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Decked out in protective clothing, City of Red Deer employee Adam Tetreau scrubs the bottom of the Dawe Centre Pool with a de-scaling acid on Monday. The G.H. Dawe Community Centre water park is closed this week for annual maintenance. The facility is scheduled to re-open on Tuesday, June 24, 6:30 a.m.

Transit services still inaccessible to many disabled: report

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer is the largest Alberta city without a lower-cost transit pass for disabled people on fixed incomes — and that’s causing major mobility problems, states a new report.

“For people with disabilities, accessible public transportation provides the critical link (to) employment, education, health care, recreation, community support and social networks . . . yet for many . . . public transportation remains inaccessible,” states a transportation equality study. It was done as a community project for the Leadership Centre of Central Alberta.

Edmonton and Calgary offer more affordable transit passes for residents living on disability pensions — so does Strathcona County. Grande Prairie al-

lows those on AISH (Assured Income for the Severely Disabled) to ride city buses for free.

According to the study, many other communities across the country, including Saskatoon, Regina, and the Ontario cities of Sudbury, Timmins and Hamilton, offer subsidized passes for low-income people, those on social assistance or disability insurance.

While Red Deer has nearly 2,000 people living on AISH, there’s no local initiative being undertaken to look at providing reduced-fee passes for persons with disabilities.

The stakeholder agencies that were consulted for the study stated that a low-cost pass would increase mobility for their clients, many of whom can’t afford to ride the city transit buses.

But the Red Deer city councillors who were consulted either indicated no strong desire to move forward with a low-cost pass or that more studying

should be done on environmental, cultural and social benefits.

Red Deer Transit does offer lowfloor buses, which make boarding easier for people with mobility issues. One attendant per disabled person is also allowed to ride for free.

The city also has 18 Action Buses, which serve 2,000 seniors and disabled people. But the study found usage problems, as the Action buses need to be booked two weeks in advance. Trips can also become costly, and the buses are very busy — some 350 requests per month must be turned away.

“Improving affordability and safety of public transit could encourage current Action Bus users to utilize public transit, thereby reducing the overall demand on the Action Bus,” the report concludes.

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Ethel Lariviere is waiting to find out if she can donate part of her liver to her husband, Randy, who has been on the transplant list for over four years.

So far, she’s a compatible match and surprisingly they have the same blood type — A positive.

“I have passed all the tests so far. So far, all is good,” said Ethel Lariviere, 47, of Red Deer, on Monday.

On June 23 she will have an MRI and CAT scan to determine if her liver is large enough — her last medical test to become her husband’s live liver donor.

The couple are almost the same height, which is a good indicator, she said.

Her husband Randy, 55, was infected with hepatitis C about 20 years ago during a kidney operation. He did not find out he had the disease until 2005, when he suffered a major gastrointestinal bleed.

She said he did not have any of the classic hepatitis signs like yellowing of the eyes or skin.

The couple is also waiting to hear if they can access new drugs approved in Canada late last year that could help cure Randy.

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Red Deer College receives $1-million donation BILL WELIKOKLAD HAD HAND IN BUILDING COLLEGE IN 1966

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF One man’s long association with Red Deer College, dating back to working in a hay field where the college now stands, has been further solidified with a $1-million donation.

Bill Welikoklad has donated the second largest single amount to the college. The donation was announced at a small ceremony on Monday.

Welikoklad had a hand in building the college — in 1966, he was the general foreman at the site when work began.

But long before the Red Deer man was pouring concrete, he was farming the land.

“I used to work in this hay field when I was 15, 16 years old when we used to cut hay off the place,” said Welikoklad.

Later, “I was the general foreman with six foremen under me. When we started (building RDC) it was a hay field.”

The college is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

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Bill Welikoklad, pictured here with his wife, has donated the second largest single amount to the college. The donation was announced at a small ceremony on Monday.

Homes, now operating as Home Building Centre, has made a major contribution to the college.

The $1-million donation will be used for a variety of projects, starting with $100,000 to the Welikoklad Family/Home Building Centre Endowment, which was established in 2010 after the

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Welikoklad family donated $250,000 to the college. The rest goes to what RDC president and CEO Joel Ward called projects deemed most beneficial to ensuring success of college learners, be it facility enhancement or development of new and existing programs.

“As we continue to expand and

grow, and provide better facility for the teaching and learning experience,” said Ward, adding he hopes to announce some capital projects in September.

“A lot of that money will go to classroom rehabilitation, design and creating new learning space.”

The donation to the endowment will help fund scholarships and bursaries for students, Ward said. About one in seven students at RDC receives some form of financial assistance.

“I’d like to see it all put to good use,” said Welikoklad.

“My first donation, I was very pleased the way it was handled. I like to know when you donate something it is appreciated. This is what makes me happy about Red Deer College, it’s all here and I think it is tremendously well run.”

In recognition of the donation, there will be a naming event later this year.

College officials did not disclose many details, other than the inclusion of Welikoklad’s name and that they hope to have the event in the fall.

“We’re getting older and it’s time to leave a legacy,” said Welikoklad. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Fugitive arrested near school without incident Wanted after skipping on his parole late last week, a Red Deer man was arrested on Monday afternoon.

Steve Lagace, 29, was arrested without incident at 3 p.m. near Eastview Middle School.

According to a release, Red Deer RCMP were doing regular patrols in the Morrisroe neighbourhood when they spotted Lagace, who police said was driving a stolen vehicle at the time.

The scene was contained on 39th Street with police cars blocking off the intersections at 40th and 30th Avenues.

Lagace was wanted after failing to comply with his pro- Steve Lagace bation and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

He was convicted of about 40 charges in 2009 and sentenced to five years in jail. Among those charges were theft of stolen vehicles, dangerous driving, assault with a weapon, criminal flight and resisting arrest.

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

Red Deer RCMP said more information will be released when it is available and the investigation continues.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS With the anniversary of the 2013 flood just around the corner, a rainfall warning is raising the anxiety level in a lot of southern Alberta communities.

On Monday, Environment Canada issued the warning for High River, Okotoks, Claresholm, Lethbridge, Taber, Milk River, Cypress Hills, Foremost, Kananaskis, Canmore, Cardston, Fort Macleod, Magrath, Crowsnest Pass, Pincher Creek and Waterton.

Forecasters are predicting as much as 160 millimetres could fall in the Pincher Creek and Cardston areas. In 2013 it took an accumulation of 345 millimetres of rain to trigger the flooding that devastated High River.

The Wallaceville area of High River is now under a flood watch, with officials saying a 1.2 metre rise is possible and the forecast flows could approach flood thresholds. There are currently no flooding concerns for other locations in the community.

High streamflow advisories have been issued for streams and rivers in the Bow, Oldman, Milk and South Saskatchewan River basins.

Meteorologist David Spence said the system will move fairly quickly to the east by today.

“If not sooner, some of the heaviest rain is going to be pulling away from the Foothills and towards Saskatchewan and most if not all of it, the heavy stuff at least will be south of Calgary,” he said.

However, Spence said Wednesday’s forecast could cause some concern in Calgary.

Strike imminent as teachers’ union, B.C. government remain divided VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s unionized teachers are preparing to erect picket lines on Tuesday, with little reason to expect a deal to avert a fullscale strike as the two parties waged a war of words.

Talks were at a standstill on the eve of job action that will shut a half million students and more than 40,000 teachers out of school weeks ahead of the scheduled summer break.

“The strike is imminent,” union president Jim Iker said Monday morning in a speech watched online by thousands of teachers gathered away from schools at “study sessions” to discuss developments.

“Government had that opportunity to get a deal this weekend and they squandered it, which is so disappointing.”

Chief government negotiator Peter Cameron rebuked the union for its tactics away from the table, but concurred the sides were at an impasse.

“The strike is on at this point. I mean, they say it’s a ’study session’ today but there’s no teachers in the classroom. It’s on.”

Saputo won’t buy milk from B.C. farm accused of abusing cattle MONTREAL — Dairy food giant Saputo Inc. (TSX:SAP) is no longer accepting milk from Chilliwack Cattle Sales, a British Columbia farm where a number of employees were captured on video beating cattle, and says it is leading the charge for reform in animal treatment.

“Since Saputo learned of the animal abuse at the farm in British Columbia from which horrific images of cattle mistreatment were captured, the company has used its position as Canada’s largest milk processor to ensure the situation is being addressed and that such reprehensible behaviour . . . does not occur in the future,” Saputo said in a statement Monday.

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DONOR: Waiting for approval The drugs cost $33,000 for a 28-day supply and their insurance only covers 80 per cent, leaving them with over $6,000 they can’t afford to pay.

Treatment takes 12 weeks, so they are seeking assistance from the pharmaceutical company through the University of Alberta’s Hepatitis Support Program.

“We’re waiting approval.”

Last year. Randy had to stop treatment with another drug when his body could not tolerate the medication.

Ideally, Randy would go on the treatment before his liver transplant at University of Alberta Hospital.

Lariviere said the success rate with the new drugs for people like her husband is promising.

“If he gets this treatment and I donate my liver, he has a chance of being 100 per cent cured. This time last year, he had zero per cent chance because he had no liver, he was on the transplant list, and the only medication on the market, his body rejected.”

She hopes more people will become organ donors by registering with the Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation Registry. “(Randy) has almost passed away three times.

There are so many people passing away while waiting.”

She said her husband was waiting for a deceased liver donor and was like many others who do not want their spouse to be a live liver donor.

She started compatibility testing without his knowledge in April and on May 28, she found out the results were looking good.

“I’m excited, but I don’t want to get my hopes up too high,” Randy Lariviere said.

He said he’s scared because he doesn’t want anything to happen to his wife, although he’d do whatever was needed to save her.

“I’d give her my heart if I had to.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Ethel Lariviere and her husband, Randy, are going through the process of being evaluated so that Ethel can donate part of her liver to him. ship centre made five recommendations, that: ● the city start a pilot project on introducing a subsidized pass for persons on AISH ● Action Bus service be enhanced to reduce gaps in service ● a steering committee of stakeholders be started to meet regularly with transit officials ● safety issues on transit buses be addressed, such as advertisements over windows that make it difficult for some people to see where their stop is ● bus drivers be educated to create greater awareness and sensitivity of various disabilities — especially “invisible” disabilities, such as people who are deaf or suffer from seizures.

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Although there’s a potential for revenue losses from issuing low-cost passes, there’s also the chance for revenue gains, considering many people living on AISH now can’t afford to ride buses at all, according to the report. It was compiled by Curtis Martinek of the City of Red Deer, Diane Lester of the Golden Circle, Janice Besuijen of the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter, Dustin Snider of Earls restaurant, and Mohammed Vawda of Nova Chemicals.

The report was sponsored by the local Epilepsy Support Centre. Snider hopes it will be presented to city council for consideration. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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McIver rebuked for marching with anti-gays

BY DEAN BENNETT THE CANADIAN PRESS

On behalf of the Community Housing Advisory Board (CHAB), The City of Red Deer is now accepting proposals for a pilot project to address youth homelessness in Red Deer using a housing first approach.

Albertans reflect on the flood of floods one year later “I HAD NO SPIRIT LEFT”

FIRST IN A SERIES

BY BILL GRAVELAND AND LAUREN KRUGEL THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — It has been one year since rain pounded the foothills of the southern Alberta Rockies — heavy, relentless rain more typical of a tropical storm than a late-spring shower. In Canmore, more than 200 millimetres fell in 2 ½ days, 10 times the amount of a typical rainfall that time of year.

A torrent of floodwater from the headwaters of the Bow and Elbow rivers swept through streets and homes in such communities as Exshaw, Bragg Creek, High River and eventually through the heart of downtown Calgary and on to Medicine Hat. As many as 100,000 people scrabbled for higher ground any way they could — in canoes and boats, in the backs of combines or in the scoop of a front-end loader.

Some swam for their lives.

In the aftermath, there was hopelessness and despair. In the weeks that followed, there was resilience and determination.

There’s still anger and there’s still fear, but much has been rebuilt.

Here are the stories of four people who survived Alberta’s flood of floods, mopped things up and carried on: Marion and Paul Kutzer, semi-retired, Canmore Marion and Paul Kutzer will always remember June 20, 2013.

It was the day they finally paid off the mortgage on their spacious home with a vivid view of the Rocky Mountains along Cougar Creek in the mountaineer’s mecca of Canmore.

It was also the day that Cougar Creek, which often flows at little more than a trickle, roared over its rocky banks, cut a swath through their home of 18 years and forced them to flee to safety.

Canmore was the first community to feel the full wrath of the extensive flooding that caused billions of dollars of damage throughout southern Alberta.

Sitting on their second-floor balcony, the sound of heavy equipment roaring in the creekbed below as flood prevention work carries on, the couple’s memories are fresh.

“When it first happened I was totally gutted. I had no spirit left and now I’m going to get emotional again,” said Marion, 63, brushing away tears.

“The people that support you and the family that supports you — that’s what gets you through it. It’s so crazy that after a year it just comes rushing back all at once.”

The Kutzer house was one of more than 40 homes severely damaged in Canmore.

The water cut a path through the back of the house and swept away furniture and belongings. It ate away the ground beneath the foundation. It took months before the Kutzers even knew if their home could be salvaged. They couldn’t go back for seven months.

“I think it probably took us a week to kind of get over the shock of the massive damage. Then came the next phase — the disaster relief — and that to me put more tension and frustration and more stress on me than the house,” said Paul, who, at 72, is semiretired.

The province’s disaster recovery program covers the cost of repairing uninsurable property damage.

As of early June nearly 10,500 people had applied and $71 million had been paid out.

But the couple is critical of the Alberta government’s handling of flood relief.

Paul said the process is “shrouded in secrecy” and the money has been slow to come.

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Rachel Notley, daughter of ex-NDP leader Grant Notley, runs for party leadership

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Rachel Notley put her name forward Monday to be the next leader of the Alberta NDP, building on the foundation laid 30 years ago by her father.

Notley said a window of opportunity has opened as the governing Progressive Conservatives have failed to deliver on social reform issues.

“Albertans are looking for a change,” said Notley.

“I think I have the leadership and the skill and the passion necessary to attract those Albertans who are seeking a more reflective version of what they want to see in politics.”

She made her campaign announcement in Calgary in the morning and had an event set for the afternoon in Edmonton.

The NDP has four seats, all in Edmonton.

Notley said if she wins the leadership contest, she will be spending a lot of time in Calgary.

“If we’re going to make a serious run for government we need to represent Albertans who are tired of the old Tory policies from across the province,” she said. “Calgary is Alberta’s biggest city, and we have some work to do.”

NDP member David Eggen has already announced

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he will also run to replace current leader Brian Mason.

Mason announced his resignation in April, saying if the party was to take the next step to gain broad support, a fresh face at the helm was needed.

He will step down after a new leader is picked at a convention in Edmonton on Oct. 18.

Notley, 50, worked as a labour lawyer until she won the Edmonton-Strathcona riding for the NDP in 2008. She was re-elected by a wide margin in 2012.

Her father, Grant Notley, was party leader from 1968 until he died in a plane crash in northern Alberta in October 1984.

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EDMONTON — Alberta leadership candidate Ric McIver had his knuckles rapped Monday by the PC party for marching in a weekend parade organized by a church that believes gay people are the minions of Satan.

“Closed mindedness or intolerance have no place in the PCAA,” Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta president Jim McCormick said in a written statement.

“Individual members are expected to follow our statement of principles, which includes that of being an open party that’s accessible to all Albertans.

“Tolerance and acceptance in this province is vital for us to continue to be a strong and vibrant society.”

The comments were in response to McIver taking part in a weekend March for Jesus event in Calgary put on by an organization known as Street Church.

The Street Church, on its website, condemns homosexuals, including those who took part in a parade last year.

“Last year alone, Calgary’s streets were flooded with people of wrong sexual preferences during a homosexual parade of over 30,000 attendees,” said the website.

“None of them were embarrassed the slightest to publicly even present their nakedness in front of families, and in front of future generations to openly proclaim and manifest that they are not ashamed to declare the name of their master (Satan).”

McIver was not available for an interview Monday, but issued a statement on his Facebook page, saying that he was made aware of the web page after the march was over.

He said he was there to celebrate his Roman Catholic faith.

“I have attended the opening of this event for the last four years,” he wrote.

“For years, I have also attended events with other faith communities, including Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and secular events with many diverse communities from around the world.

“As an Albertan and if chosen premier, I do and will continue to defend equality rights for all Albertans as defined in the charter, including sexual orientation.

“I deplore discrimination against all groups and individuals without exception.”

McIver is one of three candidates in the leadership race, with voting to take place in September.

The winner becomes party leader and premier.

Candidate Thomas Lukaszuk told reporters there’s no place in the leadership debate for intolerance.

“I won’t comment on (McIver’s) choices,” said Lukaszuk.

“I can tell you that I always make sure that whatever organization I engage myself with I thoroughly read their literature, their background and what it is they really stand for.”

Reporters asked Lukaszuk if this was McIver’s “lake of fire” moment?

“Perhaps a puddle of sorts,” he replied.

Lake of fire refers to anti-gay comments attributed to a Wildrose candidate during the 2012 election campaign.

Allan Hunsperger warned gays to abandon their homosexuality or face eternity suffering in hell’s “lake of fire.”

When the party refused to cut Hunsperger loose, “lake of fire” became a popular catch phrase for Wildrose intolerance.

The party has since reiterated it espouses equality for all.

A spokesman for Tory leadership candidate Jim Prentice said Prentice has always been clear on the subject.

“As a federal member of Parliament he stood up in the House of Commons and voted for marriage equality,” said Bill Anderson.

“Mr. Prentice stands firmly against any form of intolerance, and his record shows that over a lifetime.”

Kris Wells, who has become an unofficial spokesman for the gay community, said McIver needs to quit the race.

Wells said the decision to join the march raises questions not only about McIver’s true beliefs, but also about his soundness of judgement to lead all Albertans as premier.

“This is damage that can’t be repaired,” said Wells, with the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services at the University of Alberta.

“The last thing Alberta needs is a lake of fire premier, and I think voters clearly repudiated that ideology in the last election.”

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Letting the future vote WHEN LOOKING FOR LONG-TERM ANSWERS, WE SHOULD BE ENGAGING YOUTH With but three months to go before a national referendum on independence, Scotland is turning to its youth for leadership.

Residents as young as 16 can vote in the Sept.

18 national referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent nation. At present, polls suggest the No side has the lead, but both GREG sides are claimNEIMAN ing a strong turnout by voters 16 to 24 years old could seal them a victory.

That age range represents 12 per cent of the country’s population, so a decided swing in the vote among that group could swing the referendum outcome as a whole. If they actually decide to vote.

It will also be the first time people that young will have voting rights in the United Kingdom.

That aspect of this race makes the Scots’ referendum worth watching, never mind the prospect of seeing the world peacefully create a new country.

Convincing young people that exer-

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cising their democratic right is worth the effort has gotten more difficult in recent years. Even with the rise in popularity of social media and its use by political parties in campaigns, young people seem to get turned off when the discussion moves from celebrity gossip to current events.

But when relevance rises, so does participation.

Student protests over tuition fees in Quebec drove young adult participation in Quebec’s 2012 election to 62 per cent (it was 36 per cent in the previous election in 2008).

Organizers are hoping that a similar connection can be made for youth in Scotland in September.

The clincher, it seems, is to convince people that they have a personal stake in the outcome of a vote, and that their input matters. But shouldn’t that be the case for all people, in all campaigns?

It shouldn’t take much effort to convince people that one’s national identity is important — especially at those moments in history when you get to choose what it will be.

But surveys of young people show that in Scotland, people aged 15 to 17 are quite able to imagine the consequences of the vote, and that rhetoric alone will not be enough to gain their support.

Carrington-Dean is a Glasgow-based financial group that provides advice

to personal and corporate clients.

They’re the largest independent group in Scotland that people turn to when they get into debt trouble, for instance.

Their poll, taken in May, shows that young people are quite capable of looking into their own futures and questioning the outcomes of large questions.

Almost two-thirds of more than 1,000 15-to-17-year-olds said they worried about their country’s economic outlook. An equal portion also worried about their families falling into debt.

Just over half worried they themselves might fall into debt.

When the questions were taken a step deeper, the results got more complex, indicating the people taking the survey are quite able to connect the dots between Scotland’s independence and their own futures.

The answers suggest they’re not sure and are questioning what they’re being told.

About 41 per cent said they believed their families would be worse off in an independent Scotland, versus 21 per cent who believed they’d be better off. A smaller minority — 39 per cent — thought they themselves would be worse off, versus 25 per cent who thought they as individuals would prosper better in an independent country.

Being unsure is a good response, if it means one is looking to become more sure.

That should have lessons for the rest of the world.

Perhaps today’s youth are not the entirely self-absorbed and personally entitled group they are often characterized to be. Maybe the superior educations and opportunities we’ve given them have indeed led them to a maturity that we’ve hoped they would grow into.

If youth as young as 16 can be trusted with helping to decide a national future in a referendum, maybe we can trust them with referenda on other long-future topics as well.

Should British Columbia call for a referendum on allowing the Northern Gateway pipeline to cross the province — and don’t believe that question isn’t likely — perhaps 16 year-olds should have a say in the outcome.

That’s only one question that pops into mind.

A city council like Red Deer’s, interested as it is in public consultation, could easily think of several others.

We’ve invested a lot in our youth.

If they — like anyone else — can be convinced they have a stake in the outcome of questions, and that their input matters, why not trust them with a share of power over the answers to questions of the day?

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Imagine an Iraq with Saddam Hussein Whatever else you may say about the “young war criminal” (as British journalist Alan Watkins used to call former prime minister Tony Blair), he certainly fights his corner with great determination. He is condemned to spend his life defending his part in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and last weekend he was at it again.

In a 3,000-word essay on his website, Tony Blair wrote about last week’s conquest of almost half Iraq’s territory by the fanatical fighters of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria): “We have to liberate ourselves from the notion that ‘we’ have caused this. We haven’t.”

What he really meant by “we,” of course, was “I.” And he would say that, wouldn’t GWYNNE he?

DYER But at least give Blair credit for producing an interesting argument. “As for how these (recent) events reflect on the original decision to remove Saddam,” he wrote, “... (the argument) is that but for the invasion of 2003, Iraq would be a stable country today. ...”

“Consider the post 2011 Arab uprisings. Put into the equation the counterfactual — that Saddam and his two sons would be running Iraq in 2011 when the uprisings began. Is it seriously being said that the

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revolution sweeping the Arab world would have hit Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria ... but miraculously Iraq, under the most brutal and tyrannical of all the regimes, would have been an oasis of calm?”

“So it is a bizarre reading of the cauldron that is the Middle East today, to claim that but for the removal of Saddam, we would not have a crisis.”

Blair is employing one of his favourite techniques: winning an argument with a straw man. Nobody is actually saying that if the United States, Britain and some hangers-on had not illegally invaded Iraq in 2003, the country would be an “oasis of calm” today.

Of course the Arab Spring would have come to Iraq too, and of course there would be huge turmoil in the country today.

If Saddam Hussein had managed to hang on to power in the face of a democratic uprising in 2011 that was initially non-violent, Iraq today might be in a civil war somewhat like that in Syria. And if his dictatorship had been overthrown in 2011, whatever new government emerged in Iraq would certainly be contending with acute ethnic and sectarian rivalries today.

But the living standards, infrastructure, and health and educational services of a quite developed country would not have been massively degraded by a decade of invasion, foreign occupation and popular resistance. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who were killed in these events would still be alive (although Saddam’s secret police would have murdered the usual thousand or so each year). And above all there would be no ISIS, nor anything like it.

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There were no terrorists in Iraq in 2003. There were people with radical Islamist ideas, but they kept quiet for fear of Saddam’s torturers and there weren’t very many of them. And there were no “weapons of mass destruction” either. It was an exceptionally dumb war, to borrow Barack Obama’s famous phrase, and it began the destruction of Iraq.

It was the fight against foreign occupation after 2003 that radicalized people in Iraq and drove so many of them back into narrow sectarian identities.

“Al-Qaida in Iraq,” the original name for what now calls itself ISIS, was born in that struggle, and Tony Blair and George W. Bush were its midwives.

If there had been no invasion, and Saddam Hussein had been overthrown by a popular revolution only three years ago, there would certainly be great tension in a newly democratic Iraq now. Sunni Arabs would be having trouble coming to terms with their minority status (which most were unaware of under Saddam).

Shias would be tempted to exploit their majority status unfairly. Kurds would be pushing for more autonomy.

But they would be doing so in an atmosphere that had not been contaminated by a decade of sectarian hatred and savagery. There would be no organizations like ISIS dedicated to waging a sectarian war.

And even if Saddam Hussein had not been overthrown and Iraq was caught up in a civil war like Syria’s, it would have a far less sectarian character.

As would Syria’s, for that matter.

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Fontana resigning as mayor in wake of convictions LONDON, Ont. — The mayor of London, Ont., who was convicted last week on three fraudrelated charges from his time as a federal Liberal cabinet minister, announced Monday that he is stepping down.

Joe Fontana issued the statement days after he was convicted of fraud, forgery and breach of trust after a judge found he forged an expenses document submitted to the House of Commons in 2005 that resulted in a $1,700 government fraud.

“I am taking this step out of respect for the office of the mayor, the people of London and our judicial system,” Fontana wrote in the statement Monday.

“Over the next two days I will be speaking with fellow council members and city staff to ensure a smooth transition for whomever takes the interim mayor’s position.”

After he was found guilty Friday, Fontana wouldn’t say what the criminal convictions meant for his political future and he had previously not committed to running again in the October municipal elections.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Conservative government is defending its appointment of a judge to the Quebec appeal court in the face of the latest legal challenge from a Toronto lawyer who says Ottawa is breaking the rules.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay said Monday that Federal Court of Appeal judge Robert Mainville is eligible to sit on the Quebec Court of Appeal.

Toronto lawyer Rocco Galati and the Constitutional Rights Centre are asking the Federal Court of Canada to declare that the Constitution Act, 1867, prohibits such an appointment.

Galati’s submission, filed Monday, also argues that Mainville is not currently a member of the Quebec bar, and that membership is a prerequisite under the Constitution Act for nomination to a Quebec court.

The Conservative government is trying to park Mainville on the Quebec appeal court before appointing him to the Supreme Court of Canada later this year, filling a pending vacancy from the province, Galati contends.

He believes the federal move is a calculated response to his successful challenge of the government’s attempt to appoint Federal Court of Appeal judge Marc Nadon di-

‘OBVIOUSLY, THEY’RE TRYING TO GET AROUND THE NADON RULING . . . IT’S JUST A CYNICAL DISREGARD, DISDAIN AND FLAGRANT SUBVERSION OF THE CONSTITUTION.’ — ROCCO GALATI LAWYER

rectly to the Supreme Court.

Galati contested that appointment, which the high court ruled invalid in March on the grounds it violated Quebec-specific provisions of the Supreme Court Act. In first appointing Mainville to the Quebec appeal court, Ottawa is trying to ensure no similar procedural bumps when it later names him to the Supreme Court to replace Louis LeBel, who retires Nov. 30, Galati alleges.

“Obviously, they’re trying to get around the Nadon ruling so that they can send him up to Ottawa in November,” Galati said in an interview.

“It’s just a cynical disregard, disdain and flagrant subversion of the Constitution.”

Fuelling speculation the government intends to ultimately name Mainville to the Supreme Court was his appearance on a recent short list of candidates for the post obtained by the Globe and Mail newspaper.

In the House of Commons, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of baldly trying to do an endrun around the rules.

“Why is he defying both the letter and the spirit of the Nadon decision?” Mulcair asked.

MacKay, who handled the opposition’s questions, did not directly address the point of whether Mainville is indeed being groomed for the high court. He simply defended Mainville’s qualifications, saying the government is guided by merit and legal excellence.

“Mr. Mainville is an expert in publicsector law negotiations, administrative law, constitutional law,” MacKay said.

“I believe his wealth of legal knowledge will be welcome at the Supreme Court and will be of significant benefit to the Quebec Court of Appeal.”

MacKay was later pressed by Liberal MP Sean Casey on his use of the term “Supreme Court,” which Casey took as an admission — inadvertent or otherwise — that Mainville would eventually be appointed to the high court.

“The Superior Court of Quebec is considered a Supreme Court in the province,” MacKay coolly replied.

After question period, MacKay said the courts would decide Mainville’s eligibility to sit as a judge in Quebec.

“I think he’s eligible.”

Coleman quits politics only weeks before swearing in as premier ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The leadership of Newfoundland and Labrador’s governing Progressive Conservatives was thrown into a tailspin Monday after the man who had a clear path to becoming the province’s next premier suddenly dropped out of politics.

Frank Coleman, 60, a successful businessman based in Corner Brook, said he decided to leave public life because of a “significant and challenging family matter.”

He would not elaborate at a news conference in St. John’s, saying only that his family comes first.

Coleman was supposed to become leader of the party at a convention on July 5, then be sworn-in as premier shortly after.

The party has been in power since 2003 and began the search for a new leader in January when Kathy Dunderdale quit politics. Tom Marshall has been serving as premier on an interim basis since Dunderdale left.

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Newly released court documents suggest that Quebec provincial police gave jail officials intelligence on a possible jail break conspiracy involving the three men.

Yves Denis, Denis Lefebvre and Serge Pomerleau escaped from the Orsainville Detention Centre in suburban Quebec City on June 7.

Acknowledgement of the existence of a possible conspiracy is contained in Justice Louis Dionne’s judgment dated March 24.

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FLOOD: Still waiting for cash He estimates the couple is still waiting for up to $45,000 in cash from the disaster relief program.

He has mixed feelings about how the flood coincided with paying off the mortgage.

The disaster recovery program only covered base level finishings.

“It’s kind of ironic. Now because of the Alberta system, we’re not going to be reimbursed for all of the damages, and we’re back in the hole again,” he said.

“We bottomed out, that’s for sure. We’re going to have to go into debt again.”

Barb Teghtmeyer, operator, Bragg Creek Trading Post, Bragg Creek Barb Teghtmeyer remembers working in her family’s Bragg Creek Trading Post as a young girl.

The historic building began as a fur-trading venue in 1925 and her father bought it in 1940. It served as both the family business and the family home. Teghtmeyer took over the trading post in 1986 after her mother died.

But when the Elbow River across the road burst over its banks last June, everything changed, forever.

“The worst damage was to the store itself.

“It took out probably 95 per cent of the inventory, which was native arts and crafts which seem to have just disappeared somewhere down river,” Teghtmeyer said.

She expects what was lost will probably never be recovered.

“The worst emotion I had is much of the history is gone. This building has been operating as a store since the mid-1920s, and no matter what we do here, we will never make it the same because many, many things in there were from the ’20s,” she said, fighting the tears.

“I almost felt like I was the keeper of the history and I let them down. That’s the worst.”

A year later, renovations continue to try to return the log building to its former glory.

But its future remains in doubt.

“It’s been a tough year. It was a devastating blow at the time and it really doesn’t get much easier as time goes on, as you discover more and more that’s damaged or broken or missing.”

Growing up on the river, Teghtmeyer said she was raised to be nervous about floods and she’ll never, ever take staying dry for granted.

The town of 600 has decided to hold off on its oneyear commemoration of the disaster until this flood season has passed.

“We will never be the pastoral little country getaway that we were before,” Teghtmeyer said.

“The town will never be the same, but it will come back.”

Jamie Ellice, the Hamptons neighbourhood in High River There’s still a lot of sadness in High River a year after flood water turned many of the town’s streets into rivers and neighbourhoods into lakes, but Jamie Ellice isn’t complaining.

He’s just happy to be home.

“The sad thing is there is a bit of doom and gloom from some people,” said Ellice, standing in the living room of his refurbished home in the Hamptons — the hardest-hit area in the hardest-hit community.

“I don’t think it’s the majority and I think the people who do have that attitude are choosing to leave, or have left, which is OK because the rest of us who are here we want to be resilient.”

The Hamptons, full of upscale new homes and tree-lined streets, was left under water for several weeks as emergency officials scrambled to pump out millions of litres that overwhelmed about a third of the community of 12,000 people.

Ellice, along with his fiancee Kristi, had been living in the home for about four months before the flood hit.

The house was decimated and had to be stripped down to plywood and studs.

Ellice initially stayed with his cousins, then house-sat for a friend and eventually rented a basement suite in High River for the final six months.

Eleven months after the flood, the couple was finally allowed to return.

“It feels like a house again. We’ve been back in for a few weeks now and I will admit the first little while

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Teacher faces sex-related charges STONY PLAIN — An Edmonton-area high school teacher faces sex-related charges.

RCMP from Spruce Grove/Stony Plain say a teenager alleged in February that she had been sexually assaulted by the male teacher.

An investigation and consultation with Alberta Justice have resulted in charges against James Richard Pratt of Spruce Grove.

Pratt, who is 43, is accused of sexual assault and sexual exploitation. He is to appear in Stony Plain

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Work continues on flood mitigation along Cougar Creek Tuesday, June 3, 2014, one year after a devastating flood in Canmore. we were here it felt weird,” he said.

“It’s getting better. We’re feeling more settled.”

Still, 13 houses on his street sit unoccupied. Plywood has been nailed over doors and windows. A window on the second floor of one home remains wide open the way it was left last spring.

There’s a vacant lot where one house was demolished.

Ellice, a realtor who grew up in High River, believes flood mitigation measures, including colossal berms along the Highwood River, will prevent a recurrence, but realizes not everyone feels the same way.

“I can see there are some areas of High River where people are going to be a little nervous. I don’t have that nervousness, but I’ve lived here my whole life.

“For something like that to happen in back-toback years would be astronomical. It would be like getting hit by lightning twice.”

The memories of what happened a year ago, he predicted, will fade.

“We’ve got our whole lives to go forward from here and we plan on doing a lot of that living from this house.”

Geoff Last, manager Bin 905 Wine and Spirits, Calgary’s Mission neighbourhood Geoff Last arrived at the high-end wine store he manages just in time to see a police boat pass by.

It was then he knew there would be more than just a puddle or two inside Bin 905 Wine & Spirits, a few blocks from the Elbow River in Calgary’s trendy Mission neighbourhood.

The power was out, which meant the store’s shutters couldn’t be lifted. It would be another few days before staff were able to get inside.

“It sort of looked like the hull of the Titanic in here. It really looked like an underwater ship. It was quite amazing.”

The water was more than a metre deep in the store. Bottles of wine — some expensive and rare — bobbed along.

“The outpouring of help we had during the event was amazing. We had customers, people in the neighbourhood (help). Competing wine stores, even ones we’re not on a friendly basis with, were calling up and saying, ’Can we send staff down to help? Is there anything we can do?’

“It’s really quite amazing. It made me feel really good about this city.”

Any bottles below the water line were lost. Some may still have been drinkable if they were sealed with natural cork that hadn’t been damaged.

“But from a collectability point of view, they’re virtually worthless, because the labels have been damaged. We certainly can’t resell them.”

Bin 905’s insurance company took those bottles.

Last said he’s not sure what became of them.

provincial court on July 16.

The Parkland School Division removed Pratt from his teaching position at the time of the complaint.

Fatal hit-and-run video released EDMONTON — Edmonton police have released video surveillance footage of a suspect in a fatal hit and run in the hopes the public can help to identify the man.

The footage of the suspect was taken at a liquor store in the area of 45 Street and 118 Avenue at approximately 1:40 a.m. on June 13.

Other video was taken from a vehicle dash cam seconds after Adam Groves, who was 33, was killed as he tried to stop a man from stealing his work pickup truck later that same day.

The suspect is male, in his 30s, approximately 6 feet tall, with a medium build, medium length

All told, Bin 905 lost about $250,000 worth of merchandise. Nearly a year after the flood, the store is still sorting out its insurance claim.

In the meantime, Bin 905 has been gutted and transformed into a modern, sleek new space. It reopened about 10 months after the flood, one of the last businesses on Mission’s main drag to do so.

Customers are picking up again and things are “almost back to normal,” said Last.

“All I can say is we’re glad to be back and we really hope things stay high and dry for some time to come.”

NDP: Made breakthrough in 1986 Two years later, the party made its breakthrough, winning 16 seats in the 1986 general election to become the official opposition.

Grant Notley was, for most of his time in government, the only NDP MLA, gaining respect and reputation for his tireless championing of social causes.

His former northern Alberta riding of FairviewSpirit River has since been renamed Dunvegan-Central Peace-Notley. A park in Edmonton is also named after him.

Rachel Notley said she will be building not only on her father’s work, but on the work of many others.

“In the long run, probably the single biggest thing I take from his legacy personally is that you need to work three times as hard as any other candidate from any other party if you’re going to be successful,” she said.

“That’s the work ethic that I’m going to bring to this.”

The nomination period closes on Aug. 5.

The entry fee is $5,000 and the spending limit is $100,000.

Eggen, who filed his nomination papers on Friday, said Monday there will be debates over the course of the summer with Notley and anyone else who throws their hat in the ring.

“We will have an excellent race. Rachel is a formidable candidate,” said Eggen. “(But) we also have lots of resources and people across the province to run a good campaign, too.

“Albertans will benefit from this process. We will have a good discussion about where we should go as a province.”

He agreed that Calgary is key to growing the party heading into the 2016 election.

“We need to regain ground that we have had in Calgary, and in other cities, too,” he said.

“We know that it’s a very dynamic city with lots of new people moving in with ideas and progressive politics.” brown/black hair, and may be wearing jeans, and a red and white horizontal striped shirt.

While at the liquor store, the suspect was also believed to be wearing a distinctive baseball cap with a silkscreened image that says “Big Blunt — Join the Sky High Club.”

Groves’s family released a statement on Monday, pleading with the suspect to “do the right thing” and turn himself in.

“Although we see Adam’s death as a tragedy, he died a hero,” said Desire Poulin, Groves’s sister-inlaw.

“He was a great father, one who always made sure his family was provided for.”

Poulin said Groves is survived by his wife and two children, a boy, seven, and a four-year-old girl.

“If there’s anyone out there who knows anything about the incident, or about the suspect, please contact police immediately . . . .We’re hurting, we need justice for Adam.”

BUSINESS

A8 Urban energy feedback sought

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BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Energy development in and around urban areas will be the focus of a meeting this Thursday in Red Deer.

The provincial government is organizing four such gatherings across the province to obtain feedback related to the issue, with the others to take place in Calgary, Lethbridge and Grande Prairie. Input from the general public is also being sought through an online questionnaire.

Natasha McKenzie, a public affairs officer with Alberta Energy, said the initiative resulted from a motion made last April by Calgary MLA Sandra Jansen.

That motion, which was passed in response to proposed gas and oil development in Calgary’s Royal Oak and Rocky Ridge communities, called for the establishment of a working group to review policies related to oil and gas development in urban areas.

McKenzie said the four meetings are by invitation

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only, with about 40 participants asked to take part in governing safety and environmental protection, and each. “There’ll be municipalities, industry and a va- the involvement of municipalities, Alberta Health riety of stakeholders that have an interest in this.”

Services and the Property Rights Advocate.

Restricting attendance to invitees with a strong inFeedback obtained will be compiled and anaterest in the issue was seen as a way to ensure “frank lyzed, said McKenzie. and focused discussion,” She said the she said. cities hosting But the online quesmeetings were tionnaire, which became chosen on the available Monday and basis of the inwill remain until June terest expressed 24, gives others an opporby their municitunity to view the same pal officials, background information and their locaand provide their own tion within the — NATASHA MCKENZIE, province. Repopinions.

A PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER WITH ALBERTA ENERGY resentatives of “We’re very interested in hearing their perAlberta Energy, spectives on energy deAlberta Health, velopment in and near urban areas, as well as any Alberta Municipal Affairs, the Alberta Energy Reguprinciples that should be considered when energy lator and the Property Rights Advocate will take part development occurs, and then how the government in each meeting. could balance environmental, economic and social The online questionnaire and related informaoutcomes,” said McKenzie. tion can be accessed on the Alberta Energy website Information provided includes the process for (www.energy.alberta.ca) by clicking on “Energy delicensing oil and gas developments, the role and pro- velopment in urban areas.” cedures of the Alberta Energy Regulator, regulations hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

‘WE’RE VERY INTERESTED IN HEARING THEIR PERSPECTIVES ON ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN AND NEAR URBAN AREAS...’

Proponent of regulator confident Alberta will join

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Klassic Kennels owner Jim deBoon attends to shelter rescue dogs in one of the outdoor runs. Klassic Kennels will host a grand opening open house this Saturday.

Klassic Kennels has new home BOARDING BUSINESS HAS HAD BIG RECENT GROWTH

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Klassic Kennels will show off its new digs this Saturday.

The pet boarding business, which also serves as a shelter for stray animals, completed work on its new facilities earlier this year. These are located on the same property as its old premises, just north of Red Deer off the C&E Trail.

Jim deBoon, who operates Klassic Kennels with his wife Shelley, said the project — which cost about $1 million — boosted space from about 1,000 square feet to 12,000 square feet.

“The old one could hold about 38 dogs; the new one can hold 140.”

DeBoon said the old kennel, which was built in 1988, had become inadequate.

“Our boarding business has been going up between 15 and 20 per cent a year the last three of four years.”

Klassic Kennels provides animal bylaw services to nine communities in the region, including Sylvan Lake, Lacombe, Bentley, Rimbey and Penhold.

“Last year, we picked up — with dogs and cats — somewhere in the neighbourhood of 400 animals,” said deBoon. “And not one impounded animal was euthanized. We have the highest rate, that I’m aware of, for both return-to-owner and live outcome in North America.”

The fact Klassic Kennels offers animal training services contributed to this success, he said. It also does grooming.

DeBoon has provided animal control services to the Town of Sylvan Lake for 33 years, he said.

With finishing touches now being performed on its new facilities, Klassic Kennels is planning a grand opening celebration this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will offer free hotdogs and door prizes, and a chance to view the new premises.

Directions to Klassic Kennels can be found on the business’s website at www.klassickennels.com. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

CALGARY — A vocal proponent of a Canada-wide market regulator says he’s optimistic Alberta will sign on to the idea once it gains momentum.

Ian Russell, head of the Investment Industry Association of Canada, acknowledges Alberta remains skeptical about the plan. But the province will likely feel pressure to join once the proposed watchdog gains “critical mass,” he said in an interview Monday.

Canada is an anomaly amongst its G7 peers because it has 13 separate provincial and territorial capital markets regulators, rather than a single national watchdog.

Ottawa’s push for a national securities regulator hit a wall in late 2011 when the Supreme Court ruled a federally-imposed regulator would encroach on provincial jurisdiction. So last September, the federal, Ontario and British Columbia governments took another run at the idea with a proposed voluntary, co-operative model.

Quebec remains a staunch opponent of the idea and Alberta is still unconvinced.

Russell expects that Saskatchewan, whose economic muscle has grown in recent years, will come on board soon, followed by some of the Atlantic provinces and perhaps Manitoba. That should be enough of a buy-in to get the Co-operative Capital Markets Regulator up and running about a year from now.

At that point, Russell said he expects Alberta won’t want to remain on the outside much longer.

“It would mean that large companies are going to have to register with the co-operative regulator as well as with the province. You’re now moving towards a structure for outlying provinces that’s less than efficient and then it starts to make more and more sense that those provinces should move together in the same direction as part of the national regulator,” he said.

“Up until now it’s been on paper, it’s been a theory, but the way the dynamics are going it is going to become reality and the outlying provinces need to think what that means.”

The proposed watchdog would be steered by a council of ministers, and beneath that, by a board of provincial and territorial appointees. Ottawa would be at the table, but would not have outsized influence, Russell said.

“I don’t think it’s well understood that the co-operative regulator actually provides a lot of regional autonomy to the provinces,” he said.

Sisters plan to open Café O’ Play, Northern Gateway to bring toddler play, coffee together pipeline decision INCLUDES INDOOR PLAY AREA expected today AND COFFEEHOUSE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR For most parents, minding a toddler and relaxing with a cup of coffee are mutually exclusive pursuits.

But Heather and Erin Wilkinson plan to bring the two activities together under one roof.

The Red Deer sisters are preparing to open Café O’ Play at 2085 Gaetz Ave., behind the commercial building where ABC Country Restaurant, Coldwell Banker and several other shops are located. It will contain an indoor play area designed for youngsters six and under, and a coffeehouse for parents and others.

Heather Wilkinson said she and her sister began planning the business a year ago. With five children between them — including four between eight months and four years in age — they recognized the need for a safe, clean environment for parents and their little ones, especially where the older generation can relax and socialize.

“Being able to see your kids from wherever you sit just makes it that much more enjoyable,” said Wilkinson.

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Café O’ Play’s nearly 2,900 square feet of space will have seating for about 60, she said. Offerings at the café will include specialty coffees and smoothies, as well as foods like paninis, soups and sandwiches.

“It’s more like an upscale coffee shop,” said Wilkinson.

“Even people who don’t have children can come in and order, and sit there.”

Children’s items, including baby food, will also be available.

And Café O’ Play will be a nut-free environment.

Children who are too old for the play area will have other activities to entertain them, with electronic games and free wifi to be offered.

Birthday parties and other groups will be welcome, said Wilkinson.

She and her sister hope to open the business by mid-July. They’re already attracting plenty of interest from prospective customers, including on their Facebook page.

“We have just about 1,200 people liking our page.

“People seem pretty excited about it.”

The Wilkinsons licensed the Café O’ Play concept from an existing operator in Edmonton.

There is also another licensed Café O’ Play in Sherwood Park.

They felt it was a good idea to develop their business using a proven model. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The federal government will announce its much-anticipated decision on the Northern Gateway pipeline after markets close today.

Under its own rules, the Conservative government has a June 17 deadline for the final word on whether the 1,200-kilometre pipeline can be built linking the Alberta oilsands to a port on the British Columbia coast.

A joint review panel of the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency released a report in December recommending approval, and Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford has hinted the cabinet decision will be a positive one for the project.

He pointed to the fact his government has already responded to two recommendations made in a separate report by Doug Eyford, a special envoy on energy affairs who consulted widely with aboriginal communities in the westernmost province.

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MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Monday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 99.63 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 52.25 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.58 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.58 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.90 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.46 Cdn. National Railway . . 68.81

Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 199.81 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.54 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.24 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.23 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.30 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.51 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.00 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.92

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Also adding to the uncertainty was Russia’s decision to halt supplies of natural gas to Ukraine after the two sides were unable to agree on prices.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Monday as violence in Iraq pushed up most commodities even though the price of oil retreated slightly from recent gains.

The S&P/TSX composite index added 38.82 points to 15,040.43 after having earlier reached a level about two points above its all-time closing high of 15,073. The record was set on June 18, 2008, just before the Great Recession sent stocks downward.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.13 of a cent to 92.24 cents US ahead of a two-day meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

On Wednesday, the U.S. central bank will deliver its economic outlook and decide whether it will continue to dial back massive bond purchases.

The stimulus program, which involves the central bank buying Treasury and mortgage bonds to try to keep longterm loan rates low, has long propped up equity markets.

However, the Fed is still expected to announce a further $10-billion reduction is its buyback program to $35 billion a month on signs of an improving economy.

Meanwhile, Wall Street was flat in advance of the Fed gathering despite a new forecast from the International Monetary Fund predicting the U.S. economy will grow at a modest two per cent this year, down from its earlier prediction of 2.7 per cent.

The adjusted forecast comes amid similar data by the World Bank, which cut its 2014 global growth forecast to 2.8 per cent from 3.2 per cent, citing the long winter and the political crisis in Ukraine.

The Dow Jones industrials gained 5.27 points to 16,781.01, the Nasdaq added 10.46 points to 4,321.11 and the S&P 500 climbed 1.62 points to 1,937.78.

Meanwhile, in Canada, data showed the real estate market is still going strong. The Canadian Real Estate Association said home sales in May were up 5.9 per cent compared with April and were 4.8 per cent higher than a year ago.

In commodities, benchmark U.S. crude for July delivery dipped a penny to US$106.90 a barrel after having run up last week amid the instability in Iraq, where the situation deteriorated over the weekend as militants on Sunday posted graphic photos of truckloads of Iraqi soldiers that they apparently captured and killed.

So far oil exports from Iraq, the second-largest producer among the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries, have not been affected, but concern for global supplies has been growing.

The unfolding conflict has sent traders to other commodities such as gold, due to the future potential volatility of stocks. August bullion was up $1.20 to US$1,275.30 an ounce and July copper advanced two cents to US$3.05 a pound.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close of Monday Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,040.43, up 38.82 points TSX Venture Exchange — 998.67, up 1.34 points TSX 60 — 858.81, up 2.21 points Dow — 16,781.01, up 5.27 points S&P 500 — 1,937.78, up 1.62 points Nasdaq — 4,321.11, up 10.46 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 92.24 cents US, up 0.13 of a cent Pound — C$1.8409, down 0.15 of a cent Euro — C$1.4712, up 0.14 of a cent Euro — US$1.3570, up 0.31 of a cent Oil futures: US$106.90 per barrel, down one cent (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,275.30 per oz., up $1.20 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.238 oz., up 9.7 cents $714.95 kg., up $3.12 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Monday at 998.67, up 1.34 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 138.40 million shares.

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 103.45 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.57 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.40 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.93 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.85 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.28 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 59.31 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.34 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.95

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.37 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.38 First Quantum Minerals . 21.65 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.99 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.78 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.46 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.90 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.12 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.49 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 23.20 Energy Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.09 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 36.39 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 70.80 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.01 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 61.37 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 47.70

Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 24.37 Canyon Services Group. 17.52 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 34.21 CWC Well Services . . . . 1.080 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 26.61 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.66 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 102.92 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 67.61 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.27 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 36.68 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 56.14 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.51 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.78 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.120 Precision Drilling Corp . . 15.18 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 46.75 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.60 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 17.56 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.59

Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 76.13 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.73 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.07 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.40 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 39.04 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.97 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.51 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 51.35 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 73.47 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.49 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 46.05 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.51 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.12 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.70 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.33

Clinton says Keystone XL pipeline should not be seen as proxy

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline shouldn’t be seen as a proxy for the relationship between Canada and the United States.

Clinton gave a speech in Toronto to promote her new book before taking questions from Frank McKenna, Canada’s former ambassador to the U.S. McKenna said the Obama administration’s delayed decision on whether to approve the pipeline is source of tension and is increasingly viewed as a proxy for the relationship.

The pipeline is critical to Canada, which needs infrastructure in place to export its growing oil sands production. Alberta has the world’s third largest oil reserves, with 170 billion barrels of proven reserves.

“I did not see it nor should it be a proxy for the relationship. It is, after all, one pipeline. We already have a lot of pipelines that cross our border,” Clinton said.

The potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, who served as President Barack Obama’s top diplomat, avoided directly commenting on the merits of the pipeline.

TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline would carry

more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta and the U.S. Bakken oil field across six U.S. states to refineries in the Texas Gulf Coast. Republicans, the Canadian government and business and labour groups have long urged the Obama administration to approve the pipeline as a source of much-needed jobs and a step toward North American energy independence. Environmental groups have been pressuring Obama to reject the pipeline, saying it would carry “dirty oil” that contributes to global warming.

They also worry about a spill.

Clinton said the pipeline has become a “proxy for everything” including climate change.

“However this Keystone decision is finally made, some people are going to be very happy, relieved and think it was the right decision and some people are going to be distraught and even angry and upset, thinking it was a terrible decision so I don’t think we should put our relationship on the backs of this decision,” she said.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was “profoundly disappointed” that Obama delayed a decision on the pipeline, and has spoken of the need to diversify Canada’s oil exports. Ninety-seven per cent of Canadian oil exports now go to the U.S. Harper is expected to today announce approval of a proposed pipeline to the Pacific Coast that would allow Canada’s oil to be shipped to Asia.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’14 $3.90 higher $467.40; Nov. ’14 $1.30 higher $461.90; Jan ’15 $1.30 higher $468.00; March ’15 $1.30 higher $471.00; May ’15 $1.40 higher $473.20; July ’15 $1.20 higher $474.80; Nov ’15 $1.20 higher $476.00; Jan. ’16 $1.20 higher $470.00; March ’16 $1.20 higher $473.50; May ’16 $1.20 higher $473.50; July ’16 $1.20 higher $473.50.

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.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 352,540 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 352,540.

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GATEWAY: B.C. wants conditions met “With more than 73,000 kilometres of pipeline in Canada and a 99.999 per cent safety record, we are confident that record and Mr. Eyford’s suggestions will help build the kind of framework for us to move forward with respect to transportation of our energy products,” Rickford said Monday in Ottawa.

The $7-billion project is worth an estimated $300 billion in gross domestic product over 30 years, but the pipeline faces steep opposition from many First Nations and environmental groups in B.C. Several aboriginal groups have already threatened court challenges if the federal government gives it the goahead.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark has said the project still has not met the five conditions the province has set out for approval. Those conditions include strict environmental protections, adequate consultations with First Nations and that B.C. receives a “fair share” of the benefits.

“None of the proposals have met the five conditions yet, so therefore, none of them would be approved,” Clark said in response to questions Monday.

“I have said there are five conditions. Any proposal to expand heavy oil through British Columbia needs to meet the five conditions. Enbridge hasn’t met them yet and they need to before they would be approved by our province.”

While approval is a federal decision, Clark has said the project will still need about 60 permits from the province for construction to proceed.

A coalition of groups announced Monday that they will help organize a provincial citizens’ initiative, similar to the campaign that forced the province to revoke the unpopular harmonized sales tax, should the province issue those permits. If successful, the petition would force the B.C. government to respond, either with a vote in the legislature or by holding a non-binding provincewide plebiscite.

Coastal First Nations, Unifor, West Coast Environmental Law, Douglas Channel Watch and One Cowichan will join the Dogwood Initiative’s work on LetBCvote.ca.

“The energy industry feeds our families and supports our industries. But we don’t support exporting our raw bitumen to be refined in other countries,” Jerry Dias, Unifor’s national president, said in a statement.

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General Motors Co. . . . . 36.06 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.23 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.01 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 54.28 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 67.51 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.55 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.92 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 51.08

May home sales up as buyers come back into market

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian home sales picked up on May as buyers came back into the market helped by low mortgage rates, but economists cautioned against the momentum continuing.

The Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday that home sales through its Multiple Listing Service system were 5.9 per cent higher compared with April, the largest month-over-month increase in nearly four years.

TD Bank economist Leslie Preston noted the combination of the bounce back from the frigid winter that froze the market and a recent decline in mortgage rates was “clearly a potent combination for May home sales.”

“Clearly pent-up demand for housing was building over the winter months, and home sales could keep some of their current momentum for a few months yet as lenders continue to advertise very attractive mortgage rates,” Preston wrote in a note.

“However, employment growth is quite modest and house prices continue to outstrip gains in incomes, and TD expects that sales momentum will ebb later this year.”

The gain in sales on a month-over-month basis came as the number of newly listed homes increased 3.8 per cent from April to May. “In markets where supply had become tight, we expected sales to improve in tandem with listings,” CREA chief economist Gregory Klump said in statement.

“Had it not been for such a brutal winter that delayed the launch of the spring market, the improvement in new listings and sales would likely have been more spread out over the past few months.”

Sales compared with a year ago were up 4.8 per cent, however, those gains were concentrated in

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BRIEF Medical marijuana investors should be cautious, securities regulators say

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian securities regulators are cautioning investors looking for a quick high to be cautious when investing in medical marijuana stocks.

The Canadian Securities Administrators says a significant number of companies have announced plans to begin growing and selling medical marijuana.

And in many cases the securities regulator says, just the announcement of those plans have driven share prices higher.

The CSA says investors need to be aware that companies cannot legally grow and sell medical marijuana without a licence from Health Canada and that takes significant time and cost to obtain.

New regulations regarding medical marijuana were enacted by the federal government April 1.

The move opened production up to the commercial sector. As of late last month, the department had received more than 850 applications from companies wanting to be medical marijuana suppliers.

Canadian wages generally on par with U.S. OTTAWA — Wage levels in Canada are generally in line with those in the United States, says an internal government study, suggesting the pay

Western Canada, while Quebec and Atlantic Canada were lower compared with May 2013.

The gains came as the national average price for a home sold in May was $416,584, up 7.1 per cent from the same month last year, pushed higher by gains in Toronto and Vancouver.

Excluding the Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto markets, the average price was $336,373, up 5.3 per cent from a year ago.

The Aggregate Composite MLS Home Price Index was up 4.98 per cent compared with a year ago.

BMO senior economist Robert Kavcic said the east-west split echoes economic and population growth.

“Canada’s housing market continues to look balanced and sturdy overall but big disparities persist below the surface.

“One reason policy makers might be a bit hesitant to act again soon is that strong price gains are confined to a few select markets, or even sub-markets, while a wide swath of the country (at least geographically) is seeing downright dreary conditions.”

Despite the strong month-over-month results, CREA trimmed its outlook for the year compared with a forecast in March.

The association is predicting sales would total 463,400 homes for the year, up 1.2 per cent compared with 2013. The updated outlook compared with the March forecast for 463,700.

“The deferral of sales and listings reflects a delayed start to the spring home buying season, with combined sales for the period from March to May coming in largely as anticipated and at average levels,” the association said in its forecast.

“These deferrals are now likely to have been largely depleted, which suggests that the strength of sales momentum heading into the summer may be transient.” packets of Canadian workers pose no special competitive disadvantage.

The research, by Employment and Social Development Canada, found that since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, any average differences in the two countries’ absolute wage levels have largely disappeared.

Less educated Canadians earn slightly higher wages than their American counterparts, but welleducated Canadians earn slightly less.

The result appears to be a more equalized wage economy that is well-positioned internationally to compete with Canada’s largest trading partner and others.

The results show that Canada’s wages are lower than their U.S. counterparts for wholesale and retail, finance and business, manufacturing, and transportation and utilities.

And wages are generally the same for construction, community services, personal services and public administration. Only in the primary sector, such as resource extraction, are they higher.

The 2013 study, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act, was partly intended to measure whether Canada’s wage levels are hurting the country economically.

Suncor snags new chief financial officer from oilpatch rival Husky CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) says it has hired Alister Cowan as its new chief financial officer.

Cowan has been CFO at fellow oilpatch firm Husky Energy Inc. (TSX:HSE) since 2008.

Husky says Cowan’s last day will be July 18 and an announcement about his replacement will be made in due course.

Suncor CEO Steve Williams says Cowan has 30 years of experience in charge of finances at energy and utility companies.

He says Cowan’s expertise will help with Suncor bolster its financial position and grow profitably.

Suncor had been on the hunt for a new CFO since late last year, when Bart Demosky left for a job at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (TSX:CP).

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Married mom feels guilty about missing old fling Dear Annie: I have been married for like thunder in my heart. four years.

But for the sake of our marriages In that time, we have split and our children, we went up twice, and it wasn’t pretty back to our spouses. either time. We have kids toThat was mainly his gether. choice, and although I hung I pushed getting married on his every word with diswhen I became pregnant at appointment, I agreed.

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It’s been a year since Then he claimed to fall my husband and I reconout of love with me, stopped ciled, and I stopped speakcoming home after work and ing to the other man. began treating me like his But I wake up with him maid. on my mind, and he’s in my So I left and took our thoughts 24/7. child.

What’s wrong with me?

MITCHELL He followed me and —Guilty Conscience & SUGAR swore he’d do better.

Dear Guilty: It’s underThe second time we split, standable that you miss the we fought so much that way the other man made things were being thrown, you feel, especially beand our throats were sore from scream- cause your marriage still seems shaky. ing at each other.

However, you have made a commitFor the (now two) kids’ sake, I said ment to your relationship (and the othwe can’t keep fighting and left again. er man has done the same for his), and Here’s the problem now: you must try to find a way to redirect While we were separated, I fell your emotional energy back to your deeply in love with a married man. We husband. would talk about our troubled lives Problems within a marriage do not and build each other up. magically disappear.

Every time I see him, the feeling is Please get counselling, with or with-

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out your husband, and work on the issues that undermine your focus.

Do it for your children, if not for yourself.

Dear Annie: Who is responsible for the headings on your column? The one I read the other day said, “Son can’t get pass his anxiety issues.”

If it is someone on your team of editors, please tell them the correct word is “past.” — C.W. Dear C.W.: Normally, we would direct editing questions (and spelling mistakes and other such errors) to our editors. However, we receive so many questions about the headings above our column that we would like our readers to know that the headlines, good or bad, are written by someone at your local newspaper.

This is not an easy assignment. We think these folks do an outstanding job, and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank them. Of course, that doesn’t mean an occasional mistake doesn’t slip through. If the mistakes happen frequently, you can write or phone your newspaper and mention it.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Concerned Grandparents,” who complained that their daughter and her

husband are poor housekeepers. I have high standards of cleanliness, but am completely unable to attain them.

My mother-in-law is horrified that our home is not pristine. I have five children. Imagine the clutter: shoes, coats, sports equipment, you name it! We also have pets and farm animals. We do not have many closets, and we do our best to have organizational systems. There is certainly no mold or bugs, but life is exhausting, and we are trying to enjoy some of it.

“Concerned” says that her daughter does not invite people into her home. I wonder whether the daughter got tired of being berated and stopped inviting the in-laws. That’s what happened to me. I would recommend that “Concerned” be more understanding of the situation and perhaps take the kids for an outing so that the parents have a chance to organize without mess-makers underfoot. My kids are learning to clean, but it certainly isn’t up to my mother-in-law’s standards. — Busy Mom Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

protected. There will be many ideas going through your head, but believe me, they are full of thoughts and memories as well. This time is for closure, it will be easy.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A focus on your daily routine and health is likely to emerge today.

Others in your life have been urging you to make some changes, and to re-evaluate those aspects of life.

Now is the time you will start to do just that. Work group activities will prove very profitable!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Rethinking and reviewing your current circumstances with romance and daily life will come about today.

An emotional focus on what brings joy into your life and what you consider fun times will be re-addressed to find a better outcome.

Group activities will be a blast today!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A reconnection and a review of your current living situation will come about today. All will go well, but it is time to discuss what is working for you and what is not.

Today will be an excellent and very amicable day.

The discussion will go even better than you believe!

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Tuesday, June 17 ing day!

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A reThere is a pleasant light heartedness appearance of an ex relationship, business or to the day that will make these revelations romantic, will leave you feeling supported and easier, although there will be Freudian slips and delays will still be obvious.

It will be a good day to communicate and express yourself with relative ease.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today if your birthday, then this year will prove to be one when you had many great ideas and tons of communications with others in your life.

Although you will not know exactly what to do or when and will feel slightly uneasy with decision making, listen to your business partner, or significant relationships. When in doubt, they are guiding you towards greater profit and confidence.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now is the time to use your talents to turn a profit.

Use the skills you have in order to get yourself to feel more nurtured in this world, whether it is through decorating your home or writing a book — both will be profitable for you. Life will seem easier and less hectic today.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There will be quick and resourceful ideas coming into play today with regards to your finances.

You will also discover what you can purchase that would make you feel grounded and safe. It is a pleasant day to relax and enjoy the company of romantic interests.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): After some time of rethinking and re-valuating your finances, today will mark a time when ideas will start popping into your head. Communicate with others, even in groups, in order to find the best possible solution for any queries you might have.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Greater awareness of what is troubling you on a subconscious level will emerge today.

You are better able to express yourself just as you want to now with those close relationships in your life. It will create more balance for you and with them. Let go of past foibles now.

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FOOD

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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

Cooking with FLOWERS Photos by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Above: Cookstown Greens creates trays of edible flowers for a number of Toronto chefs. This tray features, clockwise from left, snapdragons, pansies, chive flowers, dianthus, daisies, bachelor’s buttons, calendula and, in the centre, dahlias. A 35-gram (1 1/4-ounce) tray of mixed edible flowers costs $22 and special orders for smaller flowers are more.

Below: Purple chive blossoms have a slightly garlicky taste, reminiscent of the rest of the plant.

EDIBLE FLOWERS CAN BRIGHTEN UP YOUR PALETTE BUT BE SURE TO BE EDUCATED ABOUT WHICH SPECIES ARE SAFE TO EAT

Here are some recipes to try that feature flowers as ingredients.

Lavender-Cheesecake Brownies One way to cook with flowers is to add them to your favourite baking recipes. Lavender is more than a decoration on these delicious brownies.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON, Ont. — Krista Harrington can’t understand why more people don’t eat flowers.

“It’s this really cool culinary niche that’s really flying under the radar,” says Harrington, who grows and forages edible flowers on the family farm near Flamborough, Ont., now part of Hamilton.

She uses many of the flowers to create jams for her preserving business, combining flavours such as strawberry-lilac, black currantwild violet, raspberry-rosemary or blueberry-lavender under her From These Roots label.

“When I started my jam company about 15 years ago, people thought it was just craziness that you would put flowers in jam.

Now, it’s not as bad as it was, but it’s still really hard to introduce something new and try to convince people to buy into it.”

Harrington also adds flowers to green salads and candies petals to eat as snacks or decorate desserts.

Even stinging nettles are “really good chopped up in soup.”

“Edible flowers have a lot of flavour and texture. And I think that’s what’s really kept edible flowers from hitting the mainstream,” she says. “The textures are so different with all of them.

And as long as people keep thinking of them as a flower, rather than a herb, it’s hard for them to get their minds around eating them.”

Caroline Ffrench, co-owner of Cookstown Greens just south of Barrie, Ont., agrees the consumer demand for edible flowers is small. She and her husband grow a wide variety of edible flowers for the restaurant trade, where they’re used mainly as garnishes.

They also sell prepared salads containing flower petals — usually marigolds but sometimes other kinds as well — to a number of Toronto grocers. But other than the occasional specialty order for a wedding, consumer demand is almost non-existent, she says.

Ffrench speculates cost may be part of the reason. On a commercial basis, edible flowers are labour-intensive to grow, harvest and prepare for sale.

Add lavender to brownies and stuff squash blossoms for impressive appetizer

However, Harrington and Ffrench agree the biggest factor may be lack of knowledge about edible flowers in North America.

Even when served on a restaurant plate, many people are a little “intimidated” by flowers, Harrington says. They’re not sure if they’re supposed to eat the flowers or if they’re just for decoration.

As with mushrooms, it’s a complicated subject. Some websites list up to 100 common flowers that are edible — including petunias, gladioli, chrysanthemums, dandelion buds, wax and tuberous begonias and scented geraniums. But there are also long lists of flowers that are poisonous and cannot be eaten. These include azaleas, daffodils, hyacinths, irises, buttercups and lily-of-the-valley.

Even among edible flowers, there are many in which the stamens and bases should be removed before eating and warnings that people with allergies probably should not eat any kind of composite flowers.

The most important thing to do before deciding to sample edible flowers is to get educated on what is safe to eat and what is not. The second is to understand that you should never eat flowers from florists or even from many nurseries, which may treat their bedding plants with various chemicals or pesticides. A few grocery stores now sell packaged edible flowers, but probably the best idea is to grow them yourself from trusted seeds in chemical-free soil.

When sampling flowers, start small, and with just one kind, so you can make an accurate assessment of the taste and whether it causes any reaction.

Tips for using flowers in the kitchen Once you have determined specific flowers are safe to eat — not poisonous and chemicalfree — there are many ways they can be used.

Pick homegrown flowers in the morning or late afternoon when the water content is high.

Select flowers that are freshly opened, perky and free of any bug-eaten or diseased spots.

Normally the petals are the only portion to be eaten.

Wash flowers thoroughly by bathing them gently in a bath of salt water. Perk them up by dropping into a bowl of ice water for 30 to 60 seconds. Drain on paper towels. Then carefully remove petals or other parts to be consumed.

Use flowers sparingly in your recipes, particularly if you are not accustomed to eating them.

“I think a little goes a long way with edible flowers,” Harrington says. “They’re like herbs, so they have to be used in a similar way.”

She suggests starting with the flowers of edible herbs such as chives, garlic, basil or rosemary.

They are safe to eat and will have a familiar flavour.

Lynda Dowling of Happy Valley Lavender and Herb Farm, just outside Victoria on Vancouver Island, likes to experiment with flowers. She suggests sprinkling a few fresh petals on a salad or ice cream, or crushing dried petals and adding a teaspoonful or two to a cookie, brownie or cake recipe.

Dowling said her lavender will be in bloom by the end of the month and harvest will extend through July. She ships dried lavender all over Canada and to other parts of the world.

Like herbs, the taste of flowers varies widely, so it’s important to know how they taste before pairing them with other foods. Lilacs, for example, are described as having a lemony, vaguely vanilla taste; borage (star flowers) as light cucumber; carnations as spicy, like cloves; day lilies as sweet and crunchy, reminiscent of chestnuts or beans; gardenias as sweet; violets like sweet nectar and nasturtiums as peppery. Others are described as acidic or bitter.

Harrington also says it’s not necessary to eat flowers to use them to effect. With the stamens pinched out, tulips or hibiscus are both edible but also make impressive individual serving dishes when filled with something light like mousse or set in Champagne glasses with the wine or Champagne poured over them.

Too much can cause digestive problems.

The whitish part of the petal where it connects to the stem can often be bitter and can be trimmed off.

It’s best to store flowers whole in a glass of water in the refrigerator until needed. Petals can be stored for a day in a plastic bag in the refrigerator, but the optimum goal should be to use them within a few hours.

Freeze whole small flowers into ice rings or cubes for a pretty addition to punches and other beverages.

Use in flavoured oils, vinaigrettes, jellies and marinades.

One of the most common uses for certain flowers is steeped to make teas, some of which are said to have medicinal properties.

Flower teas, with sugar added, can be reduced to create simple syrups that can be added in liquid form to recipes.

90 ml (6 tbsp) unsalted butter 125 g (4 oz) bittersweet chocolate, roughly chopped 30 ml (2 tbsp) dried lavender flowers 150 ml (2/3 cup) sugar 2 large eggs, room temperature 125 ml (1/2 cup) all-purpose flour 15 ml (1 tbsp) cocoa powder 5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract 125 ml (1/2 cup) chocolate chips Top layer 250 g (8 oz) cream cheese 1 large egg yolk 15 ml (1 tbsp) flour 75 ml (5 tbsp) sugar Few drops of vanilla extract 15 ml (1 tbsp) dried lavender Heat oven to 180 C (350 F).

Line a 20-cm (8-inch) square pan with 2 strips of foil or parchment, crossing them at right angles to create overhanging tabs on all four sides. Butter and flour the paper.

In a medium pot over low heat, melt butter, then add roughly chopped chocolate and lavender, barely melting together.

Remove from heat; stir in sugar, then eggs, then flour, then cocoa powder. Mix smoothly for one full minute.

Then stir in vanilla and chocolate chips.

Scrape batter into prepared pan and spread evenly.

Top layer: In a medium bowl or food processor, beat together cream cheese, egg yolk, flour, sugar and vanilla. Add most of the dried lavender, saving a few pinches. Gently pour cream cheese mixture smoothly over uncooked chocolate batter. Sprinkle with remaining lavender flowers. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes maximum. The middle will just be set and the top should still look glossy. Let cool completely or chill in fridge before lifting out of pan using the tabs. Cut into squares. These can be served immediately or wrapped individually and frozen for 1 month.

Makes 16 squares.

Stuffed Squash Blossoms Squash blossoms have a sweet nectar flavour and the larger ones make great receptacles for this cheese and mushroom stuffing. Impress guests by serving them as an appetizer or side dish.

Batter 250 ml (1 cup) flour 125 ml (1/2 cup) cornstarch 2 ml (1/2 tsp) salt 250 ml (1 cup) fat-free chilled milk, beer or water (approx) Stuffing 50 ml (1/4 cup) ricotta cheese 1 garlic clove, minced or pressed 1 ml (1/4 tsp) each salt and pepper 30 ml (2 tbsp) finely chopped mushrooms (optional) 15 ml (1 tbsp) finely chopped fresh basil or parsley 16 large squash blossoms, washed (stamens removed if male blossoms) Salt and pepper, to taste Oil of choice, for frying Batter: Sift together dry ingredients, then whisk in cold milk until smooth. Cover and set in refrigerator for 30 minutes. More liquid can be added if the mixture is too thick. Meanwhile, prepare stuffing. In a bowl, combine ricotta cheese, garlic, salt, pepper, mushrooms (if using) and herbs. Open blossoms and spoon about 15 ml (1 tbsp) of the mixture into the centre of each. Avoid overfilling blossoms. Twist top of each blossom together to close. Place on a baking sheet and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Pour oil into a skillet to a depth of 1 cm (1/2 inch). Heat over high until a small cube of bread dropped into oil turns golden brown within seconds.

Briefly dip each stuffed blossom into batter, then carefully place in hot oil. Cook until golden on all sides, about 3 minutes total. Transfer with a slotted utensil to paper towels to drain briefly and serve immediately.

Makes 16 pieces.

ENTERTAINMENT

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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

Dark comedy draws praise TAYLOR SCHILLING AND UZO ADUBA STAR IN ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK — GROUNDBREAKING TV

BY LAURA KANE THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Taylor Schilling knew she was a part of something groundbreaking when women from all walks of life began thanking her for Orange is the New Black.

As fans binge-watch the newly released second season, and shooting begins on the third, Schilling says she’s blown away by the mass appeal of Netflix’s dark comedy about female inmates.

“One thing that I think storytelling can do is kind of identify that universal chord that runs through all of us, even though the externals may be different and our experiences may look different,” she said in an interview.

“We’re seeing reflections of ourselves in people that we thought were very different than us ... and that’s ideally what storytelling can do.”

Schilling stars as Piper Chapman, at first glance a doe-eyed and guileless blond woman, who lands in the slammer several years after being a drug mule for her ex-girlfriend Alex Vause (That ’70s Show’s Laura Prepon).

Creator Jenji Kohan has said that Chapman is a “Trojan horse” — a familiar point of entry with her pretty face and privilege — to draw viewers into a women’s prison and meet diverse female characters unlike anyone they’ve seen on TV. Among those characters is Suzanne Warren, better known as Crazy Eyes, played by Uzo Aduba.

While she is first introduced as part comic relief, part villain — urinating next

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Taylor Schilling and Uzo Aduba are pictured in a scene of the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. to Piper’s bed after she refuses to be her “prison wife” — Crazy Eyes has become a complex, tragic character, driven by a childlike desperation to fit in.

Aduba, who with a chic haircut and in a fitted dress looks shockingly different from her wild-eyed character, joined Schilling for a round of interviews Monday.

She said working on the show with so many talented actresses has been a “lifechanging experience.”

“It’s unbelievable. It’s impressive to me to see how deep the bench goes, if that makes

sense. There are just so many women and a lot of them that I’ve never met before or seen before have such an offering of talent,” she said.

“I watch in awe. I just watch them, playing a scene, and ‘Wow, Taylor was just constantly open. She can stay open and that’s amazing.’ Or Danielle (Brooks, who plays Taystee) reads jokes that land really well.”

Chapman, meanwhile, has also transformed since the early episodes of the show — from a terrified new prisoner to a self-described “lone wolf,” someone who casually threat-

ens to rip another inmate’s throat out.

The show raises the question of whether prison changes people or forces them to confront who they really are.

When her father says he can’t visit his “little girl” in prison because that’s not who she is, Chapman snarls, “That’s exactly who I am.”

While far from a villainous character, Chapman has discovered that she is capable of a savagery she never dreamed possible. Schilling said Piper is learning how to become honest with herself, but it’s a painful process.

“I don’t think it’s ever a linear process finding yourself or finding your truth,” she said.

“But I think she’s on that path. She’s on that path and sometimes kicking and screaming, ‘What is real and what is me being honest? What is me being really me?”’

Chapman moves more into the periphery of the show in the second season as other inmates’ back stories are explored in flashbacks.

In the third episode, it’s revealed that Crazy Eyes was raised by adoptive white parents who pushed her to conform.

Aduba said she knew nothing of her character Suzanne’s family life, apart from the fact that she had white parents, before reading the episode’s script.

“It just started to breed the question for me of nature versus nurture and how if someone’s hyper-sensitivity or hyper-activity isn’t supported or nurtured in a different way, how it might end up helping to unravel someone,” she said.

“She’s never fit in and all she’s ever wanted was to belong. Every kid wants to blend in. Nobody wants to stand out for anything. She did already stand out ... so it helped to explain a lot of her need to cling to people and get their validation.”

While filming of the third season has begun, fans will have to wait for new details.

Aduba and Schilling said it’s too early in the filming schedule to tease any upcoming episodes.

“We don’t know anything,” said Schilling apologetically.

“I can’t even make a joke, I know so little.”

Rehab song, red ties at open casting for Rob Ford musical

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Dressed in suits with red ties and armed with monologues about smoking crack and songs including Amy Winehouse’s Rehab, hopeful stars of Rob Ford The Musical: The Birth of a Ford Nation put on their best impersonations of the embattled Toronto mayor Monday at an open casting call for the upcoming show.

“I have an uncanny resemblance,” Neil Sarel, a selfdescribed “country boy” who runs a small vending machine company in Caledon, Ont., said of why he wanted to audition.

“When this was announced

that they were doing a musical, all my friends were like, ‘You gotta go, you gotta go,’ so I was like, ‘You know what — why not?’ It could be a door that opens another door to another door, right?”

Travis Hay of Toronto also hoped a resemblance to Ford would boost his chances.

“We both have the same triple chin, so that helps, and the hooded eyes,” said the intern at radio station KiSS 92.5, who put his own spin on Rehab during his audition, mixing in lines including “Listen, I’m not an addict” and “I’m not resigning” between musical phrases.

“The resemblance to Rob Ford, it’s fun. I mean, it’s a

joke. I have another buddy who looks like him, takes it very personally. I don’t, it’s fun.”

Brett McCaig and P. Joseph Regan are writing the book and lyrics while Anthony Bastianon is penning the music to the comical stage show, which is set to run at Toronto’s Historic Factory Theatre from Sept. 16 to Sept. 28.

With Ford’s life taking many unexpected turns, the latest being his treatment for an admitted alcohol problem, the creators said they’ve left the final few pages of the story blank as they wait to see what happens.

They insist the show isn’t about bashing the mayor,

LOCAL

BRIEFS Exhibit by Erin Boake to open at Gallery on Main Voyagers, a new exhibit by Red Deer artist Erin Boake, is opening on Saturday at the Gallery on Main in Lacombe.

Boake is fascinated by human figures in motion, and Voyagers captures people in the act of travel. She said, “How we occupy and change the circumstances of space” is an underlying theme in her work.

She believes her art has shown an evolution in local flora, fauna and the human figure, “in varying degrees of life, death, mutation and contortion.”

Boake has painted murals and exhibited extensively throughout Alberta, B.C. and Nunavut, She also had works shown at the Agora Gallery in New York City in 2007.

The Gallery on Main show goes to July 11. An opening reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. with the artist in attendance.

Artwalk leadup to festival Saturday It’s spot-the-artist time again in Red Deer as a prelude to Artwalk Festival Day on Saturday.

The Artwalk Festival will culminate with art markets and music on Saturday at the

whose slew of antics range from admissions of trying crack cocaine and using drugs while in office, to being caught on multiple cellphone videos appearing intoxicated and uttering profanities on national TV. “Rob Ford is sometimes portrayed as just a two-dimensional character, but he really is a full three-dimensional character. He has a lot of sides to him. What we’re trying to do in the show is show different sides of the whole story,” said Bastianon, who has written 10 original songs in the genres of pop, rock and country for the show.

“We hope the ‘Ford Nation’ comes and sees the show, be-

cause I think they’ll enjoy it as much as anyone else.”

Besides Rob Ford and brother Doug, other characters in the show include a police chief, the media, a prominent lawyer, novelist Margaret Atwood, a newspaper editor and a “spiritual guide” named Transgression (a.k.a. Tranny) who stands as “the voice of reason.”

Creators say the cast members have to be able to sing, dance and act.

Monday’s open “colourblind casting” for the roles of the Ford brothers and Tranny drew in a diverse group of professional and amateur actors of a wide range of ages and nationalities.

lery IS and Gilmore Guitars.

A wine and cheese reception will complete the evening.

Tickets for the tour are $20 ($15 for youths under age 13) from the museum or Sunworks.

Saturday’s free Artwalk Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the park just north of the Red Deer public market.

Besides an extensive art market, various art demos will be happening, as well as interactive arts and crafts tables and live music at the all-ages event.

Jeremy Mayne is the featured artist and Shannon Woolgar will lead children’s art in the activities tent.

Everyone is invited to “put yourself in the picture” by attending the annual festival, soaking up some music and buying some original art.

accompaniment.

Ocean & Lights is a threepiece alternative rock band from Penticton, B.C. Formed in 2009, the group is becoming known for upbeat, high energy indie-rock with slow-burning acoustic elements influenced by bands such as The Fray and Switchfoot.

Oceans & Lights is made up of Tristan Calderbank, Brendan McPherson and Tiffany Calderbank.

There’s no cover charge for the 8:30 p.m. show.

For more information, call 403-356-0033.

Doll Sisters, Oceans & Lights plan moody, melodious concert

Art by Erin Boake: opening Saturday at Gallery on Main. park behind the Recreation Centre.

In the meantime, artists will be demonstrating their talents all around Red Deer this week.

Look for these creative people in City Hall Park, the Ross Street Patio, and the Kerry Wood Nature Centre from now until Friday.

On Thursday, an Artwalk Amble Gallery Tour will be held at galleries around the city.

The guided tour, via chartered bus, begins and ends at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery.

It will also wind through the Kiwanis Gallery at the Red Deer Public Library, Gal-

Central Alberta’s Doll Sisters will join Oceans & Lights for a moody and melodious concert on Wednesday night at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer.

Jenna and Shelby Doll, of Raven, were 2013 nominees for an Alberta Country Music Association Award.

The local duo, who are opening the concert, have been liked to Mumford & Sons, The Civil Wars, Alison Krauss and The Rankins.

The Doll Sisters’ Celtic/ roots music features haunting harmonies with guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin and bodhran

Big Wreck coming in September The rock band Big Wreck promises to put on a big, hitheavy concert at the Memorial Centre in Red Deer on Sept.

22.

Albatross, The Oaf (My Luck is Wasted), Blown Wide Open, Wolves, and A Million Days are some of the Top 10 singles the band has released since forming in Boston in 1994, then reforming again in 2010 after a break up during which singer Ian Thornley started a successful solo band.

Thornley, a Canadian, is now reunited with Brian Doherty, an original member of Big Wreck. The two are performing with Paulo Neta, Dave McMillan and Chuck Keeping.

Ghosts, the band’s most recent album, was released earlier this month and the title track is already climbing the charts.

Tickets for the Red Deer concert are $39.99 and go on sale at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 20, from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

LOCAL HOME

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FROM REFUGEE TO RED DEERIAN Two people will share their stories about how they went from refugee to Red Deerian on Wednesday at Red Deer museum. Martha Cortes and Ethel Suarez will share their personal journeys to becoming Red Deer citizens. The event is part of the Cultural Cafe at Red Deer Museum from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This World Refugee Week event is co-sponsored by Central Alberta Refugee Effort, Catholic Social Services, Central Alberta Immigrant Women’s Association and The Hub. Admission is free.

The museum is located at 4528 47A Ave.

SYLVAN REC PLAN TO BE UNVEILED AT PARTY Designs for Sylvan Lake’s next major recreational facility will be unveiled at a special party on Wednesday. The public can get a look at schematic images of the NexSource Centre at the 5 to 7 p.m. event in Railway Park at 48th Street and 49th Avenue. NexSource Centre will include a replacement ice facility, curling rink, seniors centre, walking trail, meeting space and children’s activity centre.

CORRECTION A brief in Thursday’s Advocate had an incorrect date for a free evening session on theatre jazz dance by the Lacombe Jantzie sisters. The session is open to students seven to adult is June 26 from 4 to 8:45 p.m. in Studio D of the Red Deer Arts Centre. For more details or to confirm a spot, email info@idinspiredance.com.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

Division targets aboriginals

WAR BRIDES War brides is the theme of two events at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery this month. On June 19, visitors can check out the war bride exhibit in the gallery and then join Fusion Thursdays, the monthly event, which runs from 7 to 9 p.m.

This month, Get Your Vintage On features fashions from the museum collections circa 1940.

Tea and pastries will be served. On June 25 at 1:15 p.m., take a guided tour of the War Brides: One-Way Passage exhibit, which features portraits of women who married service personnel and took the leap of faith to move to another country after the Second World War. Refreshments will be served. For more details about either event, check www.reddeermuseum. com. Museum admission is $10 a family, $5 for adults, and $2 for children and seniors.

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WOLF CREEK HIRES FIRST CO-ORDINATOR TO HELP FIRST NATION, MÉTIS AND INUIT STUDENTS

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF There is a new job within the Wolf Creek School Division with a task as crucial as it is big — to bring aboriginal student performance up to an acceptable standard.

The division hired Shelagh Hagemann as its first First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) student success co-ordinator last month, a position created to provide targeted support for the division’s aboriginal students, a cohort mostly schooled in Ponoka.

Last year, just 22 per cent of FNMI students in the division

who had entered Grade 10 three years earlier graduated.

While an improvement over the 13.7 per cent h i g h school completion rate realized in 201112, the mark remained well below the provincial average of 43.6 per cent.

By contrast, the division’s graduation rate for the entire student population sits at 71.4

per cent.

Wolf Creek superintendent Larry Jacobs said in addition

will be liaising with local elders to have them aid teachers and administrators.

“It’s also an opportunity for students to contact directly w i t h some— WOLF CREEK SUPERINTENDENT LARRY JACOBS b o d y from the F i r s t to hiring the new co-ordinator, Nations community, have somethe division wants to make sure body to go to if they need to,” what it is teaching is relevant to said Jacobs. the aboriginal population.

One of the ways to do that Please see ABORIGINALS, Page B2

‘IT’S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO CONTACT DIRECTLY WITH SOMEBODY FROM THE FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY, HAVE SOMEBODY TO GO TO IF THEY NEED TO.’

Officer joins Lacombe police

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EXPERIENCE WITH RCMP, CAMROSE FORCES

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF After 22 years working with the Camrose Police Service, Lorne Blumhagen has moved a little further south to take on a new role as an inspector with the Lacombe Police Service.

Blumhagen has been on the job for more than two weeks and is enjoying his role assisting with investigations from a mentor and administrative perspective, and providing guidance to any officer or staff member who needs it, drawing from his experience.

He works one level below Steve Murray, Lacombe Police Service chief, providing assistance to him in administrative tasks as well as operational oversight for the membership and staff for the day-to-day operation.

Professional standards and recruiting also under the purview of the new role.

Before his 22 years with the Camrose Police Service, he served as an auxiliary RCMP member.

“I was presented the opportunity with Lacombe and it looked exciting and what I was interested in,” said Blumhagen.

“The Lacombe Police Service is a great organization and I look forward to working with the members there.”

During his long service with the Camrose Police Service, Blumhagen had a number of roles, most recently working with the major crimes unit.

He also has experience as a school resource officer, in crime prevention, the patrol section and supervision.

“Through those avenues, I had a good balance of administration and operational experience, which I can now transfer and maybe provide some insight and foresight for some of the experiences the LPS has evolving to handle the growing community,” said Blumhagen.

“Camrose provided me with the foundation to fill the role.”

He won’t handle day-to-day investigations in the new role, but he will provide insight and guidance for officers in those investigations.

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Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Students from Notre Dame High School plant trees at Kerry Wood Nature Centre Saturday morning as part of the school’s second annual tree planting. Students, both current and former, as well as Grade 9 students from St. Francis, were invited to take part in the tree planting. Roughly 920 trees were planted.

$5.7-million funding boost for social programs Social programs in Central Alberta received a $5.7-million boost from the Red Deer and District Family and Community Support Services on Monday.

Eighteen local agencies will receive funding over three years (2015, 2016 and 2017) for 21 projects designed to enhance social well-being and to prevent individuals and families from falling into crisis situations.

Among the recipients are the Circle of Red Deer Seniors Society for $278,000; the Red Deer Youth and Volunteer Centre ($464,370); Red Deer Family Service Bureau ($290,000); and Parkland Youth Homes Society ($153,190).

FCSS is funded through a 80/20 per cent costsharing partnership between the province and local governments or Métis settlements.

FCSS HELPS AGENCIES The funding was allocated after a six-month application process.

FCSS chairperson Kathy Sitter said there has been no provincial funding increase to FCSS funding since 2009 despite population increases, inflationary costs of service and increasing client need.

Sitter said the board had to make tough decisions for the upcoming three-year cycle. The board will meet with municipalities to discuss advocacy strategies to lobby for increased funding.

The Red Deer and District FCSS covers Red Deer, Red Deer County, Bowden, Delburne, Elnora and Penhold.

Refunds approved over water, sewer project charges GAS LINE WORK BILLED FOR BUT NOT INSTALLED

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF It appears the end of the road has been reached in a long-running dispute over the amount charged to Ponoka residents for a water and sewer project.

Town council approved refunds totalling $72,191 and forgave $2,886 in costs to bring an end to the controversy that has dragged on for more than five years.

“Hopefully, we’ll see” responded town chief administrative officer Betty Quinlan when asked if this signalled the end of the issue.

About 20 residents involved in a $400,000 local improvement project to upgrade water and sewer lines in the 38th Street area will get refunds ranging from $1,163 to $12,675.

Refunds were approved after a detailed review of the project found seven gas line crossings were charged for but never installed and engineering costs had been included for work not part of the local improvement. Other water line work was excluded.

Quinlan said the gas line crossing charges were an “oversight” on the part of the company doing the

work. The town has since been reimbursed.

It was also determined that some of the costs to property owners had been charged on a lot frontage basis instead of a fixed charge, which was corrected.

Two properties owed money after the review but those bills have been forgiven.

“I understand that things weren’t done properly that they want them corrected,” said Quinlan. “We’ve done our best, so hopefully this satisfies people and we can move forward and carry on.”

Quinlan said there has been no further word from residents since council’s decision.

Nick Kohlman, a Ponoka County resident, has fought for years on behalf of a group of 38th Street residents and believes the town is still not telling the whole story.

He believes costs were inflated and residents are still paying more than they should have.

Kohlman said the problems at the town office highlighted by the project still remain. Council is not getting all the facts, he claims.

He believes close to $200,000 should have been refunded. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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

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BRIEFS Toddler struck by car airlifted to hospital A toddler struck by a vehicle was airlifted from Stettler to Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary on Saturday afternoon.

Cam Heke, spokesperson with STARS air ambulance, said a helicopter was dispatched from Calgary to Stettler Airport shortly after 3:30 p.m.

“The patient was brought to the airport by ground EMS,” Heke said on Monday.

Heke only knew that the child was under five years old and did not have an update on the child’s condition.

Fire chief’s job attracts 40 applicants Forty applicants answered the call for the City of Red Deer’s fire chief position.

Elaine Vincent, director of the city’s Development Services Division, said applications came in from all over North America and as far away as England.

“There was a ton of interest in the position,” said Vincent. “Amazing response and an amazing group of qualified candidates. It was very difficult to screen it down even to the top 10 list.”

The list will be narrowed down further this month and a final decision will likely be made in mid-July.

The new Emergency Services manager will replace Jack MacDonald, who retired at the end of May after nearly 32 years of fighting fires and administrative duties with the department.

Lacrosse players corner alleged thief A Red Deer woman faces four charges after she was caught by lacrosse players going through their vehicles.

On June 4 around 10 p.m., a lacrosse team was playing at the Kinex Arena in Red Deer at 4309 48th Ave. They discovered that keys and wallets were missing from their lockers.

Team members immediately went into the parking lot and found the woman, catching the 22-year-old going through one of the lacrosse player’s vehicles.

The players cornered the woman until Red Deer RCMP arrived on scene and placed her under arrest.

She has been charged with two counts of possession of property obtained by crime, valued at less than $5,000, and two counts of theft under $5,000.

She will appear in Red Deer provincial court today.

Accused in kidnapping granted bail A Red Deer man awaiting trial will get to spend the time beforehand living with his grandmother after a judge

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Reilly Butler knocks sister Chelsea over while trying out bumper balls during the 1913 Days festivities in Sylvan Lake Saturday afternoon. Inflatable golf courses, a circus-themed parade and live entertainment were also part of the event that ran throughout the weekend. granted him bail, with strict conditions.

Lyle Robert Vance, 21, is scheduled to stand trial on Oct. 14 on charges of kidnapping, uttering death threats and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

Red Deer RCMP laid the charges after Vance was investigated following complaints made by two teens who were forced into a vehicle and driven around before they were released or made their escape. He was arrested on Feb. 12 and has been in custody since that time.

Crown prosecutor John Bahaurstani opposed his release saying Vance poses a threat to the public and a threat to the complainants as potential witnesses at trial.

Defence attorney Paul Morigeau said his client had a place to stay, his grandmother’s home, and had two offers of employment were he to be released from custody.

Judge Jim Hunter granted Vance $500 cash bail on strict conditions,

including a daily 11-hour curfew, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.. Vance must also turn himself in to the Red Deer Remand Centre 24 hours prior to the start of his trial in October.

Volunteers needed for garden box build Volunteers are needed to help build four raised-bed garden boxes for The Gathering Place on Friday.

Anyone can lend a hand between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at 46th Street and 51st Avenue, just west of the downtown fire station.

Mary Roy, urban garden organizer, said the best therapy is working outside with plants. The Gathering Place is a non-profit clubhouse for individuals with mental illness.

“It will allow (members) to access the joys of gardening and reap the harvest,” said Roy. She said many of the members are on fixed incomes and do not have access to fresh vegetables.

As well, she said the location is realistic because the city’s other community gardens are not close to the downtown core.

To volunteer with The Gathering Place, call 403-309-7772.

Neighbourhood Watch receives grant Red Deer Neighbourhood Watch Program received an $8,000 grant from the Red Deer and District Community Foundation to relaunch the program this summer.

Two summer students will be hired to participate in events with the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre and the SAFE Summer Program.

Neighbourhood Watch encourages residents to get to know each other and look out for one another.

Red Deer and District Community Foundation is a charity focused on creating and building a permanent endowment to serve Central Alberta.

Regulator checks oilsands companies in northwest Alberta for odours ABORIGINALS: Take longer STORIES FROM PAGE B1

However, in the event of major incidents he will provide oversight and have a more hands-on role. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

PEACE RIVER — Alberta’s energy regulator is mounting a two-week, around-the-clock compliance check near Peace River to ensure oilsands companies are following new rules on odour emissions.

“We only have so many people in each field office across Alberta, so we’ve essentially saturated this area with staff to do a targeted sweep,” Jeff Toering of the Alberta Energy Regulator said Monday.

The sweep involves two three-person teams moving from facility to facility in alternating 12-hour shifts for a week. Different teams replace them after the first week.

The effort follows public hearings into complaints that gassy odours from Baytex Energy’s facilities were driving some families from their homes.

Calgary-based Baytex uses an unusual method of heating bitumen in above-ground tanks to extract oil. Four other companies in the area use a similar process.

The regulator accepted most of the recommendations in a report on the public hearings. The suggestions included taking steps to eliminate gas venting, reduce flaring and conserve all produced gas in the area, where feasible, because it could cause health problems.

The regulator released a directive to that effect, which came into force Monday.

Baytex spokesman Andrew Loosely said the company has installed vapour recovery systems on all its equipment in one of the troublesome fields and is on schedule to install them in the other field by the regulatory deadline of Aug. 15.

“We applaud those efforts that the AER is undertaking,” Loosely said. “They’ll be out in force, holding our feet to the fire.”

Gerald Palanca, who is part of the regulatory team, said inspectors will depend partly on their own sense of smell to determine if the regulations are being followed. But inspectors won’t just follow their noses, he said.

Methane detectors will measure gases associated

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with smelly emissions. Infrared cameras will be able to “see” releases. “We’re not only measuring the odours with the human nose,” said Palanca.

Nor is a one-time blast to the nostrils enough to result in enforcement. “We’re after the very strong and offensive (odours),” said Palanca, who added several things will be considered in deciding whether enforcement is required. “(Is) there ... evidence that the site in question is affecting people? There’s also compliance history.

There’s the duration. All these factors weigh in as part of the compliance assurance program.”

Toering said inspectors hope to use this sweep to improve future enforcement of the new odour regulations. “We’re learning and we’re going to tweak it as we need.”

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.

Thank you for applying with the Red Deer Primary Care Network.

To learn more about the Red Deer PCN please visit our website www.reddeerpcn.com.

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He noted that within the aboriginal population there are often students who simply take more time to move through the educational system, not necessarily due to academic achievement or a lack thereof. That understanding has helped Wild Rose School Division just to the west achieve student success far above provincial averages.

Roughly 10 per cent of Wild Rose’s 5,000 students are aboriginal, and the high schoolers among that group graduated at a rate of 72.7 per cent in 2011-12 and 69.6 per cent in 2012-13. Given an extra year or two to finish up, those percentages rise further.

The division started up its aboriginal resource centre in Rocky Mountain House in 2012, an initiative that has helped teachers and administrators establish deeper connections with FNMI students, said superintendent Brian Celli.

“We just expanded that program this year to take up a lot more flexible learning options for kids, because a lot of these kids, especially when they get to high school they have very fluid lifestyles. ... If you go out to Saskatchewan or if there’s a death and you’re not able to get into the school for a couple of weeks, that doesn’t mean you have to stop learning or restart a course,” said Celli.

Wild Rose students can now tap into the Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division’s online programs to keep learning wherever they are, he said.

Overall within Wild Rose the high school completion rate was 72.4 per cent, which is below the provincial average of 74.9 per cent.

Clearview School Division’s most recent mark rose nearly three points over the year prior to 84.4 per cent, making it one of the highest rates in the province.

Also, a lower percentage of students in the division drop out compared to the provincial standard and more of them transition into post-secondary studies within six years of starting high school.

The east-central division has a low enough percentage of FNMI students that cohort statistics are not reported.

The large, rural Chinook’s Edge School Division set a new record with an 81.1 per cent high school completion rate in 2012/13. For the FNMI population, the rate was 55.8 per cent.

Data from the 2011 national census showed that 40 per cent of aboriginals aged 20 to 24 did not possess a high school diploma at the time of enumeration, compared to the overall national average of 10 per cent for all persons. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

Indispensability “A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.”

— Hans Göran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden

sets can be replaced: a welder with a welder, an accountant with an accountant, a manager with another manager.

But people are more than skill sets. Great employees carry “You may splash all you value that cannot be easily please when you enter. You quantified. They carry knowlcan stir up the waedge of the busiter galore. But stop ness and internal and you’ll find in a processes. They minute that it looks hold client relaquite the same as tionships – trust – before.” Such are built over years of the words of Amerservice. They carry ica’s laureate of experience, knowllight verse Ogden edge and wisdom.

Nash on the topic of Great employees our perceived indishave camaraderie pensability. and influence over I’ve heard more co-workers. The than once that we ripple effect of losare all replaceable ing a great employand that if we think ee is tremendous. otherwise, all we Especially when MURRAY need do is place our you add the cost of FUHRER hand in a bucket of recruiting, training water and, when we and staff integraremove it, take note tion. if a hole remains.

Now don’t get Look closely for an me wrong. People indication that we were there come and people go. People and, for certain, we won’t find advance their careers, people one. retire, people grow tired of I think the story is told to routine and look for new and keep us humble – to remind us exciting adventures. People that the world doesn’t revolve have lives and sometimes around us and that life goes life brings about unexpected on after we depart. Even the changes. Business is a living great pioneering American thing comprised of people and aviator and polar explorer Ad- personalities, always in flux. miral Richard E. Byrd seemed People must be replaced at to agree when he declared times. That’s a simple reality. that “A man doesn’t begin to Life (and business) must go on. attain wisdom until he recog- What I am suggesting is that nizes that he is no longer in- we – as employers and employdispensable.” ees –acknowledge (within reaI think statements that son) our value and never take are all-encompassing need each other for granted. to be challenged. If we look If we look at the “everyat the statement “everyone is one is replaceable” philosoreplaceable” strictly from a phy strictly from a self-esteem business standpoint (where standpoint it becomes harder we most often encounter it) we to find validity or justification. find the appearance of validi- Sadly, many people equate a ty. At work our ability to be re- skill set (what we do) with who placed will depend upon our we are and thus, the value we skill set. No denigration in- possess as human beings. If tended, but it might be easier our value is based solely upon to replace someone who digs our skill-set and our skill-set ditches than someone who can be easily replaced, then it performs brain surgery. And must follow that our personal in some regard, our skill set value is negligible. Equally and remuneration for servic- flawed is the notion that if our es rendered will tend to be in own skill set is more difficult balance. Essentially, the more to replace than our neighuncommon or refined the skill bour’s then we must be a betset the bigger the paycheque. ter, more important human One of the lessons I’ve being. learned working for great comThe example of employpanies (and not-so-great com- ees illustrates and highlights panies) is that great employ- the simple fact that each of ees are not so easily replaced. us is comprised of more than Let me clarify. Can a company one single characteristic. No hire someone to fill a position person is a one dimensional or fill a seat? Absolutely. Skill cardboard cut-out who can be

EXTREME ESTEEM

defined by a skill set or any other single quality. People with healthy self-esteem will never derive their worth from a thin slice of life or from a single role they play. If we’re going to understand our true value in the world then we must examine all the roles we play, especially those outside of work. For example, the role of friend, partner, mother, father, grandmother and grandfather, son, daughter, grandchild, favourite aunt or uncle, best friend. These roles are truly irreplaceable. Though life may go on without these individuals, the role they played can never be replaced.

How could it be? I still miss my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, the friends who are no longer with me. This is where our true value lies.

And what about our legacies to the world? Think of those people who changed the world in amazing, incredible, unforgettable ways. Think of any of the great artists, composers, writers, philosophers, leaders and gurus of every description – none of them were replaceable. If it were not so, we would have long ago forgotten about them. But we haven’t. We keep them alive in our minds and in our culture because they were truly irreplaceable.

And think of your contribution to the world: the difference you make every day by being a great human being living true to your authentic self. You’re not replaceable.

Your contribution is unique.

There has never been anyone like you before and never will be again. Remember that and please don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Canadian author Margaret Laurence once wrote, “Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.”

So are we all replaceable?

In some regards, yes. In others, not at all. Remember that we are all unique. In any role we play, we bring our personality and gifts that are uniquely our own and are not replaceable.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.

How do you bee-have?

In my experience, there are their already sunburnt scalp three types of reactions you ... or something of a similar efwill find humans having when fect. coming in contact with the omSo they watch, and wait and inous bee. patiently will that 1. The Runner: bee away.

When this individ3. The Motto Masual spots the all too ter: Any person of familiar markings The Runner variety of the bee, no mathas more than liketer how far away ly heard hundreds the minuscule thing of adages from this may appear, they type of person ... run.

‘Just stay still, and Their hands will bee won’t bother fling up towards you.’ ‘If you ignore their chest, and it, it will ignore they will let out a you.’ ‘It is more LINDSAY life altering bellow afraid of you, than BROWN to begin their scuryou are of it.’ ry to safety.

I’m sure The ME PLUS THREE Whether it be, Motto Master is hiding behind some quite annoying to large mass which they assume the person who is running for conceals them from the ter- their ever loving life from this rifying insect or locking them- killer bee, and even The Specselves in a car or simply mov- tator who although, quiet, is ing strait towards a stranger’s blubbering like a baby inside. house- they will do almost Regardless- there is a Motto anything to avoid that slight Master at any summer outing. chance of getting stung.

So, now that I have explained The Runner will end their my take on human beings and plight by telling the people their pollinating friends, I will who are calmly sitting and begin my bee story. And if you watching the fiasco, “THAT were curious, I believe I am a WAS A CLOSE ONE! I’ve nev- number two ... The Spectator. er been stung before ... I could It is 3:30 p.m., the kids and be allergic.”

I had just arrived home from 2. The Spectator: This type picking Lars up from school. of person is calm, cool and col- We were all tired and I was lected. Although, they do not still trying to conjure up somewant to be stung, because re- thing to make for supper. ally who does?

The kids bee-line (pun defiThey even more so do not nitely intended) for the living want to look like the weirdo room, while I make my way towho has been running up and wards the kitchen. down the block for 10 minutes Upon arriving I stop dead claiming there was a teensy in my tracks. tiny bug chasing them.

There is a bee. ... Not just Although they come off as any bee, a bee that must set having their wits about them, a length of an inch and a half they are truly trembling in- and fat to boot, sitting deliside. They watch that bee with cately atop my kitchen window a glower, not letting the little screen.

My first thought is to grab guy out of their sight.

Because deep down, just the flower vase that sits to like the fear that jades ‘The right of me and pummel it Runners’ mind, they dread the until all I can see is its juices thought of the buzzing insect streaming down the perfogetting so close it becomes rated pane. But I figure Jatangled in their hair, stinging mie would be a little upset if

I were to ruin a perfectly good window panel over a bee.

So I collect myself, I am a Spectator after all, I can deal with this. ...

Sophie enters.

In a complete overreaction, I scream, “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GET BACK TO THE LIVING ROOM! THAT BEE COULD STING YOU!!!!”

You see, I am a tad anxious when it comes to the kids and bees ... since they have never been stung. ... And they could be ... hmmm I suppose this sounds slightly familiar. Maybe I am more of The Runner type than I thought.

Well I can tell you this much my friends, my threeyear-old is the bravest kid I think I have ever seen! She makes her way to the kitchens pantry, grabs the fly swatter and proceeds to boost up her 28 year old mother with this spiel, “Mama, we going to get that bee! We will to destroy it, no bee gets in our house and stays! We brave Mama ... I brave, you brave ... and Yarsy (Lars) brave ... right Yarsy?”

“No I’m not brave ... I’m scared of the bee, I will just stay down here.” Is the faint reply from the living room.

‘Well, I brave Mama, and you are too!’ Then, the girl thrusts her fly swatter into the air above her head and yells with vigor, “LET’S GO GET THAT BEE MAMA!” And with some fancy moves that involve a cup and a piece of cardboard combined with the bravery of a small child we are able to capture the bee and release it into its natural habitat of the back yard.

And as I give Soph a big hug and thank her for helping me rid the bee she looks up at me and says with a straight face, “You know Mama, that little bee is more scared of you than you are of it.”

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

Marriage is about loving spouse for who she is Q: Should I ask my fiancee band’s wishes, even though I to be tested for infertility be- think it’s risky for us? fore we’re married? I’ve alDr. Greg Smalley, Vice ways wanted my own kids and President, Family Ministries: I’m determined to be inten- Rather than “give in,” which tional about that. If I can’t do implies someone “losing,” this with my fiancee, I’m not I’d encourage the two of you sure I want to pursue marry- to approach this situation as ing her. teammates and find a solution Jim: I’m sorry to you both feel good put this so bluntly, about. Once you’ve but you sound like joined forces, someone who has identify and talk no clue what marthrough your reriage is really all spective concerns. about. Your quesAs you do, retion betrays a selfsist the urge to discentered motive miss or “trump” that isn’t conducive the other’s feelto true marriage on ings. As a team, any level. you’ll win only To marry a womwhen both of your an is to promise to needs are heard love her for who she and addressed.

JIM is — not for what In this case, DALY you think she can you both have imdo for you. It’s about portant objectives. committing yourself You value your to her “in sickness marriage and want and in health” and to protect it. “for better or for worse.” GenYour husband loves his uine, sacrificial love doesn’t mom and wants to guard her ask someone to jump through dignity and ensure that she’s hoops or pass tests before cared for. Your challenge is sealing the deal. Instead, it to find an agreeable solution gives itself away uncondition- that satisfies both. ally and unreservedly.

Although the health Once you understand this, of your marriage should be you’ll be one step closer to your priority, it doesn’t neceslaying the foundation for a sarily mean that taking your strong and lasting marriage. mother-in-law in will destroy At that point, you can sit down your relationship. with your fiancee and have a Ask yourselves, “Given what deep and serious conversation we know, how can we protect about your goals and priori- our marriage if Mom moves in ties. with us?”

Among other things, make It may mean a trial run and sure that you’re both on the establishing clear boundaries, same page about your desire which she must respect if she’s for children. to remain under your roof.

If you don’t pin this down If she doesn’t, it should be now, it could lead to misunder- understood and acknowledged standings and big problems that “honoring” and “providdown the road. Lay everything ing for” one’s parents doesn’t out on the table as honestly as rule out other living arrangeyou can, with a humble, open ments. heart.

Admittedly, not all couples But whatever you do, don’t can reach a resolution on insist that she submit to infer- their own, and you shouldn’t tility testing. That’s just a way be ashamed to look for help of saying, “I will love you if from an objective third party -...” No woman wants to hear perhaps your pastor or a counthis from the man she plans to selor. spend the rest of her life with.

Our Focus on the FamQ: My mother-in-law is ily staff of licensed therapists starting to struggle living on would be happy to take your her own. My husband feels he call and be of assistance. needs to honor her and take Jim Daly is a husband and her in. father, an author, and president She lived previously with of Focus on the Family and host his brother and caused all of the Focus on the Family rakinds of problems, and even dio program. Catch up with him tried to break up his marriage. at www.jimdalyblog.com or at Should I give into my hus- www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

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Camps post images online daily for parents

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Not long ago, parents who sent children to sleep-away camp might wait days or even weeks for a letter.

And they’d be lucky if their kids’ scribbled notes home said anything beyond “Send candy!” or “I’m homesick.”

But now, many camps post photos and even videos online daily so parents can see what kids are doing — everything from cabin life to campfires to canoeing. Camp Dora Golding in Pennsylvania’s Poconos Mountains has even launched a cellphone app so parents can easily access pictures on Facebook and Instagram.

“The parents are looking for this so they can know their kids are having a good time,” said Elie Rosenfeld, spokesman for Dora Golding. “The camp still encourages kids to write home, but the days of waiting for the mailman to deliver a scribbled letter is long over.”

Dora Golding, a Jewish camp in its 89th year, has assigned a staff member fulltime to take and post pictures and videos, and a film crew will be shooting and making a weekly video for parents as well.

Elizabeth Lampert of Alamo, California, says online images are “a lifeline” while her 13-year-old attends Camp Timber Ridge in High View, West Virginia. “It definitely allows me to let go,” she said. “When I see the joy and happiness, I’m relieved. Almost every

day, they would post between 50 and 100 photos. Every day I scroll through, and of course she looks like she’s making friends, she’s with a million people and I feel better about sending her. I’ll see her on the trapeze, softball, kickball — one time I saw her in a hot-air balloon!”

Seeing photos also allows her to “engage” and “share” with her daughter when they’re reunited “in a way that you absolutely couldn’t before.” It’s a big contrast from letters that Lampert sent home when she was at camp: “Hi mom, having fun. Send candy. Love, Elizabeth.”

Rabbi Jason Miller, who worked for Tamarack Camps in Michigan for five years, says sometimes the effort to keep parents in touch can backfire.

When parents can’t find their kids in the photo gallery, they get concerned. And if they do see the child, they might call and ask, “’Why is my kid sunburned? Why isn’t he with his best friend? Why wasn’t he wearing his glasses?”’ An animated YouTube video called “Sleep Away Camp” shows a mother who can’t stop saying “Refresh” because she spends all day checking a camp website for pictures of her son.

Jenifer Silverman, a New Yorker whose two kids are going to camp this summer, says online images are “good and bad. ... There are hundreds to go through and can drive a person crazy. I have had days where I could not find my daughter and wondered why she wasn’t in them.”

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LUANN June 17 1991 — The Parliament of South Africa repeals the Population Registration Act. The act had required that all South Africans are classified by race at birth.

1988 — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney welcomes the G-7 leaders of the world’s seven biggest industrial democracies to Toronto for their annual economic summit.

1958 — Collapse of half-completed Second

Narrows Bridge in Vancouver; 19 workmen are killed, 20 injured; $23 million in damage.

1944 — The Republic of Iceland is established.

1928 — Amelia Earhart embarks on transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Wales. She becomes the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

1925 — Canada signs League of Nations protocol prohibiting the use of poisonous gases and bacteria in warfare.

1885 — The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.

ARGYLE SWEATER

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TODAY IN HISTORY

TUNDRA

SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.

SHERMAN‛S LAGOON

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SPORTS

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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

RDC Kings revamp blue-line with top junior player HOCKEY Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick holds up the Stanley Cup trophy while riding in a parade downtown Los Angeles, Monday. The parade and rally were held to celebrate the Kings’ second Stanley Cup championship in three seasons. The Kings defeated the New York Rangers for the title.

Kings celebrate another Stanley Cup title with downtown parade, rally

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — The off-season party is in full swing for the Los Angeles Kings.

The Kings paraded the Stanley Cup through downtown Los Angeles on Monday to celebrate their second NHL title in three seasons.

A raucous contingent of fans lined Figueroa Street as the Kings rode nine double-decker buses and a flatbed truck about one mile to Staples Center.

They showed off the Cup, the Campbell Cup and Justin Williams’ Conn

Smythe Trophy while confetti flew and fans gave a nonstop standing ovation to the champions. The team gathered at the arena for a sold-out rally celebrating the second championship in Kings history. Los Angeles didn’t win a title in its first 43 seasons before winning twice in the last three.

The Kings wrapped up the Cup with Alec Martinez’s double-overtime goal on Friday night, beating the New York Rangers 3-2 to end the finals in five games. They had to win three consecutive seven-game series to reach the finals, emerging from the tough Western Conference with an overtime victory

over Chicago.

Los Angeles has won 10 playoff series while playing 64 post-season games over the past three seasons.

“It’s been a pretty incredible experience these last few years,” said Martinez, who also scored the overtime goal that eliminated Chicago. “It’s just as good as the first time. Maybe even better.”

The rally crowd wildly cheered Martinez, two-time champion coach Darryl Sutter and forward Marian Gaborik, the late-season acquisition who scored 14 goals in the playoffs. Gaborik is an unrestricted free agent this summer.

Germany, U.S. battle to wins at World Cup

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Germany was supposed to be a team that would melt in Brazil’s tropics, and the United States was supposed to be a team that can’t beat Ghana.

Both teams flipped the scripts on Monday and find themselves tied atop Group G. In Salvador, Thomas Mueller scored a hat trick and Germany dominated Portugal — which played with 10 men after a red card in the 37th minute — 4-0, leaving German President Angela Merkel with a big smile.

Clint Dempsey scored in the first minute and rookie substitute John Brooks scored in the 86th as the U.S. defeated Ghana 2-1 in Natal, with VicePresident Joe Biden watching and giving the team a postgame pep talk.

Ghana had eliminated the Americans from the last two World Cups.

The two games helped the World Cup continue to deliver lots of goals — 44 in the first 14 games.

Nigeria played Iran in the day’s other match, and neither team added to that tally. The teams played the first draw of this World Cup, finishing scoreless. Argentina defeated Bosnia 2-1 on Sunday in the other Group F match, and both will feel confident after watching Nigeria and Iran fail to produce.

Two seeded teams — defending champion Spain and Uruguay — were upset earlier. That fate would not befall Germany on Monday.

It was Germans’ 100th World Cup match, and they had it wrapped up by halftime.

Mueller, who led the 2010 World Cup with five goals, scored on either side of Mats Hummels’ headed goal as Germany took a 3-0 lead at the break.

He added his third goal in the 81st.

“To score three goals in the World Cup opener against such an opponent is great,” Mueller said.

“After 20 minutes, we looked up at the clock and thought it was going to be a long day,” he added. “But we got into the match very well and when you lead by 2-0 in this heat and then even get the third, it was all over.”

Cristiano Ronaldo started at Arena Fonte Nova despite some nagging injuries. The winner of FIFA’s best player award, he faded after threatening early in the match. He had a shot from a break that Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer blocked, but there was nobody from Portugal to pounce on the

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ghana’s Kwadwo Asamoah, left, pushes off United States’ Alejandro Bedoya during the group G World Cup soccer match between Ghana and the United States at the Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil, Monday. rebound.

The United States scored at beginning and the end, but for most the match it was on the back foot as the Africans attacked, pushed the Americans deep into the box, but failed to finish in a physical match.

Dempsey’s goal was the quickest ever by an American and one of the fastest in World Cup history. He’s the first American to score in three different World Cups.

Brooks got the winner on a header in the 86th, just four minutes after Andre Ayew equalized.

The 21-year-old defender was a second-half substitute and an unexpected addition to the American roster. He was overcome and fell to the ground as teammates piled on. He made his

national team debut in August.

“I said it to the bench minutes before, we’re going to get some chances still,” U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said. “So we are still in the game after the equalizer, we just need to kind of push and push and grind it out. That’s what they did.”

U.S. players ran onto the field to celebrate at the final whistle, jumping as supporters chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” “We have a great spirit,” Klinsmann said.

“The U.S. team always has a great spirit and fights until the last second.”

The defending Cup of Africa Nations champion, Nigeria will be more disappointed with the draw than Iran.

Neither Iran nor Nigeria has won a match at the World Cup since 1998.

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Trevor Keeper’s blue-line makeover is complete.

The Red Deer College Kings men’s hockey coach added former Manitoba Junior Hockey League defenceman of the year Trevor Butler from the Dauphin Kings this past week.

The five-foot-11, 185-pounder joins former Red Deer Optimist Rebels rearguards Nick Bell and Joel Topping who also committed this off-season.

“Last year when we had a brand new team with 25 players, we had a bit of a drop off (on defence), there’s no question, after our top four defencemen,” said Keeper. “We wanted to make sure we had more depth with our defencemen this year.”

Butler scored 58 points (seven goals, 51 assists) in 60 games with the Kings in 2012-13 and was named the Manitoba league’s top defenceman. Last year he scored 37 points (6-31-37) in 62 games and was named a second team all-star. He helped the Kings advance all the way to the RBC Cup in Vernon this past season.

Keeper says he had interest from NCAA school in the U.S., but a desire to stay in Canada played into his decision to come to Red Deer. It also didn’t hurt that his defensive partner and roommate from 2012-13 already wears black and green.

“Shamus (Graham) was a big help in recruiting his friend to come here,” said Keeper. “But he’s a small town farm kid from Souris, Man., and he didn’t really have any interest in going down south.”

He also played with RDC forward and Sylvan Lake product Jeff Archibald in Dauphin for three years.

Butler will find a home on the Kings’ power play and likely a top four pairing. Where exactly he fits in will sort itself out in training camp in September.

The blue-line should be a lot deeper this year than the Kings’ return to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Association this past season where they had moved forward Jared Kambeitz back to fill in holes.

The six-foot-one, 190-pound Bell spent the last two seasons playing with the Mount Royal University Cougars, after spending three years with the Okotoks Oilers of the Alberta Junior Hockey League and one with the WHL’s Red Deer Rebels.

Topping spent the last two season with the WHL’s Lethbridge Hurricanes. The six-foot-one, 195-pound was a second round pick for Lethbridge in the 2010 bantam draft, but quit in December this to start his teaching degree at RDC. Keeper has not ignored his situation up front.

He’s added Red Deer centreman Connor Hartley (six-foot, 180 pounds), who spent most of the last four years with the Oilers, and rugged winger Tyler Burkholtz (five-foot-11, 195 pounds) from the B.C. Hockey League — he was named the Trail Smoke Eaters’ most valuable player in 2012-13.

Keeper says he is not done recruiting and may be adding one more player before the week is out.

It has been a different recruiting season for the RDC head coach this summer as compared to last year when he was putting together the Kings’ initial team. RDC still made it to the ACAC semifinals, beating the MacEwan University Griffins in the first round.

“I’ve been able to be selective with my recruits that we’ve gone after, we’ve got just about everybody we were hoping for,” said Keeper.

“We wanted to try and focus on bringing about six players, and real quality ones that will upgrade us ...

With recruiting I’m going after players that are going to make us better at every position.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014

Hockey

Today

Granite, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2.

● Senior men’s baseball: Nighthawks vs.

North Star Sports, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Women’s fastball: Lacombe Physio vs. Alberta Kaizen, Red Deer U16 vs.

Alberta Kaizen, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; TNT vs. Topco Oilsite, 7 p.m, Great Chief Park 2; Badgers vs.N. Jensen’s, 7 p.m., Lacombe.

Friday

Wednesday ● Parkland baseball: Rocky Mountain House at Lacombe, 7 p.m.

Thursday ● Women’s fastball: TNT vs. Badgers, Badgers vs. Topco Oilsite, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Red Deer U16 vs. N. Jensen’s, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; Lacombe Physio at Stettler, 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: North Star Sports vs. Gary Moe Volkswagen, Printing Place vs. Lacombe Stone and

● Rodeo: Sundre Pro Rodeo, 7 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Rocky Mountain House at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1; Lacombe at Eckville, 7 p.m. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Red Deer at Lacoka, 7:30 p.m., Barnett Arenas. ● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Edmonton/ Spruce Grove at Blackfalds, 8:30 p.m., Multiplex.

Saturday ● Junior golf: Maple Leaf Tour Mountain View Credit Union Classic at Olds Central Highlands. ● Junior golf: Canadian Junior Golf Association event at Coyote Creek, Sundre. ● Rodeo: Sundre Pro Rodeo, 1 and 7 p.m. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Fort McMurray at Red Deer, doubleheader at 3 and 6 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Third division rugby: Calgary Canadian

Irish at Red Deer, 3:30 p.m. ● Second division rugby: Calgary Candian Irish at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Titans Park. ● Jr. B tier 1 lacrosse: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Blackfalds Multiplex.

Sunday

● Junior golf: Maple Leaf Tour Mountain View Credit Union Classic at Olds Central Highlands. ● Junior golf: Canadian Junior Golf Association event at Coyote Creek, Sundre. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Fort McMurray at Red Deer, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Rodeo: Sundre Pro Rodeo, 1 p.m. ● Jr. B tier 3 lacrosse: Medicine Hat at Olds, 1:30 p.m., Sports Complex Main. ● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Lethbridge at Blackfalds, 3:30, Multiplex. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Calgary Wranglers at Innisfail, 4:30 p.m., Arena Blue. ● Junior B tier lacrosse: St. Albert at Red Deer, 6 p.m., Blackfalds Multiplex.

Derek Stepan, NYR Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Brent Seabrook, Chi Tyler Toffoli, LA Dustin Brown, LA Evgeni Malkin, Pgh P.K. Subban, Mtl Zach Parise, Minn Marian Hossa, Chi

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Finals Los Angeles (3) vs. N.Y. Rangers (2) (Los Angeles wins series 4-1) Wednesday, June 4 Los Angeles 3 NY Rangers 2, OT Saturday, June 7 Los Angeles 5 NY Rangers 4, 2OT Monday, June 9 Los Angeles 3 NY Rangers 0 Wednesday, June 11 NY Rangers 2 Los Angeles 1 Friday, June 13 Los Angeles 3 NY Rangers 2, 2OT NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Scoring Leaders G A Pts Anze Kopitar, LA 5 21 26 Jeff Carter, LA 10 15 25 Justin Williams, LA 9 16 25 Marian Gaborik, LA 14 8 22 Patrick Kane, Chi 8 12 20 Drew Doughty, LA 5 13 18 Jonathan Toews, Chi 9 8 17 Ryan McDonagh, NYR 4 13 17 Brandon Saad, Chi 6 10 16 Martin St. Louis, NYR 8 7 15

Toronto New York Baltimore Boston Tampa Bay

American League East Division W L Pct 41 30 .577 35 33 .515 35 34 .507 32 38 .457 28 43 .394

Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 36 30 .545 37 32 .536 36 35 .507 33 37 .471 32 36 .471

GB — 1/2 2 5 5

Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas Houston

West Division W L Pct 42 27 .609 37 32 .536 35 34 .507 34 35 .493 32 39 .451

GB — 5 7 8 11

Milwaukee at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

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

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

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

GB — 4 5 8 13

Atlanta Washington Miami New York Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 36 33 .522 35 33 .515 35 34 .507 31 39 .443 30 38 .441

GB — 1/2 1 5 5

Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 42 29 .592 38 32 .543 34 35 .493 33 35 .485 29 39 .426

GB — 3 7 7 11

West Division W L Pct 43 27 .614 37 34 .521 34 35 .493 29 40 .420 30 43 .411

GB — 6 8 13 14

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Sunday’s Games Detroit 4, Minnesota 3 Cleveland 3, Boston 2, 11 innings Toronto 5, Baltimore 2 Kansas City 6, Chicago White Sox 3 Tampa Bay 4, Houston 3 Oakland 10, N.Y. Yankees 5 Seattle 5, Texas 1 Atlanta 7, L.A. Angels 3 Monday’s Games Cleveland 4, L.A. Angels 3 Kansas City 11, Detroit 8 Tampa Bay 5, Baltimore 4 Boston 1, Minnesota 0 Texas at Oakland, late San Diego at Seattle, late Tuesday’s Games San Diego (Stults 2-8) at Seattle (Elias 5-5), 1:40 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 8-3) at Washington (Roark 5-4), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-1) at Cleveland (Tomlin 4-3), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 3-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 10-1), 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 4-5) at Detroit (Scherzer 8-2), 5:08 p.m.

Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 3-4) at Tampa Bay (Bedard 3-4), 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota (P.Hughes 7-2) at Boston (Lester 7-7), 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco (M.Cain 1-4) at Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 5-5), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (Darvish 7-2) at Oakland (Milone 4-3), 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Kansas City at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

Minnesota at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

San Francisco at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

Texas at Oakland, 1:35 p.m.

Houston at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona

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Sunday’s Games Miami 3, Pittsburgh 2, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 3, San Diego 1 Chicago Cubs 3, Philadelphia 0 Cincinnati 13, Milwaukee 4 St. Louis 5, Washington 2 Colorado 8, San Francisco 7 Arizona 6, L.A. Dodgers 3 Atlanta 7, L.A. Angels 3 Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs 5, Miami 4, 13 innings Philadelphia 6, Atlanta 1, 13 innings St. Louis 6, N.Y. Mets 2 Milwaukee 9, Arizona 3 Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, late San Diego at Seattle, late Tuesday’s Games San Diego (Stults 2-8) at Seattle (Elias 5-5), 1:40 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 6-5) at Pittsburgh (Cumpton 2-2), 5:05 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 8-3) at Washington (Roark 5-4), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 2-6) at Miami (DeSclafani 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 2-6) at Atlanta (E.Santana 5-3), 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco (M.Cain 1-4) at Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 5-5), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Niese 3-3) at St. Louis (Wacha 4-5), 6:15 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 7-2) at Arizona (Miley 3-6), 7:40 p.m.

Colorado (Chacin 1-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 8-3), 8:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at Atlanta, 10:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at Miami, 10:40 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at St. Louis, 11:45 a.m.

San Francisco at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Houston at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Monday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE LAA 020 100 000 — 3 9 0 Cleveland 201 100 00x — 4 6 0 Weaver, Morin (7), D.De La Rosa (8) and Iannetta; Bauer, Carrasco (7) and Kottaras. W—Bauer 2-3.

L—Weaver 7-6. Sv—Carrasco (1). HRs—Cleveland, A.Cabrera (7), C.Santana (9).

Kan. City 000 043 400 — 11 17 0 Detroit 001 100 006 — 8 13 2 Vargas, Ti.Collins (8), D.Joseph (9), Mariot (9) and S.Perez, Hayes; Verlander, E.Reed (7), B.Hardy (7), Coke (9) and Avila, Holaday. W—Vargas 7-2.

L—Verlander 6-7. HRs—Kansas City, Infante (3).

Detroit, J.Martinez (4).

Minnesota 000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Boston 000 010 00x — 1 6 0 Correia, Thielbar (7), Burton (8) and K.Suzuki; R.De La Rosa, A.Miller (8), Badenhop (8), Uehara (9) and Pierzynski. W—R.De La Rosa 2-2. L—Correia 3-8.

Sv—Uehara (15).

Baltimore 000 002 011 — 4 8 0 Tampa Bay 100 200 02x — 5 9 0 W.Chen, O’Day (7), Matusz (8) and C.Joseph; Odorizzi, Boxberger (6), Jo.Peralta (7), Balfour (8), McGee (8), Oviedo (9) and Hanigan. W—McGee 3-0.

L—O’Day 2-1. Sv—Oviedo (1). HRs—Baltimore, A.Jones (12), D.Young (3). Tampa Bay, Y.Escobar (4), Hanigan (4), Sands (1).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 000004000 000 1 — 511 0 Miami 201001000 000 0 — 410 0 (13 innings) Hammel, Grimm (7), W.Wright (7), Schlitter (7), Strop (9), H.Rondon (10), Villanueva (11), Russell (13) and Jo.Baker; Koehler, Hatcher (7), M.Dunn (7), A.Ramos (8), Cishek (9), Morris (10), Da.Jennings (12), Ja.Turner (13) and Mathis. W—Villanueva 3-5.

L—Ja.Turner 2-5. Sv—Russell (1). HRs—Chicago, S.Castro (10). Miami, Stanton (19).

Phila.

010000000 000 5 — 612 0 Atlanta 000000001 000 0 — 112 1 (13 innings) Hamels, Diekman (8), Papelbon (9), De Fratus (10), Hollands (11), Bastardo (12) and Ruiz; Teheran, Avilan (9), S.Simmons (9), J.Walden (10), D.Carpenter (11), Varvaro (12), Hale (13) and Gattis, Laird. W—Bastardo 4-3. L—Hale 2-2. HRs— Philadelphia, Howard (12).

NBA Playoffs FINALS (Best-of-7)

NBA Playoff Leaders Scoring G Durant, OKC 19 James, MIA 20 Harden, HOU 6 Westbrook, OKC 19 Aldridge, POR 11 Howard, HOU 6 DeRozan, TOR 7 Griffin, LAC 13 Curry, GOL 7 Lillard, POR 11 George, IND 19 Johnson, Bro 12 Lowry, TOR 7 Ellis, DAL 7

FG 194 192 50 167 113 58 45 117 51 83 138 98 44 52

FT PTS 132 563 129 548 45 161 145 507 60 288 40 156 71 167 71 306 37 161 59 252 101 429 36 254 43 148 27 143

AVG 29.6 27.4 26.8 26.7 26.2 26.0 23.9 23.5 23.0 22.9 22.6 21.2 21.1 20.4

NBA Champions 2013-14 — San Antonio Spurs 2012-13 — Miami Heat 2011-12 — Miami Heat 2010-11 — Dallas Mavericks 2009-10 — Los Angeles Lakers 2008-09 — Los Angeles Lakers 2007-08 — Boston Celtics 2006-07 — San Antonio Spurs

BRIEFS Seward tosses no-hitter for bantam AA Braves Riley Seward tossed a no-hitter for the Red Deer Boston Pizza Braves in a 12-0 bantam AA baseball weekend victory over the St. Albert Cardinals.

The Braves plated a pair of runs in the second inning and scored two more in the fourth frame en route to the one-sided win. MacGregor Manyluk stroked a two-run single and Canon Whitbread was two-for-two at the plate.

Boston Pizza scored six runs in the third inning on their way to an 11-1 win in the second game of the doubleheader. Zach Baker cracked a two-run single, Jared Lower, Matthew Kohle, Brett Porter and Manyluk each drove in a run and Austin Sorokan was two-for-three at the plate with two runs scored.

Adam Junck was the winning pitcher, allowing one run on five hits over four innings while fanning three batters and walking one.

Hamilton Toronto Ottawa Montreal

CFL PRE-SEASON East W L T PF 1 0 0 28 1 0 0 24 0 1 0 17 0 1 0 23

GP 1 1 1 1

GP Saskatchewan 1 B.C. 1

U14A Rage roll with 4-1 record in weekend play The Red Deer Collins Barrow U14A Rage girls fastball team posted a 4-1 record during the weekend to improve their season record to 14-3.

The Rage defeated the Lloydminster Rebels, the Edmonton Warriors ‘00 team and the Calgary Zaizan ‘00 and ‘01 squads, and suffered a one-run loss to the Prince Albert Aces.

Meanwhile, seven members of the Rage participated in the Girls Prairie Softball League all-star weekend. The list included Kailyn Smalley, Kaylie Lyons and Spencer Beaudoin, all of whom were voted to the starting lineup, and additions Rylee Cassidy, Cassidy Lyons, Morgan Hunter and Claudia Turuk.

West W L 1 0 1 0

T 0 0

PF 21 14

PA 23 22 21 28 PA 17 11

Pt 2 2 0 0 Pt 2 2

FIFA WORLD CUP At Brazil GROUP A

Milwaukee 021 000 033 — 9 12 0 Arizona 030 000 000 — 3 11 0 W.Peralta, W.Smith (8), Duke (9) and Lucroy, Maldonado; McCarthy, Thatcher (8), Harris (8), Putz (9) and M.Montero. W—W.Peralta 7-5. L—Harris 0-2.

HRs—Milwaukee, Gennett (4).

GROUP B

Brazil Mexico Cameroon Croatia

Netherlands Chile Australia Spain

Brian Burke to headline Innisfail Eagles Sportsman Dinner Calgary Flames president of hockey operations Brian Burke will headline the inaugural Innisfail Eagles Sportsman Dinner July 23.

Other guests lined up for the dinner include Edmonton Oilers scout Duane Sutter, Calgary Hitmen president Kelly Kisio, former NHL and WHL coach Rich Preston and Eagles head coach and former Jack Adams Award winner — as NHL coach of the year — Brian Sutter. All are former NHL players.

The dinner will be followed the next day by the Eagles charity golf tournament at the Innisfail Golf Club.

Tickets for the Sportsman Dinner and registration for the golf tournament can be purchased at the Eagles website www.innisfaileagles.com

Colombia Ivory Coast Japan Greece

Blair leads Exelta to strong showing at Western Canada Cup

GROUP E

Silverbacks lose first game of season The Blackfalds Silverbacks dropped their first game of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League senior C men’s schedule Sunday, falling 16-8 to the host Okotoks Erratic.

Ray Williams and Justin Kinnear each scored twice for the ‘Backs, who got single goals from each of Dylan Cardinal, Harry Thompson, Shandi Werenka and Luke Flett.

On Saturday, the Silverbacks ventured into Lethbridge and came away with a 14-11 victory, thanks to four goals from Tyler McRobbie and a hat-trick performance from Werenka. Flett added a pair of goals and Williams, Kinnear and Adam Reynolds also scored for the visitors.

The Silverbacks return to action Friday at 8:30 p.m. at the Blackfalds Multiplex against the Edmonton/Spruce Grove Tomahawks.

NHL Stanley Cup titles by team 23 Championships x-Montreal Canadiens - 13 Toronto Maple Leafs - 11 Detroit Red Wings - 6 Boston Bruins - 5 Chicago Blackhawks, Edmonton Oilers - 4 N.Y. Islanders, N.Y. Rangers, y-Ottawa Senators - 3 New Jersey Devils, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings - 2 Colorado Avalanche, Montreal Maroons, Philadelphia Flyers, Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes, Dallas Stars, Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Arenas, Toronto St. Pats, Victoria Cougars - 1 x — does not include 1916 title won prior to creation of NHL. y — won between 1919-20 and 1926-27.

2005-06 — Miami Heat 2004-05 — San Antonio Spurs 2003-04 — Detroit Pistons 2002-03 — San Antonio Spurs 2001-02 — Los Angeles Lakers 2000-01 — Los Angeles Lakers 1999-00 — Los Angeles Lakers 1998-99 — San Antonio Spurs 1997-98 — Chicago Bulls 1996-97 — Chicago Bulls 1995-96 — Chicago Bulls 1994-95 — Houston Rockets 1993-94 — Houston Rockets 1992-93 — Chicago Bulls 1991-92 — Chicago Bulls 1990-91 — Chicago Bulls 1989-90 — Detroit Pistons 1988-89 — Detroit Pistons 1987-88 — Los Angeles Lakers 1986-87 — Los Angeles Lakers 1985-86 — Boston Celtics 1984-85 — Los Angeles Lakers 1983-84 — Boston Celtics 1982-83 — Philadelphia 76ers 1981-82 — Los Angeles Lakers 1980-81 — Boston Celtics 1979-80 — Los Angeles Lakers 1978-79 — Seattle SuperSonics 1977-78 — Washington Bullets 1976-77 — Portland Trail Blazers 1975-76 — Boston Celtics 1974-75 — Golden State Warriors 1973-74 — Boston Celtics 1972-73 — New York Knicks 1971-72 — Los Angeles Lakers 1970-71 — Milwaukee Bucks 1969-70 — New York Knicks 1968-69 — Boston Celtics

Calgary Edmonton Winnipeg

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Thursday’s games Hamilton at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Friday, June 20 Ottawa at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.

Calgary at B.C., 8 p.m.

Soccer

New York 001 000 010 — 2 5 0 St. Louis 101 040 00x — 6 12 1 deGrom, Eveland (5), Germen (7), Edgin (8) and Teagarden, Recker; C.Martinez, Greenwood (5), Choate (8), Maness (8) and Y.Molina. W—Greenwood 1-0. L—deGrom 0-4. Sv—Maness (1).

Erika Blair led a strong overall performance by the Exelta Gymnastics Club at the Western Canada Cup in Calgary on the weekend.

Blair finished first overall in provincial 3 women’s trampoline, sixth in P4 double-mini trampoline (DMT) and fourth in P4 tumbling.

Paige Tiegs, meanwhile grabbed silver in P1 women’s DMT, fifth in P1 trampoline and ninth in tumbling.

Mackenzie Schneider was fourth in the P1 women’s DMT, sixth in tumbling and eighth in trampoline.

Benn Bilsborrow finished fifth in the P3 men’s DMT and eighth in trampoline.

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Football

GROUP F

GP 1 1 1 1

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L 0 0 1 1

T 0 0 0 0

GF 3 1 0 1

GA 1 0 1 3

Pt 3 3 0 0

GP 1 1 1 1

W 1 1 0 0

L 0 0 1 1

T 0 0 0 0

GF 5 3 1 1

GA 1 1 3 5

Pt 3 3 0 0

GP 1 1 1 1

W 1 1 0 0

L 0 0 1 1

T 0 0 0 0

GF 3 2 1 0

GA 0 1 2 3

Pt 3 3 0 0

GP 1 1 1 1

W 1 1 0 0

L 0 0 1 1

T 0 0 0 0

GF 3 2 1 1

GA 1 1 2 3

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GP 1 1 1 1

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GROUP C

LOCAL

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Basketball San Antonio 4, 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: San Antonio 104, Miami 87

Baseball

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GROUP D Costa Rica Italy England Uruguay

France Switzerland Ecuador Honduras

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Baseball world says goodbye to Gwynn HALL OF FAMER AND BELOVED PADRE DIES AT 54 SAN DIEGO — Tony Gwynn could handle a bat like few other major leaguers, whether it was driving the ball through the “5.5 hole” between third base and shortstop or hitting a home run off the facade in Yankee Stadium in the World Series.

He was a craftsman at the plate, whose sweet left-handed swing made him one of baseball’s greatest hitters.

Gwynn loved San Diego. San Diego loved “Mr. Padre” right back.

Gwynn, a Hall of Famer and one of the greatest athletes in San Diego’s history, died Monday of oral cancer, a disease he attributed to years of chewing tobacco. He was 54.

“Our city is a little darker today without him but immeasurably better because of him,” Mayor Kevin Faulconer said in a statement.

In a rarity in pro sports, Gwynn played his whole career with the Padres, choosing to stay in the city where he was a two-sport star in college, rather than leaving for bigger paychecks elsewhere. His terrific hand-eye coordination made him one of the game’s greatest pure hitters. He had 3,141 hits — 18th on the all-time list — a career .338 average and won eight batting titles to tie Honus Wagner’s NL record.

He struck out only 434 times in 9,288 career at-bats. He played in San Diego’s only two World Series — batting a combined .371 — and was a 15-time All-Star. He had a memorable home run in Game 1 of the 1998 World Series off fellow San Diegan David Wells, and scored the winning run in the 1994 AllStar Game despite a bum knee.

Gwynn never hit below .309 in a full season. He spread out his batting titles from 1984, when he batted .351, to 1997, when he hit .372.

Gwynn was hitting .394 when a players’ strike ended the 1994 season, denying him a shot at becoming the first player to hit .400 since San Diego native Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941.

Gwynn befriended Williams and the two loved to talk about hitting. Gwynn steadied Williams when he threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the 1999 All-Star Game at Boston’s Fenway Park.

Fellow Hall of Famer Greg Maddux tweeted, “Tony Gwynn was the best pure hitter I ever faced! Condolences to his family.”

Gwynn was known for his hearty laugh and warm personality. Every day at 4 p.m., Gwynn sat in the Padres’ dugout and talked baseball or anything else with the media.

Tim Flannery, who was teammates with Gwynn on the Padres’ 1984 World Series team and later was on San Diego’s coaching staff, said he’ll “remember the cackle to his laugh. He was always laughing, always talking, always happy.”

“The baseball world is going to miss one of the greats, and the world itself is going to miss one of the great men of mankind,” said Flannery, the San Francisco Giants’ third base coach.

“He cared so much for other people.

He had a work ethic unlike anybody else, and had a childlike demeanour of playing the game just because he loved it so much.”

Gwynn had been on a medical leave since late March from his job as baseball coach at San Diego State, his alma mater. He died at a hospital in suburban Poway, agent John Boggs said.

“He was in a tough battle and the thing I can critique is he’s definitely in a better place,” Boggs said. “He suffered a lot. He battled. That’s probably the best way I can describe his fight against this illness he had, and he was courageous until the end.”

Manager John Gibbons has guided Blue Jays to top of division

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was holding court with reporters in his office before a recent home game when a longtime scribe poked his head in the door.

“Gibby, are you smart again?” he joked, as the veteran skipper let out a roar.

“No, definitely not,” Gibbons replied with another hearty laugh.

He may not want to take the credit, but Gibbons is doing something right this season. In a remarkable turnaround from a deflating 2013 campaign, he has guided the Blue Jays to the top of the American League East division standings.

Gibbons has appeared to use the same style whether his team is struggling or in peak form.

Rarely without a big wad of chewing tobacco tucked under his lip, he’s quick with a smile and is as laid back as they come. With over three decades of experience in the sport, he knows not to get too high when times are good or too low when they’re not.

“I don’t think I’m doing anything differently or trying to be anybody different,” Gibbons said in a recent interview. “I don’t know if I could. We’re just playing better.

“Nothing has changed. We’re just playing better.”

Big things were expected last year after an off-season makeover that included the rehiring of Gibbons, who previously managed the team over parts of six seasons until June 2008.

General manager Alex Anthopoulos stuck with him despite a 74-88 campaign in 2013. With the team currently sporting a 41-30 record, it appears to have been a wise decision.

Gibbons has helped the Blue Jays become one of the surprise stories in Major League Baseball.

“I have confidence in this team,” he said. “I knew we were better than we played last year and then we felt there were some reasons we didn’t play well last year and we were holding on to that fact.

“At the beginning of (this) year, we got off to just kind of a so-so start, but then we kicked it in and we’ve been on a nice little roll. But I can’t say necessarily that it surprises me because I think we’ve got a good team.”

Ground broken for Regina’s new CFL stadium

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Ground has been broken for the stadium that will be the new home for the Canadian Football League Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Officials from the city, the province and the team were on hand as the first shovel went into the dirt at Evraz Place northwest of downtown Regina Sean Hamblin, district manager of construction company PCL Management, said it will take a few months to notice any above-ground work at the site.

More than 300,000 cubic metres of dirt is to be removed over the summer — about 25,000 truckloads of material.

Toronto had a decent April and made its move with a 21-9 record in May. The Blue Jays have cooled off a bit this month but entering Monday’s games, only Oakland (42) and San Francisco (43) had posted more wins.

There are several reasons for the turnaround.

The starting rotation is much improved, leadoff man Jose Reyes is healthy and in form and the offence has been one of the best in the major leagues. The players also appear to be used to each other now after an offseason of significant change before the previous campaign.

Former Blue Jays manager Buck Martinez, currently a team broadcaster, said he feels Gibbons was more demanding in spring training this year and that helped set the early tone.

“I think he pushed his players to play more, he wanted them to play together more,” Martinez said. “And I think he’s been more demanding and been forceful in his thoughts and opinions of what he thinks about this team.

I think he’s passed them on to the front office and I think he’s done a terrific job.”

“I think the biggest thing that he has done, he has got a roster right now where he utilizes all 25 men,” he added. “Everybody knows that there is a role for them on this team and they’re all ready. I think he’s getting the most out of his 25-man roster.”

Gibbons has managed his pitching staff well and his experiments have paid off. Brett Lawrie of Langley, B.C., is playing well despite bouncing between second and third base and the team’s rare three-catcher system (Josh Thole, Erik Kratz, Dioner Navarro) has been a success.

While firm when he needs to be, the 52-year-old Gibbons is also known for being very approachable.

Pitcher Dustin McGowan, who made his Blue Jays debut in 2005, said Gibbons is the same manager now that he was during his first stint with the team.

“For a manager, for me the important thing is that he relates with the players,” McGowan said. “That’s what John really does (well). He’s a guy that’s easy to talk to. From a player’s standpoint, that’s what you want.

“You don’t want to have the intimidation factor. If you have a question for the guy, it’s like talking to another guy.”

Regina Mayor Michael Fougere (said the new Mosaic Stadium will become one of the city’s landmarks.

The $278-million stadium is to be completed by August 2016.

The design was released last month and calls for a 33,000-seat facility that can be expanded to hold 40,000 fans for special events. The stadium is to have wider seats, a sunken bowl for easier spectator access and expansive concourses.

Although it is open-air, it features a translucent spectators roof that extends over the seats to provide protection from the elements.

The venue is being described as “roof ready,” meaning a full cover could be added at a later date.

The current stadium near downtown Regina originally started as a rugby field in 1910 and is known for its old wooden-bench seating and wind exposure.

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Members of the San Diego Chargers place flowers at the base of the Tony Gwynn “Mr. Padre” statue, Monday, June 16, 2014, in San Diego. Gwynn, an eight time National League batting champion with the San Diego Padres and a member of Baseball Hall of Fame, died Monday from cancer. He was 54.

CATALINA SWIM CLUB Red Deer Catalina Swim Club members snared 11 gold medals in the provincial age group trials at Fort McMurray during the weekend.

Tyler Gauthier took top honours in the 400-metre individual medley and Jaleesa Zaparniuk won gold in the 400m freestyle, 100m breaststroke, 200m free and 200m breast. Also striking gold were the boys 14 and under 200m free and 200m medley relay team of Tyler and Matt Gauthier, Kayl Sokalski and Sam Ross; Ross in 200m I.M.; Emalee Broen in 200m backstroke; Sokalski in 200m breast and Matt Gau-

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Six Catalina swimmers — Tyler and Matthew Gauthier, Zaparniuk, Ross, Sokalski and Broen — qualified for the Alberta age group and senior provincials July 3-6 at Edmonton.

Winning silver and bronze medals: Silver — Matt Gauthier, 200m breast; Chloe Grant, 100m back; River Roos, Zaparniuk and Sokalski, 50m breast; Bronze — Tyler Gauthier, 200m I.M.; Grant, 50m back; Matt Gauthier, 100m butterfly; Tyler Gauthier, 200m breast; Broen, 100m back; Isaiah Janzen, 200m free.

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ZIEMAN-WATRIN Annamarie Annamarie Zieman-Watrin of Sylvan Lake passed away on June 12, 2014 in Michener Long Term Care, Red Deer at the age of 62. A Graveside Service will be held at the Sylvan Lake Cemetery on Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Annamarie’s name to the SPCA. SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

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Required Immediately Parts Delivery Driver Must possess clean drivers abstract, know city well. The individual must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment. Some warehouse work and some heavy lifting is required.

The company offers full benefit package for this full time position.

Please email or drop off resume.

ARTIC TRUCK PARTS #3-6540 71 ST Red Deer AB T4P 3Y7 (P)403-348-0999 (F)403-348-5198 Email to: ron.cain@ nfleetsolutions.com

NORAL-TECH Ltd Manufacturer of 12 Volts electrical control panels for specialized trucks. We are currently seeking 2 full time assemblers with automotive related electrical experience. The successful candidates must be able to read and interpret electrical drawings. Email resume normand@noraltech-com

We are looking for 2 P/T MAILERS to work Tuesday - Saturday starting at 1 a.m.

Wage is $13.12/hour plus $2.10/hour shift premium.

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 PT office help and or Class room Instructor req`d. Please call Street Wise Driving School.

403-340-8840

SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT!!

Full time seasonal positions available in our industrial and highway division.

880 DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Pidherney’s requires experienced drivers

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.

DUTIES: Drive a 990 4x4 John Deere tractor and spray gun.

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CLASS 1 ,3 AND LOWBOY, FOREMAN, OPERATORS AND LABOURERS

For work in Rocky Mountain House area, as well as out of town locations.

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

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Priority will be given to those candidates with experience.

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* Top wages and benefits based on experience * Possible career advancement opportunities Valid First Aid and H2S tickets required.

We offer competitive wages, benefits package, and opportunities for advancement.

403-845-5370 or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com Please reply by fax:

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Email resume to: reddeer@greenoasis.ca Visit: www.greenoasis.ca 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 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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Employers:

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KENTWOOD Kirby St. & Kennings Cres.

MUSTANG ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK 69 Street & 63 Ave Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Bicycles

1540

RIALTO, Shimano, Ultima 18 spd., front & back brakes, like new. $125.

403-346-2070

1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs. $15,500. 587-679-1000

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:30 a.m. - Noon Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer

KENTWOOD

JOHNSTONE CROSSING

Bring your resumé For more info, call 403-340-5353

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info Government

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

1660

HEALTH CARE AIDE

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Cleaning

1070

CLEAN FREAK FOR HIRE Available to start cleaning houses on July 7. Call: Sharla at 403-357-7801 VINYL SIDING / WINDOW / EAVSTROUGH CLEANING Package pricing.

Free quotes. 403-506-4822

Contractors

1100

Contractors

1100

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

1280

3 On-Site Clinical Practicums No Waiting List Scrubs are provided

FANTASY MASSAGE

International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! Eavestroughing 403-986-6686 Come in and see EVESTROUGH / WINDOW why we are the talk CLEANING. 403-506-4822 of the town.

VELOX EAVESTROUGH www.viimassage.biz

1130

Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Handyman Services

1200

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads ATT’N: Are you looking for sidewalks/driveways help on small jobs around Dean 403-505-2542 the house or renovate your bathroom, BLACK CAT CONCRETE painting or flooring, Garage/patios/rv pads or cutting small trees? sidewalks/driveways Call James 403-341-0617 Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER Const. Ltd. Massage Decks, reno’s, roofing, Therapy flooring. Free est. Call Geoff 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s MASSAGE ABOVE ALL Free estimates for all your WALK-INS WELCOME reno needs. 403-506-4301 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

1280

Misc.

Services

1290

Roofing

RE-ROOFING Specialist Quality work at an affordable price. 10 yrs. exp. 403-350-7602

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

1420

Property clean up 340-8666

Window Cleaning

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

WINDOW CLEANING outside/inside. Free quotes.

403-506-4822

5* JUNK REMOVAL

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

Yard Care

1430

ROTOTILLING, power raking, aerating & grass cutting. Reasonable rates. 403-341-4745

1720

Organs

SECTIONAL, 3 pce. $300. obo, 2 pc. china cabinet $200 obo 403-848-1499

1790

APT. size electronic organ, full percussion $150 403-346-8121

Advocate Opportunities

INNISFAIL

Call Today (403) 347-6676

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

Phone 403-314-4316

Advocate Opportunities * Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

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

SPRINGBROOK

RED DEER ADVOCATE

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

NO COLLECTING! Phone 403-314-4316

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

Phone 403-314-4316

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK MORRISROE INGLEWOOD AND SOUTHBROOK AREAS

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie Phone 403-314-4301 * Adults * Youths * Seniors *

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1710

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Phone 403-314-4316

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Household Appliances

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING!

1310

1760

Academy of Learning HCA program offers:

Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Job Search and Resume Writing Course First Aid / WHMIS

INNISFAIL

Painters/ Decorators

Misc. for

15’ LAUREL LEAF WILLOW Sale 6-8’ NORTHWEST POPLAR 1 YR. old 1200 watt gen& BROOK POPLAR erator 1 hr. use $200 obo Beautiful trees. You dig.

Please phone 403-302-1919 403-314-0804

Classes Starting Soon!

1000-1430

Massage Therapy

1680

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

ENROLL TODAY!

CLASSIFICATIONS

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

SOLID oak oval kitchen table 38 x 42 w/4 chairs plus leaf $150 obo 403-506-9453

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Garden Supplies

1720

900

wegotservices Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

Household Furnishings

1630

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

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

1660

Firewood

5 SHEETS 5/8” O.S.B. board 1-24’W, 2-17 3/4”w and 2-16”w, ALL 8’ L, all for $15; 2 sheets 3/8” 2004 S250 Gold Pkg. A/C, power bobtach, keyless start, APARTMENT size fridge 1 O.S.B. board 1-21’w and 1-10”w, both 8’L all $5, 2 spd. 1891 hrs. Exc. cond. yr. old $90 403-314-0804 several misc. pieces of $30,000 obo. 403-350-6470 wood all for $5; 4 chrome BEER fridge, McClary tooth brush and glass hold$175 obo 403-314-0804 Equipmenters wallmount all $10; wall shelf Dr. Brown arborite STOVE, Inglis, Heavy covered 5’L x 9 1/2”W $5, Good working order.

4 sets of 2 L shaped fancy Clean. $75.

TRAILERS for sale or rent shelf brackets 7 1/4” x 10” 403-346-6999 Job site, office, well site or $5/set 403-314-2026 storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

60 4 oz. balls of wools, Household same color $50; set of new Furnishings flares $25; 2 faux queen blankets, like new $25/ea., Firewood 2 BAR STOOLS, $10/ea. 2 queen floral quilts SMALL DESK & CHAIR, $40. $20/ea. 403-348-6449 403-346-0674 AFFORDABLE Homestead Firewood COMPUTER DESK W/ HUTCH. GLASS COFFEE POTS, $3/ea.

Spruce & Pine - Split 59.5” w x 57” h x 24.25” d, PANTS HANGER, $15.

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 slide out tray. 2 file drawers.

403-346-7825 Light oak. $110.

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner 403-347-7858 PICTURES, golf balls & BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / clubs, wood frame, dble.

Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 DARK wood bureau w/mirmatte, 16x30, 2 in set. ror and 2 matching night $25. 403-346-2070 tables $120 obo; retro Employment magazine table from TENTS with flys, lightTraining 1950’s $30 obo weight 3 person $35 & 403-506-9453 $20; air mattresses $15/ea., oil lantern $15, FUTON, black tubular Craftsman seat for riding frame w/mattress, 2 mower $20 403-342-7460 matching cushions 80”L x 45”w, like new valued over $400, now Piano & $200 403-314-2026

GLENDALE

Mini Job Fair

413852F16-17

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

1580

CHILDS WOODEN ROCKING CHAIR, $25.

403-346-7825

PLANT LABORER

Please email resume to: gmccarthy @reddeeradvocate.com or drop off to: 2950 Bremner Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

Pidherney’s

880

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Now Hiring Full and part time small restaurant COOKS Please email your resume to: info@ golfsylvanlake.com

415417F23

requires experienced DRIVERS CLASS 1 ,3 & LOWBOY, FOREMAN, OPERATORS AND LABOURERS

Meadowlands Golf Club

Children's Items

CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery 3 days per week.

NO WEEKENDS!!

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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Advocate Opportunities

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Phone 403-314-4316 * Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 3 days per week

WESTPARK SUBDIVISION 35 Street 37 Street 41 St. Cres 58 Ave. Welton Cres.

Westpark Cres.

36 Street 38 St. Close 57A Ave. Warwick Drive Wiltshire Pl. Wiltshire Dr.

Phone 403-314-4316 ************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

ANDERS AREA Ashley Ave., Ashley Close Alexander Drive, Anquetel/Atlee Close

WOODLEA AREA

MORRISROE AREA McDougall Cres. McCullough Cres.

47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo

SUNNYBROOK AREA

GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 - 4200 Blocks of 43A Ave. EASTVIEW 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

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

B10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, June 17, 2014

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Cats

BEAUTIFUL 10 week old kittens. Variety of colours: Pink & white, orange, & grey tabby. Free to loving home. 403-782-3130

1840

Dogs

Offering to loving pet homes, Teacup Morkies, Extra Fluffy & Extremely Cute! nonshedding& vet checked. Call 587 876 0331or email wendyschedel @gmail.com

Sporting Goods

1860

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-596-2444

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Tractors

2030

THE NORDIC

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

Rooms For Rent

3090

ROOM TO RENT 403-350-4712 ROOM, kitchen access.

403-343-0421

Offices

3110

2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street.

Parking is avail. $1800/mo.

403-343-9300

Mobile Lot

3190

Acreages/ Farms

Farm yard/acreage- Semiretired farm/ranch couple.

Willing to do chores,etc.

Ref. avail. 403-2243378 bacon@airenet.com

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Suites

3060

2 BDRM. adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, lrg. suite, Avail July 1/Aug. 1. $1050/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

4070

FOR SALE BY OWNER 5.48 acres in a scenic creek valley on a dead end road.

It is zoned CRA and the power is at the property line.

43049 township road. 39-4 $129,500.00, no GST. 780-712-2922/ 780-712-7884

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

2008 AVALANCHE, leather Z71, $16,400. 403-391-9662 2001 DAKOTA quad cab 4x4 ATC 230,000 kms, runs exc. $4500 obo 403-358-4022 1988 CHEV Sierra, 1/2 ton very clean. 403-318-3040

Motorhomes

*SANDY COVE RESORT* Pine Lake

5100

LAKE FRONT LOTS FOR SALE & SEASONAL LOT RENTALS. Cheapest in the area, $3000.

Call 306-402-7776

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wheels

2002 FORD Dynamax (B Plus) 25’, 25,000 mi.

A1 cond., E450, V10, 4 kw Ohan gen. loaded. $32,500. 587-876-2308

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Automotive Services

5010

1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor, $6900, exc. cond. low km. 403-505-9446

5110

Fifth Wheels

5020

4010

Cars

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

5030

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

4020

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.

SOLD

2004 TITANIUM model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $23,500 obo.

403-347-1050 or 304-4580 2012 FUSION SE only 10,000 kms, exc. cond. no gst $17,500 403-350-6434 2008 PONTIAC G6, good shape.

131,000 km. 403-346-6470

CUSTOM BUILT NEW HOMES 2006 CHARGER Daytona

by Mason Martin Homes RT, limited addition, #3 of Kyle, 403-588-2550 only 250 made, loaded FREE Weekly list of w/leather, low kms., top properties for sale w/details, banana color. $16,995. prices, address, owner’s 403-350-4588 phone #, etc. 342-7355 2003 DODGE Neon loaded Help-U-Sell of Red Deer safetied 403-352-6995 www.homesreddeer.com 1994 Chrysler Intrepid 4 dr. Red, MUST SELL clean. 126,000 km 348-2999 1217 sq.ft. duplex.

4 bdrm., $191,900.

403-588-2550

MUST SELL New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. www.laebon.com apartments, avail. immed, Laebon Homes 346-7273 1985 BUICK Riviera. Original rent $875 403-596-6000 paint, fully loaded, sunroof, exc. shape. 2nd owner. Immaculate interior. 158,000 km.

Auctions $3750 obo. 403-347-3950

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VIEW ALL OUR PRODUCTS

UNRESERVED TRUSS & FLOOR MFG. PLANT SOLID TRUSS SYSTEMS LTD.

TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 @ 11 AM

102 CLEARSKY WAY, CLEARVIEW IND. PARK, RED DEER, AB Directions: Take Exit 391 South end of Gasoline Alley, east on McKenzie Rd to 40th Ave, north 1km to Jumbo Car Wash, 1 ½ blocks east The assets for Solid Truss will be sold live and via internet @ bidspotter.com @ 11AM. Selling Truss Press & Super Torque Gantry Tables & Roller Systems, CNC Linear Saw, Peterbuilt, Freightliner & Dodge Ram Trucks, Truss Stretch Trailers, Forklifts, Tools & Office.

at www.garymoe.com

5120

Holiday Trailers

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 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

2008 Flagstaff Superlite 25’ Hardwall Trailer with superslide and bunkbeds. $19,500 obo. Loaded with many extras. 403-346-3806

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Misc.

Automotive

5240

$crap Vehicle Disposal $ervice 403-302-1848 FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

For full list & pictures: www.montgomeryauctions.com VIEWING: Monday, June 23 10AM-4PM REMOVAL: Friday June 27 @ 3PM. SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS CASH/CERT. CHEQUE/C/CARD 10% BUYERS FEE 15% ON-LINE BUYERS FEE

Auctioneers & Sales Management DON MONTGOMERY ICCA Auctioneer 403-885-5149 • 1-800-371-6963

Locally owned and family operated

www.montgomeryauctions.com

ANNUAL PRE SUMMER EQUIPMENT CONSIGNMENT

SUV's

5040

2010 Ford Explorer

9am – Misc 1pm Machinery

Limited, 4.6L, V8, 112,000 kms., fully loaded, leather, DVD, every option, $20,500. 403-318-5505

Selling Estate Dispersals for Richard Gascon and Robert Sharpe, 50 Grain & Feed Storage Bins, Agricultural Tractors, Farm Machinery, 3pt & Acreage Equipment, Crawler, Trucks, Vehicles, ATV’s, RV’s, Equipment & Enclosed Trailers, Boats, Sea Can, Golf Carts, Child’s Play Centres, Commercial Storage Canopies, Event Tents, Livestock Equipment, Lumber & Trusses, Continuous Fencing, Lawn & Garden Equipment & Supplies, Trees, Automotive Hoist, Stationary Engines & Pumps, Tools & Misc. www.montgomeryauctions.com

DON MONTGOMERY ICCA Auctioneer 403-885-5149 • 1-800-371-6963 Box 939, Blackfalds, AB

Trucks

6010

NOTICE T0 CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

5050

who died on March 2, 2014 If you have a claim against this estate, you must Àle your claim by July 17, 2014, with

Robert J. Warrender at Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrrender Glass LLP 5233 - 49 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 6G5

414963F13,17

Auctioneers & Sales Management

Public Notices

GERALD MORRIS BREEN

Location: MONTGOMERY AUCTION SALES CENTRE 1 Mile North of Blackfalds on Hwy 2A, 2 Miles East on Lakeside Sargent Road

Selling in 3 Rings 10am Lawn & Garden

PUBLIC NOTICES

Estate of

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2014 @ 9 AM

2014 GMC, S/B, loaded, Z71, $34,300. 587-679-1000 2004 CHEVY SILVERADO 2500HD 195K REBUILT TRANNY LOTS EXTRAS $8300.OBO 403-352-6457

Inspector Hamilton, center, points to confiscated items at a news conference at JFK international Airport, Monday, in New York to highlight efforts by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Fish and Wildlife to deter illegal trafficking in wildlife. A carved elephant tusk, center, was made into a sculpture.

A rhino horn is at left, and an elephant tusk is below. The items displayed were seized from baggage and cargo arriving at the airport. The government is cracking down on the illegal trafficking, saying some of its import-export activity may be linked to terrorists.

U.S. officials crack down on wildlifeproduct trafficking SAY SOME MAY FINANCE TERRORISM

2008 KUSTOM KOACH 24.5’ exc. cond, 1 owner, 110 Watt solar panel, 1 slide, fantastic fan 1966 FORD Mustang Coupe appraised $15,500. $22,500 403-986-3834 Runs good. Would like at Classifieds...costs so little least $9500. 403-391-3456 Saves you so much!

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SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Farms/ Land

Antique & Classic Autos

4000-4190

Realtors & Services

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

homes

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

Condos/ Townhouses

3255

2190

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* *$309,000* *

NEW CONDO

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

JOHN DEERE 4320 Tractor.

Approx. 6000 hrs. Front end loader, complete w/8’ snow blade attachment. Exc. cond.

Sold farm. $13,500.

ALSO John Deere 14’ Disc & Cultivator. 403-350-1007 or 403-782-3617

Horses

5050

Trucks

2013 GMC 2500 HD 4x4, #314 6 Michener Blvd.

36,000 kms., Duramax Welcome To One Of Red Newly renovated bachelor, $42,300. 587-679-1000 Deer’s Premier Adult 1 & 2 bedroom suites Complexes! 1 bdrm. 2 baths available in central location. plus Den open concept leasing@rentmidwest.com condo is in new cond. Immed.

1(888) 679-8031 poss. Enjoy great views & privacy. Call TIM MALEY, SUNNYBROOK Re/Max 403-550-3533 2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, EXECUTIVE townhouse great location, no pets. condo. 505 150 Vanier Dr. 403-346-6686 $315,000 Kijiji #599833430 2011 F150 XLT Supercab, Call Albert 403-396-3920 Exc. cond. 403-347-5078

WANTED: family with own mobile home to live on farm.

10 min. north of Sylvan Lake & 25 min. from Red Deer.

403-255-1627 or 701-1235

AGRICULTURAL

4040

MORRISROE MANOR

MUST SELL Deer head mounts on shields, professionally done, only 2 left $100/ea. 403-314-2026

1900

Condos/ Townhouses

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

GOLF EQUIPMENT & POOL CUES at garage sale prices. 403-343-7430

Travel Packages

3060

Suites

and provide details of your claim. If you do not Àle by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The U.S. government is stepping up its crackdown on the illegal trafficking of wild animal products across the nation’s borders, saying some may be linked to terrorists, federal officials said Monday.

“Poaching in Africa is funding terrorist groups,” U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told a news conference at Kennedy International Airport.

He said such illegal trade is a threat to global security because it’s driven by criminal elements, including terrorists using profits from items such as rhinoceros horns and elephant tusks to finance their activities.

On display in an airport cargo warehouse operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection was a collection of wildlife products seized at Kennedy — from ivory disguised to look like a wooden statue and the stuffed heads of a lion and leopard to handicrafts, artworks and musical instruments hiding animal parts.

The single priciest item was a rhino horn. It fetches $30,000 per pound — or about 30 per cent more than its weight in gold.

Paul Chapelle, the agent in charge of New York for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said one horn case resulted in 16 arrests, including that of a mobster from Ireland now serving 13 months behind bars.

A dead elephant is worth about $18,000 — mostly from the tusk. Also seized was a small rhino horn libation cup worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Kennedy handles the largest cargo volume of any U.S. airport, about $100 billion a year, said Patrick Foye, ex-

ecutive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport.

And the wildlife element plays an especially powerful role in national security, said Froman, the chief U.S. trade negotiator and adviser to President Barack Obama.

More than 20,000 elephants were killed last year along with about 1,000 rhinos, meeting a rising world demand resulting in declining populations across Africa, according to officials with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

This treaty was signed by more than 170 countries to protect animals that end up as contraband including live pets, hunting trophies, fashion accessories, cultural artifacts and medicinal ingredients.

U.S. trade officials believe that groups benefiting from the poaching include the militant Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and South Sudan, the Janjaweed comprised of Sudanese Arab tribes, and al-Shabab, a jihadist group based in Somalia.

In February, Obama approved a new strategy for fighting trafficking through enforcement, as well as partnerships with other countries, communities and private industry. For the first time, U.S. officials are asking trading partners to agree to conservation measures for wildlife and the environment in return for signing agreements.

Kennedy customs officials are reaching out to local businesses, plus auction houses like Christie’s and Sotheby’s and even Carnegie Hall to alert them to illegally traded valuables that may come their way.

Pakistan offensive intensifies as military suffers first casualties

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BANNU, Pakistan — Pakistani jets pounded targets in the country’s northwest on Monday as the military suffered its first casualties in a major offensive designed to root out safe havens in the volatile region.

The airstrikes are part of a longawaited operation against foreign and local militants in North Waziristan, an essentially lawless tribal region which has served as a training base for militants and a staging point for insurgents who attack Pakistan and NATO and Afghan troops across the border.

The operation started Sunday.

The United States has for years complained to Pakistan about its failure to impose order in a region harbouring what Washington considers the country’s most dangerous militants, and has carried out hundreds of drone strikes in the area.

The offensive marks the end of the government’s policy of trying to negotiate with Pakistani Taliban militants instead of using force to end years of fighting which has killed tens of thousands of civilians and security forces.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has promoted the talks, defended military action during a speech to parliament on Monday.

Sharif said the government had tried for more than four months to talk to the militants but their violence continued.

He said Pakistan could not become a safe haven for militants.

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. has long supported Pakistani efforts to extend sovereignty throughout the country and bring stability, but she emphasized this was an “entirely Pakistan led and executed operation.”

She declined to comment on whether the operation would help U.S. ef-

forts in Afghanistan.

The airstrikes early Monday targeted six hideouts near the border with South Waziristan, a neighbouring tribal region, killing 27 militants, the military said.

Separately, the military said 14 militants were killed in separate confrontations while another three were shot trying to lay roadside bombs near Miran Shah, one of the region’s main towns.

Altogether the military reported that nearly 200 militants had been killed during the two-day offensive.

The military said eight troops died Monday — six by a roadside bomb and two during a shootout with militants — as the Pakistani Taliban warned that more violence could be in the offing.

A spokesman for the militants warned in a statement sent to reporters that international investors, foreign airlines and multinational organizations should leave Pakistan or they’d be considered supporters of the government and fair game.

Shahidullah Shahid also vowed to retaliate in the cities of Islamabad and Lahore, cities that have largely been spared the bombings and shootings that plague places like Karachi and Peshawar.

Security was being stepped up across Pakistan. In Karachi, armoured personnel carriers could be seen rolling out the gates of a military base.

The military said they were being used to protect sensitive installations.

Few details have been released about the size of the operation or the military assets involved.

The military said troops were sealing off the North Waziristan borders and the main cities, ensuring the evacuation of civilians in addition to establishing areas where militants can surrender their weapons.

The military said no operations had yet been launched in civilian areas.

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Iran enters Iraq fray POWERFUL GENERAL IN COUNTRY TO HELP ROLL BACK SUNNI MILITANTS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — In a sign of Iran’s deepening involvement in the Iraqi crisis, the commander of Tehran’s elite Quds Force is helping Iraq’s military and Shiite militias gear up to fight the Sunni insurgents advancing across the country, officials said Monday.

Washington signalled a new willingness work with Iran to help the Iraqi government stave off the insurgency after years of trying to limit Tehran’s influence in Baghdad — a dramatic shift that would have been unthinkable a few weeks ago.

The White House also is considering sending a small number of U.S. special forces to Iraq to help the government slow the insurgency, U.S. officials said.

The insurgents seized the strategic city of Tal Afar near the Syrian border Monday, part of its goal of linking areas under its control on both sides of the Iraq-Syria frontier. West of Baghdad, an army helicopter was shot down during clashes near the city of Fallujah, killing the two-man crew, security officials said.

The Quds Force commander, Iranian Gen. Ghasem Soleimani, has been consulting in Iraq on how to roll back the al-Qaida-breakaway group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, according to Iraqi security officials.

Soleimani’s presence in Iraq is likely to fuel longtime Sunni suspicions about the Shiite-led government’s close ties with Tehran.

The security officials said the U.S. government was notified before Soleimani’s visit.

Soleimani has been inspecting Iraqi defences and reviewing plans with top commanders and Iranianbacked Iraqi Shiite militias, the officials said. He has set up an operations room to co-ordinate the militias and visited the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala south of Baghdad, home to the most revered Shiite shrines, and areas west of Baghdad where government forces have faced off with Islamic militants for months.

The Islamic State has vowed to march to Baghdad, Karbala and Najaf in the worst threat to Iraq’s stability since U.S. troops left in 2011. A call to arms Friday from Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, Iranian-born Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, gave prominence to the need to defend the holy shrines.

Soleimani’s visit adds significantly to the sectarian slant of the mobilization by the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Armed Shiite militiamen have been parading on the streets and volunteers joining the security forces are chanting Shiite religious slogans.

Al-Maliki rejects charges of sectarianism and points to recruiting efforts by some Sunni clerics, but there is no evidence of Sunnis joining the fight against the Islamic State in significant numbers, if at all.

The legitimacy accorded by his government to the Shiite militias poses a risk of Iraq sliding back into the deadly sectarian bloodshed of 2006 and 2007.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northwest Baghdad’s Shula neighborhood, Iraq, Monday. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq’s Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country’s north.

Such tensions were rising months before the Islamic State’s lightning incursion of last week, with thousands killed since late last year. Bombings killed Shiites and security forces as militants took hold of vast territory and at least one city in the mainly Sunni Anbar province west of Baghdad.

Soleimani is one of the most powerful figures in Iran’s security establishment, and his Quds Force is a secretive branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard involved in external operations. In the mid-2000s, it organized Shiite militias in a campaign against U.S. troops in Iraq, according to American officials. More recently, it has been involved in helping Syrian President Bashar Assad in his fight against Sunni rebels.

His visit and the empowerment of the Shiite militias that his Quds Force trains and arms means Iran could take a role in Iraq similar to the one it plays

in Syria. The Quds Force — along with Iraqi and Lebanese Shiite fighters — has been crucial to the survival of Assad, himself a member of a sect that is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview with Yahoo! News that Washington is “open to discussions” with Tehran if the Iranians can help end the violence and restore confidence in the Iraqi government.

U.S. officials said earlier there is a possibility that a senior American diplomat may discuss Iraq with an Iranian delegation at nuclear talks in Vienna.

While President Barack Obama has explicitly ruled out putting U.S. troops into direct combat in Iraq, the plan under consideration suggests he would be willing to send Americans into a collapsing security situation for training and other purposes.

Terrorism comes to Russia cuts gas supplies coastal Kenyan town to Ukraine

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya — The gunmen went door to door in the Kenyan costal town, demanding to know if the men inside were Muslim and if they spoke Somali. If the extremists did not like the answers, they opened fire, witnesses said on Monday.

Al-Shabab, a Somali al-Qaida-linked group, claimed responsibility for the hours-long assault on Mpeketoni in which 48 people were killed. The attack began Sunday night as residents watched World Cup matches on TV and lasted until early Monday, with little resistance from Kenya’s security forces.

After daybreak, Kenyan troops and residents stared at the bodies lying on dirt streets by stillsmouldering buildings. Two hotels and many vehicles were set on fire.

The attack highlights the growing incidents of Islamic extremist violence in a country that was once viewed as the bastion of stability in East Africa, drawing tourists from around the world for safaris and beach holidays. The U.S. ambassador made Kenya’s entire coastal region off-limits for embassy employees after the attack.

The merciless life-or-death religious assessment recalled al-Shabab’s attack on an upscale mall in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, last September in which at least 67 people were killed, some of them after not being able to answer questions about Islam.

The Interior Ministry said that at about 8 p.m.

Sunday, two minivans entered the town. Militants disembarked and began shooting. At the Breeze View Hotel, the gunmen pulled the men aside and ordered the women to watch as they killed them, saying it was what Kenyan troops are doing to Somali men inside Somalia, a police commander said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to share such details of the attack.

The several dozen gunmen also went door to door.

“They came to our house at around 8 p.m. and asked us in Swahili whether we were Muslims. My husband told them we were Christians and they shot him in the head and chest,” said Anne Gathigi.

Another resident, John Waweru, said his two brothers were killed because the attackers did not like that the brothers did not speak Somali.

“My brothers who stay next door to me were killed as I watched. I was peeping from my window and I clearly heard them speak to my brothers in Somali and it seems since my brothers did not meet their expectations, they sprayed them with bullets and moved on,” said Waweru.

Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said the attackers fled into the nearby wilds, known as the Boni Forest after a “fierce exchange of fire” with security forces. He said 20 vehicles had been set on fire.

At a news conference, Ole Lenku was put on the defensive about the government’s security record after a string of attacks. He also warned opposition politicians against inciting violence, saying it was

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A woman observes the remains of the Breeze View Hotel, where residents watching the World Cup soccer tournament, were attacked and killed by militants, in the town of Mpeketoni, about 100 kilometers from the Somali border on the coast of Kenya Monday. possible the attack was linked to politics. The claim was immediately dismissed by security experts.

Al-Shabab later said it carried out the attack because of Kenya’s “brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya,” including the killings of Muslim scholars in Mombasa. The group said that such attacks would continue “as you continue to invade our lands and oppress innocent Muslims.”

Tourists were then warned: “Kenya is now officially a war zone and as such any tourists visiting the country do so at their own peril. Foreigners with any regard for their safety and security should stay away from Kenya.”

Kenya’s top police commander, David Kimaiyo, said the death toll was 48. A police spokeswoman said authorities believe that several dozen attackers took part.

MOSCOW — Russia halted natural gas deliveries to Ukraine on Monday, spurning Ukraine’s offer to pay some of its multibillion-dollar gas debt and demanding upfront payments for future supplies.

The decision, coming amid deep tensions over eastern Ukraine, provoked strong words from both sides but does not immediately affect the crucial flow of Russian gas to Europe. Ukraine has enough reserves to last until December, according to the head of its state gas company Naftogaz.

Still, the Russian move could disrupt Europe’s long-term energy supplies if the issue is not resolved, analysts said. Previous gas disputes left Ukraine and some Balkan nations shivering for nearly two weeks in the dead of winter.

The gas conflict is part of a wider dispute over whether Ukraine aligns itself with Russia or with the 28-nation European Union and comes amid a crisis in relations following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March. Ukraine accuses Russia of supporting an armed separatist insurgency in its eastern regions, which Russia denies.

Ukraine’s new president, meanwhile, said Monday that he will propose a detailed peace plan this week that includes a cease-fire with the separatist rebels.

But before that happens, the armed forces must secure control over Ukraine’s porous border with Russia, President Petro Poroshenko said at a meeting of his national security council.

“As soon as the border is closed, we can immediately declare a cease-fire,” he said. “Declaring a cease-fire while the border is open would be irresponsible.”

There was no immediate response from the separatists to Poroshenko’s comments.

Ukraine, one of the most energy inefficient countries in Europe, has been chronically behind on payments for the Russian natural gas needed to heat its homes and fuel its industries. In addition, Russia had been giving its neighbour cut-rate sweetheart deals on gas for various political reasons, a practice that came to a halt April 1.

Russia had demanded $1.95 billion by Monday for past-due bills. At talks over the weekend in Kyiv, Ukraine was ready to accept a compromise of paying $1 billion now and more later, but Russia rejected the offer, the European Commission said.

Sergei Kupriyanov, spokesman for Russian gas giant Gazprom, said since Ukraine missed the deadline, from now on it had to pay in advance for energy.

Yet that’s a nearly impossible demand for the cashstrapped nation, which is fighting an insurgency and investigating possibly billions lost to corruption under its former pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych.

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Bionic pancreas passes test STUDY FINDS BETTER BLOOD SUGAR CONTROL

BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scientists have made big progress on a “bionic pancreas” to free some people with diabetes from the daily ordeal of managing their disease.

A wearable, experimental device passed a real-world test, constantly monitoring blood sugar and automatically giving insulin or a sugar-boosting drug as needed, doctors said Sunday.

The device improved blood-sugar control more than standard monitors and insulin pumps did when tested for five days on 20 adults and 32 teens.

Unlike other artificial pancreases in development that just correct high blood sugar, this one also can fix too-low sugar, mimicking what a natural pancreas does.

The new device was developed at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University.

Results were featured Sunday at an American Diabetes Association conference in San Francisco and were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.

“I’m very excited about it,” said Dr. Betul Hatipoglu, an endocrinologist at Cleveland Clinic who had no role in the work.

“Many patients have been frustrated waiting for a cure, so “this is really a great new horizon for them,” she said.

The bionic pancreas is for Type 1 diabetes, the kind often found during childhood.

About 5 per cent of the 26 million Americans with diabetes have this type and cannot make insulin to turn food into energy.

Sugar builds up in the blood, raising the risk for heart disease and many other problems.

These people must check their blood and inject insulin

several times a day or get it through a pocket-sized pump with a tube that goes under the skin.

“This would lift that burden off of their shoulders,” Dr. Steven Russell, a diabetes specialist at Massachusetts General, said of the bionic pancreas he helped design.

It has three parts: two cellphone-sized pumps for insulin and sugar-raising glucagon, and an iPhone wired to a continuous glucose monitor.

Three small needles go under the skin, usually in the belly, to connect patients to the components, which can be kept in a fanny pack or a pocket.

Patients still have to prick their fingers to test blood sugar twice a day and make sure the monitor is accurate, but the system takes care of giving insulin or glucagon as needed.

Kristina Herndon said her 13-year-old son, Christopher, “loved it” when he tried it for the study, and “felt pretty badly giving it back” when it ended.

Christopher has to check his blood sugar eight to 10 times a day and his family has to watch him closely in case it dips too low while he sleeps, which can cause seizures or even death.

“It’s a disease that I think people think is not a big deal but it’s tough. It’s hard on a family,” said Herndon, who lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Next steps: A study starts today in 40 adults who will use the device for 11 days.

By fall, researchers hope to have a next-generation version combining all three components in one device to be tested in studies next year aimed at winning federal Food and Drug Administration approval.

“My goal is to have this device done by the time my kid, who has Type 1 diabetes,

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This undated product image provided Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering shows the bionic pancreas developed by a Boston University/Massachusetts General Hospital research team. The bionic pancreas consists of a smartphone, top, hardwired to a continuous glucose monitor and two pumps, bottom, that pumps deliver doses of insulin or glucagon every five minutes. goes to college” in about three years, said Ed Damiano, a biomedical engineer at Boston University.

Two San Diego-based companies — DexCom and Tandem Diabetes Care Inc. — made components of the version tested in the current study.

Boston University and Massachusetts General own or have patents pending on the system, and several research-

ers may someday get royalties.

Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson and several other companies also are working on artificial pancreas devices.

The Boston group’s work is exciting and the results are compelling, but there still are practical challenges to bringing a device to market, said Aaron Kowalski, who oversees grants by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation on artificial pancreas develop-

ment.

“Most people with diabetes want less devices in their lives, not more,” so putting the components into a single automated system is key, he said.

Online: Diabetes info: http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/ and http://jdrf.org/research/ treat/artificial-pancreas-project/

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