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‘I’m going to appeal’ A DEFIANT RODNEY ARENS VOWS TO FIGHT ON AFTER BEING JAILED FIVE YEARS AND NINE MONTHS IN THE DEATH OF JEFFREY CHANMINARAJ

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Rodney Ross Arens, sentenced on Thursday for charges laid after a fatal crash in Red Deer almost four years ago, left the courtroom vowing that his fight is not over.

“I’m going to appeal,” Arens, 36, said as sheriffs took him from the prisoner’s box in Court of Queen’s Bench in his first steps toward a prison sentence of five years and nine months, passed by Justice Kirk Sisson.

Family members speaking outside the courtroom afterward said his last words were a stark display of the absolute lack of remorse Arens has shown since the late evening of July 1, 2010. Shortly after 11 p.m., Arens was arrested at the scene of a crash that killed a Red Deer teenager, severely wounded his older brother and devastated his entire family.

Stephanie, Jamie and Jeffrey Chanminaraj had spent the day with their father, celebrating his 48th birthday. Stephanie, 20 at the time, was driving her brothers down to Bower Ponds to watch the Canada Day fireworks.

She was turning off Taylor Drive and onto Kerry Wood Drive when Arens rammed his pickup truck into the passenger side of her small car.

Jeffrey, 13, died in the impact.

Jamie, 18, was airlifted to Foothills Hospital in Calgary with severe injuries that would require a series of surgeries and months of treatment.

Arens was charged with multiple offences, including impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm, dangerous driving causing bodily harm, breaching a court order that he abstain from drinking, and three counts of refusing to provide a breath

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Jamie and Stephanie Chanminaraj and their father, Tony, wait outside the courthouse in Red Deer Thursday.

The family were awaiting the sentencing of the man convicted of killing their brother and son, Jeffrey Chanminaraj. sample after a fatal or injury collision.

The refusal charges were withdrawn during trial and Arens was found guilty on Tuesday of the balance of the charges.

During sentencing submissions on Thursday, Arens sniffled and wiped tears from his eyes when offered a chance to speak to his sentence.

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taken them elsewhere. Many share fond memories of the place and the people that gave them their start.

In some cases, the people featured have earned their accomplishments in one field. A few have earned honours in more than one area.

The magazine-style format of Momentum allows readers to read it at their leisure, and save it as a souvenir celebrating some of the many extraordinary people who hail from Central Alberta.

Momentum will be distributed with our Friday Forward publication to all Red Deer households today. It will also be delivered to the Advocate’s rural subscribers today.

If you didn’t get a copy and would like one, or want extras, you can contact Advocate special section co-ordinator Cindy Edge at 403-314-4392 or email cedge@reddeeradvocate.com. cmartindale@reddeeradvocate.com

The Early Learning and Child Care diploma program at Red Deer College scheduled to end will return after further discussions, and a child care degree program may soon be offered.

The diploma program was to be suspended by the college in 2013 as a result of an operating grant funding cut from the Alberta government. In that provincial budget, all post-secondary institutions in the province had their operating grants cut by seven per cent.

Since then, Elle Brekke, an early childhood educator at RDC, and a committee of colleagues have been working to get the program reinstated. An online petition asking the college to reconsider its decision to suspend the program gathered steam earlier this year.

On June 16, she received an email from Alberta Premier Dave Hancock, who is also the minister for Innovation and Advanced Education. The email indicated the program should continue to be offered.

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BY CAROLYN MARTINDALE CITY EDITOR The Red Deer Advocate is proud to introduce the 14th edition of what was once known as Report on Central Alberta.

The publication has evolved with a new name, Momentum, and a new magazinestyle format.

The name Momentum captures the force and energy of Central Albertans moving into the world. The 2014 edition celebrates men and women who have done the Red Deer area proud as they have succeeded on the national and/or international stage.

Carolyn Martindale Some of the people whose photographs and stories we share will be household names. Others who have claimed international attention may surprise you.

One notable duo hails from the animal kingdom.

The range of successes spans the globe and even extends into space. The people we feature come from a wide sphere, including broadcasting, the movies, the music industry, the space program, sports, search and rescue, and the military.

Some of those featured continue to call Central Alberta home. For others, following their dreams has

“I’m just very sorry that I was involved in such a tragic event,” Arens said, turning the palms of his hands toward the ceiling and looking into the gallery, where Stephanie and Jamie sat with their father and other family members.

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Delburne mural captures community

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF DELBURNE — They hold pets and framed photographs, stuffed toys and hockey sticks. They wear ball caps, a veteran’s beret, hoodies and sports jerseys.

A few are looking out solemnly through their spectacles — but many are smiling widely.

More than 300 local residents — from age five months to 94 years — are depicted in striking blackand-white photos being pasted to the walls of eight local buildings.

In what’s being called a first for any Canadian community, photographer John Beebe from Toronto was invited to create a personal map of Delburne through photographic murals of the village’s parents, grandparents, siblings, neighbours, entrepreneurs, farmers and students.

Beebe aimed to capture naturalistic, humanistic images of residents in a large (one metre by 1.3 metre) format for each photo portrait.

“There was no retouching. People came in as they were. There were no stylists. It was like, ‘Here I am, this is who I am,’” Beebe recalled. His subjects were asked to bring in an item that revealed something about their “authentic” selves — whether it’s a tool box they use regularly, gear from their sports team, or a quilt they made themselves.

Beebe believes the cumulative result speaks for itself.

Motorists are reducing their speed along Main Street to take a better look at the photos mounted to the ATB, canoe sales shop, local drop-in centre and other buildings. Passersby stop to point out people they know on the wall of Delburne School.

“It’s a wonderful thing. I see people who are so interested — they say, ‘Oh that’s my dad!’ . . . People are slowing down to appreciate other members of the community,” said Nora Smith, a Delburne Family and Community Support Services worker who’s behind the temporary Belonging: Delburne exhibit.

She credits local residents for being courageous enough to allow oversized images of themselves to be displayed publicly, and for having enough buy-in to participate in the community-building effort.

A “people-driven” project that would gather grassroots hopes for Delburne’s future, was initially proposed for the community’s centennial year in 2013. When things got too hectic, Smith said the effort was delayed to Delburne’s 101st year — which is also appropriate, since residents were being asked to look ahead.

Besides the photo murals, the other main component of the $50,000 Belonging project, which was paid

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ARENS: Self-serving apology A self-employed building contractor at the time of his arrest, Arens said he had also felt the impact of the collision, including the financial burden, the damage to his reputation, losing his job and losing contact with his two daughters and their mother.

Sisson thanked Arens for a sincere sign of remorse, then remarked that it seemed self-serving.

“I believe you made a sincere apology. However, it’s apparent you’re feeling as sorry for yourself as for the family. I have to say ... this is what happens when you choose to break the law. The fact remains that you brought this upon yourself.”

Reiterating submissions by Crown prosecutor Wayne Silliker, Sisson said there was a significant number of aggravating factors in the sentence he imposed, including a conviction in 1997 for impaired driving and a ticket a few years later for driving 50 km/h over the posted speed limit.

Regardless of the fact that Arens was impaired by alcohol, he was speeding across the Taylor Drive Bridge toward an intersection that was crowded with people, knowing full well that Canada Day celebrations would soon be underway, said Sisson. Regardless of whether the traffic control light was green or yellow, Arens “punched it” as he approached the intersection, striking the Chanminaraj vehicle, he said.

Sisson also addressed Arens’s numerous attempts to stall court proceedings.

“It appears, from what I see, that you went to great lengths to avoid responsibility for your actions.”

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Janice McWhan of Delburne gets a look at one of the photographic murals being installed in the Village of Delburne. Over 300 portraits by Toronto photographer John Beebe are being installed on several buildings throughout the community. See related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

» SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM for through a municipal grant from the Red Deer and District FCSS, was a community consultation. Some 400 residents — or 48 per cent of Delburne’s 830-person population — revealed their wishes for the rural community that once seemed to be in decline, but lately has been gaining population, particularly young families.

Smith said it was remarkable that people from all demographics — both old and young, newcomers and homesteader families — came up with a very similar wish list for Delburne.

The main wishes were: to see expanded services in the village without a doctor, pharmacist or health clinic; to see downtown revitalization; an improve communications strategy between the village and community members; and a public process to decide where the Belonging project goes from here.

While the large paper photo murals, which are

Sisson passed a global sentence of five years and nine months, minus 185 days for the time Arens served in pre-trial custody. Arens is also prohibited from driving for 10 years.

He returns to court in January of next year, when he will stand trial on charges laid on Dec. 22, 2013, of having care and control of a vehicle while impaired and possession of drugs for trafficking.

In custody since then, Arens has served a 60-day sentence passed after he pleaded guilty to breaching release conditions and driving a vehicle that did not have the appropriate ignition interlock device. The device prevents a vehicle from starting if it detects alcohol in the driver’s breath. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

PROGRAM: Demand remains strong “Given the need for learner access within the region and further discussions between the ministry and college officials, the program’s delivery will be sustained,” states the email.

John Muir, Alberta Innovation and Advanced Education director of communications, confirmed Thursday that the program would not be suspended as was originally intended.

“We did hear from them that the college had intended to cease offering the program,” said Muir.

“But we did work with them when we were notified to evaluate some of the needs in Red Deer and in Central Alberta for occupations like this.

“Based on demand, that program will continue.”

The college’s 2014-15 academic calendar indicated the program was suspended, but the decision to reinstate the program will change that.

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Joel Ward, RDC president and CEO, said the provincial government has come up with the money to fund the diploma program’s continuation.

On top of the return of the diploma program for next year, the college has been in talks with Mount Royal University to offer a four-year early learning and child care degree program. Ward said students would take the first-year certificate, the second-year diploma and have the choice to continue for two more years towards a degree. Students would be able to take years three and four at Red Deer College.

The degree could be offered as early as this fall, but the college is still negotiating funding of the degree program with the province.

He said the decision to reinstate the program came after a collaborative look at the needs of the area.

The email goes on to say, “Early childhood development is part of a focused agenda to ensure the health and well-being, safety and education of all children in Alberta. Access to high-quality early learning and child care programs and services is an important part of this commitment.”

The college does have a one-year certificate program that it kept after the cuts. The diploma program was offered after completion of the certificate program, and added a year to a student’s education.

It included 500 practicum hours.

Brekke said students learned many skills in that second year, including how to plan a developmentally appropriate curriculum, develop and understand individual program plans for children with exceptionalities, and how to work in the different styles of programs available for parents and children in the community.

A meeting between the committee and college officials, including Ward and Brad Donaldson, RDC VP Academic, is scheduled for June 27. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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being temporarily mounted onto building exteriors with wallpaper paste with the help of Toronto street artist Dan Bergeron, are only expected to last six months to two years, digital photographs of city residents will live on.

Smith said they could be compiled into a book. “It will be up to residents to decide.” She noted there’s also a question of what should be done with the audiotape of the consultation process.

An action plan for the main goals that came though the consultations is expected to be done later this year.

Meanwhile, students at Delburne school were the latest to appreciate the familiar faces being mounted onto their building on Thursday.

“It’s cool,” said Grade 12 student Jacob Yasinski of the photo murals, while his friend Cassidy Fegan believes the effort is helping build civic pride.

Fellow Grade 12er, Halley Flexhaug, said she likes that the project is personal to Delburne. “It means something.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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McIver apologizes for taking part in March for Jesus

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CALGARY — Alberta Tory leadership hopeful Ric McIver has apologized for his participation in a parade held by a group with anti-gay sentiments, but he doesn’t plan to pull out of the race to be the province’s next premier.

The member of the legislature from Calgary was criticized by his own party for taking part in last weekend’s March for Jesus organized by the Street Church, which on its website condemns gay people as the minions of Satan.

McIver says he became involved with the group when he was a city alderman and the Street Church would hold barbecues for the homeless.

“The basis of the relationship was a friendly ... hello as people were being fed in front of city hall,” he said Thursday at a media availability.

“That led to accepting an invitation to attend the March for Jesus.”

McIver said he blames himself for not doing his homework.

“I didn’t check the website. I’m angry. Anybody who’s angry, I agree with

them. Nasty, mean-spirited stuff on this website. There’s no excuse for.”

He said he doesn’t believe in or support the Street Church anymore and his relationship with it is over.

He wants the group to remove his name and photos from its website.

He’s asking for forgiveness from the public and admits he made “a big mistake.”

McIver plans to continue his leadership run against former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice and fellow Alberta legislature member Thomas Lukaszuk.

He said his situation is different than the one a Wildrose party candidate faced during the 2012 election campaign.

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

Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith refused to cut Hunsperger loose and some analysts suggest it was a turning point for the party, which had been

polling strongly, but failed to win the election. The party has since reiterated that it believes in equality for all.

“There were negative things said before the last election and there were officials that did not argue with those comments,” McIver said.

“This is much different because I’m saying the opposite. I’m saying those comments are ugly. They’re abhorrent.

I don’t support any of them.”

In Edmonton, Premier Dave Hancock said while politicians can be overwhelmed by the people they meet and the people they get their picture taken with, “you do have to some work to ensure that you’re not engaging in events that could be associated with beliefs that are not your beliefs.”

Jim McCormick, Progressive Conservative party president, said earlier this week that closed-mindedness or intolerance have no place in the party and its members are expected to follow its statement of principles.

McIver had originally responded on his Facebook page, where he said he was at the parade to celebrate his Roman Catholic faith and had attended the march for the last four years.

Hancock says school construction delays don’t equal a broken promise

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Dave Hancock is dismissing suggestions his Tory government is breaking a promise by admitting it won’t be able to build 50 new schools by 2016.

Hancock said Thursday that critics need to focus on the outcome rather than on the timeline.

“We will get those schools done as quickly as they possibly can be done,” Hancock said at a news conference.

“Our target is to still get them done by 2016. In some cases, it may be slower than that, but it won’t be because we haven’t put every effort into getting them done.

“Outcomes are what’s important to Albertans, and outcomes are what we deliver.”

Former premier Alison Redford promised during the 2012 election campaign to build 50 new schools and modernize 70 more by 2016 — the next election year — to reduce overcrowded classrooms. Government ministers have stuck to that promise even though no shovels have broken ground.

On Wednesday, Infrastructure Minister Wayne Drysdale said 19 of the 50 new schools will be delayed. They were to be built on a partnership basis with private contractors under a so-

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BRIEF Driver hits convenience store and eight vehicles OKOTOKS — An RCMP officer and a carjacking victim sustained non-lifethreatening injuries during a rampage by an erratic driver who hit a convenience store and eight vehicles before being apprehended.

It started Thursday morning in the southern Alberta town of Okotoks.

RCMP say they got several calls about a dangerous driver before getting a call that the individual had driven into a Petro-Canada convenience store in nearby Aldersyde.

Police tracked the vehicle to an area where several other vehicles were sitting damaged.

called P3 model.

But Drysdale said the final price tag on the P3s was pegged at almost $571 million — $14 million higher than what it would cost the province to contract out to build the schools by itself.

The decision to go with the traditional approach has set those schools back until 2017, but Drysdale said the other 31 are still on track for 2016.

Eight of the schools are in Calgary and another three are in Edmonton.

NDP education critic Deron Bilous said the Tories had been shown data for years that the P3 model was uneconomical, but stuck with it on the ideological belief that the private sector can always deliver the same service for less cost. The delay has real-life consequences for students working in portables, Bilous said, and for kids being bused to schools that are further and further away.

“It’s ridiculous (for Hancock) to say focus on outcomes and not on timelines,” said Bilous. “School boards provincewide will tell you they needed new schools yesterday, not a delay.”

Bilous said voters are once again paying for unrealistic promises made by the Tories in 2012 to deliver the vote.

The government is on track to owe $21 billion by 2017 to pay for new roads, schools and hospitals.

Redford also promised 140 new family-care clinics to handle more frontline health responsibilities and to take pressure off overburdened emergency wards.

Last month, Health Minister Fred Horne said 12 such clinics are in development and that 140 are unattainable.

Hancock said while the nuts and bolts of that health promise have changed, the core commitment of better front-line care is being delivered either through other changes or through existing primary- care networks.

Primary-care networks are run privately by doctors, while family-care clinics are overseen by community boards.

Warrant issued for suspect accused of running over man with stolen truck

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A warrant has been issued in the case of an Edmonton man who was killed trying to stop his work truck from being stolen.

Adam Groves, 33, died after being run over on June 13. Police say the events of the day began when they tried to stop a couple in a stolen Ford F-150 Jonathan truck, but gave up the chase when Jake Cardinal the fleeing vehicle reached high speeds in a residential neighbourhood.

About an hour later, officers found the truck ditched in a parking lot; the couple had just left the vehicle and were fleeing on foot. The female was apprehended but the male jumped into a nearby 2006 Dodge Ram truck that had been left running and ran over the truck’s owner as he tried to block the theft. On Thursday, a Canada-wide warrant was issued for Jonathan Jake Cardinal, 31, of no fixed address, on charges of manslaughter, criminal negligence causing death and other charges. Cardinal is described as aboriginal, five-foot-ten, 180 lbs. with medium length brown/black hair.

Police said Cardinal is believed to be in Edmonton, and considered dangerous.

There has been no word on charges against the female. Groves’s family has said his truck was how he made his living as an independent contractor and supported his wife and two children.

They say the driver exited one vehicle and used physical force and a weapon to steal another vehicle from a woman.

The driver was eventually tracked down and a 44-year-old man from Calgary was arrested and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries sustained in the various crashes.

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A transit system travesty SHAME ON RED DEER: NON-PROFITS ARE DOING THE CITY’S WORK The Advocate article on Tuesday said Red Deer is the largest city in Alberta that has no program for a lowercost transit pass for low-income and disabled people. While that is true as far as it goes, the reality behind this is actually worse.

Red Deer doesn’t have a subsidy program for the people who must stretch pretty hard to afford the cost of a bus pass, but who must rely on public transit the most for their mobilGREG ity in the city.

NEIMAN But Red Deer’s transit system does get a fivefigure subsidy, courtesy of some rather ceaseless fundraising by a local non-profit.

The day before the Advocate story appeared, Red Deer Action Group donated just under 2,000 regular singleuse bus passes and about 485 student/ senior bus passes to Red Deer agencies that serve people in crisis.

The money for that was raised through their inaugural Donate-A-Ride

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campaign, which began in May. Fundraising for next year begins again in November.

But that’s not the only program for which the Action Group raises money.

For three years now, the agency has been providing cash refunds to lowincome and disabled people who rely on monthly passes to be able to move through the city.

Anywhere between $7,000 and $10,000 a year is raised, says Action Group director Jean Stinson. People bring in receipts and those whose incomes are below $24,000 a year (that’s a lot of people in Red Deer), can get a partial refund on their bus passes, up to $150 per person per year.

Stinson says the money goes pretty quickly, but they try to help as many people as they can. The poor, the elderly, people on disability, the sick (some people even use subsidized bus passes to get dialysis treatment, she says) and new immigrants can use the program.

Stinson agrees that it does not make sense for the city to simply reduce fares below the $2.50 regular ticket that now stands.

Looking at the experience in Edmonton, from which Stinson copied the Donate-A-Ride program, transit needs to earn its way in order to survive and grow as a vital city service.

But even at $2.50 for a one-way pass, some people who need the service are excluded. And these are people who have few if any other options. It’s $5 for a round trip or you don’t see the doctor, or don’t arrive for therapy, skills training — or any of the multiple reasons people need to get from Point A to Point B and back again.

So rather than break the bank — and probably harm the service — by keeping fares low, other cities have found that a tax-subsidized program for passes for the lowest income groups works better.

Those of us who can pay, do. And those for whom even a regular bus ticket presents a financial barrier, a subsidy program can increase ridership on our transit system as whole.

The very fact that volunteers need to spend long hours organizing and fundraising for this service is proof enough that the program is needed and the subsidies are appreciated.

But something as basic as transportation in the city should not be the purview of non-profits.

Think of it this way: how many hours are you willing to put in, writing grant applications, attending meetings, writing policy, and generally begging for money, month after month, year after year — to fix potholes on our streets?

You wouldn’t do it. Properly-main-

tained streets are a basic service you expect for your tax dollars.

The elderly who can’t drive, people on disability, people in crisis fleeing family trouble, people too sick to work — they still need to move through the city, and nobody asks them if they’d want the potholes fixed rather than get a monthly bus pass they can afford.

As it is, Red Deer taxpayers are being subsidized by volunteers who have to work pretty hard to raise money for a basic, vital service for seniors on fixed incomes, people living on a disability allowance and people in crisis who have no income at all. Shame on us. Other Alberta cities smaller than ours have managed to write policies that work to figure this out. The program in Edmonton, for instance, can be applied here almost cut-and-paste.

Stinson says she’s been told for years, by elected city officials and professional managers, that “we are looking into it.” What’s to look?

She and the Action Group are doing the city’s work for it, for free. Shame.

The city needs to step up here. Either take over the subsidy program or give the volunteers the money so they can do the job for them.

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

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Justice is truly dead Here we go again! The moment some nut or criminal shoots someone, we have those who are willing to take away the right of ownership of firearms speak up. Evil guns must go. Yada Yada!

When Pierre Trudeau and Warren Allmand struck down capital punishment, police work immediately changed drastically.

As a constable in a high crime area who usually patrolled alone, the only thing that kept me safe was the knowledge that if I was attacked, someone would pay dearly . If you don’t know that punishment does prevent crime, then your parents must not have spanked your bottom and you certainly have never talked to a person who had a stroke or two of the paddle for brutalizing other Canadian citizens.

Human rats who were hanged didn’t become repeat offenders. The only thing that kept us Mounties safe was a good justice system and the only thing that kept citizens safe was stiff sentences for crime against them.

Justice in Canada is dead as the worm on your driveway thanks to the NDP and the Liberals and the lawyers who swarm to make money defeating justice.

Ian McLean in his letter to the Advocate of June 11, 2014, says there are no gun owners rights in the Constitution. The thing we are told is a constitution in Canada is called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This was signed by 10 premiers but Rene Levesque of Quebec refused to sign as he knew it was flawed so the next premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, signed after special status was granted to Quebec. Not blackmail of course!

Don Getty signed for Alberta but he forgot to ask Albertans but, ho hum, it’s only a constitution. But a constitution must be ratified by the people, but the people were not asked and couldn’t understand it anyway. But then they were given a vote on a constitution, which was called the Charlottetown Accord which Canadians turned down.

No problem, just ask the Supreme Court to interpret for us. A group of unelected people appointed by their friends in Ottawa! As Chief Justice Angelo Branca of British Columbia said: “The Supreme Court are right because they are final, not final because they are right.” Section 52 of the charter says the charter contains the British North America Act in its entirety, and Sec. 92 of the BNA Act gives property rights exclusively to the provinces and this may not be changed except by going through the legislature and this has not been done. The legislation passed in l935 was for a person to have the right of ownership of a pistol for target practice, collection or self protection. Period!

Little by little, we have misguided groups trying to disarm us and when we do use a gun to ward off criminals, we do not let the police know as of course they would treat us as criminals. We hire police and members of the legislature and members of parliament to protect us but they all have fallen down terribly.

In High River, we had Mounties break into over 1,900 homes and seize guns and tons of ammunition.

Now folks, this is called break enter and theft in the Criminal Code and each and every one of these goons should be charged and dismissed from the force. If anyone had suggested to me as a policeman that I should break into someone’s house I would have had two words for him involving sex and travel.

To date, this stolen ammunition has not been returned. Theft! Where is Alberta’s justice minister sleeping at this time? Does he get paid for doing nothing?

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Today if we want to contact a Mountie at the police station you go during office hours and talk through bulletproof glass to a woman and maybe you don’t even see a Mountie in their fortress. Why should these fellows have bulletproof vests when we know there is no danger because if there was wouldn’t we not have a vest and a gun?

When I walk the dog at night, who will look after me as many times I have seen people get a beating just because others wanted some enjoyment? I am too old to take a beating anymore.

When I read of murders every second day in my province and the courts basically treating criminals as honoured guests who with their lawyers get a free ride on our backs, I know that justice is truly dead.

When I hear of women and children brutalized by repeat and repeat and repeat offenders I don’t count on protection from the courts. Some justice!

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You can’t drink oil I’m surprised by the lack of discussion surrounding the recent Council of Canadian Academies report on hydraulic fracturing (fracking). This independent scientific organization’s assessment states there is reason to believe shale gas development poses a risk to water resources but the extent of that risk both short and long term cannot be assessed with present data.

The risks posed by chemicals used in the process, and their ability to persist, migrate and impact various types of subsurface systems (aquifers) or to discharge to surface waters are also unknown.

The report indicated that we just do not have the scientific proof that this practice is safe and it would be wise to slow development until we have a better understanding of the risks and long term environmental impacts.

Predictably this report has been swept under the carpet and the unprecedented level of fracking currently being performed in this area carries on at a frantic and reckless pace. What is particularly insidious about these current projects is that in ev-

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ery case, the wellsite is placed on one landowner’s property while the wells are drilled horizontally under their neighbour’s land. This is clearly a divide and conquer tactic designed to pit neighbour against neighbour and gain easier access to the land as a result. How can it possibly be right that the landowner whose land is being drilled under is expected to bear 100 per cent of the risk without any input in the process and without a cent of compensation?

When something goes wrong and your water supply or land are contaminated, you are on your own.

The self regulation of the energy sector by the industry funded ‘Alberta energy regulator’ is a joke and the only recourse for remediation or compensation is the lawsuit route being attempted by courageous people like Jessica Ernst and Diana Daunheimer.

Sadly I think their chances of out-lawyering the combined might of big oil and government are slim at best.

It is time for all Albertans to wake up to this impending environmental disaster. Town and city dwellers have to realize that water contamination is not just an issue affecting rural landowners. The aquifers and water bodies being polluted are part of the same water cycle that your tap water in Rimbey or in Edmonton are drawn from so we are all in this together.

In addition to the human water supply, there is the risk to livestock water sources and the land contamination resulting from spreading toxic and likely radioactive drill waste on agricultural land. How can we expect to produce healthy food off the land if the environment is polluted with industrial contaminants?

Where is our collective responsibility as a society on this issue or have the majority of the population succumbed to the same sense of bloated entitlement that affects our governing party? Is enjoying material prosperity today enough reason to collectively abdicate responsibility for the health and well-being of future generations of Albertans, leaving them to discover that when the water runs out you can’t drink oil?

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Hancock outlines four broad economic goals and principles EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Dave Hancock has outlined a set of principles he says will help focus the province’s economic sector and deliver better results.

“The economic development community has come together to say we need a road map, we need to know where we’re going to focus,” Hancock told a news conference Thursday.

“We will hang on this framework a number of particular action agenda items: a small business strategy, the innovation framework that’s being developed (and) the rural economic development framework.”

The goals are to expand market access, improve resource industries, support companies with high-growth potential and inspire entrepreneurs.

It makes sense to roll out the plan now, even though there will be a new premier in place by the fall, Hancock said.

“We have a team of people who were elected in 2012, and we have a government that’s been in office and was elected to do things,” he said.

“The work that’s being done isn’t being done in isolation. This isn’t my invention.

“The new (premier) will bring some strategic focus, will bring some vision in terms of the long term and the big picture, but that doesn’t stop the work that government does along the way.”

Jim Prentice, Thomas Luksazuk and Ric McIver are vying to replace for-

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Above: A temporary housing community awaits residents whose homes were destroyed by flooding in Siksika, Thursday, June 5, 2014. A year after the deluge that swamped much of southern Alberta, including a large part of downtown Calgary, life has yet to return to normal on the Siksika reserve, home to 7,000.

Below: Reynold Medicine Traveller, Rebuild Project Co-ordinator for the Siksika Nation, speaks about the progress being made. help, says Reynold Medicine Traveller, who has recently been tasked with co-ordinating the next phase of the recovery effort.

The First Nation is also grateful for the support it’s been receiving from the Alberta government, he says.

The Siksika signed a memorandum of understanding with the province in November which covers rebuilding housing and infrastructure, but also psycho-social help.

“You’re trying to deal with all those emotions — the anger, the resentfulness, dealing with those things,” says Medicine Traveller.

“The helplessness, because you can’t do nothing. You can’t do nothing to what just happened to your house.”

Even before the flooding, Siksika was short about 400 homes, Medicine Traveller says.

As on many reserves, overcrowding was an issue. The flooding brought the severity of the problem to light.

“There’s a house here that (had) 25 people,” Medicine Traveller says.

Part of the agreement with the province is for Siksika members to find training and employment tied to rebuilding.

Lorelee Waterchief, who works at the Old Sun Community College on the reserve, says she understands the draw those temporary jobs have, but she’s worried about what it will mean for school enrolment.

Already, she’s seen the impact the flood has had on retention numbers at the college.

“I guess it’s pretty hard to get up and go to school when you don’t have a home and you’re just trying to sur-

mer premier Alison Redford as PC party leader and premier.

Voting is set for September.

Man tells judge he won’t return computer equipment smuggled out of jail A man accused of murdering his wife by pushing her off a boat during a vacation in B.C.’s Interior has told a judge that he won’t turn over computer equipment he smuggled out of jail.

Alberta resident Peter Beckett, 57, appeared in B.C. Supreme Court for a monthly case-management meeting leading up to his trial in January on charges of first-degree murder, counselling to commit murder and obstruction of justice.

He told Justice Ian Meiklem that he has computer hard drives and DVDs containing RCMP evidence against him.

Officials at the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre can’t explain the material’s disappearance.

In April, Meiklem ordered the Crown to disclose some of its evidence to Beckett on paper, rather than electronically.

However, Meiklem wrote in the order that Beckett won’t receive the latest round of disclosure until he arranges for the hardware and disks to be returned to the Crown.

Beckett told Meiklem he is appealing that decision and won’t return the materials.

“Disclosure is property of the public, not the property of the Crown to secure a conviction.

The answer is no,” said Beckett, who called the

process a kangaroo court and told Meiklem his judgment on disclosure was in error.

While acknowledging “I am out of my depth” with some of the legal proceedings and complexity of the law, Beckett refuses to be represented by a defence lawyer.

He said he has been poorly represented by a series of four lawyers over three years — all of whom contributed to a legal bill he said cost taxpayers $100,000.

Meiklem agreed he may have to appoint an amicus curiae — a lawyer-appointed “friend of the court” — to help Beckett before his trial, including admissibility of Crown evidence.

The Crown alleges Beckett killed his schoolteacher wife Laura LettsBeckett, 50, by pushing her off a boat at Shelter Bay, south of Revelstoke, in 2010.

Beckett, who is originally from New Zealand, where he once served as a town councillor, was arrested a year later and charged with first-degree murder.

vive.”

No lives were lost on the reserve during the flood, but some elder members succumbed to illness in the subsequent months.

Waterchief says she wouldn’t be sur-

prised if the stress of the ordeal played a role. She says she expects the healing process to be a long one.

“I really feel that the whole community has been in a state of mass trauma.”

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SIKSIKA — Scotty Owl Child just wants to be back home.

His was one of about 170 houses hit by devastating floods last June on the Siksika reserve, about an hour’s drive east of Calgary.

Owl Child, 31, remembers police coming to his home in the North Camp area as the Bow River spilled its banks.

“We left a bunch of stuff behind,” he says. “I lost a lot of stuff — my bed, my dresser. A bunch of stuff.

“I just really want to get back home and organize the basement and all that again. Hopefully I get back in the house soon.”

A year after the deluge that swamped much of southern Alberta, including a large part of downtown Calgary, life has yet to return to normal on the Siksika reserve, home to 7,000.

Evacuees are still living in construction trailers or in hotel rooms in nearby towns. Dozens of homes have been “black-coded,” meaning the can’t be salvaged and will have to be demolished. “Red-coded” homes — a tier better than black — may also be lost.

A large part of the community remains cut off from the rest, because the crucial Chicago Bridge over the Bow River has been out of commission since the flood.

Siksika’s rebuilding effort is expected to take some major steps in the next few weeks.

A temporary neighbourhood of 64 modular homes provided by the province is nearing completion. Families could begin moving into the two-, three- and four-person units by the end of the month.

The temporary homes could be occupied for up to four years, depending on how quickly permanent dwellings can be rebuilt. The challenge is selecting who gets to move in first, says tribal manager Romeo Crow Chief.

Repairs on the Chicago Bridge are also expected to wrap up by the end of June, a welcome development for residents on the south side of the river who have had to travel up to an hour out of their way for services or to get to their jobs on the north side.

As hard as the rebuild has been, Crow Chief says the less tangible aspects trouble him more.

“I think we have enough work that’s happening in the physical part of the community, the housing, infrastructure. We’ve got that going. But it’s rebuilding the people.”

The situation has been particularly tough on 150 children whose homes were affected, Crow Chief says. The construction trailers are small and not conducive to a calm home life long term.

“They’re eating cafeteria style. They don’t have their own little family gatherings,” he says. “I’m hoping as we move forward we’ll be able to provide a stable home environment for them again.”

Charities such as the Red Cross and Samaritan’s Purse have been a big

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MacKay defends suggestion women are too busy to be judges BONDING WITH KIDS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay is defending comments he made last week about why so few women are appointed as judges in Canada.

MacKay was responding to Wednesday’s Toronto Star report about an Ontario Bar Association meeting at which he was asked about the lack of women and visible minorities on federally appointed court benches.

MacKay answered the question by saying that women don’t apply to be judges because they fear the job will take them away from their children — and that children need their mothers more than

their fathers, the Star report said.

On Thursday, rather than back away from the comments, MacKay stood his ground.

“At early childhood, there’s no question I think that women have a greater bond with their children,” he said.

Canada needs more women to apply for judicial appointments, he continued, before walking away from reporters.

Later in the House of Commons, opposition MPs pounced on MacKay’s comment, declaring them sexist and demanding an apology.

“I ask the minister to apologize to all Canadians for blaming motherhood for his abject failure to ensure that the federal court reflects the diversity of society,” said Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett.

MacKay insisted, however, that he was being unfairly maligned.

“That, of course, is a complete mischaracterization of what I said, what I think, how I act and who I am,” he told the Commons. Judicial appointments are made solely on the basis of merit, he added.

“With respect to minorities and women being promoted to the judiciary, I think we can all agree that government, of course, plays an important role in that, but so too do law schools and law societies, and that is exactly the message I was bringing to the Ontario Bar Association.”

Between 2006 and 2012, the Conservatives appointed or elevated 485 judges. Of those, 145 — 30 per cent — were women, according to the government’s answer to a recent order paper question posed by Liberal MP Irwin Cotler.

MacKay updated those figures Thursday, saying the Tories have named a total of 182

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Minister of Justice Peter MacKay stands during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on in Ottawa on Thursday. justices since 2006.

As of June 1, there were 855 judges sitting on federal, provincial and territorial court benches across the country, 382 of whom were women.

It’s not the first time MacKay has gotten himself into hot water over remarks about women.

In 2006, he was forced to

apologize when he was deputy leader of the Conservative party for telling New Democrat Alexa McDonough to “stick to her knitting.”

MacKay made the comment as he and McDonough appeared on a Halifax radio show where they sparred over constituency races in Nova Scotia.

Five kids rescued in child porn investigation TARGETED ALLEGED SEX OFFENDERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Five children aged 10 and under were rescued by police following a national child pornography investigation that targeted alleged sex offenders and resulted in hundreds of charges, the RCMP said Thursday.

Officers released the results of a four-month investigation into child exploitation that reached into every province, announcing in Halifax that more than 150 people have been arrested or are under investigation.

Sgt. Michael Petrilli said almost two million images and videos have been seized, with many involving infants and toddlers.

“I cannot stress enough what these images are and what they are not,” he said at a new conference where he was flanked by about a dozen officers from 40 police agencies involved in the operation.

“These images are not simply children having a bubble bath. They are clearly children that are in a situation where they are being sexually assaulted.”

Investigators said two of the children who have been rescued are from British Columbia, and the other three are from Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. They released few details about them, but said they all knew their alleged abusers and only

some of them were involved in cases of alleged pornography production.

The 343 charges include sexual assault, luring, possession and distribution of child pornography, and voyeurism. Petrilli said 104 people have been charged, but more charges are pending.

It’s possible the investigation could move beyond Canada if it’s found the material was sourced from or shared by people in other countries through Interpol or other police agencies.

“I would be shocked if there are not some international investigations stemming from arrests here in Canada,” said Sgt. Darren Parisien, an RCMP member from Saskatoon who worked on the investigation.

The RCMP wouldn’t divulge the ages of the rescued children at the news conference, but Cpl. JeanMarc Pare of New Brunswick’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit said the child rescued from that province was 10 years old. Parisien said the other children were under the age of 10.

Parisien said most of the investigations resulted

from police identifying possible offenders online, rather than receiving a complaint. That can involve an officer posing as a child or someone trying to acquire child porn.

“We just go to public places on the Internet and see who’s there and very quickly we’re almost overwhelmed with how brazen people are in their possession and distribution of these images,” he said.

Parisien said the force is always trying to keep pace with technological advances that can allow predators to skirt detection, adding that investigators are becoming more skilled at using technology to — SGT. DARREN PARISIEN more quickly categorize images and get them before the court.

“We’re certainly just trying to catch up and keep up,” he said. “We’re just trying to stop the bleeding for the most part.”

The latest seizure of material and subsequent arrests comes after two similar operations in 2012 that focused on the Prairies and northern regions, and in Atlantic Canada in 2013. Those resulted in the rescue of five children, 54 arrests and the seizure of millions of images.

‘WE JUST GO TO PUBLIC PLACES ON THE INTERNET AND SEE WHO’S THERE AND VERY QUICKLY WE’RE ALMOST OVERWHELMED WITH HOW BRAZEN PEOPLE ARE IN THEIR POSSESSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THESE IMAGES.’

B.C. teachers’ union calls for mediation to settle strike teachers’ union submitted a contract proposal with an outline of costs to the government’s bargaining agent.

The collective agreement includes an eight-per cent salary increase, $5,000 signing bonus and $225 million over the life of the five-year deal for preparation time, teacher on call compensation and improvements to health benefits. It also proposes a new, $225 million annual fund to address class size and composition issues.

Fassbender rejected the proposal

as unaffordable and unrealistic.

“To every teacher in this province, I clearly recognize that you’re losing wages. I’ve heard the stories about food banks getting set up to help teachers through this time,” he said, appealing directly to those on the picket lines.

“I fully understand the impact but I also clearly understand that if we’re going to get an agreement, the BCTF has to become realistic.

“We are not even close in where we need to be in order to get a negotiated

agreement.”

The government contends that the union’s salary and benefits demands adds up to a 14.5-per cent increase.

That’s well above the seven-per cent average settlement reached with 150,000 members of a range of other public sector unions, Fassbender said.

The government is offering a wage increase of seven per cent over six years and a $1,200 signing bonus.

The teachers’ contract expired in June 2013.

VANCOUVER — With no sign of a deal on the horizon, British Columbia’s unionized teachers called Thursday for mediation in hopes an independent party could turn the key in deadlocked negotiations.

The BC Teachers’ Federation asked for the third-party mediator three days into a full-scale walkout by more than 40,000 teachers across the province.

“Without having some extra support of a mediator, this could drag on,” said union president Jim Iker, adding that he has requested veteran mediator Vince Ready to step in.

“We’re serious about getting a deal, that’s why we’ve called for mediation.”

Education Minister Peter Fassbender said the government is willing to sit down with a mediator but noted a facilitator was already involved in discussions.

“Whatever it’s going to take to get an agreement, our negotiating team and this government is prepared to do what we can,” he told reporters. “But it has to be an agreement that brings the (cost) gap that we clearly see ... together.”

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Flight ordered Voices of residential back over survivors would be silenced screening if documents destroyed

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — The head of Canada’s national archive dedicated to Indian residential schools says the voices of 40,000 survivors would be silenced if a judge orders their emotional testimony destroyed.

Director Ry Moran said thousands of survivors seeking compensation told their stories to the Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat.

But many of them didn’t have the strength to recount painful memories of sexual, emotional and physical abuse again before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to make them a matter of public record, he said.

“There is actually unique information there that will provide greater insight into the history and legacy of the residential school system that does not exist anywhere else,” Moran said Thursday.

“That oral history, those voices of survivors — as painful as they may be and as difficult as it may be and as sensitive as they are — those voices are in those records. There are some 40,000 voices captured in that particular collection.”

An independent assessment process was set up for former students seeking compensation for sexual, physical and psychological abuse. Dan Shapiro, head of the secretariat, as well as some residential school survivors are suggesting that private testimony should be destroyed so it is never made public.

Arguments over the fate of the emotional evidence are to be made before an Ontario judge next month.

About 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Metis children were taken from their families and forced to attend the government schools over much of the last century to “take the Indian out of the child.” The last school closed outside Regina in 1996.

The National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is being set up at the University of Manitoba to archive millions of commission documents related to residential schools.

While the commission has papers from churches and government, the oral history of aboriginal people is fundamental, Moran said.

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION Any testimony by claimants that was housed in the national research centre would be treated with the utmost respect and no survivor would ever be unwillingly identified, Moran said.

“If those records are retained, and if they are managed in a highly restricted manner with the utmost of privacy controls, information can still be reviewed — but only with all of the personal identifying information stripped out,” he said. “We want to make sure that these records, if they are preserved, are properly housed.”

Shapiro told an Edmonton privacy conference Thursday that the claims process was set up to be confidential and safe for survivors. Their records contain everything from intensely personal memories of abuse to medical records and income tax information, he said.

“They identify claimants, witnesses and perpetrators, even though some allegations are later recanted, or never proven. They detail horrific physical, sexual and emotional abuse,” Shapiro said. “They describe the impact that these events had on the lives of those who were abused, including intimate accounts of addictions, domestic violence, psychological harm and suicide attempts.

“And they speak of the devastating intergenerational impacts that have caused so much suffering in aboriginal communities in every part of Canada.”

Shapiro quoted a survivor who suggested that disclosing personal information would be a form of revictimization. Retaining the records isn’t necessary to preserve history, he added.

“Legitimate historians in our society recognize that the collective right to know and remember is balanced against other values, including the value of individual privacy,” he said.

“Moreover, historians and future generations do not need to know the intimate details of every individual’s suffering in order to document that abuse occurred.”

Armoured car ambushed, guard shot 3 CHARGED

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — An armoured car guard is in critical condition after being shot several times during a robbery attempt in Toronto early Thursday, and police say he and his partner were also targeted earlier this month.

Toronto police Staff Insp. Mike Earl said the 37-year-old guard was “ambushed” by three males as the Garda World security truck pulled up to service a TD Bank branch (in the Avenue Road and Lawrence Avenue area).

“There were numerous shots fired in this incident that lasted approximately less than a minute — 40 seconds, 45 seconds,” said Earl.

He said the number of shots fired was “in the double digits.”

Earl said the guard, who returned fire, took four rounds to the body and was undergoing surgery.

He said a second guard never got out of the truck — which went into lockdown — and the suspects fled on foot.

Three men, all 18 years old, were later arrested and are facing multiple charges, including attempted murder. Police allege the same three suspects also attempted to rob a Garda World truck operated by the same pair of guards in the same area on June 5, also in the early morning hours.

“It happens to be that it’s the same victims in this case that were targeted,” said Earl.

He said none of those arrested was previously known to police.

In addition to the attempted murder charges, Jaden Beckford, Nicholas Cross and Rashid Clarke are each charged with two counts of armed robbery, two counts of conspiracy, two counts of wearing a disguise with intent and seven firearms-related offences.

TORONTO — Canadian officials were saying little Thursday about a security lapse at Pearson International airport that prompted them to order an Air Canada flight with 189 passengers en route to Brazil to return to Toronto after several hours in the air.

Air Canada said Flight AC 090 took off for Sao Paolo at around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, unaware that a male passenger had boarded the aircraft without proper screening.

“With the aircraft already in the air for four hours, we were notified of this and ordered by Transport Canada to have the aircraft return to Toronto,” Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said in an email.

The plane landed at 6:30 a.m. at Pearson and was surrounded by police and security officials.

“Police came on board and got a man,” Canadian basketball coach, Chantal Vallee, who was on the flight, said in a tweet.

“We were told he got on the plane without passing through security and got caught on tape. I see him in the boarding area now!?”

Airport authorities had said late Wednesday that all departing international flights from Terminal 1 were suspended while police searched for a man who had passed through security unchecked.

The Air Canada flight had apparently just taken off when the flights were grounded. It was not clear what the cost of the diversion was.

Major reform to foreign worker program due today

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government announces reforms to the controversial temporary foreign worker program today.

The announcement will be made by Employment Minister Jason Kenney and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander this morning in Ottawa.

A poll commissioned by Ottawa suggested Canadians would be in favour of creating an easier path for workers under the program to remain in the country and even obtain citizenship in order to retain their skills.

Industry groups consulted by Kenney and officials say they believe the key change will be to make it more difficult for firms to bring in workers for unskilled, low-paying jobs, such as in the food-service industry.

As well, news reports have speculated the government might impose a wage floor for TFWs that is higher than the Canadian minimum wage.

CBC News reported late Thursday that it has learned the reforms will include publishing the names of companies who bring in foreign workers and the number of workers they’re allowed to bring in. One change almost certain to be in the measures is new fines for firms that abuse the system.

As well, Kenney will likely increase the cost to employers of bringing in temporary workers.

Half of teen smokers go for flavoured products UPS RISK OF GETTING HOOKED: STUDY Among Canadian teens who report using tobacco, more than half are opting for products infused with such flavours as bubble-gum, cherry or watermelon, a study has found.

The University of Waterloo study, published Thursday in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control journal Preventing Chronic Disease, is based on the 20102011 Youth Smoking Survey of Grade 9-12 students from across Canada.

Researchers also found that among students who reported smoking cigarettes in the 30 days prior to the survey, 32 per cent chose to puff on menthol-flavoured brands.

Lead author Leia Minaker, a postdoctoral fellow at the university’s Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, said the tobacco industry promotes cigarettes, cigarillos and smokeless tobacco with a variety of flavours and glitzy packaging to attract young

people to the addictive products.

Minaker said the danger of flavoured tobacco is that making it tastier makes it seem less like tobacco, so young people are more likely to take up the habit.

“If people are going to use tobacco, then it should taste like tobacco,” she said from Waterloo, Ont. “It should be harsh smoke that they’re inhaling and should not be hidden in the flavours that are being added to the products.”

When Minaker picked up a package of grape-flavoured cigarillos to illustrate a talk she was giving on flavoured tobacco, she asked her five-year-old daughter to smell the product. “And she said: ‘Oh, that’s delicious!’

“When you look at it, feel it, smell it, there is no question that these will be marketed to youth. They’re very appealing to kids.

“If tobacco use is really appealing for kids, then more kids will start to use tobacco. And tobacco is incredibly

addictive and it will make it harder and harder for people to quit and to remain tobacco-free for life.”

Ottawa’s Bill C-32 banned flavoured tobacco products weighing less than 1.4 grams — excluding menthol products — but Minaker said the industry has found a way around the law by slightly increasing their weight.

Several jurisdictions, including Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba, have penned legislation that would strengthen the prohibition against flavoured tobacco products, which Minaker called an important step in the goal of preventing young Canadians from getting hooked on nicotine.

A separate Waterloo University study, recently published in the journal Cancer Causes and Control, found that young people who smoked menthol cigarettes were almost three times more likely to say they would continue

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Les Hagen, executive director of Alberta-based Action on Smoking & Health, said the findings from both studies have “huge implications for Canadian governments that are pursuing bans on flavoured tobacco.”

“To date, almost every proposed or approved law to ban flavoured tobacco has exempted menthol cigarettes under the mistaken belief that youth are not using these products in large numbers,” he said Thursday by email from Edmonton.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Before the World Cup, Uruuguay was worried about Luis uis Suarez’s knee and Colombia was fretting over injured Radamel Falcao. Considering the wild celebrations Thursday, neither should have.

Less than a month after surgery, the incomparable Suarez came back Thursday to score two vital World Cup goals, and Colombia is through to the second round despite missing its star striker. Both South American teams won 2-1 Thursday, Uruguay pushing England to the brink of elimination, and Colombia beating Ivory Coast to advance from Group C after Greece and Japan played to a scoreless draw.

The results further underscored South America’s dominance of the World Cup in Brazil. The continent’s teams now have seven victories out of a possible 10.

Colombia continued to produce goals and victories even without Falcao. For Uruguay, Suarez reinvigorated its campaign after an opening 3-1 loss to Costa Rica. Uruguay is level with Italy and Costa Rica in Group D, and those teams meet Friday in Recife.

About 15 miles from the site of the Uruguay-England game in Sao Paulo, about 2,000 people protested against the World Cup, some smashing windows at banks and car dealerships and spray-painting anti-capitalist slogans on buildings. It was the latest protest to hit Brazil, which has seen hundreds of demonstrations in the past year by people expressing anger about poor public services, corruption in government, the billions spent to host the World Cup and other complaints.

Inside the stadium, Suarez was hoisted aloft by teammates after the game as if he had won the World Cup. “I dreamt this. I’m enjoying this moment, because of all I suffered,” Suarez said.

Earlier in the tournament, stars have been coming through for their nations: Neymar for Brazil, Robin van Persie for the Netherlands, Thomas Mueller for Germany and Lionel Messi for Argen-

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tina. Suarez got started later, but he made up for missing a game with his star performance Thursday.

After May 22 surgery on his knee left little hope for a World Cup appearance, Suarez looked completely healthy.

He produced his toothy smile even before his header crossed the line to open the scoring. And after Wayne Rooney finally scored his first World Cup goal to tie the game for England, Suarez capped his return with something almost magical in Sao Paulo.

With Uruguay under intense pressure in the 85th minute, Suarez gathered a long

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Rottier ready to start anew with Eskimos

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Simeon Rottier spent the CFL offseason working relentlessly on improving his football skills, determined to prove that 2013 is a season best forgotten.

The six-foot-six, 295-pound guard became the focal point of much that was wrong with last year’s Edmonton Eskimos when general manager Ed Hervey publicly chastised him after a Labour Day loss to Calgary, saying it wouldn’t bother him if Rottier “didn’t play another down this year.”

The native of Westlock was back in the lineup a week later after the CFL Players Association complained Hervey was offside with his comments. When the Eskimos play their second and final pre-season game in Regina Friday, Rottier will again be the starting left guard.

“This off-season I worked as hard as I could to come in ready and put last year behind me,” Rottier said Thursday. “I was just happy to come back here and start a fresh year. That’s the bottom line and thank God for a second chance.”

Every returning Eskimo is getting another chance this season after the team turned over its entire coaching staff. Former Toronto defensive co-ordinator Chris Jones was hired as head coach and he brought in eight new assistants and handed the responsibility for shoring up the much-maligned offensive line to Johathan Himebauch.

Although the coaches and returning players would rather forget last year, Himebauch, a veteran CFL coach has become acutely aware that won’t be easy.

“I know there’s been a lot more attention. This is the most interviews I’ve done in my career,” he said with a smile. “I’ve been here two weeks and done so many interviews my wife keeps laughing and saying, ’What are you doing out there?”’

As training camp winds down, Himebauch says he hasn’t detected any “residual feelings from last year.

When Chris came in he told all the coaches, don’t bring up last year, don’t bring up the past of where this team has been, it’s not important.”

Rottier said there’s a different feeling around the offensive line, which has five newcomers on the depth chart. There’s no obvious worrying about pressure or thinking about last season.

“Last year there was a little too much stressing out about the pressure. We were worried about making mistakes, now we’re just going to cut it loose.”

It’s a huge offensive line. Guard Andrew Jones, a first-year Eskimo, is the shortest at six-foot-three and third-year guard Matt O’Donnell the tallest at six-foot-11. Rottier is the only one listed less than 300 pounds.

“When I talk to them at practice I make them take a knee because my knee hurts from staring up at these guys,” said Himebauch. “They are big human being and when they understand that they can be very powerful, that they can remove people, that they can create a great pocket for the quarterback, when they gain that confidence they can do special things.”

clearance that was accidentally headed on by England’s Steven Gerrard — his Liverpool teammate. His knee was in full flow as he unleashed a drive that goalie Joe Hart barely had time to see fly by. Suarez fell to the ground in disbelief before he was mobbed by delirious teammates.

“He doesn’t miss” from there, England coach Roy Hodgson said. For England, its World Cup standing is slipping ever more.

After reaching the quarterfinals at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, England exited in the second round in South Africa four years ago. Now it

likely looks like a return ticket in the first round.

“Our chances are unbelievably slim,” added Hodgson.

If Suarez produced tears of joy, there were also tears of anguish. In a moment as memorable as many of the great goals, midfielder Serey Die sobbed uncontrollably during the Ivory Coast anthem.

His thoughts went back to his father who died a decade ago, but “I also thought about my tough life — I didn’t think that one day I would be here, playing.”

The match provided little joy though, as the 2-1 loss of the Ivory Coast’s chances to

advance in doubt. Africa has had a miserable showing at the World Cup, with just 4 points out of a possible 21.

For South America, the home advantage was there for all to see by the frenzied proColombian crowd inside the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia.

James Rodriguez and Juan Quintero produced second half goals before a brilliant solo effort by Gervinho made it a tight game again.

There was nothing brilliant as Japan and Greece played to a goalless draw in the late Group C game, maintaining slim hopes of advancing for both.

Recognizing greatness LONG-TIME RED DEER RESIDENT CARDWELL BEING INDUCTED INTO SASKATCHEWAN BASEBALL HALL

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF During the 1960s and ’70s Fred Cardwell was one of Canada’s premier baseball players, and in August he will be recognized as such by the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Regina native and longtime Red Deer resident will be inducted into the hall on Aug. 16.

Cardwell was the prototypical power pitcher of his day, leading his teams in Saskatchewan to multiple championships, earning a scholarship to the University of Oregon, a tryout with the Los Angeles Dodgers and was a mainstay on the Canadian national team.

“It’s an honour and a recognition,” said Cardwell, 66.

The right-hander moved to Red Deer in 1973 after graduating from the University of Saskatchewan’s law school. He practiced in litigation and family law until 1989 and then began teaching it at Red Deer College until retiring at the end of this school year. While there, he also became an assistant coach to Scott Bergdahl for the RDC golf program.

He and his wife Ruth and their eight-yearold son Max have since moved to Kelowna.

But it was on the baseball diamond where he earned most of his glory.

He pitched his teams to six-straight Regina titles from 1959-64 and then led Regina’s midget team to an Alberta-Saskatchewan championship in 1964 with wins over Edmonton and

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In 1968, Cardwell joined the varsity squad at Oregon and quickly became the ace starter for the Ducks in the tough Pacific Athletic Conference, the PAC-8.

North Battleford. The next year he won a junior provincial title and then helped his team to an opening game win by pitching seven innings of relief to beat Winnipeg in 11 innings in the national junior final.

At six-foot-one, 195 pounds, he featured a fastball in the low 90s and a devastating slider and curve ball.

His exploits earned him both a four-year scholarship to Oregon and a tryout offer with the Dodgers. But, due to amateur status rules, he could only do one or the other — he chose an education.

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“At that stage, it wasn’t the kind of career that would make you automatically rich like it does now,” said Cardwell. “A major league pro contract back in 1967-68 was around $22,000. It was kind of like lots of people in the Canadian Football League, they’d play football and they’d have another job so they could make ends meet.”

He was the Ducks’ staff ace for four years in the Pac-8 and started getting picked up for the national team, including the Pan-Am Games in 1971.

In all, he played for

Team Canada eight times at international tournaments registering wins over Italy, South Korea and Puerto Rico.

In 1973, he settled in Red Deer, attracted to Central Alberta by the annual Lacombe baseball tournament.

“We’d come up her several times, we’d leave Saskatchewan in midJuly where it would be parched and we’d come up here where it would be green and we never got rained out either,” he said. “I thought ‘This is marvelous, it rains and it’s green.’”

That year he also started playing with the Red Deer Generals in the Alberta Major Baseball League.

Over the next seven years he also played with the Edmonton Tigers and the Calgary Jimmies, helping the Tigers to a Canadian senior title in 1974.

In 1976 he started to battle through shoulder tendonitis, forcing him to retire in 1979 at the conclusion of the Lacombe tournament, though he did play fastpitch and old timers ball later on.

Cardwell also spent time as a pitching coach with the national team and coached his daughter’s fastpitch team.

He was a natural athlete growing up in Regina, playing multiple sports, but football and baseball captured his heart, earning scholarship offers in both. Simon Fraser University offered him a scholarship to play middle linebacker for the school, but he liked his chances of getting through baseball unscathed better.

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Jays lose 16th straight in New York land from June 1960 to April 1962.

Melky Cabrera and Edwin Encarnacion each hit a tworun homer for the Blue Jays, who have lost nine of 12 and were swept for the first time since Sept. 10-12 last season by the Los Angeles Angels. Toronto has dropped 25 of 27 at Yankee Stadium dating to 2011 and hasn’t won in the Bronx since Aug. 29, 2012.

“Hey, if you’re going to play in prime time, you’ve got to perform on the big stage and we didn’t do it,” manager John Gibbons said. “We’re fully capable of doing it. We just didn’t do it. It’ll be definitely good to move on.”

With closer David Robertson receiving a rest, Warren got two outs for his second save — ending a rhythm-less game that took 3 hours, 47 minutes. Gibbons was on the field five times in the first six innings for four discussions with the umpires, plus a pitching change.

Phelps equaled his career high with 115 pitches and finished strong. He retired pinchhitter Adam Lind with two on to end the sixth and then struck out two in a perfect seventh.

“We really pushed him tonight,” manager Joe Girardi said. “He did a great job.”

The right-hander was fired up, too, clenching his fist and yelling after freezing Jose Reyes for strike three with his final delivery.

Phelps made a key defensive play to protect a one-run lead in the fifth. He got Reyes on a soft grounder with the infield in, pinning a runner at third, and then knocked down Cabrera’s two-out comeback-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Yankees 6 Blue Jays 4 NEW YORK — David Phelps put his pitches in all the right places against a struggling team that was stuck in the wrong spot.

Phelps threw seven strong innings, Carlos Beltran drove in two runs and the New York Yankees beat Toronto 6-4 Thursday night for their 16th consecutive home win over the Blue Jays.

“Everything was a little bit crisper today,” Phelps said. “I was able to be aggressive the entire game.”

Jacoby Ellsbury stole two bases, scored twice and hit one of three early sacrifice flies for the Yankees off Drew Hutchison. New York swiped four bags in all and scratched out its fifth run when Brett Gardner was going as Derek Jeter hit an RBI groundout — preventing an inning-ending double play.

Phelps (3-4) yielded two runs and struck out seven in winning his second straight outing after a four-start skid.

The Yankees earned their first three-game sweep at home this season and sliced Toronto’s lead in the AL East to 1 ½ games.

“Big series for us,” reliever Adam Warren said after New York won for the seventh time in nine games. “It’s nice to kind of see our team click a little bit and play some good baseball.”

Citing research by the Elias Sports Bureau, the Yankees said the winning streak against Toronto is their longest at home against one team since a 19-game run vs. Cleve-

‘Canes hire former RDC King Peters as new head coach

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New York Yankees second baseman Brian Roberts, right, shows the ball to the umpire after picking off Toronto Blue Jays’ Melky Cabrera in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Thursday. Cabrera was called safe on the play, but Yankees manager Joe Girardi won the call on an instant replay challenge. er. Phelps whirled around and scrambled to find the ball near the front of the mound, then zipped a throw to first just in time.

“I knew that it went down. I knew it wasn’t going to be far away, I just had to get my eyes on it,” Phelps said. “Straight scramble mode as soon as it hit me.”

Cabrera tripped awkwardly over the bag and tumbled hard to the turf, but appeared to be fine.

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The team announced Peters’ hiring Thursday and said he would be introduced Friday during a news conference. It’s the first big hire for new general manager Ron Francis, who took over in April during a reshuffling of the organization.

The 48-year-old Peters spent the past three years working primarily with the Red Wings’ defencemen and penaltykillers.

Peters is a former RDC Kings player and coached with Mike Babcock at the college.

Peters also won a Memorial Cup as coach of the Spokane Chiefs in 2008.

The hiring wraps up a 46-day search for the successor to Kirk Muller, who was fired May 5 after going 80-80-27 in three seasons. Since the Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup in 2006, they have made only one playoff appearance — in 2009.

Francis fired Muller one week after the Hockey Hall of Fame player moved up a rung on the organization’s ladder and took over as GM. In announcing Muller’s dismissal, Francis promised an open, wide-reaching search and said he wanted to find “a guy who’s a teacher” before the draft, which begins June 27.

Peters becomes the Hurricanes’ second straight first-time NHL head coach: Muller was in his first season with the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals when he was hired in 2011 to replace Paul Maurice.

Peters does have head coaching experience — just not at the NHL level.

Before joining the Red Wings’ staff, he coached Rockford of the AHL from 2008-11 and guiding that team to consecutive 40-win seasons. Eight of his Rockford players, including goalies Antti Niemi and Corey Crawford, won the Cup with Chicago in either 2010 or 2013.

His first head coaching job came at the University of Lethbridge from 2002-05.

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Phelps and Girardi both called it the biggest play of the game.

“The way our team’s been playing right now, it’s exciting baseball,” Phelps said.

Encarnacion hit his 21st homer in the eighth, a long drive to left off Shawn Kelley that cut it to 6-4.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CROMWELL, Conn. — Brendan Steele changed his putter and ended up equaling the lowest round of his career at the Travelers Championship.

Steele shot an 8-under 62 on Thursday morning that stood up for a one-stroke lead in the first round at TPC River Highlands.

The 31-year-old Californian opened with an eagle, holing a 129-yard wedge shot in the rain. He birdied six of the next 12 holes, and closed the bogeyfree round with five straight pars.

Steele went from a long to

a short putter while trying to qualify for the U.S. Open and though he missed that tournament, he said the change seems to be paying off. He needed just 26 putts Thursday.

Steele finished two shots off the course record set by Patrick Cantlay in 2011 as an amateur.

“On 14, I started to think 59, which is probably why I slowed down a little bit,” Steele said.

Bud Cauley and Ryan Moore shot 63, and Chad Campbell, Joe Durant, Scott Langley, Eric Axley and Jeff Maggert followed at 64.

Former Stanford stars Patrick Rodgers and Cameron Wilson made their pro debuts, with Rodgers shooting a 66, and Wilson a 73. Rodgers won 11 college tournaments

and this year’s Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus awards as the nation’s top college player.

Wilson won the NCAA individual title.

Two-time heart transplant recipient Erik Compton, coming off a second-place tie in the U.S. Open, had a 74.

Steele and Cauley went out in a steady rain Thursday morning, but by noon the sun had broken through.

“It took the rain pretty well,” said Masters champion Bubba Watson, who shot a 67 and was among 75 players to break par. “It’s kind of soft, but not too windy, so you can score around it.”

But nobody could catch Steele, who had spent last week watching from the stands as his favourite hockey team, the Los Angeles Kings, won

the Stanley Cup. Cauley started on the back nine and got his round going on the signature 15th hole. He avoided the woods on the right and put his tee shot within 20 feet, then made the eagle putt.

“With that pin back right, if you hit it right, that’s obviously not where you want to be, and obviously there’s water left,” he said. “So I hit that right where I was trying to and rolled it up there and capitalized with the putt.”

Campbell was at 7 under until he hit it into the water on the same hole.

Moore, who has four top-10 finishes in eight starts at this tournament, credited his 63 to a decision not to practice after a poor round in the pro-am Wednesday.

“I was relaxed and com-

fortable and just went out and played golf today instead of overdoing it and over-thinking it, which I feel like I’ve maybe done a little lately,” Moore said. “I’ve been practicing too much.”

Trevor Immelman had the shot of the day, making a double eagle from 246 yards on the par-5 13th hole. He used a 3-wood and cleared a greenside water hazard.

“The main thing is to keep it dry,” he said. “You got to get it over there, and it came out pretty good and started rolling.”

Immelman also had three bogeys in his round of 68.

Defending champion Ken Duke opened with a 65.

Louis Oosthuizen withdrew after seven holes because of back issues.

Lewis leads Wie by one at U.S. Women’s Open 11-YEAR-OLD LUCY LI SHOOTS 78

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PINEHURST, N.C. — Comparisons were inevitable by hosting the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open on the game golf course in consecutive weeks.

Only these had nothing to do with numbers.

Stacy Lewis found comfort in comparisons with U.S. Open champion Martin Kaymer. The No. 1 player in women’s golf studied Pinehurst No. 2 on her own a few weeks ago, formulated an idea how to play the golf course, and then watched Martin Kaymer follow the script she had in her head and win by eight shots.

Just like Kaymer, she opened Thursday without a bogey on her card, a 3-under 67 for a one-shot lead over Michelle Wie. “It was cool to see the plan I had laid out in my head. He was kind of doing the same thing,” Lewis said.

“So it was nice coming into the week knowing that my plan was going to work on this golf course. ... If you’re hitting the ball well enough, you can definitely run away with it. At the same time, you have to know par is a good number and keep grinding away.”

Right behind was Wie, who studied as hard for Pinehurst as she ever did at Stanford.

She was at Pinehurst on Sunday to watch the final round, and later picked up the yardage books from a few friends in south Florida — U.S. Open runner-up Rickie Fowler and Keegan Bradley — and compared notes.

Wie charted her way to four birdies on the back nine for a

68. “I did a lot of homework,” she said.

“Just took the notes from both of the books. It really helped just because they played last week in similar conditions. And they’re obviously great players. I definitely learned a thing or two.”

Her putter certainly helped.

Wie rolled in long birdie putts at Nos. 12 and 14, made a good par save after going into a bunker on the 17th and hit her approach to 5 feet on the final hole.

It was her lowest opening round in a U.S. Women’s Open. She had started with an 80 or higher four of the last six years.

They were among only five players under par when the first round was halted by thunderstorms with 30 players who did not finish.

Sue Kim of Langley, B.C., and Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., were the top Canadians on the day.

They both shot 71 to finish the first round in a tie for 11th place.

Kaymer, who started with a bogey-free 65 on his way to a wire-to-wire win, was among 15 players who broke par in the first round of the men’s Open. The scoring average Thursday was 75.73, about 2 ½ shots harder than it was for the men.

Pinehurst No. 2 played 1,064 yards shorter than it did for the opening round of the U.S. Open. That didn’t make it any easier.

Except for Lewis.

“It was such an easy day,” Lewis said, referring to her game more than the golf course. “I played really, really solid, other that I had to make

a few par putts. But other than that, I didn’t put myself in too bad of spots and made a few birdies.”

Former Women’s Open champion So Yeon Ryu, Katherine Kirk and 18-year-old amateur Minjee Lee were at 69.

“I think we put on a great show,” Wie said. “There are a couple of red numbers out there. There are a lot of people hovering around even par.

But I think it’s great. I love that we are playing on the same stage as the men. I think it’s really interesting. It makes it very exciting.”

The show belonged to Lucy Li, the 11-year-old from the Bay Area who became the youngest qualifier in U.S. Women’s Open history. She missed only one fairway and was rarely out of position, though it cost the sixth-grader dearly when she was. Li made one triple bogey and two double bogeys, three blemishes on her card that led to a 78.

“I mean, it’s 8 over,” Li said. “It’s not bad. But I was 7 over in three holes, so that’s 1 over in 15 holes. So yeah, I just need to get rid of the big numbers.”

There were plenty of those to go around.

At least 17 players failed to break 80, including Laura Davies. She had an 82, her worst score in a Women’s Open since Cherry Hills in 2005. Perhaps more shocking was Lydia Ko, Cristie Kerr and defending champion Inbee Park, each of them at 76.

Karrie Webb and Paula Creamer were at 70. Juli Inkster, at 53 and playing in the Women’s Open for the 35th time, had a 71.

“I don’t think the course is

Canadian coach Jeff Leishman helped PGA Tour rookie make history at U.S. Open make your swing technically perfect because there is no such thing,” Leishman said in a recent phone interview. “It doesn’t exist.”

Instead of reconstructing his client’s swing, he looks to “take something that’s already good and make it just a little bit better,” by identifying each of his golfer’s unique styles and motions.

This approach works espe-

capture sensors on all of his clients.

“One swing produces 17 pages of data ... the playAs 21-year-old Daniel Berger doesn’t see that informaer closed out the U.S. Open tion, it’s incredible,” he said. last weekend with a birdie “There’s a lot of stuff, but from putt 18, his Canadian coach that there’s a very accurate Jeff Leishman knew he had measure of what’s going on.” witnessed something special.

Leishman says that while But he didn’t realize at the most golfers are usually looktime that his student had just ing for immediate results, he made history by shooting the is concerned with both shortlowest Sunday round ever at term and longPinehurst No. term progress.

2.

An evolution “I just knew ‘IF I’M COACHING YOU AND YOU’RE A CLIENT, of improvethat it was WE’RE NOT GOING TO BE DEALING WITH is one of a darn good TRYING TO MAKE YOUR SWING TECHNICALLY ment the tenets of round,” said Leishman, a PERFECT BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH THING.’ L e i s h m a n ’ s teaching prinnative of Al— JEFF LEISHMAN ciples and no liston, Ont. GOLF COACH one personifies “So yes, it was it better than gratifying.”

Berger’s 66 in the final cially well with Berger, who his young student.

Following his sophomore round left him tied for 28th at says he relies more on feel year at FSU in 2013, Berger one of golf’s four majors, an than mechanics.

“Jeff will give me drills in turned professional and began impressive result for his PGA Tour debut. The Florida na- practice that allow me to feel competing on the Web.com tive says his work with Leish- the feeling that he wants me tour. In four starts, he missed man over the past five-plus to experience,” said Berger, the cut three times and tied who is playing on the Web.com for 47th in his final appearyears played a key role.

“We’ve spent so much time Tour. “We don’t really work on ance of the season.

Things are different this together that he just under- things like angles or planes.”

This does not mean that year. He has three top-10 finstands what I want to hear,” said the former Florida State Leishman ignores the techni- ishes so far, including two Seminole. “He gives it to me cal side of the swing. He has third-place results during a straight in a way that I can un- embraced biomechanics and three-tournament span. Curderstand so that I can go out 3D motion-capture diagnostic rently, he sits 13th on the Web. tools and integrated them into com money list and is on pace and turn it into good things.”

Leishman, whose client his lessons, although he will to earn his PGA Tour card for list also includes PGA regu- be the first to admit that he is the 2015 season.

Last weekend — exactly lars Will MacKenzie, Tom Gil- behind the curve in this area.

The 46-year-old Leishman, one year after turning pro — lis and former Canadian Open winner Carl Pettersson, takes who lives in Jupiter, Fla., com- Berger drained that birdie a unique approach to teach- pensates for his lack of tech- putt on No. 18. What made the ing, believing that a truly per- nical expertise by regularly experience even more special consulting with others who for the youngster was that his fect swing is unattainable.

“If I’m coaching you and have the knowledge. He is also father came out of the crowd to caddy for the last half of the you’re a client, we’re not go- always eager to learn more.

Leishman uses 3D motion- final hole. ing to be dealing with trying to

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Lexi Thompson chips to the first green during the first round of the U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, N.C., Thursday. on the edge at all,” Webb said.

“I think the USGA had to be a little bit cautious. We haven’t played a tournament here with this course setup before, and it is the second week. So I think they’re probably trying to see how the course is playing, just to see where they’re at with the golf course. I think

they were just sort of seeing how we handled it.”

One thing didn’t change from either week. Anything around par in a U.S. Open was not a bad place to be.

“It was a grind out there today,” Wie said. “It will probably be a grind the next three days.”

Van Dornick takes top honours at provincial men’s mid-am ATHABASCA — Frank Van Dornick of Camrose posted his second straight under-par score Thursday to take top honours in the Alberta Men’s Mid-Amateur Golf Championship.

Van Dornick fired a 2-under 70 and coupled with earlier rounds of 73-71, finished the 54-hole tournament with a 214 total, five strokes better than Harry Aime of Edmonton Glendale (7871-70—219) and seven up on Kevin Temple of Calgary Country Hills (75-76-70—221).

Tim Boston of Wolf Creek tied for eighth with a 226 total that included a final-round 75 and earlier scores of 72-79, while Lorne Riffin of Lacombe tied for 12th with a 228 sum after carding a final-round 73 that followed first- and second-round scores of 75-80.

Other Central Alberta results: Tom Skinner, Red Deer Golf and Country Club (78-77-79—234, tied for 27th); Ron Harder, Innisfail (79-81-75—235, tied for 30th); Les Swelin, Sundre (81-81-83—245, tied for 52nd); Gerald Tardif, Wolf Creek (84-83-80—247, tied for 56th).

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HALL: Learned everything on own “Football’s a great game and I really enjoy it, but it’s way too easy to get injured in that sport, so I chose baseball instead,” he said.

Impressively, he made it as far as he did with little coaching on the pitching end. When he was coming up, there was little available for instruction — even when he hit the university level.

“I learned everything on my own,” he said. “Even down in Oregon, no one knew anything about pitching. It was between

you and the other pitchers you played around, tried different pitches and looked at books.

That was the way you learned stuff.”

What has sustained him athletically, however, is golf.

He has played since he was 10 years old and has played ever since, including helping Bergdahl coach the RDC team the last three years.

Now retired and with a surgically repaired hip, he plans to spend a lot more time out on the course.

“I just really enjoy the game, trying to make the ball do what you want it to do,” said Cardwell. “Golf, for me, is the hardest game I’ve ever played.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

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Balotelli not worried about being a star ITALY’S TEMPERAMENTAL FORWARD ONLY CARES ABOUT HELPING TEAM WIN WORLD CUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Italy’s Mario Balotelli (9) celebrates with Italy’s Marco Verratti (23) after Balotelli scored his side’s second goal during the Group D World Cup soccer match between England and Italy at the Arena da Amazonia in Manaus, Brazil, June 14, 2014.

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Harbaugh cautions 49ers players to stay out of trouble THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh delivered a simple but emphatic message to his players as they gathered in a circle at the end of the team’s three-day minicamp.

Following an off-season in which three key players were either arrested or were part of an investigation by police, Harbaugh warned the 49ers to be more aware of their circumstances and who they hang out with.

Quarterback Colin Kaepernick was one of the three players involved in off-field incidents.

Although Kaepernick was never charged and was cleared of any wrongdoing stemming from a possible sexual assault investigation in Miami, he said the incident left him more cautious about his life away from football.

“A lot more,” Kaepernick said Thursday.

“Since I really started playing it’s something I’ve been more aware of, especially in the past few months. It’s something that obviously you have to be very aware of.”

Kaepernick and two other NFL players were investigated for an incident involving a woman at a downtown hotel in Miami in April. Kaepernick repeatedly denied that he had done anything wrong, and prosecutors decided earlier this week to drop the case and not charge any of the three players.

Later, 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after authorities said he became belligerent during a security screening and threatened that he had a bomb.

That followed on the heels of San Francisco cornerback Chris Culliver’s arrest in March on suspicion of felony hit and run and reckless driving after he drove a car into a bicyclist and fled.

Because the players are essentially on their own for the next month until training camp begins, meaning plenty of free time with little to no supervision, Harbaugh gave them a stern reminder to avoid trouble.

“Be aware of who you associate with, friend or foe,” Harbaugh said, summing up his message to the players. “There always seems to be a foe presence. Mainly, surround yourself with good people.”

Kaepernick has had to do that for reasons other than what happened in Miami.

This month, the 2011 second-round draft pick signed a $126 million, sixyear contract extension.

Already a target of defensive players on the field, Kaepernick and his new wealth became a target off the field the instant he signed the deal.

Thus his emphasis on being more cautious.

“You want to keep good people around all the time, regardless of where you’re at,” Kaepernick said.

RECIFE, Brazil — Mario Balotelli couldn’t care less if he’s mentioned in the same breath as Neymar or Lionel Messi at this World Cup — as long as he comes away with the trophy.

Having scored the winning goal in Italy’s 2-1 victory over England and now getting ready for today’s match against Costa Rica, the temperamental forward has gained more attention than any other Azzurri player in Brazil.

“I hope this is Italy’s World Cup, not Mario’s. I’m not really interested in being compared with the big stars,” Balotelli said Thursday. “In the end it’s the squad that wins. I don’t want to be a big star. I want to win the World Cup.” “Personally, I want to score as many goals as possible,” he added at the official pre-match news conference. “But the important thing is that the squad wins and advances.”

Wearing a black cap turned backward and a total of three diamond earrings — two on his right ear, one on the left — Balotelli was his usual candid self.

Asked if he minds being the lone forward in coach Cesare Prandelli’s 4-1-4-1 formation, Balotelli snapped back: “As long as I play.”

This is a first World Cup for Balotelli, who helped lead Italy to the 2012 European Championship final.

“This is the biggest event of my career and I want to give my all,” he said.

“The World Cup is more important than the Golden Ball, the Champions League or the ’scudetto’ (Serie A title), so it’s only normal that it creates a spark inside of you.”

Balotelli has made headlines almost from the moment he landed in Brazil, first by proposing to his Belgian girlfriend on a moon-lit beach in the week leading up to the England match.

“The proposal had nothing to do with the World Cup,” Balotelli said.

“The proposal would have occurred even without the World Cup.” Balotelli is coming off an up-and-

down club season with AC Milan and has been the subject of rampant transfer speculation in recent weeks. There have been reports that Arsenal is offering Milan a (euro)30 million ($40 million) transfer fee, and a contract for Balotelli worth 180,000 pounds (more than $300,000) per week.

“My focus is 100 per cent on the World Cup,” he said. “I don’t know what will happen afterward. I don’t know anything.”

While he does appear focused, Balotelli was not prepared for questions about Costa Rica’s players.

For example, what does he think about Keylor Navas, who had a strong season with Levante and is considered one of the top goalkeepers in the Spanish league?

“Honestly, I’m unprepared for this question because I haven’t seen the Costa Rica goalkeeper,” he responded.

OK, so what impressed him about Costa Rica’s defence in a 3-1 win over Uruguay?

“I saw the match but to be sincere I didn’t study the players,” Balotelli said. “I’ll watch them tonight.”

That was the point when Prandelli butted in and offered help.

“If you want, I can answer about all of the players,” the coach told a Costa Rican journalist with a smile.

Costa Rica defender Giancarlo Gonzalez, however, wasn’t amused.

“We will let the world know that we are here,” Gonzalez said.

Sitting right next to Balotelli, Prandelli managed to analyze his prized player’s hot and cold streaks as if he were there alone.

“If you look at Mario in these four years there have been moments of alarm,” Prandelli said. “One moment he’s the man who’s going to bring you to the top of the world and then a moment later he shouldn’t even be at the World Cup.” “The important thing for us is for him to stay focused and play like he did in the last match,” Prandelli added. “If he does that for 90 minutes he could be decisive. He needs to give 100 per cent.”

Canada names roster ahead final June test series against U.S. B.C. PROP JAKE ILNICKI TO MAKE FIRST RUGBY START FOR CANADA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS B.C. prop Jake Ilnicki gets his first start for Canada on Saturday in Sacramento as the Canadian men wrap up their June rugby test series with a Pacific Nations Cup game against the United States.

The 22-year-old from Williams Lake, is one of four changes made by Canadian coach Kieran Crowley for the game, expected to be played in searing heat at Bonney Field.

Andrew Tiedemann comes in at the other prop position with Hubert Buydens and Jason Marshall, who started in the 19-17 loss to Scotland at BMO Field last week, moving to the bench.

“They’ve both played really well when they’ve come on,” Crowley said of the new prop pairing.

“We feel as though they deserve an opportunity to start and we’ll see how it goes.”

Ilnicki played for Canada A in the 2013 Americas Rugby Championship

and saw action for Canada against the New Zealand Maori in November that year. He won his first official cap against Georgia that same month as a second-half replacement for Tiedemann.

At 19, Ilnicki spent a season in New Zealand with an Auckland club team.

“He’s a young player who’s really progressed well,” Crowley said.

“We’ve been really impressed with his training. He was chucked in the deep end last year against Georgia really and he held up very well there when he came on against some worldclass props. He’s just developed further from that.

“Before the Japan game (on June 7) there was a lot of debate around the front row and the props and that.

Both Marshall and Buydens have done very well but it’s an opportunity in this game as we look towards the future to see how Andrew and Jake go.”

Tiedemann, a 25-year-old from St. Albert, Alta., won his first cap against Wales in 2009.

In the backs, Connor Braid replaces

Nick Blevins at inside centre and DTH van der Merwe comes in for injured winger Taylor Paris (concussion).

“We feel Connor’s made a real impact when he’s come on and we just want to see, from a further on down the path point of view, his abilities as a starter at No, 12,” said Crowley Paris was hurt in the loss to Scotland, opening the door for Van der Merwe, who is coming back from a shoulder injury.

The rest of the side remains the same, with back-row forward Jebb Sinclair escaping further punishment after a disputed red card in the Scotland game.

Canada, ranked 16th in the world, and the No. 18 U.S. Eagles were both beaten by No. 12 Japan in their opening games of the tournament. Canada lost 34-25 in Burnaby, B.C., while the Americans went down 37-29 in Carson, Calif.

The two North Americans sides were also beaten by Scotland, who opened their summer tour with a 24-6 victory over the Eagles in Houston.

Argos cap pre-season with victory over Tiger-Cats CFL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Argonauts 41 Tiger-Cats 23 TORONTO — One major question mark from the Toronto Argonauts’ preseason seems to have resolved itself — that’s the strength of the quarterbacks.

Ricky Ray, Trevor Harris and Mitchell Gale all threw touchdown passes for Toronto as the Argos romped to a 41-23 victory over the Hamilton TigerCats on Thursday, the CFL pre-season finale for both teams.

Ray, the Argos’ star QB who set a CFL single-season completion record last year, played less than a quarter but was solid in his first game action this season.

“I felt I was able to see things the way I wanted to,” Ray said. “Last year I played an even shorter period of time (in the pre-season). I feel like things were pretty smooth for the most part, I felt like the speed of the game wasn’t something I had to adjust to, so that was good. I feel ready to go.”

Ray completed seven of nine pass attempts for 90 yards and a touchdown.

Harris was 8-for-16 for 86 yards, one touchdown and an interception, while Gale was 10-for-11 for 131 yards and one TD. The game, played in front of a capacity crowd of 5,216 fans at a sundrenched Varsity Stadium — normally the home to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues — marked the first meeting between the two teams since the Tiger-Cats ended the Argos’ 2013 season, with a 36-24 Eastern final victory.

It was also the first time Ray and his Argos understudy last season Zach Collaros had faced each other since Colla-

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Toronto Argonauts’ LeQuan Lewis, centre, is tackled by Hamilton Tiger-Cats Marc Beswick, left, and Sam Scott during first quarter CFL pre-season action at University of Toronto’s Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Ont., on Thursday. ros was released then signed as a free agent with Hamilton in the off-season.

Collaros, the Tiger-Cats’ most significant off-season acquisition, completed 13 of 18 passes and threw for 196 yards and one touchdown.

“It’s tough not having him here, he’s a good guy, good player,” Ray said of his former teammte. “But it’s also exciting to see him get his chance and play. He played really well tonight and I think he’s going to have a great year.”

Ray missed eight games last season to injury so having a competent quarterback behind him will be important.

Harris appears ready to step into that role, with Gale and Casey Pachall waiting in the wings.

The roster deadline for CFL teams is 11:59 p.m. on Saturday.

“It’s hard at this point, we’ll have to go back home and watch the film but some guys certainly stepped up and did what they needed to do,” said Argos coach Scott Milanovich. “So we’ll have to see who those guys were and make some decisions (Friday) or Saturday.”

Milanovich was pleased with Gale, receiver Terrell Sinkfield, who caught five passes for 100 yards, running back Jeremiah Johnson, who scored on a 24-yard run, and the entire defensive line.

The Argos had a whopping nine sacks on the night.

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Toronto New York Baltimore Boston Tampa Bay

American League East Division W L Pct 41 33 .554 38 33 .535 37 34 .521 34 39 .466 29 45 .392

GB — 1 1/2 2 1/2 6 1/2 12

Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 39 33 .542 37 32 .536 37 36 .507 35 38 .477 33 38 .465

GB — 1/2 2 1/2 4 1/2 5 1/2

Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas Houston

West Division W L Pct 45 28 .616 38 33 .535 37 36 .507 35 37 .486 32 42 .432

GB — 6 8 9 1/2 13 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Kansas City 2, Detroit 1 Baltimore 2, Tampa Bay 0 Boston 2, Minnesota 1, 10 innings Chicago White Sox 7, San Francisco 6 Oakland 4, Texas 2 Washington 6, Houston 5 N.Y. Yankees 7, Toronto 3 L.A. Angels at Cleveland, ppd., rain San Diego 2, Seattle 1

FHernandez, Seattle, 122; Price, Tampa Bay, 121; Tanaka, New York, 113; Scherzer, Detroit, 111; Darvish, Texas, 109; Kluber, Cleveland, 108; Lester, Boston, 105.

Saves Holland, Kansas City, 21; Rodney, Seattle, 18; Perkins, Minnesota, 17; DavRobertson, New York, 17; Soria, Texas, 15; Uehara, Boston, 15; Nathan, Detroit, 14.

Washington Atlanta Miami Philadelphia New York

National League East Division W L Pct 37 34 .521 37 35 .514 36 36 .500 33 38 .465 33 40 .452

Milwaukee St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 44 30 .595 39 34 .534 35 36 .493 35 37 .486 30 40 .429

GB — 4 1/2 7 1/2 8 12

West Division W L Pct 43 29 .597 40 34 .541 34 38 .472 31 42 .425 31 45 .408

GB — 4 9 12 1/2 14

San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona

GB — 1/2 1 1/2 4 5

Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia 10, Atlanta 5 Chicago Cubs 6, Miami 1 N.Y. Mets 3, St. Louis 2 Chicago White Sox 7, San Francisco 6 Cincinnati 11, Pittsburgh 4 Washington 6, Houston 5 Arizona 4, Milwaukee 3 L.A. Dodgers 8, Colorado 0 San Diego 2, Seattle 1

Thursday’s Games Cleveland 5, L.A. Angels 3, 10 innings Detroit 2, Kansas City 1 San Diego 4, Seattle 1 N.Y. Yankees 6, Toronto 4 Tampa Bay 5, Houston 0 Chicago White Sox 2, Minnesota 4 Oakland 4, Boston 2 Friday’s Games Baltimore (U.Jimenez 2-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 4-5), 5:05 p.m.

Detroit (Porcello 8-4) at Cleveland (Kluber 6-4), 5:05 p.m.

Houston (Cosart 6-5) at Tampa Bay (Price 5-6), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Hendriks 1-0) at Cincinnati (Latos 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Noesi 2-5) at Minnesota (Nolasco 4-5), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 5-3) at Kansas City (Shields 8-3), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Doubront 2-4) at Oakland (Mills 0-0), 8:05 p.m.

Texas (J.Saunders 0-2) at L.A. Angels (Richards 6-2), 8:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Cano Sea 69 267 35 89 .333 Altuve Hou 71 296 35 98 .331 VMartinez Det 69 262 34 86 .328 Brantley Cle 69 266 49 86 .323 MiCabrera Det 69 263 39 84 .319 Rios Tex 72 279 33 89 .319 Trout LAA 67 257 48 80 .311 Bautista Tor 74 265 52 82 .309 AlRamirez CWS 72 278 37 86 .309 Beltre Tex 58 224 37 69 .308 Home Runs NCruz, Baltimore, 22; Encarnacion, Toronto, 21; JAbreu, Chicago, 20; Donaldson, Oakland, 17; VMartinez, Detroit, 17; Moss, Oakland, 17; Ortiz, Boston, 16; Pujols, Los Angeles, 16; Trout, Los Angeles, 16.

Runs Batted In NCruz, Baltimore, 58; MiCabrera, Detroit, 57; Encarnacion, Toronto, 56; Moss, Oakland, 55; Trout, Los Angeles, 54; JAbreu, Chicago, 53; Donaldson, Oakland, 52.

Doubles MiCabrera, Detroit, 24; Altuve, Houston, 23; Pedroia, Boston, 23; Plouffe, Minnesota, 22; EEscobar, Minnesota, 21; AGordon, Kansas City, 21; Hosmer, Kansas City, 21; Kinsler, Detroit, 21.

Triples Rios, Texas, 8; Bourn, Cleveland, 5; Trout, Los Angeles, 5; Eaton, Chicago, 4; Gardner, New York, 4; 14 tied at 3.

Stolen Bases Altuve, Houston, 26; RDavis, Detroit, 20; Ellsbury, New York, 20; AEscobar, Kansas City, 18; Andrus, Texas, 16; Dozier, Minnesota, 15; LMartin, Texas, 15; Reyes, Toronto, 15.

Pitching Tanaka, New York, 11-1; Buehrle, Toronto, 10-4; Kazmir, Oakland, 9-2; FHernandez, Seattle, 8-2; Shields, Kansas City, 8-3; Scherzer, Detroit, 8-3; Porcello, Detroit, 8-4.

Strikeouts

29; Revere, Philadelphia, 20; SMarte, Pittsburgh, 17; EYoung, New York, 17; Bonifacio, Chicago, 13; ECabrera, San Diego, 13; Segura, Milwaukee, 13.

Pitching Simon, Cincinnati, 10-3; Greinke, Los Angeles, 9-3; Wainwright, St. Louis, 9-3; Lohse, Milwaukee, 8-2; Ryu, Los Angeles, 8-3; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 8-4; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 7-2.

Strikeouts Strasburg, Washington, 113; Cueto, Cincinnati, 111; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 104; Kennedy, San Diego, 98; Greinke, Los Angeles, 97; Miley, Arizona, 93; Wainwright, St. Louis, 91.

Saves FrRodriguez, Milwaukee, 23; Kimbrel, Atlanta, 21; Romo, San Francisco, 20; Jansen, Los Angeles, 20; Street, San Diego, 20; Rosenthal, St. Louis, 20; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 17.

Thursday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE LAA 010 000 000 2 — 3 8 1 Cleveland 001 000 000 4 — 5 6 0 (10 innings) C.Wilson, Jepsen (8), J.Smith (9), Bedrosian (10), Frieri (10) and Conger, Iannetta; Masterson, Rzepczynski (8), Shaw (8), Allen (8), Atchison (10), Crockett (10) and Y.Gomes. W—Crockett 1-0. L—Bedrosian 0-1. HRs—Cleveland, Swisher (5).

Kan. City 100 000 000 — 1 6 1 Detroit 000 200 00x — 2 4 0 Duffy, Crow (8) and S.Perez; A.Sanchez, Chamberlain (8), Nathan (9) and Holaday. W—A.Sanchez 4-2. L—Duffy 4-6. Sv—Nathan (14). HRs—Detroit, J.Martinez (6).

Toronto 002 000 020 — 4 8 0 New York 111 011 10x — 6 10 0 Hutchison, Loup (5), McGowan (6), Delabar (7), Jenkins (7) and Kratz, Thole; Phelps, Kelley (8), Thornton (8), Warren (9) and McCann. W—Phelps 3-4. L—Hutchison 5-5. Sv—Warren (2). HRs— Toronto, Me.Cabrera (11), Encarnacion (21).

Houston 000 000 000 — 0 3 2 Tampa Bay 000 200 30x — 5 9 0 McHugh, Clemens (7), Qualls (8) and J.Castro; Archer, Boxberger (7), Jo.Peralta (8), Balfour (9) and Hanigan. W—Archer 4-4. L—McHugh 4-5. HRs— Tampa Bay, Kiermaier (4), Longoria (9).

Thursday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3, 12 innings Milwaukee 4, Arizona 1 San Diego 4, Seattle 1 Atlanta 3, Washington 0 N.Y. Mets 1, Miami 0 Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 1 Friday’s Games Pittsburgh (Morton 4-7) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 4-7), 2:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Minor 2-4) at Washington (Strasburg 6-5), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Matsuzaka 3-0) at Miami (H.Alvarez 3-3), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Hendriks 1-0) at Cincinnati (Latos 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (A.Burnett 4-6) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 3-0), 6:15 p.m.

Milwaukee (Estrada 5-4) at Colorado (Bergman 0-1), 6:40 p.m.

San Francisco (Lincecum 5-4) at Arizona (Collmenter 4-4), 7:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Haren 7-4) at San Diego (Kennedy 5-8), 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Tulowitzki Col 69 236 56 84 .356 Lucroy Mil 68 261 35 89 .341 Puig LAD 67 255 38 83 .325 AMcCutchen Pit 71 268 38 85 .317 CGomez Mil 66 263 46 82 .312 McGehee Mia 71 273 26 85 .311 Goldschmidt Ari 75 292 55 90 .308 Pagan SF 63 241 37 74 .307 Gennett Mil 67 220 27 67 .305 Utley Phi 67 266 40 81 .305 Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 20; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 18; Frazier, Cincinnati, 16; Gattis, Atlanta, 16; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 15; Howard, Philadelphia, 14; Rizzo, Chicago, 14; JUpton, Atlanta, 14.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 57; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 52; Howard, Philadelphia, 50; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 45; Blackmon, Colorado, 44; Desmond, Washington, 44; McGehee, Miami, 44; Morneau, Colorado, 44; Morse, San Francisco, 44.

Doubles Goldschmidt, Arizona, 27; Lucroy, Milwaukee, 25; Utley, Philadelphia, 24; SCastro, Chicago, 22; FFreeman, Atlanta, 22; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 22; Span, Washington, 21.

Triples DGordon, Los Angeles, 7; BCrawford, San Francisco, 5; Yelich, Miami, 5; 8 tied at 4.

Stolen Bases DGordon, Los Angeles, 37; BHamilton, Cincinnati,

Boston 000 002 000 — 2 5 1 Oakland 011 100 10x — 4 8 0 Peavy, Capuano (7), Mujica (8) and D.Ross, Pierzynski; Kazmir, Gregerson (8), Otero (9) and D.Norris. W—Kazmir 9-2. L—Peavy 1-5. Sv—Otero (1). HRs—Boston, Pedroia (4). Oakland, Cespedes (14).

PGA-Travellers Championship Thursday At TPC River Highlands Cromwell, Conn.

Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 6,854; Par: 70 (35-35) First Round 30-32 32-31 32-31 31-33 33-31 32-32 33-31 33-31 33-32 33-32 33-32 35-30 34-31 34-31 32-33 35-31 33-33 32-34 32-34 33-33 34-32 34-32 32-34 34-32 31-35 33-33 33-33 35-32 34-33 33-34 36-31 33-34 32-35 31-36 32-35 32-35 33-34 33-34 33-34 34-34 35-33 36-32 33-35 34-34 33-35 32-36 34-34 36-32 34-34 34-34 36-32 37-31 33-35 36-32 34-34 35-33 32-36 34-34 34-34 34-34 34-35 34-35 33-36

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BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS — Selected the contract of RHP Yohan Pino from Rochester (IL). Placed INF Eduardo Nunez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 15. Transferred RHP Mike Pelfrey to the 60-day DL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed LHP Brett Cecil on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Steve Delabar from Buffalo (IL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Selected the contract of RHP Matt Stites from Rena (PCL). Optioned OF Tony Campana to Reno. Transferred RH Daniel Hudson to the 60-day DL. CHICAGO CUBS—Agreed to terms with LHPs Justin Steele and Carson Sands and RHPs James Norwood and Jake Stinnett.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Placed 1B Yonder Alonso on the 15-day Dl, retroactive to June 17. Selected OF Jake Goebbert from El Paso (PCL).

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed RHP Coty Woods.

LAREDO LEMURS — Signed RHP Jeremy

Saturday

New York 100 000 000 — 1 6 Miami 000 000 000 — 0 3 Z.Wheeler and Teagarden; Heaney, Morris Gregg (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—Z.Wheeler L—Heaney 0-1. HRs—New York, D.Wright (6).

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000 202 000 — 4 8 0 St. Louis 000 000 010 — 1 4 0 Buchanan, Diekman (8), Papelbon (9) and Ruiz; S.Miller, Choate (7), Maness (8), Greenwood (9) and Y.Molina. W—Buchanan 3-3. L—S.Miller 7-6.

Sv—Papelbon (17). HRs—Philadelphia, Howard (14).

Dewi Claire Schreefel Dori Carter Caroline Masson a-Paige Lee Caroline Hedwall Azahara Munoz Hee Young Park a-Chisato Hashimoto Marissa Steen Kris Tamulis Beatriz Recari Rikako Morita Ilhee Lee Brittany Lang Anna Nordqvist Jennifer Song Jessica Wallace Nikki Campbell Sakura Yokomine Sandra Gal Stephanie Na Carleigh Silvers Jane Park

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Leaderboard at time of suspended play SCORETHRU 1. Stacy Lewis -3 F 2. Michelle Wie -2 F 3. Minjee Lee -1 F 3. Katherine Kirk -1 F 3. So Yeon Ryu -1 F 6. Paula Creamer E F 6. Candie Kung E 17 6. Karrie Webb E F 6. Stephanie Meadow E 16 6. Mina Harigae E 16

USGA-Women’s Open Thursday At Pinehurst Resort and Country Club, No. 2 Course Pinehurst, N.C. Purse: $4 million Yardage: 6,649; Par: 70 (35-35) Partial First Round a-denotes amateur Stacy Lewis 34-33 — 67 Michelle Wie 36-32 — 68 Katherine Kirk 34-35 — 69 So Yeon Ryu 34-35 — 69 a-Minjee Lee 34-35 — 69 Karrie Webb 36-34 — 70 Paula Creamer 33-37 — 70 I.K. Kim 36-35 — 71 Lexi Thompson 37-34 — 71 Eun Hee Ji 34-37 — 71 Pornanong Phatlum 35-36 — 71 Juli Inkster 36-35 — 71 a-Brooke Mackenzie Henderson33-38 — 71 Sue Kim 34-37 — 71 Christel Boeljon 36-35 — 71 Amy Yang 35-36 — 71 Na Yeon Choi 36-35 — 71 Angela Stanford 37-34 — 71 Sei Young Kim 35-37 — 72 Pernilla Lindberg 35-37 — 72 Moriya Jutanugarn 37-35 — 72 Meena Lee 34-38 — 72 Gerina Piller 38-34 — 72

European Tour-Irish Open Thursday At Fota Island Resort Cork, Ireland Purse: $2.71 million Yardage: 7,043; Par: 71 First Round, Leading Scores Mikko Ilonen, Finland 32-32 — Marcel Siem, Germany 37-29 — Magnus Carlsson, Sweden 35-31 — Robert Karlsson, Sweden 34-32 — Anders Hansen, Denmark 35-32 — Daan Huizing, Netherlands 36-31 — Matthew Baldwin, England 33-34 — Edoardo Molinari, Italy 34-33 — Marco Crespi, Italy 35-33 — Ross Fisher, England 35-33 — Michael Hoey, Northern Ireland 36-32 — Graeme McDowell, Northern Ireland35-33— Gregory Bourdy, France 34-34 — Robert Rock, England 34-34 — Jeev Milkha Singh, India 36-32 — Darren Fichardt, South Africa 33-35 — Richard Finch, England 36-32 — Adam Gee, England 35-33 — Tom Lewis, England 37-31 — Jake Roos, South Africa 33-35 — Justin Walters, South Africa 34-34 — Also Paul Casey, England 33-36 — Padraig Harrington, Ireland 35-34 — Jose Maria Olazabal, Spain 35-34 — Darren Clarke, Norther Ireland 36-36 — Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland 38-36 —

Strawn.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Acquired INF Amos Ramon from Lancaster (Atlantic) for future considerations.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed LHP David Wynn. Released RHP Matt Soren.

QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed INF Luis Argumedes.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Sold the contract of RHP Terance Marin to the Chicago White Sox. GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Sold the contract of INF Michael Massi to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Signed OF Ryan Sells.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Signed RHP Zach Gordon.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Released RHP Ryan Mitchell.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed RHP Kevin Carroll and RHP Ross Spurgeon. Released RHP James Bierlein and RHP Max Duval.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed LHP Josh Spence.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed DE Jamil Merrell

and LB Conor O’Neill. Waived S Sean Cattouse, QB Jerrod Johnson and TE Fendi Onobun. Terminated the contract of DL Israel Idonije.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed NT Brandon McKinney.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Released DE Jason Babin. Signed K Kasey Redfern, WR Nathan Slaughter and C Charley Hughlett. Waived WRs Kevin Smith and Brandon Wimberly.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released WR Reggie Dunn.

NEW YORK JETS— Signed K Andrew Furney and P Jacob Schum. Released TE Terrence Miller.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins and WR David Gettis.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with TE Dorin Dickerson. Waived TE David Wright.

HOCKEY CAROLINA HURRICANES — Named Bill Peters coach.

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Signed LW Jamie McGinn to a two-year contract.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Re-signed F Alex Killorn to a two-year contract.

American Hockey League WORCESTER SHARKS — Signed F Jimmy Bonneau.

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● Woody’s Triathlon: Sprint and relay, 7 a.m., start, Michener Recreation Centre. ● 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 1 lacrosse: St. Albert at Red Deer, 6 p.m., Blackfalds Multiplex.

Soccer FIFA WORLD CUP At Brazil

Iran Bosnia-Herz.

GROUP A Brazil Mexico Croatia Cameroon

GROUP C

Atlanta 000 200 010 — 3 11 0 Wash.

000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Floyd, Varvaro (7), J.Walden (8), Kimbrel (9) and Gattis; Zimmermann, Blevins (8), Barrett (8), Stammen (9) and Lobaton. W—Floyd 2-2. L—Zimmermann 5-4. Sv—Kimbrel (21).

Sunday

● Woody’s Triathlon: Kids of Steel, 8 a.m., start, Michener Recreation Centre. ● 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

NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 100 100 001 000 — 3 8 0 Pittsburgh 000 030 000 001 — 412 1 (12 innings) Bailey, LeCure (6), Ondrusek (7), M.Parra (8), Broxton (9), A.Chapman (9), Cingrani (11) and Mesoraco; Locke, Watson (7), Melancon (8), Grilli (9), J.Hughes (10), Ju.Wilson (12) and C.Stewart, R.Martin. W—Ju.Wilson 2-0. L—Cingrani 2-8.

HRs—Cincinnati, Mesoraco (10).

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions

● 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.

GROUP B

Milwaukee 000 021 010 — 4 9 1 Arizona 000 010 000 — 1 7 1 Gallardo, Duke (8), Wooten (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Maldonado; C.Anderson, O.Perez (7), Stites (8), Putz (9) and Gosewisch. W—Gallardo 5-4.

L—C.Anderson 5-2. Sv—Fr.Rodriguez (23).

Park. ● Kickboxing/Muay Thai: Superfights 22, doors open at 6 p.m., first bout at 7 p.m., Red Deer Sheraton. ● Jr. B tier 1 lacrosse: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Blackfalds Multiplex.

Today

INTERLEAGUE Seattle 000 010 000 — 1 8 0 San Diego 000 000 40x — 4 6 1 E.Ramirez, Leone (7), Beimel (7), Rodney (8) and Buck; Hahn, Benoit (8), Street (9) and Grandal. W— Hahn 2-1. L—Leone 2-1. Sv—Street (20).

Golf Brendan Steele Bud Cauley Ryan Moore Chad Campbell Joe Durant Jeff Maggert Scott Langley Eric Axley Doug LaBelle II K.J. Choi Ken Duke Sergio Garcia Brandt Snedeker Brooks Koepka Brad Fritsch Justin Hicks Heath Slocum Keegan Bradley Kevin Chappell Russell Knox Tim Wilkinson Steve Marino Hudson Swafford Matt Kuchar Dustin Johnson Harris English Patrick Rodgers Brice Garnett Charley Hoffman Bubba Watson John Merrick Chris Stroud Vaughn Taylor Aaron Baddeley Michael Putnam Sang-Moon Bae Andrew Svoboda Charlie Wi Billy Mayfair Cameron Beckman Gonzalo Fdez-Castano Trevor Immelman Angel Cabrera Carl Pettersson J.J. Henry Seung-Yul Noh Hunter Mahan Johnson Wagner Retief Goosen Morgan Hoffmann David Duval Wes Roach Jamie Lovemark Vijay Singh Andres Romero Tim Herron Brian Harman Tyrone Van Aswegen Miguel Angel Carballo Jim Herman Chad Collins Kevin Streelman Ben Crane

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Saturday, June 21 Iran vs. Argentina, 10 a.m.

Ghana vs. Germany, 1 p.m.

Bosnia-Herzegovina vs. Nigeria, 4 p.m.

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Sunday, June 22 Russia vs. Belgium, 10 a.m.

Algeria vs. South Korea, 1 p.m.

Portugal vs. U.S., 4 p.m.

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Wednesday, June 18 Australia 2 Netherlands 3 Spain 0 Chile 2 Cameroon 0 Croatia 4 Thursday’s results Colombia 2 Ivory Coast 1 Japan 0 Greece 0 Uruguay 2 England 1 Friday, June 20 Costa Rica vs. Italy, 10 a.m.

France vs. Switzerland, 1 p.m.

Ecuador vs. Honduras, 4 p.m.

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Thursday’s results Toronto 41 Hamilton 23 Friday’s results Ottawa at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.

Calgary at B.C., 8 p.m.

Michael Phelps ready for challenge at Santa Clara Grand Prix; third race out of retirement

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Michael Phelps returned to swimming on his own terms. His ultimate goal obviously is to compete in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, though he’s being coy about it.

The 18-time Olympic champion said Thursday that he’s focused on this weekend’s Santa Clara Grand Prix, where he is entered in the 100-meter freestyle and 100 butterfly Friday, the 200 freestyle Saturday and the 200 individual medley Sunday.

“I’d like to see where I am at the end of this meet,” Phelps said. “I hope to get out with some positive swims that will help me move forward to the nationals.”

Santa Clara represents the final major event before the U.S. nationals in August when swimmers will qualify for the 2015 world championships.

“I’m a goal-oriented person,” said Phelps, who will turn 29 at the end of the month. “You guys won’t know until it happens. I let my swimming do the talking.”

The meet is his third since ending his retirement two months ago and, possibly, his most ambitious. He swam in two events in each of his past two meets.

Coach Bob Bowman said Phelps would be competitive if he decides to give it a go in the Olympics.

“He’s good enough,” Bowman said. “Instead of a four-year plan, we’re on a four-hour plan. We’ll see how he holds up after this meet.”

Even after winning a record 22 Olympic medals, Phelps had difficultly staying away from a sport that has been part of his life for 22 years.

“There is a challenge in everything I do,” Phelps said. “There are things unfinished and things I want to accomplish. At this point it really is about having fun. It’s great to get into the pool with a group of world class swimmers.”

In his first two meets of the Grand Prix series, Phelps swam 52.13 in the 100 butterfly to finish second in Mesa and first in Charlotte. His world record is 49.82.

“It’s great to see him just enjoying it,” Bowman said. “When I first met him he wasn’t famous. He was just a little kid who loved swimming. He could do it quite well for whatever reason.

He’s kind of like that now. There’s a joy in what he’s doing and that’s fun for me.”

Other than having to wake up so early, Phelps considers this the happiest time of his professional life.

“As much as I said I can’t wait to be done, that’s a lie,” he said. “Something keeps drawing me back in the water. This sport afforded me so many things that I will never give up on changing it.”

Phelps would like to see continued growth in the support of swimming and in making it safer for children.

“More kids need to be water-safe,” he said. “We’re losing too many kids to drowning incidents. This is an amazing sport and people should come out and support us.”

Natalie Coughlin, a 12-time Olympic medallist , and Missy Franklin, who has four gold medals and just completed her freshman season at the University of California, also are entered.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, June 20, 2014

Canadiens to retire Lapointe’s No. 5 DEFENCEMAN TO BE REUNITED WITH BIG THREE MATES SAVARD, ROBINSON IN RAFTERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Guy Lapointe was gardening in his front yard last week when Montreal Canadiens owner Geoff Molson pulled up to his house for an unannounced visit.

Lapointe didn’t know what was in store for him. As it turned out, the former Canadiens defenceman was about to receive an unexpected honour.

From Lapointe’s kitchen in Saint-Lazare, Que., Molson announced that the Hall-of-Famer will become the 18th player in Canadiens history to have his jersey retired by the team.

The retirement ceremony will occur during the course of this coming National Hockey League season.

“It’s extraordinary,” Lapointe said Thursday at the Canadiens Hall of Fame, located at the Bell Centre. “With the people I’ll be next to — Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard, Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson, Serge Savard — I just can’t stop thinking about it. I was happy with just looking up at those jerseys. I never thought, in all sincerity, that my number would be retired. It never crossed my mind.”

On Thursday, the Canadiens organization made official the decision to retire Lapointe’s No. 5, the first jersey to be honoured since 2009 when Elmer Lach and Emile (Butch) Bouchard received what’s considered one of the most prestigious honours in sports.

Lapointe, 66, will finally be

reunited with his Big Three teammates — Savard and Robinson — in the Bell Centre rafters. Savard’s No. 18 was retired in 2006, and Robinson’s No. 19 joined the following year.

Known as much for their staunch defending and offensive prowess, the Big Three were instrumental in Montreal’s six Stanley Cup victories in the 1970s.

And the three defencemen were on hand at the Bell Centre on Thursday to celebrate Lapointe’s big day.

“I’m happy to see you both here,” the Montreal native Lapointe told his former teammates before pointing to the rafters. “But I’ll be even happier to see you up there when my jersey is going to be retired.”

Between 1968 and 1984, Lapointe played 16 seasons in the NHL — 12 of them with the Canadiens before brief stints with the St. Louis Blues and Boston Bruins.

Always a threat on the power play, Lapointe was known for his explosive speed, his inspired bouts of offence, and his rocket of a slapshot. He recorded 622 points in 894 career games, and ranks second in goals by a Canadiens defenceman with 166.

Nicknamed Pointu, Lapointe had three consecutive 20-goal seasons, and still holds the Canadiens record for most goals in a year by a defenceman with 28.

In his first complete season with the Habs in 197071, Lapointe’s 15 goals set a franchise record for a rookie

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Former Montreal Canadiens’ player Guy Lapointe smiles as poses at the Canadiens’ Hall of Fame in Montreal, Thursday, following a news conference announcing the retirement of his No. 5 jersey. defenceman. The record still stands today.

“A lot of minutes in a lot of situations — that’s the way he was,” said Robinson of Lapointe, whom he compared to Montreal’s P.K. Subban. “Guy could hold his own against anybody. He could play in all situations, play a lot of minutes. That’s the reason he’s in the Hall of Fame.

“It’s very fitting to have his sweater up there. I’m glad I got mine up there first — I fi-

nally beat him at something.”

Lapointe was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993, two years before Robinson. He won six Stanley Cups — all with the Canadiens — including four consecutive championships between 1976 and 1979.

“I grew up with this excellent organization,” said Lapointe, who also pointed to the 1972 Summit Series in Moscow and 1976 Canada Cup — both memorable victories

for Canada — as exceptional moments in his career.

“The Canadiens helped me become a better hockey player and a better person. The team allowed me to reach goals I didn’t even think were possible.

“Winning was always our goal. That paid dividends throughout my career. I was a lucky person to make the team. I owe a lot to the Montreal Canadiens. They’ve been very good to me.”

Avs in running for awards after surprise season DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche could be wearing out the red carpet at the NHL awards show next week with all the players they have up for honours.

Semyon Varlamov is in the running for top goalie, Nathan MacKinnon up for best rookie and Ryan O’Reilly a candidate for sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct. Coach Patrick Roy also could be recognized for his work behind the bench.

It was just that kind of season for the surprising Avalanche, who tied a franchise record with 52 wins as they returned to the post-season after a three-year absence.

The attention now — with the nominations and all — is “exciting,” Roy said.

The attention they’re sure to draw come next season?

Well, it’s enough to inspire fear — or so Roy is hoping, because, “the day you’re capable of dealing with the word fear, you’re becoming a winner.

“There are going to be expectations,” Roy said Thursday as he and front office executive Joe Sakic discussed everything from the upcoming draft to free agents to watching the Los Angeles Kings win the Stanley Cup title. “That’s what we’re going to have to go through.”

Colorado was less than 3 minutes away from escaping out of a physical and tightly contested first-round playoff series with Minnesota.

Up a goal late in Game 7, the Avs couldn’t protect it and the Wild advanced to play Chicago.

“You never know what could happen after that,” Roy said. “But it was good for us. It was a great year for us, in the way we learned a lot from it. I think it makes us a better team.”

The Avs are hoping they can return the nucleus for another run. Sakic said Thursday he is optimistic about bringing back unrestricted free agent Paul Stastny and getting a long-term deal done with O’Reilly, who led the team with a career-high 28 goals.

That is, if they don’t need to stray too far out of their salary structure to make it happen. They’ve already set the financial bar in deals with Varlamov, Matt Duchene and captain Gabriel Landeskog.

“We believe Ryan and Paul should fit in that structure as well,” Sakic said. “We don’t believe anyone should be ahead of those guys.”

Sakic insisted there’s no animosity with O’Reilly’s camp even though the team decided to recently file for an arbitration hearing. They’re hoping to work things out.

“It’s just a business decision. I know Ryan understands that,” Sakic said.

“He loves being here; I believe he wants to stay here.

“Our intention is to have Ryan be a part of this group. He’s very valuable to our team. He’s part of our core. We feel he should be part of that structure within that core as well.”

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GM Murray says Koivu, Hiller and Winnik won’t return to Anaheim Ducks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANAHEIM, Calif. — Centre Saku Koivu and goalie Jonas Hiller are done with the Anaheim Ducks.

Koivu, Hiller and forward Daniel Winnik won’t be offered contracts by the Ducks for next season, general manager Bob Murray confirmed Thursday.

The Pacific Division champion Ducks are cutting ties with several dependable veterans after the best regular season in franchise history and a second-round playoff exit.

Along with Teemu Selanne’s retirement, the departures of Koivu and Hiller will allow the Ducks’ young talent to assume bigger roles next season.

Anaheim also is in the trade market for an elite centre.

“We’ve got younger players coming along that we had to move into the lineup,” Murray said. “I thought it was best for this organization that we move forward a little bit. It was just time.”

The 39-year-old Koivu became a fan favourite during five seasons with the Ducks, even while his scoring production dwindled. The four-time Finnish Olympian was the longtime captain of the Montreal Canadiens.

Murray said the Ducks’ decision on Koivu was “the hardest of the three.

He had a great career.”

Murray isn’t certain what Koivu will do next, but wouldn’t be surprised if he decides to play in Finland. Koivu said last month he was contemplating retirement.

The Ducks’ decision to part ways with Hiller means they’ll head into

next season with a new starting goalie for the first time since 2009.

Hiller made an All-Star team, won a playoff series and consistently backstopped the Ducks through several seasons of frequently terrible defensive play in front of him, going 162-110-32 over seven years.

But the Swiss netminder lost his starting job late in the regular season to Danish backup Frederik Andersen, and he played infrequently in the postseason while the Ducks went with Andersen and 20-year-old John Gibson, widely considered the top goaltending prospect in hockey.

“Jonas did so much for us,” Murray said. “But we’ve got pretty good kids there, so the writing was kind of on the wall.”

The 32-year-old Hiller had hoped to stay in Anaheim, but he joins Ryan Miller as the top goalies available in free agency.

Anaheim signed the undrafted Hiller out of Switzerland’s top league in May 2007. He beat out Ilya Bryzgalov for a roster spot and swiftly seized the starting job from Jean-Sebastien Giguere, the Stanley Cup-winning starter and franchise’s winningest goalie.

“It’s funny how it comes full circle,” Murray said.

Hiller won 14 consecutive decisions during his final season with the Ducks, and he shut out the Los Angeles Kings at Dodger Stadium in January.

Andersen and Gibson both struggled at times in the playoffs, but confirmed he wasn’t in the Ducks’ plans when he got just two post-season starts even after Andersen struggled and eventually got injured.

committed just one minor penalty all season, joining Butch Goring (Los Angeles, 1977-78) as the only NHL players to suit up in 80 games and have two or fewer penalty minutes.

He’s not the only one who may be taking centre stage in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Varlamov is a contender for the league’s top goaltender award after a season in which he won a franchiserecord 41 games, breaking the mark held by Roy. MacKinnon remains a huge favourite for the Calder Trophy, which is giv-

en to the top first-year player. MacKinnon, the top overall pick, led all rookies in points (63), assists (39) and shots (241). What’s more, MacKinnon stepped up his game in the post-season, scoring two goals and dishing out 10 assists.

“We certainly believe we have a player who can bring his game to another level,” said Roy, who’s in the running for coach of the year after becoming just the fifth coach in NHL history to win at least 50 games in his first season. “He’s a player capable of doing that. He was exciting to watch.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Legs strapped down, wires and tubes jutting from underneath her blankets, Amy Van Dyken-Rouen began to weep.

An accident on an all-terrain vehicle 12 days earlier left the decorated Olympic swimmer paralyzed and headed toward an uncertain future, yet these were not tears of sadness or anguish.

They were tears were of joy — for what she still has, not what she lost.

“Yes, this injury sucks and yes, things hurt, but I’m alive and I’m so thankful to be alive, so that’s why I can be positive about it,” Van DykenRouen said. “It helps get me through the pain.”

A six-time Olympic gold medallist , Van Dyken-Rouen was injured when the ATV she was driving hit a curb and sent her hurtling over an embankment near Show Low on June 6. The accident left her paralyzed just below the waist, in intensive care for more than a week and with an uncertain prognosis.

As someone who has been active all her life and an athlete who was among the best ever in her sport, the possibility of spending the rest of her life in a wheelchair could have been a devastating blow.

Instead, Van Dyken-Rouen attacked her new life with the same vigour she had as a world-class swimmer.

Smiling through gritted teeth as she fought through brutal pain and restless nights, she brightened the day of everyone around her at the hospital with her positive attitude and people around the world with her upbeat posts on social media.

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Scottsdale hospital, Van Dyken-Rouen is headed toward the next phase of her recovery.

The 41-year-old loaded onto a medical transport flight Wednesday to Colorado, where she will continue rehabilitation at Craig Hospital in her hometown of Denver.

“A severe spinal cord injury with a complete loss of motor and sensory is a very difficult challenge for any patient, however in the hours after her operation, she was smiling,” said Dr. Luis Manuel Tumialan, Van Dyken-Rouen’s neurosurgeon.

“She wasn’t smiling because it was easy. She was smiling because of the fortitude of her inner person, something I haven’t seen in the 14 years I’ve been doing this.

“The past 12 days, she literally walked through hell with a smile on her face, the likes of which I have never seen.”

Van Dyken-Rouen’s injuries were devastating, nearly fatal.

When her husband, former Denver Broncos punter Tom Rouen, found her, Van Dyken-Rouen was lying face down and not breathing. She began to breathe again after Tom lifted her head and was airlifted to a Scottsdale hospital after being stabilized by emergency personnel.

Once at the hospital, doctors discovered she had a fracture dislocation of the T11 vertebrae, which had subluxed almost entirely over the T12 vertebrae.

The dislocated vertebrae also severed Van Dyken-Rouen’s spinal cord and caused a spinal fluid leak.

Because of the severity of Van Dyken’s injury, Dr. Tumialan told her to say goodbye to her husband because there was a chance she would not make it through surgery.

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Amy Van Dyken of the United States swims her leg of the women’s 4X100 meter medley relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta on July 24, 1996. Van Dyken has a severed spine after an accident on her all-terrain vehicle in Arizona.

The swimmer was hurt June 6, 2014, and is paralyzed heading towards an uncertain future. Van Dyken said she is thankful for being alive and is looking at the positives as she faces an arduous road of rehabilitation.

“It was one of those things where I looked at my husband and said, ’I love you, goodbye, please continue on with your life,”’ Van Dyken said.

During more than six hours of surgery, Dr. Tumialan moved Van DykenRouen’s dislocated vertebrae back into place millimeters at a time to prevent a potentially-fatal rupture of her heart.

He drilled screws into four vertebrae, inserted rods to stabilize her spine and patched the spinal fluid leak.

The surgery was designed to stabilize not restore function, and Van Dyken-Rouen said she is still unable to feel anything from about her pubic bone down.

She still faces an arduous road of rehabilitation and long odds for ever walking again, but will not back down whatever happens.

In the short term, Van Dyken-Rouen plans to buy the best wheelchair available, plaster it with skull-and-bones stickers, paint it purple and dye her hair to match.

Long term, she will do whatever it takes.

“It’s almost like a rebirth,” Van Dyken-Rouen said. “I get to learn how to do everything all over again and I’m anxious to do that. It’s time to start so I can get back to Arizona and continue my life — start my new life, I guess.”

Riley says Heat need to retool, not rebuild

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There have been franchises that have enjoyed prolonged runs of greatness during his 45 years as a player, coach and executive in the NBA — the Lakers, Celtics, Bulls, Spurs and his Miami Heat among them — and Thursday Riley pointed out each shares a trait.

They all lost sometime.

“I think everybody,” the Heat president said moments after smacking the table to begin the news conference, “needs to get a grip.”

With that, Riley was off and running on a messagesending session that lasted nearly an hour. No players were there, but they surely heard his themes: He saw his team’s mental fatigue during the year, but doesn’t accept it; he isn’t willing to let Miami fall from the ranks of the NBA elite, and the organization will do what it can to keep LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade together.

“We have a tremendous opportunity here for longterm success,” Riley said. “Don’t think we’re not going to get beat again, so just get a grip, everybody.

That’s my message. It’s my message to the players, also.”

It was one of his many messages.

Riley, who gets a reported $75,000 when hired to deliver motivational speeches, worked in anecdotes on everything from sipping Johnnie Walker Blue to playing James Ingram records to how even at 69 years old he still finds himself dreaming big.

He was speaking with reporters, but clearly talking to players through the cameras.

“You’ve got to stay together, if you’ve got the guts,” Riley said. “You don’t find the first door and run out of it if you have an opportunity. This is four years now into this era, this team. Four finals — it’s only been done three other times before — and two championships. From day one to the end, it was like a Broadway show. It sort of ran out of steam. And we need to retool. We don’t need to rebuild.”

How to retool is the question, but the answer isn’t up to Riley yet.

James, Bosh and Wade all need to decide if they’re going to opt out of their contracts, a choice that was probably going to be complicated even if the Heat hadn’t lost the NBA Finals to San Antonio, ending Miami’s two-year reign as league champions. From those decisions, Heat free-agents-to-be — Ray Allen, Mario Chalmers, Chris Andersen and others — may start charting their futures. Players from other teams will listen as well.

Then Riley and the Heat spring into action on July 1, just as they did four years ago when they netted James, Bosh and Wade. Other than Norris Cole, no Heat player currently is locked into a fully guaranteed deal for next season. But Riley doesn’t feel the

Heat need to recruit current players again.

“We’re prepared,” Riley said. “We’ve got the mainthemed book all written up and it’s dependent on whatever the scenario we’re presented with on July 1. We’ve got a lot of room for flexibility. There’s a tremendous amount of flexibility depending on what happens. So we’re ready.”

He offered plenty of perspective on Thursday, about how he still feels like he choked away what should have been a title for the Lakers team he coached in 1984, but how they roared back with three titles in the next four seasons. He even referenced how San Antonio got much better this season after seeing a title in 2013 get taken away by Miami in dramatic fashion.

“What happened last year with San Antonio? Did

Kansas centre Joel Embiid is scheduled to have surgery Friday to repair a stress fracture in his right foot, a stunning development that could affect the top choices in next week’s NBA draft.

Embiid, one of the top three candidates the Cleveland Cavaliers were considering for the No. 1 overall pick, fractured the navicular bone in his right foot, agent Arn Tellem said Thursday.

Embiid will be unable to do any additional workouts and will not attend the draft in New York.

Prior to the injury, Embiid was widely considered to be the front-runner to be taken by the Cavaliers.

The versatile 7-footer had a jaw-dropping freshman season with the Jayhawks, averaging 11.2 points and 8.1 rebounds while blocking 72 shots to earn Big 12 defensive player of the year honours.

His combination of nimble feet, powerful athleticism and the soft touch on his jumper prompted comparisons to Hakeem Olajuwon, the Houston great who led the Rockets to two NBA titles in the 1990s.

Embiid impressed teams and scouts during workouts in California earlier this month, helping him show he was fully recovered from a stress fracture in his back that caused him to miss the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments.

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It’s not about free agency. It’s not about anything. It’s about what we have built over four years here.”

Among Riley’s more impassioned defences was the one of Wade, who was widely criticized for both missing 28 games in the regular season — mainly part of a maintenance program laid out by the team — and for struggling in Games 4 and 5 of the NBA Finals.

“For the last 10 years, this has been a Dwyane Wade-driven thing,” Riley said. “Now does he have to reinvent himself a little bit? Absolutely.”

Riley can only hope that reinvention is in Miami, and that James and Bosh are there as well.

“I’m an Irish guy who believes in big dreams,” Riley said. “I’m optimistic. Until that’s proven different, I just have a level of optimism that there isn’t a better place for players to be than Miami.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPIELBERG, Austria — Red Bull doubts coming home will be an advantage, as Formula One returns to Austria this week for the first time in 11 years.

Team drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel finally ended Mercedes’ six-race winning streak by finishing 1-3 in the Canadian Grand Prix two weeks ago.

But just when their F1 fortunes have taken an upturn, they don’t believe their home track, the old A1 Ring redubbed the Red Bull Ring, will give them anything more than an emotional boost in the Austrian Grand Prix.

Even then, teams that have been eating Red Bull’s exhaust for the last four years are keen to pay them in kind on their home track.

“It adds a bit of extra motivation,” F1 leader Nico Rosberg of Mercedes admits. “It would be really special to win on the A1 Ring.”

Ricciardo and Vettel believe rival Mercedes will bounce back from its hiccup in Montreal, and go into the Austrian GP as deserved favourites.

“The gap is still big,” Ricciardo said on Thursday.

“We’ve got a bit of steam from the last race. We’re all really excited - the home one for Red Bull - but (closing the gap) is still going to take a bit of time, it’s not going to happen overnight.”

Vettel thinks Mercedes is likely to have sorted out the technical mishaps from Montreal.

“Everything else would surprise me,” Vettel said, adding his team’s goal was to get as close as possible to its dominant rival. “If a chance comes up like in Canada, we want to be right there to take it.”

Only engine troubles have stymied Mercedes this season.

In Montreal, Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton had the same problem at about the same time, when their rear brakes overheated.

While Hamilton went out, race leader Rosberg managed to limit the damage and lost just one place.

“It’s work in progress,” Rosberg said of his team technicians trying to solve the problem. “We are confident it’s not happening again.

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Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo of Australia, right, speaks to Force India driver Sergio Perez of Mexico during a press conference in Spielberg, Austrian province of Styria, Thursday. The Austrian Formula One Grand Prix will be held on Sunday. vative.”

Despite his second DNF of the season, Hamilton took positives out of the Canadian GP. “We’ve only gained from that experience,” the 2008 world champion said.

“The car’s been fixed so that won’t happen again. ... We have a lot races ahead of us so a couple of DNFs are not concerning me too much now. I have done my optimum but there is still room for improvement.”

The Austrian GP was last held in 2003, when Michael Schumacher triumphed on his way to the sixth of his seven world titles.

Only four drivers have raced on this circuit — Jenson Button, Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso and Filipe Massa. It will be the first time for Ricciardo and Vettel.

Although the track has been modified only slightly, the 11-yearold race data won’t be much help as the series has drastically changed with the introduction of the hybrid cars.

“To be honest, I don’t remember anything ... I have no memories,” Alonso said. “(It) is a very short circuit, so there are only five or six corners around here where you can make

the time, so I expect all the cars to be very close. One or two tenths (in time), you can make a lot of places, so you just need to make a perfect lap.”

Teams will rely heavily on their simulations, and need to gather as much data as possible during practice on Friday and Saturday morning, especially on surface characteristics. Those could change between the first and second practices as rain has been forecast for Friday afternoon.

At 4.3 kilometres, the track is one of the shortest on the calendar.

However, it has fast straights and features only nine turns, with just the first three to be taken in low gear, and it includes two DRS zones — after the second and the ninth turn. In these zones, drivers are allowed to alter the angle of their car’s rear wing flap to reduce drag while attempting to overtake.

Until the Canadian GP, Mercedes was racing in a league of its own. Rosberg leads with 140 points, Hamilton has 118, and next-best was Ricciardo, on 79.

Vettel was fifth with 60, but he and Ricciardo are hoping coming home will make a difference.

WIMBLEDON — Canada’s Aleksandra Wozniak has qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon with a 6-4, 6-3 win over American Melanie Oudin.

Wozniak, from Blainville, Que., jumped out to a 3-0 lead on Thursday only to see Oudin draw level.

The Canadian later broke Oudin’s serve to take the first set.

The world No. 118 carried the momentum into the second set to qualify for her second consecutive Grand Slam main draw.

“This match was important for me psychologically,” Wozniak said. “I played well and I did what I had to do to qualify for Wimbledon. It feels good to play a lot of matches, it helps to polish my game.”

Wozniak joins No. 13 seed Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., and unseeded Sharon Fichman of Toronto in the women’s draw. Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., (No. 8) and Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil (No. 31) are in the men’s singles draw.

The 26-year-old Wozniak also advanced to the main draw of the French Open, where she lost to Romania’s Sorana Cirstea in the first round.

Wozniak had lost her two previous meetings against Oudin. They were scheduled to play at the Bell Challenge in 2012, but Wozniak was unable to start the match because of a shoulder injury.

She will now get at least three days off before her first-round match. The draw for the singles matches will be made Friday and first-round play is scheduled to begin Monday.

Pospisil was originally unseeded but moved into the No. 31 spot when Nicolas Almagro of Spain withdrew because of a left foot injury.

Almagro was given the No. 25 seed when the list of 32 seeded players was released earlier this week.

Players below him all moved up one position except for Russia’s Dmitry Tursunov, who remained at No. 32.

Tournament organizers consider player rankings and previous grass-court results over the last two years when determining the seeding, which is why Pospisil was given a higher seed than Tursunov.

Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic are seeded third in the men’s doubles draw.

Frank Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont., did not qualify after dropping a 2-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 decision to Taiwan’s Jimmy Wang.

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s test drive of the new Donate A Ride program resulted in 2,480 transit tickets being given to low-income residents through eight social agencies this year.

Modelled after Edmonton’s program, the Red Deer Action Group Society’s version tested the waters with a pilot in April.

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A transit equality report released recently indicated that Red Deer is the largest Alberta city without a lower-cost transit pass for disabled people on fixed incomes.

J e n n i f e r — JEAN STINSON, GROUP PRESIDENT Vandershaege, Central Alberta AIDS Network Society executive “We are picking up those director, said there is a critical individuals that fall through need for this type of program in gaps,” she said.

Red Deer.

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‘THOSE AGENCIES HAVE CLIENTS THAT ARE LIVING IN A CRISIS AND DO NOT HAVE AN INCOME.’

Singer, author are among winners

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The Red Deer Community Band Society is looking for young people who have played woodwind, brass or percussion instruments for at least two years. Youths between 12 and 20 are encouraged to audition on Tuesday, June 24, at 7 p.m. at Westerner Park.

People who want to join the colour guard are also needed. For details, call Michael Mann, director of bands, at 403-346-3911.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF ALBERTA EMERGING ARTISTS AWARDS

EPILEPSY EVENT An afternoon of food, fun, games and friends is all set for later this month and its being organized by the Epilepsy Association of Calgary’s Central Alberta Office. On June 28 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Red Deer’s Rotary Park, at 4501 47A Ave., the summer celebration will be held. It is open to everyone, and food and refreshments will be provided. RSVP by June 26 by emailing normak@ epilepsycalgary.com or by calling 403-358-3358.

If anyone has allergies or dietary requirements, they are asked to tell organizers ahead of time.

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Red Deer Emergency Services crews exit a smoky Sunnybrook South home on Thursday.

Fire crews were sent to 24 Sawyer Close after smoke was seen billowing from the home around 1:30 p.m. The lone occupant was not home at the time. The fire was contained to one room, but there was substantial smoke damage to the second floor.

Damage to the $1-million home is estimated to be between $150,000 to $200,000.

A Red Deer opera singer and a Lacombe author are among eight winners of the prestigious Lieutenant Governor of Alberta 2014 Emerging Artists Awards.

Author Jennifer Quist and singer Tracy Cantin were presented with medals and cheques of $10,000 each in a private ceremony at Government House. The eight Alberta winners were selected from 194 applicants.

Tracy Cantin, who was born in Red Deer but is living in Chicago, is a classical soprano who is in her third and final year at the Young Artist Training Program at the Lyric Opera. She has performed under the direction of leading conductors, debuted in a various roles, and understudied for some leading sopranos.

Adjudicators describe Cantin as being “on the cusp of an international career.” Critics have described her voice as “luminous,” and capable of strength and “extraordinarily accurate virtuosity.”

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COUNCIL Police hunt suspect in attempted robbery Fate of backyard

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leaving the area on foot, walking north. Witnesses did not see a weapon and no one was injured during the attempted robbery.

Police patrols of the area failed to locate the suspect. Police dog services were not able to track the suspect due to weather conditions and traffic.

The suspect is described as about 30 years old, with a heavy build, weighing 80 to 90 kg (180 to 200 pounds). He had a short, buzz-cut beard with some grey.

He wore a brown ball cap and red T-shirt.

He was breathing heavily while at the bank and did not speak.

Anyone with information that may assist the police in identifying the suspect is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit. com.

chickens looms Red Deer city council will decide the fate of backyard chickens on Monday.

The Urban Chicken Pilot Project will come to a close on June 30.

Administration is recommending that council approve a new chicken bylaw with regulations similar to other animal bylaws in Red Deer.

The pilot, allowing up to six chickens but no roosters in backyards, was originally slated to wrap up on March 31 but was extended to June 30.

The formal pilot was approved by council in 2013 following an initial pilot in 2012.

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chickens each participated in the pilot.

If council does not allow chickens in the city, the existing urban chicken farmers may be given time to arrange new homes for their feathered friends or be allowed to keep those chickens until the end of their lifespan.

During the pilot, there were site visitations and a public consultation process. Council will hear the report before making a decision.

The urban chicken portion of the council meeting is expected to get underway around 6 p.m. in council chambers.

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Police say at about 5:15 p.m., a man entered the bank, located at 6320 50th Ave., and passed a note to a teller demanding $2,000 in cash.

W h e n the teller could not Robbery suspect access that amount of money and called a supervisor over, the suspect left.

The suspect left the bank without any money and was last seen

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ABORIGINAL DAY

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BRIEFS Sylvan Lake teacher honoured for making school cool A Sylvan Lake teacher has been rewarded for “making school cool.” École Mother Teresa Catholic School science and mathematics teacher Jeremy Ziebart was one of 20 Alberta teachers to receive an annual award from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA).

For winning, Ziebart received a $2,000 cash prize that he can use to advance science and math education at the school.

The APEGA teacher awards honour teachers in Alberta schools for excellence “in shaping the intellectual and creative development of students.”

Ziebart was also a semifinalist for the 2014 Excellence in Teaching Awards presented by Alberta Education.

City of Red Deer website upgraded A new and improved user-friendly City of Red Deer website will go live on Monday afternoon.

The project comes with a $400,000 pricetag.

The city has been working on the new site for about a year.

Tara Shand, communications consultant, said the responsive website will work on all devices including mobile phones, iPads and desktop computers.

“People will be able to access the website whenever and wherever they want and on whatever device they want,” said Shand.

“The screen will adjust to whatever device you are on.”

The site is expected to go live during the council meeting around 3:30 p.m.

The website is one of the first items on the agenda.

Users may encounter a few hiccups throughout the day while the site comes online.

The existing website (www.reddeer. ca) was launched about 10 years ago.

Major highway paving project set Drivers are warned that traffic could be slowed for the next few weeks on Hwy 12 south of Gull Lake for a major paving project.

About 11 km of the highway will be paved as part of a $1.8-million project that began on June 9 and is expected

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Gateway Christian School Grade 3 students Arthur Jenkins and Anthony Tersigni share a laugh as they work on their Medicine Wheel project on Wednesday. The school celebrated their Aboriginal Day on Wednesday with games, crafts, music and bannock. to last until mid-July.

Traffic may be limited to one lane with flag persons posted at paving sites. Speed limits will be reduced to 50 km/h through the entire construction zone.

Motorists are reminded speeding fines double in construction zones.

Construction will be happening from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Northeast Red Deer plans to be discussed Help shape northeast Red Deer by attending an open house on three proposed neighbourhood area structure plans at the Collicutt Centre on Thursday.

Residents are invited to preview and provide feedback on the proposed projects north of Timberlands and bordered by the future extension of 30th Avenue and 67th Street.

The projects include an amendment to the East Hill Major Area Structure Plan to incorporate the Section 26 Multi-Neighbourhood Plan, the new Evergreen Neighbourhood Area Struc-

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ture Plan and a new northeast high school site and playfield area structure plan.

The open house will run from 3 to 7 p.m. with presentations at 4 and 6 p.m. at the Collicutt Centre.

All feedback received from the open house will be incorporated into a report for the municipal planning commission and city council for consideration in the coming months.

Visit www.reddeer.ca/PlanningOpenHouses where information will be provided on the three projects starting on Monday.

Comments will be accepted until July 18.

For more information, call 403-3098400.

Pickleball demonstration planned A racquet sport called pickleball, which combines elements of tennis, table tennis and badminton, will be on display and open to new participants with the local club.

On June 26, the Red Deer Pickleball

Club is hosting an open house and demonstration at the West Park Community Centre, at 3811 57th Ave. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., people have a chance to partake in free introductory lessons and try the sport.

For more information, call 403-3582559.

Bridge repairs to cause traffic delays Motorists should expect delays and detours when travelling on the 67th Street and Gaetz Avenue bridges starting next week.

As of Monday, crews will be repairing the bridges and fixing sidewalks.

There will be alternating single lane closures from Monday to Friday on the 67th Street bridge.

There will be rotating lane closures and sidewalk closures on the Gaetz Avenue bridge from Monday to July 7.

Pedestrians are asked to use the CPR pedestrian bridge. The closures and detours will be in effect 24 hours a day.

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Sylvan Lake care centre gets new name

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Sylvan Lake’s proposed Urgent Care Centre is tweaking its name but the mission remains unchanged.

The community-led committee has tirelessly pursued a health facility that would offer seven-day service with extended hours, medical care for non-lifethreatening injuries, examination and observation spaces and access to laboratory and X-ray services.

However, it has become clear over time that urgent care centre — nor the less comprehensive designation of family care clinic — did not fit the province’s definition of those facilities.

Instead, Ambulatory Care Centre — Sylvan Lake Area will be the new name.

“The name is not important,” said committee chairperson Susan Samson. “What I want to reassure all of our partners is that we have never deviated away from the things we’ve said will have to be the core services in any facility in Sylvan Lake.

“We’ve always said that is the bare minimum that we needed and we’re not moving away from that, we’re not giving any of that up.”

The committee’s pursuit of a facility to serve the Sylvan Lake area, including outlying communities Bentley, Benalto and Eckville, has been making steady progress.

Paperwork to form a non-profit corporation is near complete and will be filed within the next few days.

Work to build a detailed business case, which will identify the location, space required, services provided and operational costs for an ambulatory care clinic, continues and is expected to be completed by the end of September.

Beginning next week, meetings with Alberta Health to go over the application process will begin, followed by sessions with other interested stakeholders, such as doctors, the Primary Care Network, Family and Social Services, Alberta Health Services, police and community groups.

Samson wants to maintain momentum while the province is supportive. Last month, the Alberta government set aside $45 million in funding for Family Care Clinics that could also be used for an Ambulatory Care Clinic. Nine communities are known to be in the running for funding help.

Health Minister Fred Horne has also proven a supporter of Sylvan Lake’s efforts, said Samson.

Meanwhile, the community continues to show its support. The Spirit of Sylvan Yuletide Festival presented $12,000 towards the care clinic project. About $45,000 has now been raised through Tim Hortons and other community donors and will be used to provide extra medical equipment. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Photo by MYLES FISH/Advocate staff

A worker spreads mulch outside of Father Henri Voisin School in Clearview Ridge on Thursday.

Possession of the new elementary school was handed over to the Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division on Thursday after being built by a consortium through a public-private partnership process. The K-5 facility will open in September with an enrolment capacity of 300 students.

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RIDE: Transport issue For example, she said, the food bank is not accessible to anyone who does not have a car.

“If you need the food bank you don’t necessarily have the money for bus tickets or a bus pass,” she said.

CAANS has never been able to find a funding source that could consistently provide bus tickets.

Many social service agencies are in a similar situation.

Vandershaege said the hope is that people will feel more able to do their own errands and to access CAANS and other services.

“What happens with that little bit of help, they have the ability to hold down a job, which means eventually they will not need the support,” she said.

“Sometimes really simple parts like that can really make a difference.”

She said in the grand scheme of things the price to ride the bus in Red Deer should actually be going down not up to encourage more people to take it rather than vehicles.

Eight agencies received the tickets — Loaves and Fishes Benevolent Society, Central Alberta Refugee Effort, Central Alberta AIDS Network Society, Family Services of Central Alberta, Salvation Army, Central Alberta’s Women’s Outreach Society and Safe

Harbour Society.

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ARTISTS: Creative energy Quist is a novelist and essayist, whose writing was described by adjudicators as being “extraordinarily strong, powerfully handled and evidence of a rarely encountered original voice.”

The mother of five boys has written introspective personal essays for CBC’s Definitely Not the Opera and Tapestry, and written commentaries for The Globe and Mail and National Post. Quist also recently wrote the debut novel Love Letters of the Angels of Death, which was favorably reviewed in newspapers across the country.

“There is no shortage of creative energy in Alberta,” said Alberta Lt.-Gov. Donald Ethell. “These artists have talent, but they also have relentless focus and drive. They are representing us to the world with distinction.”

The other award winners from Edmonton are: Josee Aubin Ouellette, an interdisciplinary visual artist; Jenna Butler, a poet and writer; Nuela Charles, a singer/songwriter; and Heather Inglis, a theatre critic and creator. Winners from Calgary are filmmaker and composer Kyle Thomas and hip-hop artist and poet Daniel Bennett (aka Transit).

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discovered a nice patch of borage on the way, they would double back and load up with nectar.

The social order of these insects is also explained here, and though the author apologizes for putting us to sleep during this discourse, it does explain the This book may contain more about bumblebees harmonious nature of the hive. than you want to know, but you may not We read of the “bee shortage” in New know what you’re missing.

Zealand, and how the tomato growers I’ve been at gatherings where chilthere were obliged to hire many human dren ran screaming because they spothands to “buzz around” the tomato blosted a hard-working bumblebee shopping soms to aid fertilization. But could the around the garden flowers.

British bumblebee be introduced to New The bee has no interest in the child, Zealand without ecological mishap? and a book like this could inform an adult It’s a stirring question in the natural (and subsequently a child) of the life and world and a decision to import cannot be times of this industrious little creature. made lightly.

Bumblebees have been around for 130 The bumblebee has many enemies, million years, give or take, and they have besides loss of habitat. They like to nest earned their place in food production in burrows and the former homes of mice many times over. and voles; other insects often share their Bees belong to the insect order of accommodation, though not always makhymenoptera, which includes ants and ing good roommates.

PEGGY wasps, from which bees evolved. They Though subject to disease and weather FREEMAN help make up a huge group of about a milconditions like all beings, the loss of the lion species, but in the last few thousand natural wild flower garden has caused years, mankind has changed the face of the them the most hardship. By farming so Earth. Destruction of habitat is the biggest much of the planet, every season, mankind challenge to hymenoptera, resulting in one species has caused a shortage of nectar-bearing plants. Some going extinct every 20 minutes. If there are no pol- plants have their seed scattered by the wind, but pollinators, what will happen to the food bearing plants len deep in a flower is protected. of the future?

Read this interesting book of natural history and Dave Goulson has been interested in insects since teach the child (and some adults) at gatherings and the age of seven, and now is a worldwide author- picnics that the bumblebee is working. He’s gatherity on the bumblebee, studying many facets of their ing nectar and transporting pollen from one plant to lives. the next.

The navigational skills of the bees were tested Watch, if you like — he won’t mind and underby taking bees, by car, many miles from home. Once standing his gifts puts food on the table. released, they often beat him back home. If they Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

BOOK REVIEW

Cancer specialist vet shares her battle LUCKY DOG

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — As a surgical specialist treating animals with cancer, Dr. Sarah Boston found herself in the role of both doctor and patient after discovering a suspicious lump in her neck.

The veterinary surgical oncologist had treated more than 100 dogs with thyroid cancer, and was concerned about the mass she found in her right thyroid gland. Too anxious to wait for her ultrasound appointment, Boston begged her husband — who is a large animal veterinarian — to bring his portable machine home, and she sat in their darkened kitchen to conduct her own self-exam.

The story of the unconventional ultrasound is one of many anecdotes which colour Boston’s heartwarming and humorous memoir Lucky Dog: How Being a Veterinarian Saved My Life (House of Anansi Press), where she writes with poignancy and levity about her diagnosis and treatment for thyroid cancer.

The Calgary-born animal doctor also shares the heart-tugging stories of owners who sought her out to care for their ailing pets.

Besides the commonality of cancer, Boston felt there was another key connection between her story and those of her four-legged patients: the need for both people and pets to have someone to champion their cause.

“There is an inherent need to be an advocate for your pet because they can’t speak for themselves, so you have to take on that role for them if you’re a pet owner. But I think it also is important if you’re a patient that you either advocate for yourself or you have someone — either a family member or a friend — who can do that for you,” Boston said during a book tour stop in Toronto.

Boston said it’s also critical for human patients not to be complacent and that even if they personally aren’t equipped with the medical knowledge, it’s important to have someone to help them navigate through the process.

She recalled how others kept tell-

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Dr. Sarah Boston is seated alongside her dog, Rumble, in an undated handout photo. The veterinarian is the author of the new book, Lucky Dog. ing her the lump was likely benign or that she probably had thyroiditis (inflammation of the thyroid gland). She thought otherwise — and was proven right.

“There was definitely something in me that felt strongly that I couldn’t wait, and I needed to push strongly for a diagnosis. But I also think that’s because of my background,” said Boston, president of the Veterinary Society of Surgical Oncology.

“I think it’s important if your gut is telling you something’s wrong, you need to keep pushing until you get a diagnosis.”

It was roughly a nine-month stretch for Boston from the discovery of the mass in her neck through her entire course of treatment, which included two surgeries and radioactive iodine, which can be used to treat thyroid cancer. Throughout that time, she continued to work as a faculty surgical oncologist at the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph, taking breaks for treatment as needed.

Boston said she’s been cancer-free for about 2 ½ years, but there are still lasting effects.

“One thing that’s just different after you have thyroid cancer, you don’t have a thyroid gland anymore and you’re relying on synthetic thyroid that you take,” said the 41-year-old. “I’m used to having endless energy, and after going through this, I still have a lot of energy, but it’s finite. ... By the end of the day, you do feel quite tired.”

Boston said her experience also made her more empathetic to the pain

experienced by her patients. In “Lucky Dog,” she wrote of an ultrasound-guided biopsy where a sample was taken by aspiration, which involves placing suction on the biopsy needle with a syringe.

“I don’t think I’m very brave, but it was really painful to go through that,” Boston recalled. “Our dogs are such good patients so they’ll let us do a lot, but I came back from that experience and said to my colleagues: ’We can’t do aspirates on thyroids anymore on these dogs without sedation because they deserve that. ...’

“I think I’ve always been aware of pain management and good nursing care, but I think it does make you even more aware of that when you’ve gone through those things yourself,” she added. “I really respect our patients because they really put up with a lot.

They’ll run out of a hospital after a thyroid surgery, and I was in bed for two weeks after my thyroid surgery. So, I think it gave me a real appreciation for my patients and how tough they are and how they’re able to get through a lot — a lot of things better than we do.”

Boston and her husband, Dr. Stephen Lee, relocated to the U.S. just under two years ago, where she is an associate professor of surgical oncology at the University of Florida.

Despite having lost patients and her own pets, animals remain a central part of Boston’s life away from the job as well, with her cat Romeow and dog Rumble at home. She also recalled how her late dog, Molly, was a source of comfort as she underwent her cancer treatment.

“I’ve always had pets since I was a baby, so it would be very strange for me to live without having pets,” she said.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2014

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New way to test cancer drugs emerges

WASHINGTON — E-cigarettes with fruity flavours like “cherry crush” ignited an intense U.S. Senate debate this week about whether manufacturers are trying to appeal to youngsters similar to the way that Big Tobacco used Joe Camel decades ago.

“The last thing anyone should want to do is encourage young people to start using a new nicotine delivery product,” Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said as he opened a hearing on the battery-powered devices and worries that e-cigarette makers aim to tempt young people to take up something that could prove addictive.

Jason Healy, president of blu eCigs, and Craig Weiss, president of NJoy, were challenged for more than two hours about industry marketing practices that include running TV commercials and sponsoring race cars and other events. Both men insisted they aren’t trying to glamorize smoking and don’t target young people and that their products are a critical alternative for people desperate to quit traditional smokes.

Electronic cigarettes heat a liquid nicotine solution, creating vapour that users inhale. E-cigarette users say the devices address both the addictive and behavioural aspects of smoking without the thousands of chemicals found in regular paper-andtobacco cigarettes. But there’s not much research on

STUDY WILL MATCH LUNG CANCER DRUGS TO PATIENTS’ GENE PROFILES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A bold new way to test cancer drugs started Monday in hundreds of hospitals around the U.S. In a medical version of speed dating, doctors will sort through multiple experimental drugs and match patients to the one most likely to succeed based on each person’s unique tumour gene profile.

It’s a first-of-a-kind experiment that brings together five drug companies, the government, private foundations and advocacy groups.

The idea came from the federal Food and Drug Administration, which has agreed to consider approving new medicines based on results from the study.

Its goal is to speed new treatments

‘FOR PATIENTS, IT GIVES THEM THEIR BEST CHANCE FOR TREATMENT OF A DEADLY DISEASE.’

carried by smaller groups of patients.

But researchers sometimes have to screen hundreds of patients to find a few with the right mutation, making drug development inefficient, expensive and slow.

One of the leaders of the Lung-MAP study — Dr. Roy Herbst, chief of medical oncology at the Yale Cancer Center — said he once screened 100 patients to find five that might be eligible for a study, and ultimately was able to enrol two.

“It’s just going to be impossible, in rare subgroups, for companies to find enough” people to try out a new medicine, said Dr. Richard Pazdur, cancer drugs chief at the FDA.

— ELLEN SIGAL FOUNDER OF FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCH

to market and give seriously ill patients more chances to find something that will help.

Instead of being tested for individual genes and trying to qualify for separate clinical trials testing single drugs, patients can enrol in this umbrella study, get full gene testing and have access to many options at once.

The study, called Lung-MAP, is for advanced cases of a common, hard-totreat form of lung cancer — squamous cell. Plans for similar studies for breast and colon cancer are in the

works.

“For patients, it gives them their best chance for treatment of a deadly disease,” because everyone gets some type of therapy, said Ellen Sigal, chairwoman and founder of Friends of Cancer Research, a Washington-based research and advocacy group that helped plan and launch the study.

“There’s something for everyone, and we’ll get answers faster” on whether experimental drugs work, she said.

Cancer medicines increasingly target specific gene mutations that are

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Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., questioned the youthful-sounding flavours for e-cigarettes. Healy’s company, for example, sells electronic cigarettes that come in flavours like Cherry Crush, Peach Schnapps and Pina Colada. Healy countered that the average age for consumers of his e-cigarettes is 51.

Rockefeller was not swayed, bluntly admonishing both men and telling them: “I am ashamed of you. I don’t know how you sleep at night.”

About 2 per cent of U.S. teenagers said they’d used an e-cigarette in the previous month, according to a survey done in 2012 and released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And about 7 per cent said they’d tried an e-cigarette at least once in 2012, which translates to nearly 1.8 million.

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Having mammogram may cut breast cancer deaths by 28 per cent

BUT POTENTIAL HARMS EXIST

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — In the latest major study to consider whether the dangers of mammograms outweigh the benefits, experts say the tests can reduce the chances of dying from breast cancer by nearly 30 per cent and that screening programs should continue.

The debate over the value of mammograms has raged in recent years.

A British review in 2012 concluded that for every life mammograms save, about three other women are unnecessarily treated for a cancer that would never have threatened their lives.

In February, a rigorous Canadian paper covering older methods of screening that followed women for more than two decades suggested mammograms don’t lower the risk of dying from breast cancer.

In the new observational study, researchers tracked all Norwegian

women aged 50 to 79 between 1986 and 2009, just as a national screening program was getting underway. Scientists used a model to estimate breast cancer death rates in women invited to get a mammogram as part of the government-funded program and in those who weren’t included yet. They said about 76 per cent of women offered a mammogram actually got it.

The researchers estimated about 368 women need to be given a chance to have a mammogram to prevent one death from breast cancer and that screening reduces breast cancer deaths by about 28 per cent — similar to what many other studies about mammography have concluded. The research was published online in the British journal, BMJ and was paid for by the Norwegian Research Council.

“Mammograms do provide some benefit, but the problem is the screening is so sensitive it captures tumours without malignant potential,” said Lars Vatten of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, one of the study’s authors.

Vatten said improved treatments

‘MAMMOGRAMS DO PROVIDE SOME BENEFIT, BUT THE PROBLEM IS THE SCREENING IS SO SENSITIVE IT CAPTURES TUMOURS WITHOUT MALIGNANT POTENTIAL.’ — LARS VATTEN OF THE NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

for breast cancer were also lowering death rates in developed countries, making mammograms less important since even cancers caught later are sometimes still treatable.

He said the benefits of getting a mammogram justified ongoing screening programs but that women should be given more information about the potential harms, like having unnecessary treatment including surgery and chemotherapy.

In many Western European countries, women are offered mammograms every other year from age 50 to 70. In the U.S., a government-appointed task force recommends the screening start at 50 while the American Cancer Soci-

ety recommends yearly mammograms from age 40.

“To tell women not to have a mammogram is probably an overreaction but we are becoming more certain screening has significant harms,” said Russell Harris of the University of North Carolina, who co-authored an accompanying editorial. He said the paper’s estimate that being offered a chance to get a mammogram reduces breast cancer deaths by almost 30 per cent was an overestimate because of the uncertainties in the model.

“Getting a mammogram is something that women should be given a choice about,” Harris said. “It’s reasonable to decide not to do it.”

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CANCER: Speed new treatments to market He and others at the FDA suggested the LungMAP trial design to speed new treatments to market and “minimize the number of patients exposed to ineffective therapies,” he said.

Everyone in the study will be screened for mutations in more than 200 cancer-related genes, rather than a single mutation as in conventional studies.

Then they will be assigned to one of five groups based on what these tumour biomarkers show.

Each group will test a particular experimental medicine. Drugs can be added or subtracted from the study as it goes on, based on how each performs.

The initial round of testing involves Amgen, Genentech, Pfizer, AstraZeneca PLC, and AstraZeneca’s global biologics partner, MedImmune. Up to 1,000 patients a year can be enrolled in the study.

It will cost about $150 million.

The National Cancer Institute is paying $25 million, and the rest will come from foundations, charities and others in the public-private partnership.

About 500 hospitals that are part of a large cancer treatment consortium around the country will take part, and some private groups want to join as well, Herbst said.

“Nothing like this has ever been done before,” where such comprehensive testing will be done to match patients to experimental drugs, he said.

Breyan Harris, a 33-year-old nurse from Sacramento, hopes to enrol. She’s a lifelong non-smoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer on June 3.

Experts struggle to increase use of methadone alternative

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The government’s top drug abuse experts struggled Wednesday to find ways to expand use of a medicine which is widely-considered the best therapy for treating heroin and painkiller addiction, but which remains underused a decade after its launch.

Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan pressed officials from the White House, the National Institute of Drug Abuse and other agencies to increase access to the buprenorphine, a medication which helps addicts control drug cravings and withdrawal symptoms.

First approved in 2002 — under a law crafted by Levin and Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch — buprenorphine was hailed as a major advance over methadone, the decades-old standard for addiction treatment.

Among other advantages, buprenorphine has lower risk of overdose, milder side effects and can be prescribed as a take-home medication in the privacy of a doctor’s office — avoiding the stigma of going to a methadone clinic.

But even amid the national epidemic of drug abuse and addiction, access to the buprenorphine remains limited by federal restrictions, inconsistent insurance coverage and a lack of acceptance by physicians.

“As long as we have too few doctors certified to prescribe bupe, we will be missing a major weapon in the fight against the ravages of addiction,” Levin

told the forum, which also included patients and non-government medical experts.

Only 4 per cent of the 625,000 U.S doctors who are eligible to prescribe buprenorphine have received certification to use the drug — which comes as a pill or a film that dissolves under the tongue. Certification requires an eight hour training course in addiction medicine.

Meanwhile an estimated 2.5 million Americans are addicted to prescription painkillers or heroin, known collectively as opioids, and less-than half are receiving medical treatment.

“It’s somewhat paradoxical that physicians will use opioids to create a problem, but there seems to be reluctance to help address the problem,” said Dr. Westley Clark of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.

Clark and other experts noted that there is still a stigma attached to treating opioid addiction and many physicians are uninterested in learning how to use drugs like buprenorphine.

Government officials agreed that more training is needed to familiarize both medical students and established physicians with the science that shows addiction can be successfully treated with medication.

Even among doctors who are certified to prescribe buprenorphine, federal law caps the number of patients they can treat to 100.

Dr. Corey Waller, an addiction specialist from Grand Rapids, Michigan, said he has a constant waiting list of patients trying to get a prescription.

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Central Alberta companies making a global impact

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

Garett Cupples knows his way around an atlas.

His company, GenTex Oilfield Manufacturing Inc., has sent oilfield heating and pumping equipment to nearly 20 countries. In fact, exports have accounted for 30 to 50 per cent of his Red Deer company’s sales over the years.

“It can vary from one year to the next,” said Cupples.

GenTex is one of many Central Alberta companies that compete on the international stage, with their business dealings many and varied.

“Exact numbers are hard to come by but the vast majority of companies we deal with are either exporting their products and services, or have a supply chain that includes international suppliers,” said Matt Cornall, investment attraction officer with Central Alberta: Access Prosperity.

Some, like High Arctic Energy Services Inc., have even planted their feet on foreign ground. The Red Deer company operates drilling and workover rigs in Papua New Guinea, a country it’s been active in since 2007.

“We tried some other countries and we found that Papua New Guinea was a nice niche market for us,” said Dennis Sykora, High Arctic’s CEO. Many Central Alberta businesses with international connections are leaders in the energy sector, said Cornall. That makes their products and services valuable in countries where oil and gas resources are being developed.

But there are examples in other industries as well. Some deal in agricultural products, from food commodities to livestock genetics. Others specialize

2013 a strong year for residential construction in Red Deer

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The value of residential construction and renovation work in Red Deer jumped more than 27 per cent in 2013, according to a report commissioned by the Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Alberta.

Consulting firm Will Dunning Inc. calculated the value of new residential construction in the city last year at $159 million, with renovations adding $149 million and related expenditures like realty and legal costs contributing $26 million. The total of $334 million was up sharply from the $262 million that a similar report prepared a year earlier assigned to building activity in 2012.

The most recent report estimated that 2,520 jobs resulted from the residential construction and renovation industry in Red Deer in 2013 — based on person years of work. Of these, 1,370 were direct construction jobs and 1,150 were indirect positions either in Alberta or outside the province. Total wages associated with these jobs were $159 million, said the report.

In 2012, it was estimated that 880 direct jobs and 810 indirect jobs resulted from local residential construction activity. The related wage tally was $105 million.

Provincewide, the report said the residential construction economic impact was $17.9 billion in 2013. That was up 17 per cent from the $15.2 billion in 2012. Total jobs were calculated at more than 100,000 in Alberta and nearly 25,000 elsewhere in Canada. Wages totaled $7.9 billion.

The report indicated that almost one-fifth of all the new homes built in Canada were located in Alberta — the highest proportion since 2007.

“The pressure is on Alberta’s housing market with both rents and existing home sales rising fast,” said Jim Rivait, CEO of Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Alberta, in a release. “New homes are needed to keep prices from rising out of reach of many Albertans, especially first-time buyers.”

Last year, there were 784 housing starts in Red Deer, up 38 per cent from 568 in 2012. The 2013 total was the highest for the city since 2007, when builders combined for 1,558 starts prior to the onset of the recession.

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in more obscure items.

Sylvan Lake’s Fiber-Werx International Inc. has shipped waterslide components to countries as diverse as Brazil, Italy, Taiwan and Australia.

“All over the world,” summed up Fiber-Werx owner Scott Getschel.

Cornall said the United States remains the primary destination for Central Alberta products and services, but emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe are attracting increasing interest from local entrepreneurs.

One of the big benefits of dealing internationally is diversification, agreed Cupples, Sykora and Getschel.

“It balances out the cycles,” said Sykora, whose company’s other operations are in Canada. “It’s challenging and it’s hard work, but it does provide better rates of return.”

Getschel said Fiber-Werx is looking to export other products, most notably a tonneau cover for trucks that the company has been selling in Canada for years.

“We’ve actually had calls from all over the world on that product.”

International trade does create challenges, with different cultures, languages and regulations to deal with.

“Nothing moves fast over there,” said Cupples of some of the countries GenTex is active in. “It can be painful.”

He described the challenge of finding fittings for a tank in Kazakhstan.

“It took two days for us to get the information to the right people to get the fittings made in a machine shop to put onto the tank. Here, we could have had it done in the afternoon.”

In India, Gentex has spent the past 2 ½ years working on a contract with a state-owned oil company for $60,000 worth of parts.

“You can imagine, there’s not a lot

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Workers in China examine equipment provided by Red Deer’s GenTex Oilfield Manufacturing Inc. of margin in that,” said Cupples of the time and resources devoted to this work.

He said it helps to have on-theground support in the countries you’re dealing in, and a reliable translator.

Gentex also tries to send staff who have the patience and skills to deal with strange cultures.

Human resources is also important for High Arctic’s Papua New Guinea operations.

“You have to attract very good people who are capable of operating in that remote location and repairing the rigs without all of the support services available,” said Sykora. “It’s very challenging, but we’ve had good success.”

Cornall said the Alberta and Canadian governments deserve credit for helping domestic companies access new markets.

“The Department of International and Intergovernmental Relations has a

wealth of knowledge and contacts that are at the disposal of our companies who are seeking to engage with global markets. When this is added to excellent trade commissioners service provided by the government of Canada, or from Crown corporations such as Export Development Canada, it is not surprising that more and more of our companies are feeling confident to explore global market opportunities.”

Last year, Alberta announced a new international strategy that included the creation of a Small- and Mediumsized Enterprise Export Council to provide recommendations. International and Intergovernmental Relations Minister Cal Dallas named Cupples chair of that council.

Cupples said the province’s commitment to trade is encouraging.

“We’re an exporting country and an exporting province.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Ontario big loser in equalization ALBERTA GETS BIG BOOST IN TRANSFERS: PBO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Changes to the way federal transfers to provinces are calculated since the Harper government took power appear to have made Ontario a big loser under equalization programs and Alberta the big winner, according to Canada’s budget watchdog.

The parliamentary budget officer says total payments this year will see Ontario obtain $19.2 billion from Ottawa for everything Joe Oliver from equalization to health and social transfers, but that is 3.2 per cent less than the $19.8 billion it received last year.

While the province gains under some transfers, it will lose $1.2 billion under the equalization program designed to give so-called “have-not” provinces the fiscal capacity to provide residents services roughly comparable to those in other provinces.

Until this year, Ontario would have received about $640 million from Ottawa under a program that protected provinces from seeing transfers drop in any one year — but that option was scrapped by then finance minister Jim Flaherty in December.

Meanwhile, Alberta — Canada’s richest province — will see its total rise to $5.2 billion this year from $4.1 billion in 2013-14, a 26.8 per cent increase mostly due to Ottawa moving to a per capita funding formula under the Canada Health Transfer program.

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close to Alberta’s windfall is Quebec, which will see its total intake from Ottawa rise 9.9 per cent to $19.6 billion.

Speaking in Toronto, Finance Minister Joe Oliver said Canada has a “fair, balanced and generous” equalization system and that changes were needed to cap growth because it was becoming “unaffordable.”

Ontario was in favour of the changes when it was considered a have province prior to 2009, he said.

“The Liberal government was in favour when it was contributing to the payments, now that they are receiving equalization payments they may have a different view.”

An official with his office said total transfer payments to Ontario had risen by more than $8 billion since the Harper Conservatives took office in 2006.

But Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa said the PBO report confirms what he has been saying all along: “The current system of federal-provincial fiscal arrangements is working against, not for, the people of Ontario.”

“Each year, the share of federal revenue raised in Ontario is higher than the share of federal spending in Ontario,” he added. “This money could be used in Ontario to fund more hospitals, nurses or public transit.”

The Liberal government of Ontario has been one of the staunchest critics of the changes. But the federal government responded that it was only applying the formula fairly.

Both are in a sense right, says Mostafa Askari, the assistant PBO, although he notes that the cumulative effect of changes to the system has been to deemphasize the distributive element of transfers from rich to poor regions.

“The bottom line is the equalization program has moved away from

being an equalization program to being another transfer program because, the way it is designed now, it does not equalize to any national standard,” said Askari.

For have-not provinces, “their entitlement will be less, so obviously the larger have-not provinces (like Ontario) will be hit by a larger amount because of their size.”

The PBO looked into the controversial program after a request from Liberal MP Judy Sgro.

Askari said there was little point in examining the bottom line numbers since they are published in the budget each year. Total transfers this year will rise to $62.6 billion from $60.5 billion last year.

But what may surprise many Canadians is how changes introduced by Ottawa have diminished the “progressivity” of the equalization system.

For instance, the equalization program was intended to do just that: give have-not provinces the capacity to offer services more or less available to residents of richer provinces. But several changes, including putting a cap on growth of the transfers, has diminished the program’s capacity.

The move to straight per capita funding on health transfers this fiscal year, for instance, has had a major impact on Alberta. That province will see transfers under that program rise by 33.1 per cent. The Northwest Territories will see a 45.5 per cent increase.

Most other provinces also will get more — about 2.5 per cent — and Newfoundland will get slightly less.

Askari says the per capita funding change will be especially difficult for Ontario and Quebec, which tend to have older populations and are likely to experience higher per capita health costs.

debt to disposable income edged down to 163.2 per cent in the first quarter, compared with 163.9 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2013.

The decrease means Canadians owe just over $1.63 for every $1 in disposable income they earn in a year compared with nearly $1.64 at the end of last year.

Bank of Montreal chief economist Douglas Porter called it “a tantalizing hint that the corner is turning,” but noted it did not represent a “decisive” break from the upward trend.

“Before policy-makers break out the party favours and exchange high-fives, note that the figures are not seasonally adjusted,” Porter said.

“The debt/income ratio has dropped

in each of the past five first-quarters, before jumping again in the spring and summer, during prime home buying season.”

Mortgage debt at the end of the first quarter was up by 0.6 per cent from the previous quarter, the slowest pace of growth since early 2009, to more than $1.1 trillion at the end of the first quarter.

Meanwhile, consumer credit debt edged down 0.3 per cent from the fourth quarter to $507 billion.

The move came as household net worth grew by 2.5 per cent in the first quarter, led by a 3.2 per cent gain in the value of shares and other equities as well as a two per cent gain the value of household real estate.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 101.10 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 52.11 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.35 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.84 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.82 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.43 Cdn. National Railway . . 68.31 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 197.58 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.54 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.36 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.81 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.07 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.82 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.11 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.12 General Motors Co. . . . . 36.37 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.31 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.99 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 52.93 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 67.15 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.76 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.91 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.78 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 101.83 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.57 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.29 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.53 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market was barely changed Thursday as traders continued to digest the latest policy announcements from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The S&P/TSX composite index inched up 2.97 points to settle at 15,112.22, adding to its record close on Wednesday which came six years to the day of the previous record set in June 2008, just before the Great Recession sent stocks tumbling. The loonie gained 0.23 of a cent to 92.40 cents US. Wall Street was also muted as markets assessed Wednesday’s Fed statement, which hinted that the central bank wasn’t too worried about inflation but gave no signs on when it might start raising interest rates.

The Dow Jones industrials rose 14.84 points to 16,921.46, the Nasdaq dipped 3.51 points to 4,359.33, while the S&P 500 index added 2.50 points to 1,959.48.

Andrew Pyle, senior wealth adviser at Scotia McLeod in Peterborough, Ont., said both Bay Street and Wall Street seem to be pulling back a bit as traders realize that the Fed statement did not necessarily warrant sending stocks higher.

As expected, the Fed also announced it would continue to reduce its monthly bond buyback program

by US$10 billion to US$35 billion a month starting in July, on signs of a steadily growing U.S. economy.

On Thursday, the Conference Board said its index of leading indicators for the American economy increased 0.5 per cent last month, the fourth consecutively monthly increase for the measure, which attempts to gauge the economy’s future health.

In corporate news, BlackBerry (TSX:BB) posted a surprise US$23million profit in its first quarter, which beat analyst expectations and showed that efforts the company has made to revamp its smartphone business are making headway.

BlackBerry CEO John Chen said the Waterloo, Ont., company plans

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.78 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.45 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 56.89 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.87 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.15 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.50 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.16 First Quantum Minerals . 21.64 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 29.65 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.31 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.80 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.62 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 41.36 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.40 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.30 Energy Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.61 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 36.31 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 73.00 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.72 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 61.30 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 47.81 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 24.27 Canyon Services Group. 18.12 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.89 CWC Well Services . . . . 1.080 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 26.63 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.69 on launching a new keyboard smartphone called the BlackBerry Passport in September. It will also continue to dedicate more resources to serving business and public sector customers after a failed attempt to compete with Apple’s iPhone in the consumer market. Shares in BlackBerry gained more than nine per cent or 84 cents to close at C$9.84 in Toronto.

Meanwhile, commodity markets were higher amid growing geopolitical instability. Traders bought into gold, sending the price of August bullion up $41.40 to US$1,314.10 an ounce.

Pyle said traders are moving into the precious metal as many expect continued volatility in the stock markets going into the summer due to fighting in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian insurgents and government forces and the situation in Iraq.

U.S. President Barack Obama said he was dispatching up to 300 U.S. military advisers to help quell the insurgency in Iraq. Though not specifically mentioning airstrikes, Obama also said he was leaving open the possibility of “targeted and precise military action” in the future.

The July crude contract added 46 cents to US$106.05 a barrel while July copper added two cents to US$3.08 a pound.

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MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Thursday Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,112.22, up 2.97 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,022.06, up 13.24 points TSX 60 — 862.72, down 0.22 of a point Dow — 16,921.46, up 14.84 points S&P 500 — 1,959.48, up 2.50 points Nasdaq — 4,359.33, down 3.51 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 92.40 cents US, up 0.23 of a cent

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 102.63 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 68.98 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.24 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 36.52 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 56.50 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.62 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.79 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.120 Precision Drilling Corp . . 15.13 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 45.94 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.54 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 17.62 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.60 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 77.07 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 77.35 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 70.78 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.63 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 38.94 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.80 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.75 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 51.10 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 72.23 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.02 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.78 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.85 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.10 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.60 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.72 Pound — C$1.8438, up 0.05 of a cent Euro — C$1.4723, down 0.17 of a cent Euro — US$1.3603, up 0.18 of a cent Oil futures: US$106.43 per barrel, up 46 cents (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,314.10 per oz., up $41.40 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.027 oz., up 71.3 cents $740.32 kg., up $22.92 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 1,022.06, up 13.24 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 176.75 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’14 $2.00 lower $476.80; Nov. ’14 $0.90 higher $464.10; Jan ’15 $0.20 higher $469.10; March ’15 $0.50 lower $471.40; May ’15 $1.00 lower $473.20; July ’15 $1.30 lower $474.60; Nov ’15 $2.40 lower $474.70; Jan. ’16 $2.40 lower $468.70; March ’16 $2.40 lower $472.20; May ’16 $2.40 lower $472.20; July ’16 $2.40 lower $472.20.

Barley (Western): July ’14 unchanged 125.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $132.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $134.50; March ’15 unchanged $135.50; May ’15 unchanged $135.50; July ’15 unchanged $135.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $135.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $135.50; March ’16 unchanged $135.50; May ’16 unchanged $135.50; July ’16 unchanged $135.50.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 428,760 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 428,760.

Quebecor eyeing creating national wireless network

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Quebecor is eyeing the establishment of Canada’s fourth national wireless carrier if barriers such as high roaming fees and tower sharing problems are removed.

The media company, which provides cellphone service to about 500,000 customers in Quebec, told shareholders Thursday that it’s looking at expansion beyond the province.

New chief executive Pierre Dion says Quebecor would like to provide Canadians with low-cost wireless choice and more competition.

Dion says Quebecor, which also operates cable, TV and newspapers, is thinking about combining with one or two of the new wireless entrants — Wind Mobile or Mobilicity. He says that would almost triple Quebecor’s consumer base.

The company through its Videotron subsidiary has spent more than $1.6 billion to date, including $788 million on wireless spectrum to build its network.

Dion says the key to expanding its wireless service is the need for a fair and competitive, federally regulated roaming policy.

He says current regulations favour the three large wireless players — Rogers (TSX:RCI.B), Bell (TSX:BCE) and Telus (TSX:T) — which have more than 25 million wireless subscribers among them and control about 90 per cent of Canada’s cellphone market.

Dion says the big carriers characterize any policy changes as “concessions” or “giveaways” to new players, but they’re needed to provide more competition.

The Competition Bureau has said that greater competition in the tightly controlled wireless market could result in savings of about $1 billion a year for consumers and the wider economy.

A report from the Brattle Group estimates a fourth national carrier would expand mobile wireless usage in Canada and drive down the big players’ average retail prices by about two per cent.

The federal telecom regulator wants to know if the big players are putting small wireless players at an unfair disadvantage with the wholesale roaming rates they charge them for using their networks. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has public hearings scheduled for September on the matter.

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BlackBerry CEO John Chen shows off the new Passport (left) and Classic phone models after the company’s Annual General Meeting in Waterloo, Ont., Thursday.

BlackBerry beats expectations with $23-million Q1 profit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WATERLOO, Ont. — BlackBerry delivered a surprise to investors, earning a $23-million profit in its most recent quarter as its efforts to remodel its smartphone business made some headway.

Shares in the company jumped 14 per cent, or $1.26, to $10.26 in early trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday morning.

Chief executive John Chen has said he aims to make BlackBerry a breakeven company by the end of the fiscal year with a target of rising to profitability in its 2016 financial year.

“Over the past six months, we have focused on improving efficiency in all aspects of our operations to drive cost reductions and margin improvement,” he said in a statement.

Chen was hired last year to reshape BlackBerry’s business model, cut costs and lead an effort to help the company find a better footing in the highly competitive tech sector.

On a conference call with analysts, Chen gave some insight into BlackBerry’s plans for the rest of the year.

He said the company will launch a new keyboard smartphone model called the BlackBerry Passport in September, while he also plans to hold an event the same month to showcase its new hardware lineup for next year.

BlackBerry is dedicating more re-

sources to serving business and public sector customers after a failed attempt to compete with Apple’s iPhone and the various smartphones on the Android operating system that dominate the consumer market.

The Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone maker said the profit amounted to four cents per share, compared with a loss of $84 million or 16 cents a year ago.

On an adjusted basis, BlackBerry reported a loss of 11 cents per share, which came in above analyst estimates of a loss of 26 cents, according to Thomson Reuters.

However, revenue tumbled to $966 million for the three months ended May 31, compared with $3.07 billion a year ago.

BlackBerry (TSX:BB) will hold its annual shareholders meeting later this morning in Waterloo.

During the quarter, BlackBerry booked revenue for about 2.6 million smartphone sales, which is an increase from the revenue from 1.3 million devices a quarter earlier.

The results demonstrate that the company is “firmly on track to achieve important milestones, including our financial objectives and delivering a strong product portfolio,” Chen said.

BlackBerry also boosted its cash holdings to $3.1 billion, from $2.7 billion in the previous quarter, with the help of a tax refund and money from the recent sale of real estate assets.

Rain keeping farmers from seeding

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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MELITA, Man. — Up to 400,000 hectares of farmland could go unseeded in Manitoba this year because soggy conditions and relentless rain are making it impossible for farmers to get on their fields.

Dwayne Hodgins has been farming in the southwest near Melita for 30 years and hasn’t been able to seed more than three-quarters of his 2,480 hectares.

Last year, about 800 hectares of his crop were lost when his land flooded after seeding.

His farm has received 300 millimetres of rain this spring, some of which fell on frozen ground because it took so long for the frost to melt.

These days, he said, it’s hard to keep from losing hope.

“The ground’s wet enough without

my tears on it,” Hodgins said.

“You know you need to go to work because you haven’t got a paycheque coming, and then you can’t get out the door because there is a puddle in front of it.

“That’s exactly what it’s like. It’s frustrating.”

While seeding was off to a slow start on much of the Prairies after a frigid winter, it has picked up in Alberta and Saskatchewan, but not in huge swaths of Manitoba.

Crop insurance deadlines are looming, but Hodgins said it won’t cover his costs.

“It gets you by, but you still have to maintain your land and your fixed costs on the land. It doesn’t leave you a whole lot for your equipment and labour costs.”

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Amazon ties its new Fire Phone to its products, services

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — Amazon unveiled its first smartphone ever this week, a device that assists shoppers by using six cameras that can make sense of its user’s face and the world around it.

The phone’s most significant feature, called Firefly, employs audio and object recognition technology to identify products and present the user with ways to purchase the items through Amazon. Users can simply snap a photo of a book, for instance, and Firefly will offer up its title and author, give more information about it and provide ways to buy it.

Seven years after Apple’s iPhone took over the category, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos believes there is room in the market for something different. Even with the dominant leads that Apple and Samsung hold, Bezos told The Associated Press in an interview, “it’s still early” in the wireless device business.

People change phones all the time, he said. It’s not about taking market share right away, but making a phone that is ideal for a certain customer and hoping it takes hold.

“We wanted to make a device that’s great for one person,” Bezos said. “It’s like a certain person likes chocolate and another person likes vanilla. The customer can choose.”

While the new Fire Phone comes with some features that are practically industry standard — like a slim profile, a sturdy glass touchscreen, minimalist buttons and one camera for facing toward and away from the user, it breaks new ground in other areas.

The phone’s Firefly object recognition feature can identify items and product names captured with the device’s camera. It can also pull in useful information such as phone numbers, website addresses.

The company has catalogued more than a hundred million items that Firefly can recognize and has tweaked the technology to recognize words and characters in a variety of real-life situations.

Another feature, called “dynamic perspective,”

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The phone app is demonstrated in carousel mode on the new Amazon Fire Phone in Seattle. uses four infrared, front-facing cameras that tell the phone where the user’s face and eyes are located.

The feature adjusts the user interface so that tilting the screen relative to the viewer’s face can toggle through screens, scroll through websites, make on-

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line video game characters fly up or down, and render buildings and other custom-made art in 3-D. Both features will be available for developers to build into their own apps.

The entry-level Fire phone costs $199 with a twoyear AT&T contract, which places it at the high end of smartphone pricing. But the phone comes with 32 gigabytes of memory, double the standard 16 GB. It also comes with 12 months of Amazon Prime, the company’s free shipping, video, music and book subscription plan, which normally costs $99 a year.

Bezos insisted the company wants to play in the premium phone space and introduce a product that goes beyond what is already in the market.

“This is a very aggressive price point for a premium phone,” he said.

The new device fits with Amazon’s broader aim to create a more efficient shopping experience while steering more consumers to its retail products.

“It goes back to the mission of Amazon, which is to sell you stuff,” said Ramon Llamas of the research firm IDC. “It reduces the number of steps it takes to buy things on the phone.”

Fire also comes with a 4.7-inch screen in the 16:9 aspect ratio, suitable for using with one hand.

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Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On June 11, 2014, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decision for development permit applications: Permitted Use Approvals: Eastview

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Nurse Practitioner for the Red Deer Primary Care Network Street Clinic 0.6 FTE www.reddeerpcn.com The role: The Nurse Practitioner in the street clinic provides primary care to the Vulnerable Population in Red Deer’s Downtown core. You perform comprehensive assessment, diagnosis (including the ordering and interpretation of tests), intervention (including the prescribing of medications), management, referral and evaluation of clients. You will work under a physician mentorship model.

You will develop relationships with community agencies to ensure clients are connected to the services of the clinic.

Your qualifications: You must be registered to practice as a nurse practitioner in Alberta. Experience working with the vulnerable population is an asset.

Application Deadline: June 23, 2014 Please submit your resume to: hr@rdpcn.com or by fax: 403.342.9502.

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You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on July 4, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

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1517958 Alberta Ltd. – site development of a residential lot with a 100.27m2, two storey semidetached dwelling, to be located at 3925 47 Street.

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Operations and Planning Services Located in the heart of Central Alberta midway between Calgary and Edmonton, Lacombe is a unique community of 12,000 rich with history and culture, while at the same time experiencing new and exciting economic prosperity and growth.

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The Opportunity: The City of Lacombe has an opening for a halftime, permanent part-time Health and Safety Coordinator. The Health and Safety Coordinator provides subject matter expertise, coordination, coaching and resources to City leaders and staff to ensure a city-wide, safe work environment.

This position also manages the City’s Risk Management, Insurance and Claims programs.

Anders 1. D.Vandenbrink – a 2.3m2 relaxation to the maximum floor area for a proposed detached garage, to be located at 159 Ackerman Crescent.

2. Beta Surveys Ltd. - a 0.45 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard to an existing single family dwelling and attached garage, located at 42 Ardell Close.

The Ideal Candidate The successful candidate will be results-oriented and a selfstarter, with excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills, strong organizational skills, an ability to build trust, motivate and promote safety awareness to staff across all levels of the organization. The vision for the role is to influence and create a culture of commitment and personal accountability around safety practices amongst all staff.

Clearview 3. Abbey Homes Ltd. – a 0.24 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 29 Caribou Crescent.

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Preferred Qualifications • A minimum of 3 to 5 years occupational health and safety experience, ideally in a municipal government or public sector environment • Experience as an AMHSA COR Peer Auditor • Completion of a recognized OH&S Management Certificate or Diploma Program • Ability to interpret current legislation and safety concepts for day-to-day situations. Skill in analyzing a wide range of data and developing positive solutions to health, safety and wellness challenges.

• Able to identify, assess and prioritize and manage risks • Strong written / oral communication and interpersonal skills • Excellent computer skills • an equivalent combination of education and experience

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Saka Builder + Craftsman Inc. – a 0.55 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to a proposed detached garage, to be located at 3939-43A Avenue.

Vanier 6. Mason Martin Homes – a 1.12 metre relaxation to the minimum rear yard to the deck on a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 274 Viscount Drive.

Salary Range: $25.34 - $32.29 per hour plus the City has an excellent benefits package

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If you see yourself excelling in this role please forward your resume on or before June 28, 2014 to:

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L. Parks – a 0.4 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to a proposed detached garage, to be located at 36 Dodge Avenue.

C. Pratte – a 0.18 metre relaxation to the maximum width, to a proposed detached garage, to be located at 141 Wilson Crescent.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on July 4, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8399.

Amounts left outstanding after June 30 are charged a penalty, except for property owners who are enrolled in the Tax Instalment Plan (TIP) by June 15.

For payment options, visit www.reddeer.ca/tax or call Revenue & Assessment Services at 403.342.8126

Road Closure Announcement Woody’s R.V. World Triathlon Saturday June 21 & Sunday June 22, 2014 The following roads will be closed and parking removed to facilitate the Woody’s RV World Triathlon.

Saturday June 21 & Sunday June 22 from 7:00am – 11:00am: • Michener Centre Road from Ross Street to 55th Street • 55th Street from Morningside Drive to Cardinal Avenue • Morningside Drive from 40th Avenue to 55th Street.

Sunday June 22 from 7:00am – 11:00am: • Cardinal Avenue from 55th Street to Cornett Drive • Northbound turning lane at Safety City onto 30th Avenue • 30 km/hr zone on 30th Avenue northbound from Rollis Street to Highway 11 • 30 km/hr zone on 67th Street approaching 30th Avenue reduced to one lane.

• Traffic will be reduced to one lane on 30 Avenue from highway 11 to 67 Street.

Motorists are advised to use caution and watch for runners, cyclists, RCMP officers, volunteers, and flagmen. Obey all signs when travelling in these areas.

For further information, please contact Public Works at 403-342-8238.

Your cooperation is appreciated.

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Wife losing battle of affection with cat Dear Annie: My husband of four because my husband and Fluffy are years insists on keeping a picture of having “bonding time.” his cat as the screensaver on his cellI do not feel this is normal behavior. phone.

I think it’s an unhealthy relationship Occasionally, he’ll switch it out for with a pet. a photo of one of his kids, but the cat I have attempted to discuss this with always comes back as the my husband several times “top dog.” It’s never a picwithout success. He has had ture of me.

Fluffy for six years and ob“Fluffy” also enjoys the viously prefers interacting top priority in other areas with her to spending time of our life. For instance, with me. the day I had major surWhy he needs a wife, I gery, my husband dropped haven’t a clue. Any suggesme off at the front door of tions? — Fluffy’s Competition the hospital and then took Dear Competition: We Fluffy to the vet and spent agree that this seems to be the day with her. an unusually close attachI am not ranting about ment. some minor grievance. I The screensaver is the MITCHELL was in surgery for seven least of your problems. & SUGAR hours, so this was serious.

The fact that your husband The cat gets better treatwould rather console his cat ment than I do and a lot while you are undergoing a more affection. If it weren’t seven-hour surgery indicates for my allergies, Fluffy would be sleep- skewed priorities. And the “bonding ing with us. time” in the bathroom is raising all Even so, I’ve awakened to find the kinds of questions. What, exactly, are cat’s rear end next to my face. I find they doing in there that you cannot use this disgusting. I even have to wait to the room? use the bathroom to get ready for work, In any event, your husband is more

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attached to Fluffy than he is to you and values her companionship more. This is unlikely to change.

Dear Annie: We recently buried my mother and held a service in celebration of her life.

There was a visitation one hour prior to the service. I cannot count the number of people who came through the line and said, “I bet you don’t know who I am” or “I know you remember me” and then stood there grinning while they waited to see whether I could guess their name.

Annie, my sister and I live out of state and hadn’t seen these people in more than 20 years. When I couldn’t recall their names, they acted hurt.

Please, folks, at a memorial service, just put out your hand, introduce yourself and say how you knew the deceased.

You are precious to come and pay tribute to anyone who has passed away, but do make it easy on a family that is grieving. This is a stressful time, and those who tried to make us play guessing games only made it harder.

Also, if you have a story you want to share, please remember that the time for the visitation is limited. Instead,

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consider calling a week or so after the service. I’m lonely now and would love to hear your remembrance. — R. Dear R.: Thank you for reminding people that a forthright and simple approach is best.

People often become awkward and uncomfortable when confronted with those in mourning and sometimes blurt out insensitive things.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Feeling Helpless,” whose friend screams at her husband nonstop.

That could have been me. I yelled at my husband at the top of my lungs because he made me so angry and frustrated. The reason was that he would check out every woman he saw. It didn’t matter that his teenage children were with him.

I finally survived by ignoring his behavior. I just considered that he was a jerk (and still is). — Hope for the Helpless Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. 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.

HOROSCOPES Friday, June 20 felt throughout your daily rouCELEBRITIES BORN ON tine and with work will have you THIS DATE: Lionel Ritchie, 64; learning more and more to catch John Mahoney, 73; Anne Mur- up with the ever growing curve ray, 68 within your industry. Take action THOUGHT OF THE DAY: towards that which will create There will be an intense focus balance and harmony. on the changes that you are VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): currently going through. There You might want to spend more could be some trouble with your than you are earning today, this personal life that is instigating is not advisable. Tension will be these changes today and this felt for you to purchase certain will leave you feeling that you tech products. If you can, hold want to take acoff on this purchase. tion, any action For now, take into acto move yourself count that which will forward. It is time nurture your passions to reflect and and ambitions forre-evaluate the ward! changes going LIBRA (Sept. 23on and take into Oct. 22): Do not let account what acothers’ need to see tions you should changes from you on take. Do not act the home front create impulsively tochaos for you today. day. Use today Yes, there is a need to analyze your to get projects comemotional state LARISA MAIRA pleted, but mercury is to take action at retrograde. You will OZOLINS a later date. need to expect delays H A P P Y and perhaps miscomBIRTHDAY: If munications when today is your travelling or with onbirthday, then this year will be going projects. prime for action. At the start of SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): the year you will need to rethink, You might feel the need to act re-organize your goals towards out on new knowledge you’ve you future endeavours with re- attained today. There is more gards to your financial situation. to the story than meets the eye Creative projects or children will and who better to understand come into focus this year. There this than Scorpios. Channel your could be tension in those areas energy into sourcing out all the of life, but much can and will be truth, and relax and let go of the done to express those needs rest. and desires.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22ARIES (March 21-April 19): Dec. 21): Be mindful of your Tension will arise for you per- finances. There might be a sursonally within your public life. prising invitation to go out and You will want to take action, but be with friends or lovers. Do not be mindful that you still need to act impulsively with them, as prioritize your thoughts and di- there will be some tension in the rection. Do not act impulsively works. Perhaps there are way now - this will only have your too many invitations to attend, regress to the past. Find a quiet be content with your selection. spot at home and rest.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): 19): Others might want you to Tensions at work will have you act and act now! Take a step want to manipulate or control back, not to manipulate the situthe circumstances presented ation, but to properly decide your to you. Do not act out, chan- chosen path forward. Hang out nel your energy appropriately with close business associates to reduce stress. Take action or significant relationships now, as necessary with work, health, they will offer the proper release and within your daily life. Com- to all stresses. municate your stress out!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): 18): Do something different to You will feel the pressure to act shake up your daily routine, towards your ambitions. Do not work, and health regime now. act impulsively, take into account You will be feeling restless and your personal needs before you will need a different approach to step forward. Significant relation- the ongoing changes required of ships in your life, either business you. Be mindful that there will be or romantic, will want you to act. many options, choose the one Rethink goals and act at a later that will help you publicly. date.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): CANCER (June 21-July 22): Today is not the day to compulThere will no doubt be some ten- sively buy home items. You are sions felt. It is the same energy thinking they are on sale and that keeps encouraging change that this is exactly what I wished in your life on a professional and for! Be mindful that Mercury is interpersonal front. You might still retrograde, which indicates want to act out impulsively now, those items will be returned for but try, just try, to express com- one reason or another. Review passion today and see how this and rethink today! energy shifts for you.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an inLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): ternationally syndicated astroloEmotional wisdom will be need- ger and columnist. Her column ed by you. The ongoing tension appears daily in the Advocate.

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Crop scientist awarded 2014 World Food Prize for work developing disease-resistant wheat

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DES MOINES, Iowa — A crop scientist credited with developing hundreds of varieties of diseaseresistant wheat adaptable to many climates and difficult growing conditions was named Wednesday as the 2014 recipient of the World Food Prize.

Sanjaya Rajaram, 71, wins the $250,000 prize founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug that honours vital contributions to improving the quality, quantity or availability of food throughout the world.

Rajaram, who was born in India and is a citizen of Mexico, began research and field work with Borlaug in 1969. He successfully crossed varieties of winter and spring wheat with his own plant breeding techniques, which led to the development of plants that have higher yields and dependability under a wide range of environments — important in keeping pace with the growing world population.

He is credited with developing 480 wheat varieties that have been released in 51 countries on six continents.

“It’s a great honour,” Rajaram said. “I’m a very humble person but very honoured the World Food Prize committee has recognized me for the work I have done.”

The next big challenge, Rajaram believes, is developing plants with more drought tolerance, staving off the effects of salt water intrusion as oceans rise, and other issues related to climate change.

“Future crop production is bound to decline unless we fully factor in the issues related to climate change, soil fertility and water deficits, and utilize advanced genetics in the next 20 to 30 years,” he said in a telephone interview.

Rajaram was born in a small village in the Uttar Pradesh state in northeast India, where people lived on very little. He expanded upon his mentor Borlaug’s work with his own achievements, said World Food Prize Foundation President Kenneth Quinn.

“His breakthrough breeding technologies have had a far-reaching and significant impact in providing more food around the globe and alleviating world hunger,” Quinn said in a statement.

Quinn said it’s fitting that the prize be awarded to Rajaram as the Des Moines-based organization celebrates the centennial of Borlaug’s 1914 birth in Cresco, Iowa. Borlaug, who won the 1970 Nobel for boosting agricultural production in what has become known as the Green Revolution, launched the World Food Prize in 1986. He died in 2009.

Borlaug once referred to Rajaram as “the greatest present-day wheat scientist in the world,” Quinn said. Rajaram succeeded Borlaug in leading wheat research at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, which was founded in 1966 through an agreement between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture.

Prior to Rajaram’s research, winter wheat and spring wheat were distinct gene pools. Rajaram’s new varieties can be grown in marginal areas, such as small mountain plots in Pakistan, remote areas in China, and in the acidic soils of Brazil, the foundation said. Rajaram said he plans to give some of the money from the prize to private organizations in India who work with the poor and use the remaining money for plant breeding research.

The announcement was made at a ceremony in Washington featuring Secretary of State John Kerry.

He said by inventing heartier crops and new species, Rajaram led an effort to save 1 billion lives. With projections that the global population will grow by 2 billion more people in the Friends. Family. Home. next three decades, “it’s not hard to figure out this is the time for a second Green Revolution,” Kerry said.

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From billions to zero HUMANS KILLED OFF PASSENGER PIGEONS BUT MAY TRY TO BRING THEM BACK

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This photo shows Martha, an extinct passenger pigeon. Once the most plentiful bird on the planet, it went extinct in September 1914 when Martha died in public at the Cincinnati zoo. The stuffed bird now resides at the Smithsonian’s Natural history Museum in Washington.

Martha, a red-eyed grey-and-brown bird, became famous as the last surviving passenger pigeon. It is being taken out of the file cabinets of history in a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit this month, reminding the public of her death and what man did a century ago.

It was the moment that humanity learned we had the awesome power to erase an entire species off the face of the Earth in the scientific equivalent of a blink of an eye: The passenger pigeon went from billions of birds to extinct before our very eyes.

It was one bird’s death after many. But a century ago, Martha, a red-eyed, grey and brown bird famous as the last surviving passenger pigeon, keeled over, marking an extinction that shook science and the public.

Now, a century later, Martha’s back, in a way. She is being taken out of the file cabinets of history in a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit this month, reminding the public of her death, and of other species that have gone extinct because of man. A new scientific study this week shows how pigeon populations fluctuated wildly, but how people ultimately killed off the species.

And some geneticists are even working on the longshot hope of reviving the passenger pigeon from leftover DNA in stuffed birds.

“Here was a bird like the robin that everybody knew and within a generation or two it was gone — and we were its cause, ” Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm said.

In the 18th and 19th centuries the passenger pigeon was the most abundant bird species on Earth. In 1866 in Ontario, just one flock of billions of birds, 300 miles long and one mile wide, darkened the skies for 14 hours as they flew by overhead. Unlike the domesticated carrier pigeon used for messages, these were wild birds.

They were easy to catch because they stayed together. They were considered a poor man’s food; domestic workers complained about eating too much passenger pigeon.

“Nobody ever dreamed that a bird that common could be brought into extinction that quickly,” said University of Minnesota evolutionary biologist Bob Zink.

Examination of the passenger pigeon’s genetic code shows that their population ping-ponged regularly from as much as 5 billion to as few as tens of millions, said a study co-authored by Zink in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences released Monday. Still, the chief causes of the extinction — cutting down Eastern U.S. forests and hunting — were man-made, Zink said.

By 1900, there we no passenger pigeons left in the wild. By 1914, there was just 29-year-old Martha at the Cincinnati Zoo. People lined up to see her. She was a star.

Then on Sept. 1, 1914, Martha was found lying on the bottom of her cage. The passenger pigeon was now extinct. It had gone from billions of birds to zero in about one century, probably less.

It was the first public extinction, something people used to think happened only to relics of the past like dinosaurs, or critters stuck on islands like dodos, Pimm and other scientists said.

“This was a real wake-up call for the public and frankly for scientists too,” said Helen James, curator of birds at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. “Ornithologists studied birds and they didn’t really think of species becoming extinct.”

An exhibit on her extinction and the 100th anniversary starts June 24 at the Smithsonian.

And if scientists can figure it out, there may be a bigger comeback in the offing. The passenger pigeon is the prime candidate for something new: de-extinction.

Some top geneticists in a non-profit are looking to see if they can create new living versions of the passenger pigeon, by editing the DNA of the closely related band-tailed pigeons, growing those birds from embryo and breeding them. It would cost millions and take at least a decade, said Ben Novak, lead researcher of the group, Revive & Restore of San Francisco.

Pimm and Zink don’t like the idea ethically or practically.

Novak sees a world on the verge of a mass extinction of many species and feels something has to be done about it. Reviving some long-lost species may offer “a type of justice for what we’re doing now” and also teach people “it’s so much easier to keep something alive than to bring it back to life.”

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Montreal-based band Solids will play Fratters Speakeasy Sunday. The band’s distorted emo sound harkens back to bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement.

By LANA MICHELIN Advocate staff Solids is made up of two native French-speaking musicians who sing in English and sound like a fuzzed-out American grunge band.

Proving it’s never too early for a 1990s nostalgia trip, music reviewers have been comparing Blame Confusion — the first full-length album by the Montreal-based band Solids — to the music of Dinosaur Jr, Pavement, Sonic Youth and Superchunk.

The only thing wrong with these parallels is that Solids members Xavier Germain-Poitras and Louis Guillemette would have been 10 and eight years old, respectively, in 1994.

“I wasn’t that deep into the music scene in the 1990s,” said Guillemette, with a chuckle.

In fact, the drummer and vocalist, who performs with Solids on Sunday at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer,

added “When I was 10 or 12. I might have been listening to something like Green Day. ...”

If the distorted emo vibe that he and guitarist Germain-Poitras jointly create is drawing correlations, then reviewers needn’t have stopped their backwards search in the 1990s.

They might have gone back to 1980s bands Joy Division or Husker Du, which helped pioneer musical sound distortion.

While Guillemette gets a kick out of these “cool” comparisons, he points out Solids wasn’t aiming for a retro sound when Blame Confusion was recorded with producer Adrian Popovich (Sam Roberts, The Dears).

“I would hope it would be something that people would listen to today.”

Music fans are tuning in to this heavy-touring duo, whose new album has been released across North America.

The band has played at giant festivals like SXSW in the U.S., and gigs in

the U.K., Holland, Norway, Denmark and Germany.

“Just saw these dudes in a basement the other night. Great show, they sound like what being a teenager feels like,” one of Solids’ fervent followers posted on the Internet.

The two-member band is often likened to other Canadian drum and guitar duos Japandroids and Death From Above 1979.

But Guillemette sees Solids’ tunes as more of a mash-up between pop, punk and hardcore metal, which were the genres he was influenced by as a teenager and young adult.

The idea is to force a melody through loud layers of distortion and feedback. It’s a hefty sound, but has more catchy pop hooks than hardcore metal music — which is what Guillemette and Germain-Poitras were playing when they met as bandmates in the Montreal group Expectorated Sequence.

“We liked pop music,” said Ger-

main-Poitras, who believes that common link led he and Guillemette to form Solids.

Blame Confusion is as close as the group has come to producing an album that sounds like a live performance, said Germain-Poitras. “It’s super heavy and loud ... I think we’re getting there.”

So far, only one song is sung in French, because English lyrics lend themselves better — both descriptively and phonetically — to alternative rock, he added. “It’s less literal. It’s more of a challenge to write in French.”

Both musicians say they look forward to returning to Alberta at a warmer time of year. “Last time it was February and it was like -45,” recalled Guillemette. “This time, we’d like to come back through the Prairies with some sun.”

There’s no cover charge for the show.

For more information, call 403-3560033. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Lund brings old-time vibe to ‘old-time rodeo’ Alberta Singer-songwriter to appear at Ponoka Stampede

By LANA MICHELIN Advocate staff It was too tempting — Corb Lund had to plant his feet on the big X marking the spot where Elvis stood to record at Sun Studios in Memphis.

How could he resist?

“I’ve was a huge Elvis fan as a kid — everybody loves Elvis,” recalled the chuckling singer, who performs on Wednesday at the Ponoka Stampede.

Lund didn’t enter the legendary Memphis recording studio as a tourist — although the Alberta county singer admitted that alone would have been thrilling enough.

After all, the walls of the unassuming brick building are plastered with photographs of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and other artists who started recording there in the 1950s.

Lund actually came to Sun Studios with his band The Hurtin’ Albertans for a two-day recording session last fall. It was done at the request of CMT for the filming of a documentary called Memphis Sun, which was so popular with viewers that it was already aired several times by the station.

The audio track from the Sun recording sessions turned out to be so good that Lund decided to share it with fans in the form of a new CD called Counterfeit Blues.

The new release is full of Lund favourites, such as Five Dollar Bill, (Gonna) Shine Up my Boots, Truck Got Stuck and Little Foothills Heaven. But they sound more rock-a-billy or honky tonk than what many listeners will recognize from previous albums.

The 40-year-old explained his band members had to pick songs they were most familiar with, since they only had two days to record 14 tracks. “Of course, the stuff we’ve played thousands of times were the fan favourites, too — that’s why we played them the most,” said Lund.

The more vintage sound on the new album was achieved through some different instruments and sound production. The background fiddling heard on previously recorded versions of some songs is non-existent on Counterfeit Blues because there’s no actual

fiddler in the band — and every single note had to be captured live off the floor in one or two takes.

Lund said the use of lap steel guitar and more echo helped intensify the old-fashioned vibe.

The low-tech recording process captured an energetic, raw country-rock crossover sound that the singer hopes fans will enjoy.

The album, which is available with or without the Memphis Sun DVD, was made without any modern “studio trickery,” added Lund. “There are some textures to it that are closer to a live show.”

Recording at the iconic Sun Studios — which is often pinpointed as the spot where country morphed into rock ’n’ roll — “was a really cool opportunity ... really fun for the band. They were really enthusiastic,” Lund recalled.

What’s turning his crank these days is the idea of performing at the Ponoka Stampede, which also has vintage appeal. “It’s kind of old fashioned, in that some events are a little different, and it’s been going on for a long time,” said Lund. He feels the “classic” old-time Central Alberta rodeo is less showy than the Calgary Stampede — but with no less thrills.

The singer, who hails from the Cardston area, used to ride steers as a kid, while his mom and dad were respectively barrel racing and steer wrestling champs. “My grandpas did rodeo, too,” he recalled.

Such myth-making aspects of western culture have been reoccurring themes in Lund’s music, and the Ponoka audience will hear a couple of yet unrecorded tunes he wrote for an album of new music expected in 2015.

One of them, a song called The S-Lazy-H, is about losing a ranch to a family squabble.

Lund said he’s heard a lot of stories about old homesteads getting torn up between new generations. “The one kid in the family wants to ranch, but he has to buy out the rest of the (siblings) in cash,” which requires selling some land.

“And in the end, there’s not enough left to make a living on.”

While his great-grandfather’s homestead still exists, he said different relatives have different corners of it. His

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Corb Lund performs on Wednesday at the Ponoka Stampede. uncle still runs cattle on the land, but Lund said it’s getting harder and harder making a go of cattle ranching these days. The homestead is mostly viewed as a “spiritual home” and family gathering place.

“Summer wouldn’t be summer,” he said, “without spending some time at the ranch,” which has pretty views of the Rocky Mountain foothills.

Lund has taken his story-songs about rural Alberta all across North America, playing for audiences in Wyoming as well as New York City.

He believes his “irreverent” take on country music plays just as well in both markets.

In fact, his last album Cabin Fever from 2012, has done exceptionally well

in the U.S., surpassing sales of his previous releases.

But there’s something special about playing for Alberta crowds, added the singer, who will be doing just that this summer.

Besides catching him at the Ponoka Stampede, fans are also invited to Lund’s official CD release party at the Brooks Centennial Arena on Friday, June 20.

Tickets to Lund’s 6:30 p.m. show at the Ponoka Stampede on June 25, with the pro-rodeo, are $43 from Ticketmaster.

More information about the Brooks show is available on www.ticketfly. com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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From left, John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Vincent Piazza and Michael Lomenda, from Stettler, in Jersey Boys.

Jersey Boys: Catchy, but a few falsetto moves At the

Jersey Boys Two and a half stars (out of four) Rated: PG

BY STEPHANIE MERRY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Movies of musicals are usually a crash course for Hollywood A-listers.

Actors not known for their singing skills are suddenly expected to warble their way through a story.

You see Meryl Streep shimmying and strutting to Abba in Mamma Mia! and Renee Zellweger hitting the high notes in Chicago, Johnny Depp cutting hair and throats while channeling Sondheim in Sweeney Todd and Hugh Jackman making us weep as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.

And what of the Broadway superstars who gave the musicals the cachet to warrant the film adaptations?

They’re still performing night after night onstage, since their names aren’t recognizable enough to score big box office numbers — much less get proper introductions at the Oscars (ahem, Adele Dazeem).

Jersey Boys is an exception. The most

recognizable stars in Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of the Tony-winning play about the 1960s band the Four Seasons are Christopher Walken and that guy from The Sopranos (who upon post-movie Googling turns out to be Steve Schirripa). John Lloyd Young plays Frankie Valli, a role the actor originated on Broadway.

He won a Tony for his work, but this is only his second feature film after a 2009 romantic comedy called Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! Of course, who in Hollywood could possibly mimic Frankie Valli’s formidable falsetto?

Just imagine James Franco trying to get through Big Girls Don’t Cry. On sec-

ond thought, don’t.

Young might not be a household name, but he can sing and act onstage and on camera. And the rest of the cast is also made up of musical theatre talent: Michael Lomenda of Stettler, who plays the deep-voiced Nick Massi, and Erich Bergen, as singer-songwriter Bob Gaudio, both return to roles they played during the show’s first national tour.

The fourth band member, Tommy DeVito, is played by Boardwalk Empire regular Vincent Piazza.

The cast list isn’t the only way Eastwood stays true to the original incarnation. Seeing the movie onscreen is a lot like seeing it in a playhouse — and that’s OK. After all, the story is dramatic, with its tale of kids from a rough neighbourhood who shoot to fame with catchy hit after catchy hit but can’t quite keep it together.

Plus, the dialogue is witty and the music is phenomenal.

There isn’t a lot of fancy camera work or special effects, and the movie even retains the way characters directly addressed the audience in the play.

This particular gimmick feels a little unnecessary in the adaptation.

Facial expressions, which aren’t always visible for a theatre audience, can do a lot of explaining in films: When Bob hears Frankie sing for the first time, for instance, a look of astonishment comes over his face before he turns to the camera and says, “After 30 seconds, I know I need to write for this voice.”

But we figured that out already.

The movie, like the play, also overstuffs the plot.

Valli suffered a harrowing family tragedy that makes its way into the narrative.

Yet with so much attention paid to the band and so little paid to his personal life up until that point, the misfortune feels shoehorned into the story as a way to exhibit the hero hitting rock bottom.

Overall though, fans of the play will be pleased.

And for those who love the Four Seasons’ music but haven’t made it to the play, you can put your fear of missing out to rest.

This is a much more affordable way to very nearly re-create the experience.

Stephanie Merry is a Washington Post movie critic.

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Glass sculptures at Kiwanis Gallery

BRIEFS Trinity Bradshaw to perform Tuesday at Ponoka Stampede Never Drinkin’ Again singer Trinity Bradshaw will perform on Tuesday at the Ponoka Stampede.

The singer/songwriter from Prince Edward Island just released her second EP, Open Skies, which contains the catchy country song that’s being played on radio across the country.

Open Skies features a range of Bradshaw tunes — from hard-hitting country to inspired love ballads and other songs springing from experience.

The six-track recording was made with producers Russell Broom (Jann Arden) and Trey Mills and some allstar session players in Nashville.

Bradshaw was nominated for two Alberta Country Music Awards in January and was CMT’s Fresh Face Featured Artist for the month of March.

She got her start in music early, by winning the 2004 Summerside Festival Talent Search at the age of 14 — the youngest-ever winner.

For more information about Bradshaw’s performance on the Stagecoach Stage, visit ponokastampede.com.

Organic and whimsical glass sculptures by a Vancouver artist can be seen at the Kiwanis Gallery in the Red Deer Public Library.

The gallery operated by the Red Deer Arts Council presents GlassEarth: Mixed Media by Larissa Blokhuis from Monday to Aug. 24.

Blokhuis, who is drawn to depicting flora and fauna, often incorporates ceramic, steel, wool, polymer and wood with glass to lend a spontaneous element to her forms, making them feel more natural and organic.

The artist feels human development has steered us away from the natural world, “which is a false division,” leading to a broken bond and rapid climate change.

In this show, Blokhuis re-imagines the natural world as it might appear if our climate warms to the same degree as during our pre-historic past.

She studied ancient plant and animal life and then visualized “something similarly strange, yet beautiful.”

“I am always looking for pattern, repetition and contrast, and when I find these elements they often become the nucleus of an idea for my art,” states the artist.

An opening reception for the GlassEarth exhibit will be held on Friday, July 4, from 6 to 8 p.m. Refreshments will be served.

his humour in nightclubs and theatres with more than 100 performances a year.

He passed the Tonight Show mantle to Jimmy Fallon in February.

Since leaving NBC’s late-night schedule, Leno has gained an international following online with his new creation, JayLenosGarage.com, about his obsession with cars.

His YouTube channel now has more than 938,000 subscribers.

Cappy McGarr, one of the humour prize’s executive producers, said Leno has been on the list of comedians to honour for a long time.

It wasn’t a question of waiting until Leno retired, he said.

“Leno and Twain both have turned humour into a national conversation and a national conversation into humour, and I’m also quite confident they drove the same car,” McGarr said Tuesday.

“You know, we receive bad news every day, and it’s important for us to keep our humour intact, as difficult as that might be.

“And thank goodness Jay has contributed to our American humour for a generation and made us keep things in perspective.”

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WASHINGTON — Newly retired from The Tonight Show Jay Leno is now being awarded the nation’s top humour prize for following in the tradition of satire and social commentary of Mark Twain, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Wednesday.

Leno will be honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in a performance by his fellow comedians Oct. 19 in Washington. The show will be broadcast nationally Nov. 23 on PBS stations. The award recognizes people who have had an impact on American society through their humour and social commentary.

“Like Mark Twain, Jay Leno has offered us a lifetime’s worth of humorous commentary on American daily life,”

said Kennedy Center Chairman David Rubenstein in announcing the award.

“For both men, no one was too high or too low to escape their wit, and we are all the better for it.”

After learning about the prize, Leno said in a statement that he’s honoured and is a big fan of Twain’s. He joked that A Tale of Two Cities is one of his favourite books. (But that novel was written by Charles Dickens.)

Leno inherited the “Tonight Show” seat from the legendary Johnny Carson in 1992, beating out David Letterman, and was the top-rated late-night host for years. Letterman was the first between them to win the Kennedy Center Honors, but Leno was first to win the top humour prize. But Kennedy Center producers aren’t weighing in on which man is funnier. For years, Leno also has maintained a busy schedule of stand-up comedy appearances, testing

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Comedian Louis C.K. is neither as special nor as magical as you think he is.

Cliché comedian WHY LOUIE C.K. GETS CREDIT FOR BEING ORIGINAL EVEN WHEN IT ISN’T

NEW YORK — Louis C.K. occupies a unique position in the cultural firmament. He’s the secular saint of regular Joes — smarter, funnier, blunter and more vulnerable than most middleaged dads in T-shirts, and yet, still, a middle-aged dad in a T-shirt. He’s the ultimate explorer of male feeling, going further, going deeper, going weirder. C.K.’s personal gravitas is such that for some members of his audience he has developed a Madonna-like variation on the Midas touch: everything he caresses seems to have been touched for the very first time. But he is not quite so trailblazing as some of the show’s biggest fans seem to think — and with the season finale, C.K. tried to tell them so.

C.K. and Louie are both genuinely original and idiosyncratic, but this has overshadowed the ways in which they are not, in fact, all that original.

Yes, many Louie episodes exhibit a flagrant disregard for TV conventions, for standard episodic structure, for punch lines, for logic; its best installments are unbuttoned, touching on so many ideas and possibilities that they make old subjects feel observed anew. This effect is so powerful that when C.K. delivers a sophisticated variation on a Full House -style lesson — the word faggot is hurtful, bullying is bad, other people are mysterious, fat women are human beings — it feels like a Zen koan rather than a fortune cookie.

But with this finale, C.K tried to upend the myth of his special acuity.

In the episode, C.K. teed up his mission statement, using Marc Maron as a Louis C.K. stand-in. Maron appeared as a very successful comedian with a new TV show who castigates Louie for his bad-friendship and jealousy, inspiring Pamela (Pamela Adlon) to deliver a rant about the relative worth of successful comedians with TV shows.

“None of you guys are special or magical,” Pamela tells Louie. “Some of you are luckier and some of you work harder than others. You’re just guys.”

Louis C.K. is just a guy. He even went so far as to explain what has long been cited as a hallmark of Louie’s unique surreality, that his lily-white kids have a black mom: turns out, it’s just that Janet is biracial. We only thought it was a mystery.

The entire season, like the finale, played around with originality, or rather, a lack of it. Elevator was a much-her-

alded six-episode arc, but it unfolded like any other television show would: continuously, with the story playing out in order, supplemented by occasional B-plots. In the last episode of that arc, Louie rescued his family from a hurricane, like a superhero. In the second two parts of Pamela, Louie and Pamela embark on a real romance, a romance that is simultaneously unique to them — Pamela moving out all of Louie’s stuff is a new sign of affection — and also grounded in dopey romantic tropes (a first kiss underneath the shooting stars).

Last week’s In The Woods, in which Louie flashed back to his own misspent youth on the occasion of catching his 12-year-old daughter smoking weed was moving, evocative, and also completely unoriginal. Freaks & Geeks, My So Called Life and nearly every show currently on ABC Family has covered this territory: the tortured fight between adolescents and parents where the contested boundary resides in the teen-ager’s actual body. Some of these shows have even arrived at more complex conclusions than C.K., who has Louie go the forgiving-dad route, trusting his daughter to make it through instead of adding to her angst — even though, from a certain perspective, Louie’s own screaming mother seems essential to his youthful self’s eventual righting.

Louie’s infamous So Did The Fat Lady, in which an overweight woman named Vanessa (Sarah Baker) berates Louie for his double standards felt to many people — myself included — like a kind of standout event, an episode giving voice to an under-voiced character. It was framed this way by C.K, who gave Vanessa a dramatic, heartfelt sermon with swooping one-take camera work, visually and tonally underlining the moment’s importance. But as The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum pointed out, Louie is not the only show to take on the subject of fat women’s subjectivities: Roseanne, Girls, The Mindy Project, Drop Dead Diva, Glee and Mike and Molly are just some of the series she accurately name-checks. (And these shows do not content themselves with delivering the totally remedial lesson that overweight women are people, too.)

Even C.K’s boldest decision this season, to remake Louie as a kind of creep, was in conversation with TV’s most omnipresent trend: the raging, suppressed, frequently-on-the-vergeof-violence anti-hero. C.K seemed to have something specific — if, again, not particularly insightful — to say

about the irreducible, occasionally creepy nature of male power: namely, that it really does exist. Lurking inside of nice-guy, sad-sack, good-dad Louie there is an unthinking creep, one with an impregnable, imposing male body.

Louie gets hit on by a beautiful woman, plays shy, sweet and swept off his feet — until he accidentally hits her in the face and puts her in the hospital.

Louie walks into an apartment trying to do good and is taken for a rapist.

Louie rejects two smart, funny, searing women to take up with a woman he literally cannot communicate with and is free to project all over. Louie once told Pamela he would wait for her forever; in Pamela, Part 1 he physically attacks her, clawing at her clothes, corralling her in a doorway, as she screams, “You can’t even rape well!”

Given the audience’s attachment to Louie, this was a bold choice, but a bold choice that plopped Louie down next to Breaking Bad and True Detective and myriad lesser shows focused on furious men — and then mimicked them right up to the not damning ending, when Louis let Louie off the hook. After a season-long investigation into the way that Louie and his body might be dangerous, it ends with a lovely, heartfelt two-parter in which Louie, the almost-rapist, finally has the wherewithal to begin a real relationship.

That dangerous body, the one that hits and corners and beats up pianos, is revealed to also be “a mailbox with two tree stumps and a melon on top,” standing naked and abashed in front of a bathtub, looking for reassurance.

That final bathtub moment encapsulated both what is so right about Louie and what has jarred all season long.

It’s a cliché we’ve seen a million times, the candlelit tub, put to new purposes, treating the male body with the harsh eye usually reserved for women. But it also burnishes Louis C.K., by sidestepping all the gnarly issues the show itself had raised and by allowing C.K. to get credit for exposing himself to his audience. Every time Louis C.K. takes Louie down a peg, he burnishes himself. When Louie is behaving horribly, C.K. knows it. When Louie is being embarrassed, C.K. is being gutsy.

Moments that puncture Louie make C.K. look good. When Louis C.K. writes a speech about how a man with a TV show is “just a guy,” he contributes to the myth of himself, so upstanding he keeps humbly insisting he’s regular, which is proof positive of his irregularity. But Louie this season was not as fresh as it has been in the past — and not just because Louis C.K. said so.

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cord some of his early compositions — and other towering pioneers like Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins. He soon began a series of collaborations and recordings that remain highly influential in jazz a half-century later — starting with his partnership with drummer Art Blakey that led to the seminal hard bop album Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers in 1955.

Though he eventually left the Messengers, Silver continued a string of milestone albums for Blue Note, a la-

Horace Silver, a pianist, composer and band leader with a tireless inventiveness who influenced generations of jazzmen with his distinctive hard bop sound, has died. He was 85.

The Westchester County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that Silver died Wednesday in New Rochelle, New York.

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bel he recorded for until 1980, which are still referenced often, including Six Pieces of Silver in 1956 and Blowin’ The Blues Away” in 1959.

Warhol’s 15 minutes persists with album-cover exhibition BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — A Detroit-area museum is preparing to show off what it’s calling the most comprehensive exhibition of authenticated Andy Warhol record covers to date.

Sixty albums designed by the late pop-art icon will be on display at Cranbrook Art Museum beginning this weekend. They range from the recognizable to the rare.

There’s Warhol’s yellow banana-onwhite background cover for The Velvet Underground’s 1967 debut album as well as his workable zipper design for The Rolling Stones’ 1971 Sticky Fingers record.

There are also a handful of covers that have never been shown in such a setting.

Exhibition curator Laura Mott says “record covers are the only medium (Warhol) worked in throughout his entire career.”

Warhol On Vinyl: The Record Covers, 1949-1987+ opens to the public on Saturday and runs through March 15.

Florida judge dismisses part of lawsuit claiming NBC Universal defamed George Zimmerman SANFORD, Fla. — Part of a lawsuit against NBC Universal that claims that the television network defamed George Zimmerman in a 2012 broadcast was thrown out by a Florida judge Thursday, putting the entire litigation in jeopardy.

Zimmerman’s attorneys waited too long under Florida statute to ask NBC to retract what it claimed were libelous statements in a March 19, 2012, broadcast that they said made their client sound like a racist, Seminole County Circuit Judge Debra Nelson ruled. Zimmerman was not at the hearing.

The statute requires five days written notice identifying potentially libelous statements. A letter claiming the network edited Zimmerman’s 911 call to police to make it sound like he was a racist was sent to network executives on Dec. 4, 2012.

Three other NBC broadcasts from March 20, 22 and 27, that included the reference are still in question, but the judge said she had to do more homework on the issues before making a final decision.

The defamation case had been postponed pending the conclusion of Zimmerman’s murder trial in July 2012.

The 30-year-old neighbourhood watch volunteer was acquitted of seconddegree murder in 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s February 2012 death in Sanford. The case took on a life of its own, with questions raised about race and Florida’s “stand your ground” defence law.

Zimmerman’s attorney, James Beasley Jr., identified not just negligent reporting by NBC, but apologies it made acknowledging problems in the four broadcasts. The editing made it sound like Zimmerman voluntarily told an operator that Martin was black.

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NEW YORK — Harrison Ford is recuperating after surgery to heal a broken leg suffered during production on Star Wars: Episode VII. The actor’s publicist said Thursday that Ford is doing well after surgery and will soon begin rehab. Ford was injured a week ago during filming of the much-anticipated sequel at Pinewood Studios outside of London.

The accident involved a spacecraft door falling on the 71-year-old actor’s leg. Ford’s Han Solo pilots the Millennium Falcon, which is returning in Episode VII. Disney has said that shooting is continuing while Ford recuperates. He is expected to be sidelined up to two months.

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AUBUCHON Florence Mabel Jan. 25, 1918 - June 14, 2014 Florence went home to be with her Lord from the Red Deer Hospice on Saturday, June 14, 2014 at the age of 96 years. She is survived by her sons, Dale (Diane) and Gary (Sheila); daughter, Joan (Norm Engman); eight grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren; three greatgreat grandchildren; two brothers; one sister; and many nieces and nephews.

Florence is predeceased by her husband of 60 years, Dave; three grandsons; one great granddaughter; her parents; one brother; and three sisters. A Celebration of Life will be held on Monday, June 23 at 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer with Reverend Jeffrey Rock officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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FEDDERSEN Terry 1947 - 2014 Terry Feddersen of Eckville, Alberta passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Hospice on Monday, June 16, 2014 at the age of 67 years. Terry was born in Brooks, Alberta on March 14, 1947 to Florence and Alvin Feddersen, the second son and older brother of Fern.

Their family lived in Tilly and then moved to Midnapore and Calgary. They moved to the farm north west of Eckville in 1961.Terry farmed with his Dad running dairy cattle and grain farming for many years. He met his longtime sweetheart, Eileen and they married in June 1966.

Six years later they were blessed with Beverly’s arrival into their family and two years after that, Elle. In the mid 1970’s Terry opened Feddersen’s Auto Wrecking.

Working on cars has always been Terry’s love and in the late 1980’s he started working on one of many Classic vehicles.

His first complete restoration being his yellow 1956 Ford Victoria. He carried on with his hobbies and was well known for his passion of Fords, friends and a good glass of scotch. Terry will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Eileen; two daughters, Beverly (Colin) Scholze of Red Deer and Elle (Jeff) Dell of Eckville and four grandchildren, Kassie and Kesler Scholze and Ashley and Baily Dell. He will also be sadly missed by his sister, Fern (Larry) Hulgaard of Condor, Alberta. Terry was predeceased by his parents, Florence and Alvin and a brother, Tom. Relatives and friends are invited to come and pay their respects at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, June 22, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held at the Eckville Community Centre, Eckville, Alberta on Monday, June 23, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. with The Reverend Sandra FranklinLaw officiating. Interment will follow at the Gilby Cemetery, Gilby, Alberta.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Terry’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at www.reddeerhospice.com.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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HENRY Betty July 15, 1922 - June 14, 2014 Betty Henry passed away at Michener Extendicare on Saturday, June 14, 2014 at the age of 91 years, just one month before her 92nd birthday. Betty was born on July 15, 1922 in Grafton, Yorkshire, England to parents William and Elizabeth Johnson. She grew up on a small farm in rural England.

When she was 18 years old she served with the ATS during WWII and there she met her future husband Thurman, whom she married in 1945. She arrived in Canada as a war bride. And thus began her lifelong role as a devoted wife and stay at home mother, raising five children with her hubby. Due to health problems she resided at Valley Park Manor Nursing Home from 2002 until its closing in 2010, after which Betty moved to Extendicare.† The family wants to thank all the caring staff that has looked after mom throughout the years.

Special thanks to Irene and Devina for their extra TLC. We love you mom and you will be forever in our hearts.

She was predeceased by her husband Thurman in 2006, after 61 years of marriage.

She is survived and lovingly remembered by daughters; Margaret Henry of Halifax, NS, Bert (Larry) Filipek of Fuitvale, BC, Wendy Henry (Len) of Red Deer, AB; sons Bill (Lou) of Delburne, AB and Gene (Joyce) of Red Deer, AB; four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. A Memorial Service honouring Betty will be held in the Auditorium of Michener Extendicare, 12 Michener Boulevard, Red Deer, AB on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made directly to Mom’s charity of choice, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, http://www.natureconservancy.ca.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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SHACKLETON Yvonne Charlene May 10, 1952 - June 17, 2014 Yvonne Charlene Shackleton of Red Deer, AB passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 with her family by her side. She is survived by her loving husband Edward, daughter Dylana and her husband Shawne Bugler, and son Shawn and friend Brittany, and treasured granddaughters; Isabella, Olivia, and Adriana. Also survived by her brothers and sisters; Ron (Barb) France, Carolyn (Doug) Bechtel, Stewart (Marjorie) France, Sandra France (Tom Konopka), sister-in-law Pat Shackleton and brothers-in-law Lynn (Elsie) Shackleton, Glen (Donna) Shackleton, Lee (Joan) Shackleton and sister-in-law Merle (Dave) Knezacek, nieces and nephews, friends and neighbours. Yvonne is predeceased by her parents Charles and Dorothy (Anness) France and an infant brother Donald France, parents-in-law; Wallace and Jessie Shackleton, brothers-in-law Clifford and Charlie. Family and friends are invited to pay their respects at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe on Friday, June 20th, 2014 at 7:00 P.M. or at Gaetz Memorial United Church, Red Deer on Saturday from 10:00 A.M. - 10:45 A.M. A Celebration of Yvonne’s life will be held on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church 4758 Ross St, Red Deer, AB with Rev. Liz Richards officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Red Deer Hospice 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6, or to the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

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GREEN A Celebration of Life for Terry R Green (late) of Red Deer will be held June 28, 2014 at the Red Deer Legion, 2810 Bremner Ave., at 1:00 p.m.

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THIEL Come help Gisela R. KEN AND EILEEN TIGHE March 29, 1929, Berlin, Germany Celebrate their June 11, 2014, Invermere, B.C. 60 ANNIVERSARY ON Our beloved wife, mother, June 21 @ grandmother and great The Golden Circle grandmother passed away at 4820 47A Ave. Ivy House on June 11, 2014.

Open House 1 - 4 pm She is survived by her No Gifts Please husband, Helmut; daughter, Marlies Booth (Lynn); sons, Michael and Andre Thiel; seven grandchildren; and 11 Births great grandchildren. Gisela came to Canada in 1954 and made her home in Red Deer, AB. until 1993 when she and Helmut retired to the Columbia Valley. They enjoyed many happy years with friends until ill health required a move to Columbia Garden Village.

The family wishes to thank Doctors Maytham and Louw and the staff of Columbia Garden Village and Ivy House for their care and kindness. A memorial gathering will take KELNER place on Sunday, July 6, David and Beth are thrilled 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at the Red to announce the birth of Deer Golf and Country Club. their first Grandchild.

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ZACHARIAS Daniel April 13, 1954 - June 11, 2014 It is with great sorrow and heavy hearts that we have to announce the sudden accidental passing of Daniel Zacharias, beloved son, father, grandfather, Graduations brother, uncle, and friend.

Dan is survived by his wife Sheryl nee Fraser of Red Deer, AB.; also two sons, the oldest, Troy (Michelle), and their children Pyper, London, Justice and Jersey; the youngest, Chad (Leah), and their two daughters Lillian and Teagan. His father Werner Zacharias; mother Elsie (deceased); siblings, Telita (Peter) Janzen and their five children, Deloris (Lynden Wilms and their three children, Gorden (Susan) and their four children and Lorine (Larry) Hooge and their two children. Dan will be dearly missed. Everyone who JESSICA BOTTCHER was lucky enough to have BS in RN. been a part of his life, Congratulations Jessica on whether it was family or receiving your Bachelor of friends, was able to see a Science Degree in nursing. man who was always there We are all so proud of you. for them, anytime, or any Love, Grandma and place, for anything. We were Grandpa Gillespie all so lucky to have Dan as a part of our lives for as long as we did. A local service to honour Dan’s life and memory will be held on Wednesday Celebrations June 25, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at CrossRoads Church in Red Deer, AB. Condolences to the family can be made by visiting www.shanidarfuneralservices.com

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GRILLER’S Steak House in Rocky Mtn. House is looking for Cook’s. Wage $15-$20./hr. dependant on exp. Submit resume to: grillersbanquets@ gmail.com or fax to 403-845-7469

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T front counter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds).

Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

You have expertise, a passion for excellence and improvement, and a commitment to safety – bring them to work as part of our team.

RAMADA INN & SUITES

What’s in it for you? Rotations that fit your lifestyle, competitive salaries and benefits, training and development opportunities with a focus on career advancement.

Speak to a recruiter at 1.800.9SANJEL, e-mail careers@sanjel.com, or drop off your resume at one of our shops today: FRACTURING – 8051 Edgar industrial Drive, Red Deer, AB T4P 3R2 CEMENTING – 8164 Edgar Industrial Close, Red Deer, AB T4P 3R4 COILED TUBING – 4100 77 Street, Red Deer, AB T4P 3P7

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Rimbey Review for Tues. July 1 Deadline is Thur. June 26 @ noon

800

OIL & GAS OPERATOR

Restaurant/ Hotel

Water Transfer Laborers

Date: Wednesday July 2nd, 2014 Time: Drop in anytime between 10:00am – 3:00pm Location: Sheraton Red Deer Hotel (3310 50 Ave) Essentials: Bring your own resume and appropriate FUHGHQWLDOV FHUWLÀFDWHV

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Oilfield

SERVICE RIG

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Companions

Safe. Smart. Solid. That’s Sanjel.

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Sylvan Lake News & Eckville Echo for Thur. July 3 Deadline is Fri. June 27 @ Noon

Classifieds 309-3300

req`s Permanent ROOM ATTENDANTS Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance based bonus program.

Must be fluent with verbal l& written English, be physically fit. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com

Sales & Distributors

830

GRATIAE is seeking 5 Retails Sales reps selling skin & body care products in Parkland Mall 4747 67th St. Red Deer, $12.10/hr + bonus & comm.

F/T - P/T No Exp. Req’d.

Email resumes: gratiaereddeersr@ gmail.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T - P/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty cert. req’d. Location Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@ gmail.com Out of Town SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap COMMUNITY SALE Woodland Hills & Broderson & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission.

2.5 km S. of CrossRoads F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d.

Church. June 21st, 9-4.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. at playground.

Red Deer. email resume to JUNE 21, 9-4. 407 Wood- premierjobrd@gmail.com land Hills, 3 kms. west of StoreSmart RD follow signs. HouseSelf-Storage hold, water skiis, craft is now hiring for supplies, 30 yr. of stuff the following positions!

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Anders Park 1 ALEXANDER CRES June 19, 2-6, June 20, 2-6, June 21, 9-4.

Turkey cooker, Bradley smoker, toys, tools, etc.

Deer Park 3 DIETZ CLOSE Thurs. 19th 4-8, & Fri. 20th 12-8 Lots of misc. items.

Rain or shine.

90 & 94 ALBERTS CLOSE Join us for Lockets, Leggings, Thurs. 19th 3-8, Fri. 20th 1-8, Oils, Wraps, and Lemonade.

Sat. 21st 9-4. MOVING. Friday June 20th, 3-7pm, Indoor/outdoor furn., clothes, 80 DUNHAM CLOSE. household, games, misc.

Rain or shine!

South Hill Designs, ONE DAY ONLY Young Living, It works, Agnes and Dora Leggings SALE 22 ANSETT CRES. June 21, 9-5.

Devonshire

Anders on the Lake 121 AINSWORTH CRES. Fri. 20th 12-8, Sat. 21st 9-3 Antiques, collectibles, bike, shelves, queen headboard, records/CDs, household.

Two multi family sales in Atkins Close, Red Deer.

June 19 to 21. Thur/Fri 48, Sat 9- 3. Exercise equipment, furniture, antiques, household, childrens items

Clearview 38 CASTLE CRES Multi-family sale, June 19-21 Thurs. & Fri. 3-8, Sat. 9-3 Toys, tools, heaters, craft supplies, Christmas items & household misc.

Deer Park 28 DIXON AVE. June 19 & 20th, 10-5 Something for everyone.

Fairview - Upper 18, 4901 FARRELL AVE. Thurs. 19th 4-8, Fri. 20th 3-8 & Sat. 21st 9-3 Children’s toys, Honda car, lots of other misc.

Glendale 74 GLENDALE Blvd. June 19 & 20, 6 pm.- 9 pm., June 21, 11-8, June 22, 2-7. Household, baby & ladies, clothes, lots more.

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

39 DOBSON CLOSE Thurs 19th & Fri. 20th, 1-7. Grandview Home decor, bedding, books, clothing, jewelry, sports items, IN HOUSE sale. Home collectibles, 18 ch. audio mixer staging and moving sale.

Canvas art work, mirrors, area rugs, pillows, etc. new cond., Moving sale, kitchEastview en, misc. items, Xmas decor, knitting yarn, elec.

106 ELY CLOSE Fri. 20th 4-7 & Sat. 21st 10-4 lawn mower, much more Lots of kids toys & books, June 20, 4-7, June 21, 8household items, gardening noon. 4213-40 A Ave. supplies, etc.

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

4437 35 AVE. CLOSE Fri. 20th 5-8 & Sat. 21st 10-4 Household items, picnic table, movies, a huge variety of other items. Too much to list.

Eastview Estates 84 ERICKSON DRIVE (Alley) Sat. 21st 9-4. Household big & small, unusual collectibles, LP’s, Lego sets, toys, pressure washer, electric hedge trimmer.

Inglewood INFANT clothing, toys, beanie babies, furniture, kitchen items. June 20, noon-8 , June 21, 9-1. 79 Irving Cres.

Johnstone Park HUGE COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE: SPRINGFIELD CROSSING (TAYLOR DRIVE AND JEWELL STREET), SATURDAY JUNE 21, 8am-4pm

Kentwood Estates

Pines

JUNE 21 & 22, 9-5. 75 Kerr Cl. Books, DVD’s, toys, baby things, knick knacks, home decor, camping supplies, etc.

Lancaster Meadows 171 LYONS CL. June 20, 2-5 June 21, 10-4. Therapeutic bed, formica table, lots of everything.

Mountview DON’T MISS THIS ONE! Huge multi family. Something for everyone. June 20, noon-6, June 21, 10-5.

June 22, 10-2. 3523-45 Ave.(blk. east of water tower)

Victoria Park SAT. JUNE 21, 9-3.

99 Alexander Cres.

Household and yard items etc.

PINES ACTIVITY CENTRE 141 Pamley Ave. (By Gateway School) Saturday, June 21st 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. only.

MULTI-FAMILY SALE Lots of good variety!

Rosedale 24 RAMSEY CLOSE (Alley) June 19th-21st.

Thurs. & Fri. 12-7, Sat. 10-3 Multi-family. Household items, tools, furn. & more.

West Lake 139 WEBSTER DRIVE June 19th - 21st Thurs. & Fri. 1-8 & Sat. 9-3 Something for everyone!

28 WEDDELL CRES June 19th-21st Thurs. & Fri. 2-7, Sat. 9-2 Built-in oven, dishwasher, sm. tools, & misc. items.

97 WEDDELL CR. MULTI FAMILY June 19, 20 & 21 Thurs., Fri. & Sat. 10 - 6 Something For Everyone!

Blackfalds

Assistant Manager (Full Time)

Customer Service Rep (Part Time) For job descriptions and how to apply, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs.

No phone calls please.

RISER HOMES 50 RUPERT CRES. June 20 4-8 & June 21 9-4 Love 1 ONLY seat, display cabinet, Beautiful Modified Bi-level treadmill, household items, Woodlea w/a large entry, & a modern Trades Normandeau books, Wii, Mikasa Arabella look. Large 3 bdrm., 2 bath dishes, other misc. items. 5325-42 AVE (back alley) walkout, 1563 sq. ft. of 83 NYMAN CRES Cash or CC, no checks.

Absolute Fusion June 20, 2-7, June 21, family space, large deck, June 19th-22nd.

Contracting is a welding, large garage, wide lot Thurs, Fri, Sat. & Sun. 9-5. FRI. June 20, 9-5. Lawn 10-4, June 22, noon-4. fabrication, maintenance backing onto trail system Lots and lots of misc. items. mower, zero gravity chairs, Brass headboard, exercise and repair facility requiring & green, 5 pce. master camping gear, free hide a machine and lots more Too much to mention. a supervisor/instructor. ensuite, large walk-in closet. bed, much more! 22 & 34 Knowledge and experience Much, Much More!

Root Close.

Out of Town in fabrication with A MUST SEE!. $432,235.

Oriole Park engineered drawings or Open House 12-3, MOVING/DOWNSIZING 3 days only! designing from instruction.

Sat. 21st & Sun. 22nd.

206, 200 RAMAGE CLOSE 3 ORILLIA PARK Massive Multi-Family Farm 31 Morris Court, Blackfalds Strong mechanical ability June 19th & 20th, 2-8, Perennial plants & garden Sale. Many items from for repair and maintenance. sorry no agents.

June 21st 9-5. Antiques, accessories sale.

Must be able to organize Lloyd @ 403-391-9294 patio furniture & free items. housewares to farmwares; June 21st 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free section, lets make a and instruct up to 10 employees.

Over 20 varieties of plants. deal! Thur: 3pm-8pm/Fri: Comprehensive Benefit plan.

9am-5p/Sat: 9am-4pm Wages are negotiable with Victoria Park Sylvan Lake 25225 HWY 595 - 18km experience and attitude.

YARD SALE Multi family. east on HWY 595 Once Please forward resumes 115 ANQUETEL STREET Tools, quilting material, you go past HWY 816 and references by fax to Sat. 21st & Sun. 22nd some antiques, toys, small GARAGE SALE, turnoff, we are 3rd lane403-309-7134 or by email 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. bikes. Something for eveMARINA BAY, way on right side of HWY. to info@absolutefusion.ca Lots for everyone. ryone. 25 OHIO CLOSE SAT. JUNE 21, Sign will be out!

No Phone Calls Please!

Huge inventory!

June 19 & 20, noon - 9 pm.

8 A.M.- 1 P.M.

850

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, June 20, 2014

850

Trades

850

860

Truckers/ Drivers

BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Dozer & Excavator Operators and Laborers. Send resumes

by Fax: 403-347-6296

EXPERIENCED EXCAVATOR OPERATOR for local commercial construction company.

Please fax resume with current drivers abstract to 403-342-6881

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With Residential exp. a must. Competitive wages & benefits. Fax resume to: 403-314-5599 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Truckers/ Drivers

860

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requires experienced DRIVERS CLASS 1 ,3 & LOWBOY, FOREMAN, OPERATORS AND LABOURERS For work in Rocky Mountain House area, as well as out of town locations.

Priority will be given to those candidates with experience.

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880

STETTLER TRANSIT MIX Drivers wanted for mixer/pumping concrete.

403-742-2134 or email:stettlertransitmix @gmail.com

850

Full time seasonal positions available in our industrial and highway division.

Community Support Worker Program

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PIDHERNEY’S

GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

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Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Gasoline Alley HarleyDavidson is currently seeking Lot Technicians.

Provides assistance to all employees of the Service Department as needed.

Please fax resume Attn: Christina @ 403-342-7244 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 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

PEST CONTROL TECHS REQ’D. cpest@shaw.ca Call 403-373-6182 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

RENTAL STORE Requires a Front End Person.

Duties include assisting customers, answering phones, data entry, deliveries.

Must be organized, have computer knowledge, and be physically fit.

Being mechanically inclined and having construction knowledge an asset. Full time.

Apply 5929-48 Ave. or email: sales@parklandrentals.com

PLANT LABORER Job Description As a critical member of our operational team, you will be required to perform tasks including climbing above three meters, loading and unloading of chemicals, some heavy lifting and general housekeeping and laborer tasks.

Qualifications Required: We are looking for workers experienced in handling chemicals, equipment use and maintenance. CFR is offering an excellent benefits package with the company matching RRSP contributions while providing all required training (certifications).

Workers are required to provide personal transportation with a valid “Alberta” driver’s license. Drug and alcohol policy is effect with pre-employment testing.

Please forward your resume to Dave Oyka at doyka@cfrchemicals.com Starting Wage:$17.50/hr

Highway applicators are fully trained. We apply weed control products to roadside ditches around the province.

You will be back to Red Deer each night. All products are approved by Health Canada and Alberta Environment.

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Warehouse Shipper/ Receiver

DUTIES: Drive a 990 4x4 John Deere tractor and spray gun.

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 Email resume to: reddeer@greenoasis.ca Visit: www.greenoasis.ca

We are looking for 2 P/T MAILERS

to work Tuesday - Saturday Competitive starting wages starting at 1 a.m. plus regular increases.

Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Wage is $13.12/hour plus Excellent benefits $2.10/hour shift premium. package. Opportunities to advance. Must be Please email resume to: dependable, hardworking gmccarthy and seeking a long-term @reddeeradvocate.com career. Apply in person, or drop off to: or email to: 2950 Bremner Ave. hartleytj@eecol.com NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE 4747 - 61st Street

Advocate Opportunities

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE

GAETZ SOUTH F/T MEAT CUTTER F/T Bakery Production Full benefits, staff incentives. Apply within.

PT office help and or Class room Instructor req`d. Please call Street Wise Driving School.

403-340-8848

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Operator 2 Position

CLASS 1 ,3 AND LOWBOY, FOREMAN, OPERATORS AND LABOURERS

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full time Operator 2 position.

The position includes Plant Operations and Sanitation duties.

Applicants must have a minimum Grade 12 diploma and must be available for shift work.

Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.

For work in Rocky Mountain House area, as well as out of town locations.

Priority will be given to those candidates with experience. * Top wages and benefits based on experience * Possible career advancement opportunities

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

THE

BUSINESS IS BUILT ON INFORMATION Everything you need to know to keep your business humming . . . every day in the Business Section of the Red Deer Advocate.

403-845-5370 hr@pidherneys.com

Please reply by fax: or E-mail:

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Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta TOC OBO Fax: (403) 747-2660

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Valid First Aid and H2S tickets required.

We offer competitive wages, benefits package, and opportunities for advancement.

Application Closing Date: June 30, 2014.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

Employment Training

900

ENROLL TODAY! Classes Starting Soon!

HEALTH CARE AIDE

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

3 On-Site Clinical Practicums No Waiting List Scrubs are provided

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

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

Kirby St. & Kennings Cres.

MUSTANG ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK 69 Street & 63 Ave Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

900

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SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

CLASSIFICATIONS

Industries #1 Choice!

1500-1990

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Auctions

1530

REMINDER BUD HAYNES / WARDS COIN AUCTION. Sunday, June 22 @ 10 a.m.

11802-145 St. Edmonton.

Lifetime collection Skip Fuller.

Check website catalogue online.

Linda cell 403-597-1095 Edm. cell 1-780-940-8378 www.WardsAuctions.com www.budhaynesauctions.com

Advocate Opportunities

INNISFAIL Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Phone 403-314-4316

MORRISROE INGLEWOOD AND SOUTHBROOK AREAS Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE 6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

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

Phone 403-314-4301

INNISFAIL

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

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends

SPRINGBROOK The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING! Phone 403-314-4316 ************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Ashley Ave., Ashley Close Alexander Drive, Anquetel/Atlee Close

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

MORRISROE AREA McDougall Cres. McCullough Cres.

WOODLEA AREA

SUNNYBROOK AREA

47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo

Springfield Ave. also Sherwood Cres. & Stirling Close

IS HIRING! We are currently seeking the following to join our team in

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Dr. also Lister Cres. & Lockwood Ave. also Landry & Lawson Close VANIER AREA Voisin Close/Viscount Drive, Vanier Drive/Volk Place

Blackfalds for all shifts: - QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER - CONCRETE FINISHERS - CARPENTERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

415011F14-27

www.eaglebuilders.ca

or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

KENTWOOD

WESTPARK SUBDIVISION

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery 3 days per week.

NO WEEKENDS!!

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

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

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

Call Today (403) 347-6676

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

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Trades

JOHNSTONE CROSSING

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Phone 403-314-4316

314-4300 850

KENTWOOD

Phone 403-314-4316

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING!

Call For Home Delivery

GLENDALE

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

Academy of Learning HCA program offers:

Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Job Search and Resume Writing Course First Aid / WHMIS

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Pidherney’s requires experienced drivers

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

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

Phone 403-314-4316

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK

Pidherney’s

SERVICE WRITER DEERMART EQUIPMENT, Red Deer’s John Deere Dealer is seeking to fill a full time position for a Service Writer.

This dynamic role is the main point of contact for all service customers and is responsible for seeing each piece of equipment through the shop process from opening work orders to managing payments.

Experience in a service related role is an asset.

Please indicate in your application the relative experience you have for this position. The right candidate for this role must have the ability to build relationships, provide outstanding customer service, be highly organized and able to make decisions regarding department priorities, be proficient with computers, mechanically inclined and able to provide feedback and suggest solutions to service related questions.

This position reports directly to the Service Manager and will work closely with our team of technicians and parts staff. John Deere experience is an asset, however not required.

All interested and qualified applicants may forward their resume by email to lloring@deermart.com, by fax: 403-342-5600, or in person at 6705 Golden West Avenue, Red Deer, AB.

Advocate Opportunities

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

880

880

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Employment Training

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Misc.

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880

SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT!!

FALL START

870

Trades

880

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ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d • Top wages and benefits night, $4000-$6000/mo. for moving equipment. based on experience Contractor must have truck Resumes to be dropped off or van. Tools, supplies & at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. • Possible career advancement opportunities ladders required. Training Cres. Red Deer. provided, no experience DRIVERS for furniture Valid First Aid and H2S needed. Apply to: moving company, class 5 tickets required. satjobs@shaw.ca required (5 tons), local & We offer competitive JOURNEYMAN WELDER long distance. Competitive wages, benefits package, Required ASAP. wages. Apply in person. and opportunities for Please call 403-318-6262 6630 71 St. Bay 7 advancement. or email resume to: Red Deer. 403-347-8841 dave@kodiakent.com Please reply by fax MEGA CRANES is now 403-845-5370 or E-mail: hiring exp’d Class 1 drivers.

NOW HIRING hr@pidherneys.com Boom/crane truck tickets Req’d immed. an asset. Please email Certified asbestos résumé with drivers Business workers. abstract to Wage negotiable. cathy@megacranes.com Opportunities 780-818-8524 or fax 403-885-4292 You can sell your guitar Buying or Selling for a song... your home? or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Check out Homes for Sale and we’ll sell it for you! in Classifieds START YOUR OWN SHOP & PORTABLE COMMERCIAL Required Immediately Welding Business in CLEANING BUSINESS Parts Delivery Lacombe looking for Revenue between Driver Welders for local work. $24,000 - $120,000 Must possess clean Only reliable need apply. drivers abstract, know Call Mon. - Fri. 8:30 - 4:30 Initial cash required city well. The individual 403-318-9445 as low as $6,000 must be able to work In Business for over 20 years SHUNDA unsupervised in a fast *Guaranteed Cleaning paced environment. Some CONSTRUCTION Contracts Incl. warehouse work and some Requires Full Time *Training Incl. heavy lifting is required.

Carpenters The company *Ongoing Office Support & Helpers offers full benefit package Competitive Wages Ph: 780-468-3232 for this full time position. & Benefits.

Please email or drop off or 403-290-0866 Fax resumes & ref’s to: resume.

403-343-1248 or email to: ARTIC TRUCK PARTS admin@shunda.ca Misc. #3-6540 71 ST Red Deer AB T4P 3Y7 Help (P)403-348-0999 (F)403-348-5198 Email to: ron.cain@ nfleetsolutions.com SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

880

ACADEMIC Express

COMMERCIAL Foundation TRUE POWER ELECTRIC company in Red Deer Requires are currently seeking experienced foundation form workers. Please fax QUALIFIED resume to 403-346-5867 1st yr. through to or JOURNEYMAN email cavemancontracting @hotmail.com ELECTRICIANS EXP. PAVERS WANTED Call 403-341-6900 or Fax: 877-787-1605

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Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, June 20, 2014 D7

DIAMOND BACK MEN’S BICYCLE. 2 yrs. old. $100 obo.

403-347-5955

1580

Children's Items

CHILDS WOODEN ROCKING CHAIR, $25.

403-346-7825

1620

EquipmentMisc.

Household Furnishings

1720

DARK wood bureau w/mirror and 2 matching night tables $120 obo; retro magazine table from 1950’s $30 obo 403-506-9453

2004 S250 Gold Pkg. A/C, power bobtach, keyless start, 2 spd. 1891 hrs. Exc. cond. $30,000 obo. 403-350-6470

1630

EquipmentHeavy

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1660

Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

AGRICULTURAL

OAK oval table and 4 chairs $150 403-358-5568

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

SECTIONAL, 3 pce. $300. obo, 2 pc. china cabinet $200 obo 403-848-1499

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1680

15’ LAUREL LEAF WILLOW 6-8’ NORTHWEST POPLAR & BROOK POPLAR Beautiful trees. You dig.

Please phone 403-302-1919

1710

Household Appliances

1760

1 YR. OLD 1200 WATT GENERATOR 1 hr. use $200 obo 403-314-0804

1720

2 BAR STOOLS, $10/ea.

SMALL DESK & CHAIR, $40.

403-346-0674 4 PC. velvet livingroom set $200 403-358-5568 8 PC DINING ROOM SET. 6 chairs, dining table & china cabinet. Good cond.

403-342-6235 COMPUTER DESK W/ HUTCH. 59.5” w x 57” h x 24.25” d, slide out tray. 2 file drawers.

Light oak. $75.

403-347-7858

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

GLASS COFFEE POTS, $3/ea.

PANTS HANGER, $15.

403-346-7825 SLEEPING BAG, $10.

Rubbermaid COOLER & Thermal Jug, $15; green coverall size 44T $15; stainless steel thermos $8; ovewrnight bag $10.

403-347-5316

Cats

1830

BEAUTIFUL 10 week old kittens. Variety of colours: Pink & white, orange, & grey tabby. Free to loving home. 403-782-3130

Sporting Goods

1860

MUST SELL Deer head mounts on shields, professionally done, only 2 left $100/ea. 403-314-2026

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3020

Houses/ Duplexes

2 BDRM. main flr. Close to RDC & Hospital. $1100/mo. utils. incl. N/S, no pets.

Avail. July 1. 403-341-0156

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

LEGACY ESTATES 60yrs + condo. 403-350-5054 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

Suites

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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

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER Const. Ltd. Decks, reno’s, roofing, flooring. Free est. Call Geoff 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

Eavestroughing

1130

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822 VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Escorts

1165

TAHNEE 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

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Call James 403-341-0617

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1280

FANTASY MASSAGE

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1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666

2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street.

Parking is avail. $1800/mo.

403-343-9300

3190

3255

Acreages/ Farms

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Large 7252 sq.ft. lot, #19. 2008 AVALANCHE, leather Z71, $16,400. 403-391-9662 Lake frontage.

Best location to all activities.

Call Jim 403-488-7314 (h) 1-403-878-5682 (c)

STEPS from Marina & Parkland Beach, exceptional 30 ft. 2007 Trailer w/lrg slide on an annual rented lot. Rent is pd. until May/15 & included in price.

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403-309-4585 / 358-4582

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4180

2001 SILVERADO 4x4, 8500 winch, snow tires, topper, $6500 obo. 403-304-1013

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4020

BUNGALOW WITH BONUS ROOM! #2 Ardell Close $649,000 3 Bedrooms/3 Bathrooms BEAUTIFUL HOME THAT IS A MUST SEE TO APPRECIATE More Info Call Margaret Comeau 403.391.3399

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HOUSE FOR SALE on RUTHERFORD DRIVE #62, 4 Bedrooms/3 Bath Bi-Level Duplex $264,000, Perfect for First Time Buyers!

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Affordable, move in ready home. Open floor plan, fenced yard, 2 car heated garage, 2 full baths, 4 bdrms. + den $244,900 403-352-8490

5240

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Class A, 35,000 miles, Generator, AC, Rear Bed, Exc. Cond. $10,000 obo.

Call 403-442-3837

Fifth Wheels

5090

Campers

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2004 TITANIUM model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $23,500 obo.

403-347-1050 or 304-4580

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5000-5300

Automotive Services

5010

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

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5030

Cars

5110

2005 FORD Freestar SEL 164,000 kms, good cond, c/w 8 rims & tires $6500 obo 403-347-0149

ULTIMATE TRUCK CAMPER 2007 Okanagan 117 DBL 2 Slides, Sleeps 6, Full bath & kitchen. Queen. Huge. Mint $24,250 obo 403-620-8106

Holiday Trailers

5120

1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor, $6900, obo exc. cond. low km. 403-505-9446 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

2009 KEYSTONE Passport Ultralite 29 ft Travel Trailer - Reduced, one slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C. See Kijiji Ad ID 548133556 for details. $19,000. obo.

403-343-1043 2008 Flagstaff Superlite 25’ Hardwall Trailer with superslide and bunkbeds. $19,500 obo. Loaded with many extras. 403-346-3806

2003 DODGE Neon loaded safetied 403-352-6995 2000 CORVETTE convertible, 6 spd. stnd, black on black, mint cond, new tires, orig. 57,962 kms, $22,000 no gst.

403-347-4887

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6010

LEGAL NOTICE TO: SHAWN BOLT Once of 110, 4820 47 Avenue, Red Deer, Edmonton, Alberta T4N 6B9 You are named in a lawsuit in the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, Judicial District of EDMONTON, Action number 1203 16852.

You may obtain a copy of the Statement of Claim from the Plaintiff’s lawyer. Unless you file and serve upon the Plaintiff’s lawyer a Demand for Notice or a Statement of Defence in the action within 30 days after publication of this Notice, the Plaintiff may proceed in the action, without further notice to you.

DATED the 20 day of June, 2014.

WITTEN LLP, Barristers & Solicitors #2500, 10303 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, AB T5J 3N6 Phone: (780) 428-0501; 109552-241 SMS/jaa Solicitors for the Plaintiff Steven M. Shafir

ALBERTA MOBILE STORAGE

Goods will be disposed of on July 4th, 2014 at their discretion to satisfy outstanding balances for storage rental incurred by the following:

DAVID SKEOCH Alberta Mobile Storage 403-343-8004 Box 33, Site 9, RR 4 Red Deer, AB T4N 5E4

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5100

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5190

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5070

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4310

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4310

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5100

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1370

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1372

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3110

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3090

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1010

SUNNYBROOK 2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686

1217 sq.ft. duplex.

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403-588-2550

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3060

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403-304-5337

5050

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4130

Cottages/Resort Property

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2190

1530

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Sold farm. $13,500.

ALSO John Deere 14’ Disc & Cultivator. 403-350-1007 or 403-782-3617

3060

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Mobile 5 SHEETS 5/8” O.S.B. board 1-24’W, 2-17 3/4”w Lot and 2-16”w, ALL 8’ L, all Grain, Feed for $15; 2 sheets 3/8” PADS $450/mo.

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D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, June 20, 2014

U.S. sending up to 300 military advisors to Iraq

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Al-Qaeda inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014. The fighting at Beiji comes as Iraq has asked the U.S. for airstrikes targeting the militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. While U.S. President Barack Obama has not fully ruled out the possibility of launching airstrikes, such action is not imminent in part because intelligence agencies have been unable to identify clear targets on the ground, officials said.

Rivals blame PM for nation’s crisis

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IRAQ

BAGHDAD — With the country in turmoil, rivals of Iraq’s Shiite prime minister are mounting a campaign to force him out of office, with some angling for support from Western backers and regional heavyweights.

On Thursday, their effort received a massive boost from President Barack Obama.

The U.S. leader stopped short of calling for Nouri al-Maliki to resign, saying “it’s not our job to choose Iraq’s leaders.” But, his carefully worded comments did all but that.

“Only leaders that can govern with an inclusive agenda are going to be able to truly bring the Iraqi people together and help them through this crisis,” Obama declared at the White House.

“We’ve said publicly, that whether he (al-Maliki) is prime minister or any other leader aspires to lead the country, that there has to be an agenda in which Sunni, Shiite and Kurd all feel that they have the opportunity to advance their interest through the political process,” the president said.

An “inclusive agenda” has not been high on the priorities of al-Maliki, whose credibility as an able leader suffered a serious setback when Sunni militants of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launched a lightning offensive last week that swallowed up a large chunk of northern Iraq, together with the nation’s second city, Mosul.

Al-Maliki, who rose from relative obscurity to office in 2006, when Iraq’s sectarian bloodletting began to spiral out of control, quickly became known for a tough hand, working in alliance with American forces in the country since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Over the years that followed, Sunni tribes backed by the Americans rose up to fight al-Qaida-linked militants, while al-Maliki showed a readiness to rein in Shiite militiamen — and by 2008, the violence had eased.

Since the withdrawal of American forces in late 2011, however, it has

swelled again, stoked in part by alMaliki himself.

The Iraqi leader’s moves last year to crush protests by Sunnis complaining of discrimination under his Shiite-led government sparked a new wave of violence by militants, who took over the city of Fallujah in the western, Sunni-dominated province of Anbar and parts of the provincial capital Ramadi.

Iraqi army and police forces battling them for months have been unable to take most areas back.

At the same time, many Iraqis complain of government corruption, the failure to rebuild the economy and too close ties with mostly Shiite Iran, a non-Arab nation that Sunni Arab states, including powerhouse Saudi Arabia, see as a threat to regional stability.

Shiite politicians familiar with the secretive efforts to remove al-Maliki said two names mentioned as possible replacements are former vice-president Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a French-educated economist who is also a Shiite, and Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite who served as Iraq’s first prime minister after Saddam’s ouster.

Al-Mahdi belongs to a moderate Shiite party, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, which has close links with Iran.

Also lobbying for the job is Ahmad Chalabi, a Shiite lawmaker who recently joined the Supreme Council and was once a favourite by Washington to lead Iraq a decade ago. Another Shiite from the Supreme Council who is trying to land the job is Bayan Jabr, a former finance and interior minister under al-Maliki’s tenure, according to the politicians, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.

An Iraqi Shiite lawmaker, Hakim alZamili, said he was aware of a meeting in recent days between Iraqi political leaders and U.S. officials over the issue of al-Maliki’s future, though he did not know who attended the meeting.

Al-Zamili belongs to a political bloc loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-

Sadr, who has publicly demanded that al-Maliki be replaced. But, he said, efforts to replace al-Maliki should come only after Iraqi security forces beat back the Sunni militants.

“My view is that safeguarding Iraq is now our top priority,” al-Zamili said.

“We will settle the accounts later.”

Mohammed al-Khaldi, a top aide to outgoing Sunni speaker of parliament, Osama al-Nujaifi, said: “We have asked the Americans, Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran to work toward denying al-Maliki a new term. The Shiite bloc must find a replacement for him.”

A leading Sunni tribal chief also said al-Maliki has to go.

“I think that most of Obama’s speech, but not all of it, it was shallow and didn’t address the heart of the matter,” Sheik Ali Hatem al-Suleiman told The Associated Press in the northern Kurdish city of Irbil. “The real problem in Iraq is al-Maliki himself.”

“U.S. policy cannot rely on a paralyzed man who has lost control of Iraq, when he is the one who took Iraq to this point.”

Besides the Sunnis and Shiites, alMaliki’s former Kurdish allies have also been clamouring to deny him a third term in office, charging that he has excluded them from a decisionmaking circle of close confidants and is meddling in the affairs of their selfrule enclave in the north.

“We wanted him to go, but after what happened last week, we want it even more,” said Mahmoud Othman, a veteran Kurdish politician.

Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish region, put the case against al-Maliki much more emphatically. Without mentioning the prime minister by name, he said al-Maliki had discarded his counsel and he alone now “takes direct responsibility for what happened to Iraq.”

Al-Maliki, who has long faced criticism for not making his government more inclusive, has been adopting conciliatory language in recent days toward Sunnis and Kurds. He said the militant threat affects all Iraqis, regardless of their ethnic or religious affiliation, and called on Iraqis to drop all “Sunnis and Shiites” talk.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday said he was dispatching up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help quell the rising insurgency in the crumbling state. He called on Iraqi leaders to govern with a more “inclusive agenda” to ensure the country does not descend into civil war.

Though not specifically mentioning airstrikes, an option the U.S. has been considering, Obama said he was leaving open the possibility of “targeted” military action in the future. He said the U.S. also would increase its intelligence efforts in Iraq and was creating joint operations centres with Iraqis.

When coupled with previously announced steps, Obama’s actions could put about 600 additional U.S. troops back on the ground in Iraq. The 300 military advisers he announced Thursday would join up to 275 being positioned in and around Iraq to provide security and support for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and other American interests.

But he was adamant that U.S. troops would not be returning to combat.

“We do not have the ability to simply solve this problem by sending in tens of thousands of troops and committing the kinds of blood and treasure that has already been expended in Iraq,” Obama told reporters in the White House briefing room. “Ultimately, this is something that is going to have to be solved by Iraqis.”

He called this a moment when “the state of Iraq hangs in the balance” and cautioned that “there’s not going to be a simple military solution.”

He stopped short of calling for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to resign, saying “it’s not our job to choose Iraq’s leaders.” But he said those leaders “must rise above their differences and come together” for the sake of their nation.

“Only leaders that can govern with an inclusive agenda are going to be able to truly bring the Iraqi people together and help them through this crisis,” he said.

Obama spoke after meeting with his national security team to discuss military options and consider how strongly to press al-Maliki to undertake changes and make his government more inclusive.

Top U.S. officials believe that giving more credence to Sunni concerns about al-Maliki may offer the best opportunity to stave off another deadly round of sectarian fighting of the kind that engulfed Iraq less than a decade ago.

Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to travel to Iraq soon to press its government to share more power.

Fighting rages in eastern Ukraine

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Protesters march along Reboucas Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday. The protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city that is hosting a World Cup match, was called by the Free Fare movement, the group that was behind the first protests last year that sparked roiling anti-government demonstrations across Brazil.

MOSCOW — Russia is resuming its military buildup along the Ukrainian border in an apparent attempt to intimidate its neighbour, NATO’s chief said Thursday as Ukrainian government forces unleashed a major offensive against pro-Moscow insurgents.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, voicing strong concern about the Ukrainian military onslaught.

Putin said he expects the Ukrainian president to immediately launch his plan to end the violence, the Kremlin said.

Last month, Putin ordered his military to withdraw from the border in an apparent attempt to ease the crisis, and NATO confirmed that the bulk of an estimated 40,000 Russian troops had pulled back.

But on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that Russia has deployed a few thousand additional troops to the border, calling it “a very regrettable step backward.”

“If they’re deployed to seal the border and stop the flow of weapons and fighters, that would be a positive step.

But that’s not what we’re seeing,” Rasmussen said in London.

The Russian Defence Ministry refused to comment. The allegations came as heavy fighting raged near Krasnyi Liman, just east of the rebel stronghold of Slovyansk, a city in the Donetsk region that has been the epicenter of violence during the past two months. Vladislav Seleznev, a spokesman for Ukrainian forces in the east, described the area as a strategic supply corridor for the rebels.

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LUANN June 20 1983 — The U.S. Supreme Court rules that employers must treat male and female workers equally in providing health benefits for their spouses.

1967 — Muhammad Ali is convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The U.S. Supreme Court later overturns the conviction.

1940 — Parliament passes a conscription law providing for service in Canada if needed.

1882 — John Alexander Macdonald wins Canada’s fifth general election with 139 seats, to 72 for Edward Blake’s Liberals.

1877 — Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton.

1849 — Founding of the Canadian Institute, to provide lectures, and an arts and science library; now the Royal Canadian Institute.

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

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Check out some of the reasons why Nissan is

THE FASTEST GROWING BRAND IN CANADA Over the last 12 months

FINANCING FROM in the non-luxury segment.º

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FIND YOUR ADVANTAGE AT CHOOSENISSAN.CA OR YOUR LOCAL RETAILER

HURRY OFFERS END JUNE 30

GORD SCOTT NISSAN 7130-50th Avenue, Red Deer, AB Tel: (403) 347-2258 MONTHS± ON ALL MODELS

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IN CASH DISCOUNTS ON SELECT MODELS

UP TO

OR

12,000 ††

ON MOST TITAN MODELS

Crew Cab SL model shownV

2014 NISSAN TITAN

• 5.6L DOHC V8 ENGINE WITH 317-HP & 385 LB-FT TORQUE • UP TO 9,500 LBS TOWING CAPABILITY • STANDARD FACTORY APPLIED SPRAY-ON BEDLINER

Freight and PDE charges ($1,610), air-conditioning

June 10 – 30, 2014. °Nissan is the fastest growing brand in the non-luxury segment based on comparison of 12-month retail sales from April 2013 to March 2014 of all Canadian automotive brands and 12-month averages sales growth. Offers subject to change, continuation or cancellation without notice. Offers have no cash alternative value. See your participating Nissan retailer for complete details. ©1998-2014 Nissan Canada Inc. and Nissan Financial Services Inc. a division of Nissan Canada Inc.

tax ($100) where applicable, certain fees where applicable (AB: $20 tire recycling tax), manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation where applicable are included. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Finance and lease offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Canada Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Retailers are free to set individual prices. Offers valid between

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Get $12,000 non-stackable cash discount valid on all new 2014 Titan models (except 2014 Titan KC SV 4X4 (3KCG74 AA00) when registered and delivered between June 10 – 30, 2014. The cash discount is based on non-stackable trading dollars when registered and delivered between June 10-30, 2014. The cash discount is only available on the cash purchase, and will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease or finance rates. Conditions

apply. ±Representative finance offer based on new 2014 Titan KC SV 4X4 SWB (3KCG74 AA00). Selling Price is $37,728 financed at 0% APR equals 182 bi-weekly payments of $207 for an 84-month term. $0 down payment required. Cost of borrowing is $0 for a total obligation of $37,728. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer. Conditions apply. V Models shown $53,878 Selling price for a new 2014 Titan Crew Cab SL (3CFG74 AA00).

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AMVIC Licensed. † Get $6,000/$4,000 stackable cash discount on the purchase of a 2014 KC, SV 4X4 SWB (3KCG74 AA00)/any new 2014 Titan (except 2014 Titan KC, SV 4X4 SWB (3KCG74 AA00). The cash discount is based on stackable trading dollars when registered and delivered between June 10 – 30, 2014 with sub-vented finance rates only. The cash discount, will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer. Conditions apply.

D10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, June 20, 2014