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RDC joins games bid

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer College has officially joined the city’s bid for the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

On Wednesday, the board of governors passed resolutions solidifying its partnership should

2019 CANADA WINTER GAMES Red Deer be named host of the national games in September.

The college will provide Olympicsized ice surface for short-track speed skating and four international calibre squash courts in its planned health,

wellness and sport complex. The centre would serve as a legacy piece for the community.

An additional 500 or more beds will be added to the student residences as part of the college’s commitment to

provide the athletes’ village.

“The college is delighted to be a vital partner to the city and the region to ensure we get the games,” said Shelley Ralston, board of governors chairperson. “And after the games that we have great facilities for our learners and our community.”

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Ryan Doubniak of Sylvan Lake cuddles his 15-month-old daughter, Adelynn Rose-Smith, after she received her meningitis, pneumonia and measles immunizations from health nurse Sharra Lane at the Johnstone Crossing Health Unit in Red Deer on Wednesday. The nurses at the clinic immunized about 100 people before noon on Wednesday during a special measles immunization clinic and continued to administer the vaccine through the afternoon.

Other drop-in clinics for measles immunization will take place at Johnstone Crossing from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on May 9, 12, 16, 20 and Saturday, May 24, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information on measles and immunization, visit www.albertahealthservices.ca/measles.

Good Samaritans help woman pay hefty engine repair bill

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer couple’s act of kindness overwhelmed not just the recipient who is struggling and working two jobs, but an entire auto shop staff who were also all brought to tears.

Myrna Supnad, 37, came to Canada from the Philippines four years ago with the dream of a brighter future. To make ends meet, she works as a nanny and an aide and sends what spare cash she does have back home to her parents.

It made the idea of trying to come up with $1,800 to pay for an assortment of engine repairs to her 10-year-old vehicle overwhelming.

While she was receiving the bad news over the phone from auto service advisor Lureen Davidson at the Red Deer North Canadian Tire last Thursday, a woman waiting her turn in line overheard the conversation and offered to put $200 towards the bill.

And she wasn’t done. She went

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home and told her husband the situation, and he wanted to do more.

The couple, who want to remain anonymous, returned on Friday and paid another $1,000 of the tab.

For Supnad, the generosity gave her a completely different overwhelming feeling.

“I was so very happy,” she said, whose husband is a mechanic in Saudi Arabia who is trying to immigrate to Canada.

The couple who paid her auto repair bill did not do it for any recognition; they did it because they could and they saw someone who was in need, quoting scripture: “But when you give to someone in need, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing (Matthew 6:3).”

“I just feel it’s important to — what I call it — pass it over the fence,” said the husband.

“When I’m gone, it’s what you do in life, while you can, to make things better for people. Who’s going to care how big my bank account is?”

Davidson, 50, has worked with Cana-

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dian Tire for 10 years and though she often sees people help out with a few dollars here and there, an anonymous random act of kindness on this scale is not something she has seen before.

But she says the story has inspired many others to pay it forward.

“It’s not about the money, it’s about the generosity of what it was, we were all crying,” said Davidson, adding she couldn’t help but run around the counter and give the Good Samaritan a hug when he came in on Friday. “Every time I tell someone that story ... people are saying they are going to do something nice for someone else. It’s been crazy.”

The Good Samaritan says it is heartwarming to hear others are picking up on their one act.

He and his wife have already had more than they ever could expect from it.

“I got so many hugs, and I feel that was unmerited,” he said with a chuckle. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Apartment complex slated for Vanier East

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Red Deer’s tight housing rental market could loosen a bit next year with the addition of 232 apartment units in Vanier East.

The city’s municipal planning commission has given site development approval for the construction of four multi-family buildings at 39 Van Slyke Way, in the southeast corner of Red Deer. The four-storey buildings will contain 72, 64, 48 and 48 units, with these consisting of one- and two-bedroom apartments.

The developer, Highstreet Ventures Inc. of Kelowna, also plans to construct an amenity building with a coffee lounge and small gym. Dave Slobodan, Highstreet’s director of development, placed the cost of the project at about $25 million. Work could be underway

by June, he said, with all four buildings to be constructed concurrently.

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GAMES: Red Deer’s cotillion moment Administration presented a two-hour business case to the board that included the financial impact of building an estimated $66-million complex on the college budget. The centre has been in the college’s capital plan for many years.

RDC president Joel Ward said the Canada Winter Games will allow the college to get more partners on board to help the college build the multiplex. The board has not given final approval on the construction of the centre but Ward expects if Red Deer is granted the games, the process will continue.

“With our partners we will be able to create this great facility on our campus that will serve our needs the day after the games are over and remain as a legacy for the college and the community,” he said.

Ward said all costs including relocating students for a week will be covered through the Canada Games budget.

Ward said he sees the Canada Winter Games as Red Deer’s cotillion moment.

“It’s our ability to become a different kind of community,” said Ward. “This is a big league event.”

Ward said all these partners working together will use the event to create and add facilities to the city’s inventory that likely would not have happened for 10 or 15 years.

Red Deer could generate an estimated $132 million in economic impact from the games.

Lyn Radford, bid committee chairperson, offered her gratitude to the board and administration for

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Hunting Hills High School student Nicole Fischer, left, looks on as her classmate Rachel Kuz signs St. Elizabeth Seaton Elementary School Grade 5 student Isabelle Skaret’s T-shirt during the Go-Girl program at the Collicutt Centre on Wednesday. About 640 Grade 5 girls from Red Deer Public and separate schools took part in the annual event, which promotes active lifestyles for girls about to enter middle school. The girls spent the day at the Collicutt centre choosing from 24 activities that interested them. Meanwhile at the Dawe Centre, about 700 grade five boys took part in a similar program called Knights in Training.

Ancient meteorite crater found in southern Alberta EDMONTON — Scientists have discovered a vast, ancient meteorite crater in southern Alberta.

Doug Schmitt, a University of Alberta researcher, says some time between 50 million and 70 million years ago, a huge chunk of space debris at least the size of an apartment block crashed into marshy, subtropical plains near what is now the hamlet of Bow City.

It left a hole up to 2 ½ kilometres deep and eight recognizing the value in helping the community out in trying to bring the event to Red Deer. Radford said with the college on board, the committee can now put together the final pieces together for its official bid. “We are being very diligent in all aspects of it,” said Radford. “Our whole committee is being very diligent so this event is not going to be hardship on the community but rather leave tremendous legacies.”

The bid committee will give a final presentation on its bid at Red Deer city council on June 9.

The bid must be submitted to the Canada Games Council by June 30. The bid evaluation committee is expected to visit Red Deer on either Aug. 21 or 22.

Red Deer or Lethbridge, the only two communities in the running, will be given the nod in September. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

APARTMENT: Housing density for site high “We’re looking at 14 to 18 months for completion for the entire project, but we could have the first building in 12 to 14 months.”

As part of its approval, the commission granted a 12 per cent relaxation of the minimum required landscaped area, as well as relaxations of the minimum required site area, and the minimum rear-yard setback for one of the buildings.

Administration acknowledged that the housing density for the site will be high — about 117 dwelling units per hectare. That will push up the density for the subdivision, resulting in 793 dwelling units for the entire quarter section, as compared with the 758 contemplated in the neighbourhood area structure plan.

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Kim Fowler, director of Planning Services with the city, pointed out that council has adopted a development strategy that recognizes the need for diverse and affordable housing options. With many people unable to afford single-family dwellings, and the local rental housing vacancy rate at less than two per cent, this type of project is needed, she said.

Development officer Vicki Swainson said that the higher density can be justified by the fact that 123 of the complex’s 357 parking stalls will be underground. She added that a city-owned public utility lot that intersects the site will add about 900 square metres of green space.

The relaxations were still more than Peter Holloway, a citizen representative on the commission, was prepared to support.

“I believe it’s over-developed, and I believe they could comply with the (land-use) bylaw.”

Other commission members also expressed misgivings about the density of the project, but felt its benefits outweighed such concerns.

“I’m going on the element of risk and trusting that it will serve our community well and that we’ll have housing for our citizens,” said Coun. Dianne Wyntjes.

Notification of Highstreet’s proposal prompted three letters of objection from nearby landowners.

They expressed concerns about impacts on property values and traffic levels, as well as the potential for more transient residents in the area and the buildings falling into disrepair.

City administration said there was no evidence that any of these problems would occur.

The site is bordered by 19th Street to the south and Vermont Avenue to the west, with a large park area and municipal reserve lands to the east.

Slobodan said his company is very active in Alberta, with apartments in Edmonton, Sherwood Park, Fort McMurray and Airdrie. He said Highstreet has been seeking a suitable site lot in Red Deer for some time. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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kilometres wide. The blast would have been 200 times stronger than the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated, so intense that anything alive within 200 kilometres would have received firstdegree burns.

But after eons of erosion, so little is left of the crater that it had to be discovered by accident, Schmitt said. “It’s buried,” he said. “There isn’t a lot to see.”

A geologist was doing some routine mapping of underground layers a few metres beneath the surface when he noticed something unusual.

“He noted there was a circular kind of disturbance, but it was completely covered.”

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The fast-growing Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division plans to hire 23 new teachers for the 2014-15 school year.

School board trustees approved the division’s budget Tuesday, which sees increased expenditures for teacher salaries and projects a $690,220 deficit.

Division enrolment has grown at annual rates of about five per cent in recent years, which has resulted in greater provincial funding and given the division an operating reserve balance of over $10 million.

“A $690,000 deficit this year, if that’s what we do every year we’ve got 15 years to be able to do that with our current surpluses,” said secretary-treasurer Rod Steeves.

The division had a surplus of $4.2 million last year and is expecting another, smaller surplus for the current fiscal year. The 2014-15 budget is based on a conservative projection of one per cent enrolment growth.

“Our schools aren’t lacking in anything. We’ve managed to run the business on the budgets we’ve had and in the future I expect that with new things coming on — inclusive education, curriculum redesign and those kinds of things — we’ll begin to draw down on those funds because those will be expensive for us as a school division,” said Steeves.

New provincial funding formulas for services for high-needs students do not benefit the local division, but the province has allocated temporary transition funding that is helping the jurisdiction to cope.

The division also intends to draw down its capital reserves marginally in 2014-15 in part to fund the construction of a field house facility in conjunction with its new high school build in northeast Red Deer.

The division plans to partner with the Red Deer Royals on the initiative, and could make the space available to other community groups.

Superintendent Paul Mason said the division wants to use its ample reserve funds strategically to meet the needs of students.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Calgary member of the legislature and former city alderman Ric McIver announced Wednesday he is entering the race to become the next Tory party leader and premier.

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he will run a populist campaign as an insider with outsider ideas.

“Albertans will be the boss,” said McIver, announcing his candidacy on the front lawn of his house. “They are the only ones who should tell me and government what to do.”

McIver is the second candidate to formally announce he is running to become the permanent replacement to former premier Alison Redford.

Oilsands worker killed by bear FORT MCMURRAY — A female worker has been killed by a black bear on the job at one of Canada’s major oilsands companies in northeastern Alberta.

“This is an absolutely tragic event,” Sneh Seetal, spokeswoman for Suncor, said Wednesday.

“We are extending our heartfelt condolences to the family. We are in the process of reaching out to them, and until that time when we’ve reached out to

garding how often O Canada is sung in division schools. A parent had approached the board last year, expressing concern that patriotism displays in school were not frequent enough. The board’s procedure leaves the frequency of anthem singing to each school principal’s discretion, though all schools must include it at least once a week during opening exercises. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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It happened Wednesday afternoon at Suncor’s main base site 25 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. Seetal said the worker was pronounced dead at the scene.

Barrie Harrison with Alberta Occupational Health and Safety said the woman was attacked by a mature male black bear which has since been put down by RCMP. Harrison said it’s unknown if the worker was by herself when the attack happened.

Seetal said it’s not known if there had been recent bear sightings in the area.

“Part of the wildlife training that we do offer for our employees and that employees partake in does speak to alerting any sightings through to people on site so appropriate steps can be taken,” Seetal said.

She said as a result of the attack, “we are reminding people not just at our site but in the broader community to be especially vigilant in dealing with wildlife.”

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A fire about 22 km west of Rimbey late Wednesday afternoon destroyed a barn and a couple of other small outbuildings on the Little Stone Farm, located on Township Road 421A, off Hwy 53. A farm bulk fuel station also exploded. Both Rimbey and Eckville fire departments attended the fire.

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EDMONTON — Alberta taxpayers were billed $150,000 just for design concepts on a planned penthouse for former premier Alison Redford, show documents tabled this week in the legislature.

The total bill for all consulting work on the suite, dubbed the “sky palace” by the opposition and media, was just over $173,000.

The documents were tabled Tuesday by former infrastructure minister Ric McIver.

They show that $150,000 was spent on conceptual design, related contract documents, and fittings.

There was $11,850 for advice on how to change the plumbing and air systems. There was $7,400 on suggestions on lighting and power changes. Architect fees to co-ordinate the engineering subconsultants were pegged at $3,850.

The penthouse was to be on the 11th floor of the Federal Building — an historic structure under renovation that will eventually house offices for all members of the legislature along with other government officials.

It is a block north of the legislature, and the top offers stunning views of the sandstone-domed structure. The project was run by the Infrastructure Department, but email correspondence released in March revealed that starting in late 2012, Redford’s office became involved and ordered changes.

The changes called for a “premier’s suite” built to the style of the ultra-posh Hay Adams Hotel in Washington D.C. There plans for bedrooms for Redford and her pre-teen daughter, Sarah, a shared bathroom, a powder room, a walk-in closet, a butler’s pantry and areas for dining, studying and lounging.

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A sad day for education ALBERTA REPORT FROM THE TASK FORCE FOR TEACHER EXCELLENCE OFFERS SOLUTIONS TO NON-EXISTENT PROBLEMS

BY STEPHEN MURGATROYD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE What problem is Alberta Education Minister Jeff Johnson trying to solve with his report from the Task Force for Teacher Excellence?

The task force — which did not involve the profession or the professional body established in law to be responsible for the profession — reported this week at a showcase event stage managed by the minister, who also spent the weekend briefing the media (but not the profession). The suggestion that this task force is “armslength” from government is about as serious as the suggestion that Mayor Rob Ford is an arms-length from a few drinks or crack cocaine.

There are around 35,000 teachers in Alberta and the province is amongst the highest performing education systems in the world. Recently, our minister was celebrating teacher excellence. So what is the problem?

The fiction is that, with 35,000 teachers, we must have some “dud” teachers — yet no teacher has been dismissed for poor performance in the last decade. Therefore, we must have a problem and education in Alberta could be improved if we changed how we assess and reward teachers. Johnson, a Xerox salesman, has been floating this type of thinking for years.

The problem, this mystical thinking goes, is that those who supervise teachers — principals — are members of the same organization as the teachers themselves. Worse, once certified, teachers do not have to be recertified and are not paid by merit but by length of service. Therefore, if you are following this line of thought, teachers

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Who gave this minister a mandate to so misunderstand what teachers do and how they do it that he feels able to undertake this work without truly engaging the profession in this conversation? should be evaluated frequently (every three to five years) by principals and, to do this, principals should not be part of the same professional body as teachers.

What is more, merit should be recognized by merit pay. These two things will improve education in Alberta — already among one of the best systems in the world. Since the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) will likely oppose these changes, the thinking goes, we will need to change the ATA. These major changes to the profession require considerable thought, so 30 days should do for feedback.

Where to start?

First, who gave this minister a mandate to so misunderstand what teachers do and how they do it that he feels able to undertake this work without truly engaging the profession in this conversation?

Imagine a task force on medical competence and effectiveness in which doctors were not engaged or a task

force on policing efficiency and effectiveness in which active officers were not engaged? Difficult to imagine isn’t it? Yet that happened in this case.

Second, what is the evidential base on which these recommendations are being made? Where is the evidence of the need for this enhanced bureaucracy — which is where this will lead — so as to deal with a problem we don’t really have?

Principals currently do supervise and assess, teachers are highly engaged in professional development and the system performance is strong.

The ATA doesn’t have to deal with performance issues — they are dealt with locally.

Third, what evidence was reviewed about the impact of merit pay on professional workers? There are no compelling examples of merit pay for teachers having an impact on pupil performance. Worse, there is evidence that such schemes generally distort the work of teachers and distract school

systems from their work.

Fourth, what is the government of Alberta doing alienating in the most deliberate way one of the largest professional bodies in the province? Is it systematically trying to lose the next election and make it impossible for the major changes in education which (current) Premier Dave Hancock championed as minister of Education and on which all involved in the system were aligned to take place?

Johnson has, during his tenure, ensured that this critical work is now on life support. The government was given opportunities to meet with the ATA and side-step these issues, but didn’t respond.

Finally, the major curriculum changes now underway are most unlikely to receive the support of teachers if teachers are in such fundamental opposition to the work of the minister.

This is unfortunate.

There is a great deal of support for change and for the direction of these changes, though there are also concerns at the speed at which these changes could occur.

The minister is not the ministry and a genuine and honest attempt is being made to ensure that Alberta’s emerging curriculum meets the need of the Alberta the world needs to see.

It would be unfortunate for this important work to be impossible to progress, but this is now likely to be the case.

It is a sad day for innovative spirits, committed teachers and professionals in Alberta. A smart premier would act to stop the nonsense.

Stephen Murgatroyd is a consultant in innovative business and education practices with a PHd in psychology. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www. troymedia.com).

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Freeze on TFWs bad for customers, workers and Alberta

BY THOMAS LUKASZUK SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The federal government has stopped foreign workers coming to Canada to work in the food service sector while it conducts a review. I believe that this decision, particularly if the review stretches into months, will have a negative impact on our communities and our province.

The government of Alberta agrees with the government of Canada on a number of important points.

Canadians and Albertans must have first access to all jobs here, and those who work must be given every opportunity to do so.

The federal Temporary Foreign Worker program has rules, and it is important that they be followed.

There have been some recent incidents in the food services sector, and those situations should be dealt with.

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However, we have concerns about the federal moratorium.

First, it is unfair to freeze an entire sector because there are problems with a few players.

Second, Alberta’s economy is strong. Unemployment here is below five per cent, which is significantly lower than in other parts of the country. There are employers who cannot find people, and there are people who cannot find jobs. Alberta has job fairs, websites and programs for both groups. Food services companies, unions, and workers participate in them, yet positions remain open. When jobs remain unfilled, workers are recruited from other sectors, customer service declines, or Canadians already on staff lose shifts or jobs when restaurants close or reduce their hours. None of these results are good for the quality of life in rural communities.

There are ways for the federal government to deal with compliance problems in its TFW program.

There are also ways to improve Canada’s immigra-

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I came to Canada as a child when my parents emigrated from then-communist Poland. When I arrived here, I thought we had landed in paradise because there seemed to be so many opportunities for our family.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — In the messy world of competing international interests, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird decided Wednesday that the fate of hundreds of abducted teenage girls in Nigeria would come before all else.

In so doing, Baird placed another tenet of his foreign policy firmly on the back burner: his outspoken condemnation of an outbreak of homophobic laws in several African countries, including Nigeria.

Baird pledged Canada’s unwavering support to help free the female students abducted by Islamic extremists, a tragedy that has now gripped the world.

Canada will supply surveillance equipment to help Nigeria find the girls, even though it has long-standing concerns about the country’s human rights record, the Harper government said Wednesday.

Baird made clear that any loans of Canadian military hardware to Nigeria would be accompanied by Canadian military personnel to operate it.

“We obviously would have concerns, with Nigeria, with their human rights record and many issues,” he said.

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ly, Baird appeared to be referencing ority for Canada. The rights of womNigeria’s relatively new law that fur- en, the rights of girls, the campaign ther criminalizes homosexuality. The against early marriage ... gender vioSame Sex Marriage Prohibilence and terrorism is obvition Act criminalizes homoously something which is a sexual clubs and organizahuge concern for us,” Baird tions, and carries a maximum explained. “I think that is 14-year prison term. It is not what has captivated the atas strict as Uganda’s anti-gay tention of Canadians and law, which Baird has also frankly people around the slammed, sparking heated world that are just horrified public exchanges with the govat this repugnant act.” ernment in Kampala.

Jason MacDonald, a But on a January visit to Nispokesman for Prime Mingeria, Baird said Canada was ister Stephen Harper, condeeply concerned with the law firmed in an email that Canand he called on the governada “would provide surveilment to repeal it. Baird called lance equipment and the for the protection of the hu- John Baird technical expertise to operman rights and fundamental ate it.” freedoms of all Nigerians reMacDonald was respondgardless of sexual orientation. ing to an earlier report out of Nigeria On Wednesday, Baird made clear that said that country had asked Canathere was no way Canada would agree da to provide surveillance equipment to Nigeria’s original request to turn in the wake of the April kidnappings over “millions” of dollars in military by the Boko Haram rebel group. hardware without strings attached.

The behind-the-scenes negotiations That said, Canada wants to do ev- were revealed when Nigerian Viceerything it can to help rescue the hun- President Namadi Sambo issued a dreds of girls aged 12 to 15 who were statement Wednesday after meeting kidnapped by Islamic militants from a day earlier with Canadian Developa school in Nigeria three weeks ago, ment Minister Christian Paradis. That Baird said. statement reportedly asked Canada to “This has been a foreign policy pri- supply “surveillance equipment and

other vital security hardware” to help Nigeria battle the Boko Haram insurgency.

Harper did not confirm the report when asked about it in the Commons

by NDP Leader Tom Mulcair during Wednesday’s question period, but he said discussions between the two governments had taken place in Nigeria.

“We are very concerned by the growth of what is a very extreme terrorist organization,” said Harper.

“We’re willing to provide a range of assistance, and that offer remains open.”

In a follow-up email, MacDonald said: “We will work with Nigerian authorities to provide assistance in the effort to help find the missing girls.”

In response to a question from the NDP, Baird said if Canada had surveillance equipment that was not in the region and could be of use, Canada would be pleased to provide it.

On Tuesday, Paradis told The Canadian Press in an email that Canada was ready to assist Nigeria, but he offered no specifics.

“Canada strongly condemns the kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram,” he said. “These cowardly acts are morally appalling. We will continue to support Nigeria in their fight against terrorism.”

Trudeau says pro-life candidates not welcome

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau says opponents of abortion need not apply to run for the Liberal party in the next election.

And if they do apply, the Liberal leader says they’ll be weeded out during the vetting process for nomination applications.

“As a party, we are steadfast in our belief ... that it is not for any government to legislate what a woman chooses to do with her body, and that is the bottom line there,” Trudeau said Wednesday.

“I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.”

Exceptions will be made, however, for incumbent opponents of abortion who became MPs before the party officially adopted a pro-choice stance, such as Toronto MPs John McKay and Judy Sgro.

Their beliefs will be “respected to a certain extent,” Trudeau said, “but our position as a party is we do not reopen that debate.”

Trudeau revealed the party’s new hard line on abortion one day before the annual “March for Life,” in which thousands of abortion opponents are expected to descend on Parliament Hill.

In the past, Liberal MPs have been among those who’ve addressed the March for Life crowds.

Opponents of abortion have traditionally formed a strong, vocal minority in the Liberal caucus, although their

BRIEF 69 arrested in Quebec synthetic drug sweep MONTREAL — Hundreds of police officers took part in raids on drug-trafficking networks in Quebec on Wednesday, seizing drugs, cash, weapons, vehicles and even a stolen boat.

Authorities say they targeted groups that operated in suburban Montreal and in the Saguenay region about 250 kilometres north of Quebec City.

Provincial police and numerous municipal counterparts arrested 69 people.

Five of those detained were identified as the supposed ring leaders of five different networks, including one that specialized in producing cannabis destined for the United States.

Six people remained at large on Wednesday.

Some 650 officers took part in 49 seizures in three dozen municipalities.

A number of pill presses were seized, including one that could be used to manufacture 80,000 pills per hour.

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works worked independently of each other and were behind the trafficking of cocaine, cannabis, methamphetamines and ecstasy. The networks were linked to criminal biker gangs. The accused face a wide range of charges relating to the production, trafficking and exportation of drugs.

Review of polar bear trade launched OTTAWA — Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq says she is confident that a new international review of Canada’s trade in polar bear parts will reaffirm this country’s conservation of the species.

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sociations where they hoped to elect staunch opponents of abortion to carry the party banner in the 1993 election.

Over time, Chretien used the power for a variety of purposes, including to protect incumbents, appoint star recruits and increase the percentage of female candidates. For his part, Trudeau has said he won’t use his power to appoint candidates, promising to allow open, democratic nomination contests in every riding.

But he’s using the vetting process for nomination applicants to weed out abortion opponents and others considered unsuitable. Trudeau was initially stumped Wednesday when asked whether he’d allow Liberal MPs such as McKay to vote freely should an abortion bill come before the House of

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“Well, it’s a tough one because one of the things that’s a strength of the Liberal party is that we draw in voices from right across the country and on a range of perspectives,” he said.

Eventually, he added: “We will see what happens ... when that issue comes up. My preference is that we not be engaging in a discussion of abortion. For me, it’s a debate that has been settled for the vast majority of Canadians and we don’t need to reopen that issue.”

For his part, McKay predicted he’ll have few problems being one of only a tiny handful of anti-abortion MPs in an officially pro-choice party and caucus.

“Every MP has some points of estrangement between he and his party or she and her party,” he said.

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Until two years ago, Liberals did not have a party position on abortion, considering it a matter of conscience that should be left to each individual.

However, at their 2012 national convention, delegates for the first time approved a resolution that explicitly endorsed a woman’s right to choose whether to have an abortion — adopting the same position long held by the NDP. Trudeau said the evolution of the party position was cemented last year when Liberals “chose a resolutely prochoice leader with over 80 per cent of the support of militants, of membership.”

Abortion is just one issue on which would-be candidates’ views are vetted during the party’s so-called green light process for nomination applicants.

Their views on same-sex marriage and the Charter of Rights are among the other issues canvassed, Trudeau said.

“We make sure that the people who are stepping forward are consistent with the Liberal party as it is now, as it stands under my leadership and under the feedback we’re getting from Canadians across the country.”

Trudeau’s decision to bar abortion opponents from seeking Liberal nominations brings the party full circle from 1992, when party members gave then-leader Jean Chretien the power to appoint candidates.

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Rob Ford to continue working while in rehab

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Rob Ford is reportedly continuing to work, making calls to constituents, while in an undisclosed treatment centre for alcohol and possibly drug abuse.

If true, the Toronto mayor could be seriously compromising his chances of recovery, say addiction experts, who stress that engaging in work of any kind would be a distraction that runs counter to the intensely focused process of rehabilitation.

“Work is a non-starter,” Dr. Raju Hajela, a family physician who specializes in addiction, said Wednesday from Calgary.

“He needs a minimum of three months off work.

That would be the usual occupational health recommendation.”

Allowing a client to work while in treatment for addiction is “not done,” insisted Hajela.

Dennis Long, co-founder and executive director of Breakaway Addictions treatment services in Toronto, agreed it’s unlikely that Ford would be allowed to make job-related calls.

“In most cases, people in that kind of treatment are discouraged quite strongly from contacting friends and family, at least in the first couple of weeks of treatment,” he said.

“So calling constituents would not be on.”

Long said he believes Ford, who has admitted to alcohol abuse and smoking crack cocaine, would be involved in a “fairly intensive level of treatment,” with his days packed full of meetings, group and individual counselling sessions, and other activities

aimed at improving overall health.

“The idea is they want people to be focused on the treatment they’re getting and they don’t want them distracted by the outside work, and particularly by people who they may have used (addictive substances) with.”

Ford was quoted by the Toronto Sun as saying he is in group and one-on-one meetings and feels “great. Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp. Kind of like the Washington Redskins camp I went to as a kid.”

Ford has given several exclusive interviews to the newspaper.

While Long said he’s never been to football camp, he finds Ford’s attitude towards rehab a little disingenuous.

“It might be like football camp in the sense that you’ve got fairly rigorous activities, but they’re quite different in that the rigorous activity he’s being asked to do is to take a look at himself and try to figure out how to change his life, which I don’t think they do in football camp,” he said somewhat wryly.

Ford — who has repeatedly says he plans to run for re-election in the fall — also told the newspaper his rehab mates include two doctors, a “captain of industry” and a professional athlete.

Long said if the mayor is being allowed to make job-related calls — or is not, but is making them “sub rosa” — it also could compromise others’ attempts to stick to the program and get clean.

“The whole point of being in treatment is that you and all the other folks there are equals in that you’re in treatment, and whatever you did and whatever kind of status you had outside of the program is im-

material.

“You’re all there to work on the same stuff.”

The mayor has not revealed where he is receiving treatment, and Hajela wonders if the politician’s claim that he is still working to help constituents is just a ruse.

“The idea of addiction is connected with escape, not dealing with reality,” he said.

“So to pretend that he is well and he is taking care of constituents is just not reality.

“And unfortunately, that’s where you can even go further and say this is part of his illness, that he gets his strokes from creating this image that everything is OK. “And that actually keeps him sick because he doesn’t realize what the disease is and how it’s driving him.”

Some people question whether the mayor, who has been caught in a number of highly publicized deceptions, is really in an addiction treatment centre at all.

His lawyer, Dennis Morris, insisted this week that Ford is indeed getting in-patient substance abuse treatment.

“Someone asked me today if my bullshit meter went off, and I have to say it’s been ringing fairly constantly,” admitted Long. “He may be in a treatment program, it’s entirely possible, but it just doesn’t ring true at the end of the day. So I would want to know more.”

Still, if Ford were to lift the lid on the facility’s whereabouts, it would be mobbed with media — “and that’s not good,” he said.

“But I have to tell you, I’m skeptical.”

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Sgt. Randy Fincham says police quickly determined they weren’t dealing with Luke Skywalker’s heavy-breathing but powerful dad when they responded early Tuesday to a robbery involving a suspect wearing a Darth Vader mask.

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Troops have pulled back from border: Putin

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MOSCOW — Russia has pulled back its troops from the Ukrainian border, Vladimir Putin told diplomats Wednesday as he urged insurgents in southeast Ukraine to postpone their planned referendum Sunday on autonomy.

In a Moscow meeting with Swiss president Didier Burkhalter, Putin said the Russian troops have been pulled back to their training grounds and locations for “regular exercises,” but didn’t specify whether those locations were in areas near Ukraine.

Putin also called on Ukraine’s military to halt all operations against proRussia activists who have seized government buildings and police stations in at least a dozen towns in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine launched a government offensive late last week to take back buildings and towns under control of the insurgents.

At least 35 people, including many rebels, have died in that offensive, the government said.

Many had feared that Sunday’s vote on more autonomy would be a flashpoint for further violence between the rebels and Ukrainian troops in the east. Russia annexed the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in March after residents held a vote and overwhelmingly backed secession.

“We believe that the most important thing is to create direct, full-fledged

dialogue between the Kyiv authorities and representatives of southeast Ukraine,” Putin said.

“Because of this, we ask that representatives of southeast Ukraine, supporters of federalization in the country. postpone the May 11 referendum in order to create the necessary conditions for such a dialogue.”

Despite Putin’s comments, pro-Russia militants calling themselves the Donetsk People’s Republic said they would still carry out the referendum on Sunday.

Putin also described Ukraine’s May 25 presidential election as a move “in the right direction,” and said his talk with Burkhalter, who is chairman-inoffice for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, encouraged him that “our approaches (to Ukraine) coincide.”

The Russian leader still repeated Russia’s long-held stance that constitutional reforms must precede any nationwide vote in Ukraine.

In Berlin, a leading Ukrainian presidential candidate said he was prepared to negotiate a decentralization of power as pro-Russia insurgents in the east have demanded.

But Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire chocolate magnate, added that some insurgents in the eastern region understand only “the language of force.”

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A bouquet of flowers is placed atop the burnt out shell of a car at a location where clashes between pro Russia gunmen and the Ukrainian army took place, four kilometers north of Slovyansk, Ukraine, Wednesday.

Syrian rebels Hundreds killed in surrender Homs extremist attack

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Carrying their rifles and small bags of belongings, hundreds of exhausted Syrian rebels withdrew Wednesday from their last remaining strongholds in the heart of Homs, surrendering to President Bashar Assad a bloodstained city that was once the centre of the revolt against him.

For Assad, it is a powerful victory ahead of presidential elections. For the rebels, the dramatic exit after two years of enduring grueling assaults and siege captures their sense of abandonment amid world reluctance to help shift the balance of power on the ground.

“We ate grass and leaves until there was nothing left for us to eat,” said opposition activist Abu Yassin al-Homsi, who was preparing to leave with the rebels later Wednesday.

“We kept urging the international community to lift the siege but there was no response,” he added.

The exit of some 1,200 fighters and civilians marks a de-facto end of the rebellion in the war shattered city, which was one of the first places to rise up against Assad’s rule, earning its nickname as “the capital of the revolution.”

Gaining virtually full control of Syria’s third largest city is a major win for Assad on multiple levels.

Militarily, it solidifies the government hold on a swath of territory in central Syria, linking the capital Damascus with government strongholds along the coast and giving a staging ground to advance against rebel territory further north.

Politically, gains on the ground boost Assad’s hold on power as he seeks to add a further claim of legitimacy in presidential elections set for June 3, which Western powers and the opposition have dismissed as a farce.

“For those who want to believe that the regime is winning, it’s a powerful symbolic confirmation of that,” said Peter Harling, a Middle East expert at the International Crisis Group thinktank . “But it really is about what the regime has to offer beyond years of

such symbolic military victories,” he added.

“If you take a broader perspective, I think it’s an indication that this conflict is going to take years.”

By early evening Wednesday, some 600 fighters had boarded buses that departed from a police command centre on the edge of Homs’ rebel-held areas, heading north to rebel held towns of Talbiseh and al-Dar al-Kabira, opposition activists said. Many of the rebels were wounded, and it was unclear how many civilians were among them.

According to the deal, each fighter was allowed to carry his rifle and a bag of belongings with him. One rocket propelled grenade launcher and a machinegun were also allowed on each bus.

“We shall return to Homs!” some of the evacuees chanted as they arrived in al-Dar al-Kabria and residents rushed to give them fruits and water, according to Mohammed Rahal, an activist who was there to receive them.

He said some of the fighters were “so weak they needed assistance to walk.”

Videos of the evacuation posted online by activists captured the massive destruction inflicted on Homs from months of bombardment.

Buildings were shattered, some with chunks of concrete dangling from twisted rebar, others with upper floors collapsed.

Rebels with bags of belongings — some with their faces covered — boarded green buses as black-uniformed police oversaw the process. At least one UN-marked vehicle was parked nearby. Then the buses trundled down a battered road past the wrecked city landscape.

The videos appeared genuine and matched the AP’s reporting on the evacuation.

It was a bitter moment for the exhausted rebels, who had pledged to fight to the end in 13 neighbourhoods in and around the historic quarters of Homs where they had been holed up under siege for more than a year.

Homs, with a prewar population of 1.2 million was among the first to rise up in early 2011 with waves of exuberant anti-Assad protests.

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LAGOS, Nigeria — Islamic militants who have triggered international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of people in a new spasm of violence in the country’s northeast.

The attack escalates Nigeria’s growing crisis from a campaign of bombings, massacres and abductions being waged by the Boko Haram terrorist network in its campaign to impose an Islamic state on Africa’s most populous nation.

As many as 300 people were killed in the assault late Monday on the town of Gamboru Ngala on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon. The extremists opened fire on a marketplace bustling with shoppers taking advantage of the cooler nighttime temperatures in the semi-desert region, then rampaged through the town for 12 hours, setting houses ablaze and shooting those who tried to escape.

The attack and hundreds of casualties were confirmed by Borno state information commissioner Mohammed Bulama, who spoke to The Associated Press by telephone Wednesday.

Nigerian federal Senator Ahmed Zannah blamed fighters of the Boko Haram terrorist network that has claimed responsibility for the April 15 kidnapping of 276 teenage girls from their boarding school in Chibok, in northeastern Borno state. The insurgents threatened to sell the young women into slavery in a video seen

by AP.Outrage over the missing girls and the government’s failure to rescue them brought angry Nigerian protesters into the streets this week in an embarrassment for the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, who had hoped to showcase the country’s emergence as Africa’s largest economy as it hosted the Africa meeting of the World Economic Forum, the continent’s ver-

sion of Davos.

Offers of international assistance have poured in, with the Obama administration announcing Tuesday it was sending personnel and equipment to help Nigerian security forces in their search for the girls in the vast Sambisa Forest. Jonathan confirmed that he has accepted the American assistance, which the Pentagon said Wednesday will help with communications, logistics and intelligence planning, but will not include any military operations.

Britain and China announced Wednesday that Nigeria has accepted their offers of help, and France said it was sending in a “specialized team” to help with search and rescue of the girls.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gave no details, except to say the team was being drawn from forces already in the region. France has soldiers in Niger, Cameroon and Mali, where it is fighting Islamic insurgents, as well as in Central African Republic.

The kidnapping has ignited a viral social media campaign under the hashtag BringBackOurGirls that has brought renewed attention to Boko Haram’s campaign of violence. On Wednesday, first lady Michelle Obama joined in, tweeting, “Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It’s time to BringBackOurGirls.”

Boko Haram’s 5-year-old Islamic uprising has claimed the lives of thousands of Muslims and Christians, including more than 1,500 people killed in attacks so far this year. The group, whose name means “Western education is sinful,” has tried to root out Western influence by targeting schools, as well as attacking churches, mosques, government buildings and security forces in the country of 170 million, divided between a predominantly Christian south and Muslim north.

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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin gets control of the puck in front of New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist during the second-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff series Wednesday, in New York. Malkin would score on the play.

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PENGUINS WIN AGAIN IN NEW YORK TO PUSH RANGERS TO BRINK OF ELIMINATION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Penguins 4 Rangers 2 NEW YORK — The Pittsburgh Penguins have had so much success at Madison Square Garden, they might not have to make a return trip to Broadway until next season.

Brandon Sutter scored a shorthanded goal to break a second-period tie, and the Penguins rode that momentum to move within one win of the Eastern Conference finals with a 4-2 victory over the New York Rangers on Wednesday night.

Pittsburgh, which has won three straight following a series-opening loss, can advance with a Game 5 victory at home Friday night. The Penguins are looking to reach the East finals for the second straight year and the fourth in seven seasons.

“We know they are going to be desperate,” Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said. “They have a lot of depth, and a lot of guys that can create things, so we have to have the same mentality

that we had.”

The Penguins turned a tied series into a 3-1 lead at the Garden, where they have won seven of nine and are 12-4 since Dan Bylsma became their coach. Overall, Pittsburgh is 19-5 against the Rangers in the playoffs and 9-2 in New York.

“This is one of the best places to come in and play,” Bylsma said. “It’s a great building and we seem to always have a rivalry with the Rangers, so we don’t need that motivation for the playoffs. I don’t have a good recipe for you.”

A good start certainly helped.

Evgeni Malkin scored 2:31 in, and Jussi Jokinen made it 3-1 at 7:02 of the third before the teams traded late goals. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 13 shots.

The only negative for the Penguins was that Fleury allowed a goal for the first time in three games. Carl Hagelin’s tying tally in the second period was the Rangers’ first goal in 145 minutes, 30 seconds of playing time.

Mats Zuccarello cut it to 3-2 with

Pitching depth to help Riggers defend Sunburst title in Halifax, N.S..

“Matt did a lot for the team and will be missed, but it can’t be helped,” said Bailey, who added first baseman Jason One area the Red Deer Riggers have Louis.

“He’s from the St. Albert-Edmonton always seemed to struggle with was area and has a good bat,” Bailey said. having enough pitching.

That shouldn’t be the case this sea- “We watched him last year and at the time he hadn’t played much but you son.

The Riggers have eight regular could see he swung the bat well. He’ll pitchers on their roster as they pre- fit in nicely.”

Catcher Curtis Mazurkewich repare to open defence of their Sunburst turns along with Baseball League Jason and Jaret championship Fri‘THE GUYS ARE EXCITED Chatwood, Mike day in St. Albert TO GET THE SEASON Ronnie, Denver against the Tigers.

“We do have a UNDERWAY, EVEN MORE Wik, Kevin Curran, Weinkauf, lot of arms, which SO WITH THE FACT WE’RE Jordan Shayne Court, takes a lot of pressure off guys early GOING TO THE NATIONALS Mark Fay and Kerry Boon. in the season,” (IN ST. JOHN’S, N.L.).’

“The guys are said Riggers head excited to get the coach Curtis Bai— CURTIS BAILEY ley. “No one will RIGGERS HEAD COACH season underway, even more so with have to push themthe fact we’re selves and hopefully, we don’t have sore arms beyond going to the nationals (in St. John’s, the normal tired arms you get early on. N.L.),” said Bailey. “It’s been a long “We hope to open this week and winter and you could see how anxious we’ll use guys for two or three innings everyone is. We held our first outdoor practice last Friday. You usually get each.”

The Riggers added Wyle Cunning- five or six guys out that early, but 15 ham this season, giving them another showed up. They’re been cooped up left-hander to go with Matt Davis and long enough.”

The SBL has the same teams as last Brant Stickel.

Cunningham is a former member season with the Edmonton Cubs, Fort of the Canadian Junior National team Saskatchewan A’s and Parkland White and played with Salt Lake Community Sox joining the Riggers and Tigers.

The fact the Riggers qualified for College in the States last year.

Stickel had arm problems late last the nationals by winning the league tiseason, but has been out to a couple of tle last year, doesn’t mean they’ll take indoor workouts so far and appears to it easy this season, says Bailey, ‘‘Not at all,” he stressed. “We’ll go be coming around.

“At one time we didn’t have a left- into the season in the right frame of hander, so it’s nice to have that depth mind, concentrating on winning the as well,” added Bailey, who also has provincial title again. That’s our goal, Josh Edwards, Joel Peterman, Davin then we can look at the nationals.”

The only time the Riggers won the Gulbranson, Sean Maguire and Dustin Canadian title was in St. John’s . . . RigNorthcott on the roster.

Maguire works in Olds and North- gers play Monday in Edmonton against cott in Fort Saskatchewan so they will the Cubs with their first home game May 20 against the White Sox . . . They be more part-time.

The Riggers have a full lineup back play a 16-game schedule, finishing July from last season, except for first base- 23 . . . The semifinals go Aug, 4-8 and man Matt Fay, who is attending school the final Aug, 11-15.

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6:53 left on the Rangers’ second shot of the third, but Chris Kunitz restored Pittsburgh’s two-goal edge 57 seconds later.

Henrik Lundqvist made 23 saves in the loss.

“This is not the ideal night for us,” Rangers forward Brad Richards said.

“The good thing is ... we’re still in it.

We win Game 1, we are on top of the world. You lose three in a row, and as quick as it went that way it can go right back.

“We want to try to bring it back here. Our goal is to keep pushing the series along. You never know what can happen.”

The weary Rangers played for the sixth time in nine nights, and not even a full rest day on Tuesday or the return of forward Chris Kreider helped.

Kreider played for the first time since breaking his left hand a month ago.

Jokinen, who has an eight-game points streak, made it 3-1 with a shot that struck the right leg of Rangers defenceman Marc Staal and bounded past Lundqvist.

Pittsburgh had regained the lead late in the second period by pouncing on New York’s inept power play. Not only did the Rangers fail to score for the 36th consecutive advantage, they fell behind for the second time.

New York threw all the momentum back to the Penguins when Sutter scored with 1:33 left in the second. The Rangers turned over the puck shortly after a drop pass in the neutral zone.

Brian Gibbons streaked in alone and had his shot stopped by Lundqvist, but the rebound sat in front and Sutter scored his fourth of the post-season.

“It was huge momentum for us going into the third,” Crosby said. “The way we played in the third showed that we fed off that.”

The Rangers broke out of their drought 4:30 into the second when Ryan McDonagh passed the puck from his end to Hagelin, who took off with a burst of speed, split the defence, and snapped in his third of the playoffs to tie it.

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Jarry stops 26 as Edmonton evens series with win over Portland WHL FINAL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton 2 Portland 0 EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oil Kings refuse to be written off.

Tristan Jarry made 26 saves for his third shutout of the playoffs as the Oil Kings won their second straight game at home to even up the Western Hockey League final, coming away with a 2-0 victory over the defending champion Portland Winterhawks on Wednesday.

Mitchell Moroz and Curtis Lazar scored the goals for the Oil Kings, who have looked a lot slicker at home as they improved to 10-0 on home ice and tied the Ed Chynoweth Cup at two heading back to Portland, Ore., for Game 5 on Friday.

“At the end of the day, we know we are the underdogs in this series,” said Oil Kings head coach Derek Laxdal.

“However, we are tied 2-2 in the series going back to Portland. We are going to have to win one game in that building and our mindset is why not Friday night?

“We want to make a series of this.

We want a chance to win the Western Hockey League championship. These kids have worked hard to get it to 2-2.

Some people wrote us off when we were down 2-0, but you have to give our guys credit. We came out tonight with probably our best effort in the playoffs thanks to (Tristan Jarry’s) goaltending and the leadership of guys like (Griffin Reinhart).”

It was the first game of the series that the Oil Kings weren’t trailing within the first three minutes and Moroz said it was nice not to have to dig themselves out of a hole for once.

“We came out the way we wanted to in this game,” he said. “We had some

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chances early and didn’t capitalize, but we kept working away at it. We didn’t give up the first period goals this time, which was nice, not having to battle back like we did in the other games. “We just played our game. We stuck with it and were patient.”

The Winterhawks have lost two in a row after allowing only three losses in their previous 45 games, a string of success dating back to Jan. 11.

“We didn’t get the start that we wanted tonight,” said Portland forward Adam De Champlain. “We came out a bit flat. Having to kill seven penalties hurt us and it really allowed them to feed off their fans. When we had the momentum we had trouble sticking it.

We didn’t have the energy we needed on the bench.”

It was the first time since December 2011 that the Winterhawks, who led the league with 338 goals this season, have been shut out.

“It’s playoff hockey, everyone understands the goals are harder to come by,” said Winterhawks head coach Mike Johnston.

“There are going to be moments like this. It is just a bit of adversity for us to handle right now. We just need to get through it.

“We just have to regroup. It is a best two-out-of-three series now.”

The Oil Kings had a much better start to the game than the previous three outings as they avoided allowing a goal against in the first three minutes of the matchup.

Edmonton actually had the bulk of the scoring chances in the first until the Hawks came back late.

The Oil Kings had 14 shots in the scoreless first on Portland goalie Corbin Boes, while the Winterhawks responded with 13 on Jarry, a secondround draft choice of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2013.

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WHL PLAYOFFS Round 4

Division Finals

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

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Boston (1) vs. Montreal (3) (Montreal leads series 2-1) Thursday, May 1 Montreal 4 Boston 3, 2OT Saturday, May 3 Boston 5 Montreal 3 Tuesday, May 6 Montreal 4 Boston 2 Thursday, May 8 Boston at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 10 Montreal at Boston, 5 p.m.

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

Portland vs. Edmonton (Series tied 2-2) Saturday, May. 3 Portland 5 Edmonton 2 Sunday, May. 4 Portland 3 Edmonton 1 Tuesday, May. 6 Edmonton 3 Portland 2 Wednesday, May. 7 Edmonton 2 Portland 0 Friday, May. 9 Edmonton at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

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

Wednesday’s summary Oil Kings 2, Winterhawks 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Samuelsson Edm (roughing) 12:29, Cederholm Por (high-sticking) 19:27.

Second Period 1. Edmonton, Moroz 5 (Mayo, Kulda) 8:40.

Penalties — De Leo Por (hooking) 2:23, Sautner Edm (tripping) 5:28, Leipsic Por (checking from behind) 9:57, Leipsic Por (charging) 13:20, Leipsic Por (high-sticking) 19:31.

Third Period 2. Edmonton, Lazar 8 (Petryk, Jarry) 6:17.

Penalties — Pouliot Por (delay of game) 0:21, Dumba Por (holding) 12:53, Corbett Edm (crosschecking) 13:16, Dumba Por (interference) 19:55, Leier Por (roughing) 19:55, Lazar Edm (roughing) 19:55, Reinhart Edm (slashing) 19:55.

Shots on goal Portland 13 5 8 — 26 Edmonton 14 14 9 — 37 Goal — Portland: Boes (L, 6-2-0); Edmonton: Jarry (W, 14-4-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Portland: 0-3; Edmonton: 0-7.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs SECOND ROUND

Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Los Angeles (3) (Los Angeles leads series 2-0) Saturday, May 3 Los Angeles 3 Anaheim 2, OT Monday, May 5 Los Angeles 3 Anaheim 1 Thursday, May 8 Anaheim at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 10 Anaheim at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, May 12 x-Los Angeles at Anaheim, TBD Wednesday, May 14 x-Anaheim at Los Angeles, TBD Friday, May 16 x-Los Angeles at Anaheim, TBD x — if necessary.

Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh (1) vs. N.Y. Rangers (2) (Pittsburgh leads series 3-1) Friday, May 2 NY Rangers 3 Pittsburgh 2, OT Sunday, May 4 Pittsburgh 3 NY Rangers 0 Monday, May 5 Pittsburgh 2 NY Rangers 0 Wednesday, May 7 Pittsburgh 4 NY Rangers 2 Friday, May 9 NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

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

Wednesday’s summary Penguins 4, Rangers 2 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Malkin 5 (Crosby) 2:31.

Penalties — Hagelin NYR (hooking) 7:37, Staal NYR (slashing) 14:53, Kunitz Pgh (slashing) 18:52.

Second Period 2. NY Rangers, Hagelin 3 (McDonagh) 5:30.

3. Pittsburgh, Sutter 4 (Gibbons, Letang) 18:27 (sh).

Penalties — Malkin Pgh (tripping) 17:19.

Third Period 4. Pittsburgh, Jokinen 6 (Neal) 7:02.

5. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 3 (Stralman, Staal) 13:07.

6. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 3 (Malkin, Crosby) 14:04.

Penalties — Kreider NYR (high-sticking) 10:46.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 7 11 9 — 27 NY Rangers 6 5 4 — 15 Goal — Pittsburgh: Fleury (W, 7-3-0); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (L, 5-6-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Pittsburgh: 0-3; NY Rangers: 0-2.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Chicago (3) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Chicago leads series 2-1) Friday, May 2 Chicago 5 Minnesota 2 Sunday, May 4 Chicago 4 Minnesota 1 Tuesday, May 6 Minnesota 4 Chicago 0 Friday, May 9 Chicago at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Baseball

Today

● Women’s fastball: N. Jensen’s Bandits vs. Lacombe Physio Shooters, Red Deer U16 Rage vs. N. Jensen’s Bandits, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Badgers vs. Panthers, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; TNT Athletics at Stettler Heat, 7 p.m. ● Senior high girls soccer: Lacombe at Notre Dame, 4:15 p.m., Collicutt West.

Sunday

Friday

● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Calgary Axemen at Innisfail, 1 p.m., Arena Blue. ● Midget AAA baseball: Edmonton Cardinals 2 at Red Deer, doubleheader at noon and 3 p.m., Great Chief Park.

● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Lacoka at Innisfail, 8 p.m., Blue Arena. ● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Okotoks at Blackfalds, 8:30 p.m., Multiplex.

Basketball Tuesday, May 6: San Antonio 116, Portland 92 Thursday, May 8: Portland at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 10: San Antonio at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, May 12: at San Antonio at Portland, 8:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 14: Portland at San Antonio, 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 16: San Antonio at Portland, TBA x-Monday, May 19: Portland at San Antonio, TBA

NBA Playoff CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami 1, Brooklyn 0 Tuesday, May 6: Miami 107, Brooklyn 86 Thursday, May 8: Brooklyn at Miami, 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 10: Miami at Brooklyn, 6 p.m.

Monday, May 12: Miami at Brooklyn, 6 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 14: Brooklyn at Miami, 5 or 6 p.m. x-Friday, May 16: Miami at Brooklyn, TBA x-Sunday, May 18: Brooklyn at Miami, TBA Washington 1, Indiana 1 Monday, May 5: Washington 102, Indiana 96 Wednesday, May 7: Indiana 86, Washington 82 Friday, May 9: Indiana at Washington, 6 p.m.

Sunday, May 11: Indiana at Washington, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 13: Washington at Indiana, 5 p.m. x-Thursday, May 15: Indiana at Washington, TBA x-Sunday, May 18: Washington at Indiana, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio 1, Portland 0

Baltimore New York Boston Toronto Tampa Bay

American League East Division W L Pct 17 14 .548 17 15 .531 17 17 .500 17 17 .500 15 19 .441

GB — 1/2 1 1/2 1 1/2 3 1/2

Detroit Chicago Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 20 9 .690 18 17 .514 16 17 .485 15 17 .469 15 19 .441

GB — 5 1/2 6 6 1/2 7 1/2

Oakland Seattle Texas Los Angeles Houston

West Division W L Pct 20 15 .571 17 16 .515 17 17 .500 16 16 .500 10 24 .294

GB — 2 2 1/2 2 1/2 9 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 4, Minnesota 2 Toronto 6, Philadelphia 5, 10 innings Detroit 11, Houston 4 Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 3 Boston 4, Cincinnati 3, 12 innings Chicago White Sox 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Colorado 12, Texas 1 N.Y. Yankees 4, L.A. Angels 3 Seattle 8, Oakland 3 Kansas City 3, San Diego 1, 11 innings Wednesday’s Games Seattle 6, Oakland 4, 10 innings, 1st game Kansas City 8, San Diego 0 Cleveland 4, Minnesota 3 Oakland 2, Seattle 0, 2nd game Toronto 10, Philadelphia 0 Detroit 3, Houston 2 Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 3 Boston 4, Cincinnati 3 Colorado 9, Texas 2 Chicago Cubs 3, Chicago White Sox 8 N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels, late Thursday’s Games Minnesota (Correia 1-3) at Cleveland (Masterson 1-1), 10:05 a.m.

Houston (Keuchel 2-2) at Detroit (Smyly 2-1), 11:08 a.m.

Philadelphia (Burnett 2-1) at Toronto (Dickey 2-3), 5:07 p.m.

Baltimore (U.Jimenez 1-4) at Tampa Bay (Price 3-2), 5:10 p.m.

Colorado (Morales 3-1) at Texas (M.Harrison 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Carroll 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Duffy 1-2) at Seattle (Iwakuma 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Houston at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Boston at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

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

N.Y. Yankees at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Washington at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING—Choo, Texas, .354; Wieters, Baltimore, .341; RDavis, Detroit, .330; MeCabrera, Toronto, .329; AlRamirez, Chicago, .321; TorHunter, Detroit, .321; VMartinez, Detroit, .318.

RUNS—Dozier, Minnesota, 31; Bautista, Toronto, 29; Donaldson, Oakland, 25; Pujols, Los Angeles, 23; Trout, Los Angeles, 23; JAbreu, Chicago, 22; MeCabrera, Toronto, 22; NCruz, Baltimore, 22; Mauer, Minnesota, 22; Pedroia, Boston, 22.

RBI—JAbreu, Chicago, 35; NCruz, Baltimore, 29; Colabello, Minnesota, 28; Brantley, Cleveland, 26; Pujols, Los Angeles, 26; MiCabrera, Detroit, 25.

HITS—MeCabrera, Toronto, 48; AlRamirez, Chicago, 43; Hosmer, Kansas City, 41; Pedroia, Boston, 40; Rios, Texas, 40; Cano, Seattle, 39; Markakis, Baltimore, 39; Pujols, Los Angeles, 39.

DOUBLES—Plouffe, Minnesota, 14; AGordon, Kansas City, 13; Hosmer, Kansas City, 13; Pedroia, Boston, 13; SPerez, Kansas City, 12; MiCabrera, Detroit, 11; Loney, Tampa Bay, 11; Viciedo, Chicago, 11.

TRIPLES—Infante, Kansas City, 3; Trout, Los Angeles, 3; 15 tied at 2.

HOME RUNS—JAbreu, Chicago, 12; Pujols, Los Angeles, 10; Bautista, Toronto, 9; NCruz, Baltimore, 9; Dozier, Minnesota, 8; Rasmus, Toronto, 8; Don-

aldson, Oakland, 7.

STOLEN BASES—RDavis, Detroit, 12; Altuve, Houston, 11; Dozier, Minnesota, 11; Andrus, Texas, 10; Ellsbury, New York, 10; AEscobar, Kansas City, 10; LMartin, Texas, 8; Villar, Houston, 8.

PITCHING—Buehrle, Toronto, 6-1; Porcello, Detroit, 5-1; 9 tied at 4.

ERA—Scherzer, Detroit, 1.72; Buehrle, Toronto, 1.91; Gray, Oakland, 1.91; Ventura, Kansas City, 2.00; JChavez, Oakland, 2.47; Tanaka, New York, 2.53; Lester, Boston, 2.59.

STRIKEOUTS—Scherzer, Detroit, 60; Lester, Boston, 58; Price, Tampa Bay, 55; FHernandez, Seattle, 53; Tanaka, New York, 51; Shields, Kansas City, 48; Kluber, Cleveland, 48.

SAVES—TomHunter, Baltimore, 10; Rodney, Seattle, 9; Axford, Cleveland, 9; Perkins, Minnesota, 8; Holland, Kansas City, 8; Uehara, Boston, 8; Soria, Texas, 7; Nathan, Detroit, 7.

Miami Washington Atlanta New York Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 19 15 .559 19 15 .559 18 15 .545 16 17 .485 15 17 .469

GB — — 1/2 2 1/2 3

Milwaukee St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 22 13 .629 18 17 .514 15 18 .455 14 20 .412 11 21 .342

GB — 4 6 7 1/2 9

West Division W L Pct 21 13 .618 22 14 .611 19 16 .543 15 20 .429 13 24 .351

GB — — 2 1/2 6 1/2 9 1/2

San Francisco Colorado Los Angeles San Diego Arizona

Tuesday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 8, Washington 3 Pittsburgh 2, San Francisco 1 Toronto 6, Philadelphia 5, 10 innings Boston 4, Cincinnati 3, 12 innings Miami 3, N.Y. Mets 0 Atlanta 2, St. Louis 1 Chicago White Sox 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Arizona 7, Milwaukee 5 Colorado 12, Texas 1 Kansas City 3, San Diego 1, 11 innings Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, San Francisco 3 Miami 1, N.Y. Mets 0 Washington 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Arizona 3, Milwaukee 2 Kansas City 8, San Diego 0 Toronto 10, Philadelphia 0 Boston 4, Cincinnati 3 St. Louis 7, Atlanta 1 Colorado 9, Texas 2 Chicago Cubs 3, Chicago White Sox 8 Thursday’s Games Philadelphia (Burnett 2-1) at Toronto (Dickey 2-3), 5:07 p.m.

Colorado (Morales 3-1) at Texas (M.Harrison 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Carroll 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Miami (Ja.Turner 0-0) at San Diego (Kennedy 2-4), 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Vogelsong 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Colorado at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

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

Chicago Cubs at Atlanta, 5:35 p.m.

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

N.Y. Yankees at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Washington at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

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

San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game Seattle 0 10 011 010 2 — 6 8 1 Oakland 000 100 300 0 — 412 0 (10 innings) F.Hernandez, Farquhar (7), Medina (9), Rodney (10) and Zunino; Straily, Abad (7), Gregerson (8), Doolittle (8), Cook (10), Otero (10) and Jaso. W— Medina 2-1. L—Cook 0-1. Sv—Rodney (9). HRs—

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Saturday ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Manitoba Blizzard at Red Deer, 11:30 a.m., Innisfail Arena Red. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 3:30 p.m., GH Dawe Centre; Calgary Wranglers at Lacoka, 5 p.m., Ponoka Culture and Rec Complex.

L.A. Clippers 1, Oklahoma City 1 Monday, May 5: L.A. Clippers 122, Oklahoma City 105 Wednesday, May 7: Oklahoma City 112, L.A. Clippers 101 Friday, May 9: Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 11: Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 13: L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 15: Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, TBA x-Sunday, May 18: L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, TBA

Seattle, Hart (5), Zunino (5).

Second Game Seattle 000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Oakland 001 100 00x — 2 7 1 E.Ramirez, Wilhelmsen (7) and Buck; Pomeranz, Otero (6), Ji.Johnson (9) and D.Norris. W—Pomeranz 2-1. L—E.Ramirez 1-4. Sv—Ji.Johnson (2).

HRs—Oakland, Cespedes (6).

Minnesota 001 000 200 — 3 9 0 Cleveland 002 010 001 — 4 9 1 Nolasco, Burton (7), Duensing (8), Fien (9) and K.Suzuki; Salazar, Shaw (7), Allen (8), Axford (9) and Y.Gomes. W—Axford 1-3. L—Fien 3-1. HRs— Cleveland, Y.Gomes (4).

Houston 001 000 100 — 2 7 0 Detroit 200 001 00x — 3 5 0 Peacock, Zeid (7), Qualls (8) and J.Castro; Porcello, Chamberlain (7), Nathan (9) and Avila. W—Porcello 5-1. L—Peacock 0-3. Sv—Nathan (7). HRs—Detroit, Mi.Cabrera (4), V.Martinez (6).

Baltimore 010 100 200 — 4 7 1 Tam. Bay 000 011 001 — 3 7 1 B.Norris, Matusz (6), R.Webb (6), Z.Britton (8), Tom.Hunter (9) and C.Joseph; C.Ramos, B.Gomes (6), McGee (8), Lueke (9) and Hanigan. W—R. Webb 1-0. L—B.Gomes 2-2. Sv—Tom.Hunter (10).

HRs—Baltimore, A.Jones 2 (3), Schoop (3). Tampa Bay, DeJesus (3).

INTERLEAGUE Kan. City 301 001 021 — 8 14 0 San Diego 000 000 000 — 0 8 3 Shields, Crow (8), Coleman (9) and S.Perez; Cashner, Roach (5), Ambriz (7), A.Torres (9) and Rivera.

W—Shields 4-3. L—Cashner 2-5.

Phila.

000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Toronto 001 000 90x — 10 11 0 Cl.Lee, Hollands (7), Camp (7) and Ruiz; Buehrle, Santos (8), Jenkins (9) and Navarro, Thole. W— Buehrle 6-1. L—Cl.Lee 3-3. HRs—Toronto, Kratz (2), Francisco (4), Encarnacion (4).

Cincinnati 002 000 100 — 3 4 0 Boston 000 002 02x — 4 10 0 Leake, M.Parra (8), Hoover (8), S.Marshall (8) and B.Pena; Peavy, Capuano (7), Badenhop (7), Breslow (8), Uehara (9) and Pierzynski. W—Breslow 2-0. L—Hoover 1-4. Sv—Uehara (8). HRs—Cincinnati, Schumaker (1).

Colorado 200 520 000 — 9 16 0 Texas 000 200 000 — 2 5 2 J.De La Rosa, C.Martin (7), Masset (8), Logan (9), Hawkins (9) and McKenry; Lewis, S.Baker (4) and Chirinos. W—J.De La Rosa 4-3. L—Lewis 2-2.

HRs—Colorado, C.Gonzalez (7). Texas, A.Beltre (2).

Chicago (N)010 020 000 — 3 4 1 Chicago (A)100 340 00x — 8 11 0 T.Wood, Schlitter (5), Villanueva (6), W.Wright (8) and Castillo; Joh.Danks, Petricka (7), Cleto (9) and Nieto. W—Joh.Danks 3-2. L—T.Wood 2-4. HRs— Chicago (N), Olt (5). Chicago (A), G.Beckham (2).

NATIONAL LEAGUE San Fran. 100 020 000 — 3 7 0 Pittsburgh 220 000 00x — 4 12 0 Lincecum, Kontos (5), J.Gutierrez (7) and H.Sanchez; Cole, Melancon (9) and C.Stewart.

W—Cole 3-2. L—Lincecum 2-2. Sv—Melancon (2).

HRs—San Francisco, Belt (9).

New York 000 000 000 — 0 2 0 Miami 000 000 001 — 1 3 0 Z.Wheeler, Familia (7), C.Torres (8), Farnsworth (9) and Recker; Koehler, Cishek (9) and Mathis. W— Cishek 3-1. L—C.Torres 2-1.

Los Ang. 200 000 000 — 2 7 0 Wash.

200 010 00x — 3 8 0 Haren, Withrow (7), B.Wilson (8) and Olivo; Strasburg, Blevins (8), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and W.Ramos. W—Strasburg 3-2. L—Haren 4-1. Sv— R.Soriano (7).

Arizona 002 000 010 — 3 14 1 Milwaukee 100 000 001 — 2 7 1 Arroyo, Ziegler (8), A.Reed (9) and Montero; W.Peralta, Thornburg (7), W.Smith (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy. W—Arroyo 3-2. L—W.Peralta 4-2.

Sv—A.Reed (10). HRs—Arizona, Goldschmidt (7).

St. Louis 011 310 001 — 7 13 0 Atlanta 001 000 000 — 1 7 1 Wainwright, Maness (9) and Y.Molina; Minor, Hale (5), Varvaro (8), Avilan (9) and Gattis. W—Wainwright 6-2. L—Minor 0-2. HRs—St. Louis, Bourjos (1).

can’t explain it, but there is nothing we can do about it.”

PENS: First goal

WHL: Deadlock

It was New York’s first goal since Derick Brassard’s overtime winner in Game 1.

Any early lift the Rangers got from the return of Kreider was lost when Malkin gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead.

New York contributed greatly as a turnover by defenceman Anton Stralman started the play. The Penguins pressured and moved the puck freely. Crosby got it to the right of Lundqvist and sent a pass across the slot — that slid past Kunitz and somehow eluded Staal — onto the stick of Malkin, who snapped in a backhander for his fifth of the playoffs on Pittsburgh’s first shot.

The Rangers’ sloppiness didn’t end there.

Several passes missed their targets, and multiple clearing attempts ended up on Penguins sticks.

But New York mounted an extended challenge and kept the puck in the Pittsburgh end for at least a minute with about 6 minutes remaining in the first period.

However, despite tiring out the Penguins, the Rangers had only one shot during the sequence that ended when Staal was called for slashing.

“Our puck management and execution weren’t very good, and ultimately cost us the game,” Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said. “I

Edmonton finally broke the scoring deadlock nine minutes into the second period. After sustained pressure on the shift, a Dysin Mayo shot caromed off the boards and rolled off the top of the net to Moroz in front where the Edmonton Oilers draft pick slammed his fifth goal of the playoffs past Boes.

Jarry prevented Portland from tying the game up two minutes later as Oliver Bjorkstrand picked the pocket of Reid Petryk at the Edmonton blue-line, but couldn’t beat the Oil Kings’ goalie on the partial breakaway.

The edge in shots had increased to 28-18 for Edmonton by the end of the second period.

The Oil Kings made it 2-0 six minutes into the third as Brett Pollock threw a hard pass on net on a two-on-one and Lazar was able to tip the puck through Boes’ legs. It hit the post, but then went in off of the Portland goalie’s skates to count as the Ottawa Senators prospect’s eighth goal of the playoffs.

Edmonton kept driving and it was only the heroics of Boes that kept the game close midway through the third as he stopped breakaways by Petryk and Lazar in a span of just over a minute midway through the third.

The Oil Kings thought they put the game away for good with an empty-net goal by Pollock, however the play was ruled off-side.

Soccer 2014 Amway Canadian Soccer Championship SEMIFINALS (two-game, total-goals series) Vancouver (MLS) vs. Toronto (MLS) Wednesday’s result Toronto 2 Vancouver 1 (Toronto leads 2-1 on aggregate) Wednesday, May 14 Toronto at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Montreal (MLS) vs. Edmonton (NASL) Wednesday’s result Edmonton 2 Montreal 1 (Edmonton leads 2-1 on aggregate) Wednesday, May 14 Edmonton at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP (two-game, total-goals series) Vancouver-Toronto winner vs. Montreal-Edmonton winner Wednesday, May 28 First Game, TBA Wednesday, June 4 Second Game, TBA MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T Kansas City 8 4 2 2 Houston 10 4 4 2 New England 9 4 3 2 New York 10 3 2 5 Columbus 9 3 3 3 D.C. 8 3 3 2

GF 11 13 9 14 10 12

GA 6 14 10 12 10 11

Pt 14 14 14 14 12 11

Toronto Philadelphia Montreal Chicago

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

7 10 8 8

3 1 1 0

4 4 4 2

0 5 3 6

7 10 7 12

9 13 14 14

9 8 6 6

Western Conference GP W L T GF 10 7 2 1 22 9 4 0 5 16 10 5 4 1 19 8 4 2 2 10 9 3 2 4 15 6 2 2 2 7 9 1 3 5 12 7 1 3 3 8 9 1 5 3 9

GA 14 10 17 9 12 5 15 10 18

Pt 22 17 16 14 13 8 8 6 6

Wednesday’s results Houston 1 Columbus 0 Seattle 2 Dallas 1 Colorado at San Jose, late Saturday’s games D.C. at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

Kansas City at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Chicago at New York, 5 p.m.

Vancouver at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

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

Sunday, May 11 Los Angeles at Portland, 12:30 p.m.

Chivas at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Seattle at New England, 4 p.m.

Salt Lake at Houston, 5 p.m.

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Purchased the contract of C Caleb Joseph from Norfolk (IL). Optioned INF Jemile Weeks to Norfolk.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reinstated 3B Conor Gillaspie from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Jordan Danks to Charlotte (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Recalled RHP Josh Zeid from Oklahoma City (PCL). Optioned RHP Josh Fields to Oklahoma City.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled RHP Arnold Leon from Sacramento (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled RHP Erasmo Ramirez from Tacoma (PCL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Purchased the contract of RHP Scott Baker from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned OF Daniel Robertson to Round Rock. Transferred LHP Pedro Figueroa to the 60-day DL. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Placed RHP Pedro Strop on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Zac Rosscup from Iowa (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned INF Jace Peterson to El Paso (PCL) Recalled RHP Hector Ambriz from El Paso.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Activated C Wilson Ramos from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Blake Treinen and 1B/OF Tyler Moore to Syracuse

(IL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed LB Larry Foote to a one-year contract.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Named Steve Marshall assistant offensive line coach.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed CB Richard Sherman to a four-year contract extension.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Terminated the contract of S Tanard Jackson.

Canadian Football League MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Announced the retirement of G Scott Flory.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Signed D Esa Lindell to a three-year, entry-level contract.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Agreed to terms with F Rocco Grimaldi on an entry-level contract.

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Announced the contract of Manchester (AHL) coach Mark Morris will not be renewed.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Promoted Ron Hextall to general manager and Paul Holmgren was to president.

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Signed coach Ken Hitchcock to a contract extension through the 2014-15 season.

Red Deer’s Jaillet and Gerrie win national hockey awards From Red Deer minor hockey to national prominence.

Local products Tanner Jaillet and Chris Gerrie earned Canadian Junior Hockey League awards Tuesday, with Jaillet being honoured as the Canadian junior A goaltender of the year and Gerrie sharing the national rookie of the year award.

“Congratulations to this year’s CJHL national award winners and to all of the nominees and finalists across our 10 leagues,” said Kirk Lamb, president of the Canadian Junior Hockey League, in a press release.

“These players represent the best of more than 2,800 junior A hockey players and

exhibit the right mix of commitment, discipline and skill it takes to be an elite studentathlete in today’s game.”

Jaillet played three years with the Fort McMurray Oil Barons of the AJHL and this season won the league’s top goaltender award while posting a 30-8-4 record, a 2.01 goalsagainst average and .933 save percentage.

Gerrie, meanwhile, led all AJHL rookies in goals (18), assists (36) and points (54) and was second in Olds Grizzlys scoring with an average of 0.9 points per game. He was a unanimous choice for the 2013-14 AJHL all-rookie team and was named the league’s top first-year player.

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER Skylar Roth scored three goals to lead the Hunting Hills Lightning to a 4-0 win over the H.J. Cody Lakers of Sylvan Lake in Central Alberta High School Boys’ Soccer League play Tuesday.

Jaeden Smith added a single goal with Luke Olsen recording the shutout.

In other boys’ action, the Lacombe Rams downed Alix 10-1 with Sam Haefliger scoring three times, Christhtoo

Moo, Eduardo Morales and Cody Knight twice each and Jesse Hagel once. Pierce Sorensen connected for Alix.

In girls’ play, the Rams downed Central Alberta Christian High School Knights of Lacombe 6-0 with Heidi Giles scoring four goals. Chantel Parks and Bronwyn Pfeifle added single markers with Darby Dykslag recording the shutout.

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Canada has high hopes for worlds

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MINSK, Belarus — When Troy Brouwer returned from a vacation during the NHL’s Olympic break, he tuned in to the final few games of Team Canada’s run to gold in Sochi. Understandably, he liked what he saw.

“I think the Olympic team did an absolutely amazing job at showing how Canadians play hockey,” said Brouwer.

Brouwer wasn’t the only one. Phoenix Coyotes coach Dave Tippett saw not just a winning style of hockey but something to emulate.

As coach of Canada’s team at the world championship, he wants to follow the path blazed by Mike Babcock and the stars who went undefeated at the Olympics.

“I look at the blueprint from a few months ago in Sochi, the way Canada played: A hard, Canadian style of hockey,” Tippett said in a recent phone interview. “If we can go and try to continue that mindset for our team, I think that would be something that would be crazy not to look at.”

It would be crazy to think any team can duplicate that effort in perfect fashion. Canada’s team for the IIHF world hockey championship won’t have any players from Sochi and this is a different tournament altogether.

Most of the other countries are in the same boat, absent the top-end NHL talent from the Olympics, save for Alex Ovechkin and Sergei Bobrovsky returning for Russia after its disappointing run and others like Jaromir Jagr of the Czech Republic and Gustav Nyquist of Sweden also going to Minsk.

But that doesn’t change Canaada’s

WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS ‘I LOOK AT THE BLUEPRINT FROM A FEW MONTHS AGO IN SOCHI, THE WAY CANADA PLAYED: A HARD, CANADIAN STYLE OF HOCKEY. IF WE CAN GO AND TRY TO CONTINUE THAT MINDSET FOR OUR TEAM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE CRAZY NOT TO LOOK AT..’

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plan for this tournament, which begins with Friday’s opener against France.

Kyle Turris isn’t Sidney Crosby, Morgan Rielly isn’t Shea Weber and neither James Reimer nor Ben Scrivens is Carey Price, but the hope is that talented NHL players in their own right can get the same job done.

“I think your team has to have its own identity, but you look at what that team did and the success it had on the big ice and with NHL players, there’s certainly some things that you can use on our team,” Tippett said. “The team that played in Sochi, you could say was one of the best teams in the history of the game, the way they played. You realize we don’t have that same team, but the way they played and their commitment to playing as a team was as strong as anything we’ve seen in a long time.

That part of the game can certainly translate into our team.”

The first steps are there. General manager Rob Blake along with assistant GMs Ron Hextall, Brad Treliving and Brad Pascall, like Steve Yzerman and his management team several months ago, looked for forward pairs to put together. Tippett, like Babcock,

believes in having a left- and a righthanded shot on each defensive pairing.

In terms of selecting the roster, Blake reiterated the obvious: that unlike the Olympics, an event every healthy player called wants badly to play in, the world championship is more selective. It has been a long NHL season and it’s too much of a grind to expect Sochi Olympians to jump at the chance to play three extra weeks in Minsk.

“You go down to the tier of the younger guys and you get your commitments,” Blake said in a phone interview. “You kind of work around. But Ron Hextall, Brad Treliving and Brad Pascall, the one thing they were pretty passionate about from the beginning is the guys that want to be there, those are the ones that you want.”

That group includes three Maple Leafs: Reimer, Rielly and centre Nazem Kadri, who played on the wing in Canada’s exhibition game Tuesday in Zurich. It also includes in defenceman Braydon Coburn and forwards Brayden Schenn and Matt Read, three Flyers who just wrapped up a sevengame series loss to the Rangers.

The crown jewel of the roster might be one of the final additions: Colorado Avalanche rookie Nathan MacKinnon, the likely Calder Trophy winner who impressed in his first season and first Stanley Cup playoff series. MacKinnon is on the team at age 18 like Crosby was in 2006, when the Penguins star had eight goals and eight assists in nine games.

Even before MacKinnon it was a young team thanks to defencemen Erik Gudbranson, Ryan Ellis, Tyler Myers and Rielly and forwards Jonathan Huberdeau, Sean Monahan and Mark Scheifele. Jason Chimera of the Washington Capitals, who won gold at the 2007 worlds in Moscow, is Canada’s oldest player at the age of 35. Chimera’s Capitals teammates Brouwer and Joel Ward are also on the roster.

Chimera, a candidate to be captain, is important to Tippett’s plan for the tournament because he knows what it’s all about.

“The importance of the players who have been over there before and their experiences, especially relating that to our younger players that haven’t had that experience, is going to be a very important part of our preparation,” Tippett said.

The one thing about Canada’s relative international inexperience is that it’s not a rarity here. Aside from Norway, Switzerland and Latvia, which feature national teams with major Sochi flavour, most teams have significant turnover from the Olympics.

Tippett didn’t see that as something Canada can take advantage of. From his experience as an assistant in this tournament, he knows what it means for European players and countries.

Canadiens’ Weise gets rock star treatment for strong play BROSSARD, Que. — Dale Weise is finding out what it’s like to be a Montreal Canadien when they’re winning in the springtime.

The city groaned when general manager Marc Bergevin sent defenceman Raphael Diaz to Vancouver Canucks for the little-known Weise on Feb. 3, but now the energetic fourth-line rightwinger is becoming a folk hero.

His breakaway goal in Game 3 of a NHL Eastern Conference semifinal on Tuesday night became his second game-winner of the playoffs as the Canadiens downed the rival Boston Bruins 4-2 to take a 2-1 lead in the best-ofseven series.

Weise had scored in overtime in the first game of an opening round sweep of the Tampa Bay Lightning.

His first taste of his new-found fame came this week when he was out for a stroll with his fiancee, with sevenmonth-old son Hunter in a stroller.

“This car pulled over right on the sidewalk,” Weise said Wednesday.

“The guy was in the driver’s seat and I was on the right side.

“In the middle of the green light he’s reached across and he’s banging on the window and yelling. My fiancee’s like ’what is this guy doing?’ She’s freaking out, and he’s giving me the thumbs up.

It was pretty outrageous.”

Weise will have a chance to grow his legend even more in Game 4 on Thursday night at the Bell Centre, as the Canadiens attempt to put a choke hold on the series.

Taking a lead on the favoured Bruins has built a considerable buzz in Montreal, but a series in which Boston has looked overwhelming at times is far from over.

The Canadiens blew 2-0 and 3-2 leads before winning in overtime in the series opener. Then they wasted a 3-1 lead by conceding four third-period

goal in a 5-3 setback in Game 2 in Boston.

At home on Tuesday night, Montreal scored twice in the first period and made it 3-0 on Weise’s goal before the Bruins struck back with a pair. Lars Eller ended the threat with a finalminute empty-net goal.

“This is such a huge rivalry,” said Weise. “When they meet in the regular season it’s looked at like a playoff match-up. It’s such a cool thing to be a part of.”

The Bruins acknowledge they did not have their best game, staring with goalie Tuukka Rask who allowed three goals on 25 shots and who now has let in 10 in three games.

Perhaps for the first time in the playoffs, they missed injured defence veterans Dennis Seidenberg and Adam McQuaid, as youngster Dougie Hamilton in particular struggled at times.

McQuaid is gone for the season, and while Seidenberg is skating, there was no word on when he may return.

But the Bruins can never be counted out, as they’ve shown repeatedly in recent seasons.

“We’re a group that’s confident, but we have guys now that are frustrated,” said Boston coach Claude Julien.

“They know they have to be better and they will be better.

“It’s a 2-1 series. It’s not the end of the world here. We’ve just got to battle back. There’s no reason to panic. We haven’t in the past and we’re not about to panic now.”

The Canadiens had surprises for Boston, including a tweak of the top two lines that saw Thomas Vanek put on the second unit with Tomas Plekanec and Michael Bournival while the pesky Brendan Gallagher moved up with David Desharnais and Max Pacioretty.

Montreal also got a strong 26-save outing from goalie Carey Price and a third straight two-point game from defenceman P.K. Subban, who has 11

Ducks stay patient, look for chances to beat Quick in high-stakes Game 3 against Kings

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANAHEIM, Calif. — Although the Anaheim Ducks are running short on chances to prove they’re more than just a regular-season power, they didn’t seem daunted before they headed out on a 30-mile road trip that could define their year.

After the best regular season in franchise history, the Ducks have lost four of their past six playoff games heading into a critical Game 3 at Los Angeles on Thursday night.

It’s barely a slump, and it includes a near-victory that got away with 7 seconds left in regulation in the secondround opener.

Yet the Ducks realize what hangs on their latest trip to Staples Center, and they’re comfortable with the risk.

“The belief and the confidence in this group is pretty high,” Anaheim defenceman Cam Fowler said. “We know that a lot of people are counting us out right now, but that only fuels us.”

During their best stretches of that remarkable regular season, the Ducks were a dominant offensive team, finishing second in the NHL with 266 goals.

With Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry leading the way, Anaheim got consistent scoring from all four lines and methodically broke down almost any defensive team — including the Kings, who beat the Ducks just once in five tries during the regular season.

In the playoffs, Anaheim has managed just three goals against Jonathan

Quick in two home losses. The Kings’ puck-possession style and mistake-free play in their own end are remarkable at times, and even the Ducks appreciated it while spending the past two days figuring out ways to counter it.

“They certainly know how to win,” Fowler said. “Their style translates well to playoff hockey. Very structured, no mistakes, and make the other team beat you.

“They’ve done it before, and when Quick starts playing like he is now, that’s when they become a hard team to beat. They’re certainly peaking at the right time, and we know what we’re up against, but we have a belief in our group that we can do it.”

The Ducks have made some unique travel arrangements for the nominal road portion of this series.

After Wednesday’s practice, they took a bus to a hotel across the street from Staples Center. They’re staying downtown until Game 4 on Saturday, but they’ll also take the bus back to Anaheim for practice on Friday.

With just three goals in more than six playoff periods against the Kings, Anaheim might attempt to boost its offence by putting Kyle Palmieri back into the lineup.

The goal-scoring wing, a healthy scratch in the Ducks’ past four games, skated alongside Nick Bonino and Devante Smith-Pelly at practice Wednesday.

Palmieri scored a career-best 14 goals in the regular season, and he had five points in last season’s first-round series loss to Detroit.

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Montreal Canadiens right wing Dale Weise, centre, celebrates during second period NHL playoff action in Montreal on May 6, 2014. Even though he grew up in Winnipeg, Weise has always been a Montreal Canadiens fan. So he was thrilled when the Canadiens made a trade with the Vancouver Canucks to get him during the season. And now he’s making the most of it with some timely goals in the playoffs, including the game-winner in Game 3. points in the last six playoff games.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Subban is the first Canadiens defenceman to record a six-game playoff point streak since Larry Robinson in 1985.

“He is a game changer,” Gallagher said of Subban. “He’s just giving us a lot of energy right now.”

The Canadiens also used one of their strengths, shot-blocking, to turn

away 29 attempts before they could reach Price.

“They’re taking away a lot of scoring chances,” said Boston forward Shawn Thornton. “They came out with a lot of energy.

“I thought our pace was pretty good, but if you give up a couple of goals, then you’re chasing. We have to shore it up and hopefully get back to the way we we’re used to playing.”

Flyers promote Ron Hextall to GM, Paul Holmgren to president

the last 15 years.

Holmgren replaced Clarke as GM during the 2006-07 season and led the Flyers to within two games of the Stanley Cup title in 2010. He played for the Flyers from 1975-84 and coached them from 1988-92.

“I’m excited about what’s ahead for me,” Holmgren said.

The Flyers were eliminated by the New York Rangers in seven games in the first round of the playoffs.

They haven’t won a Cup since 1975, but have reached the Finals and lost six times.

Hextall previously spent seven seasons as vice-president and assistant GM with the Los Angeles Kings. The 50-year-old Hextall played 13 seasons in the NHL and had two stints covering 11 years with the Flyers.

PHILADELPHIA — Ron Hextall got his “dream job.”

Hextall was promoted to general manager by the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday to replace Paul Holmgren, who was elevated to president. Hextall is Philadelphia’s all-time winningest goalie and served as assistant GM last year.

“When I was done playing 15 years ago, my next goal was to become a general manager,” Hextall said. “I’ve been very fortunate to work under Bobby Clarke, Paul Holmgren, and Dean Lombardi out in Los Angeles — three very good people but also three very astute people who I took a lot of lessons from

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Buehrle leads Jays to rout of Phillies

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 10 Phillies 0 TORONTO — Toronto starter Mark Buehrle can’t recall making a seasonopening run quite like the one he’s currently enjoying with the Blue Jays.

The 35-year-old left-hander was in top form again Wednesday night, throwing seven innings of three-hit ball in a 10-0 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies at Rogers Centre. Buehrle (61) leads the American League with six victories and his earned-run average dropped to an impressive 1.91.

“I don’t want to ask too many questions, I don’t want to try to figure out what’s going on,” he said. “I’m just going to kind of roll with it and keep it as long as I can.”

Toronto exploded for nine runs in the seventh inning. Erik Kratz, Juan Francisco and Edwin Encarnacion all homered in the frame as the Blue Jays (17-17) returned to the .500 mark.

Sergio Santos and Chad Jenkins completed the three-hit shutout as Toronto extended its winning streak to four games. Philadelphia starter Cliff Lee (3-3) was in form until the seventh, ending his streak of six straight quality starts.

“Some balls ended up over the plate and they didn’t miss them,” said Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg.

Buehrle put runners in scoring position on a few occasions but for the most part kept the Philadelphia batters handcuffed by mixing up his pitches and relying on a steady curve ball.

“He does what he typically does,” said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons.

“He keeps them off-balance, throws anything at any time and uses his defence. I don’t know if I can describe it any more than that — again.”

Gibbons smiled as he made the comment. He was then asked if he’s getting tired of describing the steady approach of the reliable veteran, who

has already gone into the seventh inning without allowing an earned run on three occasions this year.

“All he does is keep winning,” Gibbons added. “He does the same thing every time he wins. Just hit rewind.”

With two quick-working starters on the mound, the game sped along at a quick pace. Lee (3-3) retired the first seven Blue Jays in order before giving up a one-out single to Colby Rasmus in the third inning. Rasmus moved to third base on a ground-rule double by Steve Tolleson and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jose Reyes.

The Phillies had threatened an inning earlier but Toronto’s defence kept them off the board.

Marlon Byrd hit a one-out double and Tolleson made a nice play to scoop a slow roller near second base to retire Domonic Brown. Toronto right-fielder Jose Bautista recorded the third out by making a nice running catch at the warning track on a John Mayberry Jr. fly ball.

Bautista showed his range again in the sixth inning with a great diving pickup on a sinking Chase Utley liner.

Buehrle followed by striking out Carlos Ruiz. The Phillies had a runner on second base in the seventh inning but Buehrle got Cody Asche on a weak grounder for the third out.

Encarnacion led off the Toronto half of the seventh with a standup triple. Philadelphia outfielder Ben Revere misplayed the ball, allowing it to bounce off the wall and roll back into centre field.

“It looked like he gave up on it and it hit the bottom of the wall,” Sandberg said. “Catchable ball. Things unravelled from that point forward. I could imagine there could be some frustration there with Cliff at that point. He was out there battling and involved in a pitcher’s duel up to that point.”

Kratz took the next pitch from Lee into the second deck in left field for his second homer of the season. Dion-

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Mark Buehrle works against Philadelphia Phillies during first-inning, interleague baseball action in Toronto on Wednesday. er Navarro followed with a single and he scored when Francisco’s line-drive homer barely cleared the wall in right field.

“Just one of those innings where they hit everything,” Lee said. “They didn’t miss a pitch.”

Lee was pulled after giving up a one-out double to Tolleson. Mario Hollands came on in relief and threw a wild pitch to Reyes that allowed Tolleson to advance to third.

Reyes walked, stole second and moved to third when Cabrera struck out on a wild pitch. The ball got away

from Ruiz and Tolleson scored while Cabrera ran to first.

The Phillies went to the bullpen for former Blue Jay Shawn Camp, who promptly gave up a single to Bautista.

Encarnacion followed with a three-run shot to deep left-centre field for his fourth homer of the year.

Kratz singled for his second hit of the inning before Navarro grounded into an inning-ending double play.

“They flat out beat us in every way,” Lee said. “Shut us out and scored 10 runs. That’s a pretty good beating right there.”

Young stars ready to make headlines at NFL Draft NEW YORK — Jadeveon Clowney just wants it to be over already.

The NFL’s first May draft gave everyone a little more time to critique the prospects and try to figure out who is going where and when.

No player has been more scrutinized than Clowney, the defensive end from South Carolina whose every move — on and off the field — has been analyzed since he ended his sophomore season with a helmet-removing hit against Michigan.

“I’ve been tired of it. I wish the draft was two or three weeks ago,” Clowney said Wednesday after playing flag football with grammar-school kids at the NFL’s Play 60 festival at a park on the west side of Manhattan.

The Houston Texans have the first pick and Clowney could be their guy.

Or maybe they’ll take a quarterback, such as Johnny Manziel. Or maybe they’ll trade the pick.

The NFL has given fans two extra weeks to ponder these questions. The draft is usually held in April, but some scheduling conflicts at Radio City Music Hall caused the NFL to push it back.

Commissioner Roger Goodell said that it’s too soon to say whether May drafts are here to stay.

This year’s draft finally gets underway Thursday night, Day 1 of the threeday, made-for-TV marathon. Rounds 2 and 3 are Friday night. It concludes with four rounds Saturday, when there will likely be more intrigue than usual. Missouri linebacker Michael Sam, who made public that he is gay back

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In this Sept. 14, 2013, file photo, South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney gestures as he stretches before an NCAA college football game against Vanderbilt in Columbia, S.C. in February, is projected to be a possible late-round selection. The NFL has never had an openly gay player.

Sam is trying to be the first, though he might have to get there as an undrafted free agent.

But first, the Texans are on the clock. Will they take Clowney?

“Man, I don’t know,” the 266-pound pass rusher said. “Do you know?”

Clowney looked NFL-ready after a spectacular sophomore season, when he had 13 sacks and was Southeastern Conference defensive player of the year. NFL rules state otherwise. Players must be three years removed from high school to be draft eligible.

Four players have chance to take over top of rankings at Players Championship

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — As much time as Adam Scott spends away from the PGA Tour, this might have been a good week to take off.

By the mathematical wonder of the world ranking, Scott could have stayed in The Bahamas this week and still moved to No. 1 in the world ranking provided three other players had an ordinary week at The Players Championship.

“See you later,” Scott said with a laugh when told of the scenario.

Scott would love to get to No. 1 for the first time in his career, though he’s more interested in winning big tournaments. Besides, he had a chance at Bay Hill and the Masters to replace Tiger Woods atop the ranking and squandered both chances.

What adds to the interest on the TPC Sawgrass is Scott has company. Henrik Stenson, Masters champion Bubba Watson and Matt Kuchar each have a mathematical chance to reach No. 1 for the first time.

“I don’t think I knew that,” Kuchar said. “That title is a pretty impressive title. To be No. 1 in the world at anything is amazing. To have a chance to be No. 1 in the world in the game of golf, I think all of us that play have those dreams.”

It’s been made possible in part by Woods being on the sidelines. The Players Championship, which starts Thursday, is the second title he is unable to defend this year because of a balky back. Woods had surgery on March 31 and still doesn’t know when he might return.

Woods effectively has owned the No. 1 ranking for the better part of 15 years, his most recent reign dating to his victory last year in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Other players have reached No. 1 with a caveat. Woods was going through a swing change in 2004 (though Vijay Singh helped his cause by winning nine times and a major), and he was going through another swing change and a divorce when he lost the No. 1 ranking from October 2010 to March 2013.

And now he’s not even playing.

But the landscape is changing in golf. Woods has gone six years without a major and is hampered by injuries to his legs, arm and back in recent years.

Stenson a year ago became the first player to win the FedEx Cup and Race to Dubai in the same season. Scott won the Masters and became a force in the majors.

“This guy has had as much of a ’No. 1’ period as anyone,” Geoff Ogilvy said as he walked onto the short-game area to see Scott stick 24 tees into the ground around the cup for a putting drill. “He contends every time he tees it up. He only plays the big tournaments. After two rounds, it feels like he has a chance in every tournament.”

That sounds a little like Woods, minus the outrageous number of victories.

Even so, Ogilvy remembers the time when someone else got to No. 1 — whether it was Singh in 2004 or Lee Westwood in 2010 — and the murmurs were that Woods was busy changing his swing. Now? “He seems to be playing better every week than Tiger,” Ogilvy said about Scott.

Clowney’s junior season fell short of crazy expectations. He had some injuries. Opponents game-planned to neutralize him. His play was spotty and his work ethic was questioned after he suddenly went to his coach and pulled himself from a game.

“It’s been crazy, everybody telling when you’re going to go in the draft,” he said. “What your weakness is. What your strength is. A lot of criticism against all the players. It’s just something you got to take on.”

Clowney took it on at the combine and his pro day workout at South Carolina. He wowed scouts with the speed and agility of a running back and placed himself firmly at the top of just about every mock draft.

Still, it’s not a foregone conclusion the Texans will take him.

Houston needs a quarterback and new coach Bill O’Brien has said he plans to add one during this draft.

Many fans in southeast Texas would like it to be Manziel, the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner and native Texan who played for Texas A&M. If there is one player who can relate to the scrutiny Clowney has faced, it’s Johnny Football.

Manziel’s character has been questioned after having a brush with the law and another with the NCAA during his time at A&M. And he’s had his heavy-on-improvisation style dissected

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by scouts. He’s also a little short by NFL quarterback standards, just under 6-feet. Still, his play was so sensational he could end up as a top-five pick.

“I don’t care if I’m No. 1 or 200, I just want to play,” Manziel said.

It is doubtful Manziel will have to wait that long. He could be the first quarterback off the board.

Or maybe that’ll be Central Florida’s Blake Bortles. He looks the part of the classic NFL quarterback at 6-foot-5, 232 pounds. He’s nimble, too, but also a late-bloomer.

Then there’s Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, who many figured would challenge to be the No. 1 overall pick. He apparently slipped out of favour during the post-season draft process. Small hands, a narrow frame and an underwhelming pro day combined to make Bridgewater no sure thing to be taken in the first round. At least that’s what the so-called experts say. But who knows how seriously to take that?

“You try not to pay attention to what’s being said, but at the end of the day, I’m human,” Bridgewater said.

“I was off Twitter for a while because you know that’s probably the easiest way to see what’s being said about you. Stay away from the internet. Wasn’t watching ESPN, NFL Network.”

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This is heartbreaking. What do I say I have no idea why. I was only 16. to a 10-year-old to help him understand We married two years later, and his why his Grandma and Grandpa won’t parents didn’t come to the speak to him? wedding and stopped speakMy hope is that they see ing to my husband for the this letter and realize they next 23 years. have a loving family who They missed knowing our wants them in their lives. oldest son. When our second We are not likely to have child was born, I wanted another 23 years to fix this. him to have grandparents, — Hurting Daughter-in-Law so I called them the day we Dear Hurting: We do not came home from the hospiunderstand parents who tal. deliberately stop contact They stopped by for a with children and grandvisit, and things seemed to children who love them improve. Well, that truce and want to be close. Even MITCHELL lasted 10 years, and now my if your in-laws had some & SUGAR mother-in-law is not speakreason for excluding you, it ing to us again. is reprehensible that they My in-laws spread terthink nothing of hurting the rible rumors about us. We grandchildren in the prolive in a small town, and even the cess. store clerks tell us the awful things my Could your husband speak to his in-laws say. Annie, my son loves his parents about this? Would they agree grandparents and calls to talk to them, to joint counseling to work on whatbut they never pick up the phone. He ever issues are bothering them? leaves voicemail messages telling them If they refuse to address this and

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continue the silent treatment, we suggest telling your son that Grandma and Grandpa have difficulty dealing with others and that sometimes such people need to be left alone.

Reassure him that it has nothing to do with him, and that you hope someday his grandparents will be able to cope better.

Dear Annie: I recently was invited to a bridal shower for my niece. A month ago, I was told that my husband and I would definitely NOT be invited to the wedding. They said they wish to keep the ceremony small and are including only close friends and relatives (which I thought I was).

The shower invitation specifically states that it is being held for the guests who are not invited to the wedding.

I’ve never heard of such a thing. I thought inviting people to a shower and not the wedding was extremely inappropriate. These people are all quite wealthy, so having a small wedding has nothing to do with money. I may not make it to the bridal shower because it’s 300 miles away, but should I send a gift? Is it appropriate to ask

why I’m not invited to the wedding? — Left-Out Aunt Dear Aunt: Yes, it is rude to invite people to a shower but not to the wedding (except when co-workers decide to give a shower).

Under the pretense of including more people in their celebration, they simply are obligating folks to give presents. The size of their guest list is not your business. But it would be extremely classy of you to send a shower gift.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Evil Stepmother,” whose husband’s daughter doesn’t want him to walk her down the aisle. When my daughter married, she asked her stepfather to walk her halfway down, and her father met her there and walked her to her soon-to-be-husband. Everyone was happy. -- C. Dear C.: Several readers wrote with some variation of that suggestion, which is a lovely idea, and we hope the husband’s daughter will consider it.

Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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This northern shoveler was found in a pond in southeast Red Deer. This type of duck is common in Central Alberta in the spring and summer.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Friends might tell you something that at first in unbelievable. Hear them out — there is some truth in every fib, they are trying to inspire you to Thursday, May 8 get you motivated now. If you are in sales, CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: they will increase today. Make sure to read Enrique Iglesias, 38; Melissa Gilbert, 49; the fine print and be of service to others now.

Lovie Smith, 55 GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There is a THOUGHT OF THE DAY: There will need great opportunity for you to get organized toto be some changes made today. This could day. Set up some routine chores for you to do be one of those days when you feel that you around the house now. Work might prove to will have to change some ongoing be less than enjoyable. Don’t inner dialogue that leaves you less imagine the worst and steadily than happy. Think positively, do plow throw what needs to be not imagine the worst. Life is about done and help others. trials that we overcome. Today it CANCER (June 21-July will ask you to have faith in your 22): Positive inner dialogue dreams, and get the details sorted will be key today. Do not over out so that the future is brighter. think frustrations. Take a look HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is at what troubles you and find you birthday, this year will be one a solution. A positive new where past issues will be brought perspective will open many up so that you can move past them. doors for you now. Share that Lots of fortune rest on your ability to warmth with others now, be know your true worth and imagine of service in the best way you LARISA MAIRA the best. You might be out of the know how.

OZOLINS public eye more than you typically LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): are, so use this energy to your adConversations with friends can vantage. Rework your dreams and be wonderful today for sortimagine the best. Your dreams ing out financial details to get are coming true but first you need you ahead. Do not feel that your resources or to ground your vision in reality to make your your stance on your values are not up to par. contributions long lasting.

This is a testing time to make sure you are ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is a being mindful about savings and what you great ability for you to get your point across truly value. at work. Discussions about health and your VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Conversations daily routine will leave you wanting to make with others will leave room for clarity. Do not some improvements. Communicate with fam- be disillusioned by these interactions. Have a ily members, they over exaggerate now so conversation with your boss or mother to sort use your own judgment. out the details properly now so you can pres-

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ent yourself in the best light.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do not over think work issues or even health issues now, as this will be to your detriment. Instead, take this as an opportunity to learn more about a subject related to health and perhaps take a new course at work. There is a strong ability to make sense of complex subjects now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Conversations with business partners or your spouse will leave you seeing all the details that need to be sorted out to make your dreams and aspirations a reality.

Do not be discouraged at all today. Take it as a day to learn more about how to push yourself forward.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There could be some confusion about work and home life now. Have a conversation with your loved ones as they will be able to help you sort out the details on a professional front. After that area of your life is sorted, everything else will fall into place.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Con-

versations with those in your daily routine will leave you less than satisfied with their perspective on world events. Take the time to do a bit of research. Conspiracy theories on health related phenomena might be right.

Take precautions, but don’t over react now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Romantic interests, along with your children, will be speaking their truth loud and clear today.

Take what they say with a grain of salt. Don’t think that all morals are out the window. They are simply letting you see their point of view so you can find a balance together.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Communicate with male family members today. It will help clear the confusion of what is going on with others now.

See a new perspective, but don’t overdo it by thinking others are at fault. It is up to you to decide which truth remains and what you can ignore.

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The future of our health — well-being for kids MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ

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Pick the best tracker for you It used to be, if you wore your heart on your sleeve it meant you were sentimental and easily bruised.

Not anymore.

Now colorful bracelets, watches, clip-ons and other gizmos track your steps and heart rate, not to mention your workouts, calories consumed and burned, sleep habits, intensity of effort, degree of muscle fatigue, even your distance in an open-water swim.

Welcome to the world of “fit tech.” Get hip to it.

These fitness trackers are turning up everywhere.

You can catch a glimpse of them on the wrists of CEOs, Olympic athletes and celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow and Katy Perry.

The National Basketball Association recently announced some players will soon wear a one-ounce disk under their uniforms that monitors performance data such as muscle fatigue, speed and number of jumps.

The NBA wants to become the first U.S. professional sports league to quantify and analyze every movement during every game. (Dr. Mike hopes this will pump up the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Dr. Oz has similar hopes for the Knicks.) There are even fitness trackers, such as FitBark, for dogs.

While you probably don’t need to track your jump shots or how many times you retrieve a stick, you can make big fitness gains using monitors that help you stay enthusiastic about being active. But it’s hard to know which to choose, so here’s how to make a smart choice before plunking down $50 to $200 (the average price for a tracker).

Ask yourself: “Do I really need a fitness tracker?”

If you’re dedicated to your daily walking routine, you already should have a simple pedometer or accelerometer that counts your steps and monitors your motion. The FitBit and Yamax Power Walker get good reviews.

If you don’t have one of these devices, get two — one for your desk at work and one for home!

They can make it much easier to reach your daily goal for steps, heading for 10,000 (or equivalent, one minute of aerobics equals 100 steps) and help you walk your way to better health.

But if you are doing other activities (biking, swimming, running, playing tennis) or you want to shake up your routine, create new challenges and increase your motivation, then today’s multi-function fitness trackers are a smart investment.

Look for the features that matter most to you.

Some trackers upload your latest results to compete with other users (the Nike+ Fuelband SE).

And most, like the UP24 and FitBit, sync with your smartphone, sending your data wirelessly for tracking your progress over time and sharing your info with friends and workout buddies or your doctor.

Now there are a few, like Moov, that offer personalized, computer-generated advice based on your own habits (the trackers can tell when you’re short on sleep or analyze your footfall and suggest you change your gait).

Want to know your heart rate (check out Basis), speed or exercise intensity (Polar Loop) during your workout?

Many, but not all, trackers will show you how hard you’re working, in numbers, words or flashing lights.

Others let you set goals, then monitor your efforts on your phone or computer with clever charts and graphs.

We’re fans of trackers (like Jawbone UP) that alert you when you’ve been sitting too long (fitting in more everyday movement is a great way to stay slimmer and healthier).

Some trackers let you set alarms for morning wake-ups and naps, too.

Other trackers work with apps that help you monitor what you eat, use barcode scanners and provide food lists, so you don’t have to type in everything you munch.

Many trackers measure how long and how well you sleep, and others let you add info about your moods.

These can help you see connections between working out, feeling depressed or happy, eating well or poorly, sleeping or not, and how it all affects your health. Smart!

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

After presenting to a group of middle school students on the topic of nutrition recently, I got a taste of what it would be like to be a parent — tough.

Chips, pop, chocolate bars, pizza … perogies… what else? Energy drinks, sugar infused yogurts, macaroni and cheese.

What are the effects we should expect of consuming these foods loaded with preservatives, colourants, sugars, and excess sodium? I took a look at the sugar content of a young girl’s Strawberry Milk — 36 grams of sugar. That’s more than the typical 25 grams in a can of soda.

This is the future of our health. This is the future of our children’s well-being.

Are we killing our kids?

KRISTIN What are the implications and what do we do about it?

FRASER Statistics Canada shows results from a 2007-2009 survey showcasing that a quarter of children and youth are now overweight or obese. Sedentary behaviour on the rise, coinciding with unhealthier choices in foods are contributing factors to this shift.

The influx of sugar shows a strong correlation with not only mood swings and emotional behaviour but also symptoms of ADHD in our children.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show in their data from a National Health and Nutrition Examination survey that the consumption of added sugars is associated with the rise of “cardiovascular disease risk amongst adolescents, including adverse cholesterol concentrations.”

Diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke are other risk factors associated with these junk food infused diets.

On a more immediate note self-esteem and con-

SOMETHING TO CHEW ON

fidence are at stake including eating disorders and depression — not something to take lightly.

So where do we go from here?

I’ve worked with many families and it’s not easy getting the kids on board always. They have to want it, too. But kids are smart and taking the approach of educating them is important. There’s no need to always be the parent, forcing health food on the kids.

Ask them what they like and do your best to healthify it.

Some of the tips I’ve learned along the way from working with parents are: ● Get them involved and educated. Look up ingredients for yourself with some of their fave junk foods. ● Get them in the kitchen with you. Go on the journey together. ● Find alternative ingredients. They want pizza?

Try a gluten-free crust and fresh ingredients — see what they think. They like chocolate pudding. Make chocolate avocado pudding. They like chicken nuggets … make your own with fresh spices. ● Find out what they like and try new foods.

Baked yams? Cucumbers? Hummus? Guacamole?

What’s their favourite vegetable? Make sure they are getting some daily. ● Kids love smoothies. Put some greens in there and call it a green monster smoothie (age dependent). ● Stay positive about the journey and try new approaches. But bottom line — stick with it! This is an ongoing journey.

We’re all in this together and need support from schools, parents, relatives, friends and, of course, the kids! The more collectively we come together, the greater the impact.

Communicate to the people within your circles your values on making positive changes and ask them to be a support. The future depends on it.

Kristin Fraser, BSc, is a holistic nutritionist and local freelance writer. Her column appears every second Thursday. She can be reached at kristin@somethingtochewon.ca.

The famous mint family Nature is elegant in her reuse of forms. thium) that can stress livers.

Consider the spiral: the cochlea found in our inHyssop does well in the garden as long as it is not ner ear, the curve of a wave and the snail’s home. too close to dominating motherwort.

Branching systems is another of nature’s favoured Sage (salvia officinalis) is another plant from the forms. Snorkelers are awes by brightly coloured mint family that soothes the nervous system. Sage branching coral, rivers with their tributaris an effective remedy for insomnia with ies branch and fingers branch off hands. bloating and abdominal discomfort. TraTrees are nature’s ultimate expression ditionally sage was used as liver tonic. I of branching systems with their central find it soothes irritated livers and quiets truck, canopy and root system. Like the down grumbling gall bladders. It is useful tree, the nervous system is a branching to remember that if the liver is not happy system. the rest of the body or the mind is happy.

The spinal cord has the canopy called I have had difficulty over wintering sage a brain and a root system called the cauda in Alberta, but every year I try. One day I equine (horse’s tail). will find the magic spot in the garden.

Where the nervous system differentiSculcap (scutelaria latrifolia) is an inates from the tree is the branches off the dispensable plant from the mint family. spinal cord.

When the mind needs calming and A better plant metaphor for nervous spirits lifted sculcap is the help to use. systems is medicinal plants from the It not only relaxes mind spasms, it also mint family with a central stem, lateral eases muscular spasms, and particularly ABRAH branches and leaves, flowering apex and one’s triggered by chronic anxiety. below a network of roots. With a stretch of I have seen it ease twitching and tremARNESON imagination, the shape of plants from the ors when anxiety has been held in the mint family mirror the nervous systems HERBS FOR LIFE body for several years. brain, spinal cord, spinal nerves and cauIt is a tender mint that loves a wet spot dal equine. in the garden. It will over winter with plenty of lovWhen the nervous system is fired up or burning ing care. with a low flame, other systems of the body are often Hedge nettle (stachy palustris) is a weed that out of balance. planted itself in my garden. It like motherwort calms Thankfully there are the dexterous plants from an anxious heart but unlike motherwort does not the mint family that temper minds, soothe tummies, interfere with thyroid function. Hedge nettle brings settle grumbling gall bladders and bring peace to clarity mind by untangling confused and disorgaanxious hearts. nized thinking. I am always surprised how quickly Motherwort (leonurus cardiaca) is a handsome hedge nettle works. Be careful not to confuse hedge plant with a pronounced calming effect on both the nettle with hemp nettle, a plant that can damage mind and the heart. Motherwort is the favoured herb kidneys. when anxiety and heart palpations occur simultanePeppermint (mentha piperita): The most famous ously. Motherwort is useful in formulas designed to medicinal plant from the mint family is peppermint. bring down blood pressure. A bitter plant, it also There is a saying in India, “If one could name all the supports the release of bile from the liver. Mother- fish in the Indian Ocean, one could name all the mewort, like many plants in the mint family, thrives in dicinal uses of peppermint.”

Central Alberta gardens.

Now I have never swum in the Indian Ocean, but I Hyssop (hyssops officinalis) is a member of the imagine there are a lot of fish in it. So when in doubt, mint family that calms anxiety and dilates the bron- try a cup of peppermint tea. You will be surprised by chi. It is very useful when anxiety causes shortness how much it will help. of breath. I have found it useful for both anxiety Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Arneson, a local resulting from shortness of breath and shortness of clinical herbalist. It is intended for information purposes breath resulting in anxiety. only. Readers with a specific medical problem should I have also used it in congestive heart failure with consult a doctor. For more information, visit www.abraanxiety to improve the depth of the breath. Hys- herbalist.ca. Arneson can be reached www.abraherbs. sop makes excellent tasty syrup that is easy to give com. to children struggling to breathe.

Hyssop also kills off most intestinal parasites.

I find a tea will usually do the trick, saving one from having to use stronger anti-parasitic medicine from the artemisia family such as wormwood (artemisia absin-

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The good old days go digital As I sit down at our new software with new hardware computer, it reminds me that with Windows 7 and an intetoday is the 48th anniversary gral memory card reader. of the first publication of these As soon as the new rig weekly columns in The Advo- ceased driving me totally cracate on May 6, and elsewhere zy, I gave the copier’s battery later. the suggested fiveI have been lookhour charge and got ing a lot at hunstarted on what has dreds images of the turned out from the good old days latebeginning to be adly, partly also as a dictive fun for me result of the new and for others when computer.

I email them imWhen I first ages of themselves started the outand their outdoors doors writing, the adventures of yesnewspapers and teryear. many magazines These copiers printed only black are essentially a and white pictures. specialized digital The magazines that camera that photoBOB printed colour ingraphs film images.

SCAMMELL sisted on slides onWith this one, ly; later reluctantly you load slides or relenting about negative film strips prints from quality colour (always glossy side up) into print films. the trays that come with the In the early days of digi- copier, slide the tray into the tal, many publishers insisted copier, and, when ready, press they’d have nothing to do with OK to take the picture within an equipment-intensive and three to five seconds. expensive fad.

Being ready includes corNow, most of them require recting or improving the expobeing emailed digital images sure of the original image to only, and the more megapixels your eye’s liking. the better.

The images are saved on the The result is that I have a copier’s SDHC memory card.

The one that comes with far larger problem than the many readers who keep on the copier is smaller than my requesting suggestions about ring fingernail and has to be what to do with old slides, inserted into a dummy adapprints, negatives, etc.: I esti- tor to bring it up to the postmate I have 10,000 slides in age stamp size that will fit in storage and half as many black the card reader slot.

The tiny card is said to have and white and colour prints and their negatives, and more the capacity to store 10,000 impop out every time we open ages.

So far, mine holds only the another obscure drawer.

For some time I have been digitized contents of three carefully selecting 200 slides waste paper baskets of disat a time and taking them to carded film stuff: considerLondon Drugs to be converted able storage space has already been freed up. to digital images.

The copier comes with softThe results have been excellent, but could be consid- ware for further and more soered expensive (99 cents each phisticated editing of the imfor up to 100, down to 65 cents ages.

We have installed that on each for more than 100) for most people who do not have the computer, but so far have the option of recovering some not used it, probably because of those costs by selling the I have always had the professionals’ habit of taking so images.

For more than two years many pictures of the same my Hammacher Schlemmer thing that odds are there has Portable Stand Alone Digital to be one there that is perfect Image Copier has reposed, for- … to my eye anyway.

The resulting digital images lorn and unused in its box, because I hadn’t noticed that at of my slides and negatives are least Windows 7 was needed nine megapixels, above the in our computer to read the minimum requirements of all my publishers so far, but they copier’s memory card.

That deficiency was rem- sometimes raise the bar.

So, to see what’s new, I edied a month ago when we replaced our senescent old went to Hammacher.com on computer and its no-longer the internet, then to Electronsupported Windows HP Home ics and finally to Media Con-

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version. Obviously my copier is no longer available, replaced by “The Superior Slide and Negative to Digital Picture Converter.”

My copier was actually made by VuPoint Solutions, and I’m betting this new superior “Hammacher” is VuPoint, too.

Whatever, at $149.95, no shipping charge to Canada, I’m starting to get that “gotta have it” feeling.

Major reason for that is this new model is 14 megapixels and that should improve on the already high resolution of the digital images from my copier. There is also an accessory slide feeder offered, and I’d just like to see how that works.

Now I am worried about storage again. Just as it is difficult finding what it is I want to digitize among the binders and piles of my stored film images, it is ridiculously and frighteningly easy to lose a tiny SDHC card storing thousands of those selected and edited images.

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

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When raked, the grass A power rake digs deeper falls away, leaving paths and removes more thatch. of soil. Where there was a Lawns with low traffic small amount of damage, the do not need to be aerated grass will fill in the empty every year. spots during the course of A good test is to push a the season. In areas where screwdriver in to the soil in LINDA the damage was extensive, a number of places.

TOMLINSON spread topsoil over the area If there is little or no reand re-seed. sistance, the soil is not comAnother common reason pacted and does not need for the lawn to die back is dog urine to be aerated. Soils that are compacted and feces. benefit from aeration as it loosens the The urea content in the animal soil. A good aerator removes soil plugs waste burns the grass and kills it. from the lawn, leaving a multiple of Given enough moisture, the urea will small holes. leach away into deeper soil and the The holes will be visible for a few grass will grow into the affected area. days but disappear as the soil spreads, It can be a long process. filling in the holes and gaining small There are a couple of quicker alter- air pockets. natives — both involve removing the Roots spread quicker in loose soil dead plant material and some of the and are able to gather more nutrients, topsoil. resulting in healthier top growth.

Once the material is removed, the Fertilizing a lawn in spring will also hole can be filled with clean top soil help it become green faster. and seeded.

Choose a fertilizer that has some For quicker results, purchase sod nitrogen, the first number in the forand cut it to fit the hole. Make sure the mula, and a higher second number: soil is loose and carefully fit the sod potassium. on top.

The nitrogen greens up the lawn and Covering the edges with top soil will provides nutrients for the top growth. help prevent the edges of sod from dry- Potassium helps develop a strong root ing out. system that supports the plant, providAs the snow melts, white fuzz might ing nutrients for top growth. A good be visible on top of the lawn surface. root system is reflected in healthy top This is a fungus called snow mould. growth.

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A real stretch for BMW lovers A recent jaunt to Beijing was a major revelation, from the sheer size of the population to the massive car market and the types of cars The all-new BMW people there like to buy.

335GT is the long In the luxury wheelbase 3 Series, segment, developed for China, elongated versions modified for a niche of existing sedan are very popular. market here.

There “long” wheelbase cars Zack Spencer instantly show that the owner has attained a certain level of status and a big part of that is being chauffer driven.

In Canada, we have long wheelbase sedans but typically, they are top models like a BMW 7 Series or S-Class Mercedes. In China, even base models like the BMW 3 Series or Audi A4 have stretched versions. I raise this because the all-new BMW 335GT is the long wheelbase 3 Series, developed for China, modified for a niche market here.

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Looks Adding 10 cms of additional legroom to the back seat of the 335GT opens up a different experience for rear passengers. The GT offers slightly higher seating position and roofline with a hatchback design that makes for a dramatic and functional car. BMW does have a 3 Series station wagon but it looks like a wagon, this design mimics a sedan silhouette with only a slight hint of the cars true practicality. There is a wing that emerges out of the hatch at highway speeds to produce more

down force, similar to the one found in Porsche’s Panamera. The GT is sold as a 328GT, with a $48,990 starting price. It has a turbocharged 4-cylinder engine and 18-inch wheels. The $56,990 335GT has a larger turbocharged 6-cylinder engine and 19-inch wheels. (The wheels seen here are winter wheels and tires)

can take this car from relaxed to athletic at the push of a button. I really enjoyed driving in sport mode and getting the full effect of the 335GT, as the in-line turbo 6-cylinder is still one of the best power plants on the road. For buyers looking to save on fuel and when purchasing, the 328GT is still a potent machine.

Inside The 3 Series sedan is already fitted with topnotch materials and a functional dash. This is carried over to the GT model, so the front seats remain unaltered. It is the back of the car that is dramatically different. With added legroom and a higher roofline the GT feels open, especially when fitted with the panoramic roof. My kids loved the extra space but noticed the doors sit a bit higher compared to a regular mid-size SUV. The hatch has no rear wiper so expect rear visibility to be blurry on rainy or snowy days. (You do get spoiled with a rear wiper on an SUV). The hatch is electronically operated and provides a long and wide cargo area, plus the rear seats fold in a snap. The rear windows and cargo do not have darkened, privacy class like an SUV, which is something I would prefer.

Verdict The GT falls into a very nice spot in the 3 Series

family, and I include the X3 in that group. The sedan is a great car but not as practical as the X3.

Yes the X3 has traditional SUV appeal but looses some of the sedans nimbleness. This is where the GT plays. It has a bigger cargo area than the X3, more rear legroom but it also has more a sedan stance on the road. The price is more expensive than the X3 so this is a premium offering in the BMW family. If I were in the market for a BMW the 335GT or less expensive 328GT would be in the running. With kids I lake having and SUV but still want the fun and stability that a sedan offers.

This GT might just be the right balance for some.

So thank you China for helping to bring a unique new class of car to our market.

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Drive The 3 Series sedan has been considered the benchmark in the compact luxury market for decades and a lot of the same goodness is here in the GT. With a longer wheelbase and a slightly higher centre of gravity it doesn’t handle as nimbly as the sedan but it is much better than the taller X3 SUV. The power from either 241 hp turbocharged 4-cylinder or the 300 hp turbocharged 6-cylinder engines goes to all four wheels and is shifted through a very slick 8-speed auto box. There are settings for vehicle dynamics and suspension from “Eco” to “Sport Plus” that

Five of the Most Influential Classic Designs Ever Certain cars just won’t recede into the automotive fossil record.

Designers (particularly those from their company of origin) keep going back to the well. And why not? – It’s almost impossible to top the cars on this list: 1967 Toyota 2000 GT: The gorgeous Toyota 2000 GT sports car was a giant commercial flop when it was introduced. The status of Japanese

cars in the U.S. market at the time was roughly the equivalent of Korean cars about 15 years ago, and a Japanese car that cost more than a Jaguar E-Type, a Corvette or a Porsche 911 found few takers. Just over 300 were built and the model’s failure continues to haunt Toyota. The roofline and greenhouse of the 1967 2000GT show up almost unaltered in the latest Toyota sports car concept, the FT-1. Incidentally, Toyota has

probably had the last laugh here, as the 2000 GT is now the only Japanese collectible car worth $1 million.

1967 Cadillac Eldorado: The ’67 Eldorado is one of the great overlooked post-war American classics. A Bill Mitchell design triumph, it’s an ageless design that wouldn’t look out of place in a showroom today, particularly since Cadillac continues to revisit the ’67 Eldo rear end, one of

the greatest ¾-views of all time.

1954 Jeep CJ-5: The original Jeep CJ may well be the most knocked-off vehicle of all time, inspiring the likes of the Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser, Nissan Patrol, Suzuki Samurai, etc., not to mention, of course, the current Jeep Wrangler.

Jaguar E-Type: The E-Type was one of the prime influences for the above-mentioned Toyota as well as the famous Datsun 240Z. Its extreme long hood, short rear deck design and covered headlight styling cues also continue to show up in Jaguar’s own products like the XK8 and the new F-Type. After all, it was by rival Enzo Ferrari’s own admission the most beautiful car in the world.

1965 Ford Mustang Fastback: Long before Ford went retro with the 2005 Mustang, they knocked off their own design for the original pony car with the European Ford Capri. Toyota went one step further with the 1973 Celica Liftback, a virtual ¾-scale replica of the Mustang Fastback. Even the upper crust Aston Martin with its V8 Vantage model of the 1970s went to the Mustang well. The 2015 Mustang still sports design cues from the original 1965 Mustang fastback.

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CLIMBER TO TELL STORY The only Canadian to reach the Mount Everest summit twice is coming to share his story at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Dave Rodney, now a motivational speaker, will share his story and what it took for him to reach the top, twice. He is scheduled to be at the museum, at 4200 Hwy 2, Red Deer, on May 13 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The event costs regular admission: $5 for adults, $3 for youth under the age of 18 and children under three are free, or $12 for two adults and their children.

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LUNCH, LEARN The Downtown Business Association is launching a new Lunch and Learn series on May 13.

The goal is to engage local businesses with informational sessions regarding the inner workings and elements of how Red Deer’s downtown works. The first lunch will be May 13 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and feature Darcy Mykytyshyn, the dean of the Donald School of Business, at the Downtown Business Association. For more information, call Tyler Bowman at 403-340-8696.

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The Fords from left; Jayme Ford, Hudson Ford, Lucas Ford, and Jensen Ford. The family’s lives were turned upside down when they found out Hudson was going to be born with a congenital heart defect. Now they are giving back to the Stollery Children’s hospital through a June 7 event at Classic Tattoo.

Family raising funds for children’s hospital SON TREATED FOR CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF A critically sick child can be the worst nightmare for a parent.

Jayme and Lucas Ford faced this with the birth of Hudson, their second son, in April 2013.

He was born with a congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare condition where the left ventricle is severely underdeveloped.

Hudson spent the first eight weeks of his life at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton.

He underwent heart surgery at 14 days old and at four-and-a-half months he had a second operation. He will require a third when he is three years old.

But instead of dwelling on the difficulty of the situation, the Fords are turning their attention to the hospital and how well they were treated there.

They now want to pay it forward and will be hosting a fundraiser on June 7 — 53 weeks after Hudson came home — through Lucas’s tattoo parlour, Classic Tattoo, located at 4804 Gaetz Ave. in Red Deer. All proceeds will go to the Stollery.

“We had such a good experience there, we wanted to be able to raise some money for them because it

is such an awesome hospital for all the little kids,” said Jayme, 30, noting Hudson is now healthy and happy.

Classic Tattoo, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, will open at 10 a.m. with the goal of raising $15,000 for the Stollery.

They will be doing this in several ways. They will be bringing in several top guest artists from across Canada for the day to help tattoo as many people in the day as possible. There will be a selection of tattoos ranging from $150-$300 to choose from to streamline the process. There are no reservations for the day and people will be inked up on a first-come, first-served basis.

“You can still do pretty cool stuff in a short amount of time,” said Lucas.

“We’ve fortunately got a lot of Canada’s best tattooers coming through to help us out, we’ve got kind of the cream of the crop coming out.”

Children or those not wanting to make a permanent addition to their body art will also be able to get temporary tattoos.

All tattoos will have a set price list and all additional donations will be accepted.

Meanwhile, food trucks will be around in the afternoon to help feed customers and some will be donating a portion of their proceeds.

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Former Maskwacis Mountie found guilty of assault A former member of the Maskwacis RCMP has been convicted of assault causing bodily harm in connection with the arrest of a suspect.

Ronald Craig Lavallee, 35, was tried before Justice Monica Bast in Wetaskiwin Court of Queen’s Bench during the week of March 10 after being accused of using excessive force during the arrest.

Bast announced in Wetaskiwin on Wednesday that she had found Lavallee guilty of the charge. Sentencing arguments are to be held later this year, with the Crown and defence to set a date on June 10.

Lavallee will also stand trial in connection with a separate incident, to be heard in Wetaskiwin Court of Queen’s Bench opening Oct. 27.

Red Deer County taxes boosted for 2014 Ratepayers and landowners in Red Deer County can expect to see increases to their taxes, a slight increase to one levy and the implementation of a whole new levy after county council approved the 2014 tax bylaw.

The county expects to collect $42 million overall in levies.

In December, county council passed a $64-million operating and capital budget.

The budget includes $51.2-million operating and $21.8-million capital components.

Under the approved levy bylaw, residents will see their rate increase by 4.7 per cent from 2013; the farmland rate increases

by four per cent; and non-residential property tax rate increases by 1.2 per cent from last year.

“The budget laid out earlier this year contains some very important infrastructure work that is key for Red Deer County’s future,” said mayor Jim Wood in a release.

“This tax bylaw will allow us to collect the funds needed to complete this work in a timely and efficient manner.”

According to a county press release issued after council gave first reading to the bylaw, a residential property assessed at $500,000 will pay $70.35 more in municipal taxes in 2014 compared to 2013.

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A non-residential property assessed at $500,000 will pay $118.85 more in taxes for 2014 compared to last year.

As well, the levy for protective services is up 25 per cent. Levies for community and environmental services remained unchanged.

New this year is a seniors housing levy, which is charged for the Parkland Seniors Foundation.

A minimum tax levy of $25 will cover the costs of providing the combined assessment and tax notice to county property owners.

Taxes are due on June 30.

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The Parkland Airshed Management Zone has extended its deadline for applications for the Martha Kostuch scholarship, because students did not receive their marks in time. The new deadline for the $2,500 scholarship is Aug. 15, ensuring all high school students in the region, from the Rockies to Red Deer and from Crossfield to Ponoka, have a chance to apply, The scholarship is open to high school graduates living in the zone who wish to pursue a post-secondary education in a discipline involving our environment.

For more information, visit www.pamz.org or contact Sue Arrison at 403-3425816 or email sue@pamz. org.

Provincial flood grant money gives the Sundre fire department enough to cover the cost of purchasing a river rescue boat that the fire chief said they need.

But the Town of Sundre and Mountain View County still have to decide if they’re willing to pay for the operating cost of the boat before it can be purchased.

Fire Chief Marty Butts has long wanted to bring in a river rescue boat.

The fire department uses inflatable boats that don’t have a motor, making it hard to access some rescues.

A river rescue boat would allow the fire department to traverse the Red — SUNDRE FIRE CHIEF Deer River and other MARTY BUTTS waterways for rescues.

Currently they rely on personal boats for this function, but this has its limitations and he believes they would be better served with a rescue boat of their own.

“We don’t have anything to go up or down stream,” said Butts. “We’ve had scenarios where we have to go pick up canoers who had their canoe tip over and it’s down the river with all their belongings and they are stranded on an island.

“How do you get upstream to do that?”

The funding comes through a readiness grant, of which Sundre received $96,175.

The town applied for the funding in the wake of the June 2013 flood that devastated parts of Southern Alberta.

Butts said they already used some of the grant money from the province to purchase new life-jackets, ropes and carabineers.

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Justice Minister Jonathan Denis announced on Wednesday that he has appointed Jim Glass, QC, to the position of provincial court judge, effective immediately.

Glass was admitted to the Alberta bar on July 22, 1988, and was named to its board in 2008.

In making his announcement, Denis said Glass has worked in private practice in areas of criminal, civil and family law. His contributions to the legal community in Alberta include co-ordination and promotion of continuing education and professional development for his colleagues.

Glass is also known for helping new immigrants adjust through volunteer work with the Central Alberta Refugee Effort and has served on the Parkland Humane SPCA, Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association and Canadian Bar Association.

Appointments of judges are vetted by the 11-member Provincial Court Nominating Committee, established in 1999.

Bail hearing, plea set over Bail will be addressed later this month for a suspect captured after a farm tractor was stolen and ran amok before rolling in a field west of Red Deer.

Jesse Cecka, 25, was arrested on April 2 on charges including break and enter with theft, theft over $5,000, breaching release conditions and multiple counts of mischief.

Cecka made a brief appearance in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday, by closed-circuit TV from the Red Deer Remand Centre.

Cecka’s plea and bail hearing were set over to May 28 to give his lawyer, George Lebessis of Edmonton, time to acquire and review the Crown’s case against him.

Gas leak case going to trial A Three Hills man accused of causing a gas leak and evacuation in Sylvan Lake is scheduled to stand trial in Red Deer.

Thomas James Hanger, 22, was arrested by police

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A tree swallow takes a dip from the pond at Three Mile Bend. Hundreds of the acrobatic flyers converged on the pond dipping and diving over the water Tuesday afternoon. Tree swallows are a common sight in North America flying over fields and wetlands as they chase after flying insects with acrobatic twists and turns. investigating after a vehicle ruptured a gas line after striking the Telus building in downtown Sylvan Lake on March 22.

The downtown area was evacuated for about nine hours as a result of the leak.

Hanger is charged with dangerous driving, mischief, leaving the scene of a collision and operating an uninsured vehicle.

His trial is scheduled for Red Deer provincial court on July 28.

Five charged in drugs, weapons bust Police from the Blood Tribe have charged five people from Maskwacis in connection with a drug and weapons bust near Standoff, southeast of Calgary.

Lee Boyd, Chief of Police for the Blood Tribe, issued a news release on Wednesday stating that six

people, including three adults and two teens from Maskwacis, were arrested after raids on two homes in Standoff on May 2.

Police allege seizing $3,000 worth of crack cocaine, about $10,000 in cash, a loaded .22-calibre rifle and a loaded shotgun from one of the homes.

Six people were arrested and charged with a variety of offences including possession of drugs for trafficking, careless storage of firearms and ammunition and possession of firearms and ammunition while prohibited.

Suspects include one Standoff adult, and three adults and two teenaged boys from Maskwacis.

Along with the drugs and weapons charges, one person is also charged with assault causing bodily harm.

The suspects were arrested at one of the two houses raided by Blood Tribe Police with assistance from the RCMP Emergency Response Team.

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Habitat working on one of largest builds in city One of the largest Habitat for Humanity builds in Red Deer’s history is on pace to be ready for three families by the end of the year.

The multi-family home, a triplex on 44th Street, is moving along with the framing work complete. Executive director Paula Madu said the next step is to put the insulation in and then get the drywall up.

Three families in need of affordable housing have already been chosen. In total 10 people will live in the building, spread out over three families in the three units.

“They’re so excited,” said Madu. “We keep in touch with them and they drop by from time-to-time.”

The families are just awaiting the completion and the finishing before they move in.

Each home in the triplex has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.

A donor appreciation barbecue was held on Wednesday at the construction site to recognize the contributions of dozens of local businesses and volunteers.

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Throughout the day, there will also They lost a significant amount of be live music, featuring local band Old these rescue items during the flood.

Boots, to keep people entertained as But the big ticket item is the boat. they wait for their turn.

“Our chief administrative officer Jayme, who is a professional photog(Dave Dubauskas) pushed it forward,” rapher and owner of The Paper Deer said Butts.

Photography, will also be raffling off a “It’s been one of my goals when I family portrait shoot and there will be became chief to improve our gear and a silent auction. a boat is one of them.”

The Fords have already contributed Butts thinks the town is on board, he back once, sponsoring the family of just has to sell the idea to the county. another sick child while he was at the The boat and the rescues will take hospital so they could stay near him place throughout the county, not just while in Edmonton. But they felt they in Sundre. could do more.

He concedes, if the purchase is ap“It’s a pretty big thing to receive to proved, that the boat may not arrive not have to out of pocket any of that until the fall. stuff, so it’s important to give back if “With the river coming through our you can,” said Lucas, 36. community it is a big draw for summer jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com events,” said Butts.

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The Central Alberta Crime Prevention Association holds its grand opening on May 14.

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the new location, at 5015 48th St., takes place at 12:15 p.m. and staff and representatives from Crime Stoppers, Citizens on Patrol and Neighbourhood Watch will be on hand, as well as some refreshments.

The planned events end on May 15 at 11 a.m. with a smash and grab demonstration, showing

just how easy it is for a thief to break into a vehicle and steal valuables.

At the AMA Red Deer in Southpointe Centre, at 2004 50th Ave., an RCMP officer will lead the demonstration and give tips on how to protect your vehicle and your valuables.

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The RCMP will be out in full force next week, celebrating National Crime Prevention Week with numerous events.

May 11 to 17 is crime prevention week and the Red Deer RCMP, Central Alberta Crime Prevention Association and Alberta Motor Association offer a week with demonstrations, a barbecue and tips to make the community safer.

It starts with a kickoff barbecue on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the City Lot at 47th Street and 51st Avenue.

The free public barbecue includes a chance to see the RCMP YIELD car.

The restored and super-charged 1979 Pontiac LeMans is part of a campaign to encourage youth who want to race to do so at a local track.

The RCMP will hand out child identification kits, the association will do graffiti removal demonstrations and representatives from the RCMP, Victim Services, City of Red Deer bylaw, Crime Stoppers, Neighbourhood Watch and Citizens on Patrol will be there as well.

On May 13 from 11 a.m .to 5 p.m., the RCMP will open the doors of their downtown detachment, at 4602 51st Ave., inviting people to stop by.

As well, people can bring old mobile devices, gaming consoles and computers as the Electronic Recycling Association will be on site to

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Author Farley Mowat (right) speaks as David Suzuki looks on during a news conference in Toronto on October 12, 1988. Canadian author Farley Mowat, a master storyteller and tireless defender of nature and wildlife, has died at age 92. ernment there even banned the killings of one of Mowat’s favourite creatures.

But the book, based on Mowat’s own experiences studying wolves in the North, was not without controversy.

The May 1996 issue of now-defunct Saturday Night magazine featured an article by John Goddard titled A Real Whopper, accusing Mowat of exaggerating key

facts in the book, such as how long he actually spent studying wolves in the North and if he visited an Inuit camp.

Mowat later issued a retort, saying Goddard “consistently misses the truth behind these ‘facts.”’

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“I can confirm this news,” she said from Mowat’s hometown of Port Hope, Ont., before passing the phone to the author’s friend, Stephen Smith.

Smith — who learned of the death from Mowat’s wife Claire — said the author died Tuesday evening.

“He passed away I think about 8 o’clock last night, Mrs. Mowat told me. I was just there about an hour ago,” said Smith. “I think it was in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. He had collapsed at the house in Port Hope.”

Smith said he couldn’t confirm a cause of death, adding a statement will be issued by the family.

“He hadn’t been very well, it had been a tough winter, but everybody had a tough winter in southern Ontario. But it had been particularly tough for him. He wasn’t very well. He was quite old. He had various issues, as people in their 90s usually do.”

Smith called his friend an “absolutely delightful person” who had “strong opinions that he would fight for to the death if he had to.”

“Just a gem, a diamond in the rough,” he added.

“I think we all felt that it was a real, real privilege to have them as friends, and they were truly good friends.”

From the time he was 13, Mowat was fiercely dedicated to writing about the natural world. As a young teen he started a magazine called Nature Lore and had a column in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.

He went on to write some 40 books, many based on his own adventures and travels. He said he was lucky to be able to combine his two passions: writing and nature, calling it “the only subject I really want to write about.”

Throughout his life, Mowat was adamant that humans learn to live in harmony with the natural world.

“It’s a matter of survival,” he told The Canadian Press in a 2006 interview. “Either we learn to do this, or we cease to exist. We have no God-given right to survive forever. We have screwed up so badly in so many ways so obviously that only utterly stupid species would consider that we have much of a 2013 - 2014 future, as things stand.

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Made of nickel, copper and recycled tin, the loonie has a loon engraved on one side.

1984 — The Soviet Union announces that it will not participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles.

1974 — Pierre Trudeau loses a non-confidence vote on the budget.

1963 — Canada evacuates citizens by air from riot-torn Haiti.

1933 — Gandhi begins a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.

1907 — Canadian boxer Tommy Burns knocks out Jack O’Brien in the 20th round to win the heavyweight championship of the world.

1906 — University of Alberta is founded in Edmonton.

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Air Canada committed to Central Alberta

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR An official with Air Canada has reinforced his company’s commitment to the Central Alberta market.

Kevin Howlett, the airline’s senior vice-president of regional markets, said during a presentation at a Red Deer Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Wednesday that Air Canada has flown approximately 4,500 passengers out of the Red Deer Airport since launching scheduled service there in September.

He described Central Alberta as a developmental market that will take time to build, but said the trend line is positive.

There is currently plenty of capacity on the 18-seat Beechcraft 1900D airplanes that Air Canada’s regional partner Air Georgian flies out of Red Deer three times daily, acknowledged Howlett. As this changes, bigger planes or more frequent flights will be considered, he said.

“I’m sure that we will come under pressure from the community in the fullness of time to open new destinations.

“But let’s get the current operation to a point of sustained profitability.”

Speaking to reporters later, Howlett said his company was attracted to Central Alberta because it’s one of the fastest-growing economic regions in the country. Plus, he added, members of the community wanted expanded passenger service.

Getting area residents aboard Air Canada planes for the first leg of their trips increases the likelihood that they will remain with the company when they continue on from Calgary.

“It’s all about getting them into the Air Canada network.”

Howlett described to his Chamber

audience how Air Canada has worked hard in recent years to control costs and become profitable, while building itself into an “international powerhouse” and improving its corporate culture. The airline’s most recent financial results, released in February, were the best in Air Canada’s 76-year history, he said.

The airline industry is a tough one to succeed in, said Howlett, with the average profit margin last year just 1.8 per cent. That requires Air Canada to use its resources prudently, despite calls from regional markets everywhere for more flights and destinations.

“Like all communities, I know that Red Deer is keen for additional direct services to and from their airport for many reasons, not the least of which is there is a proven linkage between air connectivity and economic development in the communities.”

RJ Steenstra, Red Deer Airport’s CEO, emphasized that linkage while speaking prior to Howlett’s presentation.

“Airports play a big part in the growth and prosperity of the communities they serve,” said Steenstra, pointing out that Red Deer Airport is now responsible for 225 jobs, $13 million to $15 million in annual payrolls, and $99 million in direct and indirect economic output.

He pointed out that the airport’s passenger count grew 151 per cent last year, to 17,402, and is expected to jump 280 per cent in 2014 — thanks mainly to Air Canada’s arrival in the market.

Howlett said the new service helps connects pleasure and business travellers to destinations around the world.

“You are now one stop away from Asia, one stop away from Europe, one stop away from the U.S. and most Canadian destinations.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Small-lot homes project approved

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s municipal planning commission has given its stamp of approval to a pilot project that allowed small-lot homes with front-attached double garages to be build in Red Deer’s Lancaster/Vanier East subdivision.

The residential (small lot) district, or R1G, was authorized by city council three years ago. About 160 R1G lots were registered in Lancaster/Vanier East, with about 100 of these developed.

The lots are required to have a frontage width of at least 10.5 metres and a depth of 30 or more metres. They must contain a single-family house with an attached double garage in front, and have a front-yard setback of at least six metres.

City planners told the commission that the R1G homes have been well received by developers and owners.

The commission also heard a report on the city’s residential (narrow lot)

district, which was created by the city in 1998.

These lots must have a minimum frontage width of 10.5 metres and a minimum depth of 36.6 metres, with a five-metre front-yard setback and no front driveway or garage.

Planners said about 1,400 R1N lots had been developed as of last fall, and that these have also been well received.

The commission voted to express its support of the R1G district and recommend to council that it be expanded to other neighbourhoods in the city.

The commission also voted to support a number of proposed amendments to the city’s land use bylaw with respect to the R1N and R1G districts.

These include allowing, as a discretionary use, home occupation businesses that generate additional traffic; reducing the front-yard setback for R1N lots to 4.5 metres; and adding criteria that encourage greater development of living space above the attached garages on R1G lots.

Tim Hortons says it needs to think like an American to sell to U.S. customers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX:THI) will take a decidedly American approach to menus at its U.S. stores as the chain prepares to roll out more quick service restaurants south of the border.

While it’s still a work in process, president and chief executive Marc Caira said Wednesday that Tim Hortons needs to reconsider what it believes U.S. customers like to eat, because it doesn’t always fit with what makes Canadians’ mouths water.

“The challenge there is to build loyalty beyond the breakfast day part, and how we plan on doing that is by developing products specifically for the American consumers,” he said in a conference call with analysts after the company released its latest financial results.

“In the past, we may have tried to perhaps use Canadian products a bit too often.”

Caira, who joined Tim Hortons last summer from the global operations of Swiss food and beverage company Nestle, didn’t reveal what he thought suited U.S. appetites., but said a major focus would be on snacks for lunch and dinner hours. However, he said there would be an emphasis on new breakfast menus too.

Several of Tim Horton’s recent Canadian menu additions first launched in the U.S., including the egg white breakfast sandwich and lunch paninis.

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF The combined value of construction projects approved by the City of Red Deer last month was down sharply from April 2013.

The city’s Inspections and Licensing Department issued building permits for $13.9 million worth of work in April, as compared with $33.2 million for the same period a year earlier. A big reason for the decline was the issuance last year of two multimilliondollar permits: a $10.2 million permit for Red Deer Public School District’s new elementary school at 300 Timothy Dr., and a $7 million permit for the Marriott hotel project at 6822 66th St. Year-over-year permit values were down in every classification last month, with residential approvals dropping to $9.3 million from $12.2

million, commercial permits to $3.8 million from $8.3 million, industrial permits to $780,000 from $1.9 million, and public permits to zero from $10.8 million.

“Although April’s building permit values are down, we are optimistic that building activity is on the rise based on the increased activity at our counter over the last several weeks,” said Howard Thompson, inspections and licensing manager. “Many new development permit application have come in, several for larger projects such as the new parkade for the Red Deer Regional Hospital, which will result in building activity later on.”

Four months into 2014, the city has approved $53.7 million in construction, including $39.1 million in the residential category. That compares with $71.3 million, of which $35.4 million was for residential work.

Molson Coors cheering on Habs but sees weaker hockey impact

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Mike Meilleur, executive vice-president of the company’s U.S. operations, said some of the latest new products stateside include frozen hot chocolate and a spinach and egg hand-held pie.

On Wednesday, Tim Hortons reported a 5.5 per cent bump in net profit in the first quarter to $90.9 million, results that fell short of analyst expectations. The profit amounted to 66 cents per diluted share, compared with $86.2 million or 56 cents in the same period last year.

Analysts on average had expected 68 cents per share, according to estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters.

Revenues were up 4.8 per cent to $766.4 million compared with $731.5 million. Operating expenses increased by 7.3 per cent due to items such as increased rent, renovations and new restaurant openings, although the company also blamed the higher costs on $3.1-million of expenses from the launch of its own co-branded credit and loyalty card, the Double Double Card. Same-store sales, those at stores opened for more than one year, were up 1.6 per cent in Canada and 1.9 per cent in the United States, despite some challenges including bad weather.

Tim Hortons is looking for fresh inspiration in the United States where it still trying to gain traction, while shareholders have called for the chain to refocus its expansion plans. The pressure led to the company promising to drive more brand awareness and develop more franchises.

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Work progresses on the first phase of a restaurant, sports bar, hotel and retail complex being constructed at 6852 66th St. The developer is Brad Gabrielson, who previously built the nearby Comfort Inn & Suites, and the general contractor is Scott Builders Inc.

MONTREAL — Molson Coors is enthusiastically cheering on the Habs but having just one Canadian hockey team make a playoff run this year is bound to hurt beer sales, the brewer said Wednesday.

“The Canadian beer businesses would have been better off with more Canadian teams in the playoffs,” Molson Coors Canada CEO Stewart Glendinning said, noting that Ontario sales were helped by the Toronto Maple Leafs being in the first round last year.

The Montreal Canadiens lead the best-of-seven second-round series against the Boston Bruins 2-1. Last year, four Canadian teams — Montreal, Toronto, the Vancouver Canucks and Ottawa Senators — made the playoffs with only the Senators reaching the second round.

Glendinning wouldn’t quantify the financial impact of the NHL playoffs.

“This doesn’t make or break a year, let me clear about that, but it has an impact,” he said in an interview after the brewer released strong first-quarter results.

He said any sport success drives sales, including the Toronto Raptors whose basketball playoff run ended in a close seventh game, but hockey is “religion in Canada” and especially important.

Glendinning said the Habs success this year will have some impact on sales in Quebec, but won’t necessarily boost consumption in the rest of Canada.

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Molson Coors (NYSE:TAP, TSX:TPX.B) earned $163.4 million or 88 cents per diluted share for the period ended March 31. That compared with $28.5 million or 16 cents per share a year earlier.

Adjusting for one-time items, including $63.2 million received for the early termination of a joint venture with Modelo, underlying income more than doubled to $102.2 million or 55 cents per share, compared with $47.5 million or 26 cents per share in the 2013 quarter. Net sales decreased 1.5 per cent to $816 million, but was up 0.3 per cent excluding currency fluctuations.

Worldwide beer volume decreased slightly to 11.9 million hectolitres.

Molson Coors had been expected to earn 35 cents per share in adjusted profits on $818.4 million of net sales, according to analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. Sales in the quarter were helped by the social media success of the Molson Canadian red fridge at the Sochi Olympics, even though the time difference limited the sales benefit of the Winter Games, Glendinning said.

The Molson Canadian brand enjoyed its third consecutive quarter of market share growth.

“Our strong focus on our core brands, portfolio shift to above premium and value-creating innovation is paying dividends,” CEO Peter Swinburn said during a conference call.

In Canada, the company earned $88.3 million in pre-tax income on $347.1 million of net sales despite weak consumer demand and promotional challenges.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 103.04 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 54.66 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.93 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.94 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.18 Cdn. National Railway . . 63.87 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 172.25 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.78 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.61 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.42 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.52 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.31 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 30.04 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.46 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.07 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.74 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.84 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 51.99 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 65.32 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.45 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.17 TransCanada . . . . . . . . . 47.08 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 107.85 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.97 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . . . . .

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.60 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 18.14 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Wednesday, with support coming from a big acquisition by energy company Encana and positive earnings news.

The S&P/TSX composite index rose 44.11 points to 14,656.4.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.13 of a cent to 91.79 cents US. Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA) shares were up $1.13, or 4.6 per cent, to $25.69 after it announced a deal to roughly double its oil production with a $3.1-billion acquisition of oil-producing properties in the Eagle Ford shale formation in south Texas from Freeport-McMoRan. Meanwhile, U.S. markets were uneven amid testimony from Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen that the American economy is improving but that the job market remained “far from satisfactory” and inflation below the Fed’s target rate.

The Dow Jones industrials ran up 117.52 points to 16,518.54, the Nasdaq lost 13.09 points to 4,067.67 and the S&P 500 index was ahead 10.49 points at 1,878.21.

Yellen told Congress’ joint economic committee that she expects low borrowing rates will continue to be needed for a “considerable time.”

At the same time, Yellen said geopolitical tensions, a renewal of financial stress in emerging markets and a faltering housing recovery are potential threats.

It was another heavy day for earnings as Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX:THI) earned $90.9 million or 66 cents per share, up from $86.2 million or 56 cents per share a year ago but missed estimates of 68 cents and its shares dipped 79 cents to $58.89.

Talisman Energy (TSX:TLM) shares climbed 91 cents or eight per cent to $12.02 as quarterly net income was $491 million, or 47 cents per share, compared with a net loss

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.83 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 58.89 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.96 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.99 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.82 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.01 First Quantum Minerals . 20.35 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.06 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.19 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.68 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.36 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.39 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.39 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.28 Energy Aeroflex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.49 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 38.14 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 71.29 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.03 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 56.17 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 44.48 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 22.81 Canyon Services Group. 16.43 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 31.73 CWC Well Services . . . . . 1.10 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 25.69 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.76 of $213 million or 21 cents per share in the first quarter last year.

It was another tough day for the tech sector, particularly in the U.S. where investors have been rotating out of biotech and technology stocks that ran up sharply last year and are now deemed a bit too rich.

The TSX tech sector declined 1.46 per cent as BlackBerry (TSX:BB) fell 41 cents to $7.94. In New York, Twitter fell 3.75 per cent to US$30.66 after plunging almost 18 per cent Tuesday.

Telcos led advancers with Telus (TSX:T) up 44 cents to $39.34 a day before the company posts earnings.

On the commodity markets, June crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained $1.27 to US$100.77 a barrel and the energy sector gained 0.66 per cent.

The base metals sector was down 1.33 per cent as July copper slipped two cents to US$3.03 a pound.

June bullion faded $19.70 to US$1,288.90 an ounce and the gold sector dropped about two per cent.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close of Wednesday Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,656.40, up 44.11 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,001.04, down 4.58 points TSX 60 — 835.82, up 2.80 points Dow — 16,518.54, up 117.52 points S&P 500 — 1,878.21, up 10.49 points Nasdaq — 4,067.67, down 13.09 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 91.79 cents US, down 0.13 of a cent Pound — C$1.8470, down 0.04 of a cent Euro — C$1.5157, up 0.02 of a cent Euro — US$1.3913, down 0.18

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 103.11 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 64.74 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.40 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 36.15 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 53.74 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.32 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.20 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 0.15 Precision Drilling Corp . . 14.28 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 43.15 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.02 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.57 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.41 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 71.68 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.08 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.56 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.38 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.22 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.32 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.48 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 54.24 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 72.39 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.59 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.75 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.40 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.11 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 37.62 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.11 of a cent Oil futures: US$100.77 per barrel, up $1.27 (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,288.90 per oz., down $19.70 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.876 oz., down 37 cents $703.31 kg., down $11.90 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Wednesday at 1,001.04, down 4.58 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 155.23 million shares.

Loonie down as building permits decline

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian dollar closed lower Wednesday amid data showing an unexpected slowdown in the building sector.

The loonie was off 0.13 of a cent to 91.79 cents US after jumping almost two-thirds of a US cent Tuesday to a one-month high in the wake of a sharp revision upwards in the February trade surplus.

Statistics Canada reported that contractors took out $6 billion worth of building permits in March, down three per cent from February and a sizable miss from the 3.5 per cent gain that economists had expected. The March decline followed an 11.3 per cent decrease the previous month.

The agency added that lower construction intentions in the non-residential sector in six provinces, led by Ontario, more than offset a gain in the residential sector.

CMHC will release its reading on housing starts for April on Thursday.

Traders also looked ahead to key employment data coming out at the end of the week and remarks from U.S. Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen.

She told a Senate panel that the U.S. economy is improving but notes that the job market remains “far from satis-

Encana gets oily with $3.1-billion acquisition in Eagle Ford Shale

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’14 $1.70 higher $484.60; July ’14 $1.70 higher $470.60; Nov. ’14 $1.60 higher $477.50; Jan ’15 $1.60 higher $482.90; March ’15 $1.60 higher $487.60; May ’15 $1.00 higher $490.80; July ’15 $1.50 higher $492.90; Nov ’15 $3.20 higher $487.90; Jan. ’16 $3.20 higher $480.10; March ’16 $3.20 higher $486.10.

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.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 272,580 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 272,580.

factory” and inflation below the Fed’s target rate. Yellen expects low borrowing rates will continue to be needed for a “considerable time.”

At the same time, Yellen said geopolitical tensions, a renewal of financial stress in emerging markets and a faltering housing recovery are potential threats.

On Friday, Statistics Canada is expected to report that the economy created about 16,000 jobs in April, down from 43,000 in March. But job creation has been volatile and has regularly missed expectations.

Markets also digested some disappointing German data.

Factory orders plunged unexpectedly in March as demand slumped both at home and abroad, particularly from other countries using the euro, and the German government cautioned that the crisis in Ukraine could contribute to further weakness.

Industrial orders dropped 2.8 per cent from February, the largest monthon-month fall since November 2012.

Economists had predicted a 0.3 per cent rise.

On the commodity markets, June crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained $1.27 to US$100.77 a barrel. July copper slipped two cents to US$3.03 a pound while June gold bullion faded $19.70 to US$1,297.80 an ounce.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Encana Corp. is spending US$3.1 billion to enter the oil-rich Eagle Ford shale in Texas, marking yet another big strategic shift under new CEO Doug Suttles.

“This acquisition, I think, represents a significant step towards repositioning the company for success,” Suttles, who took the reins just under a year ago, told analysts on a conference call Wednesday.

Shares in Encana were up 4.3 per cent at $25.62 in morning trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The Calgary-based company

(TSX:ECA) has long been known as a dominant North American natural gas producer, having spun off its oil operations to create Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) in 2009.

The deal with Freeport-McMoRan tilts Encana more towards oil, roughly doubling output of that lucrative commodity.

Suttles said he believes Encana can improve performance on the newly acquired properties, which cover about 18,400 net hectares.

Last fall, Suttles unveiled a new strategy for Encana, which had for years struggled with low natural gas prices and had been juggling operations in dozens of different regions.

Northern Gateway opponent hopes to tie up project

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Opponents of Enbridge Inc.’s (TSX:ENB) Northern Gateway proposal say even if the federal cabinet approves controversial oil pipeline in the coming weeks, the project will languish while they tie it up in the courts.

As in previous years, a delegation of First Nations leaders, environmental activists and B.C. community representatives travelled to Calgary on Wednesday to speak out against the more than $6.5-billion project at Enbridge’s annual general meeting.

John Ridsdale, hereditary chief of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in northern B.C., says his community will never support the Alberta-to-B.C. oil pipeline project and investor money will “sit there and rot.”

“The answer is still no. So let’s move on,” he told The Canadian Press ahead of the meeting.

“Why would you want to invest into a failed project? There are better projects they can invest in.

It’s costing them money to find out it’s an absolute failure.”

Art Sterritt, executive director of Coastal First Nations, said he decided to attend Enbridge’s meeting for the first time to deliver a similar message to CEO Al Monaco.

“When you’re sitting in a board meeting, having an annual meeting, trying to decide where your future investments are going, you’d better think about

that because it’s not going to happen. You’re wasting money,” he said.

A joint review panel said in December the project that will bring oil from Alberta to Kitimat, B.C. should be approved, subject to 209 conditions, and the federal cabinet is set to decide in a matter of weeks.

But Monaco told shareholders that he knows there’s still a lot more work to be done.

“Regardless of the final government decision here, whatever decision they do make, our focus is going to be on re-engaging and further building trust with some of the aboriginal groups that we haven’t been able to do this point, to listen, further build trust and address concerns,” he said, adding he’s met with many community leaders along the pipeline route.

“As CEO, I’ve made this commitment to them, and I repeat it here today: that we’ll continue to work

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hard to earn the trust of British Columbians and that will make Northern Gateway the best project possible with environment and safety as the first priority.”

A litany of legal challenges being mounted by project opponents mean the path forward for Northern Gateway is far from clear.

First Nations in most of British Columbia have not signed treaties with the Crown, meaning they maintain right and title.

There are a number of court cases in which B.C. First Nations have been successful in the past, Ridsdale said.

“We’ve had the longest winning streak in Canadian jurisprudence, in the history of Canada. And yet here we go again,” he said. “They still haven’t listened to us. We’ve constantly said the answer is still no and we give the reasoning behind it. So we go to court.”

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COCKS Douglas John Nov. 4, 1942 - May 5, 2014 It is with sadness that the family of Doug Cocks announces the passing of their Husband, Father and Grandfather.

Doug was predeceased by his parents; his sister Jean Stolz; his nephew Richard; and a grandson Lane. Doug will be lovingly remembered by his wife Dorothy Marquart Cocks; his two sons and their families, Douglas John Jr. (Tammy Basque) of Grande Prairie and Patrick James (Kimberley Barlow) of Sylvan Lake; his precious grandchildren, Joel Kopp, Brodie and Delaynee of Grande Prairie, Molly and Hudson of Sylvan Lake; his sister Susan (Mic) Moroz of Osoyoos; his two brothers, Jim (Helen) Cocks of Leader, SK, and Daniel (Elaine) Cocks of Medicine Hat; along with aunts, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

We will forever cherish his love and spirit for his families’ well-being. A Memorial Service for Doug will take place at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Friday, May 9, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. It is the families’ wish that in lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to the Canadian Tire Jumpstart, P.O. Box 770, Station K, Toronto, ON, M4P 2V8, or the Heart & Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913-50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4, or to the Multiple Sclerosis Society, 105, 4807-50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4A5. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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CORMACK Ronald Alexander Nov. 5, 1926 - May 3, 2014 Ronald passed away peacefully on May 3, 2014 at the Red Deer Hospice.

Ronald is survived by his children: Robert, of Calgary and Barbara, of Red Deer, his grandchildren Catherine (Karel) van Zyl of Halifax, Sandra (Jon) Wilkins, of Calgary, Micheal Brochu, of Calgary, and Leaha Johnson, of Kamloops, and his great grandchildren, Meaghan and Riley van Zyl of Halifax. He is also lovingly remembered by his twin sister, Doris, of Winnipeg, brother-in-law, Mervin, of Calgary, sister-in-law, Alma, of Lacombe, and several nieces and nephews.

Ron is fondly remembered by his “Personal aide”, Pat Egan and the Tuesday games group and Wednesday supper gang. A memorial service for the late Ron Cormack will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church, 4718-50 St. (Ross St.), Red Deer on Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Wayne Reid officiating. Memorial tributes, in Ron’s memory, may be made to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Ave, Red Deer, AB. T4R 3S6

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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.

WEST Ann Louise April 12, 1942 - April 24, 2014 With deepest sadness and loss, Ann Louise West passed and rose to her Lord on April 24, 2014. Ann experienced and enjoyed a life full of adventures, people, and places. Ann was a fantastic mother, proud of her independence, determined to take on all that life challenged her. Her infectious big smile, inquisitive mind and compassion for those in need will all be sadly missed. Ann will always be with us. Ann was predeceased by her daughter Christine but is survived by her son Craig (Louise) West of Red Deer, their children Jennifer and Carson, and her extended families in B.C. and abroad. Ann cherished you all. A Celebration of Life will be held at Crossroads Church, 38105 Range Road 275, Red Deer County on Friday, May 9, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation.

ZUBOT Alexander “Alex” Balzar Zubot passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 4th In Red Deer, AB at the age of 85.

Alex is one of 8 brothers and sisters, and 2 half sisters.

Alex is predeceased by his parents, Michael and Mary Zubot, his sister Pauline Bosch, brothers Emanuel Zubot, Adolph Zubot and Carl Zubot. Alex is survived by his loving wife Isolde of 54 years. They were very proud parents of 2 sons, Warren who resides in Edmonton, AB and Brent who resides in Balzac, AB with his wife Theresa (MacMillan) and their three daughters Paige (10), Jordan (9) and Rylee (7). Alex is also survived by his brothers Michael of Calgary, AB, Bernard of Medicine Hat, AB and Paul of Dorchester, ON. As well as numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins stretched across Canada and Europe. Alex was born in Leader, SK on November 15, 1928, and graduated from Medicine Hat High School. He worked with the Canadian Pacific Railway for several years as a telegrapher, then at the Brooks School District for 7 years as the SecretaryTreasurer. Alex and Isolde (Henrich) were married on October 1st, 1959. In 1965 Alex and Isolde moved to Drayton Valley, AB and opened a Stedman’s franchise store. In 1966 their first son Warren was born, and a short 14 months later, their second son Brent was born. Alex and Isolde opened 2 more Stedman’s stores in Barrhead and Rocky Mountain House, before finally selling the franchises and moving to Red Deer in 1979 where they purchased Red Deer Overdoor Co. In 1984 Alex retired from his full-time business ventures and tried his hand at the real estate market for a few years. Alex had a passion for woodworking, and his work can be found on display in numerous homes of friends and family members. He was a warm, quiet, and peaceful person who enjoyed everything in life from having coffee with his buddies at A&W to visits with his boys and 3 beautiful granddaughters.

Alex was a wonderful husband and father who was an incredible role model to his boys. We are all so very lucky and blessed to have known him. The funeral mass will be held on Friday, May 9th at 11:00am at St.Mary’s Catholic Church at 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer Alberta, T4N 5X8. The family would like to extend an invitation to all attendees to a light lunch and refreshments in the Parish Centre immediately following the service. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to The Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada online at www.heartandstroke.com, or by calling 1-888-473-4636.

Providing animal care and welfare, shelter operation, education and community services for Central Alberta

McILRAVEY Terrance Adam Terrance Adam McIlravey passed away suddenly on April 28, 2014 in his 72 year.

Terry was born on July 7, 1942 in Cochrane, Ontario to Adam and Pearl McIlravey.

Beloved husband of Anne (nee Beausoleil) for 51 years; devoted father of Michael (Bev), Laurie (Tim) Carruthers, Wayne (Tracy), Wanda, Shelley (Dave) Scheffelmair, Tim (Kerri),Chris (Laurie), Craig (Shannon), Cheryl (Jason) Dirks; beloved grandfather of Heather (Devlin), Joshua, Andrew, Jessica (Chris), Jonathan (Dixie), Annie, Breanne, Alyssa (Jerret), Adam, Melanie, Mark, Eric, Elizabeth, Julia, Kiara, Claire, Lilly, Eryk, Colin and Emily; great grandfather of Lauren, Jackson and Jordyn; brother of Nancy, David (Nola), Brian (Betty), and the late Barb, Jeannie (Don) and Billy (Brenda); brother in law of Eleanor Beausoleil, Cal Hynes and Helen Wright; remembered by many nieces and nephews. He worked at McMillan Bloedel Mill Powell River from 1963-1975, Construction Powell River from 1975-1977, Construction in Cranbrook from 1977-1979, Construction in Red Deer from 1979-1986 until his heart wouldn’t allow him to anymore and did Small Business Accounting until his passing. Nothing mattered more to him than his family.

He valued every one of them and always took care of Anne. Terry will be forever in our hearts and sadly missed by his family. A Celebration of Terry’s life will be held at the Streams Christian Church 5350-46th Ave Red Deer, AB on Saturday May 10, 2014 at 1:00 P.M. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Terry’s name to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

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The successful candidate will possess: * Good telephone manner * Excellent communication skills * Basic Computer skills * Attention to detail * Ability to function in a fast-paced environment * A positive attitude Preference will be given to those with previous customer service experience.

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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.

LIVE IN Caregiver for 4 children (6 - 14 yrs. old) in WE are looking for a F/T or P/T journeyman (60% R.D. Wages $1747/mo., 44 hrs./week. Childcare, light commission with ticket) or apprentice hairstylist for housekeeping. Room & busy family salon in board $315/mo. Call Keri Lacombe. Great wages at 403-346-4045. and benefits packages.

LOOKING for a Live-in Bring resume to Hairapy at Caregiver w/exp. to care Lacombe Center Mall for 3 & 6 yr. old. Salary $1835/mo Criminal Record check is necessary.

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St. Red Deer T4P 2J4 Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

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Full-Time/Part time Take a tour through the Employment Opportunity CLASSIFIEDS Licensed Practical Nurse Panel Manager The Wolf Creek Primary Care Network is hiring Licenced Clerical Practical Nurses to work in medical clinics in BUSY MEDICAL OFFICE Lacombe, Ponoka and requires Sylvan Lake. These are FRONT DESK Monday to Friday positions RECEPTIONIST with no shift work or weekStarting wage $16/hour. ends. The Panel Manager Computer skills a requirement. works in a one-on-one Please fax resume relationship with a family to 403-342-2024. doctor. Goals include increasing efficiency in the NEEDED family doctor’s office to Office Administrator at improve access for Coldwell Banker OnTrack patients, enhancing the Realty: Looking for a patient’s primary care skilled individual who has the ability to think on their experience, and improving clinical outcomes and feet, learn fast, multi-task quality of life. The Panel and provide a pleasant Manager will be taught working environment for how to assist the physician Realtors. Duties include and clinic to use informabut are not limited to: tion technology and Answering phones/office healthcare knowledge to emails, paging system, ensure that patients social media updates, fax, receive chronic and assist Realtors with preventive care. The technical & computer majority of Wolf Creek problems, office and Panel Managers are online scheduling, update Licensed Practical Nurses, website info. host & comhowever other health care plete itinerary for weekly professional will be considmeetings, organizing ered for these positions. events, set up webinars.

Interested applicants Please email should submit their resume to Realestate@ resumes by May 23, 2014, OntrackRedDeer.com or to info@wolfcreekpcn.com fax resume to Attention Lindsay @ 403-347-7930 or via fax to 403.782.5431.

The Wolf Creek Primary or drop it off at Unit G 2085 Care Network would like to 50 Ave, Red Deer thank all applicants for Buying or Selling their interest; however only your home? those applicants selected Check out Homes for Sale for an interview will be in Classifieds contacted.

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Compensation package Requirements: LOCAL SERVICE CO. store location hours.

• Replenish amenities, that includes: Full paid Valid Driver’s License in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. Please specify which store linens & towels. benefits, Deferred profit H2S Alive VACUUM TRUCK • Adhere to Holiday Inn you are applying for, and if sharing, Competitive Standard First Aid OPERATOR you require an LMO to safety standards.

Wage, and RRSP proWHIMIS and/or Must have Class 3 licence work in Canada. Email All positions are permanent gram. Applicant must CSTS or PST w/air & all oilfield tickets. resume to awbsp@ Full-time/Part-time, shift maintain a Heavy Duty Pre-Access A&D Testing Fax resume w/drivers xplornet.ca work & weekends.

Mechanic Journeyman abstract to 403-886-4475 Ground Disturbance Level 11 Education: Above Secondary ticket, a Valid CVIP Work Experience not inspection license, strong Please e-mail or fax your essential, training provided. Sales & interpersonal and commuresume to: Fax resume to 780-702-5051 Distributors nication skills as well as hr@tr3energy.com organization skills. Willing Fax: (403) 294-9323 Something for Everyone D & D VEHICLES SALES to work in a team atmoswww.tr3energy.com Everyday in Classifieds RENTAL & LEASING phere, ability to work NOW HIRING REQUIRES A independently, maintain HOLIDAY INN Well Testing Personnel SALES CONSULTANT. safe work habits and keep Experienced Supervisors Professionals Red Deer South, 2 month guarantee salary. work area clean. Own tools & Operators Gasoline Alley, Competitive commission. required. If this position Must have valid applicable 37471 Hwy 2S, 342 Laura Ave. Red Deer interests you please email DEEP KNEADS MUSCLE tickets 403-358-5888 your resume to Red Deer County THERAPY is looking Email: lstouffer@ Email: joelv@ddsales.com jgoltz@wsii.ca or fax is seeking for a Registered Massage testalta.com 403-340-0894.

Therapist for room rental. FRONT DESK CLERK GRATIAE is seeking Please contact 5 Retails Sales reps BRICAR CONTRACTING ~ $14.00/hr.

403-343-1086 selling skin & body care now hiring Heavy • Answer phone calls, products in Parkland Mall Equipment Operators, take reservations.

4747 67th St. Red Deer, Skid Steer Operators and • Check in/out guests.

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OIL & GAS OPERATOR F/T P/T No Exp. Req’d. to: office@bricar.ca attend to guest needs.

Bearspaw currently has a Email resumes: or fax 403-347-6296 HOUSEKEEPING position in our Stettler field gratiaereddeersr@ ROOM ATTENDANT operations for an intermediate gmail.com oil and gas operator. Applicants ~ $14.00/hr. must have experience as a • Clean & Vacuum rooms, heavy duty mechanic or public areas, pool, etc.

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United Way of Central strong mechanical skills, • Adhere to Holiday Inn Alberta is a leader in be quick learners, motivated safety standards building strong, resilient Is looking for F/T and hard working and live All positions are permanent SALESPERSON. Mon. - Fri. communities in Central C & C COATINGS in or be willing to relocate Alberta. We are seeking an Full-time/Part-time, shift 8-5. Job requirements will Innisfail is seeking F/T within a 20 minute commute work & weekends. individual who knows the be: quoting jobs, dealing Sandblasters and Painters to workplace location. This value of superior customer Education: Above Secondary with walk in clients, phone exp. with Endura an asset. position offers a challenging Work Experience not service, has proven sales, scheduling and Competitive wages and work environment, attractive marketing and communica- essential, training provided. customer service. Very benefits. Fax resume to: benefits with competitive tion experience and work Fax resume to 780-702-5051 competitive wages and 403-227-1165. pay and significant room in both big picture and benefit package. Fax RAMADA INN & SUITES for promotion.

CLASS 3 DRIVER/ detailed planning, and resumes to: 403-343-1325 req’s. Permanent Room Please submit resumes must love a challenge.

EQUIPMENT OPERATOR Attendants. Exp. not nec.

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 This is an 8 month req’d immed. Local work, will train. Approx. 35 - 40 F/T - P/T Beauty TreatAttn: Human Resources Temporary Full-Time need drivers abstract. hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 ment O/P, selling soap & email:kwolokoff@ position. For a complete $14/hr. Duties incl’d but bath products $14.55/hr. + Fax resume to 403-986-8142 bearspawpet.com job description, please visit not limited to: vacuuming, bonus & comm. Beauty Fax 403-252-9719 www.caunitedway.ca dusting, washing floors, cert. req’d. Location Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 making beds, empty trash, Parkland Mall - 4747 67th Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Classifieds...costs so little disinfecting & cleaning St. Red Deer. email Saves you so much! bathrooms. Performance premierjobrdbto@ based bonus program. gmail.com Must be fl uent with verbal GREAT Restaurant/ SOAP Stories is seeking 5 l& written English, be OPPORTUNITY retail sales reps. Selling soap Hotel physically fit. Applicants & bath products. $12.10 hr SERVICE RIG may apply in person at Afternoon Shift + bonus & commission.

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer BOULEVARD CNC Lead Hand / is seeking exp’d T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d.

Restaurant & Lounge Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. FLOORHANDS & Supervisor or email: Gasoline Alley, DERRICK HANDS info@ramadareddeer.com Red Deer. email resume to 37471 Hwy 2S, premierjobrd@gmail.com Locally based, home every Nexus Engineering Red Deer County night! Qualified applicants is currently looking for is seeking must have all necessary Afternoon shift valid tickets for the position Cook ~ $14.00/hr.

Lead hand/supervisor.

Trades being applied for.

To prepare & cook all food Duties include, ensuring Bearspaw offers a up to standard, clean kitchen production flow on Mazak 2 EXP. ROOFERS. very competitive salary & maintain hygiene, follow C.N.C lathe and mills, and benefits package recipes, assist in trouble shooting, The Tap House Pub & Grill Must have drivers licence.

403-341-9208 or along with a steady receiving & storing min 1 years experience as req’s full and part time work schedule. a lead hand/supervisor Kitchen Helper ~ $11.00/hr. cooks. Apply with resume 403-346-2822 after hours.

Please submit resumes: in a machine shop.

To clean kitchen following at 1927 Gaetz Avenue GOODMEN Attn: Human Resources We offer competitive wages, safety & hygiene standards. between 2-5 pm.

ROOFING LTD. Email: company paid benefits and Clean utensils, cutlery, Requires hr@bearspawpet.com a RRSP matching plan. crockery & glassware items, THE HAMPTON INN Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Please forward resumes floors, assist in prep.

GASOLINE ALLEY SLOPED ROOFERS Mail to: Suite 5309, to: resume All positions are permanent Looking for room LABOURERS 333-96 Ave. NE @nexusengineering.ca Full-time/Part-time, attendants F/T & P/T, & FLAT ROOFERS Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 shift work & weekends.

P/T breakfast bar hostess.

PAINTER F/T Education: Above Secondary Must be avail. all shifts.

Commercial/Residential Valid Driver’s Licence Work Experience not Central Alberta’s Largest Will train. Drop off resume Brush/Roll Application. preferred.

Fax or email essential, training provided. or email: cheri.arthur2@ Car Lot in Classifieds Exp. req’d. Vehicle req’d. info@goodmenroofing.ca Fax resume to 780-702-5051 hilton.com No phone calls.

Contact Drew at CCL or (403)341-6722 403-596-1829 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! First Aid, H2S and PSTS, valid driver’s licence req’d.

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ELECTRICAL & INSTRUMENTATION

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WorleyParsonsCord Ltd. is seeking an Electrical & Instrumentation Project Manager to work with our growing team at our Blackfalds Module Yard facility.

The ideal candidate must be a results-driven, self-motivated journeyman electrician with 5 to 10 years’ experience in the industrial construction field. Must have prior experience in electrical estimating, project management experience and strong ability to interpret plans, specifications, drawings and documents related to engineering and construction.

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ESTATE SALE 13 MITCHELL AVE. Fri. 9th 12-7 & Sat. 10th 10-4 Everything must go.

Furniture, houseware, etc.

FRI. May 9, 4-7. Sat. May 10, 9-3. 4745-56 St. backalley. Microwaves, range hood fan, toys, etc.

No early birds.

Pines

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Moving sale. Furniture, household, lots of misc. items.

Deer Park 22 DAWE CLOSE May 8/9, Thurs. 1-8 Fri. 1-7: Copper pots, collectible precious moments, TV, printer, lawn mower...

230 DAVISON DR. May 8, 9 & 10 Thurs. Fri. & Sat. 9 am -?

Lots of Free Stuff!

Household misc.

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You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Rosedale #83 REINHOLT AVE. May 8, 9 & 10, 9-8 Household and baby items.

Knights of Columbus Garage Sale

to support local charities.

ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH HALL 5128 53 St. Lacombe Sat. May 10th 8:30-3:30 Garage Sale & BBQ. Cinnamon buns & pies avail.

Sylvan Lake 4405 46 STREET CLOSE (Back Alley) May 8th, 1-7, May 9th 1-7 & May 10th 9-5 Hunting fishing, misc. household & much more.

LARGE garage sale. 58 Fernglade Cres. May 9 & 10, 8-8. Tons of boy & girls clothes 3m-3yrs., toys, bikes, household, etc. etc.

Now Hiring GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

DRIVER/SALES Canwest Propane, an affiliate of Gibson Energy, is the industry leader in providing propane supply, distribution, equipment and related services to customers across Western Canada.

We are seeking to hire permanent Driver/Sales for the Red Deer area.

OK TIRE & AUTO SERVICE

Red Deer North 7147 50 Ave. 3 - 4 yr. or Licenced Automotive Technician to join our team in 5 bay shop. Service passenger vehicles and light trucks.

Customer Satisfaction our #1 Priority! Please fax or email resume to: 403-346-8186 alok@telus.net

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

TRUCKERS

Busy road construction company looking for Class 1, Class 3, and winch truck drivers. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have at least 3 yr’s exp. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

W.R.SCOTT Equipment a company dealing in compact equipment is looking for a representative to handle equipment, parts, sales & equipment rentals. Applicant must have a valid driver’s licence, basic computer knowledge is an asset.

Please send resume to: dbevan@ wrscottequipment.com or fax 1-780-440-1771

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! 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 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 Summer Receptionist Openings. Local Red Deer company looking for appointment setters during our busy season. Ideal for students or someone searching for Part-Time.

Competitive pay with incentives. Must be available Sundays. Located downtown. Call 403-755-8163 leave message for Mitch.

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Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

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WOODEN boot jack $15, 3 shelf brackets 9” x 11”, 13” x 10” $1.50/ea, 2 heavy metal brackets 8 1/2” will hold 11”-12” board 2/$8, 5’ x 9 1/2” wide shelf $5, 4 sets fancy shelf brackets Misc. $6/set, 4 sets fancy brackets 3” x 4” $2/set, 24” Help standards w/4 brackets $4, 9-6” brackets for single CLEANERS F/T Comm/ Res, physically fit, $14/hr. standard $2, four 8” brackReply to: Ascent Cleaning ets $2, 10 12” white Services RR4, Box 4, Site brackets for single stan3 Lacombe, AB T4L 2N4 dards, $10, 4 chrome bathroom toothbrush and DISPATCHER REQ’D. glass holders, wall mount Knowledge of Red Deer $10, ice scraper $8, 2/3 and area is essential. bag of oil-dri all purpose Verbal and written absorbent $8, 25 legal size communication skills are file folder holder $10, 4 tv req’d. Send resume by fax trays and holder on wheels to 403-346-0295 $15, misc. pieces of wood $5, 4 ft. aluminum ladder EMF NUTRITION $8, Coleman cooler 22” x RED DEER BRANCH 13” $15, wine rack is HIRING!! We are looking (chrome) holds 12 bottles to fill two positions: Pack- $10 403-314-2026 aging Operator (Bagger) Shipper/Receiver. Please visit our website for more Employment details: www.emf-nutrition Training .com Apply by May 12th, 2014 Email: hr@ emf-nutrition.com Mail/person: 4747-60th St. TRAINING CENTRE Red Deer, Alberta OILFIELD TICKETS Fax: 204.233.7245

QUICKLINE CRANE INC. in Blackfalds is looking for a

Carpenters & 2nd to 4th Yr. Apprentices

Misc.

Help

GAETZ SOUTH F/T MEAT CUTTER F/T PRODUCE CLERK Full benefits, staff incentives. Apply within.

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)

GAETZ SOUTH

P/T FRONT END STAFF Staff incentives.

Apply within.

Advocate Opportunities ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in: GLENDALE

LABOUR

Busy road construction company looking for Labours. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

880

Misc.

Help

Pidherney’s is busy and requires the following:

SCRAPER OPERATORS 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

403-845-5370 or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

Advocate Opportunities CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

Truckers/ Drivers

860

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Allsop Drive, Alton Street, & Atkins Close also Allison Cres. also Archer & Austin Drive

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

We thank all those who apply, but only those chosen for interview will be contacted

STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop.

MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

MORRISROE AREA

Owner Operators & Company Drivers

McLean St.

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

400846E22

47 ANDERS STREET BACK ALLEY May 8th-10th Thurs. & Fri. 2-8 & Sat. 8-4.

HUGE SALE! Downsizing to condo.

Eastview Estates

860

Truckers/ Drivers

The successful applicant will be a ticketed, Qualifications Required: Red Seal Journeyman * Valid Class 3 license with Pipefitter/Steamfitter air ticket • Be able to complete * Valid delivery and safety ISO drawings courses; Emergency • Measure existing and new First Aid, WHMIS and piping projects within TDG are required an Oil and Gas Plant although training • Organized is available • A Self-starter * Propane-related • Team player experience is an asset * Oilfield experience is This project runs from an asset May - September 2014, and will be by hand Canwest Propane only-tools supplied LOA offers a competitive and travel pay also supplied compensation package Are you looking to grow Interested candidates your career in a drug and are invited to apply alcohol free environment, via our website surrounded by a great team?

Then Profoxx Energy would www.gibsons.com/careers or by Fax at 403-346-0595 like to hear from you.

We are a professional fast F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. growing company that Minimum Class 5 with air offers competitive wages and clean abstract. Exp. and benefits in a fun preferred. In person to Key and safe environment.

Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

Submit your resume to: careers@profoxxenergy.com Or by fax 780-622-5056

Requires Full Time

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Anders Park

for FACILITY PROJECT

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

www.worleyparsonscord.ca

Restaurant/ Hotel

Now Hiring:

JOURNEYMAN PIPEFITTER

SHOP HELP AND/OR APPRENTICE MECHANIC REQUIRED IMMED. Truck exp. preferred.

8:30-5. 15 miles East of Blackfalds.

Fax: 403-784-2330 Phone: 403-784-3811

Earn While You Learn Full Time Employment 40hrs/wk Training & Practicum hours provided to successful candidate.

Mon-Fri 10-7, Sat 9-6 Medical/Dental Benefits To arrange for an interview

4924-59 Street, Red Deer, Alberta

LOOKING for Framers/ carpenters 403-357-9816

SHOP & PORTABLE Welding Business in Lacombe looking for B Pressure or Journeyman Welders for local work.

Only reliable need apply.

Call Mon. - Fri. 8:30 - 4:30 403-318-9445

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

req’d for small shop in Westaskiwin area.

Competitive wages & health plan.

Submit resumes to: wph@xplornet.ca or fax to: 780-312-2889 or call 780-387-6087

with experience.

Must be a minimum third year apprentice & have good knowledge of truck mount & all terrain cranes.

Competitive salaries includes benefits.

Must have a Class 1 license.

Please submit all resumes by email to: kyle@quicklinecrane.com

391091E10

800

Oilfield

850

JOURNEYMAN or 4th Yr. Apprentice Plumber/Gas Fitter

2803-50 Avenue,

TR3 Energy is at the forefront of reclamation and remediation in the oil & gas industry

Trades

CLASS 1 driver with fluid hauling experience, local runs. 403-373-3285 or fax resume and copies of all valid tickets to 403-986-2819

278950A5

Oilfield

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

391969E1-14

800

Oilfield

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, May 8, 2014 D3

Advocate Opportunities

EquipmentHeavy

CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery 3 days per week.

NO WEEKENDS!!

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1640

Tools JOHNSTONE CROSSING Jenner Cres. & Judd Close.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

1630

TABLE SAW, 9” Delta Beaver, with cast iron table & wing, 3 - 9” blades, 2 are Freud, on stand with castors. $150.

403-358-5465

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

wegot CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Antiques & Art

1520

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Garden Supplies

1680

TREES: Windbreak, privacy screen, white spruce trees 5’-7’ delivered & planted $60 ea. on 25 or more. 20+ yrs experience (780)778-0223.

Health & Beauty

Carswell’s 25th Annual Red Deer Mother’s Day

Antique

Show & Sale

May 10 & 11

Sat. 10-6 & Sun. 10-5 Westerner Park Over 350 Tables.

Carswell’s 343-1614

Building Supplies

1550

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

Advocate Opportunities

TABLE & 4 chairs, round with leaf, will sit 10-12 people, cherry wood, $150. o.b.o. 403-346-4926

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos

1730

27” T.V; stand and wall unit. $200. 403-346-2073 RECORD PLAYER WITH SPEAKERS. Asking $150.

Good cond. 403-341-4650 Call between 10 am & noon, otherwise please lv msg.

Misc. for Sale

1700

Misc. for Sale

1760

*Black wall clock with pendulum $40. *2 New Lawn Chairs in bags for $15. *1 Reclining Lawn Chair for $15. *2 Blue Matching Suitcases $15. *20 Western records, $2/ea. *Royal Thair Bronze 60 pc forks, knives, & spoons - in wooden case, $75.

403-358-5247 CROSMAN AIR GUN, 3578 shooters kit, uses .177 caliber copperhead pellets w/4” & 8” barrels. $60. 403-755-2760

NEW Liz Arden NY nail Electric BBQ & Cover $25. polish, lip gloss, 12 eye Deck Table & Chairs $35.

4 Resin Chairs $20. shadows, 2 blush, 1 Croc cosmetic bag, great Moth- Oval Table Arborite Top $5.

2 Metal Tool Boxes & er’s Day gift $195 value, some tools - all for $20. asking $75 403-227-2976 27” Toshba TV $20.

Vtech Cordless Answering Household Machine $5.

Please call 403-358-7678 Furnishings

1720

BIRCH SHELF UNITS 16x32x90, $60.

16x32x96, $40.

403-782-7439 CHINA Cabinet, cherry wood $185. o.b.o.

403-346-4926 COFFE table, octagon with 2 end tables, glass tops. $75.; Chesterfield, flowered pastels, $100. good cond. Best offer on both. 403-346-4926

FISHER AIR TIGHT WOOD BURNING STOVE. Ideal for small home, cottage or garage. $200.

403-782-7439 KING Navy duvet cover & Queen green duvet cover $25 ea. 403-346-2070

OLD COUNTRY ROSE CHINA. As well as 12 collector plates Call 403-887-2428 SINGER SEWING MACHINE with cabinet, $75.

403-346-2070 WINE making equipment $100; Coleman dbl. high queen size air bed w/elec. pump $50, 2 golf carts w/2 bags $20/pair.

403-343-2618

Musical Instruments

INNISFAIL Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

1830

Cats

BALINESE KITTENS (2) $50. ea.

Burman Kittens (2) $50. ea.

403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

1860

ADAMS TIGHT LIES DRIVER & WOODS 3-5-7.

Right hand. Graphite shafts.

Very good cond. $120. 403-346-0093 CROSMAN AIR GUN, 3578 shooters kit, uses .177 caliber copperhead pellets w/4” & 8” barrels. $60. 403-755-2760 LADIES GOLF CLUBS & bag - right hand - $50.

403-346-4811

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

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 3 days per week

WESTPARK SUBDIVISION 35 Street 37 Street 41 St. Cres 58 Ave. Welton Cres.

Westpark Cres.

36 Street 38 St. Close 57A Ave. Warwick Drive Wiltshire Pl. Wiltshire Dr.

Phone 403-314-4316 ************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

INNISFAIL The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING!

Phone 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

CARRIER SUPERVISOR Full Time, 37.5 hours a week. $14.67/hr. to $20.39/hr.

Depending Experience 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.

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.

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.

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

2190

LACOMBE COUNTRY FEED STORE, Come see us at: 4836 45A St. Lacombe, Ab ALL THE FEED YOUR ANIMALS NEED! 403-782-3333 Dealer of Masterfeeds TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

BLACKFALDS: 3 bdrm. newer duplex, $1300/mo. avail. June 1 or sooner Call 885-5046 or 506-8577

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

GLENWOOD VILLAGE 3 bdrm. condo. 5 appls., fenced yard, 1.5 bath, 2 parking stalls. June 1. $1100 rent/d.d. Small pet ok. 403-342-0976

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

3050

ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail.

June 1. 403-304-5337 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Suites

3060

1 BDRM. bsmt. suite, utils. incl., washer & dryer, $750 403-346-1292 after 4 2 BDRM lower unit at 5910-55 Ave., security cameras, laundry on site, private parking to over 40 tenants w/good references, quiet lifestyles, excellent 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 GLENDALE 2 bdrm. $825, D.D. $825, N/S, no pets, no partiers, avail immed.

403-346-1458 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

MORRISROE MANOR

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Phone 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

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homes

wheels

CLASSIFICATIONS

CLASSIFICATIONS

4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

Antique & Classic Autos

5020

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

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

5030

Cars

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

2006 PONTIAC Grand Prix 160,000 km. 4 dr. Real nice shape. Hwy miles. $6250. 403-887-3966

4020

2003 DODGE Neon loaded saftied 352-6995

Houses For Sale

CUSTOM BUILT

1993 DODGE SPIRIT, parts car or needs motor, asking $150.00 Call 403-728-3485

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

NEW HOMES

by Mason Martin Homes Kyle, 403-588-2550

MUST SELL

at www.garymoe.com

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

REDUCED $10,000 Near Coronation Park & Trails

Lovely 1484 sq.ft. 2 storey 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

www.laebon.com

5110

TITANIUM 34E39 MP RV. Loaded, exc. shape. New fridge, 6 yr warranty, asking $35,500. 403-340-2535

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 1996 26’ JAYCO Eagle couch & dinette superslide, full load, exc. cond, $8900 403-391-6011 REDUCED MUST SELL 1995 OKANAGAN 23’. Very well maint. Must be seen.

Asking $5500. 403-342-0250

Holiday Trailers

Locally owned and family operated

5050

Trucks

TOW TRUCK 1986 CHEV diesel 4x4 1 ton, 403-846-7216 845-7877

5120

2007 STARCRAFT, 30’, slide, solar, air, walkaround bed, sleeps 6, rear kitchen. $17,000. O.B.O. 403-358-6765

Boats & Marine

5160

Acces.

5180

2005 CHEV Silverado 2500 HD Duramax diesel 5 spd. auto, C/C, S/B, 4x4 all 24’ LEGEND PONTOON. 42 hrs. 10 lifejackets, BBQ, leather, two 5th wheel & more. Call 403-887-2428 hookups, good tires, no rust, Arizona truck 403-887-2441 928-503-5344 Tires, Parts

Laebon Homes 346-7273

4040

Condos/ Townhouses

Fifth Wheels

5000-5300

COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION

wegot

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-596-2444

NO COLLECTING!

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CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

SPRINGBROOK

************************** * Adults * Youths * Seniors *

Grain, Feed Hay

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

COUCH, chair, Lazy Boy $200. 403-346-2073

Advocate Opportunities

1770

GUITAR - $50.

403-346-4811

KOOLATRON cooler, $60 ; ladies black leather biker jacket, small, exc. cond. $50, to give away 21” color tv, 403-347-0325

LARGE galvanized laundry tub $20, decorative iron and wood garden bench DRESSER, desk and chair $20, patio set, glass top, $200. 403-346-2073 round table, 4 chairs, crank umbrella $25, pair of mechanics ramps (metal) $39 403-342-7460

1760

LAWNMOWER - gas $50.

BBQ - small propane $50.

CAR SEAT WARMER - new - $20.

JUMPER CABLES - $20.

403-346-4811

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner STERIO SYSTEM, BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / 3 disc-CD, AM, FM, Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 Cassette, $35. 403-346-2346

COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE 6’-20’ , all equipment for digging, basketing, hauling & planting.

Also have 74” truck mount tree spade. J/V TREE FARM. John 403-350-6439 or Gary 403-391-1406 ANTIQUE OAK TABLE & 4 CHAIRS Great condition, Has leaf, $1600 o.b.o.

403-396-5516

1720

FLORAL LOVE SEAT, good cond. $75.

2 BAR STOOLS $20/ea.

STANDING LAMP, $10.

WHITE WOODEN TABLE, with maple top, 29.5” x 47”, 25” high, $20.

SMALL CHEST FRIDGE, 18”x17”, 18” deep, $40.

403-346-2346

Homestead Firewood TV's, VCRs Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

stuff

Household Furnishings

1993 DODGE SPIRIT, parts car or needs motor, asking $150.00 Call 403-728-3485

EXCLUSIVE LUXURY RIVERFRONT CONDOS FOR SALE in Downtown Red Deer.

Call Renee at 403-314-1687 for Inquiries.

2 DOUGLAS XTRA-2RAC Tires on Chrome Rims.

2004 GMC 3/4 C/C SLT leather, Duramax diesel, 175x70R13 boat trailer tires.

Like new. $150 obo.

200,000 kms, not oilfield, 587-273-0120 black, very nice $16,500.

403-357-8811 TUNNEL Cover for Dodge NEW CONDO Ram, fits 2004 - 2009 S/B 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. fibreglass. $485. $192,000. 403-588-2550 403-309-9233, 350-6759

4090

Manufactured Homes

Auto Wreckers

BY OWNER

2001 FORD F150 S/C Parkland Estates, 1500 sq. ft. incld’s addition, 3 bdrm., loaded, Triton 5.4L, 7700 lb. family rm., stone gas fire- towing pckg. 5th whl. hitch, Landau cover, lockable, place, 1 1/2 baths, 5 newer appls., new paint, water good cond. 196,860 kms. $8000. 403-358-5465 lines, skirting carpet & lino. $65,000. 403-348-5016

4160

Lots For Sale

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

Central Alberta LIFE & Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

SIMPLE!

5070

Vans Buses

5190

It’s simple to run a Garage Sale Ad in the Red Deer Advocate and make quick 2000 HONDA Odyssey, cash. Phone Classifieds 3000,000 km. Still runs but 309-3300.

needs new trans. $1500.

403-307-7477

Motorcycles

5080

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

Misc.

Automotive HONDA 250 cc, automatic, 110 KPH max. Very reliable.

First $700 takes it. **SOLD**

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

5240

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

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Newly renovated bachelor, 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

services CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREA

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

Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres., Churchill Cl. area $195/mo.

SYLVAN LAKE, Private bdrm. +. Cable, fridge, ect. $600/mo. 403-880-0210

CLEARVIEW AREA

THE NORDIC

East end of Cosgrove Cres. $73/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA 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.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

3090

BIG bdrm. own bathroom, house privileges all inclusive + WIFI $550. 403-302-2024 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Offices

3110

2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street.

Parking is avail. $2400/mo.

403-343-9300 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

DOWNTOWN, main flr.

400 sq. ft. approx.

403-358-4131, 598-4131

Mobile Lot

3190

WANTED: family with own mobile home to live on farm.

10 min. north of Sylvan Lake & 25 min. from Red Deer.

403-255-1627 or 701-1235

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Cleaning

1070

VINYL SIDING CLEANING Eaves Trough Cleaned, Windows Cleaned. Pckg.

Pricing. 403-506-4822

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BIKE SWAP ON FRIDAY

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Alberta Bike Swap, a non-profit dedicated to getting Albertans active by helping them buy or sell a bike, is hosting a swap day in Red Deer on Friday at the Bower in Community Centre. Drop-off for the bikes is from 4 to 7 p.m. Sales will go from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m. Volunteers help ensure bikes are safe to ride and sold at a reasonable price. Half of the profit from each bike sold goes back to the local biking community with the other half going towards future bike swaps. For more information, visit www.albertabikeswap.ca or email albertabikeswap@gmail.com. They can also be found on Twitter at @ albertabikeswap.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Florence Nightingale Strawberry Tea will be hosted by Innisfail and District Health Care Centre Auxiliary on May 9 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Innisfail Library and Learning Centre. There will also be door prizes and a bake table. Admission is $5. Proceeds will be used to purchase items on the care centre wish list. ● Ball Room Dance Social at Ponoka Moose Lodge will be offered on the second Friday of each month, next May 9. Features waltz, rumba, cha cha, tango, foxtrot, swing, and jive with DJ music. Light snacks provided. Open bar. Cost is $10 for Moose members and $12.50 for non-members. No socials June, July and Aug. Contact Fred or Jean for information at 403-783-8587, or see www.AlbertaDanceNews.com ● Bringing Out the Best in Kids Radiothon in support of Camp Quality and Optimist Reading College, continues from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on May 9 at Parkland Mall.

Five Central Alberta Optimist Clubs along with Sunny 94, Kraze 101.3, Big 105.5 and 106.7 The Drive, have joined forces to host this unique fundraiser for children in our community. Call 342-KIDS to make a donation on behalf of your company or individual. ● Choral Singers Unite Society Sing into Spring annual concert takes place May 9, 7 p.m. at Living Stones Church. Groups include Solioquy, ihana Youth Choir, and Brioso Children’s Choir, and celebrates Solioquy’s tenth anniversary and includes a piece commissioned specifically for the choir, and much more. Limited tickets available for $15 from choir members and from Lisa at 403309-3032. See www.csusreddeeer.com ● Art Battle Day Live Competitive Painting across Canada takes place on May 10. The Red Deer event will be held on May 9 as a benefit for Nuit Blanche Red Deer at Scott Block in support of arts and culture in Red Deer. Sponsored by Downtown Red Deer Business Association. Tickets cost $30. Phone 403-340-8696 or 403-872-1858.

Winners will advance to compete in regional championships and will be part of a yearly nationwide tournament that includes winners from 65 Art Battle Canada regular season events held monthly in 12 cities across Canada from Sept. to June. ● Danish Canadian National Museum and Gardens opens for the season on May 9. Hours of operation are Monday to Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Come visit the museum, see the unique displays and gardens, dormitory coffee house, and gift shop located 30 km west of Innisfail and four kilometres south of Spruce View (800 metres south of the four-way stop in Dickson). On May 11 take in Mother’s Day Brunch featuring famous Danish open-face sandwiches and delicious desserts accompanied by some light entertainment. Reservations required by phoning 403-728-0019. See www.danishcanadians.com ● Red Deer Action Group Silent Auction will be held at Parkland Mall, May 9 to 11. All proceeds to Subsidy Ride Program.

Contact rdag@telus.net. ● Red Deer Table Tennis Club meets to play every Friday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Michener Recreation Centre gymnasium. There is a drop-in fee of $10. All levels welcome.

Contact Tom at 403-872-7222. ● Uncork’d — An event for women — will be featured at Spruce View Community Hall on May 9 from 7 to 11 p.m. Sample local cuisine paired with the perfect

wine or beer, while enjoying local art, live music and a silent auction. Goodie bags for the first 125 ladies. Tickets are available from Central Alberta Coop Liquor Store in Spruce View for $30 each or a table of eight for $120.

More information on Facebook. All proceeds to The Diamond Jubilee Arena repair. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House has several upcoming events, regular card games and tournaments and special tournaments: Cribbage every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. ; Whist every Friday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on May 16; 500 every Monday and Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on May 26; Fun Contract Bridge every Wednesday at 1 p.m. Games cost $3. Tournaments cost $6. A Mother’s Day Tea will be celebrated on May 9 from 2 to 4 p.m. There will also be a Bone-in Ham supper on May 23 at 5:30 p.m., for a cost of $15. A Jam Session will be held on May 10 at 1:30 p.m. for $2.50.

Karaoke Night will be held on May 24, 1:30 p.m. Admission by donation. Call 403-3464043.

Saturday ● Only Women’s Fun Run in support of Family Services of Central Alberta will be featured at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area on May 10 with a 9 a.m. start. Choose from 10, five, three or one km walk or run, 500m Little Ladies Race, 100m Diaper Dash, activities for Little Men, computer chip timing. Enjoy brunch at the clubhouse, wellness and gift trade fair, Barnzee team challenge, school challenge and more. To register and for information see www.fsca. ● Spring Dance at Innisfail Legion Hall features continuous music by Hot Spur and Randy Hillman from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. on May 10. This dance is open to everyone, married or single. Tickets available at the door for $15 per person. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Call Elaine at 403-341-7653. ● M&M Charity Barbecue in support of Crohn’s and Colitis Canada will be offered at all five Central Alberta locations of M&M Meat Shops on May 10. Staff at the two Red Deer locations, as well as stores in Lacombe, Sylvan Lake, and Rocky Mountain House will be grilling hamburgers and hot dogs for a minimum donation of $3 including a bag of chips and pop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ● Red Deer Ramblers Hiking Club will participate in Canadian Wildlife Federation initiative to encourage outdoor activity with a four and 10 km hike to J.J. Collett Natural Area near Lacombe on May 10 at 8 a.m. No membership needed to join in this hike. See www.reddeerramblers.com, or contact rddeerramblers@gmail.com, or Bertha at 403343-8126. Please bring a mug. ● Royal Canadian Air Force Association members meet at noon every second Saturday of the month at the ABC Country Restaurant for a luncheon and business meeting. Guests are welcome. Next meeting is May 10. The association preserves and perpetuates the traditions of the Royal Canadian Air Force and advocates a proficient and well equipped air force in Canada. The local 703 Wing provides a forum for serving former participants in military and civil aviation and a meeting of like minded people. Contact Al at 403-341-3253, or email to amlow@shaw.ca. ● 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 403-3463815, Marina at 403-346-5160, or the church office at 403-347-2244. There will also be

dolls for sale. ● Annual Kick-Off to Crime Prevention Week will be held on May 10 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at City Lot P9 at 47 St. and 51 Ave. Take in the barbecue, see the YIELD Roadster, get RCMP identification kits, and more.

Children’s activities include face painting, balloon animals, and tattoos. See www.cacpc. ca or contact 403-986-9904, info@cacpc. ca, or see Facebook at CACPC or Twitter @ CrimePrevCtr. ● Bower Community Association has several upcoming events. Annual Tree Planting Bee will take place on May 10 from 9:15 to 11 a.m. Participants are asked to meet at Bower Hall at 9:15 am. and help plant from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Refreshments, snacks, and prize draw will be held afterwards. Contact Larry at 403-347-6994. Bike Clinic will go on May 26 from 7 to 8 p.m. and will show how to care for and tune up your bike. Contact Jesse at 403-877-1436. Bower Community Membership Drive will be held on June 9 from 6 to 8 p.m. for a cost of $5 per family. Come enjoy free coffee and goodies. Contact Laura at 403-343-6136, Ray at 403-343-3343-2115, or Viggo at 403-340-3494. Car Clinic will show care and maintenance of automobiles on June 30 from 7 to 8 p.m. Contact Jesse at 403-877-1436. All events free except membership and take place at Bower Hall. ● James Keelaghan and Oscar Lopez — The Compadres — are playing at St. Andrew’s United Church in Lacombe on May 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 per person in advance or $45 at the door. Proceeds used to finance humanitarian projects in Guatemala. Phone 403-782-3148. ● Elnora Mother’s Day Tea and Spring Market will be celebrated on May 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Elnora Community Hall.

Shortcake and coffee will be served for a $3 each. Table rental available for $10 per table.

Phone 403-773-2270. ● Norwegian Laft Hus is offering a needle tatting class on May 10 for $50. Contact norwegianlafthus@gmail.com or 403-3472055. ● Support Royal Air Cadets at the coat and parcel check at the 25 Annual Red Deer Mother’s Day Antique Furniture and Collectibles Show and Sale at Prairie Pavilion at Westerner Park on May 10 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and May 11 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Phone 403-343-1614. ● Meet the Critter on May 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. This is a family oriented drop in program with activities and a meet and greet with a live critter.

Admission by suggested donation is $3 per person or $10 per family. Call 403-346-2010 for more information. ● Lighthouse Christian Academy Community Garage Sale, May 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 4290 50 St., Sylvan Lake. Items for sale include office furniture, former show home decor. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The May 10 session is called Mums for Moms. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-3098405. Free with admission. ● Rummage Sale Fundraiser for Generations Church Jamaica will be sponsored

by Friends and supporters in Red Deer on May 10 in the garage in the back alley of 6 Scott St. from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. No reasonable offer refused. Stuff a bag of clothes for $10, with reusable bags donated by Co-op and Sobeys. A large variety of items for sale including furniture, microwaves, deep freeze, tools, coffee and end tables, and much more.

Visa and Mastercard accepted. Tax receipts available for money donations. A second sale will be held on June 7 at the same time and location. Donations of good used items for the second sale will be accepted after May 15. No clothes, mattresses or cloth furniture will be accepted for the second sale. To find out more, phone 403-598-3021.

Sunday ● Jam and dance at Kozy Korner in Lacombe will be held on May 11 and 25 p.m. Admission $3 at the door. Snacks and refreshments included. Contact Henry at 403789-3738 ● Discovery Sundays are offered at Kerry Wood Nature Centre from 1 to 4 p.m. to learn something new about the natural world around us. Drop in, or phone 403-3462010 to find out more. ● Tea and Talk at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery on May 11 at 2 p.m. features artist Bev Tosh leading a discussion of her new exhibit War Brides: One-Way Passage, now open until Aug. 4. The exhibit is based on hundreds of personal interviews, photographs, letters, memorabilia and World War II period artifacts, as well as a series of 68 portraits painted by Tosh. On May 15 and June 25 at 1:15 p.m., special guided tours will be available, and refreshments will be served following these tours. See wwww.reddeermuseum.com, or phone 403-309-8405.

Monday ● Reel Movie Mondays Spring Series at Carnival Cinemas presents the film The Lunchbox — a Hindi/English drama rated PG — on May 12 at 7 p.m. See more details at www.reelmoviemondays.ca. Memberships and tickets can be purchased in advance from Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery by calling 403-309-8405. ● Red Deer River Naturalists — Monday Bird Focus meets Monday at noon at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre to depart on excursions in central Alberta. Dates and destinations are: May 12 — Medicine River Wildlife Centre; May 26 — Dry Island Buffalo Jump. Come prepared for a full afternoon of birding. Bring along lunch, snacks, coffee, and dress for the weather. Be prepared to carpool. Contact Judy at 403-342-4150.

Tuesday ● Golden West Drop-In in Spruce View activities: Tuesday — line dancing, 10 a.m. to noon, and Bridge 1 to 4 p.m.; first and third Wednesdays — West Country Ink, and fourth Wednesday — cribbage, 2 p.m.; first Thursday — general meeting at 2 p.m.; Coffee every morning at 8:30 a.m. and Wednesday at 10 a.m. Call Ruth at 403-728-3482. ● CrossRoads Church Seniors monthly luncheon is offered on the second Tuesday of each month from noon to 2 p.m. in the Chapel. All seniors invited. The cost is $8 at the door. Phone 403-347-6425. On May 13, speaker Hannah Dissen will share missionary travels in North Korea. ● The Central Alberta Mopar Association (CAMA) Car Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Humpty’s Classic Restaurant in Gasoline Alley, next May 13. Admirers and owners of Chrysler family vehicles are welcome. Yearly membership is $17 for new members and $12 for current members. For more information contact Glen at 403-318-8388 or visit centralalbertamopar.com ● RCMP Open House and Electronics Recycling will be held on May 13, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the downtown location as part of Crime Prevention Week. Chat with RCMP, Victim Services, CACPC, Crime Stoppers, Neighbourhood Watch, Citizens on Patrol, and see graffiti removal demonstrations. Bring in old mobile devices, gaming consoles, and computers to the Electronic Recycling Association who will be on site to destroy personal drives with their mobile hard drive destruction unit. Free. No appliances, or equipment with refrigeration elements.

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Court forces out Thai leader

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK, Thailand — A court ousted Thailand’s prime minister on Wednesday for abuse of power, accomplishing what anti-government demonstrators have sought to do for the past six months and further widening the country’s sharp political divide.

Supporters of deposed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra called for a huge rally Saturday to protest the ruling by the constitutional Court, which exercised powers laid out in a constitution written by a military government after a coup in 2006.

The leader of the anti-government protesters, Suthep Thaugsuban, meanwhile, told his followers that they would stage a “final offensive” on Friday and would achieve their goal of fully ousting the government.

The court found Yingluck guilty of abusing her power by transferring the National Security Council chief in 2011 to another position. It ruled that the transfer was carried out to benefit her politically powerful family and, therefore, violated the constitution — an accusation she has denied.

The ruling also forced out nine Cabinet members but left nearly two dozen others in their posts, including Deputy Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan, who was appointed the new acting leader.

Yingluck appeared on television two hours after the verdict to thank her supporters, emphasize that she was an elected leader and assert her innocence.

“We held true to the principles of honesty in running the country, and never acted corruptly, as we were accused,” said Yingluck, 46, who swept to power nearly three years ago as the country’s first female prime minister.

During the past six months, Yingluck’s supporters, the Red Shirts, have generally steered clear of provoking her opponents, who have been block-

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Supporters cheer Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday. Yingluck was ordered by a court to step down Wednesday in a divisive ruling that handed a victory to anti-government protesters. ing government ministries and conducting street protests in the capital.

Still, more than 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured since November in sporadic gunbattles, driveby shootings and grenade attacks.

Red Shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan said Saturday’s rally will be a show of strength, but that further attempts to dislodge the government will be met with force.

“Our stance has been clear,” he said. “If an illegal prime minister steps in, we will fight. If there’s a coup, we will fight.”

Thailand’s long-running political crisis began in 2006 when Yingluck’s brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, was ousted by a military coup after protests that accused him of corruption, abuse of power and disrespect for King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

A military government after the coup rewrote the constitution, giving extensive powers to the courts and to agencies outside the Cabinet’s authority in an attempt to reduce executive and legislative power.

Thailand’s courts, like its military, are seen as bastions of anti-Thaksin conservatism, and have a record of hostile rulings toward Thaksin’s political machine.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Danish Canadian National Museum Danish Service and Old-Fashion Picnic will be celebrated on June 29 with the service at Bethany Church from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Danish and English, followed by OldFashion Picnic at the museum at 1 p.m. The menu includes beef on a bun and dessert for a cost of $12 for adults, and $6 for children under 10 years. A Pie Auction of delicious recipes from local pie makers, hymns, songs, and old-fashioned games will be held. Please bring blanket and picnic basket, or order the lunch in advance by phoning 403-728-0019.

Located 30 km west of Innisfail and four kilometres south of Spruce View (800 metres south of the four-way stop in Dickson). See www.danishcanadians.com ● Central Alberta May Species Count will take stock of all birds, flowers, mammals, butterflies, amphibians on May 24 and 25.

Registration is required. Call Judy at 403342-4150. Potluck supper at Kerry Wood Nature Centre on May 25. ● Three Purina Walks for Guide Dogs are coming up soon. Alix Purina Walk for Dogs Guides takes place on May 24 at Alix Lions Den beginning at 10 a.m. Spruce View and District Lions Club Purina Walk for Dog Guides will be held on May 25 at Double Tree Village. Registration at 10:30 a.m. with the walk at 11:30 a.m. A free lunch at noon will follow. Pledge forms for the walk are available from all Lions Club members, Spruce View Coop, or by phoning 403-728-0008.

Sylvan Lake Purina Walk for Dog Guides will also be on May 25, beginning at 10:30 a.m. at Sylvan Lake Dog Park. For all, see www. purinawalkfordogguides.com. ● St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School presents Glee Clubs musical performance, May 27 at Red Deer Memorial Centre, with show times at 1 and 7 p.m. Cost is $10 per ticket from the school and the Memorial Centre. See www.stthomas.rdcrs.ca ● Lacombe Rotary Club Annual Lobster Dinner will be served on May 30 at Lacombe Memorial Centre. Cocktails at 5:30 p.m. Dinner from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Silent and live auctions will be held, as well as entertainment by Jack Sparrow also know as Gery Schubert. Tickets cost $75 per person from members, Lacombe Signmasters, Garth Pol CGA, and tables of eight may be reserved.

See www.lacomberotary.ca. ● Red Deer and District SPCA Garage

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Wednesday ● Parkland Airshed Management Zone seeks public input on air quality. On May 14 from 6:30 to 9 p.m., PAMZ will hold a public meeting at Sundre Arts Development Centre to hear concerns from individuals from the Central Alberta area — Three Hills to B.C. border, Crossfield to Ponoka. Free and open to all. Refreshments available. Phone 403862-7046. ● Inspirational Ladies Fun and Fellowship meets the second Wednesday of the following months from 9:30 to 11:15 a.m. at Innisfail Legion Hall: Oct. Dec. Feb. April. On the second Wednesday in May, the group meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. for a wind up meeting. Cost is $5 per person including refreshments. The group hosts speakers and special guests each time. Contact Elsie Lee at 403227-3508. ● Florence Nightingale Tea, Bake Sale, and Raffle takes place on May 14 at Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre. Bake sale starts at 2 p.m. and the tea follows at 2:30 p.m. All proceeds to hospital equipment.

Phone 403-782-7814. ● Sit and Be Fit exercise program is held on Wednesdays starting at 10:45 to

Sale will be held May 30 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., May 31 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and June 1 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Pidherney Curling Centre. Drop off your clean, used goods from at the west door May 10 to 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A 50/50 draw will also be held at the end of the garage sale, with tickets available in advance at the SPCA during business hours, and at Real Canadian Superstore and Walmart on weekends in May. For more information visit www.reddeerspca.com or contact Lisa at development@redddeerspca.com, 403-342-7722 ext. 207. ● Philippine Canadian Association of Red Deer and District Swing to Spring Dance 2014 will take place on May 24 at Festival Hall. Music by Randy Hillman. Dance at 7:30 p.m. Snack at 10 p.m. Semi formal attire. Cash bar. Admission is $20 per person.

Tickets available from T. Leslie at 403-8776334, or J. Compton at 403-350-1350. ● Whisker Rescue Petsmart Charities Red Deer County Rural Cat Roundup offers free spay and neuter for Red Deer County Divisions #2, #3, and #6. Contact awhiskercat@ yahoo.ca or 403-597-1882. ● Weekend Warriors For Kids will makeover Camp Alexo located west of Rocky Mountain House on June 5 to 8. Volunteers and donations are sought. Bring tools and skills to share. Loan equipment, donate materials, contact others, donate money. Free camping, food, and evening entertainment for volunteers. To get involved see www.bbbsreddeer.ca, and click the events link, or contact Red Deer Youth and Volunteer Centre, at 403-342-6500, or johnj@yvc.ca. ● Sylvan Lake Legion events include Friday Steak Nights at 6:30 p.m. starting on May 16 for $12, and Summer Pig Roast on May 24, with music by Home Brew to follow for $25. All members and invited guests welcome. Phone 403-887-2601. ● Medicine River Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre crowdfunding event will run until June 15 at Giveffect — www.giveffect.org to fundraise for an expansion and upgrade to the animal rehabilitation hospital. To find out more, contact 403-728-3467, www.mrwc.ca, or carol.kelly@mrwc.ca. ● Shalom Counselling offers Downsizing and Moving Forward course for baby boomers, seniors, and those helping parents downsize, on May 24 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mothers’ Day Certificates available. Cost

is $50 per person. Phone 403-342-0339 to register. ● McMan Youth Family and Community Services Association First Annual Amazing Race takes place on June 7 with the kick off at 10 a.m. at Westerner Park, and ending at Barrett Park with barbecue at approximately 3:30 p.m. Barbecue cost is $5.

Raffles and more will be held. There will challenges involving food, culture, and athletics.

Participants may go on foot, bike, skateboard, or roller blade. Teams are comprised of two members. Teams comprised of one youth and one adult welcome. Minimum pledge entry fee is $250. Contact Christine at 403309-2002, text 403-505-8961, or see www. mcman.ca, or Facebook. Corporate sponsorship, cash donations, prize and silent auction donations, participants, volunteers, pledges, and more welcome. ● Rural Alberta Telus Motorcycle Ride for Dad will raise awareness and collect funds for prostate cancer research and takes place June 21. Ride, donate, volunteer. The ride begins at Walmart South in Red Deer and Walmart in Olds at 8 a.m. and concludes at Zion Church in Didsbury. Contact Jordan at 403-556-4465, ruralalbertamrfd@gmail. com, Gil at 403-994-0845, gilbert@gtaperformance.com, Erin at 403-638-5060, eeknecht@telus.net. See RideForDad.ca ● Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation invites anyone expecting bone and joint surgery to make contact with local volunteers for peer support. The Ortho Connect program helps ease the fear, stress, and anxiety that go along with bone surgery and help patients prepare. Call Laurlee at 1-800-461-3639, ext.

4. ● Rock The Change — An all ages concert in tribute to the youth of Red Deer, especially those gone too soon. Event will take place June 1 from 3 to 6 p.m. at Bower Ponds Outdoor Stage. Admission by donation. All donations are greatly appreciated. All proceeds benefiting Red Deer Suicide Information and Education Services. Featured performances by several local artists, merchandise for sale, guest speaker, food and drink available for purchase. Please note: No alcohol will be served or permitted on grounds. For more information or to make a donation visit www.rockthechange.wix.com/rockthechangerd. Volunteers, sponsors, bands are being recruited. Contact Stacie at rockthechange@

hotmail.com, or 403-342-4966.

Easter Seals Camp Horizon invites children and teens ages seven to 17 years living with epilepsy to Camp Fireworks taking place Aug. 18 to 23 for a medically supported camp environment with access to many different activities on site. Subsidies may be available.

Costs are $570 per child. To find out more, see www.epilepsycalgary.com, or contact Epilepsy Association of Calgary Central Alberta, normak@epilepsycalgary.com, 403358-3358. ● Painting, Shading, and Silk-Screening on Stained Glass with instructor Joseph Cavalieri will be offered at Red Deer College, July 14 to 18. See rdc.ac.ca/continuing-education and search for this class to find out more. ● Cystic Fibrosis Canada Central Alberta Chapter meets at Bethany Care CollegeSide on various dates. Phone 403-3475075 for details. ● Learning Disabilities Association, Red Deer Chapter needs bingo volunteers.

Bingo dates are May 31, June 4, Aug. 28, Sept. 22, Oct. 2, and Nov. 12 at 4:30 p.m., and on July 13 at 10:30 a.m. Contact Karen at 403-340-3249, kgough@shaw.ca, or Emily at 403-342-6602, ehillis@shaw.ca. ● Lending Cupboard Ladies Luncheon will be take place May 23 at the Black Knight Inn from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Come visit and lunch with your friends while learning about the Lending Cupboard. No silent auction, however, donations gratefully accepted.

Tickets are $25 and are available from the Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre, 403-7556626 or 1-800-661-8793, or www.bkticketcentre.ca ● Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, Central Alberta Chapter has two upcoming events. The 2014 Johnson MS Bike Tour takes place on June 7 and 8 and will cover approximately 85 km beginning and ending in Red Deer. A light breakfast and refueling checkpoints along the route as well as the Twentieth Anniversary Banquet will be part of the Bike Tour. Accommodations at dorm rooms at Red Deer College for $20 are available. See www.msbike.ca or phone 403-346-0290. The Art of Craft Beer Event on June 19 from 5 to 8 p.m. will showcase craft beers, brew masters, exquisite food and more at Westlake Grill at Heritage Ranch. Tickets available at www.bkticketcentre.ca.

11:30 a.m. at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. A $2 drop-in fee applies.

Phone 403-343-6074. ● Central Alberta Mountain Club (CAMC) meets at the Kerry Wood Centre on May 14 at 7:30 p.m. New members are welcome to join this group of mountain hikers and scramblers. Learn more online at www. camchiking.ca ● Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month — May 14 and 28, 7 p.m., in the Elnora Drop-in Centre. Call 403-749-2047 or 403-773-3600. ● Central Alberta Photographic Society (CAPS) will hold its awards night and barbecue. Phone 403-872-1598, or see www.centralalbertaphotographicsociety.com for more information. ● Daytime Documentaries will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. The documentary film Horse Boy — a story about an autistic boy who developed a rapport with horses — will be shown on May 14, followed by a library staff facilitated discussion. Free. Phone Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Silver and Gold is on May 14 at 7 p.m.

Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Central Alberta Crime Prevention

Centre Grand Opening will be celebrated on May 14, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 at #3, 5015 48 St. as part of Crime Prevention Week. Meet various partner groups and enjoy refreshments and more.

exercise and meet new people, held Thursdays at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. There is a drop-in fee of $1. Phone 403-343-6074. ● After School Club invites teens and tweens to come to the Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library for games, crafts, movies, music and more after school every Thursday at 3:30 p.m. Program length will vary by activity. Phone 403-341-3822. ● Central Alberta Prostate Awareness and Support Group meets the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church in the parlour. The next meeting is May 15. This group has experience and information to share. Knowing about the prostate, symptoms of prostate cancer, and other prostate diseases can save your life. Men and spouses are welcome.

Phone 403-350-5511. ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, May 15, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Silver and Gold Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-246-3896. ● Red Deer Area Hikers meet on May 15 at the Golden Circle west side parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to depart at 9 a.m. for an eight km hike at Bower Ponds/Heritage Ranch loop.

Hike will be cancelled if weather unsuitable.

Phone Mavis at 403-343-0091, or Sharon at 403-340-2497.

Thursday ● Innisfail Farmers Market is held at the Innisfail Twin Arena from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Thursday starting May 15 until Sept.

18. The market is all indoor with live entertainment, and a coffee area to sit and visit. Lots of fresh vegetables when in season, baking, pottery, crafts, bedding plants, etc. Contact Christine at 403-896-5451. ● Smash and Grab Demonstration will be held on May 15 at 11 a.m. Southpointe AMA as part of Crime Prevention Week. Get helpful tips on having valuables safe in vehicles. AMA will offer giveaways to a limited number of attendees. ● Old Tyme Dancing with live music by Old Tyme Aires and supper catered by Catering By Sara will be offered at The Hub in Stettler Recreation Centre on May 15. Dancing at 5 p.m., hot supper at 6 p.m., and dancing from 7 to 10 p.m. Costs at the door as follows: $17.50 per person; dance only for $10; supper only $14. Stettler Old Tyme Dance Club invites all, young and old. ● Dancercise is a senior friendly, low impact, dance class, and a great way to get your

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