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The story of Michael Lomenda’s adventures in Hollywood about his filming adventures — including what it was like working with Eastwood and actor Christopher Walken.

The actor also shared his feelings about his formative Stettler years and crossing paths with supermodel and actress Tricia Helfer as a teenager.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Not every Central Alberta kid who dreams of hitting the big-time makes it to Hollywood — Michael Lomenda is the exception.

Lomenda actually aimed to be an architect while growing up in his native Stettler. But after being diverted into the magical world of musical theatre by an enthusiastic high school drama teacher, Lomenda ended up taking a different path to success — first by scoring a major part in the Jersey Boys stage musical in Toronto, and then by catching the eye of director Clint Eastwood.

Eastwood cast Lomenda in the pivotal role of Nick Massi (the same part he played on stage) in the movie version of the Jersey Boys. The film recounts the rise of 1960s singing sensations Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and is expected to hit theatres on June 20.

Lomenda attended Red Deer

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TOP: Michael Lomenda, left, as Nick Massi in the stage version of ‘Jersey Boys.’

ABOVE: The cast of Clint Eastwood’s new film ‘Jersey Boys,’ from left, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza, John Lloyd Young and Erich Bergen pose together at cocktail reception at the Angelo Galasso Boutique in The Plaza on Monday, June 9, 2014, in New York.

College Theatre Studies for a year before enrolling in the musical theatre program at Ontario’s

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Advocate reporter Lana Michelin was able to ask Lomenda

You recently finished the Jersey Boys Movie, which is slated for a June 20 release. How was the experience of transforming the popular stage musical about Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons into a film?

(Is this your first one?)

Lomenda — It is my first movie and really my first film experience besides a couple commercials! And, even without precedent, I know this will remain as “The Highlight” of my career.

Working with this cast and crew with the incredibly generous Mr. Eastwood at the helm has been nothing short of a dream come true.

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LOMENDA: Re-invented role for movie I’ve performed this show on stage pretty much the same way over 1,200 times, and working on the movie was like heading back to the sandbox to completely re-invent, explore, improvise and flesh out an already incredible show for a film audience.

That’s one of the coolest parts of it all: watching all the detail from sets and locations, to props and costumes, to the subtleties of relationships, all being added back in and magnified under the film lens.

The stage version moves so quickly that, naturally by circumstance, large set pieces and incredibly detailed set dressing and hundreds of cast members aren’t feasible; only the necessary elements can remain. Film audiences demand that kind of detail, so watching the brilliant Eastwood team masterfully introduce all those details back in was mind-blowing.

And it’s sort of like reading a book before you see the movie of it. You have a clear idea of what you think Hagrid’s house looks like, or Gandalf’s cloak, or how Andy Dufresne’s voice sounds etc., and every day I showed up to set there were these great exciting moments all day of “AH! cool!! That’s what Nicky’s car looks like” and “Wild! That’s how they imagined Gyp’s house!”

It was like Christmas every day. I was constantly amazed.

After playing Nick Massi in the Toronto stage version of Jersey Boys, you were selected to play the same character in the movie version, even though a lot of others had played the role on different stages across North America and London — including Broadway. Did you get any idea of what factored into this choice?

Lomenda — I can only truly speak of my own experience being cast, which was really quite short and even to someone like myself with little film experience, seemed quicker than I imagined.

I guess it all started the day Mr. E showed up at our San Francisco matinee performance. We were in San Fran as the final stop for the First national tour of Jersey Boys and I think we were in our final weeks.

I was getting ready for the show and hear some buzz that Mr. Eastwood was in the audience. I didn’t believe it, probably more out of self-preservation since I’m the type of nervous actor who would rather not know if Frankie Valli or Bob Gaudio, or CLINT EASTWOOD is in the audience. So I went ahead with my show as usual and it wasn’t until my long second-act break that someone texted me a picture of our swing Mauricio with Mr. E in the lobby that it became real.

But I figured, he was just swinging through town to catch the show one last time before he started shooting the movie.

Honestly, the movie was not on my radar because I had zero film experience — it seemed too good to be true to even hope to score an audition. So when we met Mr. Eastwood after the show and I shook his hand, I certainly didn’t expect to get a call to come down to New York to audition a few weeks later.

Which, of course, I gladly did, and bought an NYCbound early morning ticket arriving in the midst of a Manhattan torrential downpour. I left plenty of time for my audition, was in a suit, hair parted on the side, umbrella in hand. Yet, by the time I reached my audition, I was soaked from the thighs down, hair plastered to my forehead, umbrella busted and tossed, over a half-hour late, and had spent over a 100 bucks and close to an hour in a cab in gridlocked traffic.

These are not ideal situations when heading to audition for Mr. Clint Eastwood. I got there, hit the bathroom, re-parted my hair with my fingers, looked myself square in the mirror and said to myself, “You’re late. Suck it up. You know this,” and went in.

I actually stopped halfway through the first scene I was reading and asked to start again saying out loud to myself, “Just breathe, Lomenda” or something like that.

I think I’d be mortified to see my audition tape for this film. Auditioning is not my strong suit — I like the work part better!

In the end, I suspect, it was more that matinee performance Mr. E saw that scored me the part, and, most likely the film audition in NYC on that rainy day was more to see if I’d break the camera lens.

I also fully believe so much in luck. Being in the right place at the right time. Hard work, yes. Skill, yes.

But so much is timing. And a small amount of fate, maybe, when it comes to this role; my character and I share the same birthday — Sept. 19 — and that always weirds me out in a fantastic way when I think of all the amazing life-changing stuff that has come my

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ABOVE: Michael Lomenda stars as Nick Massi in Clint Eastwood’s film version of ‘Jersey Boys.’

BELOW: The stars of ‘Jersey Boys’ (from left, Erich Bergen, John Lloyd Young, Vincent Piazza, and Michael Lomenda) were photographed in Los Angeles on May 10, 2014.

way playing the understated Nick Massi.

What was it like being directed by Clint Eastwood and acting with Christopher Walken, who plays mobster Gyp DeCarlo?

Lomenda — It’s really hard to describe Mr. Eastwood without sounding like you’re describing some ultimate superhero. I feel honoured just to have seen him work. He is masterful, generous, patient, hilarious, respectful and well respected.

There is this poem called If by Rudyard Kipling that I love — it’s almost a list of how to “be” — and I often find myself referring to it and striving to live by its words. Mr. E personifies that poem. So it’s been a real unique honour to get to know the man who personifies those words.

Mr. Walken was such a fantastic surprise to me when I heard he was in the movie as Gyp. He’s so perfect for it and was really great to work with — quirky and hilarious, spontaneous and really open to just have fun and trying things. On my birthday (and Massi’s birthday), we filmed at a location in a place called La Canada (no joke). We were filming my most involved scene in the play where I finally get my say and it was an intense day that included a one-on-one short scene with Mr. Walken and I. After the long day of shooting, Vinnie had got me a cake and everyone sang and ate, including Mr. E. It’s gonna be difficult to top that birthday.

Does the on-set experience make you want to tackle more film roles?

Lomenda — Absolutely. It completely turned me on my head in the best way, this experience. I looked at acting and performing through filmic eyes and had first-hand experience with the crazy draw that makes stage actors want to take the plunge into the film world.

I’m 100 per cent fully hooked. It’s certainly very different and a great challenge, and the prospect of diving in and learning more really excites me.

How often do you get back to Stettler, where you grew up? Do you still have friends and family there?

Lomenda — I unfortunately don’t get back as much as I’d like. Most of my high school friends have left,

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Having started out with plans of becoming an architect and ending up on stage, what are some of the things you learned during your Central Alberta upbringing that helped shape your later successes in life?

Lomenda — I think a lot of where I am today has to do with hard work — Albertans are hard-working folks. And there is this interesting paradox when you grow up in a small town in the flat prairies — poetically speaking, the massive open sky simultaneously makes you feel both tiny and strong as an ant. When you are surrounded by openness so grand and beautiful as a prairie sky, it’s at once paralyzing and galvanizing.

And I think the community in a small town (is) an incredible force. You develop a strong sense of self and your family extends so much further than just the walls of your house.

There are so many of us Stettlerite kids working hard at making a mark — I have the most ridiculous picture of me at my dorkiest accepting an award from Tricia Helfer, supermodel turned successful actress making waves, and she’s from Stettler County … I recently walked by a gigantic billboard in Toronto’s Eaton Centre with Michelle Miazga (we were social conveners together in Grade 7) advertising her amazing new design business, Port + Quarter. … I’m in humbling company as a Stettlerite working hard to carve their mark. Good family, good community, respect for your elders, and a sense of adventure and opportunity. Stettler rocks. lmichelin@redderadvocate.com

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and we were the only Lomendas in town as all our extended family is mostly settled around Calgary.

People like Eric Rahn and Mrs. Fix at the high school have really left a lasting formative impression on me — and Blaine Paulson, who is a great family friend (and) who was instrumental in getting me into music — I miss these folks.

And, as I’m delving into writing, some of the recurring advice I come across for new authors is “write what you know.” I “know” Stettler and feel like its really shaped who I am as an adult and as an artist. I’m proud of that and look forward to bringing that it into my writing.

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Nova Chemicals can go ahead with a 46-metre communication tower on its Joffre site after a Lacombe County landowner’s appeal was rejected.

Sherry and Douglas Brock, who raise cattle and farm nearby, launched an appeal against the tower, arguing it will reduce their property value and could pose a health risk.

The county’s subdivision and development appeal board rejected their appeal, saying the tower’s radio frequency levels are well within Health Canada’s acceptable standards.

The board was also not convinced that the tower would devalue the Brocks’ property, noting the Brocks “did not provide any evidence to support their claim.�

Sherry said they are not happy with the decision but there’s little they can do.

She believes the onus is unfairly put on landowners to prove that a proposed development will affect them. “It’s kind of difficult because when you go to the appeal board you’re expected to put all the expense out in order to prove that they’re going to harm you.�

She and her husband, a cancer survivor whose family has farmed the land for a century, don’t have the resources to hire consultants to prove how the tower will affect their property value or pose a potential health risk. “It’ll be a big tower. I will be able to see out of my kitchen window. People pay big prices for views and it is a nice view.�

While Nova provided health and safety information in response to her requests, she felt someone from the company should have visited to explain further.

In April, Lacombe County’s municipal planning commission approved the company’s request for the tower near a pump house about two km west of the complex.

The towers — which will bring the number of towers serving the site to three — are required to improve hand-held radio communications and safety.

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The most serious of those charges stem from a May 7, 2009, incident where Lagace tried to run down RCMP officers in a stolen vehicle. The two Mounties fired at the stolen vehicle, damaging it.

He pleaded guilty on Aug. 29, 2009, and was sentenced to five years in jail on Oct. 17 of that year.

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The tower is a low-power private communication system and not a Wi-Fi or cellphone tower.

At some locations, workers are out of contact with the plant, which raises operating and safety issues, particularly when it comes to emergency response.

Another similar tower will be built at the northeast corner of the site.

Van Hemmen said he was disappointed the Brocks felt their concerns had not been addressed at the May 27 appeal hearing but felt Nova had done reasonable consultation with the community.

The communication towers are considered a very low-impact addition that fall well within health and safety guidelines. In fact, a similar tower has been in place the plant’s main entrance for years with no issue. “It’s not something that from our past history has posed any health or safety concerns for us,� he said.

The Brocks were invited to visit the plant and see the existing tower to discuss any concerns but did not take the company up on the offer.

Property value impacts are very difficulty to determine. The site is already partly industrial because of a nearby pumping station and the surrounding land is intended for agriculture and not slated for future residential development.

The tower site was chosen to avoid disruption of viable agricultural land and to ensure minimal nuisance to neighbouring property owners.

Dale Freitag, Lacombe County’s planning manager, said Nova has met all of its regulatory requirements from the county and other bodies such as Industry Canada and Health Canada. “If someone makes an appeal the onus has to be on the appellant to show why they feel this use is not appropriate for that location,� he said. Otherwise, any concern could be raised whether it holds water or not.

If the appeal board agrees with the appellant’s concerns, they could ask for more information from the applicant.

The same process applies whether the applicant is a small landowner or a multibillion-dollar corporation. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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New visitors centre opens at Ellis Bird Farm

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A new 3,500-square-foot building will make a world of difference at the Ellis Bird Farm.

The official opening of the new visitors centre at the rural educational centre took place on Friday.

The new facility offers a dedicated indoor space, something that Ellis Bird Farm manager and biologist Myrna Pearman said will greatly improve the programming they can offer.

“One of the problems we’ve always had is we’ve never had space to go to when the weather is poor,” said Pearman. “We’ve tried to host events and we’ve been limited by shelter.

“Now we have a nice big building we can host events and do our school programs in.”

With the help of about $450,000 in donations from MEGlobal and $200,000 in donations and in-kind contributions, the building took 12 weeks to get up.

Ken Wigmore, Lacombe County councillor, new visitor centre project manager and Ellis Bird Farm board chair, said that was pretty quick.

“It will give us more space to do our school programs and host different events,” said Wigmore, adding the long-term hope is the building can provide year-round uses for the bird farm. Currently the bird farm is open from the Victoria Day long weekend to Labour Day every summer.

A large number of Central Alberta businesses also contributed to the construction.

In appearance it is similar to a community hall, with a kitchen and large open area and smaller rooms. A counter to the right of the front door is where the future reception area will be, with a room behind the counter to be the home of the future gift shop.

About 1,200 school children attend various programming during the school year, and summer programs attract more visitors to the site.

Throughout the summer, the Ellis Bird Farm will offer numerous workshops, day camps and school programs. Most of the educational programs are done outside.

In the long term, the plan is to use the old visitors centre for workshops and smaller events and have the new building as the main visitors centre.

“It’s been a whirlwind,” said Pearman. “We can now take our time and develop it, develop our exhibits and decide how best we are going to use the space.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Provincial court Judge Paul Sully charged with impaired driving EDMONTON — An Alberta provincial court judge has been charged with impaired driving.

Paul Sully, 75, retired in April but was appointed as a part-time judge to a term that expires in 2016.

Edmonton police say they pulled a driver over Thursday night during a routine checkstop.

Sully faces charges of impaired driving and operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit.

“Judge Sully will not be presiding as a judge of the provincial court pending the outcome of these outstanding charges,” Terrence Matchett, chief judge of the provincial court said Friday in an email.

As a supernumerary or part-time judge, Sully is only paid on the days when he is called in to work.

Matchett declined further comment as the case is before the courts.

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To kick off the Relay for Life, cancer survivors wearing yellow T-shirts made two laps around the relay course at the Cross Roads Church west of the City of Red Deer Friday evening. Hundreds of participants set out to walk through the night during the annual fundraising event in support of the Canadian Cancer Society.

Fontana convicted of fraud, forgery

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON, Ont. — The mayor of London, Ont., forged a document that resulted in a $1,700 government fraud while he was a Liberal cabinet minister then concocted a story to cast it as a mere foolish misstep, a judge ruled Friday.

Joe Fontana was convicted of fraud, forgery and breach of trust by a public official after Superior Court Judge Bruce Thomas rejected the former MP’s attempts to ascribe a legitimate motive to altering a contract from his son’s wedding to make it look like it was for a political event at the same venue.

He submitted the forged document to the House of Commons for reimbursement, but his “criminal activity” was only detected when the government cheque ended up being sent to the venue instead of Fontana personally, Thomas found. If the money had gone directly to Fontana, no one would have been the wiser, the judge said.

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“I have long ago abandoned the notion that motive results from a logical cost-benefit analysis.”

Fontana sat passively as the judge pronounced his convictions on fraud, forgery and breach of trust, but looked stricken by the time he got up to hug his wife.

“I’m very surprised, shocked, devastated by obviously the verdict,” Fontana said outside court.

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Housing First initiatives in Red Deer received a $2 million helping hand from the federal government on Friday.

Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen announced $2 million in funding over five years, with $ 1.4 million designated for community initiatives and $609,760 for aboriginal projects. He made the announcement at Red Deer City Hall.

Scott Cameron, the city’s social planning manager, said the new five-year commitment will allow the agencies and organizations in the city to continue their good work.

“This adds a level of stability for organizations providing homelessness services in the community,” said Cameron, noting the federal government has been providing stable funds since 2001.

The philosophy is based on getting people into housing to give them some stability and support before dealing with issues, like mental health disorders, that make them vulnerable to homelessness.

He added it was affirming to hear the At Home/ Chez Soi report supports the Housing First philosophy. The report commissioned by Mental Health Commission of Canada was released earlier this week.

Cameron said Red Deer has been a leader across the country as it adopted the philosophy in 2007. He credited the forward thinking of the community for exploring the Housing First philosophy.

The former Buffalo Hotel was converted into a Housing First project in 2007. Since then, Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing, the Canadian Mental Health Association, and Central Alberta Women’s Outreach Society have used the same philosophy to house homeless elsewhere in the city.

More than 100 individuals in Red Deer have been served in the Housing First program and 80 per cent remain housed after they entered the program in the last year.

“Having a roof over their head is really critical to being able to deal with any other issues or challenges in their lives,” said Cameron.

Dreeshen said Red Deer has done a great job at tackling the issue in the city. He said with the federal government changing the focus to make sure the housing is there so after they can take a look at some of the other issues that land people into those circumstances.

Mayor Tara Veer said one of Red Deer’s priorities is not to just manage homelessness but to end homelessness.

Veer said the city has made great strides in recent years but they still know there is a significant gap between the number of affordable housing units they have and the units that are needed.

The requests for proposals for the funding is likely to be out in the community in early July. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Warrants needed to find Internet child porn users: top court

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The police need a search warrant to get information from Internet service providers about their subscribers’ identities during investigations, the Supreme Court of Canada says in a landmark ruling affirming Canadians’ right to online privacy.

The high court’s 8-0 ruling Friday on online privacy issues came in the appeal of a Saskatchewan man facing child pornography charges. The court affirmed that when Canadians surf the web, they should be guaranteed a degree of anonymity.

The ruling also has political implications for the federal government’s current cyber-bullying bill, setting the stage for another clash between the Harper government and the Supreme Court.

The ruling deals with a 19-year-old Saskatchewan man who was charged with possessing and distributing child pornography after police used his Internet address to get further details from his online service provider, all without obtaining a search warrant.

Lawyers for the man argued that violated his constitutional right to be protected from unlawful search and seizure.

But in this specific case, the Supreme Court ruled

that the details gathered should not be excluded as evidence from the man’s trial, saying the police acted in good faith.

“A warrantless search, such as the one that occurred in this case, is presumptively unreasonable,” Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote for the court.

“The Crown bears the burden of rebutting this presumption.”

The ruling also addressed the broader constitutional issues raised by Section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects Canadians’ privacy rights from unlawful search and seizure.

“In my view, in the totality of the circumstances of this case, there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in the subscriber information,” Cromwell wrote.

“The disclosure of this information will often amount to the identification of a user with intimate or sensitive activities being carried out online, usually on the understanding that these activities would be anonymous.”

Friday’s ruling renders unconstitutional a portion of the Tories’ cyber-bullying bill, C-13, which critics say will encourage companies to give police more information about customers’ online activities without a warrant. It may also have implications for a separate digital privacy bill, also before Parliament.

New Democrat MP Peter Julian called on the gov-

CANADA Blacking out mall collapse report counter to public interest: media TORONTO — A request by a discredited former engineer for a judicial inquiry to black out parts of a report into the deadly collapse of a northern Ontario mall to ensure he has a fair trial is speculative and runs counter to the public interest and open nature of such proceedings, a trio of media organizations argue.

In written submissions Friday, the media also maintain Commissioner Paul Belanger does not have the authority to grant the request.

In his application, Robert (Bob) Wood argued that potentially adverse findings in Belanger’s report, due by the end of October, could jeopardize his right to a fair trial on charges of criminal negligence causing death and bodily harm.

Wood maintains publicity from the release of the fact-finding report could potentially taint a jury pool.

However, the media — The Canadian Press, Globe and Mail and CBC — argue he has failed to make out a solid case for “such extraordinary and unprecedented” relief.

For one thing, the media note, he has yet to decide whether to have a jury trial or be tried by judge alone. Nor has any date for a trial been set.

“Though based on speculation and contingencies, Mr. Wood’s application is founded on the purported risk that the release of the commission’s final report would taint the pool of potential jurors in his criminal trial,” the submission states.

“This purported risk is overstated in addition to being speculative.”

Belanger’s commission of inquiry wrapped up public hearings into the June 2012 tragedy last October.

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ernment to amend the bills in light of the Supreme Court ruling.

“The Conservatives are streamrolling ahead with Bill C-13, which also allows unconstitutional spying on Canadians,” Julian said in the House of Commons.

“With yet another bill struck down by the Supreme Court, when will they finally take a balanced approach that keeps Canadians secure without infringing on constitutional rights?”

Conservative MP Bob Dechert, the parliamentary secretary to Justice Minister Peter MacKay, replied that the government will review the decision.

“We always respect the work of the court. We will continue to crack down on cyber bullies and online criminals to keep children and vulnerable communities safe in Canada,” he said.

Commons committee hearings on the bill wrapped Thursday, and it will now go to third reading and onto the Senate. It wasn’t clear yet Friday what the government’s next moves would be — either amending the bill before it clears the Commons, or doing so later in the Senate.

In a statement, Justice Minister Peter MacKay said the court’s decision “has clarified the law in this area. We will review this decision and respect the ruling.”

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A6 Music, mayhem, munificence

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2014

CAMP ALEXO IS REVIVED, THANKS TO A REMARKABLE GROUP OF WEEKEND WARRIORS If could have been a gong show, in the mountains and the forest and and in a way it was. In a good way. If a two-hour drive from town and they ever there were a bunch of Weekend were clearly insane.

Warriors happily and rabidly attackBut it’s a good thing they ignored ing treacherous, rugged, how insane their ridicumountainous forested scary lous notions really were, wilderness with rampant, and for three decades now philanthropic vociferous literally hundreds and hunvolunteerism, they were dreds of kids have tromped certainly all out at Camp around Camp Alexo chasAlexo last weekend. ing Sasquatch and roasting But what is an “Alexo,” marshmallows on fires the you may ask, and for that size of your average apartmatter what the heck is ment building and singing “munificence?”

Kumbaya, Michael Rowed the Well, Alexo used to be Boat Ashore and House of the the site of a coal mining Rising Sun to a badly tuned town way out near Saunacoustic guitar played by HARLEY ders, which also used to be one of the eternally joyful HAY a coal mining town, which camp counsellors. is not far from Nordegg, And sometime over the which, as you may have years, some large cabins guessed, used to be a coal were built and some bathmining town. rooms and a teepee or two And for those newbies still conand programs like arts and crafts and fused, Nordegg is about 70 klicks past hiking and canoeing and horseback Rotten Monkey Hutch, Alta., which riding and Sasquatch chasing were probably had some coal. introduced into the deep, dark forest John Johnson, the Youth and Volout there at the base of the mountains. unteer Centre veteran, told me in the And the sounds of happy kidlets and middle of the mayhem out there last enthusiastic teenagers and hiding Sasweekend that 30 years ago he and a quatch filled the crisp pine-scented couple of other Boys and Girls Club coal dust air every summer. co-ordinator-types drove out and took But the camp was getting worn out a look at the ridiculously rough and and out-grown. Which brings us to the tumble landscape of the remains of Weekend Warriors. Somehow philanAlexo and said: “Wow, this looks a lot thropic homebuilder Terry Loewen like the rough and tumble forest moon and generous restaurateur Bill Olafson of Endor where the Ewoks from Star twisted the collective arms of about Wars lived!”

300 volunteers and coaxed and cajoled No, really they actually said: “This donations of materials and food and would make a great place to create many other etceteras amounting to an outdoor camp experience for the about a million bucks worth of stuff kids from the Boys and Girls Club and and sweat.

Big Brothers and Sisters!” It was deep Oh and they also figured that some

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party-type entertainment for the tired masses at the end of some long (very long) days would be just the thing, so our merry band of occasional wellworn musicians also had our arms duly twisted.

It was not, by any stretch of a normal imagination, like any other gig — unless that gig took place in the middle of the moon of Endor. Everyone had to be shuttled in — down many kilometres of dirt road that make you immediately wish you had a helicopter.

And when you finally get to the main camp suddenly the place is crawling with Ewoks. Actually the place was crawling with volunteers building stuff, cooking stuff, doing stuff.

There was a huge food tent with gourmet camp food for hungry volunteers and Ewoks, and everywhere there were machines, large and small, and a noisy, happy atmosphere of organized chaos.

Oh and also, we weren’t there yet. It was another treacherous trek through the woods and over little bridges and through construction zones just to get to the entertainment tent.

And it was mostly only reachable on foot.

This meant of course, that all the band equipment (estimated at 745 tons) had to be somehow trailered in by our fearless Camp Alexo Gong Show Gig leader, Kevin. Oh and also, by golf cart, quad, wagon and Star Wars forest speeder bikes, all carrying various amplifiers, guitars, drums and band wives.

Our group — The Falcons, The Gibsons, The Cause, or The Gaetz Ave. Dance Band Rhythm Section, depending on what song we are playing

— ended up playing two nights along with entertainers Danny Hooper, Tara Lee and the duo Mother Superior, and it turned out that a lively loud and proud fun time was had in the middle of the deep dark forest in the mountainous mayhem of munificence.

“Munificence?”

The Camp Alexo Weekend Warrior project was just that: a display of charity, kindness, generosity, benevolence and magnanimousness (thank you thesaurus) by so many volunteers, young and old (the band).

Because when we loaded equipment out of the pitch black woods at 2 a.m. armed only with a couple of flashlights, we could see a forest-load of new camp buildings and facilities that weren’t there two days before. David Murphy, executive director of the Youth and Volunteer Centre, said he could barely believe his eyes. (I think they may have been misting up a little. …)

And our longtime bandmate buddy Dave P. couldn’t believe his eyes either when, rattling along on a golf cart full of band gear in the middle of the night with only the light of a cellphone to guide them, they hit a rut (or perhaps an Ewok) and everything went flying and they ran over his keyboard!

But really, what’s a bent key or two when you are surrounded by all that munificence? And besides, when we were playing … I’m pretty sure I spotted a Sasquatch dancing in the deep dark woods.

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

Young Russians pine for lost empire

BY ABIGAIL HAUSLOHNER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE MOSCOW — Oksana Chernysheva, a first-year journalism student at the International University of Moscow, shares the view of her president, Vladimir Putin: The collapse of the Soviet Union was a disaster.

The Soviet Union used to command respect on the international stage. It stood toe-to-toe with the United States.

It wielded its influence in the far corners of the globe.

“We used to be huge and strong, and then it collapsed,” she said.

But what for the 61-year-old Putin amounts to an acute sense of lost glory is for Chernysheva, a baby-faced 18-year-old, a dirge based almost entirely on wistful tales handed down by nostalgic parents.

Chernysheva was born five years after the Soviet Union fell apart.

Putin’s moves this year to annex Crimea from Ukraine, and support pro-Russian opposition movements in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, appear to have resonated powerfully with a younger generation that has no memory of the Soviet Union but yearns for its historic power.

According to the Levada-Centre, an independent polling organization in Moscow, Putin’s high approval rating among youths tops even that of an older generation that remembers the days of empire, and views Crimea — and even Ukraine — as essentially Russian.

Eighteen-to-24-year-olds — the youngest group of 1,600 people surveyed in late May — backed Putin more than any other age bracket, at 86 per cent, said Karina Pipiya, a spokesperson for the polling center. Eightytwo percent of Russians ages 40 to 54 said they supported Putin, she said.

Like countless other Russian millennials, Chernysheva has listened to her parents, a bakery manager and a factory worker, describe a time when life was more orderly, “the food was tasty and the ice cream was cheap.”

But the image of a vast former military power that commanded global respect was particularly appealing to her, she said.

“I believe that the world should be afraid of us,” Chernysheva said, sipping a hot chocolate in a cafe near her university. “To be afraid means to respect.”

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Oksana Chernysheva, shown in Moscow, is a first-year journalism student in Moscow who believes Russia can benefit from projecting its power, the way the Soviet Union once did.

Across town, in the sleek headquarters of the Young Guard for a United Russia, the youth wing of Putin’s political party, Maksim Rudnev, 26, said he doesn’t remember the collapse of the Soviet Union either — nor does he know Chernysheva.

Rudnev was one of several Russian youths interviewed for this article.

But like his peers, Rudnev remembers being a child during the brutal 1990s, when thousands lost their jobs and pensions, as the country staggered forward into a strange and unfair capitalism.

Rudnev’s father, a former serviceman in the Russian military, had to spend his weekends in the 1990s picking apricots to support the family, Rudnev said.

Now his father owns a small business, and Rudnev has climbed to the upper ranks of Putin’s Young Guard — a status that he says promises opportunities in politics and power.

“The fact that our generation supports the president is because we remember very well how it was before, and how it became after him,” he said.

Putin’s approval ratings have soared among all ages in Russia over the past several months, currently topping 83 per cent nationwide, according to the Levada-Centre.

But the president’s critics say that he has left little room for alternatives.

In recent months, the state has tightened its grip on the Internet and free expression, and the country’s foremost opposition figure languishes under house arrest.

In the main textbook used by high school seniors, “Putin’s name is mentioned 26 times in just six pages,” said Igor Dolutsky, a Putin critic and renowned Moscow history teacher whose own textbook was swiftly banned several years ago for referring to Putin’s government as an “authoritarian dictatorship.”

The introduction of a new textbook next year even further reinforces a “falsified” version of Russian history, Dolutsky said.

On school campuses, anti-Putin students and faculty are not only outnumbered, but they face the prospect of being harassed or sidelined for their opposition views, they said.

“It’s so easy to go to jail in Russia,” said Chernysheva’s friend, Anton Kusakin, 20, who worked for opposition leader Alexei Navalny last year before his house arrest and who vehemently disagrees with his pro-Putin friends at school.

Putin’s annexation of Crimea “spoiled everything,” he said. But on-

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campus activism is almost nonexistent in the current climate, he and Chernysheva agreed.

State media consistently peddle the image of a never-ending Cold War against a West bent on keeping Russia down, analysts said.

Meanwhile, Russian millennials are coming of age in an environment of skyrocketing prices and rampant corruption, while abroad they encounter growing international hostility to Russia’s foreign policies.

Anna Gasak, a well-to-do 20-year-old international relations student, put it this way: “Now the national idea is a bit vague and we don’t know what to follow, who to follow or what to do.”

Gasak, who has spent time in Europe and who described Putin’s foreign policy as a positive show of strength, said that in Soviet times, “We used to be more united.”

These days, her peers increasingly seek out “a better life” in Europe or the United States — if they can afford it, she said. But those who travel have also grown fiercely defensive of a Russia that is becoming increasingly isolated on the international stage.

Putin is “a strong leader,” Gasak said, sitting in a Starbucks in Moscow’s fashionable city center. “But I don’t know why he can’t do these things that he does in foreign policy in terms of domestic policy,” she added, expressing her frustration with Russia’s struggling economy and endemic corruption.

Still, the Russian president, who likes sports and animals and appears shirtless on T-shirts and mugs at stores all over Moscow, is a major role model for young people grasping for a leader, college students and teachers said.

In interviews, Moscow youths repeatedly praised Putin’s successful execution of the Olympic Games in Sochi and his “independence” in international politics. He is a man who stands up for Russia, they said.

Chernysheva, whose girly smile, bangs and bookish glasses seemed to suggest a gentler world view, said she is tired of Russia being a nation that the West looks “at like a third world country.” But Putin, she believes, has her country on the right track. “Maybe the world is starting to be afraid again now,” she said.

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National energy strategy needed ONE THAT MOVES US TO A LOW CARBON ECONOMY, WITH MUCH GREATER FOCUS ON CLEAN ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY Canada needs a national energy strategy — a real however, Canada risks stranded investments in oilnational energy strategy that moves Canada to a low sands plants. carbon economy, with much greater focus on clean The IEA estimates there could be $300 billion energy and energy efficiency. of stranded energy assets worldwide, The Obama administration, with its with the highest cost producers the most Clean Power Plan that seeks to reduce vulnerable. Recently, Total E&P Canacarbon from electric power generation 30 da announced it was putting on hold its per cent by 2030 from 2005 levels, has put planned $11 billion oilsands project beCanada on the spot. cause of high costs.

But so far, the opportunity from a lowThe climate challenge is compounded carbon economy has attracted little politiby the fact that between 2010 and 2035, the cal or industry attention. world will add 1.7 billion people, while That has to change. the forecast average economic growth of The urgent and expensive challenge 3.5 per cent a year will mean the world the world faces is set out in a new report economy will double in size by 2035. from the International Energy Agency, its Absent major gains in clean energy World Energy Investment Outlook. Its 450 and energy efficiency, global demand DAVID Scenario spells out the investments the for conventional oil, gas and coal energy world needs to make between now and would soar, putting the world on the path CRANE 2035 to help limit the increase in the averto a climate catastrophe. age world surface temperature to no more The issue will come to a head next year than two degrees Celsius above the level when the UN summit on climate change in 1870, the era of the First Industrial takes place in Paris.

Revolution.

Participating countries, including Canada, are This is essential if the world is to avoid cata- committed to achieving a binding agreement, taking strophic climate change later this century, scientific effect in 2020, that would put the world on the path to experts have warned. a low-carbon economy.

Canada has signed on to this target but is not doThe IEA says this will require a global price on ing much to help achieve it. carbon for power generation and industry “at a level The IEA estimates that the world would need to sufficiently high to make investment in low-carbon invest US$53 trillion in non-carbon forms of energy technologies attractive.” and in energy efficiency, as well as much cleaner Yet with a new national energy strategy that fouses of fossil fuels and increased overall energy cussed on the shift to a low-carbon economy, there supply, between now and 2035 if this climate change could be major opportunities for Canada for a huge target is to be met. global market in the decade ahead.

By pushing so hard for oilsands development, But that would require an aggressive effort in

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Canada to build up companies with global potential by ensuring they can develop technologies and gain experience in a growing Canadian market.

A key ingredient would be a price on carbon, since this would lead to greater demand for low-carbon technologies and provide an incentive for entrepreneurs to pursue new technologies and investors to back them.

In a new report, Ottawa-based Analytica Advisors finds that clean technology sectors most closely linked to clean energy and energy efficiency — the biorefinery, power generation, energy infrastructure/smart grid, energy efficiency/green buildings and transportation sectors — had $6 billion in sales in 2012, with most companies also exporting.

The 390 companies had a total of 23,700 employees and spent $727 million on research and development.

With an aggressive strategy to develop the sector, the report said, Canada could turn this into a $17 billion industry within a decade.

But as the Analytica Advisors report also showed, Canadian companies on average are small, with average revenues of $15.4 million.

It urges greater efforts to achieve at least 20 Canadian companies with revenues of $100 million or more by 2022, developing the scale and scope to be real global players.

It’s time for Canada to seize the opportunity — and the jobs and companies that will be created or grow as a consequence — to become a leader in helping to meet the world’s urgent need for a low-carbon economy. It’s time for us to seize the opportunity and to combine good economic policy and good environmental policy.

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

New faces in town bring new challenges

All eyes on Christy Clark as Northern Gateway pipeline decision imminent THE B.C. PREMIER’S TOUGH TALK ON THE PROJECT IS COMING BACK TO HAUNT HER “Thousands of British Columbians from across the province are sending messages calling on Premier Clark to continue opposing Northern Gateway and standing up for our watersheds, coast and children’s With the federal government’s decision on En- future,” said Nikki Skuce, ForestEthics Advocacy sebridge’s Northern Gateway oil tanker and pipeline nior energy campaigner.

“With (Prime Minister Stephen) Harper’s likely proposal expected within the next week, the political hot potato is definitely back in B.C. Premier approval of the pipeline, we need our premier to stand with the majority of B.C. and push back on ever Christy Clark’s lap.

Throughout 2012 and 2013, Clark doled out a lot of getting Northern Gateway built.”

Meanwhile, another B.C. group is organizing for a tough talk when it came to Northern Gateway, going so far as to tell the Globe and Mail that pushing ahead citizens’ initiative to put the Enbridge pipeline to an HST-style vote if Clark rewith the pipeline would verses her position on the spur a “national political project. Dogwood Initiacrisis.” tive reports it has 75 local “Whether or not peoteams collecting petition ple supported the pipesignatures in advance of line, they would band the federal government’s together to fight the feddecision. eral government if they “For this pipeline to decided to intrude into be built, First Nations British Columbia without along the route as well our consent,” she told the as a democratic majornewspaper in October ity of British Columbians 2012. would have to support the “This project can onproject. Neither appears ly go ahead if it has the likely,” said Kai Nagata, social licence to do so. It Dogwood’s energy and can only get the social lidemocracy director, in a cence from the citizens of press release.

British Columbia.”

And another camSpeaking to Calgary paign, led by LeadNow university students the and ForestEthics Advosame month, Clark pointcacy, is targeting the 21 ed out that the B.C. govConservative MPs in Briternment could cancel 60 ish Columbia who could different permits or refeel the electoral fall-out fuse to hook pumping stain the next election if the tions up to the province’s feds green-light Northern electrical grid.

“The thing is, if British — B.C. PREMIER CHRISTY CLARK IN 2012 INTERVIEW Gateway.

While the feds certainColumbia doesn’t give its ly deserve to feel some consent to this, there is no way the federal government or anyone else in the heat, it’s Clark on whom the spotlight is likely to country is going to be able to force it through. It just shine the brightest in the short-term, given her election promise to “put B.C. first” and “stand strong” on won’t happen,” Clark said.

These statements don’t leave a whole lot of room her five conditions.

When the Northern Gateway announcement for Clark to manoeuvre, especially considering the Globe recently reported that none of her five condi- comes down, British Columbians are going to look to tions for approving heavy oil pipelines have been Clark to put her money where her mouth is — and it’s hard to see how she’s going to hand off the hot potato met.

It’s a point that hasn’t been overlooked by B.C. this time around.

Emma Gilchrist is deputy editor of DeSmog Canada. environment and democracy campaigners. Earlier this month, Forest Ethics Advocacy launched a new This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com). campaign called Stand Strong Christy.

BY EMMA GILCHRIST SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

‘WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE SUPPORTED THE PIPELINE, THEY WOULD BAND TOGETHER TO FIGHT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IF THEY DECIDED TO INTRUDE INTO BRITISH COLUMBIA WITHOUT OUR CONSENT. THIS PROJECT CAN ONLY GO AHEAD IF IT HAS THE SOCIAL LICENCE TO DO SO. IT CAN ONLY GET THE SOCIAL LICENCE FROM THE CITIZENS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.’

For this time of the respect, so I was able to month, the number com- admire them as beautiing for supper was high. ful and respectfully deSo soon after a pay pe- sirable (not that I always riod, the normal number did, but that is what I is about 110 to 120, but was taught). last week we served 145.

But because of the At first, it sort of came environment in which I as a surprise but on fur- work, what I see is young ther observamen who tion I realized treat girls as there were a objects and large number possessions; of new faces. cursing at Small famithem and lies, couples treating them and singles, with a vulgarboth male and ity that used female; some to make sailwere returns ors blush. from the past There are while others days that I were totally would like to CHRIS new. walk around SALOMONS Although with a big this is a norstick; not for mal happening defence, but in the spring to thrash out of the year, the number the disrespect that I witthis year is what struck ness day after day. Am me. So I took a little time I becoming jaded or is to walk around, meeting there really some suba few of them and try- stance to what I feel? ing to find the reason for My computer tells me this heavier than normal that I have written apmigration. proximately 200 columns One family of three in which I have tried to came from Manitoba on explore and understand the pretext of promised the reasons for people’s trade work that fizzled particular behavioural when they arrived even attitudes, and I find that though he was more than I am none the wiser. qualified, and had good Many are self exreferences. planatory while others One couple came from just make me scratch my Saskatchewan looking head in wonder, but this for work. much is for certain: with Of the single people, every new face in town, only about three or four there are new challengwere over 25, with the es. rest being younger, some At the soup kitchen, much younger. we have very few rules; It could be because clothing must be worn I’m getting older but a while eating, curtail foul lot of these kids seem to language, and food on be getting younger every plates does not leave the year. kitchen.

Because they still Any drug trading or have some money left, usage stays out of the esdrugs are flowing freely tablishment, as does any and with it the goings on, fighting. such as destruction of Infractions mean reproperty, leaving a mess; moval and, depending on and with all that, an ag- the severity of the wronggressiveness that is com- doing, a time of penalty mon for dealers and us- is levied and an apology ers as a defence. is required. Only one But once again, the person at this point has age of a lot of newcomers been removed for life, is what really gets to me. the rest are for a week The hardest thing for or two. me is to see the young After a few weeks, the boys and girls as they pa- newbies have learned rade the streets looking the ropes in Red Deer; for excitement. loud behaviours settle T h e r e b e i n g v e r y down and life returns to little, these young folk normal. begin to manufacture When that happens, excitement, and with- we are available to out control, often end minister to those who up being hurt, addicted want to transform their or pregnant. Right after lives, and once again a pay time, some of the we are confronted with girls dress scantily to the problems that indiwork the street. viduals face in their apMaybe because of my proach to changes they age, to witness this is need to make. still so foreign to me.

And life goes on.

You see, when I grew Chris Salomons is up, I was taught to look kitchen co-ordinator for at others, and especially Potter’s Hands ministry in girls, with restraint and Red Deer.

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Washington, Pa.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, PA., HAS A LONG AND FASCINATING HISTORY — ONE THAT IRONICALLY INVOLVES A MAJOR CONFLICT WITH THE MAN FOR WHOM THE COUNTY AND TOWN ARE NAMED

Photos by DEBBIE OLSEN/Freelance

ABOVE: The Ebenezer Bridge is one of 29 covered bridges located in Washington, Pa., and nearby Greene County. Covered bridges are a major tourist site in Washington and the county celebrates them with an annual festival in September.

BELOW LEFT: In addition to the important archeological site, the Meadowcroft Rock Shelter contains historic structures and artefacts that reveal the lives of First Nations people as well as early settlers in Pennsylvania.

BELOW RIGHT: At the Springhouse farm, you can feed baby calves, milk a cow by hand and see other farm animals in a real working Pennsylvania farm.

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nside City Hall in Washington, Pa., you will find a giant portrait of George Washington, the first president of the United States and the man for which the town and county are named.

Most people in modern-day Washington County rather like the man who has been hailed as the founding father of U.S. confederation, but years ago you would have been hard pressed to find a fan of the man in this part of the United States. Gen. Washington was so disliked that some local mapDEBBIE makers refused to deOLSEN lineate the community by its legal name and instead called it “Dandridge Town.”

Washington County, Pa., has a long and fascinating history — one that ironically involves a major conflict with the man for whom the county and town are named. In 1791 with the U.S. trying to pay off its war debt, President Washington imposed a large excise tax on distilled whiskey. It was the first time the federal government had ever issued a tax on a particular product and it became an experiment in how taxation would work in the newly-formed union.

Nobody likes taxes and local farmers particularly disliked this tax. Farmers in Western Pennsylvania used their leftover grain to make whiskey and then rather than selling the whiskey, they mostly bartered with it for other products or consumed it themselves.

Since most farmers did not sell the whiskey for cash, it was difficult to pay a tax on it. To further complicate matters, Congress decided that a whiskey producer would be taxed on the number of gallons of whiskey his still could produce rather than the number of gallons he actually produced.

Furthermore, the tax was to be collected before any whiskey was made — at the start of the growing season instead of at the end.

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This statue of George Washington is inside the Pittsburgh airport. On May 28, 1754, 22-year-old George Washington fired the first shots of the French and Indian War — the first global war — and launched the career that would lead him to become the first president of the United States.

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ABOVE: The town of Washington is one of the oldest in the U.S. and has some stunning architecture — including its beautiful old courthouse.

BELOW: At the Trolley Museum in Washington, Pa., you can ride a real trolley and see a wonderful collection of antique trolleys.

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At the historical David Bradford House, a bevy of characters will help reveal the history of the man behind the great Whiskey Rebellion. The local historical society operates the Bradford House and the Le Moyne House, and has some wonderful artefacts from the late 1700s and early 1800s on display.

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WASHINGTON: Rich in history Farmers in Western Pennsylvania felt this tax was unfair and rose up in what has since been dubbed the great Whiskey Rebellion. It was an armed conflict that had the potential of toppling the then-fragile government.

Washington didn’t know much about how to implement taxation but he knew plenty about war. He brought in 13,000 soldiers and put down the rebellion without ever firing a shot. The casualties from the rebellion were pretty much confined to tax collectors.

Though the rebels failed in their cause, their actions caused Washington to rethink the way the government taxed goods and helped to shape a fairer taxation system while influencing the development of the United States as a nation.

Today, the Whiskey Rebellion is celebrated like all U.S. civil conflicts — with a festival and re-enactments.

Exploring history in Washington County Washington County is rich in history and exploring that history is one of the primary activities for visitors to this part of Pennsylvania, which is about an hour’s drive southwest of Pittsburgh.

The Washington County Historical Society is led

by Clay Kilgore, a young historian with a knack for relating the legends and stories of the region. He can often be found at the historical houses dressed in costume.

Here are some of the top places and activities that bring history alive for visitors:

● The David Bradford House: David Bradford was a successful lawyer, businessman, and attorney general of Washington County when he became a key figure in the Great Whiskey Rebellion. His home, which was built in 1788, shows what life was like for a gentleman in Washington County during that time.

It’s also a place to learn about the rebellion and the role it played in the newly formed United States. A number of events like Whiskey Rebellion dinners and re-enactments during the Whiskey Rebellion Festival bring the history of this place alive (www. bradfordhouse.org). ● F. Julius LeMoyne House: The LeMoyne House (www.wchspa.org) was built in 1812 and was used as a stop on the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses that were used by African American slaves to escape to free states and to Canada. LeMoyne was a notable abolitionist who operated a doctor’s office and a pharmacy from the house and also built the first crematory in the United States. There is concrete evidence in the form of letters and correspondence that prove the house was part of the Underground Railroad. Harbouring runaway slaves was a dangerous activity and few former safe houses can provide concrete evidence today that they were used for that purpose. A museum in the house has a number of artefacts that showcase the history of the area. ● Festivals: The two key historical festivals in Washington County are the Whiskey Rebellion Festival, which takes place from July 10 to 12, 2014 (www. whiskeyrebellionfestival.com), and the Covered Bridge Festival, from Sept. 20 to 21, 2014 (http://visitwashingtoncountypa.com). The Whiskey Rebellion Festival features historical re-enactments, street theatre, historical demonstrations, food and live music. The Covered Bridge Festival brings thousands of visitors to the area. Ten covered bridges serve as the festival locations and visitors enjoy arts and crafts, food, historical re-enactments, demonstrations, children’s activities and live entertainment. ● Covered bridges: Covered bridges have become a symbol of bygone days and are a tourist attraction wherever they are found. There are 29 covered bridges in Washington County and nearby Greene

County and a self-directed driving tour is popular (www.pacoveredbridges.com/washington-county). ● Pennsylvania Trolley Museum: At the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (www.pa-trolley.org) you can see a collection of nearly 50 restored trolleys and even ride a trolley. The museum was started in 1954 and provides an insight into the days when trolley transportation was popular. A highlight of the collection is the “Streetcar Named Desire,” which was used in the original screenplay. ● Meadowcroft Rock Shelter and Historical Village: The Meadowcroft Rock Shelter (www.heinzhistorycenter.org/meadowcroft.aspx) is the oldest site of human habitation in North America. Visitors can see the archeological site and tour a reconstructed mid-19th century settler’s village and a 16th century Native American village. There is also a walking trail and onsite interpretive programs that reveal what life was like for people who lived at the time depicted in the two historical villages.

More information For more information on Washington County, Pa., visit the official tourism website at www.visitwashingtoncountypa.com.

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story who we might interview, please email: DOGO@telusplanet. net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.

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There is no Louisiana law prohibiting luring and feeding of alligators, but it’s against local law in Jefferson Parish, where a tourist captured video of an Airboat Adventures tour guide swimming with and feeding two alligators. At one point the video captures the guide putting a marshmallow in his mouth and letting an alligator snatch it away.

“We have now initiated our own investigation into the incident,” said Col. John Fortunato, a spokesman for the parish sheriff’s office.

He said officers have met with representatives of the swamp tour boat companies in Jefferson Parish and have instructed them to cease any feeding of alligators. Each business was provided a copy of the Jefferson Parish ordinance on this subject, he said.

No charges had been filed as of Thursday.

“Just recently, this information was brought to our attention. Prior to that, we had no formal complaint, nor, were we ever notified of any illegal activity involving the swamp tour boat companies,” Fortunato said.

He said his office is working closely with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in investigating.

The video was shot by Stacy Hicks, a tourist from St. Helens, Oregon, who was visiting south Louisiana last month. In it, gasps can be heard by tourists on the boat as the guide, Lance LaCrosse, jumps in the water to feed chicken and marshmallows to two alligators.

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Top: Sunrise at Point Pelee offers first views of the birds migrating north.

At left: Bigger is better when it comes to bird watchers and their cameras.

Below, large photo: A rare migrant attracts crowds to the Marsh Boardwalk Bottom inset: Sometimes the bird watchers outnumber the birds!

careen across the park to see a rarity. I had just parked at the marsh boardwalk when vehicles started screeching into the parking lot. Doors were flung open and people were hurrying — as fast as one can hurry with a bad knee and several kilograms of gear — towards the marsh.

“It’s a scissor-tailed flycatcher,” yelled one birder, pointing at a tree 500 metre away. “It’s the sighting of the festival,” someone else crowed.

Fortunately, park rangers here carry binoculars as well as guns and understood the viewing frenzy.

They calmly directed traffic so everyone got a look at the bird without having to call their insurance agent.

Unlike other festivals, the excitement in Point Pelee is over early each day. By evening, birders migrate to local restaurants for a perch dinner or to wander the streets of Canada’s tomato capital, Leamington.

Eyes turn to the base reflectivity radar showing the birds migrating across Lake Erie.

I felt like a kid on Christmas Eve as I started checking the radar every evening; the growing orange and yellow blobs meant the birds were on the way!

I set my alarm for 4:30 a.m. — an ungodly hour for most tourists — so I could make the park gate opening at 5 a.m. and nab a parking spot.

The shuttle bus that runs visitors to the Point Pelee spit does not start until 6 a.m.

Not wanting to miss the first birds, I walked the 2.9 km from the parking lot to land’s end. The other birders who joined me on the sprint to the spit enjoyed the cacophony of birdcalls and songs as the forest came to life.

A male turkey jogged parallel to us through the trees, storming onto the road every few minutes to display his breeding plumage. I was impressed — the hens less so.

Leaving the turkeys behind, we headed to the beach where the sun was rising over Lake Erie.

Red-breasted mergansers chased herring across the mirror-like water.

No birds were staggering along the beach, but plenty had found the trees and bushes.

It was like Christmas morning for adults. We had no idea what birds would be found, but almost any species was possible.

With little effort, we found a black-throated blue warbler, a scarlet tanager and an indigo bunting.

The bright blues, red and orange are colours I had always associated with tropical forests; now I was seeing them on Canadian soil.

And I understood why people came from all over the world to participate in a ritual — human and bird — that seems strange at first but makes perfect sense when face-to-face with a bird the colour of a flying orange and a sunrise backdrop to match.

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I thought I was a birder until I went to Point Pelee National Park in Ontario. There, I realized I was like a runner with her first sneakers doing a lap with Olympic marathoners.

Point Pelee is ground zero for bird watchers.

This 14.5-km finger of land pokes into Lake Erie, its name coming from the French who described it as a bald point. It is the first piece of land that birds migrating north see as dawn breaks over the Great Lakes.

Exhausted, these birds — warblers, orioles, thrushes and flycatchers — drop from the sky to recover. Looking as dazed as human travellers after an all-night trip, these birds can sometimes be seen walking the pathways, surprisingly close to people. As we watched, a small black-and-white warbler allowed photographers to approach within metres.

Our guide, Jeremy Bensette, explained, “The birds don’t even have enough energy to avoid people.”

It is the chance to see a large variety of bird species that has ‘twitchers’ — serious birdwatchers — and ‘listers’ — people searching for new species to add to their bird life list — heading to Point Pelee each spring.

Parks Canada and Friends of Point Pelee organize the 19-day Festival of Birds each May. It includes tours, exhibits and talks on everything from birding by ear to seeing birds on vacation.

This year, David Sibley, creator of a popular birding guide, appeared to rock star-like adulation from a bunch of middle-aged, khaki-clad nature lovers.

I realized this was one vacation where fashion took a backseat to gear.

An outdoor retailer could have shot a commercial here as most people sported the latest outdoor gear, usually in earth tones or camouflage colours.

Hanging off the khaki shirts and Gore-Tex jackets were enough cameras, binoculars and spotting scopes to pay off the debt of a small African nation.

I was pleased to see the younger generation participating when a fellow birder approached with a baby stroller. As he got closer, I realized he had twins — cameras, not children — and was using wheels to lighten his load!

The serious birders around me were monitoring their phones for rare bird notifications and would

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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2014

Rebels eye Cup bid

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Yes, the Red Deer Rebels are interested in hosting the 2016 Memorial Cup. No, the team will not bid to host the Canadian major junior hockey championship tournament if a large-market team enters the process with financial backing that’s impossible to match, unless there’s an understanding that money will not be the deciding factor.

The Rebels know all about that scenario, after being relegated to runner-up status when the 2013 Western

Hockey League Memorial Cup host was selected in the fall of 2011. The Saskatoon Blades, backed by big bucks from the Saskatchewan provincial government, were selected over Red Deer and Kelowna.

The Rebels felt at the time that their bid turned out to be a colossal waste of human resources when the Blades’ package featured perhaps $1 million more in financial guarantees and a 14,000-seat facility to boot.

And so, it came down to dollars and cents, with the majority of league governors voting for Saskatoon and a larger windfall as their respective share of the pot that was the Blades’ financial

guarantee/potential tournament profits.

To that end, Rebels owner/general manager/head coach Brent Sutter is seeking some sort of guarantee from the league office that his franchise will be given every chance to compete against a large-market team in bidding for the 2016 Memorial Cup. The Vancouver Giants, who hosted in 2007, have already made it public that they’ll be putting forth a bid.

“When you’re a mid-sized franchise you need to know where the league is at with the dynamics of having to compete against large-market teams,” Sutter said Friday. “When you look at the

bid for the (2013) Memorial Cup, we put a lot of time into that — eight months worth — and a lot of people were pretty disappointed when we didn’t get it.

People not just in our organization, but the community and the province.

“The due diligence is really important. We never had an opportunity to host it the last time simply because we got outbid by a team that had a 14,000-seat arena and with all provincial money behind it. Their bid was significantly higher than our bid, but we had gone as far as we could for a mid-size market team.”

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Kings crowned FORWARD JUSTIN WILLIAMS WINS CONN SMYTHE TROPHY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LOS ANGELES — Alec Martinez scored at 14:43 of double overtime Friday night as the Los Angeles Kings mounted yet another comeback to defeat the New York Rangers 3-2 and claim their second Stanley Cup in three seasons.

The defenceman wristed home a rebound of a Tyler Toffoli shot to seal the Cup. The Kings squandered 3-0 series leads both times en route to hoisting the Cup. But they got the job done in five games — three wins coming via overtime — this time compared to six against New Jersey in 2012.

Los Angeles’ remarkable road to this Cup was long and tortuous. It was an edge-of-your-seat record-setting ride though all-comers that will be hard to beat.

The never-say-die Kings, who trailed by two goals four times in the first two games of the final, proved once again that the third period is their domain.

They have four victories this post-season when trailing after two periods.

And in mounting the latest comeback, they put an end to New York’s remarkable 5-0 record in elimination games.

The win improved the Kings’ playoff overtime record in 2014 to 5-2.

Los Angeles, which has won 17 of its last 22 home playoff games including six of the last seven, got to celebrate the championship before family and friends at a soldout Staples Center for the second time. They are the only team to clinch at home over the last seven seasons.

Kings forward Justin Williams won the Conn Smythe Trophy.

Goaltender Henrik Lundqvist kept the Rangers in the game for the second outing in a row. The elegant Swede stood on his head for much of the eve-

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Los Angeles Kings right wing Dustin Brown raises the Stanley Cup after beating the New York Rangers in overtime in Game 5 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final series Friday in Los Angeles. ning, especially when push came to shove.

The contest started slowly and took its time to boil, but finished in nailbiting, adrenalin-pumping end-to-end fashion.

The game ranks as the longest game in Kings’ history, surpassing Game 5 of the 2013 Western Conference Final (91:40).

The third period was all Kings as

a goal by Marian Gaborik pulled Los Angeles even at 2-2 some eight minutes in. The Kings then came at Lundqvist in waves.

Los Angeles outshot New York 12-3 in the period and 29-15 in regulation time. The shots were 42-25 for L.A. after four periods of hockey and 51-30 when the dust settled.

Overtime was a thrill ride as both teams hit the post and Los Angeles

poured it on.

The Kings kept their foot on the pedal in OT, with Lundqvist scrambling to repel the raiders. The Rangers pushed back and went on the power play when Slava Voynov was called for hooking at 3:54. New York defenceman Ryan McDonagh hit the post with a blast from the blue-line.

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Kaymer builds a 6-shot lead at Pinehurst SETS RECORD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PINEHURST, N.C. — Martin Kaymer set a U.S. Open record Friday with a game so dominant that he did more than just build a six-shot lead.

He managed to bring Tiger Woods into the conversation at a major he’s not even playing.

Kaymer opened with a short birdie and rolled his way to a second straight round of 5-under 65 — this one without a bogey. He set the 36-hole scoring record at 10-under 130 and left the rest of the field wondering if the 29-year-old German was playing a different course, or even a different tournament.

“If he does it for two more days, then we’re all playing for second spot,” said Adam Scott, the world’s No. 1 player.

Such talk once was reserved for Woods, still home recovering from back surgery.

Kaymer played early on a Pinehurst No. 2 course that received a burst of showers overnight. That red 10 on the leaderboard next to his name was a daunting sight the rest of the day.

He led by eight shots when he finished, and only three players in the afternoon cut into that deficit.

“I heard he played the No. 3 course.

Is that true?” Kevin Na said after a 69 put him seven shots behind. “It’s unbelievable what he’s done. Is 4 or 5 under out there? Yes. Ten under out there?

No, I don’t think so. I guess it was out there for him. I watched some of the

shots he hit and some of the putts he’s made and he looks flawless.”

Brendon Todd kept this from really getting out of hand. He made two tough pars from the bunker late in his round for a bogey-free 67 to get within six shots, putting him in the final group on the weekend in his first major.

“Kaymer’s performance has been incredible,” Todd said. “He’s playing a brand of golf that we haven’t seen probably in a long time, since maybe Tiger.”

Kaymer tied the record for the largest 36-hole lead at the U.S. Open, first set by Woods at Pebble Beach in 2000 and matched by Rory McIlroy at rainsoftened Congressional in 2011.

Woods went on to win by 15 shots.

McIlroy set the 72-hole scoring record and won by eight.

“I played Congressional and I thought, ’How can you shoot that low?”’

Kaymer said. “And that’s probably what a lot of other people think about me right now.”

McIlroy thought the German’s feat was more impressive, mainly because of the nature of Pinehurst No. 2 and the turtleback greens created by Donald Ross. Yes, they were softer than expected and held quality shots. But there is trouble lurking around every corner. Kaymer just hasn’t found it — yet.

“If someone had told me that I was going to be standing here 1-under par after 36 holes at the start of the week, I would have taken it,” McIlroy said after his 68 left him nine shots behind.

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Martin Kaymer, of Germany, putts on the second hole during the second round of the U.S. Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, N.C., Friday.

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Spanish inquisition VAN GAAL ENGINEERS STUNNING VICTORY FOR NETHERLANDS OVER SPAIN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Netherlands 5 Spain 1 SALVADOR, Brazil — Louis van Gaal, one of the game’s greatest coaches, was criticized before the World Cup for being too defensive for a nation that loves attacking play.

His decision to field five defenders against Spain though, proved a masterstroke.

His team thrashed the defending world champions 5-1 Friday with a clinical display of counterattacking football that had Spain chasing shadows at the end as Dutch fans roared “Ole!” each time their team passed the ball.

“If you see how he prepared us, and how he predicted the game would go, and you see how it went — unbelievable,” said Robin van Persie whose stunning header to equalize just before half time turned the tide of the match and lit up social media accounts around the world. “It went exactly as the entire technical staff predicted.”

It was Spain’s worst loss in the tournament since a 6-1 defeat to Brazil in 1950.

In the day’s other matches, Chile beat Australia 3-1, leaving Spain at the bottom of Group B. In Group A, Mexico edged Cameroon 1-0 on a 61st-minute goal

by Oribe Peralta to take second spot behind Brazil.

But it was the Dutch performance that shocked even casual fans on the second day of World Cup, showing why Manchester United was so keen to sign Van Gaal to rebuild the storied club.

He starts work at Old Trafford when the Netherlands leave Brazil. If they keep playing this way, he could keep Manchester fans waiting until mid-July.

The 62-year-old Dutchman has a history of getting the best out of teams and blending youth with experience, taking Ajax to the Champions League title in 1995.

He is bidding to make the Netherlands world champions for the first time after losing three finals — including four years ago when Andres Iniesta’s extra-time goal won it for Spain.

It wasn’t shocking for the Dutch to get revenge for that loss, but the way they demolished Spain — the dominant world football power since 2008 — sent a signal that the run of this generation of Spanish stars may be coming to an end.

Spain, which won the last two European Championships and the 2010 World Cup, will probably have to beat Chile and Australia to qualify for the next round, where a likely date with favourite Brazil awaits.

“They were better than us in the second half, you have to recognize that,” Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque said. “It’s a delicate moment for us. We need to find solutions now.”

Spain showed flashes of its slick-passing, ball-

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Spain’s goalkeeper Iker Casillas rests on his knees in dejection as Netherlands’ Arjen Robben celebrates after scoring followed by Netherlands’ Wesley Sneijder during the Group B World Cup soccer match between Spain and the Netherlands at the Arena Ponte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Friday. control, “tiki-taka” style, but never recovered from Van Persie’s masterful goal.

“The equalizer was very crucial at that point,” said Netherlands midfielder Jonathan de Guzman, who was born in Canada . “I think we took advantage of that.”

In the second half, Spain’s usually rock solid defence crumbled in the face of wave after wave of Dutch attacks, many starting off of long passes from defenders.

Veteran goalie Iker Casillas shouldered the blame.

“It wasn’t one of my best games, I wasn’t at the level I needed to be,” he said. “I have to accept all criticism.”

Van Gaal always insisted his five-man defence wasn’t as negative as it sounded, and he was proved right.

Left back Daley Blind surged forward to provide two pin-point accurate passes for assists — Van Persie’s header and Arjen Robben’s first goal. Center back Stefan de Vrij, who caused the penalty that gave Spain the lead, cropped up at the other end of the pitch to push in Wesley Sneijder’s free kick for de Vrij’s first international score.

Even Van Gaal was stunned by the margin of victory.

“To be quite honest, we did not expect it,” he said.

“This has got to do with strategy and the dedication

of the players to execute with conviction.”

Fitness also appeared to play a role in Spain’s second-half collapse. While the veteran Spanish players tired, the Dutch still looked fresh despite the humidity at the Arena Fonte Nova.

Van Persie’s header is an early contender for goal of the tournament.

As Blind’s 40-yard pass sailed toward him, the striker glanced up and saw Casillas off his line and in no-man’s-land. Van Persie dived full-length and sent a looping header over the stranded goalie and slid on his stomach on the wet grass before running to the sidelines with his fists clenched to exchange a high five with Van Gaal.

“Unbelievable,” Van Persie said of the victory.

“For the whole Netherlands, this is a dream come true.”

Robben had a masterful goal of his own, reaching high to stop a long Blind pass with his left leg, cutting back quickly with his right as defender Gerard Pique spun out of position, and scoring with his left as Sergio Ramos dove toward him.

If Robben hadn’t yet buried the memory of his crucial miss in the 2010 final — he helped Bayern win the Champions League in 2013 — his play Friday should do it.

“This is just pure enjoyment,” he said. “I’m top fit this season and this is a beautiful confirmation of that.”

Heat try to find answers to stop a machine

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NBA FINALS

MIAMI — The San Antonio Spurs left Miami last June looking human, Tim Duncan nearly in tears talking about how close they were to a championship. They don’t look human now. They look like a machine.

Up 3-1 and shooting the ball at a level never seen in the NBA Finals, the Spurs headed home with a chance to wrap things up on Sunday night in Game 5.

The Miami Heat, who were able to deny the Spurs last year, have two days to figure out what can possibly be done to do it again.

“They’re a high-oil machine and they move the ball extremely well,” LeBron James said. “They put you in so many difficult positions. If you’re not right on time, right on target, they’re going to make you

pay for it.”

The Spurs won by 19 and 21 in the two games in Miami and are shooting 54.2 per cent in the series.

The NBA Finals record is 52.7 per cent.

No team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals, and the Heat were so thoroughly manhandled in Miami that the only reason to think they could be the first is what they did in the past.

Duncan said the memory of last season’s loss — the pain that’s driven the Spurs through this entire season — would “definitely come up” before Sunday.

“As I said, we know the calibre team they are, and we have a lot of respect for what they’re able to do,” Duncan said. “They’re able to throw it another gear and they’re going to do just that. They don’t want this

REBELS: Need to know they have a chance to host Sutter wants some sort of acknowledgement from WHL headquarters that a potential Red Deer bid won’t be defeated by money alone, that existing facilities at the Westerner, the projection that his rebuilding team will be competitive in the tournament and Red Deer’s prized reputation for hosting national events will be major factors in the selection process.

“Our (2015-16) team should be good and that has to be a priority in the selection process,” he said. “And that’s where the dynamics lie. Hockey should always be the No. 1 priority — what type of team will you have and will you have the assets to get your team to where it needs to be?”

The situation was discussed at the league’s general manager meetings this week in Vancouver and Sutter came away with the feeling that at least some governors would be willing to make the almighty dollar a lower priority in the final selection process.

“I know the league office certainly doesn’t want to see the Memorial Cup always staged in a large market. It’s not good for the league, it’s just not a positive thing,” said Sutter. “That being said, I fully respect all the governors and their mindsets.

“I just have to have more of a comfortable feeling from the league. I just need to get a feeling from Ron (WHL commissioner Robson) that yes, Red Deer could have an opportunity to host.

“As long as we have a chance then I have no problem with it, but to do the work that we and Kelowna did the last time and then lose to a financial bid that blew us out of the water . . . . it’s tough to compete in that environment and I just don’t want to put people through it if at the end of the day you have no chance.

“We’ll see what happens in the next two to three weeks, but as of now our intentions are to bid for the 2016 Memorial Cup.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

NHL: Kings outscored opponents Toffoli also rang a shot off the post, some 13 minutes in. Lundqvist stopped Williams twice at point-

blank range during one sequence late in overtime as the Kings turned the screws.

Then the Rangers mounted two assaults on the L.A. goal before Chris Kreider fired wide on a semibreakaway.

In the second overtime, Kyle Clifford was called for boarding Derek Dorsett at 5:43. The Kings somehow hung on again, as a Dan Girardi shot clipped the outside of the post and Jonathan Quick make several key saves.

Kreider and Brian Boyle scored for the Rangers in a 3:53 stretch late in the second period — the first on the power-play, the second short-handed — as New York clawed its way back to lead 2-1 after 40 minutes that saw just 12 shots on the L.A. goal.

That New York outburst silenced the sellout crowd of 18,713 at Staples Center while boding well for the Rangers, who were 11-1 when leading after two periods in the playoffs and won 39 of 43 games in that scenario including the regular season. But the Kings never go quietly.

Williams also scored for Los Angeles in a game where shots were at a premium — especially for the visitors.

With Los Angeles pressing in the third, Lundqvist made a string of saves eight minutes in to preserve the lead. The Rangers took a time out but were soon under the pump again as Mats Zuccarello was called for tripping at 7:39.

Los Angeles wasted no time taking advantage with Gaborik knocking in a rebound of a Drew Doughty wrister from the point at 7:56. It was his 14th of the playoffs — following a season in which he had 11 goals in 41 games.

The Kings have outscored their opponents 30-16 in the third period this post-season, including 3-0 in the Cup final.

der 137. Only nine others were under par going into the weekend.

It wasn’t a great day for Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask. The only Canadian in the field shot 5-over 75 for the second straight day to ensure he will miss the cut.

It looks like a typical U.S. Open — except for Kaymer.

Dustin Johnson opened with a pair of 69s, a score he would have gladly taken at the start of the week and perhaps thought it would be good enough to lead.

“I wouldn’t have thought it would be eight shots behind,” Johnson said.

Brooks Koepka, the American who is carving his way through the European Tour, birdied his last hole for a 68 and joined the group at 2-under 138 with Brendon de Jonge (70), Henrik Stenson (69) and former PGA champion Keegan Bradley, who played in the same group with Kaymer and rallied for a 69.

“He’s as dialled in as I’ve seen,” Bradley said.

Starting on the back nine, Kaymer hit wedge into 5 feet for birdie on the par-5 10th. He made birdie putts from 20 and 25 feet, and then hit a gorgeous drive on the par-4 third hole, where the tee was moved up to make it play 315 yards. His shot landed perfectly between two bunkers and bounced onto the green to set up a two-putt birdie.

And the lead kept growing.

“I look at the scoreboards. It’s enjoyable,” Kaymer said. “To see what’s going on, to watch yourself, how you react if you’re leading by five, by six. ... I don’t know, but it’s quite nice to play golf that way.”

GOLF: Lead kept growing “But what Martin has done over the first couple of days has made 1-under par look pretty average.”

As impressed as everyone was, none was ready to concede just yet.

Pinehurst No. 2 has not played close to its full length of 7,562 on the scorecard, and it has not been nearly as fast as it had been during the three days of practice. And strange things can happen at a U.S. Open.

Even so, they all needed some help from Kaymer, who last month won The Players Championship.

“I never played on tour when Tiger was doing this — leading by six, seven, eight shots,” said 20-yearold Jordan Spieth, who had a 70 and was nine shots back. “But I imagine this is what it was like the way Martin is playing this week.”

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to be done.”

Duncan probably meant “done” as in the series.

Of course, it could also mean the era.

Two off days were sure to be filled by talk of the Heat’s uncertain future, with James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh all eligible for free agency. Might such a one-sided beating convince James he had to leave to find a better roster elsewhere? Make him more resolute in his desire to stay and get the Heat back on top?

The Heat have more urgent concerns now.

“Did we expect to come here and lose two the way we did at home? No way,” Wade said. “But we also expect to go to San Antonio and put up a better effort and try to come out with another win. So we’ll get away from it (Friday), but we’ll still think about what we need to do to try to get another win to keep the series alive.”

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Simpson snappy in team roping Levi Simpson rode out of the Daines Ranch last June with a buckle as the team roping winner. The 2011 Canadian heading champion put himself in good position to do that again this year, after turning a steer in 4.8 seconds during the opening performance of the Innisfail Rodeo.

But a few things have changed since then. His roping partner, for instance, is now Ryon Tittel from Colorado, instead of Montanan John Robertson.

“This winter down in San Angelo, (TX) roping at the rodeo, I roped with him at a jackpot,” explained Simpson.

“After that, John and I weren’t doing that good, and decided we’d be done for the year.

Ryan called me and asked if I wanted to keep going a little bit. We entered up, and went over to the California rodeos.

Then he decided he wanted to come up here and hang out for the summer.”

DIANNE Ponoka gains a summer FINSTAD visitor, Simpson gets a handy heeler. The two had already won Luxton and Leduc, before the snappy Innisfail run.

“Usually, I enter (Innisfail) for later in the week, so you get a second run, and you know what the steers are,” added Simpson. “But Ryon’s going to fly home for the weekend, and get some stuff done at home. So we entered early. I’ve been here enough times, and it’s the same kind of thing. Just try and go fast, and see how it works.”

It worked well, and the timing was extra special, since Friday was Tittel’s birthday! Simpson hopes the run will stand the test of the rest of the field.

“I’d like to make it two in a row. I’d be all right with that. Even if it doesn’t, it should win good money. I’ll take that any day.”

The other change sees Simpson trying his hand at the tie-down roping at a few rodeos.

“I’m just trying to play more, having some fun,” he grinned. “Not very good yet, but fun.”

The bareback riding lead was taken by Justin Randle, when he spurred to 85.5 points on Calgary Stampede’s Muffled Cries. Randle, from Fort Vermilion, remembers coming to Innisfail as a youngster, when his dad Kenton was one of Canada’s top bareback riders. The 32-year-old is having his best season ever, after jumping in the truck with Ponoka’s Jake Vold and four-time Canadian Champion Dusty LaValley.

“It’s nice to be riding good, but it’s even nicer to be drawing good,” said Randle.

It was advice from Vold that was key to Randle’s ride in Innisfail.

“Jake was on him at the Canadian Finals last year, and he won the round, and he had a lot of good things to tell me about that horse, so I was pretty excited. It felt great.”

“Just right out of there, he’s got some little moves, and stuff he likes to do in the chute that doesn’t let you get a good shot at him, but after that first jump,

RODEO

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Justin Randle of Ft. Vermillion, Alta. rides Muffled Cries for a score of 84.5 during the bareback event at the Innisfail Professional Rodeo Friday night. Randle tied for the top score of the night sharing the top spot with Colter Harden of Big Valley who rode Tootsie Roll for the same score. The Rodeo continues through the weekend at the Daines Ranch north of Innisfail. he sets you right on your riggin, and you get to go to town.”

Not far behind Randle was Big Valley’s Colter Harden, who was pumped to come up with 84.5 on Calgary’s Tootsie Roll.

Only three of the thirteen bull riders got a qualified mark, but best of the bunch was a young rookie from Dewinton.

Like Randle, Brock Radford is a second generation cowboy, and his father Max was on the chutes helping him get out on the Calgary Bull Gingas Kong.

The 19-year-old stuck on the spinner for 89.5 points, and it could be a career milestone for the young cowboy.

“It was pretty fun. It felt good to get one knocked out like that,” said Radford, who also competed in the steer wrestling.

“I’m pretty happy to be winning it. If I win it, it will be my first pro win.”

The other timed event leaders from slack weren’t bumped from their positions, so it’s still Cochrane’s Straws Milan leading steer wrestling, with a time of 4.6 seconds, while Erik Dublanko of Thorsby is the fastest tie-down roper with a time 9.1 seconds. Laci Suitor of Duchess is the barrel racing leader with a time of 15.877 seconds. It’s a mark of 80 on top in the saddle bronc riding, turned in by Adam Gilchrist of Maple Creek, SK, while Rylee Storey of Clive was the best in a strong section of boys steer riding, with a 75.5.

There’s plenty of rodeo action today at the Daines Ranch, with performances at 1:00 pm and 7:00, while the buckles will be presented during Sunday’s final performances, which starts at 1:00 pm.

Hutchison sparkles in Jays’ win

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Drew Hutchison delivers against the Baltimore Orioles during the first inning of a baseball game on Friday in Baltimore.

BALTIMORE — The Drew Hutchison Road Show enjoyed another successful stop, this time at Camden Yards in front of an unappreciative sellout crowd.

Hutchison scattered six hits over seven innings in another sparkling outing on the road, and the Toronto Blue Jays got a two-run homer from Juan Francisco in a 4-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night.

Hutchison (5-4) struck out three, walked none and permitted only one runner past second base. The right-hander is 1-3 with an 8.72 ERA at home and 4-1 with a 1.79 ERA on the road.

“It’s just worked out that way so far. It’s kind of one of those things,” Hutchison said of his imbalanced record. “I haven’t had many starts at home, so that might be part of it. But the rest of that, I could really care less as long as we’re going out there and giving the team a chance to win.”

Especially against the Orioles. Hutchison is 2-0 with a 1.16 ERA in five career starts against Baltimore.

“He’s pretty good against some other people,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter noted.

Hutchison outpitched Ubaldo Jimenez (2-8), who allowed two runs and three hits in six innings but fell to 0-6 at home.

“I was able to hang in for the team,” Jimenez said.

“I was able to at least get a quality start.”

The difference was Francisco’s 11th home run, a second-inning drive into the Baltimore bullpen following a walk to Brett Lawrie.

After Hutchison retired three straight batters in the seventh following a leadoff double by J.J. Hardy, a thunderstorm stopped play for 21 minutes.

When play resumed, Toronto scored twice in the eighth off Tommy Hunter on a wild pitch and an RBI single by Jose Bautista.

Blue Jays reliever Brett Cecil left with a groin injury in the eighth inning. He was replaced by Dustin McGowan, who got five outs for his first major league save.

“Just right now it just feels kind of tight,” Cecil said.

The victory snapped a three-game skid for the AL East-leading Blue Jays, who had lost five of six while being outscored 29-9.

“I felt like it was the toughest game to win all year, if you want to know the truth,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “We didn’t get many hits. We got the big home run, and of course we scratched out a couple late.”

Jimenez was seeking his first win at Camden Yards since signing a $50 million, four-year contract during the off-season. He walked five but, after Francisco homered, the right-hander did not give up another hit until Adam Lind singled off the right-field wall with two outs in the sixth.

“That’s something that I need to still work on it,” Jimenez said, referring to his walk total. “But I was good. I was OK.” Orioles starters have allowed two runs or fewer in 12 of the last 15 games.

Manny Machado had three hits for Baltimore, but the Orioles stranded nine and went 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position.

The Blue Jays put runners on the corners with no outs in the first inning before Jimenez worked out of trouble. In the second, however, Francisco delivered Toronto’s major league leading 92nd home run.

That ended the Jays’ run of four straight games without a homer and snapped Baltimore’s streak of 43 innings without allowing a long ball. It also marked the first time in nine games that Toronto scored first.

After Baltimore loaded the bases with two outs in the fourth, Jonathan Schoop hit a fly to the warning track in centre field.

Shott’s field goal lifts Lions over Eskimos Nicholson named viceBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CFL PRESEASON

EDMONTON — Steven Shott’s 38-yard field goal with just eight seconds to play was the difference as the B.C. Lions defeated the Edmonton Eskimos 14-11 on Friday in a CFL pre-season game.

The Lions finished one spot ahead of Edmonton in the Western Division last season, tied with Saskatchewan at 11-7.

The Eskimos are hoping a ton of off-season changes, including bringing in Chris Jones as the new head coach, will help them improve on a disappointing 4-14 record in the 2013 season.

Edmonton started the scoring with 5:45 remaining in the opening quarter as quarterback Mike Reilly capped off a long drive with a 33-yard touchdown pass to Fred Stamps.

B.C. responded with a 37-yard Ricky Schmitt field goal three minutes later to make it 7-3 for Edmonton heading into the second quarter.

John Beck replaced Kevin Glenn as the Lions quarterback for the second half. He had a couple of decent drives fall short as B.C. could only add a punt single to its side of the score column before turning the ball over at the Edmonton nine-yard line on a third down gamble with just under two minutes to play in the first half.

Edmonton got a late interception from Dexter McCoil at the Lions’ 35, leading to a Grant Shaw field goal and a 10-4 lead for the home team at the midmark.

The slow pace to the game continued into the third quarter as Edmonton got a single point on a missed 37-yard field goal attempt by Zackary Me-

deiros.

It just wasn’t Medeiros’ day as he got a second chance from the 36 late in the third quarter and hit the uprights to keep the score at a humdrum 11-4.

The Lions were pressing to tie the game with nineand-a-half minutes remaining, but a pass from third string QB Travis Partridge was picked off in the end zone by Edmonton’s Ryan Hinds.

B.C. was finally rewarded on one of their drives with just 2:43 remaining in the fourth quarter as Partridge hit Brian Burnham with a 23-yard TD pass into the end zone to knot the game 11-11.

The Lions got the ball back at the Edmonton 25 with 47 seconds left on Alex Ellis-Hoffman’s recovery of a Mark Dell fumble, leading to the game-winning field goal.

Notes: Both teams close out the pre-season with games next Friday as the Eskimos travel to Regina to face the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Lions head home to host the Calgary Stampeders. The two teams will then face each other again to start the regular season on Saturday, June 28 in Vancouvera The Esks came into the game with losses in their four previous pre-season games and just one win in their last sevena It was the first game for first-year head coach Chris Jones at the helm of the Eskimos after coming to the team following a stint as an assistant with the Toronto Argosa Edmonton quarterback Matt Nichols played in his first game after missing all of last season with a knee injury. He was 9-for-12 passing for 107 yardsa Lions star quarterback Travis Lulay remains on the mend.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Former Hockey Canada top executive Bob Nicholson is joining the Edmonton Oilers to oversee business operations, promising to take a scalpel — not a bulldozer — to the struggling NHL franchise.

“There are a lot of things that are going very well in this organization. I’m not coming in here to rip things apart,” Nicholson told reporters Friday.

“I know what Hockey Canada was when I started, and I know where this (Oilers) organization is today.

“There are huge challenges, but I think there could be something very special in this city.”

Oilers owner Daryl Katz was not at the news conference, a not unusual occurrence for the reclusive pharmacy magnate.

Nicholson’s hiring is part of a corporate reorganization for Katz’s sports entertainment properties.

Under the newly named Oilers Entertainment Group, or OEG, Katz will be chairman while former Oiler Kevin Lowe and Nicholson will be vice-chairmen.

Lowe will continue to be in charge of hockey operations while Nicholson will handle the business side — but both said they expect the other to help out across the board.

Patrick LaForge remains in charge of day-to-day business operations.

SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today

● High school soccer: Central Alberta girls and boys final tournament at Edgar Park, 9 a.m. start; girls final at 1:30 p.m., boys final at 3:30 p.m.; girls B final at noon, Lacombe Michener Park. ● Parkland baseball: Irricana at Rocky Mountain House, 1 p.m. ● Rodeo: Innisfail Pro Rodeo, 1:30 and 7 p.m., Daines Ranch. ● Women’s rugby: Calgary Saracens at Red Deer, 3 p.m., Titans Park. ● Alberta Football League: Grande Prairie at Central Alberta Buccaneers, 6 p.m., Lacombe MEGlobal Athletic Park. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Medicine Hat at Lacoka, 7 p.m., Lacombe Barnett Arenas.

Sunday

● Major women’s soccer: Calgary Alliance at Red Deer, noon, Edgar Park. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Medicine Hat at Innisfail, noon, Arena Blue. ● Rodeo: Innisfail Pro Rodeo, 1:30 p.m., Daines Ranch. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Calgary Mountaineers at Red Deer, 3:30 p.m., Blackfalds Multiplex.

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended Baltimore minor-league RHP Eduardo Gamboa (Norfolk-IL) 50 games after testing positive for exogenous Testosterone, a performance-enhancing substance in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled LHP Kyle Crockett from Columbus (IL). Optioned LHP Nick Hagadone to Columbus. Signed CF Greg Allen, SS Alexis Pantoja and RHP Dominic DeMasi to minor league contracts.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed OF Aaron Hicks on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 10. Reinstated OF Sam Fuld from the 15-day DL. Recalled C Eric Fryer from Rochester (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed INF Alberto Callaspo on the paternity list. Recalled INF Andy Parrino from Sacramento (PCL). Agreed to terms with RHP Daniel Gossett, RHP Jordan Schwartz, RHP Branden Kelliher, LHP Mike Fagan, RHP Corey Miller, RHP Joel Seddon, 2B Max Kuhn, 3B Jose Brizuela, LHP Michael Nolan, RHP Koby Guana, RHP Brendan McCurry, RHP Dawson Brown, RHP Rob Huber, CF J.P. Sportman, RHP Corey Walter, LHP Cody Stull, LHP Derek Beasley and 1B John Nogowski on minor-league contracts.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Extended the player development contract with Everett (NWL) through the 2016 season.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Claimed RHP Angel Sanchez off waivers from Miami.

TEXAS RANGERS — Signed RHP Joe Watson, RHP Gio Abreu, RHP Reed Garrett, C Isaias Quiroz, LHP Sterling Wynn, RHP Jason Hoppe, OF Luke Tendler, RHP Cody Palmquist, RHP John Fasola, RHP Adam Parks, RHP Cody Chartrand and RHP Nick Dignacco to minor league contracts.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed OF Ender Inciarte on the 7-day concussion DL. Recalled OF Tony Campana from Reno (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reinstated C A.J. Ellis from the 15-day DL. Optioned C Tim Federowicz to Albuquerque (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Activated 2B Rafael Furcal from the 60-day DL. NEW YORK METS — Signed OF Michael Katz, RHP James Duff, RHP Tyler Badamo and RHP Matt Blackham on minor league contracts.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Signed INF Trea Turner, OF Michael Gettys, RHP Zech Lemond, RHP Mitch Watrous, LHP Thomas Dorminy, OF Yale Rosen, RHP Seth Lucio, RHP Chris Huffman, RHP Logan Jernigan, LHP Taylor Cox, RHP. T.J. Weir, LHP Maxwell MacNabb, RHP Tyler Wilson, LHP Danny Wissmann, RHP Jason Jeter, RHP Colby Blueberg, LHP Travis Radke, Aaron Cressley, C Michael Fitzgerald, SS Mitch Morales, LHP Ryan Atwood and RHP Tyler Wood to minor-league contracts.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Activated 1B Matt Adams from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Oscar Taveras to Memphis (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned RHP Blake Treinen to Syracuse (IL). Recalled LHP Xavier Cedeno from Syracuse.

American Association SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed RHP Alex Burnett and OF Tim Colwell.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released RHP Kirk Clark.

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Traded C Justin Dalles to Windy City (FL) for a player to be named.

Frontier League GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed RHP Tyler Thompson. Released OF Blake Shepherd.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Released LHP Roberto Padilla.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Signed INF Joe Post and LHP James Woods.

USA Baseball USAB — Named Shaun Cole director of the 18U National Team program.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHARLOTTE HORNETS — Announced the resignation of president of basketball operations Rod Higgins. Announced general manager Rich Cho will assume responsibility for the team’s basketball operations.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Named Sidney Lowe assistant coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League DETROIT LIONS — Signed TE Eric Ebron to a four-year contract. Released CB Chris Houston.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed S Corey Lynch on injured reserve.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS— Released CB Brandon Flowers.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed Josh Cooper.

Waived WR Jean Lestar.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with WR Rico Richardson. Waived/injured LB James Gayle.

HOCKEY National Hockey League EDMONTON OILERS — Announced Bob Nicholson was named vice-chairman of Oilers Entertainment Group.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Signed D Kimmo Timonen to a one-year contract extension.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Acquired the rights to F Kyle Bodie from Toledo to complete the future considerations element of an earlier trade.

SOCCER North American Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Signed D Roversio to a multiyear contract extension.

National Women’s Soccer League NWSL — Suspended Chicago MF Julianne Sitch two games for use of excessive force against Seattle MF Keelin Winters during a June 7 match.

COLLEGE BOWLING GREEN — Named Jeff Clapacs director of operations for men’s basketball.

CHARLOTTE — Named Bo Robinson assistant baseball coach.

CLEMSON — Named Ari Smith women’s volleyball assistant coach and recruiting co-ordinator.

DAYTON — Named Simon Harris women’s assistant basketball coach.

EASTERN WASHINGTON — Signed men’s basketball coach Jim Hayford to five-year contract.

LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE — Agreed to terms with football coach Mark Hudspeth on a six-year contract extension.

MANHATTAN — Named Alison Fitzgerald assistant director of athletics/compliance.

MICHIGAN STATE — Announced men’s sophomore basketball G Bryn Forbes is transferring from Cleveland State.

NAVY — Named Chris Garner men’s tennis coach.

NEBRASKA — Named Teddy Owens director of operations for men’s basketball.

Basketball NBA Playoffs FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) San Antonio 3, Miami 1 Thursday, June 5: San Antonio 110, Miami 95 Sunday, June 8: Miami 98, San Antonio 96 Tuesday, June 10: San Antonio 111, Miami 92 Thursday, June 12: San Antonio 107, Miami 86 Sunday, June 15: Miami at San Antonio, 6 p.m. x-Tuesday, June 17: San Antonio at Miami, 7 p.m. x-Friday, June 20: Miami at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

B7

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2014

Hockey NHL STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Kings 3, RANGERS 2 (2OT) First Period 1. Los Angeles, Williams 9 (King, Stoll) 6:04.

Penalties — Nash NYR (hooking) 1:44, Brown LA (holding) 7:49, Pouliot NYR (goaltender interference) 17:34, Doughty LA (cross-checking) 18:48.

Second Period 2. NY Rangers, Kreider 5 (McDonagh, Richards) 15:37 (pp).

3. NY Rangers, Boyle 3 (Hagelin) 19:30 (sh).

Penalties — King LA (high-sticking) 14:07, Moore NYR (hooking) 17:37.

Third Period 4. Los Angeles, Gaborik 14 (Doughty, Carter) 7:56 (pp).

Penalties — Zuccarello NYR (tripping) 7:39.

First Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — Voynov LA (hooking) 3:54.

Second Overtime 5. Los Angeles, Martinez 5 (Toffoli, Clifford) 14:43.

Penalties — Clifford LA (boarding) 5:43.

NY Rangers 6 Los Angeles 7

Shots on goal by 6 3 10 5 10 12 13 9

— 30 — 51

Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (LO, 13-11-0); Los Angeles: Quick (W, 16-10-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)NY Rangers: 1-5; Los Angeles: 1-4.

Referees — Steve Kozari, Brad Watson.

Linesmen — Scott Driscoll, Shane Heyer.

Attendance — 18,713 at Los Angeles.

CONN SMYTHE TROPHY WINNERS Winners of the Conn Smythe Trophy, an annual award presented to the most valuable player for his team in the Stanley Cup playoffs since 1965, as chosen by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association: (x—denotes member of losing team in final) 2014 — Justin Williams, F, Los Angeles 2013 — Patrick Kane, F, Chicago 2012 — Jonathan Quick, G, Los Angeles 2011 — Tim Thomas, G, Boston

2010 — Jonathan Toews, F, Chicago 2009 — Evgeni Malkin, F, Pittsburgh 2008 — Henrik Zetterberg, D, Detroit 2007 — Scott Niedermayer, D, Anaheim 2006 — Cam Ward, G, Carolina 2005 — No winner (lockout).

2004 — Brad Richards, F, Tampa Bay 2003 — x-Jean-Sebastien Giguere, G, Anaheim 2002 — Nicklas Lidstrom, D, Detroit 2001 — Patrick Roy, G, Colorado 2000 — Scott Stevens, D, New Jersey 1999 — Joe Nieuwendyk, F, Dallas 1998 — Steve Yzerman, F, Detroit 1997 — Mike Vernon, G, Detroit 1996 — Joe Sakic, F, Colorado 1995 — Claude Lemieux, F, New Jersey 1994 — Brian Leetch, D, N.Y. Rangers 1993 — Patrick Roy, G, Montreal 1992 — Mario Lemieux, F, Pittsburgh 1991 — Mario Lemieux, F, Pittsburgh 1990 — Bill Ranford, G, Edmonton 1989 — Al MacInnis, D, Calgary 1988 — Wayne Gretzky, F, Edmonton 1987 — x-Ron Hextall, G, Philadelphia

1986 — Patrick Roy, G, Montreal 1985 — Wayne Gretzky, F, Edmonton 1984 — Mark Messier, F, Edmonton 1983 — Billy Smith, G, N.Y. Islanders 1982 — Mike Bossy, F, N.Y. Islanders 1981 — Butch Goring, F, N.Y. Islanders 1980 — Bryan Trottier, F, N.Y. Islanders 1979 — Bob Gainey, F, Montreal 1978 — Larry Robinson, D, Montreal 1977 — Guy Lafleur, F, Montreal 1976 — x-Reggie Leach, F, Philadelphia 1975 — Bernie Parent, G, Philadelphia 1974 — Bernie Parent, G, Philadelphia 1973 — Yvan Cournoyer, F, Montreal 1972 — Bobby Orr, D, Boston 1971 — Ken Dryden, G, Montreal 1970 — Bobby Orr, D, Boston 1969 — Serge Savard, D, Montreal 1968 — x-Glenn Hall, G, St. Louis 1967 — Dave Keon, F, Toronto 1966 — x-Roger Crozier, G, Detroit 1965 — Jean Beliveau, F, Montreal

Baseball RED DEER SENIOR MEN’S Thursday’s Games Lacombe 12 Brew House 1 RED DEER LADIES FASTBALL W L T TNT Athletics 9 1 0 Topco Panthers 7 3 1 Snell/Oslund Badgers7 3 0 N Jensen Bandits 7 3 0 Lac Physio Shooters 5 6 0 NS Sports U16 Rage 3 5 1 Stettler Heat 1 9 0 Alta Kaizen Warriors 0 9 0

Pts 18 15 14 14 10 7 2 0

Thursday’s Games Athletics 10 Heat 3 Panthers 15 Shooters 3 Bandits 13 Heat 6 Rage 9 Badgers 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 40 29 .580 34 31 .523 34 32 .515 31 36 .463 26 42 .382 Central Division W L Pct 34 29 .540 34 32 .515 32 33 .492 33 35 .485 33 35 .485 West Division W L Pct 40 26 .606 36 30 .545 34 33 .507 33 34 .493 31 38 .449

Toronto New York Baltimore Boston Tampa Bay Detroit Kansas City Minnesota Chicago Cleveland Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas Houston

GB — 4 4.5 8 13.5 GB — 1.5 3 3.5 3.5 GB — 4 6.5 7.5 10.5

Friday’s Games Toronto 4, Baltimore 0 Minnesota 2, Detroit 0 Boston 10, Cleveland 3 Atlanta 4, L.A. Angels 3 Kansas City 7, Chicago White Sox 2 Tampa Bay 6, Houston 1 N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Texas 1, Seattle 0 Today’s Games Kansas City (Duffy 3-5) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 2-4), 12:10 a.m.

Cleveland (House 0-1) at Boston (Peavy 1-4), 2:05 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 6-4) at Baltimore (B.Norris 5-5), 2:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Deduno 2-4) at Detroit (A.Sanchez 2-2), 2:08 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 3-3) at Houston (Cosart 5-5), 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 6-2) at Atlanta (Floyd 1-2),

5:15 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 4-4) at Oakland (Kazmir 7-2), 8:05 p.m.

Texas (J.Saunders 0-2) at Seattle (E.Ramirez 1-4), 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Minnesota at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Cleveland at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

Toronto at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Atlanta, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games L.A. Angels at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Texas at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

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

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Atlanta 35 31 .530 Washington 35 31 .530 Miami 34 32 .515 New York 30 37 .448 Philadelphia 28 37 .431 Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 40 28 .588 St. Louis 35 32 .522 Pittsburgh 33 34 .493 Cincinnati 32 34 .485 Chicago 27 38 .415 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 43 24 .642 Los Angeles 35 33 .515 Colorado 31 35 .470 Arizona 29 40 .420 San Diego 28 39 .418

GB — — 1 5.5 6.5 GB — 4.5 6.5 7 11.5 GB — 8.5 11.5 15 15

Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh 8, Miami 6, 13 innings N.Y. Mets 6, San Diego 2 Atlanta 4, L.A. Angels 3 Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 5 St. Louis 1, Washington 0 Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Colorado at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Today’s Games Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 4-6) at Philadelphia (Buchanan 1-3), 1:05 p.m.

Colorado (Bergman 0-1) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 4-3), 2:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 3-7) at Miami (Wolf 1-2), 2:10 p.m.

San Diego (Hahn 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 2-6), 2:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Latos 0-0) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 4-4), 5:15 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 6-2) at Atlanta (Floyd 1-2), 5:15 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 6-4) at St. Louis (S.Miller 7-5), 5:15 p.m.

Arizona (Collmenter 4-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Haren 6-4), 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

San Diego at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Washington at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Colorado at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Atlanta, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at St. Louis, 6:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

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

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto 020 Baltimore 000

000 000

020 000

— —

4 0

4 9

0 1

Hutchison, Cecil (8), McGowan (8) and D.Navarro; U.Jimenez, Tom.Hunter (7), Stinson (8) and C.Joseph. W—Hutchison 5-4. L—U.Jimenez 2-8.

Sv—McGowan (1). HRs—Toronto, J.Francisco (11).

Minnesota 001 Detroit 000

000 000

001 000

— —

2 0

4 6

1 1

Gibson, Fien (8), Perkins (9) and K.Suzuki; Smyly, Alburquerque (7), Chamberlain (8), Nathan (9), Coke (9) and Avila, Holaday. W—Gibson 6-5. L— Smyly 3-5. Sv—Perkins (17). HRs—Minnesota, E.Escobar (2).

Cleveland 021 Boston 032

000 000

000 41x

— —

3 7 10 11

1 1

Masterson, Crockett (3), Atchison (4), Rzepczynski (6), Shaw (7), Outman (7), Allen (8) and Y.Gomes, Kottaras; Lackey, A.Miller (7), Badenhop (9) and Pierzynski. W—Lackey 8-4. L—Masterson 4-5.

HRs—Cleveland, C.Santana (8). Boston, Bogaerts (6).

K. City Chicago

510 110

000 000

100 000

— —

7 12 2 7

0 0

Guthrie, Crow (6), Bueno (7), K.Herrera (8), Ti.Collins (9) and S.Perez; Quintana, Carroll (7) and Flowers. W—Guthrie 3-6. L—Quintana 3-7.

T. Bay Houston

020 000

020 100

002 000

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6 11 1 4

0 1

(8), Farnsworth (9) and J.Castro. W—Cobb 2-4. L— McHugh 4-4. HRs—Houston, Singleton (4).

Texas Seattle

000 000

000 000

001 000

— —

1 0

4 2

0 1

Tepesch, Frasor (7), Sh.Tolleson (8), Soria (9) and Chirinos; F.Hernandez, Rodney (9) and Zunino.

W—Sh.Tolleson 2-1. L—F.Hernandez 8-2. Sv— Soria (14).

L.A.A. Atlanta

001 400

INTERLEAGUE 000 020 — 000 00x —

3 4

6 8

0 1

C.Wilson, Morin (7), Jepsen (8) and Conger; Harang, Hale (7), S.Simmons (8), Kimbrel (9) and Gattis. W—Harang 5-5. L—C.Wilson 7-6. Sv—Kimbrel (19). HRs—Atlanta, Gattis (14), C.Johnson (3).

Chicago Phila.

NATIONAL LEAGUE 000 200 000 — 000 000 001 —

2 1

4 5

0 0

Arrieta, Strop (8), N.Ramirez (9) and Jo.Baker; R.Hernandez, Hollands (6), Bastardo (7), De Fratus (9) and Ruiz. W—Arrieta 2-1. L—R.Hernandez 2-5.

Sv—N.Ramirez (2). HRs—Chicago, S.Castro (9).

San Diego 020 New York 010

000 210

000 20x

— —

2 5 6 11

0 0

Cashner, Quackenbush (7), Patton (7), Stauffer (8) and Rivera; Colon, Edgin (8), Black (8), Familia (9) and Teagarden. W—Colon 6-5. L—Cashner 2-6.

HRs—San Diego, Rivera (4).

Pitts 201 Miami 011

030 000 000 004

000 000

2 — 0 —

817 0 6 9 2

(13 innings) Locke, Ju.Wilson (9), Grilli (9), Melancon (9), J.Gomez (10) and R.Martin; Eovaldi, Da.Jennings (5), Hatcher (8), Cishek (10), A.Ramos (11), M.Dunn (13) and Mathis. W—J.Gomez 1-2. L—M.Dunn 5-4.

HRs—Pittsburgh, S.Marte (5), Polanco (1). Miami, Stanton (18).

Cincinnati 100 Milwaukee 000

040 100

001 400

— —

6 5

9 9

0 4

Bailey, LeCure (7), Ondrusek (7), Broxton (8), A.Chapman (9) and Mesoraco; Garza, Duke (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy. W—Broxton 2-0. L— Fr.Rodriguez 2-2. Sv—A.Chapman (11). HRs— Milwaukee, K.Davis (11).

Wash.

St. Louis

000 010

000 000

000 00x

— —

0 1

2 3

0 2

Zimmermann and Lobaton; Lynn, Rosenthal (9) and Y.Molina. W—Lynn 7-4. L—Zimmermann 5-3. Sv— Rosenthal (18). HRs—St. Louis, Ma.Adams (4).

Cobb, Boxberger (7), Jo.Peralta (8), Yates (9), McGee (9) and Hanigan; McHugh, Zeid (6), D.Downs

Soccer Ivory Coast

FIFA WORLD CUP At Brazil GP 1 1 1 1

GROUP A W L T 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0

GP Netherlands 1 Chile 1 Australia 1 Spain 1

GROUP B W L T 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0

Brazil Mexico Cameroon Croatia

Colombia Japan Greece

GP 0 0 0

GROUP C W L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GF 3 1 0 1 GF 5 3 1 1 GF 0 0 0

GA Pt 1 3 0 3 1 0 3 0 GA Pt 1 3 1 3 3 0 5 0 GA Pt 0 0 0 0 0 0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

GP 0 0 0 0

GROUP D W L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GF 0 0 0 0

GA Pt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GP Honduras 0 Ecuador 0 France 0 Switzerland 0

GROUP E W L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GF 0 0 0 0

GA Pt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GP Argentina 0 Nigeria 0 Iran 0 Bosnia-Herz. 0

GROUP F W L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Costa Rica Uruguay England Italy

GF 0 0 0 0

GA Pt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GP United States 0 Germany 0 Portugal 0 Ghana 0

GROUP G W L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GF 0 0 0 0

GA Pt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GP Algeria 0 South Korea 0 Belgium 0 Russia 0

GROUP H W L T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

GF 0 0 0 0

GA Pt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Thursday, June 12 Brazil 3 Croatia 1 Friday, June 13 Mexico 1 Cameroon 0 Spain 1 Netherlands 5 Chile 3 Australia 1 Saturday, June 14

Greece at Colombia, 10 p.m.

Costa Rica at Uruguay, 1 p.m.

Italy at England, 4 p.m.

Japan at Ivory Coast, 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 15 Ecuador at Switzerland, 10 p.m.

Honduras at France, ` p.m.

Bosnia-Herzegovina at Argentina, 4 p.m.

Monday, June 16 Portugal at Germany, 10 p.m.

Nigeria at Iran, ` p.m.

United States at Ghana, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, June 17 Algeria at Belgium, 10 p.m.

Mexico at Brazil, 1 p.m.

South Korea at Russia, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, June 18 Netherlands at Australia, 10 p.m.

Chile at Spain, 1 p.m.

Croatia at Cameroon, 4 p.m.

Golf U.S. OPEN Pinehurst Resort and Country Club Second round Martin Kaymer Brendon Todd Kevin Na Brandt Snedeker Brooks Koepka Dustin Johnson Brendon De Jonge Keegan Bradley Henrik Stenson Matt Kuchar Rory McIlroy Chris Kirk Jordan Spieth Adam Scott Francesco Molinari Erik Compton Ian Poulter Hideki Matsuyama Rickie Fowler Steve Stricker J.B. Holmes Danny Willett Marcel Siem Jason Day Justin Rose Aaron Baddeley Jimmy Walker Victor Dubuisson Seung-Yul Noh Fran Quinn Lucas Bjerregaard Graeme McDowell Garth Mulroy Jim Furyk Gary Woodland Daniel Berger Scott Langley

65-65 69-67 68-69 69-68 70-68 69-69 68-70 69-69 69-69 69-70 71-68 71-68 69-70 73-67 69-71 72-68 70-70 69-71 70-70 70-71 70-71 70-71 70-71 73-68 72-69 70-71 70-72 70-72 70-72 68-74 70-72 68-74 71-72 73-70 72-71 72-71 72-71

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130 136 137 137 138 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 140 140 140 140 140 140 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142 142 143 143 143 143 143

Patrick Reed Webb Simpson Phil Mickelson Billy Horschel Kenny Perry Shiv Kapur Alex Cejka Bill Haas Stewart Cink Harris English Ernie Els Louis Oosthuizen Retief Goosen Bo Van Pelt Kevin Tway Cody Gribble Ryan Moore Sergio Garcia Boo Weekley a-Matthew Fitzpatrick Russell Henley Clayton Rask Kevin Stadler Justin Leonard Paul Casey Toru Taniguchi Zac Blair Zach Johnson Billy Hurley III Nicholas Lindheim

71-72 71-72 70-73 75-68 74-69 73-70 73-71 72-72 72-72 69-75 74-70 71-73 73-71 72-72 72-72 72-72 76-68 73-71 71-73 71-73 70-74 73-71 77-68 75-70 70-75 72-73 71-74 71-74 71-74 72-73

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143 143 143 143 143 143 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 145 145 145 145 145 145 145 145

Didn’t make the cut Casey Wittenberg Andres Echavarria Hudson Swafford Mark Wilson Shane Lowry Luke Donald Bubba Watson Charl Schwartzel Jason Dufner

74-72 74-72 76-70 70-76 73-73 77-69 76-70 70-76 72-74

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146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146 146

Hunter Mahan Rod Pampling a-Cory Whitsett a-Hunter Stewart Kyoung-Hoon Lee Matt Jones Angel Cabrera Miguel Angel Jimenez Thongchai Jaidee Joost Luiten Matt Dobyns a-Brian Campbell Ken Duke John Senden Nicolas Colsaerts Darren Clarke Geoff Ogilvy Ryan Blaum Luke Guthrie Jim Renner 147ChrisDoak Andrea Pavan Stephen Gallacher David Toms Lucas Glover Ryan Palmer David Gossett Sam Love a-Cameron Wilson Chad Collins Brian Stuard Matt Every Roberto Castro Lee Westwood Nick Watney Wen-Chong Liang Justin Thomas Oliver Fisher Joe Ogilvie Henrik Norlander Pablo Larrazabal

74-72 73-73 77-69 75-71 74-72 74-72 74-72 72-74 73-73 70-76 74-72 76-70 75-72 71-76 72-75 75-72 73-74 73-74 73-74 74-73 74-73 75-72 73-74 73-74 79-69 74-74 76-72 76-72 78-70 74-74 75-73 76-72 74-74 75-73 76-72 74-74 75-73 74-75 73-76 70-79 71-78

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Mood light ahead of game against Scotland TORONTO — The forwards on Canada’s men’s rugby team had just finished working on

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scrums and lineouts. They then gathered together with a hand in, breaking with a chant of “Bone yard!”

On the heels of a shocking loss to Japan last week, the mood was light Friday on the eve of Canada’s international Test against Scotland.

“The forwards always have to go do extra work, whether it’s scrums or lineouts or grafting,” flanker Jebb Sinclair said, when queried about the chant. “Obviously the backs are over there getting a tan

and shining their boots and stuff. So we’ve come up with a few chants we use when it’s just forwards. ’Boiler room’ is another one. ’Bone yard’ is one. Anything that sounds like it’s hard work and not pretty.”

The 16th-ranked Canadians will have their work cut out for them against No. 8 Scotland.

They’re looking to bounce back from a shocking 34-25 loss to Japan last Saturday in Burnaby, B.C., a game that saw the Canadians cough up a comfortable 25-9 halftime lead.

Net offence is yards passing, plus yards rushing, minus team losses such as yards lost on broken plays.

Nichols 1-4.

Receiving B.C.: Adekolu 5-78, Haidara 3-55, Taylor 2-41, Tomusiak 1-40, Burnham 2-29, Antolin 1-22, Williams 1-20, Lochard 2-8. Edmonton: Dell 6-75, Stamps 3-54, Thomas 3-38, Bowman 5-38, Guyton 3-25, McRae 3-21, Barret 1-16, Charles 1-4.

Passing B.C.: Partridge 6-11-108-1-1, Beck 6-15-113-0-1, Glenn 5-8-72-0-0. Edmonton: Reilly 11-12-117-1-0, Nichols 9-12-107-0-0, White 3-9-28-0-1, Crompton 3-8-19-0-0.

The focus of the week’s preparations for Saturday’s game was pretty simple, said coach Kieran Crowley.

“To move on, really,” said Crowley. “We were pretty disappointed obviously on Monday. Well, we were disappointed straight after the game and that carried through. But we had to get that out of the system. Scotland is a new challenge, and we’re focused on our game. . . hopefully we’ve got that in order for (Saturday).”

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CFL labour dispute ends

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — B.C. Lions kicker Paul McCallum is looking forward to turning his attention back to football.

The CFL’s labour dispute officially ended Friday when the CFL board of governors ratified the tentative agreement reached last weekend. The CFL Players’ Association accepted the five-year deal Thursday.

The agreement ends a contentious, sometimes bitter four-month negotiation that had CFL players on the brink of a strike.

While the 44-year-old McCallum, the Lions player rep and the league’s oldest active player, was critical of the agreement, he’s happy to have a resolution.

“It’s a relief,” he said during a telephone interview Friday. “I didn’t think it was going to be as much of a distraction as it turned out to be at the end. It’s much better now for the players. It’s over with, we can concentrate on practising and not if

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Canada’s Rory MacDonald says he doesn’t feel any pressure VANCOUVER — Rory MacDonald says he doesn’t feel any added pressure to carry Canada’s mixed martial arts torch in Georges St-Pierre’s absence.

In fact, his mentor’s hiatus from the UFC makes McDonald’s quest to reach the top of the welterweight division a little easier.

“It opens things up for me to get to where I want to be,” MacDonald said this week. “I’ve learned a lot from Georges. No extra pressure, I’ve just got to be

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we’re going to play so it’s a positive.”

There were plenty of other players who complained publicly about the deal, which includes a $5-million salary cap the first year, more than $1 million less than the union initially wanted but a $600,000 increase over last season.

“It’s definitely a lot of stress off my shoulders,” defensive back Eric Fraser, the Ottawa Redblacks’ player rep, said of the deal being finalized. “It’s good to finally get the vote done and let the players’ voice be heard and get on with playing football.”

Ottawa quarterback Henry Burris, affectionately known as Smilin’ Hank, said he now has another reason to smile.

“For me, I just try to stay busy just so whatever the situation was coming to was going to be what it was,” Burris said. “But once I heard the news, it definitely put a smile on my face.”

The CFLPA didn’t provide a breakdown of votes.

A majority of players — 50 per cent plus one — on at least six clubs had to vote in favour of the deal for it to be accepted.

“I know exactly all the figures and I’m not going to tell you,” McCallum said. “We can sit there and talk about shoulda, coulda, woulda . . . but at the end of the day it’s over so we just have to put it behind us.

All the guys agreed to take it so I guess that speaks volumes.”

With an agreement in place, the 2014 regular season will kick off June 26 as scheduled. The deal runs through May 15, 2019, or the first day of training camp that year.

But if the combined revenues of the nine teams — excluding the Grey Cup — increase by more than $27 million in any year of the agreement, both sides will renegotiate a boost in the cap starting in the 2016 season.

The contract also changes player classifications from non-imports and imports to nationals and internationals. To be considered a national, the player must be a Canadian citizen when he signed his first contract, classified as a non-import before May 31, 2014, or have lived in Canada for five years before turning 18.

myself.”

It remains to be seen if St-Pierre will return to the sport he dominated, but the 24-year-old MacDonald — who goes by the nickname “Ares” — is intent on continuing his climb this Saturday at UFC 174 when he takes on Tyron (The Chosen One) Woodley in the co-main event at Rogers Arena.

Both men have their sights set on Johny Hendricks’ welterweight title, with MacDonald ranked as the No. 2 challenger and Woodley at No. 3.

Shy in front of the media glare, MacDonald said he just has to continue working on what has brought him to this point.

they stack up against CFL competition.

Their first opponent is none other than the defending Grey Cup champions.

Ottawa will take on the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Mosaic Stadium in a pre-season game Saturday. It will be the first ever game for the Redblacks as the CFL tries to make a go of it in the nation’s capital for a third time.

“We definitely are excited,” said Ottawa quarterback Henry Burris. “We want this to count. It means something finally and that’s what we all practice towards. You get tired of practising against the same guys and now we get to play against some new faces.”

Head coach Rick Campbell said the team will be travelling with 70 players, and added anyone who travels to Regina can expect to see playing time regardless of the score.

That includes getting a look at all four quarterbacks in action — Burris, Thomas DeMarco, Danny O’Brien and recently signed Alex Carder.

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Forget the glass slipper — these princesses wear running shoes!

The Only Women’s Fitness Fun Run in support of Family Services of Central Alberta drew 830 racers

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Sabrina Wayne was all smiles with her finishers’ flowers from Dentooms, ribbon from Family Services of Central Alberta and a princess rhinestone necklace around her neck.

from 7 months to 83 years young.

Young and old walked and ran the trials on Saturday, May 10, at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area. Top honours went to Willa Wanke in the 10 km. The five-km winner was Jillian Stewart, edging out Bailey Johnson by just one second. The three-km was won by Selena Delahunty.

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FRONT EDIBLE PLANTS WALK People who want to learn about edible plants found in Central Alberta can drop by the Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Sunday. The edible plant walk will start at 1 p.m. Admission is by suggested donation of $3 per person or $10 per family. For more details, call 403-346-2010. The nature centre is located at 6300 45th Ave. in Red Deer.

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Fugitive captured WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY A fugitive wanted in connection with the attempted armed robbery of a Central Alberta campground was caught early Friday after a massive RCMP search effort.

Dillon Bristow, who police had considered armed and dangerous, was apprehended and taken into custody at about 12:30 a.m. after an RCMP search of a Bowdenarea property. No one was injured in the arrest.

Numerous units were involved in the search, including the Calgary Emergency Response Team, Police Dog Services, an

RCMP helicopter, Red Deer RCMP. Red Deer GIS, ALERT, Olds RCMP, Innisfail RCMP, Blackfalds RCMP, Didsbury RCMP, and Red Deer Traffic Services.

RCMP are thanking the residents of Bowden for their co-operation.

Arrest warrants had been issued for Bristow, 20, of Innisfail. He was previously charged with robbery with a firearm, possession of property obtained by crime, possession of a firearm, trafficking cocaine, wearing a disguise with intent to commit an offence, using a firearm for an offence, and

FAREWELL TO EXCHANGE STUDENTS NOTRE DAME GETS SKILLS AID As part of the building opportunities program, Ecole Secondaire Notre Dame High School has finished building a new driveway, fence and shed with the help of Lowes and Skills Canada. A $7,700 education program grant helped the students participate in a residential construction by going on site and taking part in the construction of a house in the community.

A 24-passenger bus and a 16-foot job trailer carries the tools and students to the job site each day. The grant enabled students to take part in the project by building the shed, a chain-link fence and a 150-foot gravel driveway, doing everything from surveying and stakeout to preparing a development permit, drilling post holes and framing and siding the storage shed.

ABORIGINAL DAY AT FORT It is Aboriginal Day at Fort Normandeau on June 21. The day will be a celebration of First Nations’ culture. The event runs from 1 to 4 p.m.

Admission is by suggested donation of $3 per person or $10 per family. For more details, call 403346-2010. To get to Fort Normandeau, travel west on 32nd Street across Hwy 2. Turn north on RR280 and follow it to the end at 28054B Township Road 382.

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As teacher Casey Yan and Student Helen Zheng dance, Angela Fan plays the Pi Pa, a traditional Chinese instrument, during a farewell ceremony at Westpark Middle School on Friday. Nine Chinese students from Suzhou, Jiangsu, China who have been studying in Red Deer for the past three months will return home to China this week.

The nine students attended Grade 8 classes while at the school. This is the second year that Westpark Middle School has hosted Chinese exchange students.

failing to comply with a probation order.

The charges stem from a June 5 incident in which two suspects attempted to steal a vehicle from a camper at Kelly’s Campground, west of Innisfail.

After a truck stolen from Pine Lake was found in Bowden, one of the suspects in the attempted armed robbery was arrested and taken into custody.

Michael Holt, 33, was charged on June 7 with multiple offences. He is expected to appear in Red Deer provincial court on June 17.

Cooking oil blamed for fire A cooking fire in Morrisroe did between $3,000 and $5,000 worth of damages on Thursday evening.

Fire prevention officer Wes Van Bavel said a pot left unattended on a stove in a basement suite kitchen started the fire.

Bavel said a resident was reheating oil in a pot when he went outside to chat with a roommate.

“Thankfully it was a minor fire but it was once again one of our most common residential fires,” said Bavel. “It was unattended cooking, which is the No. 1 leading (cause of) fires in Red Deer and North America.”

Bavel said the more the oil is used, the more it breaks down and reaches its ignition temperature. This was the second time the oil was used.

When the residents noticed the smoke and went back into the building, they threw a bunch of wet clothing from the laundry hamper onto the burning fire and pot.

Bavel said they realized the smoke was too much and then they went back outside and called 911.

“When they went in, it was down lower, somewhat OK,” said Bavel. “Because normally a couple minutes in a smoke-filled room, you’re probably not coming out. They were lucky because of the way the smoke was venting out of the basement.”

Bavel said they do not recommend putting water on a fire nor do they recommend going back into the house. He said in this case the wet clothing likely saved the whole house.

He reminds homeowners and tenants to ensure they have working smoke alarms. In this case, there two non-working alarms in the building.

“If this fire occurred in the middle of the night, the chances of anyone waking up is slim,” he said. “When you go to sleep, your sense of smell decreases. Of course, one of the main byproducts of a fire is carbon dioxide, which we call the silent killer. ... The only friend you have when you are sleeping in the event of an emergency is that smoke alarm.”

The damage was limited to the stove and ceiling.

from 1 to 3 p.m. with registrations open to everyone aged 14 years and older. The pingpong table is free to use and will remain up until the fall. Paddles and balls are available at the parklet.

“We wanted to make sure access to the ping-pong table is as barrier-free as possible,” said city planning intern Josh de Jong. “People should be able to get out and have fun enjoying the table without having to bring their own paddles and balls.”

The parklets are meant to provide small public spaces where people will have an opportunity to sit, eat, chat, play a game of ping-pong and enjoy Lacombe’s historic downtown.

The collision occurred at the intersection of Hwy 20 and the Aspelund Road.

Traffic was disrupted for an hour for the investigation and cleanup.

Sylvan Lake RCMP say the driver of the Porsche provided a breath sample that measured four times the legal alcohol limit.

Robert D.J. Ritchie, 39, is charged with impaired driving, driving a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level over .08 and dangerous driving.

Ritchie was released from custody on $2,500 cash bail, along with other conditions.

He is scheduled to appear in Red Deer provincial court on June 27.

Man faces charges in stabbing

Rec plan approved

An 18-year-old man is in custody after a 16-year-old was stabbed in a street brawl in Red Deer in the early hours on Thursday.

RCMP said the victim was stabbed during a fist fight involving a number of people at 39th Street and 40th Avenue around 1:30 a.m. The victim, a male youth, made his way to the nearby East 40th Pub for help and police and ambulance were called.

The victim was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. He was last reported in stable condition and is expected to be released from hospital in the next few days, said police.

A suspect fled the area on foot and police called in a dog team. The search led to a downtown residence and an area of Ross Street and Gaetz Avenue was blocked off after 2 a.m.

The suspect was not found there but was picked up about 9:30 a.m. at a residence near 50th Street and 50th Avenue.

Victor L’Hirondelle has been charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public.

L’Hirondelle appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Friday. He remains in custody and returns to court on June 17.

A Sylvan Lake man has been charged after a speeding Porsche rear-ended a Volkswagen on Hwy 20 near Sylvan Lake late Thursday.

The vehicle that was struck then spun out of control into the path of a southbound tractor trailer unit carrying oilfield service equipment.

No one was seriously injured in the crash, although both the Porsche and the Volkswagen sustained heavy damage.

Lacombe County has approved a longawaited recreation plan amid a warning from one councillor that some multimillion-dollar funding requests may be coming its way.

The plan offers a comprehensive look at recreation in the county, as well as policies on operational and capital funding.

Which organizations are eligible for county support, such as other municipalities and agricultural societies, are outlined, as well as the county’s expectations for providing funding.

For instance, the county wants to be involved in the planning of facilities and be provided with updated financial information on costs and operating expenses.

County residents also should not have to pay higher fees than urban users for facilities supported by the county.

Coun. Ken Wigmore supports the recreation plan but warned council that there are $50 million to $60 million worth of projects in the planning stages in Lacombe and Blackfalds and the county will likely be asked to contribute millions. “That is my concern. If we have a plan to put that money away — fine,” said Wigmore.

Coun. Barb Shepherd agreed that if the county is going to be facing some very large funding requests, it must start planning for recreation three to five years down the road.

While the plan outlines how the county can assess and fund requests, it does not hold council to approving all requests, said Coun. Brenda Knight. “Quite frankly, this plan does not say at the end of the day we will do all these things.”

Council unanimously approved the plan and policies dealing with capital and operating funding.

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

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MOTORCYCLE RIDE FOR DAD The Rural Alberta Telus Motorcycle Ride for Dad is bringing prostrate cancer testing to Red Deer on June 21. Men over the age of 40 are invited to join the Ride for Dad at the Red Deer Sportsman and Outdoor Adventures Show and get your prostate checked at Westerner Park. It is just as simple as a blood test. Roughly 90 per cent of prostate cancer can be successfully treated with early detection. To ride, volunteer or donate visit www.ridefordad.ca.

A Birch Bay resident will have to move a shed and garage off Lacombe County land.

The town has been warning the property owner since 2008 that the two structures are partially located on municipal reserve land on the northwest side of Gull Lake but nothing has been done.

The owner recently wrote the county asking for a relaxation for the shed and garage, which have been in place for 30 years.

Eight other property owners signed a letter supporting her request.

County commissioner Terry Hager said two other residents had encroachments in the area and agreed to move them. The garage and shed don’t have foundations and could be easily shifted.

Hager said it wouldn’t seem fair to the others if one property owner was allowed a relaxation.

Council voted against allowing a relaxation.

Encroachments on county municipal and environmental reserves is an ongoing problem around the lakes, where residents have built barbecues, stairs, docks and other facilities on land they don’t own.

Just this spring, a new encroachment popped up in the Wilson’s Beach area on the east side of Gull Lake.

Mini-parks plan kicks off

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Lacombe is kicking off its pilot project of small temporary park spaces, called parklets, downtown this weekend.

Today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., city council and staff will be at one of three downtown parklets, at 50th Street between 50th and 51st Avenue. The other two are located at the Flat Iron Block parking lot and the Lacombe Provincial Building, at 5102 50th Ave. A fundraiser barbecue will be hosted by Youth Unlimited, with proceeds going towards the YU-Turn Youth Centre.

“Part of creating great public spaces is ensuring that there are things for people to do and the parklets are great additions to our downtown,” said Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie.

A ping-pong tournament will be held

Charges follow crash

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Seven religious sites to see in Brazil

BY CORRIE MITCHELL ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Watch a soccer match or two during World Cup 2014 and you’ll see players making the Sign of the Cross before penalty shots, after missed goals and walking in and out of the stadium — soccer is perhaps the most religiously expressive sport in the world.

To boot, for many fans worldwide, the World Cup is the ultimate High Holy Day. And this year, the Cup is being hosted by Brazil, which has the largest number of Catholics in the world.

In honor of the World Cup and all the religion in the air, here are seven inspiring religious sites tourists might see when they’re not worshipping at the stadiums.

1. Christ the Redeemer The most well known of Brazil’s religious sites, the statue of Christ the Redeemer, completed in 1931, stands 98 feet tall with outstretched arms that measure 92 feet. The monument was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007. The statue stands atop Corcovado peak and boasts incredible views of Rio de Janeiro. Travelers can take a train, cab, or van up to the base of the statue.

2. Monastery of St. Benedict This monastery was founded in 1590 in Rio de Janeiro by a group of Benedictine monks from Bahia. Located on a seaside hill, the church has a rather plain exterior and lavish interior — a contrast typical of Portuguese art. The Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament is full of ornate, gold-coated woodcarvings, spiral columns, and ceiling panels depicting Benedictine saints. On Sundays at 10 a.m., the monastery holds open Mass with Gregorian chants.

3. Basilica of the National Shrine of Our

Lady Aparecida According to its website, this is the largest shrine in the world dedicated to Mary, Jesus’ mother — and there’s a bit of a story behind it. In 1717, three fishermen had been ordered to fish in the River Paraiba (which runs beside the Basilica) to provide for a banquet honoring a visiting governor.

After a while, they still hadn’t caught a single fish when one of the men decided to throw his net in for the last time. He pulled out a statue of the Virgin Mary.

The statue of Our Lady of Aparecida is currently held in the National Shrine, where some 11 million pilgrims visit each year, including three popes.

4. Sanctuary of Dom Bosco Italian Dom Bosco, the patron saint of Brasilia, had a dream in 1883 of a future utopian city, one that would rule justly and provide for the nation’s people from a specific location in the new world — between 15 and 20 degrees latitude. Bosco’s dream inspired the building of Brasilia and, in his honor, the Sanctuary of Dom Bosco was built precisely on the 15th parallel. All four walls of the sanctuary are made from stained glass in 12 shades of blue and dotted with white squares. The sanctuary is open to visitors 24 hours a day — by day the windows filter the sunlight, bathing the space in a soft blue, while at night the sanctuary is illuminated only by a chandelier made from 7,400 pieces of glass and symbolic of Jesus, the light of the world.

5. Bonfim Church There are more than a few interesting rituals associated with this eighteenth-century church that exemplify the syncretism of Catholic and African religions. To start, a Portuguese Navy captain, caught in a storm at sea, vowed to bring an image of Christ crucified to Brazil if he survived. In 1754, the image was brought into the Church of

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Our Lord of Bonfim, now a pilgrimage sight for miracle seekers. In fact, the Room of Miracles is lined with replicas of body parts healed or in need of healing and small photographs of the grateful.

Bonfim Church is well known for its colorful wish ribbons, tied around the wearer’s wrist with three knots — each representing a wish — and worn until they fall off, at which point the wishes should be granted.

Each ribbon is 47 centimeters long, the length of the right arm of the statue of Jesus at the church’s altar.

6. The Metropolitan Cathedral This cathedral serves as the seat of the archbishop of Rio and honors Saint Sebastian, the city’s patron saint. In 1979, it replaced a number of old, smaller churches that had served as cathedrals since 1676.

Its conical design is significant for a few reasons and was inspired by the Mayan pyramids.

However, it differs in its circular shape, which signifies the proximity of believers to God, and is reminiscent of the miter worn by bishops. The four stained-glass windows that stretch floor to ceiling meet at the top to form a transparent cross.

7. Our Lady of the Rosary of the Blacks This church, noticeable because of its blue façade, took almost 100 years to erect because the slaves who built it were only permitted to work on it at night so as to not interfere with their daytime work.

Sunday Mass blends Catholicism with African rituals, including the playing of African drums and burning of incense. The interior features images of black saints such as Saints Iphigenia, Benedict and Elesbao.

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Today Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of Sunnybrook United Church will be held on June 14, 7 p.m. with a special program in the Sanctuary with refreshments to follow, and on June 15, 10:30 a.m. for Worship Service with guest speaker Rev. Stewart Hewlett with birthday cake to follow. Contact 403-347-6073 or office@ sunnybrook.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS United Kids Camp 2014 — It’s a Beautiful day in Our Neighbourhood — will run Aug. 11 to 15, 9 a.m. to noon for children ages five to 11 years at Gaetz Memorial United Church which will co-sponsor the camp with Sunnybrook United Church. Parent and youth volunteers welcome. Call 403347-2244, or 403-3476073, see Facebook, or gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca.

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Take one LOTS OF VARIETY IN CENTRAL ALBERTA THEATRE’S ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL

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Ashley Mercia as Janie and Dan Vasquez as Paul Doyle rehearse the one-act play The Little Death in the Nickle Studio at the Memorial Centre this week.

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Love, death and zoo stories are part of this year’s One Act Play Festival for Central Alberta Theatre.

“It’s going to be really interesting. People will be taken on quite a ride,” predicted Cynthia Edwards, a producer of the festival that runs from Thursday to Saturday, June 19 to 21, at the Nickle Studio, upstairs at the Memorial Centre.

The first part of the evening will be made up of four published short plays that run the gamut from serious to zany — sometimes all in the same production.

“All the scripts are really strong — and so are the performances,” added Edwards, who’s co-producing the plays with Pam Miller.

Please Have a Seat and Someone Will Be With You Shortly is a short one-act by Garth Wingfield about two people waiting for appointments with two different psychiatrists. David and Sue usually sit in the waiting room, reading magazines. But on this day, they decide to strike up a conversation — with unexpected results.

The two characters will be portrayed by CAT veteran Tara Rorke and relative newcomer Mike Mohr, who played the lead in the recent production of One

Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Edwards joked that Mohr risks being forever typecast after playing yet another character within the mental health system in this funny-serious 10-minute play, directed by Sarah Gibson.

The Little Death and Asphalt Green are two one-acts being helmed by CAT acting veteran Craig Scott, who’s taking his first foray into directing.

The Little Death, by Peter M. Floyd, is about a couple who are anticipating their first night together when the guy gets some alarming news about his mortality.

“He confronts Love and Death at the same time,” said Edwards of this short four-character play.

Asphalt Green, by Rogelio Martinez, is about a priest who takes a stand against a new apartment project to protect the parking lot that serves as a baseball field for the neighbourhood.

The drama with comic touches has Father Joseph butting heads with the project’s contractor, said Edwards, who noted CAT actor and Red Deer College alumni Jason Steele co-stars.

The fourth play in the first half of the evening is The Babel of Circular Labyrinths, about art, time and the relationship between fantasy and reality, by Dan

Nigro.

A blind man sits under a light in a library and asks a woman who enters certain riddles, such as: why is a raven like a writing desk, what is the nature of labryrinths, and why doesn’t a blind man choose to sit in the dark?

The woman visitor bears a knife. The two-character play is directed by Erik Anderson.

After intermission, three Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School students will present Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story.

The hour-long one-act play is about two characters, Peter and Jerry, who meet on a bench in New York City’s Central Park. Peter is a middle-class professional with a wife, two daughters, two cats and two parakeets. Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man, desperate to have a meaningful conversation.

He intrudes on Peter’s space and forces him to listen to a story about the reason behind his zoo visit.

The action unfolds in real time, includes ironic humor, dramatic suspense and an unsettling climax.

It’s directed by student Elena Stalwick.

Although there are no locally written plays in this year’s festival, Edwards said the chosen mix is sure to provide an emotional thrill ride, culminating in a thought-provoking evening of theatre.

Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. shows are $20 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre, or at the door. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

22 Jump Street laughs at itself, again 22 Jump Street Three stars (out of four) Rated: 14A If it seemed Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill couldn’t possibly exceed their over-the-top buddy cop antics of 21 Jump Street, you lost that bet.

They did it by doing the same thing, only bigger, in the considerably zanier and even more self-referential sequel 22 Jump Street.

There’s nothing these guys won’t do (or redo) for a laugh, the bigger the better and as stupidly as possible.

While everything is writ PETER larger, including the action sequences and the anger of HOWELL the police captain (Ice Cube), it’s also mirthfully familiar.

Hill’s Schmidt is still the bumbling dork to Tatum’s handsome jock Jenko.

They’re still going undercover as students, to college this time instead of high school, and trying once again to discover the source of a lethal new street drug.

“I’m the first person in my family to pretend to go to college,” Jenko deadpans.

This pair may be as dim as a small appliance bulb, but they pass comedy chemistry class with straight As. They’re also once again under the anarchic guidance of co-directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the pair behind the lovable The LEGO Movie earlier this year.

22 Jump Street may sound like an easy cash grab in yet another sequel franchise, but Lord and Miller mercilessly riff on that very idea. This is serious meta mayhem, always referring back to the fact that they’ve already made this movie — just as 21 Jump Street winked at how the film was recycling ideas from a defunct 1980s TV series.

22 Jump Street is bookended by references to how sequels always get out of control and usually suck.

Paradoxically, these in-jokes are the funniest part of

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Jonah Hill, left, and Channing Tatum star in Columbia Pictures’ 22 Jump Street. the movie, as Tatum and Hill pose for one fake movie poster after another, including a sci-fi sequel called 2121 Jump Street.

Less hilarious is the humour that skates near the edge of bad taste and arguably goes over it: the relentless jokes with a homophobic subtext and the scene where a woman gets repeatedly punched in the head by a man. (Sure, she literally asks for it, but it’s the lowest form of humour.)

22 Jump Street gets a hall pass for including everybody in the extreme absurd humour, including a supporting cast of famous faces (cameos abound) and not-so-famous ones.

A big hello to Afro-Asian twins Keith and Kenny Lucas as mentally conjoined stoners, Wyatt Russell as a jock who threatens the Schmidt/Jenko bromance and Jillian Bell, as a caustic roommate who takes no prisoners.

Bell, soon to be seen in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, is the film’s most noteworthy addi-

tion. Her character Mercedes sees right through Schmidt’s fake student guise, and won’t stop needling him about being “old” — even though, at age 30, Hill is actually not that far off college age, and a lot closer to it than he was to being a high schooler in 21 Jump Street.

But the movie is ultimately owned by Hill and Tatum, whose willingness to go for broke is infectious. Perhaps not since Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in Dumb & Dumber have there been two actors so eager to compete with each other for a chance to look foolish.

All joking aside about those fake Jump Street sequels, though, you have to wonder where on Earth these undercover cops can next cause mayhem, since they’ve pretty much exhausted academic options.

I see a space station in their future, and a 2121 Jump Street poster. …

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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Edge of Tomorrow will be hard to beat this summer Edge of Tomorrow 3.5 stars (out of four) Rated: PG

lacks basic training and the support of his contemptuous J Squad fellow grunts. He’s nothing like Special Forces soldier Rita Vrataski (Blunt), a heavily armoured battle champ known as “the Angel of Verdun and “Full Metal Bitch” for her courage and warThe prospect of watching Tom Cruise save the rior skills.

They say a coward dies a thousand deaths. This day once more prompts the same déjà vu seems to be the fate of Cage when his blues his character experiences in Edge of first encounter with the ferocious MimTomorrow. ics propels him into a mysterious time What, again? Didn’t he do this last year loop wherein he relives his disastrous (Oblivion) and the year before (Jack Reachfirst war day over and over again — but er) and the year before (Mission: Impossible he’s also given a chance to learn from his 4) and so on? Yes, yes and (sigh) yes. mistakes.

But here’s the big difference with Edge There’s your Groundhog Day allusion, of Tomorrow, a sharp sci-fi thriller that’s but I’d argue the better comparison is not going to be hard to beat as the summer’s with that 1993 rom-com but with the more best blockbuster: recent sci-fi thriller Source Code, which For once, Cruise is fully engaged with shares with Edge of Tomorrow a similar a role, instead of merely selling it. He’s explosive urgency to its repetition. always the consummate professional on Movies like these risk boring the viewPETER camera, but this time he’s willing to show er — how many times do you want to see HOWELL some genuine human frailty behind that Cruise called “maggot” by a disdainful granite facade. superior? — but this Edge never dulls.

He shows it over and over again in the Special credit must go to editors James film’s time-looping format, which requires Herbert and Laura Jennings for their a coward to repeatedly die if he hopes to fleet-fingered scissoring, which conveys Cage’s “live, be reborn as a hero.

Cruise gets grand support from a terrific co-star (a die, repeat” monotony without making us endure it.

The 3D cinematography by Dion Beebe, who made buff Emily Blunt), a smart director (Doug Liman, The Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bourne Identity) and a bright screenplay by Christo- L.A. look malevolent in Michael Mann’s Collateral Tom Cruise acts in a scene from Edge of Tomorrow. (another career high point for Cruise), is anothpher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and brothers er skilful balancing act, Jez and John-Henry Butterworth (Fair Game).

Edge of Tomorrow, adapted from Hiroshi blending realistic battle Sakurazaka’s popular 2004 novel All You Need Is Kill, scenes with free-floating is pitched as Groundhog Day meets Independence Day, monster-movie CGI that consciously evokes the and the description is good for starters.

Cruise’s Major William Cage is a craven mili- realm of video games.

Edge of Tomorrow has tary PR man selling a desperate last-ditch effort by Earthlings against invading spidery giant aliens, so much going for it — which are known as “Mimics” due to their battlefield there are even a few good adaptability. You kill one, and 10 more come after laughs — you can easily you. Cage hasn’t had to worry about this, because forgive the climatic nonhe’s always been safely behind a camera rather than sense involving a world cultural landmark that a gun sight: “I do this to avoid doing that.”

He runs afoul of a vengeful general (Brendan plays like a sci-fi riff on EVERY MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY Gleeson), who suffers neither fools nor pantywaists, The Da Vinci Code.

When you can make and suddenly Cage finds himself at an Allied milirepetition seem this fresh, 20 DIFFERENT FLAVOURS INCLUDING tary base at Heathrow Airport.

He’s been shipped to the front lines of a planned a little cut-and-paste Sizzling Dijon, Crispy Tandori Style, all-out assault against the Mimics on the beaches doesn’t seem so terrible.

Texas Braised, Poutine, Spicy PB & J, Peter Howell is a syndiof France, one that will echo the blood and guts of Root Beer BBQ, and many more.

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Theatrical sound designers sound off on Tony Awards snub NEW YORK — Sound designers are sounding off on getting snubbed by the Tony Awards.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met and cut the categories of Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical on Wednesday, three days after honouring them.

That didn’t sound good to the theatre professionals who add sound effects and create soundscapes for musicals and plays.

Sound designer John Gromada, whose Broadway credits include The Trip to Bountiful and Clybourne Park, was stunned by the decision to cut the awards, which were first handed out in 2008.

Members from his union didn’t attend the committee meeting and had no inkling the awards were under threat.

So Gromada started an online petition at Care2 to reinstate the awards.

As of Thursday afternoon, it had drawn more than 12,000 signatures .

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Harrison Ford injured on set of Star Wars Please Have a Seat & Someone Will be By. Garth Wingfield with you Shortly David and Sue sit there week after week in their shrinks’ waiting room reading magazines.

So who says you should never talk to strangers?

The Babel of Circular Labyrinths By. Don Nigro An old blind writer sits in a circle of light in a dark library asking why he doesn’t just sit in the dark, why a raven is like a desk and what is the nature of labyrinths. He hears footsteps and smells perfume.

The intruder is a beautiful woman who may or may nott be a character in story he is writing.

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NEW YORK — Harrison Ford was hospitalized after being injured on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII. Disney said the 71-year-old actor was being treated for an ankle injury that happened during filming Thursday.

The Star Wars sequel is being filmed at Pinewood Studios outside of London.

The accident wasn’t a stunt sequence, but involved the door of a spacecraft from the film.

A local police report on the incident cited a “garage door” injuring a 71 year-old man, but didn’t name Ford.

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BREAKING UP IS NEVER EASY, BUT IT’S BEST TO NOT TO BLAME ANYONE AND KNOW THAT THINGS WILL GET BETTER Dear Harlan, My ex and I were dating for about two years, and we moved in together a few months ago.

She is my first and only (so far) serious relationship.

We both recently started changing a lot, and we thought that at the end of the school year, we should go our separate ways.

Once we decided to split up, we still were living together for about HARLAN two weeks, and COHEN those were the worst two weeks of my life.

She would be out with guys every night doing who knows what — it was so much easier for her to move on.

We used to be so crazy about each other.

We were supposed to get married and everything.

We both used to be so happy.

The truth is that I miss her. She moved five hours away, and I am now living in the same house with my best friend.

This house just feels like an empty shell.

What was once filled with memories of us is now so much different without her living here.

I miss her smile, her kisses, her hugs and everything else.

I also miss all of our crazy adventures. It almost feels like she died, but worse.

We went from being crazy about each other to absolutely nothing.

It’s taken everything in my power to not text her or call her, and that has only happened once.

I’ve been really sad the past few days since she’s moved out.

Do you know of a better way to cope with this?

I am so miserable and I want her back, but I know that won’t happen.

I’m going to live on the East Coast for seven months, and she’s going to go to beauty school and do her own thing.

Am I wrong for feeling this down and dejected about everything? — Grieving

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Dear Grieving, I want to hug you, man.

Breaking up sucks. I felt this same pain.

Thanks for showing the world that a man can be vulnerable, get hurt and still respect women.

You’re feeling it. You’re talking about it.

You’re working through it. It’s grieving because it’s a devastating loss.

There’s denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Continue to feel it all.

Avoid hating, blaming or trying to convince her to change.

Over time, you’ll begin to create a life where you can do things you love to do without her.

Until then, talk about it, think about it, write about it, work out, go out, cry, celebrate, create, cope and grow.

It will get better — you just need to feel it all.

And move.

Dear Harlan, The guy I’m in a relationship with won’t tell his parents that we’re dating.

He says he’s afraid of getting reamed for having his first girlfriend (me) and thinks he’s gonna get teased by his family.

I’ve told him he won’t and that it’s a little silly (while still being sympathetic to his concerns) but he still won’t budge!

Should I keep trying to get him to fess up or just give up? —Can’t Tell Dear Can’t Tell, Stop pushing. You’re being worse than his mom.

Either he’s too embarrassed of his family to have you meet them or he’s too embarrassed to introduce them to you. Ask him.

That’s it. I know you want to feel secure in this relationship by meeting his family, but it might be a horrible idea.

His parents might be total monsters you want to avoid.

As long as he takes you out in public

and calls you his girlfriend to everyone else, I don’t see a problem.

Hi Harlan, My boyfriend and I have been together for six years.

We have lived together for three years.

We are in a healthy, loving relationship, and we both feel a lot of pressure from our peers to get married!

We are part of the Catholic community, and so many of our peers have gotten married before deciding to move in together, and haven’t been together for as long as we have.

Since my mother died in 2010, my dad is getting back in the dating game, and also is thinking about marrying a woman he has been with for less than a year.

My boyfriend and I don’t want to get married, or even engaged, until we are both finished with our undergraduate degrees, and until we are more financially stable.

Even though it has been six years, we look forward to marriage when the time comes, whereas our peers seem to be under the impression we aren’t willing to commit by tying the knot in a hurry.

What is the huge rush in getting married? And why is it so seemingly unacceptable to want to graduate and get settled before jumping into marriage?

I am sick of all the, “So, when are you guys gonna get married?” questions every time a new anniversary hits, or when we are asked how long we have been together! — Happily Not Married Dear Happily Not Married, So, when are you going to get married?

Kidding.

I don’t care if you get married.

Doesn’t matter to me. But the question shouldn’t matter.

When innocent questions bother you this much, the problem isn’t their questions — it’s your feelings triggered by the question.

Maybe you don’t want anything to change.

Maybe you secretly do want to get married.

Maybe you’re afraid of getting married and staying married.

Instead of blaming people for asking, figure out why you have a problem answering.

Hi Harlan, I just recently had my college graduation ceremony and am preparing for a summer study abroad trip to fulfill my last few credits to graduate.

I recently moved back in with my parents and have been suffering from daily headaches and panic attacks.

I am not only terrified that something is going to go wrong with my study abroad trip, but I am also in a terrible rut as to what to do after I get my diploma.

I don’t want to live at home forever, but I can’t find prospects anywhere else. I feel like a failure when people with good intentions ask what I’m doing after graduation.

Please help. I’m so tired of feeling scared and hopeless all of the time. — Feeling Lost Dear Lost, You’re on a dark road with no street signs, headed in a direction you’ve never been before.

For the first time in your life there’s no map.

After college it’s either grad school, work or BIG life questions. This is called a transition.

You’re supposed to feel scared.

Here’s the plan —explore.

Take a step. If it doesn’t feel right, step back. Then, step in a different direction. Your 20s are about exploring.

Your only job is to figure out what you love and don’t love. That’s it.

Talk to a therapist, get a mentor and find a career coach.

The therapist will help you find hope, the mentor direction and the career coach a path.

Harlan is author of Getting Naked: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed and Totally Sober) (St. Martin’s Press). Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author.

Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2014

Basilian Industrial Services Ltd. is an electrical-mechanical industrial contractor.

We are proud to be immersed in Western Canada’s major oil and gas construction projects. Basilian is currently recruiting qualified tradespeople for a major oil and gas construction project 40 minutes south of Fort McMurray in Anzac, Alberta.

JOURNEYPERSON PIPEFITTERS & JOURNEYPERSON INSTRUMENTATION TECHNICIANS Candidates must have experience in an industrial environment and be certified journeypersons. Valid Construction Safety Training Systems (CSTS) certificate is a definite asset.

Basilian Industrial Services Ltd. offers a competitive compensation package as per the CLAC collective agreement. Successful candidates will have 14 / 7 rotations, camp accommodations and paid flights to and from Fort McMurray, Alberta.

If you have the qualifications we require please submit your resume to employment@basilian.ca or by Fax to 709 757 4833. While we thank all applicants for their interest, only those under consideration will be contacted.

VISIT US AT OUR JOB FAIRS Tuesday, June 17th, Edmonton, AB Chateau Louis, 3-7pm Wednesday, June 18th, Red Deer, AB The Red Deer Lodge, 3-7pm

For more information, please visit www.basilian.ca.

Petroleum Engineering (Frac/Well Services/Workover) Workover Supervisors Well Services Supervisors (Coil Tubing/Slick Line/Eline/SWT/HRP) Frac Supervisors With a market capitalization of over US $10 billion, Cairn India is one of the largest independent oil, gas exploration and production companies in India. Adjudged by Platts at the fastest-growing energy company in the world for 2012, Cairn India is the perfect choice to charge-up your career. It operates 25 per cent of India’s domestic crude oil production and holds the position of a market leader.

Through its affiliates, Cairn India has been operating for mare than 15 years, playing an active role in developing India’s oil and gas resources.

Frontier is an international oil & gas resource company, established in 1999 and specialising in engineering & technical recruitment, across all oil & gas disciplines, for major operators and independent oil companies.

Frontier has been working closely with Cairn India to provide staff and contract personnel and has been appointed to source multiple positions within the Cairn Petroleum Engineering/Well Services Group.

The three main positions specified above have been identified as immediate requirements. The successful candidate will have significant experience in these positions and be experienced in:

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Working in an international environment on rig sites and rig-less locations Managing contractors and Service Providers Good command of the English language

The positions are open to both ex-pats and Indian National personnel and will be based in a number of locations in India, majority of which will be on land location in Rajasthan. This is being offered on a 1-year renewable contract, equal rotation basis with very competitive rates.

Further details will be available to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria for this role.

To apply for this position please submit your CV, in Word format, accompanied with your notice period and rate/salary expectation via the Frontier website: http://www.frontierinternational.co/ Notes: We will only reply to candidates who meet the requirements as mentioned above, therefore if you have not heard from us within 7 days, your application will have been unsuccessful.

For Additional Information visit www.frontierinternational.co

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Music streaming on the rise in Canada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — There was some head-scratching when Apple recently announced it was buying the headphone and music streaming company Beats in a US$3 billion deal.

But a Canadian report suggests Apple may be on to something, as audio streaming is on the rise and the use of online music services has doubled in a year.

Nearly two-thirds of the anglophone Canadians polled by phone by the Media Technology Monitor said they regularly streamed music online last year, which was up from 61 per cent in 2012 and 57 per cent in 2011.

The most popular source for listening to music for free online was YouTube, with 53 per cent of the respondents saying they streamed tunes that way.

About one in five said they streamed online feeds of AM or FM radio stations and a similar number used a streaming service like Deezer, Rdio, Songza or Slacker. The use of streaming music services in Canada doubled since 2012, according to the report.

Of the regular audio streamers, one in three said they used at least one music service.

Perhaps surprisingly, respondents said the time they spent streaming audio was almost equal to how

long they typically spent streaming TV shows, movies and other video clips.

Survey respondents said about a quarter of their online time was devoted to listening to music, about 29 per cent was spent watching video, and the rest was used for surfing the web and other web activities.

The average user who said they regularly streamed audio online estimated they typically spent a little over seven hours a week doing so.

Desktop and laptop computers were still the devices of choice for streaming. About 84 per cent of the users who regularly streamed online said they used a computer for music listening. About one in three music fans said they also used their smartphone to stream audio, one in five said they used a tablet, and one in 10 were playing songs through an Internet-connected TV.

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Nurse Practitioner for the Red Deer Primary Care Network Street Clinic  0.6 FTE www.reddeerpcn.com The role: The Nurse Practitioner in the street clinic provides primary care to the Vulnerable Population in Red Deer’s Downtown core. You perform comprehensive assessment, diagnosis (including the ordering and interpretation of tests), intervention (including the prescribing of medications), management, referral and evaluation of clients. You will  work under a physician mentorship model.

You will develop relationships with community agencies to ensure clients are connected to the services of the clinic.

Your qualifications: You must be registered to practice as a nurse practitioner in Alberta. Experience working with the vulnerable population is an asset.

Application Deadline: June 23, 2014 Please submit your resume to: hr@rdpcn.com or by fax: 403.342.9502.

Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

A LICENSED TECHNICIAN WITH DIESEL SPECIALTY

Rocky Mountain House Society for Persons with Disabilities

Coordinator Position

A Positive Growing work environment Great Benefits Package Up To $45.00/Hr Flat RATE Signing BONUS or Relocation Assistance (depending on experience) Ford experience not required Apply in person at: 4412 - 50 St., Innisfail, AB or by Fax: 403-227-4544 or jdenham@fourlandford.com sdavis@fourlaneford.com

Qualifications: Community disability studies or comparative, related experience and/or education is required to ensure individual services plans are developed and implemented according to the needs of the client.

COPE offers a competitive wage and benefit package and employee friendly policies.

Closing Date: June 20, 2014

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COPE is a certified not for profit agency providing residential, employment, community access and independent living supports for persons with developmental disabilities in Rocky Mountain House.

Reporting directly to the Program Director, the Coordinator provides input and supervises the development and delivery of programs and services to meet individual needs in residential and day programs, as well as ensuring the effective use of human and financial resources.

Using well developed leadership skills, you will provide support in training, developing and evaluating staff.

Experience in Behavioral Management is an asset.

OfďŹ ce Manager/Administrator

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If you are seeking an interesting and diverse career then we would like to talk to you. We are a small family oriented commercial construction company looking for a mature steady office manager/administrator

FINANCIAL REPORTING MANAGER - Maternity Leave

We are looking for a Financial Reporting Manger to join our team on a contract bases to cover a maternity leave. This position plays a key role in managing the report and analysis function within our accounting department.

The highlights of this position will include the preparation of financial statements and analysis for both our Canadian and International companies.

Prepare foreign currency consolidated financial statements.

Reconciliation and analysis of inventory, including assisting with Job costing accounting, account reconciliation and will respond to external accounting inquiries.

Minimum 3 years of practical experience in preparing and analyzing financial statements is a must. Candidates will possess a detailed and investigative nature, and will have outstanding verbal communication skills.

Preference will be given to those who recently received or are working toward completing their professional designation.

The successful applicant will enjoy a full compliment of company benefits as well as remuneration that compliments their skills and experience.

Please respond in confidence to:

We are a leading, busy water well drilling company located in the Sylvan Lake area with an immediate opening for an Experienced Air/Mud Rotary Water Well Driller to supervise drilling rigs and meet with a variety of customers in the field. The ideal candidate must be able to:  ¡        Work well with others ¡        Supervise drilling crews ¡        Ensure regular rig maintenance is performed ¡        Lead in safety ¡        Have excellent communication skills ¡        Provide excellent customer service in all areas of our business from O&G clients to Farmers & Acreage owners Please send your resume with references and salary expectations to: 403-887-0258 (fax) or careers@blackdogdrilling.com Â

Specific Skills Required: - Ability to work independently - Ability to establish work priorities - Ensure deadlines are met - Establish and ensure procedures and policies are carried out - Carry out daily administrative duties of the office - Ability to operate Sage 50 Accounting Program - Prepare government remittances, GST returns, and T5018 returns - Payroll including T-4’s and WCB Reports - Benefit administration - Accounts Payable/Receivable - Project and job costing tracking - Preparation of project estimate spreadsheets and quotes - Assist in estimate projects - Co-ordinate sub-trades and project schedules - Product ordering - Experience in the construction industry a definite asset

Looking Look oki for a

We offer competitive wages and Alberta Blue Cross benefits.

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Rig Supervisor/Field Sales

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18 Time Presidents Award Winner Locally Owned and Operated One of the Most Respected Ford Dealerships in Alberta YOU ARE ......

Please Mail, Fax or Email a resume and cover letter to: Linda Bozman, Human Resources Manager COPE, Rocky Mountain House Society for Persons with Disabilities PO Box 1120 Rocky Mountain House, AB T4T 1A8 Phone: 403-845-4080 x. 102 Fax: 403-845-6951 Email: lbozman@rockycope.ca

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1. CARE 2. PPCL 3. EVRAZ 4. Manpower 5. Pacer Corp 6. Tim Hortons 7. Baker Hughes 8. Sears Canada 9. Western Park 10. Action Group 11. Sungold Meats 12. Canyon Services 13. Fuel Energy Canada 14. CalFrac Well Services

Mini Job Fair Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:30 a.m. - Noon Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer Bring your resumĂŠ For more info, call 403-340-5353

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DIRECTOR, CAMPUS FACILITIES & SUSTAINABILITY Campus Facilities

Olds College is seeking a Director of Campus Facilities & Sustainability to provide strategic direction and oversight of the management of the physical infrastructure of the College.

This includes renovations, deferred maintenance, construction management, capital development, grounds and the caretaking of campus facilities.

SERVICE ANALYST

Information Technology

We are seeking a full-time Service Analyst to work as part of our Information Technology Team. This role will be key in providing front-line support and self-service related resources to the Olds College Community (students, staff, faculty and guests). You will help in driving process improvements, streamlining incident management and delivering exceptional front-end customer service.

TECHNICIAN II

For information on these or other employment opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.oldscollege.ca/employment

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Library

The Olds College Library is seeking a full-time Cataloguing and Acquisitions Library Technician for a temporary position through June 30, 2015. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Library Technician to develop and apply their skills in the areas of cataloguing and acquisitions, and to gain experience in a vibrant, progressive academic library serving college, high school and community patrons.

Please forward a resume quoting the appropriate competition number by the closing dates indicated on our website.

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LUANN June 14 1994 — Fans riot in the streets of Vancouver after the Canucks lose the Stanley Cup to the New York Rangers.

1988 — Pianist Angela Cheng of Edmonton becomes the first Canadian to win the top prize at the Montreal International Music Competition.

1949 — The state of Vietnam is formed. It will become internationally recognized in 1950.

1946 — The founding of the Canadian Library Association.

1919 — British Army Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown take off from Newfoundland in their Vickers Vimy bomber, a two-motor biplane, to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight.

1872 — The Macdonald government passes the Canadian Pacific Railway general charter, and the Trade Unions Bill, which legalizes unions.

1841 —The first united Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ont.

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Nova using Bakken Shale ethane in Joffre operations

PAVING THE WAY

NORTH DAKOTA ETHANE HELPS DIVERSIFY COMPANY’S SOURCES: CEO

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Nova Chemicals Corp. has dipped into North Dakota to help satisfy the feedstock needs of its Joffre operations.

The Calgary-based company announced on Friday that ethane from the Bakken Shale formation is now being used at its complex east of Red Deer.

That ethane originates at a Hess Corp. plant in North Dakota and is transported to Alberta in the Vantage Pipeline, and then into the Alberta Ethane Gathering System (AEGS) at Empress.

Nova operates the Vantage Pipeline and the Alberta Ethane Gathering System.

“The introduction of Bakken Shalebased ethane into the feedstock diet at Joffre marks an important milestone in the diversification of our ethane sources for the region and our NOVA 2020 strategy to capitalize on North American demand,” said Todd Karran, Nova’s acting CEO and CFO, in a release.

“The new supply sources we recently began to use, together with those currently in development, should enable us to run our existing polyethylene plants at full capacity, as well as support our (polyethylene 1) expansion project in Joffre and position us well for potential further growth.”

‘THE INTRODUCTION OF BAKKEN SHALEBASED ETHANE INTO THE FEEDSTOCK DIET AT JOFFRE MARKS AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE IN THE DIVERSIFICATION OF OUR ETHANE SOURCES.’ — TODD KARRAN ACTING CEO AND CFO NOVA CHEMICALS

Nova has traditionally relied on ethane from natural gas produced in the province, but in recent years has worked to diversify its supply. It’s also now using ethane from the off-gasses that result from oilsands upgrading.

Ethane is used in the production of ethylene and polyethylene, which in turn are used in the manufacture of plastics and other products.

Expansion of Nova’s polyethylene 1 plant at Joffre, which is currently underway and is expected to wrap up by the end of 2015, will boost ethane requirements there substantially.

The Vantage Pipeline has a design capacity of 40,000 barrels per day but is expandable to more than 60,000 barrels per day.

That higher volume would represent more than 20 per cent of Alberta’s existing installed ethylene production capacity.

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Workers took advantage of dry conditions this week to pave the parking lot at the Blackfalds Motor Inn at 5201 Highway Ave. in Blackfalds. Conditions turned wet on Friday, but were expected to clear up today before the rain returns on Sunday.

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A gas station sign is seen in Montreal on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Conflict in the Middle East is expected to drive up gas prices in Canada.

Wall Street’s jitters over Iraq violence driving up pump prices in Canada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Conflict on the other side of the world is expected to drive up gasoline prices here in Canada.

Roger McKnight, an analyst with EnPro International, said Friday that he sees pump prices rising by more than two cents in the Toronto area on Saturday to around $1.42 a litre. Wholesale prices are also rising in the western part of the country.

Canada-wide, the average pump price is currently at just under $1.36, according to price-tracking website Gasbuddy.com. The coming increase has nothing to do with supply and demand in North America. Rather, McKnight said the culprits are traders on Wall Street who are nervously eyeing how sectarian tensions in Iraq could affect global oil supplies. Al-Qaidainspired militants captured two key cities in Iraq this week and are threatening to march on Baghdad.

“I get the impression that these traders are just watching these militants and seeing how far south they can go in Iraq because that’s where the oilfields are and the export terminals,” he said from Oshawa, Ont. “So the further south they get, it looks like the further north our prices

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North America buys relatively little crude from Iraq, so any potential disruption to supplies would have more of an impact in Europe. In fact, McKnight said things are looking pretty good in the Canadian and U.S. markets.

“The inventories in the U.S. are fine. The refineries are running pretty well ... the demand is healthy, but not extreme. There’s no pipeline problems. So there’s no weather problems as yet,” said McKnight.

“Everything is just fine in North America. It’s just everybody’s watching what’s happening 6,000 miles away.”

Events in Iraq have an impact on the price of Brent crude, a global benchmark for oil that can travel around the world by sea. The main benchmark for inland North American crude, West Texas Intermediate, trades lower than Brent, but has recently been moving in tandem with it, McKnight said.

Oil prices are at 10-month highs, with WTI for July delivery hitting a high Friday of around US$107.68 a barrel and Brent rising to as much as US$114.40 a barrel. The good news for Canadian motorists is that high oil prices boost the Canadian dollar. That helps ease the pinch somewhat as energy products are bought and sold in U.S. dollars.

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Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC) is urging farmers to insure their crops against hail damage, following two years of exceptionally high claims.

“Last year marked the third highest amount of hail damage to crops across Alberta in our 77 years as a provincial hail insurer,” said Jackie Sanden, program co-ordinator with Lacombebased AFSC, in a release.

“The damage was widespread.

Southern Alberta and ‘Hail Alley’ — which stretches westward along Highway 2 from Rocky Mountain House to Calgary, and eastward through Wheatland County — were particularly hard hit.”

More than $257 million was paid out on 6,400-plus hail claims through AFSC’s straight hail insurance program and hail endorsement riders on crop insurance.

In 2012, a record $445.6 million was paid on more than 8,400 claims.

“You can be sure Alberta will get hail this year,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Dan Kulak.

“The question is how much. The wetter things get in June, the more storms we can end up with because the moisture just keeps recycling itself.”

This year, AFSC has increased the coverage levels of its straight hail insurance program.

Sanden said this reflects today’s higher crop values and rising input costs.

Straight hail insurance can be obtained anytime during the growing season but doesn’t take effect until noon the day after it’s purchased.

AFSC has been providing hail insurance to Alberta farmers since 1938, when the provincial government created the Alberta Hail Insurance Board — the predecessor to AFSC. Hail insurance wasn’t previously available to farmers everywhere in Alberta because the risk in some areas was too high, said Sanden.

High Arctic Energy Services names new CEO High Arctic Energy Services Inc. (TSX: HWO) has named Tim Braun its new chief executive officer.

The Red Deer-based oilfield services company said Friday that Braun will step into the position effective July 2. He replaces Dennis Sykora, who has served as interim CEO since Bruce Thiessen retired last November.

Braun has worked in the oilfield services sector for 33 years, primarily with large drilling contractors.

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Most recently, he spent eight years as a senior executive with international drilling contractor Saxon Energy Services, and prior to that worked for more than a decade with Precision Drilling Corp.

With High Arctic, he will be based in Calgary.

Sykora will remain on the company’s board of directors and its executive committee.

Meanwhile, Darren Greer is slated to become High Arctic’s president of international operations, with an anticipated start in September.

Working out of Brisbane, Australia, he will be responsible for the company’s business in Papua New Guinea, and for developing regional business opportunities.

Greer has spent 12 years in senior petroleum and drilling engineering roles, primarily with a major Australian oil company.

For the past four years he’s been an executive with an Australia oilfield services contractor.

High Arctic said its current president of international operations, Kevin Doran, is expected to retire.

High Arctic provides specialized oilfield equipment and services for drilling, completion and workover operations.

It has operations throughout Western Canada and in Papua New Guinea.

Rifco still among the country’s fast-growing companies Red Deer-based Rifco Inc. remains on Profit magazine’s list of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies.

The company, which provides consumer loans for new and used vehicles through its subsidiary Rifco National Auto Finance Corp., was ranked 261st on Profit’s 2014 list. Last year Rifco held down the number 85 spot.

The rankings were based on business’s revenue growth over a five-year period. In the case of Rifco, revenues jumped 261 per cent between 2008 and 2013, finishing at just over $24 million.

“Rifco National Auto Finance has succeeded because we add value to Canadian automobile dealerships,” said Rifco president and CEO Bill Graham in a release.

“Increasingly, our speed and service at processing auto loan applications is being recognized.”

On Wednesday, Rifco issued its most recent financial results, for its fiscal year ended March 31.

These included record revenues of $30.3 million, a 26 per cent improvement over the preceding year.

The Profit 500 list can be found online at PROFITguide.com, and will be published in the July issue of Canadian Business.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 98.40 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 52.05 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.45 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.57 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.93 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.69 Cdn. National Railway . . 67.94 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 200.48 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.50 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.20 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.41 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.40 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.06 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 28.88 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.75 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.63 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.60 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.01 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 53.58 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 67.75 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.38 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.93 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.89 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 102.97 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.60 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.50 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.40 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange rose Friday, pushed higher by the burgeoning energy sector amid concerns that oil supplies could soon be at risk if an advance by insurgents in Iraq continues.

The S&P/TSX composite index added 91.98 points to 15,001.61 — a few points shy of its record-close of 15,073 reached in June 2008, just before the Great Recession sent stocks plummeting.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.01 of a cent to 92.11 cents US. In Iraq, Islamic militants vowed to march on Baghdad after pushing deep into parts of the country’s Sunni heartland northeast of the capital that was previously controlled by U.S. forces, raising concerns over global oil supplies.

The July crude contract advanced 38 cents to US$106.91 a barrel.

On Wall Street, U.S. indexes rallied as the Dow Jones industrials rose 41.55 points to 16,775.74, the Nasdaq climbed 13.02 points to 4,310.65 and the S&P 500 saw an uptick of 6.05 points to 1,936.16.

Andrew Pyle, senior wealth adviser at Scotia McLeod in Peterborough, Ont., said he saw Friday’s rally as “more of a tentative pickup.”

“There is still a very strong possibility that we see the situation in Iraq get worse over the weekend,” he said, adding that it that were to happen chances would be greater that oil could reach the US$110-a-barrel level seen last August and September.

“If we were to see that on the weekend, then you would see a totally different picture for stocks Monday then we’re currently seeing for Friday.”

Pyle added that analysts and traders have already been questioning whether equities are overvalued going into the sum-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 18.73 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.25 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 59.01 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.28 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.01 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.44 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.34 First Quantum Minerals . 21.62 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.33 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.55 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . 29.57 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.48 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.11 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.55 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 23.29 Energy Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.31 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 36.21 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 71.15 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.98 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 61.36 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 47.99 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 24.66 Canyon Services Group. 17.42 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 34.21 CWC Well Services . . . . 1.110 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 26.52 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.60 mer and that if the energy markets were to go into crisis mode, it would only exacerbate those fears.

“Traders believe that fundamentals in the U.S., and maybe globally, don’t support current valuations,” he said. “It’s not to say we would see a significant correction, but the highs that we saw in May and June really require a stronger fundamental picture than what we’re seeing from the world economy.”

In other commodities, August gold bullion added 10 cents to US$1,274.10 an ounce, while July copper advanced a penny to US$3.03 a pound.

There was also a major acquisition deal for traders to digest as Montreal’s Amaya Gaming Group Inc. (TSX:AYA) announced it was buying the company that owns PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker for US$4.9 billion in an all-cash deal.

The acquisition of the Oldford Group, parent company of the Rational Group Ltd., will create the world’s largest publicly traded online gaming company, it says. Online poker platforms PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are globally popular brands with more than 85 million registered players on desktop and mobile devices. Shares in Amaya gained nearly 42 per cent, or $5.87, to close at $19.95 on the Toronto Stock Exchange FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,001.61, up 91.98 points TSX Venture Exchange — 997.33, down 0.64 of a point TSX 60 — 856.60, up 5.50 points Dow — 16,775.74, up 41.55 points S&P 500 — 1,936.16, up 6.05 points Nasdaq — 4,310.65, up

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 105.65 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 67.58 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.35 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 36.93 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 55.76 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.51 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.94 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.115 Precision Drilling Corp . . 15.21 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 46.35 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.52 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 17.52 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.75 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 75.79 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.73 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 70.52 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.10 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 38.93 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.85 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.37 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 50.82 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 73.48 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.49 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 46.12 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.68 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.23 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.47 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.18 13.02 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 92.11 cents US, down 0.01 of a cent Pound — C$1.8424, up 1.45 cents Euro — C$1.4698, down 0.25 of a cent Euro — US$1.3539, down 0.24 of a cent Oil futures: US$106.91 per barrel, up 38 cents (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,274.10 per oz., up 10 cents (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.141 oz., up 17.1 cents $711.83 kg., up $5.49 ICE FUTURES CANADA THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’14 $9.10 higher $463.50; Nov. ’14 $10.10 higher $460.60; Jan ’15 $10.00 higher $466.70; March ’15 $10.00 higher $469.70; May ’15 $10.10 higher $471.80; July ’15 $10.10 higher $473.60; Nov ’15 $8.30 higher $474.80; Jan. ’16 $8.30 higher $468.80; March ’16 $8.30 higher $472.30; May ’16 $8.30 higher $472.30; July ’16 $8.30 higher $472.30.

Barley (Western): July ’14 unchanged $135.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $125.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $127.00; March ’15 unchanged $128.00; May ’15 unchanged $128.00; July ’15 unchanged $128.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $128.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $128.00; March ’16 unchanged $128.00; May ’16 unchanged $128.00; July ’16 unchanged $128.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 370,880 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 370,880.

Peter Watson named new NEB chair and chief executive TAKES OVER GAETAM CARON

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

NATIONAL ENERGY BOARD

CALGARY — The National Energy Board is getting a new boss.

Peter Watson has been appointed time for our federal energy regulator,” to a seven-year term as the federal en- he said in a statement. ergy watchdog’s chairman and CEO, The NEB leadership change comes federal Natural Resources Minister at a time when new pipelines, and the Greg Rickford announced Friday. oilsands crude that would flow through Watson, whose new posting begins them, are under intense scrutiny.

Aug. 18, has served The Alberta and as Alberta’s deputy federal governments ‘HE HAS A CALM, minister of energy, have been pushing WISE AND STEADY the environment and for new pipelines to most recently the exconnect Canadian reAPPROACH TO ecutive council. sources with global GOVERNANCE, He takes over from markets, but contenGaetan Caron, whose AND HIS PASSION tious proposals such term ended this week. the Northern GateAND COMMITMENT as Alberta Premier way pipeline to the Dave Hancock called TO ALBERTA’S West Coast and KeyWatson a “trusted and stone XL pipeline to PUBLIC SERVICE IS valuable friend and the U.S. are facing colleague.”

UNQUESTIONED.’ fierce opposition.

Watson worked on “If the Harper gov— DAVE HANCOCK ernment was hoping climate change and ALBERTA PREMIER to temper the growing water strategies, as well as on developing criticism of flawed carbon capture and National Energy storage technology Board processes it is and improving market access. heading in the wrong direction with In his current role, he’s in charge of this appointment,” Greenpeace camAlberta’s public service. paigner Mike Hudema said in a state“He has a calm, wise and steady ap- ment. proach to governance, and his passion “Alberta is a very troubled reguand commitment to Alberta’s Public latory jurisdiction, especially when Service is unquestioned,” Hancock it comes to pipelines, so choosing an said in a release. insider from within its ranks doesn’t Also Friday, Rickford announced bode well for the environment or comNEB member Lyne Mercier will be- munities across the country. come vice-chair, effective immediate“Canadians deserve an independent ly. body that they can entrust with protect“The comprehensive experience ing the public interest. Unfortunately, and knowledge of these individuals this decision indicates they’re not getwill be invaluable during this critical ting it any time soon.”

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Canada’s wireless policies has left industry skeptical

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TELECOM SUMMIT

TORONTO — Canada’s telecom industry appears skeptical that the government can really provide consumers with lower prices and more innovation in wireless communications by supporting new competitors and restraining the power of the bigger carriers.

Ottawa recently moved to cap the wholesale prices that big wireless carriers charge their smaller rivals, and stands by a policy of having at least four rivals in every region of the country, but an organizer of this year’s Canadian Telecom Summit says that policy has both support and opposition.

“On one hand, you might have lower prices. On the other hand, you may have reduced incentives to invest in new technology,” says Mark Goldberg, who helped create the annual conference as a forum for the billion-dollar industry of smartphones, telephones, Internet and other vital communications.

Goldberg said there’s been extraordinary interest in a panel of academics and other economists who will debate whether governments can actually create sustainable competition through their regulatory policies at the conference which begins Monday.

Robert Crandall, a fellow of the Washington-based Brookings Institution who will be one of the panelists

on Monday, says there are only a few areas with very high population densities that can sustain more than three wireless carriers in the long term.

Even in the United States, Crandall says, the number of national competitors has dwindled to four and there are strong rumours that two of the remaining rivals will merge, leaving only a three-way race.

“When you have countries like the U.S. and Canada with large rural areas, to get universal coverage for four carriers would be difficult. It would require, I suppose, that the fourth carrier use the third carrier’s facilities.

There, you get into all the regulatory issues,” Crandall said.

A similar position has been taken by the new chief executive of Rogers Communications, Guy Laurence, who will be a keynote speaker on Monday.

He has said he doubts Canada can support four carriers.

A supporter of the opposite view — Tony Lacavera, chairman and CEO of Wind Mobile — will get his chance to make his case the following day in another keynote speech.

Industry Minister James Moore is on record as saying that the government’s wireless policy is “designed to benefit Canadian consumers, first and foremost.”

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Dining room up-cycled PURPLE PAIN GOES AWAY AS COLIN AND JUSTIN GIVE A DOWN-AT-HEELS DINING ROOM THE ONCE OVER We love the (often less-than) subtle craft of reinvention and enjoy little more than rescuing tired, dilapidated furniture.

These days, as fragile as the financial climate has become, it makes even more sense to think about economics when planning any refurbishment — no matter how big or small the proposed job.

This in mind, gaze upon today’s slice of decorative wonder, filmed as part of a special for HGTV. Quite the transformation, huh?

Our clients Bonnie and Ritchie freely admitted their dining room’s paint tone had all the allure of a thrombosis.

And, all things considered, that’s not a very good starting point for decorative schematics.

“Do anything,” pled Bonnie COLIN & and Ritchie, “to lighten the JUSTIN space. Declutter, rearrange and reinvent. Transmogrify everything.”

Settled around our Scottish cauldron, we concocted a potent transformative spell. Adding custom wallpaper to our bubbling pot helped rebalance, as did new seating and bespoke rugs.

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Re-colour To obliterate the varicose vein purple, we opted for cheap-as-chips big box latex, the perfect undercoat for top-layer quality paint.

For this project we used Para matte (para.com), a particularly effective medium with which to minimize surface imperfections.

If you need a wipe-clean surface, satin will suffice though bear in mind that its finish may highlight bumps and scratches.

Accent wall We tend to be less about making overpowering statements and more about whispering design continuity on accent walls, using tonally connective wallpaper or paint.

Sometimes we’ll use off-the-shelf paper, whereas other times we’ll whip up a CAD drawing and submit it to one of a growing number of specialist companies such as Advance Murals (advancemurals.com).

Flooring The house was immaculately maintained.

Sure, the colour scheme had clearly been chosen in the dark (ouch!) but every surface, floor included, was in tip-top condition.

As such, we only had to shine the flooring to bring out its natural beauty.

Most rental stores stock orbital floor polishers and, for around $100, you’ll soon boast the best wood gleam on the street.

Contributed photos

Above and below left: the results after a down-at-heels dining room gets the once over.

Right: The dark-painted finish was overpowering so, as a simple correction, paint brushes came out. And again at left, having selected a grey tone that complemented the room, several coats of eggshell paint were applied. As usual thorough preparation was required and sanding lightly between coats.

Rug Floors, for us, are the ‘fifth wall’ and, even when budgets are tight, we accord them attention.

Using off cuts of same-pile carpet (don’t try to jigsaw using different variants; it won’t work), we created a large rug with cream and grey bands.

If you’re a good DIY’er with strong hands, stout scissors and carpet tape, you could attempt a project like this. Otherwise, book the services of a company like Carpet Mill (carpetmill.ca) to tempt good results.

Another (easier) way to create a rug is by selecting ‘roll stock’ carpet, whipped and bound with a retaining perimeter loop stitch. This costs from $2 per linear foot — an eight-foot-by-four-foot carpet, therefore, would empty your wallet by approximately $48.

Upholstery Short of tacking fabric to flat-faced dining chairs, leave everything else to the professionals.

For this project, we engaged ciaosofadesigns. com and specified fabrics from robertallendesign. com, who carry the finest range of material in North America.

We specified two dining chairs, one for either end of the table and, positioned as they are, they bring the compact dining space alive.

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Luxury home fashion We are all familiar with branding. It’s that unique look or feel or taste of a product that sets it apart from other similar products.

Once a specific brand becomes recognized, for better or worse, that name carries a great deal of power.

Trends work in a similar manner. We think of decades of style and there are specific elements of that decade that define the times.

It’s fascinating to see how famous brands and fashion trends match up with home décor.

While it might not have seemed apparent in the 1980s when padded shoulders were all the rage, overDEBBIE sized, stuffed and padded TRAVIS sofas ruled the living and family rooms.

The bold colours and geometric upholstery fabrics on the modular furniture of the ’60s mimicked the look of the A-line dress.

The ’50s were synonymous with soft fluid lines that hugged the figure and accentuated curvy shapes.

Today, some very big brand names are taking their defining properties to a new level — they are designing and decorating fabulous hotels.

Expectations from guests at these hotels are driven by the aura that surrounds the brand name.

A visit to the Bulgari Hotel in Milan, Italy, demonstrates the creative means by which branding can cross over from one product to another completely different entity, using the same premise and exacting standards in their design.

The notorious bad boy actor Richard Burton was quoted as saying, “The only Italian word Elizabeth (Taylor) knows is Bulgari.”

The ultimate in luxury and glamour, Bulgari has always dressed the legends in their spectacular jew-

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elry pieces.

You may not own a Bulgari gem but you can stay at one of their stunning hotels or spend an evening sipping Italian cocktails and people watching.

The Bulgari Hotel in the center of Milan is hidden away among the most magical gardens.

If your idea for the perfect getaway is world-class shopping, stylish restaurants and mingling among fashionistas for a few days, then Milan will have you swooning in your Jimmy Choo’s.

Entering the hotel is like walking through fashion history.

The lobby walls are graced with giant photographs of iconic women wearing, of course Bulgari.

Stars such as such as Ingrid Bergman, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren and Isabella Rossellini personify Bulgari’s style and beauty.

The hotel is dark and sumptuous, reminiscent of a velvet jewelry box, but as you enter the bedrooms the light from the floor to ceiling windows delight like the gems inside the box.

Bulgari’s business is luxury, and it glows through the solid granite and oak building materials, rich draperies and upholstery, and the opulence of gold and emerald mosaics in the spa.

Behind massive doors, rooms are decorated in quiet colours and neutral shades of fabrics that contrast with darker tones of furnishings and marble.

Ensuite bathrooms are warm intimate and high style, with black Zimbabwe marble complemented by soft Navona travertine, and exclusive Bulgari toiletries.

The Bulgari Hotel, www.bulgarihotels.com, is as glamorous as its jewelry whether you stay in the hotel or just spend an evening sipping champagne al fresco surrounded by the world’s most gorgeous people.

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SHELVES: Less is more Having selected a grey tone that complemented the room, we applied several coats of eggshell paint, again from Para.

As usual we recommend thorough preparation and sanding lightly between coats. Nobody cares for a drippy House of Wax finish. Apart, perhaps, from Vincent Price.

Note how we edited the previous collection of bowls and plates. Less, quite simply, is more. We advised Bonnie to store the surplus in her basement and then switch up the displayed portion up on a seasonal basis. Now they can breathe. And now they look pretty. Not overcrowded.

Final styling As always, propping and carefully selected accessories (mostly from our beloved HomeSense) complete the manicured vision.

Their dining room wonderfully reappointed, Bonnie and Ritchie promise to maintain it exactly as you see it today. As Bonnie gurgled, stifling tears and clinging to her husband’s arm: “It’s like you got inside our heads and gave us exactly what we needed.”

And with this we were gone, our clients seal of approval still ringing in our ears.

But of course, our never-ending quest continues: that being to track down and improve Canada’s least stylish homes, one desperate room at a time. It’s a big ambition, of course, but someone has to do it.

Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts in print and on TV. Find their international product range in stores like HomeSense, Winners and Marshalls. facebook.com/ColinJustin, twitter.com/colinjustin, colinandjustin.tv.

Contributed photos

Above: A library of stylish books is set up for guests to enjoy in the privacy of their room.

Below: The dazzle of fine jewels radiates in Bulgari’s Spa where gold and emerald mosaics clad the steps and pool.

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Cooling a duct-free home Question: What’s the best way to cool my duct-free house?

It’s got electric baseboard heaters, so there’s no central ventilation system.

Answer: There’s always the option of a window air conditioner, but these are a pain because they either need to be put in and taken out each year (and stored during the winter), or permanently installed with modifications to walls or windows.

Avoiding this trouble is one reason ductless, mini-split STEVE air conditioners are growing MAXWELL in popularity.

They’re made by many companies and have been quite popular in Europe and Asia for years. More and more ductless mini-splits are appearing here in Canada, and for good reason.

All models have an external compressor that gets mounted outside, just like a conventional central air conditioner, but smaller. External mini-split compressors can be mounted on the ground, on exterior walls or flat roofs.

No ducts are required indoors, with cooling action delivered to various rooms through a pair of small pipes that connect to a wall mounted cooling unit inside your home. You can have just one of these cooling units installed or several, one in each room.

Ductless mini-splits are quiet, effective and surprisingly efficient. Unlike central air, they also allow you to save electricity by cooling specific areas only.

They also deliver cool air high up on the wall, which is a better and more efficient place than floor registers designed to deliver warm air during winter.

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I’m planning to save money by making my own trim and molding for my reno job, but I’m confused by all the router tables available.

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You can easily ‘earn’ $30 or $40 per hour in terms of the money you’ll save over store-bought trim.

There are many router tables on the market, but I’ve found the most practical options combine reasonable prices with a full-size design that’s tall enough to sit on the floor during use.

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The bare elements of architecture DUTCH ARCHITECT KOOLHAAS WANTS TO BYPASS PERSONALITY, GRANDIOSITY

VENICE, Italy — In an era of “starchitects,” Rem Koolhaas, who merits mention as one himself, wants to strip the discipline to its barest elements, bypassing the cult of personality and any architectural grandiosity.

Koolhaas had no time to waste as he hurriedly but efficiently guided visitors through a onehour tour of his exhibit “Elements of Architecture” shortly before it opened here last weekend as part of the Venice Biennale’s 14th International Architecture Exhibit.

The exhibit covers nothing less than architecture’s evolution from homo erectus’ first man-made fire to heating fixtures of the future, focusing on the plainer elements: ceilings unnoticed overhead; corridors too quickly bypassed; those overlooked conveyances, elevators.

“If you look at each element in isolation” you can feel its powerful, psychological dimension, Koolhaas said, beyond any “technical, artistic and pragmatic details.”

Koolhaas, 69, is known for eschewing a defined esthetic in favour of using modern materials and technology to meet clients’ needs.

Projects by the Dutch architect and the team he leads at Rotterdam-based OMA have included a plan for the city centre of Lille, France, as well as such award-winning buildings as the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin and the new Seattle public library.

In preparing for the Biennale, Koolhaas seemed thrilled to have found kindred spirits taken with the fundamentals of the architecture that surrounds us daily, such as a German professor’s thesis on the corridor and an Italian scholar’s study of false ceilings.

He himself has written a treatise on elevators.

While he has sought to distinguish architecture in this Biennale from art and design — a line that he says has blurred in recent years — he is actually one of the crossdisciplinary masters who have helped blur them.

Koolhaas has designed fashion runways for Prada, stores for Coach and cantilevered furniture for Knoll. Despite his purist intentions at the Biennale, design inevitably permeates the “Elements” exhibit, in the Knoll furniture sprinkled throughout the pavilion and in examples, of, say, door handles in a room dedicated to doors through the ages.

Other luminary architects and designers, from Walter Gropius to Peter Eisenman to Philippe Starck, are prominently displayed there.

And the exhibit coyly adds Koolhaas’ name with a big question mark — an invitation for him to design the perfect door handle.

Inside the Central Pavilion, his first stop is the ceiling.

Once, ceilings were architect’s playthings, vaunted and vaulted, canvases for fancy.

Now, they’re more often simple planes concealing modern heating and cooling units. Sometimes, the unadorned modern planes hide earlier wonders.

Koolhaas points to the beautiful, painted domed ceiling in the pavilion, from which he has suspended a cross-section of modern machinery with a partial false ceiling to hide it.

“You see a dome recently restored by the Biennale, at great expense,” Koolhaas motions upward.

“The ceiling there is sort of a symbolic plane where there is room for beauty and meaning.

You look also inside the belly of the false ceiling, and see how the two are fundamentally and radically changed, and how the ceiling has become a thick volume, completely charged with machinery, over which the architect has very little to say.”

Koolhaas took two years to realize the “Elements of Architecture” exhibit, enlisting help from OMA staff and a team of students from Harvard, where he has been a professor since 1975.

It is one of three overlapping exhibits he is overseeing as curator of the overall show, called “Fundamentals.”

The second, “Monditalia,” explores the Italian predicament of unrealized potential through other disciplines, including dance, music, theatre and film.

“It’s not Italy as an example, but Italy as a prototype of a recurrent condition,” Koolhaas said.

“Basically every country in the world struggles with this paradox: on the

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The curator of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas poses at the exhibition in Venice, Italy. Koolhaas is focusing on the fundamentals of architecture, not the cult of personality around the discipline. one hand, unbelievable gifts, on the other hand, an inability to realize them.”

The national pavilions for the first time are

organized around one theme, “Absorbing Modernity.”

Koolhaas said he asked countries to identify “either episodes or

an overview or a unique moment where the process of modernization was at its most acute” in the past century.

The Korean Pavilion,

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MARIN Marcel (Simon) Marcel Marin, 81, of Red Deer passed away on Sunday, June 8, 2014.

He was born in Spiritwood, Saskatchewan, on November 28, 1932, to the late Wilfred and Juliette Marin. He married Leona (Gwen) Rivalin in 1956 and was married for 57 years. Marcel was a self accomplished master carpenter and worked in this trade for most of his years. Family times were most important to him and he is very thankful for the many friendships he has developed over the past years. He thoroughly enjoyed fishing, boating, hunting and all outdoor activities. Marcel is survived by three children Marlee (Kevin) Maguire of St Albert; Guy Marin of Red Deer; and Michelle (Brent) Marin/Warner of Calgary. He is also survived by one grandchild Marin Maguire of St. Albert and his siblings Teresa, Simone, Henry and Doria. A celebration of his life will be determined at a later date.

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SMITH Irene 1921 - 2014 Irene Smith of Red Deer passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Thursday, June 12, 2014 at the age of 93 years. Though Irene had lived for short periods in the Lacombe and Rimbey areas, she was born, raised, lived for the most part and passed away in Red Deer.

Irene is survived by her sons Robert (Loree) Smith, Donald Smith; daughters Barb Smith, Betty Eide; fourteen grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. Also to cherish Irene’s memory is one sister and numerous nieces, nephews and other family members. She was predeceased by her husband Eithiel; son Sunny; granddaughter Rebecca Block; three brothers and two sisters. A Graveside Service will be held at the Fairview Cemetery, 4430 - Woodland Drive, Lacombe, Alberta on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the C.N.I.B., 4, 5015 - 48 St., Red Deer AB T4N 1S9.

Condolences to Irene’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

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SNOW Donald Thompson 1938-2014 It is with great sadness that the Snow family announce the sudden passing of Don Snow on June 9th, 2014 at the age of 76 years. Don was born on February 24, 1938 in Innisfail, Alberta to Helen Jean and Thompson Francis Henry Snow. The family lived on a farm west of Innisfail and the children attended a rural school in the Gordon School District where his mother was a teacher. They often went to school on horseback. The love of a country life stayed with Don all his life. He also became an expert at fishing and could often be found at the river, accompanied by his dog. The Snows moved into Innisfail where Don finished his schooling. He then attended the University of Alberta working towards an Engineering degree. However, this was not his vocation and he made the decision to become a Chartered Accountant articling under Touche Ross in Calgary. He found his true passion and continued practicing for over forty years. He was awarded a Life Membership in the CA Association and retired this past spring. In 1970, he married Joan Llewellyn of Innisfail, and they made their home in Red Deer. The instant family was a blended one with Todd, Kelly and Kathryn already on board.

During the next few years, Derek, Chris and Shauna were added to the group. Unfortunately, a baby daughter, Kimberley Meredith, passed away in 1974. During the years of raising a family, Don set up Accounting practices in Castor, Hanna, Red Deer, Olds and Didsbury taking the family through rural Alberta. His faithful clients continued to follow him throughout his career. Don was a very private man except when the grandchildren came along. There was nothing “Papa/Grampa” wouldn’t do for the little ones because they were on his Top Ten List from the minute they were born. In his later years, he enjoyed watching his grandchildren in their favorite pursuits. Don loved sports and passed on his love of baseball and golf to his children. He enjoyed following the Flames, Stampeders and Dodgers. Favorite hobbies were chess, crossword puzzles and hockey pools. He was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church and the Order of the Eastern Star, Venus #2, Red Deer and served as Worthy Patron four times. He is survived by his wife Joan of 43 years, Todd (Kathleen) Muir of Cochrane, AB, Kelly Snow of Toronto, ON, Kathryn Snow (Mike Ingalls) of Nanaimo, BC, Derek (Alison) Snow of Red Deer, AB, Chris Snow of Lagos, Nigeria, and Shauna (Mike) Hulyk of Red Deer, AB. Sisters; Bev (Stan) Harper and Joyce (Al) Lye, all of Calgary. Don was fortunate to have had the love and attention of ten grandchildren; Joel, Brett, Jasmine, Kaleb, Chloe, Bella, McKenna, Lily, Hannah and Ben. Don was predeceased by his father, Frank Snow, mother, Helen Snow, sister, Frances Spence, two brothers; Harold and Jim Snow and his infant daughter, Kimberley Snow. A Memorial Service will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church, 4718- 50th Street, Red Deer, on Monday, June 16th, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. with Rev. Wayne Reid officiating. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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TAYLOR William Hugh June 30 1923 to June 9 2014 It is with sad hearts we announce the passing of Hugh on Monday June 9 2014. Hugh was born and raised in the village of Neath in Wales where he lived until the age of 73 at which time he decided to move “across the pond” to Canada, fell in love, got married and spent 18 wonderful years with his wife Edna Taylor. Hugh had a zest for life, a heart of gold and a passion for the arts, especially music which enabled him to travel all over the world, visiting many countries, as a lead tenor in the Welsh National Choir.

Hugh enjoyed the outdoors, both in his garden and especially spending many hours fishing with his brother in law Neil. Hugh will be fondly remembered for his story telling, sharing all his life experiences with his family and friends. Although he will be missed by all who loved him, his memory will continue to live on in our hearts forever. Hugh leaves to mourn his loving wife Edna Taylor, son Alan Taylor (Veronica), grandchildren, Carly, Jodie and Kieran, special “daughter” Corinne Hudson (Jun) his brothers Fred Taylor (Edwina) and David Taylor (Helen), sister Joan Kerr (Doug) and family, brother in law Neil MacDonald and Family, sister in law Gloria Klos and Family, special friends Marjolein and Edward Bujnowicz, Stan and Eileen Schultz, numerous nieces and nephews, friends and neighbors’ both here in Canada and overseas. A memorial service to honor and celebrate Hugh’s life will be held at the Red Deer Legion Friday July 11 2014 at 2:00 p.m.

Obituaries THORN Stanley Winton July 21, 1927 - June 12, 2014 Stan passed away at the Intercare Southwood Care Centre in Calgary on Thursday, June 12th, 2014 at the age of 86 years. Stan was an honest, hardworking man with a great sense of humour. He was generous with a caring, gentle side, quietly helping people in need. He was a hotel man through and through, ending his career in 1994 when he retired after successfully running the Arlington Hotel in Red Deer for 18 years. He was predeceased by his father, mother, and three brothers and by his wife Doris in 2002, an event he never got over.

He will now be fulfilling his dream of being with her again. He is survived by his five children; Karen (Glenn), Patti (Gary), Grant (Wendy), Dave (Kathy), and Murray (Cheri), eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren, all of whom he touched in his own way. Stan had a love for duck hunting with his brothers, winters in Arizona, card games, golfing after retirement, and his numerous cars, trucks, and motor homes. He and Doris had great memories of a few special trips they took together as well. He loved his food (“if that’s dinner, I’ve had it”, followed by switching to his not so tight pants and a snooze), wanting to go out for dinner, even in his final days. Stan is now moving on to a place he wanted to be, with Doris and other special people in his life. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Monday, June 16th, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Memorial donations in Stanley’s name may be made directly to the Canadian Diabetes Association, #06, 5015 48 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1S9.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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COLE Denis H. “ The Chief “ It is with deep sadness that the family of Denis Cole announce his passing on June 5th, at age 94. Born in London, England, Denis served in WWII and met his beloved wife Jeanie Smith shortly afterwards.

They married in 1948 and enjoyed 64 years of marriage before her passing in 2012. Denis is survived by his 2 children, Tony Cole and Susan Lawson and 6 grandchildren, Jeremy Lawson (Poppy), Jonathan Lawson, Daniel Lawson (Jasmin), Megan Lawson, Heather Cole and Andrew Cole. He is also survived by his sister Pauline Millar and her children Sarah, Nicholas and Christopher in England. Denis loved Canada. After an initial few years in Calgary, he established himself as a city planner in Red Deer and eventually became the Chief Commissioner of that city. He developed a cabin property at Sylvan Lake where the family spent each summer while living in Red Deer. A keen sailor, Denis and Jeanie enjoyed many trips around the world both sightseeing and sailing with friends in exotic locales. They were great entertainers, and their garden barbeques were renowned by friends, neighbors and work colleagues. After 18 years in Red Deer the family moved to Calgary where Denis took up a position with the City of Calgary as Commissioner of Operations and Development and eventually went on to become Chief Commissioner. Initially qualified as a Chartered Surveyor, Denis had a long and distinguished career in municipal government, retiring from the City of Calgary as Chief Commissioner in 1981. He then served as a member of the Alberta Planning Board for 10 years. One of his proudest accomplishments occurred in 1987 when he was awarded the prestigious Vanier Medal, for his lifetime contributions in the public sector. Denis was very proud of each member of his family and will be profoundly missed by one and all. He was active in supporting his grandchildren’s activities and loved to hear how they were finding their individual passions and paths. Active in body and mind throughout his life, Denis continued his interest in government and politics and was engaged and excited about new endeavours right up to the end. Most recently he was looking forward to a grandson’s wedding, the birth of his first great-grandchild and a Christmas vacation in Mexico. He lived fully to the last. Special thanks go to the staff of Wentworth Manor who supported his ongoing independence and to many of his co-residents who became good friends. A Memorial Service will be held at Eden Brook Memorial Gardens on Saturday, June 21 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Doctors Without Borders.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.edenbrookcemetery.ca.

Arrangements entrusted to EDEN BROOK FUNERAL HOME AND RECEPTION CENTRE (17th Avenue SW and Lower Springbank Rd).

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Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full time Operator 2 position.

The position includes Plant Operations and Sanitation duties.

Applicants must have a minimum Grade 12 diploma and must be available for shift work.

Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.

Application Closing Date: June 30, 2014.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

Wages range from $32.68 to $35.40/hr. In addition; employees are eligible for shift premiums, performance, attendance and safety bonuses. Evraz offers an excellent benefit and pension package.

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta TOC OBO Fax: (403) 747-2660

Applications may be completed in person at the Security office; 27251 Township Road 391, Red Deer, AB, or resumes can be emailed to reddeerhr@evrazna.com.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

www.parklandyouthhomes.ca

Operator 2 Position

to work at our pipe making facility in Red Deer, Alberta. Individuals must be at least 18 years of age, safety conscious, able to work overtime and shift work, and able to perform some heavy lifting. All selected applicants will be required to attend and pass a medical/physical assessment, as well as drug and alcohol screening arranged by EVRAZ Red Deer.

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WANTED: Lady missing her golf club.

It was misplaced while golfing in Parker Arizona at Emerald Canyon Golf Club. We have it.

Please call 403-347-4519

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Computer Personnel

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Applicants are sincerely thanked in advance for their interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Competition closes when positions are filled.

invites applications for a

Resumes can be emailed to:

Communications OďŹƒcer & International Student Services Program Assistant

HR@parklandyouthhomes.ca Faxed to: 403-346-3225

Oilfield

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Please visit the Division’s website at www.rdcrs.ca for complete information

or forwarded to: Human Resources Parkland Youth Homes Society 4920 54 St., Red Deer, AB, T4N 2G8

IS HIRING!

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We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: - QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER - CONCRETE FINISHERS - CARPENTERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full BeneďŹ ts and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Canyon Technical Services is a leader in the oilfield service industry, providing customized fracturing and pressure pumping solutions to oil and gas producers across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. At Canyon, our employees are ‘Champions’, dedicated to fulfilling our Vision of “improving the industry one job at a time� - our ‘Champions’ have made Canyon one of the most sought-after providers in our industry. If you are looking for a career within a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then Canyon is looking for you! Canyon is preparing for an extremely busy 2014/2015 and are looking for qualified employees.

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Qualifications:

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• Must be a certified Alberta Journeyman / Inter-provincial Red Seal • Allen Bradley/Rockwell/PLC tickets required • Experience in a food processing plant environment – an asset • Ability to follow and promote site safety policy and procedures • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work effectively in a highly interactive, energetic team environment • Must be available for shift work, over-time and week-ends • Must be willing to learn new technology • Any other duties as assigned.

Frac— Pump Operators and Bulk Transport Drivers Coiled Tubing—Experienced Operators, Crane Operators and Supervisors

With a job at Olymel you enjoy:

f Premium compensation package f New Equipment f 15/6 Schedule

To apply for the above positions, in confidence, please email or fax your resume and a copy of a current drivers abstract. We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

How to apply: online: canyontech.ca/careers fax: 888 249 3895

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Why Canyon? f Paid technical and leadership training f Career advancement opportunities f RRSP matching program

We Are Seeking a Journeyman Millwright Journeyman Electrician Position Vacancy for our Red Deer Plant

• Comprehensive Health and Benefit Plan • Olymel products available on site (Fresh and frozen pork / poultry and clothing) • Unionized environment.

Join Our Team!

7550 40th Ave. Red Deer AB. T4P 2H8 Phone: (403) 343-8700 Fax: (403) 309-7547 Email: apply@olymel.com

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We have the right customers We have the right jobs We have the right equipment Are YOU the right fit?

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www.eaglebuilders.ca

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, June 14, 2014 D7

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

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING

Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T front counter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds).

Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

RAMADA INN & SUITES

req`s Permanent ROOM ATTENDANTS Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance based bonus program.

Must be fluent with verbal l& written English, be physically fit. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for experienced F/T SERVERS & DISWASHERS Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Sales & Distributors

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GRATIAE is seeking 5 Retails Sales reps selling skin & body care products in Parkland Mall 4747 67th St. Red Deer, $12.10/hr + bonus & comm.

F/T - P/T No Exp. Req’d.

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

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ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START KCB CABINETS & RENOVATIONS is looking for a

CARPENTER/ HANDYMAN

to work on our renovation jobs. Individual needs to have a solid background in construction and own his own tools and vehicle.

Experience in all aspects of renovations will be considered an asset.

Must be bondable and willing to work as part of a team. If interested, please email resume or call Rick at 403-347-3334 kcbkitch@telus.net 2, 4646 Riverside Drive, Red Deer NOW HIRING

Requires

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! JOURNEYMAN WELDER Required ASAP. Please call 403-318-6262 or email resume to: dave@kodiakent.com

Truckers/ Drivers

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

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Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

PLANT LABORER

Job Description As a critical member of our operational team, you will be required to perform tasks including climbing above three meters, loading and unloading of chemicals, some heavy lifting and general housekeeping and laborer tasks.

Qualifications Required: We are looking for workers experienced in handling chemicals, equipment use and maintenance. CFR is offering an excellent benefits package with the company matching RRSP contributions while providing all required training (certifications).

Workers are required to provide personal transportation with a valid “Alberta” driver’s license. Drug and alcohol policy is effect with pre-employment testing.

Please forward your resume to Dave Oyka at doyka@cfrchemicals.com Starting Wage:$17.50/hr

SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT!!

Wage is $13.12/hour plus $2.10/hour shift premium.

Please email resume to: • gmccarthy @reddeeradvocate.com or drop off to: 2950 Bremner Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE • CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

PT office help and or Class room Instructor req`d. Please call Street Wise Driving School.

403-340-8840

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MORRISROE INGLEWOOD AND SOUTHBROOK AREAS

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Please reply by fax 403-845-5370 or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

Business Opportunities

870

START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL CLEANING BUSINESS Revenue between $24,000 - $120,000 Initial cash required as low as $6,000 In Business for over 20 years *Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl. *Training Incl. *Ongoing Office Support

Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866

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Meadowlands Golf Club Now Hiring Full and part time small restaurant COOKS Please email your resume to: info@ golfsylvanlake.com

69 Street & 63 Ave

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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stuff

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

GLENDALE

KENTWOOD

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

1530

Police Bike Auction June 16 @ 6 PM Approx 200 of all kinds Weather Permitting For info view www.cherryhillauction.com 403-342-2514

Bicycles

1540

Police Bike Auction **************** See Auction Section RIALTO, Shimano, Ultima 18 spd., front & back brakes, like new. $125.

403-346-2070

Children's Items

CHILDS WOODEN ROCKING CHAIR, $25.

403-346-7825

JOHNSTONE CROSSING

Clothing

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

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MEN’S used expensive clothes, suits $40, shirts $5, casual pants $8, bathrobe $8, 346-8121

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Phone 403-314-4316 * Adults * Youths * Seniors *

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING!

Phone 403-314-4316 ************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

AFFORDABLE

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SOLID oak oval kitchen table 38 x 42 w/4 chairs plus leaf $150 obo 403-506-9453

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for

Homestead Firewood Sale Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

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1 YR. old 1200 watt generator 1 hr. use $200 obo Semi loads of pine, spruce, 403-314-0804 tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location. 60 4 oz. balls of wools, same color $50; set of new Lil Mule Logging flares $25; 2 faux queen 403-318-4346 blankets, like new $25/ea., Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner 2 queen floral quilts BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / $20/ea. 403-348-6449 Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 GLASS COFFEE POTS, $3/ea.

Garden PANTS HANGER, $15.

403-346-7825 Supplies

LOGS

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15’ LAUREL LEAF WILLOW 6-8’ NORTHWEST POPLAR & BROOK POPLAR Beautiful trees. You dig.

Please phone 403-302-1919 LAWNMOWER rear bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. old $250 403-314-0804

Household Appliances

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PICTURES, golf balls & clubs, wood frame, dble. matte, 16x30, 2 in set. $25. 403-346-2070 PORTABLE AIR CONDITIONER 14000 BTU. Very good cond.

Paid $600, Asking $200 obo.

403-347-6466 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

TENTS with flys, lightAPARTMENT size fridge 1 weight 3 person $35 & $20; air mattresses yr. old $90 403-314-0804 $15/ea., oil lantern $15, BEER fridge, McClary Craftsman seat for riding $175 obo 403-314-0804 mower $20 403-342-7460 STOVE, Inglis, Good working order.

Piano & Clean. $75.

Organs 403-346-6999

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Household Furnishings

1720

DARK wood bureau w/mirror and 2 matching night tables $120 obo; retro magazine table from 1950’s $30 obo 403-506-9453 SECTIONAL, 3 pce. $300. obo, 2 pc. china cabinet $200 obo 403-848-1499

APT. size electronic organ, full percussion $150 403-346-8121

Office Supplies

1800

LEXMARK fax/photocopier $20 403-346-0674 403-392-5657 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Anders Park

Southbrook

77 ALLAN CL. June 13, 3-7. June 14. 9-1. Fishing, hunting, golf, bar fridge, electric roaster, misc. household items.

36 SAGEWOOD CLOSE Jun 12, 13 & 14 Multi Family Thurs. 4-9, Fri. 9-9, Sat. 9-3 BABY, KIDS STUFF, Furniture, Electronics, etc.

Bower

Sunnybrook Household goods, lots of baby items, scrapbooking, TONS of transformers, home decor& much more!

59 Stephenson Cr June 14/15,Sat & Sun 10-6

3 FAMILY SALE

West Lake

June 14, SATURDAY. 9 - 3

314 WEBSTER DR. MULTI FAMILY Jun 13, Fri. 10 - 7 June 14, Sat. 10 - 3 NO EARLY BIRDS PLEASE Rain or Shine.

Toyota Tundra rims, tools, misc. household, baby stuff, toys, books, home decor, push mower, Nintendo DS lite, clothes.

Something for Everyone

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Phone 403-314-4301

SPRINGBROOK

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Household Furnishings

35 BARNER AVE.

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

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

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

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Advocate Opportunities

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

PIDHERNEY’S

MUSTANG ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK

Industries #1 Choice!

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the DUTIES: ADVOCATE Drive a 990 4x4 John Deere tractor and spray Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in: gun.

Email resume to: reddeer@greenoasis.ca Visit: www.greenoasis.ca

Kirby St. & Kennings Cres.

SAFETY

Advocate Opportunities

QUALIFICATIONS: Strong work ethic (Successful candidates must supply a driver’s abstract) A self-motivated, responsible worker that demonstrates a positive attitude Mechanical experience is beneficial but not required to succeed Willing to work long hours during peak production times

KENTWOOD

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Employment Training

EquipmentHeavy

Firewood

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Highway applicators are fully trained. We apply weed control products to roadside ditches around the province.

You will be back to Red Deer each night. All products are approved by Health Canada and Alberta Environment.

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CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery 3 days per week.

NO WEEKENDS!!

SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Full time seasonal positions available in our industrial and highway division.

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Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

to work Tuesday - Saturday starting at 1 a.m.

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

Downtown MULTI-Resident Sale 5300-48 St. (south of Superstore by Mongolie Grill Saturday, June 14, 9 - 4 Weather Permitting

WESTPARK SUBDIVISION

Eastview

35 Street 37 Street 41 St. Cres 58 Ave. Welton Cres.

Westpark Cres.

3941 35 AVE. Sat. 14th, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Antiques, pictures, household, director chairs, bedding, linens, adult clothing, etc.

36 Street 38 St. Close 57A Ave. Warwick Drive Wiltshire Pl. Wiltshire Dr.

Phone 403-314-4316 ************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

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

WOODLEA AREA

INNISFAIL

47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING!

GRANDVIEW AREA

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Eastview Estates 23 EDGINGTON AVE June 13, Fri. 4 - 8 June 14, Sat. 9 - 5 HUGE SALE Lots of Kids Stuff

Sylvan Lake

Innisfail 3416 - 51A AVE June 14, Saturday 9 - 4 Great Garage Sale Huge variety of collectibles books, household, etc....

Penhold JUNE 14, 9-5. Downsizing.

Items must go, something for everyone. Some furniture, household appls/items. 22 Heritage Dr. You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Sylvan Lake

Phone 403-314-4316

3900 - 4200 Blocks of 43A Ave.

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

EASTVIEW

CARRIERS NEEDED

402881E23,24

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

GED Preparation

We are looking for 2 P/T MAILERS

requires experienced DRIVERS Absolute Fusion CLASS 1 ,3 & LOWBOY, Contracting is a welding, FOREMAN, fabrication, maintenance OPERATORS AND and repair facility requiring LABOURERS a supervisor/instructor.

Knowledge and experience For work in Rocky in fabrication with Mountain House area, engineered drawings or as well as out of town designing from instruction. locations.

Strong mechanical ability Priority will be given to for repair and maintenance. those candidates with Must be able to organize experience. and instruct up to 10 employees.

Comprehensive Benefit plan.

Wages are negotiable with • Top wages and benefits based on experience experience and attitude.

Please forward resumes • Possible career advancement opportunities and references by fax to 403-309-7134 or by email Valid First Aid and H2S to info@absolutefusion.ca tickets required.

No Phone Calls Please!

We offer competitive Tired of Standing? wages, benefits package, Find something to sit on and opportunities for in Classifieds advancement.

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

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GAETZ SOUTH SHOP & PORTABLE Welding Business in F/T MEAT CUTTER Lacombe looking for F/T Bakery Production Welders for local work.

Full benefits, staff Only reliable need apply. incentives. Apply within.

Call Mon. - Fri. 8:30 - 4:30 403-318-9445 Gasoline Alley HarleyDavidson is currently SHUNDA Lot Technicians.

CONSTRUCTION seeking Provides assistance to all Requires Full Time employees of the Service Carpenters Department as needed.

Please fax resume Attn: & Helpers Christina @ 403-342-7244 Competitive Wages & Benefits.

PEST CONTROL TECHS Fax resumes & ref’s to: REQ’D. cpest@shaw.ca 403-343-1248 or email to: Call 403-373-6182 admin@shunda.ca

For job descriptions and how to apply, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs.

No phone calls please.

COMMERCIAL Foundation company in Red Deer are currently seeking experienced foundation form workers. Please fax resume to 403-346-5867 or email cavemancontracting @hotmail.com

Community Support Worker Program

Wage negotiable.

780-818-8524

(Part Time)

BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Dozer & Excavator Operators and Laborers. Send resumes

by Fax: 403-347-6296

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Req’d immed.

Certified asbestos workers.

Customer Service Rep

850

880

ACADEMIC Express

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 DRIVERS for furniture retail sales reps. Selling soap moving company, class 5 & bath products. $12.10 hr required (5 tons), local & + bonus & commission. long distance. Competitive F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d. wages. Apply in person.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. 6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. email resume to Red Deer. 403-347-8841 premierjobrd@gmail.com MEGA CRANES is now StoreSmart hiring exp’d Class 1 drivers.

Self-Storage Boom/crane truck tickets is now hiring for an asset. Please email the following positions! résumé with drivers abstract to cathy@megacranes.com Assistant Manager or fax 403-885-4292 (Full Time)

Trades

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Misc.

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FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

Ellis St. Area $97./mo ALSO South Half of Embury Cres.

South half of 46 St. and 35 Ave. Close $70./mo For More Information Call Jamie at 403-314-4306

860

Professional Drivers Class 1 or Class 3

Our Equipment: • Pressure Trucks • Water/Chemical Trucks • Acid/Synthetic Tank Truck/Pups • Tractor Trailer Unit • Shower Units Some of your duties could be: • Loading & delivering acid or environmentally friendly acid to leases • Loading & delivering methanol or fresh water for pipeline pressure testing We offer: • On-site Mechanic to maintain equipment • Competitive wages based on hourly pay • Subsistence pay & hotel rooms for drivers • Extensive health & dental plan

Please send your resume and drivers abstract to pat@haulinacid.com or fax 403-314-9724 or Dean 403-391-8004

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Restaurant/ Hotel

Advocate Opportunities

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Ashley Ave., Ashley Close Alexander Drive, Anquetel/Atlee Close MORRISROE AREA McDougall Cres. McCullough Cres.

SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave. also Sherwood Cres. & Stirling Close LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Dr. also Lister Cres. & Lockwood Ave. also Landry & Lawson Close VANIER AREA Voisin Close/Viscount Drive, Vanier Drive/Volk Place Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

INNISFAIL Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, June 14, 2014

1840

Dogs

MATURE lady loves animals will sit while your away 403-598-8449

Offering to loving pet homes, Teacup Morkies, Extra Fluffy & Extremely Cute! nonshedding& vet checked. Call 587 876 0331or email wendyschedel @gmail.com

1860

Sporting Goods

GOLF EQUIPMENT & POOL CUES at garage sale prices. 403-343-7430

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

Suites

3060

Rooms For Rent

3090

Houses For Sale

4020

FULLY Furn. BDRM. $450 DOWNTOWN MUST SELL rent/sd ***RENTED 2 bdrm.,1 bath suite in 1217 sq.ft. duplex. adult only bldg, 2 appl, 4 bdrm., $191,900. laundry on site, $800 + 403-588-2550 pwr, $800 SD, N/P, N/S, Offices PM 244 ~ MUST SELL Sim Mgmt & Realty New Home. 1335 sq.ft.

2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

4836 51 Street. www.simproperties.ca ~ 403-588-2550 Parking is avail. $1800/mo.

Avail July 1 403-343-9300 EASTVIEW Condos/ 1 bdrm., 1 bath bsmt suite, DOWNTOWN Condos/ Townhouses 4 appl, $725 plus util, $675 Office space $315 + GST, Townhouses SD, N/P, N/S, PM 81 ~ high traffic location, close BOWER 3723-50 St ~ to court house and public 1 bbdrm., 1 bath condo, 2 Sim Mgmt & Realty library, PM 482 ~ appl, laundry in bldg, $995 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ Darryl Sim with Sim + pwr, $945 SD, N/S, N/P, www.simproperties.ca ~ Mgmt & Realty PM 568 ~ 306, 19 Bennett Avail Now 403-358-9003 Ext. 412 ~ St ~ Sim Mgmt & Realty www.simproperties.ca ~ 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. Avail Now 3, 4819 - 48 Ave apartments, avail. immed, www.simproperties.ca ~ rent $875 403-596-6000 Avail July 1 * *$309,000* * Mobile DOWNTOWN GRANDVIEW #314 6 Michener Blvd.

Lot 1 bdrm., 1 bath condo 2 bdrm., 1 bath bsmt Welcome To One Of Red suite in adult only bldg, suite, 5 appl, $925 + 40% Deer’s Premier Adult 5 appl, elevator, $980 + util, $875 SD, small dog Complexes! 1 bdrm. 2 baths PADS $450/mo. pwr, $930 SD, N/P, N/S, with fee, N/S, PM 409 plus Den open concept Brand new park in Lacombe.

PM 488 ~ 4415-48 Ave ~ 4720-43 Ave ~ condo is in new cond. Immed.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., Sim Mgmt & Realty Sim Mgmt & Realty 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. poss. Enjoy great views & 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ Down payment $4000. Call privacy. Call TIM MALEY, www.simproperties.ca ~ www.simproperties.ca ~ Re/Max 403-550-3533 at anytime. 403-588-8820 Avail Now Avail July 1 WANTED: family with own EXECUTIVE townhouse DOWNTOWN mobile home to live on farm.

INNISFAIL 2 bed, 1 bath condo suite 10 min. north of Sylvan Lake condo. 505 150 Vanier Dr. 2 bed, 3 piece bath bsmt in adult only bldg, 2 appl, & 25 min. from Red Deer. $315,000 Kijiji #599833430 suite in Ω duplex, 4 appl, Call Albert 403-396-3920 coin laundry, $950 + pwr, $700 + 40% util, $650 SD, 403-255-1627 or 701-1235 $900 SD, N/P, N/S, PM N/P, N/S, PM 261-B ~ 303 ~ 4814-46 St ~ 4803B - 46 Ave ~ NEW CONDO Acreages/ Sim Mgmt & Realty Sim Mgmt & Realty 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath.

403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ Farms $192,000. 403-588-2550 www.simproperties.ca ~ www.simproperties.ca ~ Avail July 1 Avail July 1 Farm yard/acreage- Semiretired farm/ranch couple.

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. Manufactured EASTVIEW SUITES. 25+, adults only Willing to do chores,etc.

3 bdrm., 2 bath Homes n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 Ref. avail. 403-224townhouse, 5 appl, $1250 3378 bacon@airenet.com + util, $1200 SD, small pet 1979 MOBILE home, with fee, N/S, PM 563 ~ 14x70, 3 bedrooms with 510 Terrace Park ~ addition, newly renovated, Sim Mgmt & Realty newer appliances including 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ washer and dryer, on large Adult bldg.

N/S No pets www.simproperties.ca ~ rented lot in Blackfalds.

403-596-2444 Avail July 1 $35,000.00 obo.

Newly renovated bachelor, Ph. 403-505-6697 MORRISROE 2 storey 1 & 2 bedroom suites townhouse, 3 bdrm., 1 1/2 bath, large kitchen, no available in central location.

CLASSIFICATIONS pets, n/s, fenced yard, leasing@rentmidwest.com Cottages/Resort 4000-4190 1(888) 679-8031 $1300 rent + $1000 s.d. + Property util. July 1, 403- 342-6374 NORTH OF Realtors SOUTHWOOD PARK HOSPITAL *SANDY COVE RESORT* 3110-47TH Avenue, 1 bed, 1 bath suite, 2 appl & Services Pine Lake 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, & laundry in bldg, $750 + LAKE FRONT LOTS generously sized, 1 1/2 pwr, $700 SD, N/P, N/S, FOR SALE baths, fenced yards, PM 479-8 ~ 5110-43 St ~ & SEASONAL LOT RENTALS. full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sim Mgmt & Realty Cheapest in the area, $3000.

Sorry no pets.

403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ Call 306-402-7776 www.greatapartments.ca www.simproperties.ca ~ Avail July 1

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

2190

Grain, Feed Hay

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

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DEER PARK

5 bdrms, 2.5 baths house, 6 appl, rumpus room with wet bar, rear deck, dbl grg, fenced yard, 1175 sq ft, $1700 + util, $1650 SD, N/P, N/S PM 327 ~ 136 Dempsey St ~ Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ www.simproperties.ca ~ Avail July 1

GLENDALE

new 3 bed, 2.5 bath Ω duplex attached grg, 4 appl, 1236 sq ft, $1600 + util, $1550 SD, N/P, N/S, PM 599 ~ Greenhouse Place ~ Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ www.simproperties.ca ~ Avail Now

GULL LAKE

2 bed, 1 bath bungalow, large yard, 740 sq ft, 5 appl, $1000 incl H20, $950 SD, adults only, N/P, N/S, PM 630 ~ 8 Sunnyside Dr Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ www.simproperties.ca ~ Avail July 1

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MORRISROE MANOR

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4010

SYLVAN LAKE

2 bed, 2 bath condo suite, 5 appl, 2 balconies, exercise room in bldg, $1200 + pwr, $1150 SD, N/P, N/S, PM 426 ~ 108, 3 Broadway Rise~ Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ www.simproperties.ca ~ Avail July 1

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

2 UNITS AVAIL in Normandeau 3 bdrm., 1 bath 4-plex, 4 appl, $1025/$950 + util, $975/$900 SD, N/P, N/S, PM 559 ~ 6711-59 Ave ~ Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ www.simproperties.ca ~ Avail July 1

Suites

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2 BDRM. adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, lrg. suite, Avail July 1. $950/mo., S.D. $650.

403-304-5337 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1610 403-342-4923 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 403-348-7445 BLACKFALDS 2 bdrm. suite, all utils., except electric. incl’d. Rent $725. & $825./mo. 403-318-0289

RIVERSIDE MEADOWS

1 bed, 1 bath suite in adult only bldg, 2 appl & free laundry, $750 + pwr, $750 SD, N/P, N/S, PM 124 ~ 5726-57 Ave ~ Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ www.simproperties.ca ~ Avail July 1

SUNNYBROOK

2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

WASKASOO

reno’d 1 bed, 1 bath suite, 3 appl & token laundry, $900 + pwr, $850 SD, small dog okay with $15 monthly fee, N/S, PM 523 ~ 203, 4714A-55 St ~ Sim Mgmt & Realty 403-340-0065 Ext. 412 ~ www.simproperties.ca ~ Avail July 1

Rooms For Rent

3090

Houses For Sale

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GST, legal fee, appls. pkg.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294 ADULT/RETIREMENT LIVING AT ITS BEST. IMMACULATE 1/2 DUPLEX IN DEERPARK , DBL ATTACH GARAGE, 3 BATH, 2 BDR PLUS DEN, FULLY DEVELOPED BSMT. 5 APPL, NO CONDO FEES. A MUST SEE. ASKING $359,900.

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Help-U-Sell of Red Deer 403-588-6268 after 6 pm. www.homesreddeer.com FULLY furn. bdrm for rent www.laebon.com $500/$250. Male only.

Laebon Homes 346-7273 Call 403-396-2468.

Contractors

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER Const. Ltd. Decks, reno’s, roofing, flooring. Free est. Call Geoff 403-302-8550

PLACE an ad in Central Alber ta LIFE and reach over 100,000 potential buy- DALE’S Home Reno’s ers. 309-3300.

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Moving & Storage

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Handyman Services

2002 FORD Dynamax (B Plus) 25’, 25,000 mi.

2007 FORD Fusion SEL A1 cond., E450, V10, V6 AWD Auto, Exc. Condi4 kw Ohan gen. loaded. tion. Leather Seats, Moon $32,500.

587-876-2308 Roof, 6-CD. 132,460 km, Non-smoking, 1 owner.

1995 PINNACLE 32’ ready $9,450. obo. 403-342-4937 for the road, offers 403-986-2004

2006 CHARGER Daytona RT, limited addition, #3 of only 250 made, loaded w/leather, low kms., top banana color. $16,995.

403-350-4588 2003 MALIBU, good running order. 223,000 kms. $1850. 403-346-6999

Lots For Sale

5.24 ACRES & 4.5 acre lot near Valemount B.C. Ideal for recreational or permanent home. Beautiful view of mntns, well treed, services to lot line. Call 780-487-2849 BEAUTIFUL, surveyed Lake Front lot for sale on R.D. Lake. Suitable for recreational or permanent home. Services to lot line.

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Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

Investment Opportunities

Moving & Storage

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JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

MASSAGE

Painters/ Decorators

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LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

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1985 BUICK Riviera. Original paint, fully loaded, sunroof, exc. shape. 2nd owner. Immaculate interior. 158,000 km. $3750 obo. 403-347-3950

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CLEAN FREAK FOR HIRE Available to start cleaning houses on July 7. Call: Sharla at 403-357-7801 LADY bondable, yrs. of exp. has Mon. - Thurs. days avail. 403-598-8449 VINYL SIDING / WINDOW / EAVSTROUGH CLEANING Package pricing.

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Contractors

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542

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Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

2010 Ford Explorer

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Trucks

5050

Eavestroughing

1130

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822 VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Escorts

1165

TAHNEE 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

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403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca H & H Technical Writers Inc. Specializing in: Policies, reports, presentations, proposals, forms and educational materials: Student and Instructor manuals, assessments, etc. 403-340-1858 or donnalhennig@gmail.com

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WINDOW CLEANING outside/inside. Free quotes.

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Yard Care

1430

JUNK/TREE REMOVAL, Yard/Care 403-358-1614 ROTOTILLING, power raking, aerating & grass cutting. Reasonable rates. 403-341-4745

Holiday Trailers

5120

2009 KEYSTONE Passport Ultralite 29 ft Travel Trailer - Reduced, one slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C. See Kijiji Ad ID 548133556 for details. $19,000. obo.

403-343-1043 2008 Flagstaff Superlite 25’ Hardwall Trailer with superslide and bunkbeds. $19,500 obo. Loaded with many extras. 403-346-3806

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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5010

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

2011 F150 XLT Supercab, Exc. cond. 403-347-5078 2005 DODGE Ram 1500 SLT quad cab, 4x2, 5.7L Hemi, only 125,000 kms, power equipped, great for towing RV, very well kept truck. Call Dean 403-347-2797 2004 CHEVY SILVERADO 2500HD 195K REBUILT TRANNY LOTS EXTRAS $8300.OBO 403-352-6457 2001 DAKOTA quad cab 4x4 ATC 230,000 kms, runs exc. $4500 obo 403-358-4022 1988 DODGE D150 auto, loaded, L/B, 2wd, single cab, 56,360 kms, $1900 403-505-3113 1988 CHEV Sierra, 1/2 ton very clean. 403-318-3040

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BLACKFALDS 38 Rolling Hills Bay 2 storey home.

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ESTATE OF EDITH CHARLOTTE JOAN BIRCHALL who died on October 24, 2013

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RE-ROOFING Specialist Quality work at an affordable price. 10 yrs. exp. 403-350-7602

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2003 29.5’ OKANAGAN 1 slide, like new, solar panel, new battery/tires, $16,000 obo 403-347-6343

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

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4160

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2007 Dutchman Express 26’ Class C 12,800 Miles Slide, Generator, Air,V10, $40,000 403 782 4207

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, June 14, 2014 D9

Rebellion a threat to Iraq stability IRAQ’S CLERICAL LEADERSHIP URGES NATIONAL DEFENCE AS MILITANTS SEIZE MORE TERRITORY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WORLD

BRIEFS

Ukrainian troops attack proRussia separatists MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia separatists clashed Friday in a southern port town, as the United States confirmed earlier reports that a convoy of armoured vehicles including three T-64 Russian tanks moved into Ukraine from Russia and now are in the hands of the rebels.

About 100 soldiers emerged triumphant from the previously rebeloccupied buildings in Mariupol, shouting the name of their battalion, Azov, and singing the Ukrainian national anthem. They also destroyed an armoured vehicle and a heavy truck used by the separatists, leaving the vehicles scorched and riddled with large-calibre bullet holes.

Mariupol is the second-largest city in the eastern Donetsk region, where armed separatists have declared independence from the government in Kyiv. The Azov Sea port sits along the main road leading from Russia to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in March from Ukraine.

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said four government troops were wounded in what he called a successful operation. Witnesses said they saw troops capture at least four separatist fighters. There was no immediate word of casualties on the rebel side, and Associated Press journalists at the site were blocked from entering the buildings.

Ukraine and the West have accused Moscow of fomenting the unrest in eastern Ukraine and supporting the separatist fighters. Russia, however, has denied sending troops or weapons to Ukraine and has described the Russian citizens fighting with the separatists as volunteers.

The renewed fighting Friday came as State Department officials in Washington confirmed Russia had sent tanks and rocket launchers to the rebels.

Bergdahl ‘looked good’ upon return to US after 5 years in Taliban captivity SAN ANTONIO — In the moments after Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl arrived back in the United States following five years of captivity by the Taliban in Afghanistan, he was nervous but “looked good” and saluted a commanding officer who welcomed him home, military officials said Friday.

Bergdahl is working daily with health professionals to regain a sense

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Iraqi Shiite tribal fighters deploy with their weapons while chanting slogans against the al-Qaida inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, to help the military, which defends the capital in Baghdad’s Sadr City, Iraq, Friday. The tribal leaders met in Sadr city on Friday and declared their readiness along with their tribesmen to take up arms against the al-Qaida inspired group that has made advances in Iraq’s Sunni heartland.

He warned that Iraq faced “great danger,” and that fighting the militants “is everybody’s responsibility, and is not limited to one specific sect or group.”

In Geneva, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay warned of “murder of all kinds” and other war crimes in Iraq, and said the number killed in recent days may run into the hundreds, while the wounded could approach 1,000.

Pillay said her office has received reports that militants rounded up and killed Iraqi army soldiers as well as 17 civilians in a single street in Mosul.

Her office heard of “summary executions and extrajudicial killings” as ISIL militants overran Iraqi cities and towns this week, the statement said.

“I am extremely concerned about the acute vulnerability of civilians caught in the cross-fire, or targeted in direct attacks by armed groups, or trapped in areas under the control of ISIL and their allies,” Pillay said. of normalcy and move forward with his life, officials added.

Bergdahl’s family has not joined him since he arrived at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston after midnight Friday, and Army officials would not say when relatives might show up.

In a statement read at a news conference Friday, Bergdahl’s parents said they “are overjoyed that their son has returned to the United States” but asked for privacy.

Maj. Gen. Joseph P. DiSalvo, who greeted Bergdahl upon his arrival from an Army medical facility in Germany, said he exchanged a few words with Bergdahl after a three-vehicle convoy met him.

“He appeared just like any sergeant would when they see a two-star general, a little bit nervous. But he looked good and saluted and had good deportment,” DiSalvo said at the news conference, adding that Bergdahl was in stable condition.

Officials said there is no timeline for the final step in Bergdahl’s reintegration process.

“We will proceed at his pace,” said Col. Bradley Poppen, an Army psychologist.

Beheading of elderly US man, killing of wife baffles exclusive gated community EATONTON — The unsolved beheading of an elderly U.S. retiree and the killing of his wife has so startled their gated, lakeside community that neighbours are reaching for even outlandish explanations. Was it a mob hit? A drug dealer? A hungry alligator?

In May, concerned friends found the headless body of Russell Dermond, 88, in the garage of his Georgia home.

Shirley Dermond, 87, was originally thought to have been abducted until her body was found a few weeks later in the lake.

Russell Dermond’s head has still not been found.

Law enforcement thinks the Dermonds likely knew the person or people who attacked them, but their age, the beheading and the fact that it all happened in a seemingly secure community has left neighbours shaken, according to Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills.

Despite interviewing hundreds of people and looking through reams of records, Sills has been frustrated by the lack of obvious motive and is hoping for a breakthrough. And for the first time in his four decades in law enforcement, he’s asked the public to donate to a reward fund.

Sills says he can’t even remember so much as a burglary in the Dermonds’ community during his 18 years as sheriff.

“And I am especially concerned about the risk to vulnerable groups, minorities, women and children.”

Obama did not specify what options he was considering, but he ruled out sending American troops back into combat in Iraq.

“We’re not going to allow ourselves to be dragged back into a situation in which, while we’re there we’re keeping a lid on things, and after enormous sacrifices by us, after we’re not there, people start acting in ways that are not conducive to the long-term stability and prosperity of the country,” Obama said on the South Lawn of the White House.

Administration officials said Obama is weighing airstrikes using drones or manned aircraft. Other short-term options include an increase in surveillance and intelligence-gathering. The U.S. also is likely to increase aid to Iraq, including funding, training and both lethal and non-lethal equipment.

Al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders have pleaded with Washington for more than a year for additional help to combat the growing insurgency.

Neighbouring Shiite powerhouse Iran signalled its willingness to confront the growing threat from the militant blitz.

Former members of Tehran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard have announced their readiness to fight in Iraq against the Islamic State, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iranian state TV quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying his country will do all it can to battle terrorism next door.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran will apply all its efforts on the international and regional levels to confront terrorism,” the report said Rouhani told al-Maliki by phone.

Iranian officials denied their forces were actively operating in Iraq, however.

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BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Shiite clerical leadership Friday called on all Iraqis to defend their country from Sunni militants who have seized large swaths of territory, and a UN official expressed “extreme alarm” at reprisal killings in the offensive, citing reports of hundreds of dead and wounded.

U.S. President Barack Obama said he is weighing options for countering the insurgency, but warned Iraqi leaders that he would not take military action unless they moved to address the country’s political divisions.

Fighters from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant made fresh gains, driving government forces at least temporarily from two towns in an ethnically mixed province northeast of Baghdad. The assault threatens to embroil Iraq more deeply in a wider regional conflict feeding off the chaos caused by the civil war in neighbouring Syria.

The fast-moving rebellion, which also draws support from former Saddam Hussein-era figures and other disaffected Sunnis, has emerged as the biggest threat to Iraq’s stability since the U.S. withdrawal in 2011. It has pushed the nation closer to a precipice that could partition it into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish zones.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose Shiite-led government is struggling to form a coherent response to the crisis, travelled to the city of Samarra to meet with military commanders late Friday, according to state TV. Militants earlier in the week overran military bases and several communities including the second-largest city of Mosul and Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit. Samarra, the site of a prominent Shiite shrine 60 miles (95 kilometres) north of Baghdad, sits between Tikrit and the capital.

A representative for Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most revered Shiite spiritual leader in Iraq, told worshippers at Friday prayers that it was their civic duty to confront the threat.

“Citizens who can carry weapons and fight the terrorists in defence of their country, its people and its holy sites should volunteer and join the security forces,” said Sheik Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalaie, whose comments are thought to reflect al-Sistani’s thinking.

LIFESTYLE

D10 Addicted to charitable giving

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2014

Dear Annie: Is there such a thing characterized by an inability to control as an addiction to charitable giving? the desire to keep doing it. Some adI cannot seem to say no to dictions are more destrucanyone with a need or a tive than others. You seem hard-luck story. to recognize that you have I give generously to my a problem, and that is the church, wildlife organizafirst step in getting better. tions, cancer funds, fire You are being kind, yes, fighter causes and on and but your donations are also on. I give to a number of self-serving. You like the animal charities. Most folks way you feel when you are will drop a dollar or two in expansive. the Salvation Army kettles Try setting a strict budat Christmas. I’m the one get. Figure out what you who puts in $20 every time I can afford to give away each pass one. I also derive pleamonth.

MITCHELL sure from handing some Earmark some for the & SUGAR stranger a $10 bill and incharities to which you regustructing them to have lunch larly contribute, and put the on me. I do this at least once rest in single dollar bills a week. I also tip quite well. that you can distribute howAll of this generosity would ever you wish. not be a bad thing, but I now find myYou are less likely to give a stranger self in debt because I give cash away a $10 bill if all you have on you are right and left. singles. If you truly want to be a generHow do I cut back? — Overdoing the ous soul without breaking the bank, Tithing volunteer your time at the local animal Dear Overdoing: An addiction is shelter or Salvation Army.

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You can limit Facebook friends by making some friends “acquaintances.”

You can elect to share posts with “friends except acquaintances.”

That way, not everyone will see what you post, but the people in your network won’t know whether they are “friends” or “acquaintances,” and there won’t be any hurt feelings.

You also don’t have to “unfriend” someone you aren’t that close to.

There are other categories, as well.

I have a special list called “family.”

I think sometimes Facebook users are too quick to add everyone who asks to their “friend” list. I also believe it is a good idea when posting pictures of kids to make sure they are not tagged “public” so that you limit who can see them. — Facebook Extraordinaire Dear F.E.: Many people don’t bother looking into the more complicated aspects of using Facebook and other social media sites, but it’s worth the

extra effort to avoid unpleasantness down the road. Thanks for your expertise.

Dear Annie: The reader from “Baton Rouge, La.,” said she wishes she could bottle the innocence she enjoyed on TV back in the 1950s.

Well, this innocence has been bottled, so to speak. I loved the television shows of the ‘50s, and a lot of them are now available on DVD and on some of the cable TV stations. I regularly watch Leave It to Beaver, My Favorite Martian and Mr. Ed. Someday I want to buy The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and The Patty Duke Show. If she does not have access to cable TV stations that run old TV shows, she can easily pick up DVDs from local stores or online and give them to her grandchildren. -Schenectady, N.Y. Dear N.Y.: Thanks for the great suggestion.

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fessional level. Stay away from hot heads today!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You will fight for a humanitarian cause today. You will be seen with a tremendous amount of strength and perseverance for this cause. Do not get into arguments for the sake of it, today’s energy does not favour physically stepping outside lines.

Stand up for your views!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Inequality within those significant relationships will leave you working on your personal dreams. Perhaps there seems to be too much of a balancing act going on with them these days. Either way channel this energy into your aspirations and do not get into an argument today!

light many interactions with those at a distance.

This could be close friendships or business relationships — both will be extremely generous and helpful to you. Simply see life with a new perspective, act out the future you want to see, you are supported now!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will be very generous with close business partnerships and romantic interests and this, in turn, will be reciprocated. Resources are fluid and if given away now, they will surely catch up with you in the future as well. Great day for deep bonding with others!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Today is a wonderful day to interact with others. The more you socialize, the more abundant you will feel. A feeling of generosity and kindness will mark the day and others will be a stable sounding board for you and your ambitions. Do not let anyone dampen your spirits!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Strong females in your daily routine and at work will provide you with much needed encouragement and will help you regain that internal hope once again. Interact with them — you will be able to see how your emotional reactions sometimes hinder your progression forward.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Interactions had today will be generous and jovial. Do not let others hold you back from your aspirations, but do allow for a healthy dose of reality to set in from female friends. They are the perfect sounding board to launch you towards your most cherished dreams and ambitions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Communications with your mother or female coworkers will be of great aid to you today. Generosity of spirit will be given and received, you will feel more blessed than usual. Do not let anyone bring you down today. Stand up and be proud of all that you have accomplished.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The more you communicate your view on life and share your knowledge, the more stability will be established. Those at a distance from you will offer you

guidance now. Siblings will question everything you are thinking but will be your biggest support going forward.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today will mark a time when significant relationships in your life will be very helpful with guidance and help. You have strong values about your personal worth and your finances are starting to reflect these beliefs. Do not let anyone steer you away from the truth.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You will feel great compassion from others in your life.

Significant relationships and even business partnerships will reach out to help.

You will feel especially blessed. You will want absolute personal freedom now, but allow others to be there for you if needed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today will mark a time when you will be feel abundant with work, health, and your daily routine. Seek out those to interact with who are generous and helpful, you will not be short of them. It is time to stretch those legs and apply the changes that have manifested for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today will highlight great support from female friends.

Abundant generosity will arrive to you with laughter. Network today and allow for abundance to enter your life. Don’t let others talk you out of your aspiration, stick to those who nurture you.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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THIS DATE: Ice Cube, 44; Neil HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today LARISA MAIRA Patrick Harris, 40; Helen Hunt, 50 is your birthday, then this year will THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ToOZOLINS promise to be a very active one! day will mark a time when interacDo not block your feelings, but set tions with those at home and withup proper boundaries to those who in the public will be full of laughter, do not deserve your kindness. This compassion, and generosity. If you is key for you. Allow for forgiveness towards your parents, or boss, or simply how feel that others are holding you back, be mindful you have presented yourself on a public level in that they are only trying to help and thank them. the past. It is time to heal and step forward more Personal freedom will be on the agenda, so go out and interact and enjoy the day! Do what nurcomplete than before.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your ruler will tures you and the day will be great!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthstart to re-enter the same degree that it was at during the cardinal grand cross. Think back to day, this year will mark a time when you take a what happened to you in middle April. There is more optimistic approach to close relationships a great opportunity to create a pleasant circum- in your life, either business partnerships or rostance now, but it could still create some tension mantic interests. They are the ones instigating changes for you and creating this new stable for you with others today.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today will mark daily routine for you. Find greater value in shara time when you will be able to push forward ing your feelings — it will prove to be beneficial with the changes that are going on for you with- for you in the long run!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Interactions in your work, health and daily routine. Take ™ heed that today could arouse tension for you, with females will be strongly emphasized. By so channel that energy appropriately now. Make working with them, you will be better able to see abundance enter your life on a professional Pioneering better hearing each step count!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Romantic inter- level. Be generous with those you meet today, ests might offer you a bit of a challenge today. they will offer you a way to see the future you Either you will be able to channel this raw en- want on a public and private level.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today will highergy appropriately and create a wonderful passionate evening with them, or there could be an argument with them, choose wisely!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Those within your family and home will bring up a need for you to take action within the home. Calmly listen to them today and proceed with caution.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There could be some underlying tension at work or on your daily routine today that leaves you slightly angry, to say the least.

Find the brighter side; at least you do not have to fight to prove your qualifications and your perspective on matters. Find the proper channel to release!

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