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Death threat

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HIGH SCHOOL EVACUATED, SEARCHED AFTER THREAT TO SHOOT STUDENTS FOUND ON DESK

BY BILL GRAVELAND THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — As a funeral director, Ernie Hagel knows how to deal with death.

But the loss of a promising employee — one of five young people stabbed to death in Calgary’s worst mass murder — has hit him hard.

Jordan Segura, 23, worked part time for McGinnis and Holloway Funeral Homes while majoring in religious studies at the University of Calgary.

He was at a house party celebrating the last day of classes when he was killed early Tuesday. The son of a senior Calgary police officer has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder.

“Our staff are devastated,” Hagel said Wednesday, adding he was the one who broke the news at his office.

There were lots of tears for the young man.

“He had the qualities to be a great funeral director,” said Hagel.

“He wanted to serve people. He wanted to be there when they needed him.”

Segura was killed along with Zackariah Rathwell, Josh Hunter, Lawrence Hong and Kaiti Perras — all in their 20s and all “good kids” police have said did nothing to provoke the bloody attack.

The suspect, Matthew de Grood, has been transferred to the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre for a court-ordered assessment.

Lawyer Allan Fay said his 22-yearold client was lucid and doing about as well as could be expected.

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RCMP members enter Hunting Hills High School after students had been cleared of the building at the end of the school day Wednesday.

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Threats to shoot students found on a desk at Hunting Hills High School forced police to do a massive sweep and passively evacuate students from the school on Wednesday afternoon.

“RCMP members and the Police Dog Service have now completed their search of Hunting Hills High School and they did not find any items or individuals that would pose a danger to students or staff at the school. No one was injured as a result of this incident,” Red Deer City RCMP reported at about 6 p.m.

Just before the start of Easter break, students at the high school at 150 Lockwood Ave. were greeted by a heavy police presence at about 3 p.m. as officers responding to the threat patrolled the area and school.

One student at the school, Kylie

Gooch, told the Red Deer Advocate that a random student had written a note on a desk threatening to shoot students in the school.

Gooch and a friend, among the last to leave the school on Wednesday, were told to leave at about 4 p.m. by police and when they exited the building they saw numerous other police officers.

The school was never locked down.

Police said that numerous Red Deer RCMP responded to the scene in response to an anonymous note indicating a threat to several students at the high school.

They contained the scene with police vehicles stationed near all of the school’s exits as well as the nearby Collicutt Centre. Uniformed officers patrolled inside the school while others monitored the crowds of students as they left the school.

Once police ensured all students had left the building, re-entry was

not allowed for anyone. Extra-curricular activities planned for the evening were cancelled.

At one point an officer wearing camouflaged clothing arrived in a large dark SUV. Many students who left the school were unaware of why there was such a large police presence, but they left following their normal routine.

Hunting Hills High School has more than 1,400 students and 125 staff members. Students are off Thursday for Easter break.

RCMP said updates will be provided as more information becomes available during the course of the investigation.

Anyone with information that may assist RCMP in the investigation of the incident is asked to call 403-3435575. If people want to remain anonymous, they can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Gay-straight alliance motion unnecessary, say local officials It caused a furor in the Alberta legislature, but school personnel in Red Deer say the motion that would have urged school boards in the province to develop policies supporting the establishment of gay-straight alliances in their schools was unnecessary.

Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School was the site of the first gay-straight alliance (GSA) extracurricular group in Alberta, established in 2000. Today there are no formal GSAs in Red Deer high schools. GSAs

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are student-led groups designed to provide a safe school environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies. Students do not have to disclose whether they are gay or straight to be part of the group.

The motion, proposed last week by Liberal MLA Kent Hehr, would have been non-binding, but called for school boards to allow GSAs in their schools if students want them. There are 40 GSAs in Alberta public schools, but none in the separate school system.

The motion was voted down by 31 MLAs in the Progressive Conservative and Wildrose caucuses, a number of whom have since argued that the mo-

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tion sought to take away school boards’ local autonomy to make decisions.

Red Deer Catholic School Division board chair Guy Pelletier said he is not aware of any requests having been made for GSAs in the division’s schools, but he said if one did come, administrative policies already exist concerning the establishment of any new group. He said the division has policies that ensure students are provided with “a safe and caring environment” and that all students are treated fairly.

Because he said the division strives to have clubs that are inclusive rather than exclusive, open for membership to any and all students, he is not sure

how a request for a GSA would play out at a Red Deer Catholic school.

Under the division’s administrative procedures, schools “may establish co-curricular learning opportunities where an enhanced cause for promoting respect for the human person may be established.” To be OK’d, the groups must “demonstrate an understanding and respect for the sanctity of human life, respect for the human person, and Catholic teaching on social relationships” and the groups’ names must “incorporate language in keeping with the teachings of the Catholic church.”

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McCarthy ‘irresponsible’ for telling parents not to vaccinate kids: minister TORONTO — It’s “outrageously irresponsible” for celebrities like Jenny McCarthy to encourage parents not to immunize their children against potentially deadly diseases, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said Wednesday.

McCarthy, currently co-host of talk show The View, has been vocal about her belief that vaccines can cause autism in children like her son — a claim largely based on a research paper that has since been denounced as fraudulent.

“The science is very clear,” said Matthews.

“The study she’s referred to has been discredited many times. There is absolutely no truth in that argument.”

McCarthy, who’s faced harsh criticism for the views, recently said she’s not anti-vaccine and never told parents not to have their children immunized.

She said she simply questioned the “one size fits all” approach to giving infants multiple shots at one time.

“I embarked on this quest not only for myself and my family, but for countless parents who shared my desire for knowledge that could lead to options and alternate schedules, but never to eliminate the vaccines,” she wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on April 12.

But Matthews said she’s discussed the so-called “Jenny McCarthy effect” with government officials because there’s a concern that her views on vaccines may stop Ontario parents from having their children immunized.

Parents need to understand that it’s perfectly safe to vaccinate their children, which helps prevent the spread of diseases in schools and communities, she said.

A recent outbreak of measles in Calgary has been a “wake up call” for many parents who didn’t like the idea of vaccinating their children, she said.

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MURDERS: Everyone seems to be puzzled by motive Justice officials say two Crown prosecutors from Edmonton have been assigned the file to address any perceived conflict over de Grood’s father being an officer.

De Grood had completed a psychology degree from the University of Calgary last year and his Facebook page says he had been accepted into law school for the fall.

Police have said he was invited to the party and he showed up after finishing a shift at a grocery store.

It’s alleged he found a large knife in the home and started stabbing people one by one.

Police were still trying to determine a motive for the bizarre attack, saying it appeared the suspect hadn’t been drinking or doing drugs.

Chief Rick Hanson said everyone seems to be puzzled.

“I know every parent out there is looking for that piece. How can I go to bed tonight knowing that’s not going to happen to my kid?” Hanson told Calgary radio station CHQR. “When it’s this random and this unpredictable, that’s the part that unsettles everybody. And that’s why we know that people are really anxious to have the answers. And we’re just as anxious to get those answers.”

The northwest home where the attack took place remained surrounded with police tape Wednesday as a pile of flowers and notes continued to grow.

Among them were a pair of pink ballet shoes in honour of 23-year old Perras. Perras took dance for several years at Counterpoint Dance Academy. She also studied English at Mount Royal University.

“We watched Kaiti grow into an exceptional human being. Her smile and energy lit up the stage ... Our hearts break for her family. She was a joy to teach and a beautiful person. She will be deeply missed,” dance teacher Shannon Hearn said in an email.

Many self-portraits of the doe-eyed woman with long blond hair were on Facebook, as well as photos of a trip to Italy after high school and of an arm

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Rathwell, 23, was a first-year student at the Alberta College of Art and Design. He was in a band called Zackariah and the Prophets with Hunter, 22, a commerce student at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business.

The band had just celebrated the release of their first album at a weekend show in Calgary. Fellow musician Kyle Tenove remembered the pair fondly.

“We used to skip school together,” he told CHQR through sobs. “We would sneak out so we could practise, then we’d get busted and we’d get suspended. It was the best.”

A vigil was held Wednesday at the Alberta College of Art and Design in memory of Rathwell. Art history teacher Jennifer Salahub spoke to staff and students. She said about three weeks ago they had a speaker from Norway who was talking about memorials because of the mass murder of students on an island off Oslo.

Salahub said she put a bonus question on her final exam asking what students took away from that.

After she heard that Rathwell was killed, she decided to mark his exam.

“And I got to the last question, which was the bonus question, and this is what he wrote: ”I took away that even though tragic events cause much pain and distress, a truly well-thought-out memorial can help ease the suffering and build community while not just glazing over and forgetting the past,“ Salahub said.

Hong, 27, was to graduate this year from the University of Calgary with a degree in urban studies. His friends described him as a friendly, funny and fashionable guy who was a regular volunteer with the city’s folk music festival.

He was also proud to be gay, even though it led to some bullying at his Catholic high school, said pal Sonia Razniewski.

Friend Christy Harris said Hong and his Chinese family moved to Calgary from the Philippines when he was in Grade 8.

“You don’t ever think this would happen to someone you know and for it to happen in such an awful, awful way,” she said. “I couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to hurt him. Everybody loved him.”

Harris believes Hong was either in the wrong place at the wrong time or trying to help another victim when he was stabbed. That’s just the kind of person he was, she said.

She said she feels for relatives of all five victims,

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but also for those of the man accused of killing them.

“I feel for his family too, in a way. They’re suffering in a different way and at the end of the day, this has really just ruined six lives and six families and countless friends.”

GSA: LGBTQ youth group active locally The GSA founded at Lindsay Thurber 14 years ago does not exist anymore, but since its founding there have been broader “diversity” groups in the city’s public high schools. Decisions around the formation of a GSA would be made primarily at a school level, and division administrators say there is an openness to having the groups operate in those schools.

Red Deer Public Schools board chair Bev Manning said the board would seek to provide students with what they wanted if they were to seek the board’s support.

A LGBTQ youth group has been operating in Red Deer for the last few years, meeting every two weeks at the Red Deer Public Library. Kristol Gallivan, a Central Alberta Pride board member who has attended, said the benefit of that group is that it is broader and not just limited to students at a particular school.

“Being in a big city, at least there is this group in the community that’s external and I think the reason was because maybe there were only a few ‘out’ kids in each school. But if you invite everybody in Central Alberta or Red Deer, then you might have a little more of a group forming,” said Gallivan.

She said she disliked the fact that the legislative motion singled out GSAs; she thinks such groups should be treated no differently than any other prospective extracurricular club or activity. As long as a group of students in a school can get the support of at least one teacher, she said, they should be able to form and invite other students to join.

Gallivan added that she is disappointed that so many MLAs missed the vote on the motion, feeling that their absence shows they simply do not want to deal with the issue. The motion was defeated by a vote of 31-19, with 37 members absent.

The Red Deer group for youth and young adults can be contacted through its Facebook page: LGBTQ+ Pride Youth of Red Deer. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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Council does the backstroke Let’s see ... does Red Deer really need a new aquatics centre, with a competition-grade 50-metre pool and associated amenities to make the centre useful to the widest possible number of users?

Of course it does.

That needs assessment has already been done. A $200,000 concept plan solving that question has already been completed — and rejected — by a city council GREG more interesting NEIMAN in appearing to consult than in providing leadership.

So we have another 10-member adhoc committee, to add goodness-knowswhat to the knowledge base Red Deer already has about swimming pools.

This committee will not even be able to report on what is to happen if the province shuts down the pool at Michener Centre, when it shuts down the entire Michener Centre complex.

But when it comes to deciding things, our city council prefers the backstroke.

I’m being more grumpy than I need to be about this latest decision to study

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an issue whose parameters are already well-known.

But that’s because just one day earlier, council backtracked on another project of importance to the future this city, by removing yet one more piece of its bike lane infrastructure — without really knowing why.

Readers know by now that I am quite biased on that issue. You would be forgiven if you discounted everything I could say about cycling infrastructure, for the reason that I happen to be an advocate on the issue, who for a time sat on the council committee that brought the doomed pilot project into being.

But today, I promise not to gripe about any of that. In fact, I firmly expect that what will replace the lost section of bike lanes along 39th Street will be better, more safe (though ironically more expensive) than what is there now.

Instead, I want to quarrel with the ethos of our current city council.

You cannot confine Red Deer’s future to guidelines in a policy book.

Sooner or later, we expect our leaders to lead.

Mayor Tara Veer is still new to her job, but we are hearing too often that no decisions should be made until leadership for them is provided by the community, after all possible town hall meetings and online polling studies are done — in triplicate.

I agree with consulting. In fact, I

spend a lot of time participating in public consultations.

But there comes a time when people who have full access to the facts have to go out on a limb and rely on the community’s trust.

Here’s what I believe is being ignored: Red Deer is growing fast and the future will not be a simple continuation of the past, just bigger. Plans are not made just for us, but for people who will be arriving to make our city grow.

The boomer generation has discovered (late) that sustainability matters.

Gen X and Y already knew this, but their voice hadn’t been fully heard by decision-makers. Sustainability relates not just to capital projects and taxes. It also relates to environment and to culture.

Each year, Red Deer grows by 3,000 people (or more).

But this growth is culturally different than it has been in decades past.

A higher proportion of new Red Deerians are more interested in personal fitness and recreation, in protecting our environment, and in experiencing culture.

This is in addition to wanting local government to keep its own costs reasonable.

My reading suggests Western society has reached “peak car.” There will be growth in our region, but that growth will include higher numbers of people wanting a city less designed on

cars and parking, and more on human movement.

Every year, more people show a preference to walk, bike or take transit on commutes. Growth in these areas is faster than simple growth in population.

We will need more grocery stores, but there will be a faster growth in a desire for local food production than has been in the past.

We will not be able to “make do” with publicly-built recreation and fitness centres at levels we have now.

Not if we expect to attract continuing growth.

People who advocate these position are not revolutionaries. The revolution has already occurred. A societal switch has been thrown and we cannot un-switch.

The consultation our city council needs is about how we can make already-known solutions work here, not whether.

The sustainable future that everyone talks about is already here. When government dithers and delays, the result is to quash the enthusiasm that people bring to the table — and that is a great sin.

Decide on what the future wants, not the past.

That’s real leadership.

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

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Democracy has gone off the rails The Fair Elections Act, which is a misnomer if there ever was one, is being debated in our Parliament and could be passed by June.

This act will shut out young voters, people with disabilities and aboriginals, and cause chaos at the polls.

The act will favour the Harper government and the Conservative Party for years to come.

Over and over again, this government refuses to speak to anyone who is in the know.

The comments and written report from the Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada was presented for consideration towards the writing of the Elections Act. Instead of listening to, and appreciating the work of, the Chief Electoral Officer, the Minister of State for Democratic Reform (another misnomer) Pierre Poilievre attacked the officer with name calling and unsupported accusations.

This is one issue in a litany of blunders, hiccups, poor judgment, basically poor government.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed questionable senators who have come back to bite and will bite more at a later date!

He ignored the outcry over the census long form.

The prime minister appointed a judge who lacked the qualifications for a position on the Supreme Court.

He was scolded by the Supreme Court for his government’s tough-on-crime laws soon after the uproar from the Canadian judicial system.

His crippling of the Canadian Wheat Board in the belief that free enterprise works better has caused no grain movement.

The prime minister has shown poor judgment in the appointment of his Conservative party executive director, Dimitri Soudas. Does Nigel Wright come to mind?

The CF18 fiasco has resulted in confusing information as the cost grows.

The much needed search-and-rescue planes have been put aside for his passion for the War of 1812.

This prime minister gags scientists and their research; the experimental lakes project was dropped without consultation.

And, bite by bite erosion of the CBC is crippling our public broadcaster.

This government began its term with a pledge for openness, respect and democratic process. Over the years, we have seen the Conservatives erode this trust.

We see instead: disorder, disrespect, unrest and the undermining of democracy.

We see a government highly suspicious of scientific proof, consultation, evidence and public input.

We see a government that passes massive omnibus bills which confound Parliamentary debate then call for closure on what debate there is thereby muffling any open discussion.

We see a government that has prorogued parliament an unprecedented three times in order to get out of sticky situations.

Indeed perhaps it’s time for more of us to comment on our dissatisfaction.

Like Joni Mitchell said, “You won’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone!”

Lorna Watkinson-Zimmer Red Deer

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Tories’ anti-democracy push gets help The push by Conservative sen- how the proposed amendments will ators to amend Stephen Harper’s be given more weight than they are elections act had all the elements of worth, wrapping this saga up with a marvellous yarn. a nice bow, as the SenThe unelected senators ate flexes its muscle and had taken their revenge, the Harper government biting back and riding in feigns flexibility. on their white steed to Like so much in Ottasave democracy, showing wa, this is less than meets their relevancy and putthe eye. ting the government on its The most serious heels. amendment is the one Unfortunately, it is that would kill a provinonsense. sion lifting limits on what What Conservative senparties could spend on ators have really done is election fundraising from give the government cover donors over the past five TIM to suddenly shift course, years, a move critics said HARPER drop their bullying dewould benefit richer parmeanour and pretend to ties like the Tories. be reasonable and concilBut the senators would iatory, then go ahead and only “clarify” Elections pass a deeply flawed bill with noth- Canada’s new reduced role of proing more than cosmetic tweaks. moting voting so it can still go into As Craig Scott, the New Demo- schools with get-out-the-vote efforts. crat’s democratic reform critic put They would not go beyond that. it: “They’re putting lipstick on two They would also only extend the pigs —themselves and this bill.’’ retention of robocall records to Conservatives have already won three years from the proposed one, the early communications battle still well short of a complete elecover this bill by focusing on the tion cycle. vouching question, leaving the other They would still allow victorious problems with the legislation float- parties to appoint poll supervisors ing through the Ottawa bubble. and they do nothing to fully restore The two opposition parties have vouching, where one voter can conbeen unable to succinctly explain to firm the right to vote of another.

Canadians why the proposed legislaForcing First Nations, homeless tion stacks the deck in favour of the shelters and old age homes to proConservatives and hurts democracy vide addresses if asked and allowing in this country. e-bills to be presented as valid proof That adds to the odds that some- of residence are only half-steps.

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They do nothing to compel testimony for the Elections Commissioner during investigations, something all parties agreed to in a vote two years ago.

New Democrats can name you six wobbly Tories who they believe can be shamed into voting against the bill. It is hard to imagine, however, 12 brave Conservatives bucking the party on a signature legislation.

Better to latch on to a hodgepodge series of weak amendments as an artificial show of good faith and save your political career.

The Conservatives already know that four Canadians in 10 don’t vote, six in 10 in the age category 18 to 25 didn’t vote in 2011 and that swath of the electorate is paying no attention to the legislation. They believe opposition to the bill rests with a noisy, but irrelevant (to them) segment of the population that would not vote Conservative anyway.

They believe opposition MPs are hearing from constituents because the act has become the latest vessel for anti-Harper sentiment but once passed, opposition criticism will simply sound as so much bleating from losers.

They maintain their MPs are not hearing from voters in their ridings.

The Senate has given them the cover they need to try it all again.

It is still up to the elected opposition to push back.

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Pension reform bill introduced UNIONS CALL THEM PUNITIVE, UNNECESSARY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta government introduced a bill Wednesday to overhaul pension plans affecting more than 200,000 public sector workers.

It’s a bill opponents and unions say is unfair, unnecessary, and could result in sharply reduced benefits.

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Cal Dallas introduced Bill 9 on behalf of Finance Minister Doug Horner, and it quickly passed first reading.

“The proposed changes in the bill strike the right balance between all stakeholders,” Dallas told the legislature.

“By acting now with some modest course corrections we avoid leaving future generations of plan members and taxpayers with significant problems.”

Horner was not in the legislature — he was representing Alberta at the funeral of former federal finance minister Jim Flaherty.

Horner has said the changes, to kick in starting in 2016, are needed to keep the plans viable and to overcome more than $7 billion in unfunded liability.

However, unions and opposition leaders say the plans are already on track to solve the unfunded liability.

They say the proposed Public Sector Pension Plans Amendment Act will allow the government to needlessly scale back the benefits and penalize anyone who wants to retire early.

“It’s an unnecessary attack on the pension rights

of public employees,” said NDP Leader Brian Mason. “(With the changes) it may well mean that the pension administration will not be able to get through the next recession without seriously reducing benefits.”

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Liberal house leader Laurie Blakeman agreed, calling the bill “an attack on working people.”

Wildrose finance critic Rob Anderson said any changes need to be negotiated with the unions and then only apply only to new hires.

Gil McGowan of the Alberta Federation of Labour said they are embarking on an ad and letter writing campaign, and will hold rallies to let the government know it is passing a punitive and unnecessary amendment.

“This is sort of the end game. This is the crunch time,” said McGowan.

The main changes revolve around inflation proofing, a cap on contributions, and early retirement

rules. Right now pensions are guaranteed to 60 per cent of the rate of inflation.

That guarantee will be a target instead of a requirement starting in 2016.

There will be a cap on contributions by employers and employees.

Once the cap is reached, other options need to be considered to keep the plans viable. Critics say that means reduced benefits.

Right now, staffers aged 55 with at least 30 years of service can retire with full benefits.

Under the changes, it will be age 60 with 30 years of service for people who begin working for the government in 2016.

For those who retire early, there will be a five per cent reduction in pension for each year. The current penalty is three per cent.

Employers and employees will share the costs 50-50, but no benefit improvements will be allowed until 2021. Horner has stressed benefits accrued through 2015 will still be honoured.

Alberta’s public sector pension, spread over four plans, has 200,000 active members and 120,000 retirees.

Also Wednesday, Dallas introduced Bill 10, the Employment Pension Plans Amendment Act. The bill will allow private sector pension plan operators to convert previously accrued defined benefits into targeted benefits.

“By allowing these proposed changes we will be helping private employers address some of their challenges they are facing, including pension plans that are too costly to maintain,” said Dallas.

Studies suggest public unsure of energy industry benefit Public-opinion research contracted by Ottawa suggests the pro-resource-development Conservative government has not yet convinced Canadians of the national benefits of the energy industry.

Two polling companies conducted cross-country focus groups last fall — in addition to one large national poll — and reported a common theme: most Canadians just don’t see what’s in it for them.

“The perceived advantages of pipelines were economic — though few participants saw Canada as a whole benefiting from pipelines being built,” said a report from Environics posted publicly this week.

“Instead, they tended to assume that any benefits would mainly be going to individuals getting shortand medium-term jobs in pipeline construction or to oil companies as profits.”In a separate focus-group study of government advertising, Harris-Decima reported that “Participants’ comments suggest messaging that would further clarify how the resource sector benefits all Canadians may be of particular interest.”

Natural Resources Canada, which commissioned

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BRIEF Former three-term Edmonton mayor to stay out of provincial politics EDMONTON — A former Edmonton mayor says he will not be entering the race to replace Alison Redford as premier of Alberta.

In a statement released on Twitter, Stephen Mandel says he will not be seeking the leadership of Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives and extends best wishes to those who will be pursuing the party’s top job.

Mandel says he’s honoured to have received many expressions of support, but feels he must put his family and personal life first.

He also says he believes Alberta needs a strong and renewed Tory party that is both progressive and conservative.

Mandel, who was a three-term mayor of the provincial capital, was touted by some observers as a possible entrant in the leadership race after Redford stepped down last month.

Former Alberta municipal affairs minister Ken Hughes is the only declared candidate so far in the race that will be decided in a vote this September.

Icy road conditions cause havoc on several northern Alberta highways LAC LA BICHE — Dangerous driving conditions have caused at least 10 collisions on a 30-kilometre stretch of Highway 881 northeast of Edmonton.

Lac La Biche RCMP say the 10 crashes include five jackknifed semi trucks.

Officers closed the highway at Heart Lake earlier Wednesday, but said it was reopened around 2:55 p.m. but that there were still stretches partially covered in snow and ice.

RCMP previously closed Highway 36 at Highway 55 East following a fatal collision Wednesday morning. That stretch of road was reopened at 2:30 p.m.

Around 7:40 a.m., RCMP and emergency crews were called to Highway 36 approximately 20 kilometres south of Lac La Biche.

Three vehicles were involved in the collision and a 50-year-old man who was driving one vehicle died on the scene from his injuries.

Two passengers of another vehicle — two men who are 28 and 25 years old — were taken to hospital by ambulance where they are being treated.

Two other men in the third vehicle — aged 34 and 28 — suffered minor injuries and were treated and released by paramedics on scene.

Murder trial of mom killed in mistaken address hit continues SASKATOON — An affiliate of Alberta’s White Boy Posse street gang says he was ordered by one of its leaders to get handguns for Randy O’Hagan, who is accused of mistakenly killing a mother of four by shooting through her living room window.

the two studies at a combined cost of almost $255,000, has spent more than $30 million on resource industry advertising over the last three years, with millions more budgeted this year. That’s in addition to national ad campaigns by the Canadian Association of Oil Producers, the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association and various individual energy corporations.

The government is also starting a two-year, $24-million international campaign aimed at countering negative perceptions of Alberta’s oil sands.

“Canada has been, and continues to be, the target of intense and sustained public relations campaigns by domestic and international organizations, criticizing our domestic natural resource development policies and companies engaged in resource developments,” NRCan said in a request for proposal to advertising firms posted last October.

The plan was to include a “rapid response” element. As part of its continuing Responsible Resource Development ad campaign, the government commissioned focus groups last summer and fall to field test the response to its latest round of ads.

NRCan also commissioned a major poll and focus groups on general energy issues that was delivered in mid November. Both studies put extra weight on

gauging public reaction in British Columbia, where pitched public relations battles are taking place over the proposed Northern Gateway project and the proposed tripling of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.

“Most participants (in focus groups) have some vague, non-specific awareness of pipeline projects being considered in Canada,” Environics reported.

“It was clearly not a major top-of-mind issue.”

However on the specific Northern Gateway project, Environics reported a “more emotional reaction” in British Columbia, where focus groups were concerned about environmental damage and “a notion that B.C. would be assuming all the risks while not receiving any of the revenue.”

There was also little awareness of a national strategy for managing natural resources and many people wanted more information on how governments hold the resource industry responsible for its activities.

As for the much-contested Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast, Environics reported a collective shrug.

“Outside of Calgary, very few people thought it was personally relevant to them whether or not Keystone XL ever gets built.”

Colton Menard testified Wednesday at O’Hagan’s trial for first-degree murder in the September 2012 death of Lorry Santos.

Menard said the guns were arranged to be picked up before O’Hagan went to Saskatoon with a group of people, including a high-ranking member of the White Boy Posse known as Slater.

Menard testified he did not know why O’Hagan needed the guns, but suspected it had something to do with a hit out on a man who had angered Slater by leaving the gang.

Menard testified that Slater later told him to wipe out a debt of $8,000 owed by O’Hagan, who lived in Lloydminster, Alta.

The trial has been told that Santos, 34, was home on maternity leave and was up early while her husband was getting ready for work when she was shot while going to answer their front door.

The prosecution contends the alleged hit was carried out at the wrong address.

Karissa Dow, 21, O’Hagan’s former girlfriend, has testified that he feared for his life after being ordered to carry out the hit by a gang leader who threatened to kill him and his family if he didn’t comply.

On Wednesday, Dow described O’Hagan as a patch member of the White Boy Posse working as a drug dealer for the gang, which had begun expanding into Saskatoon. On the night Santos was killed, Dow said O’Hagan left with her car for several hours and when he returned, he put his clothes in a black garbage bag and was unusually quiet for the rest of the trip.

Sgt. Kyla Hicks, a police officer who went through all of O’Hagan’s text messages, testified that O’Hagan received a text message from someone in Lloydminster indicating that the former gang member lived at 203 Peterson Terrace. However, that was the address of the Santos family.

faces one count of sexual intercourse with a female without her consent and one count of having sexual intercourse with a female under the age of 14.

The charges are based on the 1982 Criminal Code and would be equivalent to sexual assault today.

“Allegations like these are disturbing when made against a member of the general public,” Supt. Alfredo Bangloy said at a news conference in Regina Tuesday.

“For a serving police officer to be facing charges like these is extremely disturbing.”

Makar has been a Mountie for 34 years. He was arrested Tuesday morning at the Wood Buffalo detachment in Fort McMurray, which he has commanded since 2012.

He has been suspended with pay.

Bangloy said a woman filed a statement last year alleging that she was assaulted in the summer of 1982 by a man and a woman “who were involved in a romantic relationship.”

The woman, Constance Haduik, is charged with one count of indecent assault of a female person.

She was arrested at her work in Kyle, Sask., last Thursday.

Bangloy would not say how the three were connected.

“I can’t get into the specifics of the relationship other than to say the 12-year-old victim was known to both accused,” he said.

Makar worked as a constable at the Carlyle, Sask., RCMP detachment in 1982.

Both of the accused are to make their first court appearances June 4 in Carlyle.

Lacombe considering roundabout City of Lacombe administration is looking at what would be required to put a roundabout at the intersection near two schools in the community.

At Monday’s council meeting, a request to consider a roundabout at the intersection of 50th Street and 54th Avenue came from a family that lives at the corner.

Upper Elementary School and Father Lacombe Catholic School are located nearby.

Chief administrative officer Norma MacQuarrie said there is a lot of traffic in the morning and afternoon generated by the schools and the intersection is slated to get traffic lights.

The family wants council to look at a roundabout instead. They said research shows roundabouts reduce collisions, improve traffic flow, reduce emissions of idling vehicles and are safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

City administration was directed to look at the impact of the roundabout, including cost and land requirements, and report their findings to council on April 28.

Alberta Mountie faces sex charges involving Sask. girl, 12, in 1982 REGINA — A senior RCMP officer has been charged with sexual offences involving a 12-year-old girl more than three decades ago.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Police have charged a 19-year-old man from London, Ont., in connection with the loss of taxpayer data from the Canada Revenue Agency website.

Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes was arrested at his residence Tuesday and is charged with unauthorized use of a computer and mischief in relation to data, the RCMP said Wednesday.

A search of the residence resulted in the seizure of computer equipment.

Solis-Reyes is a computer science student at Western University, a spokesman for the university said. He is scheduled to appear in court in Ottawa on July 17.

The Canada Revenue Agency was forced to shut down its publicly accessible website Friday as the world learned about the Heartbleed computer bug, a previously undiscovered global Internet security vulnerability.

Other government computer sites were also temporarily taken down over the weekend.

On Monday, the agency said 900 social insurance numbers had been compromised.

The loss was detected Friday, but the agency delayed telling Canadians

about it at the request of the RCMP. The police said the delay allowed them to pursue their investigation through the weekend and helped track down a suspect. “The RCMP treated this breach of security as a high priority case and mobilized the necessary resources to resolve the matter as quickly as possible,� said Assistant Commissioner Gilles Michaud. “Investigators from National Division, along with our counterparts in O Division, have been working tirelessly over the last four days analyzing data, following leads, conducting interviews, obtaining and executing legal authorizations and liaising with our partners.�

The fact police were able to follow the trail back to the alleged hacker — let alone so quickly — speaks to his level of experience, says an Internet security expert.

The revenue agency has said it will notify everyone involved in the security breach by registered letter and will offer access to credit-protection services.

Because of the five-day shutdown of its E-file and Netfile services, the revenue agency has effectively extended the tax filing deadline for the same length of time. Returns filed by May 5 will not incur penalties or interest.

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Teen charged in random Regina mall stabbings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — A 15-year-old boy is facing charges of aggravated assault and assault with a weapon after four people were injured in a stabbing at a mall in downtown Regina.

Police say a teenager entered the Cornwall Centre on Tuesday evening armed with a knife and began randomly attacking people who were nearby.

Deputy police chief Bob Morin says police don’t know what prompted the attack. “This was a very spontaneous, unpredictable event,� Morin said Wednesday at a news conference at police headquarters. “As we conduct our investigation we are trying to determine what the motivation may be. Of course, we can’t talk very much about the investigation while the matter is before the courts, but by and large we have no idea what motivated this event.�

Morin added there’s “no indication at all of any gang involvement, gang initiation or any gang related activity to this incident.�

Two police officers who happened to be at the mall as part of their regular downtown patrol heard a commotion and were quickly on the scene.

They told the young man to drop the knife, he did and was arrested.

The teen was briefly in court

Wednesday and will be held in custody until his next appearance April 29.

Witnesses say the attack was sudden and that the attacker was wearing a red bandana.

Passersby snapped pictures of the carnage, including one posted to the Internet showing a young man lying in a pool of blood as he was being attended to by emergency workers.

All four victims are male. Police say none of the injuries is life-threatening.

Morin said he can’t recall another incident like this in 33 years of policing and tried to reassure the public that Regina is a safe city. “It’s rare and it’s uncommon,� he said. “I just urge people not to be concerned about their safety because the public safety system in this city works and I think an indication of last night we had a police response almost immediately.�

Mayor Michael Fougere offered his condolences to the victims on Wednesday and commended police for their speedy response.

He also reassured citizens that the city’s downtown core is safe. “We have a safe community. We have a safe downtown,� he said. “You never want to see this happen anywhere at any time. “It’s a tragedy and our hearts go out to those victims that are now in hospital or in recovery.�

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QUEBEC — Pauline Marois bid a tearful goodbye to politics on Wednesday, saying she has no regrets and that Quebecers will always fight to get a country.

In a political career that spanned more than 30 years, Marois held various cabinet positions before becoming premier in 2012 with a minority Parti Quebecois government.

Her stewardship of the province as Quebec’s first female premier would last just 18 months.

On Wednesday, she met with incoming premier Philippe Couillard, whose Liberals romped to victory in last week’s election with 70 of the province’s 125 seats.

The PQ was relegated to just 30 seats, prompting Marois to announce her political curtain call that night. Officially, she will remain PQ leader until a party meeting in early June when Stephane Bedard takes over.

The outgoing premier said she was very proud of her government’s accomplishments.

She said she was able to control government expenses, improve Quebec’s economy and defend the province’s interests over the last 18 months.

An emotional Marois had to wipe away tears and ask someone for a tissue as she read a statement and answered questions after her meeting with Couillard. “It’ll soon be seven years that I left my garden, after a short retirement, because I still wanted to serve Quebec,� she said. “Since then, a lot has happened and, I think you know as well as I do, that it wasn’t all smooth sailing. But I don’t regret anything.� Asked about the state of the sovereigntist movement, Marois said there will always be Quebecers fighting for a country. “I think this project (sovereignty) is always an important necessary project for our nation and I am sure many leaders, many citizens will continue to fight to be a country one today. I don’t know when. I don’t know how.

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Parts of east cope as water levels rise HOMES AND ROADS FLOODED

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An RCMP honour guard carries the casket bearing Jim Flaherty following his state funeral in Toronto on Wednesday.

Political players of all party stripes gather for fond farewell to Jim Flaherty

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Jim Flaherty was remembered Wednesday with equal measures of laughter and tears as Canada’s political elite gathered to set aside their partisan differences and pay their final respects to the former finance minister.

Mourners donned green scarves, a tribute to Flaherty’s Irish heritage, inside the majestic St. James Anglican cathedral in downtown Toronto as they celebrated the diminutive, combative politician, who died of a heart attack last week at the age of 64.

Flaherty converted to Anglicanism when he married his wife, Ontario MPP Christine Elliott, 28 years ago.

“What a sad time this is in the life of our country,” said Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who began the proceedings with an upbeat personal tribute to his longtime political confidante.

Harper not only poked fun at himself by comparing his own popularity to Flaherty’s — “I can’t even get my friends to like me,” the prime minister joked to gales of laughter from the congregation — but he revealed how his finance minister told him four years ago he wanted to leave politics. Flaherty finally quit last month.

Flaherty said in 2010 he wanted

to return to the private sector in order to put more money aside for his family, Harper recalled, but was first insistent on ensuring the Canadian economy was out of the woods following the 2008 economic downturn.

“And every year after that, without any prompting from me, the call would come and Jim would say: ‘Prime Minister, I’m still worried about the global economy and we’re not yet in balance. I want to do one more budget.”’

Directly addressing Elliott and the couple’s triplet sons, Harper said, “We have lost a partner in politics, but you have lost a partner in life.”

Harper fought back tears twice during his remarks, which were otherwise a cheerful, light-hearted look back on the time he and Flaherty shared together in power on Parliament Hill.

“Occasionally, I imposed a final decision,” Harper said of their periodic cabinet-table disputes.

“Occasionally I decided he was probably right. And occasionally, I decided he was wrong, but let him have his way because I just got so damn tired of arguing with him.”

But as his eulogy drew to a close, Harper had to compose himself as he described the day he accepted Flaherty’s resignation just a few short weeks ago.

“I told Jim that he had truly been over these eight years, in

my judgment, the best finance minister in the world, if not indeed the best in our history,” Harper said.

One of the most touching moments came when the prime minister directly addressed Flaherty’s triplet sons, the 23-year-old John, Galen and Quinn.

“I lost my own father almost exactly 11 years ago, to the day,” he said. “That period, I remember almost nothing of what I said or what was said to me, so powerful were the waves of emotion.

“But once that passed and perspective took hold, I came to appreciate my father’s place in my life probably even more fully and deeply than if he were still here.

And it is all good, and it will be all good for you.”

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and former prime ministers Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell and John Turner were among those on hand for the funeral, as were various federal cabinet ministers, including John Baird, Peter MacKay, Jason Kenney and James Moore.

Flaherty’s state funeral is the first such honour since 2011, when former NDP leader Jack Layton was laid to rest.

State funerals are customarily only given to current or former prime ministers, governors general, sitting cabinet ministers or members of the Royal Family.

Rain, melting snow and ice jams forced waters in parts of Eastern Canada to rise Wednesday, submerging roads, filling basements and prompting hundreds to be evacuated from their homes as officials told people to prepare in case they had to seek higher ground.

From Atlantic Canada to Ontario, rivers overflowed and in some cases, water levels rose to heights some said they hadn’t seen in years. Many roads were flooded and in New Brunswick, the RCMP urged people not to attempt driving through those areas.

“It’s devastating,” said Marc Thorne, mayor of the southern New Brunswick town of Sussex, where dozens of homes were flooded, including his own where has lived for 22 years.

“The Trout Creek has breached its banks at a height we haven’t seen in many decades and a lot of subdivisions in town are impacted.”

Meanwhile, the mayor of Perth-Andover called for a voluntary evacuation of his community of about 1,800 people, saying he feared that a rising St. John River could flood parts of the town.

Terry Ritchie said in a news release that residents are expected to find their own accomodations. The northern New Brunswick community experienced severe flooding in March 2012.

Premier David Alward was scheduled to go to Sussex on Thursday to meet with his public safety minister at Kingswood University, where some of those evacuated from their homes have taken shelter.

The neighbouring village of Sussex Corner declared a state of emergency as the floods made some roads impassable, but that was later rescinded as water levels receded. Officials stressed that the flood situation was constantly changing and they told residents to remain alert.

In Quebec, outgoing premier Pauline Marois met with her successor, Philippe Couillard, on Wednesday for the first time since the provincial election and said the first topic she brought up with him was the flooding.

“I want to reassure all Quebecers that the outgoing government will work with the new government to make sure the transition does not complicate matters,” she said after presiding over her last cabinet meeting.

More than 600 people were forced from their homes in Sherbrooke, Que., as the Saint-Francois River swelled. Officials there said the river reached as high as 7.6 metres — just short of the 7.9-metre record set in 1982 — but more than four times its normal level of 1.8 metres as Sherbrooke Mayor Bernard Sevigny urged residents to be careful and patient.

High water levels also triggered states of emergency in Centre Hastings and Tweed in eastern Ontario, joining the nearby city of Belleville.

Officials in Manitoba warned Wednesday that the prolonged cold spring will make flooding more likely for a few homes in Winnipeg. Emergency Measures Minister Steve Ashton said the amount of ice in the water is pushing levels of the Red River up in south Winnipeg.

In the western New Brunswick town of Woodstock, an ice jam knocked out several power poles, taking with it the electrical system leading to municipal water wells, said Ken Harding, the town’s chief administrative officer. As a result, a boil-water order was issued.

Roads were also closed in Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island as a result of washed out culverts and rising waters.

Manitoba woman acquitted of murder

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s first-ever televised criminal proceeding Wednesday offered viewers a striking contrast — explicit facts about a violent relationship presented in a staid, formal manner.

Cassandra Knott was acquitted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her abusive husband, Orzias Knott, as a television camera focused for 45 minutes on Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Shane Perlmutter.

“It is understood and so ordered that the sole image to be captured by the camera ... is the image of me as the presiding judge,” Perlmutter said before he started delivering his verdict.

The accused, her lawyers and the Crown attorney were never shown as Perlmutter read excerpts from his written decision.

He frequently looked directly into the camera being shared by media outlets and set off to one side of the large courtroom.

As soon as he finished, Perlmutter

ordered the camera turned off. Knott began weeping openly and hugged her lawyers.

Wednesday’s verdict was part of a pilot project in Manitoba. Cameras will also be allowed to record a Court of Appeal hearing later his month, including arguments from lawyers, as part of an effort to give the public a greater understanding of the justice system.

Hearings before the Supreme Court of Canada and the Ontario Court of Appeal are routinely open to cameras, but Manitoba is pushing the issue a little further.

It is setting aside a courtroom where proceedings below the Appeals Court level will be televised.

There will still be exemptions to protect people’s privacy. Witness testimony, jury trials and family court cases won’t be televised.

Throughout his verdict, Perlmutter calmly read over the litany of violence Knott had suffered at the hands of her husband.

She had been to hospitals and women’s shelters several times since 2008, the trial had been told. She had been almost routinely punched and slapped, and sometimes hit with objects including a clock.

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“Given that the accused was facing this imminent, violent attack, I find that the accused had a reasonable basis to believe that she had to defend herself.”

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Canadiens 5 Lightning 4 OT TAMPA, Fla. — If Game 1 was a preview of what’s to come, fans should grab their popcorn and settle in for the rest of the Montreal Canadiens’ series against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The teams combined for lots of mistakes, lots of goals and lots of hate at Tampa Bay Times Forum on Wednesday night in an entertaining opener to the Atlantic Division semifinals.

Fourth-liner Dale Weise provided the last bit of drama with the overtime winner to give the Habs a 5-4 victory and a 1-0 lead in the series.

After Josh Gorges kept it in at the blue-line, Daniel Briere continued his career playoff heroics by feeding Weise for the goal 18:08 into overtime.

“I was surprised I was that wide open,” said Weise.

Tomas Plekanec, Brian Gionta, Lars Eller and Thomas Vanek scored in regulation for Montreal, which outshot Tampa Bay 35-16 through three periods.

“We kept our composure,” Canadiens coach Michel Therrien said.

“Our players stuck to our game plan and we got rewarded.”

Habs goaltender Carey Price gave up four goals — one each by Nikita Kucherov and Alex Killorn and two

by Steven Stamkos on 16 regulation shots. He stopped all nine he faced in overtime.

Anders Lindback made several big saves of his 39 to keep the Lightning in the game.

“That’s the beauty of overtime. You can’t make any mistakes,” said Briere.

The first playoff game in Tampa since 2011 brought with it a charged atmosphere. It was loud inside the Forum when Price stopped Richard Panik in front five minutes in, but then it got real midway through the first.

A shot by Tampa Bay defenceman Radko Gudas took a weird bounce off the glass behind Price and bounced

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Montreal Canadiens centre David Desharnais carries the puck around Tampa Bay Lightning defenceman Mike Kostka during the third period of Game 1 of a first-round NHL playoff series on Wednesday, in Tampa, Fla. out in front for Gaspe, Que., native Cedric Paquette. He got it to J.T. Brown, who fed Kucherov in the slot for his first career playoff goal at 10:09.

Before fans were done cheering the Lightning’s first goal in the playoffs since May 25, 2011 — Game 6 of the Eastern Conference final against the Boston Bruins — the Habs struck back.

Some simple passing got Plekanec into the offensive zone, and after Gudas blew a tire the Habs centre went top shelf on Lindback to tie it 19 seconds later.

Once the feeling-out process was done, the intensity picked up in the second period when Andrei Markov hit Ondrej Palat after the whistle and

Stamkos took exception. Pushing and shoving ensued, and then another scrum a minute later turned up the heat even more.

But it was skill, not brawn that gave the Lightning a 2-1 lead as Stamkos showed why he’s one of the game’s best. The Lightning star busted down the right wing, banked the puck off the boards to get past Brandon Prust, then beat Price clean from almost along the boards at 13:24.

Just over a minute later, there was another dust-up in front of Lindback that only got the players more into the game and the crowd, too.

It looked like the Lightning would get a golden opportunity to add to their

lead when P.K. Subban went off for slashing. Instead, Gionta got a shorthanded breakaway and shot it off Lindback’s glove, got the rebound and scored at the 16:49 mark.

An uninspired first few minutes of the third period ended when an apparent defensive breakdown by Tampa that gave Eller and Rene Bourque plenty of space to work with. Eller beat Lindback at 5:10 to start a session of trading chances and goals.

At 7:11, Prust turned the puck over right to Killorn, who blasted a shot by Price on just the Lightning’s 12th shot of the game.

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Generals’ Allan Cup hopes fading WEDNESDAY LOSS MEANS GENERALS WILL HAVE TO WIN THREE GAMES IN THREE DAYS

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL DUNDAS STAR NEWS Prairie Thunder 3 Generals 1 Falling to the defensively-focused South East Prairie Thunder by a 3-1 score Tuesday night, Bentley Generals will need three straight wins in three days to defend their Allan Cup championship title.

But Generals forward Matt Stefanishion said his team is prepared for the challenge.

“We work on our conditioning all year,” Stefanishion said, noting bringing the Allan Cup back to Alberta will mean playing five games in five days, and winning the last three – after losing the first two.

“We prepared for this.”

Tuesday night, Bentley put plenty of pressure on two Prairie Thunder goalies. Mark Friesen started but left the game with an injury in the first period, and Steve Christie filled in.

“We are very fortunate to have them both,” said Thunder head coach Jamie Leach. “The plan was to start Christie in game one and Friesen in game two.”

Leach said his team eliminated errors it made in their opening game loss to Dundas. They didn’t hand Bentley any scoring opportunities.

“Our defencemen are really strong.

That’s a strength of our team,” he said.

Despite spending plenty of time in

their opponent’s end, Bentley didn’t get a lot of pucks to the net consistently.

Stefanishion scored Bentley’s only goal – a hard, rising shot from the point over Christie’s right shoulder and into the twine. It made the score 3-1 with almost four minutes left to play in the final period.

“They did a good job of clogging up the neutral zone,” Stefanishion said of Prairie Thunder’s defence.

Generals head coach Ryan Tobler said the Thunder bottled up the area around the net pretty well, something that can be done proficiently on the relatively small ice surface at J.L. Grightmire Arena in Dundas, Ontario.

“There’s not a lot of room,” Tobler said.

“We’ve got to find a way to bear down and get (the puck) to the net.

Sometimes you can make a goalie look good, and we’re doing that.”

The threat of elimination for all teams — expect division winners Dundas Real McCoys and Clarenville Caribous who won both their round-robin games and have reserved their spots in Friday’s semi-final games – starts Thursday.

Leach said the Thunder was looking for the win over Bentley in order to secure the later 7:30 p.m. game against Kenora.

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Bentley General Jason Lundmark rips a shot towards the South East Prairie Thunder net during 2014 Allan Cup action in Dundas, Ont. Wednesday. The Generals lost 3-1.

Penguins rally after slow start to down Blue Jackets

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Penguins 4 Blue Jackets 3 PITTSBURGH — Columbus coach Todd Richards insists his upstart team isn’t in the playoffs “just to go to school.”

Maybe, but the Pittsburgh Penguins provided a pretty valuable lesson in perseverance during a 4-3 victory in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals on Wednesday night.

Down two after 21 minutes of slow and sometimes sloppy hockey, the Metropolitan Division champions responded by scoring the final three goals, including Brandon Sutter’s go-ahead wrist shot 8:18 into the third period.

“I think we expected a tight game,” Sutter said after the third playoff goal of his career. “They got up and we stuck with it. It was a good win.”

One that came with more than a few tense moments. Beau Bennett and Matt Niskanen scored power-play goals 45 seconds apart in the second period, erasing Pittsburgh’s two-goal deficit.

Jussi Jokinen also scored for the Penguins and Marc-Andre Fleury overcame some shaky defence in front of him to stop 31 shots.

Game 2 is Saturday night.

“We have to learn from it but we found a way to win,” Pittsburgh forward Sidney Crosby said. “Obviously we didn’t start the way we wanted, getting down two goals. I think we have to clean up some things.”

If not, a series expected to be a romp could turn into something else entirely. Jack Johnson, Mark Letestu and Derek Mackenzie scored for the Blue Jackets, who remain in search of their first-ever playoff win. Sergei Bobrovsky finished with 28 saves but was

handcuffed by Sutter’s knuckler at the end of a 2-on-1 break.

“I’ve seen Bob make that save a thousand times,” Richards said. “It just got by him.”

The Blue Jackets insisted they wouldn’t be intimidated despite Pittsburgh’s overwhelming edge in playoff experience and star power. The Penguins swept the five regular-season meetings between the teams, but Columbus surged after the Olympic break, rising to the seventh seed in the East while the injury-riddled Penguins coasted to a division title.

If the NHL’s youngest team was scared by the stage, it hardly showed.

Johnson gave the Blue Jackets their first-ever post-season lead 6:20 into the game. He charged to the front of the net, got a feed from Brandon Dubinsky and beat Fleury with a beautiful deke from forehand to backhand.

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The Penguins answered with 2:51 left in the first when Evgeni Malkin — returning after missing three weeks with a foot injury — took advantage of a turnover by Fedor Tyutin and hit Jokinen in the slot. The knuckling wrist shot sailed over Bobrovsky’s right shoulder and Pittsburgh exhaled.

But only briefly. With Pittsburgh defenceman Rob Scuderi off for interference, the Blue Jackets went back in front 2-1 when Letestu jammed home a rebound and sent Columbus soaring into the dressing room.

“People were wondering how we would start the game with our inexperience, but we were pretty comfortable after the first period with a 2-1 lead and maybe let off the gas,” Columbus centre Ryan Johansen said.

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Raptors drop last game to Knicks STILL END UP WITH 3 SEED IN EASTERN CONFERENCE GOING INTO PLAYOFFS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Knicks 95 Raptors 92 NEW YORK — The Knicks lingered on the court, soaking in the cheers from the fans wearing those giveaway orange shirts that were probably meant for the playoffs.

And once they left, that was it. Hard as it still is for them to believe, there is no more basketball for the Knicks this season.

New York finished its disappointing season with a 95-92 victory Wednesday night over the Toronto Raptors, who blew a 21-point lead but still landed the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

“We held ourselves to huge expectations, had big shoes to fill. Unfortunately we didn’t fill them like we wanted to,” J.R. Smith said. “We just take that on the chin and use that for preparation for next year.”

Toronto moves on to host the Brooklyn Nets, who fell to the No. 6 seed, in its playoff opener Saturday.

“We know we can beat them. We beat them twice this year, and we beat ’em once without me playing. We’re all excited,” said All-Star DeMar DeRozan, who played just 22 minutes.

Cole Aldrich made the tiebreaking dunk with 1:23 left for the Knicks, who won their final four games to finish 37-45. Smith scored 30 points, and Aldrich finished with 13 points and 16 rebounds.

Kyle Lowry scored 22 points in 26 minutes for the Raptors, who finished 48-34.

“The mindset going in was to make sure our guys didn’t get hurt and get some rest and we did that,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.

The Knicks charged back to tie at 74 entering the fourth by outscoring the Raptors 30-17 in the third. The game became meaningless during the period when Charlotte finished off an overtime victory over Chicago, meaning the Raptors could do no worse than finish tied with the Bulls. Toronto owned the tiebreaker as a division champion.

The Raptors, a team that wasn’t expected to be in the playoffs but instead replaced the Knicks as Atlantic Division champions, will be in the postseason for the first time since 2008.

“This is huge. When I first got here that was one of my biggest goals, to get this team back to the playoffs and I’m happy to be there,” Lowry said.

“But, I’m not satisfied. I want to make some noise and show that we’re a good team.”

Toronto won six of its final eight games. The only other loss was last Friday to the Knicks, a night before New York was eliminated from the post-season when it couldn’t climb all the way out of the huge hole it dug with its dismal start.

“The last month and a half, two months has been great for our ballclub to see them back playing like Knick basketball should be played,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said, “so I’m excited about that.”

Smith’s dunk tied it at 90, and he followed Aldrich’s basket with a jumper to make it 94-90 with 21 seconds to go.

Tyler Hansbrough scored while being fouled and the Knicks couldn’t get the rebound after he missed the free throw. But Toronto eventually threw away an inbounds pass and Smith made one last free throw.

The Knicks won without Carmelo Anthony, sidelined by a torn labrum in his right shoulder, and fellow starters

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Toronto Raptors’ Patrick Patterson defends New York Knicks’ Jeremy Tyler during the first half of an NBA game Wednesday in New York.

Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton on the last game before changes could come.

Woodson said before the game he believe he’s the right coach for this team, but hasn’t had a conversation with new president Phil Jackson yet about his future. That’s likely Jackson’s first big decision, with another this summer if Anthony goes through with his plan to become a free agent.

Lowry scored 17 in the first quarter, when the Raptors made 11 of 17 shots and led 28-21. Toronto quickly

Late charge wins Baird first provincial 5-pin bowling title

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Once Gary Baird got on a roll he was impossible to stop.

Baird came into the step ladder portion of the men’s singles at the Open provincial 5-pin bowling championships at Heritage Lanes Wednesday in fifth place. Five games later he came away with his first provincial title.

Baird downed Mike Hirsche from the Southern Zone 313-264 and 319-301 in the final.

“I was strong all day and seemed to improve as the day wore on,” said Baird, who will compete at the nationals in Calgary.

Baird had a 10-game 2,530 total during preliminary play, which gave him fifth place, 14 pins ahead of Ian Dobbie of Calgary and 11 back of Central Alberta teammate Shelby Chrest of Olds.

Baird downed Chrest 308-176 in the first game of the step ladder playdowns, then had a battle with Victor Fobert, also a Central Alberta teammate, before recording a 239-230 victory. Baird advanced into the final with a 293-203 win over Derek Home

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HABS: Deflection Vanek gave the Habs the lead back at 11:30 after a pretty give-and-go with David Desharnais resulted in a perfect deflection.

But that didn’t stand up as the winner because Killorn was able to get the puck by Mike Weaver along the boards to set up a two-on-one with Stamkos.

It was a goal as long as Killorn didn’t muff the pass, and he didn’t, giving Stamkos his second of the night at 13:27.

The Habs got a late power play after Killorn high-sticked Max Pacioretty but extended their drought to 0 for the last 25. Then Brown blocked a shot in the final seconds to send the game to overtime.

Tampa Bay had a stellar chance eight minutes into OT when Nate Thompson’s shot went off Price’s right pad and back out in front. It would’ve been an easy goal for Teddy Purcell into a wide-open net had it not been for Gorges diving to poke it away.

Just over 17 minutes in, Pacioretty was staring at plenty of net but clanked his shot off the post.

ALLAN CUP: Change some things up He said they play well against Kenora, but were particularly focused on getting the later start rather than a 3:30 p.m. quarter final against Brantford.

“We wanted that for our confidence.

And because of our age, we wanted that few hours rest,” Leach said.

Terry Yake, a 44-year-old veteran of 403 NHL games, scored the Thunder’s first goal less than two minutes into the game. Tyler Dittmer picked up the assist. Riley Dudar made it 2-0 Thunder less than two minutes into the second period, and Dustin Degagne made it 3-0 mid-way through the third period.

For Bentley, the three days of win-

of Calgary.

Hirsche finished first in preliminary play with a 2,641 total, which meant he had to be defeated twice in the final.

“It’s the first time I’ve faced Mike.

I’ve seen him play before, but that’s all,” said Baird, who has been bowling for close to 30 years, so isn’t afraid of a little pressure.

“I’ve been in the final before and lost, so I know what it’s all about and because I’ve been bowling for so long there isn’t as much pressure,” he said.

The fact he’s competing at his home club also helps.

“It does, but everyone here has bowled enough that they get used to the lanes quickly,” said Baird, who believes the competition coming out of Central Alberta played a role in his victory.

“It’s tough to just get out of the zone, which definitely helps prepare you,” he said.

Overall it’s been a good year says Baird.

“It seems that I’m more consistent this year, which makes you more comfortable and when you’re comfortable the better it is.”

Baird is far from finished this week as he now turns his attention to the or-go-home games begins against southern Ontario champion Brantford Blast who split their two games so far.

But Tobler doesn’t care much who the opposing team is. Bentley’s focussed on their own game.

“There are six good teams in this tournament,” Tobler said. “We’ll look at some things tonight and we’ll change some things up.”

As he said after Tuesday night’s loss to host Dundas, Bentley needs to play with an urgency. Now they’re all aware of the need to win, starting Thursday.

“We’re more than capable of doing it,” Tobler said. “We have the experience. We have the depth.”

Bentley meets Brantford in the first quarter final at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

Prairie Thunder plays Kenora in the second quarter final at 7:30 p.m. The winners advance to meet either Dundas or Clarenville in Friday’s semi final games.

PENS: Vanished Mackenzie got loose for a breakaway short-handed goal, pushing the advantage to 3-1 just 43 seconds into the second. But Columbus’ momentum then vanished against the league’s top power play.

Bennett tipped in a Niskanen slap shot 51 seconds after Mackenzie scored. Johnson was quickly whistled for interference and Niskanen needed only 10 seconds to even the game with a snap shot from the left circle.

Things settled down after the five goals in 5 minutes flurry, though Columbus didn’t exactly fold. The Blue Jackets carried play at times in the first two periods.

The Penguins righted themselves in the third. The miscues that plagued them for the first 40 minutes disappeared, replaced by the kind of responsible play they know they’ll need to make a serious run at the franchise’s fourth Stanley Cup. “Nobody panicked,” Fleury said.

“The power play was huge for us like it has been all season. It got us back in the game and from then we were in good shape.”

men’s team event, which runs today through Saturday.

“That’s fun, there’s a lot of camaraderie as we’re all close friends,” he said.

Baird has competed in five nationals in the team competition and helped win four gold. This year he wants to add a singles title to his resume.

“For sure, but once you get there everyone is good and everyone is used to the pressure.”

Meanwhile, Bonnie McDonald of Northern Zone won the women’s singles title defeating Central Alberta’s Barb Taillon of Drumheller 247-177 in first game of the final.

Taillon finished fourth in the 10-game preliminary competition with a 2,375 total. She then defeated fifthplace finisher Michelle Hoyle of Edmonton 246-233, downed Dianne Violini of the Southern Zone 247-193 and Caity Shearer of Edmonton 251-215. ● The first of 25 rounds of team competition in men’s, women’s and mixed begins at 8:30 a.m. today with the ninth draw at 7:20 p.m. There will be another nine draws on Friday with the final seven on Saturday, with the final draw at 4 p.m. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

pushed the lead into double figures in the second, opening the period with an 11-2 burst that made it 39-23 on Dwight Buycks’ 3-pointer. Toronto went ahead by as much as 21 before taking a 57-44 lead into the break.

Notes: The Knicks announced they had signed Lamar Odom before the game, giving Jackson the off-season to look at a player who thrived playing for him when Jackson coached the Lakers.

Odom was a key member of the Lakers’ championship teams in 2009 and 2010, and the Sixth Man of the Year in 2011.

NHL PLAYOFFS

Ducks hold off Stars in series opener THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ryan Getzlaf had a goal and an assist, Frederik Andersen made 32 saves to win his NHL playoff debut, and the Anaheim Ducks opened the post-season with a 4-3 victory over the Dallas Stars on Wednesday night.

Getzlaf, Kyle Palmieri and Mathieu Perreault scored in a dominant first period for the top-seeded Ducks, who began their playoff run on a dead sprint.

Anaheim led 4-0 midway through the second period before Dallas got rolling in its first playoff game since 2008.

Captain Jamie Benn and Red deer’s Colton Sceviour had power-play goals, and Tyler Seguin scored with 6:07 left to trim the Ducks’ lead to one. Anaheim hung on with a handful of big saves from Andersen, a 24-year-old Danish rookie.

Matt Beleskey had a goal and an assist before incurring a lower-body injury in the third period, leaving a hole on the Ducks’ top line with Getzlaf and Corey Perry. Getzlaf then got hit in the face with the puck with 16 seconds left, sending him to the dressing room early.

Benn and Sceviour scored in their post-season NHL debuts, but the Stars couldn’t escape their early hole despite an impressive game from their top line of Benn, Seguin and Valeri Nichushkin, which accounted for 14 shots.

Roughriders sign Durant to multi-year contract extension

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Corey Chamblin knows who his starting quarterback will be for the next little while.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed veteran Darian Durant to a multi-year extension Wednesday after leading the club to just its fourth Grey Cup title last year.

Knowing he has the 31-year-old Durant for the long-term — reportedly through the 2016 season — is a big relief for Chamblin, named the CFL’s coach of the year following Saskatchewan’s Grey Cup championship.

“In order to win championships you need to have a quarterback and to win multiple championships you have to have a quarterback who believes in the head coach and I think that’s what we have,” Chamblin said during a news conference announcing Durant’s extension. “It’s huge to have that security. That’s the biggest security blanket knowing who’s going to be under centre for the next few years.”

The five-foot-11, 214-pound Durant, a native of Florence, S.C., had one year left on his previous deal. He’s entering his ninth CFL season, all with Saskatchewan.

“A lot of guys don’t get the opportunity to stay with one franchise their whole career,” Durant said. “It was basically a no-brainer for me to stay a part of this organization.

“It’s the best in the league.”

And there’s certainly continuity at the top as this off-season the Riders have re-signed Durant, Chamblin and general manager Brendan Taman to new extensions. Taman also added the title of vice-president of football operations to his job description Taman called Durant’s deal “winwin” in that the player receives a fairmarket contract that the Riders can afford while the team maintains the

nucleus of its roster.

“It wasn’t about taking as much money as he can get, it was about keeping our team together and that tells you all about Darian,” Taman said. “There was a market that was out there that was laid out by other quarterbacks that had signed.

“We worked through it and both parties are happy. I think the key in all this is Darian Durant should be recognized as an elite quarterback in this league, which we are prepared to do from our end and were able to get to an agreement with him on a multi-year extension.”

Exact contract and financial details weren’t divulged but Durant said his new deal doesn’t make him the CFL’s highest-paid player in 2014. It’s generally regarded B.C. Lions quarterback Travis Lulay enjoys that distinction with a reported salary of about $450,000 this year.

Veteran Henry Burris of the expansion Ottawa Renegades is said to have a similar deal if he can stay healthy this season.

While Durant’s deal appears to offer the Riders salary-cap savings in 2014, the burning question remains what the quarterback’s average salary might be over the term of the contract.

But Chamblin believes Durant can be even better moving forward.

“Brendan mentioned him being an elite quarterback, I think Darian has been a very good quarterback,” Chamblin said. “I’m excited to see him become a great quarterback and one that we can talk about for years.”

It’s not the first time Durant has made a commitment to Saskatchewan.

In January 2009 he re-signed with the Riders rather than test the free-agent waters.

Durant enjoyed a solid 2013 campaign, passing for 4,154 yards and a league-high 31 TD passes with 12 interceptions.

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Crosby frontrunner to win MVP BUT PREDICTING THE REST OF THE NHL AWARD WINNERS ISN’T AS EASY

Picking NHL award-winners during an 82-game season with interconference play beats 48 without it.

Still, the big question this time of year winds up being: What makes a team tick? Did the Colorado Avalanche win the Central Division more because of coach Patrick Roy or goaltender Semyon Varlamov? Where would the Pittsburgh Penguins or Philadelphia Flyers have been without Sidney Crosby and Claude Giroux?

Piecing together those things went a long way to picking this ballot.

Members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association vote for the Hart, Norris, Calder, Lady Byng and Selke, along with all-star and all-rookie teams. Broadcasters vote on the Jack Adams and general managers on the Vezina, but for the purposes of debate, let’s consider Roy and Varlamov tops in each of those categories.

HART TROPHY

Most valuable player Winner: Sidney Crosby On the ballot: Claude Giroux, Ryan Getzlaf, Semyon Varlamov, Patrice Bergeron With 104 points, Crosby ran away with the scoring race by finishing 17 ahead of Getzlaf. Whether by the the Hart’s strict interpretation as most valuable player to his team, or the award’s largely accepted definition as the best player in the league, it’s Crosby in a landslide and everyone else should be playing for second place.

Crosby had a part in 43 per cent of the Penguins’ goals, by far the most in the NHL. Giroux struggled early, but when he started producing, he led the Flyers from the dregs of the Eastern Conference to a playoff spot. Getzlaf’s contributions, especially late, helped the Ducks hold off the Sharks to win the Pacific Division.

And though Roy should get plenty of credit, Varlamov is far and away the No. 1 reason the Avalanche made the playoffs. No goaltender in the league faced more shots than he did, and when he stopped 92.7 per cent of them Colorado won more games than it should have.

Bergeron was (again) Mr. Everything for the Bruins, who won the Presidents’ Trophy. When he was at his best, so was Boston during an absurd 15-1-1 March.

NORRIS TROPHY

Best defenceman Winner: Shea Weber On the ballot: Zdeno Chara, Duncan

Keith, Alex Pietrangelo, Ryan Suter It’s incredible to think that Weber hasn’t won a Norris Trophy yet, and this could be his season even though you could make a legitimate case for six or seven players. Weber finished third among defencemen in points and played against some of the toughest competition while with the Nashville Predators.

Chara has also played some very difficult minutes, but the Bruins captain was also not as much of an offensive force as Weber and was actually 23rd among defencemen in scoring.

Advanced stats such as quality of competition faced and zone starts make a favourable case for Chara to at least be in the discussion.

Keith garnered serious consideration because he was second in points and one of the huge reasons the Blackhawks are one of the league’s best, while Pietrangelo has quietly become elite in St. Louis. Suter led all players in minutes and played in all situations, so it’d be hard to argue against him, either.

CALDER TROPHY

Best rookie Winner: Nathan MacKinnon On the ballot: Ondrej Palat, Olli Maatta, Tyler Johnson, Seth Jones With 63 points and his role in the Avalanche’s impressive season, MacKinnon should win the Calder but it’s not as much running away as it might’ve looked a couple of months ago.

That’s because Palat was so instrumental in the Lightning staying afloat in the absence of Steven Stamkos and finishing second in the Atlantic Division.

Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper relies on Palat and Johnson to kill penalties, too, and the rookies haven’t looked like rookies in that role.

Defencemen typically take longer to develop, which is why Maatta and Jones’s seasons were so impressive.

Maatta surprised to make the Penguins out of training camp, and even though he hit a rookie wall at one point has been playing big and important minutes.

Jones, who could be fifth or just off the ballot if a player like Boston’s Torrey Krug gets some attention, showed glimpses of why he’s a future star in this league. He’ll need to improve, but the ingredients are there.

LADY BYNG TROPHY

Sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability Winner: Ryan O’Reilly On the ballot: Rob Scuderi, Dan Girardi, Patrice Bergeron, Teemu Se-

Jets sign head coach Maurice to a four-year extension

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Head coach Paul Maurice has been given a four-year extention to guide the Winnipeg Jets, and he and general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff appear to be of one mind on some of the team’s upcoming issues.

One of them is keeping Ondrej Pavelec as the team’s starting goaltender.

Cheveldayoff said it was disappointing not to make the playoffs but he didn’t suggest he’s deviating in any big way from his draft-and-develop philosophy and that includes sticking with his 26-year-old starting netminder.

“Ondrej Pavelec is the No. 1 goaltender going into next season,” the general manager insisted.

“He’s relatively a young goaltender when it comes to being a starting goaltender and when you give those young players those opportunities to excel there’s going to be some bumps along the way.”

With a save percentage of .901 (70th among all goalies in the NHL) and a goals against average of 3.01 (69th) Pavelec is a frequent target of criticism.

Maurice says he wouldn’t have a lot to say about who plays for the team, which is a general manager’s job, but he had no problem at all with Pavelec as his starting netminder.

“We’re at a stage in our franchise where we’ve got three or four potentially critical pieces through our line-

NFL

Jets sign former Titans running back Chris Johnson NEW YORK — Always fast on the field, Chris Johnson is looking to quickly prove his critics wrong.

The New York Jets signed the former Titans running back Wednesday, a little over a week after he was officially released by Tennessee.

Johnson met with the Jets all day Tuesday — the first team he visited — and stayed in town to watch the KnicksNets game in Brooklyn before signing Wednesday. The Jets announced the move, but didn’t release terms.

In a text message to The Associated Press, Johnson confirmed it was a twoyear deal.

“I have a fresh start,” Johnson told

up that are here that we’ve got to make better. We’ve got to put them in a position to be better then they have to be better. ...

“And I think Evander Kane falls into that hole, really good young talented players that need to develop, that need to get better and I think they will get better ... In my mind, with Ondrej Pavelec, we have to do everything we can as a team to give our goaltending the best chance to win us games and that hasn’t happened yet.”

Kane finished with only 19 goals this season, a far cry from the 30 the forward scored in 2011-12, although this season he missed 19 games — 18 due to injuries and another as a healthy scratch, reportedly for missing a team meeting.

Maurice came in as Claude Noel’s replacement in January and impressed Jets management as well as the players with his skills.

“He’s an impressive hockey coach but he’s an impressive person as well,” Cheveldayoff said.

“He walked in and he made a tremendous impact from the moment he walked in and we believe that we’re just scratching the surface on the impact he can make on this franchise moving forward.”

Maurice, 47, said on the phone from his current home in Ohio that he made the decision fairly early on that he wanted to stay in Winnipeg. The deal was done Tuesday and he immediately flew home to talk about it with his family and they supported him.

The Tennessean. “Now I am going to go out there with a chip on my shoulder. I know a lot of people are doubting me.”

Johnson was told by the Titans of their decision April 4, ending a sixyear stint in Tennessee during which he became one of the NFL’s most exciting running backs. The former 2,000-yard rusher will team with Chris Ivory and Bilal Powell to give coach Rex Ryan and offensive co-ordinator Marty Mornhinweg a deep and dangerous backfield.

The Jets also have Mike Goodson, who is dealing with legal issues and recovering from torn knee ligaments.

“I’ve always been a big fan of the Jets,” Johnson told the team’s website.

“There was some thought into this, but just at the end of the day, I was comfortable here. I just felt like it was the right situation.”

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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby prepares to take a face off in the second period of an NHL game against the Philadelphia Flyers in Pittsburgh on April 12, 2014. Crosby crushed the competition in scoring, reaching the 100-point mark for the fifth time in his career and should be a lock to win another Hart trophy as the NHL’s MVP. lanne It took until O’Reilly’s 72nd game of the season before he picked up his first penalty, and it was for playing with a broken stick. In the meantime, he recorded 65 points, finishing behind only Matt Duchene and Gabriel Landeskog in Colorado.

Scuderi, who missed time with a broken ankle, was a steadying presence when he was in the Penguins’ lineup and kept up as a strong defensive defenceman without taking too many dumb penalties. The same can be said for Rangers shutdown ace Girardi.

Bergeron had the most penalty minutes of his career, but being 211th in the league with all the situations he plays in should be worth something.

And while Selanne’s production has fallen off at age 43, it’s hard to think of gentlemanly conduct without him.

SELKE TROPHY

Best defensive forward Winner: Patrice Bergeron On the ballot: Marian Hossa, Anze Kopitar Sean Couturier, Paul Stastny Even though Jonathan Toews won this by a slim margin last year, watching Bergeron in the defensive end it’s impossible to not marvel at the little things he does. It’s not just about killing penalties but how he’s always in passing and shooting lanes and rarely makes mistakes, let alone ones that lead to goals against.

Hossa is the best defensive winger in the game and shouldn’t be ignored because this award has gone to

a centre in each of the past nine years.

Toews overshadows Hossa in Chicago, which in most years makes it hard to put him in the discussion.

Kopitar is one of the most responsible two-way centres in the game, while Couturier has found a niche as a shutdown player. Stastny has made the most of his defensive play even though things are crowded down the middle in Colorado.

ALL-STAR TEAMS

First-team forwards: LW Patrick Sharp — C Sidney Crosby — RW Corey Perry Second-team forwards: LW Jamie Benn — C Ryan Getzlaf — RW Alex Ovechkin Third-team forwards: LW Alexander Steen — C Claude Giroux — RW Phil Kessel First-team defencemen: Shea Weber and Zdeno Chara Second-team defencemen: Duncan Keith and Alex Pietrangelo Third-team defencemen: Ryan Suter and Drew Doughty First-team goaltender: Semyon Varlamov Second-team goaltender: Tuukka Rask Third-team goaltender: Ben Bishop

ALL-ROOKIE TEAM

Forwards: Nathan MacKinnon, Ondrej Palat and Tyler Johnson Defencemen: Olli Maatta and Seth Jones Goaltender: Frederik Andersen

Tippett to coach Canada at world championship

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Dave Tippett is known for getting the most out of his players in the NHL, and he’ll be counted on to do the same as Team Canada’s coach at the upcoming world championship.

Tippett, whose Phoenix Coyotes narrowly missed the playoffs, was named to that post Wednesday and will be joined by assistants Peter DeBoer of the New Jersey Devils and Paul Maurice of the Winnipeg Jets. It’ll be up to that staff to try to make the most of a roster that won’t be as star-studded as the group that won gold at the Sochi Olympics.

“That’s the exciting thing for me is to try to get players in, get them in roles and get them in situations where they can succeed at,” Tippett said in a phone interview. “That’s always been our philosophy in Phoenix is we might not be a cap team, but we got players that can do jobs in certain areas and really excel at it.

“Once the team gets settled in here

we’ll try to figure out where everybody kind of fits, but that’s one of the challenges, whether you’ve got young players or veteran players or superstar players, is getting your group together and getting them all in situations where they can play well.”

This Canadian team will include David Perron of the Edmonton Oilers, Sean Monahan of the Calgary Flames, Morgan Rielly and James Reimer of the Toronto Maple Leafs, among others who have already confirmed they’ll go to Minsk, Belarus, for next month’s tournament.

There isn’t Olympic experience there, but Jason Chimera of the Washington Capitals was there in 2007 when Canada last won gold at the world championship, and Reimer went 4-0 at the 2011 tournament.

Tippett, from Moosomin, Sask., was an assistant coach in 2009 and 2013, and DeBoer, from Waterloo, Ont., was on staff in 2010 and 2011. Maurice, from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., has experience with the bigger, international-sized ice surface from coaching in the KHL.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey Ana (too many men) 4:06, Silfverberg Ana (holding) 9:52, Winnik Ana (slashing) 15:50, Gonchar Dal (hooking) 18:31.

Second Period 4. Anaheim, Beleskey 1 (Beauchemin, Selanne) 9:04 (pp).

5. Dallas, Benn 1 (Sceviour, Chiasson) 16:36 (pp).

6. Dallas, Sceviour 1 (Eakin, Benn) 18:09.

Penalties — Garbutt Dal (unsportsmanlike conduct) 7:55, Robidas Ana (high-sticking) 15:02, Bench Ana (too many men) 16:07.

Third Period 7. Dallas, Seguin 1 (Daley, Nichushkin) 13:53.

Penalties — Nemeth Dal (hooking) 1:56, Gonchar Dal (tripping) 11:15.

Shots on goal Dallas 14 13 8 — 35 Anaheim 10 12 13 — 35 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (L, 0-1-0); Anaheim: Andersen (W, 1-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Dallas: 1-5; Anaheim: 2-5.

Pittsburgh 4 Columbus 3 Saturday, April 19 Columbus at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Monday, April 21 Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, April 23 Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Edmonton vs Brandon (Edmonton wins series 4-1) Medicine Hat vs Kootenay (Medicine Hat wins series 4-3) Monday, Apr. 14 Medicine Hat 2 Kootenay 1 Wednesday, Apr. 16 Medicine Hat 4 Kootenay 1

N.Y. Rangers (2) vs. Philadelphia (3) Thursday, April 17 Philadelphia at NY Rangers, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 20 Philadelphia at NY Rangers, 10 a.m.

Tuesday, April 22 NY Rangers at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Friday, April 25 NY Rangers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 27 x-Philadelphia at NY Rangers, 10 a.m.

Kelowna vs Seattle (Kelowna wins series 4-0) Portland vs Victoria (Portland wins series 4-1) Wednesday’s summary Tigers 4, Ice 1 First Period 1. Kootenay, Peel 2 (unassisted) :51.

2. Medicine Hat, Owre 3 (Eisenschmid, Koules) 6:44.

Penalties — Philp Koo (high-sticking) 3:29, Dirk Koo (inter. on goaltender) 8:06.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 3. Medicine Hat, Cox 7 (Sanford, Valk) :11.

4. Medicine Hat, Cox 8 (Sanford) 11:19.

5. Medicine Hat, Sanford 8 (unassisted) 17:49 (-EN).

Penalties — Koules MH (tripping) 2:06.

Shots on goal Kootenay 16 10 18 — 44 Medicine Hat 8 13 7 — 28 Goal — Kootenay: Skapski (L, 3-4-1); Medicine Hat: Langhamer (W, 8-4-1).

Power plays (goal-chances)Kootenay: 0-1; Medicine Hat: 0-2.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Colorado (1) vs. Minnesota (WC) Thursday, April 17 Minnesota at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 19 Minnesota at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 21 Colorado at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 Colorado at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Penguins 4, Blue Jackets 3 First Period 1. Columbus, Johnson 1 (Dubinsky) 6:20.

2. Pittsburgh, Jokinen 1 (Malkin, Maatta) 17:13.

3. Columbus, Letestu 1 (Johnson, Jenner) 17:58 (pp).

Penalties — Scuderi Pgh (interference) 17:45, Comeau Clb (cross-checking) 19:44.

Second Period 4. Columbus, Mackenzie 1 (unassisted) :43 (sh).

5. Pittsburgh, Bennett 1 (Niskanen, Martin) 1:34 (pp).

6. Pittsburgh, Niskanen 1 (Malkin, Crosby) 2:19 (pp).

Penalties — Johnson Clb (interference) 2:09, Glass Pgh (interference) 3:11, Letang Pgh (slashing) 15:30.

Third Period 7. Pittsburgh, Sutter 1 (Bennett, Martin) 8:18.

Penalties — Tyutin Clb (tripping) 10:14, Letang Pgh (interference) 11:33.

Shots on goal Columbus 13 12 9 — 34 Pittsburgh 12 10 10 — 32 Goal — Columbus: Bobrovsky (L, 0-1-0); Pittsburgh: Fleury (W, 1-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Columbus: 1-4; Pittsburgh: 2-3.

St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3) Thursday, April 17 Chicago at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 19 Chicago at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Monday, April 21 St. Louis at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 23 St. Louis at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 25 x-Chicago at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 27 x-St. Louis at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Dallas (WC) (Anaheim leads series 1-0) Wednesday, April 16 Anaheim 4 Dallas 3 Friday, April 18 Dallas at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Monday, April 21 Anaheim at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 23 Anaheim at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Friday, April 25 x-Dallas at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Boston (1) vs. Detroit (WC) Friday, April 18 Detroit at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 20 Detroit at Boston, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 22 Boston at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 Boston at Detroit, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 26 x-Detroit at Boston, 1 p.m.

San Jose (2) vs. Los Angeles (3) Thursday, April 17 Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 20 Los Angeles at San Jose, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 22 San Jose at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. x — if necessary.

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Montreal (3) (Montreal leads series 1-0) Wednesday, April 16 Montreal 5 Tampa Bay 4, OT Friday, April 18 Montreal at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 20 Tampa Bay at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, April 22 Tampa Bay at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 x-Montreal at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries Ducks 4, Stars 3 First Period 1. Anaheim, Palmieri 1 (Bonino, Winnik) 1:53.

2. Anaheim, Getzlaf 1 (Beleskey, Perry) 12:49.

3. Anaheim, Perreault 1 (Maroon, Getzlaf) 19:30 (pp).

Penalties — Roussel Dal (tripping) 2:40, Bench

Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh (1) vs. Columbus (WC) (Pittsburgh leads series 1-0) Wednesday, April 16t

Canadiens 5, Lightning 4 (OT) First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 1 (Brown, Paquette) 10:09.

2. Montreal, Plekanec 1 (Emelin, Gallagher) 10:28.

Penalties — Panik TB (tripping) 17:53.

Second Period 3. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 1 (Kostka) 13:24.

4. Montreal, Gionta 1 (Eller, Weaver) 16:39 (sh).

Penalties — Paquette TB (cross-checking) 3:40, Briere Mtl (stick holding) 3:40, Subban Mtl (slashing) 16:06, Emelin Mtl (slashing) 18:34.

Third Period 5. Montreal, Eller 1 (Gionta) 5:10.

6. Tampa Bay, Killorn 1 (Johnson) 7:11.

7. Montreal, Vanek 1 (Desharnais, Emelin) 11:30.

8. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 2 (Killorn) 13:27.

Penalties — Killorn TB (high-sticking) 17:59.

Overtime 9. Montreal, Weise 1 (Briere, Gorges) 18:08.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Montreal 14 8 13 9 — 44 Tampa Bay 4 7 5 9 — 25 Goal — Montreal: Price (W, 1-0-0); Tampa Bay: Lindback (LO, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Montreal: 0-2; Tampa Bay: 0-2.

Baseball New York Toronto Baltimore Tampa Bay Boston

Chicago Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota

Oakland Texas Seattle Los Angeles Houston

Central Division W L Pct 8 6 .571 6 5 .545 7 7 .500 6 7 .462 6 7 .462 West Division W L Pct 10 4 .714 8 7 .533 7 7 .500 6 8 .429 5 10 .333

GB — 1/2 1 1/2 2 3 1/2 GB — 1/2 1 1 1/2 1 1/2 GB — 2 1/2 3 4 5 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Chicago Cubs at New York, ppd., rain Tampa Bay at Baltimore, ppd., rain Cleveland at Detroit, ppd., inclement weather Texas 5, Seattle 0 Chicago White Sox 2, Boston 1 Kansas City 4, Houston 2 Toronto 9, Minnesota 3 Oakland 10, L.A. Angels 9, 11 innings Wednesday’s Games Baltimore 3, Tampa Bay 0 N.Y. Yankees 3, Chicago Cubs 0, 1st game N.Y. Yankees 2, Chicago Cubs 0, 2nd game Cleveland 3, Detroit 2 Texas 3, Seattle 2 Kansas City 6, Houston 4, 11 innings Boston at Chicago White Sox, late Toronto at Minnesota, ppd., rain Oakland at L.A. Angels, late Thursday’s Games Cleveland (Salazar 0-1) at Detroit (Verlander 1-1), 11:08 a.m.

Toronto (Dickey 1-2) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 0-2), 11:10 a.m., 1st game Seattle (E.Ramirez 1-2) at Texas (Scheppers 0-1), 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 1-2) at Tampa Bay (Price 2-0), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (McGowan 1-1) at Minnesota (Gibson 2-0), 5:10 p.m., 2nd game Boston (Lester 1-2) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 3-0), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Shields 0-2) at Houston (Feldman 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Toronto at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Seattle at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

Houston at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

National League East Division W L Pct

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American League East Division W L Pct 9 6 .600 8 6 .571 7 7 .500 7 8 .467 5 9 .357

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Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago

Los Angeles San Francisco Colorado San Diego Arizona

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Cleveland 120 000 000 — 3 5 2 Detroit 100 000 010 — 2 9 1 McAllister, Shaw (7), Allen (8), Axford (9) and Y.Gomes; A.Sanchez, E.Reed (6), Krol (7), Alburquerque (8), Chamberlain (9) and Avila. W—McAllister 2-0. L—A.Sanchez 0-1. Sv—Axford (5).

Central Division W L Pct 11 4 .733 9 6 .600 7 8 .467 6 9 .400 4 10 .286

GB — 2 4 5 6 1/2

Seattle 020 000 000 — 2 7 1 Texas 000 000 012 — 3 6 1 F.Hernandez, Furbush (8), Medina (8), Rodney (9) and Zunino; Darvish, Frasor (8), Figueroa (9) and Chirinos, Arencibia. W—Figueroa 1-1. L—Rodney 0-1.

West Division W L Pct 9 5 .643 9 5 .643 7 8 .467 6 8 .429 4 14 .222

GB — — 2 1/2 3 7

10 9 8 6 6

4 6 7 8 10

Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 7, comp. of susp. game Atlanta at Philadelphia, ppd., rain Chicago Cubs at New York, ppd., rain Cincinnati 7, Pittsburgh 5 Miami 11, Washington 2 St. Louis 6, Milwaukee 1 N.Y. Mets 9, Arizona 0 Colorado 3, San Diego 2 San Francisco 3, L.A. Dodgers 2, 12 innings Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 0 N.Y. Yankees 3, Chicago Cubs 0, 1st game Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 1 N.Y. Mets 5, Arizona 2 Atlanta 1, Philadelphia 0 N.Y. Yankees 2, Chicago Cubs 0, 2nd game Washington 6, Miami 3 Colorado at San Diego, late L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, late Thursday’s Games Atlanta (A.Wood 2-1) at Philadelphia (Burnett 0-1), 11:05 a.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 2-1) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 2-0), 1:45 p.m.

Colorado (Morales 0-1) at San Diego (Kennedy 1-2), 4:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 2-0) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 2-1) at Washington (Jordan 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

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

Seattle at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

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

Wednesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay 000 000 000 — 0 6 1 Baltimore 000 210 00x — 3 6 0 Odorizzi, Boxberger (6), Jo.Peralta (7), B.Gomes (8) and J.Molina; M.Gonzalez, Britton (6), Tom.Hunter (9) and Wieters. W—M.Gonzalez 1-1. L—Odorizzi 1-2. Sv—Tom.Hunter (4).

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ACAC HALL OF FAME One of the best players to ever don an RDC Kings volleyball uniform is among the latest additions to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference Hall of Fame.

Setter Brock Davidiuk, who played two seasons with the Kings, leading them to the national title both years, is among 10 inductees announced Wednesday. They join 10 others announced on Monday and will be joined by 30 more in the next two weeks.

Davidiuk won numerous awards, including the CCAA academic All-Canadian, CCAA championship MVP, CCAA AllCanadian, CCAA male athlete of the year for volleyball and all sports, RDC athlete of the year and the Advocate’s Red Deer male athlete of the year.

He was also part of possibly the best college team of all time when the 2002-03 Kings went through the season undefeated against college competition, losing only four sets. They also split a pair of matches against BYU, which finished second in

Kan. City 010 100 200 02 — 6 13 4 Houston 002 002 000 00 — 4 10 0 (11 innings) Guthrie, Crow (7), K.Herrera (8), Duffy (9), G.Holland (11) and S.Perez; Keuchel, Peacock (7), K.Chapman (7), Albers (7), Fields (9), Williams (10) and J.Castro. W—Duffy 1-0. L—Williams 0-1.

Sv—G.Holland (5). HRs—Kansas City, Valencia (1), Moustakas (1). Houston, J.Castro (3), Krauss (1).

INTERLEAGUE First Game Chicago 000 000 000 — 0 3 0 New York 100 110 00x — 3 5 0 Hammel, Grimm (8), W.Wright (8) and Jo.Baker; Tanaka, Kelley (9) and McCann. W—Tanaka 2-0.

L—Hammel 2-1. Sv—Kelley (4). HRs—New York, Beltran (4).

Second Game Chicago 000 000 000 — 0 6 1 New York 000 110 00x — 2 12 0 T.Wood, H.Rondon (6), Rosscup (7) and Castillo; Pineda, Phelps (7), Thornton (8), Warren (9) and J.Murphy. W—Pineda 2-1. L—T.Wood 0-2. Sv— Warren (1).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 000 000 000 — 0 3 1 Cincinnati 100 000 21x — 4 8 0 Liriano, Pimentel (8) and T.Sanchez; Cueto and B.Pena. W—Cueto 1-2. L—Liriano 0-3. HRs—Cincinnati, Votto (4).

St. Louis 000 001 000 — 1 9 1 Milwaukee 001 030 01x — 5 9 0 J.Kelly, Maness (5), Choate (6), K.Butler (7), Neshek (8) and Y.Molina; W.Peralta, W.Smith (7), Thornburg (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy. W—W.Peralta 2-0.

L—J.Kelly 1-1. HRs—St. Louis, Craig (1).

New York 010 101 002 — 5 10 Arizona 000 000 002 — 2 8 Gee, Farnsworth (8), Rice (8), Valverde (9) Recker; McCarthy, Thatcher (6), O.Perez Ziegler (8), A.Reed (9) and Montero. W—Gee L—McCarthy 0-3. HRs—New York, Recker Arizona, Hill (1), Goldschmidt (3).

0 2 and (7), 1-0.

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Atlanta 000 100 000 — 1 11 0 Phila.

000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Teheran and Gattis; Cl.Lee and Ruiz. W—Teheran 2-1. L—Cl.Lee 2-2. HRs—Atlanta, Gattis (4).

Wash.

000 003 030 — 6 7 1 Miami 000 300 000 — 3 7 2 Roark, Storen (7), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and Lobaton; Fernandez, M.Dunn (8), A.Ramos (8), Marmol (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—Storen 1-0. L—M. Dunn 0-2. Sv—R.Soriano (3). HRs—Washington, Werth (3), Walters (2). Miami, Dietrich (3).

the NCAA that season. They won the University of Saskatchewan tournament, defeating three top 10 CIS teams along the way.

In 2002 Davidiuk joined the junior national team that won the NORCECA junior championship, then competed with the senior national team from 200412.

Davidiuk attended the University of Alberta and now coaches with the U of A Golden Bears and is working on his masters degree in coaching.

Davidiuk was one of four athletes inducted, joining Kenneth Lovsin of Camrose, Lana Common of Grande MacEwan and Sharlene Marshall of Mount Royal. Coaches Dr. Garry Gibson of Camrose, Gerry Cousens of Grant MacEwan and Stan Peters of Briercrest were also honoured along with builders Ellery Pullman of Briercrest, Bob Waldenberger of Grande Prairie and Leroy Johnson of Camrose.

Ten more inductees will be announced April 23, April 28 and April 30.

All 50 inductees will be honoured May 10 at a gala evening at Sutton Place Hotel in Edmonton.

WHL PLAYOFFS

Cox scores twice as Tigers advance with 4-1 win over Ice THE CANADIAN PRESS MEDICINE HAT — Trevor Cox scored two goals and Marek Langhamer made 43 saves to lift the Medicine Hat Tigers over the Kootenay Ice 4-1 in Game 7 of their second round Western Hockey League playoff series Wednesday.

Cole Sanford had a goal and two assists, and Steve Owre also scored for the Tigers, who will play the Edmonton Oil Kings in the Eastern Conference final starting Friday.

Landon Peel scored the lone goal for the Ice, just 51 seconds into the game.

Kootenay’s Mackenzie Skapski stopped 24 shots in the losing effort.

Today ● Bowling: Alberta Open 5-in championship at Heritage Lanes, 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. ● Junior B hockey: Western Canada Keystone Cup championship at Abbotsford, B.C. — Blackfalds Wranglers vs. Saskatchewan, 12:45 p.m. MDT; Blackfalds vs. Abbotsford Pilots, 9:30 p.m. MDT. ● Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup at Dundas, Ont. — Quarter-finals at 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. MDT.

Friday ● Bowling: Alberta Open 5-in championship at Heritage Lanes, 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. ● Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup at Dundas, Ont. — Semifinals at 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. MDT. ● Junior B hockey: Western Canada

Keystone Cup championship at Abbotsford, B.C. — Blackfalds Wranglers vs. British Columbia, 3:30 p.m. MDT.

Saturday

● Bowling: Alberta Open 5-in championship at Heritage Lanes, 8:30 a.m. to 5:05 p.m. ● Junior B hockey: Western Canada Keystone Cup championship at Abbotsford, B.C. — Blackfalds Wranglers vs. Northern Ontario, 10 a.m. MDT; Blackfalds vs. Manitoba, 6:15 p.m. MDT. ● Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup at Dundas, Ont. — Championship final on TSN, time to be determined.

Sunday

● Junior B hockey: Western Canada Keystone Cup championship at Abbotsford, B.C. — Bronze-medal game at 11 a.m. MDT; gold-medal game at 2 p.m. MDT.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB z-Indiana 56 26 .683 — y-Miami 54 28 .659 2 y-Toronto 48 34 .585 8 x-Chicago 48 34 .585 8 x-Washington 44 38 .537 12 x-Brooklyn 44 38 .537 12 x-Charlotte 43 39 .524 13 x-Atlanta 38 44 .463 18 New York 37 45 .451 19 Cleveland 33 49 .402 23 Detroit 29 53 .354 27 Boston 25 57 .305 31 Orlando 23 59 .280 33 Philadelphia 19 63 .232 37 Milwaukee 15 67 .183 41 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB 62 20 .756 — 59 23 .720 3 57 24 .704 4 1/2 54 28 .659 8 53 28 .654 8 1/2 50 31 .617 11 1/2 50 32 .610 12 49 33 .598 13 47 34 .580 14 1/2

z-San Antonio y-Oklahoma City y-L.A. Clippers x-Houston x-Portland x-Golden State x-Memphis x-Dallas Phoenix

Minnesota 40 42 .488 22 Denver 36 45 .444 25 1/2 New Orleans 34 48 .415 28 Sacramento 28 53 .346 33 1/2 L.A. Lakers 27 55 .329 35 Utah 25 57 .305 37 x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division; zclinched conference Tuesday’s Games New York 109, Brooklyn 98 L.A. Clippers 117, Denver 105 Wednesday’s Games Indiana 101, Orlando 86 Charlotte 91, Chicago 86, OT Utah 136, Minnesota 130,2OT Oklahoma City 112, Detroit 111 Atlanta 111, Milwaukee 103 Memphis 106, Dallas 105, OT L.A. Lakers 113, San Antonio 100 New Orleans 105, Houston 100 Washington 118, Boston 102 Cleveland 114, Brooklyn 85 Philadelphia 100, Miami 87 New York 95, Toronto 92 L.A. Clippers at Portland, late Phoenix at Sacramento, late Golden State at Denver, late End of regular season

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Selected the contract of OF George Springer from Oklahoma City (PCL).

Reinstated RHP Scott Feldman from the bereavement list. Optioned OF Robbie Grossman to Oklahoma City. Designated RHP Lucas Harrell for assignment.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed OF Kole Calhoun on the 15-day DL. Selected OF Brennan Boesch from Salt Lake City (PCL). Transferred RHP Ryan Brasier to the 60-day DL. NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP Shane Greene from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL) and will option him back to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre following the April 16 night game.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Claimed RHP Marcus Walden off waivers from Toronto and optioned him to Sacramento (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled INF Nick Franklin and OF James Jones from Tacoma (PCL).

Placed OF-DH Logan Morrison on 15-day DL, retroactive to April 15 and RHP Blake Beavan on the 15-day DL. National League NEW YORK METS — Selected the contract of RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka’s contract from Las Vegas (PCL). Sent LHP John Lannan outright to Las Vegas.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to terms with LHP Adam Loewen on a minor league contract and assigned him to extended spring training.

American Association ST. PAUL SAINTS — Released RHP Kyle Morrison.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed 1B Chun-Hsiu Chen.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Los Angeles Clippers’ F Blake Griffin a one game after receiving his 16th technical foul of the 2013-14 season.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Announced owner Herb Kohl will sell the franchise to New York investment firm executives Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens.

NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed F Lamar Odom

for the remainder of the season.

FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed P T.J. Conley.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Agreed to terms with QB Matt Flynn.

NEW YORK JETS — Agreed to terms with RB Chris Johnson.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Agreed to terms with WR Sidney Rice.

Canadian Football League OTTAWA REDBLACKS — Released WR Limas Sweed, WR Paul De Pass, WR Eric Rogers, DB Justin Ferrell, DB Bo Smith and K Derek Schiavone.

SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS — Signed QB Darian Durant to a multiyear contract extension.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Announced goalie coach Jim Corsi will not return next season and the contract of assistant coach Teppo Numminen will not be renewed. Announced assistant coach Joe Sacco and Jerry Forton have been offered jobs within the team’s hockey department.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled G Mac Carruth from Rockford (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed D Viktor Loov to a three-year entry-level contract.

WINNIPEG JETS — Signed coach Paul Maurice to a four-year contract extension.

American HOCKEY LEAGUE ABBOTSFORD HEAT — Announced D Keegan Kanzig has been assigned to the team from Victoria (WHL).

SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Announced D Josh McFadden was recalled from Cincinnati (ECHL).

ECHL STOCKTON THUNDER — Added F Mathieu Gagnon and D Andrey Pedan to the roster.

MOTORSPORTS INDYCAR — Fined driver Sebastian Saavedra $10,000 and placed him on probation through the Indianapolis 500 for a rules violation at Long Beach on April 13.

SOCCER MLS — Awards an expansion team to Atlanta.

Spieth not looking back after tying for second at Masters

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Get ready, Augusta National. Jordan Spieth can’t wait for another chance at that green jacket.

The 20-year-old Spieth is in the field at the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links that starts Thursday. He gave no thought to withdrawing after the grind of the Masters, instead feeling energized by his runner-up finish to Bubba Watson.

“It definitely left me hungry and ready to play golf again,” he said. “And ready to eventually get back there again, which is, I think, the only way to kind of redeem myself.”

In the fans’ view during his pro-am round Wednesday, no redemption was necessary. Spieth was continually stopped by spectators, players, caddies and others on the grounds, who patted him on the back or shook his hand.

Spieth’s caddie, Michael Greller, told him, “Man, I’ve never seen somebody get so many congratulations for losing.”

“And he’s right,” Spieth said.

Spieth rose to No. 9 in the world this week, the youngest American to make the top 10, and he plans for another big week at Harbour Town.

He tied for ninth here a year ago, his first time playing the treacherously tight Pete Dye layout.

This time, he’s got a bit of job audition, too, paired the next two days with past and present U.S. Ryder Cup captains in Davis Love III and Tom Watson.

“A huge goal of mine has always been, my whole life, to make a Ryder Cup team,” Spieth said. “So playing with the captain, I’m sure there will be some extra nerves there trying to impress him.”

Watson’s already impressed. He says Spieth showed poise and passion in the final pairing Sunday, qualities the captain covets as he prepares an American team for the Ryder Cup matches at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland this September.

“He’s very mature and he has a good sense of who he is,” Watson said. “I like that about him.”

Bubba Watson is off this week, something every Masters champion has done since Zach Johnson followed a victory at Augusta National in 2007 by playing here a few days later.

Seven of the world’s top 25 players are in the field. Matt Kuchar, who tied for fifth at the Masters, is the top-ranked player at No. 6.

Fifth-ranked Jason Day was scheduled to play but withdrew earlier this week with a thumb injury.

Others here include Johnson (12th) and defending champion Graeme McDowell (14th).

Tom Watson is playing Harbour Town for the first time since 2001. This is mostly a fact-finding mission to meet and talk with players who might end up as captain’s picks when his selections are revealed after the PGA Championship.

CBS Sports analyst and sixtime major champion Nick Faldo is also making a rare PGA Tour appearance, teeing it up at Harbour Town for the first time since 2006.

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Mexico’s

Snowbirds ALBERTANS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES WHO FLY TO MEXICO TO ESCAPE WINTER — SEVERAL SPECIES OF BIRDS THAT EITHER BREED IN OR MIGRATE THROUGH THE PROVINCE CAN ALSO BE FOUND THERE

ike many other winter-weary Albertans, I had the recent good fortune to savour a week of sun in Mexico. Our destination was Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa on the Pacific coast.

While large sections of the coastline in this area have been developed into resorts and marinas, there are still pristine beaches and protected mangroves, and a large tract of native habitat has been protected in the Aztlán Ecological Park. We were pleasantly surprised to discover a freshly resurfaced path near our hotel which led through the park.

This path enabled us to explore the park’s remarkable lagoon system and diverse forests.

MYRNA In addition to marveling PEARMAN at the crocodiles and iguanas, we were soon able to identify many of the common birds, including roseate spoonbill, cinnamon hummingbird, rufouscrowned motmot, citreoline trogon, yellow-winged c ciqu ca q e and streaked-back oriole. We were also

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fortunate to see the less common ferruginouss pygmy owl and a squirrel cuckoo.

While it was fascinating to see these tropical birds and add some new species to my (randomly maintained) life list, what I found most interesting were the “familiar” species; species that either breed in or migrate through Alberta.

Some, like yellow warbler, great crested flycatcher, American redstart, willet, marbled godwit and black-necked stilt, nest here and overwinter in Mexico and farther south.

Others, like the whimbrel, nest in the far north but travel through eastern Alberta each spring on their way back from their southern wintering grounds.

Yet others, like the black-crowned night-heron and great-blue heron, have ranges that encompass the entire continent.

Both resident and overwintering populations of these species are found in Mexico during the winter.

While the warmth, the beach, the food and the spectacular sunsets provided a welcomed break from our relentless Alberta winter, it was the birds — both new and familiar — that really made this holiday memorable.

Myrna Pearman is the biologist/site services manager at Ellis Bird Farm. She can be reached at mpearman@ellisbirdffarm.ca.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, April 17, 2014

Hopes, ideas for the garden After my gloomy April 3 trip money; you grow your own vegwest, I’m having a hard time etables for quality, variety and believing how fast those re- flavour unavailable anywhere cord snows are disappearing. else, but it costs time, hard The downside is the work … and money. reader reports I’m We touted the getting of mud in young lady on some every flowing river of our successful and stream, ending flavour favourites any good ice-out that do well in fishing.

Central Alberta: On the upside for Simpson Elite, Litanother outdoors tle Gem and Butrecreation: green tercrunch lettuces shoots of the garlic (short rows of each cloves we planted four times in the last September gardening season), started showing Amsterdam and above their mulch Danvers carrots, on April 10, the earDetroit Dark Red BOB liest ever; last year, and Touchstone SCAMMELL it was May 1.

Gold beets, Bush Old Farmer’s AlBlue Lake green manac forecasts of and Stringless a warmer and driGolden beans. er than usual April and May The warm soil loving, lonfor us, giving hope of getting ger maturity time vegetables rid of the mountain snowpack in our gardens are either diwithout the annual monsoon rect-seeded, or transplanted to to boot, finally shifted me into two large areas in our garden gardening gear and seeding covered with black constructhis year’s tomato plants un- tion plastic, anchored to the der lights in the house, to be soil by eight-foot one-by-six perfect size for transplanting boards with four holes drilled outside after May 24, when we for eight-inch spikes. The plaslike to think the late frosts will tic “mulch” warms the soil, be over. conserves moisture and kills The first really sunny spring weeds. Each fall, after rototillday lured us to a local sup- ing compost in, we “flip” the plier for two bags of Norland sheets to next year’s next door seed potatoes and four big location, using the anchoring packets of Green Arrow peas boards on that side as a hinge. so, as soon as the soil is dry Through the plastic we enough to rototill, we can start direct-seed Eureka broccoli, planting successive rows of po- Raven zucchini, Cheddar cautatoes and peas. When the first liflower, Salad Bush cucumrow of Norlands is big enough bers and Seneca Arrowhead to hill, we plant the next row, or Horizon corn, or the surand so on for five or six rows, est of all, Sunnyvee (66 days to and when the first row of peas maturity), and also transplant is big enough to grab on to its my lights-grown tomato plants fence, we plant the next row through holes cut in the plasof three, total, so that we can tic: Parks Whopper (65 days), enjoy new potatoes and young Early Girl (57 days), Sun Gold peas into September.

(65 days) and San Marzano (85 At the seed rack, our grey days) tomatoes, after the usual thatched minds were picked last day for risk of frost has by a sweet young thing who passed, and cover them for a was getting into veggie garden- week or 10 days with Sun Hats. ing and wanted to know what All these varieties have been seeds to buy. Predictably, she chosen for their proven superb was ignoring days to maturity flavour and workable maturity given on the packets, and her times, so that they can be harfirst interest was the tough- vested at their flavour peak. est: tomatoes. We advised forIn 45 years of gardening getting starting tomatoes from in a harsh climate, using the seeds inside, and especially plastic, we have never failed outside, and buy some Early to ripen tomatoes (even San Girl and Sungold plants at a Marzanos) on the vine, or pick nursery and transplant them perfect cobs of “better than into her garden around June 1 Taber” corn when they are to be safe. young and sweetest.

Like many new veggie garThere’s something new evdeners, she was getting into ery year. This year, we’re tryit to save money. Years ago, I ing 40-day Patio Snacker hylearned that was akin to de- brid slicing cucumber to see if lusions of tying flies or hand it can match tiny Salad Bush, loading ammunition to save which produces huge crops

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Photos by BOB SCAMMELL/freelance

Clockwise from top: Garlic, right; peas somewhere under the wire fence.

Flipping the plastic over an early snow in 2009.

Sweet corn and the jungles of August.

Eureka broccoli — product of the plastic.

Parks whopper tomato — product of the plastic mulch.

of the world’s tastiest slicer cukes. Pearl lettuce is an improved Little Gem, a combination of butterhead and romaine types, and replaces Baby Star, which just would not germinate. We will be intrigued to see what comes of Black Magic Kale, the first new take ever on our favourite, the ancient Black Tuscan Kale. The new Roma Supremo paste tomato beats the San

Marzano maturity by 20 days, but will it come even close for flavour?

Then there is always something either old or new with the weather of our intemperate climate: I have an awful feeling of one more blizzard that is not alleviated by my

pictures of our snowy garden on May 24, 2007; something for everyone to remember when tempted to get stuff out there too early.

Bob Scammell is an awardwinning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Coming to understand What’s in that bag?

Soil products examined unsettled spring weather Any time now, pallets of bagged consistency of soil, it is bagged and soil products will be appearing in shipped. If weed seeds were part garden centres. Deciphering the of the original product, there is differences and what they are best a good chance that some will be used for is a challenge. viable in the compost. That being Mixing decomposed said, reputable compaorganic material, comnies will do their best post, manure or peat to minimize the number moss with existing soil of weed seeds in the finimproves the soil strucished product. ture.

Sea Soil is relaWhen organic matter tively new and starting is mixed with clay soil, to make an inroad on it increases that number the compost market. or air pockets within the It starts as a half and soil structure. The larghalf mixture of leftover er particles from the product from fish proorganic matter stop the cessing plants and fine clay particles from comforestry byproduct. pacting and forming a The final product is a cement-like substance. dark soil-like structure LINDA The looser soil conwithout any fish odor.

TOMLINSON tains more air, less The material never moisture and it is easier comes in contact with for the roots to expand seeds and is weed free. outwards.

Manures start as 60 Sandy soils are too loose and do per cent fresh material (green) and not hold enough moisture. When 40 per cent brown (carbon). They organic matter is added to this are mixed, composted and bagged. type of soil, it improves the reten- Producers do their best to illumition of water and nutrients. nate weeds by keeping the comPeat moss is harvested from Ca- post hot but some will survive the nadian bogs, where it has decom- composting process. posed for thousands of years.

Potting soil is not regulated unThe bogs are rarely exposed to less it contains a slow release ferweed seeds, therefore the bagged tilizer or compost. Then it must product will rarely contain any comply with the Fertilizer Act. weeds. Peat moss is harvested, Different companies put difdried, compressed and baled be- ferent amounts of information on fore being shipped to stores for the potting soil packages, making sale. Peat moss contains little if it hard for the consumer to know any nutrients but will absorb fer- what they are purchasing. tilizer and release it over a period Potting soil packages without of time. supplement contain peat moss Coir is made up of coconut husks with some perlite and or vermicuthat are left over when the coconut lite. Even when ingredients are meat is harvested. The material is listed on the bag, it is rare to find shredded, dried and compacted percentages. before being shipped throughout Unfortunately, most soil packthe world. Coir and peat moss have ages are opaque, making it impossimilar attributes. sible to see the texture of the peat Compost can be made out of moss or the amount of perlite or many different products. In Cana- vermiculite in the mixture. da, it is regulated under the FertilSoil products are sold by volizer Act. ume as weight changes depending The package or shipping bill on the moisture content of the soil. for bulk materials must contain To reduce shipping costs, soil is a product name, weight, address, dried before it is bagged. lot number, guaranteed analysis, Before purchasing bagged soil, directions for use and cautionary read the package and, if possible, statements as required. look at the contents.

Commercial compost is made Linda Tomlinson is a local horout of organic materials that are ticulturalist who can be reached at turned on a regular basis to speed www.igardencanada.com or your_ decomposition. Once it has the garden@hotmail.com.

GARDENING

“… the excessive mental stress and discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time.”

— Wikipedia definition of cognitive dissonance

will be the years that the warmth comes back (Peru’s anchovy fishery sees the initial effects, so they have a vested interest in early detection).

As for the solar cycle and all of the talk of Maunder Minimums (which my brother-in-law naturally brought up), I would Back in the frigid depths of March, we advise anyone who is puzzled to simply visited my sister’s family in Calgary. And look up “solar cycle” on Wikipedia. The as we were about to leave, my brother-in- graphs there show that we obviously rose law took a look out of the winout of the low solar event in dow. Knowing my environmen2009 (when the anti-Gore crowd talist sympathies, he couldn’t thought that we were about to resist a jab: “Well, it looks like enter the late 17th century, with Al Gore is going to have to give the River Thames freezing over us our money back.” and farmers struggling to grow Trying to be nonchalant crops). about it, I simply stated, “Nope.

But all that talk is about the It’s all explained in the latest Earth as a whole. What about issue of The Economist.” [March the Prairie provinces this win8th] ter? Didn’t we have our own And that’s when I could see little Maunder Minimum in the the cognitive dissonance etchpast few months? ing itself into his brow. For he Only a week or two after the is one of the movers and shakvisit to my sister’s place, The ers in society, and so he knows Weather Network came out EVAN that The Economist can’t be easwith an interesting news item.

BEDFORD ily dismissed. It is the bedrock It was titled Marching into of knowledge for the elite. Back spring? Cooler than seasonal temwhen I was going to university, peratures persist into April (still it was widely regarded by my easily Googled). various professors as being one It had several maps of North of the most objective sources of news. And America with temperature anomalies today, my boss’s boss’s boss has a subscrip- shown on them. The areas that were colder tion, the issues of which he thoughtfully than normal over the past winter showed leaves in our staff lunchroom for our read- up as green, whereas the warmer areas ing pleasure. showed up as red. And in general, North And how exactly did it explain the blan- America looked like it had a big green ket of snow over Calgary, which, during a bulls-eye painted on it, stretching from normal March, usually just displays dead Red Deer to Winnipeg to the Great Lakes. grass from the previous fall? Well, it didn’t But the green bulls-eye was surrounded get into regional details, but as for the by a sea of red warmth. No, make that an slowdown in warming seen over the last 15 ocean of red warmth. Or three of them: the years or so, it cited three reasons: fewer El Atlantic, the Pacific and the Arctic.

Ninos, the current solar cycle (which isn’t And some of the land was also red: the as strong as the previous one), and lots and U.S. southwest (where California had the lots of sulphate aerosols being belched worst drought since records began being into the atmosphere by substandard Chi- kept), and Alaska and Greenland. nese factories.

So Alaska and Greenland and the ArcThe aerosols tend to reflect solar energy tic Ocean were much warmer at the same back into space, but as The Economist not- time we were much colder. Think there ed, this trend should ease in future years, might be a link there? Only if you had your due to new pollution control measures, listening ears on for the last few months which China passed into law last year. and you heard the constant chatter about As for El Nino, the last time we had one the “polar vortex.” was in 2010, which was the hottest year on So if you’re wondering why we’ve been record, and which also saw the mercury freezing while the polar bears have been hit 53.5C in Pakistan. El Ninos belch up wilting in the heat — and if you think you accumulated ocean heat, and since the can handle a bit of cognitive dissonance — oceans absorb 93 per cent of the extra heat you might want to check out those colourfrom global warming, and since that heat ful maps on The Weather Network. energy is equivalent to 400,000 Hiroshima Evan Bedford is a local environmentalist. bombs per day, the next El Nino could be Direct comments, questions and suggestions a sweltering one. And Peru’s official El to wyddfa23@telus.net. Visit the Energy and Nino Commission figures that 2014-2015 Ecology website at www.evanbedford.com.

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HEALTH

B7 Have we forgotten how to eat?

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014

OBESITY RATES CONTINUE TO RISE EVERY YEAR We now live in a world that has more diets out there than ever before. Everything from the Paleo diet, the Hormone diet, to juicing and 10-day diets.

Information about every single nutrient we eat is easily accessible through the Internet and mobile apps, allowing individuals to dissect their foods to the smallest degree.

This has led to labeling and mass marketing in the grocery store for statements such as “low fat,” “high fibre,” “low sodium,” “healthy choice” and “natural.”

There are even supposed “superfoods” that have become ingrained in our minds SHANE through heavy promotion to JOHNSON ensure that these foods are being consumed on a regu- NATUROPATHIC lar basis to ensure optimal MEDICINE health.

With all of this nutrition information readily available, you would think we know more about nutrition and the food we eat more than we ever have. So that leaves me with one question: Why do obesity rates continue to rise every year in our country?

Statistics show that obesity rates in Canada have tripled between 1985 and 2011.

One could argue that we have forgotten the basics of how to eat.

What happened to eating good whole foods in their simplest form and watching the portion size of anything we eat, whether it is a good or bad food?

Have you ever looked at your favourite restaurants nutritional chart for the foods on their menu?

If you have, I bet you were shocked! Horrified about 1,400 calorie salads and 1,700 calorie chicken stir-fry bowls!

This is potentially a person’s entire day’s worth of caloric intake in one meal. However, most people are not aware of the calories they are consuming while eating out and may often think they are making good food choices.

This is due to huge portions and the fact that most restaurants are using highly processed ingredients.

Highly processed foods add significant sugar and fat content to items that should not have it; thus, a normally healthy salad becomes a calorie nightmare.

You could make the same meals with a quarter of the calories and fat in the proper portion size, by using fresh ingredients in their wholesome form.

Cooking most of your meals at home is a necessity for getting back to the basics of eating healthy.

Portions, portions, portions! This is the mantra I preach to patients and even myself.

Portion size still matters whether something is a

Put your body back into proper balance

Brain obesity?

NEW REPORT REVEALS DIRECT LINK BETWEEN BELLY FAT AND BRAIN DRAIN Need some extra motivation to take off those excess pounds? We’ve got it for you!

A new report reveals, for the first time, that there’s a direct link between belly fat and brain drain — and how to stop it.

We know that carrying extra pounds of belly fat raises your odds for dementia by a whopping 80 per cent. But now, a well-designed lab study (on mice) has found that deep abdominal fat pours inflammatory chemicals into your bloodstream that then cross the blood/brain barrier, causing dementia.

Until now, we thought the blood/ brain barrier protected the brain’s grey cells from this particular form of inflammatory assault.

But it turns out that compounds secreted by excess belly fat weaken this barrier, so fat-triggered inflammation oozes into the brain, dumbing down your hippocampus (a relay station for memories), slowing mental processing, hindering recall and allowing dementia to develop. Up until now, scientists weren’t sure which came first, dementia or brain inflammation.

But there’s a bright side. (That’s why the mouse study is really big news.) The researchers say that if you put the creatures on a daily exercise program, it tamps down inflammation, restores a strong blood/brain barrier and improves mental sharpness. (“I remember where the cheese is!”)

Why believe a mouse study?

Two reasons: (1) In mice and men, the blood/brain barrier acts very similarly; and (2) you can cause mice to pack on belly fat and then observe the effects, but you can’t do that with people.

True, you can’t be certain that things happen exactly the same way in human brains, but the evidence is strong enough for the study’s lead researcher to suggest exactly what we suggest: Get moving — especially if you’re carrying extra weight around your middle! So here are five ways to trim your tummy and have a leaner, more nimble brain: ● Say “yes” to exercise. A 30-minute daily walk plus 20 to 30 minutes of strength training twice a week is a great start. You want to head for 10,000 total steps (or step equivalents) a day. Activity boosts levels of a brain and spinal cord protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which helps grow new brain cells and healthy new connections between them. Exercise also helps two areas that are important for memory and emotional intelligence (the hippocampus and anterior cingulate cortex) get bigger and better connected.

superfood or not.

There are very healthy foods out there that we should eat, but not an unlimited amount of them. For example, avocados are a great source of healthy fats but you do not want to eat three of them at a time!

Cut through all of the marketing red tape out there and save yourself the confusion and continued weight gain.

Get back to the basics and eat good wholesome foods by making most of your meals at home and eat the right amount of them.

One of my favourite books on this topic is In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.

This must-read book addresses our relationship with food and how it can shape the way you approach food and nutrition.

Nutrition is always a vital component to any patient I treat in my office.

Make your health a priority and talk to your naturopathic doctor today about nutrition and how healthy eating habits can help you get back on track and live your best life.

Dr. Shane Johnson ND was born and raised in Red Deer and is the owner of Aspire Natural Medicine. He completed his naturopathic medical training at Bastyr University, and is among only a handful of naturopathic doctors in Alberta to complete an additional one-year residency in family medicine. For more detailed information on naturopathic medicine visit www.aspiremedicine.ca.

MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ

DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN ● Say “no” to palm and coconut oils. These tropical plant oils that contain saturated fat have been at the centre of debate for several years now, but a new study settles the spat. Lose ’em. They promote body fat in the worst possible spots: your abdomen and your liver. ● Banish food felons that “feed” belly fat. Skip added sugars, syrups and refined grains such as white bread and white rice.

They’re packed with empty calories that take your blood sugar on a roller-coaster ride, fueling cravings. Steer clear of trans fats (partially hydrogenated oils), found in some baked goods and other processed foods. They don’t just send new fat to your belly; they make fat from other places land there, too. ● Go for 100 per cent whole grains and healthful odd omega fats. Getting three servings of whole grains (like 100 per cent wholewheat bread, barley and oatmeal) could slash belly fat by 10 per cent — but only if you also limit refined grains to one serving or less per day. Using olive oil, munching a few nuts and sliding sliced avocado into your sandwich instead of cheese all help, too. These contain odd omega fatty acids that encourage your body to store fat elsewhere. Nice trick! ● Travelling? Just busy? Pack road food.

A steady diet of fast food could increase ab fat by up to 41 per cent in just one month!

Invest in a good cooler and load it with fatfighting goodies — like blueberries, cherries, strawberries and raspberries, caffeinated coffee and green tea. Rich in plant compounds that turn up your body’s antioxidant defenses, these treats help your body burn off ab fat, too.

Mehmet Oz, MD, is host of The Dr. Oz Show, and Mike Roizen, MD, is chief wellness officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, visit sharecare. com.

OK, this may be weird but just What’s worse, the longer you do it: go to the mirror and take off leave it the worse it will become. your shirt.

If it doesn’t hurt today or break Don’t look in the mirror! At tomorrow, it very likely will in the least not yet. Close your eyes, future. take a really deep breath, let it If you remember that time out slowly and really you fell on the ice this relax. winter and you were Now looking sore for days, and now straight ahead, open your hip has hurt for your eyes and look at months; truth is, your your shoulders. hip was likely hurt beNotice if they are fore and the slip was level with one anothjust the straw that er, if they are the same broke the camel’s prosize and shape and if verbial back. your head is straight, Now that you can turned or tilted. see some of the probMost people, if truly lems, here’s what you relaxed as they do this, can do: will notice if there was Notice short angles. a line through the cenBy that I mean if CABEL tre of their head that your head tilts, the side MCELDERRY one side doesn’t match it tilts to will make a the other. smaller angle between Very commonly, the the neck and the shoulshoulders are uneven der. or one is rounder, or one is more Or in the case of a shoulder rounded forward than the other rounded forward, the angle or even likely all of the above. across the chest is shorter (now Very commonly, the head is convex) as opposed to the back tilted to one side or even turned of the shoulder and upper back slightly. (now concave); ideally, they’d be This happens because many of neutral. us sleep on one side, often with The point is whatever angle our arm up. is shorter, we want to move or This happens because we of- stretch in the opposite direction. ten drive with one arm extended As trainers, we may do this in and always the same arm. This part with stretching certain mushappens because we talk on the cles to make them longer, but we phone a lot and always hold it may also incorporate repetitive to the same ear, or because we resistance with opposing muscles spend hours and hours in front of to make them stronger and shorta computer with your hand on a er, in turn they pull those other mouse. muscles longer.

Or it could be any number of The best part is you can do all reasons but they will be obvious of this on your own. Our website, when you really think about it — YouTube and many others will they will be the things you spend have every piece of information a lot of nearly every day (or night) you need to balance your body to doing. perfection.

This asymmetry you see means I hope this makes sense It’s not that your body is not functioning as complicated as it may seem, in balance. although working with an expert If it were, it’s natural desire will make things happen faster for harmony would have you look- and safer. ing like a Greek god in the mirCabel McElderry is a local perror — or at least you’d have the sonal trainer and nutrition coach. side-to-side symmetry of one even For more information on fitness and if the total package is a little less nutrition, visit the Fitness F/X webthan godly. site at www.fitnessfx.com.

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Teens who suffer concussions face heightened health risks MORE LIKELY TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE, BE BULLIED: STUDY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Teenagers who have suffered a traumatic brain injury such as a concussion have a significantly higher risk of attempting suicide, being bullied and seeking help for mental health issues from crisis help lines, a study has found.

The study by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital also found adolescents who had a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are more likely to become bullies themselves, to be prescribed medication for anxiety and/or depression, to use alcohol or cannabis, and to engage in antisocial behaviours.

Lead researcher Dr. Gabriela Ilie, a neuropsychologist at the Toronto hospital, said those behaviours include damaging property, breaking and entering, taking a car without permission, running away from home, setting a fire, getting into a fight at school, or carrying or being threatened by a weapon.

“I think what we’re seeing here is

a cry for help,” said Ilie. “What we’re seeing here is a wake-up call. (It’s a) cry for help on their behalf and a wake-up call for us — for parents, for educators, for medical professionals.

“What this says to us is when your child gets a concussion or if you see signs of mental health issues — suicide attempts, substance use — and you take your child to a medical professional, you want to be vigilant as a parent, you want to be vigilant as a medical professional to screen for potential mental health and behaviour harms in adolescent patients who have had a TBI.” Ilie said doctors need to ask young patients seeking help for mental health problems whether they have had a blow to the head or were previously diagnosed with a concussion.

The corollary is also necessary: asking teens who have had a concussion if they are experiencing depression, anxiety or other mental health issues, she said.

“And take that into account in your

diagnosis, take that into account in long-term vigilance and screening and monitoring of those kids.”

Ilie believes the research, published Tuesday in the journal PLOS ONE, represents the first populationbased evidence demonstrating the extent of the link between TBI and poor mental health outcomes among adolescents.

The study was conducted using data from the 2011 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey developed by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto.

When the survey was initiated, it asked students to anonymously report their alcohol and drug use, but it has since been expanded to look at adolescent health and well-being overall.

Questions about traumatic brain injury were added for the first time in 2011.

“We know from a previous study based on (survey) data that as many as 20 per cent of adolescents in Ontario said they have experienced a traumatic brain injury in their lifetime,” said

Dr. Robert Mann, a senior scientist at CAMH who directs the survey.

“The relationship between TBI and mental health issues is concerning and calls for greater focus on prevention and further research on this issue.”

Ilie said students were asked if they had ever suffered a TBI such as a concussion that left them unconscious for at least five minutes or required them to be hospitalized for at least one night.

Almost one in five said they had experienced at least one traumatic brain injury in their lifetime; the risk of such an injury was almost 50 per cent higher among males than females.

The study found students who reported a previous TBI were more than three times more likely than those who had not had a head injury to attempt suicide and roughly twice as likely to be bullied at school or on the Internet, to bully others, to seek help from a crisis help line or to be prescribed a medication for depression, anxiety or both.

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Lacombe housing needs studied COUNCIL ADOPTS STRATEGY

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

THE HUB DONATES TO LOAVES AND FISHES The Hub on Ross recently donated $742 to Loaves and Fishes. The proceeds are from the Hub’s Friday markets over the past three months, where volunteers sell popcorn, pop and other refreshments during sessions of live music. The items are made affordable for people on fixed/low incomes. Last year, $1,500 was donated to Loaves and Fishes from the Friday markets, which run weekly from noon until 3 p.m. at 4936 Ross St. in Red Deer.

Lacombe city council is looking at the housing needs of its citizens.

On Monday, council adopted in principle the report, Practices and Policies for a Course Correction: A Housing Strategy for the City of Lacombe, that offered ways to increase the range of housing choices, improve the affordability of housing stock, enhance the sustainability of housing and infrastructure, and maintain a sense of community.

“We are by and large a single-family dwelling community, but 25 per cent of our households are singles so there appears to be a mismatch there in terms of our population demographic and our housing product,” said chief administrative officer Norma MacQuarrie on Wednesday.

“Our vacancy rate is below one per cent so we don’t have rental opportunities for many people who may require that type of housing.”

She said a lot are also paying in excess of 30 per cent of their income on housing.

“The cost of housing in Lacombe is at a point where it’s become unaffordable for some.”

Suggestions in the report to increase included hosting civic engagement opporhousing choice included promoting house tunities, encouraging the design and buildsharing, creating builder incentives, ing of front porches, requiring new subdiviamending the municipal development plan, sions to have lanes and rear yard garages, among others. and others.

Ideas to increase affordability included MacQuarrie said these housing issues creating a co-op housing program, earmark- are not unique to Lacombe, but what will ing sites be unique for afis how the fordable city meets housing, its chalproviding lenges. forgivable She said loans for it is critisecondary cal that suite conthe city struction, work with and more. the develSome opment of the communi— CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER ty and deways to NORMA MACQUARRI cide how improve sustain“leading ability inedge” it cluded educating the public on the bene- wants to become in terms of introducing fits of energy conservation and efficiency, new and different housing options. attracting builders with track records of The city will start by reviewing its mugreen building design and construction, nicipal development plan. offering home energy efficiency rebates.

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‘WE ARE BY AND LARGE A SINGLEFAMILY DWELLING COMMUNITY, BUT ... THERE APPEARS TO BE A MISMATCH THERE IN TERMS OF OUR POPULATION DEMOGRAPHIC AND OUR HOUSING PRODUCT.’

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GRAMMALINK RAISES THOUSANDS The local chapter of GrammaLink-Africa raised $7,900 from the third annual Fabulous Fabric Sale at Gaetz United Church in Red Deer on Saturday. Yards of new fabric, quilting fabric, wool as well as knitting needles, crochet cotton, patterns and embellishments were available to purchase.

The funds go towards 300 community-based grassroots HIV/AIDS projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically striving to aid African grandmothers raising children orphaned by the virus. About $5,600 was raised last year.

GAMES BID INFO TO BE SHARED Want to learn more about Red Deer’s bid for the 2019 Canada Winter Games? The committee working to bring the games to the city will be setting up at the Collicutt Centre and the G.H. Dawe Community Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Committee members will be on hand to share information on venues, upcoming events and more. They will be at the Collicutt Centre from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday and at the G.H. Dawe Community Centre for the same hours on Wednesday.

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Library assistants Bethany Moreau, left, and Alexis Olinek hold up the new Centennial Library cards now available at the library.

Free library cards still available during 100th-birthday month

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deerians have two more weeks to score a free library card.

The Red Deer Public Library formally turns 100 on April 23, and to celebrate the occasion the local book bastion is waiving its normal membership fee for its entire birthday month.

Adult cards usually cost $10 for a 13-month membership term.

But this month, any new patrons can come and get a free card, and those with current memberships can renew for another year free of charge.

The promotion has already greatly enhanced the library’s patronage, says member services manager Kareena Fulton.

“It’s been a lovely month so far of very happy people. It’s been quite a treat for the staff as well.

It’s something that we’ve been

very excited about being able to do,” said Fulton.

At most Canadian libraries, cards are always free for residents.

For the last 20 years in Alberta, though, most jurisdictions have charged annual dues.

When Edmonton Public Library celebrated its centennial in 2013, it made cards free for the entire year.

Despite its celebrations having ended this March, it has continued to offer the free cards.

The move may have cost the library more than $700,000 in lost revenue last year, but it increased membership numbers by 40 per cent.

When asked in December whether the Red Deer library could offer something similar, CEO Christina Wilson said she loved the idea, but that doing so would require an infusion of revenue from some other source to

make up for the shortfall it would create.

She said the Edmonton library has a much greater capacity than Red Deer to fundraise and solicit donations to generate additional funds.

The decision to offer the free cards for April was made by the library board.

Fulton said membership fees do constitute a major part of the library’s total revenue. According to the library’s website, about 15 per cent of its revenue comes from things like user fees, fines and room rentals.

But despite the up-front lost revenue, Fulton said the free cards could function as something of a loss leader.

The amount of funding a library receives depends in part on how many users it has and the amount of materials borrowed.

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BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF A teacher and two aides who make Dawne Hammerschmidt’s son keen to go to school have been rewarded for their efforts.

Hammerschmidt says she has seen her son Dane flourish in Jodi Emo’s Grade 2 class at Mattie McCullough Elementary School as he never has before.

With the help of alternating aides Tracy Swim-Lisk and Carol Pchelnyk, she says her son has been welcomed, fostered and appreciated by his helpers and, more importantly, his schoolmates.

For their efforts, Hammerschmidt nominated the school and

INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AWARD the three women for a National Inclusive Education award given out jointly by the Canadian and Alberta Associations for Community Living.

The women were presented with the award in Edmonton last week.

“They’re really good at reading him. They’re really good at figuring out ‘OK, when can we push him?’ when not to push him and respect what he needs, and making accommodations for him so that it’s not so obvious that he’s different, and that’s really well recognized,” said Hammerschmidt.

“It’s obvious that’s what they’re

doing because he’s really well received by all of his peers and he’s not like the little weird kid at school or the little celebrity at school because he has Down syndrome and autism.

“He’s just one of the kids, so he’s actually getting friends that get it and want to help.

“He’s not verbal, but they all respect that he’s just different and he’s not treated like he’s a special case.”

Hammerschmidt moved from Grande Prairie last year and Dane, 7, is in his first year at Mattie McCullough.

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There’s still time to paint your vision of Red Deer.

Three surveys — Budget 2015, urban chickens and community amenities — are now available on the city’s website at www.reddeer.ca.

Residents are encouraged to fill out the surveys over the next two weeks.

One survey asks residents to identify what community amenities are missing for Red Deer.

“We are asking residents to tell us what spaces and places are missing in Red Deer,” said Charity Dyke, acting director of Communications and Strategic Planning.

“As we develop our budget five, 15 and 20 years into the future, are there any facilities, places or buildings we need to plan for that will greatly benefit our community?”

Residents can also tell the city how they would spend their tax dollars.

Chief financial officer Dean Krejci said residents can also tell the city what programs and services they see as priorities for the city, and that will assist city council as it prepares for the 2015 budgets.

The city will host a Budget 2015 open house where residents can learn about the services and programs, how to spend tax dollars and begin to prioritize the list of places and spaces developed by Red Deerians through the amenity consultations.

The open house will be on May 21 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Festival Hall at the Memorial Centre.

The urban chicken survey asks residents what they think about the pilot project, which allowed registered owners to have up to six chickens in their backyards.

It asks whether those surveyed support bylaw regulations allowing urban chickens, what if any concerns they have, and any recommendations or comments they may have.

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BRIEFS Suspect in Mac’s store robbery hunted Police are seeking a suspect from a convenience store robbery in southeast Red Deer early on Wednesday morning.

According to an RCMP release, a lone male entered the Mac’s Convenience Store at 2950 22nd St. around 3:15 a.m., brandishing a knife.

The suspect, wearing blue jeans Robbery and a black hoodie, demanded cash, ciga- suspect. rettes and a few other small items.

He then left on foot, headed east.

The suspect is described as Caucasian and 1.7 metres (five feet seven inches) tall. He was clean shaven and has an athletic build.

Five Central Albertans were honoured by the province for their top marks working as apprentices towards their trade.

Andrew Berger of Lacombe, and Tharen Landsiedel and Lori Douglas, both of Red Deer, were among 60 Albertans who were recognized for their hard work and success in their respective fields.

Berger, 22, is a machinist. Working at Rodono Industries Ltd., he put in long nights studying his trade. While he enjoys working at Rodono, he hopes to one day become a grain farmer.

Landsiedel works as a cabinet maker for Sadona Cabinets in Red Deer.

Douglas works as a parts technician for Finning Canada in Edmonton.

Also honoured were two people from the West Country.

Gilles Bertholet of Sundre works as a Rig Technician for Ensign Energy Services.

Jeannette West of Leslieville is a motorcycle mechanic for Gateway Sales and Service in Rocky Mountain House.

Pedestrian-activated crossing lights coming The City of Lacombe is installing new pedestrian-activated crossing lights at Terrace Ridge School.

The lights will be located at the intersection of C&E Trail and Telford Crescent.

“We are happy to respond in a positive way to citizen concerns regarding the safety of children attending the school, and to include a trail connection from the existing trail system to the crosswalk,” said community services director Brenda Vaughan in a press release.

Installation will begin after the Easter long weekend and will take about a week. The crossing will be operational within a month.

The project was part of the city’s 2014 capital budget and its 10-year capital plan, which will see the installation of three more pedestrian-activated crossings by 2017 in response to growth in the central and north areas of Lacombe.

Two men sought after cab driver beaten Two men who are alleged to have beaten a taxi driver to get out of paying for their ride are being sought by local police.

Red Deer RCMP said the two, who could have the first names Mike and Jay, fled on foot after beating the driver on April 10.

At about 8:40 p.m., police were called to the scene in North Red Deer.

It is alleged that the two males, believed to be in their late teens or early 20s, took a taxi and then refused to pay once they reached their destination.

When the cab driver attempted to stop them, the two men punched him and kicked him in the stomach.

The suspects were last seen heading south on Northey Avenue on foot.

Police vehicles and dog services patrolled the area but the suspects were not located.

The taxi driver was taken to hospital and later released. He is expected to recover from his injuries.

Police described one suspect, who could be named Jay, as about 1.65 to 1.75 metres tall (five foot five to five foot nine).

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Mattie McCullough Elementary School teacher Jodi Emo holds an inclusive education award presented jointly by the Canadian and Alberta Associations for Community Living last week. The award was presented to Emo, Carol Pchelnyk (second from right) and Tracy Swim-Lisk (right) for their work with Dane Hammerschmidt at the school. Dane’s parents Ed and Dawne are at left.

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INCLUSIVE: Welcomed immediately She said she was at first apprehensive about placing him in a new school with new helpers, but was immediately met with staff who were welcoming and willing.

“Not that he’s ever been unhappy to go to school, but here I mention school and he’s at the door waiting. Even if he’s sick or anything, he’s like ‘Let’s go!,’” said Hammerschmidt.

She added that the educators set attainable but challenging goals for her son while in class with his peers.

Red Deer Public Schools made inclusive education a focus three years ago, along with many other school jurisdictions. Whereas once high needs students would be segregated in special education programs, now, by and large, they are incorporated into standard classroom settings.

Deputy superintendent Stu Henry said the division’s goal with developmentally disabled students is to gradually withdraw educational assistant supports as the student becomes more and more independent. Some such stu-

years old with dark curly hair and dark eyes. At the time of the incident, he was wearing a white hoodie and carrying a black backpack.

The second suspect, who police believe could be named Mike, is described as Caucasian, slightly taller than the other suspect and is about 20 to 24 years old. He has very short dark hair and was wearing a grey hoodie at the time of the incident.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Red Deer RCMP at 403-3435575. Or if you wish to remain anonymous call Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 or report it online at www. tipsubmit.com.

Stolen truck hits house A stolen pickup that police had earlier attempted to stop on Hwy 11A later collided with a house in North Red Deer.

The incident began when Ponoka Traffic Services was alerted to an erratic driver heading southbound from Lacombe on Hwy 2 early Wednesday afternoon.

A 911 caller said the truck, a bronze Dodge Dakota, was all over the road and almost hit the ditch three times,

police said in a release issued by Cst. Doug Dewar, of the QEII Integrated Traffic Unit.

About 10 minutes later, Innisfail Traffic Services located the vehicle at Hwy 11A. When an attempt was made to stop the truck, it fled from RCMP. A query showed the vehicle had been stolen from Calgary on Monday.

The truck exited Hwy 2 at Hwy 11, drove through the ditch to get around vehicles stopped at a red light, and almost collided with westbound traffic on Hwy 11. Attempts to stop the pickup were then halted over concern about the risk to the public.

Soon after, the truck was involved in a hit and run collision on Orr Drive in Red Deer. A few minutes later it was found abandoned, still running in gear, and wedged against the front of a home in the 6200 block of Orr Drive.

Police said it appeared that the suspect or suspects exited the vehicle while it was still in motion and allowed it to careen down the street until it collided with the house located directly across the street from a daycare centre.

Two members of the RCMP’s police dog service conducted an extensive search but were unsuccessful in locating anyone.

Some crime spree charges dropped

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF One set of charges has been dropped against a man arrested by police alleging a two-week crime spree in Red Deer, Lacombe and Blackfalds last May. Garnet Colby Mcinnes, 23, was arrested in Lacombe on May 28 on charges including home invasions, kidnapping, extortion, carjacking, assaulting a police officer, armed robbery and various other weapons offences.

Mcinnes, who remains in custody, was scheduled to stand trial in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday in connection with an alleged home invasion and robbery in Red Deer on May 26.

However, the trial was collapsed after Crown prosecutor Vince Pingitore announced that the charges in connection with those allegations were being withdrawn.

The Crown is not obliged to say why charges are withdrawn and Pingitore did not offer an explanation.

Represented by Calgary defence counsel Allan Fay, Mcinnes remains in custody pending further trials, with his next date set for June 13, when he will go before a provincial court judge to answer allegations of housebreaking in connection with a separate incident.

Mcinnes returns to court in July on charges laid after an alleged home invasion, kidnapping and police standoff in the Pines and Highland Green subdivisions of Red Deer on May 14, followed by a trial in September on charges of dangerous driving and assaulting a police officer laid after a failed arrest attempt on May 24.

He is also charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm, robbery and assault in connection with an alleged carjacking near Blackfalds on May 15. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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LIBRARY: Doubled memberships “We have so far probably doubled our memberships that we would have done already this month with the free memberships. Every person that comes in that has a membership and then borrows, all of those statistics come back to our benefit at the end,” said Fulton.

Free cards are limited to persons with an address in Red Deer. Fulton said those wishing to sign up should bring along a piece of identification showing their address.

New adult and children’s library cards have been specially designed for the centennial. Anyone obtaining one of the new cards will be entered into draws to be made at the library’s birthday event on April 23.

On that day, events will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., first at the library’s downtown branch and later at the Dawe Branch. There will be cake and giveaways, and local poet Frank Pavlick will read the work he wrote to mark the occasion. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer Public Library staff members Trish Klein and Jill Griffiths look over a new exhibit at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery celebrating 100 years of discovery at the Red Deer Public Library. The Exhibit opens April 12 and features photographs and archival documents that represent the significant milestone.

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An uneasy fit GORD DOWNIE, THE SADIES’ JOINT RELEASE THE RESULT OF A LONG, LONG COLLABORATION

After Gord Downie and the Sadies formed a makeshift band together, Downie remembers their first gig two years ago with a certain fond nostalgia: they were “beautifully miscast” at the country music festival Boots & Hearts, taking the stage in the midafternoon sandwiched between “mother and father of Canadian country” Paul Brandt and Terri Clark.

An uneasy fit on the bill, Downie and the Sadies didn’t make things easier for themselves by playing a set of obscure covers and unknown originals.

The performance seemed ever at risk of tilting toward disaster.

And Downie savoured every moment.

“In this country, perhaps with a certain identity trailing you around, it’s hard to be miscast,” the Tragically Hip frontman recalled in a telephone interview this week.

“It’s hard to play a gig where you might get the hook, where you might be booed gloriously off the stage. I don’t mean that to sound immodest. ... (When) you’re kids, it’s the thing you’re most afraid of, but it’s the thing you miss, just the sort of lack of approval.

“It was exciting. Exciting as hell. No expectation, all challenge. ... We really were asking for it.

It was glorious.”

Naturally, the collaboration continued.

Founded after years of friendship, Downie and the Sadies revelled in joining up when possible for loose jams while gradually accruing and polishing the 10 songs

they’ve now released on Gord Downie, the Sadies and the Conquering Sun. They’d met, largely, on the road. Downie guesses that the Sadies have opened for the Hip more than any other band — and if not, they’re close — and he formed an easy admiration for their fiery fusion of roots, country, psychedelia and bar rock. He “marvelled at their versatility, their agility, their taste and style.”

After being brought together in an official capacity to perform on the CBC-Radio program Fuse, Downie and the Sadies bonded further over their overlapping cluster of influences: Roky Erickson, Guided by Voices, Johnny Cash and the Stooges.

Downie calls the joint performance a “real donkey kick in the chest.”

They gathered in their Ottawa hotel afterward and decided they wanted to do more together.

Those 10 tracks then took, more or less, seven years to come together.

The Sadies’ Dallas Good says that most songs were written with Downie sitting with one Sadie, strumming a guitar.

Sounds casual, right?

Well, the Sadies didn’t earn their reputation for virtuoso instrumental fireworks with lax practices, Downie notes.

“Rehearsals are a strangely sombre affair,” he said. “I used to get freaked out by them.

Because it felt like everyone was just very sad — you know, like, who died? I’d come in sort of cracking wise and I’d leave wondering if I’d said too much.

“It’s a bit of an undertaker’s convention.

But with time, I’d really come to know them and I’d really enjoy those re-

hearsals.”

The result — released this week — resembles the usual work of neither the Hip nor the Sadies.

Album opener Crater seethes with fuzzy guitar fury while It Didn’t Start to Break My Heart Until This Afternoon similarly barrels forth on a frothy wave of distortion. Even more characteristic cuts are cheerfully unkempt, with Downie’s rangy yelp only occasionally elbowing its way to the front of the mix.

Downie has raved that the Sadies can play anything. It’s popular praise for the versatile band, and Good has a retort prepared.

“I like to think that just because you can play anything doesn’t mean you should,” he said with a laugh. “But you can imagine how sick to death I am of country and western music.

“A left turn, sometimes, is good for the soul,” he added, “as opposed to just ridiculous and out of character.”

Downie’s intricate lyrics are typically literate and, at times, impenetrable — so much so that Good admits he forced to Downey dissect his abstractions.

“In some cases he had to literally explain to me what a song meant,” he said. “That’s something that made me 100 per cent confident in working with him.

“I don’t have much confidence in the lyrics I write, but I slave over them,” Good added. “I seriously admire what he’s able to do.”

That admiration goes back a long way.

Good remembers more than a decade ago approaching Downie and volunteering the Sadies’ support for any sort of benefit concert

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The Sadies arrive on the red carpet during the Juno Awards in Winnipeg, Sunday, March 30, 2014. or awareness-spreading event that Downie would plan. That conversation resulted in the band first recording with Downie for the 2006 benefit album for Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, an (ahem) watershed moment in their shared history.

“The only political point of view that Gord seems to have that I’m at odds with is his love for hockey and Bruce Springsteen,” said Good with a sly laugh.

“Otherwise ... I’d vote for him. Even with those few details in place.

“I love him dearly.”

Downie, for his part, demurs when asked about his social conscience.

“I haven’t written too many political lyrics,” he said.

“Conversely, nor have I written any pro-Canada lyrics, any kind of jingoistic, nationalistic cant. ...

That stuff doesn’t interest me and I don’t even know if I could write that if I tried, because I don’t really feel it.

“Social causes are quite obvious. Music brings people together.

So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.”

Downie is among the musicians who spoke out against a proposal to increase the capacity of two pipelines running from Ontario to Quebec last fall.

He also backed Neil Young’s anti-oilsands campaign. The 50-yearold was in the audience at Young’s recent benefit concert at Massey Hall, which raised money for an Alberta First Nation community embroiled in a legal battle to protect their traditional territory from further industrialization.

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Malcolm Young of AC/DC is taking a break from the band to focus on his health.

The announcement saying the 61-year-old guitarist is in “ill health” was posted on the band’s Facebook page Wednesday. No details were provided. The statement said: “Malcolm would like to thank the group’s die-hard legions of fans worldwide for their never-ending love and support.”

AC/DC includes vocalist Brian Johnson, drummer Phil Rudd, bassist Cliff Williams and guitarist Angus Young, Malcolm Young’s brother.

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music career isn’t something to take lightly, so it’s not surprising that Downie and the Sadies want to continue their collaboration.

This is a band, not a lark — nor a side project, Good insists: “I know what constitutes a side project: a mediocre album.”

“We have every intention of continuing to perform and write together,” Good added.

“I’ve already begun writing for it.”

Downie, too, is committed.

“I’d love it. Yeah. I would love it. It’s been like seven or eight years — it took that long probably for a reason, I guess.

I hope it doesn’t take that long again. But if it did, I’d be fine. I just enjoy it.”

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Malcolm Young of AC/DC Hall of Famers also say in the statement they “will continue to make music.” AC/DC’s last studio album was 2008’s Black Ice. They released a live disc in 2012.

Young co-founded the Australian classic rock band. He has performed with AC/DC for 40 years.

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MOKPO, South Korea — Koo Bonhee could see the exit. For half an hour, as the doomed ferry filled with water and listed severely on its side, the crew told passengers to wait for rescuers.

With their breathing room disappearing, the 36-year-old businessman and some of the other passengers floated to an exit and swam to a nearby fishing boat. But 290 of the 475 people aboard — many of them high school students on a class trip — were still missing after the ferry sank Wednesday off the southern coast of South Korea. Six were confirmed dead and 55 were injured.

Early Thursday, divers, helicopters and boats continued to search for survivors from the ferry, which slipped beneath the surface until only the blue-tipped, forward edge of the keel was visible.

The high number of people unaccounted for — possibly trapped in the ship or floating in the chilly water nearby — raised fears that the death toll could increase drastically.

It was still unknown why the ferry sank, and the coast guard was interviewing the captain and crew. The

Most female students freed in Nigeria 129 FEMALE STUDENTS KIDNAPPED BY ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Scores of female students kidnapped by Islamic militants from a northeastern Nigerian school are free, Nigeria’s military reported Wednesday.

Only eight of more than 100 students are unaccounted for, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade said in a statement that gave no details.

“The others have been freed this evening,” he said.

The government had reported that security forces were in hot pursuit of militants who abducted more than 100 females from a high school early Tuesday.

Borno state Gov. Kashim Shettima told reporters that 129 students were kidnapped and at least 14 freed them-

selves: four of the students — aged between 16 and 18 — jumped off the back of a truck and 10 escaped into the bush when the extremists asked them to cook and were not paying attention.

The abductions came hours after an explosion blamed on extremists killed 75 people in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, angering citizens who are questioning government and military claims that they are containing a 5-year-old Islamic uprising. Two more attacks killed 20 people Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in northeastern Nigerian villages.

While the military claims that they have cornered insurgents in a remote northeast corner of the West African nation, attacks have increased in frequency and becoming more deadly.

More than 1,500 people have been killed this year, compared to an esti-

means “Western education is sinful” — which has vowed to force an Islamic state on Nigeria — Africa’s most populous nation of some 180 million people divided almost equally between mainly Muslims in the north and a predominantly Christian south.

The extremists have been kdinapping girls and young women but in one horrendous attack — some of the 59 students killed were burned alive in a dorm — first went to the girl’s residence and told them all to leave, go home and forget about education because it was un-Islamic.

Nigeria has Africa’s biggest economy but 70 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line and the northeast suffers the most poverty.

Only 5 per cent of children get to high school, and only a small percentage of those are girls.

mated 3,600 between 2010 and 2013.

Shettima told reporters Wednesday that the insurgents arrived at Chibok government Secondary School for Girls wearing military fatigues and posing as soldiers — a common tactic used by the insurgents.

His information came from the school principal, who believed the men were soldiers removing the young women — aged between 16 and 18 — for their own safety. So the principal made no fuss as the students were loaded onto the back of a truck.

It was only as the armed men were leaving, and started shooting, that he realized his mistake, Shettima said.

The militants killed a soldier and a police officer guarding the school, officials said.

Such attacks are typical of the Boko Haram terrorist network — the name

Sewol, a 146-meter (480-foot) vessel that can hold more than 900 people, set sail Tuesday from Incheon, in northwestern South Korea, on an overnight, 14-hour journey to the tourist island of Jeju.

About 9 a.m. Wednesday, when it was three hours from Jeju, the ferry sent a distress call after it began listing to one side, according to the Ministry of Security and Public Administration.

Passenger Kim Seong-mok told broadcaster YTN that after having breakfast, he felt the ferry tilt and then heard it crash into something. He said an announcement told passengers to not move from their places and that he never heard another about evacuating.

He said he was certain that many people were trapped inside the ferry as water rushed in and the severe tilt of the vessel kept them from reaching the exits.

Koo also complained about the crew’s efforts during the initial stages of the disaster, saying early misjudgments may account for the large number of missing.

In addition to the order not to evacuate immediately, Koo said many people were trapped inside by windows that were too hard to break.

“The rescue wasn’t done well. We

were wearing life jackets. We had time,” Koo, who was on a business trip to Jeju with a co-worker, said from a hospital bed in Mokpo, the nearest major city to the site of the accident, where he was treated for minor injuries. “If people had jumped into the water ... they could have been rescued.

But we were told not to go out.”

Oh-Yong-seok, a 58-year-old crew member who escaped with about a dozen others, including the captain, told The Associated Press that rescue efforts were hampered by the ferry’s severe tilt.

“We couldn’t even move one step.

The slope was too big,” Oh said.

Student Lim Hyung-min told YTN that he and others jumped into the water wearing life jackets and then swam to a nearby rescue boat.

“As the ferry was shaking and tilting, we all tripped and bumped into each another,” Lim said, adding that some people were bleeding. Once he jumped, the ocean “was so cold. ... I was hurrying, thinking that I wanted to live.”

Dozens of coast guard and navy divers searched for survivors around the Sewol’s wreckage a little north of Byeongpung Island, which is not far from the mainland and about 470 kilometres (290 miles) from Seoul.

Coast guard spokesman Cho Manyong said 16 divers could not get inside the ferry Wednesday night because the current was too strong. The water was muddy and visibility was poor, he said, but divers would try again Thursday morning.

“We cannot give up,” said South Korean President Park Geun-hye, after a briefing in Seoul. “We have to do our best to rescue even one passenger.”

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. and its 7th Fleet stood ready to assist, including the USS Bonhomme Richard, which was in the region.

The last major ferry disaster in South Korea was in 1993, when 292 people were killed.

TV stations broadcast live pictures Wednesday of the listing Sewol as passengers clambered over the side, jumped into the sea or were hoisted up by helicopters. At least 87 vessels and 18 aircraft swarmed around the stricken ferry.

The water temperature in the area was about 12 degrees Celsius (54 Fahrenheit), cold enough to cause signs of hypothermia after about 1 ½ hours of exposure, according to an emergency official who spoke on condition of anonymity because department rules did not allow talking to the media.

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Combat vehicles in east Ukraine city fly Russian flags BUT UNCLEAR WHO THE MASKED MEN ON THEM ARE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — A column of armoured vehicles flying Russian flags drove into a Ukrainian city controlled by pro-Russian insurgents Wednesday, dampening the central government’s hopes of re-establishing control over restive eastern Ukraine.

Still, it was far from clear just who these mostly masked men were and what their presence meant for eastern Ukraine, which has seen a surge of support for closer ties with Russia and against the new government in Kyiv, which wants closer links to Europe.

Troops in camouflage sat atop the six vehicles as they entered the city of Slovyansk, a hotbed of unrest against Ukraine’s interim government.

Insurgents in Slovyansk last weekend seized the police headquarters and the administration building, demanding broader autonomy for eastern Ukraine and closer ties with Russia. Their actions have been repeated in at least eight other cities in eastern Ukraine.

One of the men on the vehicles in Slovyansk said they were Ukrainian soldiers who had defected to the pro-

Russian side — which raises the spectre of an uprising led by disgruntled Ukrainian forces.

But an AP journalist overheard another soldier suggesting that they were forced to hand over the vehicles.

“How was I supposed to behave if I had guns pointed at me?” the soldier, who did not identify himself, asked a resident.

Breaking hours of silence, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry issued a statement saying Ukrainian troops had entered Kramatorsk, south of Slovyansk, on Wednesday morning.

There residents and “members of Russian sabotage groups” seized six armoured personnel vehicles and drove them to Slovyansk.

The military insisted the armed men seen on APCs in Slovyansk were not Ukrainian forces but added “the whereabouts of the Ukrainian servicemen” had yet to be established.

Eastern Ukraine was the support base for ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia after months of protests over his decision to back away from closer relations with the European Union and turn toward Russia.

Opponents of the government that

replaced him fear the new authorities will repress eastern Ukraine’s large Russian-speaking population.

Reflecting the West’s concern, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Russian President Vladimir Putin late Tuesday to discuss the situation in Ukraine and preparations for diplomatic talks in Geneva on Thursday.

The Kremlin said Putin told Merkel that “the sharp escalation of the conflict places the country in effect on the verge of a civil war.” Merkel’s office said she and Putin had “different assessments” of the events in Ukraine.

In Brussels, NATO announced it was immediately strengthening its military footprint along its eastern border — which often borders Russia — in response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO aircraft will fly more sorties over the Baltic region and allied ships will deploy to the Baltic Sea, the eastern Mediterranean and elsewhere if needed.

“We will have more planes in the air, more ships on the water and more readiness on the land,” Fogh Rasmussen told reporters in Brussels, declining to give exact troop figures.

NATO says Russia has up to 40,000 troops stationed near the border with Ukraine. Western nations and the new government in Kyiv fear that Moscow will use unrest in eastern Ukraine as a pretext for a military invasion.

In Slovyansk, a city 100 miles (160 kilometres) from the border with Russia, the armoured vehicles stopped near a government building and flew Russian flags while residents chanted “Good job! Good job!”

One of the men on the vehicles, who identified himself only as Andrei, said the unit was part of Ukraine’s 25th Brigade of Airborne Forces and that they had switched to the pro-Russian side.

“Our bosses made the decision and we obeyed,” he said.

His statement couldn’t be independently confirmed.

Some onlookers were happy with the pro-Russian forces.

“We will never allow the fascist Kyiv authorities to come here,” said Andrei Bondar, 32, a Slovyansk resident.

But Tetyana Kustova, a 35-year-old sales clerk, was appalled by the unrest.

“They are pushing us toward Russia,” she said. “They are tearing Ukraine into pieces.”

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Robot sub makes 2nd dive to search for missing plane CHINESE FAMILIES WALK OUT ON MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT MEETING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PERTH, Australia — As a robotic submarine dived into the ocean to look for lost Flight 370, angry Chinese relatives stormed out of a teleconference meeting Wednesday to protest the Malaysian government for not addressing them in person.

The Bluefin 21 sub surfaced early for the second time in as many missions, this time after experiencing technical difficulties. It was sent back into the water after its data were downloaded but there’s been no sign of the plane, according to the search co-ordinator.

As the search continued, more than 100 relatives of Chinese passengers on the plane walked out of a teleconference meeting with senior Malaysian officials, an act of defiance over a lack of contact with that country’s government and for taking so long to respond to their demands.

The family members had gathered in a meeting room at a Beijing hotel where Malaysia Airlines had provided lodging and food. But they stood and

filed out shortly before the call with Malaysia’s civil aviation chief, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, and others as it was about to start.

“These video conference meetings often don’t work, the sound stops and it’s constantly disrupted. Is that how we are going to communicate?” said Jiang Hui, one of the family members, after the walkout. “Do they need to waste our time in such a way?”

Jiang said the Malaysian government had not met demands the relatives had presented to them weeks ago in Malaysia — an apology for the way they’ve handled the matter along with meetings with the Malaysian government and airline officials. They also have requested to sit down with executives from Boeing and Rolls-Royce, the manufacturer of the plane and its engines.

The Boeing 777 vanished March 8 with 239 people on board while en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing. Radar and satellite data show it flew far off-course for an unknown reason and would have run out of fuel over the southern Indian Ocean west of Australia.

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Relatives of Chinese passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines 370 walk out from a video-conference with Malaysian officials in protest at the difficulties of communications in Beijing, China, Wednesday.

A ship-towed device detected four signals underwater that are believed to have come from the airliner’s black boxes shortly before the beacons’ batteries died. The sounds helped narrow the search area to the waters where the Bluefin 21 is now operating.

The U.S. Navy’s unmanned sub cut short its first mission on Monday because it exceeded its maximum operating depth of 4,500 metres (15,000 feet). Searchers moved it away from

the deepest waters before redeploying the sub to scan the seabed with sonar to map a potential debris field.

On the ocean surface, up to 14 planes and 11 ships were searching a 62,000-square-kilometre (24,000-squaremile) patch of sea about 2,200 kilometres (1,400 miles) northwest of Perth on Wednesday. The surface search is expected to end soon as not a single piece of debris connected to the plane has been found.

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REGULATOR MAKING NEW RULES OVER PEACE RIVER AREA OILSANDS DEVELOPMENT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A clean-energy group is praising a decision by the Alberta Energy Regulator to crack down on emissions from oilsands development in the Peace River area.

The Pembina Institute calls it a positive step that recognizes health concerns about odours from processing plants.

The regulator is bringing in new rules this year to reduce the potential negative effects of energy industry gas emissions, including flaring, venting and burning off gas.

It has also accepted most of the recommendations in a report released in March by a panel into complaints that Baytex Energy Inc.’s (TSX:BTE) operations are creating powerful gassy smells in the Peace

River area.

The regulator said existing heavy oil and bitumen operations in the region must capture all produced gas by Aug. 15.

Calgary-based Baytex and four other companies in the area use an unusual method of heating bitumen in above-ground tanks to extract oil.

“Though this decision is long-overdue — odours were first reported by residents in 2009 — it provides one tangible example where the Alberta Energy Regulator has established a transparent public process to deal with a major public concern,” Pembina spokesman Chris Severson-Baker said in a release Wednesday.

“We hope this represents the beginning of a new approach to addressing the environmental and health concerns of Albertans.”

The regulator did not accept two recommenda-

tions in the report that pertain directly to health, saying they fall within the provincial government’s jurisdiction.

One recommendation calls on the Alberta government to conduct studies to better understand the potential link between effects of oilsands odours and emissions on human health.

The other recommends that the government help local physicians consult with environmental health experts to help diagnose symptoms associated with odours and emissions from oilsands operations, and to help physicians provide proper treatment.

An Alberta Health official said these two recommendations are under review.

Severson-Baker said Pembina will be watching to see how the provincial government deals with these issues that are aimed at protecting the safety of people who live near energy projects.

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cent — mostly because of the severe winter weather that began in December — and full-year 2014 growth to 2.3 per cent from 2.5.

Both moves were negative for the Canadian dollar, which slipped 0.37 of a cent to 90.73 cents US following the announcements.

That appears to be what Poloz wanted, said Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter, who noted the bank’s report appeared to stress the negative, even while saying a strengthening U.S. recovery should benefit Canada.

That’s because one ingredient for economic growth in Canada is a lower loonie that makes exported goods more competitive south of the border.

“He basically did not want to come off upbeat.

A new banking system at Servus Credit Union could have a big impact on some members.

The Alberta-based financial institution was created in 2008 by the merger of the three former credit unions: Red Deer-based Community Savings, Edmonton’s Servus Credit Union and Common Wealth Credit Union of Lloydminster. It’s been integrating operations since, with a shared banking system under development for approximately five years.

The new format, which brings with it new services and fees, will take effect in Central Alberta the weekend of May 17.

Darrell White, Servus’s chief operating officer and a Red Deer resident, said the changes have already occurred in and around Edmonton and other communities to the north.

“It’s basically south of Ponoka that we’re converting now.”

White said it was critical for Servus to achieve consistency throughout its banking network — including enabling members to access the same services at different locations.

“So many of our members work outside of Red Deer in places like Lloydminster and Fort McMurray. Allowing them to be able to go into any branch in Alberta and have their full-service banking needs met was very important to us. It was hard for them to do more than cash a cheque before, whereas now they can do anything from getting advice on an RRSP, right through to a loan or any banking-systemrelated pieces.”

Among the other changes will be the addition of mobile banking and e-transfers.

“E-transfers are huge,” said White of the process of sending money electronically to anyone with an email address or mobile phone number. “It’s absolutely amazing the take-up we’ve had at the branches that have converted to it so far.”

Servus is also switching to consolidated statements that will provide information on all the accounts a member holds, rather than sending separate statements for each. Members will have the option of receiving their monthly statements online.

A number of new daily banking and savings accounts are being introduced, with these offering various terms and features.

Please see BANK on Page C7

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Six City of Red Deer buildings will be demolished in the Riverlands by the end of April. Kim Fowler, director of planning for the city, told council this during her update on the department budget deliberations last week. The buildings included will be the Public Works building, Transit building, Civic Garage, Stores building, EL&P building and the Dome building. Red Deer City Council approved the Riverlands Area Redevelopment Project, which essentially transforms the downtown industrial area into a vibrant new community, in 2011.

BoC’s Poloz shaves forecast WON’T RULE OUT INTEREST RATE CUTS IN FUTURE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says he has not ruled out a future cut to interest rates despite evidence disinflationary pressures appear to be waning and his belief that the global and Canadian recoveries are picking up steam.

“We are neutral, that mean’s a rate cut cannot be taken off the table at this stage,” Poloz said during a news conference Wednesday.

“It will depend on the data flow.”

Poloz made the comment after the central bank decided to keep its trendsetting overnight rate at one per cent, where it has been since September 2010.

The bank also pared back its estimate for firstquarter economic growth by a full point to 1.5 per

Former U.S. president scolded for pipeline stand PMO REACTS SWIFTLY TO LETTER SIGNED BY NOBEL LAUREATES, INCLUDING JIMMY CARTER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The Keystone XL pipeline issue has created a tiff between a former U.S. president and the Canadian government.

The Prime Minister’s Office reacted swiftly Wednesday to a letter signed by Nobel laureates, including Jimmy Carter, urging President Barack Obama to reject the pipeline.

Carter is the first former president to come out against Keystone.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office warned: Remember 1979.

It was a reference to the dip in oil supply which followed the Iranian revolution and touched off a global panic, Prices spiked and long lines formed at gas stations, helping destabilize Carter’s one-term presidency.

“Mr. Carter knows from his time as president during the 1979 energy crisis there are benefits to having access to oil from stable, secure partners like Canada,” the PMO said.

The statement also cited multiple reviews by the U.S. State Department which said the project would create thousands of construction jobs without an impact on the environment.

It was during the 1979 crisis that Carter delivered a memorable televised speech — the so-called “Malaise” address. He asked Americans to avoid unnec-

essary trips, use carpools and public transit whenever necessary, follow the speed limit and lower their thermostats.

He called energy conservation “an act of patriotism” and said it would help the poorest Americans cope with the price shock.

Ronald Reagan was elected president less than 16 months later.

In that same speech, Carter stressed the need to become more energy self-reliant — by building pipelines when possible and tapping the nation’s abundant shale resources.

says the letter, also signed by nine other Nobel laureates, including South African archbishop Desmond Tutu.

“As you deliberate the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline, you are poised to make a decision that will signal either a dangerous commitment to the status quo, or bold leadership that will inspire millions counting on you to do the right thing for our shared climate.” Obama has signalled that a decision on the Alberta-to-Texas pipeline will come before summer.

He’s being squeezed on the issue by factions in his own party.

The president is caught between wealthy anti-Keystone donors and pro-Keystone lawmakers at risk of losing their seats in more conservative areas in this fall’s midterm elections.

The stakes in that congressional election could be huge. Nearly half the Supreme Court — four out of — THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE nine justices — is older than 75 and the party that controls the Senate might gain the upper hand in reThe 39th president is now lending his voice to a shaping the American judiciary for years to come. new crisis: climate change.

High-court nominees must be approved by that The letter from the Nobel winners released chamber. Until now, other former presidents had Wednesday warned Barack Obama that the pipeline expressed support for Keystone. issue is key to his legacy.

George W. Bush told an energy conference in “You stand on the brink of making a choice that Pittsburgh last year: “Build the damned thing.” will define your legacy on one of the greatest chalBill Clinton has urged people to “embrace” the lenges humanity has ever faced — climate change,” project, albeit under strict precautions.

‘MR. CARTER KNOWS FROM HIS TIME AS PRESIDENT DURING THE 1979 ENERGY CRISIS THERE ARE BENEFITS TO HAVING ACCESS TO OIL FROM STABLE, SECURE PARTNERS LIKE CANADA.’

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 103.41 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 54.21 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.73 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.07 Cdn. National Railway . . 62.07 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 162.21 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.01 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 41.13 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.70 Cervus Equipment Corp 22.42 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 48.50 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.68 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.39 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.16 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.97 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.98 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.85 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 47.25 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 64.69 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.50 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.17 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 46.70 Consumer Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 16.03 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 107.48 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.48 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.62 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 17.60 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.34 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 62.22

Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.22 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.21 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.19 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 24.97 First Quantum Minerals . 20.99 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.22 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.81 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.54 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.54 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.57 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.78 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.40 Energy Aeroflex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.02 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 40.18 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 66.31 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.01 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 55.50 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 44.08 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 23.39 Canyon Services Group. 14.47 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 32.39 CWC Well Services . . . . . 1.10 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 25.64 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.85 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 99.94 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 60.50 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.07 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 34.98 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 52.01

Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.97 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.97 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 0.17 Precision Drilling Corp . . 13.76 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 40.14 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.71 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.75 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.10 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 70.47 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.08 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.15 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.66 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.37 Carefusion . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.49 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.89 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 52.70 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 69.98 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.37 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.24 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.61 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.31 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 36.30 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.65

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market registered a strong advance Wednesday amid signs that economic growth in China held up better than expected in the first quarter.

The S&P/TSX composite index soared 142.6 points to 14,446.52 after the world’s second-largest economy reported growing at an annualized rate of 7.4 per cent in the JanuaryMarch period, down from the previous quarter’s 7.7 per cent. It was the weakest growth in China since the 2008-09 global crisis but the number was still better than what many analysts had expected.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.34 of a cent to 90.76 cents US after the Bank of Canada said it was keeping its key rate unchanged at one per cent. The bank also lowered its forecast for first-quarter growth this year to 1.5 per cent from 2.5 per cent, but attributed the downgrade mostly to temporary impacts of a unusually severe winter.

New York indexes also finished sharply higher amid good news on the U.S. economy. The Federal Reserve‘s latest regional survey showed that the economy picked up over the past two months as bitter winter weather subsided.

The Dow Jones industrials ran ahead 162.29 points to 16,424.85, the Nasdaq gained 52.07 points to 4,086.23 and the S&P index points climbed 19.33 points to 1,862.31.

Earnings news also lifted markets as supermarket chain Metro Inc. (TSX:MRU) posted adjusted earnings of $1.07 per share, five cents higher than analysts had expected. Overall sales were up 1.7 per cent year over year, rising to $2.55 billion from $2.51 billion and Metro shares were up $1.58 or 2.46 per cent to $65.86.

In the U.S., Yahoo’s earnings per share ex-items were 38 cents, a penny higher than analyst forecasts and its shares jumped $2.14 or 6.26 per cent to $36.35. Net earnings were US$312 million, or 29 cents per share compared with $390 million or 35 cents per share a year earlier.

After the close, Google disappointed, posting earnings per share ex-items of $6.26, 15 cents short of estimates. Revenue of $15.42 billion was short of the $15.54 billion that analysts expected and its shares fell five per cent in after-hours trading.

Prices for metals rose in the wake of the Chinese economic data with May copper up four cents to US$3.06 a pound and the base metals sector gained 1.19 per cent.

The energy sector rose 1.5 cent even as the May crude contract shed most early gains as data showed that U.S. inventories rose more than four times the amount expected last week to 10 million barrels. Oil inched up a penny to US$103.76 a barrel.

The gold sector slipped about 0.3 per cent as June bullion gained $3.20 to US$1,303.50 an ounce.

There was a major acquisition in the gold sector that will see Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX:YRI) and Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX:AEM) jointly acquire 100 per cent of Osisko Mining (TSX:OSK) in a cash and stock deal worth $3.9 billion. The companies are paying Osisko $8.15 a share. The offer represents an 11 per cent premium to a hostile bid for Osisko that had been mounted by Goldcorp (TSX:G).

Euro — US$1.3816, up 0.07 of a cent Oil futures: US$103.76 per barrel, down one cent (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,303.50 per oz., up $3.20 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.360 oz., up 2.8 cents $718.87 kg., up 90 cents

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at close Wednesday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,446.52, up 142.60 points TSX Venture Exchange — 997.97, up 5.87 points TSX 60 — 824.41, up 7.88 points Dow — 16,424.85, up 162.29 points S&P 500 — 1,862.31, up 19.33 points Nasdaq — 4,086.23, up 52.07 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 90.76 cents US, down 0.34 of a cent Pound — C$1.8510, up 1.53 cents Euro — C$1.5222, up 0.64 of a cent

TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 997.97, up 5.87 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 163.06 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’14 $2.40 higher $473.30; July ’14 $2.40 higher $482.30; Nov. ’14 $2.30 higher $497.10; Jan ’15 $2.30 higher $504.00; March ’15 $2.00 higher $510.30; May ’15 $1.60 higher $516.40; July ’15 $0.90 higher $520.60; Nov ’15 $0.90 lower $507.70; Jan. ’16 $0.90 lower $499.20; March ’16 $0.90 lower $499.20.

Barley (Western): May ’14 unchanged $140.00; July ’14 $3.00 higher $141.00; Oct. ’14 $3.00 higher $141.00; Dec. ’14 $3.00 higher $141.00; March ’15 $3.00 higher $141.00; May ’15 $3.00 higher $141.00; July ’15 $3.00 higher $141.00; Oct. ’15 $3.00 higher $141.00; Dec. ’15 $3.00 higher $141.00; March ’16 $3.00 higher $141.00; May ’16 $3.00 higher $141.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 346,760 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 346,760.

SERVUS: Programs tailored “We tailored the programs to fit each member’s needs,” said White, describing how fees vary depending on the services needed and the minimum monthly balance maintained.

For instance, the number of cheques that can be written without a fee being charged differs from one type of account to the next.

Perhaps the biggest change is the elimination of Servus’s Pinnacle account, which provided a broad range of banking services and was available to members with a specified number of Servus common shares.

“It was a very expensive account for us to offer,” said White, adding that the Pinnacle accounts are being converted into alternatives that best fit their owners’ banking patterns.

Many members have been asking questions about the account changes and associated fees, but Servus officials feel the new system is more equitable.

White said the new fee structure is very competitive for the banking industry, and much of the resulting revenue will find its way into the credit union’s profit-sharing program.

“At the end of the day, it all comes back to the membership anyway.”

Some members need time to adjust to the new system, including Servus’s new website, acknowledged White.

But he thinks the resulting “efficiency and ease of use” makes this worthwhile.

“It’s been a long time in coming,” said White of the integration process.

“Converting the Lloydminster, Grande Prairie and surrounding locations last year gave us a good opportunity to get a feel, without affecting our entire membership across the province.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

BANK: Downplays inflation hike “I noticed he downplayed that inflation has been a bit higher than expected,” said Porter.

“I think what they (bank officials) were trying to say is ... our weaker Canadian dollar will support growth and I think it was that comment that cut the legs out from under the currency today.”

In its tone, the Bank of Canada’s new monetary policy report appeared more positive than the bottom line,

reflecting a growing confidence in the global economic recovery and less concern about persistent low inflation and an overly hot housing sector.

Still, Poloz stressed in a teleconference from Toronto — where he was to attend the afternoon funeral of former finance minister Jim Flaherty — that considerable risks remain, including the possibility that Canadian exports won’t recover fully and the potential for a political shock to the world economy from Ukraine’s difficulties with Russia.

While he wouldn’t rule out a rate cut if needed, analyst Jimmy Jean of Desjardins Capital Markets guessed Poloz would likely have also admitted he wouldn’t rule out a rate hike either if he had been asked.

“I don’t think we’re close to either scenario,” he said.

Most economists are pencilling in a rate increase in the summer or fall of 2015, but say the chances of an actual cut from an already low setting are receding with each month of positive economic data, including more normal levels of inflation.

The last reading was 1.1 per cent and analysts are expecting Statistics Canada to report on Thursday an annualized rise of about 1.6 per cent in the consumer price index in March.

The central bank has set an ideal target of annual inflation at 2.0 per cent but considers it acceptable within a range of between 1.0 per cent and 3.0 per cent.

Poloz went to great lengths Wednesday to say that inflation remains weak — despite expectations it will approach the desired two per cent target within the next few months.

He said the near-term return of inflation will be due to temporary factors such as higher energy prices, but underlying inflation likely won’t likely return to the target rate until 2016.

Still, the bank’s new outlook as outlined in the monetary policy report suggests Poloz and his deputy governors are becoming a little more convinced in the growth story.

The first-quarter slowdown is already looking like old news and the bank expects the second quarter to pick up to 2.5 per cent growth, and for the economy to average 2.5 per cent annual growth in 2015 as a whole.

The most encouraging aspect of the report is what the bank’s governing council sees happening to exports.

Rising energy prices mean oil and gas exporters will do even better than previously expected, the bank says.

But it is also encouraged that manufacturers will soon see a lift, particularly now that the Canadian dollar has lost about 10 per cent of its previous value since February 2013.

Scotiabank sees slow growth in Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange headed housing; modest drag on economy for liquidation

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

COURT REJECTS BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo is headed for liquidation after a court rejected its bankruptcy protection application.

Mt. Gox said Wednesday the Tokyo District Court decided the company, which was a trading platform and storehouse for the bitcoin virtual currency, would not be able to resurrect itself under a business rehabilitation process filed for in February.

An administrator will try to sell the company’s assets, and many creditors, including those who had bitcoins with the exchange, are unlikely to get any money back.

After Mt. Gox went offline in February, its CEO Mark Karpeles said 850,000 bitcoins worth several hundred million dollars were unaccounted for, blaming a weakness in the exchange’s systems.

Later, Mt. Gox found 200,000 of the bitcoins, changing the estimate for the lost virtual currency to 650,000 bitcoins, although the exact amount is still under investigation. Mt Gox. has suggested the bitcoins were stolen.

The company has not been able to confirm the bitcoin balances of its users.

Bitcoins were created in 2009 by a mysterious figure or group known as Satoshi Nakamoto and are used for transactions across borders without third parties such as banks. They have also become an investment craze.

Mt. Gox said in a statement that bankruptcy proceedings are likely to start in the U.S. along with the action in Japan, but the timing is still unclear.

It said there may be a buyer for its business but that was still undecided.

The Mt. Gox mess has been a setback for the currency’s image because its boosters have promoted bitcoin’s cryptography as protecting it from counterfeiting and theft.

But bitcoin proponents have insisted that Mt. Gox is an isolated case.

Japanese legal experts say it would be difficult to prosecute Mt. Gox because its business falls outside the boundaries of existing regulations.

U.S. federal law enforcement agencies are scrutinizing whether bitcoins are being used increasingly in criminal activity such as the now-defunct Silk Road illegal drug marketplace.

Newsweek claimed it had found the creator of bitcoins, but Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, a California resident, denied in an interview with The Associated Press that he had anything to do with the digital currency.

TORONTO — Scotiabank says Canada’s housing market is in the process of transitioning to slower growth and will remain on a “subdued trajectory” over the next several years, imposing a modest drag on output growth as the effects make their way through the broader economy.

In a new report, bank senior economist Adrienne Warren says residential investment began to stall last year as affordability constraints tempered home sales and builders scaled back the number of new developments.

The bank says that it expects resale activity to edge lower in 2014-2015 as rising mortgage rates, combined with high home prices and stricter mortgage regulations strain affordability, especially for first-time buyers in major urban centres.

However, it says population growth and relatively healthy labour market conditions suggest sales should hold near their 10-year average.

Meanwhile, softer sales should in turn slow house price appreciation, with “greater downside price risk in the more amply supplied high-rise segment than for single-family homes.”

And it says a softer sales and the pricing environ-

ment is also expected to dampen renovation activity even as still expanding housing stock and high homeownership rates continue to support modest growth in renovation spending.

Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) predicts homebuilders will further slow the pace of new home construction in the face of weak growth in new home prices, rising building costs and increased unsold inventory, with the slowdown likely to remain focused on multi-unit construction due to growing concerns of oversupply and softening investor sentiment.

“From a regional perspective, Alberta is expected to outperform national trends, with sales and construction supported by relatively firmer employment and income gains and strong population inflows.”

The impact of a softening housing market will be felt broadly.

Apart from construction, the banks says industries most affected by a housing slowdown include manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, finance, insurance and real estate and professional and technical services.

“The likelihood of smaller household wealth gains as house price growth slows — or adjusts lower — will reinforce a more cautious trend in consumer spending,” it added.

Economic growth picks up across most of U.S. as harsh winter recedes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A Federal Reserve survey shows economic growth picking up across most of the United States over the past two months as bitter winter weather subsided.

Ten of the Fed’s 12 regions reported an increase in economic activity, according to the Beige Book survey released Wednesday.

In most places, the Fed described the improvement as “modest or moderate.” Only Cleveland and St. Louis reported slower growth.

In March and early April, consumers took advantage of better weather to go shopping. Manufacturing expanded across most of the country.

Ports and highways were busier. Across most of the country, home prices rose modestly and homebuilding picked up. Tourism

was “generally positive.” In several districts, ski resorts reported record years.

The Beige Book is based on anecdotal reports from businesses and will be considered along with other data when Fed policymakers meet April 29-30. C onfident that the economy is improving, the Fed has been scaling back bond purchases meant to push long-term interest rates down, encourage consumer and business spending and spur economic growth.

Economists are hoping that growth will pick up as the weather gets warmer. Despite a slow, chilly start this year, the economy is expected to grow 3 per cent this year, the fastest pace since 2005, two years before the Great Recession hit.

“Beneath all the snow and ice — and there was still some in March — the economy is coming

back,” says John Canally, economist at LPL Financial. “Overall, (the Beige Book) says the economy is poised to reaccelerate.”

The job market has steadily recovered. Employers added a healthy 192,000 jobs in March and 197,000 in February.

The economy has now regained all the private sector jobs it lost during the Great Recession.

On Wednesday, the Fed also reported that U.S. factory output rose further last month, extending strong growth from February after harsh weather had caused production to tumble in January.

Still, the news is not all good. A government report on housing construction Wednesday was weaker than economists had hoped for.

And the outlook for homebuilding was clouded by a drop last month in applications for building permits.

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Leave the past in the past Dear Annie: Several years ago, I things alone? — Sleepless went to a massage parlor and paid a Dear Sleepless: Yes. Please. In time, woman for sex. This same woman re- she will realize that you can be trustcently got a job in the office where I ed not to ruin her work reputation, work. There are only nine and she will relax. Her conemployees. cerns in the meantime are This is an unbelievable not your business, and we coincidence. We get along doubt she would appreciate pretty well as co-workers a reminder of your encounand are respectful toward ter. Behave around her as each other. But it’s awkward you would any other cowhen we bump into each worker. Your awkwardness other in the narrow hallonly adds to her discomfort. ways or for the occasional Dear Annie: I belong to elevator ride. I have been a small group of friends carrying around a letter in who gather often at one anmy pocket for a long time. other’s homes. One of our It is not a love letter. The friends recently moved into MITCHELL woman is married, and I am a larger “dream home” and & SUGAR not interested in her. The now wants gatherings at her message in the letter is simplace more often. ply to reassure her that I The trouble is, they have never gossiped about have two cats and for some her to anyone, especially our co-work- odd reason have placed the litter box ers. I want to put her mind at ease. directly in front of the toilet. Worse, I’d give her this letter, but I’m afraid most of the time, the box is not clean. of her reaction. Should I just leave It smells and can be downright nasty.

ANNIE ANNIE

Since they live a good distance from town, it’s difficult for us not to use her bathroom before we leave. We were recently invited to another gathering there. We turned it down, saying we had other plans. Should we address this head on or ignore it and hold our breath? We can’t refuse all celebrations at their home. — Not a Party Pooper Dear Party: Here’s what you say: “We love the gatherings in your lovely home, but there is a problem with the litter box being placed in front of the commode. None of us is comfortable using your bathroom. We don’t want to hurt your feelings, but we thought you would want to know.”

Dear Annie: I totally agree with your advice to “Omaha, Neb.,” who wants to grow old with his wife, who is 100 pounds overweight.

Three years ago, I weighed 280 pounds, was Type II diabetic and had high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I walked into an Overeaters Anonymous meeting and found loving

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support and people I could relate to. A month later, I joined Weight Watchers because I liked the diet, and a year after that, I added a structured exercise program. Today, I am 90 pounds lighter, my numbers for diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol are all in the normal range, and I am so much happier. I still have some weight to lose, but I know that with the help of OA and the other changes I’ve made in my life, I will reach my goal. More importantly, I no longer hide my feelings about my weight, and I have the support I need to keep myself strong and healthy.

I hope that “Omaha’s” wife realizes what a caring and concerned husband she has and accepts the support he offers.

I also hope she finds her own way back to a healthy lifestyle. There is help out there, but she needs to seek it out. — Thankful in Florida Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

HOROSCOPES Thursday, April 17 feelings, it is within these times that we get CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: epiphanies on how to create more harmony.

Victoria Beckham, 39; Jennifer Garner, 41; C VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today will be J Watson, 29 a perfect day to go out with friends and enjoy THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will a pleasant conversations. The atmosphere will favourable day for financial interests. There not only be fun, it will be spiritually enlightenwill be an ease and pleasantness to all inter- ing. It will be a day when those group endeavactions. Everyone will be more relaxed than ours will be highlighted and will move forward usual and enjoyment is on the agenda today. swimmingly.

The harsh reality of everyday circumstances LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Work projects seem to be tucked away for now as everyone will take a financial boost today. Although is able to have a lovely day. they might not be long lasting, they will give HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birth- you that oomph you need to push it forward. day, this year will make a time You have reason to be skeptical when your finances will increase now. Use the wisdom you have for the better. Financial specuacquired to make that financial lations are easily taken ,so be boost significant in the long run. mindful to not be too optimistic SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): about a quick deal. Vacations Buy that ticket to travel. Today taken this year will be filled with will mark a time when laughter much fun and be spiritually enand overall pleasantness will lightening. Make sure to not saturate the day. Travelling or dwell on the past, and step forexpanding your personal level of ward with emotional wisdom. fun will allow you to let go of that ARIES (March 21-April 19): authoritative image and become Interactions with those at home more relaxed in your being. will leave you in harmony on a SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22LARISA MAIRA deeper level. The issues that you Dec. 21): Today, you will be have felt with significant relationmore relaxed and interactions OZOLINS ships will not be surfacing today at home will go along with ease and this will be a healthy relief and comfort. Fears and old befor you now. Relaxation is in orliefs will be tucked away as you der today, enjoy! experience the new and enjoyTAURUS (April 20-May 20): Inspiring con- able future for yourself and your family. Past versations with friends will leave you on cloud limitations will seem distant and forgettable. nine. Your aspirations are achievable and you CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Get in might get a bit more help to push them along touch with those friends with whom you have today. Past issues with relationships will have lost contact. Today will mark a wonderful start you second guessing their commitment. Trust to pleasantness and fun. Interactions with your instincts. significant relationships will leave you feeling GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Financial ven- inspired and taken care of. tures at work will pay off today. Yet there AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Financould be reason to question its durability in cial speculations at work will be profitable. the long run. Take it as a gift for now. Enjoy Although others will come across as more the bonus for your efforts and have the wis- reserved, do not let that stop you from enjoydom to stop while you are ahead. ing yourself. Go out and enjoy yourself and CANCER (June 21-July 22): Expanding allow for the pleasantness of the day to bring your horizons, either through travelling or a smile to your face. interacting with foreigners will leave you in PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today will high spirits. The world has an amicable feel mark a time when fun will be on the agenda. to it and everything seems new again. Simple Laughter, inspirations and excitement will be conversations lead to deep spiritual insight easily had. Gamble on love, you never know and laughter is in the air. what could happen. Your perspective will LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take the time to soon change as the new view settles in. interact with those significant relationships in your life. After some period of uneasiness, Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally today will mark a shift towards better times. syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her colAlthough some might feel cut off from their umn appears daily in the Advocate.

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DEPTA Coltyn ‘Cole’ 1994 - 2014 It is with the deepest sorrow that the family of Coltyn Earl ‘Cole’ Depta of Red Deer, Alberta announces his passing on Thursday, April 10, 2014 at the tender age of 20 years. Cole was born on February 23, 1994 at Red Deer, Alberta, where he was raised. He was employed with Chrysler Mopar Parts and was attending Red Deer College to pursue a career as an electrician. Cole was a loyal son, brother and friend. He will be lovingly remembered by his mother and father, Steve and Carol Depta, older brother, Kyle and younger brother, Caden and the love of his life, Mariki Fletcher, the mother of his child. He will also be sadly missed by Andrea Boyechko, a lifelong family friend; Zack, Darren, Braden, Colin, Mel, Tyler, Craig, T.J. and many more friends, his aunts, uncles, cousins, a very close great aunt, Auntie Alice and his deeply saddened paternal grandparents, Wally and Clareen Depta. Cole was predeceased by his maternal grandparents, Cecil and Irene Tombs. A Funeral Service will be held at the Word of Life Church, south end of Taylor Drive on England Way, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor Bryce Birmingham officiating.

Interment will follow at the Red Deer Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gary W. Anderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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FERN Brian 1928 - 2014 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Brian on April 10, 2014 after a battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Ruth, a daughter, Jacqueline and three sons, Geoffrey, Clifford and Murray as well as numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. A memorial service will be held April 23, 2014 in Basingstoke, England.

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MARTIN Marcel 1927 - 2014 Marcel passed away on April 13, 2014 in Red Deer Hospice Society at the age of 86. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife Myrtle and their children Donna (Dave), Rodney (Bev), Ramona (David) and his very special grandchildren Sean, Sheldon, Blair, Dane, Chelsea and Hayley; and surviving family, his sisters Alyce, Margaret, Lorette, Louise and Marie; and brothers Lawrence and Maurice. A celebration of his life will be held on Monday, April 21, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, McKenzie Rd, Penhold.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society.

KING Darren James King was born on July 6, 1966 in Rocky Mountain House and entered into rest on April 14, 2014 at the age of 47. Darren enjoyed many sports especially hockey. After high school he played with the Olds Grizzlies and various other Junior teams and later coached the Innisfail Eagles Senior Hockey Team. He loved camping, fishing, golf and spending time with his family and friends. Darren worked in the oilfield at various jobs over the years, and later as an oilfield consultant, travelling all around the province, his dog often accompanying him. He was a great entertainer and could sing and play musical instruments, some that he made himself. He was a handy guy who could build anything. Darren had a mischievous grin and great sense of humor. Darren was affectionately known as “Fred”, a nickname that he had since a teenager. He was adventurous and rode his motorcycle to California when he was just out of high school. He was a kind, gentle person who had many friends and will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

Darren is survived by Wende King, daughters Megan and Michelle and son Matthew, one brother, Alan (Terry) King, sisters Karen (Phil) Paquette, Barb (Barry) Ahearn and Patty (Colin) Laiss, dear friends Karla and Shari, and many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins. He was predeceased by his Mom and Dad, Lloyd and Florence King and infant daughter Darian. A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, April 19th at 2:00 pm at the Rocky Funeral Home, Rocky Mountain House. Private family inurnment at Pine Grove Cemetery at a later date. Donations may be made in trust to Darren’s children’s education fund, Scotia Bank, or to the Red Deer Hospital, Palliative Care.

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UNREINER Leo 1933 - 2014 Mr. Leo Unreiner of Penhold, Alberta, passed away suddenly at his home on Thursday, April 10, 2014 at the age of 81 years. Leo was born on March 29, 1933 at Schuler, Alberta, on his parent’s farm. Dad was a farmer in Schuler and then moved to Alix, Alberta, where his family had a Dairy Farm.

He then moved to Rimbey, Alberta to raise his family and had a Mixed Farm. In the mid 1990’s he left Rimbey and settled down in Penhold, Alberta.

Dad worked for Oilfield Companies, C.P. Rail and also drove school bus, as well as helping out the area farmers. He loved to fish, hunt, dance, play crib, scrabble, solitaire and crossword puzzles. Dad loved singing along with Wilf Carter and enjoyed playing banjo and guitar. Leo will be lovingly remembered by his children, Michelle (Stacey) Schneider of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Cynthia (Mike) McLeod of Airdrie, Alberta, Douglas (Deana) and Dwayne (Leanna) both of Red Deer and nine grandchildren. He will also be sadly missed by his four brothers, Anthony (Ann), Edward (Eva), Ben (Caroline) and Dennis (Geraldine) and a sister, Mary (Jim) Clegg, all of Medicine Hat, Alberta, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Leo was predeceased by his parents, Ralph and Rose Unreiner.

Relatives and friends are invited to come and pay their respects at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer on Saturday, April 19, 2014 between the hours of 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. with The Reverend Father Jozef Wroblewski, Celebrant.

Interment will follow at the Lakeview Cemetery, Sylvan Lake, Alberta.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Leo’s honor may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca or to the Canadian Cancer Society at www.cancer.ca.

The family extends a “Special Thank You” to our extended family members for all their help, love and support. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Gary W. Anderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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Card Of Thanks LASIUTA Darlene Lasiuta and her family would like to express their heartfelt thanks to; Father Joszef of Sacred Heart and staff, Toni Tanis, and the CWL for a delicious funeral lunch, the Knights of Columbus for flowers and honour guard, the Lions Club for your presence, the Bingo Association, Sacred Heart Parish council, Sacred Heart choir, friends and family who brought food and baking. Thank you for your flowers, donations and mass cards. Thanks to Doctor Ellis, and West Park Drugs Dev Aggraval. Thank you to Michelle and Donita for coming to my aid. Thank you to Meaningful Memorials for a beautiful ceremony.

COATES Warren Neil 1932 - 2014 A celebration of life is being held for Warren Neil Coates beloved husband of Florence Stephan Coates. This event will take place on Saturday, April 19th at Parkland Births Community Living’s “RELAX Crew Club House” which is located at 6332 Orr Drive, Red Deer, Alberta. Memorial Service will be at 12:00 noon, internment at the Red Deer Cemetery, and a luncheon to ARE YOU EXPECTING follow for family and friends A BABY SOON? at the RELAX Crew. Neil Welcome Wagon passed away at the Good has a Samaritans Garden Vista, special package Magrath, Alberta on Friday, just for you & January 24, 2014, at the age your little one! of 81 years.

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GARY COLEMAN 1958 - 2013 I thought of you with love today But that is nothing new.

I thought about you yesterday, and the days before that too.

I think of you in silence, I often speak your name All I have are memories and your picture in a frame.

Your memory is my keepsake with which I’ll never part God has you in His keeping, I have you in my heart.

Love from all your family!

Lori (Stickland) Egan “We Will Remember You” Deep are the memories Precious they stay No passing of time Can take them away.

Quietly today Your memory we treasure Missing you always Forgetting you never.

Love Mom, Leanne, Mark & Sherry, Shannon & Mark, and families

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DENTAL ADMIN. SUPERSTAR! Our dental practice is seeking an outstanding individual to provide extraordinary service for our patients.

Dental or medical experience a plus. Learn more about this opportunity by calling 403-307-8560 where you will hear a recorded message providing details about the position and instructions on how to apply.

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* 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 jjudson@1strateenergy.ca or contact Jeanine at 403-887-2147 Please specify position when replying to this ad.

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Experienced Low Bed drivers with off - road and winch tractor experience Experienced 45 Ton Boom Truck Operators Competitive Rates and Full Benefits Wages range from $40.00 to $55.00 per hour depending on position and experience

DISPATCHER If you are organized and enjoy working in a dynamic environment, this role may be for you.

Experienced Oilfield Construction Lead Hands Experienced Oilfield Construction Labourers Experienced Oilfield Project Foreman Journeyman Mechanic (Preferred Heavy Duty)

Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Team in Hinton.

The successful applicant Alstar has been serving will have the following: the oil & gas construction • Strong Computer Skills industry since 1969.

• Good written & verbal communication • Prefer Dispatch Experience If you have a Desire to be Part of a Growing Company Please apply on our Career The job includes: Section on our website • Coordinating & Dispatching www.alstaroilfield.com (Labour & Equipment) • Monitor Work Schedule • Competitive Rates & “Committed to enriching the lives of our workforce, while Full Benefits Providing quality energy • 8 / 6 Shift construction solutions” Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Team in Hinton.

Alstar has been serving the oil & gas construction OIL & GAS OPERATOR industry since 1969.

Bearspaw currently has a If you have a Desire to be position in our Stettler field Part of a Growing Company operations for an intermediate Please apply on our Career oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a Section on our website heavy duty mechanic or www.alstaroilfield.com journeyman instrument “Committed to enriching the mechanic and possess lives of our workforce, while strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivated Providing quality energy and hard working and live construction solutions” or be willing to relocate Hiring full time Operation within a 20 minute commute Coordinator/Field to workplace location. This Supervisor for local oilfield position offers a challenging testing company work environment, attractive Must be local (Red Deer area) benefits with competitive Must have testing pay and significant room experience for promotion.

Competitive salary Please submit resumes Health benefits offered Send resume to Attn: Human Resources ken@darkstarproduction. email:kwolokoff@ com bearspawpet.com Fax 403-252-9719 Buying or Selling Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 your home?

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Providing quality energy This will be a No experience or educaconstruction solutions” Monday to Friday Shift tion req’d. Job description avail. at Start your career!

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Alstar has been serving the 6017 Parkwood Road, Check out Classifieds to oil and gas construction Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. find the purrfect pet. industry since 1969.

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SOAP Stories is seeking 5 P/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty cert. req’d. Location Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@ gmail.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission.

F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com

STORESMART SELF STORAGE is now hiring for the following positions!

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A leader in the architectural openings industry for over 50 years is seeking an Experienced Full Time

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Must have minimum 3 years’ experience in estimating. Prior work in sales and the construction industry an asset.

We offer $19 -20/hr.

In-house training and career advancement opportunities.

Applicants please send resume to: hr@allmar.com

Clean & vacuum rooms, CUSTOM MUFFLER public areas, pool etc.

• Replenish amenities, Looking for apprentice or journeyman mechanic. linens & towels.

• Adhere to Holiday Inn Pipe bending skills would be a great asset. Wages SERVICE RIG safety standards. depend on exp. Going Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd All positions are permanent concern shop. Fax is seeking exp’d Full-time/Part-time, shift resume to:403-346-9909 FLOORHANDS & work & weekends. or drop off at 2410 50 Ave. DERRICK HANDS Education: Above Secondary Phone 403-346-7911 Locally based, home every Work Experience not night! Qualified applicants essential, training provided.

F/T apprentice req’d for must have all necessary Fax resume to 780-702-5051 sheet metal shop. valid tickets for the position Competitive rate and being applied for.

HOLIDAY INN benefits. Self motivated Bearspaw offers a and drivers license req’d.

Red Deer South, very competitive salary Call 403-227-6554 or fax Gasoline Alley, and benefits package resume to 403-227-6478 37471 Hwy 2S, along with a steady Red Deer County FINISH CARPENTER or work schedule. is seeking helper req’d for new resiPlease submit resumes: FRONT DESK CLERK dential work. 350-5012 Attn: Human Resources Email: ~ $14.00/hr.

FT MACHINIST – hr@bearspawpet.com • Answer phone calls, ROCKY MTN. HOUSE Fax: (403) 258-3197 or take reservations.

4TH YR. APPRENTICE Mail to: Suite 5309, • Check in/out guests.

OR JOURNEYMAN 333-96 Ave. NE • Balance cash out & Machinist W/ Red Seal Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 attend to guest needs.

Position requires a HIGH HOUSEKEEPING degree of skill operating manual Lathes, Milling ROOM ATTENDANT Machines & Drill Press. ~ $14.00/hr.

Professionals Public/Co-worker • Clean & Vacuum rooms, communications a must; public areas, pool, etc.

Innisfail Insurance • Replenish amenities, welding skills an asset.

CNC experience NOT linens & towels.

Services Ltd. required. Competitve is accepting applications for • Adhere to Holiday Inn wages and benefits. safety standards LICENSED BROKER, Level 2 status. Must have All positions are permanent Please fax: 403-844-2634 or email: gtdblh@telus.net Full-time/Part-time, shift 3 yrs. exp. Commercial Only successful applicants work & weekends. exp. an asset. F/T position. will be contacted.

The successful candidate Education: Above Secondary Classifieds...costs so little Work Experience not must be a self-motivated essential, training provided. professional, possessing Saves you so much! excellent communication Fax resume to 780-702-5051 GOODMEN and interpersonal skills.

RAMADA INN & SUITES Applicants must enjoy ROOFING LTD. req’s. Permanent Room working in a very busy Requires Attendants. Exp. not nec. team oriented will train. Approx. 35 - 40 environment. Salary to SLOPED ROOFERS hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 commensurate with LABOURERS $14/hr. Duties incl’d but experience. Please & FLAT ROOFERS not limited to: vacuuming, forward resumes to: dusting, washing floors, Carol Peterson Valid Driver’s Licence making beds, empty trash, Box 6039 preferred. Fax or email disinfecting & cleaning Innisfail, AB T4G 1S7 info@goodmenroofing.ca bathrooms. Performance Fax: 403- 227-3910 or (403)341-6722 based bonus program.

Email: cpeterson@ NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Must be fluent with verbal innisfailinsurance.com You can sell your guitar l& written English, be Classifieds...costs so little for a song... physically fit. Applicants or put it in CLASSIFIEDS may apply in person at Saves you so much! and we’ll sell it for you!

6853 - 66 St. Red Deer TOO MUCH STUFF? T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 INDIVIDUAL REQUIRED or email: Let Classifieds to organize staff info@ramadareddeer.com help you sell it. for jobs & projects.

Work with the Fin Fan to organize & follow the transportation rules & regulations for maintenance of equipment & log books for Canada & USA. Please fax resume to 403-342-7447

810

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J AND JB AUTO

is looking for a full time Automotive Journeyman Mechanic. Mon-Fri. Please send resumes to info@JandJBauto.com

1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

LOOKING for Framers/ carpenters 403-357-9816

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

PARTSOURCE

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Antique Dealers and Stores

1027

4 POST car lifts and Classic Car Finders. We have the highest quality car hoists for your house or man cave avail. Also have car shipping from USA to Red Deer along with brokering, over 300 contacts worldwide for finding your classic car. Call Kyle 403-896-7258

Automotive

1029

GRAND OPENING Caravan Luxury Auto Detailing. Spring cleaning specials 403-872-3998

Contractors

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 FENCES & DECKS 403-352-4034

Contractors

1100

Massage Therapy

1280

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

FANTASY

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

International ladies

Eavestroughing

1130

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. Free quotes.

403-506-4822

MASSAGE

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Seniors’ Services

1372

1420

1165

403-506-4822

1200

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Yard Care

1430

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. 587-876-4396

COMMERCIAL Parking lot Vacuum Street Sweeping & parking lot assessments. SPRING LAWN CLEANUP Call 403-304-0678 403-341-6900

Property clean up 340-8666

Trades

850

SECOND 2 NONE Aerate, de-patch lawns.

Free est. 403-302-7778 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

880

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W.R.SCOTT Equipment ACADEMIC Express a company dealing in ADULT EDUCATION compact equipment is AND TRAINING looking for a representative to handle equipment, SPRING START parts, sales & equipment rentals. Applicant must • GED Preparation have a valid driver’s licence, basic computer Would you like to take the knowledge is an asset.

GED in your community?

Please send resume to: dbevan@ • Red Deer wrscottequipment.com • Rocky Mtn. House or fax 403-347-4099 • Rimbey • Hanna Truckers/ • Drumheller • Innisfail Drivers • Paintearth • Drayton Valley

860

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca Class 1 or 3 Ready Mix Truck Drivers needed.

Must pass a physical & a drug test.

Please apply via fax with resume, references & a current abstract to: 403 347 8060 or email: Bruce.Ernst@lafarge.com CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume to canpak@xplornet.ca or call 403-341-9300 DRIVERS WANTED RED DEER Hallcon is currently seeking qualified drivers to transport rail crews throughout the surrounding area. Drivers are ideally based out of RED DEER. No overnight stays required. This position is an on call position.

Employees are responsible for taking trips during the period they have designated themselves available to do so. All transportation is done in Hallcon company vehicles.

These vehicles are extensively and consistently maintained to ensure optimal safety for our drivers and clients. Drivers must possess a valid Class 1, 2, or 4 license, with a clean driver abstract.

Assisted licensing upgrade to achieve a class 4 is available. Pay is based at a rate of $15.38. Earning potential is based on your availability, as our operation runs on a 24/7 on call basis. Both full time and part time employees are welcome. Semi-retired, retired, full time, and part time employees are welcome. Please forward resumes and current driver abstract to Shane Flack at asmabnorth@gmail.com.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE EXP’D CLASS 1 FLAT DECK drivers. Home most weekends. We offer steady year round work with no lay offs, a company benefits package, competitive pay and achievable drivers incentive bonuses. Fax resume with a recent CDA to 403-784-2330 email: dwh471@hotmail.com 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.

RED Deer based acid hauling company looking for Class 1 truck drivers.

Top industry wages and benefits package. Please fax resume and drivers abstract to 403-346-3766 SEMI RETIRED? SPRING BREAK UP? Seasonal drivers req’d. for local fertilizer dellivery.

Clean Class 3 license req’d., AG exp. an asset.

Call 403-588-0956.

EMAIL: pat@benaltoag.com

TITAN TRANSPORT LTD.

We are a flat bed company based out of Saskatoon, SK. with an office in Calgary.

We are currently looking for company drivers as well as owner operators.

You must have a min. of 2 yrs. exp. with flat beds.

Canada/U.S. Call 1-800-667-7080 or 306-374-1739 Ask for Robert

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in CLEARVIEW RIDGE Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres., Churchill Cl. area $195/mo.

DEERPARK AREA Duncan Cres. $71/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA

GLENDALE

Spruce Drive $52/mo.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

TIMBERSTONE AREA

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in WestPark Westpark Cres. & 57 Ave. Wiltshire Blvd. & Welton Cres.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info

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Timothy Drive., Turner Cres., Towers Cl., & Tobin Gt. $97/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 ATTENTION Students SUMMER WORK flexible schedule, $17 baseappointment, customer sales/service, no exp. necessary, conditions apply. Will train. Call 403-755-6711 www. summeropenings.ca/rda FORKLIFT / SKID STEER OPERATOR with tickets.

Safety background essential.

Ability to work independently for Red Deer Recycling Facility.

Email resume to canpak@xplornet.ca or call 403-341-9300

880

Gasoline Alley in Red Deer

NOW HIRING

Full Time & Part Time

Cooks - Servers Convenience Store Attendants Competitive Wages Flexible Scheduling Assistance with Transportation Available Apply in person or email your resume to:

reddeer-hwy2south@smittys.ca

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

SPRINGBROOK The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING! Phone Loren at 403-314-4316 ************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

TRUCKERS

Busy road construction company looking for Class 1, Class 3, and winch truck drivers. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have at least 3 yr’s exp. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

Business Opportunities

870

Enjoy a career in the gifting business with The original basket boutique!

We are growing in Red Deer and Alberta.

780.416.2530 or www.obbgiftsfranchise.com

850

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 4 days per week

WESTPARK SUBDIVISION 35 Street 37 Street 41 St. Cres 58 Ave. Welton Cres.

Westpark Cres.

36 Street 38 St. Close 57A Ave. Warwick Dr. Wiltshire Pl. Wiltshire Dr.

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316 ************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Classifieds Your place to SELL VELOX EAVESTROUGH Pampering at its Your place to BUY Cleaning & Repairs.

BEST! Reasonable rates. 340-9368 403-986-6686 Window Come in and see why we are the talk Cleaning Escorts of the town. www.viimassage.biz WINDOW CLEANING. TAHNEE 392-0891 *BUSTY* Open long weekend Outside / Inside / Both.

INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

REQUIRES P/T PARTS PRO Work with flexible schedule.

Please apply at 6722 50th Ave or fax 403-309-0354 or email: ps791@partsource.ca

Trades

389127D20

800

Oilfield

Recently winning the 2013 Business of the Year award, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment. Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and have recently expanded our facilities into Calgary Alberta.

We employ over 175 people and provide ample opportunities to employees to achieve their career goals. We provide handson training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.

If you would like to be a part of our growing and dynamic team of professionals in your field, we are currently seeking both -

JOURNEYMAN AND B PRESSURE WELDERS

We offer competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Please fax resume to 403-227-7796, email to hr@bilton.ca

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 4 days per week

MOUNTVIEW SUBDIVISION 33 Street 34 Street 36 Street 38 Street 42 Ave. 43A Ave.

33A Street 35 St. Cres.

37 St. 41 Ave. 43 Ave. 44A Ave.

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316

for full-time permanent shop positions

389670D22

800

Oilfield

************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, April 17, 2014 D3

Central Alberta Greenhouses Ltd Greenhouse Laborers required for our greenhouse operation located near Blackfalds, Alberta.

Responsibilities include transplanting, watering, handling and caring for plant material and preparation of orders. This position is labor intensive and entails working in a cold/hot environment.

Laborers are required to work a minimum 40 hours per week and must be available to work different shifts, 6 days a week.

Positions are available starting April and last till mid June. No previous work experience or qualifications are required. Starting wage is $10.03/hr.

Please email resume to acctcag@telus.net or fax resume to 403-885-4147 (Attn. Human Resources).

Resumes may also be mailed to Box 100, Blackfalds, Alberta, T0M 0J0.

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

LABOUR

Busy road construction company looking for Labours. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

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880

RENTAL STORE requires an employee for counter sales. Must have equipment and small engine knowledge. Retail and parts inventory experience are assets.

Must be physically fit. Full time position with OT in busy season. sales@ parklandrentals.com or fax 403-347-7066

WE ARE LOOKING FOR A F/T dedicated individual who will be responsible for RED DEER’S HOMESTAY PROGRAMS. Learn more about the position and how to apply at: www.nal.com/careers Closes April 25, 2014.

Employment Training

Resident Apartment Manager - Red Deer 27 units, quiet, adult, no smoking, no pets Collect rent, clean, building maintenance, Sidewalks and grass.

Renovation skills a plus Criminal record check.

Send resumes with experience, expectations and references to: resumes@ wunschdevelopments.ca or fax: 780-452-8284

880

Misc.

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900

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

wegot SAFETY PERSON

Busy road construction company looking for safety person. Work is throughout the province. Experience is an asset but willing to train the right person. Must have a valid Class 5 driver’s license. Fax resume 403-309-0489 SUMMER Receptionist Openings Local Red Deer Office looking for appointment setters during our busy season. Ideal for students or someone searching for Part-Time. Pay starts at $11.00/hr. Must be avail.

Sundays. Call 403-755-8163 to APPLY NOW.

THE TASTY BAKERY

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

DELIVERY PERSON Permanent P/T required 3-4 hrs. per day 4 days/wk Apply in person Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive, (directly behind Nutters)

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

PENHOLD Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316 lwiberg@reddeeradvocate.com

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Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316 lwiberg@reddeeradvocate.com

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

INNISFAIL The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING! Phone Loren at 403-314-4316 ************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Alwright Close INGLEWOOD AREA Ing Close / Ireland Cres.

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive MORRISROE AREA Marion Cres / McKenzie Cres VANIER AREA Valentine Cres. / Vandorp St. Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Sporting Goods

1500-1990

Auctions

1530

Antique & Estate Auction April 27 @ 11 am For info view www.cherryhillauction.com 403-342-2514

Bicycles

1540

1973 JD 5 spd. girls bike $175 good cond., 403-341-3741

Children's Items

1580

CHILD’S Gap jacket size 8 waterproof w/hood, fleece lined, very good cond, $15 403-314-9603

1860

GUN SHOW

May 3 - May 4 UFA Agri Centre West Info: 403-347-3767

1900

A WEEK AT FAIRMONT Resort, April 18 - 25. $500. o.b.o. 403-340-8880 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

CLASSIFICATIONS

Livestock

2100

FLATLAND RANCH has on offer yearling and 2 year old Gelbvieh Bulls.

We have been selling reputable bulls for 15 years Chuck 403-854-6270

Horses

2140

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Grain, Feed Hay

FREE 400 bu. treated white pasta wheat seed 403-782-2296

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

Garden Supplies

1680

TREES: Windbreak, privacy screen, white spruce trees 5’-7’ delivered & planted $60 ea. on 25 or more. 20+ yrs experience (780)778-0223.

Household Furnishings

1720

Acreages/ Farms

3010

FARM house, 20 min. to R.D. avail. May 1, 403-347-1526 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

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

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates ~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1195 to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, KING SIZE BOX SPRING, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs. $100.

N/S, no utilities incl.

403-350-9029 or References required.

403-343-7389 4 KITCHEN CHAIRS, fabric seats, brown metal frame. $50.

OFFICE CHAIR, black, swivel. $20.

403-346-2070

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

ALL ITEMS NEW IN BOX : 3 burner chrome gas BBQ, $120.

Electric grass trimmer, $12.

Brad nailer/stapler, $35.

148 home tool set, $20.

109 pc drill set, $25.

50’ non-kink garden hose, $15.

403-887-4981

Suites

3060

3 BDRM trailer in Alix. Lrg fenced yard, shed. No pets.

May 1st. 403-348-6594 3 BDRM. Oriole Park, 4 appl., incl. water., avail.

May 1, $840/mo.

403-348-6594 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 403-348-7445 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

CLEAROUT VARIOUS PARTYLITE PRODUCTS including candles.

60% off.

Large selection.

403-350-9029 or 403-343-7389 ELECTRIC START 22” snowblower. 3 HP Good cond. $200, 403-887-4981 JIG SAW PUZZLES & MISC. BOOKS. $2/ea.

587-273-3436 LEG MAGIC Exerciser, was $125, asking $25.

403-346-2070 QUEEN white duvet, KING white duvet, $25/ea.

403-346-2070 SONY Reader, brand new $35.; Ladies Biker’s Jacket leather, sm. size, exc. cond. $50; air fan $10.

403-347-0325

Cats

1830

BALINESE KITTENS (2) $50. ea.

Burman Kittens (2) $50. ea.

403-887-3649 FARM CATS FREE to good home.

403-343-0730

LARGE, 1 & 2 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 renovated bachelor & 2 bedroom suites avail. in central location. leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031 SUITES FOR RENT Two units in the Village of Elnora Manor are available for occupancy - Clean, well maintained units managed by the Village of Elnora Management Body.

These suites are nonsmoking and no pets are allowed. Units are one bedroom, self-contained, subsidized, independent living for Seniors - 65 +.

For more information, please call Cindy at 403-773-2407. Applications and information may also be obtained during regular business hours at the Village of Elnora Town Office 403-773-3922

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Houses For Sale

4020

GRANNY NANNY needed.

Bi-level bsmt. in family home in Anders for rent, full access to all amenities.

Ideal tenant would be mature woman with love of children willing to routinely provide child care for 10 yr. old boy, rent $720/mo. all inclusive except phone, child care separate arrangement. 403-352-0440

Stores/ Commercial

3120

COMMERCIAL FOR RENT

Office or Retail Practical, Affordable 4 lrge rooms. Lower level ON ROSS STREET $825+pwr, $200 Move in Bonus Call Darryl Sim 403 358-9003 Sim Management & Realty

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

FOR ALL YOUR OFFICE NEEDS call Glenn Moore Associate 403-346-6655 www.reddeercommercial.com

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

4110 4130

Cottages/Resort Property

TIME share at Grand Canadian Resort, Canmore, AB. 2 bdrm. unit sleeps up to 8, 4/5 star amenities.

Exchangable for Interval World, 26 yrs. remaining.

Great bargain, must sell price! 403-347-6466

Waskasoo Creek Coronation Park

Executive 1/2 Duplex Fenced back yard on creek Lovely area near walking paths, all amenities.

Hardwood floors, newly developed basement.

Quick Possession avail.

3 bdrms. up, 2 in bsmt. $349,900 Agent selected.

403-396-5516 403-314-4318

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

EXCLUSIVE LUXURY RIVERFRONT CONDOS FOR SALE in Downtown Red Deer.

Call Renee at 403-314-1687 for Inquiries.

Gorgeous Condo

Sylvan Lake, main flr. w/2 parking stalls, 3 bdrms., 2 bath, 7 stainless steel appls. washer/dryer. relaxing living rm. w/fireplace, balcony. Quiet area w/park & gym. Stylish & modern. 403-614-7598 ksadesigns@platinum.ca

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION

At the right price too!

Immediate Possession, main floor, easy access, bright yet private.

Very attractive, spacious one bedroom condo at 3 BROADWAY RISE, Sylvan Lake. $195,900 Call Darryl Sim 403 358-9003 Sim Management & Realty

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Commercial Property

13 ACRES highway commercial Red Deer area 403-886-2358

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

2190

Homestead Firewood FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390 Spruce & Pine - Split Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

3080

Roommates Wanted

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

LACOMBE COUNTRY FEED STORE, CHILD’S hiking shoes CoCome see us at: lumbia, size 13, very good 4836 45A St. Lacombe, Ab cond, $10 403-314-9603 ALL THE FEED YOUR LEAPSTER 2 by Leapfrog ANIMALS NEED! w/games $20 403-782-3333 403-314-9603 Dealer of Masterfeeds

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

INNISFAIL

HUSKY WOLF PUPS!!

1st shots, Call Kerri 403-506-3395

Travel Packages

SAFETY

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

1840

Dogs

NEW CONDO

Lots For Sale

4160

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

Investment Opportunities

4180

SEEKING equity partners for investment grade retail and office properties in Calgary up to 2 million.

Shane Olin solin@ blackstonecommercial.com 403 708-9086

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5030

Cars

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

at www.garymoe.com

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

Acreages

4050

CUSTOM BUILT

Locally owned and family operated

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

BUY OR SELL, CALL CORDELL AT MAXWELL

MOUNTVIEW

Character homes on huge lots, stunning landscaping, backing onto treed reserves, close to schools, shopping & transit. www.JustListedInfo.com ResOneInfo2@gmail.com Text/Call 403-358-9999 Residential One

MUST SELL

1217 sq.ft. duplex.

4 bdrm., $191,900.

403-588-2550

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

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U.S. readies sanctions on Russia ALSO BOOSTS ASSISTANCE FOR UKRAINE’S MILITARY TO TAKE CONTROL OF EAST

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to ratchet up sanctions on Russia and boost assistance for the Ukrainian military in the coming days, U.S. officials said Wednesday, as Ukraine struggles to contain a pro-Russian uprising in its eastern cities.

Officials said they had no plans to levy new sanctions ahead of Thursday’s talks in Geneva between the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and the European Union.

But with low expectations for a breakthrough in those meetings, officials already have prepared targets for sanctions that include wealthy individuals close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the entities they run.

“Each time Russia takes these kinds of steps that are designed to destabilize Ukraine and violate their sovereignty, there are going to be consequences,” President Barack Obama said in an interview with CBS News. “Mr. Putin’s decisions aren’t just bad for Ukraine. Over the long-term, they’re going to be bad for Russia.”

The administration also was working on a package of non-lethal assistance for Ukraine’s military.

The assistance, which was expected to be finalized this week, could include medical supplies and clothing for Ukraine’s military, but was expected to stop short of providing body armour and other militarystyle equipment.

Ukraine has asked for military assistance from the U.S., a request that was believed to include lethal aid like weapons and ammunition. But Obama administration officials said they were not actively considering supplying Ukraine with lethal assistance, a step they said could be viewed as an escalatory act by the U.S. in the midst of an already tense situation.

“We don’t want to see more escalation. What we want is de-escalation,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said. “At the same time we’re constantly reviewing Ukrainian requests for assistance and determining what’s most appropriate to provide.”

Administration critics have been pressing Obama to arm the Ukrainian military in order to bolster its efforts to reassert control of its eastern region from pro-Russian insurgents who have seized numerous government facilities.

Sen. John McCain said over the weekend that the least the U.S. could do was “give them some light weapons with which to defend themselves.”

U.S. assistance to Ukraine’s military so far has been limited to about 300,000 ready-to-eat meals, which were shipped in late March. The U.S. also has authorized a $1 billion loan guarantee for Ukraine’s fledgling government.

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva on Wednesday for the high-stakes diplomatic meetings with Russia, Ukraine and the EU.

U.S. Senate Democrats seek minimum wage boost to $10.10 BUT SOME WORKERS WOULD STILL BE EXEMPTED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Some low-paid workers won’t benefit even if a long-shot Democratic proposal to raise the federal minimum wage becomes law.

More than a dozen categories of jobs are exempt from the minimum, currently $7.25 an hour. Those exclusions, rooted in labour law history, run from some workers with disabilities to crews on fishing ships to casual baby sitters.

Legislation sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, would gradually raise the minimum to $10.10 by 2016. The Congressional Budget Office estimates it would mean higher earnings for 16.5 million workers — but also would cost 500,000 others their jobs.

Harkin’s measure wouldn’t eliminate exemptions, including for live-in companions for the elderly, staffs of state and local elected officials and jobs at summer camps and seasonal amusement parks.

The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says nearly 1.8 million hourly workers were paid below $7.25 last year — about 2 per cent of the 76 million Americans earning hourly wages. An additional 1.5 million earned exactly $7.25.

Some earning under that amount are covered by lower requirements. In one major category, wages for tipped employees such as waiters can be as low as $2.13 hourly, as long as their pay reaches the overall federal minimum when tips are included.

Harkin’s measure would gradually raise the minimum for tipped workers to 70 per cent of the minimum for most workers.

Asked why he wasn’t eliminating more exemptions, Harkin said, “I’m having a hard enough time getting votes for the minimum wage” by itself.

According to the statistics bureau, most people earning under $7.25 — nearly 1.1 million — work in food services and drinking establishments.

The bureau and the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division said they had no figures on how many workers were illegally paid less than $7.25.

Though Democrats say higher-paid workers would help the economy by spending more, Republicans point to projections that an increase in the minimum wage could cost some workers their jobs. That negative prediction is based on the idea that higher wages would bring higher prices and therefore hurt the economy and employment — and also on an assumption that a minimum wage increase would lead some businesses to trim the number of low-paid workers.

Harkin, whose bill is slated for Senate debate this month, said there has been “no push” from most exempted groups for minimum wage coverage. Of the excluded groups, the loudest objections have probably come from those representing the disabled.

Employers receiving government certification can employ disabled people at below the minimum wage, paying whatever they determine reflects a worker’s productivity. Most of these employees are mentally impaired and work in special workshops run by organizations like Goodwill and Easter Seals.

The Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division says 229,000 workers were certified for such wages last year. Groups representing disabled people say the figure is over 400,000. Either way, they are a small portion of the roughly 15 million disabled working-age Americans.

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Soldiers of the Ukrainian Army sit a top combat vehicles as they are blocked by people on their way to the town of Kramatorsk on Wednesday. The central government has so far been unable to rein in the insurgents, who it says are being stirred up by paid operatives from Russia and have seized numerous government facilities in at least nine eastern cities to press their demands for broader autonomy and closer ties with Russia.

A senior State Department official suggested Kyiv was preparing to take a more appeasing approach with Moscow during the talks, with Ukrainian diplomats preparing to brief Russia on efforts to give more autonomy to regions, protect Russian-speaking minorities and allow widespread inclusion of candidates in upcoming presidential elections. Doing so would mark a striking urgency to avoid confrontation just as Kyiv struggles to maintain its sovereignty against Russian troops on its borders and pro-Russian separatists fueling unrest in eastern Ukraine.

In addition to seeking a way to de-escalate tensions between Kyiv and Moscow, the Geneva meeting also was expected to touch on the West’s efforts to help stabilize Ukraine’s economy with an anticipated loan by the International Monetary Fund. IMF finance ministers this week endorsed a loan package

ranging from $14 billion to $18 billion to help the country avoid a financial meltdown.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the U.S. response to Russia’s actions by name.

Ukraine’s military launched its first actions against the pro-Russian forces on Tuesday. But just a day later the central government’s hopes of re-establishing control of the restive east were dampened when the insurgents commandeered six Ukrainian armoured vehicles along with their crews and hoisted Russian flags over them.

The Ukrainian soldiers manning the vehicles offered no armed resistance, and masked pro-Russian militias in combat fatigues sat on top as they drove into the eastern city of Slovyansk, a hotbed of unrest against Ukraine’s interim government.

Security Council president in 1994 apologizes for UN refusal to recognize Rwanda genocide

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The diplomat who was president of the UN Security Council in April 1994 apologized Wednesday for the council’s refusal to recognize that genocide was taking place in Rwanda and for doing nothing to halt the slaughter of more than one million people.

Former New Zealand ambassador Colin Keating issued the rare apology during a council meeting to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide and examine what has been done since to prevent new genocides.

The open session elicited praise for the UN’s stepped-up commitment to put human rights at the centre of its work but widespread criticism of its failure to prevent ongoing atrocities in Syria, Central African Republic and South Sudan.

The council unanimously adopted a resolution calling on all countries “to recommit to prevent and fight against genocide” and reaffirming their responsibility to protect people from crimes against humanity. It condemned any denial of the Rwanda genocide and underscored the importance of taking into account lessons learned from the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Keating recalled that New Zealand, Nigeria, the Czech Republic and Spain, supported by Argentina

and Djibouti, urged condemnation of the Rwanda genocide in April 1994, the month it started, and called for reinforcement of the UN mission in the country, but “most” veto-wielding permanent members objected. The United States and France were among those opposed.

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power acknowledged that the United States supported extracting UN troops rather than reinforcing them, which could have saved thousands of lives.

She cited lessons learned, including the establishment of a UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide, courts to prosecute alleged perpetrators, and UN efforts that helped end or deter violence in East Timor, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Libya, Kenya and Ivory Coast.

“Overall, however, it is both fair and profoundly unsatisfying to admit that our successes have been partial and the crimes against humanity that persist are devastating,” Power said. “Too often, we have done too little, waited too long, or been caught unprepared by events that should not have surprised us. Moving forward, we have to do a better job of confronting and defeating the practitioners of hate.”

Keating said the UN Secretariat concealed “a critical piece of advice” — a cable from force commander, Gen. Romeo Dallaire that “gave graphic early warning of a probable genocide.”

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EARTH DAY FOR EASTER

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Kerry Wood Nature Centre public events programer Kathryn Huedepohl sets out a un-nature trail in the sanctuary this week. During a combination Earth Day for Easter taking place this weekend at the nature centre, participants will get the chance to take a walk on the trails around sanctuary and look for the things that do not belong. A number of other activities are planned for the celebration on Sunday including outdoor games, an Easter egg hunt, crafts, door prizes and chocolate. The drop-in event runs from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Willow Valley Presbyterian Church Good Friday Service will be held on April 18 at 10 a.m. with speaker Paul Furseth. ● Gaetz Memorial United Church services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Good Friday, April 18, with special music, and United Church Women lunch of hot cross buns and coffee to follow, 7 a.m. Sunrise Service Easter Sunday, April 20, with breakfast to follow, and 10:30 a.m. for Intergenerational Service with music by Sanctuary Choir and Golden Gaetz Handbells. ● Living Faith Lutheran Church services continue with Good Friday, April 18 service at 7 p.m. and Easter Sunday, April 20 at 10 a.m., both at Bethany CollegeSide.

Contact Ralph at 403-347-9852.

Saturday ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The April 19 session is called RDC Inspired Art (Easter Weekend) with Carlene La Rue. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-3098405. Free with admission. ● Whisker Rescue will be at the Petsmart store every third Saturday of each month with the Senior for Senior Program from noon to 4 p.m. A senior cat is given to a senior person free of charge, and payment of veterinary bills; Whisker Rescue supplies food and litter if necessary. For more information call Diane at 403-347-1251.

Saturday ● Earth Day for Easter at Kerry Wood Nature Centre will be offered from 1 to 4 p.m. on April 20. Families are invited to enjoy an Easter egg hunt, tree planting, nature walk and more. Green Deer clean up supplies will be available. Take in displays and information from ReThink Red Deer, Medicine River Wildlife Centre, and Green Deer. Consider Earthfriendly transportation to the Nature Centre.

Phone 403-346-2010.

Monday ● Red Deer River Naturalists — Monday Bird Focus meets Monday at noon at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre to depart on excursions in central Alberta. Dates and destinations are: April 21 — Gull Lake; April 27 — annual Sandhill Crane trip to Hwy. 36/ Alliance area, departing at 8 a.m., contact Judy at 403-342-4150 to register; April 28 — west country field trip. Come prepared for a full afternoon of birding. Bring along lunch, snacks, coffee, and dress for the weather. Be prepared to carpool. To join in, contact Judy at 403-342-4150. ● Red Deer Flying Club meets the third Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Terminal Building at Red Deer Airport.

The next meeting will be on April

21. See www.reddeerflyingclub.org. Visitors and new members welcome. Phone 403-3505511.

Tuesday ● Kinship Celebration Potluck will be held on April 22 at Woody Nook Christian Reformed Church at 6 p.m. in conjunction with the exhibit Kistemanito Pakitinasuwin — The Creator’s Sacrifice — by Saskatchewan Cree artist Ovide Bighetty. Please bring one or two side dishes to share, and elk and bison stews and bannock will be provided. The exhibit will be open April 8 to April 25 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to noon and on Tuesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. for events, and on April 18 and 19 from noon to 4 p.m. Other viewing times by appointment. See www.reformingrelationships.ca, or contact Dayna at vreeken.dayna@gmail.com, or Woody Nook CRC at 403-885-4427, woodynook@albertahighspeed.net. ● Clearwater Taxpayers’ Association present guest speaker Matt Martinson, Agriculture Services Manager for Clearwater County, on April 22, 7 p.m. at Leslieville Elks’ Hall in honour of Earth Day. Information about the county’s roadside spraying, weed control, brushing programs, potential club root problems, and county monitoring will be presented. Monthly meetings are normally held on the second Thursday of each month in Leslieville. Contact Marianne at 403-7292493. ● Canadian Foodgrains Bank Annual Fundraising Auction will be held on April 22 at Vold, Jones and Vold Auction in Ponoka.

Free lunch starts at noon with the auction at 12:30 p.m. Donations of livestock, feed and equipment, sporting event tickets, airline tickets, business products welcome, as well as cash, or purchase of auction items. Canadian Foodgrains Bank will provide gift in kind tax receipts for donated items, and the Canadian government matches contributions. For information, or to donate, or arrange transport, contact Larry at 403-782-5218, Peter at 403783-2947, Arnie at 403-318-7503, or John and Wendy at 780-986-2199. See foodgrainsbank.ca or call 1-800-665-0377. Facilities and Commissions donated by Vold, Jones and Vold.

Wednesday ● Norwegian Laft Hus is open Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy baking, gifts and much more at the log house with the sod roof behind the Red Deer Recreation Centre, south of the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Contact norwegianlafthus@ gmail.com, 403-347-2055 for information or to arrange different times to visit. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Black Velvet is on April 23 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m.

Phone 403-342-0035. ● Living Stones Church seniors monthly luncheon will be offered on April 23 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

The cost is $8 per person at the door. Phone

403-347-7311. Guest speaker will be David Q. on the origin of hymns. ● Red Deer Branch of Alberta Genealogical Society meeting will be held on April 23, 7 p.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Bower neighbourhood. Contact Mary-Joan at 403-346-3886.

Sue Barnsley will speak about Scottish family history.

Thursday ● Moose Lodge Garage Sale will be held on April 24 from 5 to 8 p.m., April 25 and 26 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on April 27 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Willow St. and Petrolia Drive.

Donations of clean and good working order items will be accepted starting the morning of April 23. Pick up of larger items can be arranged by phoning 403-347-1505. Items not sold following the garage sale will be donated to charity unless the donor asks to have them returned. ● Friends of the Red Deer Public Library Spring Book Sale will be held at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library in the Snell Auditorium on April 24 from 5 to 9 p.m. for members. Memberships are available at the door for $7.50 for single, or $10 per family. The sale continues on April 25 and 26, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the general public.

All proceeds to the library. Book and audiovisual donations are gratefully accepted at the

downtown branch year round. Contact Lesley at 403-346-5721. ● Benalto and Area Rural Crime Watch Society General Meeting will be held on April 24, 7 p.m. at Benalto Leisure Centre, Agriculture Grounds. Guest speaker will be Cst. Bruce Mann, CN Police Calgary, on metal and theft awareness and the role of CN Police. BARCWS law enforcement partners in attendance. Contact Yvette at 403-746-3429. ● A Seismic Legacy — Public Land Management Policies in Alberta with Jason Unger, Environmental Law Centre, will be presented on April 24, 7 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature.

Hosted by Red Deer River Naturalists. See www.rdrn.ca. Free admission. ● Tees/Clive T.O.P.S. meets every Thursday at Christian Fellowship/Village Missions Church in Clive. Weigh-in from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. with meeting to follow adjourning at 10:30 a.m. Contact Cathy at 403-747-2135. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, April 24, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Shades Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-2463896. ● Men of Faith Seven Session Bible Study — We Still Believe — is a study of Lutheran themes in the Common Confession. The group meets the second and fourth Thursday, 7 p.m. upstairs at Bethany CollegeSide. Contact John at 403-341-4022 (evenings).

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Deer Park Alliance Church Retro Memory Afternoon Tea will be held on May 3 from 1 to 3 p.m. There will be special 1950s music by Alecia Aichelle — local recording artist and songwriter, ideas for preserving memories from The Framing Nook, and Heritage Makers. Please wear an apron from the past to receive a door prize, and bring your favourite tea cup. Tickets cost $7 and must be picked up by April 28 at the church office.

Phone 403-343-1511. ● Norwegian Laft Hus offers Norwegian knitting class on April 27 with Anne Manca from 1 to 5 p.m. for a cost of $35. Make a headband in a traditional Norwegian pattern.

Limit of six; register early. Contact norwegianlafthus@gmail.com or 403-347-2055. ● Blackfalds Fun Run and Walk will take place on May 25 starting at Abbey Centre. Registration from 9 to 9:30 a.m., warm up at 9:45 a.m., and start time at 10 a.m. for three, five or 10 km walk or run. Fees are $15 for school age children and adults ages 55 years plus, and $25 for other adults, and $65 per family. See http://ww.events.runningroom. com/site/?raceId=10561, or mail to Blackfalds Fun Run and Walk, Box 1461, Blackfalds, Alta. T0M 0J0, or drop off forms at Blackfalds School. See www.blackfalds.com/abbeycentre, phone 403-318-0090, or 403-885-6247. ● Zentangle classes with Lisa Heron, CZT, will take place at Red Deer Public School Board Office on May 4. There are two levels: Introduction to Zentangle from 9:30 to noon, and Zentangle Adventures from 1:30 to 4 p.m. with the morning introduction class as a pre-requisite. Each class costs $35. Unwind, create beautiful art, focus your thoughts. Contact Lisa at The Zenned Pen,

http://zennedpen.blogspot.com, and follow the link to classes, or contact Karen at 403343-6039 or kbarnabe@shaw.ca. ● Benalto Centennial Celebration and Benalto School 76th Anniversary will take place on June 6 to 8. Camping available.

Many special events. Call Eleanor at 403746-6097 for information, or contact Gloria at 403-746-5494 for Saturday supper tickets. ● Dry Streak — a comedy set on the Canadian prairies in the summer — will be presented by Klaglahachie Fine Arts, May 23, 24, 30 and 31 for evening performances, and matinees on May 25 and June 1. Dinner theatre tickets available from Ponoka United Church. Theatre only tickets available from the church and the IGA. Call 403-783-4087. ● Fifth Annual Lending Cupboard Ladies Luncheon will be held at Black Knight Inn on May 22 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Tickets are $25 each and they are available from www.bkticketcentre.ca, 403-755-6626, 1-800-661-8793. For information call 403343-8936, or 403-346-6292. ● Annual Festival of Music and Dance at Spruce View Community Hall will be celebrated on June 7. Two bands will be featured for an old time dance — The Reflections, and The Diamonds. Doors open at noon with dancing from 1 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 11 p.m. Roast beef dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. with entertainment by Keister Family Fiddlers. Non-alcholic refreshments available.

Camping on site. Hosted by Town and Country Dance Club. Advance tickets only for $35 including dinner. Contact Doug at 403-7283333, or Cliff at 403-342-4317 for tickets.

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Giving Fido a leg up

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In this August 26, 2011, photo provided by OrthoPets, shows Naki’o, a red heeler mix breed, the first dog to receive four prosthetic limbs at Denver, Colo. Naki’o was found in the cellar of a Nebraska foreclosed home with all four legs and its tail frozen in puddles of water-turned-ice. What frostbite didn’t do, a surgeon did, amputating all four legs and giving him four prosthetics.

FROM PAGE D6 ● Shalom Counselling has upcoming workshops starting this spring. Power to Parent with materials by Dr. Phil Neufeld, best-selling author or Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers, runs Saturdays, April 26 and May 3, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for costs of $85/individual, or $165/couple, including lunch and refreshments. Bringing Baby Home prepares parents for the transition into parenthood, and will be held May 3 and 4, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Red Deer Regional Hospital, for a cost of $180/couple. Parents are welcome to bring babies over three months old. Downsizing and Moving Forward is a course for baby boomers, seniors, and those helping parents downsize, and will be offered on May 24 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mothers’ Day Certificates available. Cost is $50 per person. Also, Shalom Counselling Annual Spring Gala Fundraiser takes place on April 26 at Balmoral Bible Chapel. Doors open at 6 p.m. for silent auction with comedy by Phil Callaway and musical entertainment by Cindy Palin starting at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $20 each. Gala volunteers needed. To volunteer, email bonnie@shalomcounselling.com. For all these programs phone 403-342-0339, to register or purchase tickets. ● Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, Central Alberta Chapter has two upcoming events. The 2014 Johnson MS Bike Tour takes place on June 7 and 8 and will cover approximately 85 km beginning and ending in Red Deer. A light breakfast and refueling checkpoints along the route as well as the Twentieth Anniversary Banquet will be part of the Bike Tour. Accommodations at dorm rooms at Red Deer College for $20 are available. See www.msbike.ca or phone 403-346-0290. The Art of Craft Beer Event on June 19 from 5 to 8 p.m. will showcase craft beers, brew masters, exquisite food and more at Westlake Grill at Heritage Ranch. Tickets available at www.bkticketcentre.ca. ● Red Deer College Tenth Annual Alumni Wine Tasting Festival gets underway on April 25, 7 :30 p.m. in the Cenovus Energy Learning Common. Tickets are available from RDC cashiers, downtown at Sunworks, and online at www.bkticketcentre.ca. ● Stone Soup Celebration at Delburne will be celebrate, share thoughts and continue success in the 1,000 conversations project on April 26. International photographer John Beebe will unveil 314 amazing portraits of community members from five months to 94 years of age. The event starts at the Delburne School from 2 to 5 p.m. and will follow at Delburne Community Hall with a free supper and entertainment starting at 5:30 p.m. Please reply by April 22 to neighboursandfriends@ delburne.ca, www.facebook.com/DelburneStoneSoup. There are drop off boxes at local businesses in Delburne. ● Elnora Camp Out and Dance Jam welcomes everyone to play, sing and dance on the weekend of June 13 to 15. Pot luck

suppers on Friday and Saturday. Beef and buns supplied Saturday. Contact Lloyd at 403-887-5677, or Gary at 403-746-0057. ● Walk a Mile in Her Shoes — Men’s March Against Domestic Violence — takes place May 22 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in support of Women’s Outreach. To register for this event or to sponsor this event, please contact Central Alberta Women’s Outreach Society, phone 403-347-2480, or email darcy@womensoutreach.ca. ● Ladies Auxiliary Annual St. George’s Tea will be offered at Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion on April 27 at 2 p.m.

Tickets are available at Legion reception for $5. There will be entertainment, food, and fun. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held April 26 at Royal Canadian Legion Innisfail Hall. Music by Lost Highway. Doors open at 8 p.m. Music starts at 8:30 p.m. Everyone welcome. For information, call Elaine at 403341-7653 or Murray at 403-357-8022. ● Friends Over 45 is an organization for women who are new to Red Deer or who have experienced lifestyle changes and would like to meet new friends. New members are welcome. For further information phone Shirley at 403-343-7678, Shirley at 403-346-7160, Gloria at 403-346-7160. ● Boys and Girls Club of Olds Capital One Race For Kids will be held on May 31 and invites teams of four to compete in a series of 10 themed checkpoint challenges in an a race to the finish line. Registration fee is $10 per participant and all four team members must raise a minimum of $360 to participate. There will be prizes for the fastest finish times, and highest donations. See boysgirlsolds@live.ca or phone 403-556-2466. ● Poverty Simulation event will take place on May 14 for a three-hour, no cost event, which will allow participants to experience a month living in poverty based on the lives of real families in Central Alberta. Limited to the first 85 participants. Online registration can be found at www.caunitedway.ca, or contact Rhonda at 403-343-3900. Twenty volunteers are also needed. To volunteer, contact Lori at 403-343-3900. Presented by Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Alliance (CAPRA) with Central Alberta United Way. ● Dakota Community Historical Society history books are now available to highlight the history of the area north and west of Ponoka. The most recent book tells about 1960 to the present and tells of the original church, schools, clubs, and settlers. The second book is a reprint of an earlier area history book and covers the years up to 1961. Books will be available where they are donated at no cost at Fort Ostell Museum, Ponoka Jubilee Library, Ponoka Stampede Museum, Crestomere School, Ponoka United Church, and Dakota Community Hall, or books may be purchased from Gail at 403-783-2353, for $20 (1960 to present) and $40 (up to 1961). ● Medicine River Wildlife Centre equipment and volunteer needs are as follows: white truck topper, jack and wheel wrench for 2006 Dodge Dakota Sport, industrial qual-

LOS ANGELES — A 9-month-old boxer pup named Duncan barrelled down a beach in Oregon, running full tilt on soft sand into YouTube history and showing more than 4 million viewers that he can revel in a good romp despite lacking back legs.

“It’s a heartwarming, wonderful thing to see,” said Dr. Bonnie Beaver, a professor at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and executive director of the American College of Veterinary Behaviourists.

“These animals generally look to us as if they are very happy. We don’t know that they are, but they are excited and jumping around and doing things that are wonderful to watch.”

But dogs aren’t made to stand, and they are putting unwanted pressure on their joints and probably shortening their lives, Beaver said. Duncan’s owners say they are “keeping a vigilant eye” on the animal who balked at a doggie wheelchair and can’t use prosthetics.

“Vertical postures are not normal for four-legged creatures,” Beaver said. “The use of a prosthetic can give that animal a more normal life.”

More veterinarians are using wheelchairs, orthotics and prosthetics to improve the lives of dogs that have lost limbs to deformity, infection or accident, experts say. The move is driven by persistent pet owners who embrace their animals as family and aren’t deterred by the cost and commitment of outfitting disabled dogs with the devices. At the same time, there have been great strides in technology to keep up with U.S. soldiers returning wounded from war, and veterinarians have adapted the materials and know-how for the rising demand from clients.

“There are so many things we can do to solve mechanical problems. ...

If you have broken parts, we can replace them,” said Martin Kaufmann, co-owner of Veterinary Orthotics and Prosthetics in Denver, also known as OrthoPets, which helps about 2,000 animals a year.

Most devices range from $150 to $2,000 but can cost more, Kaufmann said.

Besides commercial manufacturers, there are likely thousands of backyard builders who have created carts, slings or other devices to help their pets get around.

The number of pets using artificial limbs will never be huge, Beaver said.

It takes a dedicated person willing to take the prosthetic on and off, clean it and teach the animal to use it. It will likely mean a lifestyle choice for pet owners.

With the time and cost required, many wonder why people spend time on disabled animals when there are so many healthy dogs and cats awaiting homes. The answer, Beaver said, is “some people want to.”

No one knows that better than Duncan’s owners, Amanda Giese and Gary Walters, co-founders of Panda Paws Rescue for special needs and hospice dogs in Vancouver, Wash. Of the 3,500 dogs they have placed in the last 19 months, 10 were two-legged. Nine of them adapted to wheelchairs and found homes.

Only 19-pound Duncan, whose deformed back legs were amputated, refused to take to wheels. Prosthetic legs aren’t an option for him because there are no partial limbs strong enough to attach them to.

The couple often carry Duncan to ease the pressure on his front legs.

“We are his prosthetics,” Giese said.

There have seen successes even in challenging cases, Kaufmann said.

Orthopets helped mixed-breed puppy Naki’o after his four legs and tail were frozen in ice. What frostbite didn’t do, a surgeon did, amputating all four legs.

Then, Kaufmann outfitted him with four prosthetics.

“To see Naki’o at the beginning, he was protective and guarded,” he said.

“Six months after all this was done, he was just a fun-loving guy who likes to socialize.”

Now, Naki’o lives with the Nebraska couple that found him.

Another dog teaches kids what it means to be different. The Labradorgolden retriever mix named Pirelli was destined to be a service dog at Canine Assistants, a training school in Atlanta, but one back paw never developed.

Pirelli uses a prosthetic limb, and with it is a “happy, expressive dog, able to run and play, retrieve things and eat his food,” said Dudley Arnold, Pirelli’s handler.

Together, they have visited about 80 schools.

“The goal was to help kids understand that just because your body doesn’t work, doesn’t mean you aren’t a good person inside,” Arnold said.

The rarity of dogs missing limbs varies. Three-legged pooches aren’t too uncommon and often make it through life without help. But a dog shouldn’t have to do fine on three legs when it can thrive pain-free with a prosthetic, Kaufmann said.

Dogs missing two limbs are still rare across the country, but rescues and prosthetists are seeing more of them.

Giese said she doesn’t know what’s changed — if more dogs are being born without legs or if the animal welfare movement has helped them get turned over to rescues more often.

After Duncan’s video went viral, 300 people emailed asking to adopt the dog that has a home with Giese. And her Panda Paws Rescue got a boost in donations and Facebook followers.

“He put a smile on people’s faces and was an inspiration to others,” she said. “That’s quite a lot for a twolegged dog.”

ity blender/food processor, boat safety kit — bailer, waterproof flashlight, whistle, 15 m heaving line with buoy, also multi-function yard maintenance tractor, mechanic for light maintenance on the centre’s vehicles, and

committee member for various events. All donations qualify for income tax deductible receipt, and very much appreciated. Phone 403-728-3467, or for a complete wish list, see www.mrwc.ca

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Recently winning the 2013 Business of the Year award, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment.

Since 1992, Bilton has worked with engineering firms and oil and natural gas producers around the globe to develop their own equipment standards for size, capacity and any number of technical specifications. We operate seven manufacturing facilities in Innisfail, Alberta and have recently expanded by adding an office in Calgary Alberta.

We employ over 180 people and provide ample opportunities to employees to achieve their career goals.

We provide hands-on training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.

We currently have career opportunities for a professional;

ESTIMATOR The successful candidate will prepare cost estimates, review, validate, and submit estimates for product manufacturing, projects, or other services as required. This position is responsible for a wide range of project cost estimating and all associated functions within a group of skilled professionals.

Responsibilities: You will find success based on your ability to: • Interpret technical drawings to identify engineering specifications, evaluate and estimate materials, manpower, schedule and budget • Effectively analyze production benchmarks and historical costs • Obtain, review and maintain documentation of third party pricing • Interface and provide on-going technical support to customer • Support and comply with the policies, goals, efforts, and programs of Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. • Provide estimating support to various stakeholders at all stages of projects.

• Interface with various stakeholders to ensure accuracy of all estimates.

• Recognize key parameters such as equipment and material pricing guidelines, labour market updates, inflation, material take-off and other allowances, escalation philosophy, and site labour productivity factors.

Job Requirements; As the ideal candidate you will possess: • Thorough understanding of business processes, stakeholders involvements and their role, information flow and project scope and also ensure that developed estimates covers the entire scope of the projects.

• Thorough knowledge of estimating techniques and strategies • Thorough knowledge of oil and gas industry • Ability to calculate mathematical extensions, analyze and understand production drawings, associated documentation, contracts, cost coding systems, work breakdown structures, etc.

• Excellent computer skills in Estimating Software and Microsoft Office • Minimum of 3-5 years industrial estimating experience required Career development, growth and unlimited possibilities – you’ll find it here!

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98

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98

750 mL

Wolf Blass Yellow Label

750 mL

16

98 750 mL

assorted varieties

1884 Reservado Malbec

J.Lohr Seven Oaks Cabernet

125454/ 475269/ 384179/ 679116/ 109543/ 109094

386672

197804

BONUS 50 mL

BONUS 50 mL

with purchase while quantities last

with purchase while quantities last

LARGE 1 L

36

98 1L

16

98 750 mL

13

750 mL Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay or Pinot Grigio 974774/ 671033/ 221753

23

98 750 mL

26

98

98

Beringer Knights Valley Cabernet 197892

LARGE 1.14 L BONUS 50 mL

with purchase while quantities last

32

LARGE 1.14 L BONUS 50 mL

with purchase while quantities last

28

98

98

1.14 L

Belvedere vodka

Alberta Springs rye

Crown Royal rye

Baileys Irish Cream

Smirnoff vodka

158108

167569

167853

714084

171062/ 282051

works out to 0.92 per can

10

98 /12 cans

or 7.33 ea., works out to 0.92 per can

21

99 /24 cans

PC® Pilsener, Dry, Honey Red or Light beer

Brewhouse Pilsner, Light or Prime beer

589982/ 823779/ 814334/ 879246

359221/ 441529/ 842357

12 x 355 mL

8x 355 mL

750 mL

1.14 L

or 11.66 ea., works out to 1.46 per can

21

98 /12 bottles

Heineken beer 928158

19

450369

98

/12 cans

Coors Banquet beer 12 x 330 mL

34

98 12 x 355 mL

/24 cans

Kokanee beer 810723

8 x 355 mL

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