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IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT An adventure in car camping

Photos by BRENDA KOSSOWAN/Advocate staff

Above: A stopping point alongside Hwy I-90 provides a spectacular view of Wanapum Lake, a reservoir created by construction in the early 1960s.

Lower left: Sage brush and other desert flora cling to rocks high above Wanapum Lake.

Below: Seattle’s best-known landmark, the Space Needle, provides a 360-degree view of the port city’s downtown area and harbours.

The opportunity to take a drive through some of the most beautiful landscapes in this part of the world is as good a reason as any to choose the slower and moderately less expensive mode of travel.

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

Any worries about spending a day and a half on the road evaporated, for me, at the point where I-90 westbound meets up with I-5.

Quite unexpectedly, there stood the entire reason for my 2,500-km road trip, in living shades of grey: Safeco Field — Mecca for a few thousand fellow baseball fans whose pilgrimage would bring them in just one more day to the opening of a three-game series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners.

Roughly 90 minutes from Calgary by direct flight, Seattle is closer than Toronto for Western Canadians, making Safeco Field a viable option for devoted Jays fans fulfilling an urge to steep themselves in live baseball rather than mutter invectives at their TV screens.

It’s also a really nice drive.

The single most attractive aspect of going by car and camping en route is the absolute freedom to choose a route, set a schedule, and then change them at will.

No getting up at 4 a.m. to drive to the airport for a 9 a.m. flight.

No searching out a reasonably priced and safe place to park your car for the next four or five days.

No getting numb bum while sitting in an airport, waiting to board.

No spilling your coffee onto your boarding pass as you try to juggle your wallet, your carry-on and your camera bag.

No jamming into a wide-body sardine can between a sumo wrestler and a nervous first-timer while skimming over the tops of fluffy clouds and wondering how things look, way down on the ground.

The opportunity to take a drive through some of the most beautiful landscapes in this part of the world is as good a reason as any to choose the slower and moderately less expensive mode of travel, with the most basic necessities of life packed along.

It turned out that the tent, the camping table and the camping chair were not necessary.

The only role they filled was to take up space in the trunk of the car, impeding access to more vital items, like food and drinks.

With apologies to all of those roadhouses strategically placed along the route, I packed a plastic flip-top box with non-perishable food and the basic implements for cooking meals and making coffee on a single-burner butane stove.

The Chevy Hotel’s massive trunk still had plenty of room left for a suitcase, a couple of four-litre jugs of water, a sleeping bag, blanket and pillow, a shopping bag for camp fuel and stuff that wouldn’t fit in the kitchen box, a cooler for beer, milk, butter, steaks and wieners, a camera pack, a tripod and an axe.

Nothing says “woman travelling alone” like a backseat jammed with stuff.

The passenger cabin of the Chevy Hotel was free of clutter, excluding a set of maps stuffed into one of the seat compartments and a little stuffed horse that makes galloping sounds and whinnies when you squeeze its hoof.

Nothing says ‘woman travelling alone’ like a backseat jammed with stuff

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A2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013

Regional transit plan moves ahead

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A regional transit service connecting Red Deer, Blackfalds and Lacombe will be hitting the roads as early as next September.

On Tuesday, Red Deer city council gave the city the green light to purchase two buses for the service.

Now the ball is now in Lacombe and Blackfalds’ court.

The two municipalities to the north

must receive approval from their councils to proceed with the negotiations.

Plans and discussions have been underway for more than a year.

Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie is confident the city will get the nod at its council meeting on Monday. He said it is a “win, win, win” for the three communities. Christie said the service is extremely important to the region in light of the loss of Greyhound service.

In 2011, three Greyhound routes were cancelled in Central Alberta.

Blackfalds town council will make a

decision on Tuesday.

Christie said a new service will help seniors, students and others who need to travel to the communities for medical appointments, school and work.

“This will get cars off the highway,” said Christie. “It’s good to get people to leave their cars at home. It’s better for us environmentally. Just a more efficient way of moving people around.”

The three municipalities will split the cost of the buses with Red Deer footing two-thirds of the $900,000 bill, using $600,000 from GreenTrip fund-

ing, Blackfalds and Lacombe will pay the remainder of the bill.

Red Deer will hire the drivers, supply the fuel and maintain the buses.

Transit planner Gerry Gummo said the city will wait until a successful agreement is hammered out between the three municipalities before ordering the two buses. He expects the buses will be ordered in time to introduce the service in next September.

Gummo said the municipalities are working on a route and route schedule. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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CAMPING: Getting home was less spectacular I fired up the car at 7:36 on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 3, and headed south from our place near Leslieville, planning to stop for gas at Cremona and then carry on through Banff, Cranbrook and Yahk, with no particular plans for when and where to spend the night.

It was a God-almighty-would-you-look-at-that kind of a day, bright and sunny, not too hot, with one postcard after another revealing itself as the Impala galloped through the foothills and into the Rocky Mountains.

Gas at Cremona was seven cents cheaper than Cochrane and there was still plenty in the tank when I refueled at Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho, late in the afternoon.

Now well past the halfway point, the time had come to think about getting some supper and bedding down for the night.

Besides having the will and the patience to drive long distances, a dedicated car camper must also be willing to accept the consequences of failing to preplan, including pre-booking a campsite. But how do you book when you don’t know where you’re going to stop?

A number of years ago, the United States government built a road straight across a lake it had created with the construction of a power dam. At the far side of Lake Pond Orielle was a sign: Springy Point Campground, three miles.

What’s another five km on a journey that’s more than 1,200?

I gave Whinny’s hoof a little squeeze and turned off the highway.

Jackie, the campground attendant, must have seen something in my face when she told me that they had just given up their last site. I asked her if she knew of any other sites along the way. Jackie looked at me, she looked at her husband, Charlie, and then she said, “You drove how far? Well, we do have this one spot. ...”

By 5:30 p.m., the Chevy Hotel was parked at a site normally reserved for staff but not in use on this night. There was a picnic table, firepit and running water right at the site. A few steps away was a shower building rimmed on two sides with big stainless steel sinks, installed solely for washing dishes.

Licence plates on most of the vehicles were from Alberta and Saskatchewan, including one big RV with a Roughriders flag hanging from the front window.

Perfect.

Charlie drove by on his golf cart a couple of times, offering kind words and encouragement as I split up some firewood that, no matter how hard I tried, refused to light. He found me an armful of wood that was a little less punky and brought over a cup of coffee from his and Jackie’s place while I roasted a hot dog to supplement the small steak consumed earlier in the evening.

They came back later for some stimulating conversation about camping, hunting, horses and the general politeness of Canadians, leaving me well stoked with stories as I pulled out the sleeping bag for my next Important Lesson in Car Camping: Mummy-style sleeping bags are useless in the cramped quarters of a car, but they do give a good cushion against the seatbelt buckles. Thank God for that blanket.

Refreshed from a full night’s sleep, I hit the road after a breakfast of Lipton’s Sidekicks and fresh coffee. Somebody forgot the sugar.

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I kept burning westward, keeping to the speed limit because it’s no fun visiting with State Troopers at the side of a desert highway when temperatures are reaching for 88F and it’s humid to boot.

Lunch was the second of the two steaks I had brought along, cooked on a picnic table under a shady tree at a roadside rest stop and washed down with a tepid can of de-alcoholized beer. Another memo to self: Soft-sided beer coolers are not effective in the desert and they leak when the ice melts.

Next time, get something that will do the job.

A hot shower in a real hotel was starting to look really good. Seattle was just a couple more hours away.

Getting home was decidedly less spectacular.

After letting the Chevy Hotel rest at the real hotel for a couple of nights, the jury were still out on which route to take.

Ultimately, the wrong route was chosen, largely because of the previously mentioned lack of preplanning.

Heading up from Cle Elum to Osoyoos looked good on the map — drive through kilometre after kilometre of forest, desert and orchards, and then cross the border at the southern tip of the Okanagan, smack in the middle of fruit season.

The supreme joy of a smooth border crossing was immediately scuttled by a traffic snarl just south of Osoyoos, with cars diverted through the fruit farms to get around a collision that had choked up both lanes on the main highway.

This was merely a taste of things to come, from which I affirm my long-held opinion that one should not travel into the Okanagan except to actually visit the Okanagan, and always have a camping site booked ahead.

Travel speeds varied from slow to dead slow, there were no sites available and signs at rest stops left dire warnings for those who would dare linger overnight.

Supper that night was a box of nectarines purchased from a fruit stand and eaten on the road.

The plan had been to catch the glory of Rogers Pass while driving through in the morning.

The reality was driving over the fog-blanketed summit at 1 a.m., sleeping amongst the trucks at a

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Ultimate lessons: 1. Seattle is too interesting to see in one day. Most baseball series run over three. Next time, plan to stay for the whole series and catch the things you missed because time was short.

2. The Blue Jays usually head for Seattle on the August long weekend. Check the schedule as soon as it comes out and start booking. Flights, hotels and campsites are much cheaper when reserved well in advance. Gas for the drive cost about $225, roughly the same price as the airfare would have been before taxes, if booked in time. Booked later, airfare would have been closer to $400.

3. Going for a long drive is a great adventure. Use the backpacker’s rule. Figure out what you need to take along and then cut it by half. A credit card takes up a lot less space than a lot of unneeded junk, and there will be more room to bring things back.

4. The return route I didn’t take, through Abbotsford and Kamloops, may have been a better choice after all, providing the tank was filled in Washington.

5. Fuel in Idaho and Washington is a little cheaper than in Alberta. Across the states, prices ranged from $3.79 to $4 (US) per gallon, which worked out to a maximum of $1.09 (C) per litre.

About those Jays — they won the series, giving up only the last of the three games. Two out of three ain’t bad. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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roadside turnout, paying $1.41 per litre for fuel in Golden and then driving into the Travel Alberta information centre at Field for breakfast.

I gave a quiet nod while making my coffee to a fellow car camper who was catching some zzzs in the front seat of his car. Ah, the joy of being a small person with a big car, rather than a tall person with a small car.

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Warm weather, winds fuel wildfire hazard

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The wildfire hazard in the Rocky Mountain House area is now high thanks to recent warm weather and increased winds.

Barry Shellian, fire information officer with Rocky Mountain House Wildfire Management Area, said the hazard could increase to very high by Sunday if there is no rain.

“If we don’t get any rain on Friday we may be looking at a drying trend in the next five to seven days,” Shellian said on Friday.

And the Labour Day long weekend is only a week away, he said.

Residents and visitors are urged to take precautions in forested areas.

All burning in the area, except for campfires, requires a permit. Permits are free and available through local Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development offices.

A fire that was extinguished on Friday morning, located 25 km southeast of Rocky, was actually a landowner burning without a permit. It was turned over to the landowner to put out.

Shellian said it’s important for people to get permits, which are free, because a fire could erroneously be la-

Attempt to avenge alleged attack lands man in jail

beled a wildfire and set off a response by firefighters.

Currently, there are two helicopters and 25 attack personnel available to respond to wildfire in the area.

The only fire still burning in the area on Friday was under control and located at the O’Chiese landfill. The fire was .01 hectares in size and action has been taken to ensure it will not spread.

Shellian said campers should ensure their campfires are completely out before abandoning them. Ashes should be soaked, stirred and soaked again. Ashes should be cool to the touch.

Each year, abandoned campfires cause wildfires that are completely preventable.

So far this year, 66 fires burned 1,601.43 hectares in the Rocky Mountain House wildfire management area, which encompasses land east to Rocky Mountain House, west to the national parks, north to Pembina River and south to the Sundre area.

This year, 989 wildfires have burned 21,841.71 hectares in Alberta. In 201213, there were 1,239 wildfires that burned 339,637.8 hectares.

The five-year average is 1,324 fires and 285,287.05 hectares. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer Special Olympian Jenna Bobyak, RCMP Const. Kristine Brousseau of Airdrie and Alberta sheriff Kevin Swansburg of Calgary ham it up as the three joined other law enforcement personnel from around the province and Special Olympians to raise money in Red Deer. Throughout the weekend patrons to Parkland Mall will be asked to help with the Special Olympics cause by donating to the effort.

Electrical short caused Bowden house fire

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A small house fire in Bowden last Sunday was caused by an electrical shortage in the attic, says Bowden fire chief Larry Werner.

He said the fire department was called at 3:20 a.m. to respond to a fire at a house on 18th Avenue. Firefighters were quickly able to contain the flames to a small area over the master bedroom.

“The resident was laying in bed watching TV, happened to look up at the ceiling and saw it was turning black. The drywall starting to discolour. He called the fire department right away,” Werner said on Friday.

Two adults and one teenager were in the house at the time, he said.

Damage was estimated at $15,000 to $20,000.

Canadian Red Cross was contacted on Thursday to assist four adults and one child living in the rental.

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An upset brother’s attempt to avenge the assault of one of his sisters will keep him in jail for up to 14 and a half more months.

Jade Slofstra, 24, pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Friday to charges arising from a series of incidents in two neighbouring homes in Oriole park on Nov. 18, 2012.

Defence counsel Denis Huot said Slofstra had gone to his sister’s boyfriend’s house on Overdown Drive to confront the man about allegations that he had attacked her. Judge Gordon Deck heard that Slofstra was armed with a number of weapons, including a pellet pistol and a knife.

Slofstra pursued the boyfriend from the first house and into a neighbouring house, where he fired a number of shots from the pellet pistol. The boyfriend and a woman inside the second house suffered minor injuries during the shooting.

Slofstra left the house at the bidding of its rightful occupants.

Set for trial on Friday morning, Slofstra pleaded guilty to a reduced set of charges, worked out the day before between his lawyer and Crown prosecutor Tony Bell. He was then sentenced on charges of break and enter, common assault and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

Invited to address the court, Slofstra apologized for his actions, saying he has been taught “a lot about life” during his time in remand.

Deck accepted a joint submission from Huot and Bell, who recommended a sentence of two years less a day with three years of probation and credit for the nine and a half months that Slofstra has remained in jail awaiting his trial. That leaves Slofstra with a sentence of 14 months and 14 days to be served in the provincial system.

He was ordered to provide a DNA sample by the end of the month and will be prohibited from owning any weapons for 10 years upon his release.

He is prohibited for life from owning any restricted weapons. Deck has allowed the pellet pistol, seized when Slofstra was arrested, to be returned to members of his family.

A second man also charged in connection with the incident has pleaded not guilty. Miguel MacPherson, 23, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in December. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Pot confession sparks parliamentary debate

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s marijuana mea culpa has sparked some serious reefer madness on Parliament Hill.

Trudeau’s confession that he smoked a joint after becoming an MP has put the pot-smoking predilections of politicians — if any — under the microscope.

It now seems every parliamentarian is being asked if they’ve ever fired up a fattie.

Indonesia’s foreign minister must have wondered what everyone else was smoking when his Canadian counterpart got the cannabis question Friday.

For the record, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says he has stayed away from the drug after seeing a U.S. Supreme Court nominee withdraw after it emerged he had smoked marijuana in college.

“I came of age politically in the 1980s and I can recall when one of President (Ronald) Reagan’s nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court had to withdraw because of his use of that substance, so I took my example from that,” Baird said.

The question also came up at a news conference with Employment Minister Jason Kenney and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander.

Kenney says he has never smoked a joint — al-

though he did admit to drinking coffee, a jab at the java-averse Trudeau.

“I’ll let Mr. Trudeau’s comments and actions speak for themselves,” Kenney said, parroting Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s response from a day earlier.

“All I can say is, I would like to make a public confession that I do drink coffee.”

Alexander chimed in, saying he, too, drinks coffee.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay also got in on the pot pile-on, saying most Canadians expect their elected representatives to stick to the straight and narrow.

“It’s currently against the law to smoke dope. I think most Canadians expect that their member of Parliament will obey the law,” MacKay said Friday in Halifax.

“But this admission of smoking marijuana, breaking the law, doing so knowingly while he was a member of Parliament — the politics of this are such that there’s an element of hypocrisy of having voted on the record to increase penalties around the same time that he was lighting up. So his credibility is a little up in smoke.”

Trudeau, who was elected to Parliament in 2008, voted a year later for mandatory minimum sentences

for marijuana production.

The Liberal leader told the Huffington Post Canada that he’s smoked pot only five or six times in his life, never enjoyed it much, and doesn’t do it anymore.

He told the website he last smoked marijuana about three years ago at his house in Montreal, outside on a patio by the pool.

Not everyone was such a buzzkill, though.

In an interview with Global TV’s The Morning Show, actor George Takei praised Trudeau’s candour.

“It’s going to be a great positive for him,” said Takei, who played Mr. Sulu on the original Star Trek series.

“It serves Canada well to have a politician who can be known for his honesty and forthrightness.”

One of Trudeau’s caucus colleagues also came to his defence.

“People admire Justin’s candour and his common sense,” Liberal MP Scott Brison said in an interview.

“I’ve also had comments from people that find people like Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay hopelessly out of touch with near-toxic levels of sanctimony and more interested in attacking someone’s character than actually listening to reason.”

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GIANT ON THE MOVE

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Moving a giant head into position, participants of the City of Red Deer Cultural Services Creative Collaboration Camp prepare for their final production after a week of fun on Friday. During the camp, the children worked on visual, performance, vocal and theatre arts. Performing in the park outside the Eastview Middle School, the kids told a story about a sleeping giant who upon waking eats a boy carrying balloons, then proceeds to consume his own body played by the children.

The short show was to finish with the giant sneezing body parts through his nose and burping a balloon from his gaping mouth.

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Cronut burger likely caused food poisoning outbreak at CNE: officials TORONTO — A food poisoning outbreak that sickened more than 150 people was likely caused by contaminated cronut burgers sold at the Canadian National Exhibition, public health officials said Friday.

Dr. David McKeown said officials have talked to over 100 of those who reported getting sick and the only common food exposure that they had was the cronut burger served by Epic Burger and Waffles.

“Early laboratory tests indicated that samples of the cronut burger were contaminated by staphylococcus aureas toxin,” he said.

The bacteria produces a toxin which can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea in two to four hours, and McKeown said the majority of healthy people will recover, but it can be serious for young children and the elderly.

Symptoms of food-borne illness were first reported Tuesday night when paramedics treated 12 people at the CNE, sending five of them to hospital.

By Wednesday night, the number of reported ill-

nesses had reached almost 100.

McKeown said there is no way for consumers to tell if a burger is contaminated before eating it.

“There were no indications from that investigation of any other CNE food associated with this outbreak,” he said.

Further tests are being conducted to determine which of the components of the burger was contaminated.

McKeown said Epic Burger and Waffles will remain closed until the results of those tests come back. He said officials are trying to reconstruct the sequence of events so they can better understand how the outbreak unfolded.

“In this case, no one has died,” he said, adding that “it can be much worse.”

CNE general manager David Bednar said his priority is to ensure the health and safety of fair patrons.

“We’ve stopped this now, we’re confident it’s over,” he said.

Epic Burger and Waffles issued a statement Thursday saying it has never had issues in the past and it takes health and safety “very seriously.”

Charges laid against Ontario couple after 40 pythons found in motel

room.

The reptiles, some of them more than a metre long, were found last Thursday in plastic storage bins in a room at the Bell City Motel in Brantford, Ont. The Ontario SPCA said Friday the snakes were dehydrated, and didn’t have water or enough space.

The snakes’ owners weren’t there when the animals were found, but the SPCA said they later surrendered their pets to investigators.

A man and a woman are charged with causing distress to an animal, failing to provide care necessary for an animal’s general welfare and failing to provide adequate and appropriate water.

Their names have not been released.

Police and witnesses said there were children staying in the motel room, but that type of snake is not considered dangerous compared with the one that killed two children in New Brunswick this month.

Noah Barthe, 4, and his brother Connor, 6, died after a 45-kilogram African rock python escaped its enclosure.

That tragedy has shone a spotlight on the risks and regulations surrounding the ownership of exotic animals.

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WINNIPEG — A pig with Canadian actor Dan Aykroyd’s name on it is missing from a Winnipeg restaurant.

Roger LeBleu of Lovey’s BBQ says someone broke into his restaurant early this morning.

The thief or thieves didn’t get away with much — except for a cute ceramic pig autographed by Aykroyd.

LeBleu admits the ornament only has sentimental

value, but he’d like to have it back.

The pig has black sunglasses and a black fedora, and looks a bit like a character from The Blues Brothers, a 1980 movie Aykroyd starred in with the late John Belushi.

LeBleu says he’s really sad to lose the mini porker.

“This we had signed by Dan Aykroyd when he was in town last time promoting his alcohol. We had a wonderful morning that day. Great memories,” LeBleu said. “He brought back a couple of his T-shirts and a big bag of ribs back to Ontario with him.”

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RAGLAN MINE, Que. — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s tour of the North ended Friday with a dustup involving a Chinese journalist who was prevented from asking a question about rules surrounding foreign takeovers.

Li Xue Jiang of the People’s Daily, China’s largest newspaper, has been following the week-long tour.

The Prime Minister’s Office limits the number of questions during public events and other journalists on the tour offered Li the opportunity to query Harper.

When staff refused to recognize him, Li tried to take the microphone, triggering a tussle involving one of the prime minister’s communication officers that ended with him being hauled to the back of the room by RCMP security staff.

He was not detained, nor charged.

“It’s not fair,” Li said afterward. “I would have liked the prime minister to clarify the federal government policy and regulations towards foreign state-owned companies investment because it is not clear since the Nexen takeover. People in China would want to know.”

Last winter CNOOC Ltd., China’s state oil company, was given the green light to take over and Nexen Inc., in a $15.1 billion deal for the Alberta oil patch giant.

But Harper erected new barriers to foreign investment by state-owned companies.

There are 10 journalists following Harper on this week’s tour, and his availabilities have been tightly scripted, with only four or five questions allowed before they are cut off.

The incident took place at the end of an event at the Raglan Mine in northern Quebec, where Harper was lauding a renewable energy project funded by the federal government.

Li, the newspaper’s bureau chief and a former Washington correspondent, says the communications staff initially gave him the indication he would be called upon, but then revoked it just before the prime minister’s availability.

He said he doesn’t intend to ask his embassy to file a protest, and apologized for causing a fuss.

A spokesman for prime minister, Andrew MacDougall, responded on Twitter saying that the matter will be raised with the Parliamentary Press Gallery and he called on Li to apologize immediately.

“Agree or disagree with how events are run, there was no excuse for the Chinese state reporter to get physical with our staff,” MacDougall wrote.

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Political solution best: Baird

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

SYRIA

CHELSEA, Que. — A political solution remains the best way to end the civil war in Syria, says Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, even in the face of what he calls “overwhelming” evidence of a chemical weapons attack against civilians in that country.

Canada wants to ensure it has all the facts before deciding how to respond to allegations that chemical weapons killed as many as 1,300 people this week outside Damascus, Baird said Friday.

“Our first response is to validate the use of these chemical weapons,” he said after a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart on picturesque Meech Lake in Chelsea, Que., about half an hour outside Ottawa.

“The evidence is increasingly building up, and it’s overwhelming.”

Baird’s message of political parley may fall on deaf ears when he meets with the head of Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group.

George Sabra, president of the Syrian National Council, is expected to visit Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa next week. Following the deadly attacks in which he alleges that the Syrian government used nerve gas against its own population, Sabra has dismissed any hope for a political solution to end the bloodshed in his country.

Baird strongly suggested that he believes the attacks were carried out by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, saying he hopes Assad’s key ally Russia can convince the regime to allow United Nations inspectors to visit the location of the shelling spree.

“If our colleague (Russian foreign affairs minister) Sergey Lavrov believes that the opposition used chemical weapons against their own people, he should be most enthusiastic to use his influence with President Assad to let those UN investigators in,”

said Baird.

“The fact that Russia — being the chief supporter and chief ally of Syria that has allowed Assad to soldier on — can’t convince him to allow the inspectors in, I think, is quite telling.”

The United Nations has demanded Syria give its chemical weapons experts immediate access to the rebel-held Damascus suburbs where the attacks took place, just a few kilometres from a hotel where the inspectors are staying.

They were allowed into the country this week, but have had their movements limited to other locations.

Images broadcast and published around the world have shown scores of people — some foaming at the mouth — and dead bodies laid out on floors on the outskirts of Damascus with no visible signs of injury.

Rebels in Syria are crying for outside help, and have accused the West of sitting idle while they watch people dying.

The Syrian government insists the attacks were not its doing.

Twin explosions kill 29 U.S. soldier

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LEBANON

TRIPOLI, Lebanon — In scenes reminiscent of Lebanon’s devastating civil war, charred bodies lay in the streets Friday after twin car bombs exploded outside mosques packed with worshippers, killing 29 people and wounding hundreds.

The co-ordinated attacks in this predominantly Sunni city — the deadliest fallout from Syria’s civil war to hit Lebanon — raised sectarian tensions to dangerous levels amid fears the country was slipping into a prolonged cycle of revenge.

The blasts marked the second such attack in just over a week. A deadly car bombing targeted an overwhelmingly Shiite district south of Beirut controlled by the militant Hezbollah group on Aug. 15, demonstrating the alarming degree to which the country is being torn apart by the civil war next door.

Friday’s attacks shocked residents of Tripoli, which has been the scene of frequent clashes between supporters and opponents of President Bashar Assad in recent months. But the city, Lebanon’s second-largest, has not seen such bombings in decades.

The blasts were clearly intended to cause maximum civilian casualties, timed to go off at midday Friday outside the Taqwa and Salam mosques, which are known to be filled with worshippers at that time on the Muslim day of prayer.

“Lebanon has officially entered the regional war which has been raging in Syria and Iraq,” said Randa Slim, a scholar at the Washington-based Middle East Institute.

“There are serious fears that the country has entered a vicious cycle of tit-for-tat explosions and car bombs. A dynamic of violence and reprisals, once set in, is hard to reverse,” she said.

Local TV stations aired shocking footage of the first moments following the explosions: Bodies scattered beside burning cars, charred victims trapped in smoking vehicles and bloodied casualties emerg-

ing from thick, black smoke being ferried away by screaming residents.

In one video, apparently recorded by a closedcircuit television camera in the area, scores of terrified worshippers were seen spilling out of one of the mosques in a crushing stampede immediately after the explosion struck.

In the chaotic aftermath, bearded gunmen took to the streets of Tripoli, firing in the air, attacking soldiers and sealing off the two mosques where the car bombs went off. Later, they roamed the streets in SUVs, weapons sticking out of the windows.

The two explosions went off about five minutes apart. The force of the blast at the Taqwa mosque propelled a car onto its roof.

President Michel Suleiman cut short a visit abroad and returned to the country to follow the situation. He described the attacks as a “massacre” aimed at sowing strife among Lebanese.

Hezbollah was quick to condemn the bombings and in a strongly worded statement, expressed “utmost solidarity” with the people of Tripoli.

However, residents of the city — long known as a hotbed for Sunni fundamentalists — were quick to point fingers at the Syria-backed group, blaming it for bringing destruction to Lebanon because of its open involvement in the Syrian civil war. In an ominous sign, a prominent Salafist sheikh, Dai al-Islam Shahhal, said Sunnis in Tripoli would take security in their own hands, raising the spectre of armed vigilantes.

“Hassan Nasrallah was behind this,” a man shouted hysterically at the scene, blaming the Hezbollah leader.

The grand mufti, Lebanon’s top Sunni cleric, urged calm and unity in a televised address, but there was little of that to be seen in Tripoli Friday. vanished from the Heaven club at midday May 26, just a block from the leafy Paseo de Reforma, the capital’s equivalent of the Champs-Elysees.

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Army psychiatrist convicted of murder for Fort Hood shooting FORT HOOD, Texas — Maj. Nidal Hasan was convicted Friday for the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, a shocking assault against American troops at home by one of their own who said he opened fire on fellow soldiers to protect Muslim insurgents abroad.

A jury of high-ranking military officers reached a unanimous guilty verdict on all 13 counts of premeditated murder and a guilty verdict on 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. Hasan is now eligible for the death penalty.

Hasan stared at the jury with no visible reaction as the verdict was read. After he and jurors left the courtroom, some victims who survived the attack and victims’ relatives began to cry.

The Army psychiatrist acknowledged carrying out the attack at the Texas military base inside a crowded waiting room, where unarmed troops were making final preparations to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 were wounded.

Because Hasan never denied his actions, the case was always less about a conviction than it was about ensuring a death sentence.

From the beginning, the government has sought to execute Hasan, believing that any lesser sentence would deprive the military and victims’ families of the justice they have sought.

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — The U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan civilians last year in one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was sentenced Friday to life in prison with no chance of release— the most severe sentence possible, but one that left surviving victims and relatives of the dead deeply unsatisfied.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 40, who pleaded guilty in June in a deal to avoid the death penalty, showed no emotion as the verdict was announced at a military base south of Seattle.

Bales’ mother, sitting in the front row of the court, bowed her head, rocked in her seat, and wept as the sentence was read.

As the verdict was announced, an interpreter flashed a thumbs-up sign to a row of Afghan villagers who were either injured or lost family members in the March 11, 2012 attacks.

The villagers, who travelled nearly 7,000 miles (more than 11,000 kilometres) to testify against Bales, spoke with reporters and asked through a translator what it would be like for someone to break into American homes and slaughter their families.

“We wanted this murderer to be executed, but we didn’t get our wish,” said Hajji Mohammad Wazir, who lost 11 family members, including his wife, mother and six of his seven children.

Bales, a father of two, never offered an explanation for why he armed himself with a 9 mm pistol and an M-4 rifle and left his post on the killing mission, but he apologized on the witness stand Thursday and described the slaughter as an “act of cowardice.”

The six-member jury weighing whether he should be eligible for parole after 20 years took less than 90 minutes to decide the case in favour of prosecutors who described him as a “man of no moral compass.”

“In just a few short hours, Sgt. Bales wiped out generations,” Lt. Col. Jay Morse told the jury in his closing argument. “Sgt. Bales dares to ask you for mercy when he has shown none.”

A commanding general overseeing the court-martial has the option of reducing the sentence to life with the possibility of parole.

Defence attorney Emma Scanlan begged the jurors in her closing to consider her client’s prior life and years of good military service, and suggested he snapped under the weight of his fourth combat deployment. She read from a letter Bales sent to his children 10 weeks before the killing: “The children here are a lot like you. They like to eat candy and play soccer. They all know me because I juggle rocks for them.”

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TLALMANALCO, Mexico — Mexican authorities said Friday they have identified five bodies pulled from a mass grave as some of the 12 people kidnapped three months ago from a Mexico City bar.

Assistant attorney general Renato Sales told reporters that 13 badly decomposed bodies have been pulled from a mass grave covered with cement, lime and asbestos discovered Thursday on a rural ranch east of Mexico City.

Officials said the remains are at federal labs, where experts are using DNA tests, and they expect to have all of them identified soon.

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LA PAZ, Bolivia — At least 15 people were killed, many burned to death, in a battle among rival gangs for control of part of an overcrowded maximumsecurity prison in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands, police said.

Bolivian police chief Alberto Aracena said at least seven of the 50 injured were in critical condition after Friday’s melee, in which he said propane gas canisters exploded, triggering a fire at the Palmasola prison outside the regional capital of Santa Cruz.

Several inmates told reporters that gas canisters were used like flamethrowers in the early morning attack. It was not immediately clear if those canisters subsequently exploded.

Arancena said many of the bodies were burned.

In addition to fallen inmates, Arancena said the dead included a child, whose age and gender he did not mention.

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Another defeat for the environment (and for us) “The world has failed us,” said Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa. “I have signed the executive decree for the liquidation of the Yasuni-ITT trust fund and with this, ended the initiative.”

What might have been a model for a system that helps poor countries avoid the need to ruin their environment in order to make ends meet has failed, because the rich countries would not support it.

In 2007, oil drillers found a reservoir of an estimated 846 million barrels of heavy crude in Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador’s part of the Amazon.

But the park is home to two indigenous tribes that have so far succeeded in living in voluntary isolation — and it is listed by UNESCO as a world biosphere reserve. A single hectare of Yasuni contains GWYNNE more species of trees than all DYER of North America.

Ecuador, which cannot access finance on international markets, desperately needs money, and the oil meant money: an estimated $7.2 billion over the next decade.

Nevertheless, Ecuadorians were horrified by the pollution, deforestation and cultural destruction that the drilling would cause: a large majority of them opposed drilling in the park.

And then Energy Minister Alberto Acosta had an idea.

What if Ecuador just left the oil in the ground?

In return, Acosta hoped the rest of the world would come up with $3.6 billion (half of the forecast income from oil revenues) over the next decade, to be spent on non-polluting energy generation like hydroelectric and solar power schemes and on social programs to help Ecuador’s many poor.

The pay-off for the foreign contributors to this fund would come mainly from the fact that the oil under Yasuni would never be burned, thereby preventing more than 400 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from going into the atmosphere. Only a drop in the bucket, perhaps, but if the model worked it could be applied widely elsewhere, offering the poor countries an alternative to selling everything they can dig up or cut down.

The idea won the support of the United Nations Development Program, which agreed to administer the Yasuni-ITT trust fund. It was set up in 2009, and the money started to come in.

But it didn’t flood in; it just trickled.

Chile, Colombia, Turkey and Georgia donated token amounts. Brazil and Indonesia (which would certainly benefit from the same sort of arrangement) promised donations eventually but didn’t actually put any money up.

Among the developed countries, Spain, Belgium and France also promised donations, Italy wrote off $51 million of Ecuadorian debt, and Germany offered $50 million worth of technical assistance to the park.

And that was it.

Not a penny from the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands or Scandinavia.

Individuals put in what they could afford (including high-profile donors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore).

But four years later, the pledges only amounted to $116 million. Actual cash deposits were only $13 million. So last week, Correa pulled the plug.

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Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa: he has pulled the plug on the project to protect Yasuni National Park, after just $13 million in actual cash was raised. Not a penny came from the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands or Scandinavia.

“It was not charity we sought from the international community,” Correa said, “but co-responsibility in the face of climate change.”

Maybe Correa could have waited a bit longer, but the idea was always Acosta’s baby and Acosta ran for president against Correa last February and lost.

It was also Acosta who led the successful drive to make Ecuador the first country to include the “rights of nature” in its new constitution.

This is a radical break from traditional environmental regulatory systems, which regard nature as property.

Ecuadorian law now recognizes the inalienable rights of ecosystems to exist and flourish. It gives people the right to petition on the behalf of ecosystems, and requires the government to take these rights seriously.

Like the trust fund, this is an idea that may ultimately bear much fruit.

For the moment, however, it’s just too great an intellectual and political leap to demote the property rights of actual voters (and campaign contributors) to a status below the right to survive and thrive of mere ecosystems — even though we all depend on these ecosystems to survive ourselves.

So we continue on our merry way to a global meltdown — and this just in from London!

Fracking is now more important than wind power!

When the Conservatives came into office three years ago they pledged to be the “greenest government ever,” but they have fallen in love with shale gas, CO2 emissions and all.

The British government has announced a new tax regime for fracking described by the Chancellor, George Osborne, as “the most generous for shale (gas) in the world.”

Not only that but there will be “no standard minimum separation distance” between a fracking rig and people’s houses.

Planners considering drilling applications “should give great weight to the benefits of minerals extraction, including to the economy.”

In practice, that means that they can drill wherever they want, including your front garden.

Whereas local people will now have a veto on the construction of any wind turbines in their neighbourhood.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s office explained that “it is very important that local voters are taken into account when it comes to wind farms … if people don’t want wind farms in their local areas they will be able to stop them.”

It’s OK to ruin the planet — but God forbid that you should ruin the view.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Tories blur public policy and partisan politics When James Moore began his counThe government is supposed to craft teroffensive against Canada’s large public policy it feels is best for all Catelecommunications companies, he nadians. trumpeted a website that asked CanaBut to then turn around and use dians whether they agreed the country the telecoms as whipping boys to raise needed more wireless competition. money and support is the ultimate “We’re putting consumers first and blurring of government policy and parstanding up for choice in tisan party politics.

Canada’s wireless industry This is, in fact, the sec— are you with us?” asks ond time the Conservatives the website, which then rehave used the telecom giquests your name and email ants this way. address to show your supIn June, when then-inport. dustry minister Christian On the surface, it looks Paradis blocked a $380-millike the government is prelion Telus deal for Mobilicparing to present itself with ity, the government crowed an online petition to push that it was taking on big itself to do something it has telecom. already announced.

Hours after the anThat is, until you scroll nouncement, the Tories apTIM down to see that this is in pealed for money from backHARPER fact a website sponsored ers, saying it was “standing by the Conservative party, up for wireless consumers” not the federal government, against “the big telecommuand that this is just the latnications companies.” est example of the party trying to raise “Our Conservative government is funds and mine voter data information taking action to reduce your cellphone on the backs of the big three. bill — and we wanted to make sure you Moore says his “consumers first” have heard about it,” the party said in telecom policy is good public policy, an email. not politics. But he, and his party, are The Conservatives have regularly trying to have it both ways. used government policy to pad their The survey is merely a tried-and- coffers, usually on matters of lawtrue method of soliciting donations and-order, most notably its long road and support. to elimination of the gun registry, a

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drawn out process that was the subject of numerous fundraising campaigns.

And to be sure, all parties do this.

The NDP’s Roll Up the Red Carpet campaign, which asks voters to sign a petition backing Senate abolition, has garnered the party “tens of thousands” of new email addresses apart from its usual base, a spokesperson says, addresses that will be crucial as we head to the 2015 campaign.

The Liberals have a bevy of online petitions.

An online demand that Stephen Harper explain the $90,000 payoff from his former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, to former Conservative senator Mike Duffy has been accessed by more than 33,450 persons, while legalizing marijuana has more than 21,000 hits.

Close to 111,000 have clicked to demand Harper “keep our hands off our reproductive rights,” smaller numbers have signed petitions on everything from trans-fats to search-and-rescue stations.

But neither the Liberals nor the NDP are supposedly governing for the good of all Canadians, or using public policy as a wedge issue, or building support by taking on companies that have played by the rules and invested in this country.

The Harper government has been consistent on its policy of fostering competition in the wireless industry,

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so no one should be surprised.

Still, the big three have already lost $14.5 billion in market value because of the Verizon speculation and pension funds have lost close to $500 million.

Rogers, Bell and Telus are now warning of slower wireless speeds if Verizon gets to bid on two of four spectrum blocks available. Rogers has called for the auction to be delayed and Telus chief corporate officer Josh Blair has proposed limiting Verizon to one block so four companies can win four blocks.

“Four winners is better at enabling competition than having just three winners,” Blair said.

One of the existing three will be shut out, resulting in slower service for a growing customer base with a growing bandwidth appetite.

Moore is well within his rights to ignore those arguments.

But it is unseemly for this government to turn Canadian companies into the bad guys in its white hats-black hats world.

We’ve heard the Conservatives bash “big unions,” now it’s “big telecom.”

This is a government that will find — or create — its enemies wherever it needs them, if it can use them to raise a few bucks and win a few votes.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.ca.

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Tech failures rattle confidence NO ONE IS WAITING IN THE WINGS TO SYMBOLIZE CANADA’S CAPABILITIES After Nortel declared bankruptcy in January 2009, BlackBerry Ltd. (then operating as Research in Motion, or RIM) was waiting in the wings to take centre stage as Canada’s new symbol of high-tech expertise.

Now BlackBerry’s own future is in doubt.

But this time no one is waiting in the wings to symbolize Canada’s high-tech capabilities on the world stage.

Instead, our future hopes seem to be tied to how much oilsands oil we can export.

The collapse of these two high-tech giants, which in their respective heydays told the world that Canada was more than just a producer of natural resource commodities, has to have a chilling effect on Canadian confidence that we can be players in the tough, competitive knowledge DAVID economy.

CRANE Nortel benefitted strongly from public policy, which for years gave it a captive market in the telephone industry and also allowed Bell Canada to include Nortel’s research and development costs (Nortel at the time was controlled by Bell Canada) in calculating its regulated rate of return, as well as from generous tax write-offs for R&D spending (after bankruptcy Nortel’s patents portfolio was sold for $4.5 billion).

But this, apparently, was not enough. At the end of the day, there is only so much government can do — then it is up to management and their boards of directors.

Nortel hit its technology high mark through its leadership in digital switching for phone systems. At their peak in 2000, Nortel shares were valued at $124 and the company had a market capitalization of $398 billion. It had 94,500 employees, including 25,900 in Canada.

Its slide was a long one — in 2001 alone it laid off 60,000 employees and reported write-downs of US$16 billion. By the time of delisting in 2009, its shares had fallen to 18.5 cents.

BlackBerry’s decline has not led to bankruptcy — it still has a market cap of about $6 billion and some important proprietary assets.

But its future is in serious doubt. In 2008, it had a market capitalization of about $80 billion and its shares peaked at about $140. Its shares have now fallen to $11.14.

Trading was halted pending the outcome of the work of a special board committee that is exploring “strategic alternatives” that “could include, among others, possible joint ventures, strategic partnerships or alliances, a sale of the company, or other possibilities,” according to the company.

The committee is chaired by Timothy Dattells, a

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partner in TPG Capital, a major U.S. private equity firm. Early last year, the company retained JP Morgan and RBC Capital Markets to ascertain whether there were potential buyers but none materialized.

One likely prospect is that the company will be taken private. Fairfax Financial Holdings is said to be pursuing this option. Its chair, Prem Watsa, has resigned from the BlackBerry board to avoid conflict of interest.

But it’s not clear how a buy-back of shares would be financed, since this would likely exceed the capacity of Fairfax.

Nor is it clear how BlackBerry could regain a profitable position in the market even if it were taken private, so it is not clear whether there is a serious a future buyer of the company.

In the meantime, BlackBerry president Thorsten Heins says the company will continue cost-cutting.

The company once had more than 19,000 employees, with more than 6,000 in Canada, but layoffs have reduced employment to just over 12,000.

In neither case did collapse occur overnight. In both cases, though the circumstances were different, poor management and ineffective boards of directors

True friendship involves people sticking together Standing at the kitchen win- I feel is an essential propodow, I look out at the street nent of being a true friend, is while our clients assemble the effort to build each other waiting for the doors to open up — be a cheering section before a meal. when a person tries to change At this time I’m usually too their life; encourage each othbusy to take much er when they are note, but every once down, like I feel in a while I have a a true friendship little extra time and should. so I like to look out It may happen and observe what out of my sight, but all is going on.

I don’t see any real One of the things evidence of it.

I find interesting What I do see at is when some peotimes is the backple come together, biting, the false acthey will greet each cusations, etc. other profusely The other day and hug each other while working in CHRIS or shake hands or the kitchen, I lisbang each other’s tened to a person SALOMONS fists like Howie I consider a friend Mandel originated. for some time as he Each meeting is laid out how he was different in its exdoing, the frustrapression and enthusiasm. tions he was dealing with and So while I’m watching this, the discouragements that he I’m amused at the antics some was feeling. of these folks will use in greetSo in our conversation I reing, but also in their relation- ally didn’t have to say much (I ships. like to think my ears are bigYou see, today they em- ger than my mouth), but after brace each other like two listening for a while I finally long-lost friends, but two days interjected with a reminder ago one stole from the other to him to look at his attrior told some demeaning lies butes and not his supposed about them and they were at failures. odds with each other.

When he left, he was feeling Or during a binge of one better. type or the other, they fought At the same time, I was over some petty issue or a ma- dealing with some issues jor issue like unwanted physi- wherein I was looking to the cal attentions. future with some apprehenWhile I was observing all sion. this and the knowledge I had When I expressed this to about them, I began to think a friend who came at lunchabout the word ‘friend.’ time, he reminded me of My trusty Funk and Wag- his continued support and nall’s gives a description he told me that I was a very that would somewhat accom- much needed person in his modate what I was observing life. on the street, but somehow it As well, he offered some seemed too shallow and with- pertinent advice, and when out any real depth. we parted I also felt much One of the definitions goes better. as follows: “One who belongs In our wedding vows just to the same nation, party, etc., about 33 years ago, one line as oneself; also one with whom stood out. one is united in some purpose, It said, “I will do everything cause, etc.” in my power to promote God’s That last part of the defini- gifts in you.” tion made sense in that these I believe that is a very impeople form bonds because of portant part of a married life, their circumstances, whether and I believe that I should it be common addictions or treat my friendships the same battles fought. way, because when I do in First Nations folk stick to- spite of difficulties and/or difgether, as do those working ferences, it will come back to the street. me as I have extended it.

By sticking together, they And that is what I feel true provide a measure of safety friendship should be. for each other.

Chris Salomons is kitchen The one thing I do not see co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands very often at all, and which ministry in Red Deer.

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are largely to blame.

In neither case did senior management have a clear understanding of major changes in the market, nor a strategic view of what the industry would look like in the future.

Both became industry laggards after once being industry leaders, Nortel underestimating Cisco and BlackBerry underestimating Apple and Samsung.

The problem with being a laggard is that the company must constantly play catch-up to position itself in an existing market rather than creating a future market which it can lead.

These were not failures of public policy but of management and their boards.

So do the Nortel and BlackBerry cases mean that Canada’s future will be to combine a focus on resources while limiting itself to producing savvy high-tech start-ups that become seed corn for foreign multinationals rather than growing into our own multinationals?

And if so, what does that mean for our future?

Worth thinking about.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

Rock juggling with Cirque du Cement It was the guys on the city sidewalk crew that when it came from that blue place again. I did it. Made me want to juggle, I mean. found myself digging around in my important Maybe I should explain. junk boxes, my sort-of-important junk boxes, Long ago and not far away, I was working a and my dusty old get-rid-of-junk boxes, and summer job on the cement crew with the city. finally found my official leather bean bag jugMy job was mostly to drive around with another gling balls. starving college student occasionally picking Whereupon I proceeded to trash my little up the wood and metal forms used home office with flying projectiles as the sidewalk frames for the cein my very own version of “juggling,” ment pour, and deliver them to the which consisted of erratically thrownext cement crew whose job it was ing and not catching very much of to mostly stand around waiting for anything. cement trucks to arrive.

But after a while (a long while), This was the joke back then: I got so that I could keep the balls “What do you call 10 guys in bib in the air for a whole eight to 10 overalls standing around leaning on seconds before one got loose and I goon-spoons?” knocked over something valuable.

Answer: “A city cement crew.”

But then, I was hooked. I wanted Haha. Oh, and goon spoons were more. “Bowling pins,” I found myself their name for shovels. saying out loud. “I’ve always wanted They were a good old wacky to juggle bowling pins.” Right out of HARLEY bunch all right, except when the cethat blue place again. ment trucks arrived.

So I immediately started learning HAY Then it was all business, pouring, the devil sticks. troweling and finishing before the Maybe I should explain. cement dried — and they were surYou see, I had some devil sticks prisingly good at making a reasonbut I didn’t have any juggling clubs, ably recognizable sidewalk out of large blobs which I thought were called juggling bowling of mud. pins, but are called “clubs,” which is probably And as we watched from the comfort of our why I couldn’t find any for sale. city flatbed truck, cranking up the tunes on the Devil sticks consist of one large stick and radio, I wondered how in the world any of them two smaller sticks, which you hold in each hand could resist putting a handprint or scratching and use to manipulate the large stick. It’s like their name (or better yet — the name of a co- juggling, only with more damage involved. worker) in the enticingly smooth wet cement.

I knew the Rotten Kids had some back in But after a fairly brief flurry of intense and our camping days so I dug through more junk concentrated cement work, the finishing crew boxes and soon I was knocking, twirling, stickwould be, well, finished and ready to hang handling, batting, bashing and thrashing away, around and hurry up and wait for the next with wild abandon and absolutely no control pour. whatsoever. Even out in the backyard this sumAnd that’s where the juggling came in. mer I was menace, and very nearly put a twirlSeveral of the guys, apparently bored with ing rampant devil stick right through our back leaning on their goon spoons, would pick up window. three nice-sized rocks from the road and would So, of course, I decided to take them with me start tossing them in the air, and pretty soon to our holiday last week in B.C. — you know, to they were juggling. practise.

And pretty soon after that most of the entire After a lesson or two on YouTube, I nearly crew were juggling rocks. It was quite a sight — put one through the TV in the hotel room. So, all these sun-baked road workers all covered in after being banished to the hotel lawn, I mancoveralls and dried cement wandering around aged to pull off a few momentary moves like randomly, rocks flying in every direction. ‘the helicopter,’ ‘the tick-tock’ and ‘the spin.’

It was Cirque du Cement right there in the And then my Rotten Kid, the son one, picked middle of wet sidewalks. up the devil sticks and proceeded to spin, heliSo I decided right then and there to have copter and tick tock on his first try. another coffee break. And, also, after coffee, to “Clubs,” I said to myself, “I’ve always wantlearn how to juggle. ed to juggle clubs.”

But I wasn’t very good at tossing rocks, and And low and behold in a store called Out of when summer ended I went back to school and the Blue — kidding — in a novelty store in Penback to attempting to learn how to twirl pens ticton the RK found some honest to goodness, and pencils and soon forgot about juggling. official actual juggling clubs.

Then one day a few years ago, somehow the So I had to have them. juggling bug hit me again, right out of the blue.

I took them back to the hotel room, gave I’m not sure where this “blue” is, but I do know them a mighty twirl, bounced one off of a paintI’m often hit by things that come from there. ing on the wall, another one off the ceiling and So I bought some actual cheap bean bag jug- spun one with great force onto my bare foot, gling balls that came with an instruction book- very nearly breaking my big toe. let and proceeded to flail away, knocking over I was banished back out to the lawn, where I lamps, scaring the cat, bonking one or other of decided to take up reading instead. dogs on the head with falling balls, annoying But really, none of the unfortunate juggling the Better Half, etc., until I was banished to the mayhem was my fault. I blame it on the guys backyard to practise my juggling. who got tired of leaning on their goon spoons.

I finally got so good at it that I could juggle Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, awardthree balls more or less for an impressive six to winning author, filmmaker and musician. His eight seconds! column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His So I gave up again. books can be found at Chapters, Coles and SunI forgot about juggling again until recently, works in Red Deer.

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LEFT: Judge John Holmes leads the troops along a precipitous ledge overlooking Lake O’Hara.

ABOVE: Every turn along the Alpine Circuit Trail offers a new mindblowing vista.

BELOW: A blue scar shows where the Odaray glacier calved moments earlier.

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aren H (her surname has been abbreviated so you won’t know it’s Horsley) told me Lake O’Hara Lodge in Yoho National Park, B.C., was the most beautiful place she’d ever been.

Florence and I have done our share of travel to exotic and wonderful places so my expectations for our three-day visit to O’Hara in early July were tempered with a GERRY grain of salt.

FEEHAN The lodge, accessible only by bus up a dusty gravel road, is tucked in the mountains west of Lake Louise. We were fortunate

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The ladies accept a chivalrous hand fording a raging creek.

to secure a stay. Demand during the short summer season necessitates booking a year in advance — and priority is given to repeat clients, many of whom travel from all over the globe to enjoy the natural beauty of this unique Rocky Mountain destination.

Our trip had an inauspicious beginning.

The O’Hara bus departs daily for the lodge at 9 a.m. sharp from a parking lot near the TransCanada Hwy. Rather than arise at 5 a.m. and drive from Red Deer to the O’Hara pickup spot (you will recall from my previous missives that I’m not a morning guy), we elected to spend a night in Field, B.C. It was record-breaking hot that evening. Dinner was excellent — rainbow trout on a bed of wild rice — but the moment we turned in for the night, the hotel power quit. No lights, no TV, no air conditioning — just darkness and heat.

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O’HARA: Plenty of recreation options A young woman came round with a flashlight in the pitch-black offering solace. “Wow, this happened last week too. No power for 47 hours. We had to throw out most of our food.” I tossed and turned through the night’s sultry darkness, wondering whether my supper had endured the earlier blackout and was considering a fishy re-appearance.

Miraculously the power returned moments before our 8 a.m. checkout, in time for the hotel’s Visa machine to accept my full undiscounted payment.

The drive into O’Hara was unimpressive: a bumpy ride on a school bus with six of our friends — Horsleys, Holmes and McClintocks — plus a bunch of sociable strangers, all of us overburdened for the short stay with luggage, backpacks, hiking poles and superfluous personal items (in my case, ineffective fishing gear). Eleven km later we turned the last dusty corner. The lodge and lake appeared in timeless splendour. Smiles erupted at the sight of rough-hewn timbers meeting cerulean waters.

While the staff discreetly unloaded our bags, we were briefed in the rustic lobby and offered a pack lunch for our first day hike. Bottles filled, our best lederhosen donned, off we went a-wandering.

John Holmes is not renowned for his hiking prowess — he’s usually found meting out justice in a Red Deer courtroom. But as a veteran of Lake O’Hara — and the one who was able to finagle rooms for four couples during peak season — he was the natural choice to lead our troop up the steep paths and along the precipitous ledges of O’Hara’s vast trail network.

We skirted the lake’s north shore and began the climb up Oesa Lake Trail. After an hour, we reached an alpine meadow painted with delicate yellow columbine, fiery-red Indian paintbrush and shaggy green anemones — hippies on a stick. As we gained elevation, the summer air became cooler. Lake Oesa was still dotted with orphaned chunks of white ice sailing randomly in the mountain wind.

Spruce pollen weaved intricate patterns along the lake’s frigid shore.

At every turn, a mind-blowing vista opened before us. But always far below lay Lake O’Hara, shaped like an artist’s aquamarine palette, the Lodge a tiny wooden appendage hugging its edge.

Although he performed admirably as pack leader, the Judge was noticeably absent when our damsels fell behind and needed a chivalrous hand fording the hazardous creeks.

After tackling 16 km of the toughest O’Hara could throw at us, in late afternoon we descended steeply to her cobalt shores and the luxury of a hot shower, a cold beer and one of the better meals I’ve had the pleasure of sticking a knife and fork into.

Following dinner the sated guests retired to the great room. Giant logs crackled in the open fireplace. Camaraderie ensued. I uncased my trusty ukulele. My buddy Carl grabbed his guitar. Carl isn’t usually shy about sharing his musical talents but on this occasion I had to cajole him into playing. His reticence vanished after our first tune, when the whole lodge clapped approval and the requests started.

Eventually the accolades turned to yawns. It had been a long day.

The Feehans were bunked in the rustic main lodge — with (how quaint) shared bath. Two of our snootier friends were booked into a private cabin on the lake’s edge. We selflessly included them in the group by appropriating their lakefront deck for cock-

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The rare hoary marmot in search of my trail mix. This elusive mammal lives a solitary life tucked amongst craggy alpine rocks. tails each evening.

O’Hara provides plenty of recreational options: one can tackle an oxygen-depriving climb along an alpine ridge, saunter slowly around the lake’s pristine perimeter, or just sit in the lodge and knit — admiring a view that evokes a Group of Seven painting.

Knitting is not my forté — having dropped a stitch or two in time, I’ve now cast off that pursuit. I was here for the outdoors, to experience the handiwork of Lawrence Grassi, park warden at Lake O’Hara during the 1950s.

He designed, built and for many years singlehandedly maintained the Alpine Circuit Trail. Generations of hikers have enjoyed his skillfully arranged rockwork.

An elaborate staircase of stone skirting the gushing Victoria Falls is one of his masterful works. A simple plaque on the rock face beneath the falls honours his remarkable achievements.

On our second day, we tackled another longish ramble but one involving less climbing. As we descended into a lush valley and neared a narrow bridge, a rumble of distant thunder surrounded us. I looked up, puzzled by the sky’s uniform blue. Near the summit above us a torrent of meltwater and ice was pouring into the watershed. The Odaray Glacier was calving.

A fresh blue gash scarred its frozen grey mass. We hustled across the flimsy log bridge and safely upward into the forest.

We stopped for lunch on a rocky ledge overlooking Lake McArthur. The others sat and rested their tired feet.

I remained vigilant, acutely attuned to the surroundings. I was intent on photographing the rare hoary marmot.

This elusive mammal lives a solitary life tucked amongst craggy alpine rocks.

As I scanned the distant horizon Karen quietly shouted, “Gerry, look out for your trail mix.”

I turned my binoculars and was confronted with a nostril-hair close-up of a large blond rodent. The critter was within arm’s reach and marching my way. His long marmot claws suggested this was a business meeting. I grabbed my pack and scrambled to safety — behind my wife.

For the balance of the day I remained at the back of the group — to ensure we weren’t attacked from the flank by a malicious herbivore.

A few years ago, Florence and I bought all the gear required for serious backcountry camping: lightweight sleeping bags, thinsulate mattresses, tiny gas cooker — the whole outdoor shebang.

Then we discovered places like Lake O’Hara Lodge, where mountain air and comfort co-mingle; filet mignon, a glass of quality red goof and a soft bed are the reward for a grueling day in the alpine.

The holiday we now prefer?

Would you be interested in a slightly used water filter kit? Cheap.

As for Mrs. H’s assessment of Lake O’Hara?

I still respect her opinion. I had better. She’s taking us to the Kingdom of Bhutan this fall. She says it’s the happiest place on earth.

I’ll let you know.

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NEW YORK — Ahh, the joys of roughing it in the great outdoors — champagne, high threadcount sheets, flat-screen television. Camping, New York City-style.

At least a couple of city locales are offering this unusual option — the chance to sleep outdoors, incredibly comfortably. It’s an urban take on “glamping,” where hotel comforts are taken outside.

“It’s basically being able to sleep under the stars in a luxury setting,” said Jeffrey Poirot, general manager at AKA Central Park, which offers an outdoor bedroom on its 1,000-square-foot terrace outside its 17thfloor penthouse.

For about $2,000 per night, the offering includes a bedroom setup — queen bed, fireplace, television — but also a telescope to look at the stars and the ingredients for that campfire favourite, s’mores.

AKA has been offering the option for the past few years, Poirot said.

It’s a popular option in the summer months, and has been booked more than half a dozen times this year, he said.

The idea of glamping (glamorous + camping, get it?) is a relatively recent arrival in the United States over the last decade or so but has been popular in other parts of the world, like Africa, where wealthy visitors wanted to travel but always in comfort.

There are websites dedicated to it, showcasing luxury camping sites in some of the world’s most beautiful natural environments.

On a recent night, Anita Waxman and Tom Dokton made a go of a night on the terrace. The couple, who live in San Francisco but spend time in New York City frequently in their roles producing musical theatre, eagerly made use of the fire to roast some marshmallows.

“That’s what camping is all about,” Waxman said, who admitted that in previous camping forays with friends, she would stay for dinner, then return to her home or a hotel.

“This is exactly what I want,” Waxman said, and

Dokton agreed.

“The access to the city, being in the middle of the city and having this kind of atmosphere, it’s fantastic,” he said.

They had engaged in luxury camping during their travels internationally, but were thrilled to have the chance to do it in New York. And they still felt a sense of solitude, even in a city of millions.

“There’s a sense of privacy up here, too,” Dokton said.

At the Affinia Gardens hotel on the Upper East Side, guests who book the patio suite (starting at around $300 per night) can pick from a range of options from dinner outside to a bed made up on the patio floor in an actual tent.

General Manager Steve Sasso said the offerings had been in place for a few years, with around 10 per cent to 20 per cent of those booking the suite choosing from the outdoor options.

“Today’s travellers are really looking for unique experiences,” he said.

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“We thought that would be really cool and different,” she said.

Having the ability to sleep outside but have access to the hotel room made a difference, Boyle said.

“The safety of being able to go back inside, not having to pee in the woods, here’s a nice bathroom, that was excellent,” she said.

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Overage players in spotlight FOUR PLAYERS COMPETING FOR THREE SPOTS CLAUDE GIROUX

GIROUX OUT OF OLYMPIC CAMP Claude Giroux will not attend Hockey Canada’s Olympic orientation camp as he continues to rehab from a finger injury.

The Philadelphia Flyers centre suffered tendon damage in his right index finger when a golf club splintered in his hands, the team said. He had surgery Aug. 15 and was at the time expected to miss five to six weeks.

“It’s simply due to the injury and the rehab for now,” agent Pat Brisson said in an email. “The team will be decided based on most of everyone’s performance the first 25 games.”

Canada’s Olympic orientation camp will not include any on-ice activities. Giroux was one of 47 players invited, and it does not seem likely that he will be replaced.

Giroux tied for 13th in the NHL in points last season and figures to be part of Canada’s team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, as long as he’s healthy.

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.

Monday

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp — Rookies 9-10:30 a.m.; rookie goalie session 1-2 p.m.; rookies 3-4:30 p.m.; main camp scrimmage 5-6:30 p.m., Centrium. ● Golf: McLennan Ross Sun Junior Tour championship at Wolf Creek, 11 a.m. shotgun start.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR When the Red Deer Rebels main training camp opens Monday, there will be one too many overage players in attendance.

It’s a problem that hasn’t kept general manager/head coach Brent Sutter awake at nights.

“Really, it’s a good situation because all four guys are very good 20-year-olds,” Sutter said of goaltender Patrik Bartosak and forwards Tyson Ness, Lukas Sutter and Rhyse Dieno.

“But I won’t be doing a thing with it until I see

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end up with all four we’ll deal with it at that time,” said Sutter, who insisted he won’t make a rash decision on which overage player will be released/ traded in order to get down to the league-mandated three 20-year-olds.

“There’s nothing saying that right now it’s one guy over the other. We’re dealing from strength on it and that’s what you want to have,” he said.

“It comes down to what fits best for your team.

“Once training camp and the preseason are over you’ll know what you have as a team and what you’ll want from your 20-year-olds.”

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Glenn, Ray injured in Stamps win over Argos THE CANADIAN PRESS Calgary 35 Toronto 14 TORONTO — It’s two points in the standings but it means much more than that to Kevin Glenn and the Calgary Stampeders.

Glenn threw two firsthalf TD passes before leaving for precautionary reasons as injuryplagued Calgary beat the Toronto Argonauts 35-14 on Friday night in a rematch of last year’s Grey Cup game. The Stampeders (6-2) won despite missing veteran slotback Nik Lewis (fractured fibula), receiver Maurice Price (ankle), offensive lineman Dimitri Tsoumpas (concussion) and running back Jon Cornish (thigh contusion).

“It shows a lot about our character and how well we prepare, how we believe in each other,” Glenn said. “Your star running back and receiver go down and we still have faith and confidence in the guy who’s going to step up and play next.

“We all believe in each other, it’s really a good team atmosphere and I think that carries over on the field.”

Glenn, starting with

incumbent Drew Tate (arm) out, suffered a head injury at 1:06 of the fourth quarter after being taken down by Toronto tackle Khalif Mitchell.

Glenn left as per the CFL’s concussion protocol but said afterwards he was OK. “I had a little headache but it’s gone and I feel fine,” he said. “I remembered the play and everything that happened so it was moreso just a precaution.

“This stuff is serious so you have to be cautious when it happens.”

Third-stringer Bo Levi Mitchell took over and scored on an 11-yard run at 4:04 to put Calgary ahead 29-14, set up

by Jonathan Hefney’s 36-yard return of Chad Owens’ fumble.

Glenn threw secondquarter TD passes to Marquay McDaniel and Tim Hawthorne to stake Calgary to a 21-14 halftime lead after Toronto (5-3) lost starter Ricky Ray. Ray suffered a shoulder injury at 8:41 of the first and was replaced by sophomore Zach Collaros after being hit by Charleston Hughes.

Ray will be evaluated Saturday.

“It’s tough to see your starting quarterback go

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Toronto Argonauts wide receiver Jason Barnes, centre, gets tackled by Calgary Stampeders defensive backs Jonathan Hefney, left, and Brandon Smith, right, during second half CFL football action in Toronto, on Friday. down but you don’t have time to feel for Ricky,” Argos coach Scott Milanovich said. “That’s the job of the backup quarterback.

“It’s never easy to come off the bench with no reps, especially on a short week. Their guy (Mitchell) had to do the same thing.”

Ray completed his first five passes before a Rogers Centre gathering of 21,157, including a 19-yard TD strike to Jason Barnes at 5:10 to

open the scoring. Ray, who guided Toronto past Calgary 35-22 in the 100th Grey Cup game last November at Rogers Centre, capped an eight-play, 65-yard march set up by Cleyon Laing’s recovery of McDaniel’s fumble following a 29-yard reception on the game’s first offensive play.

Ray returned to Toronto’s bench in the third and wasn’t wearing a shoulder harness.

Ray said afterwards he didn’t think he suffered

a shoulder separation and was held out for precautionary reasons.

Ray came in having completed 64-of-73 passes (87.7 per cent) for 851 yards and eight touchdowns over his three previous starts. He was the CFL’s offensive player of the week after finishing 30-of-35 passing for 413 yards and three TDs in a 36-33 home win over Edmonton on Sunday.

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the whites of everybody’s eyes, until they’re all here for good.”

Sutter was referring to the fact that Dieno (Minnesota Wild) and Sutter (Winnipeg Jets) will attend NHL training camps in September, and while it’s likely that both will return to the Rebels, it’s not 100 per cent certain.

Bartosak, who was selected by the Los Angeles in June’s entry draft, will attend the Kings’ camp but will definitely be back in Red Deer, while fourth-year forward Ness hasn’t been invited to a pro camp.

“The odds are that there’s going to be three here for sure, and if we

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EDMONTON — Cristie Kerr grabbed a share of the lead Friday at the Canadian Women’s Open, duelling co-leader Inbee Park almost shot for shot while overcoming the errant slam of a porta-potty door.

Kerr shot a four-under 66 for a second consecutive day, while Park carded a five-under 65, leaving both tied for top spot after two rounds at the Royal Mayfair Golf Club.

Both were 8-under 132 in a day of golf under slightly overcast skies with gentle winds.

Kerr, who won the Canadian Open in 2006, said it’s a challenging course.

“It’s a course where you have to really shape the ball off the tee and be creative,” said the 35-year-old American.

“I played very well the last couple of days.

It’s unfortunate I bo-

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Lydia Ko of New Zealand discusses her shot with her caddie on the 11th hole during round 2 of the LPGA Canadian Women’s Open in Edmonton. geyed the last hole today, but that’s what happens when you hit an errant shot and have to chip out

to a difficult pin.”

Making par on the par-4 final hole became a longshot for Kerr when

she drilled her tee shot into the left rough.

But a bad hole almost became disastrous

when the swing on her approach shot was interrupted by the ka-thwam of a nearby spring-loaded portable toilet door.

“I mean, (the noise) really scared me,” she said.

“I could have hooked (the ball) in the water.”

Kerr was in the same group as Park, the topranked player in the world.

The 25-year-old South Korean has won six tournaments on the LPGA tour this year, including three majors.

Earlier this month, the pressure was on when she had a chance at the Women’s British Open to become the first golfer to win four majors in a tournament year.

She said the nerves got to her a bit on the Old Course at St. Andrews, and she ended up tied for 42nd.

Park said the time off since then has helped her game in Edmonton.

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Woodland, Simpson tied for Barclays lead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Matt Kuchar made the most of his short day at The Barclays.

Kuchar didn’t tee off until Friday afternoon at Liberty National and knew he had no chance to finish. He could barely see his ball cross the water and set up a two-putt birdie on the 13th hole that gave him the outright lead, and there was enough light coming from lower Manhattan across the Hudson River to hit his tee shot on the 14th.

The horn sounded, and by then, he was ready to go home.

Kuchar was at 10-under par with five holes remaining and had to return Saturday morning to hold his oneshot lead over Webb Simpson and Gary Woodland, who both finished the second round in the rain-delayed tournament.

Simpson had to play 29 holes — 11 holes to finish his first round in the morning, followed by his second round — and he was ready to go more. He ran off six birdies over an eight-hole stretch and had a 5-under 66.

“It’s much nicer when you’re playing well to keep playing. And when you’re playing well, you feel like you could play 40 holes in a day,” Simpson said. “My main goal ... I just wanted to get done today. It just felt nice to putt out on 9, knowing that I’ve got tonight to sleep and catch up on rest.”

Woodland was one of the last players to finish at twilight Friday, and he finished strong. Woodland, back on track after a win at the Reno-Tahoe Open three weeks ago, birdied four of his last five holes for a 64 to join Simpson in the clubhouse at 9-under 133.

“I feel ecstatic right now to be done,” Woodland said. “It was a close call coming down the stretch if we would be able to finish. Luckily, I played great today, gave myself a lot of opportunities, and I drove the ball phenomenally and rolled some putts

in, especially late.”

As for Tiger Woods, he couldn’t get off the course fast enough.

Woods challenged the target set

by Simpson with three birdies in five holes — he was two shots behind — and he had a pair of par 5s in front of him. He failed to make birdie on either of the par 5s, and made three bogeys out of the bunker through the 12th hole to fall off the pace. He made birdie on the 13th, the last hole he completed, but was still five shots behind Kuchar, who was in his group.

“I got off to a great start today and then lost it the middle part of the round and made too many mistakes,” Woods said.

He also said his back remained sore from what he said earlier in the week was due to a soft bed in his hotel that led to stiffness in his neck and bad.

He said the pain increased throughout the round and when asked if a specific shot made it hurt, he replied, “Every one.”

“I’m going to get treatment right now ... and be ready for tomorrow morning,” Woods said.

It was the second straight year at The Barclays he has said a soft hotel bed caused stiffness in his back. Last year, it caused him trouble in the third round.

Rory McIlroy showed more signs of turning his game around.

After three double bogeys on Thursday, he limited the mistakes with some nifty par saves and was at 5 under with two holes remaining, starting with a shot from the 17th fairway after a big tee shot.

Kuchar stopped with his tee shot just short of the green on the par-3 14th, and he had no inclination to finish. “”I feel like in the morning, they will be perfect greens,“ he said. ”A situation where I’m on 18 and can pretty much have a proper night’s sleep and not have to worry about going out, I’ll finish on 18. But in this situation ... it was amazing, we were down on the last

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Matt Kuchar hits a shot on the second hole during the second round of The Barclays golf tournament, Friday, in Jersey City, N.J. hole, 13, kind of a little bit down the hole and it was dark. I wasn’t sure we were going to tee off on 14. Coming out over the water, it brightened up by a good margin. It’s actually a beautiful skyline.

“I think when the sun sets coming off, it was a nice little place to be this time of night.”

It looked even better atop the leaderboard, though there’s still a long way to go — and plenty of stars right behind him.

Keegan Bradley set the tournament course record with a 63 and was at 7-under 135, along with Rickie Fowler (64) and Adam Scott, who was tied for the lead at one point until a lazy finish for a 66.

Phil Mickelson, trying to retool his game after his British Open win, had a 69 and was seven shots behind the

clubhouse lead.

The last time The Barclays was at Liberty National, Heath Slocum won at 9-under 275.

Since then, some of the landing areas were widened and the slopes on the greens were softened. Plus, the course was very little rough this year.

And the soft conditions from the rain Thursday is making it easier to make birdies.

For some players, their year was over.

Ben Crane, after opening with a 67, had to withdraw with a lower back injury after playing just four holes of the second round. At No. 125 in the FedEx Cup, he won’t be among the 100 players advancing to the second playoff event next week outside Boston.

Lucas Glover withdrew with a hand injury, ending his season.

A’s split games against Atlantic province teams The Sherwood Park A’s split a pair of games at the Canadian senior AAA baseball championships in Windsor, Ont., Friday, losing 6-3 to New Brunswick II and beating Newfoundland and Labrador 10-0.

Riggers’ Jason Chatwood was twofor-four and Jaret Chatwood two-fortwo against New Brunswick while Matt Fay was zero-for-four.

Fay was one-for-two with a run and an RBI against Newfoundland with Jaret Chatwood going one-for-two with

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REBELS: Deadline is Oct. 15 The deadline for declaring which three 20-year-olds will be on a Western Hockey League roster for the 2013-14 season is Oct. 15.

Bartosak, for sure, isn’t going anywhere, and Dieno, if he returns, is another lock considering he was one of the Rebels’ top scorers after coming over from La Ronge of the SJHL last November.

Sutter, a second-round pick of the Jets in the 2011 NHL entry draft, struggled with the Saskatoon Blades last season but scored 28 goals the year before and brings a physical presence at six-foot-one and 210 pounds. Ness, then, could be the odd man out if all four are available for duty, and the Rebels should get at least a mid-round pick if the Grande Prairie native is traded considering he potted 20 goals in 2011-12, netted 19 last season and could conceivably snipe 25 to 30 as a 20-year-old.

• Rookie camp opens tonight at the Centrium with an on-ice session from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and resumes Sunday with a goaltender session at 1 p.m. and a scrimmage at 3 p.m. Rookie camp concludes Monday with the goalies on the ice from 2-3 p.m. and a scrimmage set for 3 p.m. Main camp opens Monday at 5 p.m., with scrimmages scheduled for 1:30 and 6 p.m. Tuesday. Practices will be staged at 9, 10:15 and 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday — followed by a Black and White preview scrimmage at 5 p.m. — and main camp will conclude with the Black and White intrasquad game at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Rookie camp roster (Includes hometown, position, size and year of birth) (Listed and drafted players in bold type) Reid Bosse, Sherwood Park, RW (6-1, 183 pounds), ‘97; Tyran Brown, Estevan, Sask., RW (6-3,195), ‘98; Brayden Burke, Edmonton, C, (5-7, 134), ‘97; Taz Burman, Vancouver, G (5-11, 159), ‘97; Brett Campbell, Calgary, LW (6-0, 150), ‘98; Cale Chalifoux, Edmonton, D (5-11, 153), ‘98; Nick Darling, Calgary, D (6-0, 164), ‘98; Jeff de Wit, Red Deer, C (6-2, 174), ‘98; Blake Dempsey, Heward, Sask., D (6-2, 202), ‘98; Regan Doig, Hanna, C (6-0, 150), ‘98; Colby Entz, Churchbridge, Sask., G (5-10, 149), ‘98; Tom Friesen, St. Albert, LW (5-11, 173), ‘97; Brett Hamer, Calgary, D (6-0, 160), ‘97; Cody Illerburn, Saskatoon, RW (6-1, 154), ‘98; Jason Jakubowski, Leduc, C (5-10, 157), ‘98; Reese Johnson, Saskatoon, C (5-6, 130), ‘98; Wyatt Kalynuk, Virden, Man., D (5-11, 155), ‘97; Tyler Kirkup, Virden, Man., C (5-9, 142), ‘98; Ryan Krushen, Sherwood Park, D (6-1, 170), ‘98; Tanner

a run and RBI and raised his batting average to .429. Jason Chatwood didn’t get a hit in three trips to the plate but scored twice.

Riggers Dustin Northcott went the distance in the game called after five innings, scattering five hits while walking two and fanning two.

The A’s have a 2-1 record as they face Ontario today.

Meanwhile, the Parkland White Sox, which includes the Riggers Joel Peterman, lost 10-3 to B.C,. and are 0-2. They meet New Brunswick and Manitoba today. * Meanwhile Team Alberta, coached

by Red Deer’s Dwayne Lalor, lost 6-4 to

B.C. and 7-5 to Nova Scotia in Canadian bantam girls’ championship baseball play.

Kelsey Lalor was three-for-four with a run and three RBIs against B.C. with Hayley Lalor going one-for-four with a run. Meaghan Cameron of Rimbey was one-for-four with two RBIs. Kelsey Lalor started on the mound and worked 5 2/3 innings, allowing six runs - five earned - on six hits and two walks.

She fanned eight. Torri Craig of Clive came on to get the final out.

Kelsey Lalor, who is batting .500 for the tournament, was two-for-three with two RBIs and a walk against Nova Sco-

tia.

Hayley Lalor, who is hitting .333, was also two-for-three with two runs and a walk while Cameron was twofor-four with an RBI. She’s hitting .400.

Craig was one-for-two.

Craig also pitched 4 1/3 innings, allowing four runs on seven hits.

Christine Suominen of Lacombe is also with the team.

Alberta faces Ontario and Newfoundland today.

In other play Friday, Quebec beat Manitoba 24-11 and Newfoundland 273 while Ontario downed B.C. 12-2 and lost 8-6 to Nova Scotia. Newfoundland beat Manitoba 10-8.

Laderoute, Edmonton, C (5-10, 156), ‘97; Josh Logel, Calgary, LW (6-0, 176), ‘98; Keenan Lugt, Buena Vista, Sask., D (61, 165), ‘97; Josh Mahura, St. Albert, D (5-11, 154), ‘98; Adam Marcoux, Calgary, G (6-0, 168), ‘98; Mason McCarty, Blackie, RW (5-7, 156), ‘97; Matthew Murray, St. Albert, G (6-0, 164), ‘98; Adam Musil, Delta, B.C., C (6-1, 199), ‘97; Meyer Nell, Boissevain, Man., LW (5-11, 178), ‘97; Grayson Pawlenchuk, Ardrossan, LW (5-10, 178), ‘97; Caleb Riess, Rocanville, Sask., RW (5-10, 178), ‘98; Max Salpeter, St. Albert, D (6-2, 183), ‘98; Kyle Sargent, Carlyle, Sask., D (6-0, 162), ‘98; Jayze Schwartz, Saskatoon, LW (6-0, 165), ‘98; Shane Sherban, Lanigan, Sask., C (6-1, 170), ‘98; Austin Shmoorkoff, Edmonton, D (6-1, 166), ‘98; Cody Spagrud, Gull Lake, Sask., D (5-11, 170), ‘98; Scotty Stewart, Outlook, Sask., C (5-10, 150), ‘98; Austin Strand, Calgary, D (6-2, 185), ‘97; Drake Teer, Meadow Lake, Sask., F (size and year of birth unavailable); Bryson Traptow, Calgary, C (6-1, 161), ‘97; Mitchell Zambon, Saskatoon, C (6-0, 150), ‘98.

Main camp roster (Listed players in bold; *-returnee) Goal — *Patrik Bartosak, Czech Republic (6-1, 188), ‘93; Grant Naherniak, Moose Jaw (5-11, 174), ‘96; *Bolton Pouliot, Calgary (6-1, 173), ‘94; Rylan Toth, Saskatoon (6-0, 183), ‘96.

Defence — Kirk Bear, Whitewood, Sask. (6-2, 181), ‘95; *Riley Boomgaarden, Grande Prairie (6-2, 210), ‘94; Kaleb Denham, Innisfail (6-2, 168), ‘96; *Kayle Doetzel, Rosetown, Sask. (6-2, 191), ‘95; *Mathew Dumba, Calgary (6-0, 182), ‘94; *Devan Fafard, Carlyle, Sask.

(6-0, 191), ‘94; *Haydn Fleury, Carlyle, Sask. (6-2, 204), ‘96; *Brady Gaudet, Redvers, Sask. (5-11, 190), ‘94; Connor Hamonic, Winnipeg (6-0, 182), ‘96; Jake MacLachlan, Fernie, B.C. (6-1, 185), ‘96; Spencer Morse, Calgary (with Moose Jaw Warriors last season, 6-3, 200), ‘95.

Forwards — *Matt Bellerive, North Vancouver (5-11, 188), ‘94); *Conner Bleackley, High River (6-0, 199), ‘96; Duncan Campbell, Brandon (6-3, 176), ‘96; Cole Chorney, Beaumont (6-0, 172), ‘96; *Rhyse Dieno, Dundurn, Sask. (511, 170), ‘93; *Scott Feser, Red Deer (5-11, 170); *Wyatt Johnson, Saskatoon (5-11, 170), ‘95; Mathiew Lapointe, Edmonton (6-3, 187), ‘96; *Brooks Maxwell, Raymond (5-11, 175), ‘94; *Cory Millette, Storthoaks, Sask. (5-10, 188), ‘95; Vukie Mpofu, Saskatoon (5-8, 163), ‘96; *Tyson Ness, Grande Prairie (5-11, 177), ‘93; Ian Parker, Saskatoon (6-5, 185), ‘96; Lynnden Pastachak, Bienfait, Sask.

(5-10, 152); Jordan Ross, Kronau, Sask.

(6-1, 170), ‘96; *Christian Stockl, Winnipeg (5-11, 165); Lukas Sutter, Toronto (played with Saskatoon Blades last season, 6-1, 214), ‘93; *Dominik Volek, Czech Republic (6-0, 175), ‘94; Earl Webb, Calgary (6-2, 201), ‘96. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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and an interception, the Argos first this season.

“We felt we could’ve won regardless of losing Ricky,” said Barnes, who had five catches for 106 yards and a TD. “We have a specific package with Zach and he knows what to do.

“We just couldn’t extend any long drives and they outplayed us.”

Calgary head coach/general manager John Hufnagel had nothing but praise for his club.

“We held a very high-scoring offence to 14 points, that’s pretty good,” he said. “I know they’re missing their starting quarterback but so are we.

“I’m very proud of this football team just because of what they’ve had to contend with up to this point. They had full confidence if they played their game that they had a chance to win the game and that’s what they did.”

Glenn finished 14-of-20 passing for 228 yards and the two TDs. Jonathan Williams and Matt Walter combined for 138 yards rushing in place of Cornish, the 2012 CFL rushing leader who’s second this year with 749 yards.

Williams, a former practice roster player, had 82 yards on 18 carries while Walter added 56 yards on 10 carries.

“It was like, ‘Jon Cornish who?’

Glenn said with a chuckle. “They both took advantage of opportunities.

“Jon being a guy who was on the practice roster and hadn’t suited up since preseason coming in here and doing the kind of things he was doing, everyone on the team had confidence in him. Now the rest of the CFL, the rest of Canada has seen what he can do.”

Calgary earned its fifth straight win over an East Division team and beat Toronto for the first time in six meetings. Kicker Rene Paredes booted three field goals but had his CFL record-streak end at 39.

LPGA: Defending

“I worked on a couple of things after that because I wasn’t hitting it my best at the British Open. I’m obviously hitting it a lot better this week and putting a lot better,” she said.

“On the greens, I was really comfortable because they’re so pure wherever you hit it, it’s just going to go right there.”

Park followed up five birdies in the first round on Thursday with seven on Friday.

Karine Icher of France logged a four-under 66 to finish tied with American Angela Stanford at one shot back heading into weekend play for the US$2-million purse.

“Good putting made the difference today,” said Icher, a 34-year-old seeking her first win on the tour.

“The course is quite hard, (with) tricky fairways and big rough, so I’m looking to get some good drives and putts on the weekend.”

Lydia Ko, the defending tournament champion, came into Friday tied for first, but finished the day with Laura Davies and Paula Creamer two shots off the pace.

Ko shot a lights out five-under 65 in the first round, but managed only a one-under 69 Friday.

CFL: High-scoring offence held Collaros led Toronto past B.C. 38-12 on July 30 when Ray had a knee injury but couldn’t duplicate that feat Friday, finishing 16-of-26 passing for 221 yards

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Football

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 73 53 .579 75 55 .577 69 58 .543 68 60 .531 57 72 .442 Central Division W L Pct 75 53 .586 69 59 .539 64 63 .504 57 70 .449 52 75 .409 West Division W L Pct 75 53 .586 71 56 .559 59 68 .465 56 71 .441 42 85 .331

GB — — 4.5 6 17.5 GB — 6 10.5 17.5 22.5 GB — 3.5 15.5 18.5 32.5

Friday’s Games Minnesota 5, Cleveland 1 Baltimore 9, Oakland 7 Detroit 6, N.Y. Mets 1 Tampa Bay 7, N.Y. Yankees 2 Texas 11, Chicago White Sox 5 Houston 12, Toronto 4 Washington 11, Kansas City 10 L.A. Dodgers 2, Boston 0 L.A. Angels 2, Seattle 0 Today’s Games Boston (Lester 11-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 12-4), 2:05 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 18-1) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 9-4), 2:05 p.m.

Oakland (J.Parker 9-6) at Baltimore (Tillman 14-4), 2:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Hendriks 0-1) at Cleveland (McAllister 6-7), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 11-10) at Tampa Bay (Price 7-5), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (Darvish 12-5) at Chicago White Sox (H.Santiago 4-7), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Wang 1-1) at Houston (Peacock 2-4), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 14-7) at Kansas City (W.Davis 6-9), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Vargas 6-5) at Seattle (E.Ramirez 4-0), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Minnesota at Cleveland, 11:05 a.m.

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

Oakland at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 11:40 a.m.

Texas at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

Toronto at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

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

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

Boston at L.A. Dodgers, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Tampa Bay at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Oakland at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Houston at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Atlanta Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee Chicago

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 77 51 .602 64 64 .500 58 68 .460 58 70 .453 48 79 .378 Central Division W L Pct 76 52 .594 75 53 .586 73 56 .566 56 72 .438 54 73 .425 West Division W L Pct

GB — 13 18 19 28.5 GB — 1 3.5 20 21.5 GB

Los Angeles Arizona Colorado San Diego San Francisco

76 65 60 57 56

52 62 70 70 72

.594 .512 .462 .449 .438

— 10.5 17 18.5 20

Friday’s Games Philadelphia 4, Arizona 3 Colorado 3, Miami 2 Detroit 6, N.Y. Mets 1 Milwaukee 6, Cincinnati 4 Washington 11, Kansas City 10 St. Louis 3, Atlanta 1 L.A. Dodgers 2, Boston 0 Chicago Cubs at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh 3, San Francisco 1 Today’s Games Boston (Lester 11-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 12-4), 2:05 p.m.

Detroit (Scherzer 18-1) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 9-4), 2:05 p.m.

Arizona (Delgado 4-4) at Philadelphia (E.Martin 2-2), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (Manship 0-3) at Miami (Fernandez 9-5), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 8-13) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 12-9), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 14-7) at Kansas City (W.Davis 6-9), 5:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 10-6) at St. Louis (S.Miller 11-8), 5:15 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 7-11) at San Diego (Stults 8-10), 6:40 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Liriano 14-5) at San Francisco (Lincecum 6-13), 7:05 p.m.

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

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

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 11:10 a.m.

Arizona at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

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

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

Pittsburgh at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at San Diego, 2:10 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Dodgers, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Cincinnati at St. Louis, 5:05 p.m.

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

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

San Diego at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES Oakland 102 040 000 — 7 12 Baltimore 000 600 30x — 9 7

1 0

Straily, J.Chavez (4), Cook (7), Blevins (8) and Vogt; B.Norris, Patton (5), Fr.Rodriguez (7), Tom.Hunter (8), Ji.Johnson (9) and Wieters. W—Fr.Rodriguez 2-0. L—Cook 5-3. Sv—Ji.Johnson (40). HRs— Oakland, Crisp (12), Moss (21). Baltimore, A.Jones (27), B.Roberts (3).

Minnesota 020 Cleveland 100

000 000

210 000

— —

5 1

9 6

0 1

Deduno, Duensing (7), Fien (9) and C.Herrmann; U.Jimenez, Shaw (7), R.Hill (7), Allen (7), M.Albers (8) and C.Santana. W—Deduno 8-7. L—U.Jimenez 9-8.

New York 100 Tampa Bay 032

001 110

000 00x

— —

2 7

5 9

0 0

Lawrie (10). Houston, M.Dominguez (18), Grossman (4).

Texas Chicago

041 030

110 100

121 001

— —

11 11 5 11

1 1

M.Perez, R.Ross (8), Wolf (9) and Pierzynski; Sale, Axelrod (8), Purcey (9) and Phegley. W—M.Perez 7-3. L—Sale 9-12. HRs—Texas, Je.Baker (10), Rosales (5), Kinsler (11), A.Beltre (27), Moreland (18).

L.A.A. Seattle

020 000

000 000

000 000

— —

2 0

4 5

0 0

Richards, D.De La Rosa (8), Frieri (9) and Iannetta; F.Hernandez, Capps (7), O.Perez (9) and H.Blanco.

W—Richards 4-5. L—F.Hernandez 12-7. Sv—Frieri (27). HRs—Los Angeles, Nelson (3).

Detroit 140 New York 100

000 000

100 000

— —

6 8 1 10

0 0

Fister, Smyly (7), Veras (8), B.Rondon (9) and V.Martinez, Holaday; Matsuzaka, C.Torres (6), Feliciano (8), Aardsma (8) and T.d’Arnaud. W—Fister 11-6. L—Matsuzaka 0-1. HRs—Detroit, Tor.Hunter (14), Mi.Cabrera (41), A.Jackson (11).

Wash.

K. City

001 330

700 100

300 003

— —

11 13 10 13

1 1

G.Gonzalez, Roark (4), Storen (9), R.Soriano (9) and W.Ramos; B.Chen, Coleman (4), Collins (6), K.Herrera (7), Mendoza (8) and S.Perez. W—Roark 4-0. L—B.Chen 5-2. Sv—R.Soriano (33). HRs— Washington, Werth (19). Kansas City, Hosmer (15), Maxwell (6).

Boston L.A.D.

000 000

000 200

000 00x

— —

0 2

2 3

0 0

Lackey and Saltalamacchia; Nolasco, Jansen (9) and Federowicz. W—Nolasco 10-9. L—Lackey 8-11.

Sv—Jansen (22). HRs—Los Angeles, H.Ramirez (13).

Arizona Phila.

000 010

300 002

000 001

— —

3 7 4 10

0 0

Miley, Putz (7), Thatcher (8), Bell (8), E.De La Rosa (9) and Gosewisch; Hamels, Rosenberg (8), Papelbon (9) and Ruiz. W—Papelbon 4-1. L—Bell 4-2.

HRs—Philadelphia, Ruf (10).

Colorado Miami

000 000

001 010

020 100

— —

3 2

9 4

0 0

Chacin, Ottavino (8), Brothers (9) and W.Rosario; Koehler, Qualls (8), M.Dunn (9) and Mathis. W— Chacin 12-7. L—Qualls 4-2. Sv—Brothers (12).

HRs—Miami, Lucas (3).

Milwaukee 001 Cincinnati 000

002 201

030 010

— —

6 9 4 10

1 2

Gallardo, Wooten (7), Kintzler (8), Henderson (9) and Lucroy; H.Bailey, Ondrusek (7), Simon (8), Christiani (8) and Hanigan. W—Wooten 2-0. L— Simon 5-4. Sv—Henderson (20). HRs—Milwaukee, K.Davis 2 (8), Gennett (5). Cincinnati, Phillips (16).

Atlanta St. Louis

000 010

001 001

000 10x

— —

1 3

6 8

0 0

Kuroda, Chamberlain (7) and C.Stewart; Archer, J.Wright (8), Ro.Hernandez (9) and Lobaton. W— Archer 7-5. L—Kuroda 11-9. HRs—Tampa Bay, Lobaton (6), Longoria (26), Joyce (17), Zobrist (10).

Medlen, S.Downs (7), D.Carpenter (8) and McCann; Wainwright and Y.Molina. W—Wainwright 15-7. L— Medlen 10-12. HRs—St. Louis, Holliday (17).

Toronto Houston

Pittsburgh 000 San F. 000

100 111

100 520

020 20x

— —

4 11 12 15

1 0

Redmond, Lincoln (4), S.Santos (5), Oliver (7), Janssen (8) and Arencibia; Lyles, Zeid (8), Fields (9) and J.Castro, C.Clark. W—Lyles 6-6. L—Redmond 1-2.

HRs—Toronto, Encarnacion (32), Arencibia (20),

000 100

300 000

— —

3 1

7 8

0 0

Morton, Watson (8), Melancon (9) and R.Martin; Bumgarner, S.Casilla (9) and Posey. W—Morton 5-3. L—Bumgarner 11-8. Sv—Melancon (9). HRs— Pittsburgh, Barmes (4).

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE GP W D L GF GA Pts Chelsea 2 2 0 0 4 1 6 M. City 1 1 0 0 4 0 3 M.United 1 1 0 0 4 1 3 West Ham 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 Aston Villa 2 1 0 1 4 3 3 Fulham 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Liverpool 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Southampton 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Tottenham 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Everton 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 Norwich 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 C. Palace 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Stoke 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Sunderland 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 West Brom 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Arsenal 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 Cardiff City 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 Hull City 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 Swansea 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 Newcastle 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 Today’s Games Fulham vs. Arsenal Everton vs. West Brom Hull City vs. Norwich Newcastle vs. West Ham Southampton vs. Sunderland Stoke vs. Crystal Palace Aston Villa vs. Liverpool Sunday, Aug. 25 Cardiff City vs. Manchester City Tottenham vs. Swansea Monday, Aug. 26 Manchester United vs. Chelsea LA LIGA W D L 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1

CFL East Division W L T PF 5 3 0 244 3 4 0 166 3 5 0 195 1 6 0 153

PA Pt 209 10 205 6 239 6 210 2

GP Saskatchewan7 Calgary 8 BC Lions 8 Edmonton 7

West Division W L T PF 6 1 0 234 6 2 0 261 5 3 0 207 1 6 0 161

PA 150 200 203 205

Toronto Hamilton Montreal Winnipeg

Pt 12 12 10 2

WEEK NINE Friday’s result Calgary 35 Toronto 14 Thursday’s result Montreal 39 B.C. 38 Today’s game Winnipeg at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

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.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Stampeders 35, Argonauts 14 First Quarter Tor — TD Barnes 19 pass from Ray (Prefontaine convert) 5:10 Cgy — Safety Prefontaine conceded 9:24 Cgy — Safety Prefontaine conceded 11:57 Second Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 11 1:53 Cgy — TD McDaniel 20 pass from Glenn (Paredes convert) 7:37 Tor — TD Steele 2 run (Prefontaine convert) 13:08 Cgy — TD Hawthorne 30 pass from Glenn (Paredes convert) 13:44 Third Quarter No scoring.

Fourth Quarter Cgy — Single Paredes 35 1:48 Cgy — TD Mitchell 11 run (Paredes convert) 4:04 Cgy — FG Paredes 21 13:20 Cgy — FG Paredes 42 14:45 Calgary 4 17 0 14 — 35 Toronto 7 7 0 0 — 14

Hawthorne 1-30, Carr 2-20, Cote 1-8, Sinopoli 1-8, Williams 1-6. Toronto: Barnes 5-105, Owens 6-76, Durie 5-59, Chiles 2-21, Inman 1-11, Robinson 1-8, Steele 1--3.

Passing Calgary: Glenn 14-20-228-0-0, Mitchell 4-6-24-0-0.

Toronto: Collaros 16-26-221-0-1, Ray 5-6-56-0-0.

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Buffalo 2 0 0 1.000 64 New England 2 1 0 .667 65 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 54 Miami 1 2 0 .333 64

PA 36 83 39 51

Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Tennessee

W 2 1 0 0

L 0 1 2 2

South T Pct 0 1.000 0 .500 0 .000 0 .000

PF 51 40 16 40

PA 30 56 64 49

Cincinnati Cleveland Baltimore Pittsburgh

W 2 2 2 0

L 0 0 1 2

North T Pct 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .000

PF 61 51 98 26

PA 29 25 73 42

Denver Oakland Kansas City San Diego

W 1 1 0 0

L 1 1 2 2

West T 0 0 0 0

PF 20 39 26 38

PA 46 45 32 64

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Washington 2 0 0 1.000 46 N.Y. Giants 1 1 0 .500 30 Philadelphia 1 1 0 .500 36 Dallas 1 2 0 .333 48

PA 34 33 40 51

Pct .500 .500 .000 .000

New Orleans Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay

W 2 2 0 0

L 0 1 2 2

South T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .000 0 .000

PF 45 67 33 37

PA 33 58 61 69

Detroit Chicago Green Bay Minnesota

W 2 1 1 0

L 1 1 2 2

North T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .500 .333 .000

PF 72 50 29 29

PA 50 52 41 47

W Seattle 3 Arizona 2 San Francisco 1 St. Louis 0

L 0 0 1 2

West T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .500 .000

PF 88 29 21 26

PA 30 7 23 46

Attendance — 21,157 at Toronto.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Passes tried-made Returns yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-Lost Sacks by Punts-average Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

Toronto Calgary 20 24 74 177 277 252 351 429 33-21 26-18 113 158 0-0 2-2 2-1 2-1 1 4 5-5 3-16 8-113 6-70 24:44 35:16

Net offence is yards passing, plus yards rushing, minus team losses such as yards lost on broken plays.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Calgary: Williams 18-82, Walter 10-56, Mitchell 6-29, Parker 1-10. Toronto: Collaros 8-37, Steele 4-34, Owens 1-3.

Receiving Calgary: McDaniel 7-106, Arthur 4-42, Parker 1-32,

Friday’s Games Seattle 17, Green Bay 10 Chicago at Oakland, 8 p.m.

Today’s Games 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’s Games New Orleans at Houston, 2 p.m.

Minnesota at San Francisco, 6 p.m.

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Soccer

GP Athletic Bilbao 2 Barcelona 1 Rayo V. 1 A. Madrid 1 Real S. 1 Villarreal 1 Granada 1 Real Madrid 1 Valencia 1 Celta Vigo 1 Espanyol 1 Almeria 2 Getafe 2 Real Betis 1 Valladolid 1 Malaga 1 Sevilla 1 Osasuna 2 Elche 1 Levante 1

GP 8 7 8 7

GF 4 7 3 3 2 3 2 2 1 2 2 4 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0

GA Pts 1 6 0 3 0 3 1 3 0 3 2 3 1 3 1 3 0 3 2 1 2 1 5 1 4 1 2 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 4 0 3 0 7 0

Friday, Aug. 23 Getafe 2, Almeria 2 Athletic Bilbao 2, Osasuna 0 in San Sebastian Today’s Games Elche vs. Real Sociedad Espanyol vs. Valencia Villarreal vs. Valladolid Sunday, Aug. 25 Atletico Madrid vs. Rayo Vallecano Levante vs. Sevilla Malaga vs. Barcelona Real Betis vs. Celta Vigo

Fiorentina vs. Catania

Monday, Aug. 26 Granada vs. Real Madrid GERMANY BUNDESLGA GP W D L GF GA Pts B. Dortmund 3 3 0 0 7 1 9 B.Leverkusen 2 2 0 0 4 1 6 B. Munich 2 2 0 0 4 1 6 Mainz 2 2 0 0 5 3 6 W. Bremen 3 2 0 1 2 1 6 H. BSC Berlin 2 1 1 0 8 3 4 Hoffenheim 2 1 1 0 7 3 4 Wolfsburg 2 1 0 1 4 2 3 Borussia M. 2 1 0 1 4 3 3 Hannover 2 1 0 1 2 3 3 Nuremberg 2 0 2 0 4 4 2 H. SV 2 0 1 1 4 8 1 Schalke 2 0 1 1 3 7 1 Stuttgart 2 0 0 2 2 4 0 Eintracht B. 2 0 0 2 1 3 0 Freiburg 2 0 0 2 2 5 0 Augsburg 2 0 0 2 0 5 0 Eintracht F. 2 0 0 2 1 7 0 Friday, Aug. 23 Borussia Dortmund 1, Werder Bremen 0 Today’s Games Hoffenheim vs. Freiburg Bayer Leverkusen vs. Borussia Moenchengladbach, Bayern Munich vs. Nuremberg Mainz vs. Wolfsburg Hannover vs. Schalke Hertha BSC Berlin vs. Hamburger SV Sunday, Aug. 25 Eintracht Braunschweig vs. Eintracht Frankfurt Augsburg vs. Stuttgart

AC Milan Atalanta Bologna Cagliari Catania Chievo Fiorentina Genoa Inter Milan Juventus Lazio Livorno Napoli Parma Roma Sampdoria Sassuolo Torino Udinese Verona

GP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

ITALY SERIE A W D L GF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GA Pts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Today’s Games Verona vs. AC Milan Sampdoria vs. Juventus Sunday, Aug. 25 Inter Milan vs. Genoa Cagliari vs. Atalanta Lazio vs. Udinese Livorno vs. Roma Napoli vs. Bologna Parma vs. Chievo Torino vs. Sassuolo Monday, Aug. 26

GP Lyon 2 Monaco 2 Marseille 2 Saint-Etienne 2 Nantes 2 Valenciennes 2 Reims 2 Rennes 2 Lille 2 Lorient 2 SC Bastia 2 Nice 2 P.S.G. 2 Ajaccio 2 Sochaux 2 Evian 2 Bordeaux 2 Montpellier 2 Toulouse 2 Guingamp 2

FRANCE LIGUE 1 W D L GF 2 0 0 7 2 0 0 6 2 0 0 5 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 1 0 1 3 1 0 1 3 1 0 1 3 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1

GA Pts 1 6 1 6 1 6 0 6 2 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 5 3 2 2 2 1 4 1 3 1 3 1 5 1 4 1 4 0

Friday, Aug. 23 Monaco vs. Toulouse Today’s Games Valenciennes vs. Marseille Bordeaux vs. SC Bastia Evian vs. Rennes Guingamp vs. Lorient Lyon vs. Reims Montpellier vs. Sochaux Sunday, Aug. 25 Lille vs. Saint-Etienne Ajaccio vs. Nice Nantes vs. Paris Saint-Germain DUTCH EREDIVISIE GP W D L GF PSV E. 3 3 0 0 11 FC Zwolle 3 3 0 0 10 FC Twente 3 2 1 0 10 Ajax 4 2 1 1 10 SC H. 4 2 1 1 11 FC G. 3 2 0 1 7 AZ Alkmaar 3 2 0 1 7 RKC W. 3 1 1 1 5 Cambuur 3 1 1 1 4 Vitesse 3 1 1 1 6 Roda JC 3 1 1 1 3 G.A.E. 3 1 1 1 3 ADO D. Haag 3 1 0 2 5 H. Almelo 3 1 0 2 6 NAC Breda 3 0 1 2 1 FC Utrecht 3 0 1 2 1 Feyenoord 3 0 0 3 3 NEC N. 3 0 0 3 2

GA Pts 2 9 3 9 1 7 7 7 9 7 5 6 7 6 4 4 3 4 6 4 4 4 5 4 6 3 8 3 4 1 9 1 8 0 14 0

Friday, Aug. 23 SC Heerenveen 3, Ajax 3 Saturday, Aug. 24 NEC Nijmegen vs. RKC Waalwijk ADO Den Haag vs. Roda JC Heracles Almelo vs. PSV Eindhoven FC Zwolle vs. Cambuur Sunday, Aug. 25 Go Ahead Eagles vs. FC Groningen Feyenoord vs. NAC Breda Vitesse vs. FC Twente FC Utrecht vs. AZ Alkmaar

Transactions BASEBALL MLB—Suspended Chicago White Sox RHP Pedro Rodriguez (Dominican Summer League) and Los Angeles Angels OF Angel Montilla (Dominican Summer League) 50 games for violating baseball’s minor league drug program.

American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Recalled RHP Cory Rasmus from Salt Lake (PCL). Designated RHP Billy Buckner for assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Acquired C Kurt Suzuki from Washington for RHP Dakota Bacus.

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Acquired OF David DeJesus from Washington for a player to be named or cash.

TEXAS RANGERS—Sent RHP Neil Ramirez to the Chicago Cubs to complete an earlier trade.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Placed LHP Aaron Loup on the paternity list.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES—Purchased RHP Freddy

Garcia from Baltimore and assigned him to Gwinnett (IL). Placed RHP Brandon Beachy on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Todd Cunningham from Gwinnett.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Placed RHP Matt Cain on the 15-day DL. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Placed RHP Jake Westbrook on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 22. Recalled RHP Carlos Martinez from Memphis (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Recalled C Jhonatan Solano and LHP Xavier Cedeno from Syracuse (IL).

FOOTBALL National Football League NEW YORK JETS—Signed OT Jason Smith.

Released C Scott Wedige. Removed WR Santonio Holmes from the PUP list and placed him on the active roster. Released WR Marcus Davis with an injury settlement.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS—Acquired RB Felix Jones from Philadelphia for LB Adrian Robinson.

HOCKEY National Hockey League WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Signed C Mikhail Grabovski to a one-year contract.

ECHL SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS—Agreed to terms with F Chris Langkow.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS—Suspended Montreal coach Marco Schallibaum one additional game and issued him an additional fine of $5,000 for his repeated misbehaviour.

Rescinded the automatic one-game suspension and fine that D.C. coach Ben Olsen received for being dismissed by the referee during the Aug. 17 game in Montreal. Fined Chicago assistant coach Leo Percovich an additional $500 for his improper sideline behaviour that led to the referee dismissing him from the Aug. 17 game against New England.

Percovich will serve an automatic one-game suspension.

7 Mystic Angel (J. Jungquist) Third Pace, purse $3,400 (EX, PF, SF, TR, W4).

1 Little Bit Faster (T. Redwood) 2 Whosurhero (J. Jungquist) 3 Lightning Legs (P. Giesbrecht) 4 Barndougle (J. Campbell) 5 Cams Wizard (T. Cullen) 6 Modern Cowboy (G. Hudon) 7 Western Shoot Out (R. Grundy) Fourth Pace, purse $3,500 (EX, PF, SF, TR, W4).

1 Da Terror (T. Cullen) 2 Artability (Q. Schneider) 3 Clintons Bruiser (J. Chappell) 4 Location Baran (J. Gray) 5 Attitude Adjuster (K. Clark) 6 Shaker Boy (J. Campbell) 7 Cenalta Octane (R. Grundy)

8 Slender Pride (P. Giesbrecht) Fifth Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR, W4).

1 Katies Gun (P. Giesbrecht) 2 Too Young Man (P. Davies) 3 Bettors Paradise (K. Clark) 4 Cheswick (R. Schneider) 5 Cenalta Spirit (W. Tainsh Jr) 6 Canbec Hooligan (T. Cullen) 7 Hey Scoob (J. Campbell) 8 Blue Star Ruler (T. Redwood) 9 Payoff (G. Hudon) ae Modern Man (C. Brown) Sixth Pace, purse $5,200 (EX, PF, SF, TR, W4).

1 National Interest (G. Hudon) 2 Balzac Billy (P. Davies) 3 Dees Promise (J. Chappell) 4 All Canadian Mjjz (P. Giesbrecht) 5 Caress Of Steel (J. Gagne)

BARCLAYS At Liberty National Golf Club Jersey City, N.J. Purse: $8 million Yardage: 7,343; Par: 71 Partial Second Round Webb Simpson 67-66 — Gary Woodland 69-64 — Rickie Fowler 71-64 — Keegan Bradley 72-63 — Adam Scott 69-66 — Freddie Jacobson 68-68 — Sergio Garcia 70-66 — David Lynn 71-65 — Brendon de Jonge 67-69 — Kyle Stanley 70-67 — John Huh 73-64 — Bubba Watson 68-70 — Martin Kaymer 68-70 — Rory Sabbatini 71-67 — Nick Watney 68-70 — Ryan Moore 67-72 — Luke Donald 67-72 — Matt Jones 71-68 — Bill Haas 73-66 — Jason Kokrak 70-69 — Daniel Summerhays 70-69 — Stewart Cink 70-70 — Kevin Chappell 68-72 — Roberto Castro 70-70 — Phil Mickelson 71-69 — Bob Estes 72-68 — Stuart Appleby 69-71 — Scott Brown 70-70 — Martin Flores 71-69 — Brian Gay 68-72 — Josh Teater 68-72 — Cameron Tringale 74-67 — Boo Weekley 69-72 — Jimmy Walker 68-73 — Aaron Baddeley 69-72 — Scott Langley 72-69 — Nicholas Thompson 67-74 — David Hearn 73-68 —

133 133 135 135 135 136 136 136 136 137 137 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 139 139 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 141 141 141 141 141 141 141

CANADIAN WOMEN’S OPEN At Royal Mayfair Golf Club Edmonton, Alberta Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,443; Par: 70 (35-35) Second Round (a-amateur) Inbee Park 67-65 — Cristie Kerr 66-66 — Karine Icher 67-66 — Angela Stanford 65-68 — Laura Davies 68-66 — Paula Creamer 66-68 — a-Lydia Ko 65-69 — Kathleen Ekey 71-64 — Charley Hull 69-66 — Hee Young Park 68-67 — Stacy Prammanasudh 68-67 — Lexi Thompson 71-65 — Jessica Korda 70-66 — Catriona Matthew 70-66 — Gerina Piller 70-66 — Suzann Pettersen 69-67 — Caroline Hedwall 68-68 — Brittany Lincicome 68-68 — Jodi Ewart Shadoff 71-66 — I.K. Kim 71-66 — Brittany Lang 70-67 — Caroline Masson 70-67 — Mika Miyazato 70-67 — Christel Boeljon 65-72 — Danielle Kang 71-67 — Ai Miyazato 70-68 — Thidapa Suwannapura 70-68 — Pornanong Phatlum 69-69 — Na Yeon Choi 67-71 — Pernilla Lindberg 70-69 — Belen Mozo 70-69 — Chella Choi 69-70 — Jacqui Concolino 69-70 — Sophie Gustafson 74-66 — Felicity Johnson 74-66 — Jiyai Shin 74-66 — Sandra Gal 72-68 — Haeji Kang 72-68 — Yani Tseng 72-68 — Alison Walshe 72-68 — Candie Kung 71-69 — Azahara Munoz 71-69 — Katie Futcher 70-70 — Mi Jung Hur 70-70 — Anna Nordqvist 70-70 — Samantha Richdale 70-70 — Amy Yang 69-71 — Nicole Castrale 68-72 — Shanshan Feng 68-72 —

132 132 133 133 134 134 134 135 135 135 135 136 136 136 136 136 136 136 137 137 137 137 137 137 138 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140

Jee Young Lee Jennifer Rosales So Yeon Ryu Mi Hyang Lee Jessica Shepley Laura Diaz Carlota Ciganda Juli Inkster Momoko Ueda Mina Harigae Mindy Kim Song-Hee Kim Sydnee Michaels Ryann O’Toole Hee-Won Han Moriya Jutanugarn Se Ri Pak Katherine Hull-Kirk Tiffany Joh Austin Ernst Eun-Hee Ji Becky Morgan Karen Stupples Sun Young Yoo Mariajo Uribe

68-72 73-68 73-68 71-70 71-70 70-71 69-72 69-72 69-72 73-69 73-69 73-69 73-69 73-69 72-70 72-70 72-70 71-71 71-71 70-72 70-72 70-72 70-72 70-72 69-73

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BOEING CLASSIC At TPC Snoqualmie Ridge Snoqualmie, Wash.

Purse: $2 million Yardage: 7,183 ; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Bart Bryant 32-34 — Duffy Waldorf 33-34 — Bobby Clampett 33-34 — Bernhard Langer 31-37 — Kirk Triplett 35-33 — Dick Mast 34-34 — Tom Lehman 36-33 — Fred Couples 35-34 — John Cook 32-37 — John Riegger 35-34 — Peter Jacobsen 33-37 — Blaine McCallister 35-35 — Brian Henninger 33-37 — Mike Goodes 34-36 — Andrew Magee 33-37 — Tom Pernice Jr. 36-34 — Mark McNulty 35-35 — Kenny Perry 35-35 — Rocco Mediate 34-36 — Bob Gilder 33-37 — John Huston 33-37 — D.A. Weibring 36-34 — Scott Simpson 37-34 — Tom Byrum 34-37 — John Inman 37-34 — Jim Thorpe 37-34 — Peter Senior 35-36 — Steve Pate 34-37 — Joel Edwards 36-35 — Olin Browne 37-34 — Kohki Idoki 37-34 — Brad Faxon 36-35 — Jeff Brehaut 33-38 — Mark Brooks 37-35 — code:6 COX CLASSIC At Champions Run Omaha, Neb. Purse: $800,000 Yardage: 7,170; Par: 71 (35-36) Second Round Brice Garnett 67-63 — Wes Roach 65-66 — Len Mattiace 67-64 — Matt Bettencourt 67-64 — John Peterson 66-65 — Bronson La’Cassie 66-65 — Andrew Loupe 63-68 — Nick O’Hern 65-67 — Russell Knox 67-65 — Manuel Villegas 69-63 — Michael Putnam 67-66 — Billy Hurley III 63-70 — Alexandre Rocha 64-69 — Hunter Haas 66-67 — Adam Mitchell 67-67 — Alex Prugh 66-68 — Shane Bertsch 67-67 — Ryan Nelson 68-66 — Brad Elder 66-68 — Kevin Foley 67-68 — Daniel Chopra 67-68 — Camilo Benedetti 66-69 — Chad Collins 67-68 — Stephan Jaeger 68-67 — D.J. Brigman 67-68 — Kevin Tway 69-66 — Miguel Angel Carballo 67-68 —

140 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142

66 67 67 68 68 68 69 69 69 69 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 71 71 71 71 71 71 71 71 71 71 71 72

130 131 131 131 131 131 131 132 132 132 133 133 133 133 134 134 134 134 134 135 135 135 135 135 135 135 135

Alberta Downs Monday Entries Post time: 1:15 p.m.

First Pace, purse $3,000 (EX, PX, SF, TR, W4).

1 Alcars Luckybaylor (P. Giesbrecht) 2 Wigesjet (J. Chappell) 3 Jadens Wish (K. Clark) 4 Hf Pajama Party (T. Redwood) 5 Hot Sex (G. Hudon) 6 Barona Lite (J. Campbell) 7 Everygamblersgirl (T. Cullen) 8 Getrevedup (Q. Schneider) Second Pace, purse $3,200 (EX, PF, SF, TR, W4).

1 Smoken Blue Water (Q. Schneider) 2 Sweetycamtoplay (G. Hudon) 3 Brandons Cassie (K. Ducharme) 4 My Dads A Stud (R. Hennessy) 5 River Blues (K. Clark) 6 Smoky Moon (W. Tainsh Jr)

6 Bob Watts (T. Cullen) 7 Raging Fingers (T. Redwood) 8 B R Money Matters (J. Gray) Seventh Pace, purse $5,200 (EX, SF, TR, W4).

1 Tap Out (J. Jungquist) 2 Popcorn (J. Gray) 3 Phoenician Gal (T. Cullen) 4 Cloud Nine (G. Hudon) 5 Easterpromise (J. Campbell) 6 Just Saucy (P. Giesbrecht) Eighth Pace, purse $6,000 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Hollywood Warrior (G. Hudon) 2 Outlaw Beacon (J. Campbell) 3 Hilldrop Shady (P. Giesbrecht) 4 Loneridge Shannon (T. Cullen) 5 Cenalta Power (R. Grundy) 6 Watch And Pray (J. Gagne) 7 Acesndeuces (P. Davies) Ninth Pace, purse $2,800 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 No Limit For Mjjz (P. Giesbrecht) 2 Wrangler Diva (T. Redwood) 3 Keystone Vanyla (W. Tainsh Jr) 4 Baja Beach (J. Chappell) 5 Dudes Bonnie (R. Goulet) 6 Fancy Camelot (T. Cullen) 7 Im The Reason (J. Campbell) 8 Fortunate Design (K. Clark) Tenth Pace, purse $2,300 (EX, PF, SF, TR).

1 Lakers R Electric (Q. Schneider) 2 Man Alive (P. Giesbrecht) 3 My Promise To You (C. Brown) 4 Knickfree (J. Chappell) 5 Notacent Tobemade (G. Schedlosky) 6 One Tuff Cowboy (W. Tainsh Jr) 7 Psymadre (T. Redwood) 8 Pop Gun (J. Campbell) 9 Arctic Pine (J. Gray) ae Art By Dylan (J. Jungquist)

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 B7

Bombers unveil new-look offence against Ti-Cats

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Looking for revenge, and a turnaround for their season. Eskimo fans are putting their faith in Mike Reilly improving over their last meeting against the Roughriders.

Riders prepare to face improving Eskimos on the road

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders expect to see a much different Mike Reilly this weekend.

The Edmonton quarterback will be looking to help the Eskimos avenge a 39-18 opening-day thrashing when the Roughriders visit Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday.

“He has a different level of experience now,” Roughriders head coach Corey Chamblin said, citing a number of intangibles such as “maturity” and “poise.”

Reilly, acquired in a trade with the B.C. Lions in the off-season, completed only 17 of 35 passes for 259 yards against Saskatchewan on opening day. He threw for a touchdown, but was intercepted three times.

Now seven games into the season, Reilly has connected on 128 of 206 passes for 1,728 yards, with nine touchdowns and six interceptions. He has also carried the ball 26 times for 229 yards and a touchdown, and even caught a 15-yard touchdown strike from slotback Cary Koch.

That includes an impressive performance in a close loss to Toronto last week, when he went 35-of46 for 511 yards and three touchdowns.

“He is definitely finding his groove,” said Roughriders linebacker Weldon Brown.

Chamblin observed that this is true of the Eskimos’ offence as a whole.

“They’re starting to do the things you have to do to win,” Chamblin said. “We’re going to have to play solid defence against them.”

In particular, the Roughriders must contend with Fred Stamps, a potentially explosive slotback who has 28 receptions for 573 yards and four touchdowns.

“(Stamps) is a good receiver, without a doubt,” said Roughriders defensive back Dwight Anderson.

“This league has a lot of good receivers, and he’s definitely one of them.”

Saskatchewan quarterback Darian Durant expressed a good deal of respect for Edmonton’s defensive front seven, and he stressed the importance of the ground game as a means of nullifying the pass rush.

The Roughriders (6-1) and Eskimos (1-6) are at opposite ends of the West Division standings and Durant believes the best way to discourage any thoughts of an upset is “to jump on them early.”

Chamblin has been stressing all season that the Roughriders focus on “fundamentals and execution.”

Chamblin is a firm believer in the basics, and he isn’t reluctant to makes changes. Case in point: Jock Sanders.

Last weekend, in a thrilling 24-21 victory over the visiting Montreal Alouettes, Sanders twice fumbled the ball away on punt returns, and has been temporarily relieved of his responsibilities. Against the Eskimos, Chamblin said, the Roughriders will be returning punts “by committee.”

They will also be operating on offence without the services of wide receiver Rob Bagg, who was injured in the game against the Alouettes. Bagg has 14 catches for 225 yards and three touchdowns, but he also has a history of serious knee injuries.

Fortunately, this latest occurrence has turned out to be less serious than was first thought. Team doctors have diagnosed it as a sprain, and according to Chamblin, Bagg’s status is day-to-day.

“Rob’s an inspiration to everyone in the lockerroom,” said fellow wide receiver Scott McHenry, noting that in Bagg’s absence it will be necessary for “someone to step in and pick up the slack.”

Winnipeg quarterback Max Hall says new offensive co-ordinator Marcel Bellefeuille is tough on his players but he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Hall will lead the Blue Bombers (1-6) into Guelph, Ont., on Saturday for the second of a home-and-home series against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (3-4).

Hamilton beat Winnipeg 37-18 at Investors Group Field last week in Hall’s first start with the team.

The Arizona Cardinals quarterback was 18-for-30 passing for 241 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions.

But he’s pleased with how Winnipeg’s offence is shaping up under Bellefeuille, who took over from the fired Gary Crowton on Sunday.

“Coach Bellefeuille’s been hard on us, but it’s been good for us,” Hall told reporters Thursday. “He pays attention to the details and makes sure we execute the stuff we have in, so I think we’re ready.”

Bellefeuille is no stranger to the Ticats, having served as Hamilton’s head coach from 2009-’11. He says Winnipeg’s offence has been improving in practice over the week.

“Each day we’ve had less things to correct, each day they’ve played faster and understand what we’re supposed to be doing,” he said. “So the question now is how is that going to translate into game day when the speed is a little bit different and the bullets are live.”

A big reason for Winnipeg’s dismal start is its anemic offence, which is last in the league in points scored and second-last in net yards with Hall, veteran Buck Pierce and Justin Goltz all having started.

That led to the dismissal of Crowton, who came to Winnipeg in 2012 with no previous CFL coaching experience.

By contrast, Bellefeuille has extensive experience at the CIS and CFL levels and Hall said his new offensive co-ordinator has helped him break down an opposing defence.

“He’s just smart, and he makes things make sense,” Hall said. “He’s really good at helping me understand the defences and what coverage they’re in, and that kind of dictates where I go with the ball.

“So if anything he’s really helping me with my reads and helping me understand the defence.”

Winnipeg is desperate for a win, its only victory coming in week 2 against Montreal. Hamilton can get to .500 and reclaim sole possession of second in the East Division with a win.

Hamilton also started poorly but is looking for its third straight win. Two of its three victories this year have come against Winnipeg.

Ticats head coach Kent Austin acknowledged this Bombers squad will be a different one with Bellefeuille running the offence.

“We’ve done our due diligence with respect to Marcel, but I’m sure he’ll have some new wrinkles for us like we will for them,” he said.

While a .500 record would be respectable, getting to that level is of little significance for Austin.

“There’s a psychological benefit to just winning, doesn’t matter what your record is at the time,” he said. “The most important thing is focusing on the current game and making sure that we play better than the week before.

“We don’t highlight on things like out record or somebody else’s record. We highlight the tangible aspects of this game that things we need to improve on in order to have an opportunity to win.”

While Hamilton won last week’s game handily, Winnipeg was solid on special teams, particularly on coverage of kick and punt returns. Austin said it something he’s tried to address for Saturday’s game.

“Listen, they do a great job on (special) teams,” he said. “It’s a real credit for them and we need to meet their level of production.”

WOMEN’S U-18 HOCKEY

Canada scores three in victory over Americans

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Pack can’t handle Seahawks in third week of preseason

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seattle 17 Green Bay 10 GREEN BAY, Wis. — Christine Michael ran for 97 yards on 11 carries and Stephen Williams snatched a ball away from cornerback Loyce Means in the end zone for a 42-yard touchdown catch and the go-ahead score in the Seattle Seahawks’ 17-10 preseason victory over the Green Bay Packers Friday night.

Michael had a 43-yard touchdown run in the third quarter for the Seahawks (3-0), who stayed unbeaten but didn’t look like the team that steamrolled over Denver and San Diego the previous two weeks.

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, returning to the state where he turned into a college star at Wisconsin, finished 11 of 17 for 126 yards but threw two interception, including a pass tipped by two defenders that landed in the opportunistic hands of Casey Hayward.

Wilson looked in midseason form on

the opening series against the Packers’ first-string defence in the first quarter, guiding Seattle to the 9 by gaining chunks of yardage on long pass plays. But running back Robert Turbin was stuffed on first down. Then, the 5-foot-10 Turbin was overmatched on the edge trying to block 6-foot-3 linebacker Clay Matthews, who sacked Wilson. Seattle settled for Steven Hauschka’s 27-yard field goal.

Aaron Rodgers looked fine in his only series for Green Bay (1-2). He was 4 of 7 for 41 yards, with a 22-yard connection to tight end Jermichael Finley to the Seattle 24 to set up Mason Crosby’s 38-yard field goal.

The Packers pulled most of their starters by the second quarter, while the most of the Seahawks starters stayed in until early in the third. Vince Young, vying for the backup job behind Rodgers, orchestrated an 11-play, 80-yard drive in the third quarter that ended with a 1-yard touchdown pass to backup fullback Jonathan Amosa to tie it at 10.

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Green Bay Packers’ Jarrett Boykin (11) fumbles as he is tackled by Seattle Seahawks’ Earl Thomas (29) during the first half of an NFL preseason football game Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, in Green Bay, Wis. The Seahawks recovered the ball.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Hannah Miller and Rebecca Leslie each had a goal and an assist as Canada held on to beat the United States 3-2 Friday in a women’s under-18 exhibition hockey game.

Breanne Wilson-Bennett and Leslie scored in the first period to give Canada an early lead, and Miller made it 3-0 at 7:54 of the third period.

Maliya Rodgers and Lexie Laing replied for the Americans to make the game close.

“I thought we came out flying, we played a good first period,” Canada head coach Laura Schuler said. “We talked about how the U.S. would be coming out hungrier, having played one game against us and knowing what we were going to throw at them. So we had to be prepared for that and I think we did a really good job.”

Kassidy Sauve stopped 22 of 24 shots for the Canadians.

“Our goalie came up pretty big with some really nice saves for us,” Schuler said.

Maddie Rooney made 31 saves for the United States.

Canada has won the first two games of the three-game series between the rivals. The final game is Sunday morning.

“We just need to keep with out game plan, play calm and keep doing what we’re doing,” Leslie said. “The Americans have a really good team, but we’ve been working hard, battling as hard as we can and finishing really well.”

The games are part of Canada’s preparation for the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship next April. Schuler is getting her first look at the potential Canada team in Lake Placid, and is liking how the players are coming together.

“One of the things we’re doing as a coaching staff is making sure everyone has a role on the team, Schuler said. ”I think when you do that it really helps to build team chemistry.“

B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013

Crowded wildcard picture could Rookie Grossman make for an interesting September homers, drives in TIGHT RACE FOR FOUR SPOTS HEATING UP four runs as Astros ‘IS IT FAIR? OF COURSE NOT. BUT I’D RATHER PLAY IN A ONE-GAME PLAYOFF THAN NOT BE INVOLVED IN beat hapless Jays ONE AT ALL.’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Joe Maddon manages one of the best teams in baseball. And the Tampa Bay Rays could wind up going home after one game this postseason.

Then again, winning just one game shouldn’t be too hard for the teams that survive the crowded wild card race. It’s getting there that’s going to be difficult in the second year of baseball’s new playoff format.

“Right now, you look at the American League East, and Boston and Tampa aren’t taking any days off because who wants to win 98 or 99 games and be in a one-game playoff?” said former Red Sox manager Terry Francona, who now has the Cleveland Indians in the thick of the wild-card race. “They wanted to stress the importance of the season, which makes sense.”

The Rays are only a game behind Boston for the AL East lead, and if the season ended before Friday’s games, they would make it as one of the wild cards and play Oakland in a one-game, winner-takeall matchup.

With a little more than five weeks left in the regular season, though, the AL wild card race is jammed.

The NL is slightly less crowded.

Lurking right behind Tampa Bay is Cleveland, 2 ½ games back before Friday’s games. Baltimore was 3 games out of the playoffs and the Yankees were 3 ½ games behind. Even the Royals might have an outside chance to get in. Kansas City is seven games behind Oakland for the second wild card spot and falling fast, having lost five straight and eight of 10.

“Now with the extra wild card, everyone has to be on their toes,” Cleveland’s Jason Giambi said. “GMs have to be into it because they may have to make a trade that can get you over the top, and a lot of teams that would be sellers become buyers.”

That’s five, maybe six, teams scratching and clawing to get the chance to play one extra game. And after all that, one team will be ending its season only a day or two later than hopeless cases such as the Miami Marlins or Houston Astros.

“Is it fair? Of course not,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. “But I’d rather play in a one-game playoff than not be involved in one at all.”

Showalter would know. His team beat Texas last season to face the Yankees in the AL Division Series. He also managed in the first wild card round,

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Ponoka golfer third at Bearspaw CALGARY — Kolby Vold of Ponoka finished third in the junior boys’ division of the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour stop at Bearspaw.

Vold had rounds of 74-78 for a 152 total, two strokes back of Carter Grosart of Calgary.

Mike Lougheed of Innisfail tied for 19th at 8383—166 and Jeremy Rietze of Lacombe tied for 24th

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— BUCK SHOWALTER BALTIMORE ORIOLES MANAGER

with the 1995 Yankees. They got to play a full series, though, and nearly upset the Mariners in a first round that went the full five games.

Since then, wild-card teams have outperformed expectations by winning more than half of their series. Last year, St. Louis beat Atlanta (with some help from a dubious call) in the one-game wild card, then eliminated Washington before losing in the NLCS. In fact, the World Series has been won by a wild card five times, most recently by the 2011 Cardinals.

Four of the last 10 World Series champs have been wild card winners. Three more made it to the World Series and lost.

Whichever AL teams make the wild card will have spent plenty of time fighting to qualify at the end of the season. In the NL, it might work out easier. The Braves are running away and hiding in the East, and the Dodgers began Friday with a 9 ½-game lead on Arizona.

The Diamondbacks were 7 games out of the second wild-card spot, so that race could come down to the Pirates, Cardinals and Reds jockeying for the division title and to dodge the one-game playoff.

Two years ago, the stakes might have been a bit higher. With three teams that close, one would win the division, one would be the wild card and the third would get nothing. That could be everything to teams like the Pirates, whose last post-season appearance came before there was a wild card, in 1992.

The Royals, clinging to contention, have been waiting even longer. If they make it, it will almost certainly be as the second wild-card team.

“It’s the first time I can say we’ve had a shot,” Billy Butler said.

They would take it without reservation. As would any of the dozen or so teams that can reasonably be considering post-season play at this point. Now it’s all about bridging September to get to October.

“If you get to the dance you have a chance,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said. “You just don’t know.” at 89-81—170.

Grant Numrich of Red Deer was 18th in the juvenile boys’ division at 81-87—168. Patrick Murphy of Crossfield and Will Gretton of Calgary tied for first at 144.

Kings beef up defence The RDC hockey Kings have added to their defence.

Red Deer native Kirsten Odendaal, a former captain of the Red deer Optimist Rebels midget AAA team, has committed to join the Kings for next season.

The 20-year-old Odendaal, who is listed at six-foot, 175-pounds, played with the Rebels in 2009 before joining the Brooks Bandits of the Alberta Junior

Houston 12 Toronto 4 HOUSTON — Rookie Robbie Grossman homered and drove in four runs and Matt Dominguez had a solo shot and the Houston Astros used a big fourth inning and cruised to a 12-4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.

Houston led by one before adding five runs in the fourth inning behind a two RBI triple by Jonathan Villar and a run-scoring triple by Jason Castro to make it 8-2.

Dominguez homered in the second inning to make it 2-1 and Grossman added a two-run shot in the seventh to push the lead to 12-2.

Jordan Lyles (6-6) allowed 10 hits and four runs in 7 1-3 innings for the win.

Blue Jays starter Todd Redmond (1-2) allowed eight hits and seven runs — both career highs — in 3 1-3 innings, which was the shortest start of his career.

J.P. Arencibia, Edwin Encarnacion and Brett Lawrie all homered for the Blue Jays, who have lost six straight and eight of their past 11 games.

Grossman, who has a career-long 10-game hitting streak, hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning and added an RBI single in the fifth.

Houston got contributions throughout its lineup with nine players collecting hits and six driving in runs.

Rajai Davis singled with one out in the first inning.

He was then caught stealing, snapping a streak of 19 straight stolen base attempts without being thrown out. It proved to be a costly out when Encarnacion homered to the seats in right field to make it 1-0.

L.J. Hoes drew a one-out walk in the first. The Astros tied it at 1 with Jose Altuve’s RBI double off the wall in left-centre field.

Dominguez started Houston’s second with a home run to the Crawford Boxes in left field to make it 2-1.

Hoes singled to start Houston’s third.

Hockey League.

He played five games with Brooks in the 2009-10 season and 44 games in 2010-11, scoring two goals and adding seven assists. He started the 2011-12 season with the Bandits, playing 13 games and picking up six assists, before being traded to the Port Alberni of the BCHL. From there he was traded to the Olds Grizzlys and eventually the Camrose Kodiaks.

He played nine games with the Kodiaks in the 201112 season, scoring twice and adding three helpers.

Last season he had four goals and 20 assists in 48 games with the Kodiaks.

The addition of Odendaal comes a day after Kings head coach Trevor Keeper indicated he was looking for more help on the defensive end.

“I would like to have seven or eight defencemen and as of now we have six,” he said at the time.

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Volunteering with Yellow Fish Road by painting storm drains.

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF

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Gaetz and Sunnybrook United Churches held United Kids Camp from Aug. 12 to 16 at Gaetz United Church. The theme was Wonderful World of Water. The program offered many ways for youth to think about water through music, story, crafts, games and connecting to community organizations.

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Telling the story of Moses in the River Nile.

Caring for our neighbours by offering a glass of water to people passing by.

An educational game presented by Cows and Fishes.

Painting rain sticks.

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The art of happy healing CHRISTMAS GARAGE SALE The Red Deer Christmas Bureau will hold a three-day garage sale next week at No. 4 7803 50th Ave. The sale get underway at 9 a.m. all three days. It wraps up at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and at 4 p.m. on Saturday. Donations will be accepted at No. 4 7803 50th Ave. until Tuesday. Please no mattresses, computers or large appliances. For more information, call 403-347-2210 or email reddeer christmasbureau@ gmail.com.

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Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre volunteer co-ordinator Erin Poissant, left, and AHS communications advisor Gjenna Saretsky in the main floor hallway of the hospital, where a number of art works are on display.

ROTATING EXHIBITS BRING ART TO HOSPITALS AROUND THE REGION TO PROMOTE WELL-BEING

SCHOOL BUSES BACK ON ROAD With summer holidays ending and school buses coming back to Central Alberta roads, the Canadian Safety Council is reminding motorists of the law when it comes to the big yellow student transports.

The provincial Highway Traffic Act mandates that drivers approaching from either direction towards a school bus with red signal lights flashing must stop and shall not proceed until the bus moves or the lights have stopped flashing.

Also, school buses are required by law to stop at railway crossings, and motorists should likewise be prepared to stop behind the buses.

Fines are as high as $2,000 for motorists breaking the laws pertaining to school buses.

BENEFIT RAISES CASH FOR ZOO A benefit at an Innisfail wildlife park has raised more than $10,000 for the flooddevastated Calgary Zoo. Calgary Zoo employees participated in educational and other special events at Discovery Wildlife Park on July 20, when all gate receipts and donations went to assist the Calgary Zoo, which suffered more than $50 million in damage.

Discovery Wildlife Park is also honouring Calgary Zoo season pass holders until the end of the season in October.

More than 2,000 Calgary Zoo members have already visited the Innisfail wildlife park.

Judy Lang, marketing manager for the Calgary Zoo, said the zoo is grateful for the efforts of Doug Bos and Debbie Rowland and their staff at the wildlife park.

The Innisfail facility also loaned crates and helped rescue a dozen lions and tigers from Calgary Zoo on June 21 as floodwaters rose.

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta hospitals are adding local art to their walls to lift the spirits of patients, visitors and staff.

Plexiglass display cases filled with art by local students and artists are now jazzing up hallway walls at hospitals in Red Deer, Ponoka, Rocky Mountain House, Rimbey, Bentley, Stettler, and Lacombe.

Art will be changed every six weeks.

The art project, called Creative Connections, is run by volunteer resources departments

with Alberta Health Services Central Zone. It started in Red Deer in 2006 and was funded

by Red Deer Regional Health Foundation.

Until this year, displays were only on the main floor of Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

This summer, they were added to the second and third floors.

The foundation spent $21,000 to upgrade main floor displays this year and added a total of 10 display cases to the second and third floors.

Flat display cases for paintings and drawings can be found on the main floor across from the old east entrance. On the second floor, flat displays hang

across from the meditation garden, outside unit 22. Similar cases are outside unit 35 on the third floor.

Display cases that hold three-dimensional art are located near the third floor main elevators.

Encana donated over $5,000 to expand the project to the other Central Alberta hospitals.

Nine display cases went up this summer.

“We’ve already received such positive comments from the rural sites. It’s been amazing,” said Lynn Gray, manager for volunteer resources with AHS Central Zone.

Gray said there has been art

in rural hospitals before. But the new displays provide more permanent opportunities to connect with local students and artists.

Colourful and creative art can certainly play a role in patient care and well-being, she said.

“It’s just going to add some cheerfulness to our facilities and hopefully it helps our patients heal.”

Schools and organizations that wish to be part of Creative Connections can contact their local hospital’s volunteer resources department. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

HGTV EPISODE

Comparing Red Deer to locations around world

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer couple had the chance to take a look at what they could afford if they were to sell their Canadian home and live abroad.

Jim and Jaleen Shier will be featured on an upcoming episode of the HGTV series Live Here, Buy This, a show that asks Canadians to pick a house in fantasy locations that is similarly priced to their own home. The show demonstrates what someone could afford if they chose to live in another country.

The Shiers watched the first season and when a Facebook casting call went out, Jaleen sent in an email submission.

“Before we knew it, we got a phone call saying we’d been cast and we were going to be on the show,” said Jaleen.

For the Shiers, who have been married for two and a half years, there was a selection of condos or townhouses to choose from in Holland, Greece or Italy. The couple didn’t go to each location themselves, but crews were sent to film and capture the properties the couple chose from.

“It gives us the insight, if we decide to maybe someday travel and possibly make that a home now, or a retirement home,” said Jaleen.

“It’s something we can dream about,” said Jim.

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BRIEFS Centennial banners, barrels to be on display on Sept. 1 Historic banners and light barrels at City Hall Park are two events planned to celebrate Red Deer’s birthday on Sept. 1.

The banners were originally intended to span the old CPR bridge during Red Deer’s Homecoming Weekend but were postponed because of the June flooding.

The centennial committee will showcase 10 long red banners from each side of the bridge, displaying photos of historic Red Deer. The banners will be in place all day.

Starting at dusk, light barrels will illuminate throughout City Hall Park. Rain barrels are still available for purchase for $70.

They come with interior waterproof light, a recharge unit and remote control to set the colour of light and screened rainwater collection port and one tap.

If you buy one before Sept. 1 online, you can take your barrel home from the event after 11:30 p.m. Place your order at www.

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Jaleen and Jim Shier in front of their Red Deer home. On an episode of the HGTV series Live Here, Buy This, they were asked to choose from homes in Holland, Greece and Italy.

The show looks at, based on a fair price for their Red Deer condo, what they would be able to afford in Italy, Holland or Greece.

“What we could get in these places was exponentially better,” said Jaleen.

Jim said while the European homes offered better amenities, the kitchens weren’t the same.

“It’s a different kind of a lifestyle,” said Jim. “But it’s more of a freer and open lifestyle.”

Shooting took an entire day but by the end of the day the couple made their decision.

Not willing to give the outcome away and instead encouraging people to watch the show, Jaleen said the homes they had to choose from were all amazing.

“Everything they picked for us was beyond what we could have imagined that we could have been able to afford based on our budget selling our home,” said Jaleen.

“It was a really hard decision to just pick one. You end up with six properties that you have to choose from and to pick just one was really hard.”

The show airs on Sept. 11 on HGTV Canada at 7:30 p.m. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

reddeer2013.ca or visit the centennial office at 4816 50th Ave. Birthday cake will also be served at the bridge and in the park.

Join other commuter cyclists at the twoday Alberta Bicycle Commuter Conference in Red Deer on Sept. 28 and 29.

Rekindle your enthusiasm for working in the community, whether in bike advocacy, infrastructure or education, while joining others who face similar challenges promoting change in the community.

The two-day conference takes place at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

Space is limited. Registration is required by Sept. 9 at www.edmontonbikes. ca/community/ab-conference/. For more information, email abconference@edmontonbikes.ca.

Preliminary hearing set A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for a Sylvan Lake woman charged with numerous offences by police investigating a home invasion north of the town on June 3.

Ashley Dawn Chambers, 24, pleaded not guilty on Friday and requested trial

by Court of Queen’s Bench judge alone on charges including armed robbery, unlawful confinement, unlawful use of a firearm, breaking and entering a dwelling, pointing a firearm and possession of a loaded firearm that is either restricted or prohibited.

Chambers has additional charges before the courts, arising from other incidents.

A preliminary hearing has been set for Feb. 19 on the June 3 charges. Such hearing may be scheduled to test the strength of the Crown’s case before proceeding to trial.

Chambers has been in custody since turning herself in to RCMP on June 16.

Cycling conference in Red Deer Confused or frustrated with the cycling infrastructure in your community?

Cash raised for sports hall A fund-raising golf tournament has raised $37,000 for the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in Red Deer.

The 21st anniversary event was held at the Innisfail Golf Club on Aug. 8.

The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is an interactive, hands-on celebration of Alberta’s sporting history.

The facility located on Hwy 2 near Heritage Ranch has 7,000 square feet of exhibit space. The museum has more than 11,500 artifacts of Alberta sports history in its collection. For more details about the museum, go to www.ashfm.ca.

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Apple and the iSacraments age

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“You cannot explain what cannot be explained without metaphors. Technology needs metaphors to explain itself to the world and the same is true for religion.”

Thus, it’s significant that the fervor surrounding Apple products has produced what scholars have long called the “Apple cult,” he said.

It’s also clear that Jobs — drawing on his ‘60s driven devotion to Eastern religions — set out to combine art, technology and philosophy into a belief brand that urged consumers to, as stated by another classic ad, rebel and “think differently.”

“It’s easy to get into arguments about what is a religion and what is not,” said Robinson.

“But there’s no question that the giant glass cube of the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue” in New York City serves as “a cathedral and that people travel there on pilgrimages and that local Apple Stores are like their local parishes. ...

“The goal is to consume something bigger than themselves, then they draw a sense of identity from those products.”

Jobs knew all of that.

After fleeing the Missouri Synod Lutheranism of his youth, he went out of his way to rattle traditional cages throughout his career.

This was, after all, the man whose company logo was a rainbow apple — minus one Edenic bite.

He tested an early product with a prank call to the Vatican, pinned a $666.66 price tag on the Apple I and dressed as Jesus at his company’s first Halloween party.

In his famous 2005 Stanford University address, Jobs told the graduates to “trust in something -your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. ... Don’t be trapped by dogma. ... Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

At the heart of the Apple mythos, stressed Robinson, is an amazing paradox, the yin-yang doctrine that Jobs was trying to sell consumers good computers in order to help them escape a chilly world dominated by bad computers.

He sold his refined, graceful devices by using images of enlightenment and community, while users

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ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL “A Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769 www.stleonardsonthehill.org

Celebrant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

Sunday, August 25 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist

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Gaetz & 54th 403-346-3402

Officient: Joan Williams 10:00 a.m.

Morning Prayer Sunday School & Refreshments

Thurs. 2:00 pm Eucharist

Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

Passion for God, Compassion for People.

LOCAL EVENTS SATURDAY, SEPT. 7 George Canyon concert will be held at Fountain of Life Apostolic House at New Life Fellowship on Sept. 7, 7 p.m. Money raised from this event goes to humanitarian projects and building community centres in Nigeria.

Tickets are $25, available at the door or online a www. actmusicagency.com/events.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 26 Fred Penner, renowned children’s entertainer, will be performing on Sept. 26, 6:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church in Lacombe. Tickets are $16 and are available at the church office, 403-782-3148, or the Flatiron Museum, 403-755-6935. Profits from this concert go to Caring for Children fund in Lacombe.

Centre for Spiritual Living 11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service Rev. J.K. Bryant www.cslreddeer.org

LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER WELCOME YOU

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may end up spending untold lonely hours staring at digital mirrors in their hands or on their desks.

The bottom line: Have products inspired by the “Jesus Phone” turned into rosaries for narcissists?

The omnipresent “iPhone provides some of the comforts and a sense of security that religious faith provides,” said Robinson.

“It promises to connect you to the world and to the transcendent.

“Yet most people spend most of their time looking at the same five or six sites online — like Facebook — that primarily are about themselves.

“They spend hours and hours in this intimate ritual of touching those phones, clicking and clicking their way through their own interests, their own desires, their own lives. ...”

Terry Mattingly directs the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Contact him at tmattingly@cccu.org or www. tmatt.net.

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BAHÁ'í Faith “Divine education is that of the Kingdom of God: it consists in acquiring divine perfections, and this is true education; for in this state man becomes the focus of divine blessings, the manifestation of the words, “Let Us make man in Our image, and after Our likeness.”

This is the goal of the world of humanity.” Abdu’lBaha For information on the Bahá’i Faith, call Mavis 403-343-0091 or check www.bahai.org

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UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GAETZ MEMORIAL Corner of Ross Street and 48th Avenue — Phone 403-347-2244

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“Not Yet! Not Now!” www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

SUNNYBROOK UNITED CHURCH 12 Stanton Street

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“The Healing Power Of Justice” Babyfold, Toddler Sunday www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Room,Room Sunday Club Clubwww.sunnybrookunited.org

Loving God . . . Loving People 10:15 am Worship Service Encountering God 2960 - 39 Street, Red Deer 403.343.1511

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Exploring the mysteries of Christmas in 2006, Pope Benedict XVI asked his flock to ponder what this season might mean to people living in the Internet age.

“Is a Savior needed,” he asked, “by a humanity which has invented interactive communication, which navigates in the virtual ocean of the Internet and, thanks to the most advanced modern communications technologies, has now made the Earth, our great common home, a global village?”

What the world really needed, quipped Gizmodo writer Brian Lam, responding to the pope, was a new spiritual tool.

Thus, digital believers were waiting for a John the Baptist — Apple’s Steve Jobs — TERRY to “unveil Apple-CellphoneThingy, the true Jesus Phone” MATTINGLY during the rites of the 2007 Macworld Conference.

That online exchange preceded an Apple advertisement that offered a stained-glass-image moment revealing the mysterious, almost sacramental role that digital devices now play in the daily lives of millions of users, according to University of Notre Dame business professor Brett Robinson, author of “Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs.”

In the ad, a man’s finger surrounded by darkness is shown moving toward rows of icons on the glowing iconostasis of the iPhone screen, above this incantation: “Touching is Believing.”

For Robinson, there’s no way to avoid a connection with the biblical image of Jesus telling the doubting St. Thomas to put his finger into the wounds on his resurrected body and, thus, “be not faithless but believing.”

“It’s all about the metaphors,” said Robinson, reached by telephone.

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Local rockers like the group Soul Side In (above) will be among performers at Alberta’s Own Independent Music Festival from Friday to Sunday, Aug. 30 to Sept. 1, at the Daines Rodeo Grounds near Innisfail.

LOCAL BANDS TRYING TO INSPIRE CHANGE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS AT FESTIVAL

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Slaving away at day jobs, skimping and saving to record . . . being a musician in an independent band has often meant travelling the road of hard knocks.

Local rockers in the groups Soul Side In and Slackjaw know all about the struggles of being in an unsigned band.

Sure it’s a rush to play your music for fans, but getting by financially “is nearly impossible,” admitted Dallas Oswald of Lacombe’s Slackjaw.

His heavy rock band with psychedelic influences has been around for 14 years but just finished its first professional recording project — a threesong, as yet untitled EP. “We all have day jobs,” said Oswald, who does drywalling when he isn’t playing guitar.

Daniel Schmidt, lead singer for Red Deer’s post-grunge group Soul Side In, agreed that making ends meet can be a scramble. “It costs $80 just for one package of bass guitar strings. That’s not cheap.”

The two groups are among more than two dozen to get an economic leg up by performing in the Alberta’s Own Independent Music Festival from Friday to Sunday, Aug. 30 to Sept. 1, at the Daines Rodeo Grounds near Innisfail.

Not only will the three-day festival

give participating groups more live exposure in front of hundreds of fans, but each of the indie bands will get a chance to sell admission tickets and get a 15 to 40 per cent cut, depending on sales volumes.

“Each band on the roster will have an opportunity to make a ceiling of $6,000 in profits,” said Schmidt, who’s co-ordinating the annual festival with Slackjaw’s drummer Rob Bouvier.

A 15-episode “mini series” of interview and performance videos of the various bands will also be made for YouTube and Facebook play. Schmidt said the videotaped bands will be given free use of the videos for promotional purposes.

“They can edit them or use 30 seconds or whatever to sell themselves to a venue. ... I think this will have a big impact.”

The other boon will be getting a free compilation CD of music from bands in the 2013 festival.

Each group will get some copies of the recording and some will also be given away to festival-goers, while quantities last.

“We’re trying to inspire some change and people have told us they really appreciate it,” Schmidt added.

This year’s Alberta’s Own headliner is the U.S. band Clutch.

Other groups include Oldbury, Tattered, The Preying Saints, Alkatine, Silo, Big Casino, Black Mountain Outlaws, Law of Lucid, Stranger Dancer,

Tupelo Honey and Alterra. (A full rundown is available at www.abown.com.)

Slackjaw plans to have its new EP available at the festival.

One of the songs, Sleep, has a very personal meaning for the group’s lyricist, Oswald, who wrote it about his father’s homicide.

The body of Hugh Frank Oswald, 57, was found five years ago in a burnedout van near Rimbey.

Two women served jail time for the death, said Dallas Oswald. He admitted he’s had a hard time sleeping ever since.

The song, with its moving chorus of “Sleep, my son, I’ll be OK,” must have been winding through his mind for some time “because it pretty much wrote itself. The words came right out,” Oswald added.

Wicked Days from the EP also has to do with his father’s demise. “It’s about letting go of my anger. I had to forgive (the women) in my mind in order for me to move on,” said Oswald, who looks forward to sharing new tunes at the festival — and to hanging around with other indie musicians.

This year’s headliner, Clutch, “is all of our heroes,” he added.

Schmidt is similarly anticipating the festival’s easy-going outdoor vibe.

“It’ll be kind of like a campout,” he said (camping and a beer garden are on the site).

Soul Side In also has a new recording in the works, produced by Kevin

Churko, who has worked with Ozzy Osbourne and Britney Spears.

But it’s not expected out until sometime in 2014.

The still-untitled album is about getting informed, said Schmidt, who believes young people, in particular, should “wake up” to things happening in the world.

One new song involves the climate control that Schmidt believes is resulting from cloud seeding-like efforts by the military to add chemicals to the atmosphere.

Another tune involves aliens or the idea “we are not alone.”

Schmidt knows a lot of listeners will consider these topics farfetched but, “What if it was real? What would you do?”

Soul Side In also recorded a cover of Pat Benatar’s Invincible.

The song’s lyrics of “This bloody road remains a mystery” and “We can’t afford to be innocent” align nicely with the band’s views, said Schmidt, who’s always been drawn to music with a message, including tunes from Rage Against the Machine, Billy Talent and Foo Fighters.

He urges fans, “Don’t take a word that I say to be true. Go ahead and look it up yourself. There are shocking things out there. Find out for yourself.”

For ticket, lineup and site information, visit www.abown.com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Mortal Instruments: City of Bones far from ‘mundane’ A WELL-MADE SUPERNATURAL FANTASY THRILLER THAT BOASTS A STRONG CAST AND GREAT ACTION SCENES

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BY BRUCE DEMARA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Three stars (out of four) Rated: PG If you thought New York was one crowded city, you don’t know the half of it.

Because beneath the veneer of the venerable metropolis is a dark underworld of witches, werewolves, vampires and demons and their sworn enemies, the Shadowhunters.

And while the rest of us go about our mundane existence — “mundane” is the term Shadowhunters use to refer to us ordinary mortals — there’s an “ongoing war that can never be won but must always be fought,” as one character notes.

It’s a war being fought by sexy young

people covered in elaborate tattoos, sporting gothy attire and wielding all manner of way-cool weaponry.

It’s the screen adaptation of the first of The Mortal Instruments books, City of Bones, by best-selling author Cassandra Clare, a film clearly engaged in another epic contest, to win the hearts and dollars of the same teen audiences and fantasy buffs who have turned the Twilight vampire series into a $1.4 billion worldwide box-office bonanza.

The producers of City of Bones are so sure that this film will score with theatregoers, they’ve already green-lit production of the second film, City of Ashes, for late September in Toronto, barely a month after City of Bones’ premiere.

Will their confidence be rewarded?

Very probably.

City of Bones and its sequel (or sequels) will inevitably be compared to the Twilight franchise and will probably come out ahead, at least critically.

That’s because the plot is richer and more complex and the characters more interesting.

And while there is some moonyeyed interaction between our heroine, Clary, and shadowhunter Jace, it’s not nearly as tiresomely overwrought as the relationship between vampire lovers Bella and Edward of the Twilight Saga.

Director Harald Zwart, who has flailed away at less distinguished cinema fare as The Karate Kid remake (2010) and Agent Cody Banks (2003), finally has a vehicle that tests his talents.

His dark vision of the shadow world beyond the ordinary one is intricately detailed and believable throughout, even if much of it is the product of CGI mastery.

There’s some great fight sequences, and Zwart maintains a pulse-thumping pace from start to finish.

The casting is mostly solid, with fine support from the actors in minor roles.

But the real revelation is how well Lily Collins (daughter of ex-Genesis rocker Phil Collins) inhabits the role of Clary so effectively and commands the screen so effortlessly.

Jamie Campbell Bower brings a nice intensity to the role of Jace, thanks in part to his rather exotic looks, including those startlingly big blue eyes and pallid complexion.

Robert Sheenan as Clary’s “mundane” admirer, Simon, exhibits a puppy dog innocence and haplessness that endears, and Canadian actor Kevin Durand chews up the scenery in his short time on-screen as brutish henchman Pangborn.

Some of the CGI — the representation of the demons particularly — is more silly than successful, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ portrayal of Valentine, a pivotal role, is a bit of a letdown, more screechy than menacing.

The script by Jessica Postigo contains tantalizing hints of incest and bicuriosity and moments of much-needed levity — the “no zombies” line is a LOL zinger — rescuing the film from taking itself too seriously.

Understandably, there’s a number of loose threads left hanging in the story, but that only stokes our curiosity for future adventures.

One word that won’t be used to describe City of Bones: mundane.

Bruce DeMara is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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You’re Next a satisfying chiller IT MEETS AND EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS OF GORE HOUNDS You’re Next Three stars (out of four) Rated: 14A A door creaks, a wind chime rustles, a pulse rises.

So far, so ordinary for You’re Next, a nifty little thriller-chiller that satisfies the expectations of gore hounds — and then it happily goes about exceeding those expectations.

You don’t need anybody to finger paint you a picture in blood about what’s about to happen at the rural mansion of the affluent Davison clan, when four dyspeptic siblings and their scrappy partners gather with mom and dad (Barbara Crampton and Rob Moran) for a 35th wedding anniversary party.

It’s what happens next that fulfils the title and gives Adam Wingard’s film its bloody bolt of energy.

A prologue shows what happened to the Davison’s neighbours just down the road: a couple’s post-shag ambush by home invaders leaves bodies slumping, bodily fluids and PETER liquor spilled and the Dwight HOWELL Twilley Band’s Lookin’ For The Magic spookily playing on the stereo (it becomes the film’s unsettling theme song).

Oh, and “You’re Next” is scrawled in large bloody letters near the deceased. These invaders may be sneaky, but they’re not subtle and they’re definitely channeling Manson Family mojo.

Dressed in animal face masks and brandishing crossbows, blades and axes, the invaders bide their time in the darkness, waiting as the Davison diaspora arrive at the home for dinner.

Let’s do a roll call, the three brothers first. We have sarcastic alpha bro Drake (indie filmmaker Joe Swanberg) and his barbed girlfriend Kelly (Margaret Laney). Then there’s family screw-up Crispian (A.J. Bowen) and his no-nonsense Aussie bird Erin (Sharni Vinson). Rounding out the trio is younger brother Felix (Nicholas Tucci), who is as unreadable as his gal pal Zee (Wendy Glenn).

Then there’s Davison daughter Aimee (Amy Seimetz), a live wire with a snobby art filmmaker boyfriend, who is coyly played by real-life horror filmmaker Ti West.

We barely have time to sort out who’s who before an arrow crashes through a window, and the murder-

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Sharni Vinson in a scene from the gory thriller You’re Next: arrows, blades and blenders anyone? ous plan of the animal-masked invaders is underway.

What we don’t know yet is their motivation, or how the people in the room will respond. You know what they say about best-laid plans, right?

It’s probably best to shut up at this point, except to note that this particular siege is about both snarls and chuckles, and both pop up at unexpected moments.

I should also add that blenders are surprisingly

lethal, in the right hands.

Director Wingard reunites several key cast members and his screenwriter (Simon Barrett) from his A Horrible Way to Die. It’s a reunion well worth joining.

Just watch out for those arrows, blades and blenders.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Affleck to play Batman in Man of Steel sequel burne as Perry White and Diane Lane as Martha Kent.

The big-screen DC Comics superhero mashup was first revealed by director Zack Snyder at last month’s Comic-Con International in San Diego.

Snyder, who will direct the sequel written

by Man of Steel screen-

writer David S. Goyer, said in a statement that Affleck will provide an “interesting counter-balance” to Cavill’s Clark Kent. “(Affleck) has the acting chops to create a layered portrayal of a man who is older and wiser than Clark Kent and bears the scars of a seasoned crime fighter, but

retain the charm that the world sees in billionaire Bruce Wayne,” said Snyder.

“I can’t wait to work with him.”

Production on the asyet-untitled film is expected to begin in 2014 for release July 17, 2015.

It won’t be Affleck’s first time in superhero garb. He played a blind

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Sunday, August 25 Saturday, Aug. 24 HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, the year ahead will bring you many random cir- hopefully you have built a plan shaped for your next cumstances that will take place in your inner con- move. This is a year where you will go forward with sciousness. You will seek more alone time and all your intentions and purposes. Projects or work you will feel quite comfortable putting a pause to you do overseas will fructify you in the long-term. your active lifestyle during this time as you will be Let your heart be your travelling guide.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your days of doseeking to reacquaint to your hidden side. You will learn a great deal about yourself following this very mestic turmoil and inner war are coming to an end or at least, will lessen quite considerably. Your spiritual year. mood starts to stabilize while you are developARIES (March 21-April 19): Your ing thicker skin. Little annoyances will immediate predisposition for today will soon be forgotten. be to act quite rebelliously. You seek TAURUS (April 20-May 20): independence and liberation in most Recreational activities with a loved endeavours. This inner restlessness one such as a child or your aficiomakes you go after what you want nado will bring out the best qualities without second thought. Welcome to in you. Pleasure comes to you when wonderland! you know you can create something TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You meaningful to you. may feel challenged by ambiguous enGEMINI (May 21-June 20): You ergies in terms of your own beliefs. are pondering over domestic issues.

You feel that your own life principles Someone in your family must be starts are being tested or even pondered by spending more time in your mind. Deexternal forces. You question yourself spite the ongoing cerebral activities ASTRO persistently by tapping into your higher on your mind, you would rather keep consciousness.

DOYNA it all to yourself for now. Not everyGEMINI (May 21-June 20): You thing is meant for sharing. are being hit by a bolt dose of genius CANCER (June 21-July 22): Toideas! It seems that answers are falling day’s harmonious celestial forces are perfectly into its place today without your conscious knowledge. Whatever you find out endowing you with much optimism and positivity. today, you will prefer to keep it to yourself rather Your get-togethers are running smoothly as you start developing new contacts that promise to be than share with the rest of the world.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You may wel- helpful to you in the long-term.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You have a stronger come interesting possibilities where your career is concerned. Some out-of-the-blue opportunities may sense of purpose and you are becoming more conknock on your door. Opt for choices that promise fident in your own self-esteem. At the same time, you more stability in the end. A change in routine you are also facing some uncertainties in regards to your money, which are still pulling you back. You can take you on interesting paths today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may find yourself need to remove this cloudy situation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your day promises changing your life philosophy quite often today. to be filled with lots of rewarding activities. Keep One second you have a strong opinion about a certain truth and the other second you are convinced an open mind, but don’t omit the details. You may it’s something else. Your mind wonders through a want to give someone the benefit of the doubt, but you are not seeing the picture too clearly. Don’t devariety of fantasies.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): An inner restless- cide anything yet.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Use today’s benefiness haunts you to seek more answers to pending dilemmas in your life. Your self-awareness about cial energies to rid yourself of outworn feelings or the world at hand becomes suddenly more acute thoughts. It’s time to put certain facets of your life and clear. You may also be making interesting and certain worries where they should remain, in the past. Give yourself more peace of mind. travel plans today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Liberate your LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Dealings with others may not seem as reliable as you had hoped. Ev- schedule and leave some room for distractions. eryone seems to have a mind of their own and it’s During this time, you may benefit from the people almost hard to keep up with other’s mood swings. you know and not what you know. Mingle around Luckily, you are accommodating and can easily and develop as many connections as possible.

Success is just around the corner. adapt to their changing attitudes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are desperately seeking for a new commitment that will fill a hear some interesting news where your profesgreat void within your heart. Strong desires for a sional life resides. While you are shining up there passionate encounter ponder on your mind quite on your ladder of success, try to not get caught up heavily for you today. A certain fear pulls you back in unnecessary domestic disputes. Focus on your road ahead. from acting.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your spectrum SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Exciting pasof colours widens and you are willing to invite newsionate encounters can take you by surprise today.

Be ready to feel more daring and sexy than usual. ness into your life. A philosophical inclination may A certain love interest will make you rock your boat capture your attention and at the same time, confuse you. Differentiate what is worth believing. enticing you to purr like a kitten inside.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You ponder CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You seek deeply upon issues on life having to do with your more independence from your family ties. You will be longing for deliverance from certain of your daily most intimate spheres. You seek further underobligations which seem to keep you tied down from standing and clarity in your own purposes. Making fully expressing yourself. Release your inhibitions sense of it will open up a world filled with fascinating solutions. without fearing the unknown.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You need to say AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some of your ideas may seem either way out of the ordinary or what’s on your mind and you certainly want to be even quite eccentric. The response you get today heard. One-on-one discussions will help will be anything but predictable. Therefore, don’t be you understand where you stand in your current relationship. Having each other’s surprised if you get unsystematic type of reactions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Keep your bank roles defined, clears your entire picture.

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Addressing danger of older drivers who should not be driving Dear Annie: You frequently car chasing a ball. I didn’t really print the essay “Dead at Seven- see him. My vision isn’t that great teen” by John Berrio, about the anymore — but I can renew my dangers of reckless driving by driver’s license by mail, so my viteenagers. sion doesn’t get checked very ofI’ve written a version of it that ten. I felt a bump on the car, and addresses the growing danger I heard a scream. Then the boy posed by older drivers hit my windshield, and who should no longer I finally noticed him. be driving.

Glass flew everywhere.

For political reaSuddenly it was very sons, I suspect the quiet. The boy was lychance of any meaning on the road, his ingful legislation being body mangled. Pieces passed is slim. of jagged glass were The only hope is for sticking out all over. people to read this and Then there were sirealize that, yes, unforrens. The ambulance tunately, it applies to arrived, and they them. An unsafe driver pulled a sheet over the is a danger to everyone boy’s head.

MITCHELL on the road, the sideHey! Don’t pull that & SUGAR walk or in a restaurant. sheet over his head!

A few years ago, a He’s only 7! He has a senior driver plowed ball game this afterinto a crowd at a farmnoon. He was supposed ers’ market, killing 10 and injur- to have a wonderful life ahead of ing 70. him. He hasn’t lived yet. He can’t When I took Drivers’ Ed as a be dead. teenager, they gave us a copy of His mother was there. She was “Dead at Seventeen” at the end heartbroken. His father came of the course. Perhaps the AARP out, too — they’re my neighbors. could hand out this essay at their He suddenly looked very old. I Driver Safety courses or adult told the police officer that the gas children can give this to their par- pedal had gotten stuck — because ents. — Paul O. Ketro, M.D., Massa- that’s what older drivers often say chusetts General Hospital, Instruc- when they hit someone. tor in Medicine, Harvard Medical It’s a small town, and everyone School, Boston is in a daze. People see me and look away. No one can believe it.

Killed at Seven I can’t believe it, either. I’ve read I am in agony. He is a statis- about older drivers who plow intic. He is one of many, many oth- to crowds, but I never thought it ers whose bodies are as badly would be me. mangled as his — their category is Please, somebody — wake him called “Killed by Senior Drivers.” up! I can’t bear to see his mom The day I killed him was an and dad in such pain. ordinary day. How I wish that I Please don’t bury him! He’s had taken the bus. But I was too not dead! He has a lot of living good for the bus. I remember how to do! He wants to laugh and run I ignored my adult children, who again. Please don’t put him in the begged me not to drive anymore. ground.

I said, “All of my friends drive. I I promise if you give me just want my independence. I want to one more chance, God, I won’t be my own boss.” drive again. All I want is one more I don’t remember how the ac- chance. Please, God, he was only cident happened. The last thing 7.

I recall was that a younger adult Annie’s Mailbox is written by passed me — he seemed to be go- Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, ing so fast. I guess I was just kid- longtime editors of the Ann Landers ding myself by thinking that if I column. Please email your questions only drove slowly and on familiar to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or streets, I could still drive safely. write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o CreLater on, I found out that a ators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Herchild had run out ahead of my mosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Dating two guys rarely has a good ending Dear Harlan; I have been dating my planning on living with these guys. current boyfriend for six months, and When things get weird, and they will, we have been sexually active since our you’ll be trapped. Living with these first date. guys will make it hard to leave.

About four months ago, my boyAlso, keeping it secret will make it friend introduced me to his friend. His hard to deal with possible weirdness friend is super hot, like Zac Efron hot, and get support. and I was immediately atFind people outside of tracted to him. these guys you can trust My boyfriend told me with your secret. that sometimes he and his Don’t move in. As long as friend masturbate together it’s consensual and you’ve and he wanted me to join been tested for sex souvein. That was pretty much nirs, have fun. But don’t the start of our relationship. think it’s going to continue Even though we have a lot forever. of crazy, awesome sex, there Either it will get kinkier is more to our relationship. or it will end. When it ends, I have asked them if they you don’t want to be living did this with other girls, and with them. they both tell me that this is Dear Harlan; I’m 63 and their first relationship like my lady friend is 60. this.

We started our relationHARLAN I’m a little confused — ship way too fast — we beCOHEN can this really work out? gan planning marriage on Can we actually have a relaour fourth date. Out of the tionship like this? blue, she suddenly told me I have not told any of my we can only be friends. friends or family about it, they think I She gave reasons, but they didn’t am just dating my boyfriend. We have add up. She says she’s still attracted made plans that in September we will to me. I am very fond of her, and feel find a place together (all three of us) rejected. and work on a long-term relationship.

We spend time with each other I do like having two boyfriends, and I three to four times a week. I like seefeel so good when I am with them, like ing her, but it’s also painful. I’m not a goddess. But I think my family and sure how to win her back. — Odd Man friends will judge me and say negative Out things. — TRI-’n It Dear Odd Man Out; Win back your Dear TRI-’n It; A lot of women have lady friend by listening to her, not two boyfriends, but most don’t have smothering her. Leave her alone. them at the same time, in the same She needs to figure it out. As painful room. But I don’t care about that — as it might be to think about not seeing more power to you. her for a while, staying too close will Here are my problems: I don’t be- ruin whatever chance you have of anylieve it’s their first time. If it is their thing more. first time (not true), I assume they will Think about that. You can tell her want to try this with someone else at that you really enjoy her and want to some point. give her space to figure out what she Also, I hate that you have to keep wants. Make it clear that she can call if this a secret. And I hate that you’re she’s looking to date again.

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Then go out with other women and see if she calls to give it another go. It’s the only option.

Dear Harlan; I have had braces for 10 months now, and I just started my freshman year in college.

Guys come up to me to talk, but almost always turn away once I open my mouth and show that I have braces.

They stare for a while then quickly try to end the conversation and walk away.

The few that do stay always ask me how much longer I am going to have them on for. I’ve been reading your book and I am working on getting comfortable in my thong, but it is hard for me since everywhere I turn I get judged by my braces.

What should I do? — Metal Mouth Dear Metal Mouth; Your braces are like my ears — they act as a filter to keep people from using you and discarding you.

But unlike my ears, your braces are temporary. Good news — soon you’ll have straight teeth and boys will be looking to date you.

Before blaming the braces for ruining your social life, you need to have a social life. This means having friends outside of dating in college. So, put all your effort into making new friends.

Do things you love to do with people who love doing the same things. Get involved in activities and organizations that make you smile. Consider getting a part-time job that helps you meet people. Put yourself in places where people can get to know you over time.

You’ll be surprised what will happen next. People will forget about the braces and get to know you.

You’ll learn that you’re so darn cute it’s hard for guys to approach you with or without braces.

You’ll discover that guys who care about you will forget about the braces (just like my wife forgets about my ears). Soon you’ll have solid friends, straight teeth and the ability to create

a social life — all because of braces.

Dear Harlan; I met a nice guy at my sister’s party.

He drove all the way to my house to take me out to dinner. That night we made plans to go out again. We continued to text and make more plans to go out, but he has not followed through.

He just made plans again to come to my home and go bike riding, then when I asked when and where he would like to go, he states he’s not 100 percent sure he can, and uses his sons as an excuse. Then, he asks me to understand.

I think I know what your answer is going to be. — Excuses Excuses Dear Excuses; Think I’m going to tell you that he should take a hike?

And he’s not being a nice guy. Not telling you the truth and making excuses isn’t nice.

Don’t make him better than he is.

This guy is not following through because he’s got a girlfriend, family issues or other problems he can’t tell you about.

Make it very clear that you liked the date, but are only interested in dating someone who can follow through with plans.

You can tell him that you assume other things are happening and once he’s able to commit to going out, he can call you. Then, move on.

Your willingness to let him go will help him realize you are a woman with options -— even if you don’t have them.

And I know you don’t have a lot of men in your life, because any woman with options would know the answer.

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NHL 14 ups the ante when it comes to dropping the gloves VIDEO GAMES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS At a time when some are shying away from fighting in hockey, EA Sports is embracing the rough stuff.

“NHL 14,” the latest version of the hit video game franchise developed by EA Canada in Vancouver, features an “enforcer engine” that the studio promises will produce “the most authentic and electrifying fighting experience” in the history of the title.

“We’re really excited about the way it turned out,” NHL 14 producer Sean Ramjagsingh said. “For us this year it was all about capturing the big hits, real fights and unbelievable speed and skill of hockey.”

In recent years, EA developers had been looking to get the right balance of speed, skill and aggression.

“When I look back at ’NHL 13,’ I feel like we fell short a little bit on the aggression piece of it,” said Ramjagsingh.

That meant upping the ante on big hits and fights.

“There is a code in hockey and when it’s broken, you have to respond,” EA notes in a press release.

Critics may decry the improved fighting component. Fans will celebrate that the game, already a marvel in recreating the on-ice product, is even more authentic. Take a run at Sidney Crosby and there will be Penguins payback.

“For us, it’s a part of the sport, it’s an authentic part of the sport,” said Ramjagsingh. “We work very closely with our partners at the NHL and NHLPA, make sure that they understand we’re telling the story of their sport. That’s why the speed and skill part is just as important as the aggression piece.

“The game is about the Datsyuks (Detroit star forward Pavel Datsyuk) and showing off their skill and

their speed, as well as the aggression piece. And why the aggression piece is so important to allowing the skill piece to happen ... Fighting is a little bit controversial to some people but for hockey fans out there, and casual hockey fans, it’s an important part.”

The previous fighting engine, used from NHL 10 through 13, was seen as dated by gamers, according to Ramjagsingh.

“It really felt like a one-off mini-game, It took you out of the experience. It didn’t really capture the essence of why fights happen in hockey and why it’s such an authentic part of the sport.”

In the old engine, you essentially triggered a fighting by mashing a button. The screen then turned into a first-person camera view and the other players on the ice, other than your assailant, disappeared.

In “NHL 14,” the goal was to show “why fighting is important to hockey.”

So the fighting is more organic. Lay out one of your opponent’s star players during the game and there are consequences. It’s the first time the game’s CPU has ever initiated fights based on events during the game.

You can still try to provoke a staged fight, by hitting a button. So if your tough guy lines up against their enforcer at a faceoff, you can tap him on the shinpads and he has the option to accept or decline the challenge.

It’s all shown via a third-person camera view so you can see the other players on the ice pair up or watch the fight.

If the tussle is on, the two players will step back, drop the gloves, adjust elbow pads and then go at it. You can initiate a series of moves — from throwing a punch to dodging one — before entering into a clinch. And once the two players tie up, there is a whole series of new moves available.

To do that, the game developers turned to their brethren from the “Fight Night” boxing franchise — whose technology has already leaked into the pend-

ing “EA Sports UFC” game — to overhaul the fighting mechanics.

“The less time that we spend worrying about tech, what tech to use and the implementation of the tech, the more time it allows for us to innovate on the other parts of the game and other parts of mechanics for fighting specifically,” said Ramjagsingh.

The system is so exacting that a big player like hulking Bruins defenceman Zdeno Chara can use his size to ragdoll opponents in a fight.

Punches on offer include overhands, uppercuts and counter-punches.

“NHL fighters, NHL tough guys, they talk about waiting for the guy to throw a punch, looking to dodge the punch and then pull that guy when he’s off-balance,” said Ramjagsingh. “So we have that in there too.”

And for the first time, players as disparate as the six-foot-nine Chara and Daniel Briere, listed at 5-10, can fight “and actually have the punches connect.”

Previously the game “kind of squished everyone down to the same height.”

You will also see “real-time damage” in a fight.

Connect and your opponent’s face will reflect damage suffered during a tussle as he skates to the penalty box.

The development teams has talked to a variety of NHL tough guys over the years, including Zack Stortini, Darcy Hordichuk and most recently George Parros.

Goalies can — and will — fight in the game.

“Again it’s part of hockey. It happens every once in a while,” said Ramjagsingh.

Hit the goalie and he has the option of whether to drop his gloves, although it will likely only happen if he has a history of a shorter fuse.

“More often than not though, just like in real hockey, if you touch the goalie, you can expect a tough guy to come over and take the fight for him,” Ramjagsingh said.

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Source of coronavirus traced to bats SCIENTISTS REPORT FINDING PARTIAL MATCH FOR MERS CORONAVIRUS IN SAMPLE FROM BAT IN SAUDI ARABIA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Scientists from Saudi Arabia and the United States have reported finding a partial match for the MERS coronavirus in a sample taken from a bat in Saudi Arabia.

The fragment of viral DNA was extracted from a fecal swab from an Egyptian tomb bat — the species’ proper name is Taphozous perforatus — in the western part of the country. The bat is an insect eater, and is often found among fruit trees because the fruit attracts insects.

The small fragment is a perfect match for the corresponding portion of the MERS virus isolated from Saudi Arabia’s first known case, a man who died in June 2012. The bat was found in a colony that roosted in ruins near where the man lived.

This the first time a match for the human virus — even a fragment of it — has been found in samples taken from an animal. But while the finding adds further support for the widely held suspicion that the new coronavirus originated in bats, the fragment isn’t large enough to say definitely that the bat virus was identical to the MERS coronavirus, an expert said.

If the scientists had been able to sequence the full genetic blueprint of the bat virus differences between it and the human virus might have been spotted, explained Andrew Rambaut, a professor of molecular evolution at the University of Edinburgh who has been following the MERS story.

“There’s still potential for it to be relatively distant if we had the complete genome,” he said in an interview. “It’s definitely implicated in the story, but

we don’t quite know where it lies in that story.”

The report was published online Wednesday in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. It was reported by scientists from the Saudi Ministry of Health, Columbia University and the organization EcoHealth Alliance.

Lead author Dr. Ziad Memish, the Saudi deputy minister of health, said bats have always been suspected to be the original source of the virus, but there are probably other players of the chain of transmission that haven’t yet been identified.

“There must be something in the middle,” Memish said during a talk on MERS in Washington, D.C., that was organized and webcast by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Center for Health Security.

“Is it food? Is it (an)other animal reservoir? That’s something to be determined.”

The finding is one that senior author, Dr. Ian Lipkin, has publicly spoken about in the past. In early July, he said in an interview with The Canadian Press that he might not publish the results because of the limited size of the fragment.

It would have been bigger, but for a heartbreaking twist of fate. Last October, researchers from Lipkin’s Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University and from EcoHealth Alliance gathered different types of samples — blood, fecal swabs and fecal pellets — from seven species of bats they found roosting in abandoned buildings near Bisha, near where the first Saudi MERS case lived.

The samples were shipped back to the United States for testing in Lipkin’s lab, which is famous for finding new viruses.

However, a mixup occurred at customs when the

samples reached the United States. The material sat at room temperature for two days. All the samples, which had been shipped frozen, thawed. As a result, the material degraded. Lipkin’s team hoped to be able to extract more DNA from the sample, but they were unable to because of the poor state of the specimen.

Then a group of international scientists reported finding a coronavirus in a South African bat that was a close relative — the closest seen to date — to the MERS virus. Lipkin said he felt it was important to get his team’s finding into the scientific record.

“I looked at that and I said: ’Well, that’s clearly not the closest match. If that’s what’s out there, we need to put this out.”’

He put the finding in context this way: “Let’s say you’re looking for a fingerprint at a crime scene. And you’d love to get all four fingers, right? But you’ve got half of one finger and it’s a perfect match. That’s enough, if you have the rest of the evidence, to say yes, this was certainly somebody who was here at the scene of the crime.

“And that’s what we’re saying. This is a bat that clearly has a virus that is identical in this region (of the genome). So that’s good enough to make that link.”

Rambaut agreed the finding is important but noted it doesn’t help answer the key question about MERS: How are people being infected by a bat virus?

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MAPLE LEAF SELLING CANADIAN RENDERING UNIT TORONTO — Shares in Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (TSX:MFI) rose sharply Friday, up almost eight per cent after the company announced it was selling its Rothsay business unit to a Texas-based company. The Rothsay business operates six rendering plants and a biodiesel plant employing a total of 550 people in four provinces. The rendering plants in Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Quebec recover fats and proteins produced as a byproduct of the slaughtering process.

The biodiesel plant in Quebec creates products for use as fuel. Maple Leaf says the Rothsay employees will transfer to the new owner, Darling International Inc. of Irving, Texas. Toronto-based Maple Leaf will receive about $645 million for Rothsay and use the money to pay down corporate debt. On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Maple Leaf shares closed up $1.05, or 7.84 per cent, at $14.44.

QUEBEC COURT UNLOCKS FUNDS TO KEEP MM&A OPERATING MONTREAL — Insolvent Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway could soon resume operations in Canada for several weeks after a Quebec judge approved a request to unlock funds to purchase insurance that it requires to obtain its operating licence. MM&A has been operating under court supervision while the short-haul railway sorts out massive claims arising from the deadly LacMegantic train derailment.

Quebec Superior Court Justice Martin Castonguay agreed Friday to unlock $250,000 so the railway can obtain insurance in case it suffers another accident. The Canadian Transportation Agency said Thursday that the court’s approval would satisfy its requirement to regain the licence it temporarily withdrew Aug. 13. The renewed licence would allow it MM&A to operate until Oct. 1.

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Pipeline oversight strong LONG-AWAITED STUDY INTO SAFETY OF PIPELINES INCLUDES 17 RECOMMENDATIONS TO FURTHER IMPROVE IT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A long-awaited review into pipeline safety in Alberta has found that oversight in the province is strong and compares favourably overall with other jurisdictions, but includes 17 recommendations to further improve it.

The review, conducted by Group 10 Engineering, looked at pipeline integrity, the safety of pipelines crossing water and spill response.

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Alberta and across Canada.

Industry players were consulted in the creation of the report, but not environmental organizations and other public interest groups. An Alberta Energy Regulator official said in a technical briefing with reporters that the Group 10 work cost $455,000.

The Alberta government commissioned the report last summer after a spate of oil spills, including a 475,000-litre leak from a Plains Midstream Canada pipeline in Central Alberta last spring.

Group 10 submitted its work to Energy Minister Ken Hughes last December, and the regulator submitted its response in March. For months, opposition politicians and other critics have been urging Hughes

to make the results of the study public.

“This review assures Albertans we have a safe system in place, but it’s important that we not rest on our laurels,” Hughes said in a release Friday.

“As leaders in energy production and regulation, we will make every effort to ensure Alberta’s pipeline safety standards continue to be among the best in the world.”

Hughes has also asked the Alberta Energy Regulator to lead the development of a management system to make sure operators are using “leading edge” technology to respond to spills.

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Subdued inflation hints at weakness

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate edged up one-tenth of a point to 1.3 per cent in July, a softer reading than expected that was interpreted as further evidence of a weak economy.

The Canadian dollar, which has been trending lower all week as the U.S. currency strengthened, slid about one-third of a cent shortly after the Statistics Canada report.

The loonie’s slide has been partly the result of expectations that U.S. interest rates are set to begin rising before the end of this year, attracting money managers to U.S. investments offering a better rate of return..

The Bank of Canada, on the other hand, isn’t expected to start raising its key interest rates until inflation begins to rise significantly, most likely as a result of a stronger economy.

“July’s subdued inflation figures are consistent with an economy growing below potential, which will only reinforce the Bank of Canada’s reluctance to raise rates anytime soon,” Capital Economics chief economist David Madani said from Toronto.

“With growth expected to remain sluggish this year and next, it will be a long time before capacity pressures threaten to push inflation above the bank’s one-to-three per cent target range for inflation.”

Analysts had predicted the July inflation rate would rise by 0.2 point to 1.4 per cent, following increases of 0.5 point in June and 0.3 point in May, mostly attributed to a runup in gas prices from the dip seen in the spring.

But the consensus of economists is that inflation will now likely flatten out at slightly above one per cent for the next few months.

Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter noted that there was little evidence of inflation pressure anywhere on the horizon.

Gasoline was 6.1 per cent higher in than in the same month last year, but pump prices have since fallen somewhat.

As well, food prices appear to be as flat as they’ve been in years. In July, overall food costs rose a meagre 0.8 per cent from a year earlier, the smallest gain in three years. Food purchased at stores increased even less, up 0.5 per cent from 12 months earlier, as the cost of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and meat all rose less last month than in June.

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The vessel Zhen Hua 19, carrying two enormous container handling gantry cranes, arrives in Halifax on Friday. The $10-million cranes, about 80 metres tall, will be installed at the Halterm container pier and will have the capacity to handle super-post Panamax container ships which are too large to transit the Panama Canal.

Nasdaq breakdown boosts pressure to avoid disruptions

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The latest high-tech disruption in the financial markets increases the pressure on Nasdaq and other electronic exchanges to take steps to avoid future breakdowns and manage them better if they do occur.

The three-hour trading outage on the Nasdaq stock exchange Thursday also can be expected to trigger new rounds of regulatory scrutiny on computer-driven trading.

Investors’ shaky confidence in the markets also took another hit.

The exchange was set to open as normal Friday.

Questions about potential dangers of the super-fast electronic trading systems that now dominate the U.S. stock markets ripple again through Wall Street and Washington. Stock trading now relies heavily on computer systems that exploit split-penny price differences. Stocks can be traded in fractions of a second, often by automated programs. That makes the markets more vulnerable to technical failures.

The Nasdaq episode cracked the midday calm of a quiet summer day on Wall Street, sending brokers and traders scrambling to figure out what went wrong.

Nasdaq-OMX CEO Robert Greifeld told CNBC on Friday that unspecified, external factors caused the glitch, and that the exchange followed all the proper procedures to correct the problem.

“We all have to be aware of the other

person not acting always in the proper way, and you have to have your system be able to handle defensive driving,” Greifeld said.

“We’re deeply disappointed with what happened yesterday. We aspire to perfection. We want to get to 100 per cent up time.”

The shutdown appeared to occur in an orderly fashion and didn’t upset other parts of the stock market.

But it was a major embarrassment. While hardly as stunning as the “flash crash” that set off a steep and sudden stock-market plunge in May 2010, the Nasdaq disruption some are dubbing the “flash freeze” did stir memories of it.

After the 2010 market break, regulators “never really developed a fix for it, and these kinds of things are going to continue to happen,” said Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland who was the top market oversight official at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the late 1990s.

High-speed trading commanded by mathematical formulas rather than people brings “the possibility of a calamity,” Greenberger said.

Regulators need to slow down automated trading by requiring trades to be placed “with human input,” he said.

On Thursday, only a few hours after trading ended for the day, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said she will work to finalize SEC rules that would subject U.S. exchanges to tighter oversight of automated trading.

Microsoft CEO Ballmer announces retirement

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, known as much for his zany personality as his business discipline, will leave a legacy of mixed results and a monumental challenge for his yet-to-be-named successor.

Ballmer announced on Friday that he plans to retire sometime in the next year. He has worked for the company for 33 years. After helping founder Bill Gates transform Microsoft from a tiny start-up into the world’s most valuable company, Ballmer took over for Gates in early 2000.

The new millennium marked a dark period for Microsoft. As smartphones and tablet computers began to eclipse personal computers, detractors say Ballmer didn’t take early threats from Apple and Google seriously enough. Ballmer consistently pooh-poohed Google as a one-trick company and in 2007 declared: “No chance that

the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.”

Ballmer’s jeers proved premature.

Google quickly made important inroads in Internet video, online maps, email and mobile computing and contributed to the damage that Apple’s iPhone and iPad have done to Microsoft and its partners in the PC Steve Ballmer market.

Microsoft, along with other companies that thrived in the era of personal computers, is scrambling to transform its business as people increasingly come to rely on smartphones and tablets.

Although it derives some three-quarters of its revenue from sales of software and

services to businesses large and small, Microsoft has failed to capture the imagination of consumers who have become more enamoured with mobile gadgets than PCs. Response to the newest version of its flagship Windows operating system, Windows 8, has been lukewarm.

As Microsoft Corp.’s stature diminished its market value followed. When Ballmer took the helm in January 2000, the company was worth more than $601 billion. Today, its value is less than half that amount, at nearly $270 billion.

“There is never a perfect time for this type of transition, but now is the right time,” Ballmer, 57, said in a statement released by the Redmond, Wash., company.

Microsoft did not name a successor, but it’s certain that the person who takes the reigns will need to push the world’s largest software company further into mobile devices and step up its competition with faster-moving rivals.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 91.04 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.50 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.67 Blackberry. . . . . . . . . . . . 10.86 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.71 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.80 Cdn. National Railway . 101.17 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 128.72 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 34.46 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.94 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.94 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 38.74 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 43.11 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.48 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.47 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.06 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 17.30 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.84 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 40.06 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 49.77 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 31.81 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.85 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.75

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.86 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.22 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 58.87 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.44 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 22.34 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 21.11 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.53 First Quantum Minerals . 18.35 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 32.60 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.24 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.15 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 31.35 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.81 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 27.59

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 12.94 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 89.99 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 45.75 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.73 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 14.44

Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 25.60 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 57.45 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 47.51 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.16 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 50.33 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 31.13 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 20.33 Canyon Services Group. 11.92 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.15 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.780 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 18.34 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.55 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.52

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market registered a solid gain for a second consecutive session Friday as investors built on strong manufacturing data from China.

However, there was some disappointment with a much weaker than expected report on U.S. home sales.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 87.95 points to 12,762.3 on top of a 101-point gain Thursday after HSBC Corp.’s preliminary purchasing managers index showed an expansion in China’s manufacturing in August. Traders took that as evidence that the world’s second-largest economy may be over its recent weakness.

“Because the markets are

hypersensitive to not only the levels of anything coming out of China but direction, that HSBC flash manufacturing number really caught everyone’s attention,” said Robert Gorman, chief portfolio strategist at TD Waterhouse.

“And it really helped sentiment, you could see that following through.”

The Canadian dollar erased early losses to edge up 0.14 of a cent to 95.23 cents US while the greenback weakened after the U.S. Commerce Department said sales of new homes dropped 13.4 per cent in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 394,000. That’s down from a sales pace of 455,000 in June, which was revised sharply lower from a previously reported

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 48.71 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.60 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 29.84 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 43.43 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.79 Penn West Energy . . . . . 12.12 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.435 Precision Drilling Corp . . 10.55 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.06 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.29 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.41 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.21 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 55.92 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 65.20 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 58.68 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.88 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.96 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.51 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.64 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 48.00 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 62.22 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.45 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 78.66 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.05 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 65.12 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 33.48 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.81

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“The data may have markets reassessing U.S. growth and when (or by how much) the Fed will taper QE,” said CIBC World Markets economist Andrew Grantham.

Elsewhere on the economic calendar, Statistics Canada said the July consumer price index came in at an annualized rate of 1.3 per cent, up from 1.2 per cent in June. Economists had looked for Canada’s inflation rate to rise by two-tenths of a point to 1.4 per cent.

The loonie has been under severe pressure, tumbling 1.5 US cents this past week as the American dollar rose against other currencies amid growing conviction that the U.S. Federal Reserve will move this year to

cut back on its monetary stimulus.

The Fed has been buying US$85 billion of bonds every month in a measure known as quantitative easing to keep rates low and encourage investment. There is still a great deal of uncertainty about when the Fed might embark on tapering its asset purchases and about the pace of such a cutback.

U.S. indexes advanced despite the housing data, with the Dow Jones industrials 46.62 points higher at 15,010.36.

The Nasdaq climbed 19.09 points to 3,657.79, supported by a 7.3 per cent rise in Microsoft shares after the software giant announced that CEO Steve Ballmer is retiring in the next 12 months. The S&P 500 index was up 6.51 points at 1,663.47.

The gold sector led TSX advancers, up about 2.6 per cent as December bullion moved up $25 to US$1,395.80 an ounce.

Iamgold (TSX:IMG) improved by 39 cents to C$7.06 while Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) climbed 54 cents to C$21.11.

The base metals component rose 0.82 per cent as September copper rose two cents to US$3.35 a pound. Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) gained 14 cents to C$4.77 and Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) climbed 26 cents to $27.59.

The energy sector gained 0.67 per cent with the October crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange erasing early losses to close up $1.39 at US$106.42 a barrel. Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) rose 68 cents to C$36.06.

Financials were also positive ahead of earnings reports next week from most of the big Canadian banks. TD Bank (TSX:TD) was ahead 84 cents to $88.81.

Speculation about what the Fed may do about its asset purchases has driven bond yields higher. On Friday, the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury was down 0.07 of a point from late

Thursday afternoon at 2.83 per cent.

But bond yields are still up a good 120 basis points since Fed chairman Ben Bernanke first mentioned the possibility of the Fed tapering its bond purchases in May. Those rising bond yields have particularly impacted interest sensitive stocks including utilities and telecoms. The utilities sector is down about two per cent this week alone and eight per cent this month. Telecoms have also retreated, down about 0.5 per cent this week although the sector has also been pressured recently by the prospect of American telco giant Verizon entering the Canadian wireless market.

U.S. markets have also softened this month following a strong run-up that saw the Dow up as much as 20 per cent year to date at the beginning of August.

The TSX edged up 25 points this week while the Dow industrials fell 71 points.

In other corporate news, Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (TSX:MFI) is selling its Rothsay business unit to Darling International Inc. of Irving, Texas. The Rothsay business operates six rendering plants and a biodiesel plant employing a total of 550 in four provinces. Maple Leaf says it will receive about $645 million for Rothsay and use the money to pay down corporate debt and its shares gained $1.05 or 7.84 per cent to $14.44.

S&P 500 — 1,663.47 up 6.51 points Nasdaq — 3,657.79 up 19.08 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 95.23 cents US, up 0.14 of a cent Pound — C$1.6357, down 0.36 of a cent Euro — C$1.4049, up 0.02 of a cent Euro — US$1.3379, up 0.21 of a cent Oil futures: US$106.42 per barrel, up $1.39 (October contract) Gold futures: US$1,395.80 per oz., up $25 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $26.089 per oz., up 80.8 cents $838.76 per kg., up $25.98 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’13 $6.10 higher $515.70; Jan. ’14 $5.80 higher $521.10; March ’14 $6.00 higher $527.00; May ’14 $5.00 higher $530.60; July ’14 $3.90 higher $534.30; Nov. ’14 $1.10 higher $519.30; Jan ’15 $1.10 higher $519.30; March ’15 $1.10 higher $516.30; May ’15 $1.10 higher $516.30; July ’15 $1.10 higher $516.30; Nov. ’15 $1.10 higher $516.30.

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

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 519,420 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 519,420.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,762.30 up 87.95 points TSX Venture Exchange — 946.56 up 11.52 points TSX 60 — 732.95 up 4.96 points Dow — 15,010.36 up 46.62 points

U.S. sales of new homes plunge to nine-month low

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Americans cut back sharply in July on their purchases of new homes, a sign that higher mortgage rates may slow the housing recovery.

U.S. sales of newly built homes dropped 13.4 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 394,000, the Commerce Department said Friday. That’s the lowest in nine months. And sales fell from a rate of 455,000 in June, which was revised down from a previously reported 497,000.

The housing rebound that began last year has helped drive economic growth and create more construction jobs. But mortgage rates have climbed a full percentage point since May. The increase has

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SAFETY: Three separate oil spills last year Hughes announced the review following three separate oil spills last year, including the leak of up to 475,000 litres of crude into the rain-swollen Red Deer River near Sundre, Alta., in June of 2012.

A pipeline owned by the same company, Plains Midstream Canada, spilled 4.5 million litres of oil in northwestern Alberta in April 2011. Earlier this year, the province slapped Plains with environmental charges in relation to that event.

And the pipeline spills continued in the spring of this year. An estimated 9.5 million litres of waste water leaked in northwestern Alberta from a pipeline owned by U.S. company Apache Corp.

As well, a Penn West (TSX:PWT) pipeline spilled 5,000 litres of crude and up to 600,000 litres of wastewater. And an Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) pipeline near Fort McMurray, Alta., spilled about 200,000 litres.

Alberta has been pushing for new pipelines to be built in order to expand the market reach of the province’s crude, such as TransCanada Corp.’s (TSX:TRP) Keystone XL pipeline in the United States and Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline to the West Coast.

With environmental opposition threatening those controversial proposals, the province, the federal government and industry players have been seeking to assure the public that crude can be transported safely through pipelines.

INFLATION: Gradually climbing Most major components were tame. Shelter costs were 1.3 per cent higher than a year earlier, rent

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begun to steal some momentum from the market.

Sales of new homes are still up 7 per cent in the 12 months ending in July. Yet the annual pace remains well below the 700,000 that is consistent with a healthy market.

July’s drop “may mark an uh-oh kind of moment for the housing recovery,” said Mark Vitner, an economist at Wells Fargo Securities.

Homebuilder stocks declined sharply Friday, even as overall market indexes rose. Shares of Toll Brothers Inc., D.R. Horton Inc. and Lennar Corp. — three of the nation’s largest builders — all fell more than 3 per cent in afternoon trading.

And major homebuilders’ shares have been dropping steadily since late May. The slide began after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke first signalled that the Fed might reduce its bond purchases

later this year. The bond purchases have helped keep mortgage rates and other borrowing costs low.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage reached 4.58 per cent this week, according to Freddie Mac. That’s up from 3.35 per cent in early May and the highest in two years.

The impact on would-be buyers’ finances is significant.

Take someone who locked in the early May rate on a $200,000 mortgage. They would have a monthly payment of around $875. But the same mortgage at last week’s average rate would cost $1,025 a month.

The difference adds up to $150 more each month — or $54,000 over the lifetime of a 30-year loan. The monthly figures don’t include taxes, insurance or initial down payments.

rose by 1.7 per cent, passenger vehicle by two per cent, and property taxes by 2.8. The rare outsized number was the 12.3 per cent jolt from natural gas, but the item is a minor contributor to inflation.

Meanwhile, many consumer goods and services registered outright declines. Mortgage costs fell 3.8 per cent, video equipment dropped nine per cent, personal care supplies and equipment slumped 2.8 per cent, medicines were 4.4 per cent lower than a year ago and travel tours 4.8 per cent lower.

“The big picture for Canadian inflation is that it is now gradually climbing from the depths of earlier this year, but it remains non-threatening. Think Flipper, not Jaws,” Porter wrote in a note to clients.

“The steady drip-drip-drip drop in the Canadian dollar will add to the mild upward pressure in inflation, but a sluggish underlying growth profile for the economy and slow wage growth will restrain the upswing.”

Core inflation, the best indicator of structural, un-

derlying price pressures, stayed well anchored at 1.4 per cent, one-tenth of a point higher than in June. On a month-to-month basis, prices were also only onetenth of a point higher.

The report held few surprises for markets and the Bank of Canada, which have long concluded that as long as the Canadian and global economies continue to struggle, interest rates remain low, demand stays tame and unemployment relatively high, there would be few pressure points in the system to sustain a runup in consumer prices.

The Bank of Canada has forecast that inflation won’t return to two per cent until sometime in 2015.

Regionally in July, Manitoba recorded the highest rate of inflation at three per cent, in part due to a one point increase in the provincial sales tax. The lowest rate in inflation came in British Columbia, where prices were unchanged in July from the same month last year.

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Your wellplanned office WHETHER YOU REQUIRE A DEDICATED STUDY OR SIMPLY A QUIET NOOK, YOUR HOME WORK SPACE SHOULD BE THOUGHTFULLY EXECUTED AND COMFORTABLE A well-planned home office should be practical and beautiful — so follow our guide and who knows, soon you’ll be filing your papers and your nails in one perfectly manicured space.

On our unrelenting trajectory between Canada, Great Britain and America, we’ve grown accustomed to carrying our home office, tortoise style, on our backs.

Thanks to laptops and COLIN & iPhones, we JUSTIN can deliver design plans and newspaper columns while simultaneously liaising with contractors, TV producers and everyone, for that matter, who plays a part in our global bad-taste-busting adventure.

And that’s just how we like it. We adore the cut and thrust of business and remain constantly buoyed by the speed at which we circumnavigate the planet.

But just how can you shoehorn a bountiful bureau into the domestic world, especially when proportions are tight?

Well, whether you require a dedicated study (because you’re running a business empire) or simply a quiet nook to write letters, your home work space should be at once thoughtfully executed and comfortable.

Separating home life from office life isn’t difficult.

High-backed shelving, for example, can arrest eye lines, as can room divides or even floor rugs employed to delineate function.

As always, a little bit of planning goes a long, long way.

First things first: decide upon your perfect space.

Perhaps you’re lucky enough to have a spare room where you can create a dedicated work zone.

If not, isolate a discreet corner of your living room, a cubby hole below the stairs or a spare wall in an integral garage.

Bear in mind, however, that it’s best to screen everything from direct eye lines.

The last thing you want, as you settle in front of Corrie Street, is a pile of unfinished paperwork to put you off the soapy trail.

It also makes good sense to locate your work station within reach of natural illumination, but take care to provide shade when required.

Task lighting, via carefully positioned overhead pots or a good angle poise, will ensure shadows aren’t cast over your paperwork.

For best results, place to the right of your work station if you’re right-handed and to the left if corrie-fisted. In short, provide sufficient electric light to promote a restful mood on even the bleakest winter day.

Yeah, we know, we know, it’s still midsummer but come on — if you blink (for even the merest second, you’ll be reaching for your trusty faux fur blankie, perish the thought.

Ergonomics, too, are crucial. Make sure your desk chair is comfy (don’t skimp on this — Staples carries an affordable range of home office chairs in various styles) and select something that can be adjusted to suit different tasks.

Net gain, after all, is what you’re chasing, not neck strain. So think twice, buy once.

Whilst investing in good equipment is satisfying, prime results can also be achieved using items with humbler origins.

The classic bentwood kitchen table and chair set, for example — freely found in second-hand stores — is sufficient to create a good work environment, if carefully positioned.

Whatever you choose, locate your desk (if possible) to proffer great views outdoors and remember to rest your eyes for a few moments every half-hour by looking at the horizon.

Don’t ask us to explain the science part of this (your optometrist can fill you in) but it’s universally accepted that the simple procedure helps eyes de-stress.

DESIGN

Photos by BRANDON BARRE/freelance

Today’s before and after: the reworking of a down-at-heels basement corner that was previously little more than a place to stack laundry.

As far as colour is concerned, we advise plundering the neutral palette as a backdrop to help you relax as you work.

To help choose the perfect tone, buy various tester pots (don’t select from a one-inch blob on a fan chart), paint a one-metre patch and then live with the shade for a day or so before taking the plunge.

Alternatively, paint large sections of card and move around your room at various points in the day to observe how they react in differing light levels.

Suffuse a little extra drama by carefully accessorizing in a dramatic shade such as tangerine or red, if your inclinations are overt, or subdued earthy tones, such as moss or coral, if you’re predisposed to restrained decorative ambition.

Remember, also, that cleverly arranged storage will keep work clutter to a minimum.

While you’re at it, assemble a clear filing system to help locate everything when and as you need it. If using a visible corner of your home as an office, opt for storage trunks and attractive chests for filing rather than shiny metal cabinets like those you’d find in a more traditional office space.

Put simply, it’s all about setting the scene.

Styling issues aside, we hope you enjoy today’s before and after; the reworking of a down-at-heels basement corner that was previously little more than a place to stack laundry. OK, when we say stack, we mean throw in and run away screaming. Here’s the gist:

Clear out With ample storage courtesy of new wardrobes in an upstairs bedroom, the clothing mountain was easily solved.

Like heat-seeking missiles in flip flops, we watched in wonder as our client Nancy rifled through skirts, slacks and blouses before assembling a modest keep pile and a larger charity pile.

By her own admission, many items were surplus so they were dispatched, with no ceremony whatsoever, to Goodwill.

Better, we all agreed, for others to benefit than see the monolithic pile heading to the dumpster.

Flooring While reworking the basement’s main area, we continued our new flooring specification into this cute wee nook.

The lighter finish is immediately refreshing and its light-reflecting nature helps maximize the feeling of space.

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avoid solid lumber in basements. Opt instead for engineered boards (essentially a thick sliver of real wood atop composite lumber) or a moisture-resistant solution like Amtico. The company’s range is stellar with wonderful representations of real lumber. Visit amtico.com for info.

Desk When our client budgets are tight, one of our first ports of call is Ikea. The big blue and yellow shed seldom disappoints — the repositionable Malm benches featured here (the smaller one slots neatly below the larger piece) combine to make a perfect work station.

The foil finish, easy to maintain, is built to withstand the rough and tumble of everyday life.

Storage Hanging shelves and storage boxes, colour coded in tangy orange, provide form and function.

Files for household bills and associated home stationery add ample storage for Nancy, a busy single mom who has promised to maintain a thoroughly tight rein on her formerly untidy ways.

Let there be light The cute window, tiny as it is, provides sufficient illumination in this now perfectly appointed home office.

To effect change, we hauled out the old glazing — which was no longer weather tight — and added a hermetically sealed double-pane unit with

weather baffling properties when temperatures drop.

Fully operable, it provides adequate ventilation at the turn of a handle.

Privacy division Clever design solutions, from time to time, evade even the most diligent planner, yet sometimes all it takes to shed light is a little imagination.

As we toured Ikea’s bedroom department to specify doors for an entirely different project, we screamed eureka.

In an especially bright moment of creativity, we realized that sliding wardrobe doors (and their easy glide tracks) might just be the perfect solution to help close off Nancy’s problematic office area.

Six doors later, in a linear configuration that stretches the length of the room, we were happy.

So there you have it, our potted guide to happy homework.

We’re thinking productivity up, worker morale up and no more struggling to get up.

Hey, just think: if you stage the entire operation carefully — and if you don’t overdo it on the (home work) overtime front — you’ll never again need to pull another sick day. And that sounds like the perfect business model to us!

Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan are the hosts of HGTV’s Colin & Justin’s Home Heist and the authors of Colin & Justin’s Home Heist Style Guide, published by Penguin Group (Canada). Catch them every Monday on Cityline (9 a.m. on City). Contact them through their website colinandjustin.tv.

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013

Steve’s five top woodworking tips I’ve spent half my life writing for Canadian Home Workshop magazine, and the five most popular topics I’ve covered in this classic national publishing icon are still as useful as ever today.

If you’re aiming to develop woodworking and home renovation skills, I know for sure that these top tips are a great place to start.

in a half-sheet sander.

A quarter-sheet finishing sander with a 180-grit abrasive gets you almost all the way, with a final hand sanding in the direction of grain using 220-grit paper.

This is an approach that really works.

Tweak your tools

Master your sharpening skills Razor sharp tools in two minutes or less. That’s what a buffing wheel can do for you.

Instead of rubbing chisels and plane blades back and forth on an abrasive stone by hand, the process involves holding tools steady against a spinning felt buffing wheel that’s charged with a fine abrasive.

STEVE It only takes a MAXWELL minute or two to transform a dull but properly ground tool into an astonishingly sharp implement.

Quickly creating cutting edges that are sharper than razor blades is still a fundamental skill for doing the best work with wood, and the buffing wheel lets it happen in minimal time.

HOUSEWORKS

Slow down and sand in order Woodworking success is mostly about doing the right things, in the right order, in the right way, and this applies particularly to sanding wood.

Begin with a 100- or 120-grit abrasive in a belt sander, then move to 120-grit

Every successful woodworker needs to be part mechanic. Just try coaxing a hand plane to cut properly without a little tweaking and you’ll see what I mean.

Get your jointer fence square to the bed. Set the 90-degree angle stop on your tablesaw so it’s accurate.

Tweak your mitre gauge or crosscut sled so it cuts absolutely square.

Wax the bed of your thickness planer.

Adjust your chopsaw so it cuts 90 degrees in both mitre and bevel directions.

Invest long-term Choosing tools and gear successfully is a lot like hitting someone with a snowball as they’re running. Unless you aim way ahead, you’ll always miss.

The tools and gear you need tomorrow will almost always be more than you need now, especially if you’re a beginner. That’s why you should always buy better than you think you need.

My only tool regrets have come when my snowball fell way behind the results I was aiming at.

You need to buy for the ultimate woodworker you want to become, not the woodworker you are now.

Also — and this is crucial — always let actual needs guide your tool investments.

Struggle for a while with a process or situation, then use the insights you gain to invest in gear that actually meets the needs you face. You’ll buy smarter.

Photo by STEVE MAXWELL/freelance

Steve’s well-tuned hand plane made this curl of wood so thin it’s translucent.

Sharp, well-tuned tools make woodworking a joy.

Beware enthusiasm If it weren’t for enthusiasm, none of us would haul ourselves off the couch and make good things happen in the workshop.

But enthusiasm also has a downside.

It can get the better of you in subtle ways and quickly turn into impatience, especially when things aren’t going well in the shop.

Let’s say you run out of the ideal size of wood screws. Don’t let your enthusiasm to complete the project tempt you to make-do with what you’ve got on hand.

The same advice applies when the glue bot-

tle runs out, a board splits annoyingly, or you realize that you’ve got to go back and change things in a design that’s partially built.

While enthusiasm is useful, don’t let it be your ultimate driving force. It’s not steady enough.

The pursuit of quality is much more important and enduring.

Learn to stop, back up, wait, then move forward and good things will start happening in your workshop, home and yard.

Steve Maxwell, syndicated home improvement and woodworking columnist, has shared his DIY tips, how-to videos and product reviews since 1988. Send questions to steve@stevemaxwell.ca.

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Pat Christoph Acreage 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Brad/Charlene Schindel Directions: South on QE2, East on Hwy 42, then South on Range Road 264 63 Bowman Circle 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

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122 Voisin Close 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

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9 Amlee Close 1:30 - 4:00 p.m.

196 Northey Avenue 11:00 - 1:00 p.m.

28 Hermary Street 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

6220 Galbraith Street 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

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13 Grove Close 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

18 Lockwood Avenue 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

68 Dempsey Street 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

2 Traptow Close 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.

2 Tallman Close 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.

399 Teasdale Drive 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.

23 Voisin Close 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

7 Michener Blvd.

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46 Diamond Street Close 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

362 Teasdale Drive 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

2152 Danielle Drive 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

88 Arthur Close 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

179 Douglas Avenue 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

68 Dempsey Street 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

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25 Gilbert Crescent 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

63 Landry Close 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

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13 Grove Close 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

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Dear Sandra — I do not know of any Allow the walls to dry for several product you can add to your existing hours. Then apply a high hide prim- paint to make it suitable for a bather that is designed to cover stains so room. Whether you need it or not, dethat they won’t bleed through your new pends on the sheen of the paint in the paint job. bedroom.

Finally, paint the walls with a meUsually this would be matte or flat, dium or semi-gloss sheen. The higher which is not good for a bathroom as it the sheen, the more resistant the paint absorbs water. will be to moisture.

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RILEY William (Bill) Charles 1929 - 2013 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of William (Bill) Charles Riley on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at the age of 84. Bill spent many years working for the Canada Packers and then ran his own business until his retirement. He enjoyed camping and family get together’s as well as a good political debate.

Bill is predeceased by mom (Edith) and his second wife Lyla; a brother George; a sister Roberta and a granddaughter Summer. He is survived by his sister Ester. He will be forever missed by his children Debbie (Norbert), Jim (Annie), Mitchell (Barb) and Kim; stepchildren Lawrence (Val), Monica, Darcy and Elaine (Perry); grandchildren Norbert, Curtis, Chris, Trygve, Lisa and Angelika. Thank you to the doctors and nurses of Unit 31. There will be no funeral service by request. A private family interment will be held at Alto Reste Memorial Gardens.

SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

DELANEY Jean Jan. 15, 1933 - Aug. 6, 2013 It is with immense sadness that Jean’s family announces her peaceful passing on the morning of August 6th, 2013.

Beatrice Jean was born in Innisfail, AB on January 15, 1933 to Bill and Ivy Lewis, and was raised on the family farm with her brothers, Jim, Bob and George, in Spruceview, AB. After completing her education, Jean joined the RCAF where she met and married Bill Delaney.

Their union produced three sons, Keith, Kevin and Craig.

After retiring from the RCAF in 1968, the family moved to Red Deer, AB to be close to Jean’s family. Jean and Bill divorced in 1971, at which time she embraced raising her three boys on her own, creating a very special family bond. She was their biggest cheerleader and always supported every endeavor with love and wisdom.

She was incredibly close to her grandchildren, Ryan, Trisha and Danielle, Katie and Cody, and her five great grandchildren.

Jean also had very loving relationships with all of her nieces and nephews, brothers and sister-in-laws, and always made everyone feel special.

During her brief battle with cancer she constantly reassured everyone that things were going to be ok, more concerned for those left behind than herself.

She showed the same strength and courage as her mother Ivy possessed during her own battle with cancer. We had seen this strength nine years ago when she lost Keith, remaining by his side until the end. Jean is survived by her two sons and their families; Kevin and Evelyn (Danielle, Katie and Cody) and Craig and Tricia, and Keith’s children, Ryan and Trisha and their families.

She is also survived by her brother George and his wife Helen, and far too many nieces, nephews and friends to mention. Every one of them held a special place in Aunty Jean’s heart, and her in theirs.

Her loss has left an immense hole in our family and she will be truly missed. Jean was predeceased by her parents, Ivy and Bill, her brothers Bob and Jim, and her beloved son, Keith. Jean’s family would like to convey a special thank you to Wendy Parcels, who cared for Jean throughout her sickness. Your love, kindness and care for Jean made this journey easier for all of us.

We truly appreciate all you have done. A celebration of Jean’s life and accomplishments will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 - 50 Street, Red Deer, AB on Saturday, August 31, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. with a reception to follow at the Red Deer Lodge, 4311 49 Avenue, Red Deer, AB. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Have a safe journey Mom.† We love you!

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McRAE Dennis Gordon 1943 - 2013 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Dennis Gordon McRae of Red Deer, formerly of Huxley, Alberta. Dennis succumbed to cancer on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre at the age of 70 years. He will be lovingly remembered by his many friends, special Olympic bowling athletes and team members as well as the Downtown Hub drop-in centre.

Dennis was predeceased by his father George, mother Mona and sister Norma. A Special Thanks to Gail and Gary Anderson for their care and support over the past 10 years of his life. Dennis’ life will be celebrated at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, on Monday, August 26, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Interment will take place at Arthurvale Cemetery, Huxley, Alberta.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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POOLEY Charles Harvey Pooley passed away August 20, 2013, just after his 90th birthday, at the Stettler Health Care Centre.

He was the last living child of Charles and Maud Pooley, born May 29, 1923 in Erskine, Alberta. In 1946 he married Reta Savage. Harvey is survived by his son Doug; daughter Nancy, her husband Myles and their son Kyle; one sister in law Lois Savage; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of good friends, including Donna and Dale Chapman, Rose and John Grant and Blanche and Dale Henry.

Harvey was predeceased by his wife Reta in 2007; his brother Stanton (Cora) Pooley; his sisters: Glen (John) Nicklom, Lulu (Ernest) Rowledge, Maude (Dave) Stewart, Helen (Neil) McKay and twin sister May (Norman) Stewart. Interment will take place at 11:00 AM on August 26, 2013 at Lake View Cemetery, Stettler, Alberta.

Funeral services will be held on August 26, 2013 at 2:00 PM at the Heartland Chapel of Stettler Funeral Home, 4707-70 Street, Stettler with Reverend John Crowdis and Reverend Jack Schulze officiating.

Following the funeral service a time of fellowship and a luncheon will take place.

Memorial donations may be made to Stettler Town and County Museum or P & H Elevator Preservation Society c/o Stettler Funeral Home, Box 1780, Stettler, AB T0C 2L0.

Condolences may be viewed or sent to the family at www.stettlerfuneralhome.com

OGLOFF Mary April 30, 1938 - August 21, 2013 Mary Ogloff passed away peacefully August 21, 2013 in her home at the age of 75 years. Mary was born in Funeral Directors Wayne AB, then her family & Services moved to Creston B.C. In the late 70’s Mary moved to Brooks, AB. then to Red Deer AB. where she resided; as did her children and their families; until her passing.

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D o n O g l o ff ; f a t h e r, J o h n Ogloff; mother, Fanny Ogloff; step mother, Elizabeth Ogloff; sister Tina McDaniel and brother Johnny Ogloff. As Mary’s request no funeral services. The family invites friends to a celebration of her life on August 29, 2013 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Parkland CLASS, 6332 Orr Drive, Red Deer, AB. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, Parkland Community Services and Supports Society, SPCA, or the Canadian Diabetics Association.

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PSIKLA WHEELER Louis Sylvester Duane George Wheeler, of Sept. 9, 1925 ~ Aug. 21, 2013 Red Deer, AB., passed away Louis Sylvester Psikla beloved at the age of 69 after a long husband of Shirley (Fern) of 25 struggle with depression and years passed away peacefully a short battle with cancer, on on Wednesday, August 21, August 20, 2013 at the Red 2013 at the Sylvan Lake Deer Hospice. Duane was Bethany Care Centre after a born in Estavan, SK., to lengthy illness. He is survived George and Margaret Wheeler by his wife Fern; brother Joe on January 20, 1944. He is (Jennie) Psikla; sister Yirginia survived by his loving wife of (John) Safronovich. He is also 38 years, Debbie; daughters; survived by Fern’s family Jolyne Wheeler, Niki Rema, daughter Valdene (Brent) Kendze; son-in-law, Tom Rema and grandchildren Shianne and grandchildren; Kaylee Wheeler Dallas Kendze and Kyle and and Brook and Bailee Rema.

Justin Gebers; great grandson Duane was a dedicated pipeJaiden; as well as numerous fitter for more than 40 years. nephews, nieces and close He enjoyed camping, fishing friends. He was predeceased and his many trips on his by his parents Louis and motorcycle with his buddies.

Mary Piskla; infant sisters A special thank you to the Mary and Helen. Louise was wonderful staff at Red Deer born in Coleman, Alberta on Hospice who made his and September 9, 1925. He was his family’s last days together 5 years old when the family as comfortable as possible. A moved to the Eckville Area. celebration of life for Duane His dad purchased 1/4 section will be held at the home of of hefty timber on the North his dear friend, Val Meinema West corner of Sylvan Lake (Poverty Flats) on September in 1930. After he completed 14, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. In Lieu his grade 9 at Saima School of flowers, donations may be he joined in developing the m a d e t o t h e R e d D e e r family farm from 1975 to Hospice Society, 99 Arnott 1 9 9 9 . H e w a s a n a c t i v e Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6. member of the Solo Club Expressions of sympathy which he enjoyed very much may be made by visiting and made lots of friends. He www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca also was a member of the Benalto Elks Lodge and took WILSON’S FUNERAL part in the patrol team for over CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, 25 years and was a member of Lacombe and Rimbey in of the Sylvan Lake Knights of charge of the arrangements.

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“A Caring Family, Prayers Service for Louis will Caring For Families” be held at the Our Lady Of The Assumption Catholic Church, Sylvan Lake, Alberta on Sunday, August 25, 2013 A t 7 : 3 0 P. M . A M a s s o f Christian Burial will be held at the Our Lady Of The Assumption Catholic Church, Sylvan Lake, Alberta on Monday, August 26, 2013 At 1:00 P.M. with interment in the Sylvan Lake Cemetery. In Memoriam As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Louis’s name to the Bethany Care Foundation 1 0 0 1 - 1 7 S t N W C a l g a r y, Alberta T2N 2E5.

SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

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BROWN E. Marion Brown, beloved wife of Roy Brown, formerly of Pine Lake, passed away on August 21, 2013 in the Red Deer Hospital at the age of 83 years. Marion was born in Red Deer on July 25, 1930 to Frank and Edith Dallaire and raised on a farm in the Burnt Lake District. Marion took her early schooling in the local one room school house, high school in Red Deer, and trained at normal school to be a teacher. She married Roy Brown July 14, 1952 and together they farmed in the rolling hills of Pine Lake until 2011 when they moved into their condo in Sierras Michener Red Deer. Marion is survived by Roy; three children Marjorie (Alan) Simms, Douglas (Heather) Brown, and Debra (Harry) Tensen; eleven grandchildren: Brett (Renata), Wade (Heather), Chelsea (Dan), Heidi (Craig), Matthew, Serena (Andrew), Chantal, Ryan, Jolynn, Kari (Nathan), Dan and six greatgrandchildren: Lincoln and Acadia, Sean and Seth, Declan, Alexander; sister Blanche (Norrie) Cunningham; brother Frank (Barb) Dallaire; sister-in-law Margaret Brown; as well as an extended family of cousins, nieces and nephews.

Marion was predeceased by her parents; infant brother Stephen; two sisters Lillie Clutton and Juliana Schafer; brother-in-laws, Roy Clutton, Jack Brown, Chris Brown and Harold Brown and sisterin-law Jennie Brown. Marion was a teacher to the core, a strong community supporter, and a historian all her life, organizing a garage sale for the condo in Red Deer this August just before her passing.

Her family will remember her talents in organizing family and community events, music, needle point, basket weaving, and jam and jelly making.

She made friends and enjoyed meeting new people wherever she and Roy travelled throughout the world. A celebration of her life will be held at the Pine Lake HUB Community Centre on Friday, August 30, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.

A private family interment will be held at a later date. Sylvan Lake Funeral Home in charge of cremation. If friends desire, donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6, Phone 403-309-4344.

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COMPTON Fredrick Jan. 31,1946 - Aug. 22, 2013 We are profoundly saddened to announce his sudden passing.

Fred was predeceased by his father Wilfred Luke in 1974, and his daughter Jessica Jane Compton in 1994. He leaves behind his wife Irina, 2 sons Jason and Jared, granddaughter Calla and Grandson William; his mother Stella, 12 siblings along with their families and his lifetime of friends. Fred’s early career was with the Canadian Air Force and he later worked in the oil service industry. Fred died as he lived with a heart bigger and deeper than the ocean. A service of remembrance is being held Sunday, August 25, 2013 from 10 am. - 1 pm. at the Red Deer Funeral & Crematorium.

HAROLD TURNER March 29, 1937 - Aug. 25, 2012 If we could have a lifetime wish And one dream that could come true We would pray to God with all our Hearts just to see and speak to you A thousand words won’t bring you back We know because we’ve tried And neither will a million tears We know because we’ve cried You’ve left behind our broken hearts And precious memories too But we’ve never wanted memories We only wanted you Forever in our hearts, Love You - Sylvia, Cheryl, charlene, Denise, Todd, Joe, Neil, Danielle, Kaitlyn, Aaron, Robyn, Rachel and Callie

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ASHLEY & FRIENDS PLAYSCHOOL Accepting Fall Registrations 3-5 yr. olds. Limited Space avail. 403-343-7420

Births HERTER Nicole and Dustin and big sister, Cady welcome son/brother Layton Lloyd, born August 11, 2013 at Medicine Hat. Grandparents are Tom and Arlene Vis and Colin and Sheila Herter

DONALD, Scott J. John and Joan Donald are pleased to announce that Scott has graduated with Honors from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland with his degree in Medicine. Dr. Donald has begun his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Manitoba.

Comhghairdeas Scott!!

We are all so proud of you!

Love, Mom, Dad, Amanda, Crystal, Jerry and Kendall.

Card Of Thanks

ZEN KARATE & KICK BOXING

Cheney Karate Studios, Red Deer’s most trusted name in Martial Arts is now accepting registration for all adult & children’s programs starting Sept. Enrollment is limited.

(403)347-9020 www.cheneykarate.com

AN EXCELLENT CHOICE WHERE YOUR AD REACHES RURAL READERS

CALL 1-877-223-3311 CLASSIFIEDS HOT-LINE WHATEVER YOU’RE SELLING...

WE HAVE THE PAPER YOU NEED!

PATTERSON Michelle and David are thrilled to announce the birth of Hunter Michael, born August 14, 2013 weighing 7 lbs 1oz.

Proud grandparents are Wendy and Michael Longman and Patty and Dave Patterson.

Anniversaries DOUGLAS The family of Smiley & Rose would like to invite you to join them in celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.

September 1, 2013 at the Pine Lake Hub, 1-4 p.m.

Your presence is your gift.

Graduations

TASHA PORTTIN Congratulations on completing the Faculty of Pharmacy at U of A, 2013.

Love Grandma Porttin & family

MALO We have been so humbled by the support that our family received with the passing of our Grandma, Mom, wife, friend and sister Caroline Cecilia Malo.

We would like to thank the many friends, co-workers and family who took the time, and continue to, comfort us, share tears and celebrate her LIFE. A big Thank You to all who prepared meals that were received during those difficult days and to all who provided gifts and donations to the Red Deer Hospice Society and Haying in the 30’s Cancer Support Society. We would also like to recognize the efforts of Joelle Valliere and the rest of the Parkland Funeral Home staff for their compassion and professionalism, all Sacred Heart Parish Ministries and staff, Krista Rawson (Nurse Practitioner,) the Central Alberta Cancer Centre and AHS Red Deer Home Care who supported Caroline during her battle.

God Bless you all.

Words will never be enough.

REDEKOPP The family of George Redekopp wish to express their thanks for the cards, flowers, food, messages of condolences and charitable donations received in his memory.

A special thanks to Shelagh McClelland for the thoughtful service, the Ladies Legion Auxiliary for the lunch and Wilson’s Funeral Chapel for the care we received.

We also thank the doctors, nurses and staff of the Lacombe Hospital for their care and support.

Lea, Jessica, Sandra & families

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Coming Events

Dental

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DENTURE LAB (full service) requires a F/T ASSISTANT/ TECHNICIAN to manufacture dentures. Experience is preferred but will train if necessary. $23/hr depending RECEPTIONIST for on exp. Drop resume Hygiene Department req’d. at Associates Dental Please drop off resumes to (attn. Trevor) or Associate Dental, Attn. tfair@platinum.ca Corinne or fax 403-347-2133

Janitorial

770

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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LOOKING FOR A FULL TIME HIRED HELP ON A HOG FARM 15 min. west of Lacombe/ Blackfalds. Flexible hours, no weekends. $15-18/hr, dep. on experience. 403-782-4854

8 HOUR CLEANING PERSON

Location: Eckville Elementary School Benefits: Wolf Creek Public Schools offer all full-time cleaning staff a comprehensive benefit package which includes three weeks of paid vacation after the completion of one year of service.

Hourly salary range: $15.95 - $19.07/hr. based on experience with opportunities for annual wage advancement.

Qualifications: • Willingness to perform tasks and to remain flexible in the performance of duties • Previous history of excellent work habits and attendance record • Previous experience with all aspects of cleaning and maintaining a school would be a definite asset, “on the job” training will be provided as well • The ability to cooperate with staff and students • Physically fit so as to perform all required duties • Ability to understand and follow instructions Deadline for Applications: September 6, 2013 Interested candidates are invited to submit applications to: Mr. Mel Henderson Custodian/Grounds Foreman, Wolf Creek Public Schools 6000 Highway 2A, Ponoka, Alberta T4J 1P6 Phone: 403-785-0728 Fax: 403-783-3155 Email: mhenderson@wolfcreek.ab.ca Please Note: We appreciate the interest of all applicants, but advise that only candidates selected for an interview for this competition will be contacted.

The successful applicant will be required to provide a current criminal records check statement at their own expense as well as a Child and Family Services Intervention Record Check.

Janitorial

770

WANTED: 1 F/T RDA with Cr & Br, & 1 Casual RDA to work as a RDH assistant.

Both positions to start Sept.

Call or Text 403 391-9217.

Or Call 403 309-1900.

Farm Work

Applications are invited for:

Oilfield

740

Dental

760

Hair Stylists

F/T LICENSED HAIR STYLIST on a chair rental basis.

Apply to The Attic Unisex Hair Design, Main Street, Stettler or call 403-742-2701 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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

Oilfield

800

Fluid Experts Ltd.

Fluid Experts of Red Deer is seeking experienced

Class 1 Operators

to haul clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry. Home every night, company benefits with exceptional pay structure. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

Compensation based on experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com

800

Oilfield

Local new and growing company is currently recruiting for a

Project Support Person to work in our Red Deer facility.

The successful candidate will be familiar with Oilfield Process Control and Instrumentation equipment and have practical Project organization experience. This person will have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to handle sales quotes. Critical thinking and attention to detail are important elements of this position.

Applied knowledge in warehousing and purchasing along with previous shipping and forklift training is an asset.

We offer a full complement of company benefits and training, as well as remuneration based on skills, if you are dependable, and would enjoy being part of a great working environment; please submit your resume to: Box 230F c/o Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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RED DEER POOL LEAGUE MEETING Aug. 27, 7:00 pm at The Corner Pocket Leagues forming for all levels of play. For more info. call 403-343-6262

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Found

FOUND: Set of car keys with house keys.

- found by green water tower on 37th street.

Call to identify 403-347-0912 FOUND: woman’s driver’s licence in Edmonton Riverdale neighbourhood for someone with Red Deer address.

Date of Birth **OWER FOUND** SET of business keys found on Glendale Blvd.

Call to identify 403-346-0207

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Companions

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STEELE, Harold Apr. 9, 1924 - Aug. 25, 2008 Lovingly missed and remembered by your family.

INTELLIDANCE by Small Steps Dance - space available for 10-week sessions starting Sept.

10th. Classes for Babies (3-11 mos) & Tykes (12-24 mos). smallstepsdance@ gmail.com for info and registration.

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Graduations

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In Memoriam

KIND considerate loving gentleman who would like to share a good friendship w/a down to earth, friendly attractive lady.

Please, no older than 75.

Reply to Box 1053, c/o R.D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

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Personals

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

Happy 60th Anniversary Serge & Shirley Andreeff Still looking good!

Congratulations, Love from your family

Engagements

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager) Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

R U A BRAT www.cafba.ca

wegot

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

Remember to add A Picture of Your Loved One With Your Announcement A Keepsake for You To Treasure Red Deer Advocate

Classifieds 309-3300 Email: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Aspen Ridge 82 ADDINGTON DRIVE (back alley) Fri. Aug. 23, 4-8, Sat. 9-4. Downsizing. Lots of misc. items.

jobs

DUNCAN - KNOWLES Linzee Duncan & Chad Knowles, along with their families, are thrilled to announce their engagement.

Big day: October 12, 2013

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

710

Eastview 3867 EASTWOOD CLOSE Aug. 24th 9-6 & 25th 9-3 MOVING - everything must go. Household furn., patio furn., stainless steel BBQ, tools, yard tools, misc.

LIVE-IN Caregiver for elderly Female. F/T $1933/mo Glendale less room & board.

44 hrs/wk. No exp. req’d. BACK to school basics.

Call Ciel 403-307-2918 Huge multi family yard sale. Household, tires, LIVE-OUT NANNY. P/T or F/T. tools and much more. 21 Start mid Sept. Anders Grote Cres. Aug. 22, 4-8, area. Call/Text 403-597-6992 Aug. 23, 1-7, Aug. 24, 10-2

Clerical

720

Grandview

Lancaster Meadows Oriole Park 85 LAGRANGE CRES Fri 23rd 4-8, Sat 24th 9-2 Household items, girls clothes in excellent cond, toys, playhouse, tools, utility trailor, new dishes, wii.

Michener Hill MASSIVE garage sale.

5110-42 Ave. Aug. 23, 2-5, Aug. 24, 9-2 Tons of bargains!

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Normandeau 28 PARKSIDE DR. Fri. Aug. 23, 4-8, Sat. 11-5.

Sun. 1-5.

Oriole Park 31 ODSTONE GREEN Books, household items, toys, tools, storage containers, misc.

Sat. Aug. 24, 9-5.

FRI. AUG. 23, 9-6, SUN. P/T bookkeeping position AUG. 24, 9-6. Bsmt. sale, for 140 suite condo, Tues. enter from gate at front of 4025-47 St. Christmas 10 -noon. Maximum 20 4 OGDEN AVE. hrs/mo., Simply Account- items, LP’s, hockey equipt.

Aug. 24 & 25, and bike parts, misc. ing program on site, Scotia 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Bank Direct Debit program Furniture., exercise bikes on site. Exp. in Simply Ac& misc. items. counting an absolute must. Lancaster Green Garage Sale Everything a Start Sept. 15 training. Fax buck or two Exceptions eg.

184 LINDSAY AVE. resume with contact Golf carts Friday Aug. 23.

Fri. Aug. 23, 2-7, number to 403-347-3366.

4-8 PM. Saturday Aug 24 Sat. 10-5.

Remuneration to be 8 AM to 5 PM. Alley.

Lots of little things for negotiated based on 21Ockley Close everyone! experience.

GIANT MULTI-FAMILY 101 O’BRIEN CRES Fri. 23rd 4-8, Sat. 24th 9-3 Sun. 25th 11-4.

11 tables plus!

West Park 5804 WEST PARK CRES Friday 23rd, 2-8, & Saturday 24th, 9-4 MOVING SALE Everything must go!

Rosedale 18 ROCHE STREET Sat. Aug. 24th, 10-5, Sun. Aug. 25th, 10-3 Household items, etc.

South Hill MISC. ITEMS, trampoline, swimming pool, gym set, car, etc. 3606-51 Ave. Sat. Aug. 24 and Sun. Aug. 25, 9-6

Sunnybrook COLLECTIBLE/ANTIQUE SALE. 33 SPENCER ST Aug. 23, 3-6.

Aug. 24. noon-5.

Timberland 66 TRAPTOW CLOSE Aug. 23, 5-9, Aug. 24, 10-8, Aug. 25, 10-2.

Clothes, household items and misc.

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Out of Town MASSIVE

multi family yard sale. All kinds of items. Antiques, small apt. size furniture, die cast car collection, vinyl fencing. 15 min. E. of RE on Hwy. 595. 25225 Hwy. 595. Fri. Aug. 23, 1-7, Sat. 9-6.

Penhold THURS. AUG. 22, 3-8, Fri. & Sat. 10-8. 133 Newton Drive. 13” LCD tv, duvet set, comforter set, many numerous items.

West Lake

Sylvan Lake

GARADGE SALE 367 Webster Dr. Saturday 24th 9am to 4pm ONLY Kids stuff, household items

HUGE ESTATE SALE 5021 47 St. - Sylvan Lake Fri. 23rd - Sun 25th 10-5 Collectibles, furniture much much more.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 D7

Oilfield

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Oilfield

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Oilfield

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Oilfield

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FMC TECHNOLOGIES is currently looking for

Wireline Assistants

COLTER ENERGY SERVICES IS NOW HIRING

Mustang Well Services Ltd.

WELL TESTING: Supervisors Night Operators Operators

is looking for

For All Positions Please submit resumes with copies of valid tickets and a current drivers abstract via email to

Casandra@mwsrig.com

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EXPERIENCED RIG HANDS • •

Fax: 780-678-2001 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE Please apply for these positions in the manner specified

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Oilfield

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

• •

Have current Safety certificates including H2S Be prepared to work in remote locations for extended periods of time Must be physically fit Competitive wages, benefits and RRSP offered

Please email resume with current driver’s abstract to: www.colterenergy.ca Under Career Opportunities

based out of our Blackfalds facility.

FMC Technologies is a diverse international energy services company that offers competitive wage/bonus structure, a 15/6 schedule & a comprehensive benefit package. We are looking for enthusiastic & responsible individuals with a clean Class 1 or 3 driver’s license.

Experience is an asset but not a requirement.

Preference will be given to applicants who hold valid safety tickets.

Please reply to this ad with a current resume and driver’s abstract by fax 403-885-5894 or in person.

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 lkeshen@1strateenergy.ca Please specify position when replying to this ad.

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

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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 Large oilfield construction company located in Alberta is currently seeking EXPERIENCED Heavy Equipment Operators & Rock Truck Drivers for an upcoming project in Fox Creek, AB. MUST have the following CURRENT oilfield safety tickets: H2S, Ground Disturbance, CSTS/PSTS, Standard First Aid, WHMIS, TDG, Bear Awareness. Wage is based on experience.

Please respond via fax (403) 946-4150 or email: kowalcon@telus.net.

Please note that only suitable candidates will be contacted.

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

LOOKING FOR EXP’D Boiler Operators with tickets for work in Central Alberta and Northeastern BC. Submit resumes to info@gtchandler.com

Sales & Distributors

Oilfield

800

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

PRODUCTION TESTING SUPERVISORS & OPERATORS Day & Night Must have tickets.

Top paid wages.

Based out of Devon, AB. Email resume to: kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca Small growing oilfield service company seeking applications for experienced hoe operators for drilling rig operations.

Must have a minimum five years experience.

Required: valid WCB, Insurance, H2S, First Aid, TDG, WHIMIS, Ground Disturbance, Drivers License and reliable transportation. Email Aimee at five.pack@ hotmail.com

URS FLINT TUBULAR MANAGEMENT SERVICES requires Tubing Inspection operator, manual lathe operator, and Shop & Yard Laborers. Exp. an asset but will train to suit.

Competitive wages and benefits. Apply w/resume to: 4115 Henry St. (Blindman Industrial Park) TEAM Snubbing Services now hiring experienced operators Email: janderson@ teamsnubbing.com fax 403-844-2148

830

Full time position, based in Red Deer.

Some travel required.

Day Supervisors (5- 10yrs experience)

Night Supervisors

website: www.cathedralenergyservices.com Methods to Apply: HRCanada@ cathedralenergyservices.com pnieman@ cathedralenergyservices.com Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

Responsibilities: -oversee retail renovation and construction jobsites across Canada -negotiations, organization and coordination of plans and specifications with the general contractor and outside consultants to ensure the project meets required specifications and standards Qualifications: -track record of success on all aspects of construction from the initial design phase to turnkey completion -previous experience in construction job management, hiring and managing contractors, public safety, time management, quality control, decision making and budget management -strong interpersonal, communication, organizational and conflict resolution skills and a positive team building approach -minimum of 5 years working as a Project Coordinator, a Diploma in a relevant field Excellent compensation package; salary based on qualifications and experience.

See full job description at www.chatters.ca.

Apply in confidence to: Email: careers@ chatters.ca Fax resume: 1-888-409-0483

Restaurant/ Hotel

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SERVICE RIG

1393699 AB LTD. o/a JUGO JUICE -F/T Food Counter Attendant. $11/hr, 40 hrs/wk. Email: janegosselin@telus.net

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

PART TIME COOK Apply at East 40th Pub. 3811 40th Ave.

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking an exp’d FLOORHAND 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 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

DAD’S PIZZA

EAST 40TH PUB

Looking for Part/Full Time BARTENDER/SERVER. Apply with resume to 3811 40 Ave, Red Deer Start your career!

See Help Wanted

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. LOOKING for exp’d waitress with liquor license, p/t or f/t . Apply in person with resume to #35 6320-50 Ave. Red Deer

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.

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SENIOR ACCOUNTANT Established CGA public practice firm in Central AB has a great opportunity available for an accountant to join our firm. The successful candidate should have an accounting designation and public practice experience.

Please e-mail your resume to TandP_cga@telus.net Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

To apply for the above positions, in confidence, please email or fax your resume and a copy of a current drivers abstract. We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

How to apply: email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

Seeking

SUBWAY All Red Deer Locations Hiring Immediately

Food Counter Attendants Are you looking for a career opportunity with excellent benefits, a mature working environment and opportunity to advance? If so, Subway has a position for you!

Please apply online @ 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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Why Canyon? f Paid technical and leadership training f Career advancement opportunities f RRSP matching program f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package

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SUNSHINE Family UFA Rocky Mountain Restaurant - F/T Kitchen House Currently Helper. $11.41/hr, seeking Full & Part Time 40 hrs/wk. Email: Truck Drivers janegosselin@telus.net Benefits Offered Fax Resume to 403-845-7903 THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for OR Email to dmatthews89@yahoo.com F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS must be avail. nights and Central Alberta’s Largest weekends. Must have: Car Lot in Classifieds • 2-3 yrs. post secondary education.

• 2-5 yrs. training • 2-5 yrs. on-the-job exp.

• Provide references Professionals

Now hiring the following positions in Fracturing, Nitrogen, Coiled Tubing and Cement & Acid:

Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work flexible hours f Safety-focused f Team orientated f Clean drivers abstract

Professionals

PRODUCTION Project Coordinator For fast growing, highlyTESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D successful salon chain.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you.

Class 1 Drivers/Operators –for all divisions Class 1 Drivers Bulk Transport—Nitrogen Class 2 Crew Bus Drivers Supervisors—Coiled Tubing

800

(2-4yrs experience) LOOKING for Class 1 and Class 3 driver/operators of JOIN OUR FAST Superheater and SwamGROWING TEAM!! pers. First Aid and H2S an Competitive Wages, asset. Competive wages, Benefits, Retirement and medical/dental plans. Lots Saving Plan! of out of town work, camps or hotels provided. Send QUALIFICATIONS: resume to rpower@ interceptrentals.

• M ust be able to com or bklassen@ Provide own work truck interceptrentals.com • Leadership and Supervisory skills- mentor and train crew • Strong Computer Skills • Operate 5000psi 10,000 psi (sweet and NOW HIRING IN THE Sour wells) FOLLOWING POSITIONS • Collect Data - pressure, ROUGHNECK & rates, temperatures DERRICK HAND • Assist in Rig in and Rig Experience preferred out of equipment but willing to train • Tr a v e l t o a n d f r o m the right person locations across Western **MUST HAVE VALID Canada DRIVER’S LICENSE, H2S AND FIRST AID.** REQUIREMENTS: ** MUST BE ABLE TO PASS PRE-EMPLOYMENT • Va l i d 1 s t A i d , H 2 S , TESTING** Driver’s License required!

If interested please fax • Must be willing to your resume to submit pre access fit 403-652-7060 or call Jeff for duty test, as well as at 403-336-4945 drug and alcohol • Travel & be away from home for periods of time 21/7 • Ability to work in changing climate conditions

Canyon is the fastest growing fracturing company in North America. We deliver quality customized pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

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Oilfield

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Oilfield

800

The hourly rate will be $13.10.

Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161

Sales & Distributors

1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Custom T’s Hiring Salespersons Parkland Mall, Red Deer, AB. Good English and communication skills, Customer service oriented.

F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Salary - $14.00 hr.

E-mail: Reachiesales @gmail.com 1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Custom T’s Hiring Sales Supervisor-retail at Parkland Mall, Red Deer, AB. Experience min 2 years, Good English.

Supervise and co-ordinate sales staff, F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Salary - $19.00 hourly E-mail: Reachiesales @gmail.com

Sales & Distributors

www.trican.ca

NOW HIRING AT ALL LOCATIONS

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Go Auto req’s an

Automotive Accessories Salesperson

...Join our Team!

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WORLDWIDE KNOWLEDGE - LOCAL SOLUTIONS

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

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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 ARROW ARC WELDING is looking for WELDING APPRENTICE LOCATED BY Gull Lake.

Phone Brian 403-318-6760

AUTOBODY JOURNEYMAN MECHANIC

or equivalent skill level.

Required immed. Resume & references required.

Apply to 6758 52 Ave. Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

850

Trades

850

Truckers/ Drivers

860

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

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 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.

The hourly rate will be $22.00/hour. Email: wes@classichomesltd.com 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.

FIELD SERVICE

Truckers/ Drivers

860

Needed Immediately “Project Estimator”

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

H.D. Parts Person

Required Immediately The largest after market parts distributor in Canada is seeking a H.D. Parts person to join our experienced team in Red Deer.

This individual would require basic knowledge of the heavy-duty truck and trailer market with excellent knowledge of truck and trailer brake and suspension parts.

The individual would have to be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment. They should also possess customer service skills that would be used daily by phone and for walk in clients.

This position offers above average salary and is a full time position. We offer complete benefit package along with pension plan.

Please forward your resume to: Traction Heavy Duty 8045 Edgar Industrial Crescent Red Deer Ab T4P 3R2 OR FAX 403-342-7377 Email: jwojtaczka@uapinc.com

JOIN OUR TEAM!

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 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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

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Timbrmart located in Lacombe Alberta, is presently seeking a qualified person to fill one of our full time Building & Project - Estimator positions. Candidates must possess strong computer skills with a background in both building and estimating, including the ability to read blueprints, estimate projects from buildings to decks, sheds, fences, etc.

Good customer service skills, reliable transportation, punctual, and able to work closely with customers, deliver under deadlines, and work independently on multiple projects.

Competitive compensation package including benefits, to be negotiated depending on knowledge and experience.

Please e-mail your Resume’s and Cover letters including experience and references to carey@timbrmart.net or fax Attention Carey @ 403-782-1766 Subject to our requirements, only those persons meeting or exceeding our qualifications for this position, will be contacted for an interview.

NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Central City Asphalt Ltd.

Flag People Labourers Wobbly Operator Fax (403) 885 5137 Email: office@ccal.com Website: ccal.com

SHOP FOREMAN

Pressure Piping & Steel fabrication shop Only experience personnel need apply -Journeyman Pipefitter preferred -Must be able to organize men and projects -Background & experience with Acorn Piping program Understanding and implementation of QC for structural & Piping -Oversee all material ordering, handling & receiving -Competitive Wage & Benefits Please apply to info@ dynamicprojects.ca or fax 403-340-3471

CLASS 1drivers req’d for road construction. Truck and pup exp. Living allowance incld. Fax 403-309-0489 DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 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 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.

All applicants must be willing to work long hours (60+/-) and be dedicated due to a demanding delivery schedule. Duties would include hauling aggregate 2 Ω days per week from Lacombe to Blackfalds. The remainder of the week would be spent hauling various concrete products to other locations. Must have a minimum of 5 years experience and provide a 5 year drivers abstract. Wage will be based on experience, attitude and willingness to commit to long term employment. Please fax resume to 403 885 5516 attn: Craig, or email to c.haan@eaglebuilders.ca.

All candidates considered to be invited for an interview will be contacted directly. All other resumes will be kept on file for future consideration.

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Johns Manville is a Berkshire Hathaway Company and a world leader in the fiberglass manufacturing industry. Its modern Canadian insulation plant is located in Innisfail, Alberta. This attractive town is located close to Red Deer and 1 hour from Calgary: We require:

MILLWRIGHT As a member of the Mechanical Maintenance Team, you must have the following skills, qualifications and experience: ± Fully Qualified Millwright with an Alberta Journeyman Millwright Trade Certificate or equivalent ± A minimum of 3 years industrial plant maintenance experience ± Good communication skills ± Above average teamwork skills ± Basic computer skill (Microsoft Office & Outlook) ± Data stream, MP2 experience is an asset ± Machinist skills an asset ± Willing to work shift work if necessary We strive for safety, quality and customer service in everything we do. If you are a high energy individual who enjoys working in Teams, as well as individually, we invite you to apply. We offer a non-smoking environment that promotes quality of work life and employee involvement as well as an excellent compensation and benefit package. Please forward your resume, in confidence, by September 3, 2013 to:

Johns Manville Canada Inc. 5301-42 Avenue Innisfail, Alberta, T4G 1A2 Fax: 403-227-7196 Email: ouelletc@jm.com TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

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ELECTRICIANS

Service Manager - Red Deer We’re looking for someone who will: - Lead a high performing, collaborative service department that achieves long-term, consistent growth - Manage service department processes to achieve the highest customer satisfaction level by providing excellent customer service - Manage the day to day operations, recognizing what is in the best interest of the department, company and customers; making decisions accordingly - Coordinate work flow through the shop and on the road; ensuring work is completed efficiently and on time - Manage work orders and warranties - Ensure employee satisfaction including directing and monitoring development

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WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

Western Masonry Structures

F/T bricklayers and Stone Layers. Must have own transportation. Fax resume to 403-340-0762 or email resume to tom@westernmasonry.com

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Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

WESTPARK & WESTLAKE AREAS Please call Quitcy at 403-314-4316 ARE YOU AN AMATEUR COMEDIAN looking to test out your material? (kid friendly) We have a main stage spot for you at a local festival. Please email thera.c@telus.net

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For over 100 years, Nestle Purina PetCare Company has dedicated itself to creating innovative, nutritious products – all designed to enhance the well being of pets. Nestle Purina PetCare is the world’s largest producer of dry dog food and softmoist and dry cat foods, as well as being a leading producer of cat box filler in Canada and the United Sates. In Canada, Nestle Purina’s leading brands include Dog Chow, Cat Chow, Pro Plan, Purina One, Fancy Feast, Friskies and Purina MAXX.

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.

Please send resume to: AntlerValleyFarm@gmail.com RR#4 Innisfail AB T4G 1T9

We currently have a position available at our Innisfail, AB plant.

WAREHOUSE OPERATOR If you have a passion to succeed in a stimulating work environment with excellent wages and benefits we would like to hear from you. This position will be responsible for the movement of finished product through the distribution system while ensuring product integrity, and superior customer service.

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

As the successful candidate, you will have a minimum grade 12 education, forklift experience, and be able to work shift work.

Please send your resume to: Nestle Purina PetCare 5128 – 54th Street, Box 6160 Innisfail, Alberta T4G 1S8 Attention: Human Resources Fax: (403) 227-4245 E-mail: InnisfailHR@purina.nestle.com Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada

Badger Daylighting currently has an immediate opening for a

MATERIAL HANDLING POSITION

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in our Red Deer manufacturing facility.

OPPORTUNITY

Open to the Public and booked a year in advance. Earn 6% on your investment working only 6 months of the year! Centrally located across from the Gull Lake General Store on 23 acres room for expansion.

Call Tracie Windsor 403-396-1361 Royal Lepage Network Realty Corp. for more details.

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Community Support Worker Women in Trades Math and Science in the Trades GED classes days/ evening

• • www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage • Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE Gov’t of Alberta Funding drainage products is may be available. currently accepting applications for Full-Time 403-340-1930 Employment for certified www.academicexpress.ca Class 1 Drivers with a minimum of two (2) years experience. ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company equipment ADULT or YOUTH and provide a high level of CARRIERS customer service, delivering our products within NEEDED central Alberta. ADS DrivFor delivery of ers are required to be drug Flyers, Express and free and maintain legal Sunday Life transportation paperwork and driving practices. This ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK position requires a valid in Class 1 License, with previous off road forklift MUSTANG ACRES experience a definite Mobile Home Park asset. We offer quarterly cash safety bonuses as well as a comprehensive NORMANDEAU medical plan.

Newlands & Northey Benefits include: Ave., Niven St. & Company provided Group Norwest Cl. Canadian Benefits Voluntary dental Life insurance KENTWOOD Short-term and long-term disability Retirement Savings Plan Kingston Dr. Kendall (RSP) and Deferred Profit Cres. & Kane Cl. Sharing Plan (DPSP) Paid Vacation PINES Safety Bonus Pallo Cl. & Piper Dr. All applicants are subject to a pre-employment ALSO physical and MVR check.

Payne & Parsons Cl. Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along Call Joanne with a recent drivers abstract to: 403-314-4308 info Advanced Drainage Systems Canada Inc. 4316 Gerdts Ave. Blindman Ind. Park Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Attn: Ken McCutcheon Currently seeking Fax: (403) 346-5806 RELIABLE E-mail ken.mccutcheon@ newspaper carriers ads-pipe.com for morning Position closing date: Sept. 3, 2013 delivery in

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For over 100 years, Nestle Purina PetCare Company has dedicated itself to creating innovative, nutritious products – all designed to enhance the well being of pets. Nestle Purina PetCare is the world’s largest producer of dry dog food and softmoist and dry cat foods, as well as being a leading producer of cat box filler in Canada and the United Sates. In Canada, Nestle Purina’s leading brands include Dog Chow, Cat Chow, Pro Plan, Purina One, Fancy Feast, Friskies and Purina MAXX.

We currently have a position available at our Innisfail, AB plant.

MILL OPERATOR If you have a passion to succeed in a stimulating work environment with excellent wages and benefits we would like to hear from you. This position is responsible for the accurate mixing of ingredients as per formula in accordance with the Production Schedule and the proper storage of raw and mixed ingredients.

As the successful candidate, you will have a minimum grade 12 education, and be able to work shift work.

Please send your resume to: Nestle Purina PetCare 5128 – 54th Street, Box 6160 Innisfail, Alberta T4G 1S8 Attention: Human Resources Fax: (403) 227-4245 E-mail: InnisfailHR@purina.nestle.com Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada

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We’d like to offer you: - An exemplary health, dental, and optical benefits package - A competitive pay scale supplemented with a generous stock purchase program - A fulfilling career where you can relate to and engage with an incredible team

Professional Truck Driver

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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Academic Express

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

We’ll give preference to individuals with: - Minimum three years’ experience in equipment dealership service operations, preferably in the material handling industry - Clear understanding of the industry and product knowledge - Exceptional customer service skills as well as dynamic and inspiring leadership skills - Strong personal sales ability with solid accounting and financial skills

www.cervusequipment.com

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SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

Cervus Equipment is a Canadian owned and operated forklift dealership with nine locations throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Please apply online at https://cervus-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings

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Eagle Builders, LP. a concrete precast company based out of Blackfalds, AB, is currently looking for an

Requires

BUSY CABINET SHOP MECHANIC IN SYLVAN LAKE - Gas Pro Compression is looking for a full time packages & services single CABINET INSTALLER. well gas compressors. We Must have install experience are currently looking for a and be able to start ASAP.† field service mechanic.

We are also looking for Preference will be given to somebody for service work licensed technicians with for cabinets already installed, relevant experience. a finisher for the stain booth Apprentices will be considered. and general workshop help. Successful candidate must For the finisher and shop possess strong work ethic. help positions experience is Please fax resumes to an asset but not necessary.

403-443-5288, apply in The service person must person at 227, 17th Ave N. have experience.

Three Hills, AB or email to: Please fax resume to peter.pattison@gaspro.ca 403-887-7787 or email to Classifieds...costs so little Debbie.purkiss @cabinet-creations.ca Saves you so much!

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1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Extreme energy Hiring Sales Supervisorretail at Parkland Mall, Red Deer, AB Experience - min 2 yrs, Good English.

Supervise and co-ordinate sales staff, F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Salary $19.00 hr. E-mail: Reachiesales@gmail.com

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We are seeking a conscientious person with a good driving record and previous fork lift experience.

This position has the opportunity for advancement.

Basic Responsibilities: • Able to safely operate forklifts and unload transport trucks and trailers • Willing to follow instruction and stock shelves • Able to lift heavy metal parts • Able to work with others and take direction • Reliable attendance record • An organized individual by nature Requirements: • Safety boots • Appropriate clothing for working outside for all seasons Benefits: • *Work boot/clothing allowance following probationary period • *Health/Dental benefits following 3 month probationary period • RRSP’s after 6 months If you are looking for a rewarding career, we offer a stable work environment with competitive pay, 7am to 3:30 pm Monday to Friday, and no shift work.

If interested reply to this ad with your resume to

bhoffer@badgerinc.com or fax Attn: B. Hoffer at 403-343-0401

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Eagle Builders, LP. based out of Blackfalds, Ab. requires a hard working,

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in MOUNTVIEW AREA 44A Ave. & 35 St. Area $174/mo.

ALSO 42 Ave. & 35 St. Area $191/mo.

ALSO Spruce Drive & Springbett Dr. $85/mo.

ALSO 43A Ave. between 37 St. & 39 St. and 43 Ave. between 35 St. & 39 St. $62/mo.

ALSO 42 Ave. between 35 St. & 39 St. $106/mo.

ROSEDALE AREA Ruttan Cl., 2 blocks of Reichley St. & Reighley Cl. $118/mo.

ALSO Approx. 3 blocks of Ramage Cres., Root Cl. + 100, 200, 300 Ramage Cl. $80.00/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.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

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

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer, by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/wk (Reliable vehicle needed) DEER PARK AREA Dowler St. & Area $530/mo.

EAST ROSEDALE AREA Ramage Cres & Close Areas $343/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more information

to fill full-time position at our company. Must be APPLIANCE physically fit as this DELIVERY DRIVER labourer position requires constant heavy lifting and & DRIVER ASSISTANT involves fast paced, on the job training. Must also be Family owned and operated, able to travel. All meals Trail Appliances continues and hotel expenses are to grow and due to this, paid when out of town. we are looking to expand Applicant must have our delivery department. reliable transportation to Trail Appliances has always offered excellence in sales, and from work and a valid class 5 driver’s license. delivery, customer service, Construction experience and after-sales support. an asset. Full benefits The Company is currently provided. Starting wages looking to fill the following based on experience. Fax positions at our Red Deer resumes to 403 885 5516 warehouse location.† attn: Eric or e-mail at Appliance Delivery Driver installation@ Driver Assistant eaglebuilders.ca. We thank all applicants for their The ideal candidates will: applications, but only • Be able to maneuver those selected for an merchandise in excess interview will be contacted. of 100lbs • Possess exceptional customer service skills • Enjoy working within a diverse team • Hold a valid driver’s license (drivers only) EMF NUTRITION Trail offers excellent is looking to fill a training, flex days and a CLASS 1 DRIVER competitive compensation POSITION and benefit package.

Straight dayshift Start your career with a Monday to Friday, well-known and respected home every night. company, become a Full benefits after 3 months. member of the successful Please submit your resume Trail team by applying and drivers abstract to one in person to: of the following: Fax: 403-341-3144, Apply in person at Email: mike.hesketh #6 4622 61 St. Riverside @eastmanfeeds.com Industrial District or or you can drop off at fax to 403-347-3314 4747 60 St. Red Deer, AB Security checks will be conducted on successful candidates.

Currently seeking reliable newspaper carrier for the BOWER AREA WESTPARK AREA 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 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 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

GAMES DEALER SCHOOL

Cost $50 SCHOOL WILL BE STARTING Sept. 2-25 Mon. 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 GASOLINE ALLEY Petro Canada req’s. 2 f/t or p/t cashiers $11.50/hr. & food supervisor $15/hr. Email resume tiell1004@gmail.com Integra Tire Innisfail requires full time Tire Tech. Lube Bay exper an asset. Competitive wages/ benefits. Email innisfail@ integratire.com or drop at 5020 40th Ave. Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

KAUNS Seed Farm

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

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of INNISFAIL Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at 403-314-4316

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

In the towns of:

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

REAL ESTATE SALE FOR MIKE DICKAU Ponoka, Alberta Saturday, September 14, 2013

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in OLDS BOWDEN RIMBEY

Parcel #1 - Selling by Totally Unreserved Auction Plan 8120267, Blk 6, Lot 2 County Address: B255051 Twp Rd 424

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.

THE TASTY BAKERY P/T OPPORTUNITY Afternoons, No early mornings, No late nights No Sundays, Apply in person at: Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive (directly behind Nutters)

Warehouse Shipper/ Receiver

Competitive starting wages plus regular increases.

Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Excellent benefits package. Opportunities to advance. Must be dependable, hardworking and seeking a long-term career. Apply in person, or email to: hartleytj@eecol.com 4747 - 61st Street

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OILFIELD TICKETS

“Low Cost” Quality Training

RUN’N ON EMPTY

403.341.4544 24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem)

Being 6.1 Acres w/a 1260 Sq.Ft. House w/a Fully Finished Bsmt & A 24x24 Heated Dbl. Car Garage w/ a Fireproof Storage Underneath all Located on a Hill w/Rolling Lawns, A Wonderful View & A Small Spring Time Stream. Also a 36’x60’ Heated Shop.

Being 3.84 Acres w/a 2700 SqFt. Single Level Home w/a 4 Car Attached Garage & A 26’x62 Shed all Located in Many Mature Trees w/A Small Spring Time Stream.

Both Parcels are Just 2 Miles South of Ponoka & 1/2 a Mile Off of Hwy #2A & Only 30 Minutes to Red Deer & 40 Minutes to the Edmonton International Airport.

For Much More Information & Photos, Please View Our Website at www.allenolsonauction.com

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HOLTON brass trumpet w/ case, exc. cond. Perfect for band student. 403-352-7162

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Cats

AFFORDABLE

GORGEOUS Male kittens.

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

1 orange.

Free to loving home.

403-782-3130

spotted orange, Homestead Firewood 1 Leopard 1 tiger strip orange, Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 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

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Health & Beauty

SIAMESE (1), (1) Balinese (3) BURMAN kittens. $40/ea.

403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

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11 PIECE SPALDING MEN’S RH GOLF CLUBS. Bag and Cart included. $75. 403-347-5385

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

PILOT Scooter. Used 3 times.

Exc. cond. 403-347-7126

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Household Appliances

36” & 24” USED Fridge / Stoves & 2 Inglis Coin Operated Gas Dryers.

Call Mike 403-342-4923

Household Furnishings

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BLACK DRESSER SET, 3 piece. $200.

Excellent condition.

(403)872-2411 Parcel 2 - Selling Subject to Final Bid Plan 8120267, Blk 6, Lot 1 County Address: A255051 Twp Rd 424

Musical Instruments

DININGROOM table w/ 2 leaves, 5 chairs $125 obo 403-307-1586 LEATHER recliner w/footrest, exc. cond, $200 obo 403-307-1586

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

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GAMEBOY w/3 games $60 obo.

PS2 w/8 games, $60 obo. iPOD SHUFFLE $60.

403-782-3847 JVC SPEAKERS, 100W, $80.

SONY STEREO, $25.

403-782-3847

Open House: September 1st & 7th or by Appointment from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Real Estate Transaction are being Handled by Morrison Realty (403) 783-0556

5 PC. 8 setting Queen Ann Royal Bavarian fine chin from Germany $200 obo 403-347-7893

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CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

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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

Grain, Feed Hay

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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

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2 BDRM. Blackfalds, duplex, complete reno’d., 4 appls., no pets $1000/ mo.+ utils., 403-318-3284

6 CORRELL dinner plates Real Estate Terms & $10; old meat platter $6; Conditions: 10 % Down on crystal fruit bowl $15; small Sale Day. Balance & microwave oven Possession on or before $8 403-346-2231 October 15, 2013. If Balance is NOT RECEIVED by BRUTE 6.5 Quantrum self October 15, 2013 the Deposit will be Forfeited as p r o p e l l e d l a w n m o w e r w/bag $125; Sylvania Liquidation Damages. snow thrower 9 amps, 16” wide $50 403-358-7678 Sale Conducted by: Allen B. Olson DIE cast models, cars, Auction Service Ltd. truck, and motorcycles #14 6350-67 St. east end of Rimbey, Alberta Cash Casino License No. 165690 (403) 843-2747 Sale Site L E AT H ER recliner for 1-855-783-0556 Toll Free motorhome, like new, $30 E-mail: obo 403-343-3160 abolson@telusplanet.net Out Of Homepage: SEARS Fibertex 2 window www.allenolsonauction.com shade w/scalloped hem, Red Deer pale rose, 64 1/4”w x 66”l, SERGE’S HOMES thermoguard protection 17 VINTAGE CLOSE room darkening, $35; 7’ BLACKFALDS pine cone Christmas tree, Equipment$80 403-227-0499. Cash Thurs. & Fri., Aug. 22 & 23 Heavy 2 pm - 5 pm only Sat. & Sun. Aug. 24 & 25 1 pm - 5 pm TRAILERS for sale or rent THREE 80 L. garbage bar1980 sq. ft. 2 storey Job site, office, well site or rels with lids, never used walk out. Contact $40; set of folding legs for storage. Skidded or Robert @ 403-505-8050 wheeled. Call 347-7721. table $20 403-309-1737

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ADULTS ONLY!

Quiet little apt bldg near hospital. Bright 2 bdrm. suite w/balcony, 3 applscoin-op laundry, N/S, No Pets. Available NOW! Starting at @ $995.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

MATURE ADULTS +25

Great apt bldg on Kerrywood Dr. Close to parks and walking trails.

2 bdrm. suite on 3rd floor w/balcony. Move in NOW with a $50 GIFT CARD! ONLY $1025 + electricity.

No Pets, N/S. Hearthstone 403-314-0099 Or 403-396-9554

NEWER HOUSE!

Gracious living in this perfect 3 bdrm., 3 bath Lancaster home. 7 appls.

DOUBLE GARAGE! Pool table in finished bsmt.

No Pets, N/S. Call Lucie to view 403-396-9554 Hearthstone 403-314-0099 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.

SYLVAN LAKE recent reno’d 900 sq.ft. 3 bdrm. bungalow, hardwood/tile, 5 appls, furn. $1250, unfurn. $1100 avail. Sept.1 403-874-5554

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KITSON CLOSE

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1445 SD $1000. n/s Avail. Sept. 1 403-304-7576 / 347-7545

KYTE CRES. & Kelloway Cres.

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $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

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Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $950/month Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

ACROSS FROM PARK, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $975/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. Sept. 1.

403-304-5337

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4310

Industries #1 Choice!

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

1660

Firewood

1530

Auctions

TRAINING CENTRE

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

RED mammoth raspberries, Evans sour cherries www.redlodgeupick.com

1500-1990

SAFETY

LOOKING for laborers and flaggers for road construction. Fax 403-309-0489

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For afternoon delivery once per week

Employment Training

1650

Farmers' Market

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1630

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309-3300

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880

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com Accounting

With a job at OLYMEL you have:

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

• Monday to Friday 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. or 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Competitive wages with generous increases • Public Transportation to and from the plant available • Free Safety Equipment • Guaranteed 37 hours a week with weekends free • Possibility of progression within the company • Full benefits after 60 worked days • Modern Equipment and Plant Facility • Pension plan • Discounts on retail prices for Olymel products (fresh and frozen pork/poultry and clothing)

1070

Contractors

1100

Massage Therapy

1280

Painters/ Decorators

1310

SCH - Construction for all reno needs. 403-307-6292

FANTASY

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

International ladies

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

1130

MASSAGE

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

PAINTING BY DAVE Interior, Exterior, New VII MASSAGE Construction. Comm/Indust.

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. 2 Journeyman w/over 50 Pampering at its yrs exp. %15 discount for VINYL SIDING CLEANING CLEANING. 403-506-4822 seniors. Free estimates.

Eaves Trough Cleaned, BEST! All work guaranteed. We Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

403-986-6686 carry WCB & Liability Pricing. 403-506-4822 Escorts Come in and see Insurance. 403-307-4798 why we are the talk LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* of the town.

Seniors’ Contractors INDEPENDENT w/own car www.viimassage.biz Services

Cleaning

Eavestroughing

1165

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

Olymel (Red Deer) is a unionized Food Processing Plant looking for General Labourers Starting wage is $13.25.hr.

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or Ron 403-318-3804

JOIN THE TEAM!

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Ph: 403-343-8700 Fax: 403-309-7547 Email: apply@olymel.com

FENCES & DECKS 403-352-4034

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LANCE’S Concrete Ltd. Sidewalks, driveways, shops, patios, garage pads commercial. Specialized in stamp concrete.

Free Estimates 302-9126

Handyman Services

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

1372

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 COIN COLLECTORS Call David 403-346-3445 or 403-318-5290

GREYSTONE Handyman Services. Reasonable rates. Ron, 403-396-6089

Massage Therapy

1280

Executive Touch Massage (newly reno’d) (FOR MEN)STUDIO 5003A-50 st. Downtown 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-348-5650

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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 CLEANING. Outside / Inside / Both.

403-506-4822 Ironman Scrap Metal Recovery picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles & industrial. Serving central AB. 403-318-4346

Moving & Storage

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

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D10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

4020

Houses For Sale

MUST SELL

By Owner.

Sharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

WEST PARK

Large 2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975, d.d $650, avail. Oct 1. 403-304-5337

3060

Suites

$795

Commercial Property Live in Beacon Hill...

Open concept floor plan, F u r n i s h e d b a c h . s u i t e stainless steel appliances, 2 bdrms, 2 baths all for downtown, Sept. 1, adult under $300,000. building, no pets, SD $795 Call Jennifer 403.392.6841 403-347-7791 1 BDRM. apt. across from hospital, 3rd flr. balcony, Avail. Now. $780./mo. no pets 403-877-3323 LARGE, 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

NEWLY RENO’D

MOVE IN TODAY

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

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates Wanted

3080

ACREAGE Home to share N/S, within 5 mins. of RD $425+ , 403-357-9352 AVAL. Sept. 1. 1 bdrm.-like suite. Michener Hill. Furn.

1 bdrm., kitchen/living rm, bath, fridge, stove, satellite tv, internet, microwave, shared laundry. Incl. utils, except phone. On-site parking.

Female only. $600, d.d. $400.

403-341-3197, lv msg.

FURN. ROOM, use of full house, utils. & internet. all incl. $475. 403-506-1907

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 10,000 FT. Fenced Yard $500. Sept. 1st. 403-343-6615

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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SMALL / LARGE SPACES -Free standing - fenced yards For all your needs.

400-46,000 ft. 403-343-6615

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

5030

For Sale

4140

RIDING MOWER w/trailer, c/w commercial/residential contracts. Selling for health reasons. $10,000 Call or text 403-350-5115

Lots For Sale

2009 TOYOTA Camry LE in Alpine White - Stock# D40641, 115,500 km - $14,900 - $123 b/w 72 mo. reddeertoyota.ca (403) 343-3736 usedcars@reddeertoyota.ca

2005 TOYOTA Spyder MR2 Roadster, 64,527 kms., 5 spd, $16,888. AB Sport & Import 403-348-8788

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

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2004 BMW X3 AWD, sunroof, 6 spd. $13,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

in Timberstone with many stunning features.

Open concept, tray ceilings, 3 bdrm, 2 baths $426,100.

Call Chris 403-392-7118

1994 FORD T-Bird, 2 dr., loaded. clean. 352-6995

at www.garymoe.com

www.laebon.com

4070

LAND FOR SALE

- Central AB. 1 km off Hwy 12.

SW21-40-23-W4.

Natural subdivision, creek, oil revenue.

Call 403-747-2168

LAND FOR SALE - Central AB. Power & well.

SE24-40-24-W4.

Oil revenue.

1 km off Hwy 12.

Call 403-747-2168

4090

Manufactured Homes

1997 MODULINE INDUSTRIES 16x80. $49,500. Call for photo’s. 403-358-8933

2 Door, 84,202 km., original owner, great condition.

Keyless entry, iPod aux. jack, brand new battery.

Asking $11,400.

403-302-1138 (Red Deer) 2012 Toyota Corolla S 4A in Black Sand Pearl - Stock# D71571, 9,100 km - $19,900 or $144 b/w 84 mo reddeertoyota.ca (403) 343-3736 usedcars@reddeertoyota.ca 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid in Clearwater Blue Metallic - Stock# 10487, 30,800 km - $22,900 - $165 b/w 84 mo reddeertoyota.ca (403) 343-3736 usedcars@reddeertoyota.ca 2012 Honda Accord SE in Polished Metal Metallic - Stock# D30421, 42,900 km - $21,900 - $158 b/w 84 mo reddeertoyota.ca (403) 343-3736 usedcars@reddeertoyota.ca 2010 Toyota Corolla S 4A in Barcelona Red Metallic - Stock# D61441, 71,000 km - $15,900 - $115 b/w 84 mo. reddeertoyota.ca (403) 343-3736 usedcars@reddeertoyota.ca

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

Locally owned and family operated

SUV's

5040

2010 TOYOTA Rav4 Ltd. V6 in Pacific Blue Metallic - Stock# D61071, 69,900 km - $26,900 - $194 b/w 84 mo reddeertoyota.ca (403) 343-3736 usedcars@reddeertoyota.ca 2009 TOYOTA Rav4 Ltd. in Blizzard Pearl - Stock# D61851, 84,600 km - $23,900 - $195 b/w 72 mo reddeertoyota.ca (403) 343-3736 usedcars@reddeertoyota.ca

2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, $20, 888. 7652 - 50 Ave., Sport & Import

4010

2007 SUBURBAN 1500 LT, loaded, new tires. DVD, 103,000 km. 403-346-2608

OPEN HOUSE August 24 & 25

2003 NISSAN Pathfinder 4x4, leather heated seats.

New tires & glass. Sunroof, factory hitch, 119,000 km. $6700 obo. 403-505-3113

Noon - 5 pm

Build the Lake Home of your Dreams 1-877-465-3991 4020

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta (403) 341-9995

1790 SQ. FT. BUNGALOW, Re-done in Rosedale.

Reduced, $458,000.

Call Century 21 Dan Wind 403-341-0294 3 BDRM. 900 sq. ft. house on 6000 sq. ft. lot in Stettler, zoned R2, immed. poss., $119,000 403-340-2727

5060

Heavy Trucks

2007 MERCEDEZ Sprinter dump truck 93,000 miles $38,000 403-887-4610

5070

2006 GRAND CARAVAN 140,000 km. loaded. $6500. 403-340-1769

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

1966 smallblock 289 w.C6 trans., $1200 obo 403-704-3714 TRUCK, cars, vans. Cash for some. 403-391-4144

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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

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We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

4000-4190

Houses For Sale

2002 CHEV Avalanche, 4 dr, box cover, loaded, no leather only 165,000 kms. $5650. 403-348-9746

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

CLASSIFICATIONS

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

2004 CHEV Avalanche 4x4 loaded $8800 obo 403-391-8264

2008 Toyota Sienna XLE Mobility in Frosted Mink Pearl - Stock# D40621 78,900 km - $23,900 - $229 b/w 60 mo. reddeertoyota.ca (403) 343-3736 usedcars@reddeertoyota.ca

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2004 DURAMAX SLT 260,000 kms, $15,700 403-704-3714

Vans Buses

Laebon Homes 346-7273

Farms/ Land

2007 Toyota Tundra DC Ltd. in Slate Metallic - Stock# D71323, 78,000 km - $25,900 - $247 b/w 60 mo reddeertoyota.ca (403) 343-3736 usedcars@reddeertoyota.ca

1997 HONDA, 5 spd., 2 dr., very clean. 403-318-3040

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MASON MARTIN HOMES New condo, 1000 sq.ft.

2 bdrm., 2 bath, 5 appls., $189,800. 403-588-2550 ONE LEFT!

2010 CHEV Silverado 1500 LT Z71, custom bumpers, cold air intake. $24,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2000 MALIBU 104,000 kms, $2800 403-506-3479

Cars

4040

2010 SILVERADO 1500 LTZ, silver, 90,000. 403-346-2608

4160

5000-5300

Condos/ Townhouses

5050

Trucks

2009 Toyota Corolla CE 4A in Barcelona Red Metallic - Stock# D20191 65,800 km - $13,900 - $134 b/w 60 mo reddeertoyota.ca (403) 343-3736 usedcars@reddeertoyota.ca

CLASSIFICATIONS

Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., balcony, No pets. $800 rent/SD, heat/water incld., 403-346-5885

THE NORDIC

4110

Cars

2007 NISSAN Altima 2.5S AFFORDABLE WATERFRONT like new cond, fully loaded, ON SHUSWAP LAKE, 106,000 kms. with own dock/buoy. $9000 403-865-1605 Beautiful property in Sorrento only $229,000.

If you are 55+ look at Modern New Laebon Home Property Guys ID Nr 65213 or call Roger†403-350-8089 2 bdrms, 2 baths, stainless Tanja 250-804-6436 steel appliances, open concept floor plan.

Call Chris 403.392.7118 Businesses

4 Brand New Homes 1 bdrm. 1 bath, Westpark, like new, adult building, no *1500 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage pets $895 + elect., SD *1400 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage *1335 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage $895 403-347-7791 *1320 sq.ft., dbl. att. garage Call Kyle Lygas 403-588-2550 $10,000 Move-In Allowance MASON MARTIN HOMES NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955 ONE bdrm. ADULT only apt. close to college, $780/mo., avail. immed. no pets 403-877-3323

4090

Manufactured Homes

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2001 CHEV BLAZER 4x4.

Excellent condition & very clean. $4250 obo.

403-343-1651 or 341-0606 1998 GMC Jimmy 4x4 223,195 kms, $3200 obo 403-886-5199

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Find the right fit.

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

• Morning deliveries (Adults) • Afternoon deliveries for youth and adult • Earnings paid directly to your Bank Account • Great Exercise!

• No Collections!

• Great summer Job!

403-314-4394

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#ShouldaUsedRedDeer CUSTOM built 1484 sq. ft. walkout bungalow backing on to a park in Aspen Ridge. Att. dbl. garage, large up and down decks w/beautiful back yard.

Home has 6 appls. and fully finished bsmt. $569,000 403-396-3203

Brand new Laebon home in Sylvan Lake.

Many stunning features, 3 bdrms, 2 baths, 1,342 sq.ft. $363,300 Call Jennifer 403.392.6841 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

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