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TOP: An aggressive and excellent telemark skier, Stefan Karl ripped through the top of the mountain.

ABOVE: A snowshoer and a skier make their way up to the bottom of the coulior.

LEFT: Christine Sharp of Calgary continues the slog up the route.

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Learn from your mistakes WHEN THE CONDITIONS GET SCARY WHILE SKIING IN THE MOUNTAINS, YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE WHEN IT’S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR OBJECTIVE TO SOMETHING MORE CONSERVATIVE

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ABOVE: Safely at the bottom with the coulior behind us.

BELOW: With the end of the coulior in sight Stefan Karl finds some fresh snow on the edges of the gully.

TRAVELLING SAFELY IN AVALANCHE TERRAIN

sistently to the top, well within the range where natural or human-triggered avalanches can occur. We were all feeling good as we progressed up the mountain, until the most recent storm or wind-deposited layer of snow began to get much deeper.

About 200 metres from the summit, I dug another pit in the snow to determine if the stability in the snowpack had changed. What I found was not good.

The top layer of powder — light, storm snow — about 30 cm deep was sitting on a hard windslab and made a perfect sliding (avalanche) surface. So while Stefan was determined to continue to the summit, Kingsley Fairbridge, Christine Sharp and I decided to run away and descended about 100 vertical metres on foot rather than skiing.

Safely tucked away under an outcropping of rock, we waited for Karl to drop in on the slope, hoping he would not trigger a slide. As he began his descent, it was clear he was having a good time.

An aggressive telemark skier, Karl was disappearing in the deep snow seeming to come up for air on each turn, before plunging into the full face-shot deeps again and again.

As Karl got to about 20 metres above us, some of the slope released below him, letting loose the surface storm snow we thought might slide.

We had little time to react as a river of snow rushed past in a hissing blur. Although it was a small slide, the volume certainly would have knocked a skier off his feet and carried him down slope.

Luckily for Karl, he was not caught up in the snow as it slid.

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The rest of the ski descent was survival skiing for the most part. A few good turns here and there, most of which were made in the avalanche debris in the centre of the gully.

Living in Alberta and close to the mountains, we truly are some of the luckiest people on the planet.

The mountain parks in Alberta are unique in the world and I hope to spend many more years learning from my mistakes, and hopefully from my good decisions as well.

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Knowledge and training are key to safe travel in the backcountry in winter.

For those interested in backcountry skiing, an avalanche skills training course, or AST-1, will get you started. The course will help build an understanding of how to assess avalanche risk and how to safely travel through potentially dangerous areas.

The Association of Canadian Mountain Guides offers many courses. Organizations like Yamnuska Mountain Adventures, based out of Canmore, offer group AST-1 and AST-2 courses.

Following the weather through the winter is also crucial to determining when and where to venture.

Following the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is a fantastic way to keep in touch with what is happening in the backcountry. Through the winter, the CAC updates bulletins in a wide ranging area through the Alberta Rockies and into the B.C., rating the avalanche dangers in the trees, at treeline and in the high alpine areas.

The Kananaskis Public Safety Section has an excellent Facebook page providing up-to-date information on what is happening in the area. Weekly video postings show the team on the mountains evaluating the snow and giving tips on what is happening to the snow pack each week during the ski season.

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CANMORE — Safely tucked away under a rock outcropping, we waited for our skiing partner Stefan Karl to drop in.

After losing confidence in the stability of the snowpack near the summit of Mount Chester, three of us retreated about 100 vertical metres down slope while Karl continued to the top of the coulior.

Watching the stability deteriorate was enough to turn three of us around. Living to ski another day is always first and foremost when travelling in avalanche terrain.

The invite on Facebook came in on Thursday from some skiers I met through my daughter Sydney. To have a relationship with my children’s peer group is something pretty special. To be able to share adventures with the 20-something crowd when you are pushing into your fifth decade is something very cool. Unfortunately, my regular ski buddy and wife, Dee Stokoe, is laid up on the couch after blowing out her knee on a ski trip across the Wapta traverse the previous week.

The objective on Sunday morning was to climb the 800-vertical-metre Mount Chester coulior in the Kananaskis area of the Rocky Mountains. We planned to ski back down the way we had ascended. It sounded like a super cool line, one that I had observed earlier in the winter while on a moonlit snowshoe trip. On that occasion, our intent was to photograph the mountain landscape illuminated by a full moon.

Unfortunately the sky was fully obscured by cloud cover, but we had great company and were still able to make our way up through the forest and into the meadow at Chester Lake in the dark. The Mount Chester trail head is located off the Hwy 742, or the Spray Lakes Road, about 30 minuets by car south of Canmore.

This trip was decidedly more ambitious, however, with a big northwest-facing, steep coulior that got the hearts pumping and adrenaline flowing.

After checking recent avalanche conditions and taking into account the current weather, we decided the trip would be a go. We would have another look at the route and determine if we still wanted to ski the line when we set eyes on it.

When skiing in the mountains, backcountry skiers always have to be able to change their plans on the fly. When the conditions get scary, you have to be able to recognize when it’s time to bail on those plans and change your objective to something more conservative. That sometimes means skiing below treeline, seeking out turns on gentle alpine slopes or spending the big dollars and riding the lifts at a resort.

Wise old mountain guide Barry Blanchard (he is older than me and I have been called old so I think he qualifies) once told me you have to learn from your mistakes in the mountains if you are going to live to be a wise old mountaineer. Or something to that affect. Well, it felt like a whole lot of learning went on this trip.

When we got our first look at the coulior, it looked to be incredibly steep. “If you tilt your head 90 degrees, your binocular vision kicks in,” I said to the group. So we all took a look at the mountain with our necks craned to the 90 and low and behold, the route didn’t seem nearly as formidable. Try it sometime, it’s like magic or science — or something.

After digging a pit in the snow at the bottom of the pitch, we gained some confidence as to the stability of the slope. So up we slogged.

The snow on the lower slopes was a little thin in areas but was relatively easy to kick steps into so travel was pretty quick, especially when Karl, a native Icelander, was leading. He has a huge motor and does not seem to be mortal. It probably has something to do with bicycle commuting an hour to and from work each day.

The coulior runs at about a 45-degree angle con-

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Arens trial hears from victim’s sister STEPHANIE CHANMINARAJ STILL AFFECTED BY COLLISION THAT CLAIMED HER BROTHER’S LIFE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Ever since the tragedy that took her brother’s life, Stephanie Chanminaraj always thinks about what she could have done differently.

Stephanie Chanminaraj, 24, was driving at the time of the crash that killed her 13-year-old brother Anouluk “Jeffrey.”

“You think about what you could have done differently,” she tearfully said.

She and her other brother Jamie, 22, took the stand on Friday in the trial of Rodney Ross Arens, 36, who is accused of causing the crash. The trial wrapped up its second week with testimony from the siblings, who were in the car allegedly hit by Arens’ vehicle on July 1, 2010 crash.

Arens is on trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before Justice Kirk Sisson. He is represented by defence counsel Donna Derie-Gillespie of Sundre.

Stephanie and Jamie and Jeffrey were driving down to Bower Ponds for the Canada Day fireworks when the collision occurred. Jeffrey was killed and

Jamie suffered two fractured femurs and a fractured hand. They were travelling south on Taylor Drive from Horwath Street and were turning left onto Kerry Wood Drive when the collision occurred.

Neither Stephanie nor Jamie remembered much of the collision. Jamie’s recollection stopped at the top of the Taylor Drive hill, when it intersects with 60th Street.

Stephanie’s memory of the collision ends when she saw headlights coming at the car. The next thing she remembered was glass in her mouth, turning to see her brother, opening her door and screaming for help.

“Everything seemed quieter than it should have been,” she said.

A woman came and held her hand and Stephanie asked her to get a hold of her dad and boyfriend.

They didn’t learn about the collision until the following morning as both had turned their cellphones off to sleep.

Stephanie was then taken to the ambulance with only one shoe on. She was put on a stretcher and in a neck brace, but she wasn’t seriously hurt.

She said she has tried to avoid the intersection ever since the crash.

It had been a busy day for the family, who were al-

so celebrating their father’s birthday. After cake and dinner, Stephanie went home to change and came back to pick up her brothers to go to the Canada fireworks, something they tried to do every year.

Jamie didn’t want to go to the fireworks, instead wanting to play video games, but Stephanie made sure he came with her and Jeffrey.

Derie-Gillespie asked Stephanie if she knew if her insurance company had paid her for the damage to her car as well as to Arens for his truck’s damage.

Stephanie did not know.

Derie-Gillespie said the question related to finding out if Stephanie had been found at fault under civil criteria. The trial focuses on determining if Arens was at fault under criminal criteria.

Jamie testified he had very little recollection of the crash. He remembered being at the top of the hill and the next thing he remembered was waking up in Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary.

“They said I hit my head pretty hard on the window,” he testified.

The trial is expected to run nine weeks. It will resume next Friday where testimony is expected to come from a traffic collision analyst. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Aboriginal grad rates up, but still below average

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

BRIEFS Controlled house burn Sunday on McKenzie Drive Sunday will not be a day of rest for the Red Deer County Fire Department. They will be hold day-long training exercise south of the city with a controlled house burn. The house is at 3 McKenzie Drive, near the Leon’s Furniture south of Gasoline Alley. It has been used for the last two months as a training centre after it was donated to the department by the owners. Exercises at the house have included practising wall breaches and search and rescue techniques.

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Maci Marchinko of Red Deer and her grandfather Herb Marchinko of Yorkton, Sask., look at a mixed media piece by Shoni Baker entitled Never the Same at the HUB in downtown Red Deer on Friday. Maci’s father, the art teacher Jonas Marchinko, and Notre Dame High School students hosted the First Friday event exhibiting some of the student works they have done through the school year. Other galleries in the city also have new exhibits hanging in their spaces this weekend.

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The C.D. Howe Institute’s analysis of educational attainment among Canada’s aboriginal population begins with the good news — that more First Nations and Métis young adults are completing high school.

The next paragraph in the Are We Making Progress? report put out by the institute this week starts to bring the bad — that aboriginal graduation rates remain very low. Using data from the 2006 and 2011 national censuses, the report shows that 40 per cent of aboriginals aged 20n to 24 did not possess a high school diploma at the time of the latest census count.

This was an improvement from the 48 per cent incompletion rate from the 2006 survey, but far below the 10 per cent national average for all persons.

For on-reserve students, the incompletion rate fell from 61 to 58 per cent from 2006 to 2011. There are 500 on-reserve schools across Canada, with the schools in Alberta among the lowest performing based on educational outcomes.

The report comes at a time when First Nations leaders are expressing public disagreement around the merits of a federal act for First Nations education. While Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo has endorsed the bill, he has encouraged all First Nations to analyze it.

A handful of provincial chiefs, including Alberta’s, have done so, and warn that the First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act would actually give too much control to the federal government.

Bill C-33 would provide $1.25 million over three years starting in 2016 for on-reserve education, with 4.5 per cent annual increases after that.

It would also ensure teacher certification at reserve schools, institute a joint council that would oversee how schools are performing, and allow students to transfer seamlessly between reserve and provincial schools.

As it stands, jurisdictional issues can get in the way of reserve students attending off-reserve schools.

In the Nordegg area, about 25 young students have been out of school since October after their parents soured on a nearby reserve school and a provincial program for them was cancelled over a jurisdictional squabble.

Report author John Richards said Bill C-33 is positive legislation that would put reserve schools on equal funding footing with provincial schools and professionalize reserve school administration.

“The policy implications are clear — to reduce aboriginal poverty, we need policy that encourages near-universal high-school completion,” said Richards.

High school completion results for individual federal reserve schools are not readily available, but provincial school districts do tabulate the percentage of aboriginal students who graduate from high school within three years.

A4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, May 3, 2014

Red Deer cops are back on the bikes for the season.

Every year, RCMP officers from the community response unit ditch their squad cars and jump on bikes to hit the downtown streets and the trails.

This year, there will be four police officers on the cycling patrol.

The number fluctuates from year to year.

RCMP Cpl. Sarah Knelsen said the police officers are more accessible to the public when they are on foot, Segways or bikes.

Knelsen said the officers on bikes act as a proactive presence to deter crime and antisocial behaviour.

“Sometimes residents have concerns about going to the parks,” she said. “It just makes people feel more comfortable when they know the police are patrolling the bike trails throughout the city.”

The officers spend their days building relationships with businesses, agencies and downtown residents while pedalling around.

Officers are able to address issues faster, develop preventive strategies, and provide enforcement support to the drug and traffic units.

They also support the parks bylaw officers.

The police officers will be on the bikes until early fall.

Hancock says patients secure despite rollback EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Dave Hancock says patients won’t suffer if the province doesn’t meet its target of 140 new family care clinics.

Hancock says there’s no need to duplicate facilities as long as primary-care networks can do the job of family-care clinics.

He says primary care has evolved to cover some of the areas that were expected to be handled by family clinics.

The idea for family health centres came in 2012 from former premier Alison Redford, who wanted to deliver more front-line care and reduce loads on hospital waiting rooms.

Primary-care networks are run privately by doctors, while familycare clinics are overseen by community boards.

There are 12 family clinics in place or in development compared with 42 primary-care networks.

Health Minister Fred Horne announced Thursday that the government is spending $45 million to start up nine familycare centres. He said the plan for 140 such clinics had been “overly ambitious.”

Sterilization concerns prompt testing warning FORT MCMURRAY — Alberta Health Services is warning 225 patients of a Fort McMurray clinic to get tested for HIV and hepatitis B and C. Dr. Albert de Villiers, the region’s chief medical health officer, says the risk of contracting the disease is low, but people should get tested as a precaution.

“We have been advising them that they have been to a clinic in Fort McMurray where there were some issues with sterilization of medical equipment and they might have been exposed,” de Villiers said Friday.

“The letter says they may have been exposed, there is very low risk, but they should go in for some blood tests to make sure that they did not contract any diseases.

The three we are testing for are hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.” Those being contacted are or were patients of the Dayspring Medical and Cosmetic Clinic.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Shawn Atleo stepped down Friday as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, ending a tumultuous term that began in high hopes but finished with faltering support and charges he was too cosy with the Harper government.

At a hastily assembled news conference Friday in Ottawa, Atleo said he wanted to avoid being a distraction in the ongoing — and intensifying — debate over the federal government’s proposed changes to First Nations education.

“This work is too important, and I’m not prepared to be an obstacle to it or a lightning rod distracting from the kids and their potential,” Atleo said.

“I am therefore today resigning as national chief.”

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt has defended Bill C-33, dubbed the First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act, saying it meets the five conditions outlined by the AFN and chiefs during a meeting in December.

But some First Nations groups have been critical of Atleo for supporting a Conservative government bill aimed at reforming aboriginal education.

They say if passed, the legislation would strip away their rights and give the federal government too much control over the education of their children.

But Atleo — who did not take questions — insisted that the work must continue.

“I challenge every party and every First Nation to carry this work forward. Failure is simply not an option,” he said.

“Fighting for the status quo is simply not acceptable.”

It was not immediately clear Friday who would replace Atleo as national chief. The assembly is now in the process of deter-

mining how and when a new leader will be chosen. Rumours of Atleo’s departure had been swirling in recent days, but the writing had been on the wall for some time.

Atleo’s support was weakened when he agreed to meet with the prime minister at the height of the Idle No More protest movement in January 2013, but he was able to convene a national assembly as usual last December and managed to win a mandate to discuss an education package with the government. By the time Atleo and Harper appeared together at a reserve in Alberta this past February, the AFN board had generally coalesced behind Atleo and supported his initiaShawn Atleo tive. But it wouldn’t last.

Even though Harper included nearly $2 billion in new school funding in the February federal budget, Atleo’s support among First Nations chiefs was eroding.

Faced with pressure from outspoken critics of Atleo’s negotiations with the prime minister and a deeply rooted mistrust of the federal government’s role in First Nations education, one by one, the regional chiefs broke away. Chief Perry Bellegarde of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations was the latest to announce his opposition to the federal legislation, earlier this week. That — combined with a growing push for a “special assembly” to address the education bill — was likely the straw that broke the camel’s back.

The federal government, for its part, is widely expected to push forward with its

Election called for June 12 in Ontario

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne decided Friday it was better to call a June 12 election instead of waiting to see her minority Liberal government defeated in a confidence vote on its budget.

Wynne visited Lt.-Gov. David Onley on Friday afternoon to ask him to dissolve the legislature after the New Democrats announced they had lost confidence in the Liberals and would vote with the Progressive Conservatives to defeat the budget.

Voters should not consider veering to the political left or right, warned Wynne, who said people will have a choice between a balanced Liberal approach to job creation and economic growth and the “reckless schemes” of the opposition parties.

“They’ll have a choice, in fact, between safe hands and risky tactics,” she said.

The premier took several shots at Prime Minister Stephen Harper for failing to fund infrastructure projects like Ontario’s Ring of Fire or help improve retirement income for people without a workplace pension plan, but reserved most of her vitriol for the NDP and Tories.

“The NDP make pie in the sky promises but they won’t say how they’ll pay for them,” complained Wynne.

“So now is not the time for pipe dreams.”

The Tories would “roll back the clock” in Ontario by “declaring war” on organized labour and slashing government programs people rely on, added the premier.

“Their cuts would devastate crucial public services in health and education,” she said. “Their cuts would take us along a path towards a low-wage, low-growth economy.”

New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath said earlier Friday that she could not continue to prop up a government

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EDUCATION: One in seven in Wolf Creek Division For the 2012-13 school year, Wild Rose School Division graduated 73 per cent of its First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) students, while Chinook’s Edge School Division realized 70 per cent graduation. The Red Deer Catholic and Public school divisions

legislation anyway, inviting any band who wants to co-operate to join in the new regime once it is set up.

Still, at a time when Harper wants to smooth government relations with First Nations in the hopes of paving the way for pipelines and natural resource development, sources say he has lost a key ally.

“There is no question First Nations are in an important period of transition and moving away from governance under the Indian Act,” Jody Wilson-Raybould, regional chief of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, said in a statement. “This work is not easy but progress must and will continue. Partnership and co-operation between and among First Nations is essential.

As is co-operation among Parliament.

“We need a results driven non-partisan approach to recognition and reconciliation which will ensure, among other things, First Nations control of First Nations education.”

In a statement Friday, Harper sounded a note of genuine remorse.

“Since 2009, when he was first elected as national chief, our government worked closely with him to strengthen our historic relationship,” he said. “National Chief Atleo was a conciliator and strengthened the relationship between First Nations and the Crown. As the Hereditary Chief from the Ahousaht First Nation, he showed leadership to his nation and all First Nations across Canada.”

Indeed, it was on his strength as a skilled negotiator that the now 47-year-old Atleo was first elected national chief in 2009.

The seeds of discontent were sown after a high-profile Crown First Nations Gathering in early 2012. Some within the aboriginal community grew increasingly frustrated with what they perceived as government inaction in the weeks and months after the meeting.

Alberta NDP leadership convention to be held in October

that was plagued by scandal after scandal, and could not trust the Liberals to keep all the promises in Thursday’s budget.

“I cannot in good conscience support a government that people don’t trust anymore,” said Horwath.

“This budget is not a solid plan for the future. It’s a mad dash to escape the scandals by promising the moon and the stars.”

It wasn’t just the budget but the gas plants scandal, the police investigation into the Ornge air ambulance and faulty girders being installed in the Windsor parkway that prompted the NDP to stop supporting the Liberals, said Horwath.

“It’s one scandal after another, it’s continued behaviour from a government that hasn’t seen the way to change their path, and so it wasn’t only the $1.1 billion scandal itself, but it’s the continuous cover up of information,” said Horwath. “The leopard is not changing its spots.”

Rather than see the government face weeks of criticism in the legislature until the budget vote, Wynne opted to call the election herself.

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak called the New Democrats hypocritical for taking so long to decide to defeat the Liberals, something he said they should have done at least a year ago.

“If you’re looking for who’s going to be the best actor on the stage, if you’re looking for someone who’s running a popularity contest by promising funding on all kinds of projects but they don’t have the cheques to cash in, well then vote for the Liberal leader or the NDP leader,” Hudak said in Ottawa.

“But if you want a turnaround plan to get Ontario working again, look at me, look at my team, look at my plan.”

By tradition Ontario elections are called on a Wednesday and held on a Thursday four weeks later, but this campaign will go five weeks because of a Jewish holiday on Thursday, June 5.

saw 59 and 41 per cent completion, respectively.Only one in seven FNMI students in the Wolf Creek School Division, however, finished high school within three years of entering. The provincial average has risen in the last five years to 43.9 per cent completion in 2012-13.

Wolf Creek superintendent Larry Jacobs said his division has to “build a bridge” and tailor curricula to a First Nations cultural context to improve those numbers.

The report finds that the best performing provinces for aboriginal education are B.C. and Ontario, while Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan score lowest. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s New Democrats have selected the province’s capital as the site to pick their new leader this fall.

A convention is to be held in Edmonton on Oct. 1819, Brian Stokes, the party’s executive director, said in an interview Friday.

Stokes said details and deadlines on the race have been delegated to a committee that is to report back in a month. He also said it will be the party’s first one-person, one-vote leadership contest. Previous contests were decided by delegates.

“We’ve modernized our leadership process,” said Stokes. “We want to make it as accessible as possible.”

There will also be a block vote for union affiliates, depending how many are signed up at the time, to a maximum of 20 per cent of the total, he said.

The membership fee is as low as $1 but is open to whatever a member wants to pay. That will not change for the leadership race.

Stokes said the party is also looking at the feasibility of electronic voting.

“Our big issue that the committee is exploring is can we do online voting in a way that is cost effective but also very secure?” he said.“But we also want to get as many people in person at the event as possible.”

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BRIEFS Two men from Sundre charged with arson in relation to Longview fires Two Sundre men have been charged with arson after a series of grass fires were lit on Thursday just south of Longview, south of Calgary.

Dale Aldrich, 21, and Marc Boulanger, 24, have been charged with four counts of arson after fireworks were discharged from a vehicle, igniting five grass fires shortly before noon.

No one was injured and no homes, farms or livestock were compromised either, Turner Valley RCMP stated. A portion of the highway was closed as crews extinguished the blazes. It reopened at 4 p.m.

The men appeared before a justice of the peace and bail was set at $5,000 cash deposit. One of the men made bail on Thursday night, said Cpl. Tiffany McCregor with Turner Valley RCMP. She did not have an update on whether the second male was still in custody on Friday morning.

Both are scheduled to appear in Turner Valley provincial court on June 3.

More than 4,000 potholes filled Filling thousands of potholes is not a small undertaking but crews have already repaired more than 4,000 in seven weeks in Red Deer.

Public Works Department manager Greg Sikora said on average the crews repair between 10,000 and 13,000 each year. Sikora said the crews are making huge strides because they have already filled 4,200 potholes so early in the repair game.

Both city employees and contractors are on pothole duty. “Our philosophy has been to respond quickly, provide effective repairs, and to demonstrate our service commitment to the public by actively monitoring and patching problem areas,� said Sikora.

Potholes are formed when moisture enters a crack in the pavement and saturates the granular base below. With a weakened base structure, the asphalt surface can break into pieces and get pushed into the soft base below. Vehicle traffic over the pothole can cause the edges to crumble, which increases the size.

Some potholes in Red Deer will require repeated temporary patching until the street dries and permanent patching can be done. Motorists are encouraged to report potholes by calling Public Works at 403-3428238.

branches and garden plants. All plastic bags must be removed from the yard waste. No garbage is permitted. Free drop-off is available to Red Deer residents only. No commercial haulers are accepted.

Curbside pickup of yard waste began April 14 and continues to Nov. 14.

The Waste Management Facility is located at 1709 40th Ave., just off the Delburne Road. The facility will be open for yard waste drop-off, Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and on Saturday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The yard waste collected at the Waste Management Facility is turned into compost which is sold each year to residents.

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Discarded cigarette sparks balcony fire Red Deer Emergency Services crews responded to a call of a fire on a third-floor balcony at 5120 62nd St. around 6:10 p.m. on Thursday.

The blaze was contained to the balcony. No apartments were damaged and no injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire was likely improperly discarded cigarettes in a peat moss planter on the balcony. Fire prevention officer Josh Mah said with the dry weather and planting season approaching, they are urging residents to use common sense when disposing of cigarettes and use a metal or glass container. “Planters or flowerpots should not be used as ashtrays, as the mix of dried-out plants and potting soil, bark and/or peat moss is fuel for fire,� he said.

Red Deerians should take proper precautions with planter pots in and around their homes by keeping plants well watered to prevent potting soil from drying out.

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Planters and flowerpots should not be located in close proximity to other combustible materials. “We are asking for citizens to eliminate those risks so they can keep their families and properties safe,� said Mah. In 2011 alone, the improper disposal of smoking materials caused $1.1 million in residential damages.

Fire Chief Jack MacDonald said this fire was an example of a community system that works. “The whole system worked perfectly for something that could have seen a terrible, terrible outcome,� said MacDonald. “If the alarms weren’t working or nobody noticed it, or if people didn’t evacuate properly, then things could go badly for you.� “We are just imploring people not (to discard smoking materials) in planters,� said MacDonald. “Peat moss is a flammable. It can sit undetected for hours. But then a wind gusts happens and all of a sudden it ignites.�

Alberta Downs ready to go It will be all systems go as Alberta Downs opens for the season today.

Bob Allen, owner of the Lacombe horse track, says he has nearly finished all the safety code repairs required to open the facility for the May-to-October season. Allen said the doors will be open for the 11 harness race events scheduled to start at 1:15 p.m. today and Sunday.

Allen was served with a list of safety code violations after complaints about safety last year. He has been working with Lacombe County and Municipal Affairs to ensure he is in compliance.

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Free Yard Waste Week returns to Red Deer from Monday to May 10.

Residents can drop off their yard waste at the Waste Management Facility at no charge for the week. “Some residents have been eager to get to work in the yard after the winter we’ve had,� said Janet Whitesell, the city’s Waste Management superintendent. “If they want to drop off all their yard waste in one go after cleaning up on the weekend, they can do so for free. We waive the fee for a week in the spring and the fall to encourage diversion of those materials from the landfill.�

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E-CIGARETTES FACE SCRUTINY OVER VAPOUR The setting is perfect for an evening meal at your favourite restaurant — then horror of horrors, a person at the next table pulls out what appears to be a cigarette, takes a drag, then exhales what seems to be a cloud of smoke.

The shine on the perfect evening suddenly dissipates in that smoke cloud; smoking in public places is against the law and harmful to the health of non-smokers and smokers alike.

But before RICK you politely ZEMANEK ask that person to butt out, consider this: it may not be a cigarette at all.

Electronic cigarettes, also known as smokeless cigarettes, e-cigarettes or e-cigs, are the latest thing since nicotine patches. And that cloud of smoke might actually be a harmless vapour.

The e-cigarette, a battery-powered device that converts a liquid into a mist or vapour, is being marketed as another means of kicking the tobacco habit.

But the jury is still out on what’s cooking in that vapour. Does it pose the same deadly consequences to the user — and to innocent bystanders through second-hand emissions?

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed sweeping new rules that, for the first time, would extend its authority to electronic cigarettes. In the U.S., these popular nicotine-delivery devices have mushroomed into a multibillion-dollarindustry “with virtually no federal oversight or protections for American consumers,” the New York Times reported.

E-smoke is uncharted water and the FDA has chosen the course of better to be safe than sorry.

E-smokes are also under the watchful eye of Health Canada. While advocates of the high-tech puffers claim they are a safer alternative to conventional cigarettes, much like nicotine gum or patches, Health Canada cautions that not yet enough is known about the device.

Proponents say the e-cigs don’t produce lung-destroying tar and other poisons used to enhance the flavour of tobacco, negating the dangers of second-hand smoke.

In Canada, unlike the U.S., it’s illegal to sell these puffers using ingredients containing nicotine. However, the nicotine-laced “mist capsules” that fit many e-cigs are readily available from the U.S.

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Talia Eisenberg, co-founder of the Henley Vaporium, uses her vaping device in New York. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposes rules for e-cigarettes, and Health Canada is studying the devices. The moves will have big implications for a fast-growing industry and its legions of customers.

“To date, there is not sufficient evidence that the potential benefits of e-cigarettes in helping Canadians quit smoking outweigh the potential risks,” says Health Canada. It advises Canadians, especially youth, against the use of these products.

Industry analysts in the U.S. predict sales of the e-cig will outpace its US$85-billion tobacco industry within a decade. The FDA is understandably nervous about the projected windfall, insisting on quality control to weed out shady producers salivating over this new gold rush. “Perhaps the biggest proposed change (under new rules) would require U.S. producers of e-cigarettes to register with the FDA, provide the agency with a detailed accounting of their products’ ingredients and disclose their manufacturing processes and scientific data,” according to the Times. The new laws would also prohibit the sales of e-smokes to those under 18.

In Canada, the Nova Scotia government is itching to clamp down on e-cigs, which are showing up in schools because the devices are not

illegal. Health Minister Leo Glavine is concerned about the contents of the cooked “juice” in the fake smokes that provide the mist. His government plans to charge ahead with its own legislation if Health Canada doesn’t step in; “... our legislation will bring e-cigarettes under the Smoking and Public Places Act” — comparable to the ban on smoking a regular tobacco product, says Glavine.

The dangers of second-hand smoke are the backbone to Canadawide bans on lighting up in public places.

The Canadian Lung Association says “Second-hand smoke has over 4,000 chemicals; many of them cause cancer.

Two-thirds of the smoke from a cigarette is not inhaled by the smoker, but enters the air around the smoker.”

The most potentially lethal ingredient is tar produced by tobacco that coats lung tissue. Not to mention other scary stuff in that cloud of smoke, including carbon monoxide, ammonia, cadmium, hydrogen cyanide and nitrogen dioxide.

“Regular exposure to second-hand

smoke increases the risk of lung disease by 25 per cent and heart disease by 10 per cent,” the lung association says.

While the e-cig mimics a cigarette, does the mist amount to second-hand smoke if it contains nicotine but not the tar or other poisons associated with regular tobacco?

That’s the question at the heart of Health Canada and the U.S. FDA examinations.

There’s no denying nicotine is addictive. But it’s not the nicotine that is killing users or second-hand smoke victims. It’s the crap pumped into tobacco to enhance its flavour.

Nicotine gum and patches are widely accepted as safe alternatives to tobacco, and that they can aid in kicking the habit in the butt.

But before e-cigarette passes the litmus test, there must be strict quality control laws over what goes into the devices, and what comes out.

Are e-cigarettes safe or just a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

Living, dying with the urban curse There is a curse that comes with the urbanization of a country. And not just Canada; this is the same of any country in the world.

For thousands of years this has been taking place, so it is not a new thing, but the same circumstances bring it about.

W i t h o u t enough land to work for everyone; coupled CHRIS with poverty and the need SALOMONS for children to develop their own life and the desire to be with other people both for company and for protection, brought folks together to form communities, and eventually towns and cities.

Of course, this is oversimplified, but in essence that is how cities formed. As these communities grew, it was soon realized that there was not enough

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work for everyone, and so unemployment was born. Herein lies the curse.

In the early 1960s, I was working on a farm and was at a neighbouring farm when an argument developed between a father and his son. The son disliked farming. He was not good at it and avoided the work as much as possible.

His father, like so many farmers, was a very hardworking farmer who was depending on his son for help. Help was not forthcoming, however, because the son was a very good artist. That frustrated the father even more, so on the day we were there picking up some equipment, frustrations boiled over.

The following discussion is verbatim because what I witnessed has stuck in my mind ever since.

The father, frustrated beyond the breaking point, yelled at his son, “You are the most useless SOB in the world; I wish you had never been born.” To which the son replied equally loud, “Well it wasn’t me that went to bed with my mother 15 years ago!”

Infuriated, the father lashed out and struck his son on the side of his head and the son crumpled to the ground as the father stalked off.

Without a word, and after assuring

that the son was not dead, we picked up the equipment we needed and drove home. As we went through a hamlet on the way, we stopped at the general store to pick up some smokes, and as we did, we saw the son jump off the trailer we were pulling.

He approached my boss and asked for a small loan. “I’m leaving, he declared, I’m going to Vancouver where they appreciate what I do, I’ve had enough of getting kicked around.”

Two years later, as I was visiting with my former boss, I found out that this son had died from an apparent drug overdose and the father, overcome with grief, committed suicide.

The urban curse I mentioned earlier is that when kids come to a city, they find that things are not what they had envisioned. So with time to fill, no money and nothing constructive to fill it with, they find some degree of solace on the street. As we so well know now, there are more vultures on the street than in the whole country of Africa.

From what I have witnessed here in Red Deer, when young people come to the street for whatever reason, there being nothing for them to do, they group together and do nothing. Before

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long, they find many things to fill all the time they have; none of it very good or productive.

Without a positive mentorship, their thinking slowly becomes without focus and/or goals, so before too long drugs are introduced as a viable alternative to boredom.

I am also a realist in that I understand that we cannot stop all of the garbage that goes on. But to try to reduce it somewhat is a work that society as a whole must and does take on. We have many agencies to help, to intervene, counsel, feed, house and other efforts intended to reduce what goes on.

As I stand at the kitchen window, I watch as workers for the Downtown Business Association empty the garbage cans, wash the containers, and just generally pick up the garbage on the street.

Sometimes our work with some of the folks on the street feels much like their work, but then I realize that those efforts although mundane for the most part, are what helps to keep the city livable. Stop this work and we would soon be overwhelmed.

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Plywood and roller skates WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Lately, you may have noticed quite a bit of attention being paid to something called ‘longboards.’ In my day, longboards, by definition, consisted of any piece of plywood or maybe a two-by-four that was over, say, four feet (108 cm) in length.

Nowadays a longboard is basically a mini surfboard on wheels.

I’m pretty sure everybody knows about, has tried or wished they hadn’t tried wheel-surfing on a regular skateboard. And if you know what a skateboard is, you know what a longboard is. Not to put a too fine a point on it, HARLEY a longboard is a long skateHAY board. A skateboard on steroids.

So how long is a longboard, you may ask? Oh, “about this long” a smart alec kid at the skateboard park will answer, holding his hands out to his sides, palms inward indicating something really really long, and off he will go, laughing away, zooming down a polished, graffiti-covered cement incline, trying a kick flip rock fakie and a backside grind, which usually ends with him grinding his own backside on the cement, which is not really the aim of the trick. Only to jump up and do it again. Landing on his knees this time, or his hands, or elbows or noggin.

Let’s just say many of these skate park kids look like they just spent the afternoon body surfing down a long and steep gravel road.

The less-cool but much-smarter skaters wear geeky gear like helmets and knee pads, and hand protection and generally don’t limp home after a session at the skate park dripping blood on their untied running shoes.

It’s because they know the value of good personal protective equipment or PPE as the workplace safety

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people call it, although I suspect not one of these skater-kidz would be caught dead calling their skater stuff “PPE” out loud.

The answer posed way back a couple of paragraphs ago, is, however, this: longboards are around four to five feet (1200 decibels) in length, enough for seven or eight riders to pile on one board all at once and take off down a hill. Just kidding of course, no cool skater-kid would share his or her really dope and gnarly board, dad. It’s like, “Get your own ride, bro!”

And that’s pretty much what we did back in my day when automobiles were powered by coal, and people (my sister and her friends) strapped four wheels to their shoes and called them “roller skates.” These wheels were configured like your standard automobile, wagon or go-cart wheels: two in the front side by each, and two in the back, ditto. This was a long time before any of us had even heard of in-line roller blades, which are basically hockey skates with wheels in single file where the blades used to be.

And get this: the roller skates of yore had wheels made of solid cement! Or, well, rock or granite or some kind of stone all polished and smooth — at least my sister’s did — and I think I even remember some with hollow shiny metal wheels and even wooden wheels. Not the “thane” which skater-dudes are so stoked about these days. (According to Stokedskateboards.com “thane” is skateboard talk for polyurethane, which is what board wheels are made of these days. As in: “Yo, dude — you see all that thane that guy’s heelslide laid down?!”)

Oh there were skateboards around, all right — I’m not that ancient — cavemen rode them past our cave all the time, but my buddies and I, having spent all our summer allowance on bikes and baseball mitts, decided to make our own skateboards. Which, of course, meant ‘borrowing’ my sister’s strap-on rollerskate wheels for a while. Without actually asking her, on account of I noticed she wasn’t using them much anymore anyway.

So my pal Ricky Scott and I hunkered down over at my place in the dingy cement basement by the humongous grimy old steel furnace and sawed away at some scrap pieces of plywood we found until —

Voila! — we each had a feet-sized rectangle of scrap plywood! After we pried the wheels and the axel thingies off of my sister’s roller skates (Rick got the left skate, I got the right one), we found some screws and nails and with a great deal of grunting, pounding and sweating with various tools we had no clue how to use, we more or less attached the stone wheels to our plywood rectangles.

And for the piece de resistance, we rooted around down there until we found some cans of goopy paint and finished off our custom skateboard masterpieces with a classy coat of colour. Mine was flat black — and Rick’s was also flat black, since that’s the only paint we found.

So the next day, when the custom paint job had all dried, all excited, we haul them out, and I ceremoniously place mine on the sidewalk, step onto the skateboard, give a mighty kick with the free leg and I zoom forward like a rocket for at least three feet (12 mm) before the stone-wheeled skateboard stops dead, and I do not.

Apparently, my sister’s skates didn’t have the glide factor of the modern wheels made of “thane,” but of course I never asked her about it on account of I was planning to tell her all about the borrowed skates sometime several decades into the future. Obviously, I should have worn my hockey helmet, pads and gloves (since PPE hadn’t been invented yet).

Instantly, I became the poster boy for the term “road rash.”

Rick’s left skate wheels weren’t much better so before any we could self-inflict any further damage to life and limb, we went back into the house and dug out a little flat tin can of Mom’s Singer sewing machine oil (this was before WD40 had been invented).

A couple of little squirts into the general direction of the wheels and we little squirts were ready to rock and roll. And that’s when we took our gnarly homemade shortboards to the very top of the long and winding Spruce Drive hill sidewalk.

But that’s another story.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

If this situation continues indefinitely, and the Palestinians must live out their lives as mere residents without no political rights, then they are in the same position as the black South Africans who lived all their lives under white rule without citizenship or the vote. That was the very essence of apartheid.

Alternatively, of course, Israel might grant them citizenship and the vote: that’s what happened when apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994. But there are already a great many Palestinians living under Israeli rule, and their higher birth rate would make them a majority in that “unitary” Israel in less than a generation. That might or might not be a state where Jews were happy to live, but it would definitely no longer be a Jewish state.

That’s all Kerry was saying: if you don’t accept the two-state solution then willy-nilly you get the onestate solution, in one of two flavours — an apartheid state in which the great majority of the actual citizens are Jews and the Palestinians have no voice in how they are ruled, or a more broadly defined state in which everybody is a citizen but Jews are no longer the majority.

Many Israel senior politicians who favour the two-state solution, including former prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, have made exactly this point, even using that same inflammatory word, “apartheid,” to underline the gravity of the choice.

Senior Palestinian politicians talk about it all the

time. But senior American politicians are not allowed to talk like that about Israel.

State Department officials tried to defend their boss’s comments for a few hours, but as the firestorm of protest by American Zionist organizations grew, the Obama administration realized that Kerry had to be forced to apologize for speaking the truth. The story that they took him down into the White House basement and beat him with rubber hoses is probably untrue, but he recanted his heresy.

“I do not believe,” Kerry said, “nor have I ever stated, publicly or privately, that Israel is an apartheid state or that it intends to become one.”

Well, of course not. It’s not an apartheid state now because the non-citizen status of the Palestinians for the past 47 years is technically only temporary, pending the creation of their own state.

And Israel has no intention of ever meeting the technical definition of an apartheid state, either, because that would be a public-relations disaster.

However, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems convinced that he can avoid that outcome simply by hanging on to the occupied territories indefinitely but never formally annexing them, and many Israelis agree with him. They might even be right, but Kerry doesn’t think so. Or at least, he didn’t until his own people worked him over a bit.

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Israel: The ‘A’ word Hillary Clinton would never have used the word when she was U.S. Secretary of State, because she still has presidential ambitions. John Kerry, the current Secretary of State, has no further ambitions in that direction, which may be why he dared to use the words “apartheid” and “Israel” in the same sentence. Or maybe he just didn’t realize that the world would hear about it.

Kerry spoke last week to a group of high-ranking officials from the U.S., Europe and Japan known as the TriGWYNNE lateral Commission about DYER the failure of his year-long attempt to revive the “peace talks” between Israel and the Palestinians. Somebody at the meeting secretly recorded his comments, which were published by the Daily Beast this week, and suddenly he was in very hot water.

What he said was that the long-sought “two-state solution” was the only real alternative to a “unitary” Israeli-ruled state that included all the territory between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea — and ruled over millions of Palestinians in the territories that have been under Israeli military occupation since 1967.

Those Palestinians, most of whom cannot remember a time when they did not live under Israeli control, have no political rights within Israel. The twostate solution, under negotiation off and on for the past 20 years, would give them a state of their own, but most people had despaired some time ago of getting Israel to agree to an independent Palestine.

Kerry had not, so he was surprised and disappointed when his efforts came to naught. That was why he blurted out the truth that American politicians are never supposed to acknowledge. He said that without the two-state solution, “a unitary [Israeli] state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class [Palestinian] citizens — or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state.”

It was clumsily phrased, but the basic idea is common in both Israeli and Palestinian political discourse. Even if Israel never formally annexes the occupied territories, it has been building Jewish settlements all over them for decades, and the Palestinian inhabitants are effectively controlled by the Israeli government.

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Resource industries need innovation The latest report on climate change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects a frightening and costly future for human society unless much more concerted action is taken to change behaviour, develop and adopt major new technologies, change land-use patterns and move to new business models.

Yet the enormity of the challenges we face also provide great opportunities, as Wal van Lierop, president of a major clean-tech venture capital firm told a recent innovation summit at Waterloo University. The danger, the president of Vancouver-based Chrysalix EVC told the summit, is that Canada will fail to seize the opportunities.

As it is, he contended, BritDAVID ish Columbia had lost its edge CRANE in the pulp and paper industry because it failed to innovate while its competitors did, arguing Canada has to move fast to innovate in its other resource industries if it doesn’t want to lose out in those as well. “If we don’t take the opportunity, others will,” he warned.

While Canada’s high-tech players suffer from what he called “Silicon Valley envy,” Canada has something Silicon Valley doesn’t have — natural resources. Applying clean tech to our natural resources, he contended, was Canada’s unique opportunity.

Climate change makes it imperative.

Climate change is already having a destructive im-

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pact, he said: Glaciers are retreating, which affects future water supplies in Western Canada; warmer winters have meant that the ravenous pine beetle is destroying large swaths of B.C. forest; and ocean warming is threatening shellfish production on the B.C. coast. We can’t go on pretending it doesn’t matter.

Indeed, it is clear that advances in technology will be essential if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change before the end of the century. Even with today’s population and way of life, there are big challenges. But between now and 2050, the world’s population is projected to grow from seven billion to nine billion, with a much larger world economy and many more people moving into the middle class, meaning much greater demand for food, water, energy and natural resources.

The prevailing climate consensus is that the world should aim to hold the average world surface temperature to an increase of no more than 2C by 2100, compared to 1750. But without significant new measures, the average surface temperature increase in 2100 is more likely to be in the 3.7C to 4.8C range, the IPCC warns, with catastrophic impacts likely well before then.

Canada is falling far short on its own emissions reduction commitment of a 17 per cent reduction from 2005 levels by 2020. Current estimates from Environment Canada show that 2020 emission levels will be largely unchanged from 2005. Oilsands production is a major reason that Canada is failing to keep its commitment.

Lierop argues that the world will remain hooked on hydrocarbons for the next two to three decades, until new technologies kick in on a much broader

scale. But “we need to make hydrocarbons much cleaner and get more out of a barrel of oil,” he says.

Canada’s goal, he argued, should be to become an exporter of clean, reliable, cheap and safe energy and an exporter of the technologies that make this possible.

In fact, clean-tech is becoming commercially competitive and we are starting to see major inroads.

LED lighting, for example, has turned the lighting industry upside down. And now, says Lierop, we can see the same thing happening in solar energy, with the price falling 80 per cent since 2008. “So some technologies are now ready for prime time — some of the frogs are becoming princes.”

The need for future technological innovations will be enormous. Fossil fuel production in the future will require reliable and affordable carbon capture and storage systems. Renewable energy systems will need advances in battery technology so that power generated by wind and solar can be stored for future use. Water technologies will also be critical as climate change and the combined impacts of population growth and economic growth worldwide increases the demand for clean water and water treatment technologies.

Clean technologies could form the basis for a new innovation strategy in Canada, linked to our many resource industries, our capacity for food production and the need for water technologies. In a more crowded and resource-constrained world, no need will be greater than to meet basic human needs in a sustainable and cost-effective manner. It’s a challenge Canada could and should embrace.

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

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Land of the long white cloud NEW ZEALAND’S SIMILARITIES TO BRITISH COLUMBIA ARE STRIKING, BUT THE COUNTRY OFFERS SO MUCH MORE: KIWIS — BOTH THE FLIGHTLESS-BIRD AND HAIRY-FRUITED KIND — PALM TREES, THE WORLD’S ONLY ALPINE PARROTS, ACTIVE VOLCANOES AND SHEEP, A LOT OF SHEEP

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TOP: New Zealand has 30 million sheep — seven lambs for each of its 4.4 million people.

ABOVE: The Tongariro Crossing — bypassing an active volcano — is one of New Zealand’s nine Great Walks.

This is the first in a three-part series on travel in New Zealand.

TOP: The endangered Kaka is a native alpine parrot.

ABOVE: While waiting out Typhoon Lusi at Archie’s Bunker in Napier, Mitsuo Okano, an itinerant healer, treats Gerry.

In the southern hemisphere February is our August. Late summer.

Reports to the contrary, New Zealand is not a small country.

It stretches 1,500 km from the subtropical north, where olive trees bake in the hot sun, to the Antarcticcooled waters of the south, where penguins march on pebbled beaches. And because Kiwi terrain is crumpled, the going

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is slow. It is a long, long haul from the southern port of Invercargill to the warm beaches of the north’s Bay of Islands.

Austral fall was nigh so we began our sixweek tour of New Zealand in Queenstown on the South Island. As the plane banked for landing, I was surprised to see an arid mountain landscape overlooking a large, narrow lake. I wasn’t anticipating the south of New Zealand to look like British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley.

Back-dropped by the Remarkable Mountains, Queenstown (like Banff, to which it is compared) is gorgeous, expensive — and jammed with tourists from all over the world. After two hectic days of international socializing, we moved on.

We steered west toward Fiordland on the Tasman Sea.

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ABOVE: Scientists call these wondrous formations lenticular clouds. The Maori people’s name for their homeland is Aotearoa, “land of the long white cloud.”

BELOW: Yellow-eyed penguins wave hello on the south tip of the South Island.

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Hi ho, hi ho: Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is centerpiece of Disney’s New Fantasyland LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The centerpiece of the New Fantasyland area inside the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World will open to the public on May 28.

On Friday, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs announced the opening date of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train.

The ride is a roller coaster aimed at the whole family. It does have a height requirement of 38 inches (97 cm).

It takes guests throughout the forested world of the dwarfs, then plunges them into a mine with glowing gems. Scenes and songs from the movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” play during the ride, and animatronic dwarfs and animals also make an appearance.

There are some steep hills and quick plunges, and the coaster’s cars pivot back and forth.

The doctor examined me and determined that a “realignment of the head” was in order. He laid three fingers on my nose — and held that position throughout Jackass II. Sensing my impatience, he said, “Relax, let mind be clear.” This was a difficult assignment given that his index finger was hooked into my left nostril and the good doctor had obviously cut raw onion for lunch. Wallace meanwhile, New Testament in hand, was guffawing uncontrollably at a disturbing scene involving male genitalia and a faulty zipper.

Florence, removed from the throng at the back of the Bunker, sat knitting, shaking her head at this surreal, All in the Family scene.

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I handed him a satchel jammed full of aviation books.

I looked at him and in slow recognition said, “That hurt, Andrew.”

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The South Island’s similarity to B.C. became increasingly apparent: orchards and quaint wineries gave way to snow-capped peaks, then gigantic trees towering over lush rain forests; then raging rivers spilling through tight gorges. Near the coast, roadside pullouts offered teasing glimpses of remote ocean inlets.

With B.C.’s vast expanse, it would take days to experience such varied terrain. In New Zealand, it happens within hours; British Columbia compressed.

But there is much more to New Zealand. The Kiwis also have kiwis (both the flightless-bird and hairy-fruited kind), palm trees, the world’s only alpine parrots, active volcanoes and … sheep, lots of sheep: 30 million at last count — seven or eight lambs for each of New Zealand’s 4.4 million people.

Thirty years, ago there were 80 million. But dairy farming has now surpassed mutton and wool as the country’s biggest industry.

Tourism is a close second. The Kiwis have this business down to a science. The country is chockfull of information centres, cleverly dubbed I-Sites. ward the door. A sudden, heavy thump in the air Smiling hostesses attend to one’s every travel need: announced the unexpected arrival of a helicopter. guided tours, dining recommendations, last-minute He chatted into a headphone mic for a moment and accommodation, you name it — all free of charge, no stopped us: “If you wait 15 minutes, there’s an off appointment necessary. We happily took advantage chance of one last flight before dark.”

Spontaneity is the mother of serendipity. Twenty of this nationwide courtesy. Our plans became spurminutes later, rotors were firing and our whirlybird of-the-moment, footloose.

It was odd, disconcerting driving into the sun from was headed for what our pilot Andrew described as the south. On a long February day (with 16 hours of “one of the better views we’ve had of Franz Josef light) the sun slings northward before eventually set- this year.”

“Look there’s Mound Cook, New Zealand’s highest tling into the west.

And the clouds! New Zealand’s sky hosts arrest- peak shining in the evening sun,” he marveled like a ing, unique clouds. Scientists refer to these unusual rookie tourist, “we never see that.”

Back at the helipad we thanked Andrew. He asked billows as “lenticular” or “asperatus” formations.

The Maori people’s name for their homeland is if we were Canadian. At the end of March he was leaving New Zealand. “I’ve taken a job helicopter Aotearoa, “land of the long white cloud.”

And night after starry night, the Southern Cross — firefighting out of a little place called Red Deer — in an Austral mariner’s best friend — stood out starkly Alberta.” Travel life is full of odd coincidences.

New Zealand is renowned for hiking. Trekkers against the brightest Milky Way I’ve ever seen; another amazing facet to New Zealand’s magical Mid- come from around the world to tramp its Nine Great Walks. Most are multi-day adventures. Backpacks, dle-earth charm.

We had arrived Down Under with just three res- provisions and overnight gear are necessary to tackervations: a car, a ferry between islands and a flight le these challenges. Since I prefer a hot shower, home. The plan was … head north. New Zealand’s sizzling sirloin and warm bed to a wet sleeping bag unpredictable, malleable weather — and an open, and a swarm of sand flies (these malevolent bloodflexible agenda — would dictate the tack. If rain suckers are pervasive throughout the west coast), we instead chose were forecast in one bite off day-hike direction, we’d sim‘THE WEATHER IS MEANT TO CHANGE AND to chunks of the Great ply head another.

COULD SOCK IN FOR DAYS. YOU SHOULD Walks, thus having We had intended our proverbial steak to visit Christchurch, CONSIDER A HELICOPTER TOUR NOW, and eating it, too. rent Segways (twoWhich is not to w h e e l m o t o r i z e d WHILST YOU CAN.’ NEW ZEALANDERS LOVE say we stayed in stand-ups) and tour SAYING ‘WHILST.’ Five Star digs. We the city’s Red Zone, had our share of ground zero for the devastating earthquake of 2011. I glanced at a televi- high-end B&Bs and fancy hotels, but we prefer somesion as we were leaving our Wanaka hotel. A report- thing a little chummier. Mostly we lodged at Backer stood knee-deep in muck. Floods and catastrophic packer Hostels, swapping road tales — and sharwinds were pounding Christchurch into a fresh di- ing kitchen facilities — with fellow travellers. (We saster zone. We veered left toward Franz Josef Gla- quickly learned some crucial N.Z. jargon, like “en suite,” which means “private with bathroom.” Sleepcier on the west coast.

The Haast Pass is among the most spectacular ing bunk-style and sharing a shower with strangers is drives in all of New Zealand, so a three-hour trip be- only a step above a night spent swatting sandflies.)

Backpacker hotels do not offer soothing spas, hot came a full day pit-stop adventure; despite an early start, we arrived in Franz Josef only moments before mud baths or cold-water plunges. But they do make the I-Site closed for the night. The pleasant young for some interesting situations and encounters.

We were socked in for a couple of days by Tywoman locking the door said urgently: “The weather is meant to change and could sock phoon Lusi in the art deco town of Napier. Our inn in for days. You should consider a helicopter tour was called Archie’s Bunker (an aptly-named place to now, whilst you can.” New Zealanders love saying wait out a tropical storm).

We were bored. Whilst Lusi wailed outside, one “whilst.”

We drove straight to the helicopter pad. Two of the semi-permanent residents of the Bunker, an blocks — and one minute — later we were standing itinerant Japanese healer named Mitsuo Okano, ofin front of the frazzled gent who was charged with fered to treat me — in the privacy of the packed common room. Another long-term occupant of the hostel, organizing the local ’copters.

“Any chance we might grab a flight up to the gla- a recovering soul named Wallace, sat next to me.

Wallace’s primary activities consisted of reading the cier tonight?” I asked politely.

“No” he said bluntly. We walked gloomily to- Bible and laughing aloud at toilet-humour movies.

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Customers dine at cozy Dear Bushwick restaurant, in Brooklyn’s edgy Bushwick neighborhood in New York.

It’s one of a number of trendy eateries that are bringing visitors to the area.

TOURISTS AND HIPSTERS GRAVITATING TO BROOKLYN’S BUSHWICK NEIGHBOURHOOD

Above left: Jermaine McGriff, a Bedford Stuyvesant-based rapper, records a music video in front of a street art portrait of the late rapper Biggie Smalls, also known as Notorious B.I.G., in Brooklyn’s cutting-edge Bushwick neighborhood in New York.

Left: A customer enjoys a slice of Tanya Charding thin-crust pizza, featuring Swiss chard, speck, a cured meat, and Robiola cheese.

BY BETH J. HARPAZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — For the last few years, a neighbourhood called Williamsburg has been the epicenter of Brooklyn cool. But with prices for Williamsburg condos hitting $4 million and up, young creative types are migrating to trendier — and less expensive — ground.

They seem to have found it in nearby Bushwick, known for colorful street art (please don’t call it graffiti!) and kale pizza at a place called Roberta’s.

Yet Bushwick’s emergence as part of cutting-edge Brooklyn has not completely erased memories of the bad old days, when the working-class neighbourhood was notorious for crime.

Maria Hernandez Park is named for a woman who was killed in 1989 after standing up against drug dealers.

Today the park is filled with flowers, skateboarders, dog-walkers and families.

“No more shootings,” said Elvin Alvarado, sitting on a park bench. “It used to be at 8 p.m., you could not pass. People were waiting for you.”

Joe Ficalora grew up in the neighbourhood; his father was killed by a crackhead here in 1991. But Bushwick’s murder rate has dropped 90 per cent since then, and Ficalora is thrilled with the transformation.

He points to an old warehouse, now renting out gleaming apartments, as proof that the neighbourhood will not “turn into Detroit.”

“No one wanted to live here before,” said Ficalora, who promotes street art through a group called the Bushwick Collective.

“No one wanted the beast. Now everyone loves the beast!”

Where the hipsters of New York City go, tourists are sure to follow. So for out-of-towners willing to explore Bushwick, take the L subway line to Jefferson Street and start wandering. You’ll find great eats and great art.

STREET ART Along Troutman, Starr, Wyckoff and other streets, artwork decorates old factories, warehouses and even small apartment buildings. There’s everything from a portrait of Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai to a picture of a flotation device with the words: “Street art saved my life.”

On a recent afternoon, several young men chose a mural of the late rapper Biggie Smalls as a backdrop for filming a music video.

“I was looking for good artwork and this caught my eye,” said the video’s 20-year-old star, who goes by the name Flispy Flexin.

You may see artists at work with spray paint, stencils, ladders and other tools of the trade, and you can sign up for a Bushwick street art tour through http:// FreeToursbyFoot.com , where participants pay what they wish for tours.

Ficalora also organizes an annual street festival showcasing artists, musicians and others contribut-

Above: Proprietor Archie Broady adjusts the wick on a “courtship candle,” one of the unusual items for sale in his tiny gift shop Iola, situated at the Shops at the Loom, a converted textile mill in Bushwick.

Below: People gather outside Maria Hernandez Park, in the Bushwick neighbourhood of Brooklyn in New York. The park is named for an activist who fought to rid her neighbourhood of drug dealers, but was killed in 1989.

ing to the neighbourhood’s renaissance. It’s planned for June 1, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., on Troutman between Wyckoff and St. Nicholas.

SHOPS Ficalora’s family operates a steel products company that’s one of a number of manufacturers still located in Bushwick. But some industrial buildings have been repurposed for residential and retail use, like Shops at the Loom, which houses 20 stores in a renovated textile mill at 1087 Flushing Ave., including Gnostic Tattoo, the Bushwick Food Cooperative, Brooklyn Yarn Cafe, Loom Yoga Center, and Kave, a coffee bar that offers nut-milk lattes and Wi-Fi. Archie Broady owns a boutique at Shops at the Loom named for his mother, Iola. In his store, he says, “anybody should be able to find something beautiful.”

His eclectic wares and “found objects” range from hand-cranked candles wound around a coil, to bandages designed to match various skin colours.

Even folks from other parts of Brooklyn are intrigued by Bushwick’s newfound trendiness. “I’m from Williamsburg but I’m here for a few days to explore the neighbourhood,” explained Jodi Jones, a fashion photographer stopping by the Kave cafe. “I

keep hearing the hipster scene is in Bushwick.”

EATING AND DRINKING Bushwick is an increasingly important player in Brooklyn’s foodie scene. A tiny, upscale restaurant called Dear Bushwick at 41 Wilson Ave. offers a sumptuous “English Country Kitchen” menu with entrees in the $22 range like stuffed bass and roast chicken. Intriguing vegetable sides include roasted carrots with “medieval nut pesto,” $7. Try Dear Bushwick’s version of Pimm’s, a refreshing gin cocktail that originated in 19th century London. And enjoy the quirky decor: A picture of a caped damsel on a white horse sits next to a handwritten nursery rhyme, “Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross, to see a fine lady upon a white horse.”

Ficalora recommends Northeast Kingdom, 18 Wyckoff Ave. “Awesome place, comfort food,” he says. Menu offerings include “This Morning’s Farm Egg,” $12, seared local scallops, $25, and maple walnut bread pudding, $8. Other area bars, nightspots and cafes include Bodega Wine Bar, 24 St. Nicholas Ave.; The Rookery, 425 Troutman St.; and Pearl’s Social & Billy Club, 40 St. Nicholas Ave.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Brooklyn 97 Toronto 83 BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Dwane Casey admitted he’d been concerned about his young Raptors team who had zero experience playing in close-out games — what awaited them with the vastlyexperienced Brooklyn Nets, and how they’d react.

It turned out, the Toronto coach had good reason to be.

The Raptors couldn’t overcome a horrible first quarter — their worst 12 minutes of the series — en route to a 97-83 loss to Brooklyn Nets on Friday, sending the series back to the Air Canada Centre tied at three games apiece.

“Any Game 6, a team is going to come out with a desperate mindset,” Casey said. “This team they built to win a championship this year. They’re going to come out and give you their best shot. . . knew that coming in and tried to warn our team.

“Guys who haven’t been in Game 6 before, it’s one of the toughest things to do. Again, experience is the best teacher. Now we’re going into Game 7, it’s our first time at that. Luckily we have it at home.”

DeMar DeRozan scored 28 points but got little help from the rest of the Raptors who trailed 34-19 at the end of the first quarter against a Nets team that was facing elimination.

Now it’s down to one game for Toronto to make the second round of the post-season for just the second time in the franchise’s 19-year history, and a date with the two-time defending NBA champion Miami Heat.

“Yeah, it’s Game 7,” Kyle Lowry said. “We all grew up watching Game 7s and want to be a part of Game 7s.

We’ve still got to go out there and not be too over anxious. We’ve still got to go out there and do what we need to do.

“Me personally, I’m not going to be all amped up. It’s going to be a game that we have to go home and win.”

They’ll clearly need a better effort than they gave Friday.

Lowry was the only other Raptor to

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Toronto Raptors’ Greivis Vasquez (21) defends Brooklyn Nets’ Shaun Livingston (14) during the second half of Game 6 of the opening-round NBA basketball playoff series Friday in New York. The Nets won 97-83. score in double figures with 11 points.

Jonas Valanciunas had nine points and nine rebounds, while Greivis Vasquez added nine points.

“We just didn’t come out with the competitive nature that we needed tonight,” Lowry said. “They did an unbelievable job of forcing their will on the game tonight, but we have to find a way to match that intensity.”

Deron Williams, playing on a bad ankle for the better part of the second half, led the Nets with 23 points, while Joe Johnson added 17 points, Kevin Garnett finished with 13 and Paul Pierce added 12.

Coming off victories in Games 4 and 5, the Raptors were outhustled and outplayed by the Nets from the outset Friday, looking much like the fourth-

quarter Raptors in Game 5 on Wednesday that coughed up a 26-point lead yet still managed to hold on to win.

The Nets — who assembled an allstar squad this season, trading for Pierce and Garnett with sights set on an NBA title — played easily their best basketball of this series.

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Brassard scores in OT to lift Rangers over Penguins

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New York Rangers’ Brad Richards (19) celebrates his goal in the first period of Game 1 of a second-round NHL hockey playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh, Friday.

New York 3 Pittsburgh 2 PITTSBURGH — The best line on hockey’s busiest team hardly looked gassed.

The way Derick Brassard and Benoit Pouliot were furiously pouring in overtime goals, the New York Rangers didn’t exactly look like a group in need of a day off.

Brassard beat Marc-Andre Fleury 3:06 into overtime — with Pouliot bizarrely doing the same seven seconds later — and the Rangers stunned the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Friday night.

The winner officially went to Brassard, whose wrist shot from in front beat Fleury cleanly but caromed back onto the ice. Referee Steve Kozari waved it off, however, and play continued before Pouliot slammed the puck into a wide open net moments later for good measure.

“I found out way later (Brassard) got the goal,” Pouliot said. “Good for him.

We’ve been playing well against Philly and now tonight. We deserved that.”

Pouliot and Brad Richards gave the Rangers an early 2-0 lead. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 34 shots and stuffed a late Pittsburgh breakaway in the final seconds of regulation. The line of Pouliot, Brassard and Mats Zuccarello combined for 14 points in New York’s four regular-season meetings with the Penguins. They were the best trio on the ice on a team barely 48 hours removed from a wearying seven-game victory over Philadelphia.

“Since Christmas they’ve probably been our most consistent line,” Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said.

“They’ve got real good chemistry. They read off one another and support one another well and . . . they scored two in overtime.”

Lee Stempniak and James Neal scored for the Penguins. Fleury made 24 saves but was helpless on the winner.

“It was just a big pile of guys and I was trying to find the puck out of it,” Fleury said.

Pittsburgh star Sidney Crosby was held without a goal for the 12th straight playoff game.

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Kane’s clutch play powers Blackhawks past Wild

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Chicago 5 Minnesota 2 CHICAGO — Patrick Kane scored two goals for Chicago in the third period, including a terrific dash through the Minnesota zone for the tiebreaking score, and the Blackhawks beat the Wild 5-2 in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals Friday night.

Bryan Bickell also scored twice for the Blackhawks, who have won five in a row after losing their first two playoff games. Marian Hossa had a goal and two assists as the defending Stanley Cup champions made the most of two costly high-sticking penalties on Min-

nesota defenceman Jonas Brodin.

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is Sunday.

The Wild showed no sign of any fatigue just two days after their dramatic 5-4 overtime win in Game 7 of their first-round series against Colorado. Playing in the second round of the post-season for the first time since 2003, Minnesota used third-period goals from Clayton Stoner and Kyle Brodziak to tie it at 2.

Brodziak’s third goal of playoffs on a slick pass from Erik Haula silenced the sellout crowd of 21,116 with 13:04 left, but Kane then electrified the United Center once again with his 33rd playoff goal.

The flashy wing carried the puck into the Minnesota zone, hesitated as teammate Patrick Sharp skated behind him, and then split Brodziak and Brodin on his way to the net. He finished the play by roofing a backhand over goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov’s left shoulder at 8:22.

Kane then yelled “Showtime!” twice and pumped his right arm as the delirious crowd cheered wildly. But he was only getting started.

The 2013 Conn Smythe Trophy winner picked up his fifth goal of the playoffs on a nice pass from Ben Smith, and Bickell added an empty-netter as Chicago pulled away.

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er play in a disturbing sign after it struggled with the man advantage in its first-round playoff series against Chicago a year ago. The Wild were unsuccessful on all 17 power-play chances when they were eliminated by the Blackhawks in five games in 2013.

Bryzgalov had 17 saves in his first start since he was pulled from Minnesota’s 4-2 loss to the Avalanche in Game 2.

Darcy Kuemper took over for the Wild in net until he got hurt in the third period of the final game, and Bryzgalov made one save to help the Wild advance.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey FOURTH ROUND WHL Championship Ed Chynoweth Cup (Best-of-7)

Today ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Okotoks at Lacoka, 7 p.m., Ponoka Culture and Rec Complex.

Sunday ● Junior B tier 3 lacrosse: Lethbridge at Olds, 1:30 p.m., Sports Complex. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Innisfail at Lacoka, 5 p.m., Ponoka Culture and Rec Complex.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP Evan Meek to Norfolk (IL). Recalled RHP Brad Brach from Norfolk.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed 2B Jason Kipnis on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Jose Ramirez from Columbus (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Joel Hanrahan on a one-year contract and placed him on the 15-day DL. Sent RHP Mike Belfiore outright to Toledo (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with LHP Tony Sipp on a one-year contract. Optioned RHP Paul Clemens to Oklahoma City (PCL). Transferred RHP Jesse Crain to the 60-day DL. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed LHP Bruce Chen on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Aaron Brooks from Omaha (PCL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Recalled INF Grant Green from Salt Lake (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed OF Aaron Hicks on the 7-day DL. Recalled LHP Logan Darnell from Rochester (IL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled C Erik Kratz from Buffalo (IL). Optioned RHP Chad Jenkins to Buffalo.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Recalled OF Alfredo Marte from Reno (PCL). Optioned OF Tony Campana to Reno.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with 3B Chris Johnson on a three-year contract from 2015-17.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed INF Josh Rutledge on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 28.

Recalled INF Ryan Wheeler from Colorado Springs (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled INFOF Chone Figgins and RHP Jose Dominguez from Albuquerque (PCL). Placed LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 28. Assigned LHP Paco Rodriguez to Albuquerque. Optioned RHP Red Patterson to Albuquerque.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed RHP Jim Henderson on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Caleb Gindl from Nashville (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with RHP Odrisamer Despaigne on a minor league contract.

American Association AMARILLO SOX — Signed LHP Dayne Quist.

LAREDO LEMURS Released OF Ryan Stovall.

Signed RHP Mark Haynes, RHP Caleb Graham, RHP Michael Suk and RHP Victor Capellan.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Released INF Yurendell de Caster and INF Rhyne Hughes.

Signed OF Reggie Abercrombie.

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Released RHP Justin Garcia and OF Jerod Edmondson.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed C Kyle Lafrenz.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed LHP Anthony Collazo and C Rey Otero.

FLORENCE FREEDOM — Signed LHP Thomas Gentile, OF Alex Johnson, RHP Greg McDaniel and RHP Edgar Valle.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed RHP Aaron Baker and RHP Jake Stephens to contract extensions.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Signed RHP Will Rankin.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Memphis F Zach Randolph one game for punching Oklahoma City C Steven Adams in the jaw during a May 1 game. Fined Brooklyn coach Jason Kidd $25,000 for public criticism of the officiating.

ORLANDO MAGIC — Exercised team options and extended the contracts of general manager Rob Hennigan and coach Jacque Vaughn through the 2015-16 season.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Carolina DE Frank Alexander for the first four games of the 2014 regular season for violating the league’s substance abuse policy.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Waived QB Zac Robinson.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Exercised the 2015 option on DL Phil Taylor.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived/injured OT Jason Weaver.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Exercised the 2015 contract option on LB Aldon Smith.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Named Will Harriger offensive assistant, Chris Morgan assistant offensive line coach and Chad Morton assistant special teams coach. Announced Nate Carroll will assume the role of assistant wide receivers coach and John Glenn quality control/defence coach. Agreed to terms with LB O’Brien Schofield and CB A.J. Jefferson. Declined to exercise G James Carpenter’s fifth-year contract option for the 2015 season.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with WR Brian Robiskie on a one-year contract.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Exercised 2015 option on LB Ryan Kerrigan.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Named Brent Thompson coach of Bridgeport (AHL).

American Hockey League CHICAGO WOLVES — Recalled F Gergo Nagy from Quad City (CHL).

MOTORSPORTS INDYCAR — Fined Andretti Autosport-HVM $2,000 for infractions by rookie Carlos Munoz’s pit road crew during the April 27 race at Barber Motorsports Park.

OLYMPIC SPORTS USADA — Announced sprinter Tyson Gay accepted a one-year suspension and returned the silver medal he won in the men’s 400-meter relay at the London Olympics after he tested positive for a prohibited substance. The one-year ban began last June 23, the day his sample was collected at the U.S. championships. Gay accepted loss of results dating to July 15, 2012.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended Vancouver G Paolo Tornaghi one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for entering the field of play in the 94th minute of the April 26 game against Real Salt Lake.

Fined D.C. United F Eddie Johnson an undisclosed amount for hands to the face/head of FC Dallas D Zach Loyd during an April 26 game.

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Columbus 7 3 1 3 10 Kansas City 7 3 2 2 9 D.C. 7 3 2 2 10 New England 8 3 3 2 7 New York 9 2 2 5 13 Toronto 6 3 3 0 6 Houston 8 2 4 2 8 Philadelphia 9 1 3 5 9 Montreal 8 1 4 3 7 Chicago 7 0 1 6 10

GA 7 6 8 9 12 7 13 11 14 11

Pt 12 11 11 11 11 9 8 8 6 6

Western Conference GP W L T GF 8 5 2 1 18 8 5 2 1 18 8 3 0 5 13 7 3 2 2 9 8 2 2 4 12 5 2 1 2 7 6 1 2 3 6 8 1 4 3 8 8 0 3 5 9

GA 12 14 8 9 10 4 7 14 13

Pt 16 16 14 11 10 8 6 6 5

Seattle Dallas Salt Lake Colorado Vancouver Los Angeles San Jose Chivas Portland

Today’s games New England at Toronto, 11 a.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Salt Lake at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Seattle, 8 p.m.

D.C. at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Houston at Chivas, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games New York at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Columbus at Kansas City, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, May 7 Columbus at Houston, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Colorado at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014

(Rangers lead series 1-0) Friday, May 2 NY Rangers 3, Pittsburgh 2 Sunday, May 4 NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Monday, May 5 Pittsburgh at NY Rangers, 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 7 Pittsburgh at NY Rangers, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, May 9 x-NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, TBD Sunday, May 11 x-Pittsburgh at NY Rangers, TBD Tuesday, May 13 x-NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, TBD

Portland (W2) vs. Edmonton (E1) Saturday, May 3 Edmonton at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sunday, May 4 Edmonton at Portland, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 6 Portland at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 7 Portland at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 9 x-Edmonton at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sunday, May 11 x-Portland at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 12 x-Edmonton at Portland, 8 p.m. x — if necessary.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES RANGERS 3, Penguins 2 (OT) First Period 1. NY Rangers, Pouliot 3 (Girardi) 5:04.

2. NY Rangers, Richards 3 (Hagelin, Girardi) 17:03.

Penalties — Moore NYR (cross-checking) 9:11, Bennett Pgh (hooking) 11:37, Kunitz Pgh (holding) 19:52.

Second Period 3. Pittsburgh, Stempniak 2 (Bennett, Goc) 7:15.

4. Pittsburgh, Neal 2 (Jokinen, Malkin) 13:28.

Penalties — Brassard NYR (hooking) 0:52, St. Louis NYR (elbowing) 4:27, Jokinen Pgh (hooking) 9:52, Bennett Pgh (roughing) 16:22.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Boyle NYR (tripping) 2:37.

Overtime 5. NY Rangers, Brassard 1 (Pouliot) 3:06.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by NY Rangers 13 4 8 2 — 27 Pittsburgh 8 15 12 1 — 36

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Chicago (3) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Chicago leads series 1-0) Friday, May 2 Chicago 5, Minnesota 2 Sunday, May 4 Minnesota at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, May 6 Chicago at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 9 Chicago at Minnesota, TBD Sunday, May 11 x-Minnesota at Chicago, TBD Tuesday, May 13 x-Chicago at Minnesota, TBD Thursday, May 15 x-Minnesota at Chicago, TBD

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs SECOND ROUND Division Finals EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Boston (1) vs. Montreal (3) (Montreal leads series 1-0) Thursday, May 1 Montreal 4 Boston 3, 2OT Saturday, May 3 Montreal at Boston, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, May 6 Boston at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Thursday, May 8 Boston at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 10 x-Montreal at Boston, TBD Monday, May 12 x-Boston at Montreal, TBD Wednesday, May 14 x-Montreal at Boston, TBD

Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 5-3-0); Pittsburgh: Fleury (LO, 4-3-0).

Blackhawks 5, Wild 2 First Period 1. Chicago, Bickell 3 (Seabrook, Hossa) 14:48 (pp).

Penalties — Shaw Chi (interference) 3:13, Brodin Minn (high-sticking) 13:09.

Second Period 2. Chicago, Hossa 2 (Saad, Leddy) 11:21 (pp).

Penalties — Bench Chi (too many men) 7:13, Brodin Minn (high-sticking) 10:09, Leddy Chi (elbowing) 11:47, Bench Minn (too many men) 19:16.

Third Period 3. Minnesota, Stoner 1 (Parise, Pominville) 2:19.

4. Minnesota, Brodziak 3 (Haula, Heatley) 6:56.

Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Los Angeles (3) Saturday, May 3 Los Angeles at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

Monday, May 5 Los Angeles at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Thursday, May 8 Anaheim at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 10 Anaheim at Los Angeles, TBD Monday, May 12 x-Los Angeles at Anaheim, TBD

Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh (1) vs. N.Y. Rangers (2)

5. Chicago, Kane 4 (Sharp, Seabrook) 8:22.

6. Chicago, Kane 5 (Smith, Sharp) 16:47.

7. Chicago, Bickell 4 (Toews, Hossa) 17:19 (en).

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Minnesota 8 17 7 — 32 Chicago 13 3 6 — 22

Wednesday, May 14 x-Anaheim at Los Angeles, TBD Friday, May 16 x-Los Angeles at Anaheim, TBD x — if necessary.

Goal — Minnesota: Bryzgalov (L, 1-3-0); Chicago: Crawford (W, 5-2-0).

2014 WESTERN CANADA CUP ROUND ROBIN GP W L T GF GA x-Dauphin 4 3 1 0 19 16 x-Yorkton 4 2 2 0 15 13 x-S. Grove 4 2 2 0 11 12 x-Coquitlam 4 2 2 0 9 11 Winnipeg 4 1 3 0 10 12

Pts 6 4 4 4 2

Note: Two berths to RBC Cup to be awarded. x — clinched semifinal berth.

Thursday’s results Dauphin 5 Coquitlam 3 Spruce Grove 5 Winnipeg 3 Wednesday’s result Yorkton 4 Coquitlam 1 End of round robin Saturday, April 26 Dauphin 4 Spruce Grove 2 Winnipeg 3 Yorkton 1 Sunday, April 27 Coquitlam 3 Spruce Grove 1 Yorkton 8 Dauphin 6 Monday, April 28 Coquitlam 2 Winnipeg 1 Tuesday, April 29 Dauphin 4 Winnipeg 3 (OT) Spruce Grove 3 Yorkton 2 (OT) PLAYOFFS Today’s games Spruce Grove vs. Coquitlam, 1 p.m.

Dauphin vs. Yorkton, 6 p.m. (Winner qualifies for RBC Cup) Sunday’s games Dauphin-Yorkton loser vs. Spruce Grove-Coquitlam winner, 3 p.m. (Winner qualifies for RBC Cup)

Basketball NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Friday, May 2: Brooklyn 97, Toronto 83 x-Sunday, May 4: Brooklyn at Toronto, 11 a.m. or 6 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta 3, Indiana 3 Saturday, April 19: Atlanta 101, Indiana 93 Tuesday, April 22: Indiana 101, Atlanta 85 Thursday, April 24: Atlanta 98, Indiana 85 Saturday, April 26: Indiana 91, Atlanta 88 Monday, April 28: Atlanta 107, Indiana 97 Thursday, May 1: Indiana 95, Atlanta 88 Saturday, May 3: Atlanta at Indiana, 3:30 or 5 p.m.

Miami 4, Charlotte 0 Sunday, April 20: Miami 99, Charlotte 88 Wednesday, April 23: Miami 101, Charlotte 97 Saturday, April 26: Miami 98, Charlotte 85 Monday, April 28: Miami 109, Charlotte 98 Toronto 3, Brooklyn 3 Saturday, April 19: Brooklyn 94, Toronto 87 Tuesday, April 22: Toronto 100, Brooklyn 95 Friday, April 25: Brooklyn 102, Toronto 98 Sunday, April 27: Toronto 87, Brooklyn 79 Wednesday, April 30: Toronto 115, Brooklyn 113

Washington 4, Chicago 1 Sunday, April 20: Washington 102, Chicago 93 Tuesday, April 22: Washington 101, Chicago 99, OT Friday, April 25: Chicago 100, Washington 97 Sunday, April 27: Washington 98, Chicago 89 Tuesday, April 29: Washington 75, Chicago 69 WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio 3, Dallas 3 Sunday, April 20: San Antonio 90, Dallas 85 Wednesday, April 23: Dallas 113, San Antonio 92 Saturday, April 26: Dallas 109, San Antonio 108 Monday, April 28: San Antonio 93, Dallas 89 Wednesday, April 30: San Antonio 109, Dallas 103 Friday, May 2: Dallas 113, San Antonio 111 x-Sunday, May 4: Dallas at San Antonio, 11 a.m. or 1:30 p.m.

Memphis 3, Oklahoma City 3 Saturday, April 19: Oklahoma City 100, Memphis 86 Monday, April 21: Memphis 111, Oklahoma City 105, OT

Thursday, April 24: Memphis 98, Oklahoma City 95, OT Saturday, April 26: Oklahoma City 92, Memphis 89, OT Tuesday, April 29: Memphis 100, Oklahoma City 99, OT Thursday, May 1: Oklahoma City 104, Memphis 84 Saturday, May 3: Memphis at Oklahoma City, 6 or 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers 3, Golden State 2 Saturday, April 19: Golden State 109, L.A. Clippers 105 Monday, April 21: L.A. Clippers 138, Golden State 98 Thursday, April 24: L.A. Clippers 98, Golden State 96 Sunday, April 27: Golden State 118, L.A. Clippers 97 Tuesday, April 29: L.A. Clippers 113, Golden State 103 Thursday, May 1: L.A. Clippers at Golden State, late x-Saturday, May 3: Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 7 or 8:30 p.m.

Portland 3, Houston 2

Sunday, April 20: Portland 122, Houston 120, OT Wednesday, April 23: Portland 112, Houston 105 Friday, April 25: Houston 121, Portland 116, OT Sunday, April 27: Portland 123, Houston 120, OT Wednesday, April 30: Houston 108, Portland 98 Friday, May 2: Houston at Portland, 8:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 4: Portland at Houston, 1:30 p.m.

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami vs. Brooklyn-Toronto winner Sunday, May 4: Brooklyn-Toronto winner at Miami, 11 a.m.

Note: If Brooklyn-Toronto series ends Friday, May 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio vs. Portland Sunday, May 4: Portland at San Antonio, 11 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. (If both teams win first round series) Portland vs. Dallas Sunday, May 4: Dallas at Portland, 1:30 p.m. (If both teams win first round series)

Baseball San Diego Arizona

AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS UNAVAILABLE Today’s Games Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 1-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 3-0), 11:05 a.m.

Oakland (Milone 0-2) at Boston (Lester 2-4), 11:35 a.m.

Baltimore (W.Chen 3-1) at Minnesota (Correia 0-3), 12:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 0-0) at Houston (Keuchel 2-1), 2:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Carroll 1-0) at Cleveland (Masterson 0-1), 4:05 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 2-3) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-3), 5:05 p.m.

Detroit (Smyly 1-1) at Kansas City (Duffy 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (M.Harrison 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Richards 2-0), 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Oakland at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

Toronto at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Baltimore at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

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

Seattle at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

Monday’s Games Minnesota at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

Toronto at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Houston at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

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

Texas at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Atlanta 17 11 .607 Washington 17 12 .586 New York 15 13 .536 Miami 15 14 .517 Philadelphia 13 14 .481 Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 21 9 .700 St. Louis 15 15 .500 Cincinnati 13 16 .448 Pittsburgh 11 18 .379 Chicago 10 17 .370 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 18 11 .621 Colorado 18 13 .581 Los Angeles 17 13 .567

GB — 1/2 2 2.5 3.5 GB — 6 7.5 9.5 9.5 GB — 1 1.5

13 10

17 22

.433 .313

5.5 9.5

Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 6, St. Louis 5 Pittsburgh 6, Toronto 5 Washington 5, Philadelphia 3 Miami 6, L.A. Dodgers 3 Milwaukee 2, Cincinnati 0 San Francisco 2, Atlanta 1 Colorado 10, N.Y. Mets 3 Arizona 2, San Diego 0 Today’s Games St. Louis (Wacha 2-2) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 0-0), 11:05 a.m.

Toronto (Dickey 2-3) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-3), 5:05 p.m.

Washington (Roark 2-0) at Philadelphia (Burnett 1-1), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Maholm 1-2) at Miami (Ja.Turner 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 2-0) at Cincinnati (Cueto 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Vogelsong 0-1) at Atlanta (Teheran 2-1), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Mejia 3-0) at Colorado (Morales 3-1), 6:10 p.m.

Arizona (McCarthy 0-5) at San Diego (Kennedy 2-3), 6:40 p.m.

Sunday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

San Francisco at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

Toronto at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.

Arizona at San Diego, 2:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Toronto at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

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

St. Louis at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

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

Arizona at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Texas at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 030 011 000 — 5 10 Cleveland 511 014 00x — 12 13

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Joh.Danks, Downs (6), Cleto (6), Lindstrom (8) and Nieto; Salazar, Rzepczynski (6), Shaw (6), C.Lee (7), Outman (8), Allen (9) and Y.Gomes. W—Salazar 1-3. L—Joh.Danks 2-2. HRs—Chicago, J.Abreu (11). Cleveland, C.Santana (4), Brantley (5).

Oakland Boston

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Straily, Abad (5), Otero (6), Cook (6), Pomeranz (6) and Jaso; Buchholz, A.Miller (7), Mujica (8), Breslow (9) and Pierzynski. W—Buchholz 2-2. L—Straily 1-2.

HRs—Boston, Pedroia (1).

Baltimore 000 Minnesota 000

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Wainwright, Choate (6), Lyons (7), Siegrist (8) and Y.Molina; T.Wood, Grimm (8), Schlitter (8), H.Rondon (9) and Castillo. W—T.Wood 2-3. L— Wainwright 5-2. Sv—H.Rondon (2). HRs—St. Louis, Jh.Peralta (7). Chicago, Rizzo (5).

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Jimenez, Z.Britton (8), Tom.Hunter (9) and Wieters; Nolasco and K.Suzuki. W—Jimenez 1-4. L— Nolasco 2-3. Sv—Tom.Hunter (8). HRs—Baltimore, N.Cruz (8).

Strasburg, Barrett (7), Blevins (7), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and Lobaton; Cl.Lee, Mi.Adams (8), Diekman (8), Bastardo (9) and Ruiz. W—Blevins 2-1. L—Mi.Adams 1-1. Sv—R.Soriano (6). HRs— Washington, T.Moore (2). Philadelphia, Byrd (4).

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Porcello, Krol (8), E.Reed (9) and Avila; Shields, K.Herrera (7), Mariot (9) and S.Perez, Hayes. W— Porcello 4-1. L—Shields 3-3. HRs—Detroit, Avila (1). Kansas City, B.Butler (1).

Seattle 000 022 000 00 — 4 8 2 Houston 002 010 010 01 — 511 0

W.Peralta, Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy; Leake, Ondrusek (9) and B.Pena. W—W.Peralta 4-1. L— Leake 2-3. Sv—Fr.Rodriguez (14).

(11 innings) F.Hernandez, Wilhelmsen (6), Beimel (7), Leone (7), Medina (8), Farquhar (9), Furbush (11) and Zunino; Peacock, Sipp (7), Qualls (9), Bass (10) and J.Castro, Corporan. W—Bass 1-0. L—Furbush 0-3.

HRs—Seattle, Zunino (4).

Beckett, J.Dominguez (7) and Olivo; Koehler, Marmol (8), M.Dunn (8), Cishek (9) and Saltalamacchia.

W—Koehler 3-2. L—Beckett 0-1. HRs—Miami, Saltalamacchia (6).

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Pirates steal one in the 9th

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pittsburgh 6 Toronto 5 PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Pirates probably thought they were in for another long night.

They arrived home in Pittsburgh at 3:33 a.m. Friday after the second game of their doubleheader with the Baltimore Orioles went into extra innings.

The Pirates appeared on their way to playing another late one Friday night when Pedro Alvarez hit a tying two-run homer off Sergio Santos in the ninth.

But two batters later, Starling Marte followed with a winning drive into the bullpen in left-centre, giving the Pirates a 6-5 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Manager Clint Hurdle, who moved Marte from batting leadoff to the seventh spot in the lineup Thursday and six-hole Friday, hopes the win can get his players and team some “traction.”

“It’s been a while since Pedro has been able to ride one out of the ballpark,” Hurdle said. “Marte’s at-bats have gotten bigger, none bigger than that one. Those kind of at-bats can create a spark, create more momentum and more traction.”

Marte knew the ball was gone as soon as he hit it.

“That’s what I want,” Marte said.

“No matter what spot I hit in.”

Santos (0-2) entered with a 5-3 lead and allowed a leadoff single to Neil Walker. He struck out Andrew McCutchen, and Alvarez followed with his seventh homer this season. Pinchhitter Ike Davis flied out, and Marte hit the first game-ending homer of his big league career.

Alvarez’s homer broke a two-week home run drought for the third baseman who led the National League last season.

“Obviously, (hitting the home run) feels really good,” Alvarez said. “It

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The ball gets past Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Juan Francisco as Pittsburgh Pirates’ Neil Walker, right, takes third on a wild pitch in the fifth inning of the baseball game on Friday in Pittsburgh. kept us in the game, but of course anytime I can get a clutch hit for the team, to contribute to a W, it’s huge.”

Mark Melancon (1-1) pitched a hitless ninth for the win. After converting his first four save chances this season, Santos has blown three of his last four

for the Blue Jays, who have lost seven of their last nine games and continue to have issues in the bullpen.

“We played such a great game today and it stinks to blow it,” Santos said.

Toronto manager John Gibbons noted the injuries to reliever Casey Jans-

sen and Dustin McGowan as aspects that have hindered the Blue Jays’ performance at the end of games.

“It’s a totally different look and I think we’re suffering for it,” Gibbons said. “But the game doesn’t let you up.”

Hay completes move to Blazers from Giants Who would have thought that the Vancouver Giants would make a bigger news splash on bantam draft day than they did last year, when they snagged ballyhooed Tyler Benson with the first overall choice?

They did exactly that Thursday.

The selection of 1999-born talent by the WHL took a back seat in Giants Land to the announcement that coach Don Hay, who had been with the squad since 2004-05 and led them to a Memorial Cup national championship in the spring of 2007, was being let out of the final year of his contract and would be taking over the rival Kamloops Blazers, Hay’s hometown team.

Kamloops is coming off a dreadful, last-place season, and bringing back Hay, 60, who also guided the Blazers to Memorial Cups in 1994 and ‘95, will give a spark to their program both on the ice and in the community. It’s safe to say he’s going to be as inspired as ever.

The Giants won’t be getting anything from the Blazers in return and they don’t have a Hay replacement as of yet to announce. It’s a good bet they will get a marquee name, somebody that even cursory hockey fans will be famil-

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RAPTORS: Trailed by 26 points “We started the game out with the opposite disposition that we wanted to, I thought they came out in a desperate mode and we didn’t,” Casey said.

“We didn’t start to play that way until we got knocked down in the second half. That’s what the playoffs are about, your start probably tells you how you’re going to finish. And tonight, they got their foot on the pedal a lot quicker than we did.”

Toronto trailed by 26 points midway through the third and went into the fourth down 79-59. The Raptors pushed back in the fourth, opening with a 17-7 run to pull within 10 on a three-pointer

by Lowry with 5:02 to play.

With the fans at the Barclays Center on their feet, Williams drained a three with 1:13 to play that put the Nets up by 13 and secured the victory for Brooklyn. The fans chanted “U-S-A!” as the final seconds ticked down. A grinning Garnett high-fived Jay-Z. DeRozan who, along with starters Jonas Valanciunas and Terrence Ross, had never played in the post-season before this, said the Raptors weren’t ready for the intensity of a Game 6.

“We didn’t really realize, we had Brooklyn against the wall and we

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BRIEFS Tanner Jaillet a finalist for goaltending honour Red Deer minor hockey product Tanner Jaillet is a finalist for the Canadian Junior Hockey League goaltender of the year award.

The 20-year-old was selected as the

iar with. The Giants realize they need that to help draw attention to themselves in this market.

They undoubtedly will wait to see where everyone winds up when the NHL coaching carousel stops. Ron Toigo, the Giants owner, is far from shy. When it comes to Hay’s successor, think of a name like Marc Crawford, the former Canuck bench boss who’s been working in Switzerland, would like to get back in the NHL but said during a visit to a Giants game one time that he could see himself working in junior again.

Toigo also remains adamant that the club will be bidding to host the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament. That happens this fall. The right coach could help bring that home.

Why wasn’t Hay the right coach with the Giants anymore? Why they would let him walk with a year left on his deal? The Giants program needs a refresh. Things are stale. Home attendance was listed at 6,266 last season. It was 8,470 in 2008-09.

The Giants also obviously felt he wasn’t the right guy for that 2016 Memorial Cup push. There was an apparent disconnect between player development, led by Hay, and player recruitment, led by general manager Scott Bonner.

Hay wanted to continue to play a

crash and bang style. The Giants were bringing in smaller, puck-possession skill guys.

In recent years, the Giants have had several players ask to be traded, including 2011 2010 first-round pick Anthony Ast, 2009 second-round pick Matt Bellerive and 2009 third-round pick Blake Orban. There were others, including veteran Craig Cunningham in 2010-11.Those were all tied to Hay. With the past few trades, the Giants were routinely admitting in press releases that the players had asked out.

You can read into that what you want.

Things weren’t working.

Oddly enough, with his return to Kamloops, Hay gets to work with Bonner’s younger brother Craig, who is the Kamloops general manager. Craig played for Hay with the Blazers and was his assistant coach in the Giants’ Memorial Cup year.

The Giants’ hockey operations cohesion hasn’t been the same since Craig left for the Kamloops gig in April, 2008.

He and Hay seemed to have an good understanding of each other. They could recreate that in Kamloops.

There were rumours about a Hay-toKamloops move about six weeks ago.

They died down quickly. The Blazers, according to league scuttlebutt, asked for permission to speak to coaches from multiple teams in the league

didn’t take advantage of it like we should have,” he said. “We should have known they were going to come out throwing haymakers, and we weren’t ready for it until the second half.”

to his forehand and flip the puck by an overmatched Fleury.

BLACKHAWKS: Bryzgalov off to RANGERS: Penguins slow start appeared to need a nap “It could’ve went either way,” Crosby said. “I don’t think we played a full 60 (minutes).”

Not exactly.

The Rangers were supposed to be exhausted after outlasting the Flyers in the opening round, not advancing until a 2-1 victory in Game 7 on Wednesday night.

Instead, it was the well-rested Penguins who appeared to need a nap.

Pouliot gave New York the lead 5:04 into first period, capitalizing on a Pittsburgh turnover then splitting Penguins defenceman Olli Maatta and Matt Niskanen before firing a wrist shot that caromed off Fleury’s right arm and into the net.

Richards doubled the lead late in the period with his third and easiest goal of the post-season. Carl Hagelin beat Maatta to a puck in the corner and fed it to Richards, who had enough time in front to go from his backhand top goaltender in the Alberta Junior League during the 2013-14 season, posting a .933 save percentage and a 2.01 goals-against average with the Fort McMurray Oil Barons.

He was also a finalist for the league’s most valuable player award and earned an NCAA scholarship to the University of Denver.

The other finalists for the national award are Kale Thomson of the Yorkton Terriers (SJHL), Braedon Ostepchuk of the Selkirk Steelers (MJHL), Jeff Smith of the Powell River Kings (BCHL) and Joel Horodziejczyk of the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Thunderbirds (NOJHL).

Kuemper is day to day with an upper-body injury, but Wild coach Mike Yeo said before Game 1 against the Blackhawks that the goalie was not in Chicago, making it unlikely that he’ll be able to play Sunday.

Bryzgalov got off to a slow start, and Chicago used the penalties on Brodin to build a 2-0 lead. Bickell tipped in

WHL in the past couple of weeks and Hay said he was keen on a change when he spoke to Kamloops.

Word is that this deal has been complete for several days now.

One of the hints that it was happening came earlier Thursday when the Giants traded for Bellerive, sending rights to a 2014 sixth-round pick and a 2015 fourth rounder to the Blazers for the right winger, who is entering his overage campaign.

When asked whether he had been told about a possible coaching change, Bellerive neatly danced around it, insisting he wasn’t privy to what was happening.

“I left off here on a bad note the first time. I’m just excited to show what I can do this time around,” he explained.

Right now, it looks like the Giants will use their three overage spots on forwards, with centres Joel Hamilton and Dalton Sward joining Bellerive.

The new coach will also benefit from a full season from Benson, a left winger, who becomes a regular next season as a 16-year-old. There are other young talents, like sophomore wingers Ty Ronning and Alec Baer.

Brent Seabrook’s slap shot at 14:48 of the first, and then had some fancy footwork on the Blackhawks’ second goal in the second period.

Nick Leddy made a nice pass to Brandon Saad streaking through the middle of the Minnesota zone. Saad then sent a backhand pass toward the left side of the net that Bickell stepped over, leaving it for Hossa to flip into the open side of the goal at 11:21.

The rest of the period belonged to Minnesota, which outshot Chicago 17-3 in the second. Mikael Granlund had a shot go high off the left post, and Corey Crawford made nice glove saves on Wild captain Mikko Koivu and Zach Parise. Crawford finished with 30 saves after he made 35 stops in Chicago’s 5-1 victory over St. Louis in Game 6 on Sunday

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Investment capital scarce in hog industry

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Improved prices might have some pork producers looking to upgrade or replace their long-neglected barns. But they’re unlikely to see bankers lining up to lend them the money.

Rod Pfeifer of Farm Credit Canada provided a dose of financial reality on Friday during the Alberta Agricultural Economics Association’s Visions conference in Red Deer.

“It’s hard to find investment capital in the hog business right now,” said Pfeifer, senior account manager, credit risk, with FCC. He explained that after seven years of low prices, those inside the industry have little money left to spend. And those outside are reluctant to take a chance on the recent jump in prices.

Most bankers, said Pfeifer, will want

to see a year or two of profits before they’ll finance the renovation or replacement of facilities that were virtually worthless a short time ago. FCC dealt with dozens of hog farm closures, he said, and the cleanup wasn’t pretty.

“We’d have $500,000 worth of land and $2 million worth of hog barns, and we got $500,000 for the quarter,” said Pfeifer, adding that some buyers even wanted a discount for having to take the hog barn.

“It was that bad at certain points.”

For those who remained in the industry, few could justify — or afford — capital expenditures on their facilities. So the need now is critical, said Pfeifer. Complicating things is a consumer-driven push for the elimination of “gestation crates” in favour of more open space for sows. Not only would this reduce production efficiency by about 20 per cent, said Pfeifer, it would necessitate a major overhaul of

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many barns.

“Most of the farrow operations in Western Canada are set up with crates.

“It’s not going to be deferred maintenance, it’s a change in the way the industry looks at animals and the way we raise them.”

On a positive note, pork producers’ improved earnings appear likely to remain for a while. That’s because current high beef prices are pushing consumers to meat alternatives, said Pfeifer.

“I’m optimistic the next two or three yeas, as long as cattle prices stay that high, people will default to a certain amount of eating more pork.”

A lower Canadian dollar has also helped, he said, although U.S. competitors remain a threat.

“The American industry only has to gear up about five per cent to take out the total Canadian production.”

Ruth Leman, an account manager

with FCC, offered some advice to the “survivors” who remain in the industry. She urged them to know their costs of production, and to eliminate those that are unnecessary, review those that are borderline and manage those that are necessary.

Leman also suggested that payables be brought current, loans be paid down and money be set aside for the next downturn in the hog cycle.

Friday was the second and final day of the Visions conference. Held annually in Red Deer, it feature presentations on agricultural issues by industry experts.

The Alberta Agricultural Economics Association is run through the University of Alberta’s department of rural economy, with academics, producers and professional agrologists among its members. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Tervita Metals Recycling is closing its after-hours scrap collection area at 8149 Edgar Industrial Cl. after a chronic abuse of the service.

It was opened four years ago as a place for people to drop off scrap metal, instead of in Trevita’s employee parking lot. But the last two years have seen the yard turn into an all-purpose dumping site. Instead of just metal being dropped off, there were drums of oil and unidentified liquids — which had to be tested and disposed of properly — as well as scraps of wood, mattresses and other objects that Tervita had to haul away.

The breaking point was a porcelain toilet with four bags of human feces that had split open. Another issue was the company’s potential liability if anyone who came into the area to scrounge through scrap metal got hurt.

“It’s come to the point where it’s both economically and environmentally not sustainable from our perspective,” said director of operations Wade Englesby. “There’s a great big fourby-eight sign out at the site that states specifically what we can take and what items we can’t, . . . the site is actually being abused.”

Tervita will still accept scrap metal during business hours, but people must now have their load weighed and inspected before being directed to the appropriate drop point.

“What we want to do is control that drop,” said Englesby.

After-hours collection will officially close on June 2. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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U.S. jobs jump point to stronger Canadian growth

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

ECONOMY

OTTAWA — Canada’s economy is exhibiting signs of warming with the weather, as the end of winter’s deep freeze appears to have set the stage for a second-quarter thaw.

The Conference Board is the latest to detect improving conditions.

It said Friday that its composite leading index had advanced 0.4 per cent in March, while also revising the February measure upward to 0.4 per cent.

The most encouraging signal, however, was fresh labour data from the United States showing that its economy had created 288,000 jobs in April — while also upgrading the employment numbers for February and March — to post the best U.S. unemployment rate in more than five years: 6.3 per cent.

“Our view now is we will get a little stronger U.S. economy in the second quarter and rest of the year and hopefully we’ll benefit a little better than we have on the trade side,” said Pedro Antunes, deputy chief economist with the Ottawa-based think-tank.

Scotiabank economists Derek Holt and Dov Zigler said the U.S. jobs number “is consistent” with their call for four per cent growth in the U.S. economy in the second quarter, the April to June months.

The big mover in the Conference Board’s March composite index, a forward-looking measure that tracks 10 different elements of economic activity, was on the exports side, a welcome development for the Bank of Canada.

In recent statements to Commons and Senate committees this week, Bank of Canada governor Stephen

Poloz voiced concern that exports have not adequately tracked U.S. demand suggesting Canada may be missing out on up to $40 billion in exports.

But he added that going forward he expects shipments will rise with demand.

On the positive side, he also flagged the possibility that the U.S. recovery may accelerate faster than the bank’s own forecast predicts, noting that forecasters often undershoot the pace of recovery once it takes hold.

The bank has long held that it will take a fully realized U.S. recovery to not only light a fire under Canadian exporters, but also instill confidence among corporate leaders to invest in capacity-generating equipment and to significantly increase hiring.

This is especially critical to the Canadian economy going forward, said Antunes, because the composite indicator also points to softening housing sales and consumer spending.

As well, government austerity — particularly at the federal level — is not helping out growth.

At present, Antunes said the most likely scenario is that the spring forward in economic activity is mostly a bounce-back from the winter slowdown and hence short-lived, although that could change if the U.S. recovery is strong.

Canadians will get additional evidence of where the economy is headed next week when Statistics Canada releases three key indicators — on merchandise trade for March, and housing starts and employment data for April.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — TransCanada Corp.

(TSX:TRP) hopes it won’t have to resort to a challenge under the North American Free Trade Agreement to get its long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline built, CEO Russ Girling said Friday.

“Those are issues that are sort of well beyond what we’re contemplating at the current time and not something we’ve spent a whole bunch of time analyzing,” he told reporters following the company’s annual general meeting.

“Down the road that’s something that hopefully we don’t have to take a look at, but obviously something that we would have to look at if we end up in a situation where the pipeline’s delayed indefinitely or denied.”

The U.S. regulatory review of Keystone XL is in its sixth year.

A week ago, the U.S. State Department dealt a major setback to the project, saying it would hold off on making a decision while a court case over the pipeline’s route is being worked out in Nebraska.

“Our focus is on getting a pipeline built and doing what’s necessary to provide the authorities with the information they need to make a positive decision,” said Girling.

He said he’s resigned to the fact that the coming summer construction season for Keystone XL has likely been lost and that workers will need to be taken off the project.

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TransCanada (TSX:TRP) needs two summers to build the pipeline, bringing the earliest-possible start-up to 2017.

Keystone XL would enable 830,000 barrels per day of mostly oilsands crude to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

A stretch of pipe from the Cushing, Okla., storage hub to the Gulf — which did not need a federal permit to be built — already opened in January of this year.

The proposed pipeline has been met with widespread criticism from environmental opponents — from farmers and ranchers concerned about the impacts of a spill on their land to major green groups concerned about the line’s impact on climate change.

Earlier Friday, TransCanada reported a first-quarter profit of $412 million or 58 cents per share, compared with a profit of $446 million or 63 cents per share a year ago.

Revenue increased to $2.88 billion, up from $2.25 billion a year ago.

Excluding certain one-time items, TransCanada said its comparable earnings for the quarter came in a $422 million or 60 cents per share, up from $370 million or 52 cents per share a year ago.

Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had on average been calling for comparable earnings of 59 cents per share.

The company attributed the increase to higher earnings from its NGTL System, Keystone, Bruce Power, U.S. power, and natural gas storage operations.

NYMEX NGAS 4.685US +0.011

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 109.13 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.91 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.85 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.37 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.00 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Deal-making, earnings news and U.S. jobs data that blew past expectations combined to push the Toronto stock market higher Friday.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 101.08 points to 14,765.15. The Canadian dollar moved down 0.16 of a cent to 91.07 cents US. New York indexes had a muted response to data showing that the American economy cranked out 288,000 jobs in April. Economists had expected growth of around 200,000. Also, the jobless rate fell from 6.7 per cent to 6.3 per cent. The Dow Jones industrials fell 45.98 points to 16,512.89, the Nasdaq was down 3.55 points to 4,123.9 and the S&P 500 index dipped 2.54 points to 1,881.14.

Some analysts attributed the tepid session in New York to nervousness over the worsening situation in Ukraine.

There was some major deal-making in the media sector as Torstar Corp. (TSX:TS.B), owner of the Toronto Star and other newspapers, said it was selling the Harlequin book publishing company for $455 million to News Corp. The company, best known for its romance novels, will be run as a division of News Corp. subsidiary HarperCollins Publishers. Torstar shares jumped $1.47 or 22.01 per cent to $8.15. SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) shares ran ahead $2.52 or 5.08 per cent to $52.14 as the engineering giant said that it is selling AltaLink, Alberta’s largest regulated electricity transmission company, to a subsidiary of the holding company run by U.S. financier Warren Buffett for gross proceeds of $3.2 billion.

On the commodity markets, the gold sector climbed about 2.35 per cent as growing tensions over Ukraine sent June bullion $19.50 higher to US$1,302.90 an ounce. June crude in New York gained 34 cents to US$99.76 a barrel and the energy sector rose 0.9 per cent. The base metals component was the weakest sector, off 0.09 per cent even while July copper was up five cents to US$3.07 a pound. The Toronto stock market finished with a gain of 1.59 per cent for the week, boosted by the deal-making and positive earnings reports from the energy, industrial and technology sectors. The Dow industrials edged up 0.92 per cent.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,765.15, up 101.08 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,014.46, up 7.94 points TSX 60 — 842.81, up 4.95 points Dow — 16,512.89, down 45.98 points S&P 500 — 1,881.14, down 2.54 points Nasdaq — 4,123.90, down 3.55 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 91.07 cents US, down 0.16 of a cent Pound — C$1.8530, up 0.20 of a cent Euro — C$1.5231, up 0.34 of a cent Euro — US$1.3872, up 0.07 of a cent Oil futures: US$99.76 per barrel, up 34 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,302.90 per oz., up $19.50 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.335 oz., up 56.4 cents $718.07 kg., up $18.13 ICE FUTURES CANADA Canola: May ’14 $14.30 higher $493.40; July ’14 $11.20 higher $480.40; Nov. ’14 $8.20 higher $484.40; Jan ’15 $8.10 higher $489.90; March ’15 $8.00

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 102.01 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 63.86 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.43 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 35.89 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 53.45 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.24 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.35 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.145 Precision Drilling Corp . . 14.44 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 43.22 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.21 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.38 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.22 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 72.66

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.05 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 60.21 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.12 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.77 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.14 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 23.16 First Quantum Minerals . 21.55 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.76 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.70 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.82 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.53 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.18 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.69 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 25.43 Energy Aeroflex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.59 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 38.35 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 69.69 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.27 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 58.18 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 44.98 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 23.02 Canyon Services Group. 15.10 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 32.58 CWC Well Services . . . . . 1.05 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 25.22 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.93

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.47 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.95 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.62 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.43 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.93 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.81 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 54.83 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 71.03 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.99 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.65 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.92 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.19 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 37.48 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.38

higher $494.60; May ’15 $7.70 higher $498.60; July ’15 $6.80 higher $500.20; Nov ’15 $6.70 higher $485.20; Jan. ’16 $6.70 higher $477.40; March ’16 $6.70 higher $483.70.

Barley (Western): May ’14 unchanged $139.50; July ’14 unchanged $140.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $140.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $140.50; March ’15

unchanged $140.50; May ’15 unchanged $140.50; July ’15 unchanged $140.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $140.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $140.50; March ’16 unchanged $140.50; May ’16 unchanged $140.50.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 243,780 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 243,780.

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BRIEF Canadians’ use of tax havens grows to $170 billion OTTAWA — Canadians’ use of tax havens for both legal and illegal purposes appears to be growing despite government efforts to curtail the practice, says a new paper from a tax avoidance watchdog.

Canadians for Tax Fairness says new data shows the use of 10 offshore tax havens by Canadian firms and individuals rose to $170 billion last year, up $15 billion from the year before.

The data shows that Canadian money is flowing into tax havens at a faster rate than investment into non-tax haven countries.

The $170 billion figure almost certainly under-represents the problem, says executive director Dennis Howlett, since Statistics Canada has stopped tracking how much money is being stashed away in the Bahamas, which in 2010 held about $14.5 billion in Canadian money.

As well, Howlett notes the figures only show money being reported and would not capture illegal activities.

The group estimates federal and provincial governments are losing out

France suspends imports of pigs from Canada, U.S., Mexico and Japan over virus PARIS — French authorities have suspended imports of live pigs and certain pig products from Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Japan to prevent a deadly virus from contaminating its food chain.

The Agriculture Ministry said Friday that no cases of the virus, known as porcine epidemic diarrhea, have been recorded in France since this epidemic broke out.

The virus has killed millions of pigs in the U.S. over the past year, driving up pork and bacon prices.

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on close to $8 billion in revenues from the reported use of tax havens alone.

The federal government has joined other advanced nations in efforts to cut down on tax avoidance and cheating, but Howlett says Ottawa hasn’t matched its rhetoric with action. He notes that Revenue Canada has seen deep cuts in staffing over the past few years as part of the government’s public service cutbacks. The numbers show that about 40 per cent of all Canadian direct foreign investment is held by the finance and insurance industry and that the money flow is mostly into three offshore countries — Barbados, the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg.

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Showcasing the extraordinary volunteer spirit of Central Alberta

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Celebrating volunteer week MAKING A DIFFERENCE, ONE ACT OF KINDNESS AT A TIME Volunteer Central (formerly Volunteer Red Deer) was very busy during Volunteer Week, April 7-12.

They showcased a number of organizations; Learning Disabilities Association of Red Deer, Kerry Wood Nature Centre, Lending Cupboard, Meals on Wheels and Magadalene House.

And they thanked the many dedicated volunteers who help these organizations thrive.

They are thankful to the many thousands of people in Central Alberta who volunteer their time, skills, and follow their passion to make our communities better places.

Without these volunteers, the towns and cities we call home wouldn’t be the vibrant, thriving communities they are.

Volunteers empower themselves and others to be active participants in our communities and in our world.

Organizations need volunteers to be able to provide services to many Central Alberta residents. Volunteers are

needed for a wide variety of positions at numerous organizations.

Volunteers can volunteer for the times that work best for them, whether that is daily, weekly or a few times a month.

In Central Alberta, we are fortunate to have numerous world class events.

Music festivals, cultural fairs, and sporting events all need volunteers to make them successful. Be a part of the fun and volunteer at one of these events.

If you would like to volunteer, are an organization needing volunteers, or a business or group that would like to volunteer, contact Volunteer Central and we will get you volunteering!

We look forward to working with you.

Thank you to all the volunteers in Central Alberta! Thank you for making a difference!

For more information, go to www. volunteercentral.ca, email info@volunteercentral.ca or call 403-346-3710.

Photos contributed

Volunteer John West fixes equipment at the Lending Cupboard.

Volunteer Central board members are: Bill Farr, Donna Carter, board chair, Kareen Lambert, Lynn Gray.

Kim Darbyson is the executive director of the Learning Disabilities Association of Red Deer. Their organization was showcased the day of the launch.

Each day, a different organization was showcased.

Lynne Mulder, City of Red Deer councillor, proclaimed it National Volunteer Week in Red Deer. Volunteer Week was launched at Volunteer Central’s office on April 7.

Marg Harper from Kerry Wood Nature Centre with Tracy Meneen, a leader from Junior Forest Wardens, who pick up garbage on the trails at Kerry Wood.

Delivering meals for the Meals on Wheels program.

Some of the Magdalene House volunteers with some Volunteer Central volunteers.

Meals on Wheels volunteers: Last year, more than 150 people volunteered their time to deliver hot, nutritious to residents in Red Deer.

LOCAL HOME

FRONT SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ARTIST CONTEST The National Gallery of Canada’s fourth So You Want to be an Artist contest, with the support of the RBC Foundation, runs through May 21.

Youth aged 16 to 19 across Canada can compete in the contest and then vote for their favourite submissions at www. soyouwanttobeanartist. ca. The 12 entries with the most votes will be shown at the gallery in Ottawa from July 28 to Sept. 1.

Expert judges will select three top three works of art with the grand prize winner receiving a behind the scenes visit of the gallery.

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SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014

JARVIS BAY, NORGLENWOLD CONTRIBUTE TO NEW SYLVAN LAKE FACILITY

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The new Sylvan Lake multiplex has received a funding boost from two nearby summer villages.

Jarvis Bay and Norglenwold have each contributed $40,000 to the construction of the Sylvan Lake NexSource Centre.

Despite being seasonal communities by nature, due to their adjacent location to Sylvan Lake they both have many full-time residents and their mayors thought it was important they contribute to the facility.

“We’re a separate municipality, we’re responsible for paying for the services our folks need and it was the right thing to do to contribute to the town because we can’t build those ourselves,” said Jarvis Bay Mayor Bob Thomlinson.

The villages have good relationships with Sylvan Lake, relying on them for a number of utilities and access to other facilities.

“Our residents shop in town, they use the restaurants and they use the facilities, so we certainly felt it was important that we contribute to that process,” said Norglenwold Mayor Carol McMillan.

Sylvan Lake Mayor Sean McIntyre said council is appreciative of the contributions.

“We had known that was there plan to come with the contribution and we’re very happy to receive it,” he said.

The combined $80,000 will go towards

the town’s government funding for the project, as officials also chase down provincial and federal grants for the expansive project.

The scope of the multiplex project has been expanded and will now include a new five-sheet curling rink, a senior centre, a civic event centre, child care, multi-purpose rooms and a lobby.

The multiplex will replace and be built on the same site as the Sylvan Lake Arena, which collapsed in January.

“It’s a really big project, it’s going to be, more or less, 60,000-square feet,” said — JARVIS BAY McIntyre.

“There’s no restrictions on what we can do within that footprint, and that includes 48th Street, that runs north and south between the arena and the pool right now, may very well be part of the centre.”

There is no estimate on overall cost to this point. The town recently awarded the design contract to CEI Architecture and expects conceptual plans as early as June.

A three-day public design charrett will follow. At that time, they will also be able to come up with a rough first estimate for overall cost.

The town does have a community fundraising goal of $2 million and pledges have reached approximately 35 per cent of that mark.

This includes $500,000 from NexSource Energy for naming rights, $100,000 from winning the Kraft Hockeyville contest and other major contributions from the community, like $15,000 from ATB. Other local businesses and groups are holding fundraising drives with proceeds going towards the centre.

“We’re really hoping to have that $2 million committed by the end of this year, which I MAYOR BOB THOMLINSON think is definitely attainable,” said Amy Komarniski, the chairperson of the multiplex redevelopment fundraising committee. “The feedback we have got from the community so far is that they want to be involved in this project.”

Much of the old arena structure still stands, however, as the town remains in discussion with the insurance company and all interested parties on completing the demolition. No date is set, though they would like to combine the demolition of the arena and the curling rink. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

‘IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE TOWN BECAUSE WE CAN’T BUILD THOSE OURSELVES.’

PENHOLD

The 25th Red Deer Scouts are hosting a silent auction and barbecue to raise funds for Scouting in the city. On May 24 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, at 18 Selkirk Blvd., there will be burgers, a bouncy house and a chance to bid on items such as golf packages, toys, gift certificates and attraction passes. Barbecue tickets cost $5 and are available at the door. For more information, contact Leslie Heikkenen at 403-9864950 or Jeanette Regehr at 403-346-6311.

Most fire victims leave town

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

BLACKFALDS FUN RUN AND WALK Blackfalds is gearing up for its fifth annual Fun Run & Walk on May 25 at the Abbey Centre at 4500 Womacks Road. This year, the run will raise money to go towards the Town of Blackfalds Programs Admissions and Sport Subsidy program, to help subsidise low-income families and individuals wishing to use the Abbey Centre and other town programs. Participants can register for the three-km, five-km or 10-km walk or run. For school age and 55-plus, the event costs $15; it’s $25 for adults and $65 for families.

Register online at www. events.runningroom. com/site/?raceId=10561, through mail at Blackfalds Fun Run & Walk, Box 1461, Blackfalds, AB, T0M 0J0, or by dropping the form off at either Blackfalds school.

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Rod Miller of Big Valley shows off one of his favourite pieces in his massive tool collection.

Historical Society hopes to open museum for tools RESIDENT DONATES MORE THAN 10,000 HISTORICAL TOOLS

BY ROBIN TARNOWETZKI STETTLER INDEPENDENT

BIG VALLEY

The Big Valley Historical Society hopes to open a new museum to display an extensive collection of historical tools donated by a local resident.

Rod Miller has amassed more than 10,000 tools in his 30 years of collecting.

Dan Welter, fundraising chair for the historical society, said the world needs to see this collection.

“Rod has done an amazing job of putting this collection together, but now it needs to be showcased,” Welter said.

About 3,500 of the tools are displayed in a rail car. They range from animal clippers to sledgehammers to wrenches to a primitive nail gun.

There’s a grizzly trap, a doughnut roller, a hay cutter, and vacuum tube testers.

Almost anything you could ever want to do, Miller has a tool for it.

The rest of his collection resides in his shop, where there is box after box of spark plugs and jar after jar of old keys.

The oldest tool he has is from 1858, but Miller doesn’t know what it’s for. A lot of the tools are from the late 19th century up to the 1920s and ’30s.

A tool museum might draw more people to Big Valley, which is already a destination for the Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions, a heritage railway that runs between Stettler and Big Valley, Welter said.

“We need to show this to the world,” Welter said.

Miller started collecting tools 30 years ago when he picked up two items at an auction without knowing what they were, then decided to find out. From there, the collection

grew.

“I just kept buying and buying and collecting and collecting,” he said.

None of the pieces have been donated to him, and he didn’t keep track of how much he has spent on the collection.

“Just lots,” he said.

One piece is a large black knife, which he wields with relish.

“I think it’s a butchering tool, and they would split an animal in half.”

Now that the historical society has the collection, it’s raising funds to build a museum to house the entire thing.

The society hopes to put the tool museum on a lot it owns, next to the Big Valley Creation Science Museum.

The historical society hopes its June 7 fundraiser at the local arena will provide the last of the money needed to begin construction on the tool museum. Tickets are $100 and includes cocktails, dinner, dance, and live auction.

Items up for bid include signed hockey cards from the year Canada won the Summit Series against Russia and a guitar signed by Nickelback.

“It’s going to be a major event,” Welter said. “We’re hoping to attract 1,000 people for the dinner and dance.”

The society wants to open displays to the public in 2014-2015, and have the entire project done in three to four years.

“It’s world class,” Welter said. “You won’t find another collection this size in North America for sure.”

For tickets to the fundraiser, call Lois Miller at 403-741-5522 or email loismiller46@gmail. com.

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Most of the displaced tenants of Wild Rose Manor have left Penhold to find a new place to call home.

A massive fire destroyed the 18-unit apartment building, one of two in the small town of about 2,500 residents, on April 10. Residents were forced to go to hotels and homes of friends and families.

Mayor Dennis Cooper said only three or four residents left in Penhold.

The others have relocated to Springbrook or Red Deer.

“We’re losing 30 residents,” said Cooper. “Our town is growing quite rapidly. You hate to see them go. We also lost 18 apartments that were reasonably priced so people with tighter incomes could afford to live here.”

The 40-year-old building on 40 Esther Close pre-dated current codes that are designed to slow down the spread of a fire, including requirements for fire doors, fire walls, sprinklers and fire retardant materials.

Fire investigators say a barbecue on a second floor balcony likely caused the estimated $3 million fire.

Fire chief Jim Pendergast said the cost of fighting the blaze could reach $300,000. The department is still waiting for bills from Red Deer County, Innisfail and Red Deer fire departments, and other groups for their support during the blaze. He expects to have a final tally in several weeks.

Jim Guilbault, the Lacombe-based building owner, is weighing his options about rebuilding. The fire caused about $3 million in damages but the building was insured for roughly $1.8 million. Guilbault said he will wait to see a feasibility study, estimates from builders and more information from the insurance company before he makes a decision. Guilbault owns several rental properties and has owned Wild Rose Manor for about 18 years.

Guilbault has met with most of the tenants since the fire. He has returned security deposits and the balance of the month’s rent. There are a few tenants he has not been able to reach.

Volunteers, the Town of Penhold, the Salvation Army and the Canadian Red Cross stepped in to help after the blaze. Cooper said there was a tremendous outpouring of donations, including cash, furnishings and other supplies from throughout Central Alberta.

The town stopped taking donations on Wednesday. Cooper said each tenant will receive another cheque for $530. Shortly after the fire, tenants received a cheque for $494.

The unused clothing will go to the Salvation Army and the leftover food will go to the local food bank.

Cooper said the silver lining in this disaster was the support from the community. Recently a group of residents hosted a public fair in Penhold and raised about $6,000 for the fire victims.

“It built community,” said Cooper.

“You know we put on events at the town and a lot of times we do not get the best turnout but here there was really good turnout with what we are doing. That’s just great to see.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Heaven is for real – but which heaven?

BY GREG GARRETT ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES The new movie Heaven Is For Real — adapted from the multi-million-selling book by pastor Todd Burpo — has people talking about heaven.

But which one? Over time, Christians (along with other religious people) have developed several versions of what heaven might be.

N. T. Wright notes that there is almost nothing in the Bible about going to a place called “heaven” when you die.

Most of the things we think we know about the afterlife come not from our scriptures, but from human imagination.

Our art, literature, and pop culture suggest that we have some very definite notions about heaven — but they also reveal that these notions may stand in contrast or even opposition to the core tenets of our faith.

So which of our heavens do you believe in? And what makes it a Christian heaven instead of something that simply reflects our earthly desires?

1. Paradise: A Place Where Dreams Come True When John Kinsella (Dwier Brown) says in Field of Dreams that heaven is the place where our dreams come true, he verbalizes a core belief for many.

Maybe that dream is buxom angels for Kenny McCormick, who enters heaven at the end of the South Park movie, or a rainbow horse for little Colton Burpo, who visits the afterlife in Heaven Is For Real.

Songs, stories, and images suggest that heaven must be like love. Or like sex. Or like good food.

Or like swimsuit models in an idyllic location. (Several Sports Illustrated swim-

suit issues have sported the headline Paradise Found.) Maybe heaven is even like dancing cheek to cheek, as Fred Astaire sings in Top Hat. Does this heaven sound a bit sappy — or shallow? Is heaven just going to be a resort Earth where we can eat all the candy we want and not get fat? Or will its joys differ from the ones our culture extols in this life?

2. Haven: A Place We’ll Be Reunited with Those We Love In this closing scene of James Cameron’s Titanic, Rose (Kate Winslet) passes through the ranks of those lost on the Titanic, ascends the stairs, and takes the hand of her beloved Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio).

This scene reflects another popular assumption: that heaven is a haven where we’ll be reunited with those we love.

(This reunion also happens to be the dream-come-true for the Kinsellas in Field of Dreams. Heavens collide!)

How important should it be that we might see our family and friends in heaven? What does it say about us if that’s our primary motivation for going?

3. Zion: A Place of Refuge from Those We Hate Many of our depictions of heaven suggest not just that we will be reunited with those we loved.

Or those we liked.

They also suggest (as in the final scene of Titanic, above, or Field of Dreams, where Ty Cobb wasn’t invited to the field because nobody could stand him when he was alive) that we won’t have to hang about for eternity with those we didn’t like.

The cabdriver in Marc Cohn’s Saving the Best for Last looks forward to heaven because he’ll never again have to listen

LOCAL EVENTS Today Spring Praise Concert at First Christian Reformed Church takes place on May 4 at 7:30 p.m. Directed by Kris Haynal.

to the idle chatter of his insipid customers; the main character in Flannery O’Connor’s Revelation hopes for a heaven free of blacks and of white trash.

We seem to want to go on building little gated communities even in the next life. Why do we secretly (or not so secretly) hope that heaven will admit only those we love– and those like us? What does that say about our professed beliefs — and our actual ones?

4. Earth 2.0: A Place Where We Go On Doing What We Do In Heaven Can Wait, the recently-deceased Warren Beatty carries his clarinet and prepares to board a supersonic Concorde to take him to the next life.

In the last book (and final film) of the Harry Potter epic, Harry and Dumbledore take a post-mortem seat in King’s Cross Station to talk about the afterlife.

And in the heaven presented by Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, the murdered Susie Salmon has a roommate named Holly and an intake counselor named Franny and she walks around a heavenly landscape that looks very much like the earthly future into which she will never live.

Why might we want to think of heaven as being essentially an Earth that goes on forever?

What does it say about us that we might prefer this vision?

These are not the only heavens on offer, of course, and other images of heaven may more closely reflect core Christian beliefs about who God is and who we are in God (see, for example, the heavenly reconciliation suggested by the final scene in Places in the Heart).

Tuesday Heartland Cowboy Church will be held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Stettler Agriplex.

Cowboy church will be held May 6 and 20. Phone 403-742-4273.

Thursday Men of Faith Seven Session Bible Study — We Still Believe — is a study of Lutheran themes in the Common Confession. The group meets the second and fourth Thursday, 7 p.m. upstairs at Bethany CollegeSide, next May 8 and 27. Contact John at 403341-4022 (evenings).

Upcoming events Canadian Fiddle Champion Scott Woods and his band present Old Time Jubilee on May 29 at 7 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church. This performance honours the days when Don Messer and his Islanders were the most popular television show in Canada. Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for children 12 years and under, children five years and under are free. Contact 403-3476073 or office@sunnybrookunited. org. Proceeds will support Sunnybrook United Church children, and youth programs at Kasota East Camp.

Spring Tea at Gaetz Memorial United Church will be offered on May 10 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Cost is $8 per person. For reservations or tickets, contact Beryl at 403-346-3815, Marina at 403-346-5160, or the church office at 403-347-2244. There will also be dolls for sale.

Greg Garrett Greg Garrett is a writer, professor, preacher, retreat leader, and musician based in Austin, Texas.

Schedule of Services

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Centre for Spiritual Living 11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service Rev. Valentine Owen

Balmoral Bible Chapel

www.cslreddeer.org

#3 - 6315 Horn Street

403-347-5450

Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.)

Helping people encounter the goodness of God Corner of 55th St & 46th Ave 10:30 am Contemporary Worship

streamschurch.com 403.342.7441

Streams Christian Church afÀliated with the PAOC

10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Jared Ott “The Art of Religious Complaining” Psalm 13 Children’s Church Ages 2 1/2-Grade 5

JOIN US THIS SUNDAY! Everyone Welcome

www.balmoralchapel.ca

WWW.CROSSROADSCHURCH.CA AFFILIATED WITH THE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH OF CANADA

LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER WELCOME YOU

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GAETZ MEMORIAL

Corner of Ross Street and 48th Avenue — Phone 403-347-2244 www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

10:30 a.m.

“Walk the Walk”

SUNNYBROOK UNITED CHURCH 12 Stanton Street

403-347-6073

10:30 a.m. Worship Service “Companions on the Journey” Babyfold, Toddler Room, Sunday ClubClub www.sunnybrookunited.org www.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Room Sunday

CHURCH

43 Ave. & 39 St. • 403-346-4281 Pastor Chris Wilson Worship Pastor David Richardson

Sunday, May 4

KNOX

Established 1898

10:30 a.m.

Worship Service

4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560

Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

Everyone is Welcome

www.firstbaptistrd.ca

10:30 am Worship Service

“Eve-targeted for Temptation

The Anglican Church of Canada

West Park Presbyterian

Life Can Begin Again: God or Money?

9:00am, 11:00am & 6:30pm • CrossRoads Kids (to gr. 6) SW Corner of 32 Street & Hwy 2, Red Deer County

FIRST BAPTIST

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA

3628-57 Ave.

403-346-6036

SUNDAY WORSHIP

Sunday, May 4

Rev. Anthon Bouw

GOOD SHEPHERD

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN

40 Holmes St. 403-340-1022 Rev. Marc Jerry

Sunday School/Youth 9:30 a.m.

Worship Sunday 10:30 a.m. with Holy Communion Wednesday Morning Prayer 9:30 a.m.

Sunday, May 4

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL

11:00 a.m.

“A Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769

www.stleonardsonthehill.org

Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

8:00 a.m. Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Celebration Service 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Sunday School/Nursery 7:00 p.m. “The Gathering” Contemporary Eucharist

26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road)

Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Rev. Bert De bruijn Message by Fred Lane

Everyone Welcome

Saved by grace - called to serve

Sunday Services Services Sunday 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.

9:00a.m. & 11:00a.m.

6:00 p.m.

MOUNT CALVARY (LC-C)

#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk DIVINE SERVICE 10:00 a.m.

SUNDAY SCHOOL 10:15 a.m.

Wednesday Ministries 7:00p.m.

Passion for God, Compassion for People.

2020 40th Ave, Red Deer www.livingstones.ab.ca 403.347.7311

DIVINE SERVICE 7:00 p.m.

Kings Kids Playschool www.mclcrd.org

Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

Living Faith

Lutheran Church Worship 10:00 AM

Bethany Collegeside 99 College Circle RDC Everyone Welcome

Rooted in the word of God. Growing in the likeness of Christ, Reaching out by the power of the Holy Spirit.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY SUNDAY SCHOOL & SERVICE — 11:00 A.M. Christian Science Reading Room: Wed., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Thurs., 12 Noon-3:00 p.m.

4907 GAETZ AVE.

403-346-0811

For more information on Christian Science visit christianscience.com

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SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014

Is this a rom-com or drama?

THE OTHER WOMAN SHOWCASES THREE ANGRY WOMEN, AND ONE TRAIN WRECK The Other Woman Two stars (out of four) Rated: PG The most fascinating struggle in The Other Woman isn’t the one between three aggrieved females and a philandering male.

It’s the one between director Nick Cassavetes, screenwriter Melissa Stack, editors Jim Flynn and Alan Heim and any number of meddling producers.

The actors — Cameron Diaz, PETER Leslie Mann HOWELL and Kate Upton on one side, Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj CosterWaldau on the other — all figure they’re making the big studio romantic comedy that the trailer is selling.

Cassavetes and his crew aren’t so sure. One moment they are indeed making that studio rom-com, hitting beats with yuks about public drunkenness, projectile bodily fluids, inconvenient pet pooches and smartass secretaries. The next they’re drifting along with a serious character-led drama about infidelity that’s more in line with the indie film world that Cassavetes (The Notebook, She’s So Lovely) hails from.

Not helping one bit for either type of movie is a ridiculously on-the-nose soundtrack featuring such overplayed tunes as Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Love Is a Battlefield, Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York and the Mission: Impossible theme.

Gawking at and listening to this mess does make for an interesting sit, though, much like watching a slow-

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, left, and Cameron Diaz in a scene from The Other Woman: like watching a slow-motion train wreck. motion train wreck. And the pairing of Diaz and Mann, both great comic actresses, suggest the two could really click in a better movie written to properly showcase their talents.

The Other Woman begins as the most gilded of romantic fantasies, with Robert Fraisse’s camera gliding through scenic views of New York at its most gorgeous as hot-to-trot lawyer Carly Whitten (Diaz) and her hunky new businessman boyfriend Mark King (CosterWaldau) fall in bed and in love almost at first sight.

Turns out it is pure fantasy. Growing suspicious after Mark gives her a lame excuse for why he must bail on a date

and stay at his Connecticut home one night, she drops in to surprise him and gets one of her own: Mark’s wife Kate (Mann) answers the door.

In real life, this would be the opposite of comedy, but The Other Woman suddenly shifts into wacky sister mode, as the daffy and needy Kate tries to wheedle information and some sympathy out of a backpedalling Carly.

After a succession of drinks, clothing try-ons and pratfalls that recall Mann’s slapstick turns in her hubby Judd Apatow’s films, Kate and Carly get serious about wanting to get revenge on Mark, who remains oblivious to it all.

Saving the world, again COUNTERTERRORISM HERO JACK BAUER RETURNS TO SAVE THE DAY IN HALF THE TIME IN 24 MINISERIES

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NEW YORK — Jack’s back.

A counterterrorism agent forced to go rogue, Jack Bauer had been lying low since 2010. He’s been off the grid and off-screen since the final cycle of 24.

For eight seasons of this Fox thriller, the indomitable Bauer repeatedly saved the country from innumerable disasters (or tried to) at grave cost to himself. But far from being showered in the thanks of a grateful nation, he was branded and re-branded a most-wanted villain for his service. He had no choice but to go on the lam.

Viewers — like his fictional pursuers on 24 — might reasonably have given up on ever seeing Jack again.

But on 24: Live Another Day, he is nabbed by the CIA shortly after 11 a.m., London time, as this realtime, sequential drama erupts with the first of a dozen episodes that will carry the saga to a breathless resolution 12 hours later in the same hectic day.

Noted: Past 24 seasons ran 24 hours, hence the series’ title. So 12 might have been a more appropriate, if lame-sounding, name for this miniseries, which premieres on Monday with two episodes, spanning the period from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

A few possible spoilers follow.

Returning as the intrepid, long-suffering Bauer is Kiefer Sutherland, whose far more upbeat post-24 drama, Touch, was axed a year ago after just two seasons.

Also back is Mary Lynn Rajskub as marvelously mopey Chloe O’Brian. Bauer’s former Counter-Terrorism Unit running buddy has had her share of tribulations of late, including torture and charges of treason, as well as a severe Goth makeover.

And also back, remarkably, is Kim Raver, who, as Bauer’s former heartthrob Audrey, was last seen in the conclusion of Season 6 in a coma from which she was not expected to emerge. But there is no happy reunion in store for Jack. It’s quite the opposite,

Ray LaMontagne exposes a new musical personality

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Kiefer Sutherland in a scene from 24: Live Another Day: out to save another president from assassination.

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The movie heads into The First Wives Club territory when Kate and Carly pick up a third enraged accomplice: blond beach bunny Amber (Kate Upton) whom Mark has been bedding on his supposed business trips to Florida.

She’s introduced running and jiggling into the water as if she’s making a Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition video, which is where career model Upton does her best acting.

Pooling their skills — “The lawyer, the wife and the boobs … a perfect killing machine!” — the three learn that Mark isn’t just conning them but also his company, to the tune of millions of dollars hidden in a Bahamas bank account. Revenge will be sweet for the women, and very gross, painful and expensive for Mark.

What’s clear from all this is that Mark isn’t just a philanderer and thief but an outright sociopath, which nullifies both the “rom” and “com” part of this supposed rom-com.

The way he carries on, and kudos to Coster-Waldau for accepting such an unlikeable role, they might well have dressed him in his medieval attire from Game of Thrones instead of tailored suits.

The Other Woman raises serious issues of how men treat women, and how women react to infidelity that the more serious side of Cassavetes might have profitably explored.

And perhaps he tried (he’s certainly no pushover), but got overruled by studio quippers, choppers and counters who wanted a popcorn flick, replete with such rom-com staples as the mouthy secretary (rapper Nicki Minaj), the rascal dad (Don Johnson) and the good-guy love interest (Taylor Kinney).

The only clichés missing to complete the set are the funny gay friend and the meddling mom, but the studio is probably saving them for The Other Woman 2.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

even though he — ever the trickster — deliberately contrives to be captured by authorities.

What’s Jack’s game? He’s gotten wind that James Heller, previously U.S. defence secretary but now the nation’s chief executive (played by the returning William Devane), is targeted for assassination while in London for a summit meeting.

Still the driven do-gooder, Jack is hellbent on foiling this plan. But it requires him to resurface and tangle with CIA officials (played by Benjamin Bratt and Yvonne Strahovski) as well as President Heller’s chief of staff (Tate Donovan), who is now married to — wait for it — Audrey, after having seen her through her miraculous recovery.

“Jack Bauer is a traitor and a psychopath,” he seethes, proposing that it’s Bauer who is out to kill the president.

Such is the plight of Jack Bauer. He’s so heroic, yet so misunderstood — except by 24 fans who will surely welcome him back with open arms. After all, he has served us, too. He saw us through a decade of high alert.

It’s worth recalling that 24 premiered in fall 2001.

It was hatched as scripted drama’s answer to the redhot new reality genre spawned by Survivor. Then, just weeks before 24 was set to be launched, everything changed. What had been created as slick TV escapism seemed, quite to the contrary, too close for comfort.

Fortunately, 24 overcame the spectre of real-life tragedy while managing to meet the challenge of its snugly packaged format. On the strength of its ambition and inventiveness, it prevailed as a wildly dramatized view of American response to terrorism during each frenzied season’s daylong window.

But however violent and grisly (and it was both), 24 saw its shock value waning by its final season.

Guns, nerve gas, bombs, bioweapons and more — the show had run through the playbook of awful ways a terrorist could put the hurt on civilized society.

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NASHVILLE — It may be hard to recognize Ray LaMontagne behind all the reverb and distortion on his new album, but the singer-songwriter says it’s the most exposed he’s ever been on a record.

LaMontagne, known for his acoustic folk ballads, let the songs for Supernova lead him to a new sonic palate reminiscent of 1960s psychedelic rock, with airy layers of electric guitar, keyboards, drums and echoing background vocals.

“These songs, something about the way they came to me, it feels like it’s a very unguarded Ray,” LaMontagne said. Ray LaMontagne “Maybe before I would have been hesitant to put it forward, even to the band I was playing with.”

Following his Grammy-winning album, God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise, LaMontagne said he felt more creative freedom to let his instincts carry him toward the songs on his fifth studio album.

“This time, for some reason, I just feel like I am at a place now in my career where I can just be less critical when I am sifting through things,” LaMontagne said from his home in western Massachusetts.

So it became a good fit as well to get producer and Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach to record the album in Auerbach’s Nashville studio. Auerbach picked out LaMontagne’s backing band, none of whom had met or worked with the singer.

Richard Swift, a producer and musician who plays with The Shins and now The Black Keys, was brought in to play drums. He helped Auerbach with some of the arrangements since they both were heavily influenced by older musical styles.

“We don’t want to just regurgitate what’s already existed, but we do love old records,” Swift said. “The idea is to make it timeless-sounding.” But he says the sounds were a departure from his previous records.

“I can understand how people might have to disassociate what they normally think is a Ray LaMontagne record,” Swift said. “But it’s completely Ray.” The singer seems to stand out further when pushed into new places by the music, as on Airwaves, in which he matches Swift’s bongo drumbeat with short breathy shouts. Hard to imagine from a guy who was a reluctant performer early in his career.

“As far as performing goes, it just took a while,” LaMontagne said. “I had to go to a very interior place to get to it. I’m no poster boy, as everyone knows.”

The overall upbeat tempo may not be what fans were expecting from the singer of emotionally heavytype fare such as Jolene, or his most well-known song, Trouble. But LaMontagne said those kind of songs don’t reflect him personally.

“When you deliver something, when you sing it, you want it to come from an honest, sort of emotional place so it translates so people can latch on to it,” LaMontagne said. “They are not really personal songs. Not personal to me. But you want them to be accessible to people so they can make it their songs.

That’s what songwriters do.”

With Supernova, LaMontagne may have finally revealed a bit more of his personality.

“And I am not concerned whether anyone gets it or not,” LaMontagne said. “’Cause I really get it. It just feels right, this one.”

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Springfield a Lego town in Simpsons episode

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Paul Walker in Brick Mansions: we’ve seen it all before.

LOS ANGELES — Episode No. 550 of Fox’s The Simpsons was put together Lego brick by brick, in a CGI manner of speaking.

Using computer-generated special effects, the town of Springfield and its residents have been reimagined in the style of the famed plastic toys for Sunday’s episode, Brick Like Me. It’s a tart title — a play on Black Like Me, the book — for a sweet episode, one that combines CGI and the show’s traditional animation to shake up Homer Simpson’s world and teach him a lesson about parenting.

Homer (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) has morphed from his familiar pudgy self into a real hardbody: a square-shaped, bulletheaded Lego man.

He’s still yellow, as are wife Marge (Julie Kavner), the kids and the rest of the town’s inhabitants, but all easily and painlessly disassembled.

With the box-office hit The Lego Movie, a newly launched Simpsons Lego toy line and now the TV episode, it could be suspected that much corporate plotting was involved.

“People are probably looking at it going, ‘All this fits and it’s a plan.’ No, it was just the love of Lego” and creativity, not crosspromotion, Al Jean, The Simpsons longtime executive producer, told

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Homer, Marge, Lisa and Bart, as Lego figures in episode No. 550, titled Brick Like Me, airing Sunday. a teleconference this week.

“Yes, so all the cross-promotion was just gravy, delicious gravy,” joked Matt Selman, an executive producer and co-writer, with Brian Kelley, of the Lego episode.

Lego was consulted, he said, and a Fox spokeswoman said the toy maker paid for promotional consideration.

In an interview, Selman said he and Kelley started working on the plot in 2012, before they were aware of the movie or the spinoff toys.

“We had to have a story worthy of this much technical ambition. If it didn’t have heart, character and feeling, all the jokes about someone taking off their head and kicking it into the distance weren’t going to play,” he said.

Unlike The Lego Movie, which employed stop-action animation along with CGI, The Simpsons stayed away from three-dimensional figures that would have increased the difficulty of production, Selman said.

Its smooth-faced CGI characters also vary from the sculpted

ones that are part of Lego’s Simpsons toy line.

The “old-school” cylinder heads are classic Lego and were right for the show and the story, Selman said.

It’s an especially family friendly one, he said, since the toy connection is expected to draw a number of younger viewers and there was Lego’s image to consider.

“We had to tune down Homer and Marg’s amour” in a scene between the characters’ Lego incarnations, he said.

A number of other familiar faces make appearances, including the Rev. Lovejoy (Harry Shearer), seen preaching the Lego version of the Bible’s creation story. Selman regrets a pair of characters who didn’t enter toy land.

“I wish we could have done a Lego Itchy and Scratchy,” he said in the phone conference, then tossed it to his colleague. “Al, you think they’ll let us do another one?”

“Sure, let me just hold a bake sale,” Jean replied.

Late-night hosts feast on Ford

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The late-night talk show hosts all took jabs at Rob Ford on Thursday night over the latest controversies swirling around the Toronto mayor.

But amid the barbs aimed at Ford, most of the hosts seemed to genuinely wish him well as he seeks professional help to deal with substance-abuse problems.

On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the host feigned boredom while showing news clips of Ford’s latest troubles.

But Stewart acted shocked when he played a clip of an announcement that Ford was entering rehab, calling it a “wonderful surprise.”

“No. 1 on the list of things I thought would never happen,” he said.

Stewart also mocked reports of a drug dealer allegedly seeking a six-figure sum for a video of Ford purportedly smoking crack cocaine.

The Globe and Mail said a drug dealer had shown two of its reporters video of Ford allegedly smoking what was said to be crack in the basement of his sister’s home early Saturday morning.

“Let me explain supply and demand,” joked Stewart. “When you have a lot of an item, like bananas or socks, or videos of Rob Ford smoking crack, price tends to drop. You want a video of something rare, like Justin Bieber stopping a bratty kid from being a public nuisance.”

On The Late Show, host David Letterman devoted

his Top 10 list to Ford under the heading: Top 10 reasons Rob Ford is taking a leave of absence.

The top reason? “The great ones always know when to leave on top.”

Letterman also said he couldn’t understand why Ford is still the city’s mayor.

“Apparently things are different in Canada. He must be friends with the Queen.”

As for Ford seeking professional help, Letterman said, “He should have done this six months ago.”

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who had Ford as a guest on his program earlier this year, applauded Ford’s decision to take a leave of absence.

“He needs professional help, he needs amateur help, he can go see a witch doctor ... get help, anything.”

Kimmel said he talks about Ford so much, it feels like he works on the show.

“For us, this is an HR issue.”

On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the host took note of the Globe report of new video of Ford allegedly showing him doing drugs.

“We have to say allegedly,” joked Fallon, “because he doesn’t really know whose basement it was.”

“We’ve done a lot of Rob Ford jokes in the past, but we’re glad that he’s getting some help. They have TVs in rehab, so if you’re watching this Mayor Ford, we hope that some of these jokes cheer you up.”

Late-night host Conan O’Brien also mentioned Ford taking a leave of absence. “Of course, he’s earned it. The guy’s been up since 2004.”

Local actor has web series role

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer actor will be starring in a new comedic sci-fi web series slithering online on May 15.

Starlise Waschuk plays Mirai, a beautiful assassin on the mission to annihilate a hybrid of human and lizard living with a young scientist in the series Lizard at Home.

Written and shot over a 12-day period, Lizard at Home kicks off at 7 p.m. and will feature six episodes available at www.lizardathome.com.

Waschuk, who now lives in Vancouver, starred in Three Colours and Canvas, a film recently screened at Calgary’s Globe Cinema.

A graduate of Red Deer College’s Motion Picture Arts and Theatre Studies, she was also featured in the locally made movie Year After Year and American Virgins for Showcase TV. She produced, starred in and also wrote the short sci-fi film Soldiers of the Earth released earlier this year.

The trailer for Lizard at Home is available at www. youtube.com/watch?v=EUXa-RenLX8.

Brick Mansions, Walker’s last film, a poor eulogy

BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Brick Mansions Two stars (out of four) Rated: PG Brick Mansions, the remake of 2004 French film District 13, finishes with an in memoriam remembrance of leading man, Paul Walker, who appears here in his final completed work.

Cartoonish and mediocre, Brick Mansions isn’t much of a eulogy for popular action star Walker, who died in November when the speeding car he was riding in crashed on an L.A. street, killing Walker and the driver.

At the time of his death, Walker was midway through making his last movie in the franchise that made him famous, Fast & Furious 7. Brothers Caleb Walker and Cody Walker will help finish the film, due out in 2015.

As with F&F, the chases in Brick Mansions are impressive, although primarily on foot, while the few scenes with Walker behind the wheel of a speeding muscle ride can’t help but illicit unnerving feelings.

District 13 was credited with helping bring the stunt-like and highly athletic moves of parkour to the big screen, thanks to co-star David Belle, who returns for Brick Mansions as Lino, an ex-con turned community hero trying to protect the residents of the largely abandoned, densely built highrise neighbourhood.

It’s now a walled city since the cops find they can’t control the gangs and drug dealers running rampant within. Hardly a novel screen concept but it helps to give the Brick Mansions project a name and a sense of isolation from the suits downtown who want to exploit the people living there.

As with the original, the script is penned by French writers Bibi Naceri and The Fifth Element’s Luc Besson and it’s hardly a work of finesse. The plot makes as many leaps in logic as the astonishingly athletic Belle does while bouncing off walls and careening off rooftops.

But nobody is stopping by Brick Mansions for anything beyond the gravity-defying action, showcased in an opening chase scene that sees Lino propel himself like a human slingshot.

He reluctantly teams with Walker’s Damien — and the feeling is mutual — an undercover cop dropped into the Brick Mansions to stop ruthless crime boss Tremaine (rapper-turned-actor RZA).

He’s a drug kingpin with a fondness for quoting Bob Marley and blowing things up. Now he’s got his hands on a neutron bomb and is using it to hold the city hostage. He ups the ante by kidnapping Lino’s sexy siren ex-girlfriend Lola (Catalina Denis).

Damien and Lino find their initial distrust leads to bonding, which spawns tandem stunts and fight scenes with random bad guys (one involving a steering wheel is impressive), although Walker can’t help but appear sluggish compared to Belle.

Director Camille Delamarre (Taken 2) relies heavily on camera trickery, speeding up and slowing down as needed to highlight jumps and stunts but in between the action scenes, tedium takes over.

Brick Mansions charges to its conclusion with an absurd storming of city hall and a shocking personality reversal in a character that makes you wonder how much filmmakers can underestimate the intelligence of an audience.

We’re left with a sense that Walker deserved better and perhaps could have done better if there had been other movies with more challenging stories ahead for him. Brick Mansions leaves his legacy caught up in the same kind of movie he’d been making for years.

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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JACK: Dandy presto-change at the end of second hour could 24 in its storytelling hold a candle to the dread we have internalized since then?

It probably cannot, and need not try. Rather than rousing us, 24 these

days has the opposite effect: It lulls us with Bauer’s beleaguered, uncomplaining efforts to lend a helping hand.

Bottom line, there’s comfort for us viewers

with Jack Bauer back on the scene. It’s pretty much guaranteed: On Live Another Day he’ll have another bad day.

But we’ll all have a blast watching.

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And here’s another president in peril. And on 24: Live Another Day, the series’ conventions have been dusted off and revived for its wellversed fans: the nonstop action, the jittery camera, the pounding percussive music score and the clanking on-screen clock.

Yes, Bauer barks his signature “DAMN-it!”

And at the end of the second hour, there’s a dandy presto-chango twist, all the more delightful for its after-the-fact obviousness.

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The Happy singer is set to perform at the first iHeartRadio Music Awards on Thursday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Rihanna, Diddy and Jennifer Lopez will attend, and A-list acts from Drake to Blake Shelton will hit the stage.

The three-hour, fan-voted show will air live on NBC at 8 p.m. Eastern.

While there are trophies, the performances will be the night’s main highlight. Kendrick Lamar, Ariana Grande, Shakira, Ed Sheeran and Arcade Fire are also part of the jam-packed line-up, which will include performances from L.A. venues including the Shrine, the Roxy and the Hotel Cafe.

Rihanna will battle the boys for artist of the year.

Nominees include Justin Timberlake, Maroon 5, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Imagine Dragons.

Presenters include Gwen Stefani, Lionel Richie, Selena Gomez and Juanes, while Lady Gaga and Katy Perry will make “special appearances,” though it’s not clear if they are attending.

Rihanna is also nominated for song of the year.

Her slow tune Stay will compete with Eminem’s The Monster — where she’s featured — as well as Pitbull and Kesha’s Timber and Suit & Tie and Holy Grail from Timberlake and Jay Z. Lorde, Imagine Dragons and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — who all won Grammys in their debut years — will compete for best new artist. Florida Georgia Line, Icona Pop and Passenger are also nominated in the latter category.

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Animal Sciences & Horticulture, in cooperation with the Alberta Regional Lily Society, has an opportunity available for a summer student. The anticipated term of employment is from May 2014 to August 31, 2014. The work week will consist of 40 hours per week and the incumbent may be required to work some weekends and/or evenings.

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Child and Youth Care Workers Competition # 14-016R There are two full time positions for 40 hours per week and one part time position for 18 hours per week.

Executive Director

Do you want to be a part of an innovative program supporting families and their children with developmental disabilities? You will be joining an established Agency that is guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect. With more than 50 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1600 staff, and 2000 volunteers delivering 130+ programs through Central and Northern Alberta. While working in both the families’ home and our residential setting, as a Child and Youth Care Worker, you are responsible for evaluating the needs of clients, developing service plans, maintaining records and appointments, facilitating family contact, providing support and assisting clients in the development of healthy life and social skills. Building meaningful relationships with clients and the community makes you an effective member of a team dedicated to client care. Successful applicants will be conscientious, resourceful, team-oriented and flexible. Experience working with families, children and youth with complex and challenging behaviours is preferred. Your strong written and oral communication abilities allow you to manage client groups, work with families and act as a community liaison.

Do you have a passion for hospice palliative care and experience providing strategic leadership in a not-for-profit organization? Red Deer Hospice provides quality end-of-life care services to individuals and families throughout Central Alberta.

We are seeking an Executive Director who will successfully lead our team and oversee our programs and services to meet the needs of the community, clients and stakeholders.

The Executive Director is responsible for the operations of the Hospice, fostering a culture that supports the values and philosophy of hospice care and ensures the accountability of programs, staff and volunteers. We are looking for a leader who can engage with local health care providers and business partners and develop meaningful relationships to support our position as a leader in quality hospice palliative care services.

Skills and Qualifications include: • Post secondary degree or equivalent in administration, nonprofit sector management, volunteer development or social sciences • At least three to five years experience in the non-profit sector or a related work place or business environment • Managerial and financial management experience • Excellent communication and public relation skills • Experience working in a board- operated environment would be considered an asset

Your Diploma/Degree in Child and Youth Care, Disability Studies (or equivalent) and your experience with a strong understanding of complex needs, disabilities and family work will ensure your success in this position. A vehicle and valid driver’s licence are required.

Rates of pay for these positions are $18.84 to $21.20 based on education and experience We thank all applicants. If your skill set matches those of other competitions, you may also be considered for other positions.

Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Location: Red Deer We offer flexibility, a comprehensive benefits package and a supportive working environment.

Must have a valid driver’s license.

We offer a professional working environment and an opportunity to grow within a well-respected community organization.

Police Information including vulnerable sector search Check, Intervention Record Check and/or summary of driving record are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.

Competition closes 4 PM Friday, May 16, 2014.

Please send resume, quoting the competition number 14-016R before May 7, 2014 to:

Only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

CATHOLIC CHARITIES HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE 5104 – 48 Avenue,Red Deer, AB T4N 3T8 Fax: (403) 342-1890 www.catholicsocialservices.ab.ca We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer Serving and Employing People of all Faiths and Cultures Since 1961

Please submit resume to Red Deer Hospice Society ATTN: Bryan Wilson, Chair, Nominating and Personnel Committee 99 Arnot Avenue Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6 Email: bryan.wilson@telus.net

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The truth only hurts because you don’t see all the other fish out there, you think rejection is about you being defective and you’re tired of being alone. You can’t acknowledge the truth because the truth is too painful. Once you can handle the truth, you can respond with confidence and curiosity.

You can thank someone for being honest. Then you can ask, “Do you want to be friends forever because you’re dating someone else or taking a vow of celibacy?” You can respond to her in a way that will show you have options and can handle the truth.

Then, she can share the truth with you.

The truth will either have nothing or everything to do with you. The problem is that you don’t date enough and don’t feel good enough about yourself to handle the truth.

Once you know you’re amazing, attractive, date more and can handle rejection, it won’t be so hard to reconcile the truth and keep fishing.

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Hi Harlan; I am not sure how to guide my college- lem. Before you put up more walls, ask him what he bound son with his final decision. loves about you. Listen.

He can’t make up his mind. He is torn between enEven if you can’t see what he sees, at least let him gineering and business. share it with you. Then, work to be the person he He got into the engineering schools of Marquette, knows you can be.

Purdue, Ohio State, Minnesota and UniThe problem isn’t that he loves you, it’s versity of Iowa, and did not get into the that you don’t love yourself. engineering school at university of IlDear Harlan; For the past month or so, I linois, but got into the general studies had been seeing a girl I had fallen for — a program. friend of a friend.

He also got into Indiana University We went on double dates to dinners, for the Kelley School of Business. He brunches and even a walk in a park. Last narrowed it down to the University of week I asked her to do something just the Illinois for general education or Ohio two of us, and received no response. She State for engineering, and is now thinklater called and told me she was not in a ing of just dropping engineering and gogood place to enter a relationship, and ing into business at Indiana. Also, Ohio instead wanted to keep hanging out and State gave him a $12,000 scholarship, remain “friends forever.” and Indiana offered $5,000. Iowa offered I don’t know if I can do that, Harlan! him $5,000, and nothing was offered from Thinking about how close I had come to Illinois. my first relationship is making me incredHARLAN I am trying to be patient and not bug ibly sad, and while I understand that there him, but the end of the school year is getCOHEN are plenty of other fish in the sea who will ting closer, and I do not know what else respond the way I want them to respond, I he can do to help make this decision. wanted this fish!

Any suggestions? — Undecided How do I reconcile living in a world of Dear Undecided; It’s like choosing between bottled options with sadness over this one amazing option water — they’re all good choices. turning me down? I finally felt like I was ready for Give him room to struggle. Then ask if he wants this — I guess I wasn’t. — Sad Fish help. If he says “no” — don’t offer it (I know, REDear Sad Fish; This fish doesn’t want you.

ALLY hard). If he says “yes,” suggest “the three and The way to reconcile is to give her permission to five rule.”

Here’s how it works: When struggling with life decisions, locate three places and five people in each place. For him, this means finding three places on each campus where he plans to find connections.

It can be a club, organization, fraternity, spiritual Powered by group, band, etc. Once he locates three places, he should contact five people in each place. For exCentral Alberta’s ample, if he’s interested in music, he can find three career site of choice. places to connect via music on each campus. Then he can find five people via Facebook, email, the college admissions office or high school (contact grads).

Don’t do ANY of this for him. Guide him with his permission. Let him do the reaching out. Part of this college transition is allowing him to figure it out for himself. He needs to do the work to make the decision. He needs to be the one to choose his own path.

Dear Harlan; So, I have been with my boyfriend for six years now, and his response to the question of marriage is “not anytime soon.”

What does that mean? Oh, and he wants kids now, The Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta - Red Deer but I want to be married first or at least engaged. By Chapter is in need of a part time Executive Director. The position requires good financial management skills. The candidate will the way, I’ll be 23 this year and he will be 26. — Not work with our Board of Directors and professional and volunteer Soon Enough staff. Our association provides education, support and advocacy Dear Not Soon Enough; You might be adults, but to people to people with a Learning disability and/or ADHD, their you’re acting like kids. And it makes sense, you met families, and educators. when you were 16 and he was 19.

You might not be good at having real conversaResponsibilities include: - Grant research and applications tions about real-life issues. A healthy conversation - Community and corporate outreach, networking/advocacy means there are no right or wrong answers. It means - handling phone calls, emails, inquiries not attacking each other when it gets uncomfortable.

- financial recording using Quickbooks Once you can approach a conversation with this - regular activity reports mind-set, you can learn a few things. He can tell you stuff you don’t want to hear and you can tell him the Post-secondary education will be an asset. stuff he might not want to hear. For example, he Application deadline is: Friday, May 16, 2014 might not be ready for marriage because he hates Please submit your resume to: the institution due to his family dysfunction. It may Janet de Laforest, have nothing to do with you.

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The good news — if he’s not capable of having a Email: jdela@telus.net real conversation or your life goals don’t align, you can have a future with someone else.

Dear Harlan; My best friend, who also lives across the street from me, recently confessed that he is in Choose a career where love with me. people matter!

It happened after our first harmless kiss in years.

We were both drunk. We used to make out when we For more than 60 years The Good Samaritan Society has been were younger. We explored it together and it was providing quality health and community services to individuals harmless. Then suddenly we kiss and he professes throughout Alberta and British Columbia. his love to me.

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It terrified me. I love him, but not like that. Then, last week it happened again. We were drunk. We Wednesday, May 7 pretend it hasn’t happened, but I don’t know what to 11:00 am – 4:00 pm do. I selfishly don’t want to lose him because he’s my Clearwater Centre rock. But he deserves so much more than a wounded 5615 – 60 Street girl with emotions that nowhere match his. Now Rocky Mountain House, AB what? — Pretending Dear Pretending; You’re an awful friend.

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1915 — Lt.-Col. John McCrae composes his poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ in 20 minutes, while overlooking the grave of a fellow officer at Ypres, Belgium. It was first published in Dec. 1915 in Punch magazine, his elegy is the most famous English poem written during World War I. 1887 — Coal mine explosion at Nanaimo kills 150.

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Woman grossed out by shop worker’s lack of food hygiene Dear Annie: I live in a very small her hands, but it doesn’t get through. town. We have one small, locally This restaurant is owned by a nice owned family-friendly drive-in restau- woman, but I don’t know her that well rant with an attached ice-cream shop. and am not comfortable mentioning This is a central meeting this problem to her. But I find place in our area. it hard to patronize the place, MITCHELL Here’s the problem: because this woman’s meth& SUGAR There is an older woman ods are so gross, and I don’t working there who makes want to get sick. me cringe every time she We are lucky to have this takes my order. On rebusiness in our town, as it empeated occasions, I’ve seen her eating ploys a lot of people. How do I tactfully at the counter that separates the ice- say something without causing a stink cream fountain area from the patrons. in the community? And to whom do I She licks her fingers and then, without say it? The owner is on the board of washing her hands, handles the cones some of the organizations that my chilfor our order. dren are involved in. — Grossed Out in She also touches all of the ice- a Small Town cream machines and spoons and pulls Dear Small Town: We are certain the some stuff out with her fingers. I can owner would not want to lose the paonly imagine what she does behind tronage of the community because one the swinging doors. I have gently com- of her employees doesn’t use proper mented that perhaps she should wash hygiene. This is a matter for your local

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You can make an anonymous report, and they should investigate and, if necessary, issue a warning or citation.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Ft. Myers, Fla.,” who was upset because her friends and relatives buy her birthday gifts that she doesn’t want.

I am 50 years old, and for my entire life, my mother has passed judgment on the gifts I give her. She’ll open something I may have spent hours searching for and wrapped elaborately and bluntly say, “I don’t need this” or “Take this back.”

I am a painter. One year I thought long and hard and decided to reproduce in oil a lovely photograph of my parents sitting in a pretty piazza in Italy. I was excited to think I had finally found the perfect gift. She opened it up and said, “Can you repaint my face and take the sunglasses off?” So I did.

She never mentioned the painting again. I think it’s hanging in one of the spare bedrooms. Would you address this subject for all of us who are in this sinking boat? — Can’t Please Mother Dear Can’t Please: Your mother is never going to like any gift enough to accept it as is. For whatever reason, she is overly critical and not polite enough to be gracious. It’s time to stop turning yourself inside out trying to please her. Get her a gift card to any store you know she regularly frequents, even the grocery. She certainly won’t be any less pleased, and she might actually be delighted. Not that she’d admit it to you, of course. But at least you won’t have to return it.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net.

when your dreams will start to manifest. Act more insight by doing it a second time. Trust AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today now and take the steps necessary - it is just your words and thoughts, they are profound will be one of those days whereby you feel around the corner. at home in every aspect of your life. By being today.

Sunday, May 4 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If there in that state of oneness with the natural flow, Saturday, May 3 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: have been delays with those significant rela- you are allowing new opportunities for work CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Cheryl Burke, 29; Christina Hendricks, 38; Lance Bass, 34; Kimora Lee Simmons, 38; tionships in your life, today will prove to the and daily routine to reach greater heights.

Randy Travis, 54 breakthrough you were looking for. A greater Enjoy the natural flow of bliss today.

Kevin Kilner, 55 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will mark awareness of what truly matters in life and PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Romantic THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today is a wonderful day to take action and move to- a day when we will be faced with the ability to who you truly love will be understood almost relationships will move forward towards a deeper level of awareness and understandwards your desired outcome. Everyone has look deeper into the understanding of self. immediately. Share the love!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are ing. Share you insights and feelings with an element of powerful energy in their charts The actions you take today will herald in a and drive that will propel them into a world new start that will be long lasting. The greater changing your actions within your career. them, you will come to realize you both share where everything is possible. The energy to the depth of understanding you have, the These steps that you are taking are abso- the same dreams and vision. Together you make long lasting changes in your life is at more promising and rewarding the outcome lutely positive and in the right direction. Look can accomplish much, trust in them.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally your disposal. Make sure you are doing them will be. These truths will come in the form of around, trust these individuals. They are offering you the ability to take solid steps towards syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her colfor the betterment of everyone as things could epiphanies and they will instigate changes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birth- your dreams and the future you desire. umn appears daily in the Advocate. crumble.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birth- day, this year will be a year of many changes. day, this year will be one to remember for a You will see improvements to your health, work, and daily routines. You might not allong time. Huge changes will ways know which way to turn, but happen for you personally this LARISA MAIRA you will always have sage advice year. You will more than likely OZOLINS and support from those significant be fighting for a cause that is relationships in your life. Trust dear to your heart. Whether their judgement - they are speakit succeeds or not, it will show ing from experience and this will you your greatest potential.

You have the power to change your entire help you out considerably. This year will alter world this year simply by standing up for what your view of the world and will leave you asking many questions. Trust the flow of events. you believe in.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is a ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will be In office bleaching in empowered today by your ultimate achieve- great financial opportunity presented to you ment of self. Those in the public will notice today. It might look small and insignificant at 60 minutes or less this change and will cheer you on, if you are first, but do not be fearful. This sudden hapCall us today! true to yourself. A financial shift will happen pening will be present and will flow towards once you determine exactly what it is you your career. Take the chance offer as it will be very promising! want to be seen doing in this world.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Choose TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Speaking your truth today will have powerful repercus- your words wisely, as today they will have sions now. The sooner you own your own a profound effect on others. Through open view point, the more sense of relief you’ll feel dialogue with others you will truly start to unand the more able you’ll be to make proper derstand yourself and how newness in your life will transpire. It is a positive and promising stable adjustments in your life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There are time, enjoy the pleasantness of the day.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your values times when you fail to see your own light www.dentureandimplantcentre.ca | www.thedenturecentre.net through all the negative scenes we play in our might be tested a bit today. The reason for this sudden test is to make sure you are head. Today will not be one of those days.

You will conquer a fear or insecurity that has following your passions. If you are, your selfbeen troubling you for some time and this will worth will increase, but if you have stumbled off course a little, today will remind you to get lead you to make solid readjustments.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Interactions back on track. Stay positive, you can’t lose.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Today will with friends and group environments will help you make necessary adjustments to your life offer you the opportunity to know yourself on now. You are moving towards a more solid a profound level. Significant relationships are view of your life that will help you reach the going through some changes and an opportunity to be there for them will arise. This will goals you have set out for yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today will almost not only help them, but will also allow you to feel like a huge weight has been lifted off your see how strong you truly are.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Pay close atshoulders. The actions you are taking now will help redefine how and what you do for tention to your dreams — they will offer you work and how you are seen on a professional another perspective on your public status and level. Work changes are likely as well as career. Knowledge of your ancestry will be helpful and guiding at this point in time. A new changes to your health regime.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are more sense of who you are is emerging, and these willing now than ever before to open yourself changes will help you feel more grounded.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your dreams up to what gives you greater opportunity for pleasure in this life. Finally, you’ve stepped are expanding and today you will be chalacross the vision you once had and are able lenged to delve deeper into understanding to take the necessary steps towards your what will give you greater satisfaction. A Book your teacher or mentor will provide you with sage dreams of romance and love.

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Communicating your needs LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are havHearing Test ing a breakthrough today. After a long period will bring you greater stability now.

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Facebook all the changes going on with your personcomes to changes with your home and family life, today marks a powerful step forward ally and on the home front, you will crave a *See store for details towards greater empowerment of a job well bit more stability in your life. Today, the opportunity to feel at home will come from work. done.

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The dock transformation at our own wee cottage (see all the action on Colin and Justin’s Cabin Pressure, Tuesdays on Cottage Life). Seen from shore and the lake.

The great outdoors, at the cottage As newbie cottagers, we’re learning to love the great outdoors.

And so, warmer days looming, now seems the perfect time to proffer some exterior tips to help prepare for relaxing afternoons in (what we hope will be) ongoing sunshine.

As a photographic backdrop to today’s column, we’re using the dock transformation at our own wee cottage (see all the action on Colin and Justin’s Cabin Pressure, Tuesdays on Cottage Life) but throughout today’s editorial we’ll also be touching upon all manner of other outdoor areas.

Finding inspiration As summer approaches and you start planning how to dress your patio, dock or COLIN & veranda, consider how its furJUSTIN nishings relate to the rest of your exterior.

Plunder the detail of your home’s build period — roof lines, eaves, posts and rails, etc. — and mirror these in your outdoors propping.

Modern exteriors can be successfully dressed with contemporary pieces but a traditional exterior tends to look best when dressed with wicker, wood or rustic detailing.

OK, so a little mixing and matching can be fun, but it’s good to respect your home’s architectural vernacular.

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Before thinking of furniture and accessories, here are a few outside area maintenance pointers: ● Use a power washer on pressure-treated lumber to remove grit and grime. Doing this won’t just clean, it will also reveal the original tones and patina of your flooring. ● Treat your timbers. Apply top grade wood preservative to inhibit moisture ingress and sun damage. ● Remember that, with proper maintenance, a well made deck constructed from pressure treated wood can last 20 to 30 years. ● If you have a slabbed terrace or patio, clean be-

Curb (or lakeside) appeal One of the worst things you can do is treat your garden, stoop or lakefront as a dumping zone.

A front porch used as a messy stop of point between kitchen garbage can and refuse collection is such a turn-off.

Tip — buy colour-coded crates, stash neatly together and make sure they don’t overflow. If you’ve nowhere to stash, think about the environment — sort refuse into boxes and seek out your nearest recycling centre. You know it makes sense.

Similarly, a messy or unloved dock suggests the cottage to which it belongs is similarly unloved. At the very least power wash surfaces to remove winter debris and, if necessary, sand off flaking paint and varnish and re stain (using water proof product) according to manufacturers guidelines.

Our existing dock was well past its sell-by date so we opted for a complete replacement.

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Decorating around the TV I am often asked if I always loved decorating and I always say yes, as far back as I remember.

As a young girl, I constantly moved the furniture from one end of the room to the other, inventing as many looks as I could in my parents’ home.

It wasn’t long before I was banned to my small bedroom, but here I was allowed to do whatever my creative heart desired. And I did.

I built bookshelves from packing cases and removed my DEBBIE bed once to TRAVIS replace it with the garden hammock.

This didn’t last long. Neither did the pillar box (English postbox) red walls.

But I was happy playing with all the possibilities that four walls can offer a budding designer.

Years later, I became the luckiest designer in the world as I embarked on my television career, where over 20 years I got to ‘play’ with other peoples’ home.

It was always a challenge, but what fun me and my team had tackling those challenges.

There was one space, though, in every home where there was no solution to a particular problem — the television.

A gadget that gives everyone but decorators pleasure.

First, at the beginning of my career, these TV boxes were big and cumbersome.

Then they got massive. The television stands were even worse, as ugly as sin. Is it any wonder you never saw these in the beauty shots of decorating magazines?

Then came the flat screen TV, which at least looks modern in a contemporary setting.

The narrow black frames and slender profile created new modes of stylish placement; the television could now be installed like a picture, with all the wires hidden discretely behind the wall.

The advent of high definition and Internet hookup offer viewers a world of entertainment.

Apps such as Artkick transform Internet-connected TVs into interactive artframes, where you can display

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The thin profile and simple frame on flat screen TVs has revolutionized the way we can decorate the living room and den.

Claude Monet’s Water Lily Pond or The Card Player by Paul Cezanne in the comfort of your own home.

TVs are no longer ugly, unwieldy boxes, but one big challenge remained: Once the TV is wired up, then you are stuck.

No moving the furniture around as it all still has to face the television.

Until recently, that is.

New on the market is something called Optik TV by Telus, which allows you to move your television to any place in any room that has a power outlet.

The Optik comes with a small wire-

less digital box.

Simply plug in the TV and connect it to the wireless box. I am quite technically challenged, but this new possibility solved all my furniture moving dilemmas.

As the situation arises, you can put the TV anywhere, over the mantelpiece, on a book case or even sitting on your dining room sideboard.

When you don’t want the TV to be the centre of attention, it is easily moved and that spot can then be utilized for other functions or displays.

And when you are setting up for a

big crowd to watch the game, the seating plan can be configured with ease.

I am so relieved that I can get back to moving my furniture around on a whim now without having to beg for assistance moving wires and boxes.

It’s just like the old days, only better.

Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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DOCK: System offers buoyancy, stability to support summer traffic Working with Pipefusion (www. pipefusion.com), we quickly learned that their NyDock systems offers excellent buoyancy and, crucially, superior stability to support the social traffic we fully intend spreading across summer 2014.

Cue sunrise breakfasts for overseas guests, swimming parties during languid afternoons and sundown soirees as the big yellow yields to atmospheric dusk.

Yes indeed, fun times, we anticipate, lie ahead.

When all pieces were in place, the Pipefusion installation team dived underwater to connect and anchor the whole shebang.

Ingeniously, the system allows the platform to remain in water over winter, even as ice sets, thanks to adjustable ropes and chains that rise and fall to cope with changing conditions.

To further embellish our new vision, we ordered yellow striped Robert Allen fabric, which we made up into cushion pads for loungers from Wicker Emporium.

Top tip: buy end of season when discounts are best — we paid less than a hundred bucks per lounger.

As a finishing detail, we added potted evergreens and lined the walkway from the shoreline to the main dock platform with steel storm lamps from Ikea.

By day these look cute but, as night falls, they come into their own, twinkling and dancing against Muskoka’s inky skies.

Top 10 tips to help create the perfect deck, patio or dock ● Develop a strong visual relationship between inside and out. ● Investigate code and planning requirements before starting any building work. ● External lighting is important, so employ the services of an electrician and wire everything correctly so you can enjoy space at its best. ● Position small in ground solar lamps at the side of steps and illuminate back and front

doors with sensors that flick to life as you approach. ● Dress to impress — clever planting in pots and tubs is the simplest way to add outdoor style. ● A few jolly cushions will add ‘pop’ to the plainest furniture while decorative outdoors crockery will awaken even the most boring table. ● Opt for stains that penetrate the surface of your deck or porch rather than those that simply sit on top of timber. ● Debris in grooves between deck or dock boards will trap moisture — this in turn may encourage mildew and rot.

So start clawing it all out now. The manicure comes later. ● Scan your own neighbourhood for outdoors inspiration and take photos of everything you like. Consider all your options and, if necessary, make a 3D model or plot everything out on graph paper. ● And finally, when you’ve dressed to impress, go one stage further by adorning your space with flickering lights and get ready to host that glamorous candle-lit supper you’ve been promising all year.

Pop cute wee tea lights into storm jars and light citronella candles to keep bugs at bay.

There’s little worse, after all, than dishing out a chic wee salad only to find a plague of yellow jackets sucking the life out of your Balsamic dressing.

In essence, it really isn’t that hard to make your dock, yard or deck a positively welcoming and exciting haven. This year, as our professional calendar rolls ever faster, you’ll see us tackling more outdoor spaces than ever before.

We suppose we’re all familiar with the term ‘bring the outdoors in’ but perhaps these days, in light of how the gardening market is blossoming (if you’ll excuse the pun) maybe it’s finally time ‘to bring the indoors out.’ Towels at the ready? The dock party starts here!

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This photo provided courtesy of The Glass House shows a fog installation, commissioned by the director of the Glass House, and designed to reflect and engage the aesthetic concepts central to the design of the iconic structure itself. Like the glass structure itself, Fujiko Nakaya: Veil plays on the visible and invisible, transparent and opaque, permanent and ephemeral. The installation, about an hour’s train ride north of New York City, is open to the public from May 1 to Nov. 30. Below is a view from the inside of the house.

Artist wraps Glass House in fog

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Coast. From inside the silent sleekness of the Glass House, being enveloped by undulating fog feels at times like being inside a sort of three-dimensional time-lapse movie. From outside the house, or from the hillsides below or above the structure, the impact of the installation is completely different, and it’s ever flowing and changing depending on the weather.

“I look for the very best stage for the fog to perform. Then it’s at the mercy of the wind,” explained Nakaya, whose father, Ukichiro Nakaya, was a physicist credited with making the first artificial snowflakes. She started out painting clouds before experimenting with fog.

“I wanted only water, no chemicals, and a nozzle that could make extremely tiny droplets,” she said.

After extensive research, she found a California cloud scientist, Thomas Mee, trying to produce fog to help protect crops from early frost. Although she said the chemical-free fog nozzle system proved too expensive for agricultural use, Nakaya has been using a version of it for decades to produce her fogscapes.

Her first fog installation was in 1970 at the Osaka World Expo, where she enveloped the Pepsi Pavilion in dense fog in collaboration with the avant-garde artists’ collaborative Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), founded by artist Robert Rauschen-

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Nakaya’s over 50 fog installations have appeared at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, emerged from fountains at the Grand Palais in Paris and cascaded from bridges around the world. She has collaborated with Rauschenberg and other artists on dramatic fog performances and stage sets. Her only previous fogscape in the New York area was much smaller, at Johnson’s apartment in lower Manhattan in 1980.

She also showed a fog sculpture in Washington, D.C., 30 years ago, she said.

The 49-acre Glass House grounds, a National Trust Historic Site, also feature Modernist outdoor sculptures, a brick house (designed as a counterpoint to the glass one), two art galleries (one of which resembles a grass-covered nuclear bomb shelter), a small Modernist swimming pool, and a Greek-style Neo-Classical pavilion, made of cast concrete with a ceiling once gilded in gold, floating on a pond.

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NEW CANAAN, Conn. — The Glass House, architect Philip Johnson’s iconic Modernist structure set in the woods here, has been wrapped in a poetic fog

by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya, a sort of Christo of mist.

Like the glass structure itself, Nakaya’s “Veil” installation plays on the transparent and opaque, the permanent and ephemeral.

“I’m making an invisible natural phenomenon visible,” explained the Tokyo-based artist. “Usually, you ignore all the dynamics in the air. People go around the world to view an eclipse so they can experience a natural phenomenon that usually can’t be seen. But you don’t have to go that far.”

Dense fog gushes forth from 600 specially designed nozzles around the Glass House for around 10 minutes at a time. Using meteorological studies of the site, Nakaya carefully timed and calibrated the nozzles to maximize the visual effects of wind, humidity and air pressure.

For about half an hour, the thick mist dances gently around and over the house, sometimes enveloping it completely. At times, the mist cascades into the wooded valley below, and at times it floats up toward the hillside above, making parts of the house and landscape briefly disappear while usually invisible atmospheric forces come into focus.

“Johnson’s interest in the balance of opposites is evident throughout the Glass House campus. With Nakaya’s temporary installation, we carry this sensibility to its endpoint while allowing the unique magic of the Glass House — the dream of transparency, an architecture that vanishes — to return again and again as the fog rises and falls,” said Glass House director Henry Urbach.

The installation, about an hour’s train ride north of New York City, is open to the public from May 1 to November 30. It is part of a larger effort by Urbach, who was architecture curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before taking the helm of the Glass House in 2012, to foster new interpretations of the historic site.

Other new initiatives include overnights in the Glass House; performances, readings and art exhibitions on the grounds; self-guided tours; and commissioned works, such as this one, that engage the house itself.

Johnson’s home in New Canaan, a village including almost 100 important Modernist structures, was a centre of art and architecture, particularly during the ’50s and ’60s. Built in 1949, the Glass House was home to Johnson and his partner, art dealer David Whitney, until 2005.

Johnson was the first curator of the Museum of Modern Art’s architecture department, and a friend and associate of Alfred Barr, the founding director of MoMA. Cutting-edge artworks and architectural concepts were often debuted at the Glass House before being exhibited in Manhattan.

“Veil” is Nakaya’s first major work on the East

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Maple syrup tradition built on great people Maple syrup is one of Canada’s gifts just see the tradition change. to the world, and with more than 80 per It takes 40 to 50 litres of sugar macent of global supply coming from the ple sap to make one litre of syrup, but land of the maple leaf, we’ve earned that’s just the start of it. our sweet reputation.

It also takes a system to What’s far less known is deliver that sap from trees, how much effort goes into then to boil away most of making the syrup that gracthe water. es tables everywhere, and Exactly how this hapthe kind of commitment pens is unique to each sugand risks shouldered by the ar bush, and a guy named hardworking people who Brian Bainborough is the make maple syrup happen. man behind the newest It’s a story worth telling maple syrup facility in our because no one else in the area. world can tell it like us CaStepping into his “sugar nadians. shack” at the heart of his Most of the syrup in forest is like a maple vermy part of the country on sion of a visit to Willie WonManitoulin Island is made ka’s chocolate factory.

STEVE in small batches using simQuebec produces the MAXWELL ple equipment boiling over vast majority of maple open wood fires. syrup in Canada and the It’s often a mom-and-pop, world, so it’s only natural DIY labour of love, and you’ve got to that Quebec is also at the leading edge wonder how many young people will of producing modern gear for turning manage to tear themselves away from sap into syrup. all things electronic to take over the That’s where Brian got his imprestradition when it’s their turn to step up sive equipment. and tap some trees.

Raw sap flows into one end of the Not many, I expect, or perhaps we’ll wood-fired, stainless steel evaporator,

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and almost-finished syrup comes out the other.

That sounds simpler than it is, and there are two additional things worth remembering.

It takes a massive amount of energy to create sap from syrup by boiling off the water, but the way it happens at the best modern sugar bushes is as sustainable as it gets.

Scrap wood from the forest itself is gathered and thrown into the firebox under the evaporation pans, turning a byproduct of the forest into energy that makes syrup.

Burning wood is carbon-neutral because it releases only carbon that the tree took up during its life, and since fan-assisted combustion can happen at more than 2,000F, it’s clean and virtually smokeless.

To see what I mean, check out the maple syrup video tour I’ve created at http://www.realrurallife.com/maplesyrup-manitoulin-island/ You’d think that all maple syrup in the world is organic because it’s produced from pesticide-free trees, but there’s more to organic certification than this.

It also has to do with limiting the

number of taps per tree, maintaining bio-diversity in the forest and — most importantly I think — the material used to handle the sap and syrup during production.

Organic certification at Bainborough’s maple bush means that sap or syrup never touches anything other than stainless steel or food-grade plastic.

Besides any health issues, syrup simply tastes better when it doesn’t have an iron or plastic after-taste.

The difference between a successful maple syrup year and a flop might be the difference between 100 litres of syrup produced or 1,000. It really all depends on the weather, which wasn’t that great in our area of the country this spring.

The courage to deal with risk and uncertainty like this is another reason I say that the only thing more impressive than great Canadian maple syrup is the great Canadians who make it.

Steve Maxwell, syndicated home improvement and woodworking columnist, has shared tips for DIY and hands-on living since 1988. Follow Steve’s blog at www.realrurallife.com.

Cool monogrammed home décor gifts for mom Thanks to modern technology, we’re now able to monogram just about anything, cheaply and easily.

Teens can initial their water bottles.

Kids can get their names on lunch boxes.

Dads have their own golf balls.

And moms ... well, let’s take a look at some fun, personalized gift ideas for her.

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If Mom’s lucky enough to have a quiet space of her own, consider giving her a lettered linen pillow.

Or perhaps get her a pretty art piece with a monogrammed initial on linen, framed in alder wood.

Simple, paperwhitescented soaps etched with Mom’s initial would make a nice-smelling gift for her bathroom. (www. potterybarn.com).

Or consider an initialed acacia-wood bath caddy, with spots for a beverage, phone, and an e-reader or book.

A luxurious linen throw can be embroidered with either hotpink or lime-green thread.

Or get really creative: Come up with everybody’s favourite things about the family matriarch, then order a personalized love letter on canvas for her that’s titled “Dear Mom.” (www.redenvelope.com ) Jonathan Adler loves a monogram.

His chic, initialed Lucite trays in Acapulco and Bargello prints kick up the modern vibe.

Adler’s also carrying New York artist Trey Speegle’s customized vintage pop alphabet collages, which incorporate whimsical elements like vintage paint-by-number art. (www.jonathanadler. com ) Lily Pulitzer-print acrylic trays with Mom’s initials in the centre would make pretty yet practical gifts for entertaining or to hold fragrances or trinkets.

For her home office, consider a magnetic note board covered in an elegant black-andwhite damask print. (www.thestationerystudio.com ) Girly Twirly’s got a wide range of fun gifts that can be monogrammed.

Chinoiserie and preppy-print cutting boards, umbrellas and unscented candles are part of the product mix.

Also here: laser-cut monograms in unfinished wood that you can paint or decorate yourself and hang with ribbon on doors, windows or anywhere Mom wants to make her mark. (www. girlytwirly.com ) For the gardening mom, check out Williams-Sonoma’s monogram-able gardening tools, including Sophie

Conran’s potting scoop, and a chic copper trowel. (www.williams-sonoma. com ) San Francisco designer Jennifer Morla offers her signed typographic giclee prints exclusively through personalized gift retailer Mark & Gra-

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She composes her pieces using a variety of fonts and midcentury elements.

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BIDVAR Michael “Mike” Paul January 27, 1967 - April 25, 2014 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved son, brother, father, grandfather and friend.

He was born in Orangeville, Ontario, but called Red Deer, Alberta, home for over 30 years. Michael was a member of the IBEW 424 and worked as a Journey Man Electrician.

He was very passionate about his career. A Celebration of Mike’s Life will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, on Sunday, May 4, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

CHRISTENSEN Marguerite Christensen (nee Laurendeau) passed away peacefully in her sleep April 23, 2014 at the age of 96 years.

Memorial services will be held on Tuesday May 6, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at St. Agnes Catholic Church, Carstairs. In keeping with Marguerite’s lively approach to life, attendees are encouraged to dress colourfully!! Memorial tributes may be made directly to S.T.A.R.S. Air Ambulance or charity of choice.

HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES LTD., DIDSBURY, entrusted with arrangements.

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CHAPMAN It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Blair Allan Chapman, aka Pork Chop on April 30, 2014.

Blair was born in Bashaw, Alberta on May 2, 1982. He began his journey in life on a farm south of Erskine where he enjoyed being able to roam free; play in the mud puddles, with baby calves and all things outside. At the age of 8 destiny took him to Red Deer where he attended Parkland School for the next 12 years, coming home to the farm every weekend.

After graduation in 2002, at the age of 20, he moved into an adult home with his second family, often returning to the farm for visits.

Throughout his life, Blair was able to learn sign language, received many awards and had plenty of adventures.

Blair passed away peacefully in his home 2 days short of his 32nd birthday. Blair will always be remembered for his infectious giggle and the smile you just couldn’t wipe off his face. Blair has left to mourn his parents, Ritchie and Harriet Chapman, brother Mark Chapman (Pam and Connor Gallant), nephews Jade and Kaiden, niece Brooklyn, second family of Seth and Ryan and all his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends. He was predeceased by grandparents Pony and Eileen Chapman and grandmother Karla Jones. A funeral service for the late Blair Chapman will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. in the Heartland Chapel of Stettler Funeral Home,Stettler, Alberta.

Donations in memory of Blair are gratefully accepted to Parkland Community Living and Support Society or a charity of your choice c/o Stettler Funeral Home & Crematorium, Box 1780, Stettler, Alberta T0C 2L0, 403-742-3422, who are entrusted with the care and arrangements. To send or view condolences to Blair’s family please visit www.stettlerfuneralhome.com

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DAY Ruby Alberta 1920 - 2014 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing our mother, grandmother and great grandmother Ruby Day. She passed away surrounded by her family at the age of 93. She was predeceased by her husband Edward; her daughter Susan Simpson and her granddaughter Lisa Thomson; as well as two brothers and four sisters.

She leaves to mourn her loss daughters Heather (Butch) Thomson and Beverley (Jerry) Mokry; her son-in-law Wally Simpson; grandchildren Dean and Rachel Thomson, Scott Thomson (Amber), Justin and Shauna Twogood, Keely Edwards, Chelsea and Ryan Morgan, Kyle and Lacey Edwards; as well as fifteen precious great grandchildren and one brother Buster Reay. She attended a one room schoolhouse in Valley Center until grade nine, then moved to Red Deer until grade twelve, then moved to Calgary to attend Normal School, becoming a teacher, a skill she practiced until her passing. She was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church and enjoyed playing music and clogging with the “Hoedowners”. After retiring from being a farm wife and teacher, she travelled extensively, swimming in the dead sea, riding a camel in Egypt and visiting the Holy Land on more than one occasion. She spent thirty-three winters in Mesa, Arizona which she thoroughly enjoyed.

Services will be held Friday, May 9, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, Red Deer. Internment will be at the Red Deer Cemetery.

Donations can be made to the charity of one’s choice.

FIELDING Christine Mary June 4, 1962 - Red Deer, Alberta April 30, 2014 - Calgary, Alberta Christine Fielding of Calgary passed away on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at the age of 51 years. Christine was a loving daughter, caring sister, and devoted aunt. She dedicated much of her life to educating children at French immersion schools including Banff Trail Elementary where she touched the lives of generations of students. She had a sense of adventure: she studied in Quebec, travelled abroad and loved to hike, particularly in the Rocky Mountains.

Christine’s enthusiasm for genealogy and her unique family history encouraged her to journey to unusual locations. She had a passion for a wide-range of music and played her piano in every free moment. Her valiant battle with lymphoma ended suddenly. Christine is survived by her mother Bridget; her sister Helen; brother Paul; brother-in-law John; sister-in-law Jenn; niece Harley; nephew Zander; and her many friends and students.

Funeral Services will be held at McINNIS & HOLLOWAY’S, Chapel of the Bells (2720 Centre Street North, Calgary, AB) on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 3:30 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded through www.mcinnisandholloway.com.

Christine benefitted greatly from Wellspring Calgary. If friends so desire, memorial tributes in Christine’s honour would be greatly appreciated and may be made directly to Wellspring Calgary, 1404 Home Road N.W., Calgary, Alberta, T3B 1G7, Telephone: 403-521-5292, www.wellspringcalgary.com.

In living memory of Christine Fielding, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by

FRENZEL Klaus Heinz Dec. 30, 1949 - Apr. 15, 2014 Come join us to celebrate a life well lived. Lana, Bonnie, Burns, and Robyn invite you to come to a Celebration of Life for our loving father Klaus Frenzel. Lacombe Curling Rink, Friday, May 9th, 2014 7 - 10 pm.

Please bring memories and stories you would be willing to share with friends and family.

Cowboy poets welcome...

McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES Chapel of the Bells 2720 CENTRE STREET NORTH, CALGARY, AB T2E 2V6 Telephone: 1-800-661-1599.

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PENFOLD (KAYE) STANG Lillian Rose Agatha 1927 - 2014 Feb. 4, 1922 - April 21, 2014 Our dear mother, Lillian Josephine Rose Stang passed away Penfold (Kaye) nee Hagen peacefully at the Ponoka passed away in her sleep at Hospital at the age of 92. the Red Deer Regional Hospital Rose was born to Anton and Centre, Red Deer on Monday, Philomena Rissling in Macklin, April 28, 2014 after 87 Saskatchewan. She was the wonderful years of sharing youngest of five children. her love and devotion with Rose married Elmer Stang in her family. She was born on 1946 and they farmed in the March 29, 1927 at Provost, Ferrybank and Usona districts Alberta. Mom will always be until 1990 when they retired remembered as the rock that to Ponoka. Rose is survived we all depended upon to by her children Donna (Bob) provide us with many years Smith, Brent† (Debi) and of wisdom and laughter; and Margo Stang (Gordon), taught us to strive to be the grandchildren Rhonda (Dale) best we could be. She will Girard, Colleen (Kevin) Halwa, forever be in the hearts of Tara Smith, Ben Stang and her two daughters, Linda Veronica Stang, and greatKaye, Kathy (Jim) Ayotte, grandchildren Emily and sons, Dennis Kaye, Bob (Carol) Dryden Girard, and Nicholas Kaye, grandsons, Tony (Julie) and Kennedy Halwa. She was Kaye, Justin Ayotte, Chris predeceased by her husband Kaye and Corey Kaye, her Elmer in 2004, sisters Ludwina granddaughters, Cheryl-Anne (William) Schlosser, Margaret Ayotte, Shannon (Kurt) Swekla (Mike) Leibel, and Mary and Katrina (Chris) Thompson, (John) Kudel, brother Mike great grandson, Liam Kaye (Kay) Rissling, and grandson and great granddaughters, Samuel Stang. A Prayer Vigil Myla Kaye and Xoie and will be held at St. Augustine Sofia Swekla. She is also Catholic Church in Ponoka survived by her eldest sister, on Monday, May 5, 2014 at Inga, daughter-in-law, Bev 7:00 p.m. The Mass of and cousin, Rhoda, as well Christian Burial will be as numerous nieces, nephews celebrated at St. Augustine and cousins. Mom was fortunate Catholic Church in Ponoka to have loved and been loved on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at by her first husband, Alban 2:00 p.m. Interment will Kaye and second husband, follow at the Forest Home Howard Penfold. She was Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, predeceased by her husbands, donations may be made to the as well as her sisters, Ruth, Heart and Stroke Foundation Ida and a brother, Julius of Alberta or to a charity of (Joe). Mom spent many your choice. years working at the Buffalo To express condolences to Hotel, Michener Centre and Rose’s family, please visit the Red Deer Regional www.womboldfuneralhomes.com †Arrangements Entrusted To Hospital Centre. She had a PONOKA FUNERAL HOME great faith in her Lord and ~ A Wombold Family always knew He would never Funeral Home ~ give her more than she could handle - and He never did.

She lived in her house for sixty-four years and until the day of her stroke, took loving care of her flowers and yard, drove her car, handled all her affairs and lived her life to the In Memoriam fullest. In place of flowers, Memorial Donations in Lillian’s honor may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca.

A Memorial Service to celebrate Lillian’s Life will be held at the Deer Park Alliance Church, 2960 - 39 Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, May 5, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM TONY den ENGELSEN 6287 - 67 A Street Oct. 11, 1937 - May 4, 1989 (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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SAWYER Erna Louisa Katie (nee Hoffman) July 20, 1918 - April 26, 2014 Surrounded by family,†Erna Sawyer†died peacefully at 4:40 a.m. on April 26, 2014 in Calgary, Alberta at the age of 95 years.

She loved and was loved by those she leaves behind: children Michael (Brenda) of Vancouver, Douglas (Sharida) of Victoria and Laura (Cleve) Wershler of Calgary; grandchildren Sarah (Ed), Mark (Stacey), Samantha (Torbin), Peter and Jake; and great-grandchildren Jade, Marika and Dane, as well as sister Frieda and numerous in-laws, nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her dear husband, Martin Sawyer, in 1990, and siblings Hilda, Frank, Ella, Lydia and Carl. Erna was born near Pilot Butte, Saskatchewan on July 20, 1918 to Theresia and Fred Hoffman, and grew up in Tyvan and Regina. After marrying Martin in September 1942, Erna completed her RN (Class of ‘43) at Medicine Hat General Hospital while Martin served overseas. When the war was over, they made their home in Red Deer,†setting down deep roots in the community where Erna lived until moving to Calgary in 2010. Erna will be remembered by all who knew her, including her children’s many friends, for her kindness, wisdom and thoughtfulness.

Her beautiful smile will be missed. She was an avid reader, golfer and bridge player, loved concerts and family occasions, and cherished memories of her travels with Martin. Skilled in needle crafts, she made many gifts of framed needlepoint, knitted sweaters and crocheted afghans to those she loved.

Erna was proud of her career as a public health nurse in Red Deer. She said recently, “The most important thing in nursing is to be kind and not add to anyone’s misery.” Thanks to all the nurses and caregivers who showed her such kindness in her final home at Beverly Centre Lake Midnapore in Calgary.

A memorial celebration will be held in Calgary on Friday, June 20, 2014. Friends are welcome and invited to contact a family member if they wish to receive details. In Erna’s memory, donations are gratefully accepted to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, 3942-50A Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 4E7, 403-343-4773, or at www.rdrhfoundation.com/donate-now

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GILLIES The family of the late David Gillies extend a heartfelt thanks to all who contributed in countless ways to help us through the pain and sorrow of his death. Your thoughtful, generous acts of support, caring, friendship, and expressions of sympathy shore us up in our loss. It was such a comfort to us to see so many attend the memorial to honour David’s memory. Thanks also to the Lacombe Legion Ladies Auxiliary, and to Steve at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel.

As expressed in Reid, Beth and John’s rendition of one of David’s favorite songs, from here on in it’s “Day by day by day by day”.

Lorraine and family, Lisa and family, Jean and Noel

Celebrations BURKINSHAW The family of Marion Burkinshaw would like you to join them celebrating her 80th Birthday.

Sat. May 17, 2014, 2 pm.

Pioneer’s Lodge 4324-46A Ave. Red Deer, AB No gifts please.

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THE RED DEER CHAMBER SINGERS invite you to attend†our ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT, CARNIVAL OF MELODIES, featuring an array of ear pleasing music from opera, musical theatre, swing, popular and traditional choral settings.

Saturday, May 24, 2014, 7:00 pm.† Sunnybrook United Church.

Tickets ($10.00) available at the door or by calling Sadie at 403-347-5166.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St. Jude worker of miracles pray for us. St. Jude helper of the hopeless, pray for us. Say 9 times/day for 8 days and promise publication.

Thanks for miracles granted. P.C.

MASSIVE MOVING SALE 113 AINSWORTH CRES. Fri. 2nd 1-9, Sat. 3rd, 8-4 1/2 price Sun. 4th, 10-12 Furniture, decorative items, houseware, dishes, clothing

Aspen Ridge 172 ALLWRIGHT CLOSE. Sat 3rd & Sun 4th, 10-5.

Dressers, china cabinet, corner media stand, all oak.

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Something for Everyone • Assist with equipment maintenance Everyday in Classifieds • Some accounting and data entry LOOKING for male • Other duties as needed caregiver with nursing background to care for 90 yr. old elderly male w/slight The successful candidate must be organized, dementia. Mail resume to: Conrado Gundran 5215-76 have a positive attitude and experience a definite asset.

St. Red Deer T4P 2J4 Please send your resume and cover letter to Jeanine: jjudson@1strateenergy.ca

Deer Park 178 DONNELLY CRES. Saturday, May 3rd & Sunday, May 4th 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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CWC Well Services Corp.

6763 76 Street Red Deer AB, T4P 3R7 Email: margogasser @cwcwellservices.com

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BUSY MEDICAL OFFICE requires FRONT DESK RECEPTIONIST Starting wage $16/hour.

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Must have payroll experience preferably with ADP system, with Excel and Word. Must have computer skills. Email resume to: danderson@ pikewheatonchev.ca

ST. THOMAS SCHOOL ON 39TH ST. Sat. May 3rd 8 am - 1 pm Scout fundraiser - multi family sale. Many large items.

CWC is currently seeking a Payroll Administrator for the Red Deer office.

Candidates must possess a comprehensive knowledge of accounting and payroll procedures/ applications with at least 3 years experience in payroll administration. Preference will be given to applicants with Payroll Compliance Practitioner certification and experience with multiprovincial payroll. Experience with Spira and ACCPAC is an asset.

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OFFICE assistant req’d for Clive area trucking company.

Knowledge of trucking industry and general Grandview knowledge of maintenance an asset but willing to train.

4121 40 STREET Flexible hrs. Exc. Sat. May 3rd 10-5. A lifetime wages/benefits. Fax of treasures. 80 yrs of household resume to 403-784-2330 goods, collectibles, tools, or call toll free furniture, everything must go.

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Earn While You Learn Full Time Employment 40hrs/wk Training & Practicum hours provided to successful candidate.

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RDA LEVEL II who is extremely well organized, energetic & self motivated. 4 days/wk.

No evenings or weekends.

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4619 48 Ave, Red Deer.

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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.

Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions:

* Experienced Production Testing * Day Supervisors * Night Operators * Experienced Production Testing Assistants

Canyon Technical Services is a leader in the oilfield service industry, providing customized fracturing and pressure pumping solutions to oil and gas producers across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. At Canyon, our employees are ‘Champions’, dedicated to fulfilling our Vision of “improving the industry one job at a time” - our ‘Champions’ have made Canyon one of the most sought-after providers in our industry. If you are looking for a career within a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then Canyon is looking for you! Canyon is preparing for an extremely busy 2014/2015 and are looking for qualified employees.

Please specify position when replying to this ad.

WE’RE EXPANDING OVER BREAKUP! We have the right customers We have the right jobs We have the right equipment Are YOU the right fit?

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

We would like to thank all those candidates who apply, however only qualified personnel will be contacted.

CLASS 1 driver w/5 yrs. exp. and oilfield tickets.

Email resume: jkinsella @xplornet.com DRIVER/SWAMPER for a small knuckle picker.

Must have all oilfield tickets.

Room for advancement.

Fax resume to 403-342-1953 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

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f Class 1 Driver/Operator’s in Fracturing, Coiled Tubing, N2, Cement & Acid f Supervisors in Fracturing and Coiled Tubing f Payroll Administrator

Why Canyon? f Premium compensation package f New Equipment f 15/6 Schedule

To apply for the above positions, in confidence, please email or fax your resume and a copy of a current drivers abstract. We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

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Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

A &W GASOLINE ALLEY BOTH LOCATIONS Now accepting applications for F/T & P/T Cooks & Cashiers Wage $10.50-$12/hr.

Please apply in person to either Gasoline Alley Location or online at: aw.ca

CHILLABONG’S BAR & GRILL TR3 Energy is at the forefront of reclamation and remediation in the oil & gas industry We are currently recruiting for:

Heavy Equipment Operators & Labourers Requirements: Valid Driver’s License H2S Alive Standard First Aid WHIMIS and/or CSTS or PST Pre-Access A&D Testing Ground Disturbance Level 11 Please e-mail or fax your resume to: hr@tr3energy.com Fax: (403) 294-9323 www.tr3energy.com

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Is seeking permanent exp’d full & part time LINE COOKS. We offer a competitive wage, fast paced, friendly work environment.

If you have exceptional work ethics and a passion for cooking please email your resume to intbooks@telus.net or drop off in person. Consideration will be given to those who are avail. for a variety of shifts.

RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s. Permanent Room Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance based bonus program.

Must be fluent with verbal l& written English, be physically fit. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com

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SOUTHPOINTE COMMON and BOWER PLACE Mall Locations.

Positions for SUPERVISORS. Looking for motivated and hard working individuals. Having your own transportation is a plus. On the job training, but experience in fast food is an asset, and must be avail. to work all store location hours.

Please specify which store you are applying for, and if you require an LMO to work in Canada. Email resume to awbsp@ xplornet.ca

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GRATIAE is seeking 5 Retails Sales reps selling skin & body care products in Parkland Mall 4747 67th St. Red Deer, $12.10/hr + bonus & comm.

F/T - P/T No Exp. Req’d.

Email resumes: gratiaereddeersr@ gmail.com 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 SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission.

F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com

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invites applications for the following position:

Teacher, Ponoka Secondary Campus For further specifics on the above position, please visit Wolf Creek Public Schools’ website at www.wolfcreek .ab.ca, or contact the Division Office at 403-783-3473.

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2 EXP. ROOFERS. Must have drivers licence.

403-341-9208 or 403-346-2822 after hours.

BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Heavy Equipment Operators, Skid Steer Operators and Laborers. Send resumes to: office@bricar.ca or fax 403-347-6296

C & C COATINGS in Innisfail is seeking F/T Sandblasters and Painters exp. with Endura an asset.

Competitive wages and benefits. Fax resume to: 403-227-1165.

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

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DEEP KNEADS MUSCLE THERAPY is looking for a Registered Massage Therapist for room rental.

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ADAM & EVE UNISEX In the Parkland Mall is seeking P/T / F/T HAIR STYLISTS Please drop off resume in person.

WE are looking for a F/T or P/T journeyman (60% commission with ticket) or apprentice hairstylist for busy family salon in Lacombe. Great wages and benefits packages.

Bring resume to Hairapy at Lacombe Center Mall

Requirements • Grade 12, GED, or assessed equivalent • Must be a Canadian Citizen Enrollment starts May 1 - Aug. 15, 2014 Course cost $3,000/yr. Employer will payroll deduction for assistance, if required.

Please call (403) 347-7889 EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS

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Precision offers competitive compensation and benefits, opportunities for growth, innovation and leadership, and much more.

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Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants Has an immediate CENTRAL ALBERTA must have experience as a opening for an RESIDENCE SOCIETY heavy duty mechanic or Accounts Payable journeyman instrument Individualized Clerk mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, Supports Coordinator JOB SUMMARY: be quick learners, motivated The Accounts Payable and hard working and live This position is responsible Clerk takes care of all for the overall daily or be willing to relocate matters relating to within a 20 minute commute coordination & monitoring Accounts payable and to workplace location. This of support services provided payments for Quinn’s position offers a challenging to a number of individuals Capital Corp. and its within their homes & the work environment, attractive subsidiaries. community as well as benefits with competitive pay and significant room providing direct supports.

RESPONSIBILITIES: A post-secondary diploma for promotion.

• Receiving all invoices Please submit resumes in Disability & Community from suppliers and Studies or relevant field is posting accurate Attn: Human Resources preferred & a minimum of invoice details to the email:kwolokoff@ three years experience, GL and A/P Subledger bearspawpet.com (a combination of relevant • Matching invoices and Fax 403-252-9719 training & experience may cheque stubs and Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 be considered). Knowledge presenting for approval Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 / experience with a variety and payment of disabling conditions, • New vendor data entry challenging behaviours, and maintenance support strategies, providing • Invoice and Cheque RED Deer based acid personal care & the ability hauling company looking to provide physical assisfiling • Balancing vendor for Class 1 truck drivers. tance are required. statements and monthly Top industry wages and Strong leadership, benefits package. Please communication, organizaAP accounts • Required to conduct fax resume and drivers tional, interpersonal, & yourself in a professional abstract to 403-346-3766 problem solving skills are manner when dealing essential to this position. with vendors Travel within the city & surrounding area is QUALIFICATIONS AND required so a driver’s license EXPERIENCE: & vehicle are necessary.

• Experienced in Microsoft At this point the position Office and Microsoft will involve approximately Excel SERVICE RIG 25 hours per week, but is • Ability to work indepen- Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd expected to be a full time dently and as a team is seeking exp’d position in the very near • Manage multiple tasks FLOORHANDS & future. You should be and prioritize DERRICK HANDS prepared and available to • Attention to detail Locally based, home every work shiftwork, weekends • 1-2 years of AP night! Qualified applicants as well as be on call. experience must have all necessary valid tickets for the position Salary range: APPLY: being applied for. $17.68 - $23.04 per hour Please submit your Bearspaw offers a resume and references by very competitive salary Direct Resumes/Applications May 9, 2014 via fax to and benefits package to C.A.R.S. 403-343-8805 along with a steady #101 - 5589 47 St. We wish to thank everyone work schedule.

Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 for their interest, however, Please submit resumes: Fax 346-8015 only those candidates Attn: Human Resources Email: markw@carsrd.org selected for an interview Email: will be contacted. hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, Restaurant/ 333-96 Ave. NE Dental Hotel Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

CLASS 1 driver for mixed farm operation. F/T, Email: jkinsella@xplornet.com

Would you like to become an Optician?

• Minimum 5 years experience with centrifuge/mud systems • Proven leadership and management skills, as well as team building abilities • Problem solving skills, as well as ability to evaluate options and implements solutions • Must be reliable, responsible and dependable

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Become An Optician Precision Rentals, a division of Precision Drilling, is recruiting for a Manager, Solids Control to oversee and manage the Precision Rentals Solids Control Product line and associated equipment. A successful candidate would possess the following qualifications:

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CLASSIFICATIONS Caregivers/ Aides

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The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! HOURLY taper needed. $25-$30/hr. depending on experience. Call Steve POSITION FILLED

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STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

We are hiring for SHUTDOWNS in the Red Deer and Cold Lake area:

JOURNEYMEN ELECTRICIANS & JOURNEYMEN INSTRUMENTATION MECHANICS

The ideal candidates will have the following: • Journeymen Electricians and/or Instrumentation Mechanics with oilfield and/or industrial experience • Fall Protection, CSTS (Version 0.9) • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Committed dedication to safety; reflected in practice and experience • A team player STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Leanne Colby Fax # 403-342-6505 Email: lcolby@studon.com “People Pride & Service”

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Case IH Equipment Dealer in Olds is now accepting applications for a full time

Counter Person or Shipper/Receiver.

Farming background and apprenticeship is an asset.

Applicant must be reliable, self motivated • and team oriented.

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WE OFFER: Competitive Wages Annual Work boot reimbursement RRSP Plan Health & Dental Benefits package Sick Days Bonus Plan available Continuous professional training in house and off-site Friendly work environment

If you are looking for a rewarding career with a successful and growing organization, then forward your resume to: FUTURE AG INC. Box 489 Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1 Fax: 403-342-0396 Email: hr@futureag.ca

ELECTRICAL & INSTRUMENTATION FIELD TECHNICIAN If you have Electrical and Instrumentation skills, an appreciation for accurate drawings and like to work with people, we have a job opportunity for you.

Key activities include visiting Field Offices and Facilities, collecting E & I information, Redlining and Creating E & I and Mechanical drawings. At our Red Deer facility you will assist our drafters in producing accurate, easy to read drawings for our clients.

Qualifications Include: • Journeyman Electrician Ticket • Instrumentation dual ticket is a definite asset • Field Experience • Thorough understanding of oil and gas processes and equipment Please visit our website at www.crimtech.com for more information and email your resume to: careers@crimtech.com

Pressure Control Assembler Technician Nexus is currently seeking a mechanical individual to perform assembly & testing of all BOP’s and Pressure Control Equipment. Duties include heavy lifting, manual labour, operating forklift and overtime as necessary. We offer a competitive wage, benefits and RRSP plan.

Experience is not mandatory, but a definite asset. Email resume to resume@ nexusengineering.ca

NRC MOTOR EXPRESS LTD.

DRIVER/SALES

has the following positions available to accommodate our contact clients growth.

LCV OPERATOR MACHINIST for scheduled 1800 Hr. to join our team. dispatches Sunday-Thursday.

RESPONSIBILITIES Red Deer - Calgary - return.

Operating machines; $220/day + Benefits. conventional turning, milling machines & COMPANY OPERATOR CNC machines for scheduled 5 axle • Machining parts, ensuring dispatches from Red Deer conformance to specifications to Vancouver and return.

• Completing work orders & Starting wage .42/Mi. associated documents Team Operation starting at • Conducting regular .67/Mi. + Company Benefits. routine maintenance operations on shop OWNER OPERATOR UNIT equipment in accorfor scheduled 5 axle disdance with pre-defined patches from schedules to minimize Calgary or Edmonton to QUICKLINE CRANE INC. downtime Vancouver and return. in Blackfalds • Machining for internal Start at $1.80/Mi. Team is looking for a & external customers, unit Starts at $2.00/Mi. may be required for on MOBILE CRANE & Company benefits, fuel call services HOISTING OPERATOR cards, and use of supplier • Ensuring the integrity with experience. accounts are available. of all the measuring Must be a minimum third devices is maintained year apprentice & have In addition to the Sirus/XM • Correctly interpret good knowledge of truck stereo equipped late model engineering drawings mount & all terrain cranes. units our equipment is • Carrying out other job Competitive salaries purchased for Operator related tasks as includes benefits. comfort and safety. assigned by a supervisor Must have a Class 1 license.

Mountain and Refer Please submit all resumes experience an asset for QUALIFICATIONS and by email to: applicants seeking Experience kyle@quicklinecrane.com full or part time employment.

• Journeyman Machinist Fax resume to W.R.SCOTT Equipment Certificate or equiva403-227-6699 a company dealing in lent experience. compact equipment is • Ability read & interpret looking for a representative shop drawings. to handle equipment, • Safety conscious parts, sales & equipment • Attention to detail rentals. Applicant must • Previous Oilfield equiphave a valid driver’s ment experience an asset licence, basic computer • API/ISO knowledge an asset knowledge is an asset.

We would like to thank Please send resume to: everyone for their interest, dbevan@ however, only those candiwrscottequipment.com dates selected for an or fax 1-780-440-1771 interview will be contacted.

Please provide cover CENTRAL AB based truckletter, resume, and referTruckers/ ing company requires ences with attention to Owner Operators Drivers Human Resources Fax: (403) 347-3312 & Company Drivers Email: hr@leespecialties. com in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

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CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

Now Hiring:

BFI Canada Red Deer is hiring

JOURNEYMAN PIPEFITTER for FACILITY PROJECT

Waste Collection Drivers and Helpers.

Class 3 Driving position.

Monday to Friday.

The successful applicant Competitive Wages. Paid will be a ticketed, benefits. Must be able to Red Seal Journeyman perform physical labor, Pipefitter/Steamfitter lifting up to 50lbs, in a fast • Be able to complete paced environment.

TRUCKERS ISO drawings Training will be provided.

Busy road construction • Measure existing and new Experience in the industry company looking for Class piping projects within an asset, but not 1, Class 3, and winch truck an Oil and Gas Plant necessary. Successful drivers. Work is throughout • Organized GREAT candidates must pass a Alberta. Must have at least • A Self-starter Pre-employment Medical OPPORTUNITY 3 yr’s exp. Fax resume to • Team player and Drug test. Please fax 403-309-0489 resume and drivers Afternoon Shift This project runs from abstract to 403-340-0894 CNC Lead Hand / May - September 2014, or Email jclarke@wsii.ca. RED Deer based acid Supervisor and will be by hand hauling company looking CLASS 1 driver with fluid for Class 1 truck drivers. only-tools supplied LOA Nexus Engineering and travel pay also supplied hauling experience, local Top industry wages and runs. 403-373-3285 or fax benefits package. Please is currently looking for resume and copies of all fax resume and drivers abAfternoon shift Are you looking to grow valid tickets to Lead hand/supervisor. your career in a drug and stract to 403-346-3766 403-986-2819 Duties include, ensuring alcohol free environment, production flow on Mazak surrounded by a great team?

C.N.C lathe and mills, Then Profoxx Energy would Misc. trouble shooting, like to hear from you. min 1 years experience as We are a professional fast Help a lead hand/supervisor growing company that in a machine shop. offers competitive wages We offer competitive wages, and benefits in a fun company paid benefits and and safe environment. a RRSP matching plan.

Please forward resumes Submit your resume to: to: resume careers@profoxxenergy.com @nexusengineering.ca Or by fax 780-622-5056

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PAINTER F/T Commercial/Residential Brush/Roll Application.

Exp. req’d. Vehicle req’d.

Contact Drew at CCL 403-596-1829

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We thank all those who apply, but only those chosen for interview will be contacted

Netook Construction Ltd. is looking to hire for their upcoming season.

We are taking resumes for experienced

HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS

(dozers, excavators, graders, scrapers, skidsteers, rubber tire hoe) and labourers for upcoming work.

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You must have a current driver’s licence and safety tickets which include H2S Alive, First Aid/CPR, Ground Disturbance Level 2 (Standard 201), and CSTS. Also, hiring drivers with Class 1 license with equipment hauling and/or gravel truck experience.

Send resumes to careers@netook.ca or Fax 1-403-556-6231. Candidates must go through preemployment drug testing.

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.

PENHOLD

We are seeking to hire permanent Driver/Sales for the Red Deer area.

Qualifications Required: * Valid Class 3 license with air ticket * Valid delivery and safety courses; Emergency First Aid, WHMIS and TDG are required although training is available * Propane-related experience is an asset * Oilfield experience is an asset Canwest Propane offers a competitive compensation package Interested candidates are invited to apply via our website www.gibsons.com/careers or by Fax at 403-346-0595 F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

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ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery 3 days per week.

NO WEEKENDS!!

JOHNSTONE CROSSING Jenner Cres. & Judd Close.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in: GLENDALE

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GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

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Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Hanna Drumheller Innisfail Paintearth Drayton Valley Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

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Are You Friendly & Outgoing?

Like Meeting New People?

Would you like to...

Get back into the workforce when children start school? Get extra spending money after retirement?

Work around your family’s busy schedule? Get to know your community better?

Set down your own hours?

GET PAID?!!

Welcome Wagon is Now Hiring Apply online at www.iamlovingit.ca or call 1-866-627-6070

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F/T MAINTENANCE COORDINATOR (INNISFAIL) Innisfail, Alberta facility is in need of an energetic maintenance person.

DUTIES: Performing routine maintenance jobs and repairs including troubleshooting on heating, cooling, ventilation systems; minor repairs to plumbing, electrical, appliances, & furniture. Handle minor painting, repairing drywall, and building upkeep.

Provide oversight of outside contracted repair companies, snow removal.

Preference will be given to candidates with previous institutional maintenance experience.

• Family owned and operated since 1974, Trail Appliances is one of the leading independent appliance retailers in Western Canada.

Trail offers excellent training & a competitive compensation & benefit plan.

We are currently looking to expand our workforce at our Red Deer location 2823 Bremner Ave.

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POSITION REQUIREMENTS: Must comply with Alberta Health Services regulations, policies and procedures.

Must comply with Alberta OH&S Act, regulation and code.

Must work co-operatively with Management, staff and other Departments.

Must be able to work in physically demanding environments.

Must be physically fit and able to lift heavy objects.

May be required to respond to un-scheduled call back and/or scheduled overtime, on call

Service Coordinator

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

Trail is always looking for people who want • opportunities to grow, take initiative and work well within a team environment.

If you are looking for a • challenging and rewarding career with Trail Appliances, please submit your resume • and cover letter stating the position you are applying for to: reddeerjobs @trail-appliances.com Apply with resume by or by fax: (403)342-7168. email to: greatjobs We thank all interested @chantellegroup.com applicants; only those or fax to 604-888-8902. chosen for an interview will be contacted. Security checks will be conducted on successful candidates.

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McIntosh Ave & McKee Cl. also MacKenzie & Marion Cres.

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

CLEANERS F/T Comm/ Res, physically fit, $14/hr.

Reply to: Ascent Cleaning Services RR4, Box 4, Site 3 Lacombe, AB T4L 2N4

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.

Ability to identify and prioritize facility maintenance needs.

Ability to communicate effectively with clients/ staff in a Patient care setting.

Competent with computer use and Windows Office Suite software.

Must have good trouble shooting and analytical skills.

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 4 days per week

WESTPARK SUBDIVISION

INNISFAIL

35 Street 37 Street 41 St. Cres 58 Ave. Welton Cres.

Westpark Cres.

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

36 Street 38 St. Close 57A Ave. Warwick Drive Wiltshire Pl. Wiltshire Dr.

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316 **************************

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316 lwiberg@reddeeradvocate.com Pidherney’s is busy and requires the following:

SCRAPER OPERATORS

CARRIER SUPERVISOR Full Time, 37.5 hours a week. $14.67/hr. to $20.39/hr.

Depending Experience

Earthworks Division Assets include push pull experience, grade knowledge and the ability to work well with others.

Pidherney’s offers: • Top wages paid based on knowledge & experience • Benefit package • Career advancement opportunities Fax resume to Human Resources

The candidate would be responsible for the recruitment of carriers for delivery of Advocate, EMC and CAL routes by various methods incorporated by the Circulation Department.

This would include telephone calls, distribution of recruitment flyers, posters, networking, group presentations, advertising, use of social media, along with various other methods.

The position would require interviewing, screening and signing up carriers for delivery, along with cold calling.

403-845-5370

The candidate should have an outgoing personality, along with the ability to multi task.

This should be complimented with excellent written and oral presentation skills. The position requires very good organization skills, the ability to work independently and in a group setting.

For this position you must have good computer skills, a valid driver’s license with good driving record.

A company car may be available during working hours.

The candidate must be able to pass a criminal background check.

or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

SPRINGBROOK

The hours for this position would be Monday to Friday, working every 6th Saturday, 7.5 hours a day, with start times at 10 a.m. or earlier.

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

Please forward resume to: Red Deer Advocate, Attention Doug Sibbet 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Email: dsibbet@reddeeradvocate.com Fax: 403-341-4772

NO COLLECTING!

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316

SPRINGBROOK

************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

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.

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After 25 years of providing transportation service to the food service industry - we are growing

LEE SPECIALTIES designs and manufactures pressure control equipment, production logging tools, logging system and related equipment for the cased-hole wireline service industry. As a result of continued growth and expansion we are seeking a

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Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA

INNISFAIL

Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres., Churchill Cl. area $195/mo.

Phone 403-314-4316

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

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The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING!

CLEARVIEW AREA

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

East end of Cosgrove Cres. $73/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Alwright Close

IS HIRING! We are currently seeking the following to join our team in

INGLEWOOD AREA Ing Close / Ireland Cres.

Blackfalds for all shifts: - CONCRETE FINISHERS - CARPENTERS - GENERAL LABOURERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive MORRISROE AREA Marion Cres / McKenzie Cres VANIER AREA Valentine Cres. / Vandorp St.

www.eaglebuilders.ca or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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Spruce Drive $62/mo.

ALSO 43 Ave to 46 Ave, between 35 St. & 37 St. $82/mo.

ALSO Springbett Drive & 44 Ave., 37 St. area $51/mo.

ALSO 42 Ave area between 35 & 39 St. $62/mo.

ALSO 43 Ave & 43 A Ave between 37 & 39 St. & one block of 43 Ave, and one block of 35 ST. $101/mo.

ALSO 41 Ave between 36 & 38 St. $68/mo.

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Call Jamie 403-314-4306

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FLAG PERSON NEEDED Must have flagging ticket, clean license,, reliable, references, for more info call after 6:00 pm 403-227-3429.

FOOD SERVICES ASSISTANT CHINOOK’S EDGE SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 73 invites applications for a part time Food Services Assistant position at École Innisfail Jr/Sr High School (Grades 9-12) effective immediately.

The successful candidate should be: able to work in an efficient and organized manner in a fast paced environment, a team player who enjoys working with/supervising/providing direction to students, dependable and punctual, able to lift production and stock products, able to place orders for weekly purchases, available for flexible work hours, able to manage food services in the absence of manager and able to maintain a clean and tidy work environment.

Preference will be given to candidates with related experience.

Cover letter and resume, complete with the names and telephone numbers of three current work related references are accepted by email only and should be forwarded to: Shawn Russell, Associate Superintendent - People Services Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73 Email: careers@chinooksedge.ab.ca For information on Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73, please check our website (www.chinooksedge.ab.ca) Applications will be accepted until 12:00 noon, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 or until a suitable candidate is found.

The successful applicant will be required to provide a Criminal Record check and Child Intervention (Welfare) check.

While we thank all applicants for their interest, only those individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

Resumes of individuals not granted an interview will not be kept on file.

GAETZ SOUTH F/T MEAT CUTTER F/T PRODUCE CLERK Full benefits, staff incentives. Apply within.

GAETZ SOUTH P/T FRONT END STAFF Staff incentives.

Apply within.

LABOUR Busy road construction company looking for Labours. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489 LAUNDRY PERSON Responsible for all in-house laundry for our rental inventory.

Clean, press and store different fabrics.

Must be physically fit and well organized. $13/hour plus benefits.

Apply in person, fax 403-347-7066 or email: sales@parklandrentals.com Need Flexible SUMMER WORK? We are located in your local city/town. Guaranteed $17 base pay, cust. sales/service, no experience necessary, we will train, conditions apply. Visit www.summeropenings.ca/rda or call 403-755-6711 to APPLY NOW! PRIVATE treatment center requires 2 night staff for Client Services Representative position.

This is a full time position from 11pm-7am and includes the following duties; light office duties, answering telephone, client support and/or resolution as needed.

Resume can be forwarded to staceygrantham@ thewholelifeinstitute.com.

Interviews by appt. only.

Red Deer Advocate

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

SAFETYNET SECURITY is looking for motivated and professional security officers to work on a local construction project.

Applicants must have valid Alberta Security License and the ability to perform foot patrol on a complex construction site.

Competitive wages and additional training provided. For inquiry please contact Les Walker 403-236-4884 email: leswalker@ safetynetsecurity.ca

Open House Tour These Fine Homes

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OPEN HOUSE Sat. May 3, 2-4 pm

#3 TRUMP PLACE in the Timberlands. $749,000 4 Beds/4 Baths Immed. poss.

Call Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399

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TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

Beauty

“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. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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NEW Liz Arden NY nail polish, lip gloss, 12 eye shadows, 2 blush, 1 Croc cosmetic bag, great Mother’s Day gift $195 value, asking $75 403-227-2976

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CONCRETE forming equipment Dura-Form 4’ x 2’, 5’x2’, 7’x2’, 8’ x 2’, lots of inside corners and fillers, most of forms are in cages. To view call Randy 403-843-1099 cell 587-679-2334. For pics and detailed equipt. list email: thepelletiers@ xplornet.ca

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LADIES quick dry sports pants, REI, 3 pair. Like new, 30” waist, navy, dark green, beige. $50. ea.; Ladies Long Coat, stone washed denim, unlined, sz. large $40.

403-347-3741

WOMEN’S SKETCHERS, Size 6 runners.

Only worn twice.

Stone/brown in colour.

Low density workout shoe.

Shape up while you walk or jog. Asking $50.

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

HOUSEPLANTS FOR SALE - Moving unable to keep.

Norfolk Pine, $30 2 Spider Plants, $15 & $10.

Christmas Cactus $25.

Several Aloe Vera $1-$5.

As well as a vine $15.

403-782-7439 KING Navy duvet cover & Queen green duvet cover $25 ea. 403-346-2070

KENMORE White LARGE galvanized laundry microwave oven 800W, $30. tub $20, decorative iron 403-352-8811 and wood garden bench $20, patio set, glass top, NEWER kitchen stove - Whirlpool, black, chrome front. round table, 4 chairs, crank Coil top. Never used. 1/2 price. umbrella $25, pair of mechanics ramps (metal) $400. 403-347-7806 $39 403-342-7460

KING SIZE BOX SPRING, $100.

403-350-9029 or 403-343-7389 MATTRESS 54”. $100.

403-343-6044

LAWNMOWER - gas $50.

BBQ - small propane $50.

CAR SEAT WARMER - new - $20.

JUMPER CABLES - $20.

403-346-4811 NEW Precious Moments Angel of Mercy Collectible. ideal gift for nurse. $50; Telephone that Red Deer Hospital allows, large buttons; $40.; child’s Fischer Price Wagon, $30; 403-347-3741

OAK table w/4 chairs $75; chesterfield and love seat $100 403-346-5745

NEW wood deck box, with cooler inside, $100.

403-347-3741

WANTED

OAKLEY Sunglasses model D Whisker Silver /00BLK IRID, polar, never used, $85.

403-352-8811

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

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PLAYSTATION 1 w/8 games, $60; PSP, with 4 movies & 11 games $120; 403-782-3847 PS2 with 15 games, $75; 403-782-3847

SINGER SEWING MACHINE with cabinet, $75.

403-346-2070

Musical Instruments

RECORD PLAYER WITH SPEAKERS. Asking $150.

Good cond. 403-341-4650 Call between 10 am & noon, otherwise please lv msg.

Misc. for Sale

1760

2 Area rugs, 8’x5’ & 8’6”x5’3”; Dehumidifier: 30 Bottle wine storage rack. 403-346-5745 2 WOOL ACCENT MATCHING 5X7 CARPETS & 1 matching oval. $45 Clean, will sell separately.

DAVID WINTER COLLECTORS HOUSES in original boxes. $10/ea.

CANNON K920 Copier machine w/metal stand.

Exc. cond. $60 403-352-8811 30 BOTTLE WINE RACK. $20. 403-346-5745 AIR CONDITIONER 6000 BTU. Still in box. $100. 403-343-6044

1770

GUITAR - $50.

403-346-4811

PSP 60, with 8 games, $120. Game Boy with 2 games, $50; 403-782-3847

wegotservices

1830

Cats

BALINESE KITTENS (2) $50. ea.

Burman Kittens (2) $50. ea.

403-887-3649

1840

Dogs

HUSKY WOLF PUPS!!

1 F, 1st shots, Call Kerri 403-506-3395

Sporting Goods

1860

ADAMS TIGHT LIES DRIVER & WOODS 3-5-7.

Right hand. Graphite shafts.

Very good cond. $120. 403-346-0093 BROWNING A-Bolt II 7 MM, WSM with Kahles 3-9x42 scope, Browning BPS 12 gauge pump shotgun, 2 3/4/3” only, FAC required. 403-347-4179

GUN SHOW May 3 - May 4 UFA Agri Centre West Info: 403-347-3767

CLASSIFICATIONS

LADIES GOLF CLUBS & bag - right hand - $50.

403-346-4811

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

MULE DEER head on shield $150, antlers mounted on shield $50 403-314-2026

1000-1430

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

Escorts

1165

Massage Therapy

1280

ENHANCING the lives of men with physical challenges 587-877-7399

VII MASSAGE INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. with oilfield service Pampering at its companies, other small BEST! businesses and individuals 403-986-6686 RW Smith, 346-9351 TAHNEE 392-0891 *BUSTY* Come in and see INDEPENDENT w/own car why we are the talk of the town.

Handyman Cleaning www.viimassage.biz

1070

VINYL SIDING CLEANING Eaves Trough Cleaned, Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

Pricing. 403-506-4822

Contractors

Misc. for Sale

ALUMINUM 4’ ladder $8, 2/3 of 15kg. bag of Oil-Dri all purpose absorbent $8, hose reel cart portable $35, galvanized garbage can $10; Coleman cooler 22” x 13” alum., $15; power rake blades for lawn mower 2@15”, 1@16”, all for $10, 5 outdoor wrought iron brackets for hanging plants $4/ea, new 20 oz. wet mop $6, timer Mastercraft 24 hr. single cycle $5, desk fan, 3 spd, $10, 25 legal file holders $10, chrome plated wine rack Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner holds 12 bottles $10, ice BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Warehouse scraper $8, wallmount bike Shipper/ Receiver Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 rack set of 2 $5.

Competitive starting wages 403-314-2026 plus regular increases.

Garden Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Supplies Excellent benefits package. Opportunities COLORADO BLUE to advance. Must be SPRUCE 6’-20’ , dependable, hardworking all equipment for digging, and seeking a long-term basketing, hauling & planting. career. Apply in person, Also have 74” truck mount or email to: tree spade. J/V TREE FARM. hartleytj@eecol.com VARIOUS PARTYLITE John 403-350-6439 4747 - 61st Street PRODUCTS or Gary 403-391-1406 including candles.

WEED SPRAYER TREES: Windbreak, 60% off! required. No experience privacy screen, white Large selection. necessary. Must have valid spruce trees 5’-7’ delivered Class 5 Drivers License.

403-350-9029 or & planted $60 ea. on 25 or Fax resume to 403-343-7389 more. 20+ yrs experience 403-227-5099 or email to (780)778-0223. cdsprung@telus.net ELEC. floor scrubber $25, 36” flat screen tv w/stand Health & $100 403-346-5745

WOMEN’S SKETCHERS, Size 6 runners.

Only worn twice.

Stone/brown in colour.

Low density workout shoe.

Shape up while you walk or jog. Asking $50.

403-227-2976

Directory

Firewood

Summer Receptionist AFFORDABLE Openings. Local Red Deer Homestead Firewood company looking for apSpruce & Pine - Split pointment setters during 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 our busy season. Ideal for AFFORDABLE students or someone searching for Part-Time.

Homestead Firewood Competitive pay with inSpruce & Pine - Split centives. Must be available 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Sundays. Located downLOGS town. Call 403-755-8163 leave message for Mitch. Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 RENTAL STORE requires an employee for counter sales. Must have equipment and small engine knowledge. Retail and parts inventory experience are assets.

Must be physically fit. Full time position with OT in busy season. sales@ parklandrentals.com or fax 403-347-7066

880

Misc.

Help

278950A5

880

Misc.

Help

1100

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 FENCES & DECKS 403-352-4034 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Eavestroughing

1130

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. Free quotes.

403-506-4822 VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Services

1200

ALL TRADES Home Maintenance 28 yrs. exp.

Retired electrician. Call Rick 403-318-4267

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

Misc.

Services

1290

Seniors’ Services

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

Upholstery

1390

GIVE YOUR OLD LAMP SHADE A NEW LOOK. Have them professionally re-covered including vintage. 403-343-0939

Window 5* JUNK REMOVAL Cleaning

Property clean up 340-8666

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

1372

Yard Care

1430

GARDENS ROTOTILLED 304-7250 Moving & JUNK/TREE REMOVAL, Storage Yard/Care 403-358-1614 ROTOTILLING, MOVING? Boxes? Appls. power raking, aerating & removal. 403-986-1315 grass cutting. Reasonable International ladies rates. 403-341-4745 ROTOTILLING. YARD WORK. 403-346-0674 or 392-5657 Painters/ Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 Decorators SECOND 2 NONE Aerate, de-patch lawns, spring clean up. Free est. 403-302-7778 LAUREL TRUDGEON MASSAGE ABOVE ALL THE ROTOTILLER GUY Residential Painting and WALK-INS WELCOME Garden Rototilling & Yard Colour Consultations.

4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 Prep. 403-597-3957 403-342-7801.

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY

1300

MASSAGE

Now Open

1310

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rentals

homes

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

3030

3 BDRM., 1.5 bath townhouse near RDC, off street parking, avail. immed. $1000 rent & $1000 DD. 1 yr. lease 780-586-2831

SEIBEL PROPERTY www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates ~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1195 to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, absolutely no pets. N/S, no utils. incl.

References required.

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

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $1075/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. June 1st.

403-304-5337

ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail.

June 1. 403-304-5337

Suites

3060

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Wedding Supplies

1910

FLOWER GIRL DRESS - size 6. Fabric roses at neck & waist - front & back, $75 obo. 403-346-2070

EASTVIEW, 1 bdrm. bsmt. suite, fully furnished, n/s, no pets, $750/MO, for single $875 for dbl. Utils. incld.

Avail. immed.

403-782-9357 or 352-1964 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 LRG 2 bdrm. w/balcony $925. 403-314-0209

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-596-2444 Newly renovated bachelor, 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

4010

Houses For Sale

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

2006 CHEV. Reg cab, 8’ box, 2WD, 4.3L, auto, A/C. ONLY 49,000 km. Exc. cond. $9000 obo. **SOLD** 2005 DODGE Ram 1500 SLT, quad cab, 4x2, 5.7L Hemi, only 124,000 kms. power equipped side steps, linex box liner, tonneau cover, very well kept truck, for more info & price call Dean 403-347-2797 2005 CHEV Silverado 2500 HD Duramax diesel 5 spd. auto, C/C, S/B, 4x4 all leather, two 5th wheel hookups, good tires, no rust, Arizona truck 403-887-2441 928-503-53344

4020

2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres. 2004 GMC 3/4 C/C SLT Lacombe. 403-588-8820 leather, Duramax diesel, 200,000 kms, not oilfield, CUSTOM BUILT black, very nice $17,200.

NEW HOMES 403-357-8811

by Mason Martin Homes 2004 FORD F150 4x4, e/c, Kyle, 403-588-2550 112,000 km. $11,000.

FREE Weekly list of 403-505-3492 properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s 2001 SILVERADO LT 2wd, phone #, etc. 342-7355 X cab, 5.3L, 166,600 kms, Help-U-Sell of Red Deer grey, tow pkg, $6800 obo www.homesreddeer.com 403-343-8206

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

Vans Buses

5070

2005 DODGE Caravan 90, 517 kms, well maint, hyw, n/s, no pets, new tires, exc. cond, $7600 403-347-6928 2000 HONDA Odyssey, 3000,000 km. Still runs but needs new trans. $1500.

403-307-7477

Motorcycles

5080

REDUCED $10,000 Near Coronation Park & Trails Lovely 1484 sq.ft. 1/2 duplex. 3 bdrms. up, 4 bathrooms, Bsmt. newly developed. Dble. garage.

Hardwood floors.

Quick possession.

Was $349,900 Now $339,900 Agent selected 403-396-5516 cell or Mon-Wed 314-4318

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

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

HONDA 250 cc, automatic, 110 KPH max. Very reliable.

First $700 takes it. **SOLD** 2009 HARLEY DAVIDSON Nightster 1300 km.

Forward controls. $11,500.

403-505-3492

Motorhomes

5100

2005 TIFFIN Phaeton 40’ diesel pusher 42,000 miles, very good cond 403-729-3242

Fifth Wheels

5110

NEW CONDO 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

4090

Manufactured Homes

2 BDRM. partly furn. mobile 403-342-5146

Lots For Sale

4160

Pinnacle Estates (Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Antique & Classic Autos

5020

2011 ALPINE 39’, 4 slides, satellite dish, 7500 w generator, king bed, 2011 GMC 3/4 ton Denali, hitch, matched to trailer, sell as unit $105,000 obo, photos avail, trailer only $54,900 obo 403 358-4031 garybourne66@gmail.com

2004 TITANIUM model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $23,500 obo.

403-347-1050 or 304-4580 1995 OKANAGAN 23’. Very well maint. Must be seen.

Asking $5900. 403-342-0250

Holiday Trailers

MISC. auto parts for 1953/54 Chev or Pontiac inclds. new windshield $675 takes all 403-343-7437

5120

COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION 7th Annual Calgary Premier collector car auction May 9 & 10. Grey Eagle Casino Indoors Convention Center. Incredible line up of cars. Consign today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102. EGauctions.com

Cars

5030

2007 STARCRAFT, 30’, slide, solar, air, walkaround bed, sleeps 6, rear kitchen. $17,000. O.B.O. 403-358-6765 1994 37’ TERRY Park Model trailer w/12 x 20 add on room, Lakewood Village next to Sylvan Lake Golf course $28,500 403-887-6087

5180

THE NORDIC

2009 CHEV Impala LT 6 Tires, Parts cyl. 4 dr. sedan, gold mist, Acces.

78,600 kms, extras, 1 own1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, er $10,800 403-887-6087 2 DOUGLAS XTRA-2RAC N/S. No pets.

Tires on Chrome Rims.

2006 PONTIAC Grand Prix 403-596-2444 175x70R13 boat trailer tires.

160,000 km. 4 dr. Real Like new. $150 obo. nice shape. Hwy miles.

587-273-0120 Rooms $6250. 403-887-3966

For Rent

3090

2003 DODGE Neon loaded saftied 352-6995 BIG bdrm. own bathroom, house privileges all inclusive 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040 + WIFI $575 403-302-2024 CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $525. 403-342-2627 MORRISROE spacious furn. bsmt. rm. Male, smoking. $400. 403-341-5752 MOUNTVIEW Avail fully furn bdrms for rent. Student or Working M only. 403-396-2468

AGRICULTURAL

Realtors & Services

2 BDRM lower unit at 5910-55 Ave., security cameras, laundry on site, private parking to over 40 tenants w/good references, www.laebon.com quiet lifestyles, excellent Laebon Homes 346-7273 rental history. Rent/S.D. is $1100. Ph: 403-341-4627 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 403-348-7445

5050

4000-4190

MAIN floor of newer house in Ponoka, 2 bdrms, 2 bath, laundry/storage in bsmt., includes appls, curtains, parking, shed, firepit, yard care and snow shovelling by owner, n/s, small HERE TO HELP pets, avail. May 23, & HERE TO SERVE $1400/mo. share utils., Call GORD ING at $700 DD 403-704-1714 RE/MAX real estate ask for Chris central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Condos/ Townhouses

Trucks

CLASSIFICATIONS

BLACKFALDS: 3 bdrm. newer duplex, $1300/mo. avail. June 1 or sooner Call 885-5046 or 506-8577

SENIOR couple seeks to rent a 2 bdrm. condo in Lacombe.

Suite must have ground flr entry or elevator. Phone TAILOR MADE driver RH Noel or Jean at 403-782-6085 320TI 360 10.5 degree SYLVAN LAKE, Private TS-100 shaft, very good bdrm. +. Cable, fridge, ect. cond, $60 403-346-0093 $600/mo. 403-880-0210

1420

WINDOW CLEANING. Outside / Inside / Both.

403-506-4822

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Offices

3110

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

at www.garymoe.com

2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street.

Parking is avail. $2400/mo.

403-343-9300

Mobile Lot

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Misc.

Automotive

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Auto Wreckers

5240

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

Locally owned and family operated

5050

WANTED: family with own Trucks mobile home to live on farm.

10 min. north of Sylvan Lake TOW TRUCK 1986 CHEV 4x4 1 ton, & 25 min. from Red Deer. diesel 403-255-1627 or 701-1235 403-846-7216 845-7877

EASY!

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Classified want ad. Phone 1-877-2233311