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Runners participating in the Woody’s RV World Marathon and Half Marathon braved the rain as they began their run at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning. The marathon used parts of the trail system for the course, before finishing on 42A Avenue.

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A record number of runners — more than 1,600 — participated in this year’s Woody’s Marathon, but the marathon wouldn’t have been able to run without the help of its army of volunteers. Janice Dempsey has been involved in some way with the marathon since its start in 1998 as both a runner and as a volunteer. “I’ve run the marathon, I’ve run the half a few times. Last year I ran the half,” said Dempsey. “But in between when I’m not running I always volunteer.” This year she was set up on the race handing out drinks, directions and support for participants. “I love being there and I love the fact that when I’m running there are people out there helping you,

cheering you on, showing you the direction,” said Dempsey. “It’s fun to be part of it all. “I usually like being at the finish line, I like putting the medals on and seeing the faces of the participants as they cross. It’s really exciting.” For four years now Kirsten Barschel has helped out at the race. She used to run herself, but decided to help out in the local running community. “There’s the nervous anticipation of the race before when people are picking up their package and they’re excited to see what their training has done for them,” said Barschel. “On race day when everybody is lining up to go it is excitement, and after the race everyone has those endorphins flowing and everybody is happy with the accomplishment.”

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Police are working to piece together the events that led to the homicide of Oleg Alex Cusnir, who was found dead in his burned out Ford F-350 last week The Medical Examiner’s Office deemed the death of the 27-year-old Innisfail resident a homicide Friday. Innisfail RCMP were called to a farmer’s field east of Innisfail last Thursday to a report of a vehicle on fire. The field, located south of Hwy 590 on Range Road 273, has been under investigation ever since the event. Sunday morning Innisfail Detachment Commander Staff Oleg Alex Cusnir Sgt. Chris Matechuk held a press conference at the Innisfail police station. He said police know when and how Cusnir died, but are not releasing it at this time. Cusnir was the registered owner of the vehicle and was the sole occupant when it was found engulfed in flames. He had no relation to the property where he was found. “We have persons of interest we are pursuing during this investigation,” said Matechuk, adding they are not in custody. “We have no suspects, but we have persons of interest and we are following up with them.” The Cusnir family is asking for privacy at this time. Though he lived in Innisfail he had previously lived in Red Deer. He emigrated from Moldova at a young age. “Mr. Cusnir was, in a police sense, not known to us, but some members have spoken to him in the past,” said Matechuk.

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Retiring fire chief ready to answer the next call of his life BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Fire Chief Jack MacDonald is hanging up his helmet after nearly 32 years of putting out fires in Red Deer. His final day at the Mountview Station 2 firehall is on May 30. MacDonald said the timing is right to answer the next call of his life. “There just comes a time when you realize it’s time to spend more energy and time with your wife and family,” said MacDonald, “The job is pretty much 24/7 and there are times when you say no to things. This opens up the opportunity to say yes to a lot more things.” On May 1, MacDonald, 56, marked 12 years as Red

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City of Red Deer fire chief Jack MacDonald is set to retire.

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Deer’s top firefighter. MacDonald joined the department in 1982 after his wife and friends gently told him his dream of being a professional hockey player wasn’t going to pan out. He quickly rose through the ranks on the station floor as a lieutenant. MacDonald became involved with the local firefighters union and was president for an eight-year stint. “I had the unique opportunity to be at the bargaining table one day with the union and the next day with management,” said MacDonald. “It helped me develop what I hope is a better balanced perspective of understanding both sides.”

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Building support for the upcoming Progressive Conservative party leadership race, Ric McIver was at the Red Deer Public Market, shaking hands and getting his message out. He is one of two announced candidates in the PC leadership race. On Saturday at the market he was getting some of the 500 signatures needed to run, signing up PC members and garnering supporters. “I wanted to meet my bosses while I get the signatures,” said McIver, Calgary-Hays MLA. “I’m hearing all kinds of things, good stuff and criticisms. “People are very engaged, they care about their province and they recognize the decisions government makes can affect their ability to make a living as well as their kids and grandkids.” He resigned from his post as infrastructure minister to run for the leadership on May 6. He has also served as transportation minister under Redford. McIver said he offers new thinking that is needed for his party and the leadership of the province, specifically when it comes to support for the economy. “I’m trying to lead by example with some of the things I’m promising, including simple things like senior members of my campaign team won’t be eligible for government contracts,” said McIver. “I want to make changes where the people registered to lobby government on one hand shouldn’t be eligible to take government contracts on the other hand. Separating that helps ensure Albertans their interests are first and foremost.” McIver and Jim Prentice are the only candidates left in the race for leader of the PC party. Ken Hughes, Calgary-West MLA, withdrew on May 12. “What Albertans need is someone to operate with a high standard of integrity and someone to make sure the future is brighter,” said McIver. “I want to be a server to the people, not a ruler over them.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand’s army declared martial law before dawn Tuesday in a surprise announcement it said was aimed at keeping the country stable after six months of sometimes violent political unrest. The military, however, denied a coup d’etat was underway. The move effectively places the army in charge of public security nationwide. It comes one day after the Southeast Asian country’s caretaker prime minister refused to step down and follows six months of anti-government demonstrations that have failed to oust the government. Armed troops entered multiple private television stations in Bangkok to broadcast their message and surrounded the national police headquarters in the city centre. Army jeeps mounted with a machineguns diverted traffic on a major road in front of Central World, one of the country’s most luxurious shopping malls. But the vast metropolis of 10 million people appeared calm, and commuters could be seen driving and walking to work as usual. An army official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, told The Associated Press “this is definitely not a coup. This is only to provide safety to the people and the people can still carry on their lives as normal.” A ticker on Chanel 5, an army station, also denied the military was taking over and asked the public not to panic. Thailand’s army has staged at 11 successful coups since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932. The last was in 2006. Thailand, an economic hub for Southeast Asia, has been gripped by off-and-on political turmoil since 2006, when former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was toppled by a military coup after being accused of corruption, abuse of power and disrespect for King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

derson. “When the sun is shining, the field by Lindsay Thurber is full of people and everybody is just sitting on the grass and enjoying the day, but that couldn’t happen this year.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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HOMICIDE: Investigation in early stages MACDONALD: ‘I had the best job going on the floor’ Police do not believe organized crime was involved in the homicide. “The investigation is in the early stages,” said Matechuk. An RCMP Special Tactical Operations Team conducted a ground search of the area in hopes of finding further evidence for the investigation. Matechuk said new evidence was found, but would not release the details of the evidence. The RCMP Calgary Major Crimes Unit is the lead on the investigation with the Innisfail detachment providing support. Anyone with information that could assist this investigation is asked to contact the Innisfail RCMP detachment at 403-227-3341 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

MARATHON: More than 300 volunteer in some capacity She has had several tasks over the years, including package pickups for runners, prize tent and helping at the finish line. Darlene Henderson, one of the marathon organizers, said without volunteers the marathon wouldn’t be able to take place. More than 300 people volunteered in some capacity. Some work race day, the days leading up to or helping set up the marathon. “We have volunteers who have been here for 16 years,” said Henderson. Henderson said the volunteer appreciation night a week before the marathon saw only about 100 people show up. She hopes more volunteers start to come out to be recognized for their contribution. It rained throughout the race, but most runner don’t mind, said Henderson. The weather had a greater impact on the after-race festivities as people were more likely to go home after running. “People try to find a place indoors as opposed to being outside and enjoying the sunshine,” said Hen-

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It was challenging to ignore the alarm when it blasted at the fire station during his first few years as chief. “It was a real forced effort to say that’s not your job anymore,” said MacDonald. “Let the people whose job it is do it.” He said guidance from his mentor and predecessor Gord Stewart and former directors of development services Bryon Jeffers and Paul Goranson helped ease the steep learning curve. A laundry list of fond memories of the routine and interesting calls emerged out of his 31 years on the job in the growing city. MacDonald said he saw three decades of change in the way the fires were fought, which he said was made possible because of city council’s understanding of the need for the right staff, training and tools. “I had the best job going on the floor,” said MacDonald. “That hands-on direct work is the best, with the instant reward and feedback. In here it is different. It’s bringing in systems or acquiring that training or helping see that it gets done. That’s how you get your reward. It’s a much longer term.” As fire chief, MacDonald said he was fortunate there were no major emergency situations while he was at the helm. He said Red Deer had half the provincial average for destructive fires in actual dollar loss in 2012. He expects the 2013 figures to be much better. He said he is proud of the essential part that prevention has become in the fire department. During his tenure, the fire prevention side of the department grew with more officers and more prevention programs delivered in the community. MacDonald said he is also proud of the ceremonial Red Deer Firefighter Emergency Services’ Honour Guard that marched into the city for the first time about 11 years ago. “They are such a great group of ambassadors for our department,” he said. “It ties so well together, our military heritage and the professionalism that

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● Total emergency responses: 14,697 ● 911 calls: 140,000 ● Emergency services dispatch calls: 22,857 ● Ambulance dispatch: 9,289 ● Fire call responses: 1,754 ● Vehicle extraction responses: 429 ● Hazardous materials responses: 212 ● Carbon monoxide investigations: 64 ● Secondary suite inspections: 33 ● Home safety checks: 3,123 ● Property inspections (completed by fire prevention officers): 4,100 ● Fire/injury education activities: 100 ● Fire-medics: 152 ● Fire prevention officers: Seven ● Fire marshal: One ● Fire stations: Five ● Budget: $26.9 million Based on 2013 figures provided by the City of Red Deer they demonstrate. Mostly people see that with their marching. It’s just a real positive.” MacDonald said the fire department is well-positioned for the future. The master plan has been on hold for five years until the Alberta Health Services changes became clear. The city is in the process of finalizing its ambulance dispatch contract with the province. The city will advertise for a fire chief replacement in the near future. “It’s been a wonderful career,” said MacDonald. “I went from playing to coaching or managing and I realized it’s time for somebody new to take it further into the future with the right skills and energy that it takes.” He will remember most working with the dedicated staff at the stations and the City of Red Deer, saying they have strong passion and desire to make the city amazing. Next up for MacDonald is to cross off some items on his ‘to do’ list at home. When he is not spending time with his wife, Jan, or children, Dallas, Marshall and Leia, the retired firefighter and hockey player will be on the golf course. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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River Glen alumni gather for homecoming BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer and Nenshi’s sister, Shaheen Nenshi Nathoo, browse a River Glen School yearbook from when Nenshi and Nenshi Nathoo attended the Red Deer school. had an annual rodeo, pretty cool,” said Nenshi. The first year he became mayor, the sister of a former classmate of Nenshi’s tweeted him a picture from his days at River Glen. In it a young Nenshi wearing a cowboy hat is taking part in the River Glen rodeo. Ever since then he uses it as his Twitter picture during the Calgary Stampede. “That rodeo was something because most of the kids at the school lived on farms or ranches, had animals and were good at these sports,” said Nenshi. “I had no idea what was going on. The only sport I could participate in was the greased pig race and I refused to do it, I thought is was undignified for the pig.” He went to the school for Grade 3, 4, 5 and a little of Grade 6, calling it a wonderful place to be where he learned a lot about Alberta. His older sister Nenshi Nathoo said it was a great place to go to school. “There was always a great sense of community here,” said Nenshi Nathoo. “Everybody looked after each other, it was like a big family.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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In her last year at River Glen School, Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer fought to keep the school open as it was facing a potential closure. Now, almost 20 year later, the ‘THERE school’s last bell IS EVEN looms. But not without a day full ARCHIVAL of reminiscing FOOTAGE and looking back OF ME on the long history of the school PICKETING in Red Deer. R i v e r G l e n THE SCHOOL will close at the BOARD end of the year. OFFICE Many of its students and staff ALONE. will go to the WE WERE newly built Penhold school. For SUCCESSFUL one last time IN SAVING alumni, current students and RIVER staff gathered for GLEN FOR homecoming on ANOTHER 20 Saturday. Veer, valeYEARS.’ dictorian of her graduating class — RED DEER MAYOR of 1995, looked TARA VEER back on her high school life at the school she attended for six years. “I’ve said for many years River Glen was the beginning of my formal political career,” said Veer. “I was ever known to organize some student protests and rallies.” She fondly remembered organizing a protest to save the school in her last year after two school boards were amalgamated and there was a proposal to shut down River Glen. “I called a parent meeting in the library and we sent a strong message to our school board,” said Veer. “There is even archival footage of me picketing the school board office alone. “We were successful in saving River Glen for another 20 years. Joining Veer was another city mayor who went to River Glen — Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi and his sister, Shaheen Nenshi Nathoo. They lived near Red Deer from 1979 to 1982. They moved from northeast Calgary after their parents had bought a motel in Gasoline Alley, which is now the Howard Johnson Inn. They lived in a small house attached to the motel. Every day Nenshi and Nenshi Nathoo were bussed into the city to attend River Glen School. Nenshi said it was an adjustment from city life and a real introduction into what Alberta was really all about. “First generation Canadian kids riding the school bus to a school that

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Grand ideas for city life IN THE URBAN GREEN REVOLUTION, SMALL IS BIG “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” That was American architect Daniel Burnham’s city-planning advice at the turn of the 20th century. More than 100 years later, he couldn’t be more wrong. Big, top-down building projects no longer stir the imaginations of North American city dwellers. Now people are excited about little changes to DAVID our urban fabric. SUZUKI Small, creative projects that make cities more livable are popping up in unexpected places: alleys, front yards, vacant lots and parking spaces. Whether its yarnbombed street furniture, roadway parking turned to mini-parkettes or guerrilla gardens in overlooked spaces, these often-unauthorized interventions are helping to transform properties and neighbourhoods, one light, quick, cheap tweak at a time. Last spring, residents of Toronto’s Palmerston Square took note when

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an old chalkboard suddenly appeared on a tall, rusted schoolyard fence that runs along their quiet residential street — the first salvo from two participants in the David Suzuki Foundation’s Homegrown National Park Project. Passersby were encouraged to write their desires for green improvements. Neighbours began meeting. One family filled a perpetual pothole with flowers. Others put benches in their front yards to begin “parkifying” the block. Graffiti knitters yarn-bombed the chainlink fence. An artist and local kids created a DIY outdoor version of fridge magnet poetry with plastic pipes cut in half, painted with words and hung on the fence with simple S-hooks. Two garden planters were dug into spots where trees had perished. This spring, residents successfully funded a project to replace the entire stretch of asphalt with a large pollinator-friendly garden. There’s even talk of removing the fence. The ripple effect: People from nearby streets have started organizing their own interventions, like a pollinator garden at the neighbourhood daycare and moss graffiti in an alleyway. As resident Anjum Chagpar said, “Inspiration breeds inspiration. Simple, fun interventions are contagious.” Replacing pavement with a pollinator garden on one small street won’t solve the vast issues our communities

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American hunters controlling land The ducks and geese are returning to the Prairies now and as waterfowlers, we look forward to this time of year. However, the prospects of enjoying the fall hunting season are diminishing year by year as the competition from guided (mostly American) hunters increases. We believe this competition is one of the reasons why mentors are reluctant to take young hunters into the field, so difficult is it now to obtain shoots. And without young hunters, the legacy of waterfowling that we would like to pass on to future generations will die. The huge increase in guiding has made it very difficult for the average hunter to take his son, grandson or neighbour’s kid out hunting because, in the limited time available, shoots are nearly impossible to come by. Many of the hunts booked by outfitters are not even shot because the bird numbers do not build up to fulfil an outfitter’s desire for a limit shoot for his clients. This same shoot would have been perfect for a father with his son before school or on a Saturday morning. In our opinion, bird outfitters who tie up the land

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face, but little spaces perhaps hold the greatest potential. To make our cities truly green, we must bring nature to the oft-neglected bits between parks and existing green areas. Streets and sidewalks alone account for about 80 per cent of a city’s public space. Private spaces like yards, rooftops and balconies cover more than half the urban landscape. Stretching our visions of urban green space to include these allows us to re-imagine the city as a vibrant green mosaic. Squeezing more nature into cities requires creativity. It also needs buy-in from homeowners, property managers and experts from fields like landscape architecture and urban planning. That’s why the David Suzuki Foundation and Workshop Architecture launched the Homegrown Design Challenge, an open competition that provides an opportunity to present ideas for low-cost, easy-to-implement landscape design solutions for front yards, backyards, balconies, schoolyards and laneways that provide environmental benefits, like capturing storm-water during severe weather events and providing habitat for birds, bees and butterflies. “While we expect interest from architects, landscape architects, designers and planners, the competition is open to anyone with innovative green design ideas,” said Helena Grdadolnik, Workshop Architecture competition organizer.

base are contributing in a major way to the decline in hunter numbers, so evident in the licence sales over the past decade. The outfitting industry will claim it brings money into the economy and supplies jobs to locals, but all reports show that it is the resident sportsmen who bring the most money into the local economy. We recall many a small Alberta town bar in days past, full of non-guided Canadian hunters staying in the hotel, eating and drinking, and spending money in the local economy. This no longer happens. After talking to some of these hunters, it is apparent that they no longer patronize the small towns because they cannot get shoots, as the permission is tied up by outfitters. We urge hunters who have experienced difficulties in obtaining access to private lands to hunt public birds to write the Hon. Robin Campbell, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (robin.campbell@gov.ab.ca). Request that he implements regulations to curtail the number of days an outfitter can operate in the field. This could be done through restricting the seasons for non-resident alien hunters (as both Saskatchewan and Manitoba do), allocating a finite number of “hunter days” to each outfitter or using tags or punch cards to account for the birds that are shot. Joe Saysell Donalda and Ross Hodgetts Spruce Grove

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Daniel Burnham lived in a time when telegrams were cutting-edge. Today good ideas can spread from community to community across the globe almost instantaneously. So it’s no surprise that a growing number of design competitions and events are celebrating urban interventions, from PARK(ing) Day, which highlights the transformation of parking spots into temporary public spaces in 35 countries, to 100-in-1 Day, which will be held this year on June 7 in Toronto, Halifax and Vancouver to celebrate citizen-led initiatives that “raise awareness of urban and social issues, inspire ideas, and motivate leaders to consider new approaches to old problems.” If a project requires start-up dollars, crowd-funding websites help organizers raise money in mere days or weeks. Sites like Projexity.com enable groups and individuals to fund, design and build projects in their neighbourhoods. What can we take from this revolutionary wave of small, creative interventions? That residents can play an active, hands-on role in transforming the places they live, work, play and share. Making your community truly greener is a tall order. But starting small can pay big dividends. Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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Military central theme of royal tour BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Prince Charles reflected on Canada’s contribution to the Second World War before he and his wife, Camilla, went on a royal walkabout Monday among hundreds of people in Halifax, their first stop in a tour of three provincial capitals. Canada’s military involvement was a central theme of the royal couple’s tour of Halifax, a naval city where 500,000 military personnel embarked on transatlantic journeys to serve during the Second World War. Charles commented on the number of soldiers, sailors and airmen from Canada who fought to liberate Europe as the 75th anniversary of the start of the war approaches, calling it “an extraordinary contribution” from a country with a small population. Later, Charles and Camilla met military families at a resource centre that helps them with a number of programs ranging from nutrition to mental health services while their loved ones are on deployment. They watched a ball hockey game in a parking lot outside the centre and inside Camilla shook hands with a puppet who was entertaining a group of children. Ordinary Seaman Matthew Hunt, 23, who volunteers at the centre, met the royal couple dressed in a yellow banana costume to promote healthy eating. He said he didn’t hesitate to wear the brightly coloured costume when asked. “I’m a little lost for words, it’s something I never thought I would do,” Hunt said after the meeting. Puppeteer Melissa Connell, 35, also met the royals.

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Prince Charles is presented with a toy moose by a member of the RCMP in Pictou, N.S., on Monday. The Royal couple are on a four-day tour of Canada. “They were very nice, they interacted with all the families, that was really exciting to see,” said Connell, who works at the centre. “It was great to see them shake hands and chat with the children.” Charles commented on her puppets. “He actually said that they looked a little bit scary,” she said with a laugh. The Duchess of Cornwall made a separate visit to the Northbrook Community Centre in suburban Dartmouth for a private meeting with representatives of Alice Housing, which provides shelter and counselling for women and children escaping domestic abuse. The prince also planted a tree at the city’s Public Gardens, continuing a tradition started by King George VI in June 1939. The visit by the Prince of Wales and the duchess is meant to celebrate Canada’s past and future at a

time when a number of significant anniversaries will be commemorated over the next few years, including the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. Another is the 150th anniversary this year of the Charlottetown Conference, which led to Confederation in 1867. “Our visit will focus on Canadian achievements as part of a major celebration of the past and the future,” Charles said in the first of four speeches he will make during the trip. “One hundred and fifty years ago, the foundations for a new country, which would be proud of its traditions and excited by its future, were first laid in Charlottetown and Quebec City. Based on the principle of freedom and justice inherited from two great European nations, the Dominion of Canada was to become a reality three years later.”

Premiers urged to look at ’60s Scoop adoptions WINNIPEG — Canada’s aboriginal affairs ministers are asking the country’s premiers to look at compensation, counselling and repatriation for thousands of aboriginal children adopted into white families during the so-called ’60s Scoop. The ministers met recently in Winnipeg and recommended that premiers set up a group to study the issue. The premiers are to meet in August in Prince Edward Island. Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson said it’s time for a national discussion about the thousands of aboriginal children who were taken from their communities and raised in non-native households from the 1960s to the 1980s. “It’s an issue that’s long gone unnoticed,” he said in an interview. “Nobody talks about it. This is one of those issues that doesn’t require a hell of a lot of

thinking. It’s common sense. It’s common decency that we begin addressing this.” It’s estimated that up to 20,000 aboriginal children were taken from their homes by child welfare services and placed with non-aboriginal families. Many consider the adoptions an extension of residential schools, which aimed to “take the Indian out of the child.” Adoptees from the ’60s Scoop have said their time for reconciliation has come and they want an apology from the federal government. Robinson, himself a residential school survivor, said what they experienced was just as traumatic. “In my case, at least I had other Indian boys and other Indian kids my age to be around,” Robinson said. “In the case of these kids who were adopted out, they had nobody. They were a brown face among a mass of white faces either in the United States or in foreign lands. “In some ways, they had it a lot worse.”

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B.C. too slow to act on Highway of Tears: groups

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Sally Gibson has been waiting nearly two decades for answers about what became of her niece, a 19-year-old forestry student from a small First Nation in northern British Columbia who vanished along the Highway of Tears. There’s the official story: Lana Derrick was out with some friends and at some point ended up in a car with two unidentified men, with whom she was last seen at a gas station along Highway 16 near Terrace in the early morning of Oct. 7, 1995. But that’s just one of the many theories, rumours and guesses Gibson and her relatives have heard over the years, a painful reminder that no one — not the family, not the police — has any idea about what happened. “We have heard so many different stories and have been told so many different things that we don’t even know,” said Gibson from her home in Gitanyow, the First Nations reserve where Derrick grew up. “It isn’t like Lana died and we went and buried her and the pain will go away. She totally disappeared. That’s an open wound.” Derrick’s disappearance brought her family into a community of loss and despair, joining the relatives of at least 18 women and girls who disappeared or were murdered along Highway 16 and two adjacent highways. There are the yearly walks. The memorial ceremonies. And the shared frustration that the provincial government has yet to act on dozens of recommendations to protect vulnerable women in B.C.’s north. First Nations groups and municipal officials say the province should have acted years ago using a blueprint it already has: a 2006 report with 33 recommendations to improve transportation, discourage hitchhiking, and prevent violence against aboriginal women and girls. That report was endorsed by a public inquiry report released in December 2012, which called for urgent action. The 2006 report was crafted by several First Nations groups after the Highway of Tears Symposium. Its first recommendation was a shuttle bus network along more than 700 kilometres of Highway 16 that runs from Prince Rupert to Prince George. Other recommendations included education for aboriginal youth, improved health and social services in remote communities, counselling and mental health teams made up of aboriginal workers, more comprehensive victims’ services, and, of course, money to pay for it all.

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Program allowing imprisoned mothers to be with their children remains in limbo BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canada is set to complete an expansion of women’s prisons this month with new rooms designed to accommodate mothers and their babies or young children. But there’s little indication the units will mean more participants in the federal government’s mother-child prison program, which is rarely used even though it remains official policy. “It’s very unclear,” said Howard Sapers, Canada’s ombudsman for federal prisons. “We’ve been in frequent contact with Corrections Service Canada about this issue, not just frankly about the confusion around the policy... but also about the very low participation rate.” Since 2008, only 14 children have participated at the federal level, with eight of them on a full-time basis. At the moment there are two parttime participants, Sapers said. Under the program, children under age four are allowed to stay with eligible inmate mothers inside the prison. Children under six are allowed on a part-time basis. Advocates for the mother-child program argue it can lead to positive outcomes for both the woman and the child, including fewer inmates committing new crimes after their release. Some victim groups, on the other hand, have argued it grants incarcerated women a privilege they don’t deserve. Prison staff have also raised concern about the safety of the children. the program’s co-creators is now co-operating with the government and had provided extensive information. The malware lets hackers steal personal information, intercept keystrokes and hijack webcams to make secret recordings of users. BlackShades also can be used to encrypt and lock a computer’s data files, blocking the rightful owners from regaining access unless they pay a ransom. Security experts have linked the program to attacks on Syrian dissidents in 2012 and attempts to steal data from more than a dozen French organizations last year. The low cost of the hacking tool has made it increasingly popular across the hacker underground, where variants have been circulating online for years.

MONTREAL — Authorities in 16 countries, including Canada, took part in a global crackdown on a sophisticated malware that lets cybercriminals take over a computer and hijack its webcam. Charges were announced Monday against at least 97 people worldwide. More than 350 properties were raided last week as part of the operation, including 15 in Quebec. Police said they had arrested people susThis week and every week, working for you pected of using or distributing the malicious software called BlackShades. Const. Philippe Gravel, an investigator with the RCMP’s Integrated Technological Crime Waste Management Unit in Quebec, said he expected charges will be Inspector laid in Canada as well. Environmental Services Gravel says police raided homes on May 13 Dave started with Environmental Services in the and 14 in Montreal, QueWastewater Collection Section, before joining the bec City and elsewhere Waste Management Section in 2011. He works in the province after obtaining search warrants. closely with the contractors who provide garbage, “We’ve searched the yard waste and blue box collection to ensure that houses, we’ve seized they are providing a high level of customer service. computers and we’re Dave is always ready and willing to help anyone still analyzing the data,” Gravel said. Gravel said who asks, whether it’s a customer having a garbage he couldn’t comment on collection problem, a co-worker who needs an extra whether there would be set of hands, or a friend needing a favour. further raids in Canada. Public Safety Minister In his spare time, Dave enjoys going for motorcycle Steven Blaney issued a rides with his wife of 25 years, Pam, and spending lots statement praising the of time with his grandson Dawson. operation “for preventing further harm from Thank you Dave, for your positive attitude and the proliferation of such cybercrime networks.” commitment to customer service. The FBI said the Public Works Week BlackShades Remote Access Tool has been May 18 - 24, 2014 sold since at least 2010 to several thousand users. The agency said one of

Dr. Ruth Martin, a former B.C. prison doctor, said she’s seen the benefits of the program first-hand. “Once you’ve separated a baby from a mother, you can’t turn back, because you’ve missed the opportunity at birth to establish breast feeding,” said Martin, director for the Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education at the University of British Columbia. Other jurisdictions, including New York, New Zealand, and Finland, have a mother-child program in place and studies suggest they’re effective, Martin said.

‘ONCE YOU’VE SEPARATED A BABY FROM A MOTHER, YOU CAN’T TURN BACK, BECAUSE YOU’VE MISSED THE OPPORTUNITY AT BIRTH TO ESTABLISH BREAST FEEDING.’ — RUTH MARTIN, FORMER B.C. PRISON DOCTOR

The Correctional Service of Canada is adding a total of 114 minimum security beds in May to institutions in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. There will be 15 new adjoining rooms off the side from the main prison area, set aside for mothers and their children, CSC spokeswoman Chantal Guerette said in an email. But Guerette didn’t confirm whether the expansion would mean more women would take part in program, saying

only the rooms “were designed with the capacity to facilitate the motherchild program.” The Harper government ordered stricter eligibility requirements by ministerial directive in 2008, following the controversial case of convicted murderer Lisa Whitford, who was allowed to keep her baby while behind bars. The changes included reducing the age of eligibility among children from 12 to six, excluding those who committed more serious crimes, and requiring the approval of provincial or territorial authorities. Six years later, however, the government has yet to make an official policy change. Sapers is hoping a British Columbia court ruling last December affirming the rights of female offenders to be with their children helps move things forward — and opens the federal program up to more women. The ruling came after a challenge from two inmates at Alouette Correctional Centre, which shut down its mother-child program in 2008. While the B.C. decision isn’t binding for other provinces or at the federal level, Sapers called it “instructive.” “In federal corrections, it will be properly pointed out that a program exists,” he said. “But the court ruling also suggests it’s not enough to have a program on paper, you have to have a program that actually exists.” Federally-incarcerated women are the fastest growing segment of Canada’s prison population according to Sapers.

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CLEANING UP LACOMBE It’s city-wide spring cleaning time in Lacombe. The community’s annual spring cleanup is set to run from Tuesday to May 29. It allows residents to put out items for garbage pickup that would not normally go into local bins. Residents are asked to organize and separate their items into piles for pick up at the front of the property by 7 a.m. on garbage day. All items must be sorted and neatly tied or bagged. Trees, brush or limbs cannot be more than three metres long or they will not be picked up. Items eligible for pickup include: brush and wood, yard waste, metal, major appliances, furniture, swing sets and trampolines and electronics. Hazardous and construction waste and cardboard are not accepted. For information on how to prepare items for pickup, go to www.lacombe.ca/ communitycleanup.

HEIRLOOM TOMATOES Learn how to grow heirloom tomatoes with Karen Olivier at the Lacombe and District Garden Club’s monthly social at the Lacombe Memorial Centre on May 27. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the County Room. Annual memberships are $15 and the first visit is free. Contact Pamela at 403-782-5061 or pamela.d.neumann@gmail. com for more information.

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Public market opens for the season BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Summer got started in Red Deer the way it does every year, with large parts of the city descending on the Red Deer Public Market. At the market since 4 a.m. Saturday morning, Dennis Moffat surveyed the set up, chatting with vendors and soaking in the atmosphere. For 44 years now he has been the driving force behind the public market that takes over the Red Deer Arena’s parking lot every Saturday through the summer. “People love the market,” said Moffat. “It’s their market and all I do is run it and do the work.” Dressed in his trademark overalls and cowboy hat, he carries a board with a list of all the stalls and vendors who have set up for the morning “We didn’t turn anybody away today, that’s a big plus,” said Moffat. “It’s always this mad on the first day. But it’s an exciting mad.” Though he was unable to get everyone in to where they wanted to be, with the help of his son and some other helpers they were able to get everyone in and setting up shop early Saturday morning. “The turnout is exceeding my expectations,” said Moffat. “Everybody seems happy to be back. “They’re anxious, after that long winter

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Michael Tomalty performs a few tricks in front of his booth at the Red Deer Public Market Saturday. they’re anxious to get out and breathe some air.” Vendors ranged from food to clothes to antiques to lawn decor to plants to sports memorabilia and everything in between. “You can almost buy anything,” said Moffat. “Except illegal things.” With the parking lot of the Red Deer Arena packed full of vendors and some having to set up on 43rd Street, which is blocked off for the market, the place was overflowing with merchants. Moffat thinks in the future they may need

to start using a waiting list just due to the volume of people wanting to set up shop. Getting the market ready is a lot of work. Moffat said potential vendors start calling in December wanting booths and he averaged about six people a day calling, wanting to get in the market. “Last year we had almost perfect weather,” said Moffat. “One day we had rain and still managed to have a good market. “We’re like farmers, it all depends on the weather.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Teen raising money to fight CF BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A small teenager with a big heart is hard at work raising funds and awareness for the genetic disorder that affects her lungs. Morgan McKain, 16, started selling bracelets and held a cake walk at her high school, Notre Dame, last year to raise money to support cystic fibrosis research. The Grade 11 student was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at a young age and it has affected her growth. She’s only 1.57 metres tall (five foot two) and weighs 36 kgs (80 pounds). She is continuing with another fundraiser this May, which is cystic fibrosis month. On May 27 there will be a demonstration on the impacts of cystic fibrosis on the lungs. With help from the lung association they have real lungs to show the affects of the disorder. “We have one pair that is healthy and the

second pair has something wrong with it,” said McKain. “We get to show them at lunch how lungs work when they are in good shape and when they’re in bad shape.” McKain had help from her teacher Jennifer Smith in organizing this event. Smith said she had McKain in her Grade 10 learning strategies class and learned a lot more about the effects cystic fibrosis had on McKain. “We were talking last year and she told me how May was the month,” said Smith. “We raised more than $1,000 and this year we thought we’d ramp it up a bit and focus on getting the students more involved.” When McKain was younger she used to attend the Great Strides Walk, a fundraiser for cystic fibrosis. However, because she has the disorder she is no longer able to attend. “With CF you’re not allowed to go around other people with CF because you are more susceptible to sickness,” said McKain. “When you get sick it is in your lungs, so

you’re more susceptible to their sickness and you can get what they have.” Another teacher, Dan Donaghy, is set to dye his hair purple Wednesday as part of the fundraiser. If more money is donated he will also dye his beard. A cake walk is panned for May 29. McKain moves into Grade 12 next year, and the hope is to do a cystic fibrosis fundraiser as the grad services project. “She (McKain) was hospitalized at one point during the semester last year,” said Smith. “That brought a huge awareness of what was going on with her. She educated me and we want to educate everyone else.” McKain recently competed in the Alberta Skills Competition for baking, something she plans to study after high school and one day hopes to open her own bakery. “You just have to get up and go,” said McKain. “You can’t stay in bed all day, you have to get the motivation to get up and take life as it is.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Lacombe launches parklets pilot project BY ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Lacombe has two new public spaces for sitting, eating and relaxing in the downtown area. These parklets — composed of street furniture, benches and planters — are a new pilot project this year, part of Lacombe’s Downtown Area Redevelopment Plan (DARP) that was adopted by council in January. Together, the parklets cost an estimated $54,000. City planning staff say they serve to provide a permanent public space in the area and encourage people to get out and enjoy Lacombe’s historic downtown. One parklet is on 50th Street (measuring

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about 34 by five metres) and the other is in the Flatiron Block parking lot (about 24 by 9.3 metres). Both areas see a high volume of pedestrian traffic, said Josh de Jong, planning intern with the city. “These two locations, one situated at the end of an underused space within a parking lot and the other in front of a vacant lot, will help the city evaluate public interest for a more permanent public space in the downtown,” said de Jong. New guidelines were adopted in April to develop the downtown and a storefront grant program was recently launched as well, added Lyla Peter, manager of planning and development. She said these projects and the parklets will “hopefully work together to increase the downtown’s vibrancy, which is one of

DARP’s objectives.” If the parklets are not supported by the community, based on public feedback after the pilot project wraps up in September, the street furniture and décor will be used at other locations throughout the city. “We’re working with an organization downtown so we’ll be able to get feedback from them right away and we will be doing our own observations and contacting businesses and seeing if there is any economic benefit to increasing the amount of public space that’s available downtown,” de Jong said. “We’re excited to see where it goes. The city had planned on investing in downtown street furniture for a while and everything that is being used can be repurposed if the pilot project is deemed to be unsuccessful.”

About 14 mm of rain fell between Sunday morning and Monday afternoon in Central Alberta.

the environment in the region. As well, topics such as measuring and managing the impact on air and water and views on social issues will be discussed. In Central Alberta meetings are planned for May 27 at the Rocky Mountain House Legion, at 4911 49th St.; on June 4 at the Dovercourt Community Centre in Caroline, at the intersection of Hwy 22 and Township Road 372; and in Red Deer on June 25 at the Sheraton, at 3310 50th Ave. Each day there will be two workshop sessions: one goes from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and one from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. No RSVP is required. For copies on the terms of reference for the plan visit www.landuse.alberta.ca. People may also provide their input on the website.

Consultation slated on North Saskatchewan plan A wide-ranging plan covering the use and plan of the North Saskatchewan region of Alberta is entering consultation phase and meetings in Central Alberta are scheduled for later this summer. The area spans more than 85,000 square km and houses 1.5 million Albertans. From May 27 to June 26, Albertans will be asked to think about the balance between different kinds of developments and

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Meat dispute takes a twist BY ALEXANDER PANETTA THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Canadian livestock producers were in an American courtroom Monday fighting against labelling requirements blamed for having devastated their exports to the United States. The case revolves around the free-speech rights guaranteed in the First Amendment, one of the most sacrosanct provisions of the American Constitution. Canadian and Mexican producers, and the U.S. partners they supply, argue that those speech rights are being violated by the requirement that they stamp country-of-origin labels on meat packaging. They say the requirement is not only costly, from a logistical standpoint, but also amounts to the American government forcing them to divulge information for illegitimate reasons — which, they argue, violates First Amendment rights. Numerous parties have standing in the case, which was being argued on the anti-labelling side by a lawyer for the American Meat Institute. Opposing arguments were made by U.S. government lawyers.

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The lawyer for AMI argued that the rules are pure protectionism, disguised as an attempt to help consumers learn about the origin of their food. She said the initiative did not meet the standard set by courts in past cases about corporate disclosure. “We’re here representing ranchers who are feeling a colossal impact,” said Catherine Stetson, the AMI lawyer. “(Proponents of labelling) want to favour meat that is born, raised and slaughtered in the U.S.” Attorneys for both sides were being grilled by 11 judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. In a surprise reversal, the court declared last month that it would hear the case and that it was vacating a ruling rendered just a few days earlier, when it denied a request for an injunction against the labelling rules. A U.S. insistence on country labels, introduced in 2002 and enforced since 2008, is blamed for reducing Canadian cross-border meat exports by half. The provisions are opposed by various elements in the U.S. meat industry — but supported by some ranchers near the border, who compete with Canadians and Mexicans, along with their allies in Congress. The labelling rules are also being fought at the

World Trade Organization. A lawyer for the American government denied the rules were designed with protectionist aims. “It’s furthering consumers’ ability to act on their own preference,” said Daniel Tenny, the U.S. Department of Justice lawyer. “We’re not directly trying to help American ranchers... (although) it might have that effect.” That federal lawyer received a rough ride from one judge appointed by George W. Bush. Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly pressed Tenny to explain how the rules did anything to help consumers. He suggested the legal precedent says governments cannot force companies what to say, except under three circumstances: to protect health, safety, and consumers from being deceived. Kavanaugh suggested the labelling rules did not meet that standard — but merely served other purposes. “This is a bias against Mexican and Canadian ranchers,” the judge said. “It’s a traditional protectionist impulse. What’s the difference?” Later in the hearing, he added: “The implicit message is to buy American.”

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Study urges more support for sector BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government needs to offer money, training and incentives to ensure a technological revolution in the forestry industry creates well-paid jobs at home rather than abroad. That’s the main finding of a new study Natural Resources Canada commissioned to find ways to support Canada’s billion-dollar forestry-equipment sector. Canada’s traditional forestry products — softwood lumber and pulp-and-paper — have struggled in recent years, as American housing construction fell sharply after the 2008 global meltdown and as more consumers get their information digitally rather than on paper. The bio-fuels and biomaterials industries, which provide new uses for wood fibre, offer fresh opportunities for Canadian producers to make up for the losses — but the high-tech equipment to produce them is increasingly coming from abroad. A report by Groupe DDM says Ottawa and the provinces should start offering incentives for mills to buy Canadian technology rather than looking to foreign manufacturers. The federal government also needs to provide more worker training, and to finance marketing campaigns to help sell these new high-tech Canadian products to more customers. “Canadian wood transformers ... heavily rely on foreign-made equipment, even in those fields where Canada seems to have equivalent equipment,” says the study from March. “Canadian forest equipment manufacturers are competing against world giants in spite of their relatively smaller size. High-tech, well-paid jobs in innovation and development are provided to other countries, especially Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria and the United States.” A copy of the $76,000 study was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. There are an estimated 365 Canadian firms in the forestry-equipment manufacturing sector, employing more than 57,000 people and worth about a billion dollars annually. Canada’s traditional expertise is in sawmill-equipment manufacturing, but many firms have struggled in the wake of the American housing downturn. Even with recent improvements in housing construction south of the border, and rising demand from China, South Korea, India and elsewhere, the sector remains battered, says the 38-page report. “One of the Canadian anchor forest industries, the sawmill equipment manufacturers, finds itself in a dire situation, as their traditional customers, saw mills, do not seem capable of investing and upgrading their assets,” says the document. “One of the reasons comes from the fact that lenders have been recently hurt by the sector and commercial credit has become hard to obtain.” The authors suggest Ottawa should help these struggling manufacturers get better access to bank credit.

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Railways, industry at odds over dangerous goods liability rules BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Railway operators and the petroleum industry have weighed in on how they think the risks of shipping dangerous goods by rail ought to be divvied up — and it’s clear the two aren’t on the same page. Rail carriers aren’t happy with the status quo, in which they’re legally required to move whatever customers want shipped, but are entirely on the hook if something goes wrong. The energy players, on the other hand, are generally satisfied with how the current system works, although they say changes are needed to how small rail lines are insured. Transport Canada and the Canadian Transportation Agency, an independent regulator, have been reviewing liability rules in light of last summer’s fiery crash in Lac Megantic, Que., which killed 47 people and incinerated much of the town’s centre. In a joint submission, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) and Canadian Fuels Association (CFA) say the current framework is “fundamentally sound.” But they say the Lac Megantic tragedy demonstrated that some gaps need to be filled to ensure smaller railways — like Montreal Maine & Atlantic, the one

involved in last summer’s disaster — can cover their costs in the event of a catastrophe. According to a Transport Canada discussion paper laying out the parameters of its review, small railways usually carry between $5 and $50 million in third-party liability coverage. Larger counterparts like Canadian Pacific and Canadian National normally have coverage of up to $1.5 billion. The cleanup costs alone in Lac Megantic have been estimated at about $200 million. MM&A, which has gone bankrupt, had insurance coverage of just $25 million. “The scope of the rail disaster in Lac-Megantic and the amount of liability insurance carried by Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway have highlighted weaknesses in the current liability and compensation regime,” Transport Canada says. CAPP and CFA want to see a “hybrid” model that draws from current marine and pipeline liability regimes, both of which Ottawa has beefed up over the past week. For small players unable to afford the same insurance as their larger counterparts, the petroleum industry is proposing a pooled, or collective approach similar to the marine model.

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Five suspects facing charges in Turkey mine disaster BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOMA, Turkey — Sensors noted high levels of toxic gas inside a coal mine days before the disaster that killed 301 workers in Turkey but company officials took no action, Turkish news reports said Monday. Prosecutors, meanwhile, formally arrested two more people for the devastating mine fire in the western town of Soma, raising the number of suspects facing charges of negligent death to five. Those detained included executives and supervisors at mine owner Soma Komur Isletmeleri A.S., prosecutors say. Chief prosecutor Bekir Sahiner said 25 people were initially detained as part of the probe, but several were released without charges while eight others were released but could be charged later. Authorities were still questioning others, including the company’s CEO, Can Gurkan, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The Hurriyet, HaberTurk and other Turkish newspapers said prosecutors and inspectors probing the worst mining disaster in Turkey’s history had seized data from the mine that indicated sensors showed high gas levels inside the mine as early as two days before the May 13 disaster. The reports say company officials did not record these high levels on log books and took no precautionary actions. The Turkish newspapers did not cite source for their reports. Sahiner did not answer calls and no one picked up telephones at the prosecutors’ office in Soma or in the nearby city of Akhisar, which is leading the probe. But miners who survived the disaster also told The Associated Press that supervisors ignored rising gas levels and failed to take precautionary measures. They have accused the company of failing to heed safety concerns and that government inspections has been superficial. Sahiner said Saturday that a preliminary probe indicated that coal had been smouldering days before the disaster, causing the roof to collapse in one part of the mine and unleashing toxic gases that spread throughout. Government and mining officials have both said

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LIABILITY: Rules restrict ability to manage risk For large carriers, CAPP and CFA like the status quo, in which railways are responsible for their own insurance, as pipeline operators are. “The petroleum industry is of the view that the rail liability and compensation regime should be guided by key principles that are already in place such as ’polluter pays’ and railway accountability,” CAPP and CFA say in their submission to Transport Canada. But the Railway Association of Canada, writing to the CTA on behalf of local and regional railways, said the rules must change. As it stands now, railways don’t have the right turn down cargoes their customers want moved — that goes for the substance being shipped and the tank cars themselves, which railways don’t typically own. The volatility of the crude and the design of the tank cars involved in Lac Megantic have been cited as key contributors to severity of the disaster. “Preferably, railways should be given the right to decline carrying dangerous goods,” the association said. “Alternatively, railways should not be the only party held responsible for the movement of dangerous goods in Canada. This responsibility should be noting that it was disappointed that soup sales failed to meet expectations. SECTOR WATCH: Seven of the 10 industry sectors in the S&P 500 were trading higher, led by technology stocks. Travel reviews portal TripAdvisor topped all stocks in the S&P 500, gaining $3.72, or 4.5 per cent, to $85.88. Retailer Nordstrom posted the biggest decline, falling $2.12, or 3 per cent, to $68.43. SMALL CAP RALLY: After strong gains last year, smallcompany stocks began losing ground in March as investors turned to larger stocks in a shift from seeking growth to emphasizing value. Monday’s move in the Russell 2000 index, a proxy for small-company stocks, provided some market watchers encouragement that perhaps the

that most victims died from toxic gases released by the fire. They have insisted, however, that the mine was inspected regularly, that safety standards were high and that negligence wasn’t a factor in the fire. Government officials have promised to investigate and pledged that any mine officials found to be negligent would be punished. Still the disaster has

provoked anger at a critical time for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as he mulls running in August’s presidential election. Police have broken up protests denouncing poor mine safety in Soma and in Turkey’s three largest cities of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.

shared by producers and carriers.” Last month, Ottawa moved to phase out tens of thousands of older tank cars used to transport oil and ethanol by rail within three years, as part of a series of measures in response to the Lac Megantic disaster. In its submission to the CTA, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (TSX:CP) said it wants Ottawa to require shippers to have “appropriate insurance coverage.” “Catastrophic incidents can arise without fault or negligence on the part of the railway and there is no accountability in the existing Railway Third Party Liability Insurance Regulations for those who create, own, and put high risk products into the supply chain,” CP wrote. Canadian National Railway Ltd. (TSX:CNR) also flags the “common carrier obligation” in its submission, saying it restricts the company’s ability to manage risk. “The transfer to the railways of all liabilities associated with the movement of dangerous goods, together with the carrier’s inability to refuse to carry, provide no incentive for shippers to consider source or product alternatives,” the company wrote.

dend payment. You need to own the shares at the close of the record date in order to receive the dividend. ● The ex-dividend date is the date on or after which the person who owns the security will be awarded the dividend payment. Because most stock trades are settled three business days after the trade is made, an individual must purchase the stock three days before the record date to qualify for the dividend. ● The payment date is the date on which the declared dividend is paid to all stockholders owning shares on the record date. Equity investments, of course, are not without risk. They tend to fluctuate more than fixed income investments and could return substantially less than the original investment. Dividends can also be increased, decreased or eliminated at any time. “We believe stocks, whether owned individually or in mutual funds, offer the best solution for investors seeking rising income,” Edward Jones says. “While it may be tempting to choose the highest yielding stocks by default, we use an approach that evaluates a company’s earnings and dividend growth potential, business model and dividend-payment track record. We have observed that dividend-paying companies with a solid track record of increasing their dividends have outperformed the highest yielding stocks over the past 10 years.” Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

MONEYWISE: Investments not without risk ● The record date is the date which determines which stockholders are entitled to receive the divismall stocks are now seen as oversold, said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab. “I’m not suggesting that one day’s action is a tell, but some of these areas that have been most hard hit over the last month or two seem to be finding their legs,” Sonders said. The Russell 2000 was on pace to extended last week’s gains. It was up seven points, or 0.7 per cent, to 1,110. OTHER MARKETS: The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note dipped to 2.51 per cent from 2.52 per cent late Friday. Gold rose 40 cents to $1,293.80 an ounce. Crude oil rose 66 cents to $102.24 a barrel. WORLD MARKETS BEIJING — Global stocks

were mostly lower Monday after a subdued increase in Chinese house prices fanned fears of weakness in the world’s No. 2 economy. The Chinese government is trying to restrain housing costs that have surged in recent years with lending and other curbs. But any weakness in sales prompts fears of repercussions for other industries and possible debt problems if developers default on loans. The Chinese data comes on top of weaker-than-expected economic growth in Europe. “There could be concerns about increased risks of a hard landing in the property market,” said Mizuho Bank in a report. In Europe, Germany’s DAX shed 0.8 per cent to 9,548.82 and France’s CAC 40 dropped 0.7 per cent to 4,425.71. Britain’s

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FTSE 100 lost 0.6 per cent to 6,814.49. Futures pointed to losses on Wall Street. Dow and S&P 500 futures were both down 0.4 per cent. Investors are looking ahead to meetings on Tuesday of the U.S. Federal Reserve and on Wednesday of the Bank of Japan, though no major policy changes are expected. In Asia, China’s Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.1 per cent to 2,005.18 after month-onmonth gains in housing prices slowed to 0.1 per cent in April from March’s 0.3 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was little changed at 22,704.50. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 shed 0.6 per cent to 14,006.44 despite a report that March machinery orders soared 19.1 per cent from a year earlier, beating expectations. “The surge in machinery orders in March suggests that the recovery in business investment remains on track,” said Marcel Theliant of Capital Economics in a report. Elsewhere, Sydney’s S&P/

ASX 200 tumbled 1.3 per cent to 5,409. Seoul’s Kospi gained 0.1 per cent to 2,015.14 and Taiwan’s Taiex added 0.1 per cent to 8,899.90. Benchmarks in Singapore and Indonesia fell. India’s Sensex rose 1 per cent to 24,358.72, getting another boost from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide election victory. The index surged as much as 6.1 per cent on Friday after preliminary results showed the party had won enough seats to govern without a coalition. Its party’s candidate for prime minister, Narendra Modi, had campaign on a pledge to revive economic growth. U.S. crude oil for June delivery was up 56 cents to $102.58 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract added 52 cents Friday to close at $102.02 amid tensions in Ukraine and concern about possible disruption in Russian supplies. In currency markets, the euro rose to $1.3714 from $1.3696 late Friday. The dollar fell to 101.37 yen from 101.54 yen.

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Nearly 2,000 university students, some wearing miners’ hard-hats, called on the government to resign as they marched to commemorate the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence started on May 19, 1919, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday. Government officials have promised to investigate and pledged that any mine officials found to be negligent would be punished.

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The Russians were incredibly popular in Red Deer on Friday night. It’s not often that a classical music concert gets not one, but two standing ovations — but that’s exactly what happened when the Red Deer and Edmonton Symphony Orchestras joined forces for a spectacular A Stroll Through Red Square concert of all-Russian music at the Red Deer College Arts Centre. And the second time audience members leapt out of LANA their seats, their rapturous ovation compelled guest piMICHELIN anist Katherine Chi to make two curtain calls. Chi, without a doubt, deserved all the appreciation. For 35 minutes, the award-winning Canadian soloist kept the crowd riveted during her passionate performance of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concert No. 2 in C Minor, along with the combined orchestra of 80 musicians. The difficult piece required Chi to deliver delicate melodies, interspersed with bursts of muscular chording. The pianist managed to pull off both extremes with great sensitivity to the composer’s musical mood swings. Her performance was a marvel of precision and artistry, eliciting a brilliant spectrum

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of emotive sounds from her instrument. Rachmaninov’s romanticism ignited the imaginations of many contemporary composers who wrote songs based on the concerto’s second movement — including 1940s composers Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman, who penned the Frank Sinatra hit Full Moon and Empty Arms, and 1970s pop singer Eric Carmen who composed All By Myself. Certainly, there’s an ear-wormish appeal to the introspective melody, which washed over the fullhouse audience like a series of reflective waves on Friday. Chi subtly captured the second movement’s underlying sadness, which may have mirrored Rachmaninov’s mental state at the time. After all, this work was a comeback for the composer after painfully bad reviews halted his writing career for several years. The concerto’s lively third movement required complicated interplay was required between Chi and the orchestra — particularly the string and horn sections. All of the musicians, led by RDSO music director Claude Lapalme, pulled together beautifully to create a stirring listening experience — which well merited the second of the night’s standing ovations. Lapalme also conducted the first piece on the concert bill — Dmitri Shostakovich’s Festive Overture in A Major. What this composition lacked in subtlety, it made up for in pomp and pageantry. It was commissioned in 1954 for the 37th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. And Shostakovich came up with such an upbeat melody line that some critics suspected he was secretly gleeful about Stalin’s death the year before. Whatever secret meanings the overture might hold, the two orchestras performed it with flourish, highlighting by turns its pep and gravitas. about because of the automobile, because of the fact that young people could get away from their parents from being supervised and that was freedom,” he said.

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Robert Pattinson rates film romp with Julianne Moore CANNES, France — Robert Pattinson is making quite a surprising reputation for himself — as the actor who has sex in cars on film. The star plays Jerome, a chauffeur and would-be actor, in David Cronenberg’s latest film Maps to the Stars, which premiered Monday at Cannes. In it, he has a romp with the desperate Julianne Moore character in a car. And it comes just two years after he filmed a sex scene with the 50-year-old Juliette Binoche in a limousine in Cronenberg’s last film Cosmopolis. Quizzed by journalists on the dubious habit, he rated the respective performance of his co-stars. “Both(are) like 7s. I’m joking. . Obviously Julianne. It was a wonderful experience. It was extremely sweaty,” he said. “It’s sublime,” retorted Moore, 53. As for Cronenberg, he said the reason why he’s included automotive sex scenes in his films is simple — it happens. “There’s an entire generation of Americans who have been spawned in the backseat of 1974 Fords. It’s not like I invented Sex in cars. You have to remember that that part of the sexual revolution came

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BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Brendan Lunty never gets bored running the Woody’s RV World Marathon and Half Marathon. He doesn’t get bored winning either. The 35-year-old from Camrose celebrated his 10th anniversary of competing in the Woody’s Marathon by capturing his fourth straight title, finishing in a time of two hours, 43 minutes 39,15 seconds in the rain Sunday morning. “I just love coming here and love the course and the people involved and will continue to come here . . . hopefully for another 10 years,” he said. “As for the rain, I didn’t mind at all. It’s better than hot weather. It’s my drained rat look.” Meanwhile, Adela Salt of Calgary, who moved to Alberta from England a little over two years ago, put her name in the winner’s circle on the women’s side, finishing 13th overall at 3:11:08.20. With his win, Lunty moved into second place in the record book behind seven-time winner Phil Meagher of Fort McMurray, as the marathon celebrated it’s 16th anniversary. Lunty had been tied with Jack Cook with three wins. As for the possibility of catching Meagher, Lunty wasn’t looking that far down the road. “Phil is a legend and all I can do is take it year-byyear and whatever happens happens,” he said. In fact he wasn’t sure how he’d make out Sunday. “We just had a newborn so I didn’t know how the training and the lack of sleep would turn out,” he said. “But it worked out OK.” The newest addition to the family (Marielle) joins three-year-old sister Julie and mother Lori. Both Julie and Lori also run. “We held a one-k race for kids in Camrose a couple of weeks ago and Julie ran and finished,” said Lunty. “She motivates me. I tell her no matter how hard it is to finish. I’d feel bad if I didn’t finish. In fact in the one-k race she finished and I told her how proud I was of her and she told me that ‘it was hard but I finished’.” Craig Schmitt of Red Deer was second in the marathon, finishing in 2:48:23.26 with Ian Blokland of Camrose at 2:53:02.55. “Craig was pushing me for over the half and he forced me to work rather than letting up,” concluded Lunty. Salt was making her first appearance in Red Deer. “I had a couple of friends who ran the half marathon and I noticed they had a marathon (here), so I thought it would be perfect for me to run at this time of the year,” said the 41-year-old. “The Calgary mara-

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Brendan Lunty (left) finishes first in the men’s category and Adela Salt (right) finishes first in the women’s category for the full marathon during the Woody’s RV World Marathon Sunday morning. The marathon started at 8 a.m., despite rainy conditions, and used parts of the trail system for the course, before finishing on 42A Avenue. This is Lunty’s fourth-straight marathon win, while Salt won her first. thon is in a couple of weeks, but it’s too close to another commitment and so this worked out perfectly.” Salt began distance running when she was 10. “I was running the 800-metres and someone spotted me and felt I had the potential to run distances and I should join a running club, which is big in the UK . . . I haven’t stopped since.” Coming from England Salt is used to running in the rain, so it felt like home. She also loved the course. “The weather suited me and the course, with the trails, was fantastic.”

Overall Salt has competed in over 30 marathons, with her best time two hours, 47 minutes. But since moving to Canada she’s only competed in four marathons and spends more time running ultra marathons. “I competed in my first 100-mile event in St. Paul last year,” she said. “My time today shows how much I’ve slowed down, and I don’t have to run as fast in the longer events. Still, a marathon is my favourite distance.”

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Rangers 3 Canadiens 1 MONTREAL — Martin St. Louis scored in the second period and Henrik Lundqvist made 40 saves as the New York Rangers made it two in a row at the Bell Centre with a 3-1 victory over the Carey Price-less Montreal Canadiens on Monday night. The Rangers lead the best-of-seven Eastern Conference final 2-0 heading back to New York for Game 3 on Thursday and Game 4 on Sunday. St. Louis scored a day after he and his teammates attended the funeral of his mother, who died suddenly just before Mother’s Day. The Rangers have rallied around the grieving veteran and have won five in a row since her death. New York’s Rick Nash also scored while Ryan McDonagh added a goal and an assist to give the defenceman six points in the opening two games of the series. Max Pacioretty scored for Montreal, which outshot New York 41-30. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS “It’s been an emotional weekend,” said St. Louis. “I’ll definitely never for- Montreal Canadiens’ Brendan Gallagher slides in on New York Rangers’ get this weekend for many reasons, but goaltender Henrik Lundqvist during second period in game two of the NHL I think the grieving process will still Eastern Conference final Stanley Cup playoff action in Montreal, Monday. take a while. “But that stuff is behind me. To- dqvist was the difference. skate and into the net at 6:14. night, we wanted to make sure we’d “I though we played well, but the But only 17 seconds later, the hockhave the emotion we’d need to win only reason we lost was Lundqvist. He ey gods gave it back to New York as this game because we knew they would stole that game,” said Therrien. McDonagh swiped a puck toward the come out hard, especially rallying, losThe Canadiens rebounded from net from the point and saw it go in off ing their best player, so I though we a listless 7-2 thumping in the opener Josh Gorges’ leg and a goalpost. answered.” with one of their better games of the The crowd was booing Kreider when The Canadiens had a shaky Dustin playoffs, but some bounces went New he sent a pass across to the right side Tokarski playing his first career NHL York’s way and Lundqvist proved he and Nash’s one-timer went in off the playoff game in goal in place of Price, has exorcised his Bell Centre demons midsection of Tokarski, who was late the Olympic gold medallist who hurt with a nearly flawless game. getting across. It was the second goal his right knee T h e h i g h - in as many games and second of the in the series paced action playoffs for Nash. opener when from the start Tokarski had no chance as St. Louis he was crashed b e t w e e n t w o wired a shot from the slot on a power into by Chris of the league’s play inside the post at 8:03 of the midKreider. b e s t s k a t i n g dle frame. “It was a teams had the The Rangers played a thorough delot of fun,” 21,273 in the fensive game in the third to prevent a said Tokarski. seats roaring comeback. “There was a for most of the “The Canadiens were coming wave lot of adrenagame. after wave in the first period,” said St. line. You grow M o n t r e a l ’ s Louis. “If it wasn’t for Lundqvist, there up as a kid — MICHEL THERRIEN w o r s t f e a r s might have been a different result afwanting to play MONTREAL CANADIENS HEAD COACH were realized ter the first. in the playoffs, in the first pe“He gave us time to find our legs. and I got the riod, which it The goal by Mac was a big one. It opportunity and just came up a bit dominated while still falling behind calmed everyone down and allowed us short.” 2-1. to regroup.” Coach Michel Therrien said he optNew York coach Alain Vigneault Notes — Montreal’s Alex Galcheed for Tokarski over regular back-up also gave credit to Lundqvist. nyuk returned from an injury to see Peter Budaj because of the youngster’s “He’s the only reason we were still his first playoff action for Montreal, record of winning championships at in the game,” he said. “They had total replacing Michael Bournival. . . New the junior and AHL levels. control of the pressure. York forward Derick Brassard, who “He’s a winner,” said Therrien. “I “A lucky bounce changed the dy- suffered a suspected shoulder injury in thought he played well. We talked to namics of the game.” Game 1, was replaced by grinder Dan Peter and he reacted as a pro. He’s a A long period of sustained pressure Carcillo. . . Price was photographed at good teammate.” produced the first goal as Lundqvist’s the Bell Centre with a brace on is right At the other end, Therrien said Lun- clearing attempt went off Pacioretty’s knee.

‘I THOUGHT WE PLAYED WELL, BUT THE ONLY REASON WE LOST WAS LUNDQVIST. HE STOLE THAT GAME.’

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Storm 6 Foreurs 3 LONDON, Ont. — Zach Mitchell is moving closer to hockey’s promised land after recently signing a contract with the NHL’s Minnesota Wild. But before he heads to the pro ranks, the Guelph Storm right-winger can claim major junior hockey’s biggest prize. The Storm will play in Sunday’s championship game at the MasterCard Memorial Cup. Guelph secured the berth with a 6-3 win over the Val-d’Or Foreurs on Monday. For Mitchell and fellow overage players Steve Trojanovic and Ryan Horvat, it is the chance to write a storybook ending to their junior careers. “Playing for the Memorial Cup on Sunday, it’s a great way to end my career,” the 21-year-old from Caledon, Ont., said. “It’s going to be a little emotional, but I’m just going to try and go out there and play hard.” The Storm are a win away from the franchise’s first Memorial Cup in its 23-year history. This is their fifth appearance in the Canadian Hockey League’s championship tournament. The Guelph Platers won a Cup in 1986 before relocating to Owen Sound. With 11 goals in two wins, the explosive Storm conclude the preliminaryround Wednesday against the desperate London Knights. The host Knights are winless and need a victory to avoid elimination and get to a tiebreaker game. The challenge for Guelph is to not start thinking too much about the final before Sunday. “It’s definitely hard, but one thing about trying to become a professional is to prepare the same way for every game,” Mitchell said. “This game against London, even though we’re already in the final, it still means a lot to us.” The Foreurs and Edmonton Oil Kings were both 1-1 and meet Tuesday night. The victors advance to Friday’s semifinal. The loser will either join them for a rematch or face the Knights in a tiebreaker.

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Canada books berth into worlds RED DEER’S SOONIAS LEADS CANADA’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM PAST COSTA RICA IN WORLDS QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Canada’s Dallas Soonias (centre) scores against Costa Rica’s Carlos Arturo Cruz Romero (left) and Esteban Araya Urbina during the 2014 Volleyball World Championships qualifications in Mississauga on Monday. in qualifying. Fred Winters of Victoria added 12 points and six digs, while Lewis also had six digs for the 11th-ranked Canadians in a game that looked like men against boys. The Canadians dominated No. 62 Costa Rica with their size, speed and superior organized play. The Canadians have six players over six foot five on their roster. The Costa Ricans have none. “I feel like we have a lot to work on,” said Soonias, who played professionally this season in China and Qatar. “I’m sure our coach thinks we have a ton to work on. It is tough to play your best. You train for the top teams in the world, so sometimes it’s tough to play a slightly weaker team. “Still, we’re professionals, we try to keep our level high, sometimes it doesn’t always happen.” He added, it’s always great when

the Canadian team players gather after their seasons spent abroad. “When you play pro, it’s your job,” Soonias said. “Here, we’re playing for a reason, we’re here for the same thing. It’s wonderful to hang out with these guys. That’s why I keep doing it.” Canada didn’t give up a set in NORCECA’s third-round qualifying tournament (Pool Q), going undefeated through the round robin, with wins over Costa Rica, Panama, and Trinidad & Tobago. The Canadians have a busy couple of months — and several much tougher opponents — ahead of them before worlds. They have six upcoming World League games — two against Finland, May 31 and June 1 in Calgary, two versus Belgium, June 13 and 14 in Vancouver, and a pair against Australia, June 20 and 21 in Edmonton. Hoag rotated two separate groups of

Blackhawks showing they can do more than put puck in net BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Sure, the Chicago Blackhawks have no shortage of skilled forwards with a history of clutch goals. Scoring against the defending champions isn’t easy, either. The Los Angeles Kings found out just how difficult it can be during Sunday’s 3-1 loss in Game 1 of the Western Conference final, whether they were being stopped by goalie Corey Crawford or one of his teammates. The best-of-seven series continues Wednesday in Chicago. “We had a lot of good opportunities,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter said Monday. “I think you have to give Crawford a lot of credit.” Crawford continued his strong post-season play with 25 saves in Chicago’s third consecutive win. He has allowed three goals during the win streak, and his 1.90 goals-against average and .933 save percentage in the playoffs leads the NHL. But it isn’t just the guy in net. Others are stepping up for the Blackhawks. The Blackhawks shut down the Kings’ top line of Dustin Brown, Anze Kopitar and Marian Gaborik, who came in with 16 goals and 24 assists in 14 playoff games. Kopitar entered the series with five goals and 14 assists, while Gaborik has a playoff-best nine goals.

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WOODY’S: Salt Salt was never challenged Sunday. “I ran with a couple of the guys and we helped each other, but after 35k it was a matter of just pushing to the end,” she said. “I was aiming for a time around 3:11, so I’m happy with that.” Erin Bodnar of Ponoka was second in the women’s division and 16th overall at 3:24:48.35 while defending champion Joelle MacDonald of Airdrie was third and 17th overall at 3:25:16.55. Marty Robertson of Edmonton won the half marathon in 1:15:59.85 with former RDC star Devin Woodland second at 1:19:01.00. Rory Whitbread of Lacombe placed third at 1:21:33.50. Kim Collier of Calgary won the women’s title, finishing 17th overall at 1:31:53.85. Kathy Durell of Red Deer was second and Jenny Godley of Calgary third. Durell was 23rd overall at 1:34:34.85 and Godley 32nd at 1:36:39.40. Adrian Christ of Red Deer won the 10-kilometre run in 36:46.35 ahead of Brian Johnson and Anthony Medynsky, also of Red Deer. Johnson finished at 39:24.090 and Medynsky at 41:04.75. Willa Wanke of Red Deer and Marsha Lush of Bentley battled it

But they had little effect on Sunday’s game. The Blackhawks had Jonathan Toews’ line matched against them on even-strength shifts until the final minute, and all those three could muster was a combined six shots. “We had some success in their zone,” Gaborik said. “We want to keep them in their zone as much as possible and create chances. We had some zone time, but we have to generate more, too, to get to Crawford and to get some goals.” Kopitar and Toews are finalists for this year’s Selke Trophy, given to the NHL’s best defensive forward. Toews won the award last year. Marian Hossa, who plays on the same line as Toews, also is one of the league’s best defensive forwards. “I think both lines have all the ingredients that make them top lines, top lines throughout the league,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “It’s a good challenge for us. I think you’re just comfortable with it both ways. At the end of the day hopefully they can get the job done.” Toews came through with a big goal in the third period after having one disallowed earlier in the game. Hossa had two assists, and the Blackhawks improved to 7-0 at home in the post-season this year. “They’ve got top players, top scorers, on their first line,” Hossa said. “You want to make sure you know where they are on the ice. In Game 1, I thought we did a pretty good job. They still had some chances, but (Crawford) was great for us.”

out on the women’s side. Wanke was 16th overall at 47:04.90 and Lush 17th at 47:23.50. Lori Leduc of Red Deer was third and 21st overall at 47:58.75. ● The marathon saw 135 runners finish with 737 finishing in the half marathon and 433 in the 10km . . . to get final results go to www.racepro.ca/races/woodys. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

CUP: Important “It’s going to be an important game for us tomorrow to be sure we’re not playing Thursday,” Foreurs head coach Mario Durocher said. “Tomorrow we play a bigger team, but they’re not as fast as Guelph.” The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champions may be without top defenceman Guillaume Gelinas. Guelph’s Chadd Bauman was tossed in the third period for knee-on-knee contact with Gelinas. Val-d’Or’s assistant captain was helped from the ice in obvious pain. “Hopefully he’s going to be able to play tomorrow,” Durocher said. “If not, someone has to take his place.” The Storm were the highest scoring major junior team in Canada this season with 340 goals. They continue to showcase the speed that stretches defence as well as their wealth of scoring talent.

Kerby Rychel, Mitchell, Jason Dickinson, Robby Fabbri, Pius Suter, and Tyler Bertuzzi scored Monday. Scott Kosmachuk had three assists. Mitchell, Brock McGinn and captain Matt Finn each had two assists. The line of Dickinson, McGinn and Kosmachuk also helped hold QMJHL leading scorer Anthony Mantha without a goal. Mantha had 81 goals in 81 games prior to facing the Storm. The Storm rattled off four unanswered goals, including three within the first six minutes, before the Foreurs could counter in the second. Foreurs goaltender Antoine Bibeau stopped all 51 shots he faced in Val-d’Or’s 1-0 win over the Knights to open the tournament. But after six goals on 36 shots, he was replaced after two periods by Keven Bouchard, who stopped the 13 shots he faced. The Foreurs had just three days between winning Game 7 of their QMJHL final in BaieComeau, Que., and their first game in London. But even with two days of rest after their opener, Val-d’Or wasn’t as tenacious on the puck as the Storm and the defence around their own net was sloppy. “I think we got a little stunned by their speed and the quality of their players,” Val-d’Or defenceman Randy Gazzola said. “They came at us hard. They were ready to play and we weren’t ready to play right from the start.”

players through the four games. “We wanted all the guys to get reps, and get the feeling of playing together before we get Finland,” Hoag said. “It’s good. We needed to get through this process and it’s done. We got our ticket to Poland. I can focus now on other things.” The Canadian men are on the rise, finishing fifth in the prestigious 18-country World League last year to climb to No. 11 in the world rankings. That strong result came a year after they were just one win away from qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics. They finished 19th at the last world championships in 2010. The 20th-ranked Canadian women will play in their world championships, Sept. 23 to Oct. 12 in Italy. They also went undefeated through the preliminary round, beating Jamaica, Mexico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Bantam AAA Braves open season with doubleheader sweep The Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves opened their bantam AAA baseball season with a doubleheader sweep of the host Calgary Cubs during the weekend. Darin Fodor cracked a single, double and triple, drove in a run and scored three in the series opener, a 10-4 win. Austin Hammond and Hunter Leslie each stroked a run-scoring single and Jack Henley and Brady Steeves had two hits apiece. Andrew MacCuaig worked four innings on the Braves mound, allowing three runs on two hits and seven walks, striking out six batters and being called twice on balks. Connor McCallister pitched the final three frames, giving up one run on three hits while walking two batters and fanning two. Hammond contributed a single, double and triple and knocked in a run as the Braves prevailed 10-8 in the second game. Henley chipped in with two singles, a triple and a RBI, and Ty Moline stroked a single and double. Fodor threw four innings for Red Deer, surrendering four runs on five hits while walking one batter and fanning three. In his three innings on the Braves mound, Steeves gave up four runs on three hits and a walk, and also recorded one strikeout. The Braves host Okotoks Red Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park.

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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Canada’s men’s volleyball team breezed through its world championship qualifying tournament with such ease, qualifying seemed like a mere formality. But while Canada powered past overmatched Costa Rica on Monday and into the world championships, it was the team’s first tournament together since the players returned home from their respective pro seasons spent abroad. It was a chance, said coach Glenn Hoag, to gauge where the team is, before the much tougher road that lies ahead. “We just wanted to focus on finishing this properly and qualifying for worlds, and we did that,” Hoag said. “We rotated the players, got them all a chance to play in this big gym, which is what we’re going to be facing in big tournaments. “We have a lot of things to work on obviously, because the guys just regrouped. Our next opponent (Finland) will be next harder.” Dallas Soonias of Red Deer and Gord Perrin of Creston, B.C., scored 13 points each as Canada defeated Costa Rica in straight sets, 25-14, 25-15, 25-16, in the final at the Hershey Centre. The victory earned Canada a spot in the world championships, Aug 30 to Sept. 21 in Poland. The Canadian women followed it up with a 25-16, 25-19, 25-17 victory over Mexico in clinch a spot in the women’s world tournament. Kyla Richey of Roberts Creek, B.C., led the way with 14 points, while Tabitha Love of Dauphin, Man., had 10. The men had only gathered at their training base in Ottawa over the past couple of weeks, arriving one or two at a time from their pro clubs overseas. “It’s always a challenge, because for eight months, we’re not playing on the same teams, we’re not playing in the same cities,” said Dan Lewis, a libero from Oakville, Ont., who plays professionally in Poland. “And then you come back and it’s a little bit sloppy and everybody is a little bit frustrated, and as the weeks progress, you start to evolve back to where we were.” It’s difficult, the Canadians added, to gauge where they’re truly at against the three weaker opponents they faced

SCOREBOARD Hockey

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014

Local Sports Note: Three points for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs THIRD ROUND Conference Finals

Friday, May 16 Val-D’Or (QMJHL) 1 London (HOST) 0 Saturday, May 17 Guelph (OHL) 5 Edmonton (WHL) 2 Sunday, May 18 Edmonton (WHL) 5 London (HOST) 2 Monday, May 19 Guelph (OHL) 6 Val-D’Or (QMJHL) 3 Tuesday, May 20 Edmonton (WHL) vs. Val-D’Or (QMJHL), 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 21 London (HOST) vs. Guelph (OHL), 5 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal (A3) vs. NY Rangers (M2) (NY Rangers lead series 2-0) Saturday, May 17 NY Rangers 7 Montreal 2 Monday, May 19 NY Rangers 3 Montreal 1 Thursday, May 22 Montreal at NY Rangers, 6 p.m. Sunday, May 25 Montreal at NY Rangers, 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 27 x-NY Rangers at Montreal, 6 p.m. Thursday, May 29 x-Montreal at NY Rangers, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 31 x-NY Rangers at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s results Belarus 5 Germany 2 Denmark 4 Czech Republic 3 (SO) France 5 Norway 4 (SO) Russia 4 Latvia 1 Slovakia 4 Italy 1 Switzerland 6 Kazakhstan 2 Sunday’s results Canada 3 Sweden 2 (OT) Czech Republic 1 Norway 0 Russia 3 Germany 0 U.S. 3 Finland 1

Monday’s summary

WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago (C3) vs. Los Angeles (P3) (Chicago lead series 1-0) Sunday, May 18 Chicago 3 Los Angeles 1 Wednesday, May 21 Los Angeles at Chicago, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 24 Chicago at Los Angeles, 6 p.m. Monday, May 26 Chicago at Los Angeles, 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 28 x-Los Angeles at Chicago, 6 p.m. Friday, May 30 x-Chicago at Los Angeles, 7 p.m. Sunday, June 1 x-Los Angeles at Chicago, 6 p.m. x — if necessary. Monday’s summary Rangers 3, Canadiens 1 First Period 1. Montreal, Pacioretty 4 (unassisted) 6:14. 2. NY Rangers, McDonagh 3 (unassisted) 6:31. 3. NY Rangers, Nash 2 (Kreider, Stepan) 18:58. Penalties — Moore NYR (unsportsmanlike conduct) 1:29, Beaulieu Mtl (roughing) 1:29, Hagelin NYR (tripping) 13:48, Vanek Mtl (slashing) 14:22. Second Period 4. NY Rangers, St. Louis 5 (Stepan, McDonagh) 8:03 (pp). Penalties — Girardi NYR (cross-checking) 1:49, Eller Mtl (tripping) 1:49, Subban Mtl (roughing) 2:41, Galchenyuk Mtl (tripping) 7:29, Pouliot NYR (tripping) 8:44, Kreider NYR (holding) 19:20. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — Pouliot NYR (boarding) 15:38. Shots on goal NY Rangers 9 11 10 — 30 Montreal 14 8 19 — 41 Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 10-6-0); Montreal: Tokarski (L, 0-1-0). Power plays (goal-chances)NY Rangers: 1-3; Montreal: 0-4. MEMORIAL CUP GP W L OT GF GA Pt Guelph (OHL) 2 2 0 0 11 5 4 Val-D’Or (QMJHL) 2 1 1 0 4 6 2 Edmonton (WHL) 2 1 1 0 7 7 2 London (HOST) 2 0 2 0 2 6 0

Storm 6, Foreurs 3 First Period 1. Guelph, Rychel 3 (Mitchell, Fabbri) 0:59. 2. Guelph, Mitchell 1 (Ebert, Finn) 4:00. 3. Guelph, Dickinson 1 (Kosmachuk, McGinn) 5:50. Penalties — Presseault VdO (high-sticking) 8:42, Bertuzzi Gue (delay of game) 11:39, Kosmachuk Gue, Henley VdO (roughing) 15:40, Richard VdO(inter. on goaltender) 17:24. Second Period 4. Guelph, Suter 1 (Kosmachuk, McGinn) 8:13. 5. Val-d’Or, Gazzola 1 (Gelinas, Mantha) 11:59 (pp). 6. Val-d’Or, Sille 1 (Presseault, Ouellette-St-Amant) 12:55. 7. Guelph, Fabbri 1 (Rychel, Mitchell) 16:04. 8. Guelph, Bertuzzi 3 (Kosmachuk, Finn) 19:52. Penalties — Galipeau VdO (tripping) 5:58, McGinn Gue (slashing) 11:20. Third Period 9. Val-d’Or, Beauregard 1 (Sille, Fraser) 12:32 (pp). Penalties — Graves VdO (check from behind) 4:32, Bauman Gue (kneeing, major, game misconduct) 7:50, Gravel VdO (slashing) 15:34, Fraser VdO (charging) 18:45, Finn Gue (interference) 19:11. Shots on goal Guelph 19 17 13 — 49 Val-d’Or 13 13 7 — 33 Goal (shots-saves) — Guelph: Nichols (W,2-0); Val-d’Or: Bibeau (L,1-1)(36-30), Bouchard (0:00 third, 13-13). Power plays (goal-chances) — Guelph: 0-6; Vald’Or: 2-5.

Monday’s results Belarus 3 Latvia 1 Finland 4 Kazakhstan 3 France 6 Denmark 2 Sweden 5 Italy 1

IIHF Men’s World Championship PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W OW OL L GF GA x-Sweden 7 5 1 1 0 21 10 x-Canada 6 4 1 1 0 25 11 France 6 2 2 0 2 21 15 Czech Rep. 6 2 1 2 1 15 14 Slovakia 6 2 0 1 3 16 18 Norway 6 2 0 1 3 14 16 Denmark 6 1 1 0 4 14 23 Italy 7 1 0 0 6 6 25

World Hockey Championship Scoring Leaders GP G A Pts Viktor Tikhonov, Rus 6 7 6 13 Antoine Roussel, Fra 6 5 5 10 Stephane da Costa, Fra 6 6 3 9 Sergei Plotnikov, Rus 6 4 5 9 Michel Miklik, Svk 6 3 6 9 Alex Ovechkin, Rus 6 3 6 9 Seth Jones, U.S. 6 2 7 9 Cody Hodgson, Cda 6 6 2 8 Mikhail Grabovski, Blr 6 4 4 8 Sergei Kostitsyn, Blr 6 4 4 8 Joakim Lindstrom, Swe 6 4 4 8 P.E. Bellemare, Fra 6 3 5 8 Danis Zaripov, Rus 6 2 6 8 Linus Klasen, Swe 7 2 6 8 Tyler Johnson, U.S. 6 4 3 7 Craig Smith, U.S. 6 3 4 7 Petri Kontiola, Fin 7 3 4 7 Oscar Moller, Swe 7 2 5 7 Mathis Olimb, Nor 6 1 6 7 Brock Nelson, U.S. 6 4 2 6 Joel Ward, Cda 6 4 2 6 Gustav Nyquist, Swe 7 4 2 6

Group B GP W OW OL x-Russia 6 6 0 0 Belarus 6 4 0 0 U.S. 6 3 1 0 Finland 7 3 1 0 Latvia 6 3 0 0 Switzerland 6 2 0 1 Germany 6 1 1 0 Kazakhstan 7 0 0 2 x — clinched quarter-final berth.

Pt 18 15 10 10 7 7 5 3

L GF GA Pt 0 29 6 18 2 17 15 12 2 22 19 11 3 18 15 11 2 18 21 9 3 16 19 7 4 9 18 5 5 16 32 2

Tuesday’s games Norway vs. Canada, 3:45 a.m. Germany vs. U.S., 3:45 a.m. Denmark vs. Slovakia, 7:45 a.m. Latvia vs. Switzerland, 7:45 a.m. Czech Republic vs. Finland, 11:45 a.m. Russia vs. Belarus, 11:45 a.m. End of preliminary round PLAYOFF ROUND Thursday’s games Quarter-finals First quarter-final, 7 a.m. Second quarter-final, 8 a.m. Third quarter-final, 11 a.m. Fourth quarter-final, noon

American League

New York Baltimore Toronto Boston Tampa Bay

East Division W L Pct 23 20 .535 22 20 .524 23 22 .511 20 23 .465 19 26 .422

Detroit Kansas City Minnesota Chicago Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 27 13 .675 22 22 .500 21 21 .500 22 24 .478 20 25 .444

GB — 7 7 8 9 1/2

Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas Houston

West Division W L Pct 28 16 .636 24 20 .558 21 22 .488 21 23 .477 17 28 .364

GB — 3 1/2 6 1/2 7 12

GB — 1/2 1 3 5

Sunday’s Games Oakland 13, Cleveland 3 N.Y. Yankees 4, Pittsburgh 3, 1st game Kansas City 8, Baltimore 6 Houston 8, Chicago White Sox 2 Seattle 6, Minnesota 2 Texas 6, Toronto 2 L.A. Angels 6, Tampa Bay 2 Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Yankees 3, 2nd game Detroit 6, Boston 2

National League

Atlanta Washington Miami New York Philadelphia

Monday’s Games Cleveland 5, Detroit 4, 10 innings Chicago White Sox 7, Kansas City 6 Houston 5, L.A. Angels 2 Tuesday’s Games Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 1-3) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-3), 5:05 p.m. Detroit (Verlander 5-2) at Cleveland (Bauer 0-1), 5:05 p.m. Oakland (Pomeranz 3-1) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-3), 5:10 p.m. Toronto (Happ 2-1) at Boston (Doubront 2-3), 5:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 6-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 4-2), 6:05 p.m. Seattle (Iwakuma 2-0) at Texas (Lewis 3-2), 6:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Rienzo 3-0) at Kansas City (Ventura 2-3), 6:10 p.m. Houston (Feldman 2-1) at L.A. Angels (Skaggs 3-1), 8:05 p.m. Minnesota (Correia 1-5) at San Diego (Kennedy 2-5), 8:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Detroit at Cleveland, 10:05 a.m. Seattle at Texas, 12:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m. Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Oakland at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 5:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. Houston at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m. Minnesota at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. H 50 53 57 54 42 39 53 42 58 48

JAbreu, Chicago, 42; MiCabrera, Detroit, 39; Moss, Oakland, 39; NCruz, Baltimore, 37; Donaldson, Oakland, 35; Brantley, Cleveland, 33; AlRamirez, Chicago, 32. Pitching Porcello, Detroit, 7-1; Buehrle, Toronto, 7-1; Tanaka, New York, 6-0; Scherzer, Detroit, 6-1; Shields, Kansas City, 6-3; Gray, Oakland, 5-1; FHernandez, Seattle, 5-1. Stolen Bases Altuve, Houston, 15; RDavis, Detroit, 14; Dozier, Minnesota, 12; AEscobar, Kansas City, 12; Andrus, Texas, 11; Ellsbury, New York, 11; Villar, Houston, 11. ERA Scherzer, Detroit, 1.83; Gray, Oakland, 2.10; Buehrle, Toronto, 2.11; Tanaka, New York, 2.17; Darvish, Texas, 2.32; Kazmir, Oakland, 2.39; Ventura, Kansas City, 2.40. Strikeouts Price, Tampa Bay, 77; Kluber, Cleveland, 74; Scherzer, Detroit, 73; Lester, Boston, 73; Tanaka, New York, 66; Darvish, Texas, 65; FHernandez, Seattle, 65. Saves Holland, Kansas City, 12; Perkins, Minnesota, 12; TomHunter, Baltimore, 11; Rodney, Seattle, 11; Nathan, Detroit, 11; Uehara, Boston, 9; Axford, Cleveland, 9.

Sunday, May 25 Bronze Medal Game Semifinal losers, 7:30 a.m. Gold Medal Game Semifinal winners, noon

Milwaukee St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago

San Francisco Colorado Los Angeles San Diego Arizona

East Division W L Pct 24 19 .558 23 21 .535 23 22 .511 20 23 .465 19 22 .463

GB — 1 2 4 4

Central Division W L Pct 27 18 .600 23 21 .523 20 23 .452 18 25 .419 15 27 .357

GB — 3 1/2 6 1/2 8 10 1/2

West Division W L Pct 28 17 .622 25 20 .556 23 22 .511 21 24 .467 18 28 .391

GB — 3 5 7 10 1/2

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 4, Pittsburgh 3, 1st game Philadelphia 8, Cincinnati 3 Washington 6, N.Y. Mets 3 Atlanta 6, St. Louis 5 Chicago Cubs 4, Milwaukee 2 San Francisco 4, Miami 1 Arizona 5, L.A. Dodgers 3 Colorado 8, San Diego 6, 10 innings Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Yankees 3, 2nd game Monday’s Games Cincinnati 4, Washington 3, 15 innings Atlanta 9, Milwaukee 3

Pct. .329 .325 .322 .318 .313 .312 .312 .311 .310 .306

Home Runs JAbreu, Chicago, 15; NCruz, Baltimore, 12; Pujols, Los Angeles, 12; Bautista, Toronto, 11; Dozier, Minnesota, 11; VMartinez, Detroit, 11; Ortiz, Boston, 11. Runs Batted In

Tuesday’s Games Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 1-3) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-3), 5:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Cueto 4-2) at Washington (Fister 0-1), 5:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (R.Montero 0-1), 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Gallardo 2-2) at Atlanta (Teheran 2-3), 5:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Burnett 2-3) at Miami (DeSclafani 1-0), 5:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 6-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 4-2), 6:05 p.m. Arizona (Arroyo 4-2) at St. Louis (Wainwright 6-2), 6:15 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 5-3) at Colorado (Morales 3-3), 6:40 p.m. Minnesota (Correia 1-5) at San Diego (Kennedy 2-5), 8:10 p.m.

H 55 56 51 40 52 51 49 51 55 54

Pct. .393 .339 .338 .333 .327 .327 .322 .321 .318 .318

Home Runs Tulowitzki, Colorado, 13; Stanton, Miami, 12; JUpton, Atlanta, 11; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 10; Morse, San Francisco, 10; 9 tied at 9. Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 43; Puig, Los Angeles, 35; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 35; Blackmon, Colorado, 32; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 32; Morneau, Colorado, 32; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 30. Pitching Greinke, Los Angeles, 7-1; SMiller, St. Louis, 6-2; Wainwright, St. Louis, 6-2; Machi, San Francisco, 5-0; Lohse, Milwaukee, 5-1; Lyles, Colorado, 5-1; Haren, Los Angeles, 5-2. Stolen Bases DGordon, Los Angeles, 25; BHamilton, Cincinnati, 16; EYoung, New York, 15; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 12; Revere, Philadelphia, 12; Bonifacio, Chicago, 11; Blackmon, Colorado, 9; ECabrera, San Diego, 9; DanMurphy, New York, 9; Pagan, San Francisco, 9. ERA Cueto, Cincinnati, 1.25; Samardzija, Chicago, 1.62; Greinke, Los Angeles, 2.03; Hudson, San Francisco, 2.09; Wainwright, St. Louis, 2.11; WPeralta, Milwaukee, 2.18; Teheran, Atlanta, 2.20. Strikeouts Cueto, Cincinnati, 76; Strasburg, Washington, 74; Fernandez, Miami, 70; Wacha, St. Louis, 62; Greinke, Los Angeles, 61; ClLee, Philadelphia, 61; Kennedy, San Diego, 60. Saves FrRodriguez, Milwaukee, 17; Romo, San Francisco, 15; Street, San Diego, 13; Rosenthal, St. Louis, 13; AReed, Arizona, 12; Jansen, Los Angeles, 12; Kimbrel, Atlanta, 11; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 11. Monday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 010 000 201 0 — 4 10 0 Cleveland 100 020 100 1 — 5 14 0 (10 innings) Smyly, Coke (6), Krol (8), Chamberlain (9), Alburquerque (10) and Avila; Kluber, Shaw (8), Allen (9), Atchison (10) and Y.Gomes. W—Atchison 1-0. L— Alburquerque 1-1. HRs—Detroit, V.Martinez (11), J.Martinez (1). Cleveland, Brantley (9). Chicago 003 130 000 — 7 11 1 Kan. City 500 100 000 — 6 10 2 Carroll, Putnam (5), Belisario (7), Lindstrom (9), S.Downs (9), Petricka (9) and Flowers; Vargas, L.Coleman (5), K.Herrera (7), W.Davis (8), Ti.Collins (9) and S.Perez, Hayes. W—Putnam 2-0. L—Vargas 4-2. Sv—Petricka (1). HRs—Chicago, Al.Ramirez (6), Viciedo (4), Konerko (2). NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee 000 020 010 — 3 7 2 Atlanta 111 001 05x — 9 15 0 W.Peralta, Duke (6), Wooten (6), Kintzler (7), Wang (8), Overbay (8) and Maldonado; Minor, Hale (7), D.Carpenter (8), Varvaro (9) and Gattis. W—Minor 2-2. L—W.Peralta 4-3. HRs—Milwaukee, K.Davis (5), Braun (7). Atlanta, F.Freeman (9), Doumit (1), J.Upton (11).

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Signed a two-year player development contract extension with Salt Lake (PCL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Recalled OF Chris Herrmann from Rochester (IL). NEW YORK YANKEES — Assigned RHP Bruce Billings outright to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Optioned RHP Jose Ramirez to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned RHP Marcus Stroman to Buffalo (IL). National League MIAMI MARLINS — Signed INF Miguel Tejada to a minor league contract. Released RHP Carlos Marmol. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHP Brandon Cumpton to Indianapolis (IL). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Fired CEO Jason Levien and director of player personnel Stu Lash. Announced general manager Chris Wallace will assume responsibilities of interim director of basketball operations. ORLANDO MAGIC — Entered into a three-year single affiliation partnership with Erie (NBADL) beginning with the 2014-15 season. FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed G Will Rackley, RB Shaun Chapas and TE Phillip Supernaw. Released TE Matt Furstenburg and LBs Cody Larsen and D.J. Bryant. CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with WR Brandon Marshall on a three-year contract exten-

sion through the 2017 season. Signed RB Senorise Perry and S Marcus Trice. Released P Drew Butler and RB Willie Carter. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed WRs Anthony Armstrong and Taylor Gabriel, RB Jourdan Brooks, OL Randall Harris, DL Jacobbi McDaniel, DB Robert Nelson and TE James Oboh. Waived RB Jamaine Cook, WR Josh Cooper, OL Anthony Dima, WR Tori Gurley, DL Elhadji Ndiaye, OL Michael Philipp, FB Chris Pressley and TE Andre Smith. DALLAS COWBOYS — Released RB Glasco Martin. Signed RB Ryan Williams. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed DE Khyri Thornton, S Charles Clay, TE Colt Lyerla and DE Luther Robinson. Released TE Raymond Webber. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed WR Lacoltan Bester and DE Julius Warmsley. Released WR Andy Cruse, DL Tyrone Ezell and WR Nathan Slaughter. Waived-injured OT Chris Martin. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed C Luke Bowanko. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed OT J’Marcus Webb, FB James Baker, C Ben Gottschalk and K Cairo Santos. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed QB Brock Jensen and LB Chris McCain. Named Joe Schoen director of player personnel. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed LB Dom DeCicco and LB Mike Zimmer. Waived G Conor Boffeli and QB Travis Partridge. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed OL Bryan Stork, OL Jon Halapio, DB Jemea Thomas, CB Malcolm Butler, WR Derrick Johnson and LB Taylor McCuller. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Agreed to terms with LN Khairi Fortt on a four-year contract. Signed WR Steve Hull, RB Derrick Strozier, LB Cheta Ozo-

● Senior high girls soccer: Central Alberta Christian at Sylvan Lake, 4:15 p.m. ● Senior high girls rugby: Olds vs. Rimbey, Lacombe vs. Notre Dame, 5 p.m.; Hunting Hills vs. Lindsay Thurber, 5:30 p.m.; all games at Titans Park. ● Bantam AAA baseball: Okotoks Red at Red Deer, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Senior high boys rugby: Lindsay Thurber vs. Hunting Hills, Rocky Mountain House vs. Notre Dame, 6:30 p.m.; Rocky Mountain House vs. Lindsay Thurber, Notre Dame vs. Hunting Hills, 7:15 p.m.; all games at Titans Park. ● Parkland baseball: Acme at Innisfail, Eckville at Lacombe, 6:45 p.m.

ugwu and OL Thomas Welch. Waived NT Brandon McCray and G Micajah Reynolds. NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed WR Odell Beckham Jr., C Weston Richburg, LB Devon Kennard and CB Bennett Jackson. NEW YORK JETS — Signed LB A.J. Edds and OL Markus Zusevics. Released WR Dwight Jones and OL Jacolby Ashworth. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Claimed WR Greg Little off waivers from Cleveland. Signed LB Bojay Filimoeatu and CB Jansen Watson. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed DT Daniel McCullers and TE Rob Blanchflower. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed TE Rashaun Allen, DE Cassius Marsh and G Nate Isles. Terminated the contract of TE Travis Beckum. Released CB Jimmy Legree. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed OT Kevin Pamphile. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with WR Julian Horton, RB Waymon James, OL Viondy Merisma, CB Winston Wright and OLB David Gilbert. Waived FB Quinn Johnson, CB George Baker and LB Jamal Merrell. Waived-injured WR Eric Ward. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Agreed to terms with general manager Bob Murray on a four-year contract extension through 2020. ST. LOUIS BLUES — Signed G Brian Elliott to a three-year contract extension. American Hockey League MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Signed F Joe Pendenza to a one-year contract. SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Named Seth DeWitt manager of public and community relations.

Thursday ● Senior men’s baseball: North Star Sports vs. Rays, Lacombe Stone and Granite vs. Gary Moe Volkswagen, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief 1 and 2. ● Women’s fastball: Panthers vs. Lacombe Physio Shooters, Badgers vs. Panthers, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; TNT Athletics vs. Red Deer U16 Rage, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; N. Jensen’s Bandits at Stettler Heat, 7 p.m.

Friday ● Senior high girls soccer: Lindsay Thurber at Notre Dame, 4:15 p.m., Collicutt West. ● Senior high boys soccer: Innisfail at Sylvan Lake, Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, Olds at Lacombe; all games at 4:15 p.m.

Saturday ● Bantam AAA baseball: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, doubleheader at noon and 3 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Calgary Wranglers at Red Deer, 1:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Major women’s soccer: Edmonton Northwest United at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Edgar Park West. ● Parkland baseball: Acme at Rocky Mountain House, 6:45 p.m. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Okotoks at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Innisfail Arena Blue.

Sunday ● Major women’s soccer: Calgary Callies at Red Deer, noon, Edgar Park West. ● Midget AAA baseball: Spruce Grove at Red Deer, doubleheader at noon and 3 p.m., Great Chief Park.

Basketball Sunday, June 1 x-Miami at Indiana, 6:30 p.m.

NBA Playoffs THIRD ROUND Conference Finals (Best-of-7)

WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio (1) vs. Oklahoma City (2) (San Antonio leads series 1-0) Monday’s game Oklahoma City 105 San Antonio 122 Wednesday’s game Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 7 p.m. Sunday, May 25 San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 27 San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Thursday, May 29 x-Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 31 x-San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 2 x-Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Indiana (1) vs. Miami (2) (Indiana leads series 1-0) Sunday’s result Indiana 107 Miami 96 Tuesday’s game Miami at Indiana, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 24 Indiana at Miami, 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 26 Indiana at Miami, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 28 x-Miami at Indiana, 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 30 x-Indiana at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m. Cincinnati at Washington, 2:05 p.m. Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Miami, 5:10 p.m. Arizona at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m. San Francisco at Colorado, 6:40 p.m. Minnesota at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Tulowitzki Col 42 140 42 Blackmon Col 43 165 35 Utley Phi 38 151 22 SSmith SD 38 120 18 Morneau Col 42 159 21 YMolina StL 39 156 17 Puig LAD 39 152 22 Pagan SF 41 159 21 DanMurphy NYM 41 173 28 Stanton Mia 45 170 29

Today ● Senior high boys soccer: Sylvan Lake at Central Alberta Christian, 4:15 p.m.; Hunting Hills at Alix, 4:15 p.m. ● Senior high girls soccer: Lacombe at Hunting Hills, 4:15 p.m., Collicutt East. Senior men’s baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite vs. Nighthawks, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Okotoks at Red Deer, 6:30 p.m., West Park. ● Women’s fastball: N. Jensen’s Bandits vs. Alberta Kaizen Warriors, Lacombe Physio Shooters vs. Alberta Kaizen Warriors, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Red Deer U16 Rage vs. Badgers, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; Panthers at Stettler Heat, 7 p.m. ● Sunburst baseball: Parkland at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Junior B tier 3 lacrosse: Calgary Axemen at Olds, 7:30 p.m., Sportsplex Main.

Wednesday

Saturday, May 24 Semifinals Quarter-final winners, 5:45 & 6:45 a.m.

Baseball

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R VMartinez Det 40 152 20 MiCabrera Det 40 163 22 AlRamirez CWS 46 177 28 Cano Sea 43 170 19 Solarte NYY 38 134 19 KSuzuki Min 35 125 11 Kinsler Det 40 170 29 Choo Tex 39 135 22 MeCabrera Tor 44 187 28 Loney TB 43 157 18

B3

Golf PGA-Byron Nelson Classic Sunday At TPC Four Seasons Resort Irving, Texas Purse: $6.9 million Yardage: 7,166; Par: 70 (a-amateur) Final Brendon Todd, $1,242,000 68-64-68-66 Mike Weir, $745,200 68-66-67-67 Charles Howell III, $400,200 68-66-69-67 Marc Leishman, $400,200 66-68-68-68 James Hahn, $262,200 71-65-65-70 Boo Weekley, $262,200 67-68-68-68 Graham DeLaet, $207,863 68-66-68-70 Dustin Johnson, $207,863 69-69-68-66 Matt Kuchar, $207,863 69-67-68-68 Gary Woodland, $207,863 68-67-66-71 Charlie Beljan, $146,280 72-65-70-67 Louis Oosthuizen, $146,280 68-68-64-74 Charl Schwartzel, $146,280 73-67-67-67 John Senden, $146,280 70-70-68-66 Shawn Stefani, $146,280 74-66-67-67 Paul Casey, $100,050 71-63-73-68 Morgan Hoffmann, $100,050 68-66-68-73 John Huh, $100,050 67-71-66-71 Billy Hurley III, $100,050 70-69-68-68 Kevin Kisner, $100,050 69-70-70-66 Ty. Van Aswegen, $100,050 67-68-72-68 Greg Chalmers, $64,055 71-67-65-73 P. Harrington, $64,055 68-68-66-74 Tim Herron, $64,055 68-66-74-68 Ryan Palmer, $64,055 67-68-71-70 Andres Romero, $64,055 71-66-69-70 Tim Wilkinson, $64,055 66-71-71-68 a-Scottie Scheffler, $0 71-68-69-68 Brendon de Jonge, $43,944 73-68-67-69 Brice Garnett, $43,944 69-70-68-70 Brian Harman, $43,944 72-69-71-65 Charlie Wi, $43,944 73-67-66-71 Aaron Baddeley, $43,944 68-70-67-72 Keegan Bradley, $43,944 70-68-68-71 Robert Garrigus, $43,944 74-64-68-71 Martin Kaymer, $43,944 67-67-71-72

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LPGA-Kingsmill Championship Scores Sunday At Kingsmill Resort, River Course Williamsburg, Virginia Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,347; Par: 71 Final

Lizette Salas, $195,000 67-68-65-71 — Sarah Jane Smith, $90,642 68-71-70-66 — Lexi Thompson, $90,642 67-69-70-69 — Yani Tseng, $90,642 68-70-68-69 — So Yeon Ryu, $48,832 70-69-68-69 — Lydia Ko, $48,832 70-68-67-71 — Thidapa Suwannapura, $36,78667-70-71-69 — Mina Harigae, $27,997 72-68-70-68 — Sandra Gal, $27,997 69-71-69-69 — Azahara Munoz, $27,997 65-71-72-70 — Pornanong Phatlum, $27,997 71-69-66-72 — Mi Hyang Lee, $19,641 74-69-70-66 — Jennifer Johnson, $19,641 70-72-70-67 — Suzann Pettersen, $19,641 72-68-70-69 — Brittany Lang, $19,641 67-68-74-70 — Alejandra Llaneza, $19,641 68-69-71-71 — Stacy Lewis, $19,641 70-65-70-74 — Chie Arimura , $15,001 74-70-69-67 — Joanna Klatten, $15,001 69-72-70-69 — Charley Hull, $15,001 70-69-71-70 — Austin Ernst, $15,001 65-74-68-73 — Katherine Kirk, $15,001 69-68-68-75 — Sarah Kemp, $12,219 70-71-72-68 — Gerina Piller, $12,219 69-68-75-69 — Paz Echeverria, $12,219 73-65-73-70 — Anna Nordqvist, $12,219 74-68-69-70 — Mariajo Uribe, $12,219 72-65-74-70 — Ilhee Lee, $12,219 72-70-68-71 —

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Regions Tradition Sunday At Shoal Creek Shoal Creek, Ala. Purse: $2.2 million Yardage: 7,231; Par: 72 Final Kenny Perry, $330,000 M. Calcavecchia, $193,600 Jay Haas, $131,267 Tom Lehman, $131,267 Olin Browne, $131,267 John Cook, $79,200 Rocco Mediate, $79,200 Tom Watson, $79,200 Michael Allen, $49,343 Marco Dawson, $49,343 Joe Durant, $49,343 Bernhard Langer, $49,343 Jeff Sluman, $49,343 Steve Elkington, $49,343 John Inman, $49,343 Fred Funk, $33,044

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Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF New England 11 6 3 2 19 Kansas City 11 5 4 2 16 Houston 12 5 5 2 16 D.C. 10 4 3 3 14 New York 12 3 4 5 18 Columbus 11 3 4 4 13 Toronto 8 4 4 0 9 Chicago 10 2 2 6 19 Philadelphia 13 2 6 5 15 Montreal 10 1 5 4 8 Western Conference GP W L T GF Seattle 12 8 3 1 23 Salt Lake 11 6 0 5 23 Dallas 12 5 5 2 21 Vancouver 10 4 2 4 16 Colorado 11 4 4 3 12 San Jose 10 2 4 4 10 Chivas 11 2 5 4 13 Portland 11 1 3 7 16 Los Angeles 8 2 3 3 8

GA 13 10 19 12 19 14 9 19 20 18

Pt 20 17 17 15 14 13 12 12 11 7

Houston 1 Los Angeles 0 Dallas 1 Chivas 1 Salt Lake 2 Colorado 1 Seattle 1 San Jose 0 Portland 3 Columbus 3 Sunday’s results Chicago 2 Kansas City 1 Wednesday’s games Houston at D.C., 5 p.m. Dallas at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 23 Toronto at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

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Pt 25 23 17 16 15 10 10 10 9

Saturday’s results Toronto 2 New York 0 D.C. 1 Montreal 1 Philadelphia 3 New England 5

Saturday, May 24 Portland at New York, 5 p.m. Seattle at Vancouver, 5 p.m. D.C. at New England, 5:30 p.m. Chicago at Columbus, 5:30 p.m. Montreal at Colorado, 7 p.m. Dallas at Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 25 Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 6 p.m. Houston at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 27 New York at Kansas City, 6 p.m.

Lacrosse NLL Playoffs SECOND ROUND Division Finals (Two-game Series) East Division Rochester (1) vs. Buffalo (3) (Rochester wins series 2-1) Saturday’s result Rochester 13 Buffalo 8 (Teams played a full 10-minute period after this game; Rochester won 2-1) Saturday, May 10 Buffalo 12 Rochester 8 West Division Edmonton (1) vs. Calgary (2) (Calgary wins series 2-1)

Friday’s result Edmonton 15 Calgary 13 (Teams played a full 10-minute period after this game; Calgary won 2-1) Saturday, May 10 Calgary 12 Edmonton 11 (OT) THIRD ROUND NLL Championship Champions Cup (Two-game Series) Rochester (E1) vs. Calgary (W2) Saturday, May 24 Rochester at Calgary, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 31 Calgary at Rochester, 6 p.m.

B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Canada in control at worlds ELLIS, TEAM CANADA IN CONTROL OF GROUP AFTER BEATING SWEDEN IN OVERTIME BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 3 Sweden 2 OT MINSK, Belarus — Team Canada is in the driver’s seat of its group at the world hockey championship after beating Sweden 3-2 in overtime. Ryan Ellis scored the winner to put the Canadians there, atop Group A with one game left in the preliminary round. Now, a regulation victory over Norway today would clinch the top seed and no chance of facing powerhouse Russia until the final. “We put ourselves behind the 8-ball (by losing to France), but moving forward I think we’re obviously in pretty good shape,” Ellis said Sunday at Chizhovka-Arena. “We like where we sit. Obviously the last game here’s really important and (we want to) finish as high as we can.” A regulation loss to Sweden would have guaranteed Canada second place in the group and a potential semifinal showdown with Alex Ovechkin, Sergei Bobrovsky and Russia, which won has its first five games and outscored Group B opponents 26-6 in the process. It was — and remains — a two-horse race on Canada’s side because Sweden hadn’t lost a game until Ellis scored 2:22 into overtime after a patient play and pass by Mark Scheifele. The teams are tied with 15 points, but Canada now controls its path because of an almost-insurmountable goal-differential lead (plus-14 to plus-7). But that’s only possible because Canada came out on top of Sweden in an even game. “I think there was lots of chances both ways,” coach Dave Tippett said. “Lots of mistakes made by both teams. From a coaching standpoint, you look at the tape, there’ll be a lot of errors, but (those

are) what leads to an entertaining game.” Swedish coach Par Marts was “quite satisfied” with his team’s performance in spite of the loss. Tippett said the difference was Canada capitalizing on a quality chance in overtime. Ellis took care of that. “It’s anyone’s game in overtime and obviously it came down to one bounce and for us it was fortunate to get the bounce,” the Nashville Predators defenceman said. “The patience on Scheifele for such a young guy was unbelievable. He just put it right on my tape, and I just had to touch it.” After falling behind 2-0 on goals by Joakim Lindstrom and Linus Klasen, Canada tied it thanks to goals from Brayden Schenn and captain Kevin Bieksa. A total of 11 minor penalties were called in regulation, helping to make this a game played more in either end than through the neutral zone. Bieksa said he and his teammates expected that going in after watching how penalties were called in Sweden’s game against the Czech Republic. But that still took some adjusting for Ellis and this group of NHLers. “When you play in the playoffs in the NHL and stuff like that, you usually get two or three power plays a game and you really have to make the most of that,” Ellis said. “At times here it’s more of a special-teams battle. Going forward I think we need to improve both sides of our special teams.” Canada killed off all five Swedish power plays, extending its penalty-killing streak to 16 in a row over the past three games. But this wasn’t Denmark and it wasn’t Italy, which is why it was a good barometer with the quarter-final round looming Thursday.

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Team Canada Jonathan Huberdeau fails to score against Sweden’s goalie Anders Nilsson on his penalty shot during first period action Sunday, at the IIHF World Hockey Championship in Minsk Belarus.

France beats Denmark to reach quarters, Finland stays in contention MINSK, Belarus — France clinched a spot in the quarterfinals of the ice hockey world championship with a 6-2 victory over Denmark on Monday, while Finland kept alive its hopes of advancing by beating Kazakhstan 4-3. Stephane Da Costa scored twice as France netted four unanswered third-period goals in a span of less than six minutes. The game had been tied 2-2 after the second period. France, which stunned Canada in its first game of the tournament, reached the quarterfinals for the first time since 1995. “This is huge for French hockey,” France coach Dave Henderson said. “It’s been a long time since it last happen. I’m totally happy with the team.” Julien Desrosiers, Antoine Roussel, PierreEdouard Bellemare and Antonin Manavian also scored for France. Jesper Jensen and Kim Staal scored for Denmark.

The result means the Czech Republic also advanced to the quarterfinals from Group A together with defending champion Sweden and Canada. France has also beaten Slovakia and Norway in Belarus. It will meet the Czech Republic on Tuesday in a match to decide who finishes third in the group. The loser will face Group B’s winner — high-scoring Russia — in the quarterfinals. Captain Olli Jokinen scored to put Finland 3-2 ahead when his shot hit defenceman Alexei Litvinenko in the face before deflecting into the net, and also set up the winning goal for Jarkko Immonen as Finland stayed in contention. Finland is third in Group B with 11 points but Latvia and Belarus are two points behind with two games in hand. The United States already advanced from the group with Russia. “We’ll probably be watching the games later and hoping that we can continue in the tournament,’ Juuso Hietanen said. ”We have to do all the preparation as if we are going to play on Wednesday in the next stage.“ In the late matches Monday, Latvia plays host Belarus while Sweden faces Italy.

How Cody Hodgson has starred for Canada BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MINSK, Belarus — Near the end of the NHL season, Buffalo Sabres coach Ted Nolan asked Cody Hodgson to try playing on left wing. “I never played that before — ever — not minor hockey, junior,” Hodgson said. Still, it worked well enough that Hodgson broke out of a month-long goal-scoring drought. He had four goals and four assists over the last nine games of the season. Team Canada coach Dave Tippett asked Hodgson to do the same thing at the world hockey championship, and it has worked like a charm. With one game left in the preliminary round Tuesday against Norway, Hodgson leads in Canada in goals (six) and points (eight). Being on the wing has something to do with that. “I think he’s playing with good players, he’s playing on the power play and he’s shooting the puck well,” Tippett

said. “As a winger, the centreman has to play a lot down low, it makes it harder for them to get those rushes up the ice, so that’s somewhere where Cody, he’s taking advantage of some of those rush chances.” Since the start of the tournament, Hodgson has played left wing on a line with centre Nazem Kadri and rightwinger Troy Brouwer. Per Tippett’s plan, the right-shooting Hodgson still takes faceoffs on his strong side and assumes the defensive responsibilities of a centre in those situations until he and Kadri can switch. But not having to worry about the multifaceted, four-corner duties of a centre has freed up Hodgson to think more offensively. “It’s a different mentality playing on the wing, for sure,” he said. “I’m not engaged in as many battles down low, and it may free you up for a little bit more through the neutral zone, that type of thing.” Hodgson is scoring on more than just a wing and a prayer. A couple of

his goals are on the power play close to the net, and even as Tippett says the 24-year-old is in the right place at the right time, he recognizes there’s something to that. “The puck’s following him around a little bit, but it’s following him around because he’s in the right spots,” Tippett said. “He shoots quick and his shots are going in.” This past NHL season was Hodgson’s first as a 20-goal scorer. Not coincidentally it was also the first time he played more than 70 games. Earlier in his career, the Markham, Ont., native dealt with back problems that could have endangered his career. At this tournament he’s injury-free and playing like it. “It feels nice,” Hodgson said. “Even this year the broken thumb, broken foot and neck contusion, it was a tough year that way. It’s nice to be fully healthy and playing again.” Hodgson’s production may be a bit of a surprise, but Tippett earmarked him as a power-play contributor before

making the trip overseas. On a team with a lot of young, inexperienced players and a few older ones around to show them the way, Hodgson is in the middle as a player with still plenty of potential he has yet to reach. At this tournament, Hodgson’s exceeding at least external expectations, and scoring goals at this level is more than general manager Rob Blake perhaps expected. “It’s different when you get over here to expect what kind of goal-scoring,” Blake said Monday. “But I think he’s been put in that kind of a position here and he’s responded well. I know the coaching staff’s been real happy with him.” Tippett is happy that Hodgson has capitalized on many of his opportunities so far. “Just an opportunistic guy that’s getting opportunities on the power play and five-on-five,” Tippett said. “Scorers go through streaks like that where the puck’s going in the net for them. Right now he’s in that streak.”

Jays can’t finish off rare road sweep against Rangers Rangers 6 Blue Jays 2 ARLINGTON, Texas — Mitch Moreland will be the guy at first base for Texas if Prince Fielder’s neck problem keeps him out for any length of time. His bat was a big boost a few hours after a players-only meeting for a slumping team trying to halt a slide down the AL West standings. Moreland hit a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning, Alex Rios had a two-run triple and the Rangers avoided a three-game sweep with a 6-2 victory against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday. “I’d like to see him do that more often, then he can get more playing time,” manager Ron Washington said after Moreland doubled in his final at-bat. “Mitch is a big part and today he stepped up huge for us.” Washington expects Fielder to play in the next game Tuesday night against Seattle after he had an injection designed to ease the pain and pressure of a disk problem in his neck that he says goes back to last season. “We’ve had to deal with adversity all year,”

Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Jose Reyes leaps over and throws to first after forcing out Texas Rangers’ Leonys Martin, right, on a infield hit by Rangers’ Luis Sardinas during the third inning of a baseball game, Sunday, in Arlington, Texas. Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

said Moreland, whose second homer of the season was a line drive just over the wall in right field off R.A. Dickey (4-4) to break a 2-all tie. “You come in every day ready to play.” The Rangers, who snapped a four-game losing streak and stayed seven games behind Oakland in fourth place in the AL West, had gone 23 innings without an extrabase hit when Rios drove one off the right-centre wall in the fourth.

Juan Francisco and Edwin Encarnacion homered for the Blue Jays, who had won a franchiserecord six straight in Texas, including a fourgame sweep in their only visit last year. “Great teams find a way to sweep series,” Dickey said. “We’re definitely going in the right direction, but there’s more there that we need to do. Today was a game we probably should have won.” The Rangers were in

position to add to the lead Moreland gave them in the seventh when Toronto manager John Gibbons got the Blue Jays out of the jam with a challenge after three previous visits with umpires ended without a video review. Michael Choice lined out to Francisco, who tagged third base with his glove as Robinson Chirinos was diving back to the bag. Dale Scott called Chirinos safe, but a review lasting nearly

3 minutes overturned it and gave Toronto an inning-ending double play. Gibbons’ move ended up not mattering much when Shin-Soo Choo and Adrian Beltre had run-scoring hits in the eighth. Moreland hit his second homer of the season after Rios just beat Francisco’s throw for an error on one of the plays Gibbons considered challenging. Toronto had a season-high four errors. Texas rookie righthander Nick Martinez left with a 2-1 lead after five innings but lost the chance for his first big

league win on Encarnacion’s ninth homer, a shot to left field off Aaron Poreda in the sixth. Poreda (2-0) ended up getting the win after a scoreless seventh, and closer Joakim Soria pitched a shaky but scoreless ninth in a nonsave situation on his 30th birthday. Francisco’s home run into the upper deck in right field was among four hits allowed by Martinez in a solid outing that should give him a chance to stay in the rotation with four Texas starters on the disabled list.

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B5 Young sisters showing promise

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR They’re in the early years of their development as karate students, but Abrielle and Adara Gyori are clearly ahead of the curve. The Sylvan Lake sisters combined to win four medals in the peewee B girls division of the Western Canadian Karate Championships at Hunting Hills High School Saturday, with Abrielle, 11, garnering gold in each of the sparring and kata events and Adara, nine, earning a gold and silver medallion. “I felt nervous and I didn’t know whether I could win a medal because it was my first tournament,” said Abrielle. “But when I won my gold medals it made me feel good on the inside.” Adara also came into the tournament not knowing what to expect. “I was a little bit nervous at first, but once I got my confidence I felt good,” she offered, after taking top honours in the yellow forms and finishing as the runner-up in white-yellow sparring. “I enjoy the sport. It keeps me active.” The Gyori sisters are students at the Cheney Karate Studio. Owner Lyle Cheney, the driving force behind the Western Canadian Championships held annually in Red Deer, sees a lot of potential in the young athletes. “Very much so,” said Cheney. “They came to me from another school, so they had to start again as white belts. They never balked at that at all. They’re very enthusiastic and always pay attention. They’re focused, have a really good attitude and are really hard workers. “They’re future little black belts.” The sisters hold first yellow belts and are just about ready to test for their full yellow belts. “They’ve been with me for six months now and have really distinguised themselves among their peers,” said Cheney. ● Cheney was the recipient of some welcome news early Saturday. The long-time Red Deer karate instructor was granted fifth-degree black belt status by the World Council of Martial Arts. “I’m a black belt in four different styles and I was promoted to fifth degree in karate,” said Cheney. ‘It’s been a long time coming. I’ve been a fourthdegree black belt for the last 14 to 15 years. I wouldn’t want to say it was long overdue, but it certainly was due, anyway.” The WCMA, an international orga-

CENTRAL ALBERTA U16 KINGS VOLLEYBALL The Central Alberta Kings Volleyball Club won silver in the Canada West Open U16 boys’ volleyball championships in Calgary during the weekend. The Kings were 1-5 in preliminary play which left them in the Tier IV playoffs where they defeated La Loche, Sask, 25-15, 25-21 and the Kelowna Kraken 25-16, 20-25, 15-13. They lost 25-12, 17-25, 13-15 to Burnaby, B.C., Focus Fusion in the final. On the girls’ aide, the Sylvan Lake Wave took third in tier IV of the Division II championships, beating Morinville 25-22, 25-20. They posted an 0-6 record in preliminary action, before downing Millet 25-17, 25-18 and losing to Edam, Sask., 25-22, 21-25, 12-15. The Red Deer Queens Extreme were also in Division II and had a 4-2 record in preliminary action, which placed them in Tier I play. However, they lost 15-25, 16-25 to Burlington, Ont., in the quarter-finals. A trio of Central Alberta teams — the Red Deer Adrenaline and Jr. Broncos and the Rocky Mountain House Wildcats — were in the Division III and IV playoffs. The Adrenaline lost 25-22, 1525, 12-15 to the Sherwood Park Ecilpse in the Tier II bronze medal game. They had a 4-2 record in pool play before beating the Regina Chargers 25-16, 25-12 and losing to the Cranford Wham 25-19, 24-26, 12-15. The Wildcats were 0-6 in preliminary play, which placed them in Tier II of their division where they beat the Edmonton Yeti White 8-25, 25-21, 15-10 and lost to Whitecourt 19-25, 23-25 in the semifinals. The Broncos were 3-3 in pool play before losing 22-25, 25-16. 13-15 to the Edmonton Yeti Blue in the Tier I round of 16. In the U15 Canada West Open competition in Regina, the Kings and Queens both lost in the semifinals of their playoffs. The Kings were 3-3 in pool play then downed the Calgary CW 25-18, 25-23 in the Tier II quarterfinals. They lost 24-26, 27-25, 12-15 to the eventual gold medal winning Markham, Ont., Wasps in the semifinals. The Queens Extreme were 1-5 in their preliminary play before downing the Prince Albert Esprit 25-20, 25-13 in the Tier IV quarter-finals and losing to the St. Albert Saints Blue 17-25, 28-30.

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Iris Bencivenga of Capicio Karate throws a kick at Reema Singh of Cheney Karate in Red Deer during the Western Canadian Karate Championships at Hunting Hills High School Saturday. Bencivenga finished third in each of women’s yellow/green sparring and forms, while Melissa Borle of Cheney Karate finished first in both events. nization comprised of instuctors from various countries — including Canada, the United States, Australia and the Philippines — promoted Cheney on the strength of his volume of work in both competition and as a teacher of the sport. “What they do is give support to instructors who maybe don’t belong to an association or have anyone to promote them, things like that,” said Cheney. “It’s an organization that promotes the fighting arts and sanctions tournaments.” It’s the second major honour for Cheney in the past year. He was inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Saskatoon in November. ● Other Cheney Karate Studio medal winners Saturday: Gold — Jack Marchuk, 11-12 bluebrown sparring; Kirk Meers, beginner men’s heavyweight boxing; Marcus

Macumber, men’s advanced kickboxing and muay thai; Eve Stange, 7-8 orange-green forms; Brody Hornett, 7-8 orange-green sparring; Tori Marchuk, 9-10 orange-green forms; Jose Jordan, 9-10 white-yellow forms; Nicolas Hammer, 9-10 blue-brown sparring; Austin Uy, 11-12 blue-brown forms and sparring; Samuel Abijero, 13-14 blue-brown heavyweight forms and sparring; Cole Tanasiychuk, 13-14 orange-green sparring; Melissa Borle, ladies white-green sparring and forms; Gavin Owen, men’s blue-brown sparring; Jason Ramos, junior black belt forms; Jessmervin Ramos, men’s black belt forms; Nick Marchuk, musical forms. Silver — Isaiah Capicio, 5-6 yellow forms; Jordan Volker, men’s beginner lightweight kickboxing; Aldo Fulani, 7-8 yellow forms; Brody Hornett, 7-8 orange-green forms; Dawson Ranger, 9-10 white-yellow sparring; Melanie Moca, 13-14 blue-brown lightweight

sparring; Ryan Hornett, men’s executive white-orange sparring; Danny Moca, men’s blue-brown sparring; Devin Claussen, junior black belt sparring; Nick Marchuk, men’s black belt forms and weapons forms. Bronze — Jack Marchuk, 11-12 blue-brown musical forms and forms; Stange, 7-8 orange-green sparring; Tori Marchuk, 9-10 orange-green sparring; Ranger, 9-10 white-yellow forms; Hammer, 9-10 blue-brown forms; Jacaob Brassington, 9-10 lightweight forms and sparring; Aimee Nossack, 13-14 bluebrown sparring; Charles Mowatt, men’s executive blue-brown forms; Ryan Hornett, men’s executive white-orange forms; Owen, men’s blue-brown forms; Brandon Parsons, men’s blue-brown sparring; Raven Cheney, junior black belt sparring; Logan Shave, men’s black belt forms; Clint Robison, men’s black belt heavyweight sparring. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Nicolls, McMahon top Central Albertans at Maple Leaf Jr. Golf Tour event LACOMBE — Jared Nicolls of Ponoka carded Sunday’s best score — a 70 — and finished three strokes behind winner Geoff Fry of Calgary in the junior boys division of a Maple Leaf Junior Golf tour event during the weekend. Nicolls posted an earlier round of 77 and finished with a 36-hole total of 147. Fry shot 70-74 for a 144 total. Mike Lougheed of Red Deer County placed seventh with a 155 total (78-77), Jeremy Rietze of Lacombe tied for 10th at 161 (81-80) and Chandler McLaren of Ponoka finished 18th at 182 (93-89). In the juvenile boys division of the qualifying event for the Callaway Junior World Championship in San Diego in July, Jaxon Lynn of Sylvan Lake settled for runner-up status after losing a playoff to Landon Stellingwerff of Calgary. Both golfers shot 74-71— 145 over 36 holes. Logan Hill of Red Deer placed fourth with a 153 score (79-74), with Grant Numrich of Red Deer tying for ninth with a 157 total (79-78), and Red Deer golfers Ryan Morrell

(85-84—169) and Jordan Williamson (91-89—180) finishing in respective ties for 20th and 29th. Red Deer’s Clare McMahon was fourth in the girls category, shooting 87-87 for a 174 total. Daria (88-104—192) and Shaye Leidenius (96-101—197) placed 10th and 11th, while winner Jaclyn Lee of Calgary turned in rounds of 78-76 to finish at 154. Carter Graf of Red Deer placed second in the bantam boys division with a 162 total than included rounds of 81-81. Brendan Brown of Calgary cruised to victory, posting rounds of 75-75 for a 149 sum. Chase Broderson of Lacombe checked in at 178 (9187), good for seventh place, while Sylvan Lake golfers Jordan Cooke (93-90—183) and Tanner Smith (95-94—189) finished ninth and 12th. Colin Bergham of Red Deer won the 18-hole atom boys title with a 73. Logan Graf of Red Deer was third with an 80. Tyler Watt of Innisfail carded an 81 to finish second to Marko Banic (79) of DeWinton in the peewee boys division.

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Clare McMahon of Red Deer makes her last putt on hole No. 2 during the second day of the Maple Leaf Junior Worlds Qualifier tournament at the Lacombe Golf and Country Club Sunday.

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BRIEF Midget AAA Braves lose both games of doubleheader The Red Deer Carstar Braves dropped both ends of a midget AAA baseball doubleheader versus the visiting Fort McMurray Oil Giants Saturday, falling 12-10 and 8-3. Jesse Muirhead cracked a triple and a run-scoring double in the first game, while Ty Wagar stroked a two-run single, Jordan Muirhead plated a run with a sacrifice fly and Dylan Boreman had two RBI singles. Braves starting pitcher Mike Ozga was replaced by Brad Pope in the fourth inning after the Oil Giants struck for four runs. The visitors added five runs in the fifth inning for a 10-5 lead. Boreman worked five and two-thirds innings on the Red Deer mound in the second game before handing the ball to

Blake Thompson. Boreman also contributed offensively, cracking a solo home and following with a double. Ozga stroked a RBI double and came home on a single by Wagar.

on the World Cup circuit and the World championships in the United States. Meanwhile in the men’s K1, Darius Ramrattan of Innisfail was fifth out of six competitors.

Innisfail’s Groenveld finished second at national team trials

Rage eliminated from semifinals in Strathmore

PEMBERTON, B.C. — Jessica Groenveld of Innisfail finished second in the women’s k1 slalom division at the Canadian national team selection trials during the weekend. Groenveld finish just behind Jazmyne Denhollander of Chilliwack, B.C. in the four race event. The top three scores counted toward the final standings. Groenveld had a first, a second and two thirds. The top three women will compete

STRATHMORE — The Red Deer Rage were eliminated from the Strathmore U14B girls’ fastball tournament in the semifinals during the weekend. The Rage trailed the Calgary Kaizen 7-3 in the semifinal before storming back to tie the game and losing in an extra inning. Earlier they lost 5-4 to the Strathmore Thunder and 4-3 to the Kaizen while beating Coronation 18-4 and the Calgary West Hills 19-0.

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Weir comes up short at Byron Nelson FINISHES SECOND FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2009, DELAET FINISHED IN TIE FOR SEVENTH BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IRVING, Texas — Canadian Mike Weir waited five years to close out a tournament near the top of the leaderboard. The Brights Grove, Ont., native shot a 3-under 67 in the fourth round of the Bryon Nelson Championship Sunday to finish in second place, two strokes back of American Brendon Todd. It was Weir’s best tournament since he finished second behind Dustin Johnson at Pebble Beach in 2009. The 44-year-old Canadian left-hander hadn’t had a top25 finish since 2010, the same year he suffered a partial ligament tear in his right elbow before a stretch when he missed 17 cuts in a row — including all 14 tournaments he started in 2012. “Best golf I played in a long time. I was happy with the way I played,” Weir said. “I was definitely determined to try to win today, but I can feel good about the way I handled things out there.” Weir had birdies on four of the first five holes. He was 13 under and ahead of Todd by two strokes when his tee shot at No. 5 settled 1 ½ feet from the cup. That came after Weir blindly hit out of a fairway bunker to 3 feet at No. 4. But Weir missed the fairway and green for a bogey at the 431-yard sixth hole. At the same time Todd, who played the last 31 holes at TPC Four Seasons without a bogey, was tapping in at the fifth. Todd was shocked when he saw his ball settled at the base of a tree by the 13th green in the final round. As good as he is with his short game, it wasn’t natural for the slender 6-foot-3 Todd to set up lefthanded and hit the ball with the back side of a 4-iron. “Definitely, without a doubt,” Todd said when asked if it was his most unique shot in a competitive round. And it came in his first PGA Tour victory. Todd saved par at the

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Mike Weir reacts to a missed birdie putt on the 17th green during the final round of the Byron Nelson Championship golf tournament, Sunday, in Irving, Texas. 185-yard 13th hole after knocking the ball to 7 feet, part of a bogey-free 4-under 66. He finished at 14-under 266. It was the 77th career PGA Tour event for Todd, who twice in the past five years had to go back to back to the Web.com Tour to regain full playing privileges. He earned $1,242,000, a PGA Tour exemption through the 2015-16 season and a spot next year in the Masters.

“I’m excited about the relief like I finally have a chance to play the PGA Tour for multiple years,” Todd said. “No. 1, going to Augusta for the Masters is a dream come true.” Todd, who took the lead for good with birdies at Nos. 9 and 10, is the fifth former University of Georgia player to win on the PGA Tour this season. He joined Masters champion Bubba Watson, Harris English, Russell Henley and Chris

Kirk. Todd also is the eighth first-time winner this season. Weir, the 2003 Masters champion who won the last of his eight PGA Tour titles in 2007, finished 12 under. Charles Howell III and Marc Leishman tied for third at 10 under. Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., finished in a tie for seventh place at 8 under. After Todd hit his tee shot at the 195-yard second into

a greenside bunker, his shot from the sand landed on the green and rolled in for a birdie. When he knocked in a 14-foot birdie putt at the 181-yard fifth, he tied Weir — who made a bogey on No. 6 — for the lead at 12 under. Howell shot a 67 with a three-putt bogey on the final hole, while Leishman had three bogeys in a five-hole stretch on the back nine for a 68. Todd rolled in a 17-foot parsaver at No. 17, keeping a twostroke lead over Weir going to the final hole. He needed only 99 putts in the four rounds. “It was a dream week for me on the golf course,” Todd said. “Felt like I absolutely scored my pants off. It was just a short game display. I have a great short game, and even I’ll say it was special this week.” Boo Weekley (68) was 9 under to tie for fifth with James Hahn (70). Weekley is the defending champion at Colonial, about 30 miles away and the next tournament. Louis Oosthuizen, the 2010 British Open in the final group with Todd, had already slipped four strokes back at the turn before bogeys at Nos. 10-11. The 2010 British Open champion shot 74, 10 strokes worse than Saturday, to tie for 11th at 6 under. Martin Kaymer won The Players Championship last weekend and opened at the Nelson with consecutive 67s. But he shot 71 Saturday before a bogey-birdie-bogey start Sunday on way to a 72 and tied for 29th at 3 under. That was a stroke better than Jimmy Walker, who will remain No. 1 in the FedEx Cup standings. Jordan Spieth, the 20-yearold Dallas native ranked eighth in the world, had a closing 68 to finish 2-under and tied for 37th at the tournament where he made the cut as an amateur at ages 16 and 17. He finished two strokes behind 17-year-old Scott Scheffler, the top junior golfer from Dallas who played on a sponsor exemption.

Salas solid in final round to win LPGA’s Kingsmill Championship BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Lizette Salas didn’t have to wait long to be tested in her latest attempt at a breakthrough victory on the LPGA Tour. The challenge came on the first hole Sunday in the Kingsmill Championship, after she was overly cautious with her first putt, leaving it nearly 10 feet short of the cup with a sliding, downhill test to save par. She made it, the start of a day when she did little wrong on her way to a four-shot victory. “Yeah, that was a big putt just to start off the day,” Salas said. “Downhill slider to the right. I mean, I even threw in a fist pump because I knew how important that was for me mentally and on a confidence standpoint.” The 24-year-old Salas made it look easy the rest of the way, even while shooting just an even-par 71 on the River Course. Salas started the day with a three-shot lead, doubled it with birdies on the par-5 third and par-3 fifth. A bogey on the par-4 eighth was her only hiccup — and only her third bogey in four rounds — until she three-putted the par-3 17th. She finished at 13-under 271 and earned $195,000. Yani Tseng, Kraft Nabisco

winner Lexi Thompson and Sarah Jane Smith tied for second. Salas was never really challenged in the final round on the River Course, and when her final putt fell on the 18th hole, she cupped her head in her hands and covered her face in celebration. Her winning moment was quickly interrupted, however, when four fellow players arrived and doused her with champagne, water and wine. The victory came after Salas flirted with victory several times in her three years on tour. It also came after she missed the cut two weeks ago and realized she needed to change her mental approach to give herself a fighting chance. “I felt like I wanted to be perfect all the time,” she said. “I felt like I needed to play like a top tier golfer every week. That’s not it. It’s about feeling confident. Golf is a sport where you can’t control everything. ... I just took a step back and looked at golf differently. I just tried to have fun this week. That was the most important thing.” This year, she tied for third in the season-opening event in the Bahamas and shared the lead after three rounds in the Kia Classic in her home state of California, but Anna Nordqvist closed with a 5-under 67 — to Salas’ 70 — to win by

one. Last year, playing alongside winner Inbee Park in the final group of the Kraft Nabisco, Salas shot 79 to tie for 25th. Two weeks later, Salas lost a playoff to Suzann Pettersen in the LPGA LOTTE in Hawaii. Salas chunked her approach into the water on the first extra hole after closing with a tournament-record 62. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Salas was introduced to the game when her father, the head mechanic at Azusa Greens west of Los Angeles, did some handyman jobs for the club pro and, instead of pay, asked him to teach his daughter to play. She went on to star at Southern California, where she was a four-time All-America selection and helped the Trojans win the 2008 NCAA title. The victory came on a rare weekend when her parents didn’t come to the tournament, but watched from their home in California, and it brought tears to the eyes of Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez, who has been a mentor of sorts for Salas. “I’m crying. I’m so proud of her,” Lopez said by telephone after watching the celebration on the green. “She looked great out there, just very confident and swinging great. ... Like she said on TV, she was ready. It was time.”

Canadian Hadwin teams up with Gretzky for pro-am win in South Carolina BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREER, S.C. — Max Homa won the BMW Charity Pro-Am on Sunday for his first Web. Com Tour title, closing with an 8-under 63 at Thornblade Club for a one-stroke victory over Jonathan Randolph. Homa, the NCAA individual medallist last year for California, finished at 20-under 266 in the three-course event and earned $117,000 to jump from 64th to ninth on the money list with $142,155. “It’s surreal. It’s emotional,” Homa said. “I didn’t win a lot in college and to come out and do it quickly means a lot to me and gives me a lot of confidence for wherever I may wind up at the end of the

WEB.COM TOUR year.” Homa turned professional last year after the helping the U.S. win the Walker Cup. He eagled the par-5 second hole and had six birdies in his bogey-free round. “This course fit my eye better than the others for some reason,” Homa said. “It was a huge start. It really set the tone because I didn’t have to play catch-up too much. It really calmed my nerves. I knew I had to keep my emotions in check.” Randolph also finished with a 63. Blayne Barber, coming off a victory two weeks ago in the South Georgia Classic, tied

for third with Jon Curran and Kyle Reifers. Barber had a 67, and Curran and Reifers shot 66. Homa and celebrity partner Janet Jones-Gretzky tied for ninth in the pro-am portion of the event at 35 under. Canadian pro Adam Hadwin and hockey great Wayne Gretzky won at 44 under. “She was so nice and it was cool playing with her,” Homa said about Jones-Gretzky. “It was fun to compete with her. It was great playing with someone so famous because I got to fly under the radar while she was getting all of the attention from the television cameras and fans.”

Kenny Perry reacts to missing a birdie putt on the 18th hole during the final round at the Champions Tour Regions Tradition golf tournament on Sunday, in Birmingham, Ala. Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Perry wins third straight major with victory at Regions Tradition BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Kenny Perry didn’t have a double hit, miss many easy putts or do anything spectacularly good or bad. Perry’s steady play at Shoal Creek was enough for his third Champions Tour major in the past year, a one-stroke victory over Mark Calcavecchia on Sunday in the Regions Tradition. Perry closed with an evenpar 72 to finish at 7-under 281, while other contenders had up-and-down days and John Cook lost a share of the lead with a double hit. “I was leaderboard watching and nobody was really running, so I knew par was a good score,” Perry said. “I was just trying to stay away from the bogeys. I bogeyed the first hole right out of the gate and then I birdied the third to get it back and then just kind of hung in there. “I plodded along, hit lots of fairways, lots of greens and just stayed patient.” Perry got his sixth victory and became the second player to win in three consecutive Champions Tour major starts, joining Gary Player, who did it in 1987-88. Perry won the Senior Players Championship and U.S. Se-

nior Open in consecutive tour starts last year, then skipped the Senior British Open. Jack Nicklaus is the only other player to win all three of those events. It was the highest score for a Tradition winner. Perry missed a short putt to make bogey on No. 15 but retook the lead with a 20-footer for birdie on the next hole and lined up an easy par putt with a nice drive on the closing hole. “It told me that I could hit the shots under extreme pressure, and great shots,” he said. “I killed a drive on 18 and I hit the prettiest 9-iron. It came in on the flag and spun to the left when you needed to do it. “A lot of times you think, ’All I’ve got to do is make par to win the tournament’ and you’ll make a five quicker than you can blink an eye.” Calcavecchia finished with a 70. Two-time winner Tom Lehman closed with a 67 to tie Jay Haas at 5 under. Haas closed with a 71. Cook’s closing 72 put him three strokes back. Fred Couples was disqualified Sunday after missing his tee time. He was 9 over after a 73 Saturday, his best round. Couples also withdrew from the Senior PGA next week at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

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Hinchcliffe edged out of Indy pole CANADIAN FINISHED SECOND; CARPENTER WINS POLE FOR SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR INDIANAPOLIS 500 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — Local driver Ed Carpenter has made himself at home on the Indianapolis 500 pole. The last of nine qualifiers to take the track, Carpenter bumped Canada’s James Hinchcliffe from the top spot, posting a four-lap average of 231.067 mph to win the 500 pole for the second straight year. “I felt that it was harder,” Carpenter said. “It was just a different position because when I made my run last year, we didn’t really have anything to lose. This year, being the last guy to go out, I think there was a little bit of pressure to not mess it up.” He didn’t mess it up, not at all. Carpenter’s No. 20 Chevrolet was the car to beat all weekend, and the hometown favourite showed no signs of rust in his first IndyCar Series race of the season. He owns Ed Carpenter Racing and decided in November to run only on ovals, where he excels. He turned his car over to Mike Conway on road and street courses, and skipped the first four races of the season. He knew he had the pole secured when he nailed the final two corners on the last lap. “I could really just kind of enjoy it knowing that we were going to be on the pole for the second year,” he said. Hinchcliffe, from Oakville, Ont., will start second after sustaining a concussion last weekend in the Grand Prix of Indianapolis. Will Power will join them on the front row. Three-time Indy 500 champion Helio Castroneves was fourth followed by Simon Pagenaud and Marco Andretti. Carlos Munoz, Josef Newgarden and J.R. Hildebrand will be on the third row. Carpenter, the stepson of former speedway executive Tony George, was 10th in last year’s Indy 500. He is 11th driver to earn consecutive 500 poles and first since Castroneves in 2009-10. “It’s all about the race,” the 33-yearold Carpenter said. “Hopefully, we can

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James Hinchcliffe drives through the first turn during practice on the first day of qualifications for Indianapolis 500 IndyCar auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Saturday. Hinchliffe finished second in final pole qualifications on Sunday. close the deal this year.” As a single-car team last year, Carpenter was unable to get help on data and much-needed setup information. He didn’t want a repeat this May, so he hired Hildebrand to drive a second car at Indy for Ed Carpenter Racing. Hildebrand nearly won the Indy 500 as a rookie in 2011, but he crashed exiting the final turn and was passed for the win by the late Dan Wheldon. “I wish we could have got him up on the front row with us, but the shootout’s tough,” Carpenter said. “The conditions were hard today, but having him go first today also helped me because we were able to make an adjustment.” Carpenter thrived in the first year of a new Indy 500 qualifying format. He posted the top qualifying speed Saturday when the fastest nine drivers advanced to Sunday’s shootout for the pole.

Juan Pablo Montoya had the fastest four-lap average (231.007 mph) among drivers ineligible to win the Indianapolis 500 pole and will start 10th. “We have a pretty quick car,” Montoya, the 2000 winner, said. “Hopefully, my guys can learn something for the Fast Nine. I think that will put us in a good spot to start the race.” Montoya was followed by reigning series champion Scott Dixon and former NASCAR champion Kurt Busch. Busch is set to race 1,100 miles in the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on May 25. Busch raced in NASCAR’s All-Star race the night before and flew back from Concord, North Carolina, on Sunday morning. Busch was humbled when he said he’d never be able to duplicate a weekend like this one — “except for maybe next week.” Defending 500 champion Tony Kanaan will start 16th.

Hinchcliffe appeared to have no problems in the car days after he was cleared to return for his concussion. He paced as he watched Carpenter make his final run, then his chance at the pole end when Carpenter found more speed on his final lap. He was injured last weekend in Saturday’s Grand Prix when debris from Justin Wilson’s car flew into the cockpit, striking Hinchcliffe in the head. He was taken away from the track on a stretcher, transported to a hospital and diagnosed with a concussion. The 27-year old Canadian was cleared to drive Thursday, and took the wheel back from pinch-driver E.J. Viso. “I had to kind of pretend that I had been here all month and take the feedback my teammates had given me at face value,” Hinchcliffe said. “I knew what to expect from the car and that was a huge part of it.”

NFL owners to vote on 2018 Super Bowl locale today ATLANTA — The Big Easy, Naptown or the Twin Cities. That’s the choice facing NFL owners when they vote Tuesday on the site of the 2018 Super Bowl, choosing among New Orleans, Indianapolis and Minneapolis. Each city has hosted the big game, albeit just once for Indy and Minny. New Orleans has staged 10 Super Bowls, tied with South Florida for the most. Most recently, the 2013 game was delayed 38 minutes by a blackout at the Superdome. Despite that power problem, New Orleans is considered a favourite to be chosen by the 32 owners as the city celebrates its 300th year. A three-quarters majority is required for passage. Saints owner Tom Benson recently had minor knee surgery, but the 86-year-old Benson is expected to attend the meetings. Colts owner Jim Irsay is taking part in league business for the first time since his arrest for having $29,000 in cash and bottles of prescription drugs in his car. Irsay has been undergoing treatment and the owners meetings is Irsay’s first public appearance since the arrest. “It’s just good to be back and good to be able to put an effort into regaining the Super Bowl,” Irsay said. “I really feel we did such an incredible job the first time.” Irsay declined to comment on whether he would address the other owners about his personal situation.

EUROPEAN SOCCER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BARCELONA, Spain — Lionel Messi has signed a restructured contract extension with Barcelona that reportedly makes the Argentina international the world’s highest-paid football player. Barcelona had originally announced the deal on Friday and says it was officially signed on Monday. The Catalan

Only the Vikings will present a brand new stadium in their bid, a $1 billion indoor facility scheduled to open in 2016. “We’re going to celebrate winter. And we should, because we do it well — better than anyone,” said Richard Davis, co-chair of the Minneapolis bid committee. “We’re going to talk to the owners about how it’s about time that the NFL brought America’s game around the country, like a caravan, and started taking it out from the Southern states and bring it around to the rest of the world. We should be the first.” Actually, the game was held in New Jersey this year — the first outdoor Super Bowl in a cold-weather site. Indianapolis was highly praised for its Super Bowl in 2012, when the Giants beat the Patriots. The city has a history of staging big events and will host the Final Four next spring at Lucas Oil Stadium. The NFL always has favoured bringing its title game to New Orleans, and the appeal of warmer weather in Louisiana than in the other bidding cities could be a factor. Next year’s game is in Arizona, and the 50th Super Bowl will be in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 2017 game is set for Houston. Also on the agenda, although no vote is certain, will be expanding the playoffs from 12 teams to 14. That proposal was discussed at the league meetings in Orlando in March. Commissioner Roger Goodell has said it’s still possible such a change could happen this year if it is voted on and passed in Atlanta. More likely, 2015 would be the target date for expanded playoffs. club says Messi “was very motivated by the deal.” The 26-year-old Messi will earn a reported $27 million per season with further incentives able to drive the deal up to $34 million per year until the contract ends in 2017-18 — surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo’s deal with Real Madrid. Messi also has a buy-out clause of $343 million. Messi’s previous contract ran through the 2017-18 season and was worth a reported $22 million per season.

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Firm is prepared to train • a candidate who has experience in some but not all aspects of the position. • Please submit your resume by mail, email or fax to: Gerig Hamilton Neeland LLP ATTN: Ian D. Milne • 501, 4901 - 48 Street Red Deer AB T4N 6M4 FAX 403.343.6522 Email: info@ghnlawyers.ca •

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• A RED DEER BASED Pressure Testing Company req’s. Operators for testing BOP’s throughout AB. Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email mikeoapt@gmail.com Only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Manage the compliance of operations personnel with administrative policies, procedures,safety rules, and governmental and OH&S regulations. Manage and coordinate, through subordinate supervisors, department safety and training activities. Maintain safety and accident records. Prepare WCB annual report for company compliance. Conduct company safety audits and audits that are requested by clients. Manage and maintain the company’s drug and alcohol program in compliance with the provincial laws of Canada. Monitor each site to ensure compliance with company safety policies and procedures and provide solutions. When sites are found to be in violation of safety standards. Design and implement safety and training programs across organization. Manage training operations team in Canada and Canada employees working in international locations. Implement new training material and techniques for tool operators. Provide field trainers with updated material that is presented to all new and existing operators. to ensure knowledge and compliance throughout organization. Develop statistical charts, graphs and other reports as needed or requested. Manage safety incentive award program for Canada and Canada employees working in international locations. Manage company safety information through the use of ISN Net World. Manage the company’s CORE Program.

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University degree or technical diploma in a related field. 3-5 years of experience in a management role within a safety environment. Safety designation preferred. Background in environmental experience/ engineering and field experience is considered an asset. CORE auditing and program management. Class 5 driver’s license Ability to travel including overnight stays

to start immed. Experience in fluid hauling • and oil field fluid products • would be an asset. Good Verbal, Writing, Qualified individuals Texting and Computer skills are a must. should submit their resume to: Terry Kulczycki, Company vehicle is HR Manager negotiable, benefits, terry.kulczycki@ above avg. salary and oilstates.com great atmosphere. Or drop off resume at: Clean Class 1 drivers license #334, Burnt Parkway, Red c/w abstract. Deer, AB T4S 2L4 Completed Basic Training www.stingerinc.com Courses. Fax Resume w/all tickets and Driver’s Abstract to SILVERSTREAM 403-346-3112 PRODUCTION or email to Smaller testing company roger@fluidexperts.com accepting resumes for all positions. Forward resume LOCAL SERVICE CO. to: silverstreamoffice in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. @gmail.com VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence TOO MUCH STUFF? w/air & all oilfield tickets. Let Classifieds Fax resume w/drivers help you sell it. abstract to 403-886-4475

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OIL & GAS OPERATOR Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivated and hard working and live or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commute to workplace location. This position offers a challenging work environment, attractive benefits with competitive pay and significant room for promotion. Please submit resumes Attn: Human Resources email:kwolokoff@ bearspawpet.com Fax 403-252-9719 Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

SERVICE RIG Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS & DERRICK HANDS Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for. Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: hr@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much! Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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BROUWER 1931 - 2014 Dirkje (Dorothy) Brouwer passed into the presence of her Lord on May 14, 2014 at the age of 82. Dorothy is survived by her husband of 60 years, Clarence, and fondly remembered by her children Margaret (Andy) Kilkus, Aileen (Gerry) Koster, Sid (Patricia), Edward (Glenda), Raymond; eighteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. She was predeceased by her son Peter (Zoanne). A Celebration of Dorothy’s life will be held at the First Christian Reformed Church, 14 - McVicar St., Red Deer, AB on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers memorial gifts can be made to the Klaas (Clarence) Brouwer Trades Award, Red Deer College, 100 College Boulevard, P.O. Box 5005, Red Deer AB T4N 5H5. Condolences to Dorothy’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

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RAMADA INN & SUITES req`s Permanent The Ensuite Showroom, ROOM ATTENDANTS a division of Attendants. Exp. not nec. Emco Corporation will train. Approx. 35 - 40 is looking for a dynamic and hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 energetic individual to join $14/hr. Duties incl’d but not limited to: vacuuming, our team in the position of: dusting, washing floors, SHOWROOM making beds, empty trash, CONSULTANT disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance The Ensuite is a luxury based bonus program. plumbing showroom that Must be fluent with verbal requires a high level of l& written English, be professionalism, expertise physically fit. Applicants & customer service while may apply in person at assisting our clients with 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer their plumbing needs. T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 Duties include the preparation or email: of quotations, order entry info@ramadareddeer.com and expediting, assisting with product selection.

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GRILLER’S Steak House in Rocky Mtn. House is looking for Cook’s. Wage $15-$20./hr. dependant on exp. Submit resume to: grillersbanquets@ gmail.com or fax to 403-845-7469 Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

We believe that to be a success in this critical role you must possess a high school diploma combined with an outgoing personality, great organizational skills and high customer service standards.

In return for your valued efforts, we will offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits. Please forward a copy of your current resume in confidence to: Debbie Rausch Emco Corporation Red Deer, Alberta Is looking for F/T Email: SALESPERSON. Mon. - Fri. drausch@emcoltd.com 8-5. Job requirements will For more information on Emco, be: quoting jobs, dealing please visit our website at with walk in clients, phone www.emcoltd.com sales, scheduling and CELEBRATIONS customer service. Very HAPPEN EVERY DAY competitive wages and IN CLASSIFIEDS benefit package. Fax resumes to: 403-343-1325

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T - P/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty cert. req’d. Location Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@ gmail.com

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr The Tap House Pub & Grill + bonus & commission. req’s full and part time F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d. cooks. Apply with resume Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. at 1927 Gaetz Avenue Red Deer. email resume to between 2-5 pm. premierjobrd@gmail.com

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2 EXP. ROOFERS. Must have drivers licence. 403-341-9208 or 403-346-2822 after hours. BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Heavy Equipment Operators & Skid Steer Operators Send resumes to: office@bricar.ca or fax 403-347-6296 BUSY Heavy Duty suspension & alignment shop looking for Journeyman or 3rd to 4th year apprentice Heavy Duty or Automotive Technician. Great hours: M-F 8 to 5 Full benefit package! Competitive wages! Submit your resume to dmalign@telus.net

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Adanac Insurance Services Ltd.

Journeyman & apprentices We offer competitive wages. Full benefits after 90 days. Must have valid drivers licence. Email resume to: d.generationglass @platinum.ca or Fax: 403-886-5224 or Call 403-886-5221

SEEKS CONCRETE FINISHERS For residential & commercial work in the Red Deer area. -Excellent rate of pay -Benefit packages Send Resume to: apply@pmcl1964.ca or Fax Resume to 403-342-1549

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CSR Must be licensed Salary is commensurate with experience.

Fax: 403-341-4270

GREAT OPPORTUNITY Afternoon Shifts for CNC Lead Hand / Supervisor and Operators Nexus Engineering is currently looking for Afternoon shift Lead hand/supervisor and operators. Duties include, ensuring production flow on Mazak C.N.C lathe and mills, trouble shooting, min 1 years experience as a lead hand/supervisor in a machine shop. We offer competitive wages, company paid benefits and a RRSP matching plan. Please forward resumes to: resume @nexusengineering.ca

JOURNEYMAN or 4th Yr. Apprentice Plumber/Gas Fitter req’d for small shop in Westaskiwin area. Competitive wages & health plan. Submit resumes to: wph@xplornet.ca or fax to: 780-312-2889 or call 780-387-6087

Commercial/Residential Brush/Roll Application. Exp. req’d. Vehicle req’d. Contact Drew at CCL 403-596-1829

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

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters & 2nd to 4th Yr. Apprentices Competitive Wages & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop. MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

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CLEANERS F/T Comm/ Res, physically fit, $14/hr. Reply to: Ascent Cleaning Services RR4, Box 4, Site 3 Lacombe, AB T4L 2N4 CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

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

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment. Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer. Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

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PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week. Delivery by 6:30 a.m. Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

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MORRISROE AREA McLean St. SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave. also Sunnyside Cres. & Sutton Close also Savoy Cres. & Sydney Close also Sherwood Cres. & Stirling Close

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 3 days per week

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mortgagestogo.ca requires two people to contact our client list regarding renewals. You should be well spoken, strong voice, confident, and, of course, know how to use a computer. This is a full-time job however we’re okay with students available to work full-time until the fall. We pay $15.00 an hour along with a small bonus component. We’re right in front of the Superstore. Please forward resume to info@mortgagestogo.ca. No phone calls please. Only those invited in for an interview will be contacted. SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift. 11 pm -7 am. Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

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STERITECH a leading commercial pest prevention company in North America, is seeking a Pest Rote Professional to provide pest prevention services to commercial clients on the assigned route in Red Deer. Base pay + bonus potential, benefits, profit sharing, & company vehicle. Apply @ www.steritech.com/careers

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P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSOCIATE for 16 hrs. per week. For job descriptions and how to apply, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs No phone calls please 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. THE RED DEER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT Invites applications for the position of: HEAD CARETAKER at Mattie McCullough School. Start Date: To be determined Regular Work Days: Monday - Friday Regular Work Hours: 7:00 a.m.- 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 -9:30 p.m. Team Cleaning Concept Required knowledge, education, abilities and skills are as per the Job Description (available from Human Resources). Pay rate is per the current collective agreement with C.U.P.E. Local 1012. For more information about the Red Deer Public School District, visit our web site at: www.rdpsd.ab.ca Deadline for applications will be Noon on May 29, 2014. Application forms may be forwarded to 4747-53 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 2E6. Fax: 403-342-3780 or email: humanresources @rdpsd.ab.ca A current criminal record check and child intervention check will be required of new employees.

Jenner Cres. & Judd Close. Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

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The successful candidate will have experience in earthworks, municipal infrastructure, highway or underground utilities construction. Must be able to work in a fast paced environment, be proficient in Microsoft programs, written correspondence and plan reading. CET Accreditation is an asset.

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CLEARVIEW AREA East end of Cosgrove Cres. $73/mo. ALSO Castle Cr. & Clark Cres. $72/mo. EASTVIEW Eline St. and 3 Blocks of Ellenwood Dr. $69/mo. ALSO Eversole Cres. and England Cres. $67/mo. MOUNTVIEW AREA Spruce Drive $62/mo. ALSO 43 Ave to 46 Ave, between 35 St. & 37 St. $82/mo. ALSO Springbett Drive & 44 Ave., 37 St. area $51/mo. ALSO 42 Ave area between 35 & 39 St. $62/mo. ALSO 43 Ave & 43 A Ave between 37 & 39 St. & one block of 43 Ave, and one block of 35 ST. $101/mo. ALSO 41 Ave between 36 & 38 St. $68/mo. Call Jamie 403-314-4306

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Civil war death toll exceeds 160,000 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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BEIRUT — The death toll in Syria’s three-year conflict has climbed past 160,000, an activist group said Monday, a harrowing figure that reflects the relentless bloodletting in a civil war that appears no closer to being resolved. The grim tally, however, only presents one facet of the tremendous suffering that Syrians have endured since the revolt against President Bashar Assad erupted in March 2011. The crisis has also uprooted some 6.5 million people from their homes, forced 2.7 million to flee the country, laid waste to cities and towns alike, and unleashed sectarian hatreds that have rippled across the region. The government has presented Syria’s June 3 presidential election, which Assad is widely expected to win, as a means to end the conflict. The Syrian opposition and its Western allies have denounced the vote as a farce aimed solely at lending Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy. It also remains unclear how the government can hold a credible vote when the nation is engulfed in fighting and a significant chunk of the country is in opposition hands. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday it has documented 162,402 deaths in the conflict, including civilians, rebels and members of the Syrian military. That figure also contains militiamen, such as members the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group who have been fighting alongside Assad’s forces, as well as foreign fighters among the opposition forces. The Observatory remains the sole organization providing a reliable tally of Syria’s war dead. The United Nations has stopped updating its own tally of the Syrian dead, saying it can no longer verify the sources of information. The world body’s last count in late July was 100,000 killed. The Observatory bases its figures on

da-linked group and other hard-line Islamic groups. There are also 2,891 unidentified bodies in the conflict, and 2,314 identified bodies of Syrian army troops who have crossed over to the opposition side to fight the government. The Observatory considers its tally a rough estimate and said the overall figure of those killed was higher than the sum of subcategories. On the opposition side, Islamic extremists, including foreign fighters and Syrian rebels who have taken up hardline al-Qaida-style ideologies, have played an increasingly prominent role in the armed opposition, dampening the West’s support for the rebellion. Syria’s uprising began with largely peaceful protests against Assad’s rule before slowly turning into a civil war. The conflict has taken on sectarian overtones, with predominantly Sunni Muslim rebels battling an Assad government that is dominated by Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Bickering among the opposition’s exiled politicians who make up the Western-Backed Syrian National Coalition has hampered efforts to create a credible alternative to Assad. On Monday, a spokeswoman for the opposition’s Turkey-based interim government said its defence minister, Asaad Mustafa, had submitted his resignation. The spokeswoman, Sarah Karkour, did not say why Mustafa was stepping down. An opposition official told The Associated Press by telephone that Mustafa had differences and disagreements with others in the government, including interim Prime Minister Ahmad Toumeh. Mustafa’s resignation only goes into effect with the approval of the coalition’s president, Ahmad al-Jarba, the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media on the issue.

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A Syrian young inspects the rubble of houses that were destroyed by airstrikes from the Syrian government forces in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday. Syrian rebels captured a village in northwestern Syria on Sunday, killing more than a dozen government troops in heavy clashes and prompting the military to carry out airstrikes to try to dislodge the fighters, activists said.

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Putin orders troops back to base BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

UKRAINE

MOSCOW — In what could be an attempt to ease tensions with the West and avoid more sanctions, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops deployed near Ukraine to return to their home bases Monday. Putin also praised the launch of a dialogue between Ukraine’s government and its opponents even as fighting continued in parts of the country ahead of Sunday’s presidential election. The seemingly conciliatory approach suggested that Putin may believe he has achieved his key goal of maintaining Russian influence over eastern Ukraine without having to send in troops. Russia still wants guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO and will conduct constitutional reforms to give broader powers to its regions, something that would allow Moscow to maintain its clout in the Russianspeaking east that forms the industrial heartland. The continued unrest in

the east is serving Putin by making it difficult for the government in Kyiv to consolidate its control in the region. Putin specifically ordered Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to pull back the forces involved in the “planned spring drills” in the Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions to their home bases, the Kremlin said. The order appears to go further than a similar statement by the Russian leader two weeks ago that troops were being pulled back from the border to shooting ranges. The three regions border Ukraine, and the withdrawal of troops deployed there would signal a genuine attempt by Moscow to de-escalate the worst crisis in its relations with the West since the Cold War. It also would be easily verifiable by Western intelligence. The Kremlin statement didn’t say how many troops would be pulled out or specify how quick the withdrawal would be. NATO has estimated that Russia has 40,000 troops arrayed along

the border with Ukraine. The U.S. and NATO said they saw no sign of a pullout after Putin’s earlier claim of a withdrawal. On Monday, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen reiterated that the military alliance has “not seen any evidence at all that the Russians have started withdrawal of troops from the Ukrainian border.” He said that NATO remains open to a political dialogue with Moscow and has proposed holding a meeting at the NATO-Russia Council next week. In Washington, spokesmen for the White House and the Pentagon said U.S. officials have not yet seen any sign of a Russian troop pullback. Press secretary Jay Carney said if Russia had pulled its troops back, the U.S. would know and would be able to confirm it publicly. Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent Moscow-based military analyst, said a pullout would be a sign that Putin has decided not to send troops to Ukraine, at least for now. “They think that the Ukrainian government won’t be able to consolidate

despite the presidential election, and the economic, political and social crisis will escalate,” Felgenhauer said on Dozhd TV. “They see no need to take the risky move of invasion, which would trigger serious sanctions.” The U.S. and the European Union have imposed travel bans and asset freezes on members of Putin’s inner circle over Russia’s annexation of Crimea. They have threatened to target entire sectors of the Russian economy with sanctions if Russia tries to derail Ukraine’s election. Ukraine is to vote on a successor to Kremlin-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in February following months of protests in Kyiv. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said it was checking the information about the troop withdrawal and urged Moscow also to cancel an air force exercise, set to take place in southwestern Russia from Wednesday to Sunday. It said the exercise — which would involve more than 70 combat aircraft, including Tu-22M long-range bombers — would fuel tensions during the vote.

Revolt threatens peace in Libya BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Heavy machinery is used to clean streets in the village of Topcic Polje, that was damaged in a landslide, near the Bosnian town of Zenica, 90 kilometers north of Sarajevo, on Monday. At least 35 people have died in Serbia and Bosnia in the five days of flooding caused by unprecedented torrential rain, laying waste to entire towns and villages and sending tens of thousands of people out of their homes, authorities said.

Rainfall floods large areas of Bosnia, Serbia BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OBRENOVAC, Serbia — Serbia ordered the evacuation Monday of this town and 11 others along the raging Sava River, but Bratislava Pavlovic won’t budge, even as water rising six feet in an hour lapped outside her third-floor apartment. “I grew up in this town,” the 58-yearold postal worker said. “I was born and raised here.” The worst rainfall in more than a century has flooded large swathes of Bosnia and Serbia, threatening Serbia’s main power plant and unleashing landslides that have swept away homes and unearthed land mines left over from the region’s war, along with warning signs pinpointing their locations. At least 35 people have died and tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes. In Obrenovac, shop windows were shattered and children’s bicycles, bedding, chairs and car tires were scattered in the streets. Dogs abandoned by their owners roamed about in packs as security forces distributed drinking water and food to the few remaining residents. “It came like a big wave,” Pavlovic said of the churning floodwaters that inundated the town of 15,000 some 20

miles south of the capital, Belgrade, when the Sava overflowed its banks. “It happened in one hour, two meters of water. Nobody saw it coming,” said Pavlovic, whose two sons and their families were among those who fled. Another surge of floodwaters on Monday prompted the evacuation order for a dozen communities, including Obrenovac, where soldiers, police and volunteers worked around the clock to protect the coal-fired Nikola Tesla power plant, which supplies electricity for half of Serbia and most of Belgrade. Emergency crews have so far defended the plant by building high walls of sandbags, but some of the barriers were destroyed when a powerful 9-foot-high surge of floodwater burst through them Monday. Hundreds of people were evacuated by helicopters and buses, joining some 7,800 residents already forced from their homes since Friday. Hundreds more were believed trapped in the higher floors of buildings, without power or phone lines. The death toll is expected to rise as floodwaters recede after the worst rainfall since records began to be kept 120 years ago. In Bosnia, Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija called the flood damage “immense” and even compared it to the carnage during the country’s

Woman makes ‘heroic’ effort to get help after bear attack BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — A woman attacked by a brown bear on an Alaska military base struggled to walk 2 miles (3 kilometres) on a windy, uphill path to get help, officials said Monday. The woman’s efforts to get aid after an approximately 8-foot (2.5-meter) bear swiped at her were nothing short of heroic, Mark Sledge, base conservation law enforcement officer, said at a news conference. The woman, who has asked that her identity not be released, suffered lacerations to her neck, arms and legs and

was hospitalized in stable condition at the Alaska Native Medical Center, Maj. Angela Webb told The Associated Press. Sledge said the woman is lucky to be alive and adds that her will to survive is “just amazing.” The woman and her soldier husband were jogging late Sunday morning on the northern part of the base when they became separated. The woman happened upon the bear, which had two cubs with her. The bear swiped at her once. A passer-by picked up the woman and took her to the base hospital. She was later transferred to the Anchorage facility.

1992-95 war that killed at least 100,000 people and left millions homeless. He said the flooding had destroyed about 100,000 houses and 230 schools and hospitals and left a million people without drinking water. “The only difference from the war is that less people have died,” he said. “The country is devastated. ... This is something that no war in the history of this country” ever accomplished. In Orasje, a Bosnian border town, frantic efforts were being made to prevent the Sava from rushing through broken barriers. Ideas included dropping old trucks from helicopters or covering gaps with wire frames and then reinforcing with sandbags. The emergency commander in the town, Fahrudin Solak, said the decaying corpses of drowned farm animals littered the area. “We are sending out mobile incinerators and we have asked for international assistance, to send us more incinerators,” he said. The floods have triggered more than 2,000 landslides in Bosnia. Aside from sweeping away homes and barns, the walls of mud and earth have carried some of the estimated 100,000 land mines left over from the region’s war, along with their warning signs, to entirely new, often unknown, locations. “Landslides and land mines devastated very fertile land,” Lagumdzija said.

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TRIPOLI, Libya — A revolt by a renegade general against Islamists who dominate Libya’s politics threatened to spiral into an outright battle for power that could fragment the North African nation as the country’s numerous armed militias on Monday started to line up behind the rival camps. Gen. Khalifa Hifter, who lived for years in exile in the United States during the rule of autocrat Moammar Gadhafi, touts himself as a nationalist who is waging a war against terrorism to save Libya from Islamic extremists. His loyalists and allies in the past days attacked Islamist militias in the eastern city of Benghazi and on Sunday stormed the Islamist-led parliament in Tripoli. Hifter’s opponents accuse him of seeking to grab power, acting on behalf of former regime figures in exile by orchestrating an Egyptian-style military overthrow of Islamists that would wreck already struggling attempts at democracy. Since Gadhafi’s ouster and death in a 2011 civil war, Libya has been in chaos. The central government has almost no authority. The military and police, shattered during the civil war, have never recovered and remain in disarray. Filling the void are hundreds of militias around the country. Many of them are locally based, rooted in specific cities or neighbourhoods. Others are based on ethnic allegiances. Others have embraced al-Qaida-inspired extremism. The country has held several elections, including ones that created a new parliament. But administrations have been paralyzed by the competition between Islamist parties and their rivals, each of which are backed by militias. Islamist lawmakers who dominate parliament removed the Western-backed prime minister earlier this year and named an Islamist-leaning figure Ahmed Maiteg to replace him in a vote their opponents say was illegal. In response to the parliament attack, the Islamist-leaning head of the legislature, Nouri Abu Sahmein, ordered militias backing his camp to deploy in Tripoli on Monday to resist what he called “the attempt to wreck the path of democracy and take power.” The pro-parliament militias are largely from Libya’s third largest city of Misrata, one of Islamists’ biggest constituencies.

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Keep your life in balance BY MURRAY FUHRER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.� — Anonymous “Can you read that?� I asked. “Because I sure can’t.� The doctor looked up from the prescription he’d been scribbling. “No, but I’m hoping the pharmacist can figure out what it says.� I started laughing and then I started coughing. “This should help with that cough,� he said, handing me the slip. “So you’re telling me I’m going to live,� I said, catching my breath. The doctor was busily scribbling additional notes on his clipboard. “You’ll live,� he said without looking up, “but you’re going to have to slow down.� “Slow down?� I replied. It wasn’t the first time I’d been told to take it easy. “You have a mild case of pneumonia,� he explained. “If you don’t slow down, it could become a severe case. I’m recommending you take the next week off from work. I want you to rest, drink plenty of fluids, take your medication faithfully and, most importantly, find some balance.� I nodded sheepishly and tried in vain to quell the cough. Here I was busy teaching and coaching self-esteem and empowerment concepts, writing about it each week in my col-

umn and all along neglecting one of the principal components of empowered living: balance. It seems human nature for just about everyone to take on too many tasks and responsibilities, to try to get too much done with too little time or rest, and I was no exception. Self-esteem is an all-encompassing process: mind, body and spirit. To be completely whole and in balance, all aspects of your “self� must be cared for, cherished and respected. Balance is a personal concept and different for each person. To me, balance means there is harmony – a wholeness of being – and nothing unduly emphasized at the expense of the rest. If asked, most of us would probably consider ourselves skilled multitakers, attempting to balance a limited amount of time amongst work, relationships, exercise, family, fun, self-care and daily activities. Unfortunately, many of us have become chronic multitaskers. Yes, we get a lot done but at a price. Everything in life has become a task and falls onto the same list as everything else. Tasks that become urgent (but not necessarily important) get done first. One of main indicators of being out of balance is neglect. Neglecting our family or our health are two common expressions of imbalance. Chronic multi-tasking is like a drug. We can become so addicted to the urgent that we simply have no time for the important. We may delude ourselves into thinking that we’ll make time later but later usually finds us feeling exhausted. If I asked you to

describe the most important aspects of a happy and enjoyable life you would likely tell me family and health. But what gets neglected first? Family and health both require time and a long-term investment. If you only invest in your relationship when things becomes urgent – when things begin to fall apart from the strain – you’re not really taking care of it. If you only make time for your children on special occasions or when pressured by your partner to do so, you’re not really there for them. If you only take care of your health when illness prompts a visit to the doctor’s office, you’re not really setting the stage for a long, healthy and vibrant life. I know many people who shifted gears and sought balance only when a crisis left no other option. I’ve known people who never got the chance because life ended when crisis struck. So how do we say no and to what? First, we need to decide what is important to us. What’s our mission in this life experience? Once you decide, then you can look at what you’re doing and see if your behaviours are in harmony with what you deem important. It takes courage and self-awareness to stop what you’re doing and say no. To seek a better way. And sometimes, like a thundering freight train, it may take time for everything to eventually come to a halt. Take charge and prioritize. Sometimes it’s easier for us to feel overwhelmed rather than taking charge and developing a prioritized list of things that need to get done. To get started, literally sit down with pa-

per and pen and figure out how many hours per day or week you spend in each area of your life. A great tool to use is the pie chart. Mark each slice of the pie with activities that fill your day. It may surprise you just how much time you’re investing and just where you’re investing it. Once you recognize an imbalance, start making plans to change it. Beginning today, find ways to simplify your life. Learn to say no gracefully to unreasonable requests for your time. Get rid of the clutter and baggage in your house and in your life. You need to find the right balance that works for you. Celebrate your successes and don’t dwell on your failures. Life is a process and so is striving for balance in your life. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity,� wrote Thomas Merton, American Catholic writer and mystic, “but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.� There are no quick-fixes to achieving balance. It will take work and dedication. To help with this shift, I urge you to consider the things that mean the most to you and allow them to form your foundation. Once you’ve laid the foundation, then make a commitment to consistently re-evaluate your current priorities based on your current circumstances. When you find balance, you’ll find happiness, and when you are happy, most everything else will eventually fall into place. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

An open letter to the ones I’ll love forever BY LINDSAY BROWN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE To my dearest children, I woke up this morning with a badmood monkey clinging to my back. I don’t know what brought it on, or where it came from, but it was there; strong and strident. It was one of those mornings when you tested me at any chance you could get. You screamed at the top of your lungs in the wee hours of morning- a time when there should be no voices at all. One of those mornings when, the night before I had thought the kitchen was left clean, but once rising I found dirt and grime in every corner I glanced towards. It was one of those mornings when failure seemed to encompass every morsel of sanity I had left. There has been many a time when this word “failure� has surfaced in my mind, and I wonder if it is truly possible to fail as a mother. Like there is some imaginary scorekeeper, tracking the amount of times I yell or scream or cry out at you, and tallying up the

effects it has in these ill-at-ease moments. But as I write this, and my mind wonders the long and lengthy road of parenthood, I feel a duality pulling me. Oh how I wish, I could be that model mother for you. The one whom has the good wits about her to coolly place you in a time-out and say the words she needs to say, in a calm yet stern-filled voice. The one who doesn’t feel the vexing burn of annoyance when she hears the words ‘Mama, I’m hungry’ every five seconds, because you refuse to eat a sustainable amount of food at one time. The mother who can find the time to clean the house spotless, care for the babes, do the extra-curricular, and stumble upon time for herself as well. Oh how I wish I could be her. Alas, I am not that woman. I get mad. I cry in public because I am frustrated. I am the woman who bribes you openly. Filling your minds with thoughts of grandeur in chocolate bars, just to get you out of the shop without an outburst guiding our way. I say words to you like, “YOU CAN WAIT!� When you ask for a treat. And “I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU TWO!� When your outlandish antics get to be too much. I

am the woman who knows these things are the ‘wrong’ things to do, according to the books and the experts; however, I am still the woman who does them. But I am also the woman who loves you without end. I am the woman that would give her life for you, without a moment’s thought. The one person in this world to have felt your stirrings of life within her. I am the one who will remember this feeling until the end of her days. So this morning, as I write you this open letter, I want to tell you that I love you. Despite our times of struggle and angst, I love you. I will love you forever. I will still love you when I yell. I will love you when I am on the verge of tears and tired from the day. I will love you when I am dragging my sleepy body to the coffee pot in the wee hours of the morning. I will love you when you poop your pants, and when you spill (pour) your juice all over the keyboard. When you tell me you hate me; I will love you. I will love your smile, your laugh, your ability to allow me to do both of these things in the toughest of times. I will always love your knack to learn, and

advance, you have already came so far so quickly. I will love you when you are teenagers, and oh so embarrassed of these words. I will say it anyways, partly to mortify you, but mostly to enforce the fact. As each day passes I feel like I know you a little better, and this only makes me love you more. I cannot promise you that there will be no more, ‘bad mood monkeys’, I think we both know that would be a lie. But what I can promise is this; that no matter what kind of a frame of mind I reside in, you can be assured that I will love you. And as I read you this letter, I realize most of it flies high over your head, but there is one part that sticks out to you. You cling around my neck and accompanied with sloppy kisses, you tell me that you love me too. My dearest children, this morning I woke up and thought I had failed you in some small way. But today, you have shown me that you know, I mean really know, about the love I have for you. And that is the best kind of success I could have ever asked for. Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

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