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Crime rate dips

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s crime rate edged ever so slightly downward in the first three months of 2014.

Year to date statistics show crime fell 0.7 per cent overall compared to the same period last year, according to Red Deer City RCMP. “All property and persons crime matter to our citizens, but I’m particularly pleased to see the overall reduction in violent crime, particularly with homicides and offences related to death,” Mayor Tara Veer said late Thursday afternoon when the crime statistics were released.

In 2013 there was one homicide and two offences related to death in the first months. The first three months of this year were homicide-free with no death-related offences.

Some of the crimes show that in the first three months of 2013 there were 364 assaults, and 410 in 2014 first three months.

Break and enters in 2013 were 194, and 183 in 2014.

Theft of motor vehicles in 2013 numbered 162, and 184 this year.

Overall, crimes against persons were up 1.1 per cent this year. Property crimes jumped 4.8 per cent.

All other Criminal Code offences, including weapon offences and disturbing the peace, dropped 12.2 per cent.

Veer said the city has shifted to a more proactive policing model during the last few months.

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After waiting in a short line of younger children, Maureen Wilkinson gets a furry hug from the Easter bunny on Thursday afternoon at Parkland Mall. The Easter bunny will be at the mall from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., and 2-5 p.m. on Good Friday, and from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., 2 to 4:30 p.m. and 5 to 6 p.m. on Saturday.

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OLDS Regional bus service to Blackfalds, High school student Lacombe to start in August

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A regional bus service carrying passengers from Red Deer, Blackfalds and Lacombe will be on the road late this summer.

The highly anticipated first trip is scheduled to depart Sorenson Station in Red Deer for Lacombe on Aug. 25.

Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie said it will a great day for the three municipalities when the buses start rolling because offering the transit service has been in the works for many years.

Two City of Red Deer spare buses will be used for the service until the two new buses arrive at the end of the year.

Details are still be sorted out about the route and scheduling of the Monday to Saturday service, but an express route and non-express route will be offered.

A monthly adult regional transit pass will ring in at $90 for Lacombe and $70 for Blackfalds. Cash fare for the regional service will cost riders $5.

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charged with sexual assault

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF

A 15-year-old male student is facing charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement after an incident at Olds High School was reported to RCMP in March.

Staff Sgt. Joe Sangster with the Olds RCMP said he could not provide details of the incident but said it involved a 14-year-old female student.

The youth who has been charged cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. He is to appear in court sometime in May, Sangster said. He is not in custody.

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“This is great news for Lacombe,” said Christie.

“Since ordering the buses, there was a little bit of concern we would not start up until later in the fall or possibility in the new year. To hear this news is certainly a great thing. We certainly did not want to miss the start of the school year.”

The need for the bus service was heightened when three Greyhound routes pulled out of Central Alberta in October 2011. Christie said this service will be a big plus for students attending Canadian University College in Lacombe and residents working in Red Deer.

Red Deer transit manager George Penny said this is very positive step in linking the communities.

“We have the regional service with Red Deer County that works very well so this is just an extension,” he said. “It’s very positive for Lacombe and Blackfalds residents to come into Red Deer.”

The three municipalities footed the bill for the two buses to the tune of $900,000.

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Hunting Hills incident treated ‘credibly’: RCMP

HOLY WEEK PROCESSION

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Penitents of the Jesus Yacente brotherhood take part in a Holy Week procession in Zamora, northern Spain Friday. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.

Third measles case confirmed in Central Alberta

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF The number for Central Alberta measles cases confirmed in April is now three.

Alberta Health Services had announced single “probable” cases on April 4 and 11 occurring in the Central Zone, with the latter individual thought to have contracted the virus after visiting an “exposure site” that the first individual visited in late March.

Now, AHS has confirmed another case, connected to sites visited by the second individual in early April. Those possible exposure locations are: ● Mattie McCullough Elementary School, 26 Lawford Ave. in Red Deer, from 8:40 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on April 4, 8 and 9.

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CRIME: ‘Trend is moving in the right direction’ She said last year city council adopted service level standards for priority one and priority two calls to the RCMP and in the coming months will work on priority three calls.

With additional resources both provincially and municipally, the city also acquired the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) whose primary mandate is organized crime.

“Obviously, if the ALERT team is focusing on organized crime then we’ll start to see a direct bearing in terms of drug activity and some of the property and persons crime that are rooted in drug activity.”

She said in the last two city budgets, council made significant investments in RCMP members and in different types of police positions, for example a crime analyst who can look for links between crimes.

More resources have also been put into the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre.

Red Deer’s overall crime rate dropped 9.8 per cent from 2012 to 2013.

Veer said she was pleased with the reduction in crime so far this year but would like to see a similar annual decrease or better for 2014.

“The trend is moving in the right direction, but my

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The inclusion of Mattie McCullough Elementary School on that list has kept dozens of students who are not fully immunized against measles out of school since April 11.

AHS has issued mandatory exclusion orders to any student or teacher who has either not received or cannot provide documentation showing they have received two doses of the measles vaccine; have never been infected with the disease; or for whom a blood test does not indicate immunity from measles.

Red Deer RCMP said it was fortunate that a threat to shoot students at a local high school did not become an act, but they still responded preparing for the worst.

“We treat any threat like this credibly,” RCMP Cpl. Sarah Knelsen said on Thursday. “We put all of our resources into it. The RCMP are happy to say in the end there was nobody hurt and no threat materialized.”

Police were called to Hunting Hills High School, at 150 Lockwood Ave., just before 3 p.m. on Wednesday to a reported threat against several students. An anonymous note left on a desk at the school threatened students.

Student witnesses told the Red Deer Advocate that the threat was to shoot students in the school.

Knelsen said the note did not name individual students threatened.

During the police investigation into the threat, the school was not locked down and students were allowed to go about their routine. Knelsen said it is the school’s responsibility to initiate a lockdown.

“Those decisions are always done based on context and in consultation with the RCMP and that’s what happened Wednesday,” said Bruce Buruma, Red Deer Public School District community relations and RDPSD Foundation director.

The school was passively evacuated with police officers monitoring the usual dismissal process, but actively preventing people from re-entering the school and encouraging the last few students left behind to leave immediately.

As students left the school, they saw numerous police vehicles and officers all around.

Police 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.

Extracurricular activities planned for the evening were cancelled.

Many students leaving the school were unaware of the reason for the police presence.

With re-entry denied, officers began a thorough search of the school. Searching in groups, they went room by room looking for any potential threat.

No weapons were found and the threat never materialized.

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hope with some of the strategies we’ve engaged in we’ll see further and more substantial reductions in the second quarter.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Sacher could not comment if the male suspect was back in school.

The school has been in full co-operation with RCMP, Sacher said.

“We are allowing that process to unfold ... the school has been moving forward very well.” rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

SEX ASSAULT: Not a random incident The incident happened on March 25 and RCMP were notified as soon as the principal became aware of the situation three days later, said Kurt Sacher, superintendent of schools for Chinook’s Edge School Division.

It was not a random incident and the victim and suspect were “acquaintances,” Sacher said.

He said the incident occurred a “good hour after school had ended” in what is known as the “breakout room” in the school, similar to a small conference room.

“As we said in a letter home to parents, there were some social complexities surrounding the situation and the main message is that we have every confidence that the safety of our students is in really good hands and we don’t have any concerns there,” he said on Wednesday.

He could not divulge any further explanation on the term “social complexities.”

“The school went out of their way to do another thorough review of their safety protocols since March 25 and we’re confident in how it was handled by administration,” he said.

BUS: Operating costs shared Red Deer used $600,000 of its one-time Green Transit Incentives Program (GreenTrip) funding while Lacombe and Blackfalds each handed over $150,000 for the two buses.

Once the buses are running, Blackfalds and Lacombe will be on the hook in a 50-50 operating cost share, estimated at about $150,000 a year.

Red Deer Transit will hire the drivers, and maintain and house the buses.

“We would love to see every bus full every day but we’ll just see how it kicks off,” said Christie. “We were told by the residents in Lacombe, Blackfalds and area that there is a need. We know that people are excited.”

Penny said the city will once again answer the recent call for GreenTrip funding applications from the provincial government. Red Deer received $12.1 million in 2011 to buy low-floor transit buses. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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‘We will never recover from this’ FAMILY DEVASTATED: FATHER OF CALGARY MASS-MURDER SUSPECT

BY BILL GRAVELAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

TEXT OF DOUGLAS DE GROOD’S STATEMENT CALGARY — The text of the statement given by the father of 22-year-old Calgary mass-murder suspect Matthew de Grood: “I am Douglas de Grood and I am an inspector with the Calgary Police Service, but I am here today not as a police officer, but as a parent and a husband. I speak for my wife, Susan de Grood, as we are one voice.

“We are shocked and devastated and we are trying to make sense of what happened.

“We are deeply saddened for what the families and friends of the victims are going through. Your lives have been turned upside down. We know words cannot begin to ease your pain and suffering. Please accept our deepest condolences and know you are in our hearts, our thoughts and our prayers. agree with a lot of things being reported in the news media, but did not elaborate.

De Grood remains in custody at a psychiatric centre. Fay had earlier indicated a psychiatric assessment had been ordered, but clarified Thursday that that order had yet to be given.

He said he expected the Crown would request one when de Grood appears in court Tuesday.

Fay said he has met with de Grood, but the man’s parents have yet to see their son.

“He appeared distraught. He appeared upset. He appeared fearful.

All those things that one would expect under those circumstances,” Fay said of his client.

Police spokesman Kevin Brookwell said any messages de Grood sent before the party would form “a significant part of this investigation.” He told mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

THREAT: No charges MEASLES: No signs of illness at school “The search was very comprehensive,” said Knelsen. “It was conducted by several RCMP officers and two police dog service teams. RCMP cleared the school and no weapons or suspects were found. Nothing dangerous to the students was located.”

A tweet from the school’s Twitter account sent out at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday said, “Thank you to our students, staff and the RCMP for their co-operation and diligence during a challenging afternoon.”

The police investigation continues.

No charges have been laid.

Hunting Hills High School has more than 1,400 students and 125 staff members. Students were off Thursday, the start of Easter break.

Anyone with information that may assist police in this investigation is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 or report it online at www. tipsubmit.com.

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No further cases have been identified from Mattie McCullough, but AHS Central Zone medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said signs of illness would likely only start showing up late this week.

Hinshaw said there are no additional public exposure sites to report connected to the newest case. She said those most recently afflicted are in stable condition, and none remain in hospital.

The fresh cases bring to six the number of cases in the Central Zone in 2014. It is believed that the local strain was imported by a traveller who had visited the Philippines.

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“Our condolences also go out to the first responders who attended the scene. You had to detach from your emotions to do your job. Your professionalism was exceptional.

“Like any parent can tell you, a love for your child is unconditional and we love Matthew dearly.

“Our Matthew is a great kid, full of love, kindness and respect for others. Growing up, he received good grades in school and was active in a variety of sports. As a young adult, he got a part-time job, entered university and became more involved in the community. He raised funds for charities through his passion for running. He had a bright future ahead of him as he was about to start law school in the fall.

“Just like you, we struggle to understand what happened. We have received an outpouring of support from our extended families, our friends and neighbours, co-workers and even people we have never met. We thank each one of you for your support. We will never recover from this, but the collective support has helped ease some of the pain.

“We hope someday we will have answers as to why this happened. Regardless, it won’t bring the victims back, but we would give anything to do just that.

“Our final words are to you, the media.

We ask that you respect our family’s privacy as we deal with this tragedy.

“Thank you for your co-operation.”

reporters that if any texts exist, they might help explain the suspect’s state of mind and also provide clues to a motive.

Investigators have said it appears there was nothing — no grudge or vendetta — that might have provoked the attack.

They aren’t even sure de Grood knew the victims.

Brookwell said officers are still interviewing witnesses and piecing together what happened at the party.

He said it’s not known how one person managed to kill five people in a crowded home and escape. De Grood was taken into custody about 40 minutes after the attack, with the help of a police dog.

“There’s going to be a lot of guessing and everybody’s trying to get that answer as to how this possibly could have happened and did no one intervene?”

said Brookwell. “It is quite possible that people didn’t even know it was going on, people froze.”

The victims have been identified as Zackariah Rathwell, 21, Jordan Segura, 22, Josh Hunter, 23, Kaitlin Perras, 23, and Lawrence Hong, 27.

Two Edmonton prosecutors have been assigned to the case to address any perception of bias because of de Grood’s father. Brookwell dismissed any notion that an outside police force should also be brought in.

He said police made a speedy arrest and charges had been laid by the end of the day.

The City of Calgary has lowered all flags at its municipal buildings and said they will remain at half-mast until sunset on the day of the last victim’s funeral.

The first service has been set for Segura on Monday.

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Douglas de Grood, centre, is supported by wife, Susan, left, and lawyer, Allan Fay, after reading a statement in Calgary on Thursday. De Grood’s son Mathew is charged with killing five young people in Calgary.

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Douglas de Grood, a veteran city police officer, stood with his wife in front of reporters Thursday and said the family is devastated and is trying to make sense of the tragedy.

He described his son, Matthew de Grood, as a great kid who respected others, had good grades and played sports. As a young man, he attended university and raised money for charities through his passion for running.

The 22-year-old had a bright future ahead of him, said his father, and had been accepted into law school for the fall.

“Just like you, we struggle to understand what happened,” said the senior de Grood, choking back a sob.

He was shaking visibly as he delivered his statement. He leaned on a cane for support and, at one point, paused in an effort to gain control.

His son’s defence lawyer, Allay Fay, explained that the officer has mobility issues but would not say whether he has a medical condition.

The father said his family has received support from many people, including strangers.

“We will never recover from this, but the collective support has helped ease some of the pain. We hope someday we will have answers as to why this happened. Regardless, it won’t bring the victims back, but we would give anything to do just that.”

Matthew de Grood faces five counts of first-degree murder in what police are calling the worst mass murder in Calgary’s history.

Police have said de Grood finished his late shift at a grocery store before going to a house party which was being held to celebrate the last day of classes at the University of Calgary. He was an invited guest and mingled with some of the 20 people there before he allegedly grabbed a large knife and started attacking people one by one.

Police said a significant part of their investigation will focus on whether de Grood was suffering from mental illness and officers will be looking into any communications he had with people before the slayings.

The Calgary Herald reported that de Grood sent disjointed and confusing text messages to his family before showing up at the party. The newspaper quoted an unnamed officer close to de Grood’s father as saying the family was worried he might commit suicide that night. His mother called police and his father went looking for him, the source said. The story also said de Grood had mental health problems in high school.

Fay said he knows nothing of any texts and had not heard that his client had been mentally unstable in the past. He said de Grood’s family doesn’t

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Harper dodges a bullet WRIGHT CLEARED BY RCMP BUT ETHICAL QUESTIONS LINGER OVER SENATE MESS Now that the RCMP has decided not to file criminal charges against Nigel Wright for reimbursing Mike Duffy’s housing allowance out of his own pocket, there remains only a faint possibility that Canadians will ever know for sure whether the prime minister was in the loop of the controCHANTAL versial arrangeHÉBERT ment between his former chief of staff and the suspended senator.

An apparent discrepancy between Harper’s categorical assertion that the peculiar reimbursement of Duffy’s unjustified expenses was engineered behind his back and an email trail that suggests otherwise would have best been cleared up by having the prime minister and his former aide testify under oath in a court of law.

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That — to both their predictable relief — will not happen.

Wright — as opposed to at least one other former Harper chief of staff — seems disinclined to widely share the insights he gained over his tenure at the PMO. As a result, the prime minister probably does not have to worry about a(nother) tell-all book making its way up the list of political bestsellers in a year or two.

But, as of now, both he and his former aide may have a vested interest in hoping that Duffy also ends up off the RCMP hook — at least for his part in the transaction that involved the PMO. Otherwise, Wright might still see the inside of a court of law as a witness for the prosecution and, in that capacity, be put on the spot over the specifics that attended his decision to cut Duffy a cheque.

In a fiery speech to the upper house at the time of his forced farewell to Parliament last fall, the senator made it clear that, come what may, Duffy was determined not to go down alone.

Meanwhile, the RCMP’s conclusion that it does not have grounds to charge Wright should provide the government

and the prime minister with a modest measure of comfort.

Harper can now at least argue that whatever was initiated right under his prime ministerial nose over the course of Wright’s negotiations with Duffy was not illegal.

The fact that the police did not find that the PMO engaged in criminal behaviour in an attempt to prevent embarrassment to the government is certainly much better than the alternative.

But the partisan celebrations that have attended that development in so many Conservative quarters (albeit not the PMO) are way out of line with the actual situation.

Beggars can’t be choosers.

The RCMP announcement that it is closing Wright’s file as it pertains to the Duffy cheque is a rare piece of positive news for the government in an episode that has so far defeated its damage-control efforts.

But the ethical parameters within which Canada’s political class is expected to operate are not those of the Criminal Code.

It is not good enough to brag about not having been found to cross the le-

gal line, especially when one has come so close to the line as to warrant the full attention of the RCMP. On that score the emails between the main protagonists of the affair in the Senate, the Conservative party and the PMO that have come to light as part of the police investigation did not reflect the best practices one would associate with a scrupulous ethical culture.

If anything that is not specifically illegal were fair game in politics there would be no need for a binding ethics code on MPs and senators, no role for the ethics watchdogs and no duty on a prime minister to enforce a standard of behaviour higher than the minimum required to stay out of court and out of jail.

It was the argument that the Liberals had been guilty of dereliction of that very duty that won Harper his first election victory on the heels of the sponsorship scandal in 2006.

Back then he promised to do better.

This week’s events only suggest that he has not done worse than his predecessors.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

and carrying identical Russian-made weapons, and using them to seize multiple targets in different cities simultaneously.

It looks like Crimea all over again: a lot of the “local militia” there were also really Spetsnaz (Russian special forces). But there is a big difference: the Donbas, the region where Donetsk and the other affected cities are located, does not contain a civilian majority that actually wants to be ruled by Russia. If it did, the pro-Russians could just come out in non-violent crowds, like the protesters did in Kiev, and take control of the region peacefully.

The Crimean tactics won’t work in the Donbas, because most people there see themselves as Ukrainian even though they speak Russian on a daily basis. So there are no peaceful mass protests demanding “unification” with Russia, and the small groups of armed men who have seized buildings in various cities will only provide a usable pretext for a Russian invasion if some of them are killed by Ukrainian government forces.

The truth, mercifully withheld from

the soldiers in the occupied buildings, is that they are there to provide some martyrs — and when they die, Spetsnaz or not, they will be portrayed as local people killed by the government in Kiev. Then the Russian forces will move, to “save” the oppressed Russian-speakers of eastern Ukraine from the fascists in Kiev.

So why is the Ukrainian government going to provide Putin with exactly that pretext by attacking the buildings in question? It would be inconvenient, but quite possible, just to blockade them, leave them in Russian hands and carry on the election around them. Or, if the authorities in Kiev find that too embarrassing, then just cut off the water and wait for the occupiers to come out peacefully. A week or two should be enough.

You would think that the government in Kiev, which came to power itself by mainly non-violent means, and finally won when the Yanukovych government discredited itself by the massive use of force, would understand the importance of not killing people.

You would, it appears, be wrong to

think that.

Maybe this conclusion is premature.

Maybe, when the “volunteers” occupying the government buildings don’t flee at the first shots — and they won’t; these guys are professionals — the Ukrainian troops will be ordered to stop. Common sense could yet prevail.

But the Kiev government has been doing the wrong things in the east for so long that a last-minute change of heart seems unlikely.

And by the way, could somebody please explain to the Central Intelligence Agency why the optics of sending John Brennan, the director of the CIA, to Kiev last Sunday were so bad?

And why swatting the critics away by saying that it was just a “routine” visit made matters worse?

Governments that are “routinely” visited by the head of the CIA are usually puppet governments. Though to be fair, in this case it’s not so much a puppet government as a very stupid government.

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

Ukraine: stupidity in action It’s all too easy to imagine the highlevel meeting in Kiev where the Ukrainian government decided on its next move. It probably sounded a bit like this: “Very well, gentlemen, we are agreed on our strategy for dealing with the Russians. First we will figure out exactly what they are trying to force us to do. And then we’ll do it.”

Of course, it sounds stupid when you put it like that, but this does appear to be the Ukrainian strategy in a nutshell. Or as Ukrainian Security Service General Vasyl Krutov put it, “They [separatGWYNNE ists] must be DYER warned that if they do not lay down their arms, they will be destroyed.”

As I write this, the first reports are coming in of Ukrainian troops trying to take back control of occupied government buildings in the east of the country by force. This cannot be done without killing people. And that is exactly what the Russians want.

The provisional government of Ukraine does have a serious problem in the east, of course. It is trying to organise a national election in less than six weeks’ time that will produce a government whose legitimacy nobody can question. There may be a referendum on constitutional reform at the same time. It will be harder to do that credibly if government buildings in half a dozen eastern cities are occupied by armed men.

On the other hand, if Russia’s President Vladimir Putin really wants to seize control of eastern Ukraine, or even all the parts of Ukraine where there are significant numbers of Russian-speakers, what he needs is a pretext. It’s already clear from Russian official statements what that pretext would be: that the “fascist puppet government” in Kiev is “killing its own citizens” just because they are Russians or Russian-speakers.

It is doubtful that all or even most of the heavily armed men in the occupied buildings are actually Ukrainian citizens. There was no separatist political organization in the east before the revolution that was capable of producing hundreds of volunteers with military training, wearing identical uniforms

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Court of Appeal upholds ruling on Métis rights

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal has largely upheld a landmark ruling that could extend Ottawa’s responsibilities to hundreds of thousands of aboriginal people who are not affiliated with specific reserves and have essentially no access to First Nations programs, services and rights.

Off-reserve aboriginals say the appeals court decision is yet another victory in what has been a long legal saga with the federal government.

“Métis and non-status Indians have never been granted the same recognition and rights as those provided (to) status Indians living on reserve,” said Betty Ann Lavallee, national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.

“They have been shut out for far too long on being recognized for who they are and where they fit within the Canadian society.”

The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and several Métis and non-status Indians took the federal government to court in 1999, alleging discrimination because they were not considered “Indians” under a section of the Constitution Act.

They argued they have been denied certain benefits, which included: ● access to the same health-care, education and other benefits made available to status Indians; ● being allowed to hunt, trap, fish and gather on public lands; and, ● the ability to negotiate and enter into treaties with the federal government.

The Métis and non-status Indians scored a major victory last year when the Federal Court recognized them as “Indians” under the Constitution.

The federal government appealed that ruling.

On Thursday, the appeals court upheld part of the decision.

It ruled that while Métis should remain Indians under the Constitution, extending that recognition to non-status Indians should be done on a caseby-case basis since it is a separate issue.

“It follows that non-status Indians as a group do not lend themselves to the declaration of general application sought by the respondents,” wrote Justice Eleanor Dawson.

“However the matter is considered, no purpose is served by addressing the question on the generic basis pro-

posed: the declaration lacks utility and will not settle any issue between non-status Indians and the federal government.”

Still, Métis groups celebrated the decision.

“We as Métis are a practical people who seek practical solutions to make the Canadian federation work for us. As residents and taxpayers of the provinces, we always accepted that the provinces have an important role to play with us,” Métis National Council president Clement Chartier said in a statement.

“At the same time, we always believed that Ottawa has primary responsibility to deal with us and must show leadership. The decision today buttresses this belief. The federal government can no longer shrug its shoulders and assume that Métis matters will be dealt with by others, all the while knowing this is not being done.”

If the federal government appeals again, the case would go the Supreme Court.

Should that ever happen, and if the Supreme Court sides with the Métis people, it could still take years before the ruling translates into any actual benefits for them.

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF On Thursday when the Federal Court of Appeal upheld the landmark ruling that Métis are aboriginals under the Constitution, Raye St. Denys could only say, “It’s about time.”

“We’ve always known who we are.

We are aboriginal people and we’ve known that forever,” said St. Denys, who is from Red Deer and is president of Métis Local 492 of the Métis Nation of Alberta.

About 4,000 registered Métis live in Central Alberta, of about 90,000 across the province. St. Denys said she would not be surprised if the federal government appeals the latest decision to the Supreme Court. But she hopes it doesn’t because she believes it will only confirm once again that Métis are aboriginals.

She said the ruling will end a lot of unexpected discrimination because some people know what a Métis person is but others do not.

St. Denys looks forward to the day when all the appeals and negotiation are finally over.

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I hope it’s finally settled. But I don’t know if it will make a real change for us immediately.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Canada will send jet fighters to Ukraine SIX CF-18S HEADED TO POLAND TO BOLSTER NATO FORCES RESPONSE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada will contribute six CF-18 jet fighters to a NATO air-policing mission in response to the crisis in Ukraine, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday.

In addition, the military is sending up to 20 staff officers to bolster the Canadian presence at NATO headquarters in Brussels as the alliance organizes a further response.

NATO requested Canadian participation, the prime minister said.

“This is in response to the situation that is developing there and frankly more generally to the concern that we have on what really is expansionism and militarism on the part of Russia under the presidency of Mr. (Vladimir) Putin,” Harper said.

“I believe this to be a long-term, serious threat to global peace and security and we’re always prepared to

work with our allies in NATO and elsewhere.”

The jets and their ground support staff will be based in Lask, Poland, where the U.S. is planning a major military exercise later this year.

The air base, located southwest of Warsaw, is central and would allow the fighters to participate in a variety of missions.

The government did not say whether the CF-18s will join beefed-up patrols over the Baltic Sea, which are meant to reassure countries such as Estonia and Lithuania, or whether they will be flying along Poland’s border with Ukraine.

It is an important distinction, given the tensions in the region and the sporadic violence that has gripped the Ukraine-Russia border region.

The Canadian fighter jets will join warplanes from the United States, Britain, Denmark, Poland, Portugal and Germany, which will deploy in via video Thursday and he will make another video appearance in a week.

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Although not bound by legislation, the Conservatives have made it a practice to ask for a vote in the Commons when military forces are placed in harm’s way.

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Deal reached to calm Ukraine, for now

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — In a surprise accord, Ukraine and Russia agreed Thursday on tentative steps to halt violence and calm tensions along their shared border after more than a month of Cold War-style military posturing triggered

by Moscow’s annexation of Crimea.

Russia’s pledge to refrain from further provocative actions drew support but also a measure of skepticism from President Barack Obama, who said at a news conference at the White House that the United States and its allies were prepared to ratchet up sanctions if Moscow doesn’t fulfil its commitments.

“I don’t think we can be sure of anything at this point,” Obama said after Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and diplomats from Ukraine and Europe sealed their agreement after hours of talks in Geneva.

The abruptly announced agreement, brokered by the West, provides no long-term guide for Ukraine’s future nor any guarantee that the crisis in eastern Ukraine will abate. But it eases international pressure both on Moscow and nervous European Union nations that depend on Russia for their energy.

Reached after seven hours of negotiations, the deal requires all sides to refrain from violence, intimidation or provocative actions.

It calls for disarming all illegally armed groups and returning to Ukrainian authorities control of buildings seized by pro-Russian separatists during protests.

Notably, though, it does not require Russia to withdraw an estimated 40,000 troops massed near the Ukrainian border. Nor does it call for direct talks between Russia and Ukraine.

The agreement says Kyiv’s plans to reform its constitution and transfer more power from the central govern-

ment to regional authorities must be inclusive, transparent and accountable. It gives amnesty to protesters who comply with the demands, except those found guilty of committing capital crimes.

The negotiations came against the backdrop of the bloodiest episode to date in the clashes that pit the new government in Kyiv against an eastern insurgency the West believes is backed

by Moscow.

In the eastern Ukraine Black Sea port of Mariupol, authorities said three pro-Russian protesters were killed and 13 injured overnight Wednesday during an attempted raid on a Ukrainian National Guard base.

As for the agreement reached in Geneva, monitors with the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe will be tasked with helping Ukraine authorities and local communities comply with the requirements. Lavrov said the OSCE mission “should play a leading role” moving forward.

Kerry called the one-page agreement “a good day’s work.” But, anticipating Obama’s remarks a few hours later, he stressed that if Russia does not abide by a pledge to de-escalate the crisis by the end of the upcoming Easter weekend, the West would have no choice but to impose new sanctions as initially planned.

In a further sign of impatience on the part of the Obama administration, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said the U.S. would send non-lethal assistance to Ukraine’s military in light of what he called Russia’s ongoing destabilizing actions in the country.

The aid will include medical supplies, helmets, water purification units and power generators.

In remarks at his own news conference in Geneva, Kerry said, “It is important that these words are translated immediately into actions.

None of us leaves here with a sense that the job is done because of words on a paper.”

Rage, grief in town of missing students in ferry sinking

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ANSAN, South Korea — The most poignant reminders of what’s been lost here are the most ordinary.

Desks in the classrooms of Danwon High School in Ansan, where dozens of students were missing and feared dead Thursday after a ferry disaster, are cluttered with textbooks, gym clothes, empty water bottles — small bits of ordinary school life now infused with heartbreak.

There is fury as parents and students lash out at the swarming news media. Horror, too, as they picture loved ones trapped in the cold and dark of a flipped, submerged ferry.

Most refuse to believe that, even after dozens of attempts, a friend, a child, a sibling won’t answer their cellphone.

They keep calling.

They try to nourish any link, no matter how small, to the missing: Parents and school workers have locked up the missing students’ belongings because their schoolmates were taking them home as keepsakes, mementos of friends they believe are dead.

One message on a blackboard reads: “Please, everyone return safely!” Another: “Jin-yong! Please come home alive.”

More than 320 Danwon High School second-year students — mostly 16- and 17-year-olds — left Tuesday night for what was supposed to be one of the highlights of the year, a 14-hour overnight ferry trip to the southern resort island of Jeju for four days of fun. Now, as the hours stretch on since the ferry sank Wednesday with no word about more than 270 missing passengers among the 475 people on board, Ansan fears the worst.

“Do you believe they’re still alive?”

Lee Mi-shim, a 48-year-old mother of a missing student, asked a reporter as tears streamed down her face. “I know the chances aren’t good. ... No one in his class has been rescued.”

Lee, whose husband died about 10 years ago, had heart surgery a few years ago.

Her son, Kim Ki-su, always told her that he’d eventually become a Korean traditional doctor to help her. “I feel

like collapsing. At least then I’d die earlier than him,” Lee said.

The 25 people confirmed dead Thursday include at least four students and two teachers, and there’s fear that number will go much higher because so many of the passengers were from the school.

More than a dozen teachers were on board.

“My baby is trapped in cold waters now. How can I sleep comfortably?” said a 63-year-old grandmother of a missing student who gave only her surname, Kim, tears welling in her eyes as she explained why she stayed overnight at the school’s auditorium waiting for news about the search.

“I cannot live without him.”

There were huge swings in emotions Thursday at the school’s auditorium, where hundreds of family members, students, residents and aid workers gathered, desperate for news. Volunteers, wearing green or yellow vests, cleaned the school and provided coffee, fruit, rice, kimchi and instant noodles.

In the morning, people sat and stared vacantly at a giant TV screen broadcasting news of the sinking. Some women wiped away tears.

One middle-aged woman wept as she talked on her phone. Tired-looking students sat on chairs, repeatedly checking their phones.

Later in the day, fury erupted over the pace of the rescue operation.

Angry parents and students cursed and shoved reporters, photographers and TV cameramen, while about 10 female students wailed loudly and hugged each other. An unidentified middle-aged man shouted, “Let’s smash their cameras the next time we see another flash.”

The school, nestled in a quiet, clean residential area, was founded in 2005 and has more than 1,200 students and 85 teachers.

The area is a half hour’s drive from an industrial complex where many parents of students work at factories, according to residents.

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Pro-Ukrainian activists attend a rally to support Ukraine in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine on Thursday. Top diplomats from the United States, European Union, Russia and Ukraine reached agreement after marathon talks Thursday on immediate steps to ease the crisis in Ukraine.

Lavrov said the agreement was the product of compromise by the two sides that as recently as a several weeks ago refused to speak, intensifying the crisis and ratcheting up EastWest tensions to levels not seen since the Cold War. “Most important is that all participants recognize the fact that Ukrainians should assume leadership and ownership of settlement of the crisis in all aspects, be that resolving the issue in all aspects,” Lavrov said.

He repeated Moscow’s statement that it does not intend to intervene militarily in Ukraine.

However, Russian President Vladi-

mir Putin offered slightly less assuring words. He reserved the right to act to protect ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine, but said he hoped it wouldn’t be necessary to send in troops to do so.

Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia called the agreement “a test for Russia to show that it is really willing to have stability in this region.”

The U.S. and EU were prepared to broaden their list of Russian and Ukrainian officials and oligarchs whose assets and Western travel have been frozen if Thursday’s talks hadn’t shown movement.

100+ women still missing in Nigeria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The fate of more than 100 girls and young women abducted by Islamic extremists was thrown into uncertainty Thursday when their school principal denied a report from Nigeria’s military that almost all the students were free.

“Up till now we are still waiting and praying for the safe return of the students . . . the security people, especially the vigilantes and the wellmeaning volunteers of Gwoza are still out searching for them. The military people too are in the bush searching,” the principal, Asabe Kwambura, told The Associated Press by telephone.

She said only 14 of the 129 girls kidnapped by gunmen before dawn

Tuesday have returned to Chibok town — four who jumped from the back of a truck and 10 who escaped into the bush when their abductors asked them to cook a meal.

Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, the Defence Ministry spokesman, said in a statement late Wednesday night that all but eight of the students have been accounted for. “The others have been freed this evening,” he said.

Olukolade could not immediately be reached for further comment.

Kwambura was adamant: “So let it be clear that all the information passed on to the media by the military concerning 107 girls is not true.”

Borno state Gov. Kashim Shettima offered a reward of some $300,000 for information leading to the release of the young women, aged 16 to 18.

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B1 Generals knock off Brantford FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2014

SURVIVE QUARTER-FINAL GAME, FACE CLARENVILLE IN SEMIFINAL TODAY

BY CRAIG CAMPBELL DUNDAS STAR NEWS DUNDAS, ONT. - Bentley Generals are still getting used to the small Grightmire Arena ice surface, but figured out a way to get pucks to the net with a 3-2 quarter-final win over Brantford Blast in the Allan Cup national hockey championship in Dundas, Ontario, Thursday afternoon.

The tight game – despite Bentley’s incredible 21 first period shots on net – earns the Generals a spot in today’s afternoon’s semifinal against the Clarenville Caribous of Newfoundland.

It’s a rematch of last year’s Allan Cup championship final for a spot in this year’s title game. Bentley won last year’s meeting 3-0. Three years ago, Clarenville topped Bentley 5-3 to win the Allan Cup. “It’s a tough rink to play in. We’re still finding our way,” Bentley head coach Ryan Tobler said of Grightmire Arena, which is about 10 feet shorter than a standard NHL-size ice surface.

“You’ve got to battle for every inch

2014 ALLAN CUP out there.”

Tobler said Dundas Real McCoys took advantage of knowing their home rink in a victory over the Generals earlier in the week. He said Bentley is still trying to figure out how to build any speed through the tight neutral zone, and the coaching staff keeps reminding defencemen they have to act quickly with the puck “They’re on top of you – you don’t have the time,” Tobler said.

Kyle Sheen was one of the three Generals who found the net in Thursday’s win, after two games of struggles for most Bentley goal scorers.

He agreed adjusting to the size of the rink is the team’s biggest challenge right now.

“We’re a puck possession team,” Sheen said. “And you don’t have too much time out there.”

He said getting 33 shots on net – particularly with a strong goalie – was key. Now the Generals have to deal with leading Allan Cup goalie Jason

Churchill of Clarenville in the next win-or-go-home match Friday.

Sheen figures the plan will be to keep getting pucks and bodies in front of the net and working hard to get a few favourable bounces.

“If you let (Churchill) see the puck he’ll make the save,” he said. “In this size of barn, I don’t think you’ll see a lot of pretty goals.”

After losing both of their preliminary games, Bentley came out flying against Brantford in the first win-or-gohome match for both teams. The Generals built a 2-0 lead on goals from Randall Gelech and Kyle Bailey. Brantford goalie Brett Leggat stopped 19 Generals shots in the opening frame.

“We were lucky to get out of the period down 2-1,” Leggat said. “But that was the story of our tournament. Our first period was our worst period of every game.”

Brantford broke through with a powerplay goal from Chris Leveille to cut Bentley’s lead to 2-1 with six and a half

minutes left in the first period.

Both teams killed penalties successfully in the scoreless, and slower, second period. They headed into the final 20 minutes with Bentley still up by just one goal.

Four minutes into the third, Bentley’s Sheen found the net for a power play goal to create a two goal gap. Bailey assisted.

But with just under four minutes left, Brandon Dietrich scored a shorthanded goal for Brantford to close the gap to 3-2.

Leggat left the net for an extra Brantford attacker, but Bentley battled to hold on.

Ken Ebl and three friends from the Bentley area drove three days to Dundas to watch their team in the Allan Cup – and finally enjoyed a victory Thursday afternoon. He said at least 20 fans made the trip from Alberta – but most of them flew.

“It’s a privilege to come here and watch these games. It really is,” Ebl said. “These players are here for the love of the game. The NHL is all about money.”

Blues knock off Blackhawks in triple OT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blues 4 Blackhawks 3 3OT ST. LOUIS — Alexander Steen scored at 26 seconds of the third overtime to give the St. Louis Blues a 4-3 victory over the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series on Thursday night.

Steen beat Corey Crawford off a pair of short passes from Steve Ott and David Backes to cap the longest overtime game in franchise history.

“It’s big. We want to start this series off on a good note,” Steen said. “Especially at home in front of our fans.”

Ryan Miller blanked the Blackhawks after Patrick Kane scored on a breakaway to put Chicago up 3-2 late in the first period and Jaden Schwartz tied it with 1:45 to go in regulation.

Both teams face a short turnaround with Game 2 Saturday afternoon.

The Blues’ previous longest overtime game was a 4-3 loss at Detroit in 1984 that extended 37 minutes, 7 seven seconds. The home record for a playoff overtime game was 33:49 extra time in a 5-4 win over Chicago on April 20, 1989.

St. Louis had to kill off delay-ofgame penalties for shooting the puck into the stands in the first two overtimes. The Blackhawks killed a holding penalty in the second overtime.

Jonathan Toews, like Kane back from a lengthy injury absence, had two assists for Chicago.

Schwartz, Vladimir Tarasenko and Adam Cracknell all scored their first playoff goal for the Blues.

The Blackhawks kept the Blues penned in their own zone for 2:10 during the first overtime, and Maxim Lapierre made the save of the session getting his body on a drive by Kris Versteeg with less than two minutes remaining.

Tarasenko was among the best players coming off a 15-game absence because of a broken thumb.

Cracknell tapped in a rebound early in the first to end a scoring drought of 148 minutes and 39 seconds for a team that got shut out the last two games of the regular season.

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Chicago Blackhawks’ Jonathan Toews, right, controls the puck as St. Louis Blues goalie Ryan Miller and Jay Bouwmeester, left, defend during the third period in Game 1 of a first-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff series Thursday, in St. Louis.

Kane scored his 30th career playoff goal after catching the defence napping at the end of a St. Louis power play, beating Miller off a long lead pass from Toews for a 3-2 lead at 18:24 of the first.

Miller allowed three goals on just seven shots in the first with defencemen Johnny Oduya and Brent Seabrook also scoring for Chicago.

St. Louis’ top line of David Backes,

Steen and Ott was a combined minus-5 in the first. Ott was a bit of surprise, considering he was minus-7 during the Blues’ six-game losing streak to end the regular season.

Crawford faced just three shots in the second, but needed big saves to thwart Tarasenko and Ott. He made glove saves on drives by Steen and Tarasenko not long before Schwartz got the equalizer.

NOTES: Oduya and Seabrook combined for 10 goals in the regular season. Oduya’s goal was first credited to Kris Versteeg on a deflection. ... St. Louis got most of its injured players back but key forward T.J. Oshie (head) and Patrik Burglund (shoulder) were scratches. ... Kane had two goals and four assists against St. Louis in the regular season and Toews had a goal and three assists.

Twins sweep doubleheader over Jays after wild rally

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Twins 7 Blue Jays 0 Twins 9 Blue jays 5 MINNEAPOLIS — With the Minnesota Twins well into a truly wild rally, Jason Kubel and Chris Colabello shared a joke as they waited for their turn to bat.

“Man, we’ve been doing it all wrong for a while. We’ve been trying to hit the ball to score runs. We don’t need to do that,” Colabello said.

Not on Thursday night they didn’t.

The Twins scored three straight runs on wild pitches by Toronto’s Sergio Santos in the eighth inning, when they walked eight times off three Blue Jays relievers to finish a 9-5 victory and a sweep of the day-night doubleheader.

Kyle Gibson threw eight scoreless innings as Minnesota won the opener 7-0. The Twins trailed 5-1 in the fifth inning of the second game after another lacklustre start by Mike Pelfrey, but they stayed patient.

Steve Delabar walked two batters starting the six-run eighth, setting up Santos (0-1) for trouble as manager John Gibbons called for his closer early. Santos walked all three batters he faced, loading the bases with one out when he put on pinch-hitter Trevor Plouffe. The Twins cut the lead to 5-4 when Josmil Pinto came home on a wild pitch.

The collapse by the Blue Jays bullpen got worse from there.

Ball four by Santos to pinch-hitter Kurt Suzuki was wild, too, allowing Chris Herrmann to score and tie the game. Santos threw another wild pitch to Brian Dozier, and pinch-runner Pedro Florimon raced home for the lead.

Dozier saw six straight sliders from Santos.

“That’s his strikeout pitch,” Dozier said.

Not on this night.

“I was trying to be too perfect there,” said Santos, who took his first blown save in five chances this year.

J.A. Happ relieved him and walked the next two, with Chris Colabello, the AL leader with 19 RBIs, forcing in a run. Then Jason Kubel broke open the game with a two-run single, the only hit of the inning.

“It was a crappy ending to a crappy day, I’ll tell you that,” Gibbons said.

Santos, who has been handling the ninth-inning role while Casey Janssen is on the disabled list with a strained back, threw only four of 16 pitches for strikes.

The previous time a team walked eight times in one inning was April 19, 1996, when Texas did so against Baltimore. The record of 11 was set by pitchers on the original Washington Senators against the New York Yankees on Sept. 11, 1949.

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Munenori Kawasaki walks back to the dugout after striking out against Minnesota Twins closing pitcher Anthony Swarzak during the ninth inning of the first game of a doubleheader in Minneapolis, Thursday. The Twins won 7-0 and 9-5.

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Olds College set Central Alberta mixed team to add women’s sits second at provincials hockey team

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Olds College is looking to expand it’s athletic program and the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference couldn’t be happier.

Olds has put together an application to join the Alberta Colleges Women’s Hockey League for the 2015-16 season, just what the ACAC was looking for.

“I’m on the committee to look at this and I’m super happy,” said RDC athletic director Keith Hansen. “We’ve been talking with several colleges about women’s hockey and we’re excited to see Olds come on board.”

Olds director of athletics, fitness and recreation, Bob Murray, said it’s something the college has been looking at for the last couple of years.

“It made sense,” he said. “We know Red Deer already has a team, but it will open up even more opportunities for women when there’s no other avenues for them (once they get out of high school).”

Hansen doesn’t feel Olds will interfere with the RDC Queens.

“It fits well,” he said.

“There are tonnes of good female hockey players and a lot in the rural areas who would be interested in some of the Olds programs.”

Murray agrees.

“We’ve opened up more programs, like our business program, hospitality and tourism and sport management, which helps all our student athletes. Plus we have other programs women from the rural ar-

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Murray is also excited about continuing to develop a rivalry between Olds College and RDC. “We’re trying to establish that,” he said. “We already work together and I know a great example was this year when we hosted the ACAC women’s basketball championships and the men’s championship was in Red Deer. We worked it out so both finals wouldn’t be at the same time, in case someone wanted to go down the road to see both.”

The addition of another women’s hockey team was a must for the ACAC as Grant MacEwan will eventually leave to join the CIS, leaving only three teams.

“In two or there years MacEwan will try to get into the CIS (in hockey) again and if they’re accepted it means we do need more teams,” said Hansen. “We’ve talked with other schools, but so far Olds is the only one coming in. But that’s a step forward.”

Murray indicated Olds College will hire a coach next season, so he has time to recruit prior to opening the 2015-16 season. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

The Central Alberta zone sits second in the mixed team portion of the team competition at the Open provincial 5-pin bowling championships at Heritage Lanes Thursday.

The Central team, which consists of Karie Krutz, David Philpot, Gene Zeibarth, Rhonda Barber, Stacey Hafso and Donna Hort accumulated 32 points, and sit 12 points back of Edmonton and one ahead of Calgary. The North Zone has 29 points and the South only eight following nine of the 25 rounds, which concludes Saturday.

One of the five zones receives a bye in each round with the others meeting in head-to-head competition. Each team uses five of their six bowlers. There are eight points available in each game with the winner of each individual head-to-head competition receiving one point with the winning team picking up three.

The Central Alberta men’s team downed the South Zone 7-1 in their final round Thursday to finish with 30 points, three back of Edmonton and five behind Calgary. The North have 28 and the South 18.

The men’s team includes Open singles champion Gary Baird along with Terry Ell, Shelby Chrest, Kevin Armstrong, Eric Kjos and Anthony Streit.

The Central ladies team of Holly Harris, Jenne Campbell, Barb Taillon, Nancy Gervais, Bonnie Clermont and Shauna Pirie Laisnez are also third with 21 points. Edmonton leads with 47 while Calgary has 43, the North 20 and the South 13.

Teams will play nine more games today, beginning at 8:30 a.m. with the final seven Saturday, beginning at 8:30 a.m. and finishing at 5 p.m.

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Eric Kjos, right, celebrates with teammates during the Open Provincial 5-pin Bowling tournament at Heritage Lanes on Thursday morning.

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According to STATS research dating to 1974, this was the only game that featured an eightwalk, three-wild-pitch inning.

Casey Fien (2-0) pitched a scoreless eighth for the victory for the Twins.

Jose Bautista took over the AL lead with his sixth homer, a solo shot in the fifth inning that accelerated Pelfrey’s exit. Bautista, who also walked and scored in the first, has gone deep 11 times in 14 games at the ballpark the Twins opened in 2010. That’s the same number of homers Joe Mauer has here in 256 games.

Edwin Encarnacion had an RBI single and reached base four times for the Blue Jays. Toronto starter Dustin McGowan, like Pelfrey, failed to finish the fifth. But all that was forgotten with the wildness that came in the eighth.

Pelfrey used the words “terrible” four times and “embarrassing” three times in discussing his performance with reporters, describing his mood in the clubhouse as “crushed,” as if his dog had died. But he perked up.

“These guys picked me up, and hopefully from here on out they won’t need to do that,” Pelfrey said.

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Rangers top Flyers in series opener

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Stastny scores late tying goal and OT winner to lift Avs over Wild in opener

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Avalanche 5 Wild 4 OT DENVER — Paul Stastny scored 7:27 into overtime after tying the game with 13.4 seconds remaining in regulation, lifting the Colorado Avalanche to a 5-4 win over the Minnesota Wild in the opener of the Western Conference quarterfinals on Thursday night.

Gabriel Landeskog, Ryan O’Reilly and Jamie McGinn also added goals for Colorado in Patrick Roy’s post-season debut behind the bench.

The Hall of Fame goaltender led the Avalanche to two Stanley Cup titles as a player.

Erik Haula, Charlie Coyle, Ryan Suter and Kyle Brodziak scored for the Wild.

Game 2 is Saturday.

Stastny beat Ilya Bryzgalov with a close-in wrist shot in overtime, the same type of play Stastny used to tie the game in regulation.

Roy made a bold move with 3:01 remaining, pulling Semyon Varlamov for an extra skater. Erik Johnson saved a potential empty-net goal with over a minute left as he raced down the ice and slapped away the puck just before it crossed the goal line.

Moments later, Stastny beat Bryzgalov with a shot over his shoulder — the capacity crowd erupted.

The Wild took a 4-2 lead after a three-goal second period. They spent the final period trying to play a prevent defence, not allowing the Avalanche to take advantage of their quickness.

O’Reilly stole the puck from Brodziak and slid it over to McGinn, who batted it past Bryzgalov to make it a one-goal game at 12:47.

Roy hardly played things by the book as the team tied a franchise record with 52 wins in the regular season. That gambler’s mentality certainly didn’t change in the post-season. Roy said before the game that it was his job to “have a ’B’ plan and a ’C’ plan in our pocket” in case of an emergency.

In this case, it was pulling Varlamov with plenty of time remaining.

It almost backfired when the Wild sent a puck rolling toward the goal. Johnson chased it down and knocked the puck away before it crossed the line. He also bumped the goal off its moorings. Matt Cooke took a shot on the goal with Johnson lying in front of the net, which upset a few Avalanche players and led to some pushing and shoving.

Although the underdog in the series, the Wild were actually one of the hottest teams down the stretch as they fought just to get into the playoffs.

Bryzgalov provided a spark after he was acquired from Edmonton in early March. He went 7-1-3 down the stretch.

But Bryzgalov has been inconsistent in the postseason over his career. He’s 17-20 and has allowed 109 goals.

Landeskog’s first playoff goal midway through the opening period was set up by his big hit along the boards, jarring the puck loose from Jonas Brodin. The Avs cycled it up top and then down low to Stastny, who passed the puck to an open Landeskog in front of the net.

The lead didn’t last long as two minutes later Coyle tied the game when he lined a shot into the corner with Varlamov scrambling to get up.

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Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ray Emery reacts as the New York Rangers celebrate a goal by Rangers’ Carl Hagelin during the third period in Game 1 of an NHL playoff series on Thursday, in New York. The Rangers won the game 4-1.

“We would like to get one. We thought it might be that one, but I guess it will be the next one.”

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is Sunday in New York.

The Rangers haven’t lost to Philadelphia at Madison Square Garden since March 6, 2011, outscoring the Flyers 35-10 in that span.

The Flyers took the lead on their first shot, after allowing four, following a big hit by Scott Hartnell on defenceman Ryan McDonagh to free the puck in the offensive zone.

MacDonald, a trade deadline acquisition from the New York Islanders, wound up for a slap shot on the playoffs logo and sent the puck sailing past Lundqvist after it hit St. Louis in flight at 7:28.

As the shot flew past him, McDonagh — who struggled with the puck several times in the opening period in his first game in April 1 — hit Claude Giroux in the side with his stick, sending the Flyers captain to the ice. Giroux was down on all fours before gingerly

skating to the bench. He returned to action.

“I was not myself, and just couldn’t get a good grip on the puck, couldn’t feel my skates,” said McDonagh, who missed five games because of an injured shoulder. “The guys stayed positive with me and I found a way to contribute.”

The Rangers got even with 9:07 left on a strong, determined effort by Zuccarello. Benoit Pouliot skated in search of space and lost the puck off his stick in the left circle. Zuccarello swooped in, got the puck and fired a hard shot that Emery blocked away.

While in stride, Zuccarello got the puck back and deftly slipped in a backhand for his second career NHL playoff goal.

Rick Nash had five of New York’s 14 shots in the first, mostly from long range, and nearly matched Philadelphia’s total of six in the frame.

Both teams generated chances in the second period, but no goals. The Rangers again led in shots, but by a slight 9-8 margin.

Hertl, Torres help Sharks draw first blood with big win over Kings

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sharks 6 Kings 3 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Tomas Hertl and Raffi Torres both scored in their first game together as teammates and the San Jose Sharks jumped on top of Jonathan Quick and the rival Los Angeles Kings with a 6-3 victory in their playoff opener Thursday night.

Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau and Marc-Edouard Vlasic also scored for the Sharks, who managed just 10 goals against Quick in losing a seven-game series to Los Angeles in the second round last year. Antti Niemi made 31 saves.

Quick allowed three goals in the first period for the first time in his playoff career, including two in the final minute as the Kings were completely outclassed.

Game 2 is Sunday in San Jose.

Quick was replaced by Martin Jones after allowing five goals on 28 shots in two periods and only watched as the Kings showed life in the third period with goals from Jake Muzzin, Slava Voynov and Trevor Lewis.

But Brent Burns sealed it with an empty-net goal as the home team won for the 17th time in the past 18 meetings between these teams.

The Sharks were the healthiest they have been all season with Torres back after missing all but five games in the regular season and Hertl playing for just the third time since Los Angeles captain Dustin Brown injured him with an illegal knee-on-knee hit

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The game had even added meaning for Hertl and Torres. Hertl talked before the series of his dislike for the Kings and said this series would be personal because of the injury.

Torres was suspended for the final six games of last year’s series for a hit to the head of Jarret Stoll in a punishment the Sharks and Torres felt was unjust.

The Sharks had nothing to complain about after this game as they jumped out to a 5-0 lead and held on for the victory.

The third playoff series in four years between these heated California rivals got off to an odd start as there was a power outage at SAP Center just minutes before the start of pregame warmups. The lights came back on about five minutes later and the players warmed up without the usual blaring music.

But by the time the puck dropped, the towel-waving crowd was at its usual fever pitch chanting “Beat L.A.! Beat L.A.!” right from the start.

The cheers only got louder during a dominant first period that featured a combined 55 hits from the two teams, three goals from the Sharks and a scrum after Mike Brown pushed Voynov into Quick after the whistle.

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Rangers 4 Flyers 1 NEW YORK — Carl Hagelin’s contribution to the New York Rangers’ playoff-opening win was etched all over his busted-up mouth.

Some efforts don’t directly show up on the score sheet.

Hagelin took a high stick from Philadelphia’s Jason Akeson with 7:35 left, and had his mouth cut open. That gave the Rangers a four-minute power play, and they made the most of it.

Brad Richards and Derek Stepan scored 47 seconds apart, and the Rangers beat the Flyers 4-1 on Thursday night to stretch their home-winning streak over rival Philadelphia to nine games.

“He got me pretty good, but I will take that,” Hagelin said with a smile through his injured mouth.

“Anytime that happens, you’re ready to take one for the team, especially on a day like this when it’s tied.”

Hagelin said the double penalty was called when the referee saw he was bleeding a lot. No stitches were required to close the wound.

The effect on Akeson remains to be seen. The 23-year-old forward was called up for the Flyers’ final game of the regular season for the second straight year. He has played in only three career NHL games.

“I went to hit him, and my back leg swung out and my stick came up,” Akeson said. “It was unfortunate.

It’s not like I went out there trying to take a fourminute penalty. It was a sick feeling watching them score.”

Richards gave the Rangers their first lead when a rebound of Martin St. Louis’ shot came to him, and he fired it in from the right circle, punctuating the moment with an emphatic fist pump at 8:22.

Richards and St. Louis hooked up again to help set up Stepan’s insurance goal. New York worked the puck around the Philadelphia end, and Richards faked a drive. He instead sent a hard pass to Stepan for a shot into the open left side.

“If you don’t score or don’t get momentum there, it can go the other way pretty quickly, and they can build off that,” Richards said. “One was huge, but to be able to go back out there and get the other one, obviously that won us the game.”

Defenceman Andrew MacDonald had given the Flyers a 1-0 lead in the first, but the Rangers answered with Mats Zuccarello’s goal.

Hagelin pushed New York’s edge to 4-1 with 4:08 left off another assist from Richards.

Henrik Lundqvist made 14 saves for the win. Ray Emery, subbing for injured No. 1 goalie Steve Mason, stopped 32 shots in the loss. The Flyers had one shot in the third period.

“I thought we were in good position tied going into the third, and obviously we would like to have a better third period, but it’s a long series,” Emery said.

“We came in here for two games, we have to get one.

SCOREBOARD Hockey NY Rangers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Blues 4, Blackhawks 3 (3OT) First Period 1. St. Louis, Cracknell 1 (Lapierre, Porter) 4:40.

2. Chicago, Oduya 1 (Saad, Toews) 11:14.

3. Chicago, Seabrook 1 (Versteeg, Leddy) 14:39 (pp).

4. St. Louis, Tarasenko 1 (Shattenkirk, Jackman) 15:52.

5. Chicago, Kane 1 (Toews, Seabrook) 18:24.

Penalties — Jackman StL (interference) 12:56, Sharp Chi (cross-checking) 16:10.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Leopold StL (hooking) 5:12, Versteeg Chi (tripping) 11:51.

Third Period 6. St. Louis, Schwartz 1 (Roy) 18:15.

Penalties — Backes StL (high-sticking) 5:18, Reaves StL (tripping) 8:38, Kane Chi (high-sticking) 9:20.

First Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Sobotka StL (delay of game) 13:02.

Second Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Reaves StL (delay of game) 5:27, Shaw Chi (holding) 12:42.

Third Overtime 7. St. Louis, Steen 1 (Ott, Backes) :26.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Chicago 7 8 6 14 7 0 — 42 St. Louis 11 3 14 10 12 2 — 52 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (LO, 0-1-0); St. Louis: Miller (W, 1-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Chicago: 1-6; St. Louis: 0-4.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Colorado (1) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Colorado leads series 1-0) Thursday, April 17 Colorado 5 Minnesota 4, OT Saturday, April 19 Minnesota at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

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

Edmonton vs Medicine Hat Friday, Apr. 18 Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 20 Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 22 Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 23 Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 26 x-Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 28 x-Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 29 x-Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3) (St. Louis leads series 1-0) Thursday, April 17 St. Louis 4 Chicago 3, 3OT 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.

Kelowna vs Portland Friday, Apr. 18 Portland at Kelowna, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 19 Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 22 Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 23 Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 25 x-Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 27 x-Kelowna at Portland, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 29 x-Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. x — if necessary.

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.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals

San Jose (2) vs. Los Angeles (3) Thursday, April 17 Los Angeles at San Jose, late 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.

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.

Thursday’s summaries Avalanche 5, Wild 4 (OT) First Period 1. Colorado, Landeskog 1 (Stastny, McGinn) 13:14.

2. Minnesota, Coyle 1 (Parise, Scandella) 15:20.

Penalties — McCormick Minn (high-sticking) 5:05, MacKinnon Col (high-sticking) 5:59.

Second Period 3. Minnesota, Suter 1 (Koivu, Parise) 11:05 (pp).

4. Colorado, O’Reilly 1 (MacKinnon, Barrie) 14:12.

5. Minnesota, Haula 1 (Brodin) 16:08.

6. Minnesota, Brodziak 1 (Cooke, Niederreiter) 18:12.

Penalties — Koivu Minn (delay of game) 8:11, Hejda Col (interference) 10:33, Johnson Col (roughing) 12:24, Parise Minn (goaltender interference) 12:24, Cliche Col (interference) 18:41.

Third Period 7. Colorado, McGinn 1 (O’Reilly) 7:13.

8. Colorado, Stastny 1 (Johnson, MacKinnon) 19:46.

Penalties — Veilleux Minn (hooking) 5:04, Cooke Minn (roughing) 9:06, Holden Col (roughing) 9:06.

Overtime 9. Colorado, Stastny 2 (MacKinnon, Barrie) 7:27.

Penalties —None.

Shots on goal Minnesota 7 12 11 3 — 33 Colorado 8 6 14 3 — 31 Goal — Minnesota: Bryzgalov (LO, 0-1-0); Colorado: Varlamov (W, 1-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Minnesota: 1-2; Colorado: 0-4.

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.

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

N.Y. Rangers (2) vs. Philadelphia (3) (NY Rangers leads series 1-0) Thursday, April 17t NY Rangers 4 Philadelphia 1 Sunday, April 20 Philadelphia at NY Rangers, 10 a.m.

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

Friday, April 25

Rangers 4, Flyers 1 First Period 1. Philadelphia, MacDonald 1 (Hartnell) 7:28.

2. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 1 (Pouliot, Staal) 10:53.

Penalties — Hall Pha (interference) 2:31.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Schenn Pha (high-sticking) 16:55, Zuccarello NYR (roughing) 16:55.

Third Period 3. NY Rangers, Richards 1 (St. Louis, Nash) 8:22 (pp).

4. NY Rangers, Stepan 1 (Richards, St. Louis) 9:09 (pp).

5. NY Rangers, Hagelin 1 (Richards, Fast) 15:52.

Penalties — McDonagh NYR (high-sticking) 0:46, Akeson Pha (high-sticking) 7:35, Giroux Pha (slashing) 12:01, Rinaldo Pha (slashing) 17:01, Schenn Pha (cross-checking) 19:11.

Shots on goal Philadelphia 6 8 1 — 15 NY Rangers 14 9 13 — 36 Goal — Philadelphia: Emery (L, 0-1-0); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 1-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Philadelphia: 0-1; NY Rangers: 2-6.

World Under-18 Hockey Championship At Sites in Finland PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A W OW OL L GF GA Pts Canada 1 0 0 0 3 1 3 Russia 0 1 0 0 3 2 2 Slovakia 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 Germany 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sweden 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 Group B W OW OL L GF GA Pts Finland 1 0 0 0 6 1 3 Switzerland 1 0 0 0 4 2 3 Czech Rep. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 U.S. 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 Denmark 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Washington New York Philadelphia Miami

New York Toronto Baltimore Tampa Bay Boston

American League East Division W L Pct 10 6 .625 8 8 .500 7 7 .500 7 9 .438 7 9 .438

Detroit Chicago Minnesota Kansas City Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 7 5 .583 8 8 .500 8 7 .533 7 7 .500 7 8 .467

GB — 1 1/2 1 1 1/2

Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle Houston

West Division W L Pct 10 5 .667 9 7 .563 7 8 .467 7 8 .467 5 11 .313

GB — 1 1/2 3 3 5 1/2

GB — 2 2 3 3

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 Boston 6, Chicago White Sox 4, 14 innings Kansas City 6, Houston 4, 11 innings Toronto at Minnesota, ppd., rain L.A. Angels 5, Oakland 4, 12 innings

Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago

Los Angeles San Francisco Colorado San Diego Arizona

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Central Division W L Pct 11 5 .688 10 6 .625 8 8 .500 6 9 .400 4 10 .286

GB — 1 3 4 1/2 6

West Division W L 10 6 10 6 8 9 7 9 4 14

Pct .625 .625 .471 .438 .222

GB — — 2 1/2 3 7

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 San Diego 4, Colorado 2 San Francisco 2, L.A. Dodgers 1

Friday’s Games Toronto (Hutchison 1-1) at Cleveland (Masterson 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-2) at Detroit (Smyly 1-0), 5:08 p.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 1-1) at Boston (Lackey 2-1), 5:10 p.m.

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

Seattle (C.Young 0-0) at Miami (Eovaldi 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Paulino 0-1) at Texas (M.Perez 2-0), 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Nolasco 1-1) at Kansas City (Vargas 1-0), 6:10 p.m.

Houston (Cosart 1-1) at Oakland (Gray 2-0), 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Toronto at Cleveland, 11:05 a.m.

L.A. Angels at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

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

Houston at Oakland, 2:05 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.

Seattle 006 000 000 — 6 10 2 Texas 312 020 00x — 8 12 0 E.Ramirez, Leone (3), Beimel (5), Farquhar (6), Wilhelmsen (8) and Buck; Scheppers, Noesi (3), Figueroa (5), Frasor (7), Ogando (8), Soria (9) and Arencibia. W—Figueroa 2-1. L—Beimel 0-1. Sv— Soria (2). HRs—Seattle, Cano (1), Hart (4). Texas, Choo (1).

New York 130 021 102 — 10 16 1 Tam. Bay 000 100 100 — 2 7 1 Sabathia, Betances (8) and McCann; Price, H.Bell (6), Lueke (7), Balfour (9) and J.Molina.

W—Sabathia 2-2. L—Price 2-1. HRs—New York, A.Soriano (4), McCann (3), Solarte (1). Tampa Bay, S.Rodriguez (2).

Kan. City 110 210 000 — 5 9 0 Houston 000 010 000 — 1 5 1 Shields, W.Davis (9) and S.Perez; Feldman, Bass (7) and J.Castro. W—Shields 1-2. L—Feldman 2-1.

Friday’s Games Cincinnati (Simon 1-1) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 0-1), 12:20 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 2-1) at Pittsburgh (Morton 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 2-0) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 2-1), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Harang 2-1) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (C.Young 0-0) at Miami (Eovaldi 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Pettibone 0-0) at Colorado (Chatwood 0-0), 6:40 p.m.

Arizona (Miley 2-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 3-0), 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco (M.Cain 0-2) at San Diego (T.Ross 1-2), 8:10 p.m.

Boston 000 001 002 — 3 5 0 Chicago 000 001 000 — 1 8 0 Lester, Uehara (9) and D.Ross; Sale, Belisario (8), Downs (9) and Flowers. W—Lester 2-2. L—Belisario 1-2. Sv—Uehara (3). HRs—Boston, Bogaerts (1).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Atlanta 000 000 000 — 0 4 0 Phila.

000 000 01x — 1 8 0 A.Wood and Laird; A.Burnett, Bastardo (8), Papelbon (9) and Nieves. W—Bastardo 2-1. L—A.Wood 2-2. Sv—Papelbon (4).

Los Ang. 010 010 000 — 2 7 0 San Fran. 000 000 001 — 1 6 0 Ryu, B.Wilson (8), Jansen (9) and Federowicz; Bumgarner, Petit (5), Affeldt (8) and Posey. W—Ryu 3-1. L—Bumgarner 2-1. Sv—Jansen (5).

Colorado 000 000 300 — 3 4 0 San Diego 000 100 000 — 1 6 0 Morales, Brothers (7), Logan (8), Hawkins (9) and Rosario; Kennedy, Vincent (8), Thayer (9) and Grandal. W—Morales 1-1. L—Kennedy 1-3. Sv— Hawkins (4). HRs—San Diego, Nady (3).

Saturday’s Games St. Louis at Washington, 11:05 a.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

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

Seattle at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 6:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Colorado, 6:10 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 000 120 200 — 5 10 2 Detroit 000 141 01x — 7 9 3 Salazar, C.Lee (5), B.Wood (6), Shaw (7), Atchison (8) and Y.Gomes; Verlander, Coke (6), Alburquerque (6), Krol (7), Chamberlain (7), Nathan (9) and Avila. W—Verlander 2-1. L—Salazar 0-2. Sv— Nathan (2). HRs—Cleveland, Brantley (2). Detroit, Kinsler (2).

GB —

First Game Toronto 000 000 000 — 0 4 2 Minnesota 000 052 00x — 7 10 2 Dickey, Redmond (5) and Thole; Gibson, Swarzak (9) and K.Suzuki. W—Gibson 3-0. L—Dickey 1-3.

Second Game Toronto 200 030 000 — 5 8 0 Minnesota 100 020 06x — 9 8 2 McGowan, Loup (5), Wagner (7), Cecil (7), Delabar (8), Santos (8), Happ (8) and Navarro; Pelfrey, Deduno (5), Fien (8), Perkins (9) and Pinto. W—Fien 2-0. L—Santos 0-1. HRs—Toronto, Bautista (6).

Minnesota, Dozier (5).

Thursday’s Games Philadelphia 1, Atlanta 0 L.A. Dodgers 2, San Francisco 1 Colorado 3, San Diego 1 Pittsburgh 11, Milwaukee 2 St. Louis 8, Washington 0

Thursday’s Games Detroit 7, Cleveland 5 Minnesota 7, Toronto 0, 1st game Texas 8, Seattle 6 N.Y. Yankees 10, Tampa Bay 2 Minnesota 9, Toronto 5, 2nd game Kansas City 5, Houston 1 Boston 3, Chicago White Sox 1

St. Louis 300 103 100 — 8 14 0 Wash.

000 000 000 — 0 2 4 Wainwright and Y.Molina; Jordan, Treinen (6), Blevins (9) and Lobaton. W—Wainwright 3-1. L— Jordan 0-2.

Milwaukee 101 000 000 — 2 8 1 Pittsburgh 200 000 36x — 11 12 0 Gallardo, Wooten (7), Duke (7), Wang (8) and Lucroy; Volquez, Melancon (8), Morris (9) and R.Martin. W—Volquez 1-0. L—Wooten 0-1. HRs— Pittsburgh, A.McCutchen (1), J.Harrison (1), G.Sanchez (3), P.Alvarez (6).

Golf RBC Heritage Friday At Harbour Town Golf Links Hilton Head, S.C. Purse: $5.8 million Yardage: 7,101; Par 71 (36-35) First Round a-denotes amateur Matt Kuchar 33-33 Scott Langley 31-35 William McGirt 31-35 Harris English 33-35 Russell Knox 34-35 Rory Sabbatini 32-37 Billy Horschel 34-35 Matt Every 35-34 Robert Allenby 36-33 Bo Van Pelt 35-34 Brian Harman 37-32 Ben Martin 33-36 Tim Herron 34-35 Brian Stuard 35-34 John Mallinger 35-34 Lucas Glover 36-33 Jordan Spieth 35-34 Kevin Streelman 35-34 Charles Howell III 35-34 Jeff Maggert 33-37 Scott Brown 35-35 Ted Potter, Jr. 34-36 Brian Gay 36-34 Richard H. Lee 35-35 Tim Wilkinson 36-34 Nicholas Thompson 37-33 K.J. Choi 37-33 Stewart Cink 33-37 Davis Love III 34-36 Luke Donald 38-32 Charl Schwartzel 34-36

Today ● 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

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Malaysian Open BC-GLF--Malaysian Open Scores,0188 Malaysian Open Leading Scores KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Leading scores Thursday in the Malaysian Open, a European Tour event at 6,967-yard (6.392-meter), par-72 Kuala Lumpur Country Club: First Round Play suspended by bad light, 42 players yet to finish Lee Westwood, England 31-34 — 65 Nicolas Colsaerts, Belguim 33-33 — 66 Michael Hoey, Northern Ireland 34-33 — 67 Ricardo Santos, Portugal 33-34 — 67 Jbe Kruger, South Africa 33-35 — 68

Julien Quesne, France Edoardo Molinari, Italy Richard T Lee, Canada Prayad Marksaeng, Thailand Soren Hansen, Denmark Craig Lee, Scotland Bernd Wiesberger, Austria Edoardo de la Riva, Spain Thaworn Wiratchant, Thailand

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LPGA-Lotte Championship Wednesday At Ko Olina Golf Club Course Kapolei, Hawaii Purse: $1.7 million Yardage: 6,383; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round a-denotes amateur Hyo Joo Kim 34-34 Se Ri Pak 34-34 So Yeon Ryu 34-34 Ayako Uehara 36-33 Amy Anderson 35-35 Ha Na Jang 33-37 a-So Young Lee 35-35 Inbee Park 33-37 Michelle Wie 34-36 Christel Boeljon 35-36 Katie M. Burnett 35-36 Pornanong Phatlum 35-36 Lindsey Wright 36-35 Danah Bordner 35-37 Silvia Cavalleri 37-35 Victoria Elizabeth 38-34 Moriya Jutanugarn 37-35 Danielle Kang 35-37 Kim Kaufman 37-35 Cristie Kerr 36-36 Jennifer Kirby 38-34

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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 x-Atlanta at Indiana, 6 p.m.

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

Miami (2) vs. Charlotte (7) Sunday’s game Charlotte at Miami, 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 23 Charlotte at Miami, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 26 Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Monday, April 28 Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Toronto (3) vs. Brooklyn (6) Saturday’s game Brooklyn at Toronto, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, April 22 Brooklyn at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, April 25 Toronto at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 27 Toronto at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB z-San Antonio 62 20 .756 — y-Oklahoma City 59 23 .720 3 y-L.A. Clippers 57 25 .695 5 x-Houston 54 28 .659 8 x-Portland 54 28 .659 8 x-Golden State 51 31 .622 11 x-Memphis 50 32 .610 12 x-Dallas 49 33 .598 13 Phoenix 48 34 .585 14 Minnesota 40 42 .488 22 Denver 36 46 .439 26 New Orleans 34 48 .415 28 Sacramento 28 54 .341 34 L.A. Lakers 27 55 .329 35 Utah 25 57 .305 37 x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division; zclinched conference

Chicago (4) vs. Washington (5) Sunday’s game Washington at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, April 22 Washington at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, April 25 Chicago at Washington, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 27 Chicago at Washington, 11 a.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio (1) vs. Dallas (8) Sunday’s game Dallas at San Antonio, 11 a.m.

Wednesday, April 23 Dallas at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 26 San Antonio at Dallas, 2:30 p.m.

Monday, April 28 San Antonio at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

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 Portland 110, L.A. Clippers 104 Phoenix 104, Sacramento 99 Golden State 116, Denver 112

Oklahoma City (2) vs. Memphis (7) Saturday’s game Memphis at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 21 Memphis at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 Oklahoma City at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 26 Oklahoma City at Memphis, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers (3) vs. Golden State (6) Saturday’s game Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Monday, April 21 Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 27 L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 1:30 p.m.

NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND Quarter-finals (Best-of-7)

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FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2014

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WHL PLAYOFFS Round 3

National League East Division W L Pct 10 5 .667

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Indiana (1) vs. Atlanta (8) Saturday’s game Atlanta at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, April 22 Atlanta at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 Indiana at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 26 Indiana at Atlanta, noon Monday, April 28

Houston (4) vs. Portland (5) Sunday’s game Portland at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 23 Portland at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 25 Houston at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 27 Houston at Portland, 7:30 p.m.

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Columbus 5 3 1 1 8 Toronto 5 3 2 0 5 Kansas City 5 2 1 2 5 D.C. 5 2 2 1 5 New England 6 2 3 1 4 Philadelphia 7 1 2 4 9 New York 7 1 2 4 8 Houston 5 2 3 0 7 Chicago 6 0 1 5 9 Montreal 6 0 3 3 6

GA 5 5 4 6 8 10 11 8 10 10

Pt 10 9 8 7 7 7 7 6 5 3

Western Conference GP W L T GF 6 4 1 1 15 5 3 1 1 8 6 3 2 1 12 6 2 0 4 10 6 2 2 2 8

GA 9 5 10 6 6

Pt 13 10 10 10 8

Dallas Colorado Seattle Salt Lake Vancouver

Los Angeles Chivas Portland San Jose

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Wednesday’s results New York 2 Philadelphia 1 Saturday’s games Houston at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

New England at Chicago, 2 p.m.

San Jose at Colorado, 4 p.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

D.C. at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Montreal at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Seattle at Chivas, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 23 Houston at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF GA y-Rochester 16 12 4 .750 186 149 x-Buffalo 15 8 7 .533 163 163 x-Toronto 16 7 9 .438 198 198 Philadelphia 16 5 11 .313 175 194 Minnesota 16 4 12 .250 162 193

GB — 3 1/2 5 7 8

West Division GP W L Pct. GF GA y-Edmonton 16 15 1 .938 197 138 x-Calgary 16 10 6 .625 209 194

GB — 5

Colorado 16 6 10 .375 170 204 9 Vancouver 15 4 11 .267 157 184 10 1/2 x — clinched playoff berth. y — clinched division.

Friday, April 18 Buffalo at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 19 Buffalo at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended Seattle 1B Ji-Man Choi 50 games following a positive test for a performanceenhancing substance.

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Selected the contract of RHP Zach Putnam from Charlotte (IL). Designated LHP Donnie Veal for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed OF Lorenzo Cain on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Justin Marks from Omaha (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Reinstated RHP Stephon Pryor from the 15-day DL and assigned him to Tacoma (PCL).

National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed 1B Lyle Overbay on the paternity leave list. Recalled INF-OF Elian Herrera from Nashville (IL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed RHP Joe Kelly on the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Keith Butler to Memphis (PCL). Recalled RHP Eric Fornataro and RHP Jorge Rondon from Memphis.

FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Named James Voos, M.D. team physician.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed OL Joe Reitz.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Released LB Russell Allen.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed S Kurt Coleman.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed LB Kaelin Burnett.

Canadian Football League MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Signed WR Chad Johnson to a two-year contract.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Released DB Kevin Prempeh, OL Eric Armitage, WR Austin Coleman, WR Antonio Robinson and LB Doug Hogue.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned RW Willie Coetzee, D Xavier Ouellet and D Ryan Sproul to Grand Rapids (AHL).

American Hockey League SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Announced D Austin Madaisky was assigned to the team from Evansville (ECHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer CHIVAS USA — Signed MF Matthew Dunn.

NEW YORK RED BULLS — Named Marc de Grandpre head of commercial operations.

Yankees turn triple play at expense of Sean Rodriguez

he stepped on the bag to retire Evan Longoria.

Solarte threw to second baseman Brian Roberts to get Wil Myers. The play ended when Scott Sizemore, playing at first base for the first time in his career, made a nice scoop of Roberts’ relay throw to get Rodriguez.

It was the first triple play hit into by the Rays since Rodriguez grounded into one on Aug. 16, 2011, at Boston.

Sabathia was pitching the previous time the Yankees turned a triple play. That happened on April 12, 2013.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Sean Rodriguez of the Tampa Bay Rays has grounded into a triple play for the second time in his career.

The Rays had runners on first and second in the second inning Thursday night against the Yankees. Rodriguez hit a hard grounder off CC Sabathia that rookie third baseman Yangervis Solarte fielded, and

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Kuchar starts strong at RBC Heritage

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — There were no major letdowns for Masters contenders Matt Kuchar and Jordan Spieth at the RBC Heritage on Thursday.

Kuchar, who tied for fifth at Augusta National, shot a bogey-free 5-under 66 to share the first-round lead with Scott Langley and William McGirt.

The 20-year-old Spieth tied for second behind Bubba Watson last Sunday and continued his strong play with a 69, part of a large group tied for fifth at Harbour Town Golf Links.

Kuchar and Spieth both spent much of Sunday in the pressure cooker that is the Masters’ final round.

But neither player allowed any lingering disappointment or fatigue from a grueling week to slow them down here.

“I was anxious to get back out and play another competitive round,” Spieth said. “So today was going to be kind of therapy, in a sense, from last week.”

Langley and McGirt each had five birdies on the front nine to match Kuchar.

Harris English was two shots behind after a 68 before Spieth topped a group of 15 another stroke back.

In all, 54 competitors shot par or better despite the gusts of 20 mph that swept through the course much of the round.

The week after the season’s first major is generally one of rest for many of golf’s big names and this year’s no different. Masters champ Watson took off as did Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy.

World No. 1 Tiger Woods continues recuperating from back surgery that kept him from playing Augusta National for the first time in 20 years.

Just six of the world’s top-20 ranked golfers teed it up this week, led by Kuchar at No. 6.

Spieth, who tied with fellow Masters rookie Jonas Blixt for second last week, didn’t consider withdrawing at Harbour Town, convinced of the benefits of quickly getting back to work.

It was also a get-to-know-you session for Spieth, who was paired with U.S. Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson and 2012 Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III. “It was unbelievable just to be playing with them,” Spieth said.

For Kuchar, playing was a no-brainer considering the strong run he’s been on the past month or so.

He tied for fourth at the Texas Open three weeks ago and lost in a playoff at the Houston Open a week later right before the Masters.

Hockey Canada announces first 20 players for world championship

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada’s loss having six teams out of the playoffs is Hockey Canada’s gain for the upcoming world championship.

On Thursday Canada unveiled its first group of 20 players for next month’s IIHF world hockey championship, which features 12 players from Canadian markets.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are well represented with goaltender James Reimer, defenceman Morgan Rielly and centre Nazem Kadri.

Twelve of the 20 players are in Canadian markets: the three Leafs, goaltender Ben Scrivens and forward David Perron from the Edmonton Oilers; defenceman Marc Methot and forward Kyle Turris from the Ottawa Senators; defencemen Kevin Bieksa and Jason Garrison and forward Alexandre Burrows from the Vancouver Canucks; forward Sean Monahan from the Calgary Flames and forward Mark Scheifele of the Winnipeg Jets.

The Washington Capitals have three players (Troy Brouwer, Jason Chimera and Joel Ward) while the Buffalo Sabres (defenceman Tyler Myers and forward Cody Hodgson) and Florida Panthers (defenceman Erik Gudbranson and forward Jonathan Huberdeau) each have two.

Defenceman Ryan Ellis of the Nashville Predators rounds out the initial roster.

As expected in an Olympic year, Team Canada will have a young group that doesn’t overlap with those who won a gold medal in Sochi. But coach Dave Tippett likes what he has.

“Obviously coming off an Olympic year there’s going to be a lot of those names that are going to be much different than the Olympic team,” Tippett said in a phone interview Wednesday. “But that being said they’re all NHL players, they’re there for a reason and I like our combination.

“We’ve got some grit there, we’ve got some guys that can defend, we’ve got some good skill. So far it looks very good.”

More players will be added before the tournament starts in Minsk, Belarus, on May 9. That gives Canada some time to consider players on the eight teams eliminated in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Teams can only register a total of 25 players for the tournament.

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John Huh chips his ball from a bunker onto the green on the eleventh hole during the first round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament on Thursday, at Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island, S.C. And Kuchar understands being focused at the Masters can mean being zoned in at Harbour Town.

“You’re going to see a lot of guys, if they’re not too run down from a major championship, come out and play some pretty good golf the week following.”

Kuchar played with confidence and precision, avoiding the winds when possible and playing to the meatiest parts of the smallish greens.

After starting on the back nine, Kuchar birdied both the par 5 holes on the front side before finishing with a birdie on his final hole, the ninth, to shoot in the 60s for the sixth time in his past 11 rounds here.

“It was some awfully steady golf,” he said.

Langley, with his early birdie run, looked as if he might finish on top alone after a 17-foot birdie putt

on the par-3 14th moved him to 6 under. But Langley wound up in the scrub along the 18th green and took bogey to fall into the three-way tie for first.

Langley has missed seven cuts this season, including his past two tournaments. But he felt confident in his game and took motivation from his friend Spieth’s run at a green jacket last week.

“Seeing Jordan do so well, almost win the Masters, inspired me a little bit,” Langley said.

McGirt played in the same group with Langley and matched his partner with five front-nine birdies. He chipped in on the par-3 17th to move up into the tie for first.

“Scott and I were both making birdies left and right,” McGirt said. “It was easy to feed off each other.”

Canada opens U18 men’s hockey championship with win over Sweden

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS IMATRA, Finland — Canada overcame a stiff challenge from a skilled and physical Sweden team in its first game at the under-18 men’s hockey championship Thursday.

Jake Virtanen scored twice as Canada opened its defence of the U18 title with a disciplined 3-1 win over the Swedes.

“Not only are they skilled, boy do they play hard,” Canada coach Kevin Dineen said of Sweden. “They really made an effort tonight to make a statement that not only were they not going to get pushed around, they were going to set the physical tone.

“I appreciated and respected the discipline our players showed, because boy did they ever come hard at us.”

Virtanen opened the scoring at 6:45 of the first period, then gave Canada a two-goal lead with a powerplay goal 1:03 into the second.

Sweden cut the lead in half when Daniel Muzito Bagenda scored a power-play goal at 10:57 of the second.

Canada didn’t let Sweden score the tying goal, and Matt Barzal — one of six new players on Canada’s team this year — restored Canada’s two-goal cushion with a goal 3:07 into the third period. “(Barzal) did a heck of a job of getting out and creating a turnover ... and the next thing you know we go down and restore that (lead),” Dineen said.

Mason McDonald stopped 24 shots in the victory.

“It wasn’t just the saves, it was the composure he showed during the game,” Dineen said of his goaltender. “I think he gives our team confidence, because the Swedes really pushed hard and had some really good chances.”

Canada’s next game is Saturday against Germany.

“We watched Germany practise today, they have a high tempo,” Dineen said. “We’ll watch them live tomorrow and we’ll certainly be ready for them, as well as Slovakia on Sunday.”

Team Canada Roster

Goaltenders: James Reimer, Ben Scrivens Defencemen: Morgan Rielly, Ryan Ellis, Tyler Myers, Jason Garrison, Kevin Bieksa, Marc Methot, Erik Gudbranson Forwards: Cody Hodgson, Nazem Kadri, Mark Scheifele, David Perron, Kyle Turris, Troy Brouwer, Alexandre Burrows, Joel Ward, Jason Chimera, Jonathan Huberdeau, Sean Monahan

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Be careful what you wish for RAPTORS COACH DWANE CASEY WARNS NETS ABOUT FIRST-ROUND PLAYOFF MATCHUP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Whether or not the Brooklyn Nets purposefully set themselves up to face the Raptors, Toronto coach Dwane Casey warns: be careful what you wish for.

The Raptors make their first playoff appearance in six years when they host the Nets in Game 1 on Saturday — and the opening-round series is already contentious before it has even tipped off.

The Nets seemed to have been angling for this particular matchup, apparently believing their veteran experience will win out over a young, inexperienced Raptors squad.

“It would tick me off if that was the case. . . If they did, sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for,” Casey said. “For us, we were going to take whoever came to us, whether it was Brooklyn or Washington or Charlotte.

We were prepared for all three teams.”

Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri echoed his coach’s sentiments.

“Good for them,” Ujiri said. “You know what? We haven’t lost one — I know I haven’t and I can sense from the players — second of sleep worrying about the Brooklyn Nets. At the end of the day if we want to be a good team, we have to play good teams. We’re not hoping for anybody. We’re in the playoffs. You have to play.

“They can do whatever they want.

We’ll be right here.”

The Nets lost four of five games down the stretch, and Brooklyn coach Jason Kidd sat his starters for Wednesday’s season-finale — a whopping 29-point loss to Cleveland — fuelling chatter the Nets were tanking in order to drop to the sixth seed, pitting them against Toronto rather than Chicago.

If they were insulted by suggestions the Nets preferred to play them, the Raptors weren’t saying Thursday.

“Man, we’ve had a chip on our shoulder all year. We don’t care. It ain’t going to stop now,” said Raptors all-star DeMar DeRozan. “The same chip we had before the season even started, we’ve got it now. Nothing’s going to change, it don’t matter who we’re playing against. At the end of the day it’s a playoff team. Only the good teams make the playoffs, right? You’re going to have to play somebody good so it don’t matter to us.”

The Raptors (48-34) and Nets (44-38) split their four games during a season that saw Toronto win the Atlantic Division title and set a franchise record for victories.

Raptors sophomore Terrence Ross

added fuel to the fire — unknowingly he said —about a month ago when he said he hoped for a Toronto-Brooklyn matchup. That prompted Nets centre Andray Blatche to tell the Daily News: “You better be careful what tree you bark up. He better be careful.”

Ross said his comment was both blown out of proportion and misinterpreted.

“I said I wanted to have Brooklyn because, looking up to those guys when I was younger. . . Paul Pierce, KG (Kevin Garnett), Joe Johnson. . . so getting a chance to play with them would be like an honour,” the 23-year-old Ross said Thursday. “Everyone kind of ran with it, took their own thing, whatever, that’s what happens when you’re in the playoffs. But that’s who we have now and I guess I did give that comment (and get) what I asked for.”

There is a massive discrepancy in playoff experience between the two teams, and it’s why many are picking the Nets to knock out the No. 3-seeded Raptors. Pierce alone — with 136 playoff appearances — has played in almost as many post-season games as the entire Raptors roster combined.

“We’re all in the same league, man.

Honestly, that’s how I look at it,” DeRozan said, sounding exasperated by the suggestion. “Credit to them, they did what they did but we played against guys who are experienced all season, honestly.”

The 24-year-old DeRozan has zero playoff experience, but rolled his eyes when asked how long it will take to adjust to the pace of the post-season.

“It ain’t like it’s rocket science or nothing. Everybody keeps talking to me, bringing it up like it’s rocket science or I’ve got to know trigonometry or something,” DeRozan said. “You just figure it out. You just go out there. I’ve been playing this game long enough, I’ve been in the league long enough, been in a lot of situations. So it shouldn’t be hard.”

Longtime NBA coach Jeff Van Gundy, now an NBA television analyst, weighed in on the Brooklyn tanking storyline in a conference call Thursday, saying the Nets “absolutely tried to get to (the Raptors) by resting their guys.”

“People for some reason think Toronto is a better matchup,” Van Gundy said. “I love watching the Raptors play.”

Van Gundy had kind words for Casey, who worked under a new GM this season in Ujiri, and saw his team thrive after the blockbuster sevenplayer deal in December that sent Rudy Gay to Sacramento.

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Toronto Raptors centre Jonas Valanciunas rebounds against New York Knicks centre Amar’e Stoudemire during NBA action in Toronto on April 11, 2014.

Whether or not the Brooklyn Nets purposefully set themselves up to face the Raptors in the first round of the playoffs, Toronto coach Dwane Casey warns: be careful what you wish for.

“I think Dwane Casey has gone through a lot of upheaval in his team in Toronto as far as roster changes, management changes, and he’s handled himself with such dignity and class, and he’s got his team playing so hard and so well together,” Van Gundy said.

“I just think they have to keep doing what they’ve been doing, competing hard, playing together, big guys controlling the paint, and they’ve got a tough matchup.

“I like the Raptors a lot. I think they’ve had a remarkable season led by a remarkable coach, and I think

they’ve got a great shot at advancing to the second round.”

Before Thursday’s practice, the Raptors sat down to watch the 60-second “We the North” commercial that’s part of the club’s new ad campaign. The Great White North is embraced and the Ontario capital takes centre stage in the video that kicked off a massive franchise rebrand that will continue over the next two years.

Ujiri said Canadian fans — and especially those in Toronto — will embrace the Raptors during this longawaited playoff run.

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To get another shot at LeBron James, the San Antonio Spurs may have to go through Dirk Nowitzki, then Dwight Howard and James Harden, and finally Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.

Survive all that, and maybe they can avenge that NBA Finals heartbreak.

“There’s definitely that burning desire in the back of your mind that really wants to get back there,” Spurs guard Patty Mills said.

They get started on Sunday, right before James and the Heat begin what they hope is a run to a third straight championship. Miami’s path seems much easier, but James’ team also appears more vulnerable than the one that was an overwhelming favourite in last year’s playoffs.

Maybe that was boredom, though.

Count on the Heat to pick it up now.

“This is why we’re all here,” Heat forward Shane Battier said. “The regular season is great and all, but this is the fun part. You wake up and you’re excited for the challenge of the playoffs. There’s no better time than right now.”

It begins Saturday with four games: Top-seeded Indiana hosts Atlanta, and Brooklyn visits Toronto in the Eastern Conference, while the West series openers include Golden State at the Clippers, and Oklahoma City against Memphis.

On Sunday, No. 1 overall seed San Antonio opens against Dallas, right before Miami welcomes Charlotte. Washington at Chicago, and Houston hosting Portland round out the action.

The post-season came to a thrilling conclusion last year, with the Heat rallying from a five-point deficit in the final 28 seconds of regulation to win Game 6. They went on to take a tight Game 7, helped when Tim Duncan missed over Battier from point-blank range down the stretch, to hand San Antonio its first loss in five NBA Finals appearances.

Many thought that was the last chance for the Spurs’ core of Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. Instead, San Antonio won a league-high 62 games in perhaps the franchise’s finest all-around season. Even the Spurs are impressed with the way they left disappointment behind, but all that matters now is what’s ahead.

“We are No. 1 overall and can’t be better than that. But it doesn’t mean

anything,” Ginobili said. “The playoffs starts from scratch.”

And it starts with a Dallas team that won 49 games, which would have given the Mavericks the No. 3 seed in the weaker East. Houston and Portland tied for fourth with 54 wins — the same amount as the Heat earned to finish No. 2 in their conference.

Miami lost 14 of its final 25 games, often while playing without Dwyane Wade, and finished two games behind the Pacers. ABC analyst Jeff Van Gundy is picking Indiana to win the East, in part because the Heat just don’t quite resemble the team that lost only three times after the start of February last season.

“I think they have a lot of guys who are not in their prime right now and their ability to consistently play well individually is just not there,” Van Gundy said Thursday during a conference call. “And then you have the health issues that to me, if they didn’t have some of those health issues, they’d be a 60-win team and they’d be the favourite.”

Still, the betting site Bovada gave 3 to 1 odds of another Spurs-Heat finals, best of any possible matchup.

If it happens again, San Antonio would get the decisive game at home this time — though that may not even come into play if the Spurs have to face either the Rockets or Thunder, who both went 4-0 against them.

Every series in the West could be a slugfest, which would make the playoffs no different than the regular season. The East has a sub-.500 Atlanta team along with post-season novices such as Charlotte and Washington, potentially making things easier for the Heat and Pacers.

But Toronto, Chicago and Brooklyn all compiled better records since Jan. 1 than Indiana and Miami, and will try to prevent the Eastern Conference finals matchup that’s been expected since November.

“It’s always wide open,” Nets coach Jason Kidd told reporters in Cleveland on Wednesday. “You guys sometimes limit it to just two teams, but guys that are playing on a daily basis in the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference feel like they’ve got a chance.”

The Spurs have been hoping for another one, ever since walking off the court in Miami where they were so close to victory in Game 6 that workers had already begun preparations for the celebration.

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Partnership to reach the North Pole OLYMPIC HOCKEY CHAMPIONS JOIN WOUNDED SOLDIERS ON MARCH TO MAGNETIC NORTH POLE Olympic women’s hockey team captain Caroline Ouellette and goaltender Genevieve Lacasse are joining wounded Canadian soldiers on an expedition to the magnetic North Pole.

Ouellette and Lacasse will be among the 53 soldiers, civilians and guides on next week’s fundraising journey organized by True Patriot Love, which provides physical and mental support for injured military personnel when government programs fall short.

Montreal’s Ouellette and Lacasse, from Kingston, Ont., won an Olympic gold medal at the Sochi Olympics in February. Canada mounted a stunning comeback to beat the U.S. 3-2 in overtime.

Their Arctic trip will test the hockey players’ limits in a different way.

“We do push ourselves out of our comfort zone in workouts and stuff, but this is something that’s really out of our comfort zone,” Lacasse said. “It makes us really uncomfortable and I think that’s what makes it so great. We can really grow from it.”

They’ll meet their team members Friday in Ottawa before flying to Resolute Bay, Nunavut, for three days of

preparation.

Their trek begins Tuesday, when they’ll be flown to King Christian Island and dropped off about 125 kilometres from their ultimate destination, which is the Isachsen Weather Station.

Magnetic north is where a compass needle points and about 1,300 kilometres south of the geographic North Pole, according to The Canadian Encyclopedia.

Magnetic north moves because of changes in the earth’s magnetism and its exact location is often debated.

Isachsen Weather Station is situated at 78.9 degrees latitude.

Ouellette, 34, and Lacasse, 24, will spend 10 to 11 days skiing with backpacks and pulling sleds of gear and supplies. They’ll camp in 24-hour daylight and temperatures dropping below minus-25 at night.

“We have two dogs with us. They’re our guards against polar bears,” Lacasse said. “They sleep outside and I guess if anything comes near the tents, they freak out and the guides have guns.”

The group will be picked up May 2 at the weather station, which has a working runway.

“I think my physical conditioning will be OK. It’s more being able to cope

with the cold and being on skis,” Ouellette said. “I’m certainly not as comfortable as I am on skates. They told us with everything we pull, it’s almost like walking.”

They’ll be part of a diverse group of corporate CEOs and soldiers injured while on duty. The latter have prosthetic limbs, post-traumatic stress disorder and other combat-related injuries.

Business leaders from companies such as Goldman Sachs, Great West Life, Morgan Stanley, Transcontinental and Scotiabank will be paired with the dozen soldiers on the trip.

The fundraising goal of the expedition is $1.5 million to adapt software that helps treat PTSD. About 92 per cent of that target has already been raised, according to expedition director Hilary Coles.

One example of True Patriot Love’s work was buying a vehicle that was retrofitted and adapted for a driver with prosthetic limbs. TPL staged an expedition to Everest Base Camp and the 6,189-metre Himalayan summit of Island Peak in 2012.

“Some of the feedback we received after the first expedition was people wanted the opportunity to adventure in their own back yard,” Coles said.

“We took it seriously to find something that would give us the opportunity to celebrate our country while we were also celebrating our soldiers.

“The mission of True Patriot Love is really to bridge the civilian world with the military world. If you take these civilians and wounded soldiers, they don’t speak the same language, they don’t necessarily live the same day-to-day life, but by putting them out of their comfort zone, it’s an opportunity for everyone involved to grow and learn more about one another.”

This trip is close to Lacasse’s heart.

Her father, Major Eric Lacasse, served in Afghanistan and is currently stationed in Israel until September. Her brother Alexandre and his wife Jenn are also members of the Canadian Forces.

Canadian team veteran Hayley Wickenheiser intended to go on the trip, but withdrew to mend a broken foot. Ouellette took Wickenheiser’s spot and invited Lacasse.

“She forwarded me the e-mail and said ’is this something you’d be interested in?’ I didn’t even read the full e-mail,” Lacasse said. “I was like ‘yep, I’m in for sure.”’

Neither Ouellette nor Lacasse have been to Canada’s Far North.

Raonic defeats Robredo to reach Monte Carlo Masters quarter-finals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONACO — Canadian Milos Raonic defeated Spain’s Tommy Robredo 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals at the Monte Carlo Masters.

The 23-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., will next take on Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka, who advanced on a walkover when Spanish opponent Nicolas Almagro retired before their match with a foot injury.

Wawrinka, the third seed, has beaten the eighth-seeded Raonic in both of their previous meetings.

“I’ve struggled in the past against Stan but it will be quite different this time around,” said Raonic. “I’m doing a lot of things well and I’m looking forward to that challenge.”

Raonic had seven aces in his thirdround match and broke Robredo’s serve once per set while never facing a challenge on his own serve. The Canadian also beat Robredo in their previous meeting last spring in Barcelona.

His next match marks a breakthrough as it will be Raonic’s first quarter-final appearance at a claycourt 1000 Series event.

“This is a first, that’s for sure,” he said. “It’s a result of a lot of the good things I’m doing. But I can do better and I’m looking forward to bringing that out in myself. This is the closest I’ve gotten to a big clay opportunity, so it’s definitely a positive.”

In second-round men’s doubles play, Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic defeated the Polish duo of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matowski 6-7(6), 7-6 (3), 10-7.

Raonic claimed the opening set against Robredo with a break in the final game, smashing down an overhead winner on his second set-point opportunity.

The Canadian jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second set when a Robredo return wide down the line. Raonic then stayed the course to serve out the victory, finishing in just over an hour.

“I’m very pleased with myself, I showed a lot of discipline,” Raonic said. “I struggled in the beginning but was able to figure it all out towards the end of the set. I gave myself a lot of opportunities afterwards.”

Raonic credited his world-class serve with keeping him out of trouble.

“Serving well was a big thing today,” he said. “I was also moving well and able to dictate with my forehand.”

The victory boosted Raonic’s record to 10-3 on the season and has given him a boost of confidence on the slower surface.

“I’ve played a lot of the Spanish guys in practice matches,” said Raonic, the former pupil of Spaniard Galo Blanco. “I definitely have more of an understanding of what I need to do and what I can expect from them as well.”

Also Thursday, defending champion Novak Djokovic raced into the quarterfinals by dispatching Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain 6-0, 6-1 in 47 minutes.

Eight-time champion Rafael Nadal also had little trouble, beating Italian Andreas Seppi 6-1, 6-3, while fourthseeded Roger Federer shook off a slow start in a 6-4, 6-1 win against Czech player Lukas Rosol.

The second-seeded Djokovic won his second-round opener in 45 minutes and has yet to be tested this week. He next faces Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. The top-seeded Nadal has looked sloppy at times.

“Lost only two games in the first two matches (here). Can’t be better than this, for sure,” Djokovic said. “I am confident on the court. I’m coming off a great American hard-court season.”

Djokovic sealed the 22-minute first

Alouettes sign former Pro Bowler Chad Johnson to two-year contract

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Former NFL star Chad Johnson will make his return to the gridiron in the Canadian Football League.

The veteran receiver signed a two-year deal with the Montreal Alouettes on Thursday after impressing team brass at a minicamp in Vero Beach, Fla. “Chad Johnson did an outstanding job the last three days,” Alouettes general manager Jim Popp said in a release.

“As we added him into the mix, it was to see how he communicated with the players, how he held himself, the way he physically held up, his true interest in coming to the CFL. “It was a total evaluation so that it’s a good fit. He was very happy and very excited to be on the field again and we are happy to welcome him to the Alouettes.”

Johnson, who once changed his last name to Ochocinco, spent most of his 11 NFL seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals. In 166 career games, the six-time Pro Bowler caught 766 passes for 11,059 yards and 67 touchdowns.

The six-foot-one 188-pounder last appeared in an NFL game during the 2011 season with New England.

He was in training camp with the Miami Dolphins — his hometown team — the following summer, but his contract was terminated one day after he was charged with misdemeanour domestic battery.

A plea deal was eventually worked out, but after a probation violation Johnson wound up going to jail for a few days anyway after a judge objected to the way he slapped his lawyer on the backside in celebration.

Montreal already has a solid core of receivers in Duron Carter, S.J. Green and Jamel Richardson. However, the team did release receiver Arland Bruce in the off-season.

The Alouettes will hold a training camp in June and then open their regular season at Calgary on June 28.

Milos Raonic returns the ball to Tommy Robredo of Spain during their third round match of the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament in Monaco, Thursday.

Raonic won 6-4 6-3.

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set with a crisp forehand. Carreno Busta received loud cheers, clenched his fists and grinned broadly when he won his only game for 3-1 in the second.

Djokovic served out, tormenting him one last time with an exquisite drop

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He is aiming for his fifth straight Masters win. He won at Indian Wells and Key Biscayne, dominating Nadal in the latter final to record his third straight win over him in straight sets.

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How thermoelectric generators work Thermoelectric generators produce watts and up to 48 volts DC for single electricity by harnessing heat. Thermo- units, driven by the combustion of procouples and thermopiles are the most pane, or natural gas, these units offer familiar types, notably so, to substantial output, but with those who have ever fixed weights to 680 kg, they are a hot water tank or furnace not something that can be when it refused to stay lit. put in your pocket.

A German physicist, Electronics are quickly Thomas Johann Seebeck, scaling down to where comdiscovered this effect in puters, glasses, watches 1821, when he discovered and other devices are bethat a compass needle would coming part of our daily deflect when exposed to two dress. dissimilar metals connected The problem with these at either end. small-sized semiconductors Today, the metals used is how to keep them supLORNE are most commonly bismuth plied with energy.

OJA telluride (Bi2Te3) or lead The Korean Advanced telluride (PbTe).

Institute of Science and Thermoelectic generaTechnology (KAIST) have tion is ideal for producing developed an interesting DC electricity in remote locations for solution. powering communications system, navUsing a glass fabric, they have taken igation, or well site units. It can be the TE technology on an advanced evomarried to photovoltaic arrays as a lutionary path. Byung Jin Cho and his backup when cloud, fog or darkness team have developed a reliable power reduces insolation. With outputs to 550 source that uses the heat of the human

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body to produce electricity. They have found a way to minimize thermal losses while maximizing energy density without a bulky substrate.

TE generators over the years have evolved from either the previously mentioned inorganic metal thermopile technologies or organic polymers.

Polymers are light flexible and ideal for placing next to our skin, but unfortunately they have low power output.

The inorganic TE generators are simply too heavy and awkward to be strapped to an arm.

The researchers accomplished this by making a near-liquid paste of n type Bi2Te3 and p type Sb2Te3, the two different metals required, then using a screen printing technique, applied these pastes to a glass fabric.

Screen printing allows them to arrange the different constituents in a specific pattern. The materials are absorbed into the spaces between the fibres, forming a film of small dots on the surface.

The glass fabric acts as a upper and

lower substrate, which allows the two metals to operate, producing a millivolt electrical current strong enough to power electronics.

With a 31C difference between a human body and ambient air temperature, a 10-by-10-cm flexible TE generator made this way can generate 40 millivolts of electrical energy. Although the KAIST prototype was conceived for developing electronic devices that can be worn, like smart glasses, smart watches, pace makers, etc., it has the potential to generate electrical power on larger scale, such as using waste heat from an engine.

It’s an alternative type of energy harvesting developed to power our life.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

T. rex fossils arrive at Smithsonian WASHINGTON - The FedEx truck arrived before daybreak Tuesday, backing up to the loading dock at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

The police escort — which rolled with the semi from Hagerstown, Md., more than an hour from the Mall — indicated a very special delivery. So, too, did the custom wrap on the trailer.

“Delivering history: The Nation’s T. rex,” it said next to a painted Tyrannosaurus rex.

The first of 16 wooden crates — each sealed with tape and marked “FRAGILE” multiple times — rolled off the 16-metre-long trailer at 6:26 a.m. A few minutes later, museum director Kirk Johnson signed for the delivery of a dinosaur.

Within a half-hour, all of the bonefilled boxes were being inspected inside the museum, which had finally filled the T. rex-sized hole in its fossil collection.

“It’s like Christmas morning,” declared dinosaur curator Matt Carrano.

The Nation’s T. rex, discovered by a Montana rancher near Fort Peck Reservoir in 1988 and owned by the Army

Corps of Engineers, is on loan to the Natural History Museum for 50 years.

It will replace a life-size T. rex replica that’s been displayed in the Natural History Museum’s dinosaur hall since 1999, shortly after the Smithsonian lost out on Sue, the world’s most famous dinosaur fossil, at a hotly contested auction. The absence of a T. rex was unforgivable,” Johnson said, standing among the crates.

“It’s this amazing dream for me to get this iconic fossil.”

“It’s a wonderful day for the nation,” said Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, the Army Corps commander who signed off on the long-term loan.

The world’s second-most-visited museum has big plans for the borrowed king carnivore: It will stand as the centerpiece of the new dinosaur hall that’s scheduled to open in 2019, after a fiveyear, $48 million makeover.

The hall, one of the most visited spaces at the Natural History Museum, closes April 28.

“It’s an amazing object,” Johnson said of the T. rex.

The 11.5-metre-long dinosaur died more than 66 million years ago in a riverbed and was frozen in time for ages.

It remained unseen and undisturbed from the late Cretaceous Period until

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underway to see if anything else might be wrong.

NASA is eager to get these supplies to the orbiting lab as soon as possible.

The flight has been on hold since mid-March for various reasons.

Much of the cargo is considered critical, including food, a new spacesuit and replacement parts for existing spacesuits.

The SpaceX Dragon and Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Cygnus cargo ship, which launches from Virginia, are NASA’s prime means of shipment. Russia, Japan and Europe also make periodic deliveries.

NASA’s space shuttles carried most of the resupply load until their retirement in 2011; that’s when the space agency turned to private industry to fill the gap. NASA is hoping private companies will do the same for launching astronauts in another few years.

SpaceX is among the U.S. companies vying for that job. Until then, Americans will be forced to continue riding Russian rockets to and from the space station at steep cost.

If SpaceX isn’t flying by Saturday, then Orbital Sciences will move to the front of the launch line, with a shipment in early May, officials said.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is shooting for another launch attempt today to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.

NASA confirmed the launch date Wednesday, two days after a last-minute rocket leak delayed the mission.

Stormy weather, however, is in the forecast.

Saturday is the backup launch date.

Mission Control has rescheduled urgent spacewalking repairs because of the new launch time.

Two U.S. astronauts, Rick Mastracchio and Steven Swanson, had been aiming for a Tuesday spacewalk to replace a backup computer that failed late last week.

The prime computer has been working fine, but NASA wants to get a new backup installed outside the station as soon as possible.

These computers control the pointing of the radiators and solar wings, among other things.

The spacewalk will be either Easter Sunday or next Wednesday, depending on when — or if — the cargo ship flies.

The Dragon contains more than 2 tons of supplies, including material that would prove useful for the repair, but is not essential.

Former space station astronaut Christopher Cassidy, who’s helping from Houston, said the spacewalk job should be “pretty straightforward” and involve the manual turning of just three bolts on the computer box.

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Pat Leiggi, left, administrative director of paleontology and director of exhibits at the Museum of the Rockies; and Shelley McKamey, executive director of the Museum of the Rockies, look over the right femur of the Wankel T. rex after it was delivered to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington this week. around Labor Day in 1988, when rancher Kathy Wankel spotted a small part of an arm bone during a day hike in a wildlife refuge.

Eventually, an excavation team unearthed between 80 and 85 per cent of the bones on the Army Corps site, mak-

ing it one of the five most complete T. rex specimens ever recovered.

It included the first T. rex arm ever discovered (“not much bigger than my arm,” Johnson noted), and it was dubbed “the Wankel T. rex” by the Museum of the Rockies.

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The Six of Hearts, featuring Elena Stalwick, Emily Howell, Sam Vesely, Alyssa Ufland, Chad Lorrain and Racquel Deveau.

Stefan Theriault does his standup comedy routine. He won the People’s Choice Award.

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Jaydin Vonkeman opens the show at the Memorial Centre.

Katherine Smith performs.

They sang, they danced, they tickled the ivory, they made ’em laugh.

In front of a full house at the Memorial Centre on Tuesday, 13 student acts from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School showed off their talents in the hopes of being crowned Thurber Idol 2014.

Acts were varied — musical performances, both heartfelt and lively, were interspersed with energetic dance routines, and a single comic had the crowd in stitches with his early performance.

In the end, it was the piano production of Japanese exchange students Momoho Miyazaki and Mari Sonoda that earned top marks from the panel of five judges. For their efforts, the winners were presented with a $500 cash prize.

Jason Van’T Wout, Bogdan Vlasenko and Colby Spring performing Pirates of the Caribbean.

Jason Parks gets into his dance routine.

Dancing dynamos We-United Crew — a team of Uriel Karerwa, Colin Forsyth, Coleman Komula and Arwyn Guillermo — took second place with their spirited break dancing effort.

Third place went to the tonal trio of Haley McLean, Maren Pack and Kay-Cee Loeppky.

The runners-up received $250, with $100 going to the third place group.

For his provoking anti-pineapple postulations, stand-up comic Stefan Theriault won the People’s Choice Award, which also comes with a $100 prize.

The final 13 acts were chosen from an audition process that saw over 30 groups and individuals perform. The event has been held annually since 2003.

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FRONT ALBERTA HELPS POLIO EFFORT Alberta played a big role in the recent $2.1-million donation towards Rotary International’s polio eradication campaign.

Members of Rotary clubs in Central Alberta, including Red Deer, Lacombe, Sylvan Lake, Innisfail, Ponoka, Stettler and Olds, raised over $35,000 last year. Alberta clubs overall pulled in $350,000, which was matched by the province for a total of $700,000.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation went on to triple that.

Rotary International has been dedicated to the eradication of polio since 1985 and hopes to see the end of the viral disease by 2018. The new funding will support polio immunization activities and research being carried out by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

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Tickets are in the mail MOTORISTS WHO SLOW DOWN TO TAKE PICTURES OF CRASHES ON HWY 2 CAN EXPECT A $172 DISTRACTED DRIVING FINE

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Photo savvy motorists who slow down to take pictures of crashes on Hwy 2 can expect to net a $172 distracted driving ticket for their efforts.

RCMP Cpl. Al Nickolson of the Innisfail Integrated Traffic Services said distracted driving is getting out of hand on Hwy 2 and on city streets.

The traffic service crews patrol Hwy 2 from Red Deer to Didsbury.

Earlier this month investigators took down the licence

plate numbers of four drivers who snapped shots of a collision scene on Hwy 2 near the Hwy 27 interchange east of Olds.

“Nothing is worse than being at a crash scene when you hear a semi lock up all its brakes because the guy in front of him just stopped,” said Nickolson.

“You’re going from 110 (km/h) down to 60 or sometimes 20 km/h.

“All it takes is one person to ruin everyone else’s day.”

The drivers can expect their tickets in the mail any day.

Nickolson said there were no subsequent collisions on April 10 as a result of the crash or

in December, when six licence plate numbers were taken at another accident scene on Hwy 2.

Nickolson said they will continue to jot down licence plates depending on manpower and the nature of investigation.

The licence plates were jotted down while investigators were waiting for a tow truck.

Nickolson said Alberta motorists do not seem to be getting the message that using cellphones or electronic devices while behind the wheel is against the law.

He said some drivers will put down their phones when they

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

M&M Meat Shops presents its 26th annual Charity BBQ Day on May 10.

The five M&M shops throughout Central Alberta will be participating, including the two locations in Red Deer and ones in Lacombe, Sylvan Lake and Rocky Mountain House.

M&M staff and volunteers will be grilling hamburgers and hot dogs and providing a bag of chips and pop to customers for a minimum donation of $3 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. All proceeds go towards Crohn’s and Colitis Canada to help find a cure for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. One in every 150 Canadians suffer from Crohn’s and colitis, a rate that ranks highest in the world.

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The trade show features a number of exhibitors. as well as horse trainers and clinicians for training sessions. It’s been called the largest indoor equine trade show in Canada and runs at Westerner Park from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on April 25 and 26 and until 5:30 p.m. on April 27.

Tickets are $15 for the day or $40 for a weekend pass. Youth (seven to 12) are $10 a day or $25 for the weekend. Children six-years-old and under are free. There is also a new Trainer Challenge VIP Package available for $140; it includes admission, discounts and VIP guaranteed seating at all Trainers Challenge sessions and finals. Tickets are available at the door.

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spot a police car but in most cases drivers are completely oblivious to what is going on around them.

Nickolson said the police have to be in the right place at the right time to nab the drivers because it is not always that easy when there is median to cross or a driver is a few lanes over.

This long weekend, there will be extra police officers and sheriffs on the highways looking for impaired drivers, speedsters and distracted driving and checking for seatbelts.

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Discovery Wildlife Park head zookeeper and animal trainer Serena Bos works with one-year-old Gruff, a male black bear, at the Innisfail zoo.

The orphaned bear will be part of the zoo’s education program and bear safety presentations at the facility this season. Discovery Wildlife Park opens for the season on May 1.

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BRIEF Murder plea reserved The man accused of a gang-style murder in Red Deer has reserved his plea because his lawyer is still awaiting information from the Crown prosecutor’s office.

The body of Lloyd Robert Sarson, 25, was found in a car sitting in an alley in the Eastview subdivision on Jan. 1, 2013. Police allege that Sarson was shot and that there was a gang connection with the shooting.

A suspect was arrested in Vancouver on March 13 and charged with first-degree murder. Although he is now 18 and an adult, the suspect cannot be named because he was 17 at the time of the alleged shooting and his identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The accused appeared in Red Deer youth court on Thursday, via closed-circuit TV from the Calgary Young Offenders Centre.

Red Deer lawyer Brad Mulder, acting on behalf of the youth’s lawyer, defence counsel Karen Molle of Calgary, asked that his plea and bail hearing be adjourned to give her more time to receive and review the Crown’s case.

The suspect remains in custody pending his next court appearance, set for May 22.

Mac’s robbery suspect charged A suspect in the armed robbery of a Mac’s Convenience Store has been arrested and charged.

Red Deer RCMP arrested and charged a 16-year-old youth, who cannot be named because of his age, after he allegedly brandished a knife and demanded cash and cigarettes around 3:15 a.m. at the 2950 22nd St. location on Wednesday. Police arrested the suspect around 11:30 p.m. in Red Deer.

He has been released from custody and

Members of a group of youths caught shooting out car windows in a Red Deer subdivision are now serving sentences imposed after pleading guilty in Red Deer youth court.

On Thursday, two of the group of four 17-yearolds arrested by police in connection with the Feb. 17 incident appeared before Judge John Holmes.

They are accused of using a BB gun to break car windows so they could then enter the vehicles and swipe items.

Crown prosecutor Ann MacDonald said police were called early in the morning by residents who noticed a suspicious group of youths on Alford Avenue.

Investigators responding to the call found a set of car keys and a cellphone on the ground beside one of the damaged vehicles.

The back door of the car was open and a speaker box had been taken from inside.

RCMP determined that the cellphone belonged to one of the youths, who appeared in court on Thursday represented by Red Deer defence counsel Walter Kubanek.

Kubanek’s client and his companions were charged with theft of goods worth less than $5,000, mischief worth less than $5,000 and pos-

will appear in provincial court on May 1.

Social Credit convention set The once powerful Alberta Social Credit Party is looking to supplant the conservative leaning parties in the province they say “have forsaken their social conservative routes.”

A policy convention for the party has been scheduled for April 26 at the Golden Cottage Restaurant in Innisfail, at 5021 50th St. Party leader Len Skowronski said he would like “to invite all Albertans of good will” to attend the event. Running from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., the convention will help the party update its policies to formulate an election platform aimed at addressing Albertans’ concerns.

“Albertans are ready to replace the Progressive Conservatives, but we must make sure it’s not the Wildrose Alliance puppets of the multinational oil and gas companies,” said Skowronski in a news release.

“We must show Albertans that Social Credit is the only alternative that strives to bring back good government with a high standard of morals and ethics.”

More information is available at the Socred website, www.socialcredit.com.

Police investigate vandalism Police in Red Deer are asking for help finding the vandal or vandals who smashed windows out of half a dozen vehicles parked on the street on Inglewood Drive late Wednesday or early Thursday.

Cpl. Sarah Knelsen, a media officer with the Red Deer City RCMP, said police were called shortly after 8 a.m. on Thursday by owners reporting that their vehicles had been damaged.

The damage appears to be random in nature and nothing was taken from any of the vehicles.

Anyone who has information that may assist investigators is asked to call the Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575. To remain anonymous, submit information online to www.tipsubmit.com or call Crime Stoppers, 1-800-222-8477.

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

session of break-in instruments. Kubanek and MacDonald presented a joint sentencing submission based on the sentence given to two others in the group, who had pleaded guilty to the same charges a week earlier.

MacDonald said both of those youths were given a one-year conditional discharge, meaning the charges against them will be withdrawn if they complete a year of probation, including 20 hours of community work.

The sentence recommendation for Kubanek’s client was based in part on the fact that the accused youth does not have a prior criminal record.

Holmes agreed with the sentence recommended for the boy on Thursday, noting that, although he did not play an active role in the thefts, he was a party to the activities and therefore shares in the responsibility for the damages.

A fourth youth, represented by Red Deer counsel Glyn Walters, returns to court next Thursday to deal with his charges.

MacDonald did not say how many vehicles were hit during the escapade.

The youths involved in the incident cannot be named under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Board rules out student trustees The Red Deer Public School District board will not be taking on any young trustees any time soon.

Elected trustees discussed at the board’s April meeting whether there was merit to adding a student trustee to the board.

Since the late 1990s, the presence of student trustees on Ontario school boards has been legislated, and in recent years other jurisdictions have adopted policies to include student representation.

While local trustees considered the notion, board chair Bev Manning said the general take was that the division should seek the viewpoints of the many, rather than the few.

“I think we saw value in student trusteeship but we felt that there had to be some changes in legislation before that student trustee would really have an effective position on a board, and we were really looking for more broad input,” said Manning.

In Vancouver public schools, for example, student trustees are involved on school boards, but are not considered members and cannot vote on board matters.

The Red Deer division uses surveys and holds an annual student town hall to gather input from pupils. It has also started to use online engagement strategies.

At the meeting, trustees voted to direct the superintendent to investigate other methods, including focus groups, a district-wide school council, meetings with student leadership groups, and the use of social media to engage with students.

Manning said any new efforts would likely be implemented for the next school year.

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BMO cautions on housing HOUSING CORRECTION WOULD DAMAGE CANADA’S ECONOMY, SAYS BMO REPORT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A sudden and sharp correction in the housing market could have a devastating impact on the Canadian economy overall, enough to trigger another recession, says a new Bank of Montreal report.

The analysis by senior economist Sal Guatieri finds that even a 10 per cent correction — what many would call a soft landing — could sap as much as one percentage point from gross domestic product growth, or basically halve the current growth rate.

The findings stems from an analysis on the contribution of the brisk housing market on the Canadian

economy between 2002 and 2007, when prices rose five percentage points faster than incomes.

According to the BMO, the rapid escalation in home prices and construction added 0.56 percentage points to annual growth during those six years, and “lifted household wealth, confidence and borrowing ability.”

But now, with home values at or near record levels throughout the country and many economists predicting some kind of correction, the opposite scenario would unfold from a price and accompanying construction drop.

“This suggests a moderate correction could have a meaningful slowing effect,” Guatieri

says in a report issued Friday.

“Based on our model, a 10 per cent decline in prices and construction reduced annual growth by one percentage point, with the two channels contributing equally. Given underlying growth of just over two per cent, prices and construction would need to fall more than 20 per cent to spur a contraction.”

Guatieri adds that given the record levels of household debt accumulated by families, the negative impact of a correction could even be worse than the bank’s models project.

On Wednesday, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz said while a housing correction remains a risk to the economy, the most likely

outcome was for a “soft landing.”

The central bank took comfort in the fact price increases had moderated and that household debt levels had stabilized — while remaining elevated — at 164 per cent of disposable income.

The BMO report does not suggest a major correction is in the offing, as some economists have predicted.

In fact, it argues the opposite. Guatieri says the socalled “bubble” in housing is exaggerated and that Canada is not in the same position the U.S. found itself prior to the 2007 crash.

He notes that while the runup in housing prior to the recent recession may have been similar in both countries, the

boom was smaller in Canada and had been preceded by years of below average homebuilding, so was in part a response to pent-up demand.

That was not the case south of the border.

He also points out that with the exception of Toronto, Calgary and a few other hotbeds, Canada’s housing boom essentially ended in 2008. Since then, price increases have risen only moderately more than incomes.

Still, Guatieri’s findings agree with the central bank’s contention that housing remains a key vulnerability to the economy as a whole.

“This speaks to the need for households to manage their debt prudently,” he said.

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Left, former lending director of Anglo Irish Bank Pat Whelan arrives at Dublin Criminal Court, Ireland. Whelan was charged along with two other former Anglo Irish Bank members — Sean FitzPatrick (not shown), and Willie McAteer, right — with trying to inflate the share price.

Two former Anglo Irish executives guilty of fraud FIRST CONVICTIONS OF IRELAND’S BANKING CRISIS

BY SHAWN POGATCHNIK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN, Ireland — Two former executives of Anglo Irish Bank were found guilty Thursday of committing fraud in a loans-for-shares scandal — the first convictions to stem from a banking crisis that brought Ireland to the brink of national bankruptcy.

After an 11-week trial, a jury found that former Anglo finance director Willie McAteer and lending director Pat Whelan illegally loaned 450 million euros ($621 million) to 10 top clients in July 2008 on condition that the men — property developers deep in debt to the bank — would use all the money to manipulate the market by buying Anglo’s own slumping shares.

Prosecutors demonstrated that the bank told all 10 customers that, should Anglo’s shares continue to slump, they would have to repay only a quarter of the debt, an illegal

condition.

The trial also heard evidence that several loan contracts later were fraudulently rewritten, with bogus dates, to lower the clients’ repayment requirements to zero.

The jury acquitted Whelan and McAteer on related charges of providing 169 million euros ($233 million) in loans to the wife and five children of the bank’s biggest investor, Sean Quinn. In 2008 he was Ireland’s richest man but had bet his business empire on the continued success of Anglo.

The Quinn family loans — also provided specifically to buy Anglo shares — required 100 per cent repayment.

McAteer, 63, and Whelan, 52, face minimum 5-year prison sentences. Judge Martin Nolan said he would consider what punishment to impose at an April 28 hearing.

The same jury on Wednesday acquitted Anglo’s former chairman and chief executive, Sean FitzPatrick, of fraud in relation to all 16 loans, ruling

that he had not played a direct role in the scheme. FitzPatrick faces a second fraud trial in October, when he is due to face charges of hiding more than 120 million euros ($165 million) of his personal loans from shareholders.

Anglo was a key financier of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger economy and, for a decade of unprecedented growth, its most celebrated financial success story.

Its shares peaked over 17 euros ($23.50) in 2007, but then the global credit crisis exposed the bank’s reckless lending practices. As Ireland’s long-runaway property market buckled in 2008, Anglo shares lost three-quarters of their value and executives sought surreptitious investment from their own clients to turn the tide.

The gambit failed as foreign banks and hedge funds, seeking safe bets, stopped buying Anglo bonds and demanded repayment.

Secret Service: Identifying Target hackers could take years, arrests longer

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Secret Service investigators say they are close to gaining a full understanding of the methods hackers used to breach Target’s computer systems last December.

But the agency says it could take years to identify the criminals who stole some 40 million debit and credit card

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And it may take even longer to bring the offenders to justice.

The federal investigation is complicated by the international nature of high-profile digital heists.

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extradition and prosecution difficult.

As a result, the Secret Service is focused on monitoring the online activities of its suspects, in hopes that they’ll be able to arrest them at an opportune moment, says Ari Baranoff, an assistant special agent in charge with the Secret Service’s criminal investigative division.

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The Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Central Alberta (CHBA-CA), will recognize the region’s top builders during its annual awards banquet on May 10.

The CHBA-CA’s 2014 Awards of Excellence in Housing will be presented in more than 20 categories related to single-family homes, multifamily projects, renovations, interior design and support industries.

The finalists for the 2014 awards were announced this week, with Sorento Custom Homes having nine entries in the running, Falcon Homes Ltd. eight, Platinum Homes and Larkaun Homes seven each, and True-Line Homes five.

Eight other builders are finalists in multiple award category, and many more have single entries that are in the running for an award.

Tickets to the 2014 Awards of Excellence in Housing gala, which is expected to draw more than 500 people, are available at the CHBA-CA office.

CHBA-CA is a not-for-profit organization representing more than 160 companies.

These include home builders, renovators, residential land developers, trades, suppliers and others involved in the home-building industry.

Advocate surveys consumer needs Advocate readers are being asked to complete an online survey that will help local businesses understand the needs of consumers.

The payoff for readers? A

chance to win one of three $1,000 prizes.

The survey, which looks at respondents’ shopping patterns and priorities, as well as their media reading habits, is being administered by research company Pulse Research in partnership with Black Press — the owner of the Advocate.

Participants are asked to provide their answers in one session, with April 30 the deadline to take part. Individual responses will be kept confidential, with personal information used only to award prizes.

To complete the survey, go online to www.pulseresearch. com/alberta.

Landscape business wins at garden show A Red Deer landscaping business won a display garden competition at the Calgary Garden Show last weekend.

Herons Nest Landscape earned $2,500 for its entry, which was designed to look like an urban backyard farm.

Its features included a cold frame made from an old storm window, a garden gate made from a car door, and an arbor room constructed with two sheet metal walls.

There were also spruce timbers, a mountain ash tree post, flowering trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals, and even a backyard chicken.

Herons Nest is a landscape design and construction company that specializes in wood works like decks and pergolas, and contemporary landscape design.

It’s been active in Central Alberta and the Calgary area for more than 12 years.

The Calgary Garden Show is organized annually by the Calgary Horticultural Society.

Top Rogers bosses paid $40 million

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) doled out nearly $40 million last year paying the two executives who held the top position at the telecom company.

Guy Laurence, who only stepped into the CEO role on Dec. 2, made a total of $12.7 million in 2013, according to figures disclosed in Rogers’ annual report.

Retired CEO Nadir Mohamed took home total compensation of $26.8 million last year, the bulk of it coming from his retirement package.

Laurence, who was the former head of UK-based telecom company Vodafone, received a base salary of $69,231 for the year.

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tion worth $755,833. The value of his pension earned was $54,933 in 2013.

Mohamed, who retired in December, had a base salary of $1.13 million, $2.52 million in share-based awards, $2.52 million in option-based awards. All other compensation was $17,242 million, related to his retirement.

The value of his pension earned was $1.85 million in 2013.

Rogers is scheduled to report its first-quarter financial results on Monday after stock markets close.

The company’s shares were 17 cents higher at $44.43 in Friday afternoon trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 106.84 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.50 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.86 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.36 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 17.46 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Thursday as stocks continued to find lift from this week’s positive Chinese and U.S. economic data, along with a generally upbeat slate of earnings news.

The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 53.87 points to 14,500.39, led by gains in energy and mining companies.

The Canadian dollar advanced amid data showing higher than expected inflation. The loonie was up 0.04 of a cent to 90.8 cents US as Statistics Canada reported that the consumer price index rose 0.6 per cent in March from the previous month, higher than the 0.4 per cent reading that economists had expected.

U.S. indexes were mixed as traders balanced a string of positive earnings reports from a number of corporate heavyweights, including Goldman Sachs, General Electric and PepsiCo, against earnings disappointments from IBM and Google.

The Dow Jones industrials was 16.31 points lower at 16,408.54, the Nasdaq gained 9.29 points to 4,095.52 and the S&P 500 index was up 2.54 points to 1,864.85.

On Thursday, General Electric posed earnings ex-items of 33 cents per share, down 15 per cent from a year ago but a penny better than analysts expected and its shares were up 1.68 per cent.

And Goldman Sachs posted quarterly earnings of $4.02 a share, beating analyst expectations of $3.45 and its shares were up 0.14 per cent.

But Google stock dropped 3.67 per cent as quarterly earnings growth faltered amid a persistent downturn in advertising prices, while IBM’s firstquarter earnings fell and revenue came in below Wall Street’s expectations amid an ongoing decline in its hardware business, pushing its shares down 3.25 per cent.

There was also some nervousness heading into the weekend even as the United States, the European Union, Russia and Ukraine reached agreement on immediate steps to

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The agreement requires all sides to refrain from violence, intimidation or provocative actions. It calls for the disarming of all illegally armed groups and for control of buildings seized by pro-Russian separatists to be turned back to authorities. The tentative agreement puts on hold additional economic sanctions the West was prepared to impose on Russia if the talks proved fruitless.

North American stocks racked up solid gains this week, partly because Chinese economic growth in the first quarter came in better than expected.

Also, the Federal Reserve‘s latest regional survey showed that the U.S. economy picked up over the past two months as bitter winter weather subsided. The TSX gained 1.7 per cent while the Dow industrials ran up 2.38 per cent.

It was a positive change from the previous week when U.S. indexes sustained sharp losses as traders rotated out of expensive biotechs and technology stocks. But there are doubts about whether that rotation is complete and if more volatility could be on the way.

The TSX energy sector was up 1.3 per cent as the May crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose 54 cents to US$104.30 a barrel.

May copper was up two cents at US$3.05 a pound and the base metals component climbed 0.7 per cent.

The gold sector lost about 0.9 per cent as June bullion declined $9.60 to US$1,293.90 an ounce.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Thursday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,500.39, up 53.87 points TSX Venture Exchange — 998.77, up 0.80 of a point TSX 60 — 827.32, up 2.91 points Dow — 16,408.54, down 16.31 points S&P 500 — 1,864.85, up 2.54 points Nasdaq — 4,095.52, up 9.29 points

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TARGET: A lot of patience needed “We take a lot of pride in having a lot of patience,” Baranoff said during a rare sit-down interview with the Associated Press at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.

There are individuals we’ve apprehended that we’ve known about for 10 years and we’re very comfortable indicting these individuals, sitting back and waiting patiently until the opportunity arrives that we can apprehend them.”

Target says it can’t yet estimate what the breach will cost the company, but some analysts put it at close to half a billion dollars.

The total cost of the breach —which also would include losses incurred by banks, consumers and others— could easily reach into the billions of dollars.

Target, which is in the midst of its own investigation, has said very little about how the breach happened, except that it believes the thieves gained entry to its systems by infiltrating computers owned by one of its vendors, thought to be a Pittsburgh-area heating and refrigeration business.

Baranoff couldn’t speak specifically about the federal investigation into the Target breach, since the case is ongoing, but he talked candidly about the growing threat of large-scale, financially motivated cybercrimes and the Secret Service’s efforts to stop them.

Behind every major breach, there’s usually a team of highly specialized cybercriminals who mainly know each other through online nicknames and reputations. Most aren’t motivated by politics, just greed, Baranoff says.

If the hackers do invest in anything, it’s their own operations.

An increasing number are building their own server farms, sometimes leasing space to other criminals, making it harder for law enforcement to track them down.

Further complicating matters, Baranoff says the vast majority of high-level cybercriminals tend to be Russian speakers based in former Soviet and Eastern European countries, which largely puts them out of the reach of U.S. authorities.

But the Secret Service has strong ties with cybercrime agencies in many countries — including The Netherlands, Germany and the United King-

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Railways ordered to ensure fertilizer shipments in U.S. BNSF OUTLINES PLAN TO FEDS, CPR HASN’T RESPONDED

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BNSF Railway Co. will add trains in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana solely for transporting fertilizer for spring crop planting, the railroad has told a federal oversight board.

“Simply put, we are working to deliver high volumes of fertilizer into the marketplace as quickly as we can,” the railroad said in a mandated response to the Surface Transportation Board that was released Thursday.

The federal board this week ordered BNSF and Canadian Pacific Railway to report their plans by today to ensure delivery of fertilizer shipments this spring.

BNSF beat the deadline. Calgarybased Canadian Pacific had not filed a response by midday Thursday.

The federal board ordered the railroads to submit the plans in response to a hearing it held last week on recent service problems in the nation’s rail network. Farmers and representatives of agriculture producers told the board that delays in fertilizer delivery could disrupt planting.

The board also ordered the railroads to provide weekly status reports on fertilizer delivery for the next six

weeks, beginning April 25.

Increased crude oil and freight shipments have largely been blamed for causing the rail delays. BNSF, which is the biggest shipper in the Upper Midwest, has also said that rail service has been backlogged because of bad winter weather.

BNSF is based in Fort Worth, Texas, but is part of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., based in Omaha, Neb. In its reply, BNSF said it expects to move 52 fertilizer-dedicated trainloads over the next six weeks. The railroad said each train would pull 65 to 85 cars.

The railroad said 21 trainloads are destined for South Dakota, 10 for North Dakota, six for Minnesota and two for Montana.

Roger Johnson, president of the National Farmers Union in Washington, D.C., said rail service disruptions have hit those states hardest.

Johnson, a former North Dakota agriculture commissioner, said adequate fertilizer supplies are crucial for U.S. crop production.

“The demand for fertilizer is great, and it cannot be late by a week or two,” Johnson said. “There will be enormous logistical and economic impacts if fertilizer is not available.”

TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 998.77, up 0.80 of a point. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 178.01 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’14 $3.60 lower $469.70; July ’14 $3.00 lower $479.30; Nov. ’14 $3.00 lower $494.10; Jan ’15 $3.10 lower $500.90; March ’15 $3.10 lower $507.20; May ’15 $3.20 lower $513.20; July ’15 $3.30 lower $517.30; Nov ’15 $3.30 lower $504.40; Jan. ’16 $3.30 lower $495.90; March ’16 $3.30 lower $495.90.

Barley (Western): May ’14 $1.00 lower $139.00; July ’14 $1.00 lower $140.00; Oct. ’14 $1.00 lower $140.00; Dec. ’14 $1.00 lower $140.00; March ’15 $1.00 lower $140.00; May ’15 $1.00 lower $140.00; July ’15 $1.00 lower $140.00; Oct. ’15 $1.00 lower $140.00; Dec. ’15 $1.00 lower $140.00; March ’16 $1.00 lower $140.00; May ’16 $1.00 lower $140.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 515,140 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 515,140.

dom — and has found others to be helpful as well, even if they don’t have extradition treaties with the United States.

From the agency’s unassuming headquarters a few blocks from the bustle of the National Mall, special agents infiltrate online forums frequented by hackers, monitoring their activities, and creating online undercover identities in hopes of infiltrating criminal networks.

The same kinds of activities take place at the Secret Service’s other electronic crimes task forces in the U.S. and overseas.

The tactics the investigators use are surprisingly similar to the law enforcement methods used by traditional beat cops everywhere.

But digital investigations come with their own challenges. And based on the growing volume of stolen data now up for sale, hackers are becoming more sophisticated and more successful at evading justice.

Chester Wisniewski, senior security adviser for the computer security firm Sophos, says it’s the Secret Service’s ability to co-ordinate with law enforcement agencies around the world that make it effective in fighting cybercrime and help speed things up.

“With electronic crime, criminals move extremely fast and they’re dependent on the police being tied up in red tape,” Wisniewski says.

But challenges remain. After years of work, agents might be able to shut down a message board where stolen credit card numbers are bought and sold, but there’s nothing to stop another from replacing it the next day, he says.

Meanwhile, political and economic pressure on countries known to harbour cybercriminals can also help, Wisniewski says, noting that U.S. promises of a better trade status helped eliminate much of the cybercrime that previously originated in Romania.

Despite all of that, many countries, including Russia, follow an unwritten rule: they won’t pursue cybercriminals as long as they don’t commit crimes in their own countries, Wisniewski says.

Baranoff says criminals could evade U.S. capture indefinitely if they stay hunkered down in their homes, but they’re generally not happy staying put and like to spend their ill-gotten gains on trips to countries friendly to the U.S. That’s when authorities can make their move.

“These actors are making a lot of money and they want to travel,” Baranoff says. “Some have suggested that there’s no greater punishment actually than forcing them to stay where they are.”

Maple Leaf shutters wiener facility, shifts production

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (TSX:MFI) has closed its wiener production plant in Hamilton as part of a broader plan to move the operations to a bigger plant in the same city.

The meat products maker said Friday that about 26 employees would lose their jobs, while the remaining 187 staff are being moved to the company’s single-largest production facility, also in Hamilton.

The changes come as Maple Leaf continues a seven-year restructuring plan to improve the profits of the overall business, which is primarily focused on meat products.

It plans to close four other meat plants by the end of the year.

The company says once the plans

are finished, it will operate 13 meat plants instead of 22, and two distribution centres instead of 19.

“We are in the final phase of completing a transformation of our prepared meats network,” said president and CEO Michael McCain.

“This year, the focus is on shifting production to these new facilities, closing legacy plants and realizing related cost and productivity gains.”

Other changes have been made in recent years, including the closure of two Maple Leaf bakeries in the Greater Toronto Area, with the operations also being consolidated in Hamilton.

The company has about 18,000 employees across North America, the United Kingdom, and Asia. Maple Leaf sells products under its banner name, well as popular brands like Dempsters, Villaggio and Tenderflake.

Michaels confirms security breach

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Michaels Stores Inc. said Thursday that about 2.6 million cards, or about 7 per cent of all debit and credit cards used at its namesake stores, may have been affected in a security breach.

The nation’s largest arts and crafts chain said its subsidiary Aaron Brothers was also attacked, with about 400,000 cards potentially affected.

Irving, Texas-based Michaels said that it has contained the incident, which began last year. It has received “limited” reports of fraud from banks and the payment card brands that are potentially connected to the breach.

The compromised data includes customer information such as payment card numbers and expiration dates.

But there’s no evidence that other personal information such as names, addresses or PIN numbers were at risk, Michaels said.

Michaels’ report comes as many shoppers worry about the safety of

their personal data following a massive pre-Christmas security breach at Target Corp. that affected 40 million debit and credit cards.

The details come nearly three months after Michaels disclosed that it may have been a victim of a data breach and that it was working with law enforcement authorities, banks and payment processors.

The company said Thursday that both chains were attacked by criminals using highly sophisticated malware that had not been encountered previously by the two security firms that were conducting the investigation.

“Our customers are always number one priority and we are truly sorry for any inconvenience or concern Michaels may have caused,” said Chuck Rubin, CEO of Michaels, in a statement. The breach at Michaels stores occurred between May 8, 2013 and Jan. 27. The company confirmed that between June 26, 2013 and Feb. 27, 54 Aaron Brothers stores were affected by this malware.

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Study sees drop in major diabetes complications HEART ATTACK AND STROKE DIP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In the midst of the diabetes epidemic, a glimmer of good news: Heart attacks, strokes and other complications from the disease are plummeting.

Over the last two decades, the rates of heart attacks and strokes among diabetics fell by more than 60 per cent, a new federal study shows. The research also confirms earlier

reports of drastic declines in diabetes-related kidney failure and amputations.

The drop is mainly attributed to better screening, medicines and care. The improvements came even as the number of U.S. adults with diabetes more than tripled in those 20 years.

“It is great news,” said Dr. John Buse, a University of North Carolina diabetes specialist, of the drop in rates.

“The prognosis for folks with diabetes has improved dramatically over the last two decades, at least for those with good access to care,” Buse

said in an email. He was not involved in the study.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research is reported in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.

Diabetes is a disease in which sugar builds up in the blood. The most common form is tied to obesity, and the number of diabetics has ballooned with the rise in obesity. Today, roughly 1 in 10 U.S. adults has the disease, and it is the nation’s seventh leading cause of death.

The obese are already at higher risk for heart attacks

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and strokes. But diabetics seem to have more narrowing of their blood vessels — a condition that can further foster those problems.

In the 1990s, key studies showed that diabetics could keep their blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol under control.

The research suggested that vision and heart problems, leg and foot amputations and other diabetes complications were not necessarily inevitable.

Meanwhile, insurance programs expanded coverage of blood sugar monitors and di-

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abetes treatment. Gradually, larger numbers of diabetics were diagnosed earlier and with milder disease.

For the new study, the CDC tallied complication rates from 1990 to 2010 for diabetics ages 20 or older.

During that time, the heart attack rate fell 68 per cent, from 141 to 45.5 per 10,000 diabetics, according to hospital records.

The decline was so great that, despite the growing ranks of diabetics, the actual number hospitalized with heart attacks dropped from more than 140,000 to about 136,000.

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Red Deer College Gardens – located west of Bethany Collegeside (final year in this site) Parkside Gardens – located off Nash Street (Normandeau) behind 52 Avenue Piper Creek Gardens – located south of 19 Street on 40 Avenue (medium only) The previous year’s gardeners are given first opportunity to renew their application. The remaining spaces are made available to the general public on a first come basis beginning WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014 at the Cemetery Services office located at the Alto Reste Cemetery, 3.6 km from 30 Avenue on Highway 11E, 8:00 - 3:30 p.m.

The garden plots will be ready for planting when weather and ground conditions permit. Once gardens are tilled and plots staked, gardeners can begin planting. Gardening season ends October 13, 2014.

2013 ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT Copies of the 2013 Annual Financial Report for The City of Red Deer are now available at the Information Desk, Main Floor, City Hall.

The Annual Report can also be accessed on The City of Red Deer’s web site at: www.reddeer.ca Dean Krejci, CA Chief Financial Officer

Development Officer Approvals On April 15, 2014, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Gaetz Avenue North 1. One Love Tattoo – a 1.53m2 relaxation to the maximum area of a proposed fascia sign, to be located at 9A, 7110-50 Avenue.

Glendale 2. Malpaso Homes Ltd. – a 0.43 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 16 Greenhouse Close.

3. Malpaso Homes Ltd. – a 0.21 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 18 Greenhouse Close.

4. Malpaso Homes Ltd. – a 1.08 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 22 Greenhouse Close.

5. Malpaso Homes Ltd. – a 0.30 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 24 Greenhouse Close.

Inglewood 6. Bemoco Land Surveying Ltd. – a 0.55 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to an existing detached garage, located at 175 Isherwood Close.

Discretionary Use Gaetz Avenue North 7. Walmart – temporary outdoor storage for 5 c-cans, until August 31, 2014, to be located at 6375-50 Avenue.

8. Culligan Water – warehousing for water production business, to be located at 140, 7835-50 Avenue.

Lancaster 9. M. Hesterman – a counselling business, to be located at 14 Linn Close.

Riverlands 10. Premier Therapy – an athletic therapy business, to be located at 3, 5551-45 Street.

11. DanceHouse Studios – a dance studio, to be located at G10, 5550-45 Street.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on May 2, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403342-8399.

City of Red Deer Easter Holiday Hours of Operation City of Red Deer administration offices will be closed on: Friday, April 18 and Monday, April 21 RED DEER TRANSIT Friday April 18 (Good Friday) Transit Administration Offices and Transit information phone lines will be closed. Transit service will operate on SUNDAY / HOLIDAY service hours. First departure from the City Centre Terminal is 8:45 AM and the last departure is at 6:45 PM. There is NO SERVICE on Route 12/12A Gasoline Alley/Springbrook.

Red Deer Transit Action Bus phone lines will be closed. Limited Action Bus service will be provided and NO SERVICE for the County Action Bus. Saturday April 19 Regular Transit and Action Bus Service.

Plots are available at one per household, for a fee of $41 per large plot and $26 per medium plot. Preferred payment is by cheque and must be made at the time of application.The person working the plot is asked to be present to register for this program. For further information contact Parks Amenities at 342-8303.

Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/C-2014 Timber Ridge Neighbourood Rezoning of Phase 3 City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw by rezoning approximately 11.69 hectares (28.89 acres) of land from A1-Future Urban Development to R1-Residential (Low Density) District, R1A-Residential (Semi-Detached) District and P1-Parks and Recreation District within the Timber Ridge Neighbourhood Area Structure Plan, SE1/4, Sec 28; 38-27-W4M. The rezoning is required to facilitate subdivision and development of the land in Phase 3.

Sunday April 20 (Easter) Transit Administration Offices and Transit information phone lines will be closed. No Transit Service. Red Deer Transit Action Bus phone lines will be closed.

Regular Sunday Action Bus service will be provided.

Monday April 21 (Easter Monday) Transit Administration Offices and Transit information phone lines will be closed. Transit service will operate on a regular weekday schedule. Last departure from the City Centre Terminal will be at 11:15 PM. Red Deer Transit Action Bus phone lines will be closed.

Limited Action Bus service will be provided and NO SERVICE for the County Action Bus. RECREATION FACILITIES Collicutt Centre Friday, April 18 – OPEN 11am to 5pm Saturday, April 19 – OPEN 6:30am to 10pm Sunday, April 20 – OPEN 11am to 5pm Monday, April 21- OPEN 5:30am to 10pm GH Dawe Community Centre Friday, April 18 – OPEN 11 am to 5 pm Saturday, April 19 - OPEN 8 am to 10 pm Sunday, April 20 – OPEN 11 am to 5 pm Monday, April 21- OPEN 6:30 am to 10 pm

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

Michener Aquatic Centre Friday, April 18 - CLOSED Saturday, April 19 - CLOSED Sunday, April 20 - CLOSED Monday, April 21- CLOSED Recreation Centre Friday, April 18 - CLOSED Saturday, April 19 - CLOSED Sunday, April 20 - CLOSED Monday, April 21- CLOSED River Bend Golf and Recreation Clubhouse Friday, April 18 - OPEN 8 am to Dusk Saturday, April 19 - OPEN 8 am to Dusk Sunday, April 20 - OPEN 8 am to Dusk Monday, April 21- OPEN 8 am to Dusk

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by Friday, April 18, 2014.You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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C6 A new war spawns new poetry Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

by Kevin Powers Little, Brown

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Once, O Muse, the poetry of war was song and bravery and the gods.

Then the poets of First World War bequeathed us an ironic mode.

In his New Yorker assay into the conflict-torn literature of Iraq and Afghanistan, James Packer quotes Paul Fussell: “Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected.�

True, but war poetry depends on irony for a different reason — because its task is speaking the unspeakable, asking words to bear a load too heavy, under which they warp, fracture and turn to smoke.

ClichĂŠs, which evolve for ease of expression, are the enemy of war poetry.

After the First World War writers refuted the beautiful old lies about how combat glorifies and ennobles.

They felt that euphemism misrepresented the modern experience, rendering it unrecognizable and leaving them unheard and unseen. The last trace of honor in a world gutted of honor would be the dignity of the unvarnished truth.

So the trench-poets and their modernist brethren tore down the arbors, the trellises wound with 19th-century grandiloquence, and left behind a desert. Literature would mirror reality, a wasteland heaped with broken images.

It’s no accident that Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, a new book of poems by Army gunner Kevin Powers, opens in the desert.

The “vast unending waste� of Texas, in the first poem, evokes a mental ter-

rain as well as the Iraqi sands in which Powers first “earned ‌ the right to be unseemly,â€? to reckon up “what’s lost.â€?

No illusions here: In a tone flat as the ground, the poet attacks “jargon ‌ like calling a year a tour,/ even though there are never any women/ in bustled dresses carrying umbrellas.â€?

Not that he provides much of an alternative to jargon. War dries up language, makes the apocalyptic blankness of the combat zone interchangeable with the empty page. It is terribly lonely, but if you let the words back in, something real and necessary might be obscured.

That problem is introduced at the

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end of Customs, Powers’ first poem, and worried over for the rest of the collection: “The world has been replaced/ by our ideas about the world.�

How do you get at the hidden truth, the wound beneath the bandaging “idea�? You can — a la Hemingway — stay suggestively silent, doling out understated fragments and allowing your meaning to loom in the empty spaces.

In Letter, ironic restraint turns lines like “war is just us/ making little pieces of metal/ pass through each otherâ€? into small, bitter IEDs. Elsewhere, Powers shows his anger (“I want the boys at the end of the bar ‌ to know/ that laughter drives me mad ‌ I want to rub their clean/ bodies in bloodâ€?) and his alienation (“I am home and whole, so to speak ‌ But I can’t remember/ how to be alive.â€?)

Still, if the experience of fighting opens up a gap between name and thing, all these tactics — monotone observation, rage, wistful melancholy — fail where it really matters. The essential difficulty of language remains.

One of the collection’s strongest poems, Cumberland Gap, has 12-yearold Powers leafing through a geography book at school when the librarian comes to fetch him, because “someone was dying.�

With a dissociated clarity that recalls Elizabeth Bishop’s In the Waiting Room, the speaker marvels: “When the librarian called my name my name Was made into a kind of spell, dispersing everything I could identify or claim as being part Of one certain, undisputed me�

What kind of context makes your name — normally the conjurer of all “you could identify or claim� as yourself — scatter away from you? One so

incomprehensible and unreal that the name must not be yours; this alien, untrue name undoes you. And that is a nightmarish power of war: it makes the words for things untrue.

In one of my favorite poems by Powers, the speaker retrieves a bright memory of his girlfriend in a gingham dress. He starts daydreaming about her, admits: “I don’t care as much about the fish I pulled out of the river in a net as I do you. Most of what I catch slips back between the empty spaces in the old net anyway.�

Most, but not all. The pure, almost blazing, image of the woman in gingham survives. And this is Powers’ rebuke, perhaps, to the notion that all beauty in war literature is a lie. Much is lost to the “empty spaces� in the desert.

Some of it can be salvaged. Some of it still gathers in the web of interlaced strands that form our conversations, customs, and shared fantasies.

Re-entering society requires the soldier-poet to leave the inarticulate desert, where communication always fails. It means recovering ideas, myths, discourse — the healing bits of culture that draw people together.

As Powers circles this theme of return, he begins to rehabilitate language, to sew up the gap between word and thing. It is slow going. “You spent the rest of the day listening blankly/ as your friends and loved ones chattered on,/ unable even to speak,� he writes in Elegy for Urgency.

But then, the grace of a new stanza, a miraculous arrival: “The names of the trees are trees/ and birds are those singing things.� So begins the reforestation of the waste land.

Emma Donoghue finds baby surprise while penning new novel

MCGARRIGLE SISTERS TORONTO — Montreal folksinger Anna McGarrigle and her sister Jane have announced plans to release a memoir documenting their family’s story.

Anna and her late sister Kate released 10 albums together as a duo, and their renowned songwriting inspired covers by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Billy Bragg.

Kate McGarrigle died of a rare form of cancer in 2010.

According to a press release from publisher Random House Canada, the book will cover the siblings’ ancestors, their upbringing, the 1960s folk scenes of Montreal and New York and ultimately the long career of the McGarrigle Sisters.

Anna and Jane are aunts to Kate’s children, well-known musicians Rufus and Martha Wainwright.

The memoir is due out in October 2015.

Donoghue has already sold the film rights to Room, which she said has entered the casting stage and could be in production later this year somewhere in North America.

Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson will direct the script by Donoghue, who is also an executive producer. “He wants to tell a very, very universal story with this book and I think the film is going to be just as good as the

book,� said the wordsmith, who is now writing a children’s book. “It’s just very different, because even though it follows the book quite closely, in the film you’ll get to literally see the mother directly whereas in the book you only get a glimpse of her through Jack. “So I think it’ll come across as much more the mother’s film than the book was the mother’s book.�

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TORONTO — After the massive success of her harrowing novel Room, about a young boy held captive in a shed with his mother, Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue didn’t want to write anything child-related. “I just wanted a complete contrast,� said the London, Ont.-based Dublin native, who won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and a Governor General’s Literary Award for 2010’s Room.

But that changed during the research process for her new novel, Frog Music, which is based on the true story of French burlesque dancer/prostitute Blanche Beunon and the murder of her cross-dressing female friend Jenny Bonnet in late 1800s San Francisco.

Donoghue discovered that during the inquest into the shooting death of Bonnet, Beunon claimed her estranged beau Arthur Deneve had taken her baby boy away and she didn’t know where he was. “I thought, ‘Hang on, where is this baby?�’ Donoghue explained. “And it became clear the baby had not been living with them, the baby had been nursed out or farmed out, and I was fascinated with the notion that clearly they didn’t much want this baby and yet here they were having a custody battle over it. “So I decided that in a way the story would be kind of a double mystery — first of all, who killed Jenny and what Jenny was like, sort of unpeeling Jenny’s character like an onion. But then the kind of secondary storyline of not just where is Blanche’s baby, but where is Blanche’s motherhood?�

Frog Music begins with Bonnet’s shooting in a room she and Beunon are renting in San Francisco. The story then shifts back and forth in time as it outlines events leading up to and following the murder during a sweltering August in 1876.

Beunon became a stage siren and landlord after moving to San Francisco from France with lover Deneve and their friend Ernest Girard, who all worked as circus artists in Paris.

She met scrappy Bonnet, a pistolcarrying vagrant who made a living catching frogs for restaurants, when the 27-year-old ran into her with her bicycle in the street.

The two appear complete opposites — Beunon with her corsets and dresses, and Bonnet with her men’s clothing that often got her fined or arrested (it was illegal for women to wear pants in public there at the time) — but they form an unlikely bond that turns the burlesque star’s life upside down. “I see them each having different kind of wisdoms,� said Donoghue. “And I suppose one thing that really appealed to me about the storyline of

this book is that I hadn’t expected the baby plot to reel up like this.�

Donoghue said she got the idea for Frog Music 15 years ago when she read a one-page summary on Bonnet in a piece on Victorian women called Wild Women by Autumn Stephens.

It wasn’t until about four years ago that she started to write the story, drawing on about 60 newspaper articles as part of her heaps of research into the slew of characters, most of whom really existed. (Donoghue outlines all of her source material in the afterword, as she did with her 2012 short story collection Astray.)

She discovered many myths built up around Bonnet, whose story has “never entirely disappeared,� she said. “I think she fascinates people, because it’s not just that she got killed but that she lived as if she knew she was going to be killed. She lived at top speed so playfully and so recklessly. She was an attention-seeker of the highest order. You could tell that she had been a child actress, because she lived as if the city was her stage. “I was just hooked as soon as I read about her.�

As Donoghue explains, Bonnet was “an ahead-of-her-time character,� cross-dressing “as if she wasn’t remotely constrained by Victorian gender norms.�

Meanwhile, Blanche seemed to be a pleasure-seeker who “thinks that she really likes this job� until Bonnet makes her question it. “I knew it would be a bit of a risk, that somebody might start the book and go, ‘Oh my God, Emma Donoghue seems to be celebrating the sex trade,�’ said Donoghue. “But I just thought it made for a far more interesting story psychologically and ethically.�

Frog Music is set against the backdrop of the smallpox epidemic and a city rife in racist attitudes toward its Chinese immigrants.

The story also touches on the tragedy of the so-called Industrial Schools and horrific conditions on “baby farms,� where infants were sent by parents who were unable to take care of them. “Those baby farms were real, but I researched them by looking at accounts of really bad orphanages today,� said Donoghue. “So I looked at things like how would the children be stunted, the very interesting emotional shutdown that they have from literally not being picked up, and I looked a lot to see whether a child like that could recover.�

Donoghue said she had “an academic knowledge of French� prior to writing the story and she frequently has her characters either speaking the language or singing it in real-life tunes.

The author has compiled those tunes into a songlist that she plans to post on http://8tracks.com/.

She said she’s also fielding “a lot of interest in film rights� to the story.

We want to know what you think about backyard chickens, Red Deer.

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Up to six chickens per household will be permitted, no roosters allowed.

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LUANN April 18 1990 — The Constitution Act, 1982, comes into effect as Canada’s Constitution; proclaimed the previous day by Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony on Parliament Hill.

1971 — Kingston penitentiary inmates stage a four-day riot, holding five guards hostage. Two convicts are murdered and 11 injured.

1967 — Manitoba imposes a five per cent

sales tax, effective June 1.

1963 — Lester Bowles Pearson and his Liberal party wins the federal election, 129 seats to 95 for the Conservatives; 17 CCF; 24 Social Credit. It is a minority government.

1946 —Jackie Robinson has four hits, including a three-run homer, as the Montreal Royals beat Jersey 14-1. He is the first black man to play in professional baseball’s allwhite leagues.

1921 — Ontario votes for prohibition of the manufacture, importation and sale of liquor; to take effect July 19.

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Dad should be teaching kids respect Dear Annie: My husband keeps tell- those attitudes. Tell your husband to ing our sons they can do whatever they come with you for parenting classes, want when I tell them “no,” or you will be seeking marand that they don’t need to riage counselling, with or listen to me. He is never on without him, to see what’s my side. The kids make fun worth saving. of me and call me names, Dear Annie: Last year, and Dad doesn’t seem to my sweet cousin died after care. a brief illness. Her two chilWhen I insist that he back dren requested donations me up, he slaps them on the in her memory to a charhead. ity. I was not sure which diI’m tired of him undervision of the organization mining me and encouraging to donate to, so I wrote a the kids to be disrespectful check to the charity and to me. It’s been 18 years, and sent it to the eldest child, MITCHELL I’m ready to throw in the along with a card express& SUGAR towel. — Disrespected Wife ing my sympathy.

Dear Wife: Your husband Three months later, I is a terrible parent, and we asked another relative to don’t know why you have inquire whether they had put up with it for so long. He sets a hor- received my card, because the check rible example for his sons, teaching had not been cashed. Their response them that their mother doesn’t deserve was that they had been “too busy” and their respect, that women should be had not opened any of the cards yet. ignored, that parenting is unimport- It’s now approaching 10 months, and I ant and when kids misbehave, just hit doubt my bank will honor the check. them. And frankly, by letting him get I am so disappointed in these wellaway with this, you have reinforced educated yuppie kids with seven-fig-

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online, and that J. Jill stores don’t have much for me in their brick-and-mortar stores, but have a great deal online.

Lands’ End sells petite nightgowns, lots of coats and, best of all, petite bathing suits. Coldwater Creek and Jones New York are for petites who are taller than I am, but the Sundance Catalog has some gorgeous and pricey tops, slacks, dresses and sweaters for petites that are both fashionable and beautifully made. Also, many major department stores sell a lot of sizes, but only online, so check the websites for Nordstrom’s, Bloomingdale’s, Talbots, Ann Taylor, Macy’s, Dillard’s and Kohl’s.

And when I’m looking for a great sale, I can often find it at T.J. Maxx online. You may have to return a few things initially, but sometimes you can return online purchases without incurring shipping costs if they have a local store nearby. — Tiny Grandma 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.

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HOROSCOPES Friday, April 18 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Melissa Joan Hart, 37; James Woods, 66; Conan O’Brian, 50 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will mark a greater need to be part of a group and to create a deeper bond within those significant relationships.

If you meet a special someone today, it will have a fated quality to it.

There will be a greater need to understand those individuals in your life and this will prove to be a spiritual lesson in itself.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will mark an intense new start with those significant relationships in your life.

Fated meetings will prove to be exactly what you need to elevate you to your true potential.

The actions you take this year will allow you to find that perfect group of like-minded individuals to create the reality you want to live.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Fated meetings at work will leave you feeling inspired.

Past lessons will come into play and help you become empowered on a professional and public level now.

LARISA MAIRA To find inOZOLINS ner peace, join a meditation group, you might find that perfect soul you are looking for.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Whilst on a course, you will most likely meet someone you are very much drawn to.

At this time, you are being guided to expand your mind in many ways.

Your self-knowledge will expand as you move towards your aspirations and dreams.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The intimate relationships in your life have provided you a much needed understanding of your career and perhaps even interactions with your mother.

Although, at times, your path forward is not clear, you are able to intuitively understand the truth of the situation at hand.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your significant relationship is offering you an interesting perspective on life right now.

Perhaps they simply offered you the truth of what is really going on.

Your steps forward will dictate your truth now, go deeper into all understandings, the truth will set you free.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Deeper understandings of work, health, and your daily routine will instigate change for you on a profound level.

The deeper you delve, the more you will understand yourself as well.

There is the possibility of a fated meeting when you are on your daily routine, keep your

ure incomes. Maybe your readers need a refresher course on bereavement etiquette. — Cousin Patsy Dear Patsy: You are assuming that these kids are only marginally mourning their mother, and that Mom left things so tidy that they are simply ignoring the cards. Yes, they should have acknowledged your donation as soon as possible, but try to be forgiving. Since they have been remiss in responding and the check is too old to cash, phone the children and inform them that you will write a new check and mail it directly to the charity. (Put “in memory of” their mother on the subject line.)

Ask them to please tear up or return the old one if they ever get to it.

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About 80 students and some staff members at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School show their support for the We Are Silent Initiative. Thurber Leadership teamed up with the International Baccalaureate Helpin’ You group to raise awareness about voices around the world that are not heard because of issues that we can help solve. Staff and students volunteered to participate by remaining silent for the day. Over $1,100 was raised during the project. The money will go to help support the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The relationship you have right now is challenging but in the very best way.

It is allowing you to open your eyes to a new possibility of intimacy and truth. Send out all that love to them and your romantic life will never be the same again.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will meet someone today who will shake your world.

They will offer you the ability to see what issues your ancestry had that you might still be repeating.

Changes are imminent now: simply learn what you value and what you don’t. You cannot make a wrong choice.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Conversations with a romantic interest will trigger some deep truth which might leave you a bit apprehensive.

Take a second look at your past issues and let them guide you towards your ultimate truth. Creative expression is high today and will be extremely well received.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There a profound change going on with you at the moment.

Empowerment is on the agenda, especially when it comes to who you are.

Let the lessons be guide posts to self-

discovery and keep digging till you find gold!

Family will be there, inspiring you forward.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The way you communicate will leave a deep impact on others today, especially those within your peer group.

There is a possibility that you could meet someone in your local environment that will inspire depth of love. Follow the passion in leading you somewhere great!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Past understandings of your values and passions will emerge and will reach even greater depths today. A new venture now will mark a turn-

ing point within your confidence and perhaps even your finances.

Surprising conversations will leave you feeling very optimistic.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It is time to take those dreams and aspirations to the next level.

You have money today and will have those from the past coming back for more.

Fated meetings are on the agenda, just be careful to not relearn a painful lesson.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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ENTERTAINMENT Mozart, Salieri rivalry takes centre stage

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The legendary rivalry between Mozart and Salieri will be revived in the next Red Deer Symphony Orchestra concert, which features works by both composers.

The Angles of Amadeus concert, on Saturday, April 26, at the Red Deer College Arts Centre, will include a performance of Horn Concerto No. 2 in E Flat, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The lively work will spotlight the talents of soloist Allene Hackleman, of Edmonton, on the horn.

The RDSO will also tackle Antonio Salieri’s Overture to La Scuola de Gelosi — along with Piotr Tchaikovsky’s Mozart tribute, Suite No. 4, and an excerpt from an Antonin Dvorak violin concerto.

RDSO music director Claude Lapalme believes Viennese court composer Salieri was canny enough to realize that Mozart’s musical talents eclipsed his own. But he was hardly a scheming Machiavellian character who tried to derail his rival’s success out of jealousy — as depicted in the Peter Schaffer play, which was turned into the award-winning 1984 Milos Forman film, Amadeus.

According to historic records, Mozart’s father was initially resentful of the “Italian influence” in the Viennese court, which he blamed for holding back his son’s career. However, Lapalme said Salieri became a big fan of the younger composer’s works — in fact, he was observed avidly cheering at Mozart’s concerts. “He would even return to see them again, bringing friends.”

Lapalme believes Salieri, who tutored Ludwig van Beethoven and other students for free because an altruistic nobleman had paid for his own education, was actually an “excellent” composer.

If his biggest misfortune was that he wasn’t a genius, like Mozart, then Salieri was in great company.

“It’s like saying, ‘He’s a good hockey player, but he’s no Wayne Gretzky.’ Well, there’s only one Gretzky, so what kind of comment is that?” Lapalme added, with a chuckle.

The Salieri work is a fun, light-hearted overture from his Moliere-like comic opera School of Jealousy.

Lapalme considers the composer’s music — which has undergone a revival due to its creator’s undeserved notoriety — as a product of its time, while Mozart’s transcended convention in imaginative and unexpected ways.

“It might seem like (Salieri’s) music lacks pizzazz” — but that’s only because Mozart’s music is pure magic, he said.

Mozart’s “phenomenal” melodies and variations will be displayed during the RDSO’s performance of his horn concerto, featuring Hackleman, a principal horn player with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Summit Brass Ensemble of Denver.

The happy piece reveals Mozart’s comic side.

Written for a horn player friend, who also loved to laugh, the composition includes jokingly insulting marginalia in which Mozart referred to his friend’s

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The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 features 24 songs and jingles from a taped show that aired on early country radio stations, sponsored by a Texas plant nursery. Most of the tapes were lost, but one station, KSIB-AM in Creston, Iowa, saved its copies. The recordings were transferred, restored and mastered for release on May 20 by Omnivore Records.

The singer’s daughter, Jett Williams, said in a written statement that no one knew these recordings even existed.

Williams’ biographer Colin Escott wrote the liner notes for the album and said the recordings were used to augment live acts on local radio stations.

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The Angles of Amadeus concert, on Saturday, April 26, at the Red Deer College Arts Centre, will include a performance of Horn Concerto No. 2 in E Flat, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The lively work will spotlight the talents of soloist Allene Hackleman, of Edmonton, on the horn. so-called laziness. He wrote things like: ‘I know you want to slow down here, but I’m going to keep going!’ said Lapalme.

Tchaikovsky’s Suite No. 4 in G Major was written as an homage to Mozart because the Russian composer was a huge fan. “He adored Mozart,” said Lapalme, who believes Tchaikovsky does a great job of tipping his hat, musically, to the earlier composer with this four-movement work of melodies and variations. “It’s a very affectionate treatment.”

The RDSO will also perform the third movement of Dvorak’s Violin Concert in A Minor to showcase the talents of local violinist Heidi Baumbach, winner of the Red Deer Kiwanis Music Festival.

Baumbach, 22, is a member of the Canadian University College Chamber Orchestra. The “sweet” Dvorak movement she will play is based on Bohemian folk dances, said Lapalme, who believes this tuneful concert will be one of the most accessible the RDSO has ever performed.

“It will be very easy listening.”

Tickets to the 8 p.m. show are $54.75 ($52.75 students/seniors, $39.25 youths, first four rows) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

TORONTO — Toronto entrepreneur Tim Warmels is the eligible singleton who will star on the second season of The Bachelor Canada, due to air this fall on City.

The network says the 28-year-old Warmels is “as handy with a horse as he is with a hockey stick.”

The Campbellville, Ont.-raised business school grad is described as a “down-to-earth, all-Canadian guy who isn’t afraid to roll up his shirt sleeves and get his hands dirty.”

Warmels graduated from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and then moved to Toronto to work on Bay Street.

City says he has a number of tech ventures and a boutique contracting business. He’s also said to enjoy writing, travelling, modelling, and building custom furniture.

The Bachelor Canada is based on the popular U.S. reality series in which a love-seeker goes on televised dates with possible mates every week, eventually eliminating the field to one.

Warmels, whose parents have been married more than 30 years, says he wants a woman who “is happy in her own skin, driven, ambitious, and wants just as much out of life as he does — someone he can call his best friend.”

WWE’s stars in conservative Saudi Arabia for first live matches RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Pro wrestlers with the WWE, including John Cena and champion Randy Orton, are in Saudi Arabia for three days of matches in the capital, Riyadh.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. says it is the first time its franchise has held matches in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom, home to Islam’s holiest sites.

WWE is wildly popular across the Middle East.

WWE has an Arabic website and debuted live in the region in Egypt in 2012. Matches also have been held in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates since.

Ticketmaster says on its website the matches in Saudi Arabia are “for males only.”

The state-run Saudi Press Agency says 35 U.S. wrestlers in total from WWE are in the kingdom for the matches that start Thursday.

Thank Heaven for Greg Kinnear HEAVEN IS FOR REAL ELEVATED ABOVE ITS VERY MODEST AMBITIONS Heaven is for Real Two stars (out of four) Rated: PG

BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The good news is this: in heaven, everybody’s young. The bad news: you have to take a four-yearold’s word for it.

Such is the struggle in Heaven is for Real, based on the bestseller penned by real-life rural Nebraska pastor Todd Burpo about his son Colton’s assertions that he visited heaven during life-saving surgery.

Burpo is convincingly played onscreen by a very likable Greg Kinnear, who remains a consistent screen presence, even if the material he’s been handed lately rarely matches his talents.

He plays the financially challenged pastor who struggles with a failing garage door business and a dwindling congregation. He always has time for coaching duties, baseball practice, sexily perky wife Sonja (British actress Kelly Reilly) and their two young kids.

With Manitoba doing a convincing job standing in for the endless fields of Nebraska, we get an American Gothic-style picture early on of a rural family trying to make ends meet.

So when Colton (cutie Connor Corum, managing to say his lines convincingly most of the time) falls desperately ill, the Burpos turn to prayer and ask for the same from congregants, including the pastor’s best pal, a happy-go-lucky bank manager (Thomas Haden Church) and by-the-books church board member Nancy Rawling (Margo Martindale).

The boy’s recovery comes with the casually revealed news that he spent some time in heaven when he was on the operating table.

Colton’s talk of Jesus’s horse, God’s big chair and a reunion with the miscarried baby sister his parents didn’t tell him he had soon gets out and it puts his father in a strange position.

Is his son telling the truth? And if he is, how can a preacher doubt the existence of heaven? Adding to Burpo’s struggles, the church board is concerned

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Greg Kinnear plays the financially challenged pastor who struggles with a failing garage door business and a dwindling congregation in ‘Heaven is for Real.’

At the that Colton’s story is creating more of a freak show atmosphere than religious reflection on Sunday mornings. Perhaps it’s time for a new pastor.

That struggle of faith and vocation — and Kinnear’s ability to credibly carry it off — is the most interesting element of an otherwise flat story.

Director Randall Wallace (Secretariat, We Were Soldiers), who also wrote the screenplay, turns up the

folksy charm while injecting some opposing views from a doubting university professor (Nancy Sorel).

Of course, they don’t have a chance next to the power of heaven.

The release of Heaven is for Real, timed to coincide with Easter, is hardly a fluke. This is a movie for the faithful and that’s hardly bad business these days. God’s Not Dead, complete with a cameo from bearded Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson, was not screened for Toronto critics before opening last weekend. But trade publication Variety dismissed it as “typically ham-fisted Christian campus melodrama” and it earned a bottom-dwelling 17 per cent rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

It also made more than $40 million since opening stateside four weeks ago with a production budget, according to The Los Angeles Times, of less than $3 million.

That’s the kind of payoff studios pray for.

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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Jordan Pearson’s Time Is All I have To Give, made of ceramic, paper and nails, is a unique entry in this year’s Red Deer College annual Year End Exhibition. On display at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, Pearson joins his classmates in an exhibition titled Batteries Not Included. Pearson invites all attendees to the show to take one of his unique, small, egg shaped ceramic pieces home as a thank you for what he calls “Two wonderful insightful years.” The exhibit will be on display at the gallery until April 27.

EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● Dining Out is at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, and features archival material and historical photographs from Red Deer and District Archives on the topic of dining in Red Deer. More information at archives@reddeer.ca. ● Red Deer Public Library — 100 Years of Discovery: 1914-2014 will be presented at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, and will feature photographs and archival documents that represent this significant milestone. ● Kistemanito Pakitinasuwin — The Creator’s Sacrifice — by Saskatchewan Cree artist Ovide Bighetty will be open until April 25 at Woody Nook Christian Reformed Church 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.

Kinship Celebration Potluck will be held on April 22 at 6 p.m.

Please bring one or two side dishes to share, and elk and bison stews and bannock will be provided. See www.reformingrelationships.ca, or contact Dayna at vreeken.dayna@gmail. com, or Woody Nook CRC at 403-885-4427, woodynook@ albertahighspeed.net. ● Batteries (Not) Included: Red Deer College Annual Year End Exhibition will be held at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until April 27. This annual exhibition reflects many of the ideas and themes taught at the college and represent the variety of subject, materials, and forms deemed vital to the next generation of young artists. See www.reddeermuseum. com ● Somewhere in the Hills by Samantha Williams-Chopelsky will be featured at Harris-Warke Gallery continuing to May 3. The opening reception is tonight, 6 to 8 p.m. ● Breathing Spaces by Artists a la Carte will be open at Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre, up to April 30. There will be a reception tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. ● A Mixture of Everything by Jennifer Holmes-Gohring will be on display at The Hub on Ross Gallery until April 30.

● Untitled Photographs by Jim McKinley will be shown at Velvet Olive from April 1 to 30. ● Untitled by Jericca Bradshaw will be shown at Café Pichilingue from April 1 to 30. ● Full Circle: Four Seasons by Arlene Oberg — a landscape exhibit — will run until tonight at Gallery on Main in Lacombe. ● totems of the masculine by Matt Gould will be featured at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until May 11. See Gould’s primitive and elemental medium of leather, stitched and hand-tooled to create a series of totems. See www.reddeermuseum.com, or phone 403-309-8405. ● Open and Closed: Mixed Media by Wendy Meeres will be featured at the Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from March 4 to April 27. Keys and doors — they can open, close, be inviting or hindering? What words, stories and images will Meere’s work inspire? ● Steps Through Time is a look back on the evolution of select sports footwear now on at Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Explore the progression and evolution of various equipment, glimpse the history and the modifications, that make sports equipment, to make it faster, safer and more comfortable. See www.ashfm.ca, or phone 403-341-8614.

LIVE DATES ● The Velvet Olive presents singer/songwriter Christopher Ford on April 19. ● The Vat welcomes two Vancouver based groups — Magik Spells on April 25 and Ninjaspy on April 26. Coming up, the Balconies will be featured on June 2.

To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.

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The TV show, which ‘IT IS FARGO is being imagined as an anthology series like INFESTED WITH True Detective or AmeriTHE SPIRIT OF can Horror Story with each season telling a ANTON CHIGURH contained story, is set in INSTEAD the same universe as the film both thematically OF MARGE and literally. What hapGUNDERSON, AS pened in the movie happened in the world of IF METAPHYSICAL the series, and here we AND BRUTAL are, years later, in the VIOLENCE WAS Minnesota town of Bemidji, following a cast of AN UNDERUSED Midwesterners who are INGREDIENT much, much less polite than they seem.

IN QUALITY TV, The Coens gave the INSTEAD OF AN project their blessing, and in exchange got a OVERSERVED producer credit, but MAIN COURSE.’ they have had nothing to do with the particulars of the series, all 10 episodes of which have been written by Noah Hawley (whose previous credits include Bones and the very short-lived ABC series My Generation ). Fargo the series skimps on decency to revel in the depredation. Hawley, speaking to The New York Times, described the show as “No Country for Old Fargo,” and this is, unfortunately I think, accurate: It is Fargo infested with the spirit of Anton Chigurh instead of Marge Gunderson, as if metaphysical and brutal violence was an underused ingredient in quality TV, instead of the overserved main course.

Martin Freeman, of the original Office and the current Sherlock, stars as Lester Nygaard, a character in the mould of William H. Macy’s Jerry Lundegaard, but one who is a more henpecked, desperate loser.

Where Jerry was a hapless sleaze on the make, Lester is a pathetic insurance salesman who is regularly undermined by his own wife. “I guess I married the wrong Nygaard” is standard breakfast table conversation in his house.

Lester encounters Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton), a hired killer in town on a job. Like Anton Chigurh, Malvo is a hyper-competent, remorseless, intimidating killing machine with an unfortunate haircut. He gives speeches about death and machismo, quotes from the Bible, and spews riddles about how man is prey. In short order, the bodies start to pile up and Malvo is real-talking Lester: “The problem is you spent your whole life thinking there are rules.

And there are not. The truth is, you’re more of a man today than you were yesterday.”

Meanwhile, a team of hired killers, Mr. Numbers (Adam Goldberg) and the deaf Mr. Wrench (Russell Harvard), arrive in town, providing some of the comic relief that Buscemi’s and Stormare’s characters did in the film, but much less of the incompetence.

Where Fargo, the film, almost scoffed at the idea of the professional hit man and, by extension, the idea that anyone could really control violence, the new Fargo takes both as a given.

The supporting characters are, by and large, nasty. In the film, the violence that occurs is a kind of bolt from the blue, the worst thing that has happened in this modest place. In the series, most of the characters are so sour-hearted, it seems like corruption and violence are an everyday matter. Lester’s brother is a gun nut in possession of all sorts of illegal weapons. The guy who bullied Lester in high school, Sam Hess, is now an abhorrent monster working in the black market. Hess’ wife is crass and money-hungry, and mother to two cruel, mouth-breathing sons.

Oliver Platt appears as a blowhard supermarket king who hires Malvo to solve a blackmailing case, which involves his shrill ex-wife and stupidly machinating, spray-tanned trainer.

There is one very good woman among all these cads: police officer Molly Solverson (Allison Tolman), who is the show’s version of McDormand’s Marge Gunderson.

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Latin America loses its ‘Gabo’ GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, COLOMBIAN NOBEL LAUREATE WHO HELPED DEFINE A CONTINENT, DIES AT 87

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MEXICO CITY — Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and heroics of the world that set his mind churning as a child growing up on Colombia’s Caribbean coast.

One of the most revered and influential writers of his generation, he brought Latin America’s charm and maddening contradictions to life in the minds of millions and became the best-known practitioner of “magical realism,” a blending of fantastic elements into portrayals of daily life that made the extraordinary seem almost routine.

In his works, clouds of yellow butterflies precede a forbidden lover’s arrival. A heroic liberator of nations dies alone, destitute and far from home. A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, as one of his short stories is called, is spotted in a muddy courtyard.

Garcia Marquez’s own epic story ended, at age 87, with his death at his home in southern Mexico City, according to two people close to the family who spoke on condition of anonymity out of respect for the family’s privacy.

Known to millions simply as “Gabo,” Garcia Marquez was widely seen as the Spanish language’s most popular writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century. His extraordinary literary celebrity spawned comparisons with Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

His flamboyant and melancholy works — among them Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera and Autumn of the Patriarch — outsold everything published in Spanish except the Bible. The epic 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude sold more than 50 million copies in more than 25 languages.

With writers including Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe, Garcia Marquez was also an early practitioner of the literary nonfiction that would become known as New Journalism. He became an elder statesman of Latin American journalism, with magisterial works of narrative non-fiction that included the Story of A Shipwrecked Sailor, the tale of a seaman lost on a life raft for 10 days. He was also a scion of the region’s left.

Shorter pieces dealt with subjects including Venezuela’s larger-than-life president, Hugo Chavez, while the book News of a Kidnapping vividly portrayed how cocaine traffickers led by Pablo Escobar had shred the social and moral fabric of his native Colombia, kidnapping members of its elite. In 1994, Garcia Marquez founded the Iberoamerican Foundation for New Journalism, which offers training and competitions to raise the standard of narrative and investigative journalism across Latin America.

But for so many inside and outside the region, it was his novels that became synonymous with Latin America itself.

When he accepted the Nobel prize in 1982, Garcia Marquez described the region as a “source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty, of which this roving and nostalgic Colombian is but one cipher more, singled out by fortune. Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable.”

Gerald Martin, Garcia Marquez’s semi-official biographer, told The Associated Press that One Hundred Years of Solitude was “the first novel in which Latin Americans recognized themselves, that defined them, celebrated their passion, their intensity, their spirituality and superstition, their grand propensity for failure.”

The Spanish Royal Academy, the arbiter of the language, celebrated the novel’s 40th anniversary with a special edition. It had only done so for just

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Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez shows his Nobel Prize medal after he delivered his Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 8, 1982.

Marquez died Thursday at his home in Mexico City. one other book, Cervantes’ Don Quijote.

Like many Latin American writers, Garcia Marquez transcended the world of letters. He became a hero to the Latin American left as an early ally of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and a critic of Washington’s interventions from Vietnam to Chile.

His affable visage, set off by a white moustache and bushy grey eyebrows, was instantly recognizable.

Unable to receive a U.S. visa for years due to his politics, he was nonetheless courted by presidents and kings. He counted Bill Clinton and Francois Mitterrand among his presidential friends.

Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, a small Colombian town near the Caribbean coast on March 6, 1927. He was the eldest of the 11 children of Luisa Santiaga Marquez and Gabriel Elijio Garcia, a telegraphist and a wandering homeopathic pharmacist who fathered at least four children outside of his marriage.

Just after their first son was born, his parents left him with his maternal grandparents and moved to Barranquilla, where Garcia Marquez’s father opened the first of a series of homeopathic pharmacies that would invariably fail, leaving them barely able to make ends meet.

Garcia Marquez was raised for 10 years by his grandmother and his grandfather, a retired colonel who fought in the devastating 1,000-Day War that hastened Colombia’s loss of the Panamanian isthmus.

His grandparents’ tales would provide grist for Garcia Marquez’s fiction and Aracataca became the model for Macondo, the village surrounded by banana plantations at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains where One Hundred Years of Solitude is set.

“I have often been told by the family that I started recounting things, stories and so on, almost since I was born,” Garcia Marquez once told an interviewer.

“Ever since I could speak.”

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Cronenberg, Egoyan, Dolan among Canadians to debut new works

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canuck filmmakers will figure prominently at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Xavier Dolan and first-time director Ryan Gosling among those set to unspool new work on the Croisette.

Cronenberg’s satire of Hollywood life, Maps to the Stars, will vie for the Palme d’Or alongside Egoyan’s The Captive and Xavier Dolan’s Mommy. They’ll face off against 15 other films including Bennett Miller’s much-anticipated Steve Carell feature Foxcatcher, and new works from Tommy Lee Jones, Jean-Luc Godard, The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius, Mike Leigh, and Ken Loach.

Telefilm Canada notes this is the most Canadian films that have screened in competition in the same year.

“This year’s Cannes festival is truly a monumental occasion for Canadian filmmakers,” executive director Carolle Brabant said Thursday in a statement.

“This is the strongest presence we’ve ever had, and a true testament to the exceptional vision and tremendous artistry of our country’s filmmakers. Canadians should feel very proud.”

Maps to the Stars stars Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack and Mia Wasikowska in “a haunting ghost story and a scathing attack on the celebrity-obsessed society of L.A.” The Captive boasts Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman and Rosario Dawson in a psychological thriller about the kidnapping of a young girl. As the film teases out the threads connecting the victim, her family, the predators and the investigators, the mystery is revealed.

“What fascinates me is the study of three intimate relationships — between the parents, between the detectives, between the captor and the captive,” Egoyan said Thursday in a statement. “In fact, everyone in this film is captive to some aspect of their past colliding with the present.”

The Captive is Egoyan’s sixth feature to be shown in competition, and his eighth to be chosen as an official selection. He’s had more films at Cannes than any other Canadian director. This year also marks the 25th anniversary of his first film in Cannes — 1989’s Speaking Parts, and the 20th anniversary since 1994’s Exotica screened in competition.

Also returning to Cannes is Dolan, whose film Mommy stars Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon and Suzanne Clement and is set in a fictional Canada where distressed parents are allowed to abandon troubled children to the hospital system. It centres on “Die,” a feisty widow who tries to cope with her ADHD son Steve, and Kyla, a mysterious neighbour who offers her help.

“It’s a pretty emotional movie, hopeful and emotional,” Dolan said Thursday at a press conference in Montreal. “We’ve been told by people who saw the movie it was by far the most stirringly emotional of all five (of my films).”

Dolan says “it feels good” to make the list of 18 films vying for the top prize, after being snubbed from competition in 2012.

“I’ve been a fan of the Cannes Film Festival for a long time and I’ve seen lots of heroes of mine make their way through that scale . . . so seeing Mommy as part of the official competition is proof of, I guess, achievement. And I am extremely flattered and honoured.”

The Quebec filmmaker first made a splash at Cannes with his emotionally raw 2009 debut I Killed My Mother, which won three awards and launched his career into a global spotlight.

He followed that up with the 2010 romantic comedy Heartbeats, which won the Regards Jeunes Prize, and the gender-bending Laurence Anyways which was picked for the non-competitive “Un certain regard” sidebar in 2012.

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Willa Paskin, Slate’s TV critic, has written for New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine and Salon.com.

Marge, the best thing about the movie, is the character that I missed least in the show, because Tolman is so excellent, matching McDormand’s emotional decency, intelligence and “you betchas,” and layering the character with some sweet insecurity.

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Cyrus suffered from a sinus infection last week during her Bangerz tour. Her rep says she had “an extreme allergic reaction” to the antibiotic cephalexin.

This week, Cyrus also cancelled concerts in St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri. She postponed a show in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week because of the flu.

The 21-year-old Wrecking Ball singer’s next scheduled tour date is Monday in Philadelphia.

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BERRY Wayne Interment will take place May 3, 2014 at 12 noon at Raven Church Cemetery on Hwy 54. Potluck memorial lunch to follow at Gwendale Hall, 5 miles south of Raven Campground.

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DAGSVIK Perry Grant Perry Grant Dagsvik of Red Deer passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital, surrounded by his family, on Saturday, April 12, 2014 at the age of 52 years.

Perry was an avid Nascar and Edmonton Oilers fan and spent countless hours in his man cave cheering for them both. Perry will be lovingly remembered by his wife Denise; daughter Krista of Edmonton; brother Erik of Langley, BC; parents, Ila and Perry Dagsvik of Red Deer; in-laws, Aldea and Bill Tronnes; brother-in-law Dan Tronnes, and numerous other relatives and friends.

Cremation has taken place and a Celebration of Perry’s life will be held at Legacy Estates, 56 Carroll Crescent, Red Deer, on Saturday, May 3, 2014 from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Perry’s name may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society, #101 6751-52 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4K8, or to the charity of your choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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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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GILLIES David Ian June 24, 1958 - April 16, 2014 Born June 24, 1958 Bengough SK, David grew up in Big Beaver SK, and Lacombe AB. Graduated from U of A with Honours Arts Degree in Political Science. Lived most of adult life in Edmonton, working most of his career at the Alberta Legislature.

Retired to Victoria BC in 2008, then briefly Vancouver, returning to Alberta and settling in Calgary in Aug 2013. Predeceased by father Fred in 1984, older brother Darcy in 2001, younger brother Jordy in 2004, and step-brother Raymond in 2013. Survived by his wife Lorraine Chay of Calgary; his mother Jean (Noel) Stock of Lacombe; sister Lisa Mackowetzky, nephew Dylan and niece Kaylee of Edmonton; stepsons Reid (Beth) McLean Wiest of Calgary, John Wiest of High River, and Curtis (Dawn) Rossman of Winnipeg; grandchildren Thane, Luke and Faith; Hunter, Arwyn and Gabriel; Kristopher and Cole; step-brothers Kelly of Red Deer, Calvin (Barb) of Lacombe, step-sister Elana of Calgary. Memorial to be held Monday, April 21 2014, at 1:00 p.m. at the Legion Hall 5138 - 49 Street in Lacombe AB. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

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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, Servus Credit Union,or to the Red Deer Hospital, Palliative Care.

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KNIGHT Edwin Milton 1930 - 2013 Edwin Knight passed away on Saturday, November 30, 2013 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre after a courageous battle with ill health. Edwin will be sadly missed by his family and many friends.

He is survived by his loving wife of 64 years, Barbara; his brother, Glen (Helen) Knight; nephews, Dwayne (Cindy) and Darren Knight; his brother-in-law, Ken (Carole) Johnston; nieces and nephews, Brenda (Wray), Jackie (Marcel), Tracy (Curt), Kevin (Kerry); his sister-in-law, Maxine Johnston and nieces, Dale (Kel), Sherry and Trudy.

Edwin was predeceased by his parents, Evelyn and Ted Knight; his mother and father-in-law, Alice and Osborne Johnston; his brother-in-law, Keith Johnston; his nephew, Kelly Johnston and his niece, Brandy Johnston.

A Celebration of Edwin’s Life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 104, 1, 5108 - 49th Avenue, Innisfail, Alberta on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 2:30 p.m.

Interment will be held at the Innisfail Cemetery, Innisfail, Alberta.

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F/T position with local Industrial Emergency Preparedness Company.

This position requires the knowledge to work with Windows; General office equipment, MS Word; Excel; Internet browser. Typing skills must be 41-60 words per minute. Specific Skills are typing and proofread correspondence, reading text; & other documents; Receive & forward telephone or electronic enquiries; Maintain & prepare reports from manual or electronic files, mailing lists & databases; Sort, process other documents; Process incoming &outgoing mail manually or electronically; Perform basic bookkeeping tasks; Order supplies & maintain inventory.

This position requires the successful candidate to be well organized, with good problem solving skills & possess the ability to multi-task. You will need to be able to work individually or within a team environment with strong interpersonal skills.

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As a successful candidate, you have at least 3 to 4 years experience in a similar type position with preference given to those with oil and gas industry / safety / emergency response preparedness.

Your verbal and written communication skills must be well developed.

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April 23, 2014 via fax to The company offers a 403-343-8805 competitive wage and We wish to thank everyone comprehensive benefit for their interest, however, package. Please e-mail only those candidates resumes and cover letter to: selected for an interview denalioilfieldservices will be contacted. @gmail.com OFFICE assistant req’d for Clive area trucking company.

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Dental receptionist required by Heritage Family Dental for 4 days per week. Please fax your resume to 403-340-2272 or email plackner@telus.net PERIOPARTNERS Dr. Patrick Pierce/ Dr. Janel Yu Require

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ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work during shut down, $14/hr.

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FABRICATION COORDINATOR Alstar is looking for a self-starter who is motivated and organized to fill this NEW position.

The successful applicant will have the following: The successful applicant • Strong Computer Skills will have the following: • Good written & verbal • General Knowledge of communication Welding & Construction • Prefer Dispatch Experience • Able to Interpret ISO Metric drawings, P&IDs The job includes: & Engineered Structural • Coordinating & Dispatching Drawings (Labour & Equipment) • Strong Computer Skills • Monitor Work Schedule • Able to Adapt to • Competitive Rates & Changing Environments Full Benefits • Quality Assurance • 8 / 6 Shift Experience an Asset Alstar Oilfield is looking for In this NEW role you will: highly motivated individuals • Coordinate & Schedule to join our Team in Hinton.

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“Committed to enriching the This will be a lives of our workforce, while Monday to Friday Shift Providing quality energy construction solutions” Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Team in Hinton.

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DRIVERS / OPERATORS Alstar has immediate positions available for: 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 Alstar Oilfield is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Team in Hinton.

Alstar has been serving the oil & gas construction industry since 1969.

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If you have a Desire to be Part of a Growing Company Please apply on our Career Section on our website www.alstaroilfield.com “Committed to enriching the lives of our workforce, while Providing quality energy construction solutions” RED Deer based acid hauling company looking for Class 1 truck drivers.

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Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T - 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 Enseco is currently looking for a SOAP Stories is seeking 5 Senior EH&S advisor retail sales reps. Selling soap in the support of Tier 1 & bath products. $12.10 hr Safety and Environmental + bonus & commission.

Performance.

F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d.

Position will be located in Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. either our Red Deer or Red Deer. email resume to Clairmont offices. Please premierjobrd@gmail.com go to www.enseco.com for STORESMART full description.

SELF STORAGE Resumes must be is now hiring for the submitted by April 25th to following positions! kjespersen@enseco.com or fax to the attention of Assistant Manager Kim Jespersen (Full or Part time) 403-806-0084.

Customer Start your career!

Service Rep See Help Wanted (Part Time) For job descriptions and Innisfail Insurance how to apply, go to Services Ltd. www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs is accepting applications for No phone calls please LICENSED BROKER, Level 2 status. Must have 3 yrs. exp. Commercial exp. an asset. F/T position. Trades The successful candidate must be a self-motivated CUSTOM MUFFLER professional, possessing Looking for apprentice or excellent communication journeyman mechanic. and interpersonal skills.

Pipe bending skills would Applicants must enjoy be a great asset. Wages working in a very busy depend on exp. Going team oriented concern shop. Fax environment. Salary to resume to:403-346-9909 commensurate with or drop off at 2410 50 Ave. experience. Please Phone 403-346-7911 forward resumes to: F/T apprentice req’d for Carol Peterson sheet metal shop.

Box 6039 Competitive rate and Innisfail, AB T4G 1S7 benefi ts. Self motivated Fax: 403- 227-3910 and drivers license req’d.

Email: cpeterson@ Call 403-227-6554 or fax innisfailinsurance.com resume to 403-227-6478 FT MACHINIST – Restaurant/ ROCKY MTN. HOUSE Hotel 4TH YR. APPRENTICE OR JOURNEYMAN Machinist W/ Red Seal CALKINS CONSULTING Position requires a HIGH o/a Tim Hortons degree of skill operating 15 vacancies at each manual Lathes, Milling location for FOOD Machines & Drill Press.

COUNTER ATTENDANTS Public/Co-worker for 3 locations $10.88/hr. + communications a must; benefits. F/T & P/T posiwelding skills an asset. tions. Permanent shift CNC experience NOT work, weekends, days, required. Competitve nights, evenings. Start wages and benefits. date as soon as possible.

Please fax: 403-844-2634 No experience or educaor email: gtdblh@telus.net tion req’d. Job Only successful applicants description avail. at will be contacted. www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 INDIVIDUAL REQUIRED Orr Drive. Red Deer, to organize staff 6017 Parkwood Road, for jobs & projects.

Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Work with the Fin Fan to Lacombe. Fax: organize & follow the 403-782-9685 or transportation rules & Call 403-848-2356 regulations for maintenance Classifieds...costs so little of equipment & log books for Canada & USA. Saves you so much!

Please fax resume to RAMADA INN & SUITES 403-342-7447 req’s. Permanent Room J AND JB AUTO Attendants. Exp. not nec. is looking for a full time will train. Approx. 35 - 40 Automotive Journeyman hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 Mechanic. Mon-Fri. $14/hr. Duties incl’d but Please send resumes to not limited to: vacuuming, info@JandJBauto.com dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, LOOKING for Framers/ disinfecting & cleaning carpenters 403-357-9816 bathrooms. Performance Myshak Crane & Rigging is based bonus program. looking for a journeyman Must be fluent with verbal crane operator or reg’d 3rd l& written English, be year apprentice. Fax physically fit. Applicants resume 403-342-0066 may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer PARTSOURCE T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 REQUIRES or email: P/T PARTS PRO info@ramadareddeer.com Work with flexible schedule.

Please apply at 6722 50th Ave or fax 403-309-0354 Sales & or email: ps791@partsource.ca Distributors W.R.SCOTT Equipment a company dealing in GRATIAE is seeking compact equipment is 5 Retails Sales looking for a representative representatives selling skin to handle equipment, & body care products in parts, sales & equipment Parkland Mall - 4747 67th rentals. Applicant must St. Red Deer, $12.10/Hr have a valid driver’s plus bonus & commission, licence, basic computer F/T & P/T. No Exp. Req’d. knowledge is an asset.

Email resumes: Please send resume to: gratiaereddeersr@ dbevan@ gmail.com wrscottequipment.com or fax 403-347-4099

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820

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Truckers/ Drivers

860

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 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca 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

860

Truckers/ Drivers

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

Misc.

Help

880

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

880

Misc.

Help

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.

MICHENER AREA

SPRING START •

GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Hanna Drumheller Innisfail Paintearth Drayton Valley Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

GLENDALE Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

BALMORAL GOLF COURSE requires a mature individual for a CUSTOMER SERVICE F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

POSITION Minimum Class 5 with air in the proshop/ clubhouse. and clean abstract. Exp. Must be available evenings preferred. In person to Key and weekends. Must be Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. over 18. Proserve certif. req’d.

Red Deer.

Wage and golf privileges.

RED Deer based acid Drop off resume at clubhouse or fax to 403-342-9503. hauling company looking for Class 1 truck drivers.

Top industry wages and Misc. benefits package. Please fax resume and drivers ab- Help stract to 403-346-3766

Ross St. to 51A St., 40 Ave to Michener Ave. $178/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA Spruce Drive $52/mo.

TIMBERSTONE AREA 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 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 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

880

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

Invites applications for the position of:

COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL HEALTH COORDINATOR

For more information visit our website at:

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

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Dental

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Help

Gasoline Alley in Red Deer

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

Attn: Human Resources email:kwolokoff@ bearspawpet.com Fax 403-252-9719 Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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

for full-time permanent shop positions We offer competitive starting Wages and benefits packages including Health, RRSP and Tool Allowance programs.

Please specify position when replying to this ad.

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

Hiring full time Operation Coordinator/Field Supervisor for local oilfield testing company Must be local (Red Deer area) Must have testing experience Competitive salary Health benefits offered Send resume to ken@darkstarproduction. com

Carriers are Needed to Deliver

NOW HIRING

Please fax resume to 403-227-7796, email to hr@bilton.ca

Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 4 days per week

Cooks - Servers Convenience Store Attendants

MOUNTVIEW SUBDIVISION

Competitive Wages Flexible Scheduling Assistance with Transportation Available

33 Street 34 Street 36 Street 38 Street 42 Ave. 43A Ave.

Apply in person or email your resume to:

33A Street 35 St. Cres.

37 St. 41 Ave. 43 Ave. 44A Ave.

reddeer-hwy2south@smittys.ca

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life

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afternoons & evenings one day per week

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

Trades

SPRINGBROOK The papers arrive ready to deliver.

850

NO COLLECTING!

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE?

Daily, the Red Deer Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

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 * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 4 days per week

IS HIRING! We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: - CONCRETE FINISHERS - STEEL REINFORCE LABOURERS - GENERAL LABOURERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

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.

www.eaglebuilders.ca

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources

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or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

NOW HIRING

Full Time & Part Time

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Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivated and hard working and live or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commute to workplace location. This position offers a challenging work environment, attractive benefits with competitive pay and significant room for promotion.

Please submit resumes

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

OIL & GAS OPERATOR

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, April 18, 2014

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.

WestPark

Manager - Red Deer

Westpark Cres. & 57 Ave. Wiltshire Blvd. & Welton Cres.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 info 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 KOUNTRY AIRE CAMPGROUND Looking for F.T. or P.T. cleaning staff from May to Sept., 29 kms. West of Caroline.

Fax resume to 403-722-3262 or call 403-722-2922

LABOUR

Busy road construction company looking for Labours. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

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 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Household Appliances

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

GALVANIZED garbage can w/lid, $12, portable hose reel cart $40; 3 power rake blades (2)15”, (1)16” all $10, 2 sets of wrought iron brackets outdoor hanging flowers $8/pr. 403-314-2026 TREES: Windbreak, privacy screen, white spruce trees 5’-7’ delivered & planted $60 ea. on 25 or more. 20+ yrs experience (780)778-0223.

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ELECTRIC stove, Whirlpool, white $75 obo 403-342-5154 leave msg.

Household Furnishings

1720

2 OAK WALL UNITS, $80/ea.

1 CORNER WALL UNIT $50.

403-887-4981 4 KITCHEN CHAIRS, fabric seats, brown metal frame. $50.

OFFICE CHAIR, black, swivel. $20.

403-346-2070

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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

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

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1680

1500-1990

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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

PENHOLD

BUD HAYNES AND WARD’S SPRING GUN AUCTION Date T.B.A. Jim & Linda still live & operate in Red Deer & are taking consignments by appointment.

Linda 403-597-1095 Office 43-347-5855 Jim 403-597-1094 or Brad 780-451-4549 For appraisals call Linda www.budhaynesauction.com www.WardsAuctions.com Antique & Estate Auction April 27 @ 11 am For info view www.cherryhillauction.com 403-342-2514

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CHILD’S Gap jacket size 8 waterproof w/hood, fleece lined, very good cond, $15 403-314-9603 CHILD’S hiking shoes Columbia, size 13, very good cond, $10 403-314-9603 LEAPSTER 2 by Leapfrog w/games $20 403-314-9603

EquipmentHeavy

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

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

KING SIZE BOX SPRING, $100.

403-350-9029 or 403-343-7389

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

ADVANCE NOTICE

Children's Items

Employment Training

Misc. for Sale

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CLEAROUT 60% off!

Cats

ANDERS AREA Alwright Close

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

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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

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

2000-2290

2100

Livestock

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 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

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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 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

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Rooms For Rent

2 ROOMS in fully equipped executive suite in Lacombe w/hotel services, daily and weekly.

403-396-7976 396-3616 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Executive 1/2 Duplex Fenced back yard on creek Lovely area near walking Mobile paths, all amenities.

Lot Hardwood floors, newly developed basement.

PADS $450/mo.

Quick Possession avail.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

3 bdrms. up, 2 in bsmt.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., $349,900 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Agent selected.

Down payment $4000. Call 403-396-5516 at anytime. 403-588-8820 403-314-4318 TOO MUCH STUFF? Classifieds...costs so little Let Classifieds Saves you so much! help you sell it.

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Condos/ Townhouses

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Realtors & Services

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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

NEW CONDO

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

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

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EXCLUSIVE LUXURY RIVERFRONT CONDOS FOR SALE in Downtown Red Deer.

Call Renee at 403-314-1687 for Inquiries.

Gorgeous Condo

MORRISROE MANOR

Newly renovated bachelor & 2 bedroom suites avail. in central location. leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

Waskasoo Creek Coronation Park

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

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Acreages

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

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Houses For Sale

2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820

BUY OR SELL, CALL CORDELL AT MAXWELL

CUSTOM BUILT

NEW HOMES

by Mason Martin Homes Kyle, 403-588-2550

EASTER SPECIAL Riser Homes

1380 sq.ft., 2 storey, 3 bdrm., 2.5 bath.

Many upgrades, front att. garage. $371,000 incl.

GST, legal fee, appls. pkg.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294 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

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

RECEIVE $5000.

1/2 duplex, 1260 sq. ft. on quiet close in Anders.

New bsmt., 4 pce. ensuite. $359,900.

Cordell @ 403-318-5478 MAXWELL REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS

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Lots For Sale

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

Investment Opportunities

Buy through us & be paid up to $5000. at move in. www.ResOneCash.com 403-358-9999 text / call Residential One

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SEEKING equity partners for investment grade retail and office properties in Calgary up to 2 million.

Shane Olin solin@ www.laebon.com blackstonecommercial.com 403 708-9086 Laebon Homes 346-7273

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403-754-5104 4971 Phelan St.

www.thetitlestore.ca

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Antique Dealers and Stores Location: MONTGOMERY AUCTION SALES CENTRE 1 Miles North of Blackfalds on Hwy 2A, 2 Miles East on Lakeside Sargent Road

9am – Misc 1pm Machinery

Selling Farm Dispersal, Agricultural Tractors, Farm Machinery, 3pt & Acreage Equipment, Agriculture Parts, Trucks, Vehicles, ATV’s, RV’s, Boat, Vintage Truck, Equipment & Enclosed Trailers, Skid Steer, Manlift, Atco Office Trailer, Commercial Storage Canopies, Marquee Event Tents, Livestock Equipment, Lumber & Trusses, Playhouses & Playground Pieces, Log Cabin, Lawn & Garden Equipment & Supplies, Trees, Tools & Misc. www.montgomeryauctions.com

DON MONTGOMERY ICCA Auctioneer 403-885-5149 • 1-800-371-6963 Box 939, Blackfalds, AB

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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

SATURDAY, APR. 26TH @ 9:00AM

Auctioneers & Sales Management

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

25TH ANNUAL SPRING EQUIPMENT CONSIGNMENT

Selling in 3 Rings 10am Lawn & Garden

RED DEER

EXECUTIVE 1/2 Duplex near Coronation

BUSINESS

BE JOB READY IN 6 TO 12 MONTHS

Automotive

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GRAND OPENING Caravan Luxury Auto Detailing. Spring cleaning specials 403-872-3998 389494D22

LANCASTER AREA

Condos/ Townhouses

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

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INGLEWOOD AREA Ing Close / Ireland Cres.

FARM house, 20 min. to R.D. avail. May 1, 403-347-1526

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403-343-0730

Success is closer than you think.

CARRIERS NEEDED

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

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2965 Bremner Avenue

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The head of the commission of inquiry that accused North Korea of crimes against humanity told the UN Security Council on Thursday that it must take action against “a totalitarian state without parallel in the contemporary world,” and he told reporters that most council members “expressly said” the matter should be referred to the International Criminal Court.

It was the first time the council had met to discuss the unprecedented UN report that contains graphic details and an urgent call to action. The informal meeting comes as members of the commission push for its findings to be formally referred to the council and the ICC. The reclusive communist regime’s top ally, China, did not attend. Neither did Russia.

Both hold veto power as permanent Security Council members, making any council action against North Korea highly unlikely.

“We dare say that the case of human rights in the DPRK exceeds all others in duration, intensity and horror,” commission head Michael Kirby told the meeting, according to a copy of the speech obtained by The Associated Press.

He was referring to initials of the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Kirby said the commission wants the Security Council to adopt targeted sanctions “against those individuals most responsible” and stressed that only the council can launch “immediate, impartial and just action to secure accountability.” Economic sanctions or

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a halt to humanitarian aid would harm ordinary citizens, he said.

The United States, France and Australia called the council meeting, which was open to all UN member states and selected nongovernmental organizations. It was closed to the media.

In his speech, Kirby told the meeting that up to 120,000 people are imprisoned in North Korea and most “will never leave the camps alive.”

“The gravity, scale, duration and nature of human rights violations that we found reveal a totalitarian state without parallel in the contemporary world,” Kirby, a retired Australian judge, said. He added, “Accountability is not optional. It is obligatory.”

North Korea has called the report an “extremely dangerous” political provocation.

Kirby called the absence of Russia and China from the meeting unfortunate and said the commission had reached out to both countries as late as Wednesday for China and Thursday for Russia, to no avail.

Of the 13 other Security Council members who attended the meeting, “nine expressly said the matter should be referred to the ICC,” Kirby said, and the other four were not opposed to it. He called the feeling in the council “very strong.”

The deputy British ambassador to the UN, Peter Wilson, told the meeting that his country supports the call for the council to “consider appropriate action including referral of situation in DPRK to ICC,” his mission tweeted.

The U.S. ambassador, Samantha Power, said in a statement, “The commission’s findings and recommendations are extraordi-

narily compelling and deserve the full attention - and action - of the Security Council and of all members of the UN” Kirby accused representatives of North Korea of urging member states not to attend the meeting and called the regime “a country that seeks to protect itself from scrutiny by closing itself off from the world. Well, that game is up.”

When asked later for comment, a diplomat at the North Korea’s UN mission, who refused to identify himself, said, “No comment at all.”

Kirby’s speech described a North Korean man whose family was “executed in front of his own eyes but he was permitted no tears” and a woman “who was forced to watch another woman drown her newborn baby.”

He also pointed out the execution last year of the uncle of young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying: “If one of the most powerful people in the state can so quickly fall from grace and be killed, imagine the fate of lesser people.”

In a statement, Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth repeated the call for a council referral to the International Criminal Court.

“Given this extraordinarily severe repression, it would be unconscionable for the Council to continue limiting its work on North Korea to the nuclear issue,” he said.

Speaking at a separate event Wednesday on the report, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic said: “The international community is rarely presented with a challenge of this magnitude and importance. There is a window of opportunity to make a difference. Let us seize it.”

Ex-honour student gets 5 years in terrorism case

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — An immigrant teen who had earned a scholarship to an elite U.S. college but helped solicit support for Jihadists he met online was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.

Mohammad Hassan Khalid had earned a full scholarship to Johns Hopkins University after just a few years in the United States, where his family was building a new life after leaving Pakistan.

As his parents and siblings worked to achieve the American dream, he retreated to his bedroom in the family’s cramped apartment near Baltimore, and joined radical Islamist chat rooms by the time he was 15.

He was soon conversing with Coleen LaRose, a troubled Pennsylvania woman who called herself “Jihad Jane,” and other extremists.

“The upheavals of my life were distorted into a force of hate so strong that it wrapped me in its claws,” Khalid, now 21, told U.S. Judge Petrese B. Tucker.

He said he had trouble speaking without being misunderstood.

Defence lawyers argued that Khalid was isolated and vulnerable because he was young, an immigrant and had Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder diagnosed since his arrest.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge has found that an immigrant woman’s constitutional rights were violated when she was held in jail without probable cause at the request of U.S. immigration authorities.

The ruling is one of several recent federal court decisions to place scrutiny on the practice of keeping people in jail after they’re eligible for release so that they can be considered for possible deportation.

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Some counties and states had previously limited the practice, arguing it erodes trust in law enforcement and drags people with minor infractions into deportation.

Ukraine accepts limited jurisdiction for Criminal Court to probe Kyiv deaths THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ukraine has accepted the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, opening the way for a possible investigation of the violent crackdown by former President Viktor Yanukovych’s government on demonstrators, the court announced Thursday.

Ukraine, which is not a member state of the court, accepted ICC jurisdiction from Nov. 21, 2013, to Feb. 22, saying attacks by Yanukovych’s forces left more than 100 demonstrators dead in Kyiv and other cities, according to documents released by the court.

A statement by Ukraine’s parliament alleged that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies “unlawfully used physical force, special means and weapons toward the participants of peaceful actions” in Kyiv and elsewhere “on the orders of senior officials of the state.”

The statement said the attacks killed more than 100 people and injured more than 2,000.

It also alleges that Yanukovych’s government abducted, tortured and even killed some dissenters.

Yanukovych fled from Ukraine to Russia in February after months of protests by demonstrators angry at his decision to align his country more closely with Russia than

Federal prosecutors say Khalid used his “brilliance and eloquence,” along with his computer and video skills, to help them translate documents and try to recruit westerners.

That got the attention of the FBI, which visited Khalid repeatedly.

“The FBI tried very sincerely to try to talk him out of his criminal conduct because of his youth. He wasn’t interested,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennfier Arbittier Williams argued. “It was his persistent desire to be an online hero in the world of Jihad” that got him into trouble, she said.

Since his 2011 arrest, Khalid has given significant help to U.S. officials pursuing various al-Qaida offshoots, assistance that took years off his potential sentence of 15 years for providing material aid to terrorists.

LaRose got a 10-year term in January for agreeing to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who drew a cartoon that had offended Muslims, while another American woman, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, got eight years.

Both had moved to Ireland to join an alleged terror cell.

“Colleen LaRose had as much chance of killing Lars Vilks as I did. No chance,” Khalid’s defence lawyer, Jeff Lindy, argued Thursday.

He called the plot, which never led to an attack, “half-baked,” and said Khalid’s role

fell far short of criminal conspiracy.

Khalid never left Ellicott City, Maryland, but he opened a box LaRose had sent him that contained a passport and money.

He sent some of the items to contacts in Ireland.

In court Thursday, Khalid said he hopes to rebuild his life with his family in the U.S., but knows he could be deported.

The gaunt young man hung his head and fought back tears Thursday as lawyers debated whether he was likely to be deported.

That remains a question for immigration officials, not Tucker.

Khalid was arrested just before he turned 18, becoming the rare juvenile charged in a federal terrorism case.

He could leave prison in about 14 months, with time off for good behaviour.

The judge did order mental health treatment in prison and three years of supervised release.

His parents and siblings stifled tears during the hearing.

His older brother, who also earned a college scholarship, had tried to lure him away from the computer, to no avail, Khalid’s lawyers said.

“I pass every day with the knowledge of my past, and how I disappointed my family,” Khalid said of his relatives. “I beg for your absolute forgiveness.”

Europe.

The court stressed that its prosecutors will now decide whether to open an investigation. If that happens, it said the ICC prosecutor will decide on the basis of the evidence whether to ask the ICC judges to issue arrest warrants or summonses to appear for people charged with committing crimes.

“The declaration is an important move to ensure that grave violations of human rights will not be forgotten and impunity will not be accorded to those who commit them,” said Roman Romanov, of the International Renaissance Foundation in Ukraine.

“The next step for Ukraine to take is to ensure its full engagement with the ICC as a cornerstone of the international justice system.”

hood group in the region.

The statement did not say whether ambassadors would be reinstated.

Authorities seize Texas ranch belonging to polygamist group, imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs ELDORADO, Texas — State agents have seized a polygamous group’s Texas ranch where hundreds of children were removed during a 2008 FBI raid prompted by child sex abuse allegations.

The group’s leader, Warren Jeffs, is serving life in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting two girls he took as child brides.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says its agents took possession of the secluded property near Eldorado on Thursday.

In a statement, DPS says authorities were helping the remaining eight adults living on the ranch leave and to do an inventory.

A judge in January ordered the forfeiture of the Yearning For Zion Ranch, which was owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The state sought to seize the property over allegations of mismanagement by Jeffs.

Gulf Arab states strike deal with Qatar in Saudi Arabia to heal rifts after ambassadors row RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A statement by the Gulf Cooperation Council says the bloc has agreed on the mechanisms to implement a security pact, marking a possible first step toward bridging deep rifts among its six energy-rich Arab states.

Qatar’s official news agency says Doha’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah took part at in the GCC Foreign Ministers meeting held in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh. The GCC statement was released after the meeting late Thursday.

The visit marked his first trip to Saudi Arabia since the kingdom, along with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar in an unprecedented public protest spurned by Doha’s support for the Islamist Muslim Brother-

US senators say they will support Moldova financially and politically as it moves toward EU CHISINAU, Moldova — Four U.S. senators visited Moldova Thursday to lend support to the former Soviet republic’s move toward the European Union, while Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Ukraine to end a blockade of the country’s separatist province Trans-Dniester.

U.S. Sens. John McCain, John Barrasso, John Hoeven and Ron Johnson met with Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leanca to discuss energy security and how to attract U.S. investments to Moldova.

McCain said the U.S. officials are preparing “much tougher sanctions against Putin and are ready to apply them if he doesn’t stop the provocations in the region.”

He said he did not think it was likely Russia would invade Moldova, but said it could not be ruled out.

“We will never ever, ever allow Russia and (President) Vladimir Putin to deprive the people of Moldova of their liberty and right to determine their own future,” he told students at the Academy of Economic Studies.

“Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. In fact, Russia is a gas station run by a Mafioso,” he said.

Tunisian diplomat missing in Libya, days after abduction of Jordanian ambassador TRIPOLI, Libya — Officials say a Tunisian diplomat has gone missing in the Libyan capital, days after gunmen kidnapped the Jordanian ambassador.

The Tunisian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Laaroussi Kontassi, an adviser at the country’s embassy in Tripoli, disappeared Thursday morning in “unclear circumstances.”

The ministry said it had received no claim of responsibility about a possible kidnapping.

A Libyan security official said that Kontassi was abducted but gave no further details. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to brief the media.

Libya’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment.

Libya has been plagued by lawlessness, including a spate of kidnappings, since the end of the country’s civil war more than two years ago.

In March, an employee with the Tunisian Embassy was kidnapped in Libya.

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Qualifying customers will receive CAD$750 (the “Incentive”) towards the purchase or lease of the Eligible Vehicle, which must be delivered and/or factory-ordered from your participating Ford dealer during the Program Period. Limit one (1) Incentive per Eligible Vehicle sale, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales, per Qualifying Conquest/Loyalty Model. Each customer will be required to provide proof of ownership/registration and insurance of the applicable Qualifying Conquest/Loyalty Model (in Canada) for the previous 3 months and the ownership/registration address must match the address on the new Buyer’s Agreement or Lease Agreement for the Eligible Vehicle sale. Taxes payable before Incentive is deducted. *Purchase a new 2014 Fiesta S 4-Door Manual/2014 Focus S 4-Door Manual/2014 Fusion S 2.5L/2014 Escape S FWD 2.5L for $13,198/$14,948/$22,818/$24,888 after Manufacturer Rebate of $2,500/$2,500/$500/$1,000 is deducted. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after total Manufacturer Rebate has been deducted. Offers include freight and air tax of $1,565/$1,665/$1,700/$1,750 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Manufacturer Rebates are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. **Until April 30, 2014, receive 0.99%/0.99%/2.99%/2.49% annual percentage rate (APR) purchase financing on a 2014 Fiesta S 4-Door Manual/2014 Focus S 4-Door Manual/2014 Fusion S 2.5L/2014 Escape S FWD 2.5L for a maximum of 84 months to qualified retail customers, on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest APR payment. Purchase financing monthly payment is $163/$184/$301/$323 (the sum of twelve (12) monthly payments divided by 26 periods gives payee a bi-weekly payment of $75/$85/$139/$149 with a down payment of $0/$0/$0/$0 or equivalent trade-in. Cost of borrowing is $468.03/$530.09/$2,499.45/$2,257.71 or APR of 0.99%/0.99%/2.99%/2.49% and total to be repaid is $13,666.03/$15,478.09/$25,317.45/$27,145.71. Offers include a Manufacturer Rebate of $2,500/$2,500/$500/$1,000 and freight and air tax of $1,565/$1,665/$1,700/$1,750 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after Manufacturer Rebate deducted. Bi-Weekly payments are only available using a customer initiated PC (Internet Banking) or Phone Pay system through the customer’s own bank (if offered by that financial institution). The customer is required to sign a monthly payment contract with a first payment date one month from the contract date and to ensure that the total monthly payment occurs by the payment due date. Bi-weekly payments can be made by making payments equivalent to the sum of 12 monthly payments divided by 26 bi-weekly periods every two weeks commencing on the contract date. Dealer may sell for less. Offers vary by model and not all combinations will apply. ***Estimated fuel consumption ratings for 2014 Fiesta 1.6L I4 5-speed manual transmission: [7.4L/100km (38MPG) City, 5.2L/100km (54MPG) Hwy] 2014 Focus 2.0L I4 5-speed manual transmission: [7.8L/100km (36MPG) City, 5.5L/100km (51MPG) Hwy] / 2014 Fusion FWD 2.5L I4 6-speed SST transmission: [9.2L/100km (31MPG) City, 5.8L/100km (49MPG) Hwy] / 2014 Escape FWD 2.5L I4 6-speed automatic transmission: [9.5L/100km (30MPG) City, 6.3L/100km (45MPG) Hwy]. Fuel consumption ratings based on Transport Canada approved test methods. Actual fuel consumption will vary based on road conditions, vehicle loading, vehicle equipment, vehicle condition, and driving habits. ‡‡Estimated fuel consumption using Environment Canada approved test methods, 2014 Ford Fiesta with 1.0L EcoBoost engine. Class is Subcompact Car versus 2013 competitors. Subcompact Car class and competitor data based on 2013 NRCan Vehicle Class ratings and classifications for subcompact cars with regular gasoline. †††Claim based on analysis by Ford of Polk global new registration for CY2012 for a single nameplate which excludes rebadged vehicles, platform derivatives or other vehicle nameplate versions. ††Based on 2007 - 2013 R. L. 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