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Your trusted local news authority BECKY THE BIRCH TREE

‘People tried to stop it’ WOMAN KILLED BY BEAR AT OILSANDS SITE WASN’T ALONE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Becky the Birch Tree gets some high-fives from Grade 1 students at West Park Elementary School on Thursday.

Becky and City of Red Deer urban forester Susan Katzell visited the school to hand out seedlings to the students as part of Arbor Day. Through this week, 1,575 white spruce seedlings will be distributed to Grade 1 students throughout the city. The Alberta Government Environment and Sustainable Resources department provided the seedlings for the program, which corresponds with Alberta Forest Week.

High school completion rates at Catholic school division among the highest

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division has realized one of the highest high school completion rates of any Alberta school jurisdiction in recent history.

Among students who entered Notre Dame High School in September 2010, 90.2 per cent graduated from Grade 12 within three years. Since 2007, only two small Francophone school divisions in the province have achieved higher totals.

For the 2011-12 school year, the local Catholic division had the second

highest high school completion rate in Alberta, at 85.6 per cent. Jurisdictional results for 2012-13 across all divisions have not yet been released, but the division’s 90 per cent rate would reflect the highest total in the province since 2009.

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FORT MCMURRAY — A woman killed by a black bear at one of Canada’s major oilsands sites was with several workers who tried in vain to scare the animal away.

The 36-year-old Suncor employee was an instrument technician who was doing electrical work at a job site near Fort McMurray when the bear attacked her Wednesday.

“It was . . . seven people that were working in a group area and she was attacked by this bear out of that group and dragged off,” Scott Doherty, a spokesman for Unifor, said on Thursday. “People tried to stop it and do everything they could. Obviously they are fairly horrified at what they saw and witnessed.”

Suncor said the employees were working in a busy industrial area and were not carrying bear spray.

Another union official said the woman’s co-workers blasted air horns to startle the animal, but to no effect.

Investigators spent the day interviewing people who witnessed the attack.

“It was a large male black bear.

She was coming back from the washroom and there were other workers that tried to drive the bear away,” said Brendan Cox, an Alberta Justice Department spokesman.

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Olds College brewing students help craft coffee stout

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF A special, first-of-its-kind project featuring Olds College brewing students has sunk its talons into the Alberta craft beer scene.

Night Owl, a bold new coffee stout, swooped in for the Calgary International Beer Festival on May 2 and will also make an appearance at the Edmonton equivalent on June 6 and 7.

After that, you won’t see a new batch until the fall.

It’s the result of the first collaboration between two Alberta breweries, Big Rock and Tool Shed, as well as Calgary-based Phil and Sebastian Coffee Roasters.

Four students from the Brewmaster and Brewery Operations Management diploma program, in its first year at Olds College, also volunteered for the chance to extract coffee into the beer

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Night Owl stout, revealed for the first time to the public in Calgary on April 22, was created by Tool Shed and Big Rock breweries as well as Phil and Sebastian Coffee Roasters and four students from Olds College’s new brewmaster program.

It will be available again at the Edmonton Craft Beer Festival on June 6 and 7. All proceeds from the brew will go back into the college program.

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“It was an amazing opportunity to be able to work with an established brewery and a more up-and-coming brewer,” said Garret Haynes, 33, one of the students who participated in the project.

“Instead of just throwing some coffee into a beer and calling it a done deal, the concept was to make a fullstrength cup of coffee using beer instead of water.”

The stout used 180 pounds of freshly ground Kenyan coffee beans, with currant and caramel undertones, in a french-pressed process.

“We rigged up a device actually ... where you could french press the hot beer through the coffee for the same duration and temperature that you would when making coffee,” said Haynes, who lives in Lacombe and has been home brewing for six years.

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Province more receptive to wild horse proposals

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A longtime opponent of Alberta’s wild horse capture program believes the government is growing more receptive to other options.

Bob Henderson, of the Wild Horses of Alberta Society, was encouraged by Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development’s response to recent proposals to reduce horse populations where needed through contraception and foal adoption programs.

“They’re listening and it appears they are willing to take our proposals seriously,” Henderson said on Thursday.

“We’re certainly a lot more optimistic than we were earlier this year.”

Department spokesperson Carrie Sancartier confirmed the government is reviewing the society’s proposals among other management options for the horses that the government considers feral rather than wild.

Henderson believes growing public opposition to the annual capture — or cull in opponent’s eyes — has been changing government attitudes.

“Definitely, public pressure has got to them.”

This year’s program only saw 15 horses rounded up even though permits were available to remove up to 200.

The Feral Horse Advisory Committee, which includes representatives from trappers, ranchers, horse, animal welfare, veterinarian and conservation organizations, met last week in Red Deer to discuss the latest population count.

The annual tally done each March estimated the West Country horse population at 880, down about 10 per cent from last year’s count.

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EDUCATION: ‘Headed in the right direction’ “The results affirm that we’re headed in the right direction, and our students, parents, and teachers believe in what we’re doing,” said superintendent Paul Mason.

The division’s dropout rate for 2012-13 was actually up marginally over the year prior, but at 1.5 per cent, was still less than half of the provincial average.

The rate at which students transition into postsecondary studies within six years of entering Grade 10 also fell slightly to 65 per cent of all pupils. The provincial average for 2012-13 was 59.2 per cent.

For the Red Deer Public School Division, numbers trended in the right direction in 2012-13 in terms of high school completion and dropout rates, while the transition rate fell sharply.

The dropout rate fell below provincial averages to 2.8 per cent, while the divisional high school completion rate matched the province at 74.9 per cent. But only half of all students who entered high school in 2007-08 had transitioned to post-secondary studies by 2012, 10 points below the Alberta average. The percentage transitioning had increased every year since 2008.

Public superintendent Piet Langstraat sees the steady uptick in numbers as positives for the division, and he said more than just a school division needs to focus on getting young people into post-secondary programs. He noted that the public division serves a broader demographic than the local Catholic entity, evidenced by provincial socioeconomic analysis from 2012.

“Red Deer Public Schools was on the very bottom end of that scale for the province, which would surprise a lot of people in Red Deer, I think. We

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Lindsay Thurber High School students Isiah Williams, Sheridan Mustard, Nicholas Dixon, Elanja Corosky, Logan Shave and Trystan Wiszowaty perform their play Take Five on the main stage at the Red Deer College Arts Centre Thursday during the opening day of Alberta high School Drama Festival Association Provincial Festival. The first day of competition saw entries from Leduc, Lindsay Thurber and Hunting Hills High School. The festival continues today with three plays running in the afternoon beginning at 12:30 p.m. Evening performances begin at 7:45 p.m. Action gets underway Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

Man, 90, graduates with grandson

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Walter Ross always wanted to finish high school, and on Thursday night he shuffled across a stage to celebrate his graduation — right after his grandson.

The 90-year-old was recently granted his diploma think of our community as being quite affluent, but in comparison to other communities, we aren’t,” said Langstraat.

He said the division has prioritized high school completion in recent years, realizing that getting a diploma is not only a high school issue, but something to focus on from the pre-kindergarten level.

In the division, the completion rate has risen seven per cent over a period of six years; for the province, there has been a 13-per-cent improvement since 1997.

In 2003, a task force recommended the province strive for a 90 per completion rate for students within four years of their entering high school. The most recent figures show 79.6 per cent of students earn their diploma given an extra year. Given an extra two, the number rises to 81.7 per cent.

Langstraat said the significant gains in the number of students earning their diplomas has not in any way been a case of standards being diminished or grade inflation, but moreso the result of a concerted effort by schools and communities and an understanding that a high school diploma should be regarded as the minimum credential required for a successful future.

“I think most people would be quite astounded at how difficult it is to get a high school diploma in Alberta. That’s probably why we only sit at about the 75 per cent level. There are very high standards in Alberta,” he said. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

BEER: A chocolate taste Haynes said the end result was unique, “a flavour of not just coffee and not just beer either,” but a “synergy, almost like a chocolate taste to it.”

The teams behind the recipe decided the students should be responsible for coming up with a name for the brew, as well as ideas for product packaging. Haynes’ proposal for the name Night Owl and related imagery, as well as the playful “Who. Who?”

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Graham Sherman, the brewer and co-founder of Tool Shed, said the Olds students (who in addition to Haynes included Michael Lamarche, Lisa Drapaka and Jeffrey Grandy) are “probably the most passionate people” in the craft brewing industry at the moment.

“They were so excited to be a part of something of this magnitude. ... No Albertan breweries have ever done a collaboration like this. And it was the first collaboration for Big Rock in the history of their company so it was pretty neat,” Sherman said. “Having them down at the brewery for the day, it was like Christmas. You could see their eyes glowing.”

He hopes to sign on more brewmaster students for upcoming projects.

For Haynes, who was present for Night Owl’s official launch on April 22 in Calgary as well as the city’s Beer Fest, seeing beer and coffee enthusiasts enjoy the product was one of the best rewards.

Customers would have a sniff of it and exclaim, “Wow!” Haynes said. “That made you feel good, excited to see it received like that.”

All proceeds from Night Owl will go back into the brewing program at Olds, Sherman said. He expects the amount to be $5,000 plus.

Meanwhile, for Haynes, the experience led to a job opportunity. He started a summer position with Big Rock earlier this month working in the quality control lab, testing packaged beer and samples taken from the fermentor during the beer-making process.

“The one thing I love to do is brew beer,” he said.

“After I graduate, I hope to do something where I have some creative control and can come up with some seasonal recipes or something like that.”

Another beer created by students at the Olds College Teaching Brewery was voted as the 2014 Rookie of the Year at the Calgary Beer Festival, the top award for a beer created by a first-year brewery.

This brew was named #10 Browning Street, a northern English style brown ale featuring a note of ovenroasted pecans. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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Wildrose MLA Kerry Towle says her party will continue to fight for Albertans who are banned from visiting family members in continuing care facilities.

That includes a woman who has been banned for two years from seeing her father at a Covenant Health facility in Edmonton. Covenant Health won’t tell her why despite Alberta’s Ombudsman saying it was unfair and the privacy commissioner saying the woman deserved to know why.

Towle said there are 10 to 15 families in the province who face similar bans but are terrified of coming forward because they fear further repercussions.

“We hear this all across Alberta. We have a situation no different than this in Red Deer. That family does not want

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BRIEF One dead in Wetaskiwin stabbing One member of the Samson Cree Nation has died and another is behind bars after a stabbing in Wetaskiwin.

Local RCMP and emergency medical technicians were called to a fastfood restaurant in Wetaskiwin at about 6 p.m. on Tuesday to look after a man suffering stab wounds.

Const. Karolina Malik of the Wetaskiwin RCMP said in a statement issued on Thursday that staff and customers rushed to the aid of patron Jonathan Greene, 33. However, his injuries were

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ATTACK: Predatory

‘QUITE FRANKLY, EVEN IF THERE WAS A REASON TO BAN ANY OF THESE FAMILIES, THERE HAS TO BE A PROCESS TO EITHER APPEAL THAT BAN OR WORK THROUGH A MEDIATION PROCESS TO FIND AGREEABLE OUTCOMES.’ — KERRY TOWLE MLA FOR INNISFAIL-SYLVAN LAKE

to come forward,” said the MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake on Thursday.

Towle said health-care officials tried to intimidate her on many occasions when she advocated for her brother, who was in long-term care.

He was diagnosed with Huntington’s disease in 2008 at age 32 and died in 2011.

“It happens all the time.”

She believed the health-care system is so broken and staff are so demoralsevere and Greene succumbed later that night at the hospital in Wetaskiwin, said Malik.

Acting on information provided by witnesses at the scene, police found a suspect in a nearby alley.

Samson Cree Nation member Casey Lee Lightning, 48, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

Lightning made his first appearance in Wetaskiwin provincial court on Thursday and has reserved his plea until May 29.

RCMP continue to investigate the incident and are asking any witnesses who have not already given a statement to contact the detachment. They also hope to hear from anyone else who may have information that would assist in their investigation.

The Wetaskiwin RCMP can be reached at 780-312-7267. To remain anonymous, submit information online to www.tipsubmit.com or call Crime Stoppers, 1-800-222-8477. counters with the bears are exceedingly rare. One or two people are killed each year in North America, which has a black bear population of almost one million.

Herrero said attacks almost always involve hungry, predatory males.

He said the best way to deter an attack is to use bear spray.

“They should always carry accessible bear spray with them,” said Herrero, a University of Calgary professor.

“Our studies have shown bear spray to be 80 to 90 per cent effective in all sorts of different circumstances with black bears and grizzly bears.”

Sneh Seetal, a Suncor spokeswoman, said employees who work in the bush carry bear spray, but staff in busy industrial areas such as where the woman was attacked usually only carry air horns to scare away aggressive wildlife.

Employees are trained to avoid bears, to report any sightings and to remain vigilant, she said.

“I can confirm that an air horn was sounded and workers immediately came and tried to intervene,” she said.

“Despite their efforts, our employee was unable to be saved.”

“It appears the attack was predatory and doesn’t appear to have been provoked. There doesn’t appear to be any evidence of bear attractants like garbage at or near the site of the attack.”

RCMP later killed an adult black bear and tests were being done to determine whether it was the same animal that mauled the woman.

Alberta occupational health and safety said companies that operate in the region have protocols to try to prevent such attacks.

Doherty said there needs to be a full review of what happened.

“We need to be part of the investigation and review what took place there,” he said.

“If there needs to be a revision or some additional procedures and policies in place to ensure the safety of workers from wildlife attacks, we are definitely going to do that.”

Friends identified the woman as Lorna Weafer, and many people commented on her death on a Facebook memorial page.

Actor Alan O’Neill who has appeared on the popular TV show “Sons of Anarchy”, wrote in a tweet: “Heartbreaking & devastating news for all my family at the very tragic passing of my beautiful vivacious cousin in Canada. RIPLornaWeafer.”

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Prior to Wednesday’s attack, the last time a black bear killed someone in Alberta was on May 26, 1991, when 12-year-old James Waddell was killed at a campground near the community of Slave Lake.

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ized that they just can’t always deal with all the situations they face on the job.

“So when things get difficult, the goto mechanism is to ban (family).”

She said family members are being banned from continuing care and longterm care facilities whether they are publicly or privately operated.

So far, the Conservative government refuses to help them, she said.

“Quite frankly, even if there was a

Train cars carrying wood derail near Slave Lake SLAVE LAKE — Nine cars filled with lumber on a Canadian National train have derailed just west of the main street in Slave Lake, Resident Steve Anderson says the derailment happened just after 4 p.m. on Thursday, and the downtown was blocked off for a time. He says fortunately, all the train’s tanker cars are still on the track. Slave Lake Mayor Tyler Warman says no injuries are reported. There were actually two derailments Thursday on the Prairies — four cars carrying crude oil on a Canadian Pacific Railway came off the rails in Estevan, Sask., but there were no spills or leaks. Warren Chandler, senior manager for public affairs with CN, said there was some liquid leaking

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WILD HORSES: Population still too high in some areas A harsh winter is to blame for much of that. Henderson said the numbers have likely dropped further since as weakened animals have died struggling to find enough food under a stubborn snow cover.

Those against the capture program feel those numbers vindicate their position that nature controls horse populations.

However, there is still concern on the committee that horse populations in specific areas, especially in the Sundre area, remain too high.

That’s where the contraception program, presented to the committee by two veterinarians, including Bragg Creek veterinarian Judith SampsonFrench, comes in. Eighteen mature

reason to ban any of these families, there has to be a process to either appeal that ban or work through a mediation process to find agreeable outcomes.

“How do we not have a solution in place to figure this out?”

Towle said Alberta’s new healthcare advocates put in place by the Tories can’t help because it’s not part of their mandate. They can only help Albertans navigate the health-care system.

She said Albertans would be outraged if parents were being banned from seeing their hospitalized children, but because it’s happening to seniors, it doesn’t seem to matter.

“It’s astonishing to me that we would ever let this happen. It’s astonishing to me that a lady has to go two years without seeing her father. How is that good patient care? If you want quality of life, that involves your family.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com at the Slave Lake derailment, but it was only water.

“There are dangerous goods cars on the train, but indications are that these cars are neither derailed nor losing any product,” said Chandler.

“We’re not concerned at this point with any dangerous goods or any hazards to health.”

Six area homes were evacuated as a precaution. Warman said residents would be put up in a hotel overnight.

Victor Swan, who lives two blocks away from the derailment site, said he was taking a break from his yardwork when he heard a loud bang.

He said it looked like the derailed cars crushed a few sheds. Swan, who has lived in the same home for 14 years, said a similar derailment took place on the tracks a few years ago on the outskirts of town.

He said he and other residents have had concerns about the tracks for years. mares would be selected for injection through darts of a vaccine that will prevent them from getting pregnant for three years to control populations.

The Wild Horse Society also is promoting a plan to create a handling and education facility to house wild horses to further control populations if needed. Those animals would be cared for and trained by an on-site staffer and then adopted out.

A supporter has offered to donate land, with the details being finalized.

Henderson said the society would bankroll the cost of both programs through donations and is in the process of establishing charitable status, which will boost fundraising by allowing tax receipts to be issued.

The committee is expected to further discuss the society proposals at its June 22 meeting.

Sancartier said a decision has not been made yet on whether a capture will happen next winter.

“The committee will continue to meet throughout the spring. A decision about a capture season next winter would likely happen later this year,” she said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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A labour shortage solution Local 1118 of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union is based in Red Deer. It’s not a large local, representing people who work in the province’s meat packing industry.

But a report uncovered by CBC News suggests they hold a key to solving the worst aspects of the federal governGREG ment’s tempoNEIMAN rary foreign workers program.

Their answer: write it into the workers’ contracts that the employers must assist all temporary foreign hires to become permanent Canadian residents, if the workers can meet the standards required by immigration laws.

Believe me, in my experience, new arrivals will work very hard indeed to meet the standards, if they are given a chance to succeed.

Right now, Local 1118 represents 4,300 members, and about 2,500 of them are temporary foreign workers who have either become permanent residents or are in the process, says the

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CBC report.

My own rather limited contact with people in the TFW program comes from volunteering in the Optimist Club’s bicycle recycling program. Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed a significant increase in the number of foreign arrivals with limited English coming to us, looking for a free bike.

Demand seems to come in cycles, pardon the pun.

For a while, we were fixing up donated bikes for Spanish speakers. (We always need more bikes of all kinds and sizes; if you have an unused bicycle taking up space in your garage, the Optimist Club of Red Deer can put it back on the road, for people who would be very grateful to have it.)

These days, we’re helping more people from Eastern Europe, plus a number of people from Muslim countries — mothers in traditional dress, bringing children and other relatives who often help translate.

The TFW program does not allow spouses and children to be brought to Canada while the worker is here temporarily. Yet there is a small but steady flow of people coming to our program with children, all seeking the traditional mode of workers’ transportation where they came from — a good working bike.

While we work, our clients often converse in their mother tongue and one word I pick up mid-sentence is

“Olymel.” The name of Red Deer’s hog processing plant is the same in every language.

In an environment of temporary foreigners in Red Deer, doing what we all can agree is hard work in a slaughterhouse, what are all these spouses and children doing here?

Local 1118 of the UFCW resolves the disconnect. I don’t do interviews in the shop, but I suspect these are families of Olymel workers who are on their way to becoming Canadian citizens.

That’s what the TFW program should be: a route for Canada to access workers in all the trades that need workers, from people around the world who want to build a peaceful, prosperous life for their families.

Here are some numbers I picked up from another labour group, the Alberta Federation of Labour: ● Alberta gets more than half of the Labour Market Opinions allowed by the federal government, for job openings that apparently can’t be filled by local applicants. ● In 2011, there were 58,840 job openings of all kinds in Alberta, from top skilled pressure welders to fast food workers, that gained LMO approval. ● That year, about 25,500 temporary foreign workers entered the province, in a workforce that must rotate pretty rapidly — there were about 25,000 TFW workers in Alberta in 2011.

● Alberta job growth created about 77,500 new jobs that year, in a population that reports 121,000 unemployed people in the workforce, but looking for a job. ● Alberta’s population aged 20 to 24 has remained pretty stable in recent years, at just over 200,000. Yet the number of these people earning less than $13 an hour has risen to just under 55,000. (No figures on the numbers in this group earning “skilled worker” wages could be found in my search.)

Obviously, simplistic answers will not fix the problems within and created by the TFW program.

But in the meat packing trade for a start, employers and labour are working together on one solution that makes a bad program better. When workers have rights that can be enforced under contract, everyone benefits.

All of Red Deer benefits from growth of permanent residents and their families. The housing market benefits, schools benefit, consumer businesses that aren’t even connected to the TFW program benefit. Very few benefit from permanently rotating workers through our job market who live and work under constant threat of deportation, who do not have the rights the rest of us take for granted.

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

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I am a gay Christian Re: We have lost our sense of morality, a letter to the editor in the Advocate on May 7 by Jim Swan: I am writing this as a rebuttal to a letter recently published by the Red Deer Advocate. This is merely my belief and opinion on the subject and I mean no harm by my words in response to this ever-rowing debate on homosexuality.

Whether it be through the church, religion or otherwise, I fear for the future of what our society could become.

I am 25 years old, a gay male and a Christian. You may call this an oxymoron, but it is in fact, 100 per cent possible.

All my life, I have been attracted to the same sex and that is what makes me “gay.” What I believe people need to understand is that being gay is not a choice. I did not wake up one day and decide to become attracted to the same sex.

As a gay Christian, it is very difficult to find my place in the church, especially when my way of life is considered a sin.

Although, I do agree with the church that promiscuity for heterosexuals or homosexuals is wrong.

I believe sex is intended for marriage.

The difference between me and many people of the LGBT community is the fact that I live my life according to God. There will always be differing people in every walk of life. It just so happens that my walk is something that is too taboo and no one wants to talk about it.

I know I want to talk about it. With my church, my family, my friends, my pastor and foremost the Lord.

Christians and many other religions believe homosexuality is a sin, because the Bible says so.

That is a debate better left for a longer letter. Although I will say, when Jesus came to walk the Earth, He came to lead us to love. And God is love.

Yes there are scripture passages that frown upon homosexuality, yet Jesus summed up the Laws. In Romans 13:9-10, Jesus says, “…Summed up in this one rule: Love your neighbour as yourself. Love does no harm to its neighbour. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.” Growing up was very difficult for myself and it took me a long time to realize what I have come to know as truth. Some could say, self truth. Which is OK with me. I am not here to judge anyone.

If we all started showing the love Jesus told us to give one another, whether race, gender, status or sexual orientation, I know we would begin to become more Christ-like.

Hate and discrimination are from the devil and I know many Christians will think I am justifying my sin, but I am not.

I am living my life for Jesus. The only thing that makes gay people different is attraction. That is all.

God Bless.

Aaron W. Schuett Red Deer

‘Do not judge or you too will be judged’ Re: We have lost our sense of morality, a letter to the editor in the Advocate on May 7 by Jim Swan: Jim Swan appears to be is a very sad and angry man who needs to learn some compassion.

I’m not a Christian but my understanding of Jesus has always been that you should love your fellow man and accept people as they are. If you want to base your life on a 2,000-year-old book, be my guest.

But how dare you try to dictate how I live mine?

I feel for any gay young people who may have read

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Swan’s letter and believe it to be true. You are not sick. You are not wrong, There is nothing wrong with you.

I was where you are once, listening to adults tell me God hated me. They were wrong, as is Swan.

Matthew 7: 1-3 says: “Do not judge or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”

Swan should read the whole Bible before he starts quoting.

Josh McLean Red Deer

Swan’s supposition not based on fact Re: We have lost our sense of morality, a letter to the editor in the Advocate on May 7 by Jim Swan: Nobody should be too surprised that Jim Swan didn’t provide any scientific backing for his assertion that homosexuality is a “lifestyle.” That’s because there isn’t any ... certainly for males.

There are about three billion heterosexual males (like myself) on this planet who know that they could never be enticed into a “lifestyle” that often entails sodomy.

So Swan’s supposition is not only anti-scientific; it is also something that the rest of us subjectively know to be entirely ludicrous.

And most of us also know that the practice of twisting facts about minorities who are different can

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So if Swan truly wants to be a good Christian, maybe he should crack open an encyclopedia before he puts any more drivel in these pages.

Evan Bedford Red Deer

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Some bike enthusiasts are going to try to persuade council to reverse this decision. Do any of them use the bike lanes on 39th Street?

In a letter to the Advocate last year I challenged a city councillor and/or a bike enthusiast to spend a day on 39th Street, except when some special event was happening, and count the number of bikes using that section of roadway, then report it publicly.

I did not see any response to that challenge and believe the reason being they are aware very few cyclists would be seen there.

I travel by vehicle on 39th Street frequently and as stated previously, seldom see a bike on there and if so they are almost always on the sidewalk and not in the bike lane.

It will be a long time before there are enough cyclists in that area to warrant any more changes.

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All-party letter war over TFWs FOREIGN WORKER PROGRAM DEBATE MOVES TO LETTERS FROM THE PAST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The political brawl over temporary foreign workers turned into a war of written words Thursday as partisan opponents brandished one another’s damning letters in the House of Commons in an effort to discredit their rivals.

The Liberals have in recent days been trying to embarrass Employment Minister Jason Kenney by citing letters from three Conservative MPs that raised concerns with their own government’s temporary foreign workers program.

Kenney fired back Thursday, introducing a 2009 letter from Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in which he seeks a work permit for a Chinese chef at a Canadian restaurant popular with his father, the late Pierre Trudeau.

“His own leader asked us to overturn the refusal of a temporary foreign worker application by one of his favourite restaurants in Montreal,” Kenney said in response to a question from John McCallum, the Liberal immigration critic.

Nor have the New Democrats escaped the letterleaking free-for-all. Denis Bevington, the NDP member for Western Arctic, wrote to Kenney in October 2012 to complain that wages for temporary foreign workers were too high, McCallum said.

Another letter emerged from Halifax MP Megan Leslie in which she raised concerns to a Conservative minister last year about the “cumbersome” need for employers to prove they made attempts to hire Canadian workers. Even a former Liberal leader has been caught up in the drama. An email from Michael Ignatieff to a Conservative official, obtained by The Canadian Press, shows him lobbying unsuccessfully for a work permit for a Kosovo roofer in 2009.

It’s yet another dizzying dust-up on an issue that’s become one of the thorniest in Kenney’s years as a federal cabinet minister. The temporary foreign worker program has ballooned from about 100,000

people in 2002 to as many as 338,000 now working across the country. In 2013 alone, Ottawa approved approximately 240,000 temporary foreign workers.

Data compiled by Kenney’s department shows that a slew of companies and government departments, federal and provincial alike, have hired foreign help in recent years. From doggie spas to oil companies, employers have been given the green light to hire temporary foreign workers even in regions of the country struggling with joblessness, including the Maritimes and southwestern Ontario, and in sectors where there is no apparent lack of domestic candidates. In his letter to the Canadian embassy in Beijing, Trudeau writes that the restaurant is undergoing renovations and plans to “reorganize” its menu, creating a need for the Chinese chef.

“I understand that a first request has already been denied, but I would like to ask that you consider seriously a new request,” Trudeau wrote.

Rob Merrifield, meantime, joined the ranks of Conservative MPs who have complained privately about temporary foreign workers.

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But Peter MacKay is not refuting a Global News report that says the Prime Minister’s Office did just that, a recommendation Nadon reportedly refused.

“I can tell you that’s not something that I personally encouraged him to do,” MacKay told a Commons committee Thursday.

Liberal MP Sean Casey asked MacKay when he first became aware that Nadon’s resignation was suggested as a way to facilitate his nomination.

MacKay pointedly sidestepped the question.

“What I can tell you is that when I became minister of justice back this past summer, this process — of which you were a part — was already well underway,” he said.

Not being a current member of the Quebec bar turned out to be the main reason Na- Peter Mackay don was deemed ineligible for one of three positions on the high court that are reserved for jurists from the province.

In a 6-1 decision rendered in March, the Supreme Court ruled Nadon ineligible to join the nine-judge panel.

The government, clearly anticipating that Nadon’s nomination would be controversial, also commissioned legal opinions from two former Supreme Court justices and a constitutional scholar.

Francoise Boivin, the NDP’s justice critic, said Nadon was smart to refuse to try and get in to the Supreme Court from the side door.

“In that process, it just looks and it smells not really up to the standard on the Supreme Court bench,” said Boivin, who noted that one cannot simply join the bar from one day to the next.

Former Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie noted in his opinion to the government that while Nadon could theoretically meet legal requirements by rejoining the bar, such a move would not be “compatible with the dignity of the office.”

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The American Civil Liberties Union began a lawsuit in 2008 on behalf of Smith and another deathrow inmate in Montana.

It argued the lethal injections the state uses are cruel and unusual punishment and violate the right to human dignity.

District court Judge Jeffery Sherlock ruled in September 2012 that the injections were unconstitutional. He pointed to a lack of training for individuals who administer the drugs and a discrepancy over whether two or three drugs should be used.

The lawsuit was on hold while Sherlock considered whether the state can change the way it carries out executions without seeking the approval of politicians in the legislature. The civil liberties group argued the state needs that legislative approval.

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In a 2009 letter obtained by The Canadian Press, Merrifield tells Diane Finley, then human resources minister, about a Boston Pizza franchise owner in his riding who’s complaining about having to pay his temporary foreign workers the prevailing wage rate.

The owner can’t afford to pay $15.82 an hour to a temporary foreign worker, writes Merrifield, who served for three years as a junior minister before being dropped from cabinet in 2011.

The owner was paying his eight temporary foreign workers more than their Canadian counterparts, continues the letter — the third such recently disclosed dispatch from Conservative MPs concerned about temporary foreign workers.

Kellie Leitch, now labour minister, and Blake Richards have also raised concerns about the program. In an April 2012 letter to Transport Minister Denis Lebel, Leitch told of an Air Canada pilot in her riding who “expressed concern regarding the hiring of foreign crews and pilots who are driving down the salaries of Canadian pilots as well as contributing to the unemployment of Canadian pilots.”

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Baird skeptical that Putin will withdraw troops from Ukraine border HOUSE OF COMMONS DEFENCE COMMITTEE TOLD CANADA SHOULD UP DEFENCE SPENDING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s foreign affairs minister expressed skepticism Thursday about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pledge to pull his country’s troops from Ukraine’s border. “We would obviously want to verify any commitment made by the leadership of the Russian Federation,� John Baird said in the House of Commons. “Their actions in Ukraine over the past six months have been deplorable.�

Baird’s response echoed the view in Washington and at NATO. “I have very good vision. But while we’ve noted Russia’s statement, so far we haven’t seen any — any — indication of troops pulling back,� NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Twitter.

Baird also said Canada would be expanding its sanctions against Russia even as a report out of Moscow suggested Canada and the U.S. would face retaliation for such actions. “No other government has stood up more forcefully and aggressively against the Russian aggression in Ukraine,� Baird said. “This government is very proud of our record. “We have expanded the sanctions list on a number of occasions and we will be expanding it again in short order.�

Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency quoted a Russian foreign ministry spokesman on Thursday as saying the Canadian and U.S. sanctions would not go unanswered. “Sanctions are not our method, but unfriendly actions force us to give a rebuff,� spokesman Alexander Lukashevich was quoted as saying. “The names of new persons on the Russian ’stop-list’ will not be announced publicly, but those who have been put on it will learn about that when they apply for a visa.�

Earlier Thursday, James Bezan, the parliamentary secretary to Defence Minister Rob Nicholson, said Canada would have to do more in NATO unless the crisis between Russia and the West manages to “de-escalate.�

Bezan suggested the Conservative government should revisit its decision to cancel Canadian participation in the NATO surveillance program known as the Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS.

“On the standpoint of responsibilities within NATO, things change, there’s no question,� Bezan told an audience of diplomats, bureaucrats and military brass at a security symposium sponsored by the European Union. “We do have to revisit, in my personal opinion, AWACS ... and how we move forward.�

Canada has made numerous contributions to recent NATO efforts in Europe.

It has sent a frigate to join NATO’s standing task force in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, six CF-18 jet fighters to operate out of Romania, and troops from 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry to participate in a land exercise in Poland.

Bezan said he also expects the deployment of the 50 Canadian troops in Poland to be beefed up. “That will probably be enhanced for a longer deployment at company strength,� he said.

National Defence has said the troops would return to Canada in May after several days of military exercises. “Unless things de-escalate, the Canadian commitment to NATO will be growing,� Bezan said.

The House of Commons defence committee has also heard evidence that Canada should to ramp up its defence budget, Bezan told the gathering.

The MPs have been told by witnesses that, “we (Canada) need to at least get our spending up to 1.7 per cent.�

Current defence spending stands at one per cent of GDP, a decline from 1.2 per cent during the war in Afghanistan.

He said the extra spending would be needed to meet future needs as well as to replace fighter jets, upgrades for the navy and to continue to equip the army.

NATO would like to see its 28 member countries reach the defence spending goal of two per cent of GDP. Earlier this week, U.S. Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO’s operational commander in Europe, said only five NATO nations have achieved that goal, but the crisis in eastern Europe has prompted three other countries to promise higher military spending.

Bezan said he understands many countries are struggling with defence spending, but he noted that while it is declining in NATO countries, Russia’s continues to rise.

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A Canadian Forces CH-147 Chinook helicopter prepares to land on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Thursday in preparation for Canada’s National Day of Honour taking place Friday.

Afghan commemoration events will differ across the country

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — At combat outposts and forward operating bases across sunscorched Kandahar province, an oftenheard expression betrayed the growing cynicism of soldiers about apparent public indifference towards the war in Afghanistan. “The army is at war; the nation is at the mall.�

Today, the army is home, but much of the nation will likely be at the mall or elsewhere on Friday as the Harper government commemorates the sacrifices of the 40,000 troops who took part in the 12-year-long guerilla war.

The Conservatives took an initial step towards carving the conflict into history Thursday with word that the dates of the war, which took the lives of 158 soldiers, will be etched into the National War Memorial in Ottawa.

Billed as a national day of honour, Friday will feature a solemn pageant on Parliament Hill with the families of those who died. But outside of the national capital, the exercise is shaping up as a loose patchwork of community events and intimate acts of appreciation. “I just hope and pray Canadian citizens will wrap their arms around our veterans and our serving members,� said Gordon Moore, the Dominion president of the Royal Canadian Legion, which has been scrambling to organize events with only two weeks notice.

One legion branch only received its notification from the federal government on Wednesday. “You can’t put something together with only one day’s notice,� said Moore. “They’ve know about this since last year, and (had) they ... communicated with us — not just the Royal Canadian Legion but other veterans groups — we would have been able to help right from the very start to put this program together and do it right.�

Those legion branches that have put something together are planning a splash of different events, ranging from ceremonies at cenotaphs to home-style community suppers in honour of individual soldiers.

It is even more spotty in municipalities outside of Ottawa.

A parade will take place in Trenton, Ont., where the remains of Canadian soldiers were regularly repatriated, as well as in the central Ontario city of Owen Sound, where a bronze plaque will be unveiled. Not far from Trenton, the town council in Cobourg held a moment of silence at its weekly meeting and encouraged the community to pause on Friday at 1:30 p.m. ET, when the national commemoration is underway. Some legion branches — notably Summerside, P.E.I. — will wait until Saturday to hold their event in order to guarantee a crowd.

There could be a political price to pay among grassroots Conservatives if the smaller homegrown events prove to be a bust, Moore said.

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Feds back Border Security TV show despite contrary advice BORDER AGENCY HEAD RECOMMENDS GOVERNMENT ABANDON SHOW critic of the program, said the fact the government shunned Portelance’s advice “raises very, very serious questions for us.”

“We’re very disappointed by the reversal, and we’re scratching our head as to why that would’ve been done,” said association executive director Josh Paterson.

The border agency contributes $200,000 in communications support to the show annually, along with some management oversight.

In the Oct. 9 memo to Blaney, Portelance said the program represented “good value for money” and an innovative way to inform Canadians about the agency’s work.

“Notwithstanding the popularity of the show, there continues to be some risk in participating in a project of this type,” Portelance wrote in the memo, which was prompted by an inquiry about a new season from the private production company behind the series. Filming of the border agency’s arrest of allegedly undocumented workers last year led to a public outcry about the appropriateness of the government’s role in the show. The group No One is Illegal called for the program’s cancellation and the B.C. civil liberties group voiced its objections. The federal privacy commissioner is investigating a complaint about the show. In addition, Portelance wrote, the TV program “is not directly linked to either our key priorities or our core business.”

“While we believe that the show engenders pride among CBSA employees, and perhaps Canadians in general, there are no measurable outcomes that can be readily attributed to this show.”

Given this, and the “various challenges” the project had faced, he recommended Blaney “not approve” participation in a third season.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal NDP called on the Conservatives to halt the controversial reality TV program Border Security following revelations that the head of Canada’s border agency recommended in writing that the government bail out of the show.

In the House of Commons, NDP public safety critic Randall Garrison urged Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney to put a stop to the show Thursday, calling it a “reckless and wasteful PR stunt.”

Blaney said the government was proud of the Canada Border Services Agency’s participation in the documentary series, now filming its third season.

Border Security: Canada’s Front Line began airing on the National Geographic Channel in 2012, chronicling encounters between border officers and the public. The unscripted series has been seen by more than 11 million Canadians and airs in over 50 other countries.

In a four-page memo to Blaney last October, border services agency president Luc Portelance said he was “unable to recommend that we consider a third season at this time.”

The memo, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act, noted the program had raised the ire of civil libertarians and faced a formal privacy complaint. It concluded the “’risk/reward ratio’ for the project is questionable,” adding it was not linked to the agency’s chief priorities.

However, the border agency says the minister gave the nod in January to federal participation in a new season. Filming is underway in British Columbia and Ontario.

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Tom Jackson calls for inquiry into missing and murder aboriginal women

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A noted Canadian entertainer is adding his voice to calls for an inquest into missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls.

Metis actor and singer Tom Jackson, who starred in the television shows North of 60 and Shining Time Station, says the federal government “absolutely” must hold a national inquiry.

“If we don’t protect the people who live around us, what does that say about us as a society?” he said Thursday.

“What does that say about you and your sister?

Or you and your mom? Or you and your child, your daughter? What does that say about that?”

The governing Conservatives have so far resisted calls for an inquiry, saying the issue has been studied enough and now is the time for action.

Calls for an inquiry intensified recently after RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson revealed that close to 1,200 aboriginal women have been murdered or gone missing in Canada in the last 30 years.

Of that, Paulson says, there are 1,026 murder cases and 160 missing-persons cases, hundreds more than previously thought.

Jackson, who was on Parliament Hill for a reception honouring him and the other recipients of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards, also offered his thoughts on another hot topic, First Nations education.

He said he doesn’t think the Conservative government should have put its proposed changes to First Nations education on hold until the Assembly of First Nations “clarifies its position” following the sudden resignation last week of its national chief.

Clement orders look at social media harvesting the position that such data can be lawfully gathered only when there’s a direct connection to the agency’s operating programs or activities.

Bernier’s office says it has seen other proposals from government departments to collect personal details from social media sites.

“We are pleased that Treasury Board Secretariat has agreed to look into this issue,” her office said in a statement Thursday.

Clement indicated in the House of Commons that federal agencies were monitoring social media to learn what the public thinks about vital issues.

“Whether it’s in a letter, or a petition, or written on the street, this government always wants to listen to Canadians who want to be heard.”

NDP deputy leader Megan Leslie — citing the privacy commissioner’s concerns about the digital harvesting practices — asked what guidelines governed the federal collection of details from social media.

Clement said the government “must and will” follow the Privacy Act. “We are always willing to engage with the privacy commissioner to make sure that ... our laws and the oversight of government is modern for the 21st century,” he said.

Clement’s written reply to Bernier, made public

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Treasury Board President Tony Clement has asked his officials to look into concerns about the federal collection of personal information from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

In a letter to interim privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier, Clement says staff have been directed to study the matter, work with the commissioner’s office and report back to him.

The minister’s March 31 letter to Bernier came in response to her February fears that government institutions were gathering information from social media sites without regard for accuracy, currency and accountability — contrary to the federal Privacy Act. Bernier urged Clement to devise “clear, mandatory guidance” on the collection and use of such information given that departments could rely on it to make administrative decisions about people.

In a recent investigation into collection of information from an aboriginal activist’s personal Facebook page, the privacy commissioner’s office took

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“I am sensitive to the need to respect privacy concerns while carrying out this important work,” his letter says.

“I have asked my officials to study this matter, collaborate with your officials and report back to me in the coming months.”

Leslie pointed to newly published research on surveillance in Canada that says personal information is flowing between the public and private sectors in unprecedented ways. Data gathered for one purpose may easily be used for another when public and private organizations share data, flying in the face of fair information practices, says Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada.

The book, a collaborative effort by leading Canadian researchers who identify nine key trends, is being launched at a conference this week at the University of Ottawa. Leslie said that given private monitoring of the public and numerous government data breaches, the Conservatives should be “hanging their heads in shame, not patting themselves on the back.”

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Insurgency to hold referendum

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DONETSK, Ukraine — The photocopy machines churning out the ballots for eastern Ukraine’s sovereignty referendum have been clattering around the clock for days. Even the powerful Vladimir Putin can’t stop them.

Despite the Kremlin leader’s plea to postpone Sunday’s vote, the pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine who call themselves the Donetsk People’s Republic said they’ll go ahead with the referendum.

Ukraine has in recent weeks grown perilously polarized — with the west looking toward Europe and the east favouring closer ties with Russia. Insurgents who detest the central government in Kyiv that took power amid chaos in February have seized police stations and government buildings in more than a dozen cities in the east.

Ukrainian forces have mounted an offensive to drive them out, an operation that has left several dozen dead.

Support for the referendum is most pronounced among eastern Ukraine’s proudly Russian-speaking working class. Rage against the central government that came to power after months of Ukrainian nationalist-tinged protests is blended with despair at Ukraine’s dire economic straits and corruption.

The occasionally violent protests that culminated in President Viktor Yanukovych’s fleeing to Russia were

take place amid armed conflict. And, critically, unlike Crimea, whose majority Russian-speaking population made approval a foregone conclusion, the Donetsk and Luhansk regions have a more mixed population.

A poll by the Washington-based Pew Research centre released on Thursday found that 70 per cent of the residents of Ukraine’s east want Ukraine to maintain its current borders. That suggests the referenda have a chance of failing, if opponents turn out in force and the count is honest.

However those opposed to the referendum seem likely to ignore it and some have grown desperate at the anarchy that has taken grip in eastern Ukraine.

“This is a madhouse. That isn’t a particularly literary word, I know, but there is no better way to put it. People are killing one another and we don’t know why,” said 58-year-old retiree Svetlana Amitina.

Putin’s surprise call on Wednesday for the referendum to be put off appears to reflect Russia’s desire to distance itself from the separatists. The West and the Ukrainian government accuse Russia of supporting or outright directing the unrest in the east, while Moscow denies involvement.

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Roman Lyagin, the referendum organizer and member of the election commission, poses while holding the original ballot paper for the referendum at the regional government building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, for many in the east seen as a putsch and a portent of repression against the region’s Russian-speakers.

“This isn’t our government. It’s the government of those that destroyed everything,” said construction labourer Galina Lukash, 48.

Along with the vote in the eastern Donetsk region, a similar and even more hastily improvised referendum is due to take place Sunday in the neighbouring Luhansk region. Together they

have about 6.5 million people.

The referenda are similar to the one in Crimea in March that preceded Russia’s annexation of that strategic Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula. Like the one in Crimea, they are regarded as illegitimate both by Kyiv and the West.

But unlike the Crimean vote, which was held as Russian soldiers and affiliated local militias held control of the peninsula, the eastern referenda

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The Federal Judiciary Council said in a statement that a disciplinary process had been opened against federal judges Eduardo Ochoa Torres and Javier Ruben Lozano Martinez in the northern state of Nuevo Leon and Jose Manuel Rodriguez Puerto in neighbouring Tamaulipas state.

The council didn’t identify the casino owners who allegedly benefited from the judges’ rulings.It was the largest purge of federal judges suspected of corruption in recent years.

In 2011, the council suspended federal judge Luis Armando Jerezano Trevino, who was based in the northern state of Coahuila. Jerezano Trevino is still being investigated for illegal enrichment. The states of Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas and Coahuila, all three of which border Texas, have seen the opening of numerous casinos in the recent years.

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WASHINGTON — Vice-President Joe Biden says he plans to meet with Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff while in Brazil next month for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Biden shared the news with Rouseff by phone on Thursday. The White House says Biden told her he plans to attend the June 16 match in Natal, Brazil, between the U.S. and Ghana. Biden will later visit the national capital, Brasilia, to meet with Rouseff and Brazil’s vice-president.

Biden’s meeting with Rouseff comes amid ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Brazil over American surveillance and revelations that the National Security Agency spied on Rouseff and her closest advisers.

Rouseff cancelled a state visit to Washington last October in protest.

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Syria rebels blow up historic hotel

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Two Syrian national flags hang on a pole as government officials inspect damages in the old city of Homs, Syria, Thursday. Hundreds of exhausted Syrian rebels withdrew Wednesday from their last remaining strongholds in the heart of Homs. burnt.

Buildings along Dablan street were completely shattered with gaping holes, crumbled facades and flattened upper floors, testimony to what Syria’s third largest city has endured in more than two years of fighting. A cafe and restaurant known as the city cafe was scorched. Rubbish, glass, debris, fallen trees and electricity poles blocked deserted roads that intersected with Dablan street.

A policeman wearing a uniform with a picture of an eagle and the words “Syria’s Assad” patrolled a nearby street.

“Words cannot describe what has happened here,” said Abdel Nasser

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Al-Qaida stronghold seized: Yemen

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni armed forces on Thursday swept al-Qaida fighters out of a district in the country’s south, one of the main goals of the major offensive waged by the military the past two weeks, the Defence Ministry said, amid fears of retaliatory attacks which officials say prompted the closure of the US embassy in the capital as a precaution.

The ministry said that dozens of suspected militants have been killed and captured in the past week as troops and allied tribal fighters seized a string of al-Qaida-held areas along a 60-mile (100-kilometre) stretch of highway snaking through the rugged desert mountains of the south, starting from the Mahfad region.

In the operation in Mahfad, Yemeni forces were reportedly backed by U.S. drone strikes targeting a major al-Qaida base hidden in the remote mountains.

After the base was captured, Yemeni troops found three mass graves inside it, along with a cache of weapons, explosives, documents and food supplies, the army said Thursday.

The graves contained bodies of alQaida fighters slain in battle and apparently buried in haste, the military said.

The sprawling base was a rare instance of a permanent infrastructure set up by al-Qaida’s Yemeni branch.

Built over the past months, it included training grounds, storehouses for weapons and food, and vehicles used by the group.

Defence Minister Mohammed Nass-

Harfoush, a 58-year-old Homs resident who lost his business. He said he hoped the agreement will end the bloodshed and restore peace and stability to his city.

The withdrawal, in line with a cease-fire agreement reached last week following a fierce, two-year battle, is a major win for Assad.

Militarily, it solidifies the government’s 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 farther north.

Politically, gains on the ground boost Assad’s hold on power as he

er Ahmed vowed that the military will persist in routing al-Qaida from their hideouts and “will not give them a chance once again to harm the safety of the citizens.”

Also on Thursday, Yemeni troops seized militant posts in the southern district of Azzan, including the district centre, the Defence Ministry said. Gen Ali Hassan al-Ahmadi, from the Yemeni national security, said the people in Azzan gave the troops a warm reception.

In Azzan, troops seized CDs and other documents detailing al-Qaida attack plans for several Yemeni provinces, the ministry said.

“Security and stability will return gradually to the district, which has been purged while the chase continues to hunt down the evil elements ... in all directions,” the ministry added.

Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, said some militants fled into nearby mountains and that troops were clashing with them sporadically.

Backed by the United States, which has waged a heavy campaign of drone strikes, Yemen has intensified its battle the past two years against the AlQaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Yemeni branch of the terror network is known.

During a 2012 campaign, Yemen’s army drove al-Qaida fighters out of towns and cities they captured in the south.

The offensive now is targeting militants in remote mountain hideouts where they have taken refuge and from which they have launched attacks around the country.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ACAPULCO, Mexico — A strong earthquake shook the southern Pacific coast of Mexico as well as the capital and several inland states Thursday, sending frightened people into unseasonal torrential rains that were also bearing down on the coast.

The 6.4-magnitude quake in southern Guerrero state was centred about 15 kilometres north of Tecpan de Galeana, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and was felt about 277 kilometres miles away in Mexico City, where office workers streamed into the streets away from high-rise buildings.

There were no reports of injuries but varying reports of damage near the epicenter emerged throughout the day.

Among the damage was the collapse of a 30-meter (yard) section of highway bridge that was already under repair from last fall’s flooding and a magnitude-7.2 quake in the same area in April. Flooding of the detour route from heavy rain Thursday left the federal highway between the resort cities of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo closed.

Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre reported three homes collapsed in Zijuatanejo and 17 more unstable after the temblor. Local officials reported dozens of simple adobe homes collapsed near the epicenter, though no one was injured. Aguirre also reported mudslides on other major highways, including the one connecting Acapulco with Mexico City.

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Behind her, thousands of people poured from neighbouring office buildings, following pre-planned evacuation routes to areas considered safe in case of falling glass.

The quake occurred at a depth of 23 kilometres and its epicenter was about 66 kilometres from that of the April 18 quake that shook central and southern Mexico.

The earlier quake occurred in a section of the Pacific Coast known as the Guerrero Seismic Gap, which is a 200-kilometre section where tectonic plates meet and have been locked, causing huge amounts of energy to be stored up with potentially devastating effects, the USGS said. It said a magnitude-7.6 temblor struck in the section in 1911.

The U.S. agency said Thursday’s quake was an aftershock of the April 18 temblor.

“The earthquake is indeed within the Guerrero Seismic Gap,” USGS research geophysicist William Barnhart wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “But since it is consistent with being an aftershock of the magnitude-7.2, it is neither an abnormal event, nor does it significantly reduce the remaining stored stress in the seismic gap.”

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HOMS, Syria — With a gigantic explosion, Syrian rebels on Thursday levelled a historic hotel being used as an army base in the northern city of Aleppo by detonating bomb-packed tunnels beneath it, activists and militants said.

The blast near Aleppo’s medieval citadel, an imposing city landmark that was once swarming with tourists, killed an unknown number of soldiers.

It turned the Carlton Hotel, known for its elegant architecture and proximity to the citadel, into a pile of rubble.

The attack was a powerful statement that the rebels could still deal heavy blows elsewhere in Syria even as they withdrew from Homs, surrendering that city to President Bashar Assad’s forces.

In Homs, about 150 km south of Aleppo, army troops were poised to enter the city’s old quarters after hundreds of fighters complete their evacuation, which was suspended after gunmen in northern Syria prevented trucks carrying aid from entering two villages besieged by rebels. The aid delivery was part of the cease-fire agreement allowing rebels to leave Homs for rebel-held areas farther north.

Earlier, footage from Homs broadcast by the pro-Syrian Al-Manar TV showed rebels, many of them covering their faces with masks and carrying backpacks, boarding a green bus, its windows covered with newspapers.

An Associated Press journalist who visited Homs on Thursday reported massive destruction. Standing near the city’s main square, known as the Clock Square, the streets appeared almost apocalyptic. Even the trees were

seeks to add a further claim of legitimacy in June 3 presidential elections, which Western powers and the opposition have dismissed as a sham.

But Thursday’s massive explosion in Aleppo was a powerful reminder that rebels — although weakened in the country’s centre and west — are still a potent force elsewhere, particularly in the north.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which maintains a network of activists on the ground, said at least 14 soldiers were killed in the blast.

The Islamic Front, Syria’s biggest rebel alliance which claimed the attack, said 50 soldiers died. Neither group indicated how it determined the death toll, and the claims could not be independently verified.

In a live broadcast from the site of blast, Syrian TV’s correspondent in Aleppo stood on a huge pile of rubble with twisted metal and palm trees sticking out, saying that the army had been using the building as a base and soldiers were positioned there at the time of the explosion.

In the broadcast, the station did not mention casualties but said the rebels blew up the building by tunneling underneath and planting explosives.

“They use tunnels like rats because they cannot face the Syrian Arab Army,” the correspondent said, adding that the explosion felt like an earthquake to those around Aleppo.

The Syrian government does not publicize its casualties in the civil war.

Aleppo has been carved up into opposition- and government-held areas since the rebels launched an offensive there in mid-2012, capturing territory along Syria’s northern border with Turkey.

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Normal brains see Jesus in grilled cheese PART OF NORMAL BRAIN PROCESSING: RESEARCHERS

BY SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — There are numerous well-publicized examples of people reportedly discovering famous faces on everyday objects, from the visage of Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich to the Virgin Mary on a flour tortilla and Elvis Presley on a potato chip.

Is it a miracle? Are these people just plain crazy?

Or is it something else?

Toronto researchers have found that “face pareidolia,” where onlookers report seeing well-known countenances in bread, clouds, smoke or rock formations, is normal and based on how the brain interprets and makes sense of visual stimuli.

“Most people think you have to be mentally abnormal to see these types of images, so individuals reporting this phenomenon are often ridiculed,” said lead researcher Kang Lee, a developmental neuroscientist at the University of Toronto.

“But our findings suggest that it’s common for people to see non-existent features because human brains are uniquely wired to recognize faces,” Lee said of the study published in the journal Cortex.

“So that even when there’s only a

slight suggestion of facial features, the brain automatically interprets it as a face.”

To conduct the study, researchers had 20 participants, aged 18 to 25, look at a series of “noise-making” images, so-called because they contain no discernible shapes.

However, participants were deliberately misled, Lee said Tuesday.

In one experiment, subjects were told that half the images contained faces. For a second test, they were told half the images contained a letter.

In about 35 per cent of cases, those viewing the images reported seeing a face or a letter where none existed.

“Then there are two possibilities,” said Lee. “One is the people are just crazy — they believe whatever we have told them — or they are actually seeing things.”

Turns out their brains, at least, do appear to be “seeing” something recognizable.

Using a technique called functional MRI to perform brain scans, researchers found that certain areas involved in either face or letter recognition “lit up” when participants discerned what they thought was a face.

That didn’t occur only in the visual cortex at the back of the brain, but also in a particular area of the frontal cortex that’s been implicated in faceprocessing.

Typically it was thought that when visual information is perceived by the retina, it is projected to the visual cortex at the back of the brain, then sent

tions, such as the research subjects who were misled to believe that half the images they saw would contain a face or a letter.

“It depends on your personal experience and your personal expectations,” Lee said. “So for example, if you are religious and you want to see Jesus, then you’re going to see Jesus. If you want to see Mary, you’re going to see Mary.”

Another common example of pareidolia, defined as the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not exist, is seeing the man in the moon.

KANG LEE Hearing hidden messages on recordings played in reverse is also a form of pareidolia.

The Rorschach inkblot test uses the phenomenon to try to gain insight into a person’s mental state.

Lee said figuring out what’s behind the propensity to perceive patterns from random visual data could help researchers better understand why some people with schizophrenia experience visual or auditory hallucinations, which can also occur with heavy substance abuse.

“They regularly see illusory things.

And sometimes the imagery is extremely strong. Sometimes it can be very, very dangerous.”

‘MOST PEOPLE THINK YOU HAVE TO BE MENTALLY ABNORMAL TO SEE THESE TYPES OF IMAGES.’ — RESEARCHER

forward to the frontal lobe to be interpreted, he said.

“Now our evidence is suggesting that the information is actually going backwards, so the frontal brain sends it back to the visual cortex to heighten sensitivity to things we want to see, such as faces.”

Lee said one reason that people seem to identify a face or other object in a cloud or darkened room, for instance, is that the brain tries to make sense of visual inputs, sometimes filling in the blanks to create a recognizable shape.

It’s also a product of one’s expecta-

Bernstein contests caution over weight-loss claims

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A key player in the country’s weightloss industry is set to appeal a formal caution meted out to him by the body that regulates the medical profession in Ontario for violating advertising rules.

Dr. Stanley Bernstein wants the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board to overturn the caution he was given last year.

The complaint to the College of Physicians and Surgeons originated with lawyer Peter Rosenthal after a doctor pointed out to him that Bernstein was in breach of the rules with his advertising of his weight-loss clinics.

Rosenthal argued that Bernstein

was making numerous unsubstantiated claims.

In its decision in July, the college’s inquiries, complaints and reports committee upheld the complaint.

Bernstein, according to the finding, violated the advertising rules “in a number of significant ways.”

Among other things, the committee faulted his use on his website of testimonials — such as M.P. lost 196 pounds in 14 months — and before-and-after photographs of allegedly successful dieters.

He also misused superlatives and failed to heed a ban on associating himself with the sale and promotion of products, the committee said.

For example, the committee took issue with Bernstein’s claim to have helped “hundreds of thousands of peo-

ple lose millions of pounds of excess weight and keep it off for life.”

The committee found the claim “strains credulity” and is not supported by objective scientific proof.

“There are significant contraventions of legislation meant to govern members of the college to promote professionalism, and ensure public safety and confidence in the medical profession as a whole,” the committee said.

The committee, which noted Bernstein had been the subject of many similar complaints, only imposed a “caution.”

“It is my view that that is insufficient,” Rosenthal said.

In his request for a review, the lawyer pointed out the numerous complaints made about Bernstein’s advertising.

He also said the committee had refused to make a finding that Bernstein had violated rules by “steering” members of the public to doctors in his clinics.

Bernstein is cross reviewing the adverse finding, arguing that even a caution was unwarranted.

In submissions to the complaints committee, Bernstein said the popularity of the “Bernstein Diet” had prompted him to open dozens of weight-loss clinics across the country.

He argued his claim of keeping weight off “for life” was not intended to mean forever, but subsequently deleted the offending words.

He also argued that making products available through his website did not amount to an endorsement of them.

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Parents need not fear technology We’ve transferred all that fear and anxiety to their online lives, but to them it’s a release valve, to finally find a place where they can hang out. It’s not that they’re addicted to the technology.

It’s that they want a place where their friends are.

AP: You write that too many young people live genuinely high-risk lives, but you conclude that most of those risks do not originate with technology. Can you explain?

Boyd: There are young people who are living high-risk lives, period, end of story. They are being abused every day at home.

There are young people who are struggling with poverty, with addiction, with mental health struggles. They make that visible online.

One of the challenges becomes how do we intervene to help them? Unfortunately what we tend to do is we try to make the Internet go away instead.

We hope that if we make the visibility go away, the problem will go away. But that’s not true.

AP: Why do young people share so publicly?

Boyd: Young people are trying to be IN public, but that doesn’t mean that they want to BE public, and that dis-

BY LEANNE ITALIE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Danah Boyd has made a name for herself at the research division of Microsoft for painstaking work examining social media, Big Data and the tension between public and private lives, but it’s her teens’eye view of the digital world that sets her apart.

Now, Boyd has written her first book, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, out in February from Yale University Press and available for free on her website, Danah. org. Earlier this year, she added another accomplishment to her list: mom.

Boyd interviewed more than 150 teens from a range of backgrounds for the book, also relying on extensive research on all aspects of their digital lives.

Five questions for Danah Boyd: AP: What do parents need to understand about the online lives of teens?

Boyd: They need to realize that young people are doing the same things online as we all did as kids in other places where we gathered with our friends. They’re hanging out.

They’re messing around with each other. They’re socializing. They’re flirting. They’re gossiping. They’re joking around, and much of this is perfectly reasonable teen stuff. Some of it is problematic. Some of it is glorious.

But the kinds of places young people used to gather are no longer accessible for a variety of reasons.

The first is a level of fear and anxiety that exists, the result of 24-7 news, where there’s a sense that there’s terrible things happening to kids everywhere.

tinction is really important. There’s a mistaken understanding that they want everything about themselves to be recorded forever, and that’s not true at all.

They’re really frustrated when all of this material is stored away and gets them into trouble.

send them off to places, and only if you knew where to look would you know where the message lies.

What’s really funny is that young people have started encoding everything they’re putting up online, so you can read it literally but you have no idea what it means.

It’s a song lyric but you don’t know the reference because the reference is really about the friends who got together last weekend and they had a cool in-joke for which the song was playing and hahahahaha. ... Just because you have access to the content doesn’t mean you have access to the meaning. It’s never been the case that parents got to listen to everything, but the thing is parents have demanded now that — DANAH BOYD they have the right to listen to everything. I think it’s a little ironic that teenagers are using the same tactics as political dissidents.

AP: What is your best advice for parents struggling to understand the networked lives of their teens?

Boyd: Step back, try to stay calm and try to listen to your kids. What are they trying to achieve? How are they trying to go about this, and how can you give them the space to do it? We forget how stressed out this cohort of young people is. That’s not because of technology. That’s because of the amount of pressure that we put on them.

‘THEY [PARENTS] NEED TO REALIZE THAT YOUNG PEOPLE ARE DOING THE SAME THINGS ONLINE AS WE ALL DID AS KIDS IN OTHER PLACES WHERE WE GATHERED WITH OUR FRIENDS. THEY’RE HANGING OUT. THEY’RE MESSING AROUND WITH EACH OTHER. THEY’RE SOCIALIZING. THEY’RE FLIRTING. THEY’RE GOSSIPING. THEY’RE JOKING AROUND, AND MUCH OF THIS IS PERFECTLY REASONABLE TEEN STUFF.’ Young people face an unprecedented level of surveillance.

Not just by the institutions of power, but by their parents. Most of them are sitting there going, ‘Why do these people feel like they have a right to be in my business?’

AP: Can you explain social steganography?

Boyd: It’s actually an old cryptography term. It basically is the notion of hiding in plain sight.

So the old notion is that Greeks used to tattoo messages on the heads of their slaves, let their hair grow out and then

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More than Gerrie expected RED DEER NATIVE HAPPY ABOUT RECEIVING CJHL ROOKIE OF THE YEAR AWARD honoured as a co-recipient of the Canadian Junior Hockey League rookie award as the premier firstyear junior A player in the When forward Chris Gernation. rie joined the Olds Grizzlys “It was more than I exlast year, he did so with no pected, for sure,” said Geranticipation of what was to rie of his initial AJHL camcome. paign.

“I didn’t know what to Gerrie, who shares the expect, to be honest,” he CJHL rookie award with said Thursday. defenceman Jake WalAs it turned out, the man of the Toronto Jr. CaRed Deer native and minor Chris Gerrie nadiens, was so impressive hockey product turned in a during the 2013-14 season sensational season, scoring that he earned a U.S. col18 goals and collecting 36 assists for 54 points, all offensive-cat- lege scholarship to Michigan Tech. He egory highs for Alberta Junior Hockey is scheduled to suit up with the Huskies in the 2016-17 season.

League freshmen.

“But that could change. Depending Not surprisingly, Gerrie was named AJHL rookie of the year, and on on next season, I could go (to Michigan Wednesday — his 18th birthday — was Tech) the year after (in 2017),” he said.

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Gerrie was referring to the degree of improvement he makes over the next two years in Olds, most notably next season.

“I think more time in junior will be important for me in terms of growth and development, for sure,” said the member of the 2013 Canadian midget AAA champion Red Deer Optimist Chiefs.

“I think I have to work on my defensive game for sure, because it all starts in the defensive zone.

“I learned some of that while playing with (linemate) Spencer Dorowicz this season. I’ll continue to work on that as well as my skill development this summer.”

Gerrie credited Dorowicz, the Grizzlys leading scorer, most valuable player award recipient and acquirer of an NCAA scholarship to Robert Morris University for the 2014-15 season, for

much of his rookie success.

“He’s a 20-year-old who played in the league for four years. He just taught me how to really come in, develop and feel comfortable out there,” said Gerrie. “He told me not to worry about anything and just play my game.

That’s what I did and it worked out.”

With the opportunity of obtaining a post-secondary education now basically a sure thing, Gerrie might also garner interest from NHL scouts by playing at a ‘name’ college.

“For sure, that was my goal as a little kid,” he said.

“When I leave for Michigan Tech my goal will be to go keep going with my hockey career. Michigan Tech seems like a very good school where I can do that. I’ll take the education side of it and the hockey side of it too and keep going.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Fraser finishes off win for Bruins RED DEER MINOR HOCKEY PRODUCT GETS GAME WINNER IN OT AS BRUINS TIE SERIES WITH HABS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Bruins 1 Canadiens 0 OT MONTREAL — Rookie Matt Fraser got to live a dream he had many times while growing up in Red Deer, Alta.

Fraser, called up Wednesday from AHL Providence and playing his first career NHL playoff game, scored 1:19 into overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens to even their Eastern Conference semifinal series on Thursday night.

The 23-year-old jumped into a scramble in front of goalie Carey Price’s net and slid the puck under him into the net.

“It was bouncing around and I was just swatting at it as hard as I could and hoping it would hit something,” said Fraser. “Price is such a good goalie. He doesn’t give out a lot of rebounds. I might have got lucky there, but the puck wound up in the back of the net.

“It’s something I dreamed about many times on the outdoor rinks growing up. It’s every kid’s dream to score in overtime.”

Johnny Boychuk’s point shot had taken a high hop off the end boards and Price and defenceman Mike Weaver had trouble controlling the bouncing puck.

“It came around on the other side and it bounced over my stick and I lost it,” said Price. “Somebody yelled ’over,’ so I looked over my left shoulder. Obviously it wasn’t there. Then they poked it in on the other side.”

The victory knotted the best-of-seven series at 2-2, and the Bruins took back home ice advantage heading into Game 5 on Saturday night in Boston.

The Bruins outshot Montreal 34-33 in an intense, sometimes nervously

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Boston Bruin and Red Deer’s Matt Fraser celebrates after scoring the winning goal during the first overtime period against the Montreal Canadiens in NHL playoff action Thursday, in Montreal. played game that was less a goaltending duel between Price and Tuukka Rask as a match of determined, defensive teams.

“We knew how tight this series would be,” said Boston coach Claude Julien. “It doesn’t mean any more than that we’ve tied the series. It’s been tight every game. It was important to get back in the series, but I don’t think we’ve played our best hockey. We’ve played hard, but I’ve seen us play better. You hope the win here will help us get better and we’ll go from there.”

Asked about Rask’s play, Julien said: “He was good. We didn’t give up three breakaways, that helped.”

They gave up a partial breakaway in the second period, but Brian Gionta could only shovel the puck at the net and Rask made the save.

Canadiens coach Michel Therrien called it trench warfare. He found no fault with his side, either, except that they didn’t get a puck past Rask.

“This was a hard-nosed game between two well-prepared teams,”

he said. “We lost a battle in front of the net on the winning goal, but I’m pleased with our team’s effort.

“All the games have been close and it won’t be different next game.”

There were 21 goals scored by both teams in the first three games, there had not been a period without a goal, but there was little room to move in this one.

It marked the first time since 1935 that Boston won a playoff game 1-0 in OT and the first time Boston and Montreal went scoreless in regulation time in the playoffs since 1953, when Elmer Lach got the OT game-winner for the Canadiens.

Boston’s Carl Soderberg had the best chance in the final minute of the first frame after P.K. Subban’s blind back pass was intercepted, but Price looked to get a piece of it as it went off the cross-bar.

Another goal-less period followed as shooters misfired, particularly Max Pacioretty on a setup from Thomas Vanek, and both goalies held their

ground. Each team went on the power play once, but even that failed to break the deadlock.

The Canadiens went on the attack in the third, peppering the Boston net and outshooting the Bruins 14-7. But the Bruins got a power play and Reilly Smith hit a goalpost, only to see Brian Gionta stoned by Rask alone in front of the net at the other end a moment later. Then Fraser ended it in OT. “Words can’t even describe that feeling,” said Fraser. “I just watched the replay of it and I don’t even want to begin to try to explain that because it’s something I wish that every kid could feel.”

Fraser skated on Boston’s third line with Soderberg and Loui Eriksson and got 14:44 of ice time and two shots on goal. Julien liked what he saw.

“It was no doubt a little nervewracking for him but to me it didn’t show on the ice,” said Julien. “He was poised, made some good decisions, he was strong with the puck and in his decision-making”

Ducks fly away with win to trim Kings’ series lead SELANNE, PERRY SCORE BIG GOALS WHILE HILLER STANDS TALL IN NET FOR DUCKS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Anaheim 3 Los Angeles 2 LOS ANGELES — Teemu Selanne scored the tiebreaking power-play goal late in the second period, Corey Perry got his first goal of the series, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Kings 3-2 on Thursday night to trim Los Angeles’ series lead to 2-1.

Jonas Hiller made seven saves in the final 9:58 after rookie goalie Frederik Andersen left with a right leg injury for the Ducks, who bounced back from two narrow losses in Anaheim to open the series.

Ben Lovejoy added a goal with 2:55 to play as Anaheim snapped the Kings’ six-game post-season winning streak.

Jeff Carter and Mike Richards scored and Jonathan Quick stopped 19 shots for the Kings, who hadn’t lost since Game 3 of their stunning first-

round series against San Jose.

Game 4 is Saturday night at Staples Center.

With Quick pulled for an extra attacker, Richards scored with 30 seconds left when he batted home a rebound of Tanner Pearson’s shot, but the top-seeded Ducks hung on for just their third win in their last seven playoff games.

Anaheim dropped the first two games of the local rivals’ first playoff meeting, scoring just three goals and losing narrow decisions at Honda Center.

Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau curiously changed starting goalies for Game 3, replacing Hiller with Andersen, the Danish rookie who played poorly in all three road games in the first round against Dallas. Boudreau repeatedly said Hiller had played well against the Kings in the first two games, giving up just five goals, but An-

dersen beat Los Angeles three times in the regular season.

Andersen was solid in Game 3 until getting hurt during a wild scramble midway through the third period.

Hiller had to make two tough saves immediately after entering the game, but the Swiss goalie was solid despite Richards’ late goal.

The Ducks didn’t have the same vociferous road support enjoyed by the Kings at Honda Center earlier in the series, but Anaheim still silenced Staples Center just 4:06 into Game 3.

Ryan Getzlaf got the puck down low to Patrick Maroon, who found Perry in the slot for his third goal of the postseason.

Perry, second in the NHL with 43 goals in the regular season, hadn’t scored in the series.

The Kings evened it on a power play early in the second period with a play similar to the Ducks’ score. Mar-

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ian Gaborik got the puck low and set up a one-timer for Carter, who hadn’t scored a goal in the Kings’ last four playoff games.

Anze Kopitar, the NHL’s leading scorer with 15 points in the post-season, got the second assist.

Anaheim couldn’t score during a 4-on-3 advantage for 59 seconds late in the period, but Nick Bonino found Selanne with a saucer pass for the Finnish Flash’s 44th career goal in 126 postseason games. Selanne was a healthy scratch for a game in the first round, but has two goals against the Kings.

Matt Beleskey went to the dressing room early in the third period after a hard hit on the boards by Kings captain Dustin Brown. The Ducks said Beleskey had a lower-body injury.

Lovejoy scored his second goal of the post-season on a 2-on-1 rush with Andrew Cogliano, sending Kings fans to the exits.

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Kaymer keeps on the upward trend GERMAN TIES COURSE RECORD FOR FIRST-ROUND LEAD AT PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Martin Kaymer stopped thinking, started swinging and played his way into the record book Thursday in The Players Championship.

Kaymer missed only two fairways. He putted for birdie on all but one hole. And the former PGA champion finished with four straight birdies to become only the fourth player to shoot 9-under 63 on the Stadium Course at the TPC Sawgrass, giving him a twoshot lead over Russell Henley.

Kaymer took advantage of a perfect day for scoring — warm weather, hardly any wind and soft greens.

There were 28 rounds in the 60s, which made the score by Adam Scott look even worse.

With another chance — his best one yet — to get to No. 1 in the world for the first time, Scott finished with a pair of double bogeys from shots in the water and signed for a 77. It was his highest opening round at The Players since his first trip in 2002.

Kaymer was flawless, hitting whatever shot he felt he needed. His final blow was a hybrid that ran through the ninth green and into a bunker, leaving a simple up-and-down for birdie. He had a 29 on the back, the first player in the 32-year history at Sawgrass to break 30 on either nine.

Roberto Castro also opened with a 63 last year. The only others with 63 were Greg Norman in the first round in 1994, and Fred Couples in the third

round in 1992.

“It’s just a nice bonus,” Kaymer said. “It’s only the first round of a long, long tournament. It’s nice to make some history. No one shot 29 on that golf course before.”

Kaymer would not have seemed like a good candidate.

He has not won since the HSBC Champions in Shanghai at the end of 2011. He hasn’t had a top 10 all year. But the 29-year-old German has felt his swing start to come together in recent weeks. His name has been featured on leaderboards more and more.

And he had a simple explanation.

“I stopped thinking,” Kaymer said, a former world No. 1. “I thought a lot the last two years about swing changes ... that every shot I made I reflect on it, what I did wrong, what I did right.”

A few weeks before the Masters, he spent time with longtime swing coach Gunter Kessler in Phoenix, and then they had another good session in Germany.

“And then it just clicked a little bit,” he said. “I thought, ’OK, I know I can hit pretty much every shot when I needed to hit it.’ If it’s a draw, if it’s a fade, low or high, I know that I can do it. It’s just a matter of getting the confidence on the golf course and then letting it happen and really doing it.”

Henley, who won the Honda Classic in a four-way playoff in March, made birdie on half of his holes to atone for one big mistake. He hooked a tee shot into the water on No. 7 and compounded that with a three-

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Bubba Watson hits from an eighth hole sand trap during the first round of The Players championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass, Thursday, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. putt for double bogey. But he answered with six birdies on the back nine for a 65.

“I knew I was playing well and felt really comfortable on the greens,” Henley said.

“But it was one of those back nines where you get to 18 and I just realized that I had a putt for 7 under. So that was pretty cool.”

Bae Sang-Moon had a 66.

The group at 67 included Sergio Garcia, who spent last year in a war or words with Ti-

the scoring average of 71.99 was the eighth-lowest for an opening round at The Players Championship.

But it wasn’t easy for everyone.

Rory McIlroy made three bogeys over his last seven holes and tumbled to a 70.

That was nearly as bad as Phil Mickelson. Coming off a 76 in the final round at Quail Hollow last week, he started his round by missing a 3-foot par putt and shot 75.

ger Woods that lasted right up until the Spaniard hit three balls into the water on the two closing holes and Woods walked away with the win.

Garcia looked sharp, happy and was confident in his game.

And he had loads of company. Lee Westwood, 20-yearold Jordan Spieth and U.S. Open champion Justin Rose also were at 67. The group at 68 included Ernie Els and Dustin Johnson. There were 67 rounds under par, and

Blue Jays tee off on Phillies to finish sweep

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Edwin Encarnacion flips his bat following a two-run home run in the seventh inning of MLB baseball action against the Philadelphia Phillies in Toronto on Thursday.

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Blue Jays 12 Phillies 6 TORONTO — An abundance of home runs has powered the Toronto Blue Jays to their best streak of the season.

Edwin Encarnacion hit two of Toronto’s season-high five homers and the Blue Jays won their eighth consecutive game over Philadelphia, beating the Phillies 12-6 on Thursday night.

Juan Francisco, Adam Lind and Colby Rasmus also went deep as Toronto extended its winning streak to a seasonbest five games.

“We are some kind of hot right now,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “You put us in this ballpark, it’s a home run heaven here. It’s tough to pitch to. Everyone is feeding off each other.”

Encarnacion hit a leadoff shot in the second inning against A.J. Burnett, his 200th career homer, and added a two-run drive off Luis Garcia in the seventh for his 12th career multihomer game.

“If we continue swinging the bat the way we are now, we’re going to have a great year,” Encarnacion said.

Francisco followed Encarnacion’s second home run with a shot to centre field, his sec-

ond in two days, as the Blue Jays went back-to-back for the first time this season.

Lind hit a two-run homer in his return from the disabled list and Rasmus added a solo drive as the Blue Jays went deep for the eighth straight game. Toronto’s 49 home runs lead the American League.

Colorado entered play Thursday with a major league-high 50.

R.A. Dickey, who pitched 6 1-3 innings to earn the win, said Toronto’s daily power display has made it fun for him to come to the ballpark.

“As a starter, you want to get in there as many times as you can,” Dickey said. “It’s just incredible the at-bats they are putting up and the consistency with power and getting on base.”

Dickey (3-3) allowed three runs and seven hits in 6 1-3 innings to win for the second time in three starts. The knuckleballer walked three and struck out a season-high eight.

“It’s encouraging to punch people out and keep guys off balance and feel crisp,” Dickey said.

Aaron Loup got one out in the seventh, Marcus Stroman worked 1 1-3 innings and Esmil Rogers gave up three runs in the ninth, including Ryan

Howard’s two-run homer.

Burnett allowed season worsts of nine hits, including three homers, and seven runs in six innings as the Phillies lost their fourth straight, matching their longest slump of the season.

Burnett came in 2-0 with a 0.98 ERA over his previous four starts, but wasn’t at his best against his former team.

Burnett (2-2), who lost for the first time since April 6 at Chicago, walked two and struck out four.

“Balls ran over the plate tonight,” Burnett said. “I wasn’t on the corners at all.”

Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said he was frustrated as the Phillies lost two home games to Toronto before crossing the border into Canada and dropping two more by a combined score of 22-6.

“We weren’t fundamentally sound for the four games,” Sandberg said. “A lot of little things, little baserunning things, a base here and there, some defence, some pitches in the middle of the plate, pitching behind in the count.

A lot of fundamental things we didn’t execute.”

Sandberg said he would speak to the team Friday before the opener of a threegame road series against the New York Mets.

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Newcomer Brian Desjardins has been hired as business operations manager with the Red Deer City Soccer Association, while former technical director Ado Sarcevic is moving into the role of soccer operations manager.

Sarcevic’s position came about following a novel agreement signed between the RDCSA and Red Deer Renegades.

Desjardins will oversee day-to-day operations with the RDCSA and will report to the board of directors. He grew up playing soccer in Central Alberta and has spent the last 15 years in the Northwest Territories, most recently holding the high-profile position as executive director of Northwest Territories Tourism.

“I look forward to working with everyone in raising the profile of soccer in all ways possible for the association,” Desjardins said in a press release. “I applaud the work and successes already achieved by RDCSA and I am confident that by working together we will grow soccer to new heights.”

Sarcevic will provide technical expertise for both the RDCSA and Renegades.

RDCSA has also added new programs such as under-eight boys and girls developmental, adapted introduction to soccer for children with developmental disabilities, a men’s over-35 league and Byte Size Coaching youth soccer curriculum.

Byte Size is a customizable coaching website containing a balanced and progressive curriculum designed to benefit the players and coaches alike. The program gives coaches the tools they need to succeed.

“We are thrilled about the direction our association has taken with key administrative changes and the launch of some new programs. Currently, our outdoor registrations continue to be strong at 1,500 and we look forward to the year ahead,” said RDCSA president Paul Morigeau.

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Looking for more aggression BLACKHAWKS SEEK FASTER PACE AS WILD PREPARE WITH FINNISH CENTRES AS FOCAL POINT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PAUL, Minn. — Erik Haula started the rush from the circle in the Minnesota zone early in the third period of a then-scoreless Game 3, leaning forward as he reached the blue line to thread a crossice pass to Matt Moulson.

Moulson moved the puck forward to Justin Fontaine, who deftly sent a saucer-like delivery through two Chicago defencemen. Having raced past speedster Patrick Kane, Haula arrived at the crease in perfect timing for the tap-in past goalie Corey Crawford.

Finally on the board, the Wild pulled away for a 4-0 victory over the Blackhawks that night to cut their deficit in the Western Conference semifinal series to 2-1. Game 4 is Friday night, and the Wild have been bracing for more aggression from a Blackhawks team that’s as skilled and potent with the puck as any in the NHL. “I think that’s when they’re at their best, when they’re going at you, trying to attack, trying to make plays every single time,” Wild defenceman Ryan Suter said.

The Wild have some madein-Finland remedies for that sure-to-be-fired-up Blackhawks offence.

The centres on their first three lines, Mikko Koivu, Mikael Granlund and Haula, have the kind of defensiveminded games that make them a good fit in their system. The rookie Haula’s speed in particular has been a big boost since his emergence down the stretch of the regular season.

“The one thing that’s consistent for every Finn that I’ve

ever worked with is pride,” coach Mike Yeo said, adding: “Part of that winning attitude is every play they take pride in making it happen, whether it’s a blocked shot or a faceoff or shutting somebody down or whatever they can to help their team win.”

All three of these Finns were drafted and developed by the Wild, but Koivu and Granlund were top-10 picks.

Haula, who played at the University of Minnesota, was the seventh-round overachiever who had three stints this season in the AHL before taking advantage of Granlund’s injury at the end of March to prove to the Wild he could provide quality ice time.

In the six games in April prior to the playoffs, Haula had three goals and three assists with a plus-five rating.

His plus-14 total for the season smashed the franchise rookie record of plus-five.

“If we see a guy like that who’s a responsible defensive player, we’re not going to say he’s only going to be a third-line checker,” Yeo said.

“We’re going to see if he can continue to keep the things that he needs and the things that we need from him, but see what we can add onto that.

Obviously the offensive sparks that he’s provided, that’s a real positive for him going forward.”

Haula had a chance earlier in Game 3 to give the Wild the lead, but his breakaway was thwarted at the last second with Blackhawks defenceman Duncan Keith in pursuit.

“I just kept thinking in my head that hopefully I get another chance to bury one,” Haula said.

Bieksa named as Team Canada’s captain for worlds

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only player with an IIHF World Hockey Championship gold medal, won in 2007 in Moscow. His message to a lot of his teammates is that they never know when they’ll be able to wear the Maple Leaf again.

That could be true of Chimera, too, and if it is the Washington Capitals winger is making sure he enjoys it. Even with two children at home, his wife was supportive of him coming to Minsk to play in his third world championship.

“Hockey keeps you young,” said Chimera, who’s 4 ½ years too young to be able to play without a visor.

“It’s just awesome, you see these young kids, how talented they are, they keep it light. A lot of them were pretty nervous coming over here, but I try to keep it as light as possible.”

Thursday’s first practice in Minsk following an exhibition game against Switzerland in Zurich was light but up-tempo.

Tippett and assistants Paul Maurice and Peter DeBoer had plenty of teaching to do a day before Canada opens the tournament against France.

James Reimer will start against France, while Ben Scrivens is set to start against Slovakia on Saturday night.

“It goes solely off seniority,” Tippett said. “Scrivens was upset because he thought he should’ve got the call because he had 19 seconds longer than Reimer the other day (in the exhibition game).”

Reimer is playing at the world championships for the second time after going 4-0-0 in 2011 before being replaced by now-Toronto Maple Leafs teammate Jonathan Bernier.

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Chicago Blackhawks centre Marcus Kruger controls the puck in front of Minnesota Wild defenceman Ryan Suter during Game 3 of an NHL second-round playoff series in St. Paul, Minn., on May 6, 2014. The Chicago Blackhawks lead the Minnesota Wild 2-1 in their series, but they don’t really feel like they’ve been themselves yet. The Wild have frustrated the defending champions with a tight-checking style that has limited Chicago’s scoring chances and the Hawks are itching to get going.

Check and check.

That was hardly surprising to Blackhawks backup Antti Raanta, also from Finland.

Making those plays you can’t see in the big picture,“ Raanta said, describing Haula’s contributions beyond the go-ahead goal.

The Wild will have left wing Matt Cooke back on Haula’s line for Game 4, and the struggling Moulson will be out, Yeo said on Thursday, with a lower-body injury.

The Blackhawks were on the verge of a shuffle or two as well, with coach Joel Quenn-

eville seeking more of a scoring threat on each line. He said defenceman Nick Leddy will be back in action for more speed after being a healthy scratch in Game 3 for the first time in his career, but centre Andrew Shaw will remain out because of a lower-body injury suffered in Game 1.

The Wild have held the Blackhawks, the second-highest scoring team in the league during the regular season, to an average of only 21 shots on goal over the first three games.

“It’s hard to hit a guy wide and have him go down and

beat a couple guys because they’re so defensive and they play so well positionally,” said centre Ben Smith.

With the exception of a surge in part of the third period, the Blackhawks were sluggish in Game 3, with the Wild’s defence a major factor. The Blackhawks, though, can certainly still win even if a line or two of theirs stays quiet. All it takes sometimes is one group to get going.

“The fact that you know you’ve got several options is what makes us a good team,” Quenneville said.

No Jokinen about it SAVVY PENGUINS FORWARD HELPING TEAM PUSH TO BRINK OF CONFERENCE FINALS weeks ago to help star Sidney Crosby break out of a funk.

Crosby’s malaise is over. So is Jokinen’s role as a secondary player. He is in the midst of an eight-game point streak and his three game-winning goals are tied with Chicago’s Jonathan Toews for the most in the NHL as the slog toward the Stanley Cup nears the midway point.

“He’s maybe one of the

from Finland was complaining about a lack of style points in his decisive score.

“When you jump on the ice PITTSBURGH — Jussi Jokiin the big moments ... you want nen turned blindly and flung to shoot the puck,” he said. the puck almost absentmind“You want to be a difference edly at New York Rangers net. maker and I’ve had a couple of It wasn’t a shot so much as a those moments this series.” suggestion. Maybe a teammate Jokinen’s goal midway would get a stick on it. Maythrough the second period be there would be a rebound. in Game 3 gave the Penguins Considering the post-season some cushion in a 2-0 victorun the skilled but often overry. His power-play looked Pittsburgh score with 3:30 Penguins forward is having, what ‘HE’S ONE OF THE SMARTEST PLAYERS left in regulation of Game 2 did the happened next I HAVE EVER COACHED.’ same. shouldn’t have The typically been a surprise.

— DAN BYLSMA PITTSBURGH PENGUINS COACH quiet Jokinen deThe puck declines to call his flected off New performance a form York defenceman Marc Staal’s skate and by a smartest players I’ve ever of redemption, but he cersurprised Henrik Lundqvist coached,” Penguins coach Dan tainly prefers the view from for Jokinen’s sixth goal of the Bylsma said of Jokinen. “He the ice instead of the press playoffs, tied for most in the has a knack for being at the box, a spot he grew familiar league. It turned into the even- right spot at the right time and with last year when he found tual winner as the Penguins he’s been all over that for us himself squeezed out of the lineup in the post-season on won 4-2 to take a 3-1 lead in in the playoffs.”

The Rangers were within a roster bloated by the return the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals. Game 5 is a goal of getting back in the of injured regulars and the series in the third period on trade -deadline acquisition of Friday night in Pittsburgh.

It’s a spot the Penguins Wednesday night when Joki- Jarome Iginla and Brenden wouldn’t be in without a play- nen and James Neal took off Morrow.

Jokinen arrived from Caroer who spent half of last year’s on a breakout. Jokinen’s inirun to the conference finals tial shot was deflected behind lina a few days before Iginla sitting out as a healthy scratch, the net. He chased it down and Morrow and found himthe victim of a numbers game. and when he reached the right self centring the top line late Now he’s the linchpin of a sec- circle just flipped it toward in the regular season after Crosby went down with a broond line that is thriving with- Lundqvist.

It wasn’t designed to be the ken jaw. out Evgeni Malkin, who was bumped to the top line two winner, not that 31-year-old

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MINSK, Belarus — Kevin Bieksa isn’t one to lie down on the job.

Lying down on the ice for pre-practice stretching is OK, though. In leading his first preworld championships practice Thursday as Team Canada’s captain, Bieksa had his teammates do snow angels before getting to work.

“That’s who he is, that’s what he does,” coach Dave Tippett said.

Tippett said Bieksa got the nod because he’s outgoing but also plays hard and with passion. Jason Chimera is one alternate because he brings the experience of winning at this tournament before and Kyle Turris is the other because he bridges young and old on the roster.

One thing Canada’s leadership group has in common is a love for keeping things light on the ice. That’s part of what Bieksa thinks his role is, but he also expects his teammates to take the tournament seriously.

“Just to keep guys loose having fun and then focused for the games,” the Vancouver Canucks defenceman said.

“Everybody’s coming over here for a purpose. We didn’t posted 12 points (seven goals, centre played for Russia at fly all this way just to have a five assists) in 33 games this the 2014 world junior hockey good time. We flew here to win season with Nizhnekamsk in championship, recording two games and to continue on the the Russian-based Kontinen- points and four penalty minstandard that Canada set at tal Hockey League. He also utes in seven games. the Olympics. We’re going to spent time with the Reaktor Yakimov was selected by come to compete.”

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Local Sports 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.

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

WHL PLAYOFFS Round 4 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.

Penalties — Smith-Pelly Ana (high-sticking) 4:43, Toffoli LA (holding) 12:11, Beauchemin Ana (interference) 12:11, Doughty LA (hooking) 13:12.

Third Period 4. Anaheim, Lovejoy 2 (Cogliano) 17:05.

5. Los Angeles, Richards 1 (Pearson, Carter) 19:29.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Anaheim 10 7 5 — 22 Los Angeles 9 10 12 — 31 Goal — Anaheim: Hiller (W, 2-2-0); Los Angeles: Quick (L, 6-4-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Anaheim: 2-2; Los Angeles: 1-1.

Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Los Angeles (3) (Los Angeles leads series 2-1) Saturday, May 3 Los Angeles 3 Anaheim 2, OT Monday, May 5 Los Angeles 3 Anaheim 1 Thursday, May 8 Anaheim 3 Los Angeles 2 Saturday, May 10 Anaheim at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, May 12 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.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs SECOND ROUND Division Finals EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Boston (1) vs. Montreal (3) (Series tied 2-2) 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 1 Montreal 0, OT Saturday, May 10 Montreal at Boston, 5 p.m.

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

Thursday’s summaries Bruins 1, Canadiens 0 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Subban Mtl (holding) 7:05, Bartkowski Bos (holding) 11:49.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Emelin Mtl (boarding) 8:21.

Overtime 1. Boston, Fraser 1 (Soderberg, Boychuk) 1:19.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Boston 13 12 7 3 — 35 Montreal 10 9 14 0 — 33 Goal — Boston: Rask (W, 6-3-0); Montreal: Price (LO, 6-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Boston: 0-2; Montreal: 0-1.

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

Ducks 3, Kings 2 First Period 1. Anaheim, Perry 3 (Maroon, Getzlaf) 4:06 (pp).

Penalties — Lewis LA (interference) 3:30, SmithPelly Ana (roughing) 6:24, Williams LA (roughing) 6:24.

Second Period 2. Los Angeles, Carter 3 (Gaborik, Kopitar) 4:59 (pp).

3. Anaheim, Selanne 2 (Bonino, Lindholm) 15:10 (pp).

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Chicago (3) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Chicago leads series 2-1) Friday, May 2

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Scoring Leaders G A Pts 4 10 14 4 9 13 5 7 12 3 8 11 5 5 10 3 7 10 2 8 10 6 3 9 6 3 9 4 5 9 3 6 9 2 7 9 1 8 9 5 3 8 5 3 8 3 5 8 3 5 8 2 6 8 2 6 8 2 6 8 1 7 8 1 7 8 0 8 8

Anze Kopitar, LA Zach Parise, Minn Evgeni Malkin, Pgh P.K. Subban, Mtl Paul Stastny, Col Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Nathan MacKinnon, Col Marian Gaborik, LA Jussi Jokinen, Pgh Jonathan Toews, Chi Patrice Bergeron, Bos Brent Seabrook, Chi Sidney Crosby, Pgh Patrick Kane, Chi Bryan Bickell, Chi Chris Kunitz, Pgh Lars Eller, Mtl Matt Niskanen, Pgh Marian Hossa, Chi Torey Krug, Bos Drew Doughty, LA Jason Pominville, Minn Paul Martin, Pgh

2014 World Men’s Hockey Championship MINSK, Belarus — The preliminary-round schedule for the 2014 IIHF world men’s hockey championship, to be held May 9-25 in Minsk, Belarus (all times Eastern): Today’s games Switzerland vs. Russia, 7:45 a.m.

France vs. Canada, 7:45 a.m.

Belarus vs. U.S., 11:45 a.m.

Slovakia vs. Czech Republic, 11:45 a.m.

Saturday’s games Kazakhstan vs. Germany, 3:45 a.m.

Italy vs. Norway, 3:45 a.m.

Finland vs. Latvia, 7:45 a.m.

Sweden vs. Denmark, 7:45 a.m.

U.S. vs. Switzerland, 11:45 a.m.

Canada vs. Slovakia, 11:45 a.m.

Hosmer KC

Baltimore New York Toronto Boston Tampa Bay

American League East Division W L Pct 18 14 .563 18 15 .545 18 17 .514 17 17 .500 15 20 .429

GB — 1/2 1 1/2 2 4 1/2

Detroit Chicago Kansas City Cleveland Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 20 10 .667 18 18 .500 16 18 .471 16 19 .457 15 18 .455

GB — 5 6 6 1/2 6 1/2

Oakland Seattle Texas Los Angeles Houston

West Division W L Pct 20 15 .571 18 16 .529 18 17 .514 16 17 .485 11 24 .314

GB — 1 1/2 2 3 9

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 White Sox 8, Chicago Cubs 3 N.Y. Yankees 9, L.A. Angels 2

Friday’s Games Houston (Feldman 2-1) at Baltimore (W.Chen 3-2), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 3-0) at Toronto (McGowan 2-1), 5:07 p.m.

Minnesota (P.Hughes 3-1) at Detroit (Verlander 4-1), 5:08 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 2-3) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 1-3), 5:10 p.m.

Boston (Buchholz 2-2) at Texas (Darvish 2-1), 6:05 p.m.

Arizona (McCarthy 1-5) at Chicago White Sox (Rienzo 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 4-0) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 2-1), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Fister 0-0) at Oakland (Milone 0-3), 8:05 p.m.

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

Saturday’s Games L.A. Angels at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Houston at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m.

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

N.Y. Yankees at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m.

Boston at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Washington at Oakland, 7:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

H 34 48 32 37 50 34 39 29 38

Pct. .343 .338 .337 .333 .331 .318 .317 .315 .314

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Home Runs JAbreu, Chicago, 12; Pujols, Los Angeles, 10; Bautista, Toronto, 9; NCruz, Baltimore, 9; ColRasmus, Toronto, 9; Dozier, Minnesota, 8; Donaldson, Oakland, 7; VMartinez, Detroit, 7.

Runs Batted In JAbreu, Chicago, 35; Colabello, Minnesota, 30; Brantley, Cleveland, 29; NCruz, Baltimore, 29; Pujols, Los Angeles, 26; MiCabrera, Detroit, 25; Moss, Oakland, 25.

Pitching Buehrle, Toronto, 6-1; Porcello, Detroit, 5-1; Tanaka, New York, 4-0; Gray, Oakland, 4-1; Kazmir, Oakland, 4-1; Verlander, Detroit, 4-1; Scherzer, Detroit, 4-1.

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 18 .455

GB — — 1/2 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 12 21 .364

GB — 4 6 7 9

West Division W L Pct 21 13 .618 22 15 .595 19 16 .543 15 20 .429 13 24 .351

GB — 1/2 2 6 9

San Francisco Colorado Los Angeles San Diego Arizona

Thursday’s Games Cleveland 9, Minnesota 4 Houston 6, Detroit 2 Toronto 12, Philadelphia 6 Baltimore 3, Tampa Bay 1 Texas 5, Colorado 0 Chicago Cubs 12, Chicago White Sox 5 Seattle 1, Kansas City 0

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

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

Washington at Oakland, 7:05 p.m.

H 46 46 52 44 43 39 36 47 42 42

Pct. .407 .348 .344 .341 .331 .325 .324 .322 .321 .321

Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 10; Belt, San Francisco, 9; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 9; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 9; JUpton, Atlanta, 9; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 8; CGomez, Milwaukee, 8; Morse, San Francisco, 8.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 38; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 31; Arenado, Colorado, 26; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 26; Morneau, Colorado, 26; Blackmon, Colorado, 25; CGonzalez, Colorado, 25.

Pitching Wainwright, St. Louis, 6-2; Machi, San Francisco, 5-0; Greinke, Los Angeles, 5-1; Lyles, Colorado, 4-0; Simon, Cincinnati, 4-1; Nicasio, Colorado, 4-1; Lynn, St. Louis, 4-1.

1/2 Thursday’s Major League Linescores

1/2 1/2 1/2

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 White Sox 8, Chicago Cubs 3 Thursday’s Games Toronto 12, Philadelphia 6 Texas 5, Colorado 0 Chicago Cubs 12, Chicago White Sox 5 Miami at San Diego, late San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, late Friday’s Games St. Louis (Wacha 2-3) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-3), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (Chacin 0-1) at Cincinnati (Cueto 3-2), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (R.Hernandez 2-1) at N.Y. Mets (Mejia 3-0), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hammel 4-1) at Atlanta (Teheran 2-2), 5:35 p.m.

Arizona (McCarthy 1-5) at Chicago White Sox (Rienzo 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 4-0) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 2-1), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Fister 0-0) at Oakland (Milone 0-3), 8:05 p.m.

Miami (Fernandez 4-1) at San Diego (T.Ross 3-3), 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 3-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Maholm 1-2), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m.

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

Arizona at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 000 002 200 — 4 5 1 Cleveland 110 021 31x — 9 15 1 Correia, Tonkin (5), Thielbar (6), Swarzak (7), Duensing (7), Guerrier (8) and Pinto; Masterson, Atchison (7), Carrasco (9) and C.Santana. W—Masterson 2-1. L—Correia 1-4. HRs—Cleveland, A.Cabrera (2), Brantley (6).

Houston 000 030 102 — 6 8 0 Detroit 010 100 000 — 2 7 0 Keuchel, Bass (8), Qualls (9) and Corporan; Smyly, E.Reed (6), J.Miller (8) and Holaday, Avila.

W—Keuchel 3-2. L—Smyly 2-2. HRs—Houston, Springer (1), Corporan (3), M.Dominguez (5). Detroit, V.Martinez (7).

Baltimore 020 100 000 — 3 9 0 Tampa Bay 100 000 000 — 1 9 0 U.Jimenez, R.Webb (6), Matusz (7), O’Day (9) and C.Joseph; Price, Boxberger (6), Jo.Peralta (7), Oviedo (8) and J.Molina, Hanigan. W—U.Jimenez 2-4. L—Price 3-3. Sv—O’Day (2). HRs—Baltimore, Pearce (2).

Kan. City 000 000 000 — 0 4 0 Seattle 001 000 00x — 1 2 0 Duffy, K.Herrera (7) and S.Perez; Iwakuma, Rodney (9) and Zunino. W—Iwakuma 2-0. L—Duffy 1-3.

Sv—Rodney (10).

INTERLEAGUE Phila.

010 010 103 — 6 10 1 Toronto 031 012 32x — 12 13 1 A.Burnett, Lu.Garcia (7) and Nieves; Dickey, Loup (7), Stroman (7), Rogers (9) and Thole. W—Dickey 3-3. L—A.Burnett 2-2. HRs—Philadelphia, Howard (7). Toronto, Encarnacion 2 (6), Col.Rasmus (9), Lind (2), Francisco (5).

Colorado 000 000 000 — 0 5 3 Texas 020 001 20x — 5 7 0 Morales, Kahnle (7) and McKenry; M.Harrison, N.Martinez (6), Poreda (7), Frasor (8), Soria (9) and Chirinos. W—M.Harrison 1-0. L—Morales 3-2.

HRs—Texas, Fielder (3).

Chicago (N)004 200 051 — 12 15 1 Chicago (A)020 200 001 — 5 13 1 Arrieta, Schlitter (5), Rosscup (6), N.Ramirez (7), Grimm (8), W.Wright (9) and Castillo; Carroll, S.Downs (5), Cleto (7), Petricka (9) and Flowers, Nieto. W—Schlitter 2-0. L—Carroll 1-2. HRs—Chicago (N), Rizzo (7), S.Castro (5), Olt (6).

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed OF Sam Fuld on the 7-day DL. Recalled INF Eduardo Nunez from Rochester (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Matt Guerrier from Rochester. Optioned LHP Logan Darnell, INF Pedro Florimon and C-OF Chris Herrmann to Rochester.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Claimed LHP Brooks Raley off waivers from Minnesota. Designated LHP Buddy Boshers for assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS — Placed INF Donnie Murphy on the 15-day DL. Purchased the contract of RHP Justin Germano from Round Rock (PCL).

Recalled INF Luis Sardinas from Frisco (Texas).

Purchased the contract of INF Rougned Odor from Frisco. Designated INF Josh Wilson and RHP Scott Baker for assignment.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Activated 1B Adam Lind from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Chad Jenkins to Buffalo (IL).

National League PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Recalled RHP Luis Garcia from Lehigh Valley (IL). Sent RHP Shawn Camp outright to Lehigh Valley.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHP Phil Irwin to Indianapolis (IL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled RHP Kevin Quackenbush from El Paso (PCL). Designated RHP Hector Ambriz for assignment. Announced that OF

Xavier Nady cleared waivers and was sent outright to El Paso.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed OF Nic Jackson. Released RHP Stephen Richter.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS — Signed INF Brian Myrow, INF Brandon Pinckney, OF Palmer Karr and INF Frazier Hall.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Traded C Matt Albaugh to Florence for future considerations.

Frontier League FRONTIER GREYS — Sold the contract of LHP Spencer Medick to Arizona (NL). Signed OF Chris Ellison.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Released OF Manny Alonso, INF Tyler Crandell, LHP Kody Gorden, RHP Kyle Hassna, OF Thomas Healy, LHP Steven Landell and RHP Richard McCaffrey.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Released UTL Shane Brown and RHP Corey Rhoney.

ROCKFORD AVIATORS — Released SS Vickash Ramjit.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Traded C Zach Komentani to River City for a 2015 first-round draft pick.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Signed RHP Shawn Blackwell to a contract extension. Signed INF Cater Bell, RHP Devin Malone, catcher Michael Pair, RHP Joey Perrotta and LHP Alfonso Yevoli.

Released RHP Casey Cannon, RHP Dan Goldstein and INF Nico Slater.

WOMEN’S SOCCER WINNIPEG — Teenager Kadeisha Buchanan was a star on both sides of the ball Thursday night as Canada tied the No. 1-ranked U.S. women’s soccer team 1-1, thanks to her first goal as a member of the Canadian national

● 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.

Sunday

Saturday ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Manitoba Blizzard at Red Deer, 11:30 a.m., Innisfail Arena Red.

● 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.

Basketball NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Tuesday, May 6: San Antonio 116, Portland 92 Thursday, May 8: San Antonio 114, Portland 97 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

EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami 2, Brooklyn 0 Tuesday, May 6: Miami 107, Brooklyn 86 Thursday, May 8: Miami 94, Brooklyn 82 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 2, Portland 0

The Players Championship Thursday At TPC Sawgrass, Players Stadium Course Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Purse: $10 million Yardage: 7,215; Par 72 (36-36) First Round

Sunday’s games France vs. Italy, 3:45 a.m.

Germany vs. Latvia, 4:45 a.m.

Norway vs. Denmark, 7:45 a.m.

Belarus vs. Kazakhstan, 8:30 a.m.

Sweden vs. Czech Republic, 11:45 a.m.

Finland vs. Russia, noon

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Tulowitzki Col 34 113 34 Blackmon Col 35 132 30 Goldschmidt Ari 37 151 27 DGordon LAD 32 129 19 Morneau Col 34 130 18 Utley Phi 30 120 17 LaRoche Was 31 111 18 Arenado Col 37 146 21 MaAdams StL 34 131 9 AMcCutchen Pit 34 131 19

● 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.

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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

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WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed C Matt Scioscia.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Called up F Matt Fraser from Providence (AHL). Assigned F Justin Florek to Providence.

EDMONTON OILERS — Signed C Bogdan Yakimov to a three-year entry-level contract.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Signed D Greg Pateryn to a two-year contract extension.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Extended their affiliation agreement with Milwaukee (AHL) through the 2016-17 season.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Signed D Mikael Wikstrand to a three-year entry-level contract.

PHOENIX COYOTES — Signed G Marek Langhamer to a three-year entry-level contract.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed coach Randy Carlyle to a two-year contract extension.

Announced assistant coaches Dave Farrish, Greg Cronin and Scott Gordon will not return next season.

SOCCER Major League Soccer CHIVAS USA — Acquired MF Marvin Chavez from Colorado for F Luke Moore.

COLORADO RAPIDS — Acquired D Gale Agbossoumonde from Toronto FC for F LUke Moore.

COLUMBUS CREW — Acquired a conditional 2016 second-round SuperDraft pick from Chivas USA for F Ryan Finley.

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Buchanan said it was a great experience to score but her work on defence was also key to keeping the Americans in check.

“Defence wins games and we tried,” she said of the physical way she challenged and often beat U.S. strikers such as veteran Abby Wambach as they rushed the Canadian goal.

“That’s part of my element.”

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Football 2014 NFL Draft Selections At New York Thursday First Round 1. Houston, Jadeveon Clowney, de, South Carolina.

2. St. Louis (from Washington), Greg Robinson, ot, Auburn.

3. Jacksonville, Blake Bortles, qb, UCF. 4. Buffalo (from Cleveland), Sammy Watkins, wr, Clemson.

5. Oakland, Khalil Mack, lb, Buffalo.

6. Atlanta, Jake Matthews, ot, Texas A&M. 7. Tampa Bay, Mike Evans, wr, Texas A&M. 8. Cleveland (from Minnesota), Justin Gilbert, db, Oklahoma State.

9. Minnesota (from Buffalo through Cleveland), Anthony Barr, lb, UCLA. 10. Detroit, Eric Ebron, te, North Carolina.

11. Tennessee, Taylor Lewan, ot, Michigan.

12. New York Giants, Odell Beckham, wr, LSU. 13. St. Louis, Aaron Donald, dt, Pittsburgh.

14. Chicago, Kyle Fuller, db, Virginia Tech.

15. Pittsburgh, Ryan Shazier, lb, Ohio State.

16. Dallas, Zach Martin, g, Notre Dame.

17. Baltimore, C.J. Mosley, lb, Alabama.

18. New York Jets, Calvin Pryor, db, Louisville.

19. Miami, Ja’Wuan James, ot, Tennessee.

20. New Orleans (from Arizona), Brandin Cooks, wr, Oregon State.

21. Green Bay, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, db, Alabama.

22. Cleveland (from Philadelphia), Johnny Manziel, qb, Texas A&M. 23. Kansas City, Dee Ford, de, Auburn.

24. Cincinnati, Darqueze Dennard, db, Michigan State.

25. San Diego, Jason Verrett, db, TCU. 26. Philadelphia (from Indianapolis through Cleve-

land), Marcus Smith, lb, Louisville.

27. Arizona (from New Orleans), Deone Bucannon, db, Washington State.

28. Carolina, Kelvin Benjamin, wr, Florida State.

29. New England, Dominique Easley, de, Florida.

30. San Francisco, Jimmie Ward, db, Northern Illinois.

31. Denver, Bradley Roby, db, Ohio State.

32. Minnesota (from Seattle), Teddy Bridgewater, qb, Louisville.

2014 NFL Draft Trades 1, Cleveland traded its first-round pick (No. 4) to Buffalo for the Bills’ first-round (No. 9) and a 2015 first- and fourth-round picks. Buffalo selected Sammy Watkins, wr, Clemson. Cleveland traded (No. 9) to Minnesota.

2, Minnesota traded its first-round pick (No. 8) to Cleveland for the Browns’ first- (No. 9) and fifthround (No. 145) picks. Cleveland selected Justin Gilbert, db, Oklahoma State. Minnesota selected Anthony Barr, lb, UCLA and (No. 145).

3, Arizona traded its first-round pick (No. 20) to New Orleans for the Saints’ first- (No. 27) and third-round (No. 91) pick. New Orleans selected Brandin Cooks, wr, Oregon State. Arizona selected Deone Bucannon, db, Washington State and (No. 91).

4, Philadelphia traded its first-round pick (No. 22) to Cleveland for the Browns’ first- (No. 26) and thirdround (No. 83) picks. Cleveland selected Johnny Manziel, qb, Texas A&M. Philadelphia selected Marcus Smith, lb, Louisville and (No. 83).

5, Seattle traded its first-round pick (No. 32) to Minnesota for the Vikings’ second- (No. 40) and fourthround (No. 108) picks. Minnesota selected Teddy Bridgewater, qb, Louisville. Seattle selected (No. 40) and (No. 108).

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 Toronto 7 3 4 0 Philadelphia 10 1 4 5 Montreal 8 1 4 3

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Wednesday’s results Houston 1 Columbus 0 Seattle 2 Dallas 1 San Jose 0 Colorado 0 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’s games 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.

Wednesday, May 14 Philadelphia at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 17 New York at Toronto, 2:30 p.m.

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER The visiting Notre Dame Cougars blanked Central Alberta Christian 2-0 in boys high school soccer action Wednesday.

Jerson Paez and Theoren Gill scored for the winners.

In girls action Notre Dame beat Lacombe 4-1 on Thursday.

The Cougars got three goals from Nicole Friedl with Cailin teStroete added the other. Lacombes lone goal was scored by Mackayla Chapman.

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HOME & GARDEN Edible gard gardening dening seems to be gaining popularity in recent yearss for many reasons.

One reason n would obviously be economical economical. It is amazing how much produce, be it fruit or vegetables that can be grown in a small area in a backyard or in a large pot on a deck or patio. Everything you harvest from your garden is grown at the cost of a few seeds or plants, some basic supplies and some of your time.

A more important reason is having a healthy and safe source of produce for yourself and your loved ones. While most produce purchased at the market is defiantly safe to consume, we can never be too sure.

The only way to truly know what has or has not been applied to your food is to grow your own. And for those who wish to avoid genetically engineered crops, theses can also be avoided simply by purchasing your own seed and/or bedding crops and “growing your own”. Because genetically engineered plant varieties are so very costly to develop, it is not economical for those involved to market them at homeowner size quantities. This fact alone effectively keeps them out of the local seed racks and bedding plant supplies.

They are only grown by growers growing vast acreages of produce such as sweet corn, canola etc.

As a result it is getting much more attractive to “grow your own”. There is a vast array of edible items that we can grow in central Alberta and they are so easy to grow. Any sunny location with good soil will do.

If the soil is hard, amend it with generous amounts of compost or peat moss.

Vegetables are divided into cool season or warm season crops. Cool season crops such as most root crops, kale, spinach, lettuce, peas and chard can germinate and grow in cool soil and can be planted as early as late April in central Alberta. Warm season crops, however, must have warm soil to germinate and grow and as such must be planted out about

Growing Your Own

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(MS) Several varieties of roses are thornless or have very few thorns. Many plant breeders have developed roses without thorns, which are particularly safe for elderly gardeners, gardeners who have young children or pets or those who simply do not want to worry about thorns on their rose bushes. Smooth Touch roses are a popular and thorn-free breed of rose developed in California in the 1960s by Harvey Davidson. These roses are touted as 95 to 100 percent free of thorns.

Some of the Smooth Touch series include, “Ballerina,” “Moonlight” and “Snowflake.” A moderate climber, the “Zephirine Drouhin,” named after the wife of a French rose enthusiast, is another popular thorn-free breed of rose. Several multiflora ramblers that descended from Asian rose species also are free of thorns. “Ghislaine de nblau, “Goldfinch,” and “Ice Tea” Feligonde,” “Veilchenblau,” re tho n-free canes aand stems. are others that feature thorn-free

M May. 25th or later. These include all the cucumber, m melon, pumpkin, beans corn, tomatoes and peppers.

Th They also much be grown in warm, sunny sheltered locations.

Herbs also fall in the edible plant area. Many are perennial and can be grown in the perennial border.

Some, like basil are an annual and need a warm sunny location such as that found in a large pot on a warm sunny deck.

Tomatoes (actually a fruit) are best grown on the warm south side of a building or fence or in a large pot on a warm sunny deck (with the basil) or in a greenhouse.

There are also many different fruits, such as apples, cherries, plums, saskatoons and grapes that can be grown in Red Deer. Growing details cannot all be printed here, but our experts a Parkland Garden Centre will be happy to help out.

Watering practices are very important in determining success when growing vegetables and fruits. Plants grown in pots will need watering virtually every day - maybe even more on sunny hot days. Rainwater collected in barrels under the downspout is the very best source of good quality water free of impurities.

For those crops grown in the traditional garden setting, mulching will aide in reducing the need for watering but when watering is required, set out a sprinkler and let it go for at least 2 hours per setting for adequate soaking. Watering will only be required once every week or two this way.

Some edibles can even be grown in hanging baskets such as tomatoes and strawberries. Radishes and lettuce can be grown in window boxes. Just remember to purchase a good quality soil mix for this purpose and also remember that very few plants will overwinter in pots, so annual vegetable are a great thing to grow in pots. The possibilities are endless and fun – check it all out at Parkland Garden Centre!

Recognize safety hazards during yard work (MS) -- Attention, all green thumbs -- and the bodies attached to them: It’s nearly time to get down and dirty in the garden.

Whether you’re transforming your backyard into an award winner or just trimming the lawn, the CSA Group, a leading certification and testing organization, asks that you remember the following safety tips:

Yard Work • Always ensure that products such as electric lawnmowers, barbecues, power tools, ladders, decorative lights, extension cords and safety apparel carry the mark of a recognized certification organization, such as CSA Group.

• Read the manufacturer’s operating instructions and use products only as intended.

• Wear protective eye and footwear (on eyes and feet, respectively).

• What’s that you say? Wear hearing protection when operating loud machinery, vehicles or tools.

Power Lawnmowers • Know your mower and always follow the

manufacturer’s instructions.

• Look for these safety features: a rear guard to protect your hands and feet from rotating blades; a “deadman” control that stops the mower when you release the handle; and an “up-stop” feature to prevent the handle from kicking up when the mower hits an obstacle.

• Clear the lawn of sticks, stones, wire, toys

and other objects (including that screwdriver you lost in the grass last summer), as they could get caught in the machine or flung by the blades.

• Wear clothing that provides some protection, including long pants, a shirt with sleeves and firmly-tied shoes with non-slip soles and hard toes.

• Never cut the grass when it’s damp or wet, or when there is rain or lightning. Wet conditions greatly increase the risk that you will slip, suffer electric shock or clog the mower.

• Always mow in daylight, never at twilight or in the dark. Keep your eyes on the lawn and look ahead (at least three feet) for debris.

• Shut off, unplug and engage your mower’s safety devices before removing clogged grass clippings.

• Shut off the mower immediately if you hit an object. Check for damage and do not restart it unless you’re sure it’s safe to do so.

• As suggested by its name, always push rather than pull a push mower.

• All extension cords should be untangled, in good repair, have a three-prong plug rated for outdoor use and be of the recommended gauge for the load.

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Clear debris One of the best things you can do for your garden as

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Dead leaves, fallen branches, rocks that surfaced during the winter frost, and even garbage that might have blown about in winter winds can all pile up in a garden over a typical winter. Clearing such debris likely won’t take long, but it’s a great first step toward restoring the garden before the time comes to plant and grow the garden once again.

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Another way to examine the soil is less complex but can shed light on when would be a good time to get back to work. Reach into the soil and dig out a handful.

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While autumn is a better time to overseed a lawn for new growth, satisfactory results still can be had if seeding is done early enough in the spring. Grass needs ample time to establish roots and grow strong before the summer heat takes its toll. Many types of grass need six to 12 weeks of ideal temperatures and growing conditions to germinate and produce a sturdy grass that will grow and endure.

Seeding can be done to rejuvenate an existing lawn and fill in bare spots. It also can be done to start a lawn from scratch. The following are some tips to help make seeding projects more successful.

• Begin by raking the lawn to remove thatch and any fallen leaves leftover from autumn and winter. Raking also enables you to inspect the lawn for bare patches or matting of grass that may be indicative of a fungus or other problem.

• Dust off the mower and trim the lawn short, especially if it was left long at the end of last season. This will help seed penetrate the blades of grass and get to the soil beneath.

• High-traffic lawns may need aeration to counteract compacted soil. Moss on the ground is often an indication of compaction. Aeration will help with this problem, as it pokes holes into the soil to enable oxygenation that keeps new grass robust and promotes faster growth. Lawn aerators can be rented from many garden centers.

• Spread a mixture of topsoil and compost over the top of the lawn. This will add nutrients through organic matter to the lawn and create a good base for the new seed to take root. It will also help strengthen any existing grass and promote long-term health.

• Test a sample of the soil to check the pH. Grass prefers a neutral pH, but some soil tends to lean toward the acidic side, especially if you see the presence of moss.

Knowing the pH will help determine just how much lime per square foot you will need to adjust it accordingly. Liming is a corrective measure and does not need to be used on a healthy, thriving lawn.

• Invest in a spreader to add seed to the lawn.

The spreader will have various settings that enable you to calibrate the rate of seed dispersion depending on your walking speed. Fill the spreader with seed and begin to walk around the lawn. Drop spreaders require you to apply seed in rows with no overlap. Broadcast spreaders will cast seed widely and may need some overlap to guarantee complete coverage.

• Spread another thin layer of compost mix over the seed and water thoroughly. The compost will help keep moisture in while the seeds germinate.

• Aim for lawn watering two to three times per day. The seed should be barely dry between watering. After seeds have germinated and established, you can reduce the frequency of watering but increase the depth of the watering to keep roots strong.

• Avoid foot traffic on a newly seeded lawn until the grass is well established.

• MYTH: Compost tea is more effective than

traditional compost. All over North America and the United Kingdom, gardeners have jumped on board the compost tea bandwagon. Compost tea is a fertilizer created by steeping compost in water mixed with sugar in brewing kits. The mixture is allowed to sit and aerate to encourage beneficial organism growth before it is sprayed on plants.

According to supporters, compost tea suppresses disease and boosts plant yields. However, there is no evidence to suggest that compost tea works any better than adding compost in its normal state to the soil. In fact, leaving buckets of the “tea” around to ferment could actually create a breeding ground for E coli and other bacteria.

• MYTH

: Water droplets and sunshine lead to burnt leaves. Gardeners have been told to resist watering their plants during the hottest times of the day.

Many assume it’s because water droplets lying on leaves will magnify the sun’s rays and burn the leaves. According to Dr. Gabor Horvath at the Eoetvoes University in Budapest, water droplets will rarely damage plants because the drops are too close to the leaves to cause burning before they evaporate. Watering during the hottest points of the day is not advised because water evaporates and gets wasted.

• MYTH: Sand added to clay soil makes it looser

and better for plants. Clay soil is a deterrent to gardening because it can be so hard to dig and difficult to cultivate, but some feel it’s best to add sand to the clay to make it a better soil mixture.

You would need a great deal of sand to do this in the right manner, but many gardeners simply dig a hole, add sand and hope for the best. However, water runoff will pool in the sand and not be absorbed by the clay, potentially causing the plants to drown.

• MYTH: Adding compost or potting soil to the • MYTH: Plants under stress should be fertilized. planting hole for a tree or shrub is beneficial.

This is not the case. Horticulturists advise that fertilizing plants that are not deficient in nutrients can actually add to existing stress levels for plants.

Plants are not often stressed by a lack of food, but rather heat, faulty planting or space constraints. A fed plant will use the energy to absorb the nutrients instead of defending against a blight or establishing better root systems.

Gardeners frequently add compost or potting soil to the hole where the root ball of a tree or shrub will be placed. But this encourages the roots to grow only in this nutrient-rich area, rather than spreading throughout the landscape to form a stronger and more durable root system. If you are going to amend the soil, do so evenly across the landscape.

tempting to stake that little sapling to protect it against the weather and strong winds, but doing so may actually work against the foundling tree.

Staking trees to inhibit swaying may not stimulate the tree to grow thicker, lower trunks that will help the tree in the long run. The Royal Horticultural Society recommends that saplings be staked for around one year and then have the stakes removed to encourage the tree to be strong and stable on its own.

gravel can actually impede the growth of plants and take away space for roots to grow. The drainage may be affected as well, as water will sit above the gravel or stones and saturate the roots. Stick with plain soil for better drainage results.

A variety of gardening myths still prevail. Over time, behaviors can be changed if gardeners learn to separate myths from facts.

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There’s no Clowney-ing around TEXANS TAKE SOUTH CAROLINA’S CLOWNEY 1ST OVERALL, MANZIEL GOES TO CLEVELAND

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — For nearly three years, Jadeveon Clowney couldn’t wait to get to the NFL, and the league was just as eager to add the player some called the best defensive prospect in a decade.

No surprise: Clowney is the Texans’ man.

But Thursday’s first pick of the NFL draft didn’t come without some intrigue about how it would all turn out.

There had been criticism of Clowney’s work ethic last season and questions about whether the Texans would hold or trade the No. 1 slot.

“I just been proving a lot of people wrong throughout my life,” Clowney said. “Growing up, I grew up hard. I always said I’m going to do something great. Hopefully, I’m going to be a Hall of Famer one day.”

Houston will take that.

This draft’s other big name, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, sat with a sullen look on his face until Cleveland made its third trade of the round and grabbed the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner at No. 22. To rousing cheers and chants of “Johnny, Johnny,” Manziel smiled widely as he walked onto the Radio City Music Hall stage.

“If you call it a slide, I wouldn’t call it that at all,” he said. “I was drafted in the first round of the NFL draft.

“It’s a great story. It’s great for me to end up there, at a team that has fans that are as passionate as I am on the field.”

Manziel’s wait added plenty of suspense nearly three hours after the Texans took their time selecting Clowney.

Rarely does a team not reveal the top overall choice until it is announced, and there was wide speculation the Texans had soured on the defensive end, whose junior season at South Carolina was accompanied by criticism he

Yankees to retire Joe Torre’s No 6 and honour Gossage, Martinez and O’Neill with plaques

played it safe to stay healthy for the pros.

After Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the pick, fans filling Radio City Music Hall to capacity applauded Clowney as he held up his index finger, his eyes moist, a relieved look on his face. Just like the 30 prospects on hand, the fans were extra eager to see who would wind up where after the draft was pushed back from late April because the theatre was unavailable.

“It’s been a long time. It just kicked in at the end there, man, I’ve been drafted,” he said.

Clowney, 21, brings size, speed and power to a lineup that already has 2012 NFL Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt. His diligence had been questioned after he slipped from 13 sacks to just three in 2013. Critics said he was protecting himself from injury in his junior year before declaring early for the draft.

He is the first defensive player taken first overall since Houston selected another end, Mario Williams, in 2006.

Williams now is with Buffalo. Houston also made the top pick in its first season, 2002, taking quarterback David Carr. He never lived up to that billing; the Texans hope Clowney has more of an impact.

Tackle Greg Robinson, whose blocking helped high-powered Auburn make the national championship game last season, went second to St. Louis. The Rams owned the pick as the final payment for a 2012 trade with Washington that allowed the Redskins to draft quarterback Robert Griffin III. St. Louis is concerned about the health of starting left tackle Jake Long, who is coming off knee surgery.

The first quarterback to go went to Jacksonville in the third slot, but it wasn’t Johnny Football. Blake Bortles of Central Florida, whose stock shot up last season and in subsequent workouts. At 6-5, 232, Bortles drew compari-

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South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney arrives for the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft with his mother Josenna Clowney, Thursday, in New York.

Clowney was taken first overall by the Houston Texans. sons to Ben Roethlisberger because of his combination of size and mobility. Jacksonville missed the last time it took a QB in the first round, Blaine Gabbert in 2011. The Jaguars gave up on the inconsistent Gabbert, who struggled to read defences and was benched for journeyman Chad Henne. Gabbert is now a backup in San Francisco.

“He’s a down-to-earth guy, a selfmade guy, a blue-collar guy and he wants to be the best he can be,” said Jaguars general manager Dave

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NEW YORK — The Yankees will retire former manager Joe Torre’s No. 6, leaving Derek Jeter’s No. 2 as the last single digit in New York’s pinstripes.

Torre, Rich Gossage, Tino Martinez and Paul O’Neill also will be honoured with plaques in Monument Park, the team said Thursday.

Torre managed the Yankees to World Series titles in 1996 and from 1998-00 and six AL pennants during 12 seasons as manager that ended in 2007. Currently Major League Baseball’s executive vice-president for baseball operations, he is being inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame this summer.

“I am incredibly humbled,” Torre said in a statement. “The Hall of Fame became possible for me because of what our players accomplished in 12 memorable years representing this historic franchise together. I hope that number 6 will stand for everything that our players achieved.”

Torre’s number will be retired during a ceremony in Monument Park on Aug. 23. His number will join those of Billy Martin (1), Babe Ruth (3), Lou Gehrig (4), Joe DiMaggio (5), Mickey Mantle (7), Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey (8), Roger Maris (9), Phil Rizzuto (10), Thurman Munson (15), Whitey Ford (16), Don Mattingly (23), Elston Howard (32), Casey Stengel (37), Mariano Rivera (42), Reggie Jackson (44) and Ron Guidry (49).

Jeter, the Yankees’ captain since 2003, said in February this will be his final season.

Martinez’s ceremony will be June 21 as part of Old-Timers’ Day weekend followed the next day by the honours for Gossage, one of only a handful of pitchers in the Hall of Fame who primarily were relievers.

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Seeing a chance to grab playmaking receiver Sammy Watkins of Clemson, Buffalo swapped spots with Cleveland, also sending a first- and fourth-round selection next year to move up from ninth to fourth.

“Dynamic playmaker, and that’s what this game is all about,” Bills GM Doug Whaley said of Watkins. “He’s automatically going to make our quarterback (EJ Manuel) better.”

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A team at the crossroads OF ALL THE CLUBS THAT MISSED THE PLAYOFFS, THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS MIGHT BE THE MOST FASCINATING AS JUST TWO YEARS AGO, THEY WERE CONSIDERED A SERIOUS STANLEY CUP CHALLENGER.

It’s the time of year when hock- 14-year, $110 million (U.S.) contract ey fantasies start to run wild, when that they’d love to off-load it on some the boundaries between reality and other club after missing the playoffs dreams get blurred. the past two seasons.

That’s what happens when you’ve David Poile, Nashville’s GM, shot got 22 NHL clubs on the sidelines won- that one down. dering what went wrong.

“He’s staying here,” said And trying to figure Poile on Tuesday after hirhow to be one of the Final ing Peter Laviolette as the Eight still alive next year. club’s new head coach. “The Two fantasies stand out contract actually gets more at the moment. affordable after the first six First, the notion that years. We’ve made that comMike Babcock is about to mitment to him.” bolt from the Red Wings, True, in four more years who we are to believe Weber’s salary drops to $6 might not be content with million from its current $14 23 straight seasons makmillion, and by then, who ing the playoffs — nine of knows exactly where the them under Babcock — Predators will be?

DAMIEN or because he’s somehow Of all the clubs that missed COX looking for a way out. the playoffs, Nashville might It’s an intriguing nobe the most fascinating. Just tion, but one Babcock two years ago, they were conshut down on Wednesday, sidered a serious Stanley Cup saying he’s “real comfortable” coach- challenger. ing the Wings.

They beat Detroit in the first round “When you’re looking for oppor- of the playoffs, but then lost in five tunity out there and if you’re think- games to Phoenix, a series punctuated ing of moving, you’d better make sure at the end with the off-ice antics of the grass is greener on the other side. Alexander Radulov and Andrei KosWhat I’ve found in life is it usually is titsyn, both of whom were suspended not,” he told Sportsnet The Fan 960 in by the team for the third game of the Calgary. series for breaking team rules.

Second would be the frequently That was the start of a very quick mentioned suggestion that the Nash- fall from grace for the Predators. Deville Predators are so burdened by the fenceman Ryan Suter was lost to free weight of defenceman Shea Weber’s agency that summer and Weber was

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signed to a free agent offer sheet by Philadelphia, one the Preds matched but put their salary cap situation out of whack.

Goalie Pekka Rinne was injured for 51 games this season, and long-time team mainstay David Legwand was parceled off to Detroit at the trade deadline.

“So we have only 11 players left from that team (that beat Detroit in the playoffs,” said Poile. “That’s how fast things change.”

Head coach Barry Trotz was fired at the end of the season, the only coach Nashville has ever had. Poile, meanwhile, is still recovering from a terrible accident during the season when a stray puck hit him in the face during a morning skate in St. Paul, Minn., on Feb. 6.

His nose was broken so badly he had to wear a cast on it for eight weeks, and he has permanently lost the sight of his right eye.

Last Friday, he golfed for the first time since the accident, and is now driving a car again.

“So look out,” he joked. “Look, I’m good. It was awful, and it’s something I have to deal with, but I’m going to be fine.”

He’s been running the Preds for 15 years, but you do get the sense the team is at a crossroads.

“We’ve been going an okay job,” said Poile.

“But okay is not good enough.”

Laviolette will be expected to make a team that was shutout nine times last season and held to one goal another 16 times into a more dangerous offensive team.

Help in that area could have come in last year’s draft but the Preds were surprised when Nathan MacKinnon, Alexander Barkov and Jonathan Drouin went with the first three picks.

That left defenceman Seth Jones for Nashville, not a bad construing prize, but not the flashy offensive help the club was hoping to get.

“We clearly have to find a way to be more dynamic offensively,” said Poile.

Weber’s 23 goals and 33 assists made him the third-leading scorer among all NHL defencemen this season, another reason why he’s invaluable to the Predators.

Obviously, there’s a temptation to move him for several pieces that might spread out the burden on the Nashville roster. But Poile knows from experience — he declined to match Scott Stevens’ four-year, $5.145 million offer sheet from St. Louis in 1989 while running the Washington Capitals — that when you have that kind of blue-line stud, you pay him and you keep him.

It doesn’t make for much of a hockey fantasy, of course.

But for Poile, reality is more than challenging enough for the time being.

Damien Cox, Toronto Star hockey columnist and is a National Newspaper Award winner.

Maple Leafs giving Carlyle another chance despite late-season collapse

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Despite a stunning late-season collapse that cost the Toronto Maple Leafs a playoff spot, general manager Dave Nonis believes Randy Carlyle is still the right man to lead the club.

The Maple Leafs handed their embattled head coach a two-year contract extension on Thursday, while at the same time announcing that assistants Dave Farrish, Greg Cronin and Scott Gordon will not be back.

“It was important for us to make it clear that Randy has the support needed to move forward,” Nonis said on a conference call. “He has done a lot of good things for us and we expect him to continue that with some new assistants.”

There had been rampant speculation that Carlyle would pay with his job after a disastrous end to the most recent campaign saw Toronto tumble out of post-season contention thanks to an embarrassing 2-12-0 finish.

Instead, Nonis and new Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan gassed Carlyle’s staff in hopes that some new voices can help the 58-year-old get the most out of Toronto’s underachieving roster.

“If you’ve seen it being done before with most of the same players, or a lot of the same players, and with that coach leading that group, I know it can happen,” said Nonis. “I know it has happened with this group before. I know that (Carlyle) has reached them before, reached them at times this year.

“For me it’s not that we’re guessing whether or not he can have success or he can get through to them. We’ve seen it. I know that it’s there and we feel he is the guy that can get through to this group.”

Carlyle — who led the Maple Leafs to their first playoff appearance since 2004 in the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season — had Toronto sitting second in the Atlantic Division this year before the wheels fell off in mid-March.

“We feel that this group can continue to grow into a higher level of a hockey club,” said Carlyle. “We just have to find and continue to push for a little bit more from the individuals and we are going to do everything we possibly can to change some of the things that are happening with our group.”

Despite calls from fans and media alike in Toronto for Carlyle’s dismissal, Nonis said he wasn’t swayed by how the decision might play in the hockeymad city.

“If you’re worried about optics in this market, it’s going to be a disaster,” said Nonis. “I think you have to make a decision based on what you think is the best decision for the organization, and this in our minds was clearly the best option.

“He was a guy we believe can get the job done for us. Whether optics are that it’s the wrong thing to do or not doesn’t really matter to us. If you’re looking at trying to please people, you’re probably going to make some poor decisions.”

The Maple Leafs started the 201314 season on a 10-4-0 run, but Carlyle worried at the time that his team was getting away with sloppy play in the defensive zone.

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Los Angeles Clippers guard Jamal Crawford, left, goes up for a shot as Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green defends during Game 7 of an openinground NBA basketball playoff series, Saturday, in Los Angeles. Crawford became the oldest recipient and the first to win the NBA Sixth Man Award, Thursday.

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Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle speaks to reporters during his year-end address at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Tuesday. The Maple Leafs handed their embattled head coach a two-year contract extension on Thursday.

Olympic break, the Leafs were rolling despite being badly outshot on most nights. When they beat the Kings in Los Angeles on March 13, they were in second place in the division.

But starting goaltender Jonathan Bernier aggravated a groin injury that night, and though it was not considered serious at the time it proved to be devastating.

James Reimer lost five straight and was pulled March 23 against the New Jersey Devils before Bernier returned and lost three more. The final night of that losing streak, March 29 against the Detroit Red Wings, was effectively the death knell for Toronto’s playoff hopes.

“This hockey club has proven at times to be able to compete to a higher level,” said Carlyle.

“The consistency of our compete in our defensive zone coverage was the area of concern right from the opening month of the season. We harped on it, harped on it, harped on it, yet we were winning with it.”

Nonis made it clear that it was management’s decision to clean out the assistant coaches. Carlyle had worked with Farrish since their days with the Anaheim Ducks, winning a Stanley Cup together in 2007.

“It’s a tough day and those are tough ones,” said Carlyle, who also played junior hockey with Farrish. “The game of hockey is a great game, but the business side of hockey is an awful one.

This is an awful day in our life, for our relationship between Dave Farrish and myself.”

Nonis said that Carlyle would be consulted on the new assistant coaches, but added the decisions will be a collaborative effort.

Carlyle led Toronto to the playoffs last spring, but that run ended in disaster when the Leafs lost to the Boston Bruins in the Eastern Conference quarter-finals after blowing a threegoal, third-period lead in Game 7.

BECOMES OLDEST PLAYER TO EVER WIN AWARD AND FIRST TO WIN WITH TWO DIFFERENT TEAMS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Just as he has to wait to come into games, Jamal Crawford had to be patient about receiving the NBA Sixth Man Award.

The 34-year-old guard was honoured on Thursday, a week later than usual.

The delay was caused by the controversy involving team owner Donald Sterling, who was banned for life by the NBA after a recording surfaced in which he made racist comments.

“We’ve known it for a while, but obviously with all the stuff going on we decided to try to let it die down before we gave him the award or he would never be able to talk about the award,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. “I’m glad we’re finally able to do this.”

Crawford became the oldest recipient and the first to win with different teams. He also was honoured as the league’s best player off the bench while with the Atlanta Hawks in 200910.

“It’s pretty cool,” he said during a presentation at the team’s practice facility, with teammates including Chris Paul and Blake Griffin cheering him and poking fun of his suit and tie.

“I didn’t know what a family was on the court until I got with these guys,” an emotional Crawford said. “I’ve been on a lot of teams and usually guys, they go their own way. But with us, everybody is included, everybody is a part.

They make everybody feel like family.”

Crawford led the league’s reserve players in scoring this season, averaging 18.6 points. He came off the bench in 45 of 69 games he played in, helping the Clippers to a 57-25 record, their best regular-season mark in franchise history.

Crawford went so far as to say he hopes to spend the rest of his career with the Clippers, an organization roiled by Sterling telling his friend V. Stiviano that he didn’t want her to bring black people to Clippers games.

“As long as I’m with this group of guys and with Doc leading us, everything else will work itself out,” Crawford said.

The Clippers had a 31-14 record when Crawford came off the bench this season.

Crawford set the single-season franchise record for 3-pointers made with 161. That surpassed his record from last season, his first in Los Angeles, when he was runner-up for the Sixth Man award.

“He can score in his sleep,” Rivers said. “I’ve never seen a guy that can sit for 15 minutes and literally be on the floor for a half-second and they swing him the ball and he’s ready to shoot and make some shots.”

Rivers even made an exception to his policy of not running a play for someone when they first enter the game.

“He’s a lethal scorer, but he adds more value when he does other things,” the coach said.

Rivers was among those in the NBA who knew Crawford by reputation, a player who only wanted to score and not defend. But Crawford put that to rest this season, especially when Paul was injured.

“This year he’s ran the point guard position, he’s been my best passer at times when C.P. was out,” Rivers said.

“He’s been our defender, he’s in the right spots. He’s been a complete team guy, so I’m really happy for him.”

Crawford received 57 first-place votes and 421 total points from a panel of 125 sports writers and broadcasters throughout the U.S. and Canada. He joined Kevin McHale, Ricky Pierce and Detlef Schrempf as two-time winners.

Taj Gibson of Chicago finished second with 395 points and San Antonio’s Manu Ginobili was third with 138.

Crawford had his best month in January, scoring in double figures in 15 of 16 games and helping the Clippers go 12-4 that month.

On Jan. 25, he had 37 points and 11 assists in a win over Toronto — the most points he scored off the bench in his career and his most with the Clippers. It was the second time this season he had that many points and assists; he totalled those numbers against Sacramento on Nov. 29.

Crawford missed 13 games in March and April because of a sore Achilles tendon, but rallied to return in time for the playoffs.

The Clippers and Thunder are tied 1-1 in their Western Conference semifinals series.

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LUANN May 9 1994 — Nelson Mandela is chosen to be South Africa’s first black president.

1992 — Clifford Frame closes Curragh’s Westray Mine in Nova Scotia after a methane gas explosion kills 26 men underground.

1977 — The Bank of Canada cuts its lending rate from eight per cent to 7.5 per cent.

1962 — A laser beam is successfully bounced off the moon for the first time.

1955 — West Germany joins NATO. 1926 — Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett become the first men to fly an airplane over the North Pole.

1868 — Patrick James Whelan is arrested and charged with the murder of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, one of the fathers of Canadian Confederation.

1793 — Alexander Mackenzie leaves Fort York at the forks of the Peace and Smoky rivers, heads west towards the Pacific, eventually becoming the first European to cross North America using a route north of Mexico.

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Sloane Stephens from the U.S. returns the ball during a Madrid Open tennis tournament match against Na Li from China in Madrid, Spain, Thursday.

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eas will make it more challenging to race and more fun to watch. Most also are following a normal roadracing weekend schedule for the first three days before switching to Indy mode for the rest of the month.

And there’s one more thing the drivers like.

“I feel fortunate we can try to win both,” said three-time 500 winner Helio Castroneves, a Brazilian who drives for Roger Penske.

Even the series’ marquee event, the 500, is changing. Under the new format, the pole-winner will not be determined until the end of the second and final day of qualifications.

Organizers added an extra practice day, May 19, to give teams more time to focus on race setup since so many are expected to trim their cars for qualifying on May 17 and 18. And the 12:15 p.m. start for the May 25 race has made it possible for 2004 Cup champion Kurt Busch to become the fourth driver to attempt “the double” — completing 1,100 miles of racing at Indy and Charlotte on the same day.

“People in Indianapolis are spoiled because this is probably the finest oval in North America and this road course is probably the best in North America,” said Mike Hull, Ganassi’s managing director. “These are the race tracks we should be showcasing.”

Along with the versatility of the drivers and the cars, too, even if means some new traditions.

“I think it’s exciting to be showcasing it right here because this is what our series is all about,” Andretti said. “It’s a big challenge for the drivers and the teams, but it’s a challenge I really enjoy because when you get a champion, you get a true champion in all disciplines and that’s what I love about our series.”

INDIANAPOLIS — Michael Andretti thought he had experienced everything at Indianapolis Motor Speedway — until he strolled down pit row Thursday.

Suddenly, the 51-year-old IndyCar team owner who grew up around this historic track, who raced against his father and his son here, who led more laps than any non-race winner in Indy history, was surprised at seeing tire marks going the wrong way.

“I wondered, ’Why are they burning rubber coming into the pits.’ Then I remembered,” Andretti said before cracking a smile on Indy’s opening day. “You sort of get used to it.”

Andretti isn’t alone. Everyone is adjusting to Indy’s the new sights, sounds and schedules this May. Traditionalists have already complained that it was a bad idea to run two major IndyCar races at Indianapolis in the same month, arguing the Grand Prix of Indianapolis will detract from the series’ marquee event, the Indianapolis 500. Of course, they also complained when NASCAR, Formula One and MotoGP all came to the speedway, too. But this transition will be a little tougher on everyone.

Rather than attending opening day on a weekend, there were already two rookie practices and a roadcourse test session before the track officially opened for practice Thursday.

Rather than watching cars race counterclockwise through four left turns on a 2.5-mile oval all month, drivers will spend the first three days running clockwise around the reconstructed 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course.

Rather than seeing speeds top 225 mph, fans will deal with cars going more than 100 mph slower. Defending IndyCar champ Scott Dixon had the fastest lap Thursday in the two 45-minute practice sessions, 124.606. A year ago, Ed Carpenter’s pole-winning four-lap average for the 500 was 228.762.

Qualifying for the inaugural Grand Prix of Indianapolis is scheduled for Friday with the race set for Saturday, a race that will be held even in light or moderate rain, something that should please Indy race fans who so often have to contend with long rain delays when the cars are on the oval.

That may not even be the oddest part.

“It is going to be really weird here Sunday when you get on the track and see the tire marks going the opposite direction we’re driving,” said Brazil’s Tony Kanaan, the defending Indianapolis 500 champ who now drives for Chip Ganassi.

“But it’s just three days and then we have 15 days of the old way.”

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Williams earned her 650th career victory with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Carla Suarez Navarro. Williams, in pursuit of her 60th title, hit 27 winners to her Spanish opponent’s five.

“She made me work for every point and it wasn’t an easy win,” the top-ranked American said. “She just won last week, so she is definitely not an easy player to play.”

Williams will next face 2011 champion Petra Kvitova. The fifth-seeded Czech beat Lucie Safarova 6-4, 6-3.

Also, Australian Open champion Li Na and Maria Sharapova will meet in the quarterfinals after both won their third round matches.

After a poor opening set, the second-ranked Li overcame a slew of unforced errors and a bothersome toe problem to beat Sloane Stephens of the United States 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.

“After the first set I was like, ’Calm down,”’ Li said. “I say, ’OK, I cannot only think about what happened for the game, you have to look forward otherwise you cannot make it.”’

Sharapova beat Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-4, 6-3, while Ana Ivanovic cruised into the last eight with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

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The Wimbledon champion was overwhelmed by the 46th-ranked Santiago Giraldo 6-3, 6-2. Murray’s play was erratic throughout the match against the Colombian qualifier, who earned his first career victory against a top-10 player in 20 attempts.

The eighth-ranked Murray mentioned his split from coach Ivan Lendl alongside his “inconsistent” play.

“My coach is missing. That’s quite a big part of my team,” Murray said. “I didn’t envision a finish like that. I need to sit down and think about that the next couple of days and see what I need to do.”

Defending champions Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams had little trouble reaching the quarterfinals at the clay-court tournament, both winning in straight sets.

Nadal hadn’t lost a quarterfinal on clay in nine years until last month in Monte Carlo, and he repeated the disappointing feat in Barcelona.

On Thursday, Nadal let a 3-1 lead in the second set slip before beating Jarkko Nieminen of Finland 6-1, 6-4.

“For one hour probably I was playing the best tennis that I played for the last three weeks,” Nadal said. “After that I committed errors, so what I need to do is find more consistency.”

Nadal will next face sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych, who beat Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Berdych hasn’t beaten Nadal since a 2006 meeting in Madrid, which was marked by jeering and angry exchanges between the players.

“He’ll be a big test for me,” Nadal said. “What happened is in the past. It was one of the few times I had problems inside a court.”

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Twirl into spring on the dance floor with the Philippine Canadian Association of Red Deer and District. The Swing and Spring dance for 2014 kicks up its skirts on May 24 at 7:30 p.m. There will be a cash bar and a snack at 10 p.m. Attire is semi formal and tickets are $20 per person. The dance will be held at Festival Hall at 4214 58th St. in Red Deer.

For tickets, call T. Leslie at 403-877-6334 or J. Compton at 403-350-1350.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Booking a ride for a same-day trip on Red Deer Transit Action Bus may be possible in the coming months.

Members of the Freebirds advocacy group heard about the city’s plans to install mobile data terminals on the city’s 24 Action Buses at an information session on Tuesday.

The $650,000 project was given the green light as part of the 2014 capital budget.

George Penny, the city’s transit manager, said the hope is that the devices will increase same-day trips and reduce the duplication of buses sent to one location. The mobile terminals will be linked to the city’s main switchboard.

Penny said the devices will allow the

dispatch centre to immediately pinpoint available buses for pickups when there are cancellations.

The terminals are expected to be installed as early as November.

Bev Randers, a Hub staffer, said one of the major concerns of Action Bus riders is the booking process when two people in the same home order a bus to the same destination. The Hub helps adults with developmental disabilities.

Randers said they are forced to make two phone calls. In some cases, two buses could arrive to the same house.

Penny hopes they may be able to increase the service on evenings and weekends with the new mobile terminals. He said the terminals will let them determine ridership numbers, allowing them to potentially modify the system by either adding more service or streamlining service to dif-

ferent routes.

Jim Hutcheson, a Freebird member, said it will be hit or miss if the new devices will help improve service.

Hutcheson said it was frustrating because he felt their concerns of easier booking and evening and weekend travel will not be addressed immediately.

Randers said they are looking forward to the new service.

She felt transit staffers were on top of the concerns but have budget commitments.

She said the meeting attendees felt the drivers go above and beyond every day.

Randers said it is important that people who cannot make a ride cancel the service to reduce the number of no-shows. Randers said there will be increased demand in the future because of more Michener residents living in the community. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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NORWEGIAN INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION ON MAY 17 Syttende Mai, May 17, is a special day for Norway, and the Red Deer Norwegian Laft Hus Society is inviting people to join in the fun. May 17 is also the Norwegian Constitution Day, celebrating the day the country became an independent kingdom. At the Laft Hus, at 4402 47th Ave., on May 17 starting at 4 p.m., children and adults dressed in bunads, traditional folk costumes, will march around Heritage Square with Norwegian flags. Later, there will be a free photo booth, games for children and food.

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Flyin’ Bob will teach circus skills to children of the far North.

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Flyin’ Bob is heading to Nunavut next week to perform and host a circus camp for children during Cambridge Bay’s Omingmak Frolics.

Circus performer and instructor Bob Palmer, 57, of Sylvan Lake, said it will be his farthest trip north to date.

“When I go there, it will be -22C. It’s way up on Victoria Island inside the Arctic Circle,” Palmer said on Thursday.

He will arrive on Tuesday and work with children, age eight and

older, until Friday. The children will show off their new skills at their Sunday performance.

“They’re going to learn all the basics. They are going to learn how to walk on stilts, learn how to juggle scarves and balls. Get a basic walk across a tight wire.”

But Palmer said they will learn more than acrobatic skills and how to perform in front of an audience.

“Circus skills are not easy, but they’re really fun. So the kids really have to learn perseverance, stick-to-it-ness. It’s really about confidence, self-esteem building and persistence, and working hard to achieve a goal.

“They think they’re having fun and learning circus skills, but what they’re really learning are life skills.”

Frolics organizers also hired Flyin’ Bob to perform during the festival.

Palmer, who has been hosting training camps for children for over 20 years, said he expects to train between 40 and 50 children in Cambridge Bay. He spends about 15 weeks a year hosting Flyin’ Bob Circus Camps and recently taught 100 children in Saskatoon.

Palmer is also the artistic curator for Red Deer Centrefest. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE TECHNICIAN PROGRAM SET TO START AT RDC

The opportunities for Central Alberta high school students to get a head start on their post-secondary career are set to expand.

Students in three local school divisions will soon get the opportunity to apply for an automotive service technician program set to start in September.

It would see them attend classes at Red Deer College for their Grade 12 year. The offering allows students to earn credits towards their high school completion and a college certification at the same time.

Students in the program could then enter into an apprenticeship program immediately following completion.

Sixteen spots will be available for 2014-15 for students from the Red Deer Public and Catholic divisions and

Chinook’s Edge School Division. High schools will determine which students enter the program and the students will not have to pay tuition for the courses they take.

“They do all the content onsite,” said Brad Donaldson, vice-president, academic at Red Deer College.

“They’re able to complete their high school diploma, start off on their apprentice-level training in automotive and get to experience the college atmosphere as well.”

Speaking in Edmonton, Premier Dave Hancock said dual credit programs can help high schoolers who might not otherwise graduate to do so while giving them practical experience.

He said 80 per cent of new jobs created in the province will require postsecondary education.

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The United Way of Central Alberta will invest almost $1.8 million in 48 programs throughout the region, a six-percent increase from last year.

Three new agencies received the funding this year — Cosmos Community Support Services, Family Services of Central Alberta and the Red Deer Native Friendship Society.

“We really want to celebrate the incredible work that’s happening in Central Alberta communities and together we’re able to help the most vulnerable people who need help the most,” said United Way of Central Alberta CEO Robert Mitchell.

This is the second year of a new funding model the United Way employs.

In total, the United Way will invest $1,796,601.

A lunch-time snack turned crispy created smoke in the halls of Red Deer City Hall, setting of alarms and causing the evacuation of the building on Thursday.

The source of building-wide smoke alarms was burned microwave popcorn.

“It turned out to be great fire drill practice,” said Gord Klootwyk, Red Deer Emergency Services assistant platoon chief.

When smoke detectors on the third floor of City Hall went off, it put the building into a general alarm. Fire crews responded to the scene at about 11:45 a.m. The building was evacuated as a reaction to the alarm, leaving downtown Red Deer flooded with city employees awaiting word on the source of the alarms.

Firefighters searched each floor to determine if there was trouble and on the third floor they found smoke. It was isolated to a burned bag of microwave popcorn.

“There was no damage to anything and we quickly swept the building, found there were no problems and people were allowed back in.”

Several emergency vehicles responded to the call, which Klootwyk said is standard procedure when a call comes in.

“If you have internal alarms go then we have a set response,” said Klootwyk. “We didn’t know it was just popcorn in a microwave so we always respond as if there was an actual fire.”

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A live tribute to the popular Don Messer’s Jubilee TV show is set for to take place in Red Deer in May. Honouring the days when Messer and his Islanders were popular on TV, Canadian fiddle champion Scott Woods and his band present Old Time Jubilee on May 29 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Sunnybrook United Church, 12 Stanton St. Tickets cost $25 for adults, $10 for children under 12 and free for children aged five and younger. Proceeds will be used to support Sunnybrook United Church children and youth programs at Kasota East Camp. For tickets or more information, call 403-3476073 or email office@ sunybrookunited.org.

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BRIEFS Neighbours helping family with renovations For the first time, Neighbours, a local division of A Better World Canada, is reaching out to a family in Red Deer.

Neighbours assists families who are facing overwhelming circumstances by taking on a renovation or expansion project. They provide volunteer labour and donated materials and funds.

This year’s recipients are Angela Trca and Todd Bawtinheimer, who need renovations to their home to allow continued home care for their daughter, Nyah, eight. She was born with a chromosomal disorder that left her with severe medical and mobility issues. As she gets older, it has become more challenging for her family to care for her in a home that was not designed for accessibility.

As well, the existing equipment, such as the ceiling lift, no longer meets their needs.

Bawtinheimer was seriously injured in a workplace accident recently and the family’s income has been reduced.

The estimated $20,000 renovation project will include upgrades to the bathroom, doorways and possibly living room to make these areas more accessible by wheelchair and to ease the provision of care.

This is the third Neighbours project in Central Alberta and the first in Red Deer.

A Better World is a Central Alberta-based international development organization that is managed and supported by volunteers.

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Two men are in custody after the Red Deer RCMP street team completed separate investigations, seizing drugs and cash.

At 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, wrapping up a monthlong investigation, a 38-year-old Red Deer man was arrested at his residence.

At the residence police found undisclosed quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, marijuana and cash. The items were seized from both his residence and his vehicle.

Later that day, the street team arrested a 21-yearold Airdrie man in Red Deer. He was arrested at about 8 p.m. Along with the arrest police seized undisclosed quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy and cash. He was also taken into custody without incident.

The 38-year-old has been charged with three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, eight counts of breaching a recognizance and one count each of possession of a controlled substance and possession of proceeds obtained by crime. He made his first appearance on Thursday in Red Deer provincial court.

The 21-year-old has been charged with three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking and one count of possession of proceeds obtained by crime under $5,000. He made his first court appearance Thursday. He will be back in Red Deer provincial court on May 28.

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Judge to hear drug accusations Three men and two women arrested after drug raids on two Red Deer homes have asked that their matters be heard by judge alone in Court of Queen’s Bench.

Red Deer City RCMP allege finding a significant amount of cash, along with unstated quantities of crack cocaine, powder cocaine and methamphetamine after searches performed at two separate homes, one in Rosedale and the other in Inglewood, in mid-December. They charged all five suspects with three counts each of possession of narcotics for trafficking plus a single count of possession of the proceeds of crime at a value exceeding $5,000.

The three men charged are Red Deer residents Chanthavanh Chanminaraj, 46, Phouthavon Khamkhay, 46, and Alvin Joseph Law, 27. The two women are Silasavanh Praseutsith, 42, and Soutsada Khamkhay, 24.

All five appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday, where defence counsel asked that they have the benefit of a preliminary hearing to determine if the case against them should proceed to trial.

Their hearing has been set for Feb. 18, 2015.

Ross Street Patio returning Ross Street Patio is back.

Traffic will be reduced to one lane on Ross Street west of 49th Avenue in order to allow crews to install barriers for the patio starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday.

Crews are expected to work throughout the day.

The Ross Street Patio will officially kick off the patio season on June 6 with a grand opening celebration. A lunch time (11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.) and evening (4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.) event will get the summer party started.

Throughout the summer, there will be weekly patio shows on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Special patio parties will be held in July, August and September.

For more information on the Ross Street Patio’s line up visit www.reddeer.ca/bestsummer.

Rimbey fire causes $80,000 in damage A fire west of Rimbey that gutted a barn/garage caused $80,000 in damages on Wednesday afternoon.

Rimbey Fire Chief John Weisberger said the

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DUAL: Youth get head start GRANTS: Two available “Earning dual credits gives youth a head start on life, keeps them in school and helps them set up for rewarding careers in high-demand fields,” said Hancock.

The province has approved 26 dual credit programs across the province and has committed $11 million over three years to such initiatives.

Catholic highschoolers in Red Deer already have the opportunity to earn credits for a post-secondary health-care aide program through Red Deer College while in Grade 12.

Other Central Alberta opportunities approved will allow for students to earn tourism and hospitality course credits and pre-employment trades training through Olds College.

cause of the fire on the Little Stone Farm located on Township Road 421A, off Hwy 53, has not been determined.

He said a neighbour noticed the flames and moved the owner’s tractor and bailer.

There were no injuries to any people or animals.

Mitchell said of that about $340,000 went to education related programs, $300,000 into income related programs, and $550,000 into wellness programs.

According to a press release, two grants are available to any Central Alberta agency working in the social service sector for both small capital expenses and professional development.

“With so many agencies in Central Alberta that deserve the support of the United Way, it was very difficult for the volunteers to decide which programs would receive funding from United Way,” said Brenda Farwell, volunteer chair of the community impact council.

“In the end we know that we will be achieving the greatest impact with these investment decisions.”

Dr. Nyja Billey Thordarson is proud to announce that she has returned to her roots and has opened a dental clinic in Calgary, Alberta.

After taking advanced training in chronic pain, migraines, headaches, TMD, snoring, sleep apnea, orthodontics, and cosmetics, Dr. Thordarson is pleased to provide a comprehensive, wholebody approach to dentistry. The connections between dental health and overall health are becoming more understood and relevant every day. Dr. Thordarson is proud to have a strong foundation and the perfect facility to not only provide top notch general dentistry, but also fabulous customer service, and the capability to greatly improve the overall health and quality of life for her patients.

Only 90 minutes away and an easy three turns off of Stoney Trail on Bow Trail and 45th Street SW. Welcoming new patients, and those with familiar faces, please stop in or take a look at the website at:

www.EssenceDentalCalgary.com Suite 102, 636 45th Street SW, Calgary, AB

(403) 457-3240

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St. Pats Middle School student Tony Castro blocks an attack by a Grade 5 student in the arena at the Dawe Centre on Wednesday. About 700 Grade 5 boys from schools in Red Deer Innisfail, Rocky Mountain House and Olds took part in the third annual Knights in Training program. The boys spent the day at the Dawe Centre taking part in five of the 26 different activities offered.

As the Grade 5 boys were busy at the Dawe Centre, 640 Grade 5 girls converged on the Collicutt Centre to take part in the annual Go-Girl program that introduces the girls to active lifestyle opportunities.

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Landowners have a chance to learn more about what they can do to protect their water wells at an upcoming Red Deer County workshop.

The Working Well Program is presented with technical expertise from Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development and Environment and Sustainable Resource Development.

The event is scheduled for May 13 at the Balmoral Community Hall, 1.6 km east of Red Deer on Hwy 11.

It starts at 5:30 p.m. with a dinner and a workshop to follow. The event is free.

Topics at the event include proper water well siting, construction, maintenance and plugging.

Anyone interested is asked to pre-register so the county can help you look up the drilling report for your well. To pre-register, call the county office at 403-350-2150.

BUSINESS

C3 Business confidence on the rise

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014

ATB FINANCIAL SURVEYS SMALL-, MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A recent survey of small and medium-sized businesses

by ATB Financial indicated a rise in confidence.

The financial institution’s latest quarterly survey of business owners found that 89 per cent expected the provincial economy to remain the same

or improve over the next six months. That was five percentage points higher than was the case in ATB Financial’s previous survey.

Meanwhile, 95 per cent of respondents anticipated that their business would be the same or better in six months, an improvement of two percentage points from the previous quarter.

The survey, the results of

which were issued on Thursday, also provided insight into the state of female-owned businesses in the province. It found that 38 per cent of small and medium-sized businesses in Alberta are owned or operated by women.

This figure appears likely to grow.

One-third of male-owned businesses were considered to be at a “mature” or “widen-

ing down” stage, as compared with only 13 per cent of female operations.

Three-quarters of the male entrepreneurs in Alberta were 45 or older, while the figure was 56 per cent in the case of women.

Twenty-one per cent of female business operators were in a “start-up” or “initial growth” stage, while these terms applied to only six per

cent of the males surveyed.

Women are doing business in an increasingly diverse range of industries — including energy, construction and manufacturing, said Wellington Holbrook, ATB Financial’s executive vice-president, business and agriculture.

The survey also indicated they’re more likely than men to do business internationally.

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Red Deer historian Michael Dawe speaks to a group of front-line hospitality workers about the history of the city’s downtown during a Red Deer Experience Expert tour on Wednesday.

Red Deer Experience Experts trained with tour of amenities

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR It was a whirlwind tour that would have impressed the most efficient of travellers.

After an early-morning visit to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame & Museum, participants in the Red Deer Experience Expert Training program boarded a bus and headed for Fort Normandeau. From there, they continued on to Sunnybrook Farm & Museum, Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery, downtown Red Deer and Discovery Wildlife Park — arriving at Heritage Ranch in time for lunch.

Each stop featured a comprehensive guided tour, with the travelling time in between spent learning about other Central Alberta attractions.

The 22 people who took part in Wednesday’s tour emerged with a Red Deer Experience Expert certificate and lapel pin, and a greater awareness of what Central Alberta has to offer visitors.

That awareness is what Tourism Red Deer was striv-

ing for when it organized the program.

Designed for front-line workers in the hospitality sector, it should make it easier for tourists to find out what they can do and see in the region, said Liz Taylor, Tourism Red Deer’s executive director.

“Our long-range goal would be that we would have all front-line workers there,” she said, listing service station attendants, taxi drivers, retail clerks and restaurant staff as good candidates for the training.

deau, and the same with Discovery Wildlife Park.”

Another highlight was the tour of downtown Red Deer, with city historian Michael Dawe providing his insights.

“He just makes the history come alive,” said Taylor.

A similar tour is scheduled for May 22, and Taylor hopes the training will be offered annually.

It actually started last June, with a workshop that included customer service training and presentations on local attractions.

Feedback from that event indicated that those taking part wanted more information about those sites, which led to this year’s bus tours.

Only some of — LIZ TAYLOR, TOURISM RED DEER’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Central Alberta’s attractions could be included, acMost of those who took part knowledged Taylor, but parthis week were hotel workers, ticipants received a package said Taylor, but there were al- with details about other placso customer-service staff from es of interest. other businesses.

The Red Deer Experience Some were seeing the local Expert Training program attractions for the first time, was sponsored by Hotels Red she noted, and expressed sur- Deer, the City of Red Deer, prise at what they’ve been Red Deer County and Pursuit missing.

Adventure & Travel.

“They were really imhrichards@reddeeradvocate. pressed with Fort Norman- com

‘OUR LONG-RANGE GOAL WOULD BE THAT WE WOULD HAVE ALL FRONT-LINE WORKERS THERE.’

Housing starts rise slightly

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

CMHC REPORT

Housing starts in Red Deer last month were up slightly from April 2013, although the number related to single-detached houses was lower.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported on Thursday that work commenced on 65 homes in the city last month, as compared with 62 for the same period a year ago.

The latest figure included 34 in the single-detached category, down from 40; and 31 units in multi-family projects, an increase from 22.

During the first four months of 2014, there were 350 housing

starts in Red Deer: 116 singledetached and 234 multi-family.

That compares with last year’s January-to-April tally of 298, which consisted of 111 single-detached houses and 187 units in multi-family projects.

Among Alberta’s seven largest urban centres, Red Deer ranks behind only Calgary and Edmonton when it comes to residential building activity this year.

The Calgary census metropolitan area led the way with 5,857 starts as of April 30, with the Edmonton CMA next at

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After Red Deer was Lethbridge with 191, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo with 127, Medicine Hat with 105 and Grande Prairie with 57.

Nationally, CMHC estimated actual housing starts in April at 17,124. That translated into a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 194,809 units, up from 156,592 in March.

The seasonally adjusted annual rate of urban starts increased in Ontario, the Prairies and Quebec, and decreased in Atlantic Canada and British Columbia.

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WASHINGTON — The Keystone XL pipeline may be stalled, but it’s pumping a steady flow of cash into Washington — where inertia is a multibillion-dollar industry.

The pipeline debate has become a money-making machine for lobbyists, advertisers, NGOs and political fundraisers in the U.S. capital, where tens of millions of dollars are being spent on the issue.

The spending deluge will continue indefinitely, thanks to the two latest non-developments: the Obama administration has delayed a decision on the pipeline, and a congressional effort to speed up the process appears to have collapsed this week.

The Washington insider news outlet, Politico, described the ongoing phenomenon Thursday under the headline, “Keystone Inc.” One activist likened it to an arms race, calling the standoff between the pro- and antipipeline sides the most expensive environmental battle he’d ever seen.

Lobbying is conducted a little differently south of the border, one Alberta diplomat pointed out.

“There’s no question that the way Washington operates is that there’s a lot of expertise on how policy is built, and how points are made and how communication can be successful,” said David Manning, the province’s representative in Washington.

“There’s probably a much larger industry in the U.S. than in Canada, and certainly much more aggressive in Washington, than anything Canadians are familiar with.”

The paper trail tells part of the story.

From a labyrinthine disclosure system, some figures emerge to paint a financial portrait of how the issue is being slugged out on various fronts — lobbying, advertising,

political donations and grassroots activism. ● Lobbying: It’s a $6.7-billion industry in Washington, according to an analysis by the pro-transparency group the Sunlight Foundation.

There are more than 12,000 registered lobbyists in D.C., although analysts say the actual number is exponentially higher.

TransCanada Corp. has had 10 lobbyists registered at the House of Representatives since 2009 and says it has disclosed $3.79 million in total U.S. federal lobbying since then.

The company says it hardly did much lobbying before Keystone.

It’s unclear just how many groups have lobbied on Keystone.

But the American Petroleum Institute, a major pipeline supporter, reported $2.6 million for all its lobbying expenses in the last quarter of 2013 — with a team of just over a dozen lobbyists working the Houses of Congress and federal agencies.

On the other side, the Environmental Defense Action Fund has reported $300,000 in lobbying expenses for all its various causes this year — one of which is Keystone.

The League of Conservation Voters has reported spending $45,000 on its different lobbying activities. ● Political donations: about $6.3 billion was spent on the 2012 election’s presidential and congressional races, according to an analysis by Open Secrets.

By way of comparison, in Canada, the four parties in Parliament registered having spent about 135 times less in the 2011 federal election.

That $46 million figure, reported by Elections Canada, doesn’t include issue-based ads by outside groups.

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Planners approve 139 new lots at Timber Ridge

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s municipal planning commission has approved a plan of subdivision to create 139 new residential lots at Timber Ridge.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Thursday, depressed by earnings reports and sliding energy stocks.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 110.37 points to 14,546.03, led by a 2.76 per cent drop in the energy sector.

There was no apparent reason for the tumble — data showed an unexpected decline in U.S. crude inventories last week while total commercial stock levels remained close to the record 399.4 million barrels seen for the previous week. Oil remained above the US$100 mark, with the June contract shedding 51 cents to US$100.26 a barrel and analysts suggested the slide was as much due to profit taking as anything else.

As of Wednesday, the sector had run up almost 17 per cent year to date, making it the bestperforming TSX sector.

The Canadian dollar gained 0.61 of a cent to 92.4 cents US. U.S. indexes were mixed as the Dow Jones industrials gained 32.43 points to 16,550.97.

The Nasdaq was down 16.18 points to 4,051.5 and the S&P 500 index slipped 2.58 points to 1,875.63.

On the corporate front, Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) is buying a 20 per cent stake in Canadian Tire’s financial services business (TSX:CTC.A) for $500 million in cash as part of a strategic partnership. Scotiabank shares rose 15 cents to $66.71 while Canadian Tire dipped 16 cents to $107.69.

“It’s a good deal,” said Fred

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 107.69 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.92 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.00 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.39 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 17.85 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.92 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 59.25 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.69 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.57 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.58 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.54 First Quantum Minerals . 20.74 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.97 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.17 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.42 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.32 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.24 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.60 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.43 Ketchen, manager of equity trading at ScotiaMcLeod.

“Financing is a big deal and if you’re going to finance a lot of stuff, you have to have someone who will make a long-term relationship.”

At the same time, Canadian Tire posted net income attributable to shareholders of $70.6 million, or 88 cents per share, down from $73 million, or 90 cents a share a year ago, which was five cents below analysts’ forecasts.

Revenue met expectations, rising 3.8 per cent to $2.57 billion.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (TSX:VRX) posted a quarterly net loss of $23 million or seven cents a share, compared with a loss of $27.5 million, or nine cents per share, a year ago. On a cash earnings per share basis, adjusted income was $600 million or $1.76 per diluted share, an increase of 35 per cent over the prior year and four cents ahead of estimates.

Revenues jumped 77 per cent to $1.9 billion, up from $1.06 billion year-over-year and its shares fell $2.99 to $142.07.

Telus Corp. (TSX:T) was ahead 40 cents to $39.85 as the telecom reported a first-quarter net profit up 4.1 per cent from a year ago at $377 million or 61 cents per share, which met expectations. Revenue was up five per cent to $2.9 billion and exceeded expectations of $2.87 billion. Telus is also raising its dividend to 38 cents per share, an 11.8 per cent increase yearover-year.

Auto parts giant Magna International (TSX:MG) reported

Energy Aeroflex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.50 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 37.31 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 70.11 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.59 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 57.59 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 43.00 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 22.42 Canyon Services Group. 16.38 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.87 CWC Well Services . . . . . 1.14 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 24.84 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.55 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 102.32 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 63.43 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.35 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 35.86 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 52.66 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.15 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.96 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.140 Precision Drilling Corp . . 13.85 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 42.19

Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.56 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.59 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 11.66 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 70.20

quarterly net income attributable to the company was $393 million and diluted earnings per share were $1.76, far below the $2.05 that analysts had expected.

Sales were up seven per cent to $8.96 billion and its shares dropped $1.20 to $106.15.

The base metals sector led advancers, up one per cent amid data showing that China’s exports rose 0.9 per cent during April from the previous year, compared with a 6.6 per cent decline in March. Imports also grew after a contraction in March but at a subdued level. July copper edged up three cents to US$3.06 a pound.

The gold sector faded about 0.84 per cent as June bullion fell $1.20 to US$1,287.70 an ounce.

Euro — C$1.4988, down 1.69 cents Euro — US$1.3840, down 0.73 of a cent Oil futures: US$100.26 per barrel, down 51 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,287.70 per oz., down $1.20 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.721 oz., down 15.5 cents $698.33 kg., down $4.98

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,546.03, down 110.37 points TSX Venture Exchange — 992.99, down 9.03 points TSX 60 — 830.71, down 5.11 points Dow — 16,550.97, up 32.43 points S&P 500 — 1,875.63, down 2.58 points Nasdaq — 4,051.50, down 16.17 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 92.40 cents US, up 0.61 of a cent Pound — C$1.8329, down 1.41 cents

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Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 100.41 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 54.19 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.99 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.94 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.11 Cdn. National Railway . . 64.08 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 173.33 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.40 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.68 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.60 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.21 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.65 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.36 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.38 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.85 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.78 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.84 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 51.62 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 64.88 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.85 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.98 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 46.94

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Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.22 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.71 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.22 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.83 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.08 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.48 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 54.42 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 70.40 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.65 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.75 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.45 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.23 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 37.81 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.25

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’14 $9.30 higher $493.90; July ’14 $9.30 higher $479.90; Nov. ’14 $8.50 higher $486.00; Jan ’15 $8.30 higher $491.20; March ’15 $8.00 higher $495.60; May ’15 $7.80 higher $498.60; July ’15 $7.20 higher $500.10; Nov ’15 $7.10 higher $495.00; Jan. ’16 $7.10 higher $487.20; March ’16 $7.10 higher $493.20.

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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 168,180 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 168,180.

On May 6, 2014, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Clearview 1. Compass Geomatics Ltd. – a 2.7 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard setback to an existing deck, located at 64 Cosgrove Close.

Ironstone 2. B. Jorgensen – a 1.03 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to a proposed detached garage, to be located at 31 Ion Close.

Johnstone Crossing 3. D. Derksen - a 0.26 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to an existing detached garage, located at 178 Jaspar Crescent.

Morrisroe 4. Bemoco Land Surveying Ltd. - a 0.26 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to an existing detached garage, located at 26 Munro Crescent.

Mountview 5. Compass Geomatics Ltd. – a 0.29 metre left and a 1.47 metre right, relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to an existing detached garage, located at 4432-33 Street.

Parkvale 6. Compass Geomatics Ltd. – a 1.05 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing single family dwelling, located at 4613-46 Street.

Vanier East 7. Pegasus Builders Ltd. – a 15.4m2 relaxation to the maximum floor area of a proposed semi-detached dwelling, to be located at 3 Veer Place.

8. Pegasus Builders Ltd. – a 15.5m2 relaxation to the maximum floor area of a proposed semi-detached dwelling, to be located at 7 Veer Place.

Discretionary Use Sunnybrook 9. The City of Red Deer – a washroom facility, to be located within the Kin Canyon park system, at 3400 Spruce Drive.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on May 23, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8399.

INVITATION TO TENDER THE CITY OF RED DEER Sealed Tenders clearly marked “55th Street Improvements – May 26, 2014”, delivered or mailed to:

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ENERGY: Millions in donations Open Secrets calculates that the oil-and-gas industry made $73.4 million in donations during the 2012 U.S. election cycle, with 90 per cent of it going to Republicans.

Anti-Keystone billionaire Tom Steyer promises to fight back by spending up to $100 million on the 2014 congressional races, essentially to help Democrats.

The former hedgefund manager says he’ll spend $50 million of his own money and will seek to raise matching funds from other donors. ● Advertising: Several Washington subway stations are blanketed with pro-Keystone XL ads, paid for by the government of Canada. Ottawa budgeted $16.5 million for advertising in 2013-14 to highlight what it calls responsible resource development.

There are parallel ad campaigns by the industry and its opponents.

A Steyer-funded group paid for one ad that aired during President Barack Obama’s state of the Union address, telling viewers the pipeline was a “sucker’s deal” for America. ● NGOs: The oil industry and a pipelineworkers union have created pro-KXL groups, like Nebraskans for Jobs and Energy Independence. Another group,

Oil Sands Fact Check, had a spokesman at a recent Washington protest to rebut points raised by anti-pipeline demonstrators.

One of the green groups behind that protest was 350.org. The organization was built in part through multimillion-dollar donations from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Sustainable Development program.

Paralysis is a leading industry in Washington, said Mark Leibovich, the author of “This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! — in America’s Gilded Capital.”

“If an immigration bill passed tomorrow, that’s going to be tens of millions of dollars in lobbying fees and consulting fees and cable shouting matches that aren’t going to be realized,” Leibovich said in an interview with the online magazine Salon.

“And I think one of the messages in the book is that the dysfunction that we see is very, very good for business here.

This town functions and thrives, not only on disagreement, but on gridlock, and on combat and not on working problems out, but on fighting battles. If you can keep the battles going for a long time, you’re going to keep a lot of people in business.”

For Keystone, the financial floodgates opened when comprehensive climate-change legislation stalled in Congress a few years

ago. The pipeline became a proxy for the entire battle, frustrating even some environmentalists who fretted that attention was being diverted from far bigger issues like cap-and-trade or coal-plant regulations.

“The environmental community was in need of a focus — it was in need of an opportunity, and they were very unfortunate. It’s just an unfortunate coincidence that Keystone was there for them,” Manning said.

“Any time you have an emotionally charged debate it can become a fundraising tool.”

New house prices rise

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OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says its new housing price index rose 0.2 per cent in March, following an identical increase in February.

The agency says the Calgary region was the top contributor to the gain, marking the third consecutive month it has led the way in Canada.

The region showed the largest monthly price gain, up 0.8 per cent over February.

New home prices in St. John’s rose 0.3 per cent, the first increase since August.

Prices were down in Charlottetown, Victoria, Saskatoon, Ottawa— Gatineau and Vancouver.

They were unchanged in 11 of the 21 metropolitan areas surveyed.

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Chairman of the Board Paul D. House speaks at the Tim Hortons annual general meeting in Toronto, Thursday.

While Tim Hortons champions lunch, Caira also wants to focus more on nutrition, emphasizing that his company’s crispy chicken sandwich contains more protein and less fat than comparable offerings.

However, chasing the heath-food market comes with certain expectations.

During the annual meeting, one shareholder urged executives to launch a broader array of glutenfree items, while another suggested that more nutritional options, like a selection of salads or fruits and vegetables, would benefit the company in the future.

Caira told the audience that all of those options would be considered as part of a five-year strategic plan that began this year, but after the meeting, he drew a line emphasizing that Tim Hortons won’t go overboard when it comes to nutrition.

Quebec government will appeal court ruling on French business signs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The Quebec government says it will appeal a recent court ruling that major retailers don’t have to translate their trademarked English names into French.

The government had until this week to decide whether to appeal the decision by Quebec Superior Court Justice Michel Yergeau.

Yergeau ruled last month that businesses that have storefront signs with their trademark name in a language other than French do not contravene the French Language Charter.

Several multinationals took the province to court after they were told

Give up Hibernia share: Coleman THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Ottawa should consider giving Newfoundland and Labrador its stake in the lucrative Hibernia offshore oilfield, says incoming premier Frank Coleman.

“I’d like to see the federal government give us their share,” he said Thursday in an interview. “We’re one of four provinces right now that don’t solicit help from the equalization formula.

“You know, the federal government has benefited from the industry, the investment of the people of this province.

And I think it is fair for the federal government to consider giving us that share.”

The province first offered in 2010 to buy Ottawa’s 8.5 per cent stake in the oilfield about 315 kilometres southeast of St. John’s.

Ottawa took the stake and invested $431 million on top of grants and loan guarantees to keep the project alive as it teetered in the 1990s.

The federal government has since got that money back along with $1.8 billion in cumulative dividends since the field first produced oil in 1997, according to the Finance Department.

In its annual report for 2013, the Canada Development Investment Corp. said it received $142 million in Hibernia dividends last year. Canada Hibernia Holding Corp. also paid out $136 million in provincial royalties that year and $74 million in provincial and federal income taxes, says the report.

by the language watchdog to change their names or risk running afoul of the rules governing the language of business in Quebec.

The Office quebecois de la langue francaise wanted the companies to change their signs to either give themselves a generic French name or to add a slogan or explanation to reflect what they sold.

But a list of companies that included Best Buy, Costco, Gap, Old Navy, Guess, Wal-Mart, Toys “R” Us and Curves opposed the idea.

Yergeau also ruled the watchdog could not suspend, revoke or refuse to renew certificates or attempt to impose any other sanction stemming from the trademarks issue.

Top executives touted the “customers-first culture” at Telus Corp. (TSX:T) as the “secret sauce” behind the company’s industry-leading low churn rates that continued to help drive growth in its wireless, TV and Internet business in the first quarter.

“This positive start to the year reflects our longstanding strategic focus on investing in advanced broadband technologies and services, and our commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences,” said outgoing president and CEO Darren Entwistle, who stepped down at the company’s annual meeting on Thursday.

In addition to gaining net additions of 96,000 new postpaid wireless, TV and high-speed Internet customers, the company also achieved a North American industry-leading postpaid wireless churn rate of 0.99 per cent, he said, using the term for customer turnover.

“Importantly, this represents our third consecutive quarter delivering a postpaid churn rate below one per cent and the fourteenth sequential quarter of improving ARPU (average revenue per user), further exemplifying the success of our differentiated customers-first culture coupled with attractive new products and services,” said Entwistle, who has taken on the role of executive chairman.

His replacement as president and CEO, Joe Natale, formerly chief commercial officer, picked up on the theme during a conference call to discuss the company’s earnings.

“It creates strong economics as a whole because its best to keep the customers you already have versus spending money to get new customers . . . clearly a simple equation from that perspective,” said Natale, who variously describe the organizations customer-focused culture as both a “secret weapon” and a “secret sauce.”

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The CEO said Thursday he’s determined to make the company the lunchtime leader among quickservice food outlets through its growing variety of sandwiches, grilled paninis and other offerings.

“In this low-growth era, you need to aggressively go after these segments because there’s potential to grow,” he said in an interview after the company’s annual meeting in Toronto.

Caira outlined some of his general plans as part of a presentation to shareholders that emphasized the company will enter “a new era” as it nears it’s 50th anniversary later this month.

He said the popular restaurant chain is already making an effort to redefine itself with Canadians as a coffee spot foremost, but also the home of various other items they can’t find elsewhere, like the Extreme Italian sandwich and the steak and cheese panini.

One of the latest menu items is a crispy chicken sandwich that Caira said is a perfect example of how it wants customers to think differently about the brand. “(You need) to be able to have the consumer realize, ‘Hey, if I’m going to have a crispy chicken, maybe I’ll go to the Tim Hortons, rather than Burger King or KFC,” he said.

“When the market isn’t growing — and it’s not — sometimes the only way you’re going to grow is by stealing from somebody. We’re the biggest in Canada, so we’re the easiest to steal from. We want to give consumers the message that if you’re going to buy a crispy chicken, buy ours.”

Tim Hortons is already making progress, Caira said, citing research from the NPD Group which says the restaurant has been generating lunchtime traffic that’s comparable to McDonalds, its biggest competitor.

Tim Hortons had a 21.8 per cent share of quickservice restaurant traffic in the three months ended in February, which compares to McDonalds’ 21.7 per cent share in the same period, the research found.

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Space fence planned for orbital debris CLEANUP REMAINS ELUSIVE

SERVICES WASHINGTON — Space: so vast, so open.

And yet, so littered with junk.

Hundreds of thousands of pieces of manmade debris are floating around out there, the detritus of more than 50 years of spaceflight.

There have been chunks of dead satellites and spent rocket boosters — even a glove that an astronaut dropped in 1965 and a spatula that escaped from a space shuttle in 2006.

Because it zips along faster than a speeding bullet, the trash poses an ever-growing threat to the satellites that help the military communicate and gather intelligence and serve the world’s obsession with Google Earth and movies on-demand.

Until last year, the Pentagon used what was called a “Space Fence” to track the junk and warn of potential collisions that make owners scramble to move their satellites out of the way.

But that system managed to keep up with only a fraction of it all, and it went out of commission last year.

Now the Air Force is poised to take a more modern crack at the problem with a new Space Fence. With a contract expected to be awarded in the next few weeks, the program is designed to be mankind’s best effort yet at tracking space pollution.

But the new Space Fence still doesn’t provide what many think is the ultimate solution: cleaning up space.

“There’s a lot of stuff up there, and the impact of the new Space Fence will be to track more objects and smaller objects,” said Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College.

Tracking the debris “is a necessity, but not sufficient,” she said. “We need to move on to an active plan for removal.”

The fence isn’t really a fence, but rather a high-frequency radar that is like a flashlight beam in a dark room that illuminates the bits of dust swirling around.

All those little bits are then catalogued and tracked as they pass through the radar again and again, until analysts, using massive computer databases, can predict where those pieces of debris will be in the future and when they might come close enough to collide with something.

The new system is vital, officials say, because it will be able to track more and much smaller pieces of debris, which can whip around the globe as fast as 17,000 miles per hour.

At that velocity, even something just a halfinch around would pack a punch like a bowling ball traveling at 300 mph, according to NASA. “It’s absolutely essential,” said Todd Harrison, a defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

“It’s the most basic level of defense: You can’t defend against it, if you don’t know what’s there. . . . And we don’t want to be playing Russian roulette with our military space systems.”

After an intense competition that has gone on for several years and has already resulted in the awards of millions of dollars for prototypes, the high-stakes bidding has been whittled down to two competitors: defense giants Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

“We believe the space fence is very critical to not only our country but to the world,” said Steve

Bruce, a Lockheed vice president.

“We do rely on space for almost everything.

And without us being able to safely maintain equipment in space it would affect our worldwide economy pretty significantly . . . not to mention national security.”

Mike Nachshen, a Raytheon spokesman, said the company “is confident of our solution and looks forward to the Air Force’s decision.”

The Air Force plans to build at least one radar system, to be located on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. (A possible second system could be located in western Australia).

Now, the Defense Department tracks about 20,000 items with other sensors and radars. But the new fence would be able to track as much as 10 times that.

It would also be able to identify smaller items, some the size of a golf ball.

Armed with the catalogue of items, analysts forecast possible collisions, like the ones dramatized in the film Gravity. (But the objects are moving so fast that scientists say there’s no way astronauts could see what’s coming.)

And for the approximately 1,100 working satellites — and also the international space station and the Hubble telescope — to get out of the way, the warnings often have to come well in advance.

In 2012, the United States issued more than 10,000 warnings of close calls, to U.S. and international satellite owners, helping with 75 “avoidance manoeuvres” — satellites expending precious energy to move out of the way.

“It’s all predictive,” said Brian Weeden, a former Air Force officer and a technical adviser for the Secure World Foundation.

“They’re predicting

where things are going to be three, four days or a week into the future and looking for close approaches.”

But there is so much debris whizzing through space that some collisions are inevitable.

Knowing that the international space station is going to be pelted by all sorts of garbage — nuts, bolts, even flecks of paint can cause damage — it was designed to be the “most heavily shielded spacecraft ever,” NASA says, that “can survive impact with smaller piece of debris.”

NASA outfits its astronauts with spacesuits that are lined with a layer of material used in bulletproof vests to help protect them from flying projectiles. The space shuttle was also designed to withstand the onslaught, and often returned to Earth with tiny pocks and even cracks in the windows, which were layered three deep for protection.

Space wasn’t always so polluted. But since Sputnik was launched in 1957, the debris has grown.

Spent rocket boosters, laden with fuel, have exploded. Defunct satellites left in orbit have decomposed. And the junk begets more junk, as crashes create more debris, which can then cause even more collisions.

The ultimate answer, of course, is to clean things up.

But that’s far more difficult than it might seem, said Johnson-Freese, the Naval War College professor.

It’s incredibly expensive, for one thing, and cleaning up space isn’t exactly the kind of domestic program that members of Congress can rally behind.

Then there are the international tensions.

Countries continue to own the junk they’ve launched into space, and China, for example,

wouldn’t be thrilled if the United States decided to take down one of its satellites.

“There are legal issues,” Johnson-Freese said.

“There are no salvage laws in space. Even if we had the political will to [salvage junk], which I don’t think we do, we couldn’t bring down the big pieces because we don’t own them.”

Swiss scientists are working on what’s been called a “janitor satellite,” a sort of orbital garbage truck called CleanSpace One that would remove junk.

There’s been some discussion of “putting a surcharge on every launch” that would go into a global fund and then help pay for cleanup, Baiocchi said.

But it’s still in the early stages.

“This is,” he said, “uncharted territory.”

Christian Davenport writes for The Washington Post

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she carries around in a Safeway bag.

She loves her sister and in the fight to keep her sister from suicide, Yolandi takes on the world.

She blames her aggressive style on “Mennonite men in church with tight collars and bulging necks accusing (me) of preposterThis is a story of a family in crisis. It’s a ous acts and damning me to some undersad story, but a tale told with such humour ground fire. ...” and pathos that it becomes a crazy rollerYolandi’s observations of people are coaster ride, with almost everyone holding droll and not always kind. She speaks of on for dear life. “the angry woman’s mouth like a penThe narrator is Yolandi, youngest cil with two sharpened ends.” She asks, daughter of Jake and Lottie Von Riesen.

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Yolandi also nicknamed “Swivelhead” by Lottie, the mother of Yolandi and ElElfrieda, her elder sister, because of her frieda, is arguably the strongest charactendency to watch everything that is hapter in the book. pening, and missing nothing.

She never let herself be cowed by The family are old country Mennonites, the rules of their village, but remained raised with so many rules that the joy is PEGGY strong and open hearted. She lost her sucked out of life.

FREEMAN husband and a niece to suicide and is Swing Low: a Life, by Miriam Toews, is deeply troubled by her daughter’s wish the story of the suicide of her father. This to die, and the treatment or lack of it on book, though written as fiction, adds to the psych ward. that story in many ways.

Lottie stays sane with online Scrabble Elfrieda (Elf) grows up to be a world-renowned pianist, despite the stringent rules against even own- and sudoko.

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In her own way, she holds the family together. such emotion that she is exhausted and depressed The title of this novel comes from a poem by Samafter her concert tours. =Her greatest wish is to leave this life, and she uel Taylor Coleridge, “I too a sister had, an only bends all her efforts to that end, including asking sister — she loved me dearly and I doted on her! To her I pour’d forth all my puny sorrows ... O! I have Yoli to take her to Switzerland and help her die.

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Conway Sax is an ex-con, a former race car driver and a skilled mechanic who is fiercely loyal to his friends — especially those in the maverick Alcoholics Anonymous group he credits with saving his life.

So when Eudora Spoon, a group member and close friend who is dying of cancer, asks Sax to track down her missing son, Kenny, he immediately sets off for Los Angeles where Kenny has been pursuing an on-again, off-again acting career.

There, he learns Kenny has been kidnapped by a violent street gang, rescues the young man and escapes through a hail of bullets.

But shortly after Sax returns Kenny to his family home in Massachusetts, Eudora is murdered.

Sax, not one to trust the authorities to do their jobs, vows vengeance.

But against whom?

Did the street gang, which has a long reach, kill Eudora as payback for Kenny’s rescue?

Then again, Kenny and his brother Harmon, the local police chief, both stand to gain by inheriting their mother’s valuable land holdings.

And what about the money people who are lusting after Eudora’s land as the site for the state’s first full-fledged casino?

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LOS ANGELES — Nintendo isn’t allowing gamers to play as gay in an upcoming life simulator game.

The publisher of such gaming franchises as “The Legend of Zelda” and “Mario Bros.” said Tuesday it wouldn’t bow to pressure to allow players to engage in romantic activities with characters of the same sex in English editions of “Tomodachi Life.” This follows a social media campaign launched by fans last month seeking virtual equality for the game’s characters, which are modeled after real people.

“Nintendo never intended to make any form of social commentary with the launch of ’Tomodachi Life,”’ Nintendo of America Inc. said in a statement. “The relationship options in the game represent a playful alternate world rather than a real-life simulation. We hope that all of our fans will see that ’Tomodachi Life’ was intended to be

“My only options are to marry some female Mii, to change the gender of either my Mii or my fiance’s Mii or to completely avoid marriage altogether and miss out on the exclusive content that comes with it.”

“Tomodachi Life” has been a hit in a Japan, where Nintendo said last December it had sold 1.83 million copies of the game.

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a whimsical and quirky game, and that we were absolutely not trying to provide social commentary.”

Tye Marini, a gay 23-year-old Nintendo fan from Mesa, Arizona, launched the campaign last month, urging Kyoto, Japan-based Nintendo Co. and its subsidiary Nintendo of America Inc. to add same-sex relationship options to English versions of the hand-held Nintendo 3DS game.

The game was originally released in Japan last year and features a cast of Mii characters — Nintendo’s personalized avatars of real players — living on a virtual island. Gamers can do things like shop, visit an amusement park, play games, go on dates and encounter celebrities like Christina Aguilera and Shaquille O’Neal.

“I want to be able to marry my real-life fiance’s Mii, but I can’t do that,” Marini said in a video posted online that attracted the attention of gaming blogs and online forums this week.

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Russia’s complex musical psyche will be explored in thunderous sound when the Red Deer and Edmonton Symphony Orchestras unite for A Stroll Through Red Square.

It takes many musicians to do justice to the largerthan-life compositions of Russian composers, such as Piotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninov, said RDSO music director, Claude Lapalme.

“You absolutely need a large orchestra,” he added.

Fortunately, about 80 musicians are set to perform these compositions on Friday, May 16, at the Red Deer College Arts Centre.

Lapalme predicted the audience is in for a bold, colourful experience. A full spectrum of dramatic emotions will be expressed through these striking works — from overwhelming joy to nationalistic pride and melancholy.

Of the program’s five composers, including Aleksandr Porfiryevich Borodin and Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, only Rachmaninov painted in subtle shades of grey, said Lapalme.

Rachmaninov’s enduring Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor starts off with a brooding first movement, then moves on to highly romantic second and third movements. These gorgeous melodies inspired popular songs, including Full Moon and Empty Arms, recorded by Frank Sinatra, Eric Carmen’s 1970s ballad All

By Myself, and Muse’s Space Dementia.

Rachmaninov’s iconic concerto was featured in Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead, as well as the films Brief Encounter, I’ve Always Loved You, September Affair, Rhapsody, The Seven Year Itch, The World of Henry Orient and Hereafter.

It’s an “incredibly beautiful” piece that’s a real challenge to play and conduct, said Lapalme.

While not as “massively” difficult as Rachmaninov’s notorious Piano Concert No. 3 (that one drove a young pianist off the edge in the movie Shine), Lapalme had to do a lot of preparation for this piece, which will feature globally acclaimed Canadian pianist Katherine Chi. “You have to get it in your mind, as a conductor.

There are a lot of twists and turns,” said Lapalme, who considers Rachmaninov to be a true original.

The same word can be applied to Shostokovich, although he was an entirely different kind of composer.

Shostakovich provided Seinfeld-like emotions that are rarely heard in music — sarcasm and irony, said Lapalme. Beyond those contributions, his works gravitate between “profound joy and hideous despair.”

For instance, his effusive and “excellent” Festive Overture in A Major pulls all the stops on happy.

“It’s almost like a parody of a celebratory piece,” said Lapalme, who’s thrilled to be conducting it for the first time.

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A Stroll Through Red Square will feature globally acclaimed Canadian pianist Katherine Chi. William Eddins will be at the helm for Glinka’s Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmilla, Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia, and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.

All three works are extremely evocative, said Lapalme.

He noted the influential composer Glinka created an energetic overture for a romantic opera, while Borodin, a doctor who wrote music on the side, composed a poetic musical travelogue. His piece about Central Asia captures the composer’s nostalgic and nationalistic feelings.

Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is performed so often, it becomes challenging to ensure that it doesn’t sound hackneyed, said Lapalme. Although its love

theme is “unforgettable,” the overture captures all the heightened drama of the Shakespearean story, including sword fights, and scenes of death, vengeance and heartbreak.

Lapalme is looking forward to this second concert pairing of the RDSO and the ESO. He said he always enjoys the chance to conduct so many musicians: “It’s great to have such a big sound under your hands.”

He hopes audience members will also be thrilled to hear it.

Tickets to the 8 p.m. show are $54.75 ($52.75 students/seniors, $39.25 youths, first four rows) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Filmmakers need to get out more MOMS’ NIGHT OUT A FAMILY VALUES COMEDY THAT FALLS FLAT Moms’ Night Out 1.5 stars (out of four) Rated: PG

BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Moms’ Night Out sashays into theatres just in time for Mother’s Day on a bit of a covert mission.

It’s billed as a family friendly gal-pal comedy — one that sort of echoes the plot of The Hangover, but with a clear memory of the night in question and the sex, booze and swears traded for G-rated mayhem and mom-positive, feel-good hijinks.

But about 10 minutes in, as frazzled young mother of three, Allyson (Grey’s Anatomy’s Sarah Drew) screeches her car to a halt to wrangle her rambunctious trio into church, the truth comes out. This is a “Christian comedy” and any mommies out there who may find solace for real-life parenting challenges in a bottle of chardonnay don’t have a prayer.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And certainly Sony Pictures, which has made $65 million (and climbing) with Heaven is for Real, sees an audience to be served.

Perky Allyson is often frantic and occasionally adorable. She has a bad case of the maternal blues and small wonder. A stay-at-home mom whose husband (Sean Astin) is often on the road leaving her to cope, she’s a frustrated wannabe mommy blogger who blames her inability to write a sentence on the fact she hasn’t had a night out with the gal in two years. Two years?

Allyson’s self-doubt about her parenting skills, coupled with mania about the life-changing potential of a night out, lead to rallying her two besties for dinner at an upscale restaurant. It’s OK, she has a coupon.

They fret over leaving the kids in the care of their doltish husbands, who they fear are lacking in both parenting skills and common sense. Have they never gotten out of the house before? Apparently not. A joke about the The Shawshank Redemption is made about the kids. Wrong targets.

Allyson puts on heels and a modestly sexy little black dress and slides behind the wheel of her minivan with the mommy vanity plates. She’s joined by Izzy (Logan White), whose husband (Robert Amaya) is actually afraid of their children, and Sondra (Everybody Loves Raymond’s Patricia Heaton, also among the movie’s producers), a minister’s wife who is juggling demands of the church with a boundary-push-

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Sarah Drew stars as Allyson in Moms’ Night Out, a family friendly gal-pal comedy — one that sort of echoes the plot of ‘The Hangover,’ but with a clear memory of the night in question and the sex, booze and swears traded for G-rated mayhem and mom-positive, feel-good hijinks.

At the ing teen daughter.

The busy sitcom-style plot involving a missing baby, bowling, a biker (country star Trace Adkins) and a chase in a yellow cab helmed by a mouthy Brit (Heaton’s husband, David Hunt) would try the patience of a saint.

Meanwhile, the babysitting men come across as morons next to these heroic-yet-insecure, Scripturequoting women, who never fail to remind each other that mommying is job one.

Too-long, one-joke scenes with a flakey restaurant hostess (Anjelah Johnson) and a dim-witted clerk in a tattoo parlour (Manwell Reyes) are typical of the sins of lengthy excess committed by Moms’ Night Out. A little winding-in from directing brothers Jon Erwin and Andrew Erwin would be welcome. But considering their previous film was the 2011 antiabortion drama October Baby, dealing in subtlety can’t be expected.

The wholly unrealistic portrayal of modern mothers, fathers and even kids in Moms’ Night Out leaves the impression that the filmmakers, like their female leads, really do need to get out more.

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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Not a joke you’ve heard before LOUIE IS AS COMPLICATEDLY HILARIOUS AS EVER, BUT DON’T EXPECT PUNCH LINES

BY WILLA PASKIN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES NEW YORK — Early in the new season of Louie, which returns this week, Louie (Louis C.K.) is stopped by a neighbor who wants to regale him with a sex joke about Pinocchio.

Louie doesn’t want to hear it; he’s heard it before, and it wasn’t funny the first time. But the neighbor insists. He botches the punch line, and starts hysterically laughing anyway.

This is the plight of the straightforward joke on Louie: unwanted, misshapen, not funny. Louie is ostensibly a comedy, made by a great comedian, featuring bits of standup and regular appearance by other professionally funny people, and yet it is so not Louis C.K. bothered with making its audience laugh.

Comedians know better than anyone that laughter can’t drown out any other aspect of life — that an existence filled with jokes is also filled with every other kind of unsavory, unsatisfying human feeling.

(Comedians also know that’s the stuff that feeds the really good jokes anyway.)

In the new fourth season — a trailer for which had Louie jumping off the Brooklyn bridge — Louie gets right back to riffing on loneliness, sadness, shame, fear, powerlessness and, yes, the sweetness and surprise of being human.

The first four episodes of the new season contain all the Louie hallmarks: surreal vignettes, celebrity cameos (Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, Ellen Burstyn), and a number of painfully incisive bits about parenting. But the most lively theme is Louie’s relationship to women, and the limits of his kinship to them.

The correct punch line of that aforementioned Pinocchio joke is a woman yelling at a delicately occupied Pinocchio, “Lie to me, lie to me!” Its selection can’t be a coincidence: the ways Louie lies, to others and to himself, when it comes to sex threads through the early part of the season.

In the second episode, Louie is invited to perform at a very swanky fundraiser in the Hamptons, where he absolutely bombs. (He ends up ad-libbing, “You all have slaves.”)

He still attracts the attention of an extremely beautiful woman (Yvonne Strahovski, currently appearing on the new season of 24). Their encounter plays like a fantasy, maybe even a dream. “I love your hair,” she says to Louie as they drive down a beach road in a convertible with the top down, and you begin to doubt the reliability of the narration.

Things continue swimmingly, until suddenly, they go extremely wrong.

The unhappy result is made less unhappy because for his troubles, Louie finally gets sympathy-attention from a very cute waitress who has been ignoring him all episode long.

The next episode tackles almost the inverse plot: what if, instead of Louie pulling a woman entirely out of his league, he is pulled by a woman who’s a perfect match? Louis is shamelessly, charmingly hit on by a cool, funny waitress named Vanessa (Go On’s Sarah Baker, in a great, out-of-nowhere performance) whom he turns down, because she is fat.

As is often the case in Louie, Louis C.K. gets some traction out of flipping gender norms: Vanessa is the aggressor, she negs Louie (she hates comedy), she charms Louie, she woos Louie. Louie becomes like all the women who usually say no to him: trying to be nice, but just not feeling it.

But Vanessa’s persistence finally wins out and he agrees to go on a date with her. They have a great time, right up until the moment that, trying to be nice, he tells her she’s not fat.

She takes extreme issue with that. Louie’s being dishonest she points out; he’s pious and falsely comforting. Vanessa calls Louie out for refusing to date a woman like her for fear people will think they are in the same league, even though, of course, they are in the same league. (Louie has spent a part of this episode ritually eating two huge meals, back to back, with a friend.)

She also calls Louie out for trying to stifle her feelings, even if it’s out of supposed kindness: “You can talk into the microphone and say you can’t get a date, you’re overweight — you’re adorable. If I say it, they call the suicide hotline on me.”

I can’t be sure, but I suspect One Man’s Trash, the infamous episode of Girls in which Hannah Horvath nested with Patrick Wilson for a weekend, hangs over both of these episodes. The first is structurally similar: Louie has a dreamy interaction with a gorgeous member of the opposite sex.

It’s likely, however, this episode of Louie will not elicit the same “that’s implausible” response Girls did, a double standard that is one of Vanessa’s points. As in the great, maybe-date-rape episode of Louie from last season with Melissa Leo, Louis C.K. observes that men and women share so many emotions and experiences, but are seen so differently.

Louie and Vanessa are similar, but only one of them is “adorable.”

Vanessa takes Louie by surprise, and she is not the season’s only wild card. The deep unknowability of other people (even your own children) is a recurring Louie theme — and also one of the supreme pleasures of watching the show.

There’s nothing programmatic about Louie, which idiosyncratically, unevenly explores C.K.’s ideas and instincts without trying to advance an argument. It’s not a joke you’ve heard before. It’s a great shaggy dog story.

Paskin, Slate’s TV critic, has written for New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine and Salon. com

Allen’s latest a tar pit of veiled insults, criticism

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“I’m sick of explaining my lyrics to people, they’re pop songs, no more, no less. If you don’t get it or like it, look the other way. Simples” — Lily Allen tweet, May 1.

Before it was released, British pop singer Lily Allen’s first album in five years, Sheezus, had been the subject of several controversies. One involved the song Insincerely Yours, which lobbed insults at harmless British models Cara Delevingne and Jourdan Dunn, and singer Rita Ora. “I don’t give a f--- about Delevingne / Or that Rita girl / About Jourdan Dunn,” Allen trilled pleasantly. “I don’t give a f--- about your Instagram / About your lovely house or your ugly kids.”

Dunn took exception and engaged Allen in the sort of pre-release-day Twitter spat marketing departments dream of. Insincerely Yours is a low point on Sheezus, which is otherwise a tar pit of thinly veiled insults, songs that evoke Vampire Weekend and the kind of pointed pop-cultural criticism that has long been Allen’s stock in trade.

Allen got famous during — and thanks to — the brief reign of MySpace at the end of the last decade, releasing two guillotine-sharp pop albums before retreating from the business to marry and have children. Sheezus plunders just about every sound that was popular when she departed, including Paper Planes-era M.I.A., moombahton and dubstep.

Allen is a modestly regarded musician and a world-class observer of modern culture and its discontents. When she retreated into semi-retirement, she was one of a handful of artists making pop music about pop music. She has reemerged into a world where such self-examination is commonplace, characterized by Lady Gaga’s musings on the nature of stardom, Kreayshawn and Jessie J’s skewering of conspicuous consumption and Ke$ha’s winking party rap.

Hip-hop has always been about hip-hop — its beefs, its lifestyle, its shifting hierarchies. Country music is partially lodged in the swamps of bro-country, in which every hit song about barefoot girls and guys in pickup trucks recalls every other hit song about the same thing and has thus become unintentionally self-referential.

Pop’s meta moment may have peaked with the ascent of Lorde, whose breakout hit, Royals, took aim at some of Allen’s favorite targets — the excesses of hip-hop, the disconnect between real life and the unreachable fantasy of pop songs — but Lorde used a scalpel, and Allen uses an axe.

Allen name checks Lorde on her album’s singsong title track. Rihanna, Katy Perry and Beyoncé also are mentioned, all rivals whom she must vanquish. (“The game is changing / Can’t just come back, jump on the mike and do the same thing.”) It’s of a piece with the album’s first single, Hard Out Here, another examination of the unreasonable expectations placed on female pop singers. In the accompanying video, which plays like a lecherous Instagram of a 1998 McG video, Allen gets plastic surgery and makes fun of Robin Thicke while her barely clad black backup dancers twerk and pour champagne on each other’s backsides in slow motion. It was an insincere finger wag that objectifies video girls to demonstrate how wrong it is to objectify video girls. It deserved every bit of criticism it got.

For Allen, the line between cultural broadside and personal attack is thin and flexible. URL Badman is a portrait of a basement-dwelling Internet troll so vivid that you can practically see the Cheetos stains on his fingers. The song ends with a bleating goat. Allen spends much of Sheezus railing against bloggers, critics and lesser supermodels, and gen-

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British pop singer Lily Allen’s first album in five years, Sheezus, takes a few jabs at other artists. She says some people just don’t get it. erally — and unadvisedly — punching below her weight.

Sheezus works best when it’s personal, when it plumbs the conflict between work and family, between the tug of motherhood and the pull of fame. A sometimes uneasy ode to domesticity (“Staying home with you is better than sticking things up my nose,” Allen tells her husband), it’s also the most affecting pop album about marriage and new parenthood since Liz Phair’s long-ago Whitechocolatespaceegg.

The idea that Allen makes a better domestic goddess than a cultural observer was previously unthinkable. It could be that the once-deft satirist now content to bludgeon has lost her way, or it could be that pop music in the late spring of 2014 is already eating itself.

For example: In her new video for the otherwise forgettable track Hello Kitty, Avril Lavigne, another star of the ’00s looking to make a comeback, moves listlessly against various backdrops, surrounded by Japanese dancers. It’s a familiar patchwork of borrowed awful: the dancers of another race used as props (Miley Cyrus), the fetishization of Asian culture (Gwen Stefani), the regrettable haircut (Skrillex), the ill-fitting famous co-writer (Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger). It’s an inadvertently comical commentary on trickle-down pop culture, as if every blighted musical trend from the past 15 years sought revenge at the same time. Even Lily Allen could never have dreamed it up.

Born to Run lyrics on display at Duke University

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. — Bruce Springsteen wasn’t thinking about Wendy when he wrote a first draft of his 1975 classic Born to Run. Instead, he’s got a gold Chevy 6 on his mind, according to the original lyrics, which make their public debut this week at Duke University.

The 30 lines of lyrics, written in pen on a piece of 8.5.-by-11-inch lined paper, were purchased last December at a Sotheby’s auction by Floyd Bradley, a California man whose daughter graduates this weekend from Duke, as does Springsteen’s daughter.

Bradley, 62, a retired computer software marketer who spent much of his life in London, paid $160,000 plus a commission, bringing the total to $197,000. “It was a lot. I was embarrassed to tell my children,” he said. “But they were very supportive after I told them.”

He bought them as an investment, he said. “It’s a piece of Americana, I think.”

The original lyrics, written in 1974, in Long Branch, New Jersey, bear little resemblance to the

anthem that Springsteen typically plays each concert with the house lights on and the audience on its feet.

But that familiar chorus of “tramps like us/baby we were born to run” is there as is a part that ended up much like the final version: “this town’ll rip the bones from your back/it’s A suicide trap/your dead unless you get out while your young.”

The “everlasting kiss” is there: “I was headin for the place where wild Angels die in An everlasting (or) neverending kiss.”

But there’s no mention of dying with Wendy during that kiss or of guarding Wendy’s dreams and visions. Instead, Springsteen “looked out cross my hood + saw the highway buckle neath the wheels of A gold Chevy 6.” The car got a second mention a few lines down: “Baby out there heroes are crushed to death behind the wheels of a gold Chevy 6.”

In the margins, he’s written words such as “wild angels,” “Stroll on!” and “the rebels.”

“Something as iconic as this song, it’s going to be important to American history,” said Duke University exhibit librarian Meg Brown.

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BEARS (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED SAT-SUN 1:30 RIO 2 (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED SAT-SUN 1:40 THE OTHER WOMAN (14A) (CRUDE CONTENT) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI 4:10, 6:50, 9:35; SAT-SUN 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35; MON-THURS 6:40, 9:20 NEIGHBORS (18A) (CRUDE SEXUAL CONTENT,SUBSTANCE ABUSE) CLOSED CAPTIONED, NO PASSES FRI 5:20, 7:50, 10:25; SAT 2:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25; SUN 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25; MON-THURS 7:20, 10:05 NEIGHBORS (18A) (CRUDE SEXUAL CONTENT,SUBSTANCE ABUSE) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING, NO PASSES WED 1:30 MOMS’ NIGHT OUT (PG) NO PASSES FRI 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; SAT-SUN 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; MON-THURS 7:45, 10:15 BRICK MANSIONS (PG) (VIOLENCE,COARSE LANGUAGE) FRI-SUN 9:25; MON-THURS 9:30 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN 3D (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI 5:05, 7:30; SAT-SUN 2:40, 5:05, 7:30; MON-THURS 7:10 METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA CENERENTOLA () SAT 10:55 GOD’S NOT DEAD (PG) FRI-SUN 3:40, 6:40; MON-THURS 6:35 TOOTH FAIRY (G) SAT 11:00 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED SAT-SUN 12:20; STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 9, 2014 D3

Forgiveness trumps fury on stage

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON — For decades, Michael Mack imagined conversations with the priest who had invited him, a skinny 11-year-old, into the rectory to make costumes for a church play, molested him and then vanished.

Throughout Mack’s childhood in the Washington area and then later as an adult in Massachusetts, the unanswered questions ran through his life “like a thread,” he said.

Sometimes he’d picture himself asking the priest something basic: what was that about? Or the priest apologizing. Other times, his visions were detailed: the two finding that they shared things in common, like poetry. Or when the clergy sex-abuse scandal exploded in the early 2000s, Mack envisioned himself with the priest on a traveling, healing church road show.

But it wasn’t until a few years ago, when he attempted to actually have those conversations, that Mack, now 57, began healing. And for the past two years, he has been telling the story of that journey in a one-man play, Conversations with My Molester: A Journey of Faith. The show recounts his attempts to contact the priest, the unexpected people he meets on that journey and the way forgiveness has helped loosen the grip abuse has had on his psyche.

A lifelong spiritual seeker, Mack wound up returning to Catholicism and says he ponders reviving his childhood dream of becoming a priest.

“My face drizzling its festival of yes to this mathematics of forgiveness as I sob and let go,” he says in the play. “Slip downstream like a tattered salmon, into my portion of ocean, offer aloud a prayer, for my molester, that wherever he is, he knows the freedom I know now.”

Clergy and abuse survivors who have seen the show, which was performed several times in the Boston area after opening in 2012, say that audiences have marveled at Mack’s lack of fury and readiness to forgive, calling it healing in a way that might not have happened a decade ago, when rage and litigation seemed the only appropriate reactions.

“I think the wise powers that be are confronting the issue and looking for ways to deal with it, “ Mack said. “At first, the church wanted to deny as much as possible. But now it’s more about atonement.”

Mack spent his childhood in the 1960s moving around Northwest Washington and suburban Maryland before his mother’s struggle with schizophrenia prompted his father to send him and his siblings to Brevard, North Carolina, to live with an aunt for a year. It was there that a priest who befriended his family abused him one spring Sunday after finding the boy alone in the church playing piano and inviting him into the rectory to make costumes.

A few days later, the priest left town, and soon after, Mack’s father took his children back to the

Photo by ADVOCATE news services

Michael Mack, seen Friday at the Virginia Theological Seminary chapel auditorium in Alexandria, Virginia, has been performing his one-man show Conversations with My Molester: A Journey of Faith for the past two years.

District of Columbia area. Mack kept the incident a secret but immediately began imagining conversations he’d have with the man. Many were a search for explanations; others had Mack playing the role of confession-taker and forgiver.

It wasn’t until the clergy sex-abuse scandal erupted in Mack’s adopted home town of Boston a decade ago that he started to talk to others, his brother, a friend. He typed the priest’s name into an Internet search engine and was shocked to see that the man lived a short distance away, in central Massachusetts. That began a years-long period of Mack slowly moving closer to speaking with his abuser. He called and hung up. He wrote a letter but waited many months before deciding to deliver it.

What happens with the priest and Mack’s ultimate conversation with his molester are spoilers he didn’t want to divulge before Saturday’s show, at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia.

But it doesn’t give too much away to say that the play includes powerful conversations with his abuser’s priest-friends and then with people who live in Brevard, which Mack visited in 2008.

He sees his abuser in a very different light during that visit and accepts the invitation of a younger priest now working at the Brevard parish to come to Mass and confession. This homecoming service — his first in years — reveals the dramatic relief Mack felt being able to finally grieve in his native spiritual language.

The play conveys Mack’s lifelong quest for that joyful, open 11-year-old boy he had once been. And for boyhood in general. The boy for whom “praying was sweet breathing.” The boy whose body became “an empty rowboat” as he tried to float, disassociated, from his abuse. The play includes a scary scene when, as an older camp counselor, Mack invites an 8-year-old homesick boy to lie on his bed.

“You lean closer, his hair a drift of baby shampoo.” Nothing happens, but the idea of boyhood innocence remains a drug.

The topic of child sexual abuse is far more in the open than it was when Mack was abused. With Pope Benedict in 2008 becoming the first pope to meet publicly — in Washington — with clergy-abuse survivors, Pope Francis personally asking for forgiveness and appointing a survivor to be his adviser on the topic, and the number of reported complaints in the United States down, the issue seems to have moved into a new phase.

Yet this is not a subject many church leaders want to air out.

And it’s not as if life is simple now for Mack, a poet trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who also wrote a play about his mother’s schizophrenia. Until Thursday afternoon, he wasn’t sure if any of his many relatives in the Washington area would come to the play, as they have never been to its showings around Boston.

25th Red Deer David Clohessy, a survivor and national director of the country’s largest support group, SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), said it’s not uncommon for survivors to fantasize about conversations with their abusers — and some seek them out. But often to disappointment.

Even if the meetings either don’t happen or disappoint, Clohessy said, “the overwhelming majority of survivors find heal- Prairie Pavilion Westerner ing and forgive” on their Park own, even though the public face of survivors is often one seeking justice in the courts or media.

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McILRAVEY SHURMER (CLEVELAND) Lois Alma of Red Deer, Terrance Adam Alberta passed away peacefully Terrance Adam McIlravey at the Red Deer Regional passed away suddenly on Hospital on May 4, 2014 at April 28, 2014 in his 72 year. the age of 83. Lois was born A Celebration of Terry’s life September 10, 1930 to will be held at the Streams Grover and Gunda Cleveland Christian Church 5350-46th in Camrose, Alberta. She was Ave Red Deer, AB on the youngest of four children Saturday May 10, 2014 at and was predeceased by her 1:00 P.M. As an expression sympathy memorial sisters Eleanor and Jeanie, of her brother Norman and her donations may be made in parents Grover and Gunda. Terry’s name to the Heart Lois met her husband of 57 and Stroke Foundation.

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SYLVAN LAKE AND Lois and Gerald had two ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES wonderful daughters, Barbara AND CREMATORIUM, (Jezzat) and Linda (Niels, your Golden Rule Funeral Elysia, and Kyle). Gerald Homes, entrusted with the worked in the oil field and worked abroad during the arrangements. 403-887-2151 early years of their family life and they spent time in Libya and Venezuela. Lois was an avid golfer and passed her In Memoriam love of the game on to her son-in-law Niels and her BELANGER - Rose Cartier grandchildren Elysia and May 31, 1936 - May 9, 2007 Kyle. Lois also had a love for Seven long years have card games and many a passed since you left us to family functions were spent go to your heavenly Father. playing games together. Lois We still miss you as much was an amazing cook and now as we did then. loved nothing more than Now at least, we can cooking a wonderful meal for remember more of the good family and friends. This love parts of our life and love along with many recipes has together and less of the been passed on to her pain of your leaving. daughters and granddaughters.

The sharp edges have been Lois leaves behind numerous worn off our sorrow by time family members and friends and by living. to celebrate her life. A We now think of you with celebration of Lois’ life will be Joy, that you were part of our lives, held on May 12, 2014 at 1:00 Admiration, for all the things pm at the Red Deer Legion. you were able to accomplish In lieu of flowers, donations in your lifetime, and can be made to the CNIB Faith, Faith that you are in heaven 5015-48 St. Red Deer, AB within sight of the Lord.

T4N1S9. Messages of condolence Leo, sons John, Christopher may be forwarded to and Dennis-Wayne, www.myalternatives.ca daughter Dee-Anne

MOISEY - GREGOIRE Wishing a lifetime of love and happiness to Lisa and Braden.

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Full-Time/Part time Employment Opportunity Licensed Practical Nurse Panel Manager The Wolf Creek Primary Care Network is hiring Licenced Practical Nurses to work in medical clinics in Lacombe, Ponoka and Sylvan Lake. These are Monday to Friday positions with no shift work or weekends. The Panel Manager works in a one-on-one relationship with a family doctor. Goals include increasing efficiency in the family doctor’s office to improve access for patients, enhancing the patient’s primary care experience, and improving clinical outcomes and quality of life. The Panel Manager will be taught how to assist the physician and clinic to use information technology and healthcare knowledge to ensure that patients receive chronic and preventive care. The majority of Wolf Creek Panel Managers are Licensed Practical Nurses, however other health care professional will be considered for these positions.

Interested applicants should submit their resumes by May 23, 2014, to info@wolfcreekpcn.com or via fax to 403.782.5431.

The Wolf Creek Primary Care Network would like to thank all applicants for their interest; however only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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CRUICKSHANK, Donald A. April 14, 1931 - May 9, 2012 God looked around His garden And found an empty place He then looked down upon this Earth And saw your tired face.

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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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CNC Lead Hand / Supervisor and Operators

Nexus Engineering to fill its afternoon shift. We is currently looking for offer Comprehensive Afternoon shift Compensation package Lead hand/supervisor and that includes: Full paid operators. benefits, Deferred profit Duties include, ensuring sharing, Competitive production flow on Mazak Wage, and RRSP proC.N.C lathe and mills, gram. Applicant must trouble shooting, maintain a Heavy Duty min 1 years experience as Mechanic Journeyman a lead hand/supervisor ticket, a Valid CVIP in a machine shop. inspection license, strong We offer competitive wages, interpersonal and commu- company paid benefits and nication skills as well as a RRSP matching plan. organization skills. Willing Please forward resumes to work in a team atmosto: resume phere, ability to work @nexusengineering.ca independently, maintain JOURNEYMAN or safe work habits and keep work area clean. Own tools 4th Yr. Apprentice required. If this position Plumber/Gas Fitter interests you please email req’d for small shop in your resume to Westaskiwin area. jgoltz@wsii.ca or fax Competitive wages & 403-340-0894. health plan.

Submit resumes to: wph@xplornet.ca or fax to: 780-312-2889 or call 780-387-6087 Case IH Equipment Dealer LOOKING for Framers/ in Olds is now accepting carpenters 403-357-9816 applications for a full time

Counter Person or Shipper/Receiver.

Farming background and apprenticeship is an asset.

Applicant must be reliable, self motivated and team oriented.

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WE OFFER: Competitive Wages Annual Work boot reimbursement RRSP Plan Health & Dental Benefits package Sick Days Bonus Plan available Continuous professional training in house and off-site Friendly work environment

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 • F/T - P/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & If you are looking for a reWe are currently bath products $14.55/hr. + warding career with a recruiting for: bonus & comm. Beauty successful and growing orHeavy Equipment cert. req’d. Location ganization, Parkland Mall - 4747 67th then forward your resume to: Operators & St. Red Deer. email Labourers premierjobrdbto@ FUTURE AG INC. gmail.com Box 489 Requirements: Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1 SOAP Stories is seeking 5 Valid Driver’s License Fax: 403-342-0396 retail sales reps. Selling soap H2S Alive Email: hr@futureag.ca & bath products. $12.10 hr Standard First Aid + bonus & commission.

WHIMIS and/or F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d.

CSTS or PST Pre-Access A&D Testing Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Ground Disturbance Level 11 Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com ELECTRICAL & Please e-mail or fax your INSTRUMENTATION resume to: hr@tr3energy.com FIELD TECHNICIAN Trades Fax: (403) 294-9323 www.tr3energy.com If you have Electrical 2 EXP. ROOFERS. and Instrumentation skills, Must have drivers licence. an appreciation for accurate 403-341-9208 or drawings and like to work Professionals 403-346-2822 after hours. with people, we have a job opportunity for you.

Key activities include visiting DEEP KNEADS MUSCLE Field Offices and Facilities, THERAPY is looking collecting E & I information, for a Registered Massage Redlining and Creating Therapist for room rental.

E & I and Mechanical Please contact drawings. At our Red Deer 403-343-1086 facility you will assist our drafters in producing Restaurant/ accurate, easy to read C & C COATINGS in drawings for our clients.

Innisfail is seeking F/T Hotel Sandblasters and Painters Qualifications Include: exp. with Endura an asset. • Journeyman Electrician RAMADA INN & SUITES Competitive wages and Ticket req’s. Permanent Room benefits. Fax resume to: • Instrumentation dual ticket Attendants. Exp. not nec.

403-227-1165. is a definite asset will train. Approx. 35 - 40 • Field Experience hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 CELEBRATIONS Thorough understanding • $14/hr. Duties incl’d but HAPPEN EVERY DAY of oil and gas processes not limited to: vacuuming, IN CLASSIFIEDS and equipment dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, Please visit our website at CLASS 3 DRIVER/ disinfecting & cleaning www.crimtech.com EQUIPMENT OPERATOR bathrooms. Performance for more information and req’d immed. Local work, based bonus program. email your resume to: need drivers abstract.

Must be fluent with verbal careers@crimtech.com Fax resume to 403-986-8142 l& written English, be physically fit. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer Trades T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com

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Trades

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Truckers/ Drivers

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OK TIRE & AUTO SERVICE

850

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

Oilfield

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THE HAMPTON INN GASOLINE ALLEY

First Aid, H2S and PSTS, Looking for room valid driver’s licence req’d. attendants F/T & P/T, Need to be physically fit. OIL & GAS OPERATOR P/T breakfast bar hostess.

Resume by fax Must be avail. all shifts.

Bearspaw currently has a 403-227-1398 or email position in our Stettler field Will train. Drop off resume info@accutechcanada.ca operations for an intermediate or email: cheri.arthur2@ Fluid Experts Ltd. oil and gas operator. Applicants hilton.com No phone calls.

Is looking for experienced LOCAL SERVICE CO. have experience as a You can sell your guitar Logistics Coordinator in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. must heavy duty mechanic or for a song... to start immed.

VACUUM TRUCK journeyman instrument or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Experience in fluid hauling OPERATOR mechanic and possess and we’ll sell it for you! and oil field fluid products Must have Class 3 licence strong mechanical skills, would be an asset. w/air & all oilfield tickets. be quick learners, motivated Good Verbal, Writing, Fax resume w/drivers and hard working and live Texting and abstract to 403-886-4475 or be willing to relocate Computer skills are a must. within a 20 minute commute Company vehicle is to workplace location. This negotiable, benefits, position offers a challenging above avg. salary and work environment, attractive The Tap House Pub & Grill great atmosphere. benefits with competitive req’s full and part time Clean Class 1 drivers license pay and significant room cooks. Apply with resume c/w abstract. for promotion. at 1927 Gaetz Avenue NOW HIRING Completed Basic Training Please submit resumes between 2-5 pm.

Well Testing Personnel Courses.

Experienced Supervisors Attn: Human Resources Fax Resume w/all tickets & Operators and Driver’s Abstract to Sales & email:kwolokoff@ Must have valid applicable bearspawpet.com 403-346-3112 Distributors tickets or email to Fax 403-252-9719 Email: lstouffer@ roger@fluidexperts.com Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 D & D VEHICLES SALES testalta.com Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 RENTAL & LEASING REQUIRES A SALES CONSULTANT. Professionals 2 month guarantee salary.

Competitive commission.

342 Laura Ave. Red Deer SERVICE RIG 403-358-5888 Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd Email: joelv@ddsales.com is seeking exp’d GRATIAE is seeking FLOORHANDS & 5 Retails Sales reps DERRICK HANDS Would you like to become an Optician? selling skin & body care Locally based, home every products in Parkland Mall night! Qualified applicants Earn your Diploma in Optical Sciences at 4747 67th St. Red Deer, must have all necessary $12.10/hr + bonus & comm.

NAIT’s 2 year program valid tickets for the position F/T - P/T No Exp. Req’d. being applied for.

Email resumes: Requirements Bearspaw offers a gratiaereddeersr@ very competitive salary gmail.com • Grade 12, GED, or assessed equivalent and benefits package along with a steady • Must be a Canadian Citizen work schedule.

Enrollment starts May 1 - Aug. 15, 2014 Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Course cost $3,000/yr. Employer will payroll deduction Email: for assistance, if required. hr@bearspawpet.com Is looking for F/T Fax: (403) 258-3197 or SALESPERSON. Mon. - Fri. Earn While You Learn Mail to: Suite 5309, 8-5.

Job requirements will 333-96 Ave. NE Full Time Employment 40hrs/wk be: quoting jobs, dealing Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 with walk in clients, phone Training & Practicum hours provided to successful candidate. sales, scheduling and Mon-Fri 10-7, Sat 9-6 customer service. Very competitive wages and Medical/Dental Benefits benefit package. Fax To arrange for an interview resumes to: 403-343-1325

Please call (403) 347-7889 EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS

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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

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

Owner Operators & Company Drivers

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

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 QUICKLINE CRANE INC. in Blackfalds is looking for a

MOBILE CRANE & HOISTING OPERATOR

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 CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

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.

with experience.

We are seeking to hire Must be a minimum third permanent Driver/Sales year apprentice & have for the Red Deer area. good knowledge of truck mount & all terrain cranes.

Qualifications Required: Competitive salaries * Valid Class 3 license with includes benefits.

Now Hiring: air ticket Must have a Class 1 license.

JOURNEYMAN Please submit all resumes * Valid delivery and safety courses; Emergency PIPEFITTER by email to: First Aid, WHMIS and for FACILITY PROJECT kyle@quicklinecrane.com TDG are required although training Looking for a place The successful applicant is available to live? will be a ticketed, Take a tour through the * Propane-related Red Seal Journeyman experience is an asset CLASSIFIEDS Pipefitter/Steamfitter * Oilfield experience is • Be able to complete an asset SHOP & PORTABLE ISO drawings Welding Business in • Measure existing and new Canwest Propane Lacombe looking for B piping projects within offers a competitive Pressure or Journeyman an Oil and Gas Plant compensation package Welders for local work.

• Organized Only reliable need apply.

• A Self-starter Interested candidates Call Mon. Fri. 8:30 4:30 • Team player are invited to apply 403-318-9445 via our website This project runs from SHOP HELP AND/OR www.gibsons.com/careers May - September 2014, APPRENTICE MECHANIC or by Fax at 403-346-0595 and will be by hand REQUIRED IMMED. only-tools supplied LOA F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Truck exp. preferred. and travel pay also supplied Minimum Class 5 with air 8:30-5. 15 miles and clean abstract. Exp. East of Blackfalds.

Are you looking to grow preferred. In person to Key Fax: 403-784-2330 your career in a drug and Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Phone: 403-784-3811 alcohol free environment, Red Deer. surrounded by a great team?

SHUNDA Then Profoxx Energy would CONSTRUCTION like to hear from you.

Requires Full Time We are a professional fast Carpenters growing company that offers competitive wages & 2nd to 4th Yr. and benefits in a fun Apprentices and safe environment.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Submit your resume to: Fax resumes & ref’s to: careers@profoxxenergy.com 403-343-1248 or email to: TRUCKERS Or by fax 780-622-5056 Busy road construction admin@shunda.ca company looking for Class We thank all those who STAIR MANUFACTURER 1, Class 3, and winch truck apply, but only those Req’s F/T workers to build drivers. Work is throughout chosen for interview stairs in Red Deer shop.

Alberta. Must have at least will be contacted MUST HAVE basic car3 yr’s exp. Fax resume to pentry skills. Salary based 403-309-0489 PAINTER F/T on skill level. Benefits Commercial/Residential avail. Apply in person at Misc.

Brush/Roll Application.

100, 7491 Edgar Exp. req’d. Vehicle req’d.

Industrial Bend. email: Help Contact Drew at CCL earl707@telus.net. and/or 403-596-1829 fax 403-347-7913 CLEANERS F/T Comm/ Res, physically fit, $14/hr.

Reply to: Ascent Cleaning Misc.

Services RR4, Box 4, Site Help 3 Lacombe, AB T4L 2N4

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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

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DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

EMF NUTRITION RED DEER BRANCH

is HIRING!! We are looking to fill two positions: Packaging Operator (Bagger) Shipper/Receiver. Please visit our website for more details: www.emf-nutrition .com Apply by May 12th, 2014 Email: hr@ emf-nutrition.com Mail/person: 4747-60th St. Red Deer, Alberta Fax: 204.233.7245

FLEET BRAKE PARTS & SERVICE

NOW HIRING

Netook Construction Ltd. is a heavy equipment contractor based out of Olds, Alberta.

We are seeking a

JOURNEYMAN HEAVY EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN

Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring: • Shop Technicians

We are looking for motivated individuals for shop positions to service oilfield downhole tools.

We offer competitive wages and benefits, opportunity for growth and working in town. Valid drivers license required.

Wise is a leading oilfield services provider that is committed to Quality and Safety excellence. By empowering positive attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values, our employees care for the success of one another.

For more information see

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Netook Construction Ltd. is looking to hire for their upcoming season.

We are taking resumes for experienced

HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS

with 5-10 years’ experience working with on-off road earthworks equipment.

(dozers, excavators, graders, scrapers, skidsteers, rubber tire hoe) and labourers for upcoming work.

We require: Caterpillar and Komatsu experience, strong diagnostic and electrical experience, knowledge with Electronic Technician and SIS programs. Successful candidates must be able to work independently in a busy environment, be flexible and work well with others. Driver’s license, H2S Alive, First Aid/CPR are required. A dual heavy equipment and automotive ticket is an asset.

Candidates must go through pre-employment drug testing.

You must have a current driver’s licence and safety tickets which include H2S Alive, First Aid/CPR, Ground Disturbance Level 2 (Standard 201), and CSTS. Also, hiring drivers with Class 1 license with equipment hauling and/or gravel truck experience.

Qualified applicants please apply by email at careers@netook.ca or fax to (403) 556-6231.

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Canada’s premier fleet specialist has an immediate opening for a

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ELECTRICAL & INSTRUMENTATION

PROJECT MANAGER

WorleyParsonsCord Ltd. is seeking an Electrical & Instrumentation Project Manager to work with our growing team at our Blackfalds Module Yard facility.

The candidate will have the ability to complete quantity surveys in a unit rate environment and be highly organized and capable of working under tight timelines on overlapping projects. Must be available to work 50 hours/week (7am to 5:30pm Mon-Fri)

Apply now: www.worleyparsonscord.ca/careers and be a part of a leading module and fabrication team.

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IS HIRING!

100,000 Potential Buyers???

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: - CONCRETE FINISHERS - CARPENTERS - GENERAL LABOURERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

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www.eaglebuilders.ca Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources

or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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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.

for our Red Deer location.

The successful candidate will have the following: * Exceptional customer service skills *Ability to work with minimum supervision * A great attitude * Knowledge of city and surrounding areas. * Clean drivers abstract We offer above average wages, a comprehensive benefit program and a safe work environment. Please apply in confidence to: Fleet Brake Parts & Service 4841-78 St. Red Deer, AB T4P 1N5 Fax: 403-340-0888 or email your resume to: tcarriere@fleetbrake.com

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Canada’s premier fleet specialist has an immediate opening for a

SERVICE WRITER

for our Red Deer location.

The successful candidate will have the following: * Good knowledge of Medium and Heavy duty truck and trailer repair. * Suspension, brake and electrical repair exp. * Knowledge of Karmac would be an asset. * Great people skills. * Ability to work with minimum supervision * A great attitude We offer above average wages, a comprehensive benefit program and a safe work environment. Please apply in confidence to: Fleet Brake Parts & Service 4841-78 St. Red Deer, AB T4P 1N5 Fax: 403-340-0888 or email your resume to: tcarriere@fleetbrake.com

LABOUR

Busy road construction company looking for Labours. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489 Oilfield Weed Sprayer required. Submit resume to Ranger Resource Service by fax 403-227-5099, email cdsprung@telus.net or call Cory 403-304-8201.

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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

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.

Now hiring SUMMER HELP in your local city/town. Flexible schedule, $17.00 base rate-ofpay, cust. sales/service, no experiencerequired, training provided, conditions apply. Visit www.vmcanada .ca/rda or call 403-755-6711 to APPLY NOW!

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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

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ANTIQUE Dining Room Suite.

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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.

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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.

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EquipmentHeavy

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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Tools

TABLE SAW, 9” Delta Beaver, with cast iron table & wing, 3 - 9” blades, 2 are Freud, on stand with castors. $150.

403-358-5465

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AFFORDABLE Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

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17” CRAFTSMAN rear tine rototiller. 8.5 HP 2 yrs old. $575. 403-346-7856

LAWNMOWER - gas $50.

BBQ - small propane $50.

CAR SEAT WARMER - new - $20.

JUMPER CABLES - $20.

403-346-4811 OLD COUNTRY ROSE CHINA. As well as 12 collector plates Call 403-887-2428 SINGER SEWING MACHINE with cabinet, $75.

403-346-2070

CHINA Cabinet, cherry wood $185. o.b.o.

403-346-4926

WINE making equipment $75; Coleman dbl. high queen size air bed w/elec. pump $45, 2 golf carts w/2 bags $15/pair.

403-343-2618

COFFE table, octagon with 2 end tables, glass tops. $75.; Chesterfield, flowered pastels, $100. good cond. Best offer on WOODEN boot jack $15, 3 shelf brackets 9” x 11”, 13” both. 403-346-4926 x 10” $1.50/ea, 2 heavy COUCH, chair, Lazy Boy metal brackets 8 1/2” will $200. 403-346-2073 hold 11”-12” board 2/$8, 5’ DRESSER, desk and chair x 9 1/2” wide shelf $5, 4 sets fancy shelf brackets $200. 403-346-2073 $6/set, 4 sets fancy brackets 3” x 4” $2/set, 24” FLORAL LOVE SEAT, standards w/4 brackets $4, good cond. $75.

2 BAR STOOLS $20/ea. 9-6” brackets for single standard $2, four 8” brackSTANDING LAMP, $10.

WHITE WOODEN TABLE, ets $2, 10 12” white brackets for single stanwith maple top, 29.5” x 47”, 25” high, $20. dards, $10, 4 chrome SMALL CHEST FRIDGE, bathroom toothbrush and glass holders, wall mount 18”x17”, 18” deep, $40. $10, ice scraper $8, 2/3 403-346-2346 bag of oil-dri all purpose TABLE & 4 chairs, round absorbent $8, 25 legal size with leaf, will sit 10-12 file folder holder $10, 4 tv people, cherry wood, trays and holder on wheels $150. o.b.o. 403-346-4926 $15, misc. pieces of wood $5, 4 ft. aluminum ladder WANTED $8, Coleman cooler 22” x Antiques, furniture and 13” $15, wine rack estates. 342-2514 (chrome) holds 12 bottles $10 403-314-2026

Stereos TV's, VCRs

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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.

STERIO SYSTEM, 3 disc-CD, AM, FM, Cassette, $35. 403-346-2346

Misc. for Sale

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*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 3 AFRICAN VIOLETS, Christmas Cactus $5/ea, RV camping mat 13’ x 9’ $75, CRAFTSMAN seat for riding mower $30, SLIPPERS (Isotoner) new $15 403-342-7460 CROSMAN AIR GUN, 3578 shooters kit, uses .177 caliber copperhead pellets w/4” & 8” barrels. $60. 403-755-2760

Electric BBQ & Cover $25.

Deck Table & Chairs $35.

4 Resin Chairs $20.

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner Oval Table Arborite Top $5.

BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / 2 Metal Tool Boxes & Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 some tools - all for $20.

27” Toshba TV $20.

Vtech Cordless Answering Garden Machine $5.

Supplies Please call 403-358-7678

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Misc. for Sale

BIRCH SHELF UNITS 16x32x90, $60.

16x32x96, $40.

403-782-7439

FISHER AIR TIGHT WOOD BURNING STOVE. Ideal for small home, cottage or garage. $200.

403-782-7439

Musical Instruments

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GUITAR - $50.

403-346-4811

Cats

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BALINESE KITTENS 1 Male & 1 female $50/ea.

Also have a grey & white male kitten - free.

403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

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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.

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Travel Packages

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Wedding Supplies

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FLOWER GIRL DRESS - size 6. Fabric roses at neck & waist - front & back, $75 obo. 403-346-2070

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TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

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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

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BDRM. for rent in Vanier Woods,. $419/mo./d.d.

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Pinnacle Estates

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REDUCED MUST SELL 1995 OKANAGAN 23’. Very well maint. Must be seen.

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Police officer killed in clash with protesters THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — Young people clashed with police in the streets Thursday in an angry response to Venezuelan security forces dismantling four tent cities maintained by anti-government demonstrators, and officials reported one officer killed and another injured.

The bloodshed came after hundreds of police and troops arrested 243 student protesters during pre-dawn raids on camps in front of the offices of the United Nations and in better-off neighbourhoods in the capital largely opposed to President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government.

Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres presented homemade mortars, guns and Molotov cocktails that he said were seized at the camps and used to carry out “terrorist” acts against security forces.

“This shows there was an entire logistical apparatus in place,” Rodriguez Torres said, seeking to counter claims that the anti-government movement has been peaceful and spontaneous.

Dozens of anti-government activists erected barricades throughout the day to express solidarity for the jailed students, setting off clashes with police. One officer was killed and another wounded by gunfire. Maduro said the officer was killed by a sniper while police cleared the streets of debris in the leafy Chacao district where the UN office is.

“He was protecting the community of Chacao and was killed vilely by these rightwing assassins,” Maduro said at an event in Caracas to deliver homes to low-income families.

The death brought to 42 the number of people on all sides who’ve been killed since antigovernment protests began to roil the South American nation in February.

The dismantling of the camps was announced just hours before a top opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez, was scheduled to appear in court after being in custody since February. The hearing on whether he should begin trial on charges of inciting violence at anti-government protests was suspended and he was taken back to a military prison almost as soon as he arrived at the courthouse downtown.

Witnesses near the UN office said hundreds of National Guardsmen began arriving after 3 a.m. and were greeted angrily by neighbours who launched objects and insults from nearby balconies.

Rodriguez Torres said the operation was carried out cleanly, with security forces

VENEZUELA

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A demonstrator throws back a teargas canister fired

by Bolivarian National Police after clashes broke out at an anti-government protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday.

Demonstrators took to the streets after a pre-dawn raid by security forces that broke up four camps maintained by student protesters and arrested more than 200 people. relying on the element of surprise rather than aggressive force to round up the protesters.

He said the detainees would be charged, but didn’t say when that would happen.

Under Venezuelan law, prosecutors have 48 hours to bring detainees before a judge and either charge or release them, but in recent months officials have often ignored the rules and held protesters incommunicado for longer periods.

Hours after the raids, a scattered detritus of shoes, clothes and destroyed banners littered the streets where the makeshift campground once stood. A few dozen neighbours built barricades to block traffic, demanding the release of the students.

“How can this be allowed when the constitution guarantees the right to peaceful protest,” said Anais Serrano, a real estate agent. “These kids weren’t anything bad.”

The raids came as the U.S. Congress began debate Thursday on economic sanctions against top Venezuelan officials.

The Obama administration argued at a Senate committee hearing that sanctions would be premature while dialogue continues between Maduro’s government and some members of the opposition.

Roberta Jacobson, U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, said some opposition leaders have urged the United States not to go forward with sanctions.

“They have asked us not to

pursue them at this time,” Jacobson said.

The legislation in both chambers is relatively modest.

It centres on freezing assets and banning visas for Venezuelan officials who crushed anti-government protests. It would also boost aid for prodemocracy and civil society groups.

Anti-Maduro groups are divided on how much to engage with the government. Students and hardliners are boycotting the talks, which they consider a ploy by Maduro to deflect foreign criticism of his handling of the crisis.

Maduro’s administration has grown increasingly fed up with the demonstrations and last week announced it had arrested 58 foreigners, including an American, on suspicion of inciting violent street protests against the government.

Opponents have repeatedly rejected Maduro’s frequent allegations that the protests are seeking his overthrow, saying he is trying to distract attention from grueling economic crisis marked by 57 per cent inflation and record shortages of basic goods.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a sponsor of the sanctions legislation in the Senate, said the message that penalties would carry is important. The move comes as human rights groups accuse Venezuelan security officials of arresting, torturing and even killing unarmed demonstrators.

“This is happening in our very own hemisphere,” Rubio said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

Vigilante movement dismisses spokesman after controversial chat with president THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO

MEXICO CITY — Vigilantes who have spent the last year beating back a drug cartel in Mexico said Thursday they have dismissed their chief spokesman after he used unusually blunt language to challenge President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Dashing vigilante leader Jose Manuel Mireles had become the public face of the “selfdefence” movement in the western state of Michoacan, where the coalition of farmers, ranchers and labourers is fighting the Knights Templar cartel that had strangled the largely agricultural state with extortion demands, kidnappings and killings.

But Mireles also became known as a loose cannon.

Earlier this week he posted a video on social media sites asking Pena Nieto to talk one on one and not through his handlers, referring to the president in a colloquial manner that could be considered offensive.

“You are a human being, just like me, maybe you’ve got a headache or you have to go to the bathroom,” Mireles says on the video, in which he speaks to Pena Nieto using the informal form of “you” in Spanish — “tu.”

Referring to allegations that Knights Templar gunmen abducted wives and daughters of Michoacan ranchers to sexually abuse them, Mireles asked Pena Nieto how he would feel in that situation.

“Enrique, you have a very beautiful wife, and you both have very beautiful daughters, just as we do in our towns,” Mireles said.

“How would you feel if someone came to your home and took your wife because she is very beautiful?”

Current vigilante spokesman Estanislao Beltran said Thursday that Mireles was dismissed for not clearing his statements with the vigilantes’ leadership bodies.

The approximately three dozen towns where the selfdefence forces have chapters form a collective leadership council, and Beltran said any public statements have to be cleared through that council, or at least some of its members.

“Everything we do always has to be consulted with the council,” Beltran said. “He didn’t pay any attention; he just made pronouncements.”

Beltran said the dismissal was ordered because of a pattern of behaviour, not just Mireles’ one-sided “chat” with the president. Mireles, a doctor who spent time as an immigrant in the United States, could not be contacted for comment on the decision.

The exchange came about a week after Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron published a full-page ad in Mexican newspapers questioning Pena Nieto’s energy reform.

While the director of the blockbuster space film “Grav-

ity” used the formal, respectful “usted” in his open letter to Pena Nieto, he made clear that he doesn’t agree with the way the constitutional change was passed last year.

Direct, personal challenges to a president were once rare in Mexico.

For about a century, Mexico was used to a sort of imperial presidency, in which everyone was expected to be very formal.

That broke down a bit with Vicente Fox, who became in 2000 the first opposition candidate in seven decades to win the presidency and governed with folksy expressions and a taste for cowboy boots.

His successor, Felipe Calderon, also engaged in more direct, face-to-face contact with average citizens, including hugging an activist who lost his son to drug violence.

But Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party has reinstalled a more formal, distant style since regaining the top office in 2012. It was ousted from power after a 71-year reign by Fox’s victory in 2000.

“The ’presidential-ist’ system is over, that’s something the PRI has to learn,” said Guadalupe Loaeza, a cultural commentator and writer.

“It would be impossible to revive it, especially now, with social media.”

Even if Mireles’ informal, frank tone bothered the president, “he should meet with Mireles.

He represents the voices of millions of Mexicans,” she said.

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 9, 2014

Reports of school districts making it hard to enrol immigrants in U.S. WASHINGTON — Despite a 32-year-old court ruling, school districts continue to raise barriers to enrolment for children brought into the U.S. illegally, the Obama administration said Thursday, characterizing reports of hindrances as troubling.

The Justice Department and Education Department issued new guidance reminding schools and districts they have a legal obligation to enrol every student regardless of immigration status. The guidance says schools should be flexible in deciding which documents they will accept to prove a student’s age or residency.

The guidance also reminds them not to ask about a student’s immigration status or require documents such as a driver’s license, if that would prevent a student from enrolling because of a parent’s immigration status. The Education Department said it is investigating 14 schools or districts for possible violations since 2011. They are in Arizona, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia. There were four complaints against Kansas City, Kansas, Unified School District 500.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that in some instances, school leaders have inappropriately required information such as a child’s visa status or date of entry into the United States.

Justice Department officials said they also have taken action, sometimes collaboratively with the Education Department and sometimes working separately. The

WORLD

BRIEFS Costa Rica’s new president promises transparency

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Luis Guillermo Solis took the oath of office as Costa Rica’s new president Thursday, vowing to govern with transparency and be open to feedback from all sectors of the country.

Solis said during a speech in a soccer stadium packed with about 20,000 people that he will be always open to hearing the advice of people.

“When I make a mistake, correct me,” he said. “When I waver, give me strength.”

The 56-year-old president said that during his four-year term he will be attentive to all views expressed in what he called “a new citizens’ democracy.”

He promised to focus on building up small- and medium-size local businesses while strengthening social and environmental programs, to fight tax evasion and to control a deficit of more than $2.5 billion in a country long considered the most stable in Central America Solis, a member of the centre-leftist Citizen Action Party, defeated the long-governing National Liberation Party, which was weighed down by corruption allegations and discontent over high unemployment during President Laura Chinchilla’s government.

U.S. House votes to start new Benghazi probe WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to establish a new investigation of the 2012 assault

Justice Department has entered into settlement agreements with school districts in states such as Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. And it said that after it contacted officials in Alabama, the state education department sent guidance to districts spelling out that they may not bar or discourage students from enrolment because they lack a Social Security number or birth certificate or because their parents don’t have an Alabama driver’s license.

In a settlement with the district in Palm Beach County, Florida, the district agreed to provide translation help during enrolment and to permit homeless students who lack documentation to enrol. In Henry County, Georgia, as part of a separate settlement, the district agreed to ensure that a parent’s decision to withhold a child’s Social Security number will not keep the child from enrolling.

J.D. Hardin, a spokesman for Henry County schools, said students never were barred from classes in the district, located about 20 minutes south of metro Atlanta.

District officials believed they could start to withdraw a child under Georgia’s enrolment rules if a parent didn’t provide a Social Security number or fill out a waiver within 30 days after the student began classes, he said.

Since the settlement, students stay in class, Hardin said. Matt Cardoza, a spokesman for Georgia’s Education Department, said the state worked with federal officials while updating enrolment requirements in 2011. Cardoza said state education staff will follow up on any complaints they receive about enrolment problems. in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador there.

Republicans are focusing on the issue as congressional elections loom in November and as former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat, weighs a run for president in 2016.

Democrats say the Benghazi inquiry is actually a political ploy and are considering a boycott. They will meet Friday morning to decide on their next step.

Four Americans died in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission.

Republicans accuse the Obama administration of misleading the American people about the nature of the attack during a presidential campaign and blocking multiple congressional inquiries.

The Obama administration says officials tried to provide the public with the best information available at a time when U.S diplomatic posts were facing angry demonstrations across the Muslim world over a YouTube video mocking Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. The administration originally attributed Benghazi to a similar protest that extremists hijacked, but retracted that account amid severe criticism.

A bitterly divided House voted 232-186 to set up the panel that Speaker John Boehner insisted would answer questions that linger almost 20 months after the attack.

The panel’s investigation will be the eighth on Benghazi. Independent, bipartisan and Republican-led probes have faulted the State Department for inadequate security at the outpost.

No attacker has yet been brought to justice.

Boehner’s legislation creates a select House committee through the end of the year. It will have to be reapproved when a new Congress begins in January or go out of existence.

The select committee has no explicit financial constraints.

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Female white rhinoceros Molly eats a vegetable birthday cake at the Serengeti-Park near Hodenhagen, Germany, Wednesday. Molly turns 53 and thus is considered to be the oldest living rhino in the world, according to reliable data from international studbooks.

Rights groups urge Palestinians to turn to International Criminal Court THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RAMALLAH, West Bank — Leading international human rights groups urged the Palestinians on Thursday to seek access to the International Criminal Court and end what they say is a lack of accountability for serious crimes by both sides in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.

This includes accountability for acts of torture, indiscriminate attacks on civilians and Israeli settlement expansion on occupied lands, the groups wrote in a joint letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Seventeen groups signed the appeal, including international watchdogs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and 13 Palestinian organizations.

Since the U.N. General Assembly recognized

a “state of Palestine” as a non-member observer in 2012, Abbas has had the option of seeking access to the ICC in The Hague.

However, the United States and Israel have strenuously objected to Palestine trying to join international agencies and conventions, saying it is an attempt to bypass peace talks.

Abbas froze such efforts during nearly nine months of U.S.-brokered peace talks with Israel.

The talks ended without progress in April — the latest failed attempt in 20 years to negotiate the terms of a Palestinian state next to Israel.

The Palestinians seek a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in a 1967 war.

Joe Stork of the Human Rights Watch said claims that the Palestinians would disrupt peace efforts if they go to the ICC ring hollow “when 20

years of peace talks have brought neither peace nor justice to victims of war crimes.”

The Palestinians say they are eligible for membership in 63 international agencies, conventions and institutions, including the ICC. Abbas acceded to 15 conventions in early April, nearly a full month before the talks collapsed, after Israel failed to release a group of Palestinian prisoners as it had promised.In the West Bank, Abbas told Palestine TV in an interview broadcast Thursday that “all international organizations are open to us,” but he did not specifically mention the ICC. Palestinian officials have suggested in the past that seeking access to the ICC would be a last resort because it would likely trigger a political confrontation with the U.S. and retaliation from Israel.

Abbas is currently

busy trying to reconcile with Hamas, the Islamic militant group that seized Gaza from him in 2007, and hopes to set up an interim unity government of technocrats by the end of May. He could lose international funding over his alliance with Hamas, branded a terror group by the U.S. and the EU. Seeking access to the ICC could further disrupt relations with the U.S. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor dismissed the groups’ appeal to Abbas as “unsolicited advice.”

The ICC’s former chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said during a stop in Israel this week that the Palestinians should be cautious about pursuing war crimes against Israel. He said doing so could open them up to Israeli counterclaims over rocket attacks and suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.

Former administrator of Virgin Islands charged with corruption ST. THOMAS — A former government official in the U.S. Virgin Islands who was already facing fraud and tax evasion charges has been indicted on bribery and extortion charges in an unrelated case, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. A federal grand jury indicted Louis “Lolo” Willis on three counts each of bribery and extortion stemming from his time as the executive director of the Virgin Islands Legislature in 2009-12.

The indictment alleges Willis used the appointed position to extract thousands of dollars in payments from three contractors working on renovations to the Legislature building. Willis, 56, was charged in February with fraud and tax evasion in an unrelated local case stemming from an earlier stint as executive director of the Internal Revenue Bureau, where he served in 2000-06.

Heavy rains unleash flooding across Puerto Rico SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Heavy rains caused widespread flooding across Puerto Rico on Thursday as a cluster of thunderstorms pounded the U.S. territory.

The National Weather Service said up to eight centimetres of rain was falling per hour in the San Juan metropolitan area as thunderstorms moved eastward across the island. Government officials said the rains caused a landslide in the northern town of Vega Alta and cut off access to about 20 families in the area. Flooded highways and roads caused major traffic jams in the capital and nearby areas.

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