H 128 121 118 143 142 148 149 140 126 128

New York 021 004 101 — 9 17 0 Boston 201 210 000 — 6 9 0 Sabathia, Kelley (6), Logan (7), D.Robertson (8), M.Rivera (9) and C.Stewart; Dempster, D.Britton (6), Workman (6), F.Morales (7), Tazawa (8), R.De La Rosa (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—Sabathia 11-10.

L—Dempster 6-9. Sv—M.Rivera (36). HRs—New York, A.Rodriguez (2). Boston, Middlebrooks (10).

INTERLEAGUE Colorado 000 000 200 — 2 8 0 Baltimore 012 000 22x — 7 15 0 Chacin, Outman (6), W.Lopez (7), Escalona (8) and Torrealba; Feldman, Tom.Hunter (7), O’Day (8), Stinson (9) and Teagarden. W—Feldman 3-3.

L—Chacin 11-7. HRs—Baltimore, A.Jones (25), C.Davis (45).

NATIONAL LEAGUE San Fran. 200 010 200 — 5 13 2 Miami 001 210 11x — 6 9 0 Bumgarner, Moscoso (6), J.Lopez (7), S.Rosario (7), Mijares (8) and H.Sanchez; Koehler, Webb (6), M.Dunn (7), Qualls (7), Cishek (9) and Mathis.

W—Qualls 4-1. L—S.Rosario 3-1. Sv—Cishek (27).

HRs—San Francisco, Pence (15), B.Crawford (8).

Miami, Mathis (3).

Tuesday’s Games Colorado at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Arizona at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Washington at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Boston at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R CJohnson Atl 106 382 44 YMolina StL 100 370 47 Cuddyer Col 98 365 58 McCutchen Pit 119 450 75 Votto Cin 123 450 83 MCarpenter StL 117 473 91 Segura Mil 119 477 65 Craig StL 118 452 65 DWright NYM 105 408 60 FFreeman Atl 109 417 67

Arencibia; Archer, Jo.Peralta (8), Rodney (9), McGee (10) and Lobaton. W—McGee 3-3. L—Lincoln 1-2. HRs—Toronto, Encarnacion (31). Tampa Bay, Longoria (24), Lobaton (5).

Houston 120 000 310 — 7 12 0 Los Ang. 011 100 020 — 5 9 1 Oberholtzer, Lyles (7), K.Chapman (9) and Corporan; Vargas, J.Gutierrez (6), Jepsen (8), Kohn (9) and Iannetta. W—Oberholtzer 3-1. L—J.Gutierrez 0-4. Sv—K.Chapman (1). HRs—Houston, Hoes (1), M.Dominguez (16). Los Angeles, Hamilton (19), Trumbo (28).

Sunday’s Games Miami 6, San Francisco 5 Arizona 4, Pittsburgh 2, 16 innings Baltimore 7, Colorado 2 Philadelphia 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Atlanta 2, Washington 1 Cincinnati 9, Milwaukee 1 St. Louis 6, Chicago Cubs 1 San Diego 4, N.Y. Mets 3

Sunday’s Games Detroit 6, Kansas City 3 Baltimore 7, Colorado 2 Tampa Bay 2, Toronto 1, 10 innings Chicago White Sox 5, Minnesota 2 Seattle 4, Texas 3 Houston 7, L.A. Angels 5 Oakland 7, Cleveland 3 N.Y. Yankees 9, Boston 6

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R MiCabrera Det 116 444 89 Trout LAA 122 469 88 DOrtiz Bos 105 398 61 ABeltre Tex 122 485 71 Mauer Min 112 441 62 Loney TB 118 403 43 TorHunter Det 110 467 72 CDavis Bal 122 445 89 JhPeralta Det 104 397 50 AJones Bal 123 508 85

Central Division W L Pct 72 51 .585 71 52 .577 70 54 .565 54 70 .435 53 70 .431

Pct. .335 .327 .323 .318 .316 .313 .312 .310 .309 .307

Los Ang. 010 100 000 — 2 8 2 Phila.

000 101 001 — 3 7 1 Nolasco, Belisario (7), P.Rodriguez (8), League (9) and Federowicz; Hamels, Rosenberg (8), Papelbon (9) and Ruiz. W—Papelbon 3-1. L—League 6-4.

HRs—Los Angeles, Ethier (9). Philadelphia, Ruf (8).

Wash.

000 000 100 — 1 8 0 Atlanta 200 000 00x — 2 5 0 G.Gonzalez, Storen (8) and K.Suzuki; Teheran, S.Downs (7), D.Carpenter (7), Walden (8), Kimbrel (9) and G.Laird. W—Teheran 10-6. L—G.Gonzalez 7-6. Sv—Kimbrel (39).

Home Runs PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 30; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 30; DBrown, Philadelphia, 27; CGonzalez, Colorado, 26; Bruce, Cincinnati, 24; JUpton, Atlanta, 23; Uggla, Atlanta, 21.

Runs Batted In Goldschmidt, Arizona, 96; Phillips, Cincinnati, 90; Craig, St. Louis, 88; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 81; FFreeman, Atlanta, 81; Bruce, Cincinnati, 80; DBrown, Philadelphia, 78.

Pitching Zimmermann, Washington, 14-6; Liriano, Pittsburgh, 13-5; Lynn, St. Louis, 13-6; Wainwright, St. Louis, 13-7; Corbin, Arizona, 12-3; Ryu, Los Angeles, 123; Latos, Cincinnati, 12-4.

Ariz. 000 002000000 000 2 — 4 15 0 Pitts. 101 000000000 000 0 — 2 9 0 (16 innings) Miley, Thatcher (9), Bell (9), E.De La Rosa (11), Collmenter (11), Ziegler (14), Putz (16) and Gosewisch, Nieves; Morton, Watson (8), Melancon (10), Kr.Johnson (11) and R.Martin. W—Ziegler 7-1. L— Kr.Johnson 0-1. Sv—Putz (6).

Sunday’s Major League Linescores

St. Louis 030 000 300 — 6 8 0 Chicago 000 001 000 — 1 6 1 Wainwright, Siegrist (8), Rosenthal (9) and Y.Molina; E.Jackson, Villanueva (7), Russell (7), Bowden (8), Gregg (9) and Castillo. W—Wainwright 14-7. L—E. Jackson 7-13. HRs—St. Louis, Jay (6).

AMERICAN LEAGUE Kan. City 000 000 201 — 3 7 1 Detroit 201 012 00x — 6 12 0 B.Chen, Coleman (6), Collins (7), Mendoza (8) and S.Perez; Scherzer, Benoit (9) and B.Pena.

W—Scherzer 18-1. L—B.Chen 5-1. Sv—Benoit (17). HRs—Kansas City, B.Butler (12). Detroit, Mi.Cabrera (40).

Toronto 000 000 100 0 — 1 5 0 Tampa Bay 100 000 000 1 — 2 8 0 (10 innings) Redmond, Cecil (7), S.Santos (9), Lincoln (10) and

Cincinnati 050 040 000 — 9 10 0 Milwaukee 000 010 000 — 1 4 1 H.Bailey, Simon (9) and Hanigan; W.Peralta, Thornburg (5), Badenhop (7), Mic.Gonzalez (9) and Maldonado. W—H.Bailey 8-10. L—W.Peralta 8-13.

HRs—Milwaukee, K.Davis (6).

New York 100 100 100 — 3 6 0 San Diego 000 020 011 — 4 10 1 Harvey, Rice (7), Germen (7), Feliciano (8) and T.d’Arnaud; Stults, Vincent (7), Street (9) and Hundley. W—Street 1-4. L—Feliciano 0-2. HRs—San Diego, Venable (17).

Golf PGA-Wyndham Championship GREENSBORO, N.C. — Scores and earnings Sunday from the final round of the US$5.3-million-PGAWyndham Championship, at the 7,127-yard, par-70 Sedgefield Country Club (x—won on second playoff hole): x-Patrick Reed, $954,000 65-64-71-66 — 266 Jordan Spieth, $572,400 65-66-70-65 — 266 Brian Harman, $307,400 67-66-69-66 — 268 John Huh, $307,400 68-62-70-68 — 268 Matt Every, $193,450 67-67-68-67 — 269 Zach Johnson, $193,450 67-68-66-68 — 269 Matt Jones, $193,450 65-71-71-62 — 269 Bob Estes, $153,700 67-66-68-69 — 270 Andres Gonzales, $153,700 69-67-70-64 — 270 Rory Sabbatini, $153,700 67-66-72-65 — 270 Robert Garrigus, $116,600 65-69-68-69 — 271 Jim Herman, $116,600 67-66-72-66 — 271 Webb Simpson, $116,600 71-67-70-63 — 271 Brendan Steele, $116,600 71-67-66-67 — 271 Hideki Matsuyama, $95,400 70-65-71-66 — 272 Martin Flores, $82,150 67-72-71-63 — 273 Bryce Molder, $82,150 66-69-71-67 — 273 Henrik Norlander, $82,150 67-68-72-66 — 273 David Toms, $82,150 72-66-73-62 — 273 Ricky Barnes, $57,417 69-69-69-67 — 274 Ernie Els, $57,417 71-68-70-65 — 274 Bill Haas, $57,417 69-66-71-68 — 274 Martin Kaymer, $57,417 70-68-73-63 — 274 Charlie Beljan, $57,417 69-67-69-69 — 274 Jin Park, $57,417 67-69-70-68 — 274 Tim Clark, $40,810 69-70-72-64 — 275 Ryo Ishikawa, $40,810 70-69-69-67 — 275 Brendon Todd, $40,810 68-68-75-64 — 275 Steven Bowditch, $32,264 71-66-72-67 — 276 Will Claxton, $32,264 68-67-72-69 — 276 Sergio Garcia, $32,264 65-70-70-71 — 276 Paul Haley II, $32,264 69-68-72-67 — 276 Jeff Overton, $32,264 68-71-72-65 — 276 Alistair Presnell, $32,264 67-71-67-71 — 276 John Senden, $32,264 66-70-72-68 — 276 Camilo Villegas, $32,264 69-68-72-67 — 276 K.J. Choi, $22,260 69-68-72-68 — 277 Trevor Immelman, $22,260 65-71-70-71 — 277 Colt Knost, $22,260 69-67-72-69 — 277 Geoff Ogilvy, $22,260 67-70-71-69 — 277 Robert Streb, $22,260 68-70-70-69 — 277 Chris Stroud, $22,260 64-72-73-68 — 277 Andrew Svoboda, $22,260 65-69-74-69 — 277 Boo Weekley, $22,260 69-67-73-68 — 277 J.J. Henry, $14,855 68-70-71-69 — 278 Jerry Kelly, $14,855 68-71-68-71 — 278 Stuart Appleby, $14,855 66-70-76-66 — 278 Doug LaBelle II, $14,855 67-72-71-68 — 278 Justin Leonard, $14,855 69-70-71-68 — 278 Nick O’Hern, $14,855 68-71-67-72 — 278 Shawn Stefani, $14,855 67-70-70-71 — 278 Sang-Moon Bae, $12,177 68-70-72-69 — 279 Greg Chalmers, $12,177 69-69-71-70 — 279 Brendon de Jonge, $12,177 70-68-70-71 — 279 Chris DiMarco, $12,177 70-68-70-71 — 279 Ross Fisher, $12,177 64-69-74-72 — 279 Tommy Gainey, $12,177 68-69-73-69 — 279 Scott Gardiner, $12,177 67-72-67-73 — 279 Jeff Maggert, $12,177 69-68-70-72 — 279 Tom Gillis, $11,448 69-68-73-70 — 280 George McNeill, $11,448 69-68-75-68 — 280 Greg Owen, $11,448 68-69-75-68 — 280 Cameron Percy, $11,448 68-68-74-70 — 280 Charlie Wi, $11,448 68-65-75-72 — 280 Morgan Hoffmann, $10,918 65-69-75-72 — 281 Chris Kirk, $10,918 66-71-72-72 — 281 Steve LeBrun, $10,918 68-70-72-71 — 281 David Mathis, $10,918 71-68-73-69 — 281 William McGirt, $10,918 70-68-73-70 — 281 Robert Karlsson, $10,600 70-66-75-71 — 282

Arjun Atwal, $10,494 69-70-78-66 — 283 Nicholas Thompson, $10,388 70-69-75-70 — 284 Kevin Chappell, $10,282 69-69-75-72 — 285 Champions-Dick’s Sporting Goods Open Sunday At Endicott, N.Y. En-Joie Golf Club Purse—US$1.8 million Yardage—6,974; Par—72 Final Round Bart Bryant, $270,000 66-62-72 — Russ Cochran, $144,000 67-67-67 — Corey Pavin, $144,000 68-64-69 — Gene Sauers, $96,300 69-66-67 — Duffy Waldorf, $96,300 68-65-69 — Chien Soon Lu, $72,000 72-66-65 — John Cook, $57,600 70-69-65 — Kenny Perry, $57,600 65-71-68 — Rod Spittle, $57,600 69-66-69 — Fred Funk, $39,960 71-67-67 — Scott Hoch, $39,960 73-63-69 — Bernhard Langer, $39,960 73-66-66 — Peter Senior, $39,960 68-69-68 — Esteban Toledo, $39,960 67-68-70 — Tom Pernice, Jr., $32,400 69-71-66 — Joel Edwards, $27,036 66-71-70 — Rick Fehr, $27,036 67-67-73 — Jeff Freeman, $27,036 67-70-70 — David Frost, $27,036 70-66-71 — Larry Nelson, $27,036 68-70-69 — Joe Daley, $19,470 68-69-71 — Mike Goodes, $19,470 70-69-69 — Jeff Hart, $19,470 68-70-70 — Peter Jacobsen, $19,470 72-70-66 — Gil Morgan, $19,470 70-70-68 — Jeff Sluman, $19,470 70-69-69 — Mark Brooks, $15,660 74-66-69 — Brad Bryant, $15,660 66-72-71 — Dan Forsman, $15,660 70-71-68 — Steve Elkington, $12,996 72-68-70 — John Huston, $12,996 70-71-69 — Steve Jones, $12,996 68-72-70 — Joey Sindelar, $12,996 70-70-70 — Craig Stadler, $12,996 73-69-68 — Chip Beck, $10,368 70-70-71 — Jeff Brehaut, $10,368 71-69-71 — Mark McNulty, $10,368 73-66-72 — Loren Roberts, $10,368 70-69-72 — Mark Wiebe, $10,368 72-66-73 — Michael Allen, $8,820 71-66-75 — Roger Chapman, $8,820 74-68-70 — Brad Faxon, $8,820 73-70-69 — Jim Carter, $7,020 75-71-67 — Gary Hallberg, $7,020 71-68-74 — Gene Jones, $7,020 70-74-69 — Steve Pate, $7,020 72-72-69 — Don Pooley, $7,020 72-67-74 — Sonny Skinner, $7,020 71-73-69 — Hal Sutton, $7,020 73-72-68 — Brian Henninger, $5,220 71-73-70 — John Inman, $5,220 72-69-73 — Jim Rutledge, $5,220 77-68-69 — Jay Don Blake, $4,140 73-71-71 — Jim Gallagher, Jr. (0), $4,140 72-75-68 — Bill Glasson, $4,140 74-70-71 — Colin Montgomerie, $4,140 75-67-73 — Bob Tway, $4,140 75-68-72 — David Eger, $3,510 70-74-72 — Jim Thorpe, $3,510 72-71-73 — Jay Haas, $2,610 74-73-70 — Hale Irwin, $2,610 75-70-72 — Tom Kite, $2,610 72-68-77 — Steve Lowery, $2,610 71-72-74 — Dick Mast, $2,610 77-68-72 — John Riegger, $2,610 79-70-68 —

200 201 201 202 202 203 204 204 204 205 205 205 205 205 206 207 207 207 207 207 208 208 208 208 208 208 209 209 209 210 210 210 210 210 211 211 211 211 211 212 212 212 213 213 213 213 213 213 213 214 214 214 215 215 215 215 215 216 216 217 217 217 217 217 217

Scott Simpson, $2,610 Willie Wood, $2,610 Tom Byrum, $1,800 Mark Calcavecchia, $1,692 Bobby Clampett, $1,332 Danny Edwards, $1,332 Andrew Magee, $1,332 Nick Price, $1,332 Ted Schulz, $1,332 Bobby Wadkins, $1,332 Bob Gilder, $1,008 Fuzzy Zoeller, $1,008 Wayne Levi, $900 Allen Doyle, $828

71-72-74 77-70-70 71-75-72 75-70-74 78-73-69 75-70-75 72-73-75 75-68-77 70-76-74 74-73-73 79-70-73 69-75-78 76-78-70 75-76-76

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217 217 218 219 220 220 220 220 220 220 222 222 224 227

Solheim Cup At Colorado Golf Club Parker, Colo.

Yardage: 7,066; Par: 72 EUROPE 18, UNITED STATES 10 Sunday Singles Europe 7 1/2, United States 4 1/2 Anna Nordqvist, Europe, halved with Stacy Lewis, United States.

Charley Hull, Europe, def. Paula Creamer, United States, 5 and 4.

Brittany Lang, United States, def. Azahara Munoz, Europe, 2 and 1.

Carlota Ciganda, Europe, def. Morgan Pressel, United States, 4 and 2.

Caroline Hedwall, Europe, def. Michelle Wie, United States, 1 up.

Catriona Matthew, Europe, halved with Gerina Piller, United States.

Suzann Pettersen, Europe, halved with Lizette Salas, United States.

Giulia Sergas, Europe, halved with Jessica Korda, United States.

Lexi Thompson, United States, def. Caroline Masson, Europe, 4 and 3.

Jodi Ewart-Shadoff, Europe, def. Brittany Lincicome, United States, 3 and 2.

Beatriz Recari, Europe, def. Angela Stanford, United States, 2 and 1.

Karine Icher, Europe, halved with Cristie Kerr, United States.

Saturday Foursomes United States 2 1/2, Europe 1 1/2 Anna Nordqvist and Caroline Hedwall, Europe, def.

Morgan Pressel and Jessica Korda, United States, 2 and 1.

Stacy Lewis and Paula Creamer, United States, def.

Azahara Munoz and Karine Icher, Europe, 1 up.

Catriona Matthew and Caroline Masson, Europe, halved with Brittany Lincicome and Lizette Salas, United States.

Michelle Wie and Brittany Lang, United States, def.

Suzann Pettersen and Beatriz Recari, Europe, 2 and 1.

Fourballs Europe 4, United States 0 Jodi Ewart-Shadoff and Charley Hull, Europe, def.

Paula Creamer and Lexi Thompson, United States, 2 up.

Azahara Munoz and Carlota Ciganda, Europe, def.

Gerina Piller and Angela Stanford, United States, 1 up.

Caroline Hedwall and Caroline Masson, Europe, def. Michelle Wie and Jessica Korda, United States, 2 and 1.

Beatriz Recari and Karine Icher, Europe, def. Cristie Kerr and Morgan Pressel, United States, 1 up.

contract of LHP Kris Johnson from Indianapolis.

Transferred C Michael McKenry to the 60-day DL. FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Placed WR Kevin Elliott on injured reserve. Released OL Tony Hills, WR Terrell Sinkfield and DBs Don Unamba and Mark LeGree.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed QB Trent Edwards to a one-year contract. Released WR Jerrell Jackson.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Re-signed RB Jermaine Cook. Released CB Kenronte Walker.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Fired offensive coordiantor and quarterbacks coach Gary Crowton.

Named Marcel Bellfeuille offensive co-ordinator.

Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL

PF 230 166 156 153

PA 174 205 201 210

Pt 10 6 4 2

West Division W L T 6 1 0 5 2 0 5 2 0 1 6 0

PF 234 226 169 161

PA 150 186 164 205

Pt 12 10 10 2

GP Saskatchewan 7 Calgary 7 B.C. 7 Edmonton 7

WEEK EIGHT Sunday’s result Toronto 36 Edmonton 33 Saturday’s results B.C. 26 Calgary 22 Saskatchewan 24 Montreal 21 Friday’s result Hamilton 37 Winnipeg 18 WEEK NINE Thursday, Aug. 22 B.C. at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 23 Calgary at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 24 Winnipeg at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Saturday’s summaries Lions 26, Stampeders 22 First Quarter B.C. — TD Harris 40 pass from Lulay (McCallum convert) 2:28 Cal — TD Cornish 2 run (Parades convert) 13:05 B.C. — TD Brown 97 kickoff return (McCallum convert) 13:30 Second Quarter Cal — Safety McCallum concedes 7:09 Cal — TD McDaniel 14 pass from Glenn (Parades convert) 8:02 B.C. — TD DeMarco 1 run (McCallum convert) 12:17 Third Quarter Cal — FG Parades 32 11:20 Fourth Quarter B.C. — FG McCallum 24 2:34 Cal — FG Parades 30 11:05 B.C. — Safety Maver concedes 12:50 Calgary 7 9 3 3 — 22 B.C. 14 7 0 5 — 26 Attendance — 29,201 at Vancouver.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Team losses Net offence Passes made-tried Total return yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-lost Sacks by Punts-average Penalties-yards Time of possession

COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Kansas City 3B Miguel Tejada 105 games for testing positive for an amphetamine.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned OF Henry Urrutia to Norfolk (IL). Recalled RHP Josh Stinson from Norfolk (IL).

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed RHP Ramon Troncoso on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of RHP Jake Petricka.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent RHP Josh Tomlin to Akron (EL) for a rehab assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed OF Justin Maxwell on the bereavement list. Recalled LHP Will Smith from Omaha (PCL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with 1B Mark Reynolds. Optioned RHP Preston Claiborne to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Designated 3B Luis Cruz for assignment.

Cal 18 77 221 298 4 294 23-40 167 3-6 2-1 1 11-42.9 11-72 34:01

B.C. 15 79 223 302 16 286 16-28 217 0-0 1-1 1 9-41.8 7-91 25:59

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Cal: Cornish 15-73, Glenn 1-4, Mitchell 2-1, Price 1-minus-1; B.C.: Harris 13-56, Gore 1-12, Lulay 2-12, DeMarco 1-1, Arceneaux 1-minus-2.

Receiving — Cal: McDaniel 7-75, Price 6-55, Arthur 4-35, Cote 1-22, Lewis 1-19, Cornish 3-10, L.Taylor 1-5; B.C.: Harris 3-61, Arceneaux 3-56, C.Taylor 3-54, Moore 3-31, Iannuzzi 3-18, Gore 1-3.

Passing — Glenn 22-38, 199 yards, 1 TD, 0 ints, Mitchell 0-1-0-0-0, Maver 1-1-22-0-0; B.C.: Lulay 16-28-223-1-3.

Roughriders 24, Alouettes 21 First Quarter Mtl — FG Whyte 15 5:58 Sask — TD Dressler 21 pass from Durant (Milo convert) 8:31 Second Quarter Mtl — Single Whyte 51 0:34 Sask — Single Schmitt 68 4:08 Mtl — FG Whyte 11 9:14 Third Quarter Mtl — FG Whyte 25 2:11 Sask — Single Schmitt 63 4:37 Mtl — Single Whyte 44 9:38 Sask — Safety Whyte concedes 12:32 Fourth Quarter Sask — FG Milo 26 0:32 Mtl — FG Whyte 38 4:23 Mtl — TD Brown 54 fumble return (Whyte convert) 13:15 Sask — TD T.Smith 65 pass from Durant (Milo convert) 13:58 Sask — FG Milo 36 15:00 Montreal 3 4 4 10 — 21 Saskatchewan 7 1 3 13 — 24 Attendance — 40,637 at Regina.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Team losses Net offence Passes made-tried Total return yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-lost Sacks by Punts-average Penalties-yards Time of possession

Mtl 13 78 232 310 12 298 16-38 169 0-0 3-1 2 8-43.5 11-101 30:17

Edm — FG Shaw 38 13:10 Second Quarter Edm — FG Shaw 40 1:24 Tor — TD Barnes 8 pass from Ray (Prefontaine convert) 3:12 Edm — TD Koch 5 pass from Reilly (Shaw convert) 13:18 Tor — FG Prefontaine 20 14:48 Third Quarter Tor — TD Chiles 31 pass from Ray (Prefontaine convert) 4:25 Tor — Safety Shaw concedes 10:06 Tor — TD Owens 6 pass from Ray (Prefontaine convert) 12:15 Fourth Quarter Edm — Single Shaw 42 4:26 Edm — TD Chambers 22 pass from Reilly (twopoint convert failed) 9:03 Edm — FG Shaw 30 12:50 Tor — FG Prefontaine 26 13:55 Edm — TD Stamps 34 pass from Reilly (Shaw convert) 14:59 Edmonton 6 10 0 17 — 33 Toronto 7 10 16 3 — 36 Attendance — 19,656 at Toronto.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Team losses Net offence Passes made-tried Total return yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-lost Sacks by Punts-average Penalties-yards Time of possession

WEEK 10 Friday, Aug. 30 Hamilton at B.C., 8 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 1 Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 2 Edmonton at Calgary, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 3 Montreal at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Sask 18 93 250 343 6 337 18-32 179 2-0 5-4 0 11-48.2 13-135 29:43

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Mtl: Messam 15-54, Bruce 1-18, Marsh 1-4, Neiswander 2-2; Sask: Sheets 19-74, Durant 3-18, Dressler 1-1.

Receiving — Mtl: Green 7-146, London 2-28, Messam 3-26, Sutton 1-19, Deslauriers 1-8, Moore 1-6, Carrier 1-minus-1; Sask: Getzlaf 5-95, T.Smith 4-84, Dressler 5-51, Simon 2-14, Sheets 2-6.

Passing — Mtl: Calvillo 4-8, 85 yards, 0 TDs, 0 ints, Neiswander 12-30-147-0-2; Sask: Durant 1832-250-2-0.

Sunday’s summary Argonauts 36, Eskimos 33 First Quarter Tor — TD Robinson 45 pass from Collaros (Prefontaine convert) 3:12 Edm — FG Shaw 16 6:45

Edm 25 53 511 564 15 549 35-46 132 0-0 0-0 2 4-42.0 13-92 30:51

Tor 25 66 458 524 5 519 31-36 146 0-0 2-0 2 6-38.3 7-59 29:09

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Edm: Charles 6-27, Reilly 2-21, Koch 1-4, McCarty 1-3, White 1-minus-2; Tor: Steele 5-27, Owens 2-15, Durie 1-12, Porter 3-7, Ray 1-5, Collaros 1-0.

Receiving — Edm: Stamps 6-172, Henry 5-96, Coehoorn 6-92, Koch 7-68, Charles 6-47, Chambers 4-35, White 1-1; Tor: Chiles 5-135, Owens 9-102, Durie 8-74, Robinson 1-45, Porter 2-33, Bradwell 2-32, Inman 1-9.

Passing — Edm: Reilly 35-46, 511 yards, 3 TDs, 0 ints; Tor: Ray 30-35-413-3-0, Collaros 1-1-45-1-0.

National Football League Preseason AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Buffalo 2 0 0 1.000 64 New England 2 0 0 1.000 56 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 54 Miami 1 2 0 .333 64

PA 36 43 39 51

Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Tennessee

W 2 1 0 0

South L T 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .000 .000

PF 51 40 16 40

PA 30 56 64 49

Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland Pittsburgh

W 2 2 2 0

North L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 1.000 .000

PF 71 61 51 13

PA 39 29 25 18

Denver Oakland Kansas City San Diego

W 1 1 0 0

West L T 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 0

Pct .500 .500 .000 .000

PF 20 39 26 38

PA 46 45 32 64

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Washington 1 0 0 1.000 22 N.Y. Giants 1 1 0 .500 30 Philadelphia 1 1 0 .500 36 Dallas 1 2 0 .333 48

PA 21 33 40 51

New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay

W 2 1 0 0

South L T 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 .500 .000 .000

PF 45 33 33 37

PA 33 31 61 69

Chicago Detroit Green Bay Minnesota

W 1 1 1 0

North L T 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0

Pct .500 .500 .500 .000

PF 50 32 19 29

PA 52 41 24 47

Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis

W 2 2 1 0

West L T 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .500 .000

PF 29 71 21 26

PA 7 20 23 46

Friday’s Games Buffalo 20, Minnesota 16 New Orleans 28, Oakland 20 San Francisco 15, Kansas City 13 New England 25, Tampa Bay 21 Saturday’s Games Arizona 12, Dallas 7 Cincinnati 27, Tennessee 19 N.Y. Jets 37, Jacksonville 13 Green Bay 19, St. Louis 7 Houston 24, Miami 17 Seattle 40, Denver 10 Sunday’s Game Indianapolis 20, N.Y. Giants 12 Monday’s Game Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 22 New England at Detroit,5:30 p.m.

Carolina at Baltimore, 6 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 23 Seattle at Green Bay, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Oakland, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 24 Buffalo at Washington, 2:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Indianapolis, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 5 p.m.

Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Jacksonville, 5:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Denver, 6 p.m.

Cincinnati at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Tennessee, 6 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 25 New Orleans at Houston, 2 p.m.

Minnesota at San Francisco, 6 p.m.

Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Kansas City 24 11 7 6 36 24 New York 25 11 8 6 36 31 Montreal 23 11 7 5 36 35 Philadelphia 25 10 7 8 36 32 Houston 23 10 7 6 29 23 New England 24 9 9 6 29 23 Chicago 23 9 10 4 29 34 Columbus 24 8 11 5 29 30 Toronto 24 4 12 8 21 33 D.C. 24 3 17 4 14 40

Pt 39 39 38 38 36 33 31 29 20 13

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA 25 12 8 5 41 30 26 10 7 9 33 27 23 9 3 11 34 22 24 11 9 4 39 32 24 10 8 6 36 32 22 10 8 4 30 26 24 8 7 9 31 35 24 8 10 6 25 35 23 4 13 6 20 40

Pt 41 39 38 37 36 34 33 30 18

Salt Lake Colorado Portland Los Angeles Vancouver Seattle Dallas San Jose Chivas

Saturday’s results Montreal 2 D.C. 1 Colorado 2 Vancouver 0

Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Jose Alvarez to Toledo (IL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned LHP Danny Duffy to Omaha (PCL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed RHP Bartolo Colon on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Wednesday.

Recalled LHP Tommy Milone from Sacramento (PCL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Released 3B Blake DeWitt.

NEW YORK METS — Placed RHP Jenrry Mejia on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Greg Burke from Las Vegas (PCL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned OF Andrew Lambo to Indianapolis (IL). Selected the

Toronto Hamilton Montreal Winnipeg

CFL East Division GP W L T 7 5 2 0 7 3 4 0 7 2 5 0 7 1 6 0

Columbus 2 Toronto 0 Houston 3 Seattle 1 Los Angeles 4 Salt Lake 2 New England 2 Chicago 0 Philadelphia 0 New York 0 Portland 2 Dallas 1 Sunday’s game Kansas City at San Jose, late Wednesday, Aug. 21 Dallas at Chivas, 8:30 p.m.

Salt Lake at Portland, 9 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 23 Kansas City at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 24 Toronto at D.C., 5 p.m.

Houston at Montreal, 5 p.m.

San Jose at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 25 New York at Chivas, 3 p.m.

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

Portland at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Fofanah captures three medals at Canada Summer Games SHERBROOKE, Que. — Isatu Fofanah, who runs out of Edmonton but is from Ponoka, captured three medals on the track at the Canada Summer Games, which concluded during the weekend.

Fofanah won the 100-metres in 12.02 seconds, was second in the 200m in 24.20 seconds and helped Team Alberta take second in the 4x100m relay.

Roman Justinen of Rocky Mountain House finished third in his heat, but 14th overall in the 5,000m.

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Reed captures first win at Wyndham BEATS SPIETH WITH IMPROBABLE SHOT ON SECOND PLAYOFF HOLE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENSBORO, N.C. — In the span of a couple of strokes, Patrick Reed went from almost certain disaster to his first PGA Tour victory.

Reed won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first title, beating Jordan Spieth with a most improbable birdie on the second hole of a playoff.

Reed recovered from a drive on the par-4 10th that came a few feet from going out of bounds and stopped in some pine needles in the woods near a television cable.

Spieth pulled out his 7-iron, uncorked a baseball swing from an uphill lie and sent the ball under a tree branch — yet away from the tree trunk — to land his second shot 7 feet from the pin.

“It was the best shot of my life, that’s for sure,” Reed said.

Spieth, who called it “one of the best shots I’ve ever witnessed,” had reached the green in two strokes, but his 10-foot birdie putt trickled wide of the cup.

Reed then sank his short birdie putt that “felt like it was 40” feet to end it.

“Just to get my first win means everything to me,” Reed said.

Reed, who had his third straight top-10 finish, earned $954,000 in prize money and 500 FedEx Cup points for winning the final tournament before the playoffs.

Reed and Spieth finished regulation at 14-under 266. Reed closed with a 4-under 66, and Spieth had a 65.

The 20-year-old Spieth, the John Deere winner in a playoff last month, was denied in his bid to become youngest two-time champion in the modern era of the PGA Tour.

John Huh and Brian Harman were two strokes behind. Harman had a 66, and Huh shot 68. Matt Jones matched the tournament record for a final

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Patrick Reed and his wife and caddy, Justine kiss the Sam Snead trophy after he won the Wyndham Championship golf tournament in a second hole playoff at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday. round with a 62 and finished at 11 under along with Matt Every (67) and Zach Johnson (68).

Reed — who let a three-stroke lead on the back nine slip away — missed a chance to win it on the first playoff hole, the par-4 18th.

Spieth recovered from a terrible drive and saved par with a snaking 25-foot putt.

Reed pushed his 7-foot birdie putt wide of the hole, sending it to a second extra hole.

“I don’t even know how I was still playing (the second playoff hole) after what happened on 18,” Spieth said.

Spieth and Huh both caught Reed at 14 under down the stretch in regulation.

At roughly the same time Reed bogeyed the par-3 16th, Spieth birdied the par-4 17th and closed with a par.

Huh quickly slipped off the pace after finishing with two bogeys.

Reed, who led or shared the lead after the second and third rounds, also could have won it in regulation after landing his approach shot on the 18th in the center of the green.

But he left his approximately 20-foot birdie putt short and tapped in to force the playoff.

At the end of the day, the leaderboard looked much like it did at the start — tightly bunched. Eight players began the round within two strokes of the lead.

Reed compared the scenario to a

Monday qualifier, and he knows plenty about those: he earned his spots in six tournaments last year by playing well in those 18-hole Monday rounds.

For the second straight day, organizers tried to beat the rain by starting the round early, sending players off in threesomes from the first and 10th tees. The skies were ominously overcast all day, but the saturated course didn’t receive any rain.

And unlike the third round — in which only 13 players broke par — scores were significantly lower on the water-logged Sedgefield course, and that turned the final 18 holes into a shootout.

Jones birdied five consecutive holes and six of seven during his best round of the year.

“Every golfer out here can go and shoot that,” Jones said.

Jones and Simpson, the 2011 winner who shot a 63, led the 52 players who shot better than even-par 70 during the final round.

“You really couldn’t tell that the greens got any rain,” Simpson said.

“They were still as fast today as I’ve ever seen them.”

At one point early in the round, five players — Reed, Every, Harman, Huh and Johnson — shared the lead at 10 under and six others were within two strokes of them.

It wound up being a mostly fruitless week for the players on the playoff bubble who missed their last chance to push their way into The Barclays next week.

Nobody who started the week outside the top 125 managed to make it in. Each of the players at Nos. 126-132 missed the cut, and No. 133 Robert Streb finished at 3 under but could only jump to 126th.

“I was trying to put (the pressure) to the side as much as I could,” Streb said. “You can’t completely ignore it, but I just tried to play the best golf I could.”

Europe finally wins Solheim Cup on American soil PARKER, Colo. — Europe showed Sunday it can win the Solheim Cup anywhere.

Caroline Hedwall became the first player in Solheim Cup history to win all five of her matches, holing a 4-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a 1-up victory that assured the Europeans retaining the cup.

Moments later, Catriona Matthew finished off a rally to halve her match against Gerina Piller. That gave Europe 14 ½ points for its first win on American soil since this event in 1990.

And it wasn’t even close.

Charley Hull, the 17-year-old teenager and the youngest player in Solheim Cup history, capped off her amazing week by demolishing Paula Creamer in a match that set the tone for Europe. Carlota Ciganda of Spain handed Morgan Pressel her first lost in singles in four appearances to go 3-0 for the week.

Not even a one-hour delay due to lightning in the area could damper this European celebration.

Suzann Pettersen was lining up her putt on the 16th hole when she heard the cheers from the 18th, got the news and began pumping her first.

Europe still trails 8-5 in the competition, but this was the first time it has won back-to-back.

“It’s a fantastic feeling right now,” European captain Liselotte Neumann said. “I’m so proud of them.

They played such good golf this week. They just played tremendous golf.”

Matthew holed the winning the putt, but the Europeans really won Saturday afternoon when they swept the fourballs matches to build a 10 ½-5 ½ lead, matching the largest margin going into Sunday.

Raucous cheering on the first tee raised American hopes of the greatest comeback in Solheim Cup history.

Once they got on the golf course, it was a hopeless cause.

U.S. captain Meg Mallon stacked some of her best

players at the top of the lineup with hopes of filling the leaderboard with red scores and building momentum. Europe was ahead early four of the opening five matches.

Brittany Lang delivered a point, though she had a tussle with Azahara Munoz until winning on the 17th.

Stacy Lewis, in the opening singles match, didn’t take her first lead against Anna Nordqvist until driving the green on the par-4 14th for a birdie. But the closing stretch belonged to Europe, as it had all week. Lewis missed an 8-foot birdie on the 16th for a chance to go 2 up, and the Swede found more magic on the 17th. One day after her hole-in-one, she holed a 20-foot birdie putt to square the match, and Lewis had to make a 7-foot par to get a half-point.

Ciganda, the Spanish rookie who couldn’t break 80 in her opening fourballs match, finished with five straight birdies to pull away from Pressel.

Europe’s biggest boost came from its youngest star.

Hull, playing like she had been here many times before, dropped in a 45-foot birdie putt on No. 6 to take her first lead, and she demoralized Paula Creamer from there. The English teen hit an approach to 8 feet for birdie on the seventh, won the ninth when Creamer made double bogey and went 5 up when Creamer missed a short putt. The matched ended on the 14th in pars, and Hull’s week was over with two wins in three matches.

“I didn’t really feel that nervous, to be honest,” Hull said. “Because this is how I always look at golf — I’m not going to die if I miss it. Just hit it, and find it, and hit it again.”

Indeed, she made it look that simple.

Creamer has not made it beyond the 14th hole in singles losses the last two Solheim Cups.

Hull only showed her age at the end. She took a marker from her bag and asked Creamer if she could sign a golf ball for a friend back home. “He’s a big fan, so I thought I might as well get one,” Hull said.

Bryant becomes 1000th winner on Champions Tour

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ENDICOTT, N.Y. — It has been 33 years since the Champions Tour was born, and its newest champion is somebody special: 50-year-old rookie Bart Bryant is the tour’s 1,000th winner.

Bryant, who shot a tournament record-tying 10-under 62 in the second round to build a four-shot lead, closed with a 72 on Sunday and finished at 16-under 200 to beat Russ Cochran (67) and Corey Pavin (69) by one shot.

“It was a difficult day for me. I just never really felt settled,” Bryant said, his family standing by his side. “I really didn’t play great. Somehow, I managed to get it in. I think we all feel very blessed at the moment to pull this one out.”

It was a memorable moment for Bryant and the senior tour, which began in 1980 at the Atlantic City Country Club in Atlantic City, N.J. Don January, who won that first tournament, was on hand to congratulate Bryant and hand him the trophy.

“We thought there might be a market for us old guys,” the 83-year-old January said. “We was just interested in getting enough to make a living.

There were a bunch of us guys in our late 40s and early 50s still trying to play the (PGA) tour and wasn’t being very successful at it. Yet we felt like we could still play a little bit.”

The inaugural year consisted of four events. The purse at the Atlantic City Senior International was $125,000 and the total prize money for the season was $475,000. January took home $20,000. Bryant, whose best previous

finish this season was a tie for fourth at the 3M Championship in his last start two weeks ago, pocketed $270,000 of the $1.8 million purse.

“Truthfully, when we first started we had no idea how long it was going to last, or whether it would even be successful,” January said. “We thought we had a pretty good product, but we weren’t sure of anything. I never thought in that realm of 1,000 tournaments. My god, that’s forever. It’s come a long way. Hopefully, it will get better.”

For, Bryant, who won in just his 14th start on the circuit, it was his first victory since winning the 2005 Tour Championship, ending a drought of 7 years, 9 months, 11 days. He also won the 2005 Memorial and the 2004 Valero Texas Open on the PGA Tour.

That was before two surgeries on his left wrist relegated him to spectator status for nearly three years and left him wondering if he’d ever play again, let alone win.

“I dreamed about it. I envisioned it. I don’t know if I believed it would happen, especially after I did the first surgery and it failed,” Bryant said. “I don’t know if I really bought into the belief that it could actually happen this quick.”

Bryant, who held the largest lead entering the final round of this tournament since its inception in 2007, vowed not to play conservatively because the narrow, tree-lined En-Joie Golf Club course was yielding lots of birdies under near-ideal conditions. Luckily for him, nobody made a winning surge on a day where pin placements made going real low somewhat more difficult.

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Europe’s Carlota Ciganda, from Spain, celebrates after making birdie on the second hole during her singles match against United States’ Morgan Pressel at the Solheim Cup on Sunday, in Parker, Colo.

U.S. AMATEUR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BROOKLINE, Mass. — One hundred years after British superstars Harry Vardon and Ted Ray stopped at The Country Club on their unsuccessful victory tour, Matt Fitzpatrick finished the job.

Fitzpatrick won the U.S. Amateur on Sunday, beating Australian Oliver Goss 4 and 3 in the 36-hole final Sunday to become the event’s first English champion since 1911. The 18-year-old soon-to-be Northwestern freshman is the first foreigner to win any major USGA event at The Country Club, a streak that grew into a legend when Francis Ouimet beat Vardon and Ray here in the 1913 U.S. Open.

“It’s fantastic and it’s nice to be the first (in) a while,” Fitzpatrick said. “I guess it’s great to go down in history.

That’s sort of what everyone wants in golf, wants to achieve. ... It’s just fantastic, and I feel great.”

Fitzpatrick, who was the low amateur last month in the British Open, got a gold medal for his victory along with exemptions into the 2014 U.S. and British Opens — where he will be paired with defending champions Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose — and a likely invitation to the Masters. His name will be inscribed on the Havemeyer Trophy alongside five-time winner Bobby Jones, three-time winner Tiger Woods and two-time winners Jack Nicklaus and Ouimet.

It’s the first time Englishmen have won the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur in the same calendar year.

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Park does it all for Renegades WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Renegades 5 Saints 3 Sunday was a busy day for Chantel Park.

The 15-year-old opened the day by helping the Renegades U18 Tier II girls soccer team win a bronze medal at the provincial championships in Medicine Hat. She finished off by scoring once and playing goal in the second half as the Alberta Major Women’s Soccer League Renegades downed the Calgary Saints 5-3 in their final league game of the season at Edgar Park.

Although Park said it was a long day it didn’t prevent her from being one of the players of the game for the AMSL team.

“I got a chance to play outside midfield and scored then played goal in the second half . . . it was fun,” she said.

Park played a number of games with the AMSL team this season.

“I didn’t know how much I’d play going into the season, but as it progressed I got to play even more,” she said. “It’s worked out well.”

Not only does Park play up front as well as in goal she also spent some time on the defence.

U16 Tier II Renegades fall to Edmonton in provincial final

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Juventus 2 Renegades 0 Red Deer Renegades head coach Ezad Elkaz would have loved to be celebrating a provincial championship Sunday afternoon at Edgar Park, but second place at the provincial U16 Tier II girls’ soccer championships isn’t bad.

“You always want to finish on top, that’s the way it is in any competitive sport, but I’m happy with second place,” said Elkaz following a 2-0 loss to Edmonton Juventus. “Congratulations to Edmonton. They have a very competitive, hard-working team.”

They also played solid defence to handle a talented Red Deer crew, although Elkaz felt a couple of calls could have went the other way and possibly changed the momentum.

“There were a couple of calls, but that’s the way it is in any sport,” he said.

Elkaz can look back at a solid season for the young team, that was made up of 14 and 15 year-olds.

“It was an excellent season. We finished second in the Edmonton league, which is the top youth competitive soccer in the province for that age and then second in the provincials . . . I’m a happy coach.

“Really Red Deer is a smaller community when it comes to soccer, so to finish second is great. But we’re also trying to be first and what the Renegades program and the Red Deer City Soccer are doing will take us in that direction.

“I believe we will be first in the province.”

The U16 squad certainly has the talent as several players have played with the Alberta Major Women’s Soccer League Renegades this season, including Robyn MacDonald, who has already scored once in the province’s top league.

“She is one of my top players but then all my players are top players,” said Elkaz. “They all put their heart and soul into the team and play to win. And really this weekend was our best soccer of the season.”

The Renegades reached the final by beating Edmonton SWU Fury 2-0 and the Mill Woods Selects 3-0. MacDonald had two goals in both games with Elizabeth Morneault connecting against the Selects.

• Meanwhile, on the boys’ side the Renegades whipped Mac United 9-1 in the bronze medal game as Theoren Gill scored four times. Ryan Vleeming added three goals and Eduardo Morales and Colin Irons one each.

In pool play the Renegades downed Edmonton SWU Milan 6-0, lost 1-0 to SW United and 3-2 to Sherwood Park Phoenix.

Gill had three goals against Milan with Keegan Reid, Irons and Antonio Suhalj connecting once each. Ajden Sarcevic had two goals against Phoenix. ● In provincial U14 Tier II girls’ action the Renegades were 1-2. They defeated WRC Thunder 5-2 and lost 2-1 to both the St. Albert Impact and Edmonton Inter.

Shae Demale scored all seven goals for the Renegades. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

LOCAL

BRIEFS Four Central Albertans short-listed for U16 Western Canadian Challenge Cup A quartet of Central Alberta players have been short listed for Team Alberta to compete in the 2013 Western Canada U16 Challenge Cup, Oct. 31-Nov 3 in Calgary The top 35 players were selected following a camp in Camrose. The players will be watched with their club teams prior to naming the final 20.

T.J. Brown of Lacombe is among the defencemen on the list with Jeff de Wit, who was the Red Deer Rebels top pick in the WHL draft this year, and Parker Smyth of Red Deer and Tyler Steenbergen of Sylvan Lake up front.

Vigen takes first place from Battle of the Rockies, WPC’s final race of season ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE — Mike Vigen of Grande Prairie captured first place in the Battle of the Rockies, the final stop on the World Professional Chuckwagon Championship tour.

Vigen and the Zedcor Oilfield Rentals wagon put together a run of one minute 14.72 seconds in the final heat to edge Rick Fraser of Grande Prairie and the Northwell Oilfield Hauling rig, who came in at 1:14.78.

Fraser earlier captured his second world title.

“Wherever they need me,” she said.

Originally Park, who lives in Blackfalds and attends high school in Lacombe where she’ll attend Grade 11 in the fall, played mainly in goal, but her skill level up front couldn’t be overlooked.

“I like both areas . . . they both have their challenges,” she said. “I like diving around and stopping the ball, but I also like creating chances on net and stopping the other team’s top players.

“I do find after playing out that it’s a challenge going back into the net especially after not playing there for a while . . . but really I like them both.”

Park is already being recruited by a number of colleges, but she’s not worried about it just yet.

“I have a couple of years to decide.”

She started playing soccer when she was four as her father played as did her sister.

“My mom was always supportive, so it was what we did,” she said.

She also plays volleyball, and while she’s strong at it it’s likely she’ll play soccer once she leaves high school.

“I’m feeling the soccer,” she said with a smile.

Claire Wallace led the Renegades Sunday with three goals while Sydney Daines added a single marker.

“Claire had a real strong game, she scored twice in the first 10 minutes and got us going,” said Renegades coach Paul Morigeau, who feels good about the way the team looks heading into the provincials

Aug. 30-Sept. 2.

“We’ve been putting things together as we’re getting everyone back from holidays and injury,” he said. “We should have almost everyone here for provincials. We now have a couple of weeks off to rest and we’ll be ready. I believe we can surprise some teams.”

Kaitlin D’Arcy played goal the first half for the Renegades, who lost 2-1 to the Calgary Callies in Calgary Saturday. A strong effort considering they had only 10 players. Paula Dadensky scored her 13th goal of the season.

“It was also 30 degrees, but we played well, then carried over to today.”

The Renegades will also have Dadensky back from the University of Alberta for the provincials.

“They gave permission for their players to play that weekend,” said Morigeau. ● The Renegades downed the Edmonton Southwest United Dynamite 1-0 in the bronze medal game at the U18 Tier II championships.

Park scored the lone goal. She also scored once in a 2-0 win over Medicine Hat in their pool. Natassia Wright had the other goal. Cassandra Lockhart scored in a 1-0 win over the Blizzards while the Renegades missed out on an opportunity to go for gold when they lost 3-0 to Southwest United.

Micaela Stone was in goal. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Hamelin puts up dominant show at Canadian team trials BUT LEAVES WITH INJURY AFTER GOING INTO A WALL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Double gold medallist Charles Hamelin appears primed for the 2014 Winter Olympics — even if he suffered a minor setback at the Canadian team trials on Sunday.

Hamelin was forced to withdraw after slamming into the wall with two competitors during a 1,000-metre semifinal.

The three-time Olympic medallist was walking on crutches after the race.

Hamelin, a native of Levis, Que., said he stretched a ligament in the crash but that the injury isn’t serious. He said he should be back skating in a week.

Up until that point, Hamelin had dominated the competition, winning all of his eight races during the meet that ran from Aug. 7 to 18.

“Even in my dreams I couldn’t dream of that,” Hamelin said.

“It’s really fun to see that I was able to do everything I wanted to do on the ice, and that I was as strong as I was for the whole two weeks.”

The trials were spread over 12 days to replicate the schedule at the Sochi Games.

Hamelin said the injury likely won’t affect his preparation for the Olympics but that he’ll get a precautionary X-ray on Monday.

Overall, the make-up of Canada’s short-track team headed to Sochi, Russia, became a little clearer after the team trials.

Canada, a powerhouse at shorttrack, is led by an accomplished veteran group along with some promising emerging stars.

On the men’s side, Hamelin, Charle Cournoyer and Olivier Jean are on solid footing to represent Canada at the Olympics.

Marie-Eve Drolet, Valerie Maltais and Marianne St-Gelais are the front-runners on the women’s side.

SPEEDSKATING

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Charles Hamelin skates to a first place finish ahead of his brother Francois Hamelin, centre, and Francois-Louis Tremblay during the final of the men’s 500-metre race at the 2014 Canadian short track speedskating team selections in Montreal, Sunday.

Maltais was the strongest of the group, winning a total of six events at the meet.

The Olympic team isn’t yet official, however.

Speed Skating Canada will announce a list of five men and five women on Aug. 29.

The athletes then have to confirm quota places for themselves and Canada at Olympic qualifying competitions in the fall.

As the meet wrapped up, skaters said they would focus on fine-tuning their approach in the months leading up to the Olympics.

St-Gelais, who took silver medals in the 500-metres and the relay in Vancouver, said she feels fast and strong, but wants to be more aware of her competitors on the

track.

“My goal was to be top three, and I did that,” said St-Gelais, a native of Roberval, Que. “I think I’m strong and I’m going to try to keep that shape until the Olympics, but I need to be more aware of others on the ice.”

St-Gelais said the group remains tight-knit and she’s hoping for another strong showing in the relay event, for both the men and the women.

Maltais said the goal for her — and the team — will be to steadily improve as they head toward Sochi. The skater from La Baie, Que., set a world record in the 1,000 metres in October.

“As an athlete you want to peak at the right time,” she said. “This is just the start.”

Up With Birds gets the win at Breeders’ Stakes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — After falling just short in last month’s $1-million Queen’s Plate, jockey Eurico Rosa da Silva and Up With the Birds left nothing to chance Sunday in the $500,000 Breeders’ Stakes.

Da Rosa moved Up With the Birds into the lead down the stretch, then emphatically held off a spirited River Seven to win the final leg of Canadian thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown at Woodbine Racetrack. The Queen’s Plate runner-up easily handled the 1 ½-mile distance, winning in 2:28.69 on a firm turf.

“I think he knew he lost last time (in Queen’s Plate) so he said, ’This time Eurico, I do the job,’ ” Da Silva said. “When he took the lead, it was hard for another horse to catch him because he wants to take off. He’s all heart, he’s a very good horse.”

Up With the Birds fell well back in the 1 ¼-mile Queen’s Plate on July 7 but rallied strong to finish second, a half-length behind Midnight Aria in rainy conditions on a speed-favouring Woodbine polytrack. The race took its toll on Midnight Aria, who skipped the $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes on July 30 at Fort Erie Racetrack due to fatigue while Up With the Birds was always being pointed towards the Breeders’ Stakes.

Up With the Birds didn’t have to contend with either Midnight Aria or Prince of Wales victor Uncaptured as neither ran Sunday.

Winning trainer Malcolm Pierce said the rest certainly helped Up With the Birds easily pass his stiffest test. In fact, after taking the lead the three-yearold son of Stormy Atlantic showed why he was the overwhelming favourite, holding off a game River Seven before pulling away for a 2 ¾-length victory.

“He answered (questions about distance) them today,” Pierce said. “I was real worried at the head of the stretch because River Seven was giving him all he wanted but the last eighth of a mile I got a little more relief as he pulled away.

“We didn’t think there would be much pace so we were sure hoping to maybe be a little closer than we were in the Plate and just have some luck and a good trip. That’s half the battle because we thought we had the right horse.”

Owner Sam-Son Farm earned the $300,000 winner’s share with a record sixth Breeders’ victory.

River Seven was second in the 10-horse field, a neck ahead of third-place finisher Pyrite Mountain.

The remainder of the field, in order of finish, was: Global Express; Who’s Mr. Hughes; Highland Bay; Dragon Puff; Scipio; Bookies Nightmare; and Faithful Rose.

Wando is the last Canadian Triple Crown winner, achieving the feat in 2003.

Pierce said had Up With the Birds won the Plate, he would’ve run at Fort Erie and taken a run at the Triple Crown. But with a first- and second-place finish, Pierce wasn’t lamenting about what might’ve been.

“We’ve never really tried him on dirt,” Pierce said. “He worked on dirt in New Orleans over the winter but we didn’t think it really needed to happen.

“If we would’ve won the Queen’s Plate we probably would’ve gone to Fort Erie and tried it but after getting beat (in Plate) it sure made a lot of sense to come into this race really fresh.”

Up With the Birds paid $3.10, $2.30 and $2.10 while River Seven returned $5.20 and $3.40. Pyrite Mountain paid $3.10.

River Seven was the only horse to run in all three Triple Crown races this year, taking second in the Prince of Wales after finishing 10th in the Plate.

But trainer Nick Gonzalez, who also conditioned Midnight Aria, was pleased with River Seven’s first effort on grass.

“I knew it was going to be a fight,” he said. “A lot of the horses in the race were proven accomplished turf horses.

“We were experimenting but I’m very happy.”

Gary Boulanger, Pyrite Mountain’s jockey, said Up With the Birds was a deserving winner but added with a little bit of luck his horse could’ve taken second.

“I was following Eurico (Up With the Birds), I was stuck there the whole way,” he said. “If I had a little better trip down the lane, I don’t think I’d beat Eurico but I’d have finished second.”

Up With the Birds also continued a trend in this race, becoming the 26th of 55 race favourites in the Triple Crown era to emerge victorious.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Aug. 19, 2013

Logano holds off Harvick for crucial win NASCAR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Joey Logano gave Ford a Sprint Cup sweep in Michigan — and enabled team owner Roger Penske to celebrate a victory in his home state.

Now Logano can start to envision a happy finish to what has been an eventful season for the 23-year-old driver.

“We’re close, we’re close,” Logano said. “What a great place to win — what a great time to win, being in Ford’s backyard.”

Logano boosted his chances of reaching the Chase for the Sprint Cup, winning for the first time this season in a fuel-mileage race at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday.

Logano and Kevin Harvick both breezed past Mark Martin with just over three laps to go in the 400-mile, 200-lap race. Martin had been trying to stretch fuel, but when he faltered, Logano was able to hold off Harvick.

The win put Logano in 13th place in the standings. He’s seven points behind Martin Truex Jr. for the second wild card.

It’s been an up-and-down year for Logano. He and teammate Brad Keselowski were docked 25 points each after NASCAR inspectors confiscated parts from the rear suspensions of their cars before the April 13 race at Texas.

More recently, Logano has had to recover from back-to-back 40th-place showings at Daytona and Loudon, but he’s now right in the middle of a wild race for the final Chase spots.

“A roller coaster, to say the least,” Logano said. “We’ve just got to keep that momentum going. It just goes to

show, as long as nothing goes wrong — knock on wood — we’ve been pretty good. We’ve had some good speed in our cars.”

Everything went pretty much according to plan at Michigan. Logano won the pole Friday and took Sunday’s race by a second over Harvick, who is safely in fourth place in the standings.

“I was very pleased with the day,” Harvick said. “It’s just going to come down to getting on a hot streak over 10 weeks and not making any mistakes.”

There are three races left before the Chase, and the jockeying for the final spots is just as muddled as it was before Sunday’s race.

Keselowski, the defending champion, is still in eighth place with 667 points, but Kurt Busch is now only two points behind him after a third-place showing Sunday.

Greg Biffle (663) is in 10th place.

Kasey Kahne (659) and Truex (653) are currently in line to be the wild cards, but Logano closed a lot of ground.

Points leader Jimmie Johnson lasted less than 60 laps Sunday before engine trouble knocked him out. He still has a 41-point lead over Clint Bowyer.

Biffle finished ninth after winning the previous two Cup races at Michigan. His victory in June was the 1,000th for Ford Motor Company across NASCAR’s three national series — Cup, Nationwide and Truck.

Biffle drives for Roush Fenway Racing. This time, it was Penske’s turn to celebrate.

“I go back about 30 years here at the track — this is probably one of the biggest wins,” Penske said. “I say it’s my home state, it’s my home track, and

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Joey Logano, centre, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup series Pure Michigan 400 auto race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., Sunday.

Detroit’s my city.”

It was the third Cup win of Logano’s career, and it came after he posted the ninth-fastest pole-winning speed in NASCAR history during Friday’s qualifying.

Johnson, Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were among the big names to have problems, but the race was a clean one for Logano in his No. 22 Ford. He was battling Kurt Busch for the lead at the very start and needed only to outlast Harvick at the end.

Sunday’s race began with 10 of the first 17 laps under caution. There were nine cautions in all, and Logano and Kurt Busch led for 94 of the 200 laps —

nearly half the race.

The 54-year-old Martin emerged late, making a bid for his first Cup win since 2009, but his fuel didn’t hold up.

He finished 27th.

“We saved a bunch of gas but we needed one more yellow,” Martin said.

“One more yellow and we would have been in good shape.”

Johnson finished 40th and is now winless in 24 Cup starts at MIS. His lost weekend began when a practice crash Saturday forced him to use a backup car and start in the back of the field.

He quickly made his way into contention before the engine problem ended his day.

Colts respond to owner’s criticism with win over Giants

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Indianapolis Colts wide receiver T.Y. Hilton (13) catches a pass for a touchdown over New York Giants’ Jayron Hosley (28) during the first half of an NFL preseason football game, Sunday, in East Rutherford, N.J.

Record-setting bull’s streak of 42 straight buckoffs finally ends RODEO

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TULSA, Okla. — It took nine tries but J.B. Mauney finally made a full 8-second ride of Bushwacker, the record-setting bull that had 42 consecutive buckoffs at Professional Bull Riders events.

Mauney rode the 1,700-pound bull for 95.25 points Saturday night to win the Express Employment Professionals Classic presented by WinStar World Casino to earn $46,605 and stop the streak that began in 2009 when Bushwacker was 3 years old.

“It’s about time,” said Mauney, who had been thrown off in his eight previous attempts to ride the 2011 world champion bull.

“Everything’s going great right now. When you feel good, you ride good.”

The 26-year-old cowboy from Mooresville, N.C., came into the final round in second place and made the crowd-pleasing decision to ride Bushwacker in the championship round.

With every other rider, including Markus Mariluch, who was the last rider to make a qualified ride on Bushwacker in 2009, and every stock contractor cheering him on from the back of the bucking chutes, Mauney threw caution to the wind and disregarded every basic fundamental of bull riding.

“I was just hanging on,” he admitted.

Bushwacker is the front-runner for this year’s world champion bull title.

He was the high-marked bull of the event with 46.75 points.

“If it had to be anybody it had to be J.B.,” said Kent Cox, who has handled Bushwacker his entire career for owner Julio Moreno.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — When owner Jim Irsay complains, the Indianapolis Colts listen, and respond.

Andrew Luck threw for 107 yards and two touchdowns and the Colts responded to criticism by their owner with a 2012 exhibition victory over the New York Giants on Sunday night.

Irsay used Twitter to apologize to fans for the Colts’ abysmal showing in a 44-20 loss to Buffalo last week, and the Colts (1-1) improved markedly, with some help from the bubbling and suddenly injury-concerned Giants (1-1).

“That’s more like it..there r sum that shrug off losing,even at checkers;they’ll never wear the HORSESHOE or touch the Diamond’s of Champions,” Irsay tweeted after the game in which the Giants saw wide receiver Victor Cruz (bruised heel) and starting centre David Baas (sprained knee) leave early and not come back.

Luck was the Colts’ catalyst.

Not seeing much pressure, the No. 1 pick in the 2012 draft threw touchdown passes of 28 yards to Reggie Wayne and 18 to T.Y. Hilton in leading the Colts to 17 points. Adam Vinatieri added a 52-yard field goal as Indianapolis scored on three consecutive series.

“It wasn’t perfect,” said Luck, who completed 9 of 13 passes and finished with a 133.7 quarterback rating.

“There is still a whole bunch

of room for improvement but it was good to get in a rhythm, it was good to put points on the board. What a great job by our defence, holding them to three points on some short fields.”

Luck admitted the team was disappointed with its effort against the Bills.

“We knew we wanted to come out here and show what the horseshoe is about,” he said. “It wasn’t perfect but we did some good things against a very good outfit.”

Backup kicker Brandon McManus added a 50-yard field goal for the Colts in the second half.

New York’s Josh Brown kicked field goals of 25, 27 and 45 yards in the first half.

The last one came after Giants coach Tom Coughlin was flagged for a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for leaving the coaching box, he said after the game. Brown added a 47-yard field goal with 8:43 to play to close out the scoring.

Coughlin accepted responsibility, saying he had been warned about leaving the box.

“I was wrong,” said Coughlin, who did know the extent of the injuries to Cruz and Baas, although Cruz did not seem as serious.

“It wasn’t a smart thing but the frustration in terms of how we played was there and I am disappointed in tonight’s game.”

Luck, who led the Colts to an 11-5 record and a playoff berth in his rookie season, got

a gift touchdown pass, courtesy of veteran Giants cornerback Aaron Ross, who was starting for the injured Corey Webster.

On a second-and-3 play from the 28, Luck underthrew Wayne on a pattern down the right sideline. A backpedalling Ross was in perfect position to intercept the ball, but he had the ball slip out of his hands and popped into the air.

Wayne came down with it in the end zone for a 7-3 lead.

Ross said he lost the ball in the lights for a split second.

“The lights kind of blinded me a little bit and I was trying to let it fall softly into my little pocket here,” Ross said of his stomach. “It came up short, hit my hands and I ended up popping it backward. It was one of those plays you’re happy it happened in the preseason and not the regular season.”

Ross said Wayne was even shocked.

“He saw me on the sidelined and said ‘What happened, I just knew you had the pick, ”’ Ross said. “It was one of those fluke plays.”

An interception by new cornerback Greg Toler on Eli Manning’s third-down pass on the ensuring series gave the ball to the Colts at the New York 41. Vinatieri made his 52-yarder with about 10 yards to spare after three plays moved the ball to the 34.

Luck finished off his night, leading the Colts on a sevenplay, 60-yard drive that featured two third-down conversions.

Rivalry gets heated after A-Rod plunked in series finale between Red Sox and Yankees

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Yankees 9 Red Sox 6 BOSTON — Alex Rodriguez was hit by a fastball his first time up and then homered to start a four-run sixth inning that rallied the New York Yankees to a 9-6 win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi was ejected after storming out of the dugout to holler at plate umpire Brian O’Nora, who warned both benches immediately after Rodriguez was plunked by Ryan Dempster’s 3-0 pitch leading off the second inning. It struck his left elbow pad and ricocheted off his back.

“He should have been thrown out of the game,” Girardi said. “Everyone knows it was intentional.”

Players streamed from the dugouts and benches, but no skirmishes developed in the latest testy game between the longtime rivals.

“It’s obviously an odd situation there,” Rodriguez said. “The game has a way of policing itself.”

The dustup seemed to spark the Yankees, who were trailing 2-0 at the time. Mariano Rivera earned his first save since blowing three chances in a row for the first time in his career.

Rodriguez, who went 3 for 4 with two runs and two RBIs, was suspended recently for 211 games by Major League Baseball in the Biogenesis drug case.

He appealed the penalty and can play until there is a final decision.

Boston’s lead in the AL East was cut to one game over Tampa Bay. The game took 4 hours, 12 minutes.

One Yankee drew loud cheers from the Fenway Park crowd. Rivera received a standing ovation as he ran in from the bullpen for the ninth. In his first appearance since last Sunday, he got his 36th save in 41 opportunities.

With two runners on, Rivera retired Jarrod Saltalamacchia on a fly ball for the final out.

CC Sabathia (11-10) got the win and the Yankees took two of three from the first-place Red Sox. Booed every time he came to bat — and even when he was on deck in the first — Rodriguez drew

more jeers after he led off the sixth with a homer off Dempster (6-9) to cut the lead to 6-4. Brett Gardner soon followed with a three-run triple off Drake Britton.

As Rodriguez’s second homer of the year landed in the centre field bleachers, he clapped his hands and let out a shout at first base. Then he clapped again and pointed both hands skyward as he crossed home plate.

He continued to the dugout where he was congratulated by teammates. The homer was the 649th of Rodriguez’s career, 11 behind Willie Mays for fourth place on the career list.

The rally continued when the Yankees loaded the bases with one out on singles by Eduardo Nunez and Lyle Overbay and a walk to Chris Stewart before Gardner tripled.

Rodriguez was one of four Yankees hit by pitches, but his was the only one that appeared to be intentional. Boston manager John Farrell said in an interview with ESPN during the game that he didn’t feel Dempster hit Rodriguez intentionally.

“He was trying to establish his fastball,” Farrell said. “Obviously, the pitch got away from him.”

Dempster’s first pitch went behind Rodriguez’s knees as fans chanted “You’re a cheater!” The next two pitches were inside before the fourth pitch struck Rodriguez. He walked slowly to first base, accompanied by a trainer and staring at Dempster but not making a move toward the mound.

In 12 games since his season debut after recovering from hip and quadriceps problems, Rodriguez is batting .319 with two homers and six RBIs. Boston had taken a 2-0 lead in the first on a sacrifice fly by Jonny Gomes and an RBI single by Saltalamacchia. New York tied it in the second when Rodriguez was hit, took third on a double by Curtis Granderson and scored on a single by Nunez. Overbay followed with a sacrifice fly.

Rodriguez’s run-scoring groundout gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the third before the Red Sox tied it in the bottom of the inning on an RBI groundout by David Ortiz.

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Rafe Spall and Rose Byrne star in I Give It a Year, a film that doesn’t deliver much in the way of originality.

I Give It a Year: Little laughter, even less love

BY STEPHANIE MERRY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES So many films end with a wedding that it seems like a fresh idea to start a movie with one, especially a union that doesn’t guarantee a happily ever after.

But the British film I Give It a Year doesn’t deliver much else in the way of originality. In addition to some trite set pieces, writer-director Dan Mazer serves up nothing more than conspicuous cynicism masquerading as comedy.

As the opening credits roll, Josh (Rafe Spall) meets and woos Nat (Rose Byrne). Their sevenmonth courtship leads to a wedding that nearly everyone thinks is too soon.

Nat’s sister, Naomi (Minnie Driver), is a chronic killjoy, but you have to admit she has a point when she utters the line that gives the film its title, and during the ceremony, no less.

That the officiant bursts into a coughing spasm just as he’s about to pronounce the pair husband and wife foreshadows the difficulties to come.

But a terrible best-man speech — that old chestnut — not to men-

tion the declaration by Josh’s parents that the first year of marriage is a nightmare, broadcasts a decisive forecast: The honeymoon is over, and it hasn’t even begun.

The biggest problem turns out to be that Nat and Josh don’t like each other. It’s easy to see why, given that neither party is particularly pleasant.

Nat is uptight and gloomy, and Josh is a lazy numskull whose career as a novelist consists mostly of sitting on the couch.

Another complication emerges as more suitable partners appear for both husband and wife. Josh has the same childish sense of humor as his ex-girlfriend, Chloe (a brunette Anna Faris), who returns to London from Africa just in time for the wedding.

And Nat’s new client, Guy (Simon Baker), is dashing and painfully serious. What’s more, Guy wants to be with Nat, and Chloe still loves Josh.

As their emotional affairs heat up, Nat and Josh become increasingly mean and easily exasperated by all the things you might expect. Nat realizes her husband might be incapable of replacing toilet paper rolls and taking out the trash.

And Josh finds his wife’s habit of singing along to songs, even though she doesn’t know the words, grating. There is not one reasonable person in this movie’s world who can offer some perspective on how to treat a person, much less a spouse.

Instead, Josh and Nat confer with an incompetent marriage counselor, who pauses their session to take a phone call during which she threatens to stab her husband in the eye, and the surly Naomi, who tells Nat to “embrace the hatred.”

As the movie tries to find comedy in mean-spiritedness, it also relies heavily on oversharing as a source of laughs.

With the exception of Guy and Chloe, the characters are either hostile or generous only with details no one wants to hear. Unhappily ever after might be the outcome they deserve.

One and a half stars. R. Contains sexual situations, language and nudity. 97 minutes.

Ratings Guide: Four stars masterpiece, three stars very good, two stars OK, one star poor, no stars waste of time.

Stephanie Merry writes for The Washington Post.

MARS, Pa. — A camouflage-clad bride and groom got a little advice from a bewhiskered witness on their wedding day: Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson.

WTAE-TV reports Robertson told the couple to always love and forgive one another as they were wed Saturday morning at a Field & Stream store near Pittsburgh.

Robertson popped in for the nuptials of Mehgan Cook, who sported a camouflage sash on her dress, and Charlie Miller, who was completely clad in camo gear.

The two hadn’t planned on marrying at the store but Cook said they were eager to meet Robertson.

“I was going to cancel the wedding ’cause I heard Willie was coming,” Cook told KDKATV. FIle photo by Instead, Cook said, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS her mother came up with the idea of a wedding at S t a r o f t h e r e a l i t y series the store — and they got t e l e v i s i o n a surprise when Robert- Duck Dynasty Willie son appeared during the Robertson. ceremony.

“That’s a first for me, it’s good to be a part of that,” Robertson said.

“They look like my kind of folks with the camouflage. That was cool.”

On the Duck Dynasty Season 4 premiere, which aired Wednesday, family members threw a surprise wedding for patriarch Phil Robertson, wearing a black jacket over camouflage garb, and his wife, Miss Kay. They could only afford a justice of the peace when they married 48 years ago.

The show drew 11.8 million viewers on the A&E channel, making it the No. 1 non-fiction series telecast in U.S. cable television history in total viewers as well as all key demographic groups.

Cook said she had been engaged to another man, but he died in a car crash four years ago. But she met Miller at the scene and eventually the two started dating.

“I never thought it would happen again,” Cook said, tearing up.

Paranoia a toothless cyber thriller LIAM HEMSWORTH MAKES A DEAL WITH THE DIGITAL DEVIL

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BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Paranoia 1.5 stars (out of four) Rated: PG Liam Hemsworth is an aspiring onepercenter who makes a deal with the digital devil in director Robert Luketic’s unthrilling thriller Paranoia.

The Hunger Games franchise hunk plays Adam Cassidy, a 27-year-old tech whiz who feels hard done by in his efforts to inherit some of the American Dream.

He lives at home, struggling to cover the hospital fees run up by his widowed and ailing blue-collar dad (Richard Dreyfuss, slumming it along with Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman for an easy payday).

Sulky pouts won’t pay the bills for Adam, a tech company drone at Manhattan-based Wyatt Corp., who is plotting a jump to an executive office with his latest whiz-bang idea.

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Paranoia would have been more interesting had Adam been less heroic and more craven, rather than insisting he’s only in the game to make enough dough to help out the dear old dad — the same fellow he later dismisses as a loser in the game of life.

There isn’t even anything paranoid going on in Paranoia, even if Adam has every good reason to be suspicious of these creepy cyber kings after an FBI agent shows up with photographic evidence of what happened to others Wyatt had hired to do some snooping.

It seems the only people we genuinely fear are out to get us are screenwriters Barry Levy (Vantage Point) and Jason Dean Hall in adapting Joseph Finder’s novel.

In between there’s a great deal of tapping on smart phones and looking for hidden cameras but the fine elements of a good corporate thriller are far from view.

It’s tension free and as a result, forgettable.

And if the filmmakers fear critics are out to get them with reviews for Paranoia, that’s not paranoia either; it’s reality.

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With Wyatt’s help, Adam is to wrangle a top-tier job at rival tech house Eikon (pronounced “icon”) to find out what cellphone breakthrough Wyatt’s former business partner and hated rival Jock Goddard (Ford) has on the go.

Wyatt promises he will make it worth Adam’s while.

Ford looks ancient, no thanks to a

skull-baring buzz cut and, in one scene, baggy dad jeans that do major damage to memories of Indiana Jones’s ruggedly sexiness. Worse, he seems only occasionally engaged with his onscreen duties as Goddard, who seems far too anxious to take newcomer Adam under his wing. Perhaps the young go-getter reminds him of his late son.

Amber Heard plays Eikon’s whipsmart marketing ace and reluctant love interest, Emma, with the sex kept strictly above the covers in a calculated move to get younger viewers into the theatre to see their Hunger heartthrob.

She goes from icy brainiac to mushy love bunny in the space of a few scenes, yet there’s more steam coming from Wyatt’s tea — and he complains that it’s cold.

At least watching Oldman chew the scenery and Ford looking like he’s trying to remember his lines distracts from the ridiculous and lazily formed plot.

At 106 minutes, it’s a long slog, rife with dangling threads and a toothless gallery of gotchas, including one involving Wyatt’s creepy corporate psychologist Dr. Judith Bolton (Embeth Davidtz).

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TESTING TRUCK OPERATORS & SHOP HAND

Must have class 5 Q endorsement license, please provide drivers abstract as well as valid oilfield tickets. Drop off resumes at 7889 49 Ave. Red Deer.

JAGARE ENERGY PRODUCTION TESTING now hiring Night Operators, and Helpers. Must have valid Class 5 drivers license. RSP’s and benefits pkg. incentives.

Email resumes to: jagare2@gmail.com or mikeg@jagareenergy.com 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

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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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

website: www.cathedralenergyservices.com Methods to Apply: HRCanada@ cathedralenergyservices.com pnieman@ cathedralenergyservices.com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 TEAM Snubbing Services now hiring experienced operators Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com fax 403-844-2148

TREELINE WELL SERVICES

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately.

All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, (No GDL licenses) and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits.

Please include 2 work reference names and numbers.

Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please.

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

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

1393699 AB LTD. o/a JUGO JUICE -F/T Food Counter Attendant. $11/hr, 40 hrs/wk. Email: janegosselin@telus.net

R A TRACER

an oilfield radioactive tracing company req’s an RSO for its Red Deer area operations. Qualified applicants can email their resume to: scottk@ratracer.ca

Zubar Production Services

is currently taking resumes for experienced Production Testing Supervisor Night Operators & Assistant Operators Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420.

Must have all valid tickets.

BLACKFALDS Motor Inn -Housekeeping Supervisor Req’d. 1 F/T, $18/hr., 1 yr. exp. req’d. Fax resume: 403-885-5868 Attn: Jenny

DAD’S PIZZA

PART TIME COOK Apply at East 40th Pub. 3811 40th Ave.

EAST 40TH PUB

Looking for Part/Full Time BARTENDER/SERVER. Apply with resume to 3811 40 Ave, Red Deer

800

CCCSI is hiring sanitation workers for the afternoon and evening shifts. Get paid weekly, $14.22/hr.

Call 403-348-8440 or fax 403-348-8463 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

800 Fracturing Operators Nitrogen Pumper Operators Cement Operators/Cement Bulk Drivers Acidizing Operators Heavy Duty Journeyman Mechanics / Apprentices

Viking Projects Ltd. is located in Lacombe Alberta and services all of Western Canada. We specialize in a variety of pipeline, facility and reclamation services.

We are looking for

PIPELINE PERSONNEL

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

Scan to See Current Openings

Viking Projects Ltd. offers competitive wages, WHMIS and TDG tickets done in house.

Safety Tickets required:

H2S, CSTS/PST, First Aid, and Ground Disturbance Valid driver’s licence an asset Please reply with resume to:

Email: reception@vikingprojects.ca Fax: 403-782-6856 3412 53rd Ave, Lacombe, AB T4L OB5 Phone: 403-782-2756 Website: www.vikingprojects.ca

315835H16-20

309-3300

Experience is an asset but we are willing to train.

We are looking for motivated applicants meeting these criteria: - Enjoys challenges - Is dependable and responsible - Communicates well with others - Follows instructions - Is not afraid to ask questions

312743H1-31

that work well in a team environment.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 B9

820

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. LUAU Investments Ltd. (O/A Tim Hortons) Food Counter Attendant F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) Must be avail. weekends $11.00 per hour.

4217 - 50 Ave. 6721 - 50 Ave. 7111 - 50 Ave. timhire@telus.net LUAU Investments Ltd. (O/A Tim Hortons) FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR 1 yr previous experience.

F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) Must be avail. weekends $13.00 per hour 4217 - 50 Ave. 6721 - 50 Ave. 7111 - 50 Ave. timhire@telus.net Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

RAMADA INN & SUITES REQUIRES ROOM ATTENDANTS. Exp. preferred.

Only serious inquiries apply.

Rate $13.50/hr.

Drop off resume at: 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer or fax 403-342-4433 SUNSHINE Family Restaurant - F/T Kitchen Helper. $11.41/hr, 40 hrs/wk. Email: janegosselin@telus.net THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS must be avail. nights and weekends. Must have:

• • •

2-3 yrs. post secondary education.

2-5 yrs. training 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp.

Provide references The hourly rate will be $13.10.

Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161

Sales & Distributors

830

EDGE CLOTHING BOWER MALL Looking for a committed mature individual for management and f/t positions. The right candidate should possess the following: * Likes responsibility * Love interacting with people * Strong customer service attitude * Team leader/player * Is goal oriented * Enthusiastic * Efficient * Love for fashion Some weekends are a must. * Pay that’s above industry standard * Discounts within store * Clothing allowance * Bonus structure Please drop resume off in person within store as won’t accept resume through email. Open Mon. - Sat. 9:30 am - 9 pm. Sun. 11 am - 5 pm.

Call Ben at 403-350-6142 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Sales & Distributors

830

Go Auto req’s an

Automotive Accessories Salesperson

for MGM Ford Lincoln in Red Deer, AB! You will be responsible to the setup of displays, ordering material and providing advice about the merchandise to customers. You will also liaise with the sales and service department to schedule the accessory installs. Hours of work are Tues. - Thurs. 12-8 and Fri-Sat. 8-5.

Requirements: *Automotive exp. preferred * Great Customer Service * Flexibility Go Auto offers above average pay and benefit plans. Please apply today to hear more! Apply online today@goauto.ca/careers

Trades

850

APPLY NOW NOW HIRING G.M. Tech or ASEP. With good communications skill and work ethics to work with award winning G.M. dealership in Lacombe Alberta.

Good hrs & bonus. for production.

Training provided .

Apply to confidential email: bert.rumsey@telus.net

AUTOBODY JOURNEYMAN MECHANIC

or equivalent skill level.

Required immed. Resume & references required.

Apply to 6758 52 Ave.

BRAATT CONST.

Of Red Deer is seeking exp’d. carpenters for the agricultural industry. Must have drivers license. Call Brad 403-347-6562

Busy road construction company looking for

FINISHING HOE & DOZER OPERATORS

Minimum 5 yrs. exp, work 7 days a week at least 12 hrs. a day, overtime and subsided pay. Please Fax: resume to 403-309-1944 or email to: info@tblconstruction.ca GROWING COMPANY, TJ PAVING, needs employees with paving experience. Great Working Atmosphere. Email resume to: tjpaving@hotmail.com

Trades

850

ELECTRICIANS

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

DNR Powerline Construction requires Journeyman/ Apprentices/Labourers for various projects in Alberta.

Long term employment.

Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages. Fax resume to 403-742-5759 or email: dnrwelding1 @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: Noel. No Phone calls please. Drug and Alcohol program in effect.

DNR Pressure Welding requires B-Pressure Welders/Labourers for various projects in Alberta.

Long term employment.

Excellent opportunity for apprenticeship. Excellent benefit packages. Fax resume to 403-742-5759 or email: dnrwelding1 @dnrwelding.ca. Attention: Ryan. No Phone calls please. Drug and Alcohol program in effect.

JOIN OUR TEAM!

With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Truckers/ Drivers

Independent Paint & Body and/or Fix Auto Collision is currently accepting resumes for experienced Prepper or Painter.

Apply with resume to 7453 - 50 Ave Red Deer, AB or email resume to reddeer@fixauto.com LOOKING FOR APPRENTICE WELDERS/MILLWRIGHT Must be willing to travel, work heights, have valid drivers licence. Email: tracous@yahoo.com

MESSINGER Meats in Mirror, AB Req’s EXPERIENCED BUTCHER IMMED. meat cutting, deboning, sausage making and kill floor work. F/T (45 HRS) permanent position, $20/hr. Please call Joe Messinger 403-788-3838 NEEDED F/T Service Person for after sales service and set up of manufactured and modular home. Must have exp. in roofing, siding, flooring, drywall, paint etc., Competitive wages and health plan avail. Apply to James at M & K Homes, 403-346-6116 NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Central City Asphalt Ltd.

Flag People Labourers Wobbly Operator

CLASS 1drivers req’d for road construction. Truck and pup exp. Living allowance incld. Fax 403-309-0489 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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.

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Sylvan Lake. Openings for winch tractor, bed truck drivers and swamper’s.

Top wages and benefits.

Email resume tom@ roncooilfield.ca or fax. 403-887-4892

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Fax (403) 885 5137 Email: office@ccal.com Website: ccal.com

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

•

For local work.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

Requires Full Time

Equipment Operators

316323H19-25

For local work.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

SIGN SHOP ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR: -Graphic Arts Technician (must know CorelDraw) -Sign Installer and -Sign Manufacturer All positions require min 3 yrs exp and a clean Class 5 License.

Apply by fax only to: 403-341-4014 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

880

Academic Express

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

860

BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net

Carpenters Carpenters Helpers • • & Site Foreman

830

850

CLASSIC HOMES LTD is now accepting resumes for JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER Full Time Hours. 3-4 yrs. exp. req’d. Provide references.

Must have Zoom Boom, First Aid, & Fall Arrest Certificates. TRUE POWER ELECTRIC The hourly rate will be Requires $22.00/hour. Email: wes@classichomesltd.com QUALIFIED Tired of Standing?

JOURNEYMAN Find something to sit on 2rd and 4th yr. in Classifieds

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

Professionals

Trades

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FALL START

Community Support Worker Women in Trades Math and Science in the Trades GED classes days/ evening Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca Start your career!

See Help Wanted You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Truckers/ Drivers

880

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk

in CLEARVIEW AREA Cole St. & 1 Block of Cornett Dr. $62/mo.

(Reliable vehicle needed) CLEARVIEW AREA 83 papers daily $444/mo.

GRANDVIEW 40A Ave & 47 St. area & N. side of Ross St.

EASTVIEW AREA 110 papers daily $589/mo.

TIMBERLANDS AREA Turner Cres., Timothy Dr., Towers Cl., Tobin Gt. $113.00/mo.

ALSO Timberstone Way, Talson Pl., Thomas Pl., Thompson Cl., Trimble Cl., Traptow Cl. $200.00/mo.

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880

MOUNTVIEW AREA 75 papers daily $402/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Currently seeking RELIABLE newspaper carriers for morning delivery in WESTPARK & WESTLAKE AREAS

is looking for an OFFICE FURNITURE INSTALLER If you have a clean drivers licence, are hard working, flexible and have a positive attitude this job could be for you.

Team work and a great work ethic is a must! This full-time position is for install and delivery of commercial furniture.

Please email resume to ac@lookeroffice.ca or drop off to #3-7429-50th Ave. Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

LOOKING for laborers and flaggers for road construction. Fax 403-309-0489

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

MUSTANG ACRES Mobile Home Park & KENTWOOD Kingston Dr. Kendall Cres. & Kane Cl. ALSO Kelloway Cres.

Kensington Cl. Kyte Cres.

ORIOLE PARK WEST Oswald Cl.

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

CLASSIFICATIONS

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

1500-1990

For afternoon delivery once per week

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

Auctions

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Please reply by email: qmacaulay @reddeeradvocate.com or phone Quitcy at 403-314-4316

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

CUSTOMER SERVICE A locally owned industrial supply company is looking for an energetic person for inside sales. E-mail resume to mark@ aesreddeer.com

860

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 or David 403-350-2555, or Mark 403-340-9203

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

EquipmentHeavy

Business Opportunities

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MASTERCRAFT router c/w bits and table $75 403-348-5349

To deliver 1 day a week in OLDS BOWDEN RIMBEY

Farmers' Market

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 Precast Concrete Plant in Blackfalds, AB, is looking for new team members to join an enthusiastic and rapidly expanding company.

General labourers

are needed to do framing, cleaning, reinforcing, pouring and other precast related jobs. All applicants must be flexible for hours and dedicated due to a demanding production schedule. Benefits are paid and lots of overtime.

Own transportation to work is needed. Please fax resume to 403 885 5516 or email to k.kooiker@ eaglebuilders.ca. We thank all applicants for their applications, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

AFFORDABLE Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

Garden Supplies

Household Furnishings

Submit resume, indicating “Service Runner Position”, along with your driver’s abstract immediately to: Human Resources Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Avenue Fax: 403-341-4772 Email: careers@reddeeradvocate.com

DESK w/hutch $40; round table w/3 chairs $30; apartment size freezer $75 403-505-6612 SINGLE bed, bookcase headboard, 3 drawers $35; 4 drawer chest w/large mirror $35; chest freezer 31.5” x 34.5” x 22” $35 403-342-7460 SINGLE MATTRESS & BOX SPRING. Seeley.

Practically new. $200.

403-347-0273

WANTED

900

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

YOUR CAREER IN

BUSINESS

5 PC. 8 setting Queen Ann Royal Bavarian fine chin from Germany $200 obo 403-347-7893 DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino

309015G5-H26

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

gwen.yates@oilstates.com or you can mail your resume to:

315908H17,19

4301 Will Rogers Parkway, Ste. 600, Oklahoma City, OK 73108 (Attention Gwen Yates)

Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

1760

12 PLACE setting, white w/floral border, $50 403-346-3086

Legal Administrative Assistant Marketing Coordinator Insurance Advisor Business Administration Hotel & Tourism Management

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR RESUME TO:

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2 BAR stools like new $50/ea. 403-347-7893

Misc. for Sale

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: • A Bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years of HR experience at the Generalist (Advisor) level is required • Experience with international operations is a plus • Strong knowledge and understanding of federal and provincial employment laws • Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) preferred • Must be able to travel as necessary up to 40%

1710

MICROWAVE $25 403-352-3030

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted.

The position will support three districts Red Deer, Medicine Hat, Grand Prairie and international operations. The Sr. HR Advisor will perform as a strategic business partner to management and serves as an employee advocate when necessary.

1680

36” & 24” USED Fridge / Stoves & 2 Inglis Coin Operated Gas Dryers.

Call Mike 403-342-4923

Hours of shifts are: Morning shifts Monday through Friday, 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

Saturday and Sunday shifts starting at 7:00 a.m.

Wednesday to Friday shifts starting at 1:00 p.m.

All shifts based on 4 hours and likely to run longer.

SR HR ADVISOR

1660

Homestead Firewood

Household Appliances

Stinger Wellhead (Red Deer location) is accepting applications for a:

OSES Offers a Competitive Salary & Bonus Structure Along With a Comprehensive Benefit Package We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

Firewood

LANDSCAPING TIES 4” x 6” total of 40 linear ft., 10 Ardell Close. Drive by and pick up. 403-755-2760

Do you: Want Extra Income Know the city well Possess a clean, valid drivers license Have a friendly attitude Enjoy customer service Want part-time work (12 to 22 hours per week)

Employment Training

1650

RED mammoth raspberries, Evans sour cherries www.redlodgeupick.com

As part of our customer service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle is provided.

870

1640

Tools

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

(Part-Time)

• • • • •

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

CIRCULATION SERVICE RUNNER

Antler Valley Farm Ltd is currently seeking a full time employee.

Must have a Class 1 license minimum 5 years driving experience with clean abstract and super B experience preferred. Applicant should have experience and working knowledge of grain operations and machinery. Applicant must be willing to work longer days during seeding and harvest months.

Competitive wage based on experience.

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

In the towns of:

GAMES DEALER SCHOOL

WESTPARK AREA

SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

stuff

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

BOWER AREA

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 careers@rdsubway.com or Call us at 403-342-0203

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Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the

SUBWAY All Locations

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

DECK TRUCK OPERATOR POSITION, self motivated, mechanically inclined,, exp’d.

Will train right personality.

Class 5 w/air ticket req’d.

Call City Haul Towing 403-588-7079

Cost $200 SCHOOL WILL BE STARTING Sept. 2-25 Tues. Weds. evenings Upon successfully completing and passing course, work is available for casual to part time hours to start.

Must be able to obtain Security Clearance Check from local RCMP Please telephone and leave a message for April M. 403-346-3339

Requires Mature, Reliable Cashiers for various shifts.

Full/Part time.

ALSO LOOKING FOR P/T DELI ASSISTANT Please apply with resume to 5101 - 76 Street, Red Deer 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

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.

INNISFAIL

Please call Quitcy at 403-314-4316

in

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RUN’N ON EMPTY

GRANDVIEW AREA 71 papers daily $420/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

Please send resume to: AntlerValleyFarm@gmail.com RR#4 Innisfail AB T4G 1T9

810

880

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LOOKER OFFICE FURNITURE

315972H17-23

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Sales & Distributors

316014H17-26

Restaurant/ Hotel

JEWELLERY STORE COUPON. Stevens Jewellers in Olds.† $100 value, asking $50.† No expiry date.† Call (403) 342-7908.

RENEGADE 12 spd. bike $15; 2 CB long antennas $5/ea, Simonize car washer $100 obo 403-347-6183 SEARS Fibertex 2 window shade w/scalloped hem, pale rose, 64 1/4”w x 66”l, thermoguard protection room darkening, $35; 7’ pine cone Christmas tree, $80 403-227-0499. Cash only

B10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Aug. 19, 2013

1800

Office Supplies

FILING CABINET(Pro Source) 55”h x 3’w x18” d.

Grey. $200. 403-347-0273

1830

Cats

2 F. KITTENS TO GIVE AWAY. Very friendly outdoor kittens, not used to dogs.

For loving home. Bring kennel. 403-782-3031 SIAMESE (1)and (3) BURMAN kittens. $40/ea.

403-887-3649

1860

Sporting Goods

Treadmill. Schwinn. Computerized display. Paid $1300.

Almost new. Best offer 347-0273

1900

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AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2010

Farm Equipment

NEW HOLLAND FP 240 sileage cutter, metal alert, very good cond, *SOLD*

2140

Horses

16 YR. old QH Sorrel gelding, 15.2, very well broke, neck reins, backs up, spins, rode down roads, real nice horse. $3000. 403-783-4943 WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

2190

Grain, Feed Hay

ROUND bales, Alfalfa Timothy Brome mix, $50/bale; Clover Alfalfa Timothy mix $40/bale 780-975-3313

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

2 BDRM. Blackfalds, duplex, complete reno’d., 4 appls., no pets $1000/ mo.+ utils., 403-318-3284

3 BDRM. DUPLEX IN BLACKFALDS

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

Avail. Aug. 15

4 bdrm., for rent in fully furnished house, main & second floor bdrm are $475 Basement & den 3610 - 42 Ave, Red Deer ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 PM 572 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca (PERFECT FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS)

DELBURNE

Avail Sept 1 4+1 bdrm, 3 bath bungalow with attached double garage 3 appl, fenced yard, $1650 + util, $1600 SD, N/S, dog okay w/fee, PM 540 2018 - 18 Ave ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca ~

JOHNSTONE PARK Avail NOW 4 bdrm, 3.5 bath Ω duplex, 6 appl, attached garage, fenced yard with deck, $1795 + util, $1750 SD, N/Pets, N/S, PM 575 152 Jones Cresc ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

LUXURY EXECUTIVE HOME

This 3 bdrm, 2 bath House in the Lancaster Subdivision is ready for a new family!

Vacant now, this could be the home you’ve been looking for. This is a newer, modern home that you will be proud to show off. Space, Style & Location for only $1850/mo.

You need to so this. Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 to get a look inside!

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 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.

RENTED

ORIOLE PARK

Avail NOW 3 bdrm, 2 bath house, 5 appl, $1750 + util, $1700 SD, N/Pets, N/S, PM 46 61 Oates Green ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

ORIOLE PARK

Avail Sept , 3 bdrm, 2 bath house, 5 appl. plus a laundry sink, ensuite off master bdrm., $1450 + util, $1400 SD, N/Pets, N/S, PM 548 54 Olsen St ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

ORIOLE PARK

Avail Sept.1, 3 bdrm, 2 bath main floor, 5 appl, garage, $1375 + 60% util, $1375 SD, small dog okay w/fee, N/S, PM 529 Main, 23 Ockley Close ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca SYLVAN LAKE 5 fully furnished rentals, incds dishes, bedding, cable, util. Avail. weekly/ monthly starting Sept. 1, 2013 - June 15, 2014. $1000 to $1500/mo. 403-880-0210.

UPPER FAIRVIEW

Avail Aug 21 3 bdrm., 1 bath main floor of house, 5 appl, $1200 + 60% util, $1200 SD, N/S, N/Pets, PM 528 Main, 22 Fairway Ave ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

103 ADDINGTON DR. 2 bdrm. 1.5 bath. Avail. immed. 403-506-3233

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

BOWER

3060

Suites

DOWNTOWN

Avail Sept 1, 1 bdrm., 1 bath condo, 3 app, $925 + power, $925 SD, small dog okay w/fee, N/S PM 382 105, 35 Bennett St ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

Avail NOW 1 bdrm., 1 bath suite, 2 app, free laundry in bldg, adult only, $750 + p w r, $ 7 0 0 S D , N / P e t s , N/S, PM 19 5/7, 5340 - 47 Ave ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

KITSON CLOSE

FAIRVIEW

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 $1445 SD $1000. n/s Avail. Sept. 1 403-304-7576 / 347-7545

Avail NOW 2 bdrm, 1 bath basement suite, 4 appl, $ 950 + 40% util, $ 900 SD, N/Pets, N/S, PM 528 Bsmt, 22 Fairway Ave ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

KYTE CRES. & Kelloway Cres.

Avail Sept 1 3 Bdrm, 1.5 bath townhouse, 5 appl, $1100 +util, $1050 SD, N/Pets, N/S, PM 90 11 Greene Close ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1445 SD $1000 Avail. Sept. 1.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

GLENDALE

HIGHLAND GREEN

Avail NOW 2 bdrm, 1 bath suite, 2 appl, laundry in bldg, balcony, $875 + power N/Pets, N/S, PM 526-6 6, 5920 - 63 St. ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

HOSPITAL NORTH

(Victoria Apts) Avail NOW bdrm, 1 bath suite, 2 Riverside Meadows 1appl, laundry in bldg, adult (Raventhorpe Manor) o n ly building, $775 + Avail Sept 1 2 bdrm, 1 bath p o w e r, $ 7 2 5 S D , N / S , apt style condo, 2 appl, laundry in the bldg, $900 + N/Pets, PM 479 10, 5110 43 St. ~ 403-340-0065 ext power, $850 SD, small 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty dog ok w/fee, N/S, www.simproperties.ca PM 437 203, 5617 - 60 Ave ~ 403-340-0065 ext INNISFAIL 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty Avail Sept, 2 bdrm, 1 bath www.simproperties.ca apt, 2 appl, laundry in bldg, $750 + power, $700 SD, SYLVAN LAKE N/Pets, N/S, PM 34 301, (Broadway Rise) Avail 5604 - 50 Ave ~ Sept 1, 2 bdrm, 2 bath 403-340-0065 ext 412 condo on third floor, 6 Sim Mgmt & Realty appl, walk in closet, www.simproperties.ca $1190 + power, $1140 INNISFAIL SD, N/Pets, N/S, Avail. Sept 1, 2 bdrm, PM 554 304, 3 Broadway 1 bath, adult only apt, Rise ~ 403-340-0065 ext 6 app, $1150 + power, 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty $1100 SD, N/Pets, N/S www.simproperties.ca PM 558 302, 5205 Woodland Manor ~ VARY RARE 403-340-0065 ext 412 3 BDRM. APT!!

Sim Mgmt & Realty Bldg located on a quiet www.simproperties.ca close backing onto treed area. Spacious home c/w LARGE 2 bdrm, with new dishwasher, larger storage paint, new carpets, security area & more. Short walk to cameras, private parking, schools & Parks. Starting new appls. to over 40 year at $1050/mo. Heat & Water old quiet tenants. Laundry incl. in rent. Call Lucie on site, heat & water incl., at 403-396-9554 no pets for $950 rent/$950 to book a viewing. damage. 403-341-4627 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 Manufactured

Homes

3040

2 BDRM. mobile 4 appls, $1000/mo. + utils. avail. immed. 403-505-1315

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

Riverside Meadows

Avail Sept, 3 bdrm, 1 bath 4-plex, 4 app, $900 + util, $850 SD, N/Pets, N/S, PM 31 6014D - 58A St ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

Suites

3060

CITY VIEW APTS.

Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building. Rent $8825, S.D. $700. Avail. Sept.1 Near hospital. No pets 403-340-1032 or 318-3679

DOWNTOWN

2 BDRM., 2 bath condo, in Avai.l Sept. 1. 2 bdrm., Great 3 bdrm home.

Anders $1300 rent & d.d. + Functional flr plan with lots utils. Avail. Sept. no pets. 1 bath suite, Adults only, $800 + power, $750 SD, of light & space. 6 appls & Ref’s. req’d. 403-346-6521 N/Pets, N/S, PM 244 9, immed. avail. Just $1325/mo.

4821 - 52 St ~ Tenant pays Gas & Power.

3RD FLOOR 403-340-0065 ext 412 Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 - 2 Bdrm. Condo For Sim Mgmt & Realty to book your viewing! www.simproperties.ca Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Cheap Cheap Cheap!!

With assigned parking, a EASTVIEW DOWNTOWN dishwasher & plenty of Avail NOW 2 bdrm, 2 bath space. With Heat & Water Avail NOW 1 bdrm, 1 bath, house, single garage adult only apt, laundry in incl. this is a steal at just 2 appl, $1100 + util, $1050 bldg, 2 appl, $750 + power $1025/mo. A central SD, N/Pets, N/S, PM 569 $700 SD, N/Pets N/S location will let you bike or 3814 - 44 St ~ walk to the downtown area. PM 243 7, 4817 - 52 St. ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Call Lucie at 403-396-9554 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty to have a look.

Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca Hearthstone 403-314-0099 www.simproperties.ca

LIBERTY PLACE

Avail Sept 1 2 bdrm, 1 bath suite, 5 appl, $1175 including H2O, $1125 SD, small dog ok w/fee, N/S PM 561 101/104 6547 - 59 Ave ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

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

SUNNYBROOK

2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686

1000-1430

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

Cleaning

1070

VINYL SIDING CLEANING Eaves Trough Cleaned, Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

Pricing. 403-506-4822

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or Ron 403-318-3804 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 FENCES & DECKS 403-352-4034 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Contractors

1100

LANCE’S Concrete Ltd. Sidewalks, driveways, shops, patios, garage pads commercial. Specialized in stamp concrete.

Free Estimates 302-9126

Eavestroughing

1130

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

Massage Therapy

1280

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315 (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

1165

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. PAINTING BY DAVE Pampering at its Interior, Exterior, New BEST! Construction. Comm/Indust.

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* 2 Journeyman w/over 50 INDEPENDENT w/own car 403-986-6686 yrs exp. %15 discount for Come in and see seniors. Free estimates.

Handyman why we are the talk All work guaranteed. We Services of the town. carry WCB & Liability www.viimassage.biz Insurance. 403-307-4798

Escorts

1200

ATT’N: Looking for a new sidewalk, help on small jobs around the house, such as small tree cutting, landscaping, painting or flooring?

Call James 403-341-0617 GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Massage Therapy

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving central AB. 403-318-4346

Avail. Sept. 1. 1 bdrm, 1 bath suite, 3 newer app, laundry in bldg, $900 + power, $850 SD , small dog ok w/monthly fee, N/S PM 524 306, 4714A -55 st ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

Roommates Wanted

3080

F. preferred for 3 bdrm. renovated home, includes all utils, $450/mo. DD $450 403-986-8656

Warehouse Space

3140

1 LIGHT industrial bay 1143 sq. ft., one 10 x 12 overhead door, one man door, concrete floor/walls, located Northland Business Center. $1450/mo.

Call Cathy 403-318-2992

Garage Space

3150

Avail. Aug. 15

$500 2 vehicles can park in the garage $25.00 each 3610 - 42 Ave ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

WOODLEA

Avail. Aug 15 single garage to be used as storage only, $150 per mo.

PM 480 5712 - 45 Ave ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

Mobile Lot

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

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Support Ltd. for SENIORS. Companionship, cleaning, cooking - in home, in facility.

We are BETTER for CHEAPER! Call 403-346-7777

Window Cleaning

1420

WINDOW / EVESTROUGH CLEANING. 403-506-4822

Cars

4010

BIG VALLEY, AB, 3 bdrm, treed 50’ lot, needs work, $29,500, $6000 down, owner will carry mortgage.

Call owner 780-475-2897 MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1320 sq.ft.

3 bdrm., 2 bath. $367,900.

Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta (403) 341-9995

For Sale

4020

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com MASON MARTIN HOMES New bi-level, 1400 sq.ft.

Dbl. att. garage. $409,900.

403-588-2550

5030

5050

Trucks

MUST SELL New 2 Storey 1550 sq.ft 3 bdrm, bonus room, 2.5 bath, $379,900. Dbl. att. garage. 403-588-2550 PINE LAKE, AB. New home in gated community on golf course overlooking lake. Open floor plan, vaulted ceilings, chefs kitchen, fully dev. bsmt, master suite has fireplace, ensuite. Golf course, clubhouse and pool outside your door. Vendor may take trades or carry financing. Bill or Glen 780-482-5273 or email group.6@outlook.com

www.laebon.com

2010 CHEV Silverado 1500 LT Z71, custom bumpers, cold air intake. $24,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 HONDA CIVIC LX

2 Door, 84,120 km., original owner, great condition.

Keyless entry, iPod aux. jack, brand new battery.

Asking $11,900.

403-302-1138 (Red Deer)

2005 TOYOTA Spyder MR2 Roadster, 64,527 kms., 5 spd, $16,888. AB Sport & Import 403-348-8788

Laebon Homes 346-7273

Condos/ Townhouses

4090

Manufactured Homes

1972 12 X 44, 2 bdrms, loc a t e d i n S t e t t l e r, f i x e r upper or lake property $16,000 obo 587-876-7491 1997 MODULINE INDUSTRIES 16x80. $49,500. Call for photo’s. 403-358-8933 LIKE new modular home 1440 sq. ft, 3 bdrm, 2 bath, jetted tub in master, walk in closet, 18 x 30 garage, small deck, lot 50 x 135, nice location in Delburne, will do rent to purchase or carry 2nd. mortgage or willing to trade for nice home in Red Deer 403-341-9639 755-8921 MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

Income Property

2004 BMW X3 AWD, sunroof, 6 spd. $13,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

1997 HONDA, 5 spd., 2 dr., very clean. 403-318-3040 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

1994 FORD T-Bird, 2 dr., loaded. clean. 352-6995

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

at www.garymoe.com

4160

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

To Buy

5200

A-1 WILLY’S Parts Place Inc. Will haul away salvage cars free in city limits. Will pay for some.

Only AMVIC approved salvage yard in Red Deer 403-346-7278

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

★

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

PUBLIC NOTICES Locally owned and family operated

SUV's

5040

MUST SELL 2012 MERCEDES Benz ML350 diesel, 9300 kms, $83,000 new, $65,000 obo 403-347-2151 352-6534 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

wegot

5000-5300

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

CALL:

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS

5190

309-3300

NEW DUPLEX, 2 suites, for $389,900. 2000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath. Mason Martin Homes 403-588-2550

Lots For Sale

2002 CHEV Avalanche, 4 dr, box cover, loaded, no leather only 165,000 kms. $5650. 403-348-9746

2 0 0 0 M A L I B U 1 0 4 , 0 0 0 Vehicles Wanted kms, $2800 403-506-3479

4100 4110

2007 F150 Crewcab 4X4 XLT. Loaded, very nice shape in and out. $6950.

403-348-9746

Auto Wreckers

4040

MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2231

2012 Silverado LT 4x4 for sale. Power seats, mirrors, step rails. 13,000 km. $29,900. 403-843-1162, Ron

2011 VW Diesel Jetta Highline 6 spd. Michelin X-Ice tires ($1450) $23,450, 67,000 kms. 403-588-6294

MASON MARTIN HOMES New bungalow 1350 sq.ft.

Dbl. att. garage.

403-588-2550

SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

5020

4 YR OLD 2400 sq.ft. home, rear att. garage. Pie lot. $749,000. 403-358-0362

Commercial Property

STYLISH 2 BDRM. just south of Hospital Houses

CLASSIFICATIONS

1010

WASKASOO

Antique & Classic Autos

1982 CADILLAC Biaritz 57,000 orig. kms., must be seen, $6000 403-573-1595 403-357-8467

WASKASOO

Avail Sept 1, 1 bdrm, 1 bath suite, 3 newer app, laundry in bldg, $900 + pwr, $850 SD , small dog ok w/monthly fee, N/S PM 524 306, 4714A - 55 St ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

Riverside Meadows

This 3rd floor 2 bdrm. apt. is in a quiet,

4020

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., balcony, No pets. $800 rent/SD, heat/water incld., 403-346-5885

Avail Sept 1- 1 bdrm, 1 bath suite, 2 app, laundry in bldg, adults only, $750 + pwr, $700 SD, N/Pets, N/S, PM 124 302, 5726-57 Ave ~ 403-340-0065 ext 412 Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca

Houses For Sale

THE NORDIC

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL

wegotservices

Accounting

3060

Suites

2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, $20, 888. 7652 - 50 Ave., Sport & Import

Public Notices

6010

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of MICHAEL WILLIAM HAMPTON AIME who died on April 13, 2013.

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by September 23, 2013 and provide details of your claim with: J. Grant Miller, Miller, Lehane & Wild, Barristers and Solicitors at 5035 49th Street, Innisfail, Alberta.

T4G 1V3 If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 B11

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI & LOIS

PEANUTS

BLONDIE

HAGAR

BETTY

PICKLES

GARFIELD

LUANN Aug. 19 1942 — Major General J. H. Roberts leads 4,963 troops from seven regiments of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, plus almost 1,000 British, in Operation Jubilee, a nine-hour raid on the small German-held port of Dieppe.

1809 — John Molson launches a wooden paddle steamboat on the St. Lawrence River.

It carries 10 passengers. and is the first Canadian steamship and the first successful

steamboat built entirely in North America.

1940 — Start of a national registration of all men between 14 and 60 years old.

1913 — Thousands of young men travel west to help bring in the harvest on Prairie farms; railroads charge a penny a mile. The men are placed by farmers’ organizations.

1902 — Doukhobor sects start staging nude protest parades in British Columbia.

1691 — Henry Kelsey of the Hudson’s Bay Co. makes the first documented reference to the herds of buffalo on the Canadian Prairies, in what is now Manitoba.

ARGYLE SWEATER

RUBES

TODAY IN HISTORY

TUNDRA

SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.

SHERMAN‛S LAGOON

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Monday, Aug. 19, 2013

ROSS STREET REPAIRS

HOROSCOPE

SUN SIGNS

irritations.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this will be a year where you will build the basis of your ultimate goals and wishes. You will go for it with tremendous focus and intensity, almost absorbed by the desire to achieve something. You will develop a high receptivity in most areas of your life, be it in self-expression, love or acting upon your desires. All in all, a mass of energy will make this a year filled with events that even you will have a hard time keeping up with.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re feeling empowered and in control of your life. You stand in a high position and truth be told, you quite enjoy where you are. There’s a great deal of intensity and power that can be marked in your aura.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Life, sweet life! If only you could indulge yourself in this shower of heavenly bliss.

Great intense experiences can be lived in foreign lands or through foreigners. You have great assistance on your side which aid you in attaining your ideals.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You seek greater intimacy and you are not afraid to dive into a world filled with powerful emotions. Your professional standing and your well structured life can help you reach more revenue or gains.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): This is a five-star, golden day for you! Despite some minor annoyance, the universe is gifting you with harmonised energy. Your partnerships should go extremely well on this day and you will derive much satisfaction from all of them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will be considered as a powerful figure among your colleagues. You will have greater influence over them and nothing will be accomplished today half way. There’s a mutual receptivity between you and them which is undoubtedly extremely powerful.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take advantage of this day’s awesome energy to tap into your creative side and unleash your magnetism. Self-expression and sharing will come easily and abundantly to you today. You and a dear one are able to maintain a profound understanding with one another.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Mutual love and nurturing can be achieved mainly in your own little cocoon. You are quite comfortable being in your own familiar surroundings and this could prove quite an intense day should you decide to hold a domestic gathering.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your speech holds an influential tone to it capable of moving even the heaviest of the rocks. You are seriously convincing today and other should take notice of your focused mind. Nothing can stand in your way today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your feelings are quite passionate and you may have the tendency to get attached to a certain person as one of your possessions.

Whatever you experience today will contribute to boosting your sense of belonging and your worthiness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A commanding allure and an authoritative demeanour can be noticed on you today. You are in full control of your senses and your interactions today can prove quite fruitful, resourceful and very fostering.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A higher than life experience can be achieved through a spiritual journey. Experience you live now will be karmic and soulful. Your achievements and your merits are considered as your main blessings.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You derive a much emotional gratification through a friendship that is special to you.

This person will assist you in getting closer to your dreams.

Your wishes are getting bigger by the day.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

First lady opens up about black president in White House

BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

EDGARTOWN, Mass.

— Michelle Obama says having a black family in the White House “changes the bar” for every child, regardless of race, sexual orientation or gender.

She tells Parade magazine in an interview appearing Sunday that her husband’s presidency “expands the scope of opportunity” for children because that’s where change happens.

The first lady also says she feels “immense hope” on the approaching 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28.

Mrs. Obama, who turns 50 in January, said she’s never felt more confident in herself as a woman and wants to be a “really fly” 80- or 90-year old.

As for her bangs, she says she doesn’t sport them anymore because it’s hard to give a speech when hair is in your face.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Work has begun on asphalt milling on Ross Street on the east hill. Traffic disruptions can be expected through the weekend as crews tear up old pavement, install new storm sewers and resurface the roadway.

Deeply concerned about adult children’s drinking habits Dear Annie: We have three adult children in their computer for gaming as well as for school. However, 30s. The oldest two are married and have good lives. when I bring up the subject to my parents, they are The youngest, “Moira,” is a nurse and lives with reluctant to talk about it. I have saved for a long time her fiance, “Bud,” in a town not far away. and do not want it to go for nothing. — Moira and Bud like to drink. Bud hasn’t Need Help in Nebraska had a full-time job in nearly five years.

Dear Nebraska: Generally, we believe He dresses poorly, and I don’t think kids who save their own money should be his hygiene is particularly good. permitted to use it as they wish (within He doesn’t speak to his father because reason). However, your parents may beDad keeps telling Bud to get a job. Bud’s lieve you will spend too much time playparents and siblings do not behave like ing on your new computer and prefer that this, and I know it hurts them as much as you wait. Ask your parents directly whethit hurts us to see Moira and Bud wasting er this is the problem and what you can their lives. As long as the two of them live do to assure them it won’t happen. If they together, we believe they will keep drinkstill refuse to discuss it, enlist the help of ing themselves into a state of deterioraa trusted adult — perhaps a grandparent, tion. We keep hoping Moira will wake up aunt or uncle, neighbor or friend — and MITCHELL and leave him. She is smart and goodsee whether you can find out what their looking. But time is slipping by. We are objections are. & SUGAR sick about the situation and can’t sleep.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from Any ideas? — Mom Out West “Worried Family Members,” whose son’s Dear Mom: There’s not much you can estranged wife has reported him to child do about a grown child who descends protective services repeatedly, and he is into drug or alcohol abuse, especially when she is always cleared of the charges. She has convinced attached to a partner who is equally addicted. Even people that he is abusive, even though he has never if Moira would prefer to stop drinking, she may feel done anything to merit the charge. He has become so obligated to continue or tolerate Bud’s drinking beparanoid that he’s afraid to leave his house. cause she mistakenly believes this is being “supportPlease let this man out! He needs a GPS tracking ive.” It is not. It is enabling. device so he can have recorded proof that he wasn’t Let Moira know you love her and that she can close to his ex-wife. This device would be much come to you if she decides she wants help. We doubt cheaper than a lawyer. If he needs a third party to she is ready to admit this. She still has a job and witness his child visitations, that person should reundoubtedly believes that the two of them are doing cord those visits with a camcorder on a tripod.

OK. Addicts rarely recognize a downward spiral unI think legal action against the ex is well overdue. til they hit bottom. In the meantime, please contact Her behaviour connotes a person with mental illness Al-Anon (al-anon.alateen.org) for support and inforand one who should not have custody of children. — mation.

Witness to a Deranged Relationship Dear Annie: I am a kid who likes to play online Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and games with my friends. Sadly, the computer I play on Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers colis old, has more than five major problems with it and umn. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ can barely support the game. comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators I have saved up my money and am trying to buy a Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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