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Emergencies declared across the Prairies About 500 people were forced out of their homes due to flooding caused by a deluge of rain in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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hether you’re an old-timer or a newcomer, a student or a scholar, Red Deer and Central Alberta, here’s your chance to prove just how smart you are about local history.

You might be surprised about some of the facts about our area that you may not have known — such as our local special connections to the U.S. space shuttle program, Tim Hortons and actor Boris Karloff. There are also a few questions to test your knowledge of Canada beyond Central Alberta.

Get all 50 questions right and you win bragging rights as the smartest person in Red Deer on Canada Day. That, or you get out of having to do dishes for a week.

So make sure you get the kids involved, too.

The questions that relate to Central Alberta and Red Deer were provided by city archivist Michael Dawe.

Please see the answers on Page A3.

Happy Canada Day, everyone.

1. Who are the four members of the Royal Family to visit Red Deer?

2. Who is the only Canadian prime minister to make three official trips to Red Deer?

3. What is the official flower of the City of Red Deer?

4. Where was the first Village of Red Deer cemetery located?

5. What was the original name of the Red Deer Advocate?

6. Who was the first mayor of the City of Red Deer?

7. What year was the first direct distance dialing telephone system started in Western Canada?

8. What are the names of the four railway companies that built stations in Red Deer?

9. Who was Dr. Lindsay Thurber?

10. What is the official name of the large green water tower in Mountview?

11. What was the name of Red Deer’s first television station (also the same name as the last television station)?

12. What was the name of the first senior citizens lodge in Western Canada?

13. What was the first official name of the Red Deer hospital?

14. In what year was Red Deer’s cenotaph erected?

15. How did the Memorial Centre get is name?

16. What was the name of the Roman Catholic convent on the North Hill?

17. Who was the first Red Deer member of Parliament to serve in the federal cabinet?

18. What year was Red Deer’s City Hall built?

19. What year was the Red Deer Public Library established?

20. Which famous member of the Salvation Army visited Red Deer in 1895?

21. Where is Boris Karloff’s second wife buried?

22. What were the call letters of Red Deer’s first radio station?

23. What is the name of the agricultural implement on the City of Red Deer crest?

24. What Central Alberta invention is used for the ignition system on the U.S. space shuttle?

25. What was the name of Red Deer’s first chain department store?

26. Who was the Pied Piper of Canada who appeared at the first Red Deer International Folk Festival in 1969?

27. What was the name of the first shopping mall in Red Deer?

28. Who was the first woman elected to Red Deer city council?

29. What afternoon of the week was a retail half holiday in Red Deer for many years?

30. When did Red Deer College open for classes?

31. Who was the first registered female physician

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ABOVE: Justice Ted Kane with Governor General Roland Michener and Phil Galbraith, chancellor of the University of Alberta, taken at the Convocation at the University of Alberta, 1969. Photo courtesy of the Galbraith family.

LEFT: Queen Elizabeth II greets the crowds in Red Deer in June 1990.

BELOW: The new Eaton’s Store on Gaetz Avenue in Red Deer, Photographer Ernest Wells. Photo courtesy of the Red Deer and District Archives.

and surgeon in Alberta?

32. When was the Pine Lake tornado?

33. Who was the first Alberta lieutenant governor to come from Red Deer?

34. Who was the first recipient of the Order of Canada from Red Deer?

35. What was the name of the large faith-based college that was located on the south side of Red Deer for many years?

36. What was the name of the former Red Deer resident who won a controversial Olympic gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City?

37. What was the name of the foundation that provided the funds for the Red Deer Health Unit when it was established in 1931?

38. What was the name of the former Toronto

Maple Leaf hockey player who lived in Red Deer for many years and who suggested to Tim Horton that he should start a fast food franchise?

39. In what year did Red Deer disband the City Police Department and replace it with a contracted service from the RCMP? 40. What was the first combination community centre, public school and Catholic school built in Western Canada?

41. Translate the Canadian motto A Mari Usque ad Mare?

42. The Canadian company Research In Motion developed what smart phone?

43. How many times has the United States invaded Canada?

44. 2010 Vancouver Olympics saw Canada win the most gold medals ever by any country at a Winter Olympics. How many did we win?

45. The Mounted Police and the Dominion Police merged in 1920 to form a new police force? What was it called?

46. What are Canada’s two national symbols?

47. What year did Canada adopt the metric system?

48. What was the year and date that Canada became a nation?

49. When did Alberta join Confederation?

50. What year was Canada’s national flag proclaimed?

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Budget shows surplus

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta has turned the corner following the global economic meltdown of 2008, according to budget numbers released Monday.

The final report for the 2013-14 fiscal year shows a $755 million surplus — the first time the government has been on the positive side of the ledger since the international financial crisis wiped out wealth around the world six years ago.

“We’re back in the black without question,” Doug Horner told a news conference at the legislature.

“This is the first fiscal plan surplus ... if you go back to 2006-07. That’s good news.”

He said the province expects to continue to run a surplus in the current budget year, but said he’ll be cautious given the inherent volatility of oil and gas revenues.

“I would not want to make the comment that the sky’s the limit now,” said Horner. “We have to be ready for the unexpected.”

According to the final report, the province brought in more than $45 billion in revenue in the fiscal year that ended March 31. That’s 17 per cent more than expected, credited mainly to higher than forecast energy and tax revenues.

Total spending was almost $42 billion, about 10 per cent more than projected in the budget.

The extra spending went to pay for demand in health and social services and to rebuild from the heavy flooding that swamped parts of Calgary and

southern Alberta last June. Horner said the flooding costs alone took $1.2 billion out of the budget.

On the savings side, the rainy day contingency account now sits at $4.7 billion, but is forecast to soon increase to $6 billion. Any amount over $5 billion must either stay in the account, go to capital spending or go to savings.

Horner said the government hasn’t decided yet what to do with it.

There is another $17.5 billion in the long-term Heritage Savings Trust Fund following returns of 16 per cent this year.

The province also took on more debt for capital projects.

By year’s end, it had accrued $8.7 billion in debt to pay for roads, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure for a province now at a population of four million and growing by thousands more every month.

The province is on track to borrow more than $21 billion by 2017.

Critics, including the opposition Wildrose party and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, say the province is misleading Albertans by failing to account for this debt on the bottom line.

Wildrose finance critic Rob Anderson said the true deficit number this year is about $2.1 billion.

“It’s disappointing and an insult to Albertans that, at a time of amazing prosperity and revenues, the government continues to borrow billions and play a financial shell game with taxpayers’ dollars,” Anderson said in a news release.

“By (2016-17), we will be wasting $820 million on

Amber Alert issued for Calgary boy

interest payments alone.”

Horner said one of the reasons the government succeeded this year was because it held program spending below the 5.6 per cent rate of inflation plus population.

NDP critic David Eggen said that’s nothing to brag about, given the population growth, now estimated to be three times the national average.

“While we might have an overall budget surplus here, certainly we have a remarkable deficit in the core services for which this government is responsible for,” said Eggen.

Budget reporting has become an issue in the PC party leadership race to replace former premier Alison Redford.

Candidates Jim Prentice and Ric McIver have called for a clearer bottom line to make budgets more understandable for Albertans.

Horner said he welcomes Prentice’s idea to convene a roundtable of experts to revamp the format, but questioned the call by McIver to return to the 1990s budgeting era of former premier Ralph Klein.

Horner said accepted accounting principles have changed since 2003 and that returning to rules introduced before then would be ruled out of order by the auditor general.

The third candidate, Thomas Lukaszuk, has said confusion over the budget is one of the key complaints he’s hearing from Albertans.

Party members pick their new leader in September.

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NATHAN O’BRIEN, 5, LAST SEEN WITH GRANDPARENTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — An Amber Alert has been issued for what police say could be the abduction of a five-yearold boy from southwest Calgary.

Police say the mother of Nathan O’Brien dropped him off at her parents’ home at 10 p.m. Sunday night.

“She comes back at 10 this morning, notably sees that the house is not normally as it is and there’s other things within the house that would lead us to believe that they did not leave on their own volition,” said Calgary police spokesman Kevin Brookwell.

He said he couldn’t give any details about what those things were and said the grandparents, 66-yearold Alvin Cecil Liknes and Kathryn Faye Liknes, 53, are not suspects.

“We’re remaining optimistic that all three will be found safe and sound,” Brookwell said. “Right now it’s a suspicious disappearance of all three.”

There are no custody issues with the family — the boy’s parents are married and he is their biological son — and police have no history with the family, who are being co-operative, he added.

The grandparents’ vehicles are accounted for, as are those of the family, which initially had police ruling out sending out an Amber Alert. But Brookwell said police and Alberta government officials then changed their minds.

“Normally when you look for the criteria for an Amber Alert, what was missing was a description about an abductor or a mode of transportation, which still exists, but given the other criteria, we do have a good description of the young lad as well as the grandparents, we decided we would put out an Amber Alert regardless of missing that one criteria,” Brookwell said.

Nathan O’Brien is described as three feet tall, curly blonde hair and last seen wearing peachcoloured shorts and a blue-striped hoodie.

Alvin Liknes is six feet tall, 200 pounds with grey and blond hair and was wearing black shorts. Alvin has a distinctive walk. Kathryn Liknes is five foot, three inches tall, 120 pounds with reddish-brown hair and green eyes.

“It is a weird one,” Brookwell said. “We are doing neighbourhood inquiries as well to see if anybody saw or heard anything suspicious, but so far nothing, so that’s why we are reaching out to the public.”

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Gavin reacts to cool temperatures of the spray fountain at Kin Kanyon on Monday afternoon. Due to the wind, few were enjoying the spray fountain and wading pool in the area, opting for the park and trail system instead.

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Semi blocks Hwy 2 near Bowden No one was injured after a collision on Hwy 2, just south of Bowden on Monday morning.

A semi truck went into the median, blocking the northbound lanes, around 11:40 a.m. Three other vehicles were involved as well, said Cpl. Brian Johannson with the Innisfail Traffic Unit.

“There were no spills. No one was hurt, injured, nothing,” he said.

The lanes were closed for almost two hours as crews managed the scene.

“The only tieback to getting the freeway open again was getting the tow trucks there,” Johannson said.

He did not know the cause of the incident.

Judge fined for drunk driving, prohibited from driving for one year EDMONTON — An Edmonton provincial court judge has been sentenced for drunk driving.

Paul Sully pleaded guilty in court to a charge of operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level over .08.

He was fined $1,500, ordered to pay $450 into a fund for victims of crime and prohibited from driving for one year.

Court also heard that the 75-year-old recently resigned from his job.

Sully was appointed to the provincial court in 1998 and retired in April, but was kept on as a parttime judge for a term that was to expire in 2016.

Edmonton police said they pulled over the judge last month during a routine checkstop.

ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ 23. The Van Slyke plow, invented in Red Deer.

24. The MacIgnitor, invented by Rod MacDonald of the Delburne area.

25. Eaton’s.

26. Bobby Gimby.

27. West Park, built in 1959, followed shortly thereafter by Eastview.

28. Ethel Taylor — elected in 1961.

29. Wednesday — designated so that stores would remain open on Thursday evenings.

30. September 1964.

31. Dr. Henrietta Denovan of Red Deer.

32. July 14, 2000 33. Gordon Towers.

34. Dr. Mattie McCullough, 1980 — however, Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada, was the very first recipient of the Order of Canada and was raised in Red Deer.

35. Canadian Nazarene College.

36. Jamie Salé.

37. The Rockefeller Foundation, which established a second health unit in High River in the same year.

38. Ray Hannigan.

39. 1943.

40. G.H. Dawe Community Centre.

41. From Sea to Sea. 42. Blackberry.

43. Twice, in 1775 and 1812 44. Fourteen.

45. Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

46. Beaver and maple leaf.

47. 1970.

48. Confederation took place July 1, 1867.

49. Sept. 1, 1905.

50. 1965.

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1. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught; Prince George, Duke of Kent; Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. 2. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

3. Crimson Star columbine.

4. Under Taylor Drive, south of 43rd Street.

5. The Alberta Advocate.

6. F.W. Galbraith, owner and publisher of the Red Deer Advocate.

7. 1961 in Red Deer.

8. Calgary-Edmonton Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, CNR (Canadian Northern renamed Canadian National), Alberta Central Railway.

9. The school inspector who brought rural school consolidations to Red Deer and area.

10. The Horton Spheriod.

11. CHCA. 12. Twilight Lodge in Red Deer.

13. Red Deer Memorial Hospital.

14. 1922.

15. It is Red Deer’s official memorial to those who lost their lives in the Second World War. 16. St. Joseph.

17. No one, we have never had a federal cabinet minister from Red Deer.

18. 1963-1664. A two-storey addition was added in 1980.

19. 1914.

20. The founder, General William Booth.

21. Lacombe. Her name was Olive DeWilton and she was raised east of Penhold in the Hill End District.

22. CKLC, started in 1927. It shut down in April 1933.

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Buying an end to poverty ARE POOR PEOPLE WORTH $20,000 A YEAR? A conference of academics held over a five-day long weekend, when more people are watching rain clouds than news reports, is hardly a time to make a splash of chatter among Canadians.

But such a conference was held last weekend at McGill University. It drew more than 100 speakers and what they had to say should not be lost, just because there were important GREG soccer games NEIMAN on the television and even more important meals cooking on the barbecue.

So let’s spare a moment or two to think about their topic: a guaranteed minimum income plan to reduce the effects of poverty.

Now there’s a idea that doesn’t get a lot of traction in a place like Alberta, where it’s an article of faith that good people work for good pay and people who don’t work ... may not be so good.

But even here, where the good people want to keep more of their good pay, people who crunch numbers suggest a program ensuring every per-

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son has the means to cover the cost of basic living may be cheaper than the patchwork quilt of social programs that provides more warmth for bureaucracy than people in need.

Here’s the question the conference was talking about: if government ensured that no adult earned less than $20,000 a year, would the nation as a whole be better off?

In the minds of most of the academics at the conference, the answer is yes.

Half of all families in Canada make less than $76,000 in total income, half make more. On average, an employed Canadian makes $48,250 a year.

The low-income cutoff (LICO) — one of the best understood measures of poverty in an industrialized country like ours — is 50 per cent of the median income, with adjustments for local factors like housing and transportation costs.

In Ontario (where I was able to find data easily enough for discussion purposes), the LICO for a family of two adults and one child is $28,000. Federal statistics tell us that of all the families below the LICO standard, just under half have members who work.

That makes them good people, right?

But boosting this family’s income to $40,000 with direct federal subsidies is a rather large step. You’d have to find a lot of tax savings from other programs — and convince a lot of taxpay-

ers that doing this is worthwhile — for the idea to fly.

So first, where would the savings come from?

Well, here’s an unintended boost that might have helped former Tory party leader Tim Hudak in Ontario last month: a guaranteed income plan needs only a federal tax return to qualify. Administration would cost no more than expanding the system that sends GST refund cheques to low-income Canadians.

There would be no army of caseworkers doing screening interviews, scrutinizing documents, keeping track of monthly earning statements and doing follow-up visits with welfare clients. There would be no bureaucracy watching how much a disabled person earns working part-time, in case the next month’s support cheque can show a deduction. That’s more than the 100,000 civil servants in Tim Hudak’s Ontario to lay off the public payroll.

Where $12,750 for an individual on welfare in Alberta becomes a trap against trying to re-enter the workforce (you lose your benefits if you try — it’s practically a 100 per cent tax on income), $20,000 becomes a more comfortable floor (with a roof over your head).

A person on the program can attempt to find work at the bottom of the income scale, knowing the gap between wages and expenses can always be covered.

A retired guy — like me — can leave a job after 40 years and be a volunteer.

StatsCan puts the value of volunteer work at about $50 billion a year. Include stay-at-home parents and all other types of unpaid work, and that total rises to about $297 billion a year.

Crime costs attributable to poverty would drop $1 billion to $2 billion a year, according to the academics at the conference. Health-care costs attributable to low income could drop anywhere between $8 billion and $17 billion a year.

And there’s that old study from Dauphin, Man., to consider. A guaranteed annual income experiment was done there under Pierre Trudeau in the 1970s. The data from that was compiled, but never digitized and fully studied, and only recently have academics begun sifting through boxes of documents in archives to quantify what really happened when everyone in town was guaranteed a minimum income.

All we know is that a socialist Armageddon of layabouts did not rise in Dauphin. Poor people still went to work, their kids stayed in school longer and had better lives.

They were good people. Are good people worth $20,000 a year?

As the long weekend winds down, let’s not allow what was said at this conference to simply fade away.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor.

Less Redford bashing, more about future plans So finally, the Progressive Conservative leadership contest has caught my attention — for a couple of reasons.

One is Thomas Lukaszuk’s suggestion last week that Alison Redford should consider resigning her seat as MLA for Calgary-Elbow.

Lukaszuk should focus his run for the leadership — ergo premier of Alberta for perhaps a very brief period of time — on the bigger picture.

It’s evident that Redford has paid the ultimate political price for her wayward spending, travelling ways and unMARY-ANN popular style of leadership.

BARR She’s apologized, resigned as premier and, through tremendous humiliation, returned to her MLA work. And most likely the latter job will only last until the next election.

I am not defending Redford’s record but how much blood out of a stone is enough? How much longer should the kicking go on when a person is already down and out? Let’s just burn her at the stake and be done with it.

Lukaszuk said on Friday that Redford should give serious consideration to quitting now, otherwise the

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decision could be made for her later.

He also threatened that should he become premier, Redford might not have a seat in caucus. My bet is Redford will not seek the nomination for her riding come the next election.

With more new revelations of other expensive travel costs associated with Redford’s time at the helm, the other two PC leadership candidates — Jim Prentice and Ric McIver — were also cluck-clucking.

When things go south, the operative word is “disassociate.”

The candidates are anxious to show voters that the Tory culture of entitlement only applies to Redford’s brief tenure as premier. How about this: in the interest of a more open, transparent government, show voters a full accounting of all travel costs associated with the premiers of Alberta over the past 40 years.

The other thing that caught my interest late last week was Prentice saying that Alberta Health Services should be decentralized to help deliver better care, and there should be stronger local input into how health are resources are allocated.

But he’s only talking about a little decentralization, not a major reorganization, and he wouldn’t saying goodbye to the AHS so-called superboard. We need more specifics.

He hasn’t provided them yet.

The existing 12 health care councils (from which we never hear anything) are each made up of 14 volunteers, who are supposed to advise Alberta Health

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Services. Prentice said these councils would report directly to the minister of Health, rather than AHS as they do now.

“They will be empowered to provide more direct advice, they will be empowered in more specific context in terms of how resources are allocated,” he said.

OK, that’s a start. But regardless of who they report to, health care council members are chosen, not elected, so who do they really represent?

You already know where I’m going with this, right?

If Prentice really wants to empower local people with how health-care dollars should be spent, how about returning to elected trustees to local health boards?

That’s the way locals had input about a decade ago. Elected trustees had a deep commitment to better local health care. These are the people who should be taking up the torch for issues like shorter surgery wait times and more beds for seniors.

One thing that elected trustees eliminates is patronage.

I wonder: would the Wildrose Party, which trumpets a grassroots approach to democracy, bring back elected hospital boards?

Prentice, believed to be the frontrunner for the PC leadership, needs to add more detail to his ideas.

Mary-Ann Barr is the Red Deer Advocate’s assistant city editor. She can be reached by email at barr@reddeeradvocate.com or by phone at 403-314-4332.

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Education minister demands discipline records

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Education Minister Jeff Johnson is asking Alberta school boards to provide him with records of any complaints about teacher misconduct or incompetence over the past 10 years.

Johnson says he is using his authority under the School Act to request the records be shared with the province by July 11.

He says it’s his office that regulates the teaching profession, but the Al- Jeff Johnson berta Teachers’ Association has the power to investigate complaints and hold disciplinary hearings.

He says that means he doesn’t have all the information he needs to “make decisions.”

ATA officials say they want to know more about what Johnson intends to use the information for.

President Mark Ramsankar says the letter to the school boards “came as an absolute surprise.”

“The first thing that jumps out is: what are we after? Where are we going with it? And, what’s the purpose?”

Ramsankar said.

“We’re interested in making sure that the information that is gathered has appropriate use. Are the privacies of the individuals involved being respected and again, where are we going with this information?”

Ramsankar said the current process for investigating and dealing with teacher conduct already works.

“The continual look for information and digging and digging is very troublesome,” he said. “It does raise the question — what are you looking for and to what end?”

Johnson said he has heard concerns about the process and expense to deal with complaints and discipline and he wants a more comprehensive picture of what’s going on in each school jurisdiction.

“This is about students and it needs to be about students,” he said. “These are our kids and they need to be protected.”

Helen Clease, a trustee with the Alberta School Boards Association, called the minister’s request “probably long overdue.”

“The letter has come about because I think anecdotally we’ve been hearing for a long time across the province that the process for dealing with professional conduct and discipline is very costly and very time-consuming,” she said.

“I think what this will do is shed light on what the issues are — if there are any issues — and we’ll be able to determine a path forward as to how to address them.”

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Ditches and culverts are at capacity due to overland flooding in Brandon and surrounding southwest Manitoba, Monday.

Southwest Manitoba has seen a large amount of rainfall the past several days.

Emergencies declared on the Prairies due to flooding

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS About 500 people were forced out of their homes and dozens of roads were impassable due to flooding caused by a deluge of rain in southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Thirty-six communities in Saskatchewan and 31 municipalities in Manitoba were under states of emergency Monday. A state of emergency means local officials can order evacuations and apply for disaster assistance.

Parts of southeast Saskatchewan got more than 240 millimetres of rain, according to the Saskatchewan Water Security Agency. Some parts of western Manitoba reported more than 100 millimetres over the weekend.

Officials in both provinces said that rain fell on land that was already saturated.

“It’s the local tributaries, the local creeks, the smaller ones that we’re seeing swell up,” said Patrick Boyle with the Saskatchewan Water Security Agency.

“You get a heavy concentration of rainfall in a large, broad area like this and we’re seeing washouts because of roads getting pushed and there’s sloughs that are already full.”

RCMP said Monday there was no access by road to the village of Carievale, Sask., because rising water flowed over the main road and a bridge had become impassable.

The flooding closed sections of at least 15 highways in Saskatchewan, including a stretch of the TransCanada east of Regina.

The rain also led to record flow levels on 13 southern Manitoba rivers and streams.

“Creeks that are often pretty minimal in terms of flows have become far more than creeks, often much more approaching rivers in terms of flows,” said Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton.

The Red River Floodway was to begin operating Tuesday to divert water around Winnipeg. The Portage diversion, a channel that funnels water from the Assiniboine River into Lake Manitoba, is also being used.

More than 300 people in southeast Saskatchewan and 200 in southern Manitoba were out of their homes because of rising water levels. Some left because water poured into their basements, while others fled because roads were washed out and access to communities was cut off.

Firefighters went door-to-door in Gainsborough, Sask., on Sunday night advising everyone to leave after water rose on the last available road out of the village.

The mayor of Gainsborough said dozens of homes and businesses were flooded and that it was “going to be a disaster.”

Melville, about 140 kilometres northeast of Regina, declared a state of local emergency after rain overwhelmed the city’s storm and domestic sewer systems, as well as its lift stations. Mayor Walter Streelasky said there’s little the city can do to move the water.

“We have mass flooding,” Streelasky said. “We have great difficulty exiting

all this water out of Melville and we have numerous, numerous, countless (calls) of houses being flooded.”

Kris Carley, the emergency measures operations co-ordinator for the town of Carnduff, Sask., and the rural municipality of Mount Pleasant, said flooding in the area was getting worse as rain continued Monday.

Carley said the community is functioning, but roads were getting cut off and people could be stranded.

“There’s not a lot we can do,” said Carley. “Mother Nature’s got us and we just have to try to react.”

The city of Regina was asking people to delay laundry, showers, baths and even flushing toilets to prevent additional strain on the system.

WestJet had cancelled flights Sunday in and out of Brandon, Man., when water swamped the road into the terminal north of the city. But city spokeswoman Allison Collins said Monday that travellers heading to Calgary on the afternoon flight could get to the airport by taking a detour.

Ashton said it was “one heck of a weekend” for weather in Manitoba and he hoped things would turn around.

“I said a few days ago, we could use a break in the weather. We certainly haven’t gotten it thus far,” he said.

“It’s anticipated there’s going to be some further storm activity (Tuesday).

If there is any good news, it’s an indication that the current weather forecast is for improved weather later in this week.

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Astronaut, comedian, filmmaker Rob Ford honoured in latest Order of pledges Canada list clean living

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Rick Mercer — a Canadian known for his capacity to chat, rant and laugh — said he was dumbstruck when he learned he was to receive one of the country’s top honours.

The comedian is among the latest admissions and promotions in the Order of Canada, a list that includes renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg and retired astronaut Chris Hadfield.

Mercer, 44, said he got the unexpected call from Gov. Gen. David Johnston.

“Honestly, I was completely speechless. ... I really didn’t know what was happening. I’m not exactly sure what I said to him,” said Mercer, who becomes a member of the order.

“I hope I said that I was humbled and thrilled. I was kind of in shock. It was not something I anticipated or imagined.”

Mercer is the host of CBC’s “Rick Mercer Report,” and a champion of the anti-malaria Spread the Net campaign. He is the recipient of a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and numerous Geminis.

Cronenberg is being promoted to companion, the highest level within the order.

His most recent film, “Maps to the Stars,” competed for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year. His acclaimed movie “Crash” won the special jury prize there in 1996.

Hadfield becomes an officer, the second-highest level.

His 2013 memoir, “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth,” was a Canadian and a New York Times bestseller. Hadfield was the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station, at the end of an illustrious career with the Canadian Space Agency and the Canadian Armed Forces.

Retired general John de Chastelain, the former chief of the defence staff who played a key role in the prolonged Northern Ireland peace process, has also been promoted to companion, as was Dr. Richard Cruess, former dean of medicine at McGill University in Montreal.

Among the 19 new officers are opera singer Gerald Finley and Harold Jennings, who was cited for his work on a pediatric vaccine against the most common form of meningitis.

Shirley Marie Tilghman of Toronto and Princeton, N.J., has been made an officer in recognition of her contributions to molecular biology and for her efforts to champion women in science and engineering.

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Rick Mercer poses in 2009. Mercer, a Canadian known for his capacity to chat, rant and laugh, said he was dumbstruck when he learned he was to receive one of the country’s top honours.

There are 64 new members of the order.

They include Pierre Boutet, a former judge advocate general of the Canadian Forces who also served as a judge on the special court for Sierra Leone, and jazz vocalist Eleanor Collins of Surrey, B.C. Among the other new members are Quebec poet Denise Desautels, Alberta social justice advocate Irene Fraser, Haida artist and fashion designer Dorothy Grant, Toronto speculative fiction author Guy Gavriel Kay, Quebec wine writer Michel Phaneuf and Quebec singer-director Rene Simard.

The recipients will be given their insignia at a later date.

New additions to the Order of Canada are announced twice a year, around New Year’s Day and Canada Day. The honour is given to recognize an individual’s “outstanding achievement, dedication to community and service to the nation.”

Mercer said he couldn’t help but reflect on those who helped him succeed.

“I keep thinking of all the people who allow me to do what it is that I do,” he said.

“There’s a lot of people who support me, a lot of teachers I’ve had and a lot of writers, and people who just believed in this idea of a show where I travel around the country and it’s so completely unapologetically Canadian. I’m really thankful to all of those people.”

Liberals win in two key Toronto ridings, outperform in oilsands country

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

FEDERAL BYELECTIONS

OTTAWA — Monday’s byelections gave Justin Trudeau’s Liberals plenty to smile about: they bested their NDP rivals in one key Toronto riding, beat back a Conservative challenge in another and even delivered a strong showing in the heart of oilsands country.

Liberal superstar Adam Vaughan defeated New Democrat hopeful Joe Cressy in Trinity-Spadina, long a New Democrat riding once held by Olivia Chow, widow of beloved former NDP leader Jack Layton.

Further east in Scarborough-Agincourt, Arnold Chan, a lawyer and former political aide at the Ontario legislature, managed to keep the riding in the Liberal fold, beating elementary school teacher and Conservative candidate Trevor Ellis.

And in the northern Alberta riding of Fort McMurray-Athabasca, ground zero in the oilsands debate, Liberal Kyle Harrietha had some 34 per cent of the vote even as he went down to defeat at the hands of Tory candidate David Yurdiga.

“The results of these byelections have proven that our message is reaching and engaging Canadians,” Trudeau said in a statement.

“Liberals’ results and significant gains make clear that Albertans in particular will not be taken for granted.

“Voters have shown us that they believe that every Canadian deserves a real and fair chance at success.”

Only in the southern Alberta riding of Macleod were the Liberals not a factor: former journalist John Barlow cruised to victory with about 69 per cent of the vote, well clear of Liberal rival Dustin Fuller.

Barlow wasted little time before declaring victory Monday.

“This is the culmination of eight months of hard work and it definitely feels worthwhile today. I thought this day would never come,” Barlow said in

a victory speech that came just 30 minutes after the polls closed.

More than 100 supporters cheered loudly when he entered the Italian restaurant in High River accompanied by his wife Louise and children.

“What this really came down to was passion and how hard we worked. The message we had is Macleod is not going to be forgotten. We cannot take Macleod for granted.”

Barlow said he intends to locate his constituency office in High River, which has been decimated since massive floods last year turned the town’s streets into rivers of water.

“If there’s one issue that really bound Macleod together over the past year was that flood,” he said.

“We have a lot of work to do and I will be here from this day forward to make sure that work gets done.”

Scarborough-Agincourt had long been the personal fiefdom of Jim Karygiannis, a bare-knuckle political brawler who held the riding for the Grits for 25 years.

His decision to retire from federal politics to run municipally gave the Conservatives an opportunity to paint another suburban Toronto riding blue, appealing to the conservative, family values of the ethnically diverse population.

But despite papering the riding with flyers attacking Trudeau’s support for legalization of marijuana, Conservatives didn’t make much of a dent in Liberal support.

Chan actually managed to increase the Liberal margin of victory.

TORONTO — Mayor Rob Ford ended two months of self-imposed exile Monday when he returned to City Hall from a stint in rehab to resume what mayoral duties he still has, apologizing for his past offensive behaviour, pleading for a second chance, and promising an “unwavering” commitment to living clean.

In a 15-minute statement, Ford spoke passionately of his addictions and his belated realization that they were destroying him.

“For a long, long time, I resisted the idea of getting help,” Ford said. “I was in complete denial. I had become my own worst enemy.”

Ford heaped praise on the rehabilitation facility he entered two months ago for saving his life and forcing him to “confront his personal demons.”

He said he knows he will require treatment for the rest of his life but that getting help had changed him forever.

“I can proudly say I have begun the process of taking control of my life,” Ford said.

Ford’s role as mayor has been largely symbolic since November, when city council stripped him of most of his power following his admissions of alcohol abuse and drug use during “drunken stupors” that came after months of denials — along with offensive and profane comments he was recorded making.

The mayor apologized to those hurt by his words and actions, saying he regretted some of his past choices but said he blamed no one but himself for his misconduct.

Looking back, he said, “I’m ashamed, embarrassed and humiliated.”

The mayor also made it clear he would stay on as mayor and fight for re-election in October.

“I want to thank the people of Toronto for their understanding and continued support during this very difficult time,” Ford said. “I look forward to serving you for many, many more years.”

With less than four months left in his term, Ford is expected to devote most of his time to his re-election bid. Ford, whose outrageous behaviour has earned him international notoriety, abruptly left for rehab May 1 after almost a year of insisting he didn’t have a substance abuse problem and would not take time out for treatment. Saying he was “blind to the dangers” of some of the company he kept — he has been photographed with known drug dealers — Ford said those associations were now emphatically over.

Even before his announcement Monday, the mayor was under fire for restricting media access to his announcement — ostensibly for space reasons — and letting it be known through his brother and campaign manager, Coun. Doug Ford, that he would be taking no questions.

His departure in May came just hours after the Globe and Mail said a drug dealer had shown two of its reporters a video of Ford allegedly smoking what was said to be crack cocaine. Around the same time, the Toronto Sun published audio of Ford at a bar making anti-gay remarks, using an ethnic slur, and saying he would like to “jam” a rival female mayoral candidate. Ford had publicly sworn off alcohol late last year, but was forced to admit he had been drinking in a videotaped incident in January in which he used Jamaican swear words. At the time, he called the incident a “minor setback.”

John Tory, one of Ford’s rival candidates for mayor, was unimpressed with the mayor’s speech Monday, saying Ford had “massively embarrassed” the city and should resign.

“His refusal to answer questions today is further indication that he doesn’t get it as yet,” Tory said.

“There are so many questions that are unanswered from the media, from the police and from the public and we need answers to those questions.”

Apart from lingering questions about his substance abuse, Ford is under continuing police investigation after a guns and gangs probe allegedly captured conversations about a video that kicked off the controversy surrounding the mayor.

Ford’s friend, Alesandro Lisi, has been charged with extortion related to attempts to retrieve the video — initially reported by the Toronto Star and U.S. website Gawker in May last year as appearing to show the mayor smoking crack cocaine.

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Cease-fire expires

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

UKRAINE

KIEV, Ukraine — The fragile, 10-day cease-fire in eastern Ukraine expired Monday night with no immediate word from the country’s president on whether he would extend it, and no sign that the pro-Moscow separatists had met his demands to ease the violence.

As the truce entered its final hours, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko discussed the situation in a phone call with the leaders of Russia, Germany and France, saying the rebels had not “fulfilled the conditions.�

Among other things, he demanded that the rebels hand back border posts and allow international observers to monitor the cease-fire.

The phone call included Russian President Vladimir Putin, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s Francois Hollande.

Poroshenko had already extended the cease-fire from seven days as part of a plan to end the fighting that has killed more than 400 people since April. The truce has been violated repeatedly, with the two sides blaming each other.

European leaders and the U.S. have urged Russia to use its influence with the rebels to ease the bloodshed and have threatened to impose another round of economic sanctions against Moscow.

While Putin has expressed support for the cease-fire, the West has accused Russia of allowing weapons and fighters to flow across the border into Ukraine.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that the U.S. welcomes Putin’s encouraging words but that the Russian leader must take “tangible actions� if he hopes to avoid further sanctions. “We are still in a situation where those actions do not indicate a seriousness of purpose when it comes to deescalating the situation in Ukraine,�

Earnest said.

French officials said Monday’s phone call touched on establishing a full cease-fire by both sides, having international monitors on the border between Russia and Ukraine, freeing prisoners and holding substantial talks with the rebels.

Rebel leader Alexander Borodai on Friday welcomed having observers monitor the situation but rejected the demand to hand back the checkpoints.

Sporadic fighting flared early Monday despite the cease-fire. Shelling killed at least two people and ruined several apartments in the rebel-held city of Slovyansk.

One woman, 62-year-old Vera Say-

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A woman cries near her burning house after shelling in the city of Slovyansk, Donetsk Region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, June 30, 2014. Residential areas came under shelling on Monday morning from government forces. Both sides have been accused of violating the 10-day cease-fire, which was set to expire at 10 p.m. Monday local time enko, died when a shell hit her ninthfloor apartment, neighbours said. “Everything we have collected in our life is destroyed. We have become poor,� said Valery, whose apartment

was also destroyed. He would not give his last name. “Show all Ukrainians what happened here. What else do they want, to ruin the town and kill people?�

Islamic state declaration threatens ties with other Sunnis

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IRAQ

BAGHDAD — A militant extremist group’s unilateral declaration of an Islamic state is threatening to undermine its already-tenuous alliance with other Sunnis who helped it overrun much of northern and western Iraq.

One uneasy ally has vowed to resist if the militants try to impose their strict interpretation of Shariah law.

Fighters from the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have spearheaded the offensive in recent weeks that has plunged Iraq into its deepest crisis since the last U.S. troops left in 2011.

The group’s lightning advance has brought under its control territory stretching from northern Syria as far as the outskirts of Baghdad in central Iraq. In a bold move Sunday, the group announced the establishment of its own state, or caliphate, governed by Islamic law. It proclaimed its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a highly ambitious Iraqi militant with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, to be the caliph, and it demanded that Muslims around the world pledge allegiance to him. Through brute force and meticulous planning, the Sunni extremist group — which said it was changing its name to simply the Islamic State, dropping the reference to Iraq and the Levant — has managed to effectively erase the Syria-Iraq bor-

der and lay the foundations of its proto-state. Along the way, it has battled Syrian rebels, Kurdish militias and the Syrian and Iraqi militaries. Now, the group’s declaration risks straining its loose alliances with other Sunnis who share the militants’ hopes of bringing down Iraq’s Shiite-led government but not necessarily its ambitions of carving out a transnational caliphate.

Iraq’s minority Sunnis complain they have been treated as second-class citizens and unfairly targeted by security forces.

Topping the list of uneasy allies is the Army of the Men of the Naqshabandi Order, a Sunni militant organization with ties to Saddam Hussein’s now-outlawed Baath Party. The group depicts itself as a nationalist force that defends Iraq’s Sunnis from Shiite rule.

A senior Naqshabandi commander in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad told The Associated Press that his group has “no intention� of joining the Islamic State or working under it. He said that “would be a difficult thing to do because our ideology is different from the Islamic State’s extremist ideology.� “Till now, the Islamic State fighters are avoiding any friction with us in the areas we control in Diyala, but if they are to change their approach toward

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The shootings, which included the separate woundings of 10- and 12-year-old boys, made for the third weekend in June that at least a dozen people were shot, police said.

In the last week of June, 35 people were shot, down from 39 gunshot victims the same week a year ago, according to New York Police Department statistics.

A breakdown between those killed and those wounded was not immediately available.

This year, 611 people have been shot in the city compared with 554 for the same period last year. “We’ve had an increase, a temporary increase, in shootings,�

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said. “Crime goes up, it goes down.�

After a crime drop in recent years, the spate of violence has raised alarms.

The bloodshed spilled into Monday, when a man demanding a job at an iron works opened fire and wounded two employees, police said.

He kept officers at bay for two hours before turning killing himself.

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It has followed a similar pattern in imposing its strict interpretation of Islamic law, choosing to overlook some practices it considers forbidden before eventually tightening its grip and implementation. In Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, which the insurgents overran earlier in June, they issued rules but have not rigidly enforced them.

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GM recalls another 8.2M cars over ignition switches ALMOST 700,000 IN CANADA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — General Motors’ safety crisis deepened dramatically Monday when the automaker added 8.2 million vehicles, including almost 700,000 in Canada, to its ballooning list of cars recalled over faulty ignition switches.

The latest recalls involve mainly older midsize cars and bring GM’s total recalls in North America to 29 million this year, surpassing the 22 million recalled by all automakers last year. They also raise questions about the safety of ignition switches in cars made by all manufacturers.

In the latest recalls, GM said keys may be jostled or accidentally bumped, causing the ignition to slip out of the “run” position. The recalls cover seven vehicles, including the Chevrolet Malibu from 1997 to 2005, the Pontiac Grand Prix from 2004 to 2008, and the 2003-2014 Cadillac CTS. The company is aware of three deaths, eight injuries and seven crashes involving the vehicles, although it says there’s no clear evidence that faulty switches caused the accidents.

Air bags didn’t deploy in the three fatal accidents, which is a sign that the ignition was out of position. But air bags may not deploy for other reasons as well.

A GM spokesman couldn’t say Monday if more recalls are imminent. But this may be the end of the recalls associated with a 60-day review of all of the company’s ignition switches. At the company’s annual meeting earlier in June, CEO Mary Barra said she hoped most recalls related to that review would be completed by the end of the month.

Karl Brauer, an industry analyst with Kelley Blue Book, said the number of recalls — while huge — may be

a good thing for the company in the long run.

“I think there’s a new standard for what GM considers a potential safety defect, and Mary Barra has no tolerance or patience for potential safety defects that are unresolved,” he said.

In a statement Monday, Barra said “we will act appropriately and without hesitation” if any new issues come to light.

Lance Cooper, a Marietta, Georgia, attorney who is suing GM, said he was not surprised by the additional recalls and expects even more. A companyfunded investigation of the ignition switch problems by former U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas found that GM had a dysfunctional corporate culture in which people didn’t take responsibility to fix the problems, Cooper said.

“Cars got made that were defective.

The buck kept getting passed, and this is what happened as a result,” Cooper said.

The announcement of more recalls extends a crisis for GM that began in February with small-car ignition switch problems. GM recalled 2.6 million older small cars worldwide because the switches can unexpectedly slip from “run” to “accessory,” shutting off the engines. That disables power steering and power brakes and can cause people to lose control of their cars. It also stops the air bags from inflating in a crash. GM has been forced to admit that it knew of the problem more than 10 years, yet it failed to recall the cars until this year.

GM has been reviewing the performance of its ignition switches since the first recalls were announced, and it continues to find more that can turn too easily. Of the 29 million vehicles recalled by the company this year, 17.1 million have been due to ignition switches.

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Cadillac CTS vehicles are displayed outside the LaFountaine Cadillac in Highland Township, Mich. General Motors’ safety crisis worsened on Monday, when the automaker added 8.2 million vehicles to its huge list of cars recalled over faulty ignition switches.

The problem has drawn the attention of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the government’s road safety agency. On June 18, the agency opened two investigations into ignition switches in Chrysler minivans and SUVs, and acknowledged that it’s looking at the whole industry.

The agency is looking into how long air bags remain active after the switches are moved out of the run position.

In many cases, the answer is less than a second.

GM’s conduct in the small-car recall already is under investigation by the Justice Department and both houses of

Congress.

Earlier this year, the company paid a $35 million fine to NHTSA for delays in reporting the small-car ignition switch problems.

GM’s recalls on Monday bring this year’s total so far to more than 40 million for the U.S. industry, far surpassing the old full-year record of 30.8 million from 2004.

The recalls come the same day the company’s compensation consultant, Kenneth Feinberg, announced plans to pay victims of crashes caused by the defective small-car switches.

Toronto-area dealers sue General Motors CLAIM COMPANY WON’T HELP THEM OFFSET SALES DROP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A group of 17 Torontoarea General Motors dealers is suing the automaker, claiming GM failed to provide them with adequate financial support despite receiving million of dollars in aid from taxpayers.

The Canadian dealers say they have been struggling to make a profit amid a big drop in market share and sluggish sales, and have spent years asking General Motors of Canada Ltd. and its parent company in the U.S., General Motors Corp., for help.

But, they say, none of the $10-billion bailout provided to the company by the Canadian and Ontario governments as part of joint funding with the U.S. during the financial crisis in 2009 has been spent in Canada.

That has created a particular hardship for dealers in the Greater Toronto Area, a major urban market where it is expensive to operate, the lawsuit says.

“Despite the fact that the Canadian and Ontario governments provided bailout funds to GMCL based on the representations made and assurances

given by GM and GMCL ... all of the $10 billion received from Canadian taxpayers . . . (was) directed to GM in the United States,” the court filing said.

“At GM’s direction and insistence, GMCL ceded the right to allocate the bailout funds it received from the Canadian and Ontario governments to its parent company in the United States, and GM in turn prioritized the needs of its own dealer network over those of Canadian dealers” despite initial suggestions that the funding would benefit both markets.

The dealers operate in what they describe as the third-largest market in North America and say GM is aware that the GTA as a market is comparable to major U.S. markets such as New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

But according to the court filing, the company did nothing to address declining market share in Canada, or to stop the loss of customers from brands like Pontiac, which were eliminated as part of GM’s restructuring.

The dealers say market share in the GTA has fallen markedly since 2008 from 12.5 per cent to an all-time low of

Sale of Canadian assets of railroad in Lac-Megantic disaster is completed

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Maine — With completion of the sale of the bankrupt railroad responsible for an oil train derailment that killed 47 people, attention now turns to creation of a settlement fund with hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate victims.

Bankruptcy attorney Robert Keach said he’s working to establish the settlement fund while sorting through the numerous claims while civil lawsuits in the U.S. are on hold and while a Canadian class-action awaits certification.

“We’re in negotiations with people who have liabilities to make a contribution to a significant nine-figure fund. Those negotiations continue,” Keach said Monday.

The fiery derailment nearly a year ago in Lac-Megantic was the worst railway accident in Canada in nearly 150 years and led to calls for making oil trains safer across North America.

The $15.85 million sale of the bankrupt railroad — the Maine-based Montreal, Maine and Atlantic — was completed Monday with transfer of the company’s Canadian assets to new ownership, officials said.

More than a month ago, parties completed the sale of the railroad’s U.S. as-

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sets to a subsidiary of New York-based Fortress Investment Group, which has renamed it the Central Maine and Quebec Railway. But the Canadian closing was delayed until regulators issued a “certificate of fitness.”

The certificate was issued last week and the Canadian sale was completed Monday with the signing of legal documents and wire transfers of money, Keach said. Most of the money from the sale will go to creditors. The settlement fund, however, would be used to pay out claims to victims. The total environmental cleanup alone in Lac Megantic could end up costing between $200 million and $500 million based on early estimates.

The deal was completed Monday as the community of Lac-Megantic prepares to mark the first anniversary of the disaster this coming weekend.

Train service in Lac-Megantic was restored in December. Some of the region’s biggest employers depend heavily on the railroad to transport goods.

The MMA had agreed not to transport dangerous goods through the town.

John Giles, president and CEO of Central Maine and Quebec Railway, said in May that the company plans to spend $10 million on rail improvements in Canada over the next two years with a goal of resuming oil shipments in 2016.

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Without adequate support, the dealers say their business is not viable in the long run, especially since they are required by the company to invest millions of dollars in their dealerships in renovations to meet new image standards.

GM spokeswoman Adria MacKenzie described the allegations in the lawsuit, which have yet to be proven in court, as being “without merit.”

“We plan to defend against them vigorously,” she said. “As the matter is before the courts, we cannot provide any further comment. We will continue to be focused on our customers.”

The lawsuit was filed last week with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

In it, the dealers are asking that GM provide them with “an appropriate level of financial support and assistance” and are seeking $400 million in damages.

They are also asking for a declaration from the companies that they “breached their duties to deal fairly and act in good faith” toward the dealers.

The GTA lawsuit is the latest in a

string of legal battles for the company, including an ongoing U.S. suit in which GM links 13 deaths to a defective ignition switch in cars such as the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion. Trial lawyers and lawmakers say claims of wrongful death and injury could total in the hundreds.

GM has agreed to pay compensation to all victims of crashes in those cars under a program announced Monday, provided they can prove the ignition switches caused the accidents.

Kenneth Feinberg, one of the top compensation experts in the U.S. who is running the plan, said GM has placed no limit on the total amount he can pay to injured people or relatives of those killed.

And he alone — not GM — will decide how much they each will get, even though he is being paid by the company and it didn’t like some of the program’s provisions.

Feinberg wouldn’t estimate the ultimate cost for GM, but based on the methodology he plans to employ, a large amount of claims could mean a sum running into the hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions.

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is moving at a sluggish pace.

The loonie dropped 0.08 of a cent to 93.72 cents US. Statistics Canada said the economy grew by 0.1 per cent in April — the same pace as in March — on lower oil and gas production.

The figures failed to meet economists’ expectations of a gain of 0.2 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters.

Traders have been watching for signs that the economy has moved on from the long, severe winter, which dragged consumer spending in the first quarter.

Commodity prices were mixed with August crude losing 37 cents to US$105.37 a barrel.

Crude prices have declined recently in the wake of the weaker than expected U.S. consumer data and expectations that the insurgency in Iraq won’t spread to that country’s oil-producing south.

September copper was up 3.55 cents at US$3.55 a pound.

August gold bullion lifted $2 to US$1,322 an ounce.

The loonie has had a positive month, up about 1 ½ cents to a six-month high as gold and oil prices rose amid geopolitical concerns in Iraq and tensions continued in Ukraine and Russia.

The loonie had also found support from stronger than expected inflation data, which raised expectations that the Bank of Canada might raise interest rates sooner than thought.

BRIEF Bombardier gets firm order for 16 CRJ900s worth US$727M from unnamed customer MONTREAL — Bombardier Aerospace announced Monday that it has received a firm order for 16 CRJ900 NextGen regional jets, with an option on eight others.

Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) says the value of the firm order is about US$727 million, although the contract could increase to US$1.12 billion if all options are exercised by the customer, who asked not to be identified at this time.

Including this latest order, Montreal-based Bombardier said it has received firm orders for 1,833 CRJ Series aircraft, including 359 CRJ900 and CRJ900 NextGen aircraft.

Worldwide, CRJ Series aircraft are in service with more than 60 airlines and more than 30 customers operate corporate variants of the aircraft.

Canadian dollar falls after lower than expected GDP data weighs heavy TORONTO — The Canadian dollar weakened Monday after the latest GDP figures showed that economic growth

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

General Motors Co. . . . . 36.30 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.56 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.00 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 56.12 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 66.08 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.77 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.08 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.93

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 97.75 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 51.72 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.40 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.94 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.77 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.01 Cdn. National Railway . . 69.40

Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 193.31 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.00 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.37 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.18 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.46 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.63 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.84 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.47

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 102.37 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.90 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.50 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.62 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.86 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.48 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 47.62 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.37 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 75.07

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Monday, pushed ahead by gains in gold and information technology stocks.

The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 51.76 points to 15,146.01 in a relatively lowvolume trading session ahead of the Canada Day holiday.

Gold stocks lifted as bullion settled $2 higher at US$1,322 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

August crude was down 37 cents to US$105.37 a barrel, while September copper rose 3.55 cents to US$3.20 a pound.

The loonie dropped 0.08 of a cent to 93.72 cents US as Statistics Canada reported the economy grew by just 0.1 per cent in April — the same pace as in March — on lower oil and gas production.

The figures failed to meet economists’ expectations of a gain of 0.2 per cent, according to

Thomson Reuters.

“It’s not at all surprising to see that we’re seeing sluggish growth. It’s a reflection of a couple of different factors. We haven’t seen the U.S. or the global economy hit its stride, so that’s weighing on the export component of the Canadian economy,” said Craig Fehr, Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis, Mo. “We also continue to see consumers trying to manage high debt loads, along with sluggish wage growth and relativity choppy job growth overall.”

New York indexes were mostly lower as the Dow Jones industrials shed 25.24 points to 16,826.60 and the S&P 500 index slipped 0.73 of point to 1,960.23, while the Nasdaq was up 10.25 points to 4,408.18. It’s a shortened trading week for both the TSX and the New York markets. The TSX will be closed Tuesday for Canada Day and the U.S. indexes will close on Friday

for Independence Day. Between the holidays, traders are awaiting two key reports in the U.S. — the Institute for Supply Management’s June reading on the manufacturing sector Tuesday and the U.S. government’s employment report for last month, which is being released on Thursday.

Markets are hoping to see clear signs of the underlying strength of the U.S. economy.

In corporate news, a group of Toronto-area GM Canada dealers is suing the company and its parent General Motors Co., saying the automaker has ignored their repeated calls for financial help to address a drop in sales and market share. In the U.S., the automaker said it is prepared to pay damages to victims of crashes in GM small cars — provided they can prove the cars’ ignition switches caused the crash.

GM links 13 deaths to a defective ignition switch in cars such as the Chevrolet Cobalt and Sat-

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.54 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.93 First Quantum Minerals . 22.82 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 29.78 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.87 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.42 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.68 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.58 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.32 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.36 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 32.49 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 35.15 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 74.45 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.37 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 64.76 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 49.03 urn Ion. But trial lawyers and lawmakers say claims of wrongful death and injury could total in the hundreds. Bombardier Aerospace has received a firm order for 16 CRJ900 NextGen regional jets, with an option on eight others.

Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) says the value of the firm order is about US$727 million, although the contract could increase to US$1.12 billion if all options are exercised by the customer, who asked not to be identified at this time.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,146.01, up 51.76 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,028.43, up 5.46 points TSX 60 — 866.04, up 1.81 points Dow — 16,826.60, down

Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 24.18 Canyon Services Group. 18.90 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 34.59 CWC Well Services . 10800.00 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 25.28 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.76 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 100.68 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 71.01 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.34 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 34.46 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 56.23 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.65 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.42 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.105 Precision Drilling Corp . . 15.11 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 45.50 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.28 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 17.23 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.11 25.24 points S&P 500 — 1,960.23, down 0.73 points Nasdaq — 4,408.18, up 10.25 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 93.72 cents US, down 0.08 of a cent Pound — C$1.8261, up 0.95 of a cent Euro — C$1.4610, up 0.60 of a cent Euro — US$1.3693, up 0.45 of a cent Oil futures: US$105.37 per barrel, down 37 cents (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,322.00 per oz., up $2.00 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.287 oz., down 18.7 cents $748.68 kg., down $6.01 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures

Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 74.25 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.58 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.14 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.10 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 39.89 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.58 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.18 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 51.08 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 73.58 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.21 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.26 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.11 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 76.28 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.22 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.93

Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’14 $1.30 higher $487.30; Nov. ’14 $10.10 lower $457.30; Jan ’15 $10.20 lower $460.20; March ’15 $9.60 lower $460.70; May ’15 $9.00 lower $459.80; July ’15 $8.80 lower $458.90; Nov ’15 $9.00 lower $460.20; Jan. ’16 $9.10 lower $467.00; March ’16 $9.10 lower $470.50; May ’16 $9.10 lower $470.50; July ’16 $9.30 lower $470.50.

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.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 335,240 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 335,240.

In Pennsylvania’s fracking boom, new wells far more likely to leak than old, study finds

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FILE Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Central Illinois corn and soybean farmer Gary Niemeyer readies his DEKALB seed corn,, for spring planting at his farm near Auburn, Ill.

U.S. farmers plant record 84.8 million acres of soybeans, as corn crop smallest since 2010

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DES MOINES, Iowa — The nation’s farmers planted the largest soybean crop on record this year by devoting millions of acres of land to the crop that had been used for growing corn, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.

Farmers planted 84.8 million acres of soybeans, which was nearly 11 per cent more than last year’s 76.5 million acres. Among the states that planted record amounts of the crop were Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Corn was planted on 91.6 million acres, which was nearly 4 per cent less than last year’s 95.4 million acres.

“Corn might be king in the U.S., but soybeans are knocking on the palace door,” said Grant Kimberley, a corn and soybean farmer near Maxwell in central Iowa and director of market development for the Iowa Soybean Association. “The increase of soybeans has been dramatic the last couple of years here and I think the increased protein demand worldwide has a lot to do with that.”

About a third of the U.S. soybean crop is exported to China, where there’s a large demand for soybeans to feed hogs, poultry, and dairy cows.

The change in planting was also due to a drop in corn prices and rise in soybean prices.

For much of the last decade, farmers in the primary corn and soybean growing states of the Midwest had greater profit potential with corn, the strong market driven largely by increasing demand from the ethanol industry. Corn prices surpassed $8 a

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bushel in August 2012, when a drought that gripped much of the nation reduced the supply of corn amid high demand.

As corn prices remained strong, farmers planted more acres to take advantage of higher profit. Acres planted in corn climbed and in some cases, farmers strayed from the common practice of rotating fields from soybeans one year to corn the next. For a few seasons, some planted corn followed by corn, which often decreases the per-acre yield of the crop because it doesn’t allow the soil to recover.

Corn needs an abundance of nitrogen in the soil to flourish, and soybeans increase nitrogen levels in soil. Insect problems including corn rootworms also can increase when corn follows corn in a field, increasing chemical costs.

“We did increase corn acres a lot and there has been some switchback based on economics and guys are just getting tired of that corn on corn. It’s a tough thing to handle,” said Kevin Scott, who farms 2,500 acres in corn and soybeans near Valley Springs, S.D., about 15 miles east of Sioux Falls.

In South Dakota, farmers planted 4.8 per cent fewer corn acres and 6 per cent more soybean acres this year, the USDA said. North Dakota corn acres fell 20 per cent, while soybean acres jumped 29 per cent.

“Farmers are going to grow what’s most valuable to them and corn and soybeans work a little bit better than wheat in that area right now,” Scott said.In Nebraska, soybean acres are up 12 per cent, while corn is down 6.5 per cent. Corn prices declined throughout last year, to below $5 per bushel. They saw a brief increase to above $5 in April but since then have fallen $1 and remain around $4.20

WASHINGTON — In Pennsylvania’s gas drilling boom, newer and unconventional wells leak far more often than older and traditional ones, according to a study of state inspection reports for 41,000 wells.

The results suggest that leaks of methane could be a problem for drilling across the nation, said study lead author Cornell University engineering professor Anthony Ingraffea, who heads an environmental activist group that helped pay for the study.

The research was criticized by the energy industry. Marcellus Shale Coalition spokesman Travis Windle said it reflects Ingraffea’s “clear pattern of playing fast and loose with the facts.”

The Marcellus shale formation of plentiful but previously hard-to-extract trapped natural gas stretches over Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York.

The study was published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A team of four scientists analyzed more than 75,000 state inspections of gas wells done in Pennsylvania since 2000.

Overall, older wells — those drilled before 2009 — had a leak rate of about 1 per cent. Most were traditional wells, drilling straight down. Unconventional wells — those drilled horizontally and commonly referred to as fracking — didn’t come on the scene until 2006 and quickly took over.

Newer traditional wells drilled after 2009 had a leak rate of about 2 per cent; the rate for unconventional wells was about 6 per cent, the study found.

The leak rate reached as high as nearly 10 per cent horizontally drilled wells for before and after 2009 in the northeastern part of the state, where drilling is hot and heavy.

The researchers don’t know where

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Appeals court: Ex-BP executive can be tried on charge of obstructing Congress in spill probe NEW ORLEANS — A former BP executive can be tried on a charge that he obstructed a Congressional investigation into the 2010 Gulf oil spill, a federal appeals court in New Orleans said in a ruling posted Monday.

The case involves allegations that David Rainey failed to disclose information from BP PLC indicating that the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion could have been far higher than estimates that were being made publicly. U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt had ruled in favour of defence lawyers, who said the law that Rainey was charged with breaking refers specifically to congressional committees, but not subcommittees. But threejudge 5th Circuit panel disagreed, saying the law includes congressional subcommittees, and reversed Engelhardt’s ruling.Prosecutors allege that Rainey during a May 4, 2010, congressional briefing failed to disclose information about the estimated rate that oil was spewing from BP’s blown-out Macondo

the leaky methane goes — into the water or the air, where it could be a problem worsening man-made global warming.

The scientists don’t know the size of the leaks or even their causes and industry officials deny that they are actual leaks. The study calls it “casing and cement impairment,” but the study’s lead author says that is when methane is flowing outside the pipe.

“Something is coming out of it that shouldn’t, in a place that it shouldn’t,” said Ingraffea, who has been part of a team of Cornell researchers finding problems with fracking. Also, Ingraffea heads a group of scientists and engineers that has criticized fracking and two of his co-authors are part of the group.

The study didn’t discuss why the leak rate spiked. Ingraffea said it could be because corners are being cut as drilling booms, better inspections or the way the gas is trapped in the rock formation.

Pennsylvania regulatory officials said their records show that gas leaks peaked in 2010 and are on the way down again, reflecting their efforts to stress proper cementing practices.

Further in 2011, the state focused more on unconventional wells to make leak protection efforts “more stringent,” wrote Morgan Wagner, a spokesman for the state environmental agency.

Energy industry officials attacked the study and Ingraffea.

Chris Tucker, spokesman for industry-supported group Energy In Depth, said what they measured may not be leaks but state inspectors detecting pressure buildup.

“The trick these researchers are pulling here is conflating pressure with leakage, trying to convince folks that the mere existence of the former is evidence of the latter,” Tucker wrote in an email.

But outside scientists, even prodrilling ones, praised the study. well after the April rig explosion. They also claim Rainey responded to a letter from a subcommittee chairman, thenRep. Edward Markey, with false and misleading information about flowrate estimates. Markey is now a Democratic senator from Massachusetts.

Rainey also faces a charge of making false statements. Also, after Engelhardt threw out the original obstruction charge, prosecutors obtained a new indictment on that charge. Rainey has pleaded not guilty.

Real GDP rose 0.1 per cent in April: StatsCan OTTAWA — The Canadian economy remained in low gear in April as the key resource and construction sectors were stuck in the spring mud. Statistics Canada said Monday the economy grew by 0.1 per cent in April, the same pace as in March. Economists had expected a gain of 0.2 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters. CIBC economist Nick Exarhos noted that the drop in the resource sector should be temporary, but added the weakness in construction was a bit of a surprise.

“Even if some of April’s weakness should prove temporary, and thus likely to influence the next month’s readings positively, the disappointment means that growth is likely to come in closer to two per cent than 2.5 per cent (the Bank of Canada’s prior forecast) in the second quarter,” Exarhos wrote in a note to clients.

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Teen feels pressured to donate her hair

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HOROSCOPES Tuesday July, 1 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Deborah Harry, 68; Dan Aykroyd, 61; Pamela Anderson, 46 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will be a time to focus on organization and getting all the details sorted. There will be a definite pull to understand how you can better help other individuals now. Social interactions will increase and there will be camaraderie with others.

See life through their point of view, it will be beneficial for you to be more empathetic towards others toLARISA MAIRA day.

OZOLINS HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will offer you the ability to plan out your future just as you want it to be. Your ruling planet is poised and ready to move forward, but there will be a need to openly discuss your plans with family.

They will offer you some much needed insight to get everything moving forward once again.

Your direction is set; it is simply a matter of manifesting it.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): After some time of thinking about and discerning your best options for work, there will be some clarity coming in today. Discuss your ideas with those found within your daily routine. They will offer you some insights that will help you understand what has been troubling you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There is a great opportunity to find out your true worth today. Communicating your ideas can and will increase your income as well. Creative projects will go well, listen to your romantic interests, they will offer you some much valued insights today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Seek out family members for productive communications today. By seeing their point of view, you will be better able to understand who you are and where you are going. There will be much empathy and verbalizations of feelings today that will help you tremendously!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Discussing your deepest thoughts and feelings will help you break past behavioural patterns for yourself now. Allow for a deeper understanding of your true devotion and service for others to emerge now. Be discerning with your feelings

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and how they provoke ideas today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Conversations with friends will help build up for your morale today. See life through their perspective and take every opportunity possible to hang out with them now. They not only will help you feel better about yourself, they can offer you some advice to increase your worth now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Greater awareness of self will emerge today. Social interactions with those in the public or within your career will prove to be just what you need to increase your self-knowledge. A greater truth about your actual service to the world at large will come forth now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Lots of ideas will be popping around your head today.

Make sure to discern which ones are the truth and which ones are simply an inspired thought of the truth. If you are feeling a bit down, those at a distance from you will lift you up. They will allow you to see yourself differently.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today is a good day to properly discern which direction you want to go in. There will be a lot of information to sort through and it will be beneficial for you to do so now. Seeing another point of view and perspective will allow for your ambitions to flourish!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Social interactions with those at work, or significant relationships will prove to provide you with a new perspective on how you present yourself now. New ideas and knowledge will be presented and will allow you to move forward within your career or relationships.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A new perspective about your health, work, and daily life will emerge now. You will learn more today to allow you to advance further with your skills. Try to take every opportunity presented to you today. They will all be valid and beneficial for your future!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Deeper bonds will be formed today with those significant individuals in your life. Your ability to verbalize your deep feelings will be realized and this will, in turn, provide you with a greater sense of who you truly are. A feeling of empathy will be enhanced today. Enjoy!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your spouse or the individual you live with will offer you some much needed discernment on how to represent yourself truly. Take their advice and make it a point to see their point of view. This will create a better sense of the service you are truly providing to others now.

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

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two sons to move back home and work for their father’s company. Jane then left her boyfriend of 15 years and moved into her son’s home. This is when my nightmare began.

Doug and I are members of a social club. Doug’s sons joined the club, and then Jane joined so she could spend time with her sons. She invaded our lives. She is there whenever we are, sitting at the same table, playing pool, etc., and dancing with Doug. Jane and I do not speak.

My daughter told her to get a life of her own, but she says this is her only family, and she has nothing else.

Jane is quite attractive, but won’t date anyone. Doug feels sorry for her and obviously enjoys her attention. I know she holds a grudge against me for stealing her husband.

I do not enjoy the club anymore.

I’ve tried not going, but that plays right into Jane’s hands. So I continue to go with Doug.

He knows how much this hurts me, but he will not be rude to Jane or tell her to go away. I’ve considered giving him an ultimatum, but I don’t want to

take the chance of losing him after 28 years. I really love him. Is there any way to resolve this?— Unhappy and Frustrated Dear Unhappy: Some folks may see this as divine justice, but no one in this scenario is innocent.

Nonetheless, you pushed Doug to get a divorce he didn’t want, which means he may still have unresolved feelings about Jane. Please get counseling, preferably with Doug, and see whether the two of you can be honest enough to work this out.

Dear Annie: After reading the letter from “Hurting Daughter-in-Law,” whose in-laws inexplicably stopped speaking to her and also cut off contact with their 10-year-old grandson, I have come to the conclusion that there are a lot of weird people in the world. — S.S. Dear S.S.: You should see it from our end Happy Canada Day to all of our readers north of the border!

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.

Mexico circus performers fear animal ban means end of their livelihoods THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — The small audience claps as Alex Fuentes dances to Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean,” as he does every night. His lacklustre moves wouldn’t get much attention were it not for his partner — a 300-pound Bengal tiger perched on two paws bobbing alongside him.

Armed with a whip, Fuentes coaches his five tigers through a series of surreal acts as parents and children ooh and aah.

For five generations, Fuentes’ family has been running the Fuentes Gasca Brothers Circus in Mexico City, but a new law has him worried about its future. Last week Mexico City’s legislative assembly banned the use of animals in circuses, responding to months of pressure from animal activists.

The law is set to take effect a year

from now, and it promises steep fines for noncompliance. Anima Naturalis, one of the groups supporting the measure, say the exotic animals used in the circus are often exposed to long periods of uncomfortable transport, along with small enclosures and aggressive training methods. Mexico City and six of Mexico’s 32 states have now banned circus animals. Nationwide bans on circus animals have swept through Latin America recently, and Fuentes, along with other performers at his family’s circus, fear a Mexican federal law is sure to follow the capital’s law goes into effect.

Fuentes says he worries people won’t come to the circus just for their acrobatic, trapeze and clown acts.

“It’s the circus, it’s magical,” the 32-year-old Fuentes said. “It’s what I’ve dedicated my life to since I was 15 and now they want to take away from me.”

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SHELVE THE OLIVE OIL AND COTIJA CHEESE AND BRING ONE OF THESE REGIONAL FAVOURITES TO YOUR NEXT BARBECUE

BY JIM SHAHIN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Contributing a side dish to the Fourth of July cookout used to be easy. You might show off your family potato salad, bring corn to grill or shoulder-carry a big ol’ watermelon.

Then America went and got all froufrou. Olive oil, lemon and fresh basil dressed Yukon Golds in the potato salad, kicking Grandma’s lowly mayo, mustard and russets to the curb. Cotija cheese, ancho chili powder and cilantro leaves on corn gave the boot to butter and salt. Feta, mint and a balsamic vinaigrette showed the plain-Jane wedge of chilled watermelon the door.

This year, I plan to buck what’s trending and celebrate America by going hyper-local and traditional. I aim to bring a classic regional side from one of America’s four barbecue capitals: North Carolina, Memphis, Kansas City and Texas.

In North Carolina, the identity of the state’s eastern and western styles isn’t based solely on whole hog sprinkled with a peppery vinegar sauce (eastern) and pork shoulder dressed with a ketchupy “dip” (western). It’s also about coleslaw.

“Slaw is universal,” says John Shelton Reed, author of “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue.” “Slaw is part of the deal unless you ask not to have it.”

Reed traces coleslaw to the pickled cabbage “cold slaugh” of the Tar Heel State’s early German and Dutch settlers. In his forthcoming book, “Barbecue: A Cookbook,” Reed quotes Wilber Shirley, the owner of half-century-old Wilber’s Barbecue in Goldsboro, as saying: “I won’t even sell someone a barbecue unless they get coleslaw. If they want a barbecue and they don’t want coleslaw, there’s something wrong with that person. It all goes together.”

Slaw may be universal to North Carolinians, but its interpretation is not. A creamy, mayonnaise-based slaw, sometimes seasoned with mustard, celery seed, onion, and sugar, is common east of Raleigh. In the Piedmont area of western North Carolina, around the small town of Lexington, the slaw is closer to the original slaugh. It’s just chopped cabbage tossed in a peppery ketchup-laced vinegar jus known as a Piedmont dip. The dressing is basically the same as the barbecue sauce served with the pulled pork around Lexington.

Where the creamy eastern style soothes the piquant flavor of the vinegar-pepper-doused pork, the Piedmont style amplifies the flavor of the dip-sprinkled meat. The combination works because of the cold crunch of the chopped cabbage against the soft, warm pork. “It’s all about the texture,” Reed says.

In Memphis, side dishes get wacky. There’s barbecue pizza and barbecue nachos. The most famous side? Barbecue spaghetti. The story goes that Brady Vincent, co-owner of the now-defunct Brady and Lil’s, invented barbecue spaghetti in the 1950s as a way to stand out from the crowd in barbecue-crazed Memphis.

Over time, the dish caught on.

I first happened upon it at a competing barbecue joint back in the early 1980s. My initial thought was that someone had made a terrible mistake. The glob of overly sweet sauce overwhelmed the pork’s flavor and drenched a slithery pile of mushy noodles. The whole thing struck me as a desecration of two great cuisines. But I tried it again elsewhere. And again somewhere else. Slowly, I began not only to understand it but to appreciate this dish, including the idea that what seems like an entree was conceived as a side, and functions as one.

I never tried it at Brady and Lil’s.

In 1980, a couple of years before my Memphis visit, the joint was sold.

The new owner renamed the business the Bar-B-Q Shop. But while Brady and Lil’s may be gone, Vin-

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In Memphis, side dishes get wacky.

There’s barbecue pizza and barbecue nachos. The most famous side?

Barbecue spaghetti. cent’s creation lives on. Barbecue spaghetti is ubiquitous in the River City, and the owner of the Bar-B-Q Shop says he uses Vincent’s exact same recipe.

Like Memphis, Kansas City serves a variety of side dishes, including mac and cheese and french fries.

But the one most associated with the city is baked beans. “It’s not only the sauce in Kansas City,” says Ardie Davis, a Kansas City resident who has written several barbecue books and founded the American Royal International BBQ Sauce, Rub & Baste Contest. “But when people think of Kansas City sweet sauce, baked beans are also what they think of.

Usually, they’re made with leftover brisket or rib scraps, sometimes with jalapenos.”

Although baked beans are often associated with New England, Davis speculates that in Kansas City they are a variant on the pinto beans found in Missouri’s closer neighbor, Texas. “Arthur Bryant came from Texas,” Davis says, referring to the patriarch of Kansas City barbecue.

“Kansas City has been influenced

by Texas.” Then, he says, “we just perfected it.”

One of the oldest side dishes in Southern barbecue might be those Texas beans. In central Texas, where the preeminent style of the state’s barbecue originated, there are three standard sides: a creamy coleslaw, a somewhat mashed potato salad and pinto beans.

The beans are native to the state; Native Americans boiled them in clay pots. They became a staple in Texas cooking and remain so today.

In December, Texas Monthly food editor Patricia Sharpe wrote an essay about the meals she ate growing up in the Lone Star State. A bowl of pinto beans “seasoned with salt pork would appear on the stove, slowly simmering down almost to mush,” she wrote. Served with corn bread, the meal was considered a relic of hard times.

Yet even now, with Texas enjoying tremendous culinary experimentation, she feels “a sharp hunger for something simple and straightforward.” Her way to sate that hunger?

Corn bread and pinto beans. As one of the headlines on her article puts it, they “taught me who I was — and who we are as Texans.”

No one makes a fuss over pinto beans. As a transplant to Texas in the 1970s, I didn’t understand their appeal. They were so . . . plain.

Soupy and brown, with little more than salt, pepper and maybe a dash of chili powder or cayenne, they were the wallflower at the dance.

Forkful by forkful, though, I came to love their creamy flavor and gooey texture. I also like that eating them with barbecue is akin to being a member of a secret society.

Their “perfected” counterparts, sweet baked beans, are so tarted up in their desire to please that they’re the streetwalkers of the legume world. The unaffectedness of pinto beans, conversely, makes for something true and beautiful.

It’s not froufrou in the slightest, and this Fourth of July, that’s just the way I like it.

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FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: North Carolina Piedmont Slaw, Memphis Barbecue Spaghetti and Classic Central Texas Pinto Beans.

Classic Central Texas Pinto Beans MAKES: 12 to 14 servings (makes 8 cups) PREPARATION: The beans need to soak for at least 8 hours and preferably overnight.

The cooked beans can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 4 days.

INGREDIENTS 1 pound (2 cups) dried pinto beans Cool water 1 small chunk (2 ounces) fatback or salt pork (about 1 inch deep and 4 inches long and 1 inch wide; may substitute 4 slices of uncooked bacon or one medium ham hock) 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter 1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper (or less, depending on your proclivity for heat) 1/2 teaspoon chili powder (or a roughly equal combination of ancho, chipotle and chili powders) 1/2 cup sliced sweet onion (about 1/4 medium sweet onion) 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt (optional) STEPS Rinse the beans by placing them in a bowl of cold water. Drain into a colander, then repeat until there is no trace of grit in the bowl.

Pick through the rinsed beans, discarding any debris.

Soak the beans in cool water (to cover by an inch or two) in a large pot or bowl for at least 8 hours and preferably overnight.

Drain the beans into a colander placed over a bowl (to reserve the water). Transfer the drained, soaked beans to a large, heavybottomed pot. Cover with about 3 cups of the reserved soaking water, or as needed so the beans are just submerged.

Add the fatback or salt pork and 2 tablespoons of the butter; bring to a boil over medium-high heat, then cook for 10 minutes, stirring once or twice. Stir in the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter; reduce the heat to mediumlow and cook for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Add the cayenne (to taste), chili powder and black pepper; cook (still over medium-low heat) for 10 minutes, stirring as needed. Discard the fatback or salt pork.

Stir in the sweet onion and salt, if using.

Serve warm.

North Carolina Piedmont Slaw MAKES: 6 to 8 servings (makes about 4 cups) PREPARATION: The slaw needs to rest in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 hours and preferably overnight.

INGREDIENTS 1 medium head cabbage, cored and chopped (5 to 6 cups) 1/4 cup ketchup 3 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper Generous dash hot sauce, such as Texas Pete Hot Sauce or Tabasco brand

STEPS Place the cabbage in a large bowl.

Combine the ketchup, sugar, vinegar, salt, pepper and hot sauce in a liquid measuring cup. Pour over the cabbage and toss to coat thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, and preferably overnight, before serving.

Memphis Barbecue Spaghetti MAKES: 6 to 8 servings PREPARATION: The sauce can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 4 days.

INGREDIENTS 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 1 medium green bell pepper, seeded and diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 3 tablespoons tomato paste 1 1/2 teaspoons powdered mustard 1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more for the pasta water 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper 3/4 teaspoon ground allspice 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper flakes 28 ounces canned, no-salt-added tomato puree 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar 3 cups water 1 pound dried spaghetti 1 pound chopped or pulled pork, preferably smoked STEPS Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat.

Once the oil shimmers, add the onion and bell pepper, stirring to coat. Cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until it releases its aroma, about 2 minutes.

Stir in the tomato paste; cook for 1 to 2 minutes, then stir in the powdered mustard, salt, pepper, allspice, cinnamon and crushed red pepper flakes. Cook for 1 minute, then add the tomato puree and brown sugar.

Pour in the water, stirring to form a sauce.

Once the mixture starts to boil, reduce the heat to low. Cook, uncovered, for about 2 hours, stirring regularly to keep the sauce from scorching. The consistency should be a bit thin — more like barbecue sauce than a thick spaghetti sauce.

Bring a pot of salted water to a boil over medium-high heat. Add the pasta and cook according to the package directions.

While the pasta is cooking, stir the pulled pork into the sauce to warm through.

Drain the cooked pasta; divide among individual bowls or plates. Spoon a generous amount of sauce over each portion. Serve warm.

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Fundraiser takes off ICONIC SECOND WORLD WAR AIRCRAFT WILL BE IN RED DEER THIS WEEK

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF One of the Second World War’s iconic aircraft will roar into Red Deer this week.

The restored B-25 Mitchell bomber “Maid in the Shade” will touch down at Red Deer Airport on Friday and will be open for tours daily until Sunday.

Owned by the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, based in Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona, the bomber is being brought to Red Deer as a fundraiser for the Harvard Historical Aviation Society.

For a sponsorship donation of $500 or $650, depending on the seat location,

aviation enthusiasts can hitch a ride on the venerable twin-engine workhorse that was made famous in the U.S. Army Air Forces Doolittle Raid on Japan in 1942.

Sixteen B-25s took off from an aircraft carrier and bombed Japan before crash landing in China or Russia.

Some crews ditched their planes and jumped out.

By the end of the war, about 10,000 B-25s of various models were built.

Maid in the Shade is a B-25J that few 15 bombing missions from Corsica to targets in Italy.

It is one of about 25 B-25s still flying.

Jodi Smith, president of the Harvard Historical Aviation Society, said two seats are available from Edmon-

ton’s Villeneuve Airport to Red Deer on Friday morning.

The plane will land in Red Deer around 10 a.m.

A sponsorship flight, involving a circuit of Red Deer, is already filled. But there are still two seats available for a July 7 flight from Red Deer to Airdrie starting at $500.

Historical society merchandise will also be for sale and $5 tickets for a raffle draw for prizes of $300, $150 and $50 will also be available. The draw is July 19.

Money will raised will go towards upgrades to the society’s new workshop, where they plan to begin restoring a donated Tiger Moth biplane trainer to flying status this year.

A similar fundraiser involving a B-17 four-engine bomber was done two years ago and proved successful for the society.

Tours of the B-25 cost $5 per person with those proceeds going to the Commemorative Air Force.

It will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday.

To book a flight, call Gary Hillman of Hillman Air at 403-886-4187.

Those wishing to volunteer with merchandise and raffle sales can call Smith at 403-597-2570.

For news on the society, go to www. penholdbase.ca. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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École La Prairie School teachers Nancy Paquet and Souad Mechkour move equipment through the gymnasium as staff prepare to vacate the school. Staff and students will move to a new school built just next door while the old school formerly know as Piper Creek Elementary School will be demolished.

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After living two full lives, a Red Deer school closes

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Do you want to get a sense of how difficult the decision to close a school can be? Talk to the decision-makers 16 years later.

“I voted to close it and that’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” said Bill Stuebing, his voice steadily breaking, “and I’m still choking up thinking about it and that was a number of years ago.”

Before becoming a Red Deer Public School District trustee in 1995, Stuebing led a vocal group of parents opposing the proposed closure of Piper Creek Elementary School.

That push saved the school at the time, but in 1998 trustees re-examined its future and determined that enrolments were too low to keep it going.

So ended the public school district’s association with the old brick structure, but the local Francophone education authority needed a permanent home and moved in that same year.

French has echoed through the old halls since, but with a new school con-

structed adjacent to the old and set to open in September, the old building is to be demolished this summer.

Bordering Kin Kanyon and Piper Creek the way it does, Stuebing said he was happy to see kids schooled on the “best school site in town” after his division left. But he said it hurt just to drive by the school after voting to close it.

“I am very sad to see the old building come down. I do know that I want to get a few bricks from it, and I want to get one for each of my kids, because they all were graduates of Piper Creek and they all remember it very fondly,” he said.

The original school building on site was a single one-and-a-half storey brick structure with two classrooms, built in 1952 for $50,000. It was originally named South Hill School, but with other city facilities called South School and New South School, trustees opted in 1977 to change the “rather dull” name and alleviate confusion at the same time.

Piper Creek proper and Piper’s Mountain in Red Deer were named by the pioneering family of the same

name that turned out famous light yellow bricks made from local clay in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The old school was to be named Canyon Heights, but city officials worried about confusion with a new subdivision going up, and so Piper Creek came to adorn the school.

At that time, Grade 1-6 enrolment was around 200 students from the South Hill and Bower neighbourhoods.

But by the mid-1990s it was merely 140.

Older family homes in the area were being demolished and the communities matured.

“Once upon a time, there young kids in virtually every house (in Bower).

Now it’s hard to find them,” said Stuebing, who has lived in the neighbourhood for 35 years.

Larry Pimm spent eight years, from 1983-91, as vice-principal at Piper Creek, a time he enjoyed immensely.

With a small number of students, teachers were able to form relationships with parents and kids that are more difficult in bigger environments.

“The idea became accepted that small schools were too expensive and big schools were better.

I am very sad to see the old building come down. I do know that I want to get a few bricks from it, and I want to get one for each of my kids, because they all were graduates of Piper Creek and they all remember it very fondly.

— Bill Stuebing Red Deer Public School trustee whose four children all attended Piper Creek School, which later became École La Prairie

“I don’t share that view, but I don’t have to balance their budget either,” said Pimm.

Bev Manning was a first-term trustee with Stuebing when the school closure matter came up, and she too recalls the difficulty of the choice. Even today, she acknowledges a feeling of loss that will accompany the school’s demolition.

For a period of 18 years up until the school’s last, at least one of Stuebing’s four children attended Piper Creek. As a trustee, he gained some context that he may have lacked in his early fight for the school.

“One of the things I’ve come to realize is virtually every family feels that their child’s school is the best school going.

“So when we close schools, I know exactly how people feel. It doesn’t make it any easier.

“I can give them lots of empathy, but typically we close the schools because they’re not viable in the form in which they are, and that was true of Piper,” said Stuebing. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

Rocky honours pioneer woman CHARLOTTE SMALL THOMPSON

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A small commemorative plaque has big meaning for Canadian history as a Métis woman is being honoured at the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site.

Charlotte Small Thompson was born in September 1785 and married explorer David Thompson in 1799. They were married for 58 years, which is one of the longest known marriages of pre-Confederation Canada. The daughter of a European NorthWest Company investor and a Cree woman, she gave birth to a total of 13 children, five of whom were born in the West.

The couple were a prolific fur traders, traversing large parts of Canada by horse,

canoe and snowshoe. Charlotte travelled about four times the distance of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition.

Born in Ile a la Crosse, Sask., a supply depot on the fur trade route, Charlotte learned English and French growing up without a father, who had abandoned the family for Scotland.

Today at 2 p.m. at the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site, six km west of Rocky Mountain House on Hwy 11A, there will be a ceremony to commemorate the national historic significance of Charlotte, as well as the plaque unveiling.

Blaine Calkins, Wetaskiwin MP, on behalf of Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, to take part in the ceremony.

“She represents the silent First Nations and Métis women of the fur trade who

were vital, yet unsung and sadly unwritten about,” said Pat McDonald, an historian and author based in Rocky Mountain House, in an email.

The couple’s first child was born at Rocky Mountain House, then a fur trading post and a launching point for explorers searching for a passage west to the Pacific Ocean.

In 1807, Charlotte and David took their then three little children, aged two, five and seven, through Hose Pass with Charlotte on horseback. Two of those children would die suddenly when the family went east, throwing Charlotte into despair.

The two died within months of each other in 1857 and both are buried together at the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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

Fatality probed Red Deer RCMP are investigating a fiery crash near Johnstone Drive and Orr Drive that killed a female driver on Sunday night.

Witnesses say a silver Porsche was driving erratically at high speeds eastbound from Hwy 11 onto 67th Street around 9 p.m. It went through two red lights, crossed the median and collided with a tree, causing the vehicle to roll and burst into flames.

The identity of the woman has not been released. She was the sole occupant of the vehicle.

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BRIEFS Wanted man arrested A man facing warrants from across Alberta was found by police hiding under a blanket and promptly arrested.

Marvin Lodge, 37, of Blackfalds had warrants from many detachments, including Blackfalds RCMP, Red Deer RCMP, Sylvan Lake RCMP, Wainwright RCMP and Calgary Police Service. He was wanted on 33 outstanding charges dating back to 2010.

On Sunday, Blackfalds RCMP were active in the Central Alberta community, conducting inquiries about the whereabouts of Lodge. The investigation led police to a residence in the town.

Red Deer RCMP were called in for assistance and the residence was contained and the occupants spoken to.

The home owner consented to a search of the residence by police and during the search, Lodge was found hiding in a closet under a blanket.

Among the many charges Lodge faces are three counts of impaired driving, three counts of failing to comply with probation, 10 counts of failing to attend court, two counts of driving an uninsured motor vehicle, six counts of failing to comply with conditions, two counts of operation of a motor vehicle while disqualified and two counts of failing to provide a breath sample, as well as one count each of possession of property obtained by crime, possession of a controlled substance, mischief, impaired driving over .08 and possession of a weapon contrary to a prohibition order.

He made a brief appearance in Red Deer provincial court on Monday.

Through duty counsel Murray Shack, he had his election and plea, and bail hearing, put over to Wednesday.

Hit and run investigated RCMP are looking for help tracking down a driver who hit a boy on a bike on Thursday before fleeing without stopping to help.

The boy suffered minor injuries in the collision that happened about 4:20 p.m. at the Glendale Express 24 on Greenham Drive. After hitting the boy, the driver took off north on Northey Avenue at a high rate of speed.

Police describe the vehicle as light brown, possibly a Ford. The driver and passenger were described as young women.

The boy did not require medical treatment.

Anyone with information should call police at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Tips can be submitted online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Shriners help hospital Red Deer Regional Health Foundation received $7,000 from the Al Azhar Shriners on Monday to help children in hospital in Central Alberta.

The money will go to the pediatrics ward at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

The cheque was presented at Parkland Mall, where Al Shamal Shriners of Northern Alberta handed over the keys to the FezMobile — a vehicle decorated like a Shriner’s fez — to Al Azhar Shriners of Southern Alberta, which includes Red Deer.

Dave Dyson, hospital chairman for Al Azhar, said the FezMobile is on the Exceptional Care Odyssey crossCanada tour to raise the public profile of the Shriners and raise money for the new Shriners hospital in Montreal.

“We’re strictly here to help the children, from birth to 18 years of age,” said Dyson on Monday.

“We have 22 hospitals in North America run by Shriners exclusively.

Most of our patients go to Montreal, Spokane, Portland. It all depends on the individual child and the problems they have.”

The hospitals provide free medical care to children with orthopedic problems, severe burn injuries, spinal cord injuries and those needing cleft lip and palate reconstruction.

Over $115 million has been raised for the $130-million hospital project.

Construction is to begin next year.

Local Shriners also presented a $5,000 cheque towards the construction of the Montreal hospital, and $5,000 to pay travel costs for families going to Shriners hospitals.

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Sarah Lerouge tests out her hand-crafted noisemaker at Let’s Hear it For Canada, a MAGnificent Saturday art activity at the Red Deer Museum. MAGnificent Saturdays are held every weekend from 1 to 4 p.m.

For more information on the Exceptional Care Odyssey, go to www.exceptionalcare4kids.com.

Woman second in pageant A Red Deer woman won first runner-up in her first international beauty pageant on Friday.

Gina Omilon, 20, came in second at the Miss American Beauty Pageant in Orlando, Fla., and will step in as Miss American Beauty if the winning queen (Miss California) cannot fulfil her duties.

“I was beyond surprised. I didn’t see it coming at all. I’m happy to have made it that far and to have had that moment with the other girl, holding hands, waiting for our names,” she said. “The winner was the tallest in our division — six feet — and I was the shortest so it was pretty funny.”

Omilon, crowned Miss Alberta American 2014 for the pageant in April, also wore the tiara for Miss Teen Red Deer-World in 2012.

This year marked the first time the Miss American pageant was opened to contestants in North, South and Central America and Omilon was the first Canadian to be invited.

Omilon is attending the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles for her Bachelor of Fine Arts, specializing in acting. She is returning to Central Alberta for the summer and will be speaking about empowerment and self-esteem at the True Beauty conference in Edmonton in October.

For more information about Omilon, visit www.ginaomilon.wordpress. com.

Aboriginal honours Aboriginal achievement in Red Deer was celebrated with the fifth annual Turtle Awards last week.

The awards honour and celebrate today’s First Nations, Inuit and Métis people who contribute to Central Alberta.

Ten awards were handed out at the Golden Circle.

The Outstanding Contribution to the Aboriginal Community Award went to Don Hepburn and the Life-time Achievement Award went to Berv Martin.

Youth awards were handed out to Ty Swampy and Blasia Langan in the age five to 11 category. Kenny Boysis and Chelsea Southcombe received awards in the age 12 to 24 category.

The Musom Award went to Barry Nielsen and the Aboriginal Arts Award went to Basil Bellegarde.

Glen Manyluk was honoured for his work in education.

The Service Provider Award went to Courtney Hitchcock.

Homeless fund proposals The City of Red Deer is now taking request for proposals for designated homelessness funding.

Funding is for projects that address homelessness through the Housing First approach and individualized services for those at imminent risk of homelessness.

Earlier this month, the federal government handed out $2 million in Housing First funding to the city.

Orientation sessions are available on July 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and on July 11 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Registration is required for the sessions. Call 403-342-8100 to register.

The deadline for proposals is July 22 at 4 p.m.

For more information on the request for proposals process, visit www. reddeer.ca/socialplanning.

Man faces charges in death A Clearwater County man will appear in court in Rocky Mountain House on Wednesday to face charges connected to the death of an Ontario woman on June 22.

Rocky Mountain House RCMP say that 20-year-old Trisha Wise was walk-

ing on a gravel road north of Hwy 12 and 22 km northeast of Rocky when she was struck by a SUV. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police believe she had been involved in an argument with the driver and got out to walk.

Christopher William Ross, 28, is charged with impaired driving causing death and causing a fatal collision while the alcohol in his bloodstream exceeded the legal limit of .08.

RCMP say Ross’s blood alcohol content was nearly three times the legal limit.

Ross remains in police custody.

Insurance input sought Albertans are invited to share their concerns about vehicle insurance premiums with the Automobile Insurance Rate Board.

The board will hold its annual consultation meeting to establish guidelines for ratemaking factors. These will then be used in the review of insurer filings for basic and additional coverage.

There are three ways to participate: by presentation at the Aug. 19 meeting in Edmonton, by written submission before Aug. 5 or by contacting the consumer representative also by Aug. 5.

To make a presentation, those interested must submit a letter of intent by July 11, followed by a written submission.

The board’s mandate is to regulate insurer rating programs for basic and additional coverage. No insurer may charge a premium unless it is based on a rating program approved by the board.

For more information, visit ww.airb. alberta.ca or call 780-427-5428 or tollfree at 310-0000.

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Have to watch what comes out of your mouth “WHAA!” I pull myself together. I am a mother, ‘I should This is the sound of me gagging violently, due to have a stronger stomach than this!’ I think, before the fact I’ve just found a water bottle buried deep letting out another ‘WHAAA’ this one drags on for within the confines of Sophie’s tangled a bit too long, really making me want to bed sheets. bring up this morning’s breakfast.

Why you ask, would a water bottle bring With an agility I wasn’t sure I had, I on such a harsh response? move towards the kitchens sink, rinse out Curdled milk. And not just a little curthe sullied bottle and heave it into the dled milk lies within it. dishwasher.

It is filled with white chunks of revoltI start it on the heavy duty mode...And ing substance. It must have been there for hope to God, this rids it of the demorala while as it has now separated, leaving izing smell. some sort of clear liquid floating tenderly As I make my way back towards the around the lumps of milk. girl’s room, I stub my toe on the same Lovely.

SpongeBob toy I spoke of earlier.

Sophie sits beside me on the floor of “OH SH*T” I realize I shouldn’t her bedroom engaging in some sort of have let the “S” word slip as soon as LINDSAY game that involves Pinky Pony and a minit leaves my lips, but it Is too late now.

BROWN iature SpongeBob figurine, but I manage The stub on my toe is deep, one that will to grab her attention when my gagging ME PLUS THREE painfully stick with me for some time. commences.

And I’m sure many of you can relate when “What you doing Mama?” She asks in a I say, sometimes the “S” word just makes harmoniously innocent way. ouches feel a little bit better.

“Oh Sophie, I just found your milk from the other “OH SIT, I going to puke...Oh sit...WHAAAAA” I night and it is really gross...Whaa...Oh my, I think I’m see my little parrot is listening attentively to my evgoing to puke!” I manage to say between fits of dry ery word…And gesture. heaving.

“Sophie please don’t copy that word, it is a swear “I going to puke...Whaa....I going to puke!” She word and only grownups are allowed to say it.” As it sounds like a little parrot and I am only annoyed for happens this copy-catting is a new venture for me as a second before I force out a smile to the girl. a parent.

I am desperately trying to hold down the saliva For some reason Lars has never pandered to the that is unintentionally collecting in my mouth and no habit of copying mine and Jamie’s language. So as I doubt will lead to my eventually yakking all over her try to discipline Sophie, I tread lightly as this is compurple fuzzy bed runner. pletely new parenting territory for me.

“Oh SIT, Sorry Mama...I going to puke! HAHAHA” Her barrage of laughter allows me to let a smile out and this leads to even more trouble.

Great, now she thinks I am acclaiming her in her newfound linguistic venture.

“Sophie, do what I say...Not (I really emphasize the ‘not’ part) what I do.” When I was a kid, I loathed this saying, and as it comes out of my mouth I have this horrible feeling that I have just betrayed my former self.

However Sophie does not seem to mind the idiom and somehow combines all of these new words and phrases into a rhythmic sing-song, one that is currently drilling directly into my brain.

“DO, SAY...NOT DO. DO, SAY...NOT DO, WHAA,WHAA! OH SIT, I PUKE. DO, SAY...NOT DO. DO, SAY...NOT DO, WHAA,WHAA! OH SIT, I PUKE. DO, SAY...NOT DO. DO, SAY...NOT DO, WHAA,WHAA! OH SIT, I PUKE.” And she goes on like this for a while.

Finally, after some time and a bit of a headache on my part later, the girl quiets herself with her prior game of ponies and SpongeBob. I begin to think of the turn of phrase I chose to silence the girl, ‘Do what I SAY and not what I do’ realizing this was not the best use of words I could have come up with; fundamentally urging the child to copy me in this outlandish and exasperating way.

Perhaps the time has come, to begin choosing the words I say in front of my 3 year old a bit more wisely. If not for her own sake...For my own sanity!

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

Dark tunnels

Grandparents should not be used as stand-in parents

“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”

– William Shakespeare “Man,” I exclaimed. “That’s incredible.”

As a child, I recall my father parking at a lookout in Yoho National Park so that we could watch a freight train winding its way through the famous spiral tunnels. A true marvel of engineering, the tunnels had been cut into the mountains allowing passage through seemingly impassable terrain. I remember watching a train disappear into tunnel only to emerge a short time later at another place on the mountain and then disappear again.

At one point, I could see the train in three different places at one time.

I could only imagine how dark and constricting the tunnels must have been for those building them. I imagined there were times when the workers saw only endless darkness. They blasted their way through the rock relying on skill, expertise and good luck MURRAY but also on faith – faith FUHRER that eventually they would re-emerge from darkness back into the light of day.

At times, our journey through life can seem like a long, dark tunnel. And when darkness persists and we are challenged by adversity, we can become fearful that a light at the end of the tunnel might never appear. Our personal tunnels can be an arduous project, a transition from the familiar to the unfamiliar such as a new job or a move to a new city, an illness, a personal crisis, or a bout of depression, anxiety or grief. Even a long and harsh winter can tax our resources.

Each of us has faced adversity at one time or another and undoubtedly, we’ll face adversity again.

And in the process we may also feel lonely and isolated – it can be cold, dark and frightening in that tunnel. We can become disorientated and stop moving forward. And sometimes, the absence of light prompts us to feel trapped.

The darkness becomes almost tangible. Sometimes all we have is the occasional flash of hope as we chug through the inky blackness.

Problems both large and small abound and whether we want to admit it or not, adversity is part of life. Overcoming adversity is often one of our greatest challenges.

Can we learn to be thankful for adversity?

Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philologist, philosopher and culture critic, wrote, “What does not kill me makes me stronger.”

To grow stronger, however, we must approach adversity from the right perspective.

Think back over the obstacles you’ve overcome in your life.

Chances are, every obstacle you successfully confronted and overcame served to strengthen your will, bolster your confidence and give you the courage to

EXTREME ESTEEM

Lauer criticized for gender-based question to GM boss NEW YORK — Matt Lauer has no regrets asking General Motors CEO Mary Barra about balancing work and motherhood, saying he sees it as an issue that affects all working parents regardless of their gender.

The host of NBC’s “Today” show said Friday he’d welcome the same question if it were put to him. He noted that he missed his son’s 13th birthday to be in Detroit for the Barra interview.

He struck a nerve in Thursday’s live interview with a question criticized as sexist — no small issue for the host of a network show where women are the bulk of the audience.

“This is one of the major conversations of our generation,” Lauer, 56, told The Associated Press. “I view it very differently. I view it not as a gender issue, but as a work-life balance issue.”

The question came at the end of a two-part interview primarily about GM’s response to safety issues.

At first, Lauer asked about reports that one reason Barra got her job was because she could put forth a softer face and image for the company at a difficult time.

He then referenced a Forbes magazine article where Barra said she felt bad about missing her

face future obstacles.

When we learn to respond positively and constructively to adversity, the qualities of strength and perseverance emerge naturally from within.

As with most things in life, the better our self-esteem, the better equipped we’ll be to meet adversity head-on and draw knowledge, strength and wisdom from the encounter. It’s easy to get caught up in selfpity and drawn into the “why me?” trap.

When we do, we fail to recognize or seize the opportunities for insight and awareness that always accompany adversity. Fear and a poor self-image can easily send us into a spiral of self-defeating thoughts and behaviours.

That said, here are some tips that may help you deal more effectively with adversity.

Accept that adversity is inevitable in life. What we resist, persists. Instead of trying to run away from adversity or wish it away, turn around and face it.

Accept it, make a plan and blast your way through it.

Remember, while adversity may be inevitable, suffering is optional.

Build up your internal resources. You know that adversity is inevitable. Before adversity strikes, work on cultivating emotional strength, courage and resiliency. It’s no different than a warrior preparing to go into battle. Look back over past victories. Draw wisdom from past defeats.

Work on building your self-esteem. Believe that you are worthy and capable.

Build up your external resources. Create a solid support network of family and friends. We all need encouragement and support from time to time, someone to talk to – someone who can help lessen our burden. Just knowing that a friend is there can make a huge difference.

Draw from the success of others. Read, watch and ask. Learn how others have dealt successfully with adversity. There are countless inspiring stories of people who have triumphed over seemingly insurmountable odds and gone on to live successful and inspiring lives.

Have faith in a positive outcome.

This can be religious faith, spiritual faith or faith in your own abilities to learn, grow and succeed.

Trust that (ultimately) everything will work out, that this too shall pass and that there is a bright and welcoming light at the end of the tunnel.

Oddly enough, it may actually help to think of adversity as a dark tunnel. When problems occur, too many of us think we’ve fallen into a bottomless pit. A tunnel (by contrast) has an entrance and we know (intellectually, at least) that it also has an exit.

If we keep moving forward and doing our best, we will eventually make it through and emerge from the other end.

“You may encounter many defeats,” wrote Maya Angelou, African-American author, poet and singer.

“But you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

Believe that your tunnel will have an end. And imagine the joy that you’ll feel when you re-emerge into the light once again, after such a long time in the darkness.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator.

For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca son’s junior prom. The boy told her that being mom was the one job he’d hold her accountable for. Lauer asked, “Given the pressure at General Motors, can you do both (jobs) well?”

Lauer had taken to Facebook to defend himself, explaining what inspired the question. Many people who commented on his post weren’t buying it, including the author of the Forbes piece, who said she never felt compelled to ask Barra if she felt capable of doing her job.

Neera Tanden, president of the Washington-based Center for American Progress, said she’d love it if Lauer started asking male executives the same question. Women hear it frequently, and it perpetuates a double standard when Lauer brings it up, said Tanden, who tweeted Thursday that women should stop watching Lauer.

“It’s a terrible message to young women,” she said.

Lauer said he definitely would ask that question of a male executive he had seen publicly questioning his ability to do it all.

“The reason I think that is so important is I am that father,” he said. “As I was sitting interviewing Mary Barra about that topic, it was my son’s 13th birthday, and I’m sitting in Detroit missing his becoming a teenager. I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father? I don’t think this is an unfair question.”

Q: Our son and his wife both work and have extremely busy lives -- probably too busy. My husband and I frequently take care of our grandchildren so that their mom and dad can keep their hectic pace.

We love being with the kids, but do you think this is a healthy arrangement?

Jim: You obviously love your grandkids, and there’s nothing wrong with intergenerational cooperation. It’s a good thing for family members to help one another as needs arise.

But a great deal depends on the attitudes and expectations of your son and his wife.

If you’re feeling unappreciated, put upon or taken advantage of — even just a little JIM bit — then it’s safe to say that something needs to change.

DALY If you want your interactions with your son, his wife and your grandchildren to remain positive, I’d encourage you to establish appropriate boundaries. Arrangements like yours usually work best when everyone agrees on some specific limitations.

For example, you can say, “We’ll keep the kids two afternoons a week until your graduate coursework is finished in December.” If things remain vague and open-ended, it’s only a matter of time until you’ll begin to resent it.

If you’re finding it difficult to set reasonable boundaries, it’s possible that you’re operating on the basis of a guilty sense of obligation or your own codependent needs. Neither leads to healthy relationships.

It’s also important to remember that while grandparents have a critical role to play in the lives of their grandkids, it’s best under normal circumstances that they not take on the role of primary caregivers. That’s the parents’ job.

If you honestly feel that Mom and Dad are missing out on opportunities to strengthen their connection with their own children, it may be best for everyone if you don’t make yourselves so available.

Q: My 14-year-old daughter tells us that all her friends are dating now and that waiting until she’s 16, like we did, is very “outdated.” We haven’t budged yet on letting her start dating, but my wife and I are questioning if we’re being too strict. What do you think? Dr. Greg Smalley, Vice President, Family Ministries: My first suggestion would be to put less stock in age. Birthdays are legal milestones when it comes to a teen driving a car or casting a vote, but they’re an unreliable measure of maturity. When it comes to our sons and daughters dating, character is king.

At this point, invite your daughter on a date for some ice cream.

After you’ve broken the ice, bring up the subject of dating.

Once you’ve respectfully listened to her thoughts, tell her how special she is and that you want only good experiences for her when it comes time for her to date.

Let her know you’ll be observing her (and anyone she goes out with) for evidence of key maturity markers that will indicate she’s ready.

Let her know what’s on your list, such as integrity, trustworthiness, respect for herself and others, honesty and responsibility. Spell out what these qualities look like, and give both positive reinforcement and corrective feedback based on what you see in the coming months.

That said, you still would be wise to institute some age-related restrictions. Consider limiting oppositesex interactions to mixed-group settings, such as a church youth group, until your daughter has turned 17.

This can offer a more secure environment and allow boys and girls the opportunity to learn how to relate and enjoy one another’s company without the awkwardness and sexual tension that often goes along with unsupervised dates.

Above all, keep the lines of communication open. The teen years aren’t simple, but your daughter needs you now more than ever.

Jim Daly is a husband and father, an author, and president of Focus on the Family and host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Catch up with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

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B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, July 1, 2014 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

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July 1 1980 — Calixa Lavallée’s ‘O Canada’ officially proclaimed the national anthem of Canada; written in 1880 for St-Jean-Baptiste celebration.

1979 — Sony introduced the Walkman.

1966 — CTV station CFTO-TV transmits first colour television in Canada.

1960 — Treaty and registered aboriginal Canadians given the right to vote.

1958 — CBC starts nationwide TV broadcasts as new Trans-Canada microwave relay system goes into operation.

1941 — Unemployment Insurance Act comes into effect.

1923 — Parliament passes legislation which virtually suspends all Chinese immigration to Canada.

1881 — World’s first international telephone call made from New Brunswick to Maine.

1867 — Proclamation of British North America Act, creating the Dominion of Canada out of Upper and Lower Canada, N.B. and N.S.

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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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TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014

Looking Bouchard battles her way into for the quarter-finals at Wimbledon next great import

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

REBELS GO INTO IMPORT DRAFT HOPING TO HIT ANOTHER HOME RUN LIKE THEY DID WITH BARTOSAK

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The Red Deer Rebels hit a home run in the 2011 Canadian Hockey League import draft, selecting Czech netminder Patrik Bartosak 59th overall.

But that was then, this is now.

And the prevailing question is: Can the club smack it out of the park once again in this year’s import draft, set for Wednesday?

With the NHL entry draft now complete and many of the players eligible for the import draft already the property of big-league clubs, the obvious fact is that they will be the prime candidates to be picked in Wednesday’s lottery.

“There are some names of interest among players who have been drafted, but everyone is kind of interested in the same players,” Rebels assistant general manager/director of player personnel Shaun Sutter said Monday.

“There are guys who were picked in, say, the seventh round of the NHL draft who can be good junior players and there are guys who didn’t get picked in the NHL draft who could be real good junior players.

“And sometimes you can get a quality player with a late pick. Bartosak is a good example, as is (Montreal Canadiens’’ first- Patrik Bartosak round pick) Nikita Scherbak. He was one of the late picks last year (109 overall) and obviously he’s a high-end player.

“So the import draft is a bit of a crap shoot, so to speak.”

The Rebels pick 27th and 87th Wednesday and will likely be hoping to land a defenceman and a forward. A rearguard will definitely be at the top of their list.

“We’ve been working on this for the last several weeks and it’s really heated up over the last three to five days,” said Sutter. “We’ve been doing our homework on guys for some time, but everything seems to come to the forefront fast and furious the last couple of days.

“We’d like to improve our back end, which is something we talked about at the end of last season. We’re focused on doing that, on meeting that objective, so that’s definitely a target. After that, it’s such a different animal because there’s a such a large group of teams across the CHL that we could have 68 names on our list and none of those guys could be there in the second round.

“There is no denying that there are some good players available this year, but confirming whether or not they’re coming over is another challenge. With where we’re at with our team, we need two players who are going to come over. We have some real specific needs with our team that we’re trying to address, so we’ll be trying to do that, but at the same time we’ll have to be open to the fact that if we can’t get one of those things we have to get the best player. It’s a bit of a juggling act that way.”

The Rebels almost certainly will move up from their No. 87 spot in the second round, Sutter pointed out.

“That pick could be significantly higher if teams ahead of us already have an import they want to keep and make just one pick. There’s not a lot of teams who will be seeking two players like we’re seeking to do,” he noted.

Sutter admitted that teams, for the most part, have to rely on information from agents and various scouts when picking players in the import draft, which starts at 9 a.m.

“There has to be a lot of trust in these people,” he said.

“Let’s face it, there’s not a lot of WHL teams who are scouting Europeans. It’s mostly about your contacts and using them, whether they be in Europe or with NHL teams.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

LONDON — Eugenie Bouchard has been here before, and it shows.

Playing at the humid, covered Centre Court at the All England Club and trailing her opponent 5-3 in the second set, Bouchard won four straight games Monday to beat France’s Alize Cornet 7-6 (5), 7-5 and advance to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon.

With Cornet serving for the set, Bouchard didn’t panic and broke her opponent twice, including on match point.

Though only 20 years old, the experience from making the semifinals of both the Australian Open and French Open earlier this year is paying dividends.

“I’m proud that I stayed in it even though I was kind of playing catch-up,” Bouchard said after the match. “I always felt right there, trying to put pressure (on) all the time.”

Bouchard, the No. 13 seed from Westmount, Que., will next play the winner of a match between fifth seed Maria Sharapova and ninth seed Angelique Kerber of Germany.

Sharapova defeated Bouchard in the French Open semifinal before going on to win the tournament.

Bouchard has been a winner at the All England Club before, taking the 2012 junior women’s title. Conditions were different for Monday’s match, which was interrupted by rain before the movable roof over Centre Court closed.

The 20-year-old Canadian made the most of her return when play resumed, coming back from a 3-2 deficit to win the first set. A bigger comeback in the second allowed her to improve her Grand Slam record to 14-2.

“I’m really proud of how I fought,” Bouchard said. “It was not an easy match. She’s a good player and gets a lot of balls back.

“I tried to finish off the points, which I managed. It was my first time under the famous roof. It’s quite humid, not a lot of air circulating.

“Conditions were tough but they were the same for both of us.”

Bouchard won the opening set after nearly an hour of play with a backhand winner in the tiebreaker.

She went down 4-2 and later 5-3 in the second set, but calmly levelled for 5-all, breaking when Cornet fired a forehand wide.

“We had some tough points, she has good wheels,” Bouchard said. “I had to really try and finish off the point. That made for some really tough, physical points. It’s definitely the most physical

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Eugenie Bouchard plays a return to Alize Cornet of France during their women’s singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Monday.

MORE WIMBLEDON ON B10 match I’ve played I think this tournament.

“She’s a good fighter, too. We were really just battling.”

Bouchard held serve to go up 6-5 and won the tight concluding game with another break of Cornet, advancing on the first match point when Cornet hit her forehand long.

“I’m very excited, but I need to stay focused,” said Bouchard, who is the

first Canadian in the Open era to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in singles play. “It can only be one match at a time. I need to keep from being distracted.

“This what I’ve world so hard for.

I want to take another step, I want to keep going.”

Men’s eighth seed Milos Raonic, Thornhill, Ont, will play for the quarter-finals on Tuesday against Japan’s 10th seed Kei Nishikori, who defeated Simone Bolelli of 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

Last African teams ousted from World Cup FRANCE AND GERMANY TAKE OUT NIGERIA AND ALGERIA IN ROUND OF 16 MATCHES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Nigeria and Algeria made World Cup history for Africa and now leave with their heads held high.

After putting up great resistance, Africa’s last representatives were sent home on Monday by France and Germany.

Those two former champions will next play each other on Friday in Rio de Janeiro.

That quarterfinal match-up means Europe is guaranteed at least one semifinalist in this World Cup that has smiled on the Americas, supplier of eight of the last 16 teams.

With exceptional saves, goalkeepers again starred both in France’s 2-0 win over Nigeria and in Germany’s 2-1 marathon against an Algerian team whose bravura and feistiness has been among the many revelations of this surprisepacked tournament.

This was Algeria’s first taste of World Cup knockout football, having never advanced from the group stages in three previous attempts.

Germany needed extra time to win after both teams failed to score in two absorbing halves, and it let Abdelmoumene Djabou get a goal back in the dying seconds, doing little for the three-time champion’s credentials as a favourite to lift the trophy again on July 13. France, winner in 1998, looks the sharper of the two.

Germany’s tactics of pushing players forward and leaving a large chunk of defending to goalkeeper Manuel Neuer would almost certainly proved its undoing against a stronger attack.

Other highlights of another dramatic day at one of the best World Cups in memory included: —France’s Paul Pogba scored the 146th goal of Brazil 2014, pushing the tally from this tournament beyond that of South Africa in 2010, with 10 matches still to play. If the current average of more than 2 goals per game holds through to the final, Brazil could finish with the highest goals total of any of the 20 World Cups. ● Luis Suarez confessed. Having

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Germany’s Mesut Ozil, left, kicks his team’s second goal past Algeria’s goalkeeper Rais M’Bolhi in extra time during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Germany and Algeria at the Estadio Beira-Rio in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Monday. Germany defeated Algeria 2-1 to advance to the quarterfinals. previously denied that he bit Giorgio Chiellini, the disgraced Uruguay striker reversed course, apologized to the Italy defender and to “the entire football family” via Twitter and vowed that his third ban for biting would be his last.

Chiellini quickly tweeted back: “It’s all forgotten. I hope FIFA will reduce your suspension.”

Suarez is serving a four-month ban from all football for what FIFA’s disciplinary panel ruled was a “deliberate, intentional” and unprovoked bite in Uruguay’s 1-0 group stage win against Italy. Without Suarez, Uruguay promptly lost 2-0 to Colombia in the last 16. ● Facebook said it passed the 1 bil-

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

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lion mark in World Cup interactions.

No other single event has generated this much activity in Facebook history. More than 220 million people have posted, “liked” or commented upon what other people are saying about the tournament.

Before Brazil, Africa never had two teams make the knockout stage of the same tournament. Like Cameroon (in 1990), Senegal (2002) and Ghana (2010), the Nigerians were hoping to reach their first quarterfinals after twice stalling at the last 16, in 1994 and 1998.

And with goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama flying like Superman, it seemed for a long while that the Nigerians might do it.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today ● Rodeo: Ponoka Stampede, 1 p.m.; chuckwagons and pony chuckwagons at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday ● Junior golf: McLennan Ross Tour event at Lacombe. ● Midget AAA baseball: Okotoks at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1. ● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Lacombe, Rocky Mountain House at Eckville, 7 p.m.

Thursday ● Women’s fastball: Topco Oilsite vs.

TNT, TNT vs. North Star Sports, 7 and

NATIONAL LEAGUE First Base 1. Paul Goldschmidt, Arizona, 1,962,386; 2. Adrian Gonzalez, L.A. Dodgers, 1,239,509; 3. Freddie Freeman, Atlanta, 1,112,465; 4. Mark Reynolds, Milwaukee, 1,067,419; 5. Matt Adams, St. Louis, 1,021,846.

Second Base 1. Chase Utley, Philadelphia, 2,090,110; 2. Neil Walker, Pittsburgh, 1,328,959; 3. Dee Gordon, L.A. Dodgers, 1,129,759; 4. Rickie Weeks, Milwaukee, 849,316; 5. Brandon Phillips, Cincinnati, 798,784.

Third Base 1. Aramis Ramirez, Milwaukee, 1,279,902; 2. David Wright, N.Y. Mets, 1,260,895; 3. Pablo Sandoval, San Francisco, 1,194,607; 4. Matt Carpenter, St. Louis, 1,049,472; 5. Nolan Arenado, Colorado, 1,019,161.

Shortstop 1. Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado, 3,287,460; 2. Jean Segura, Milwaukee, 1,272,273; 3. Brandon Crawford, San Francisco, 1,089,457; 4. Jhonny Peralta, St. Louis, 851,613; 5. Hanley Ramirez, L.A. Dodgers, 821,934.

Catcher 1. Yadier Molina, St. Louis, 2,600,853; 2. Jonathan Lucroy, Milwaukee, 1,911,745; 3. Buster Posey, San Francisco, 1,709,685; 4. Evan Gattis, Atlanta, 1,055,119; 5. Devin Mesoraco, Cincinnati, 679,745.

Outfield 1. Yasiel Puig, L.A. Dodgers, 2,468,376; 2.

Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 2,461,722; 3.

Carlos Gomez, Milwaukee, 2,409,860; 4. Giancarlo Stanton, Miami, 2,130,519; 5. Ryan Braun, Milwaukee, 1,974,845; 6. Charlie Blackmon, Colorado, 1,608,755; 7. Angel Pagan, San Francisco, 1,261,458; 8. Mike Morse, San Francisco, 1,260,419; 9. Justin Upton, Atlanta, 1,203,302; 10.

Hunter Pence, San Francisco, 1,146,060.

11. Khris Davis, Milwaukee, 1,052,946; 12. Matt Holliday, St. Louis, 1,014,863; 13. Allen Craig, St. Louis, 788,636; 14. Michael Cuddyer, Colorado, 713,648; 15. Bryce Harper, Washington, 680,930

Toronto Baltimore New York Boston Tampa Bay

American League East Division W L Pct 45 39 .536 43 39 .524 41 40 .506 38 45 .458 36 49 .424 Central Division

GB — 1 2 1/2 6 1/2 9 1/2

TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014

Football 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Snell and Oslund vs. Lacombe Physio, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; N. Jensen’s at Stettler, 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite vs. Printing Place, The Hideout vs. North Star Sports, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2.

Friday ● Pro rodeo: Coronation Pro Rodeo, 6 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Irricana at Innisfail, 7 p.m. ● Pro rodeo: Benalto Stampede, 7 p.m.

Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Lacoka at Red Deer, 8:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Airdrie at

Blackfalds, 8:30 p.m., Multiplex.

Saturday

● Pro rodeo: Coronation Pro Rodeo, 1 p.m. ● Major women’s soccer: Edmonton Victoria at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Edgar Park. ● Pro rodeo: Benalto Stampede, 7 p.m.

Sunday

● Pro rodeo: Benalto Stampede, 1 p.m.

Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Calgary Wranglers at Red Deer, 1:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Innisfail at Lacoka, 3 p.m., Ponoka Culture and Rec Complex. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Edmonton at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinex.

Baseball MLB All-Star Voting NEW YORK — 2014 All-Star Game voting results as announced by Major League Baseball (through June 16; game July 15 at Target Field in Minneapolis): AMERICAN LEAGUE First Base 1. Miguel Cabrera, Detroit, 2,645,000; 2. Jose Abreu, Chicago White Sox 1,420,294; 3. Chris Davis, Baltimore, 1,087,112; 4. Albert Pujols, L.A. Angels, 1,040,316; 5. Mark Teixeira, N.Y. Yankees, 718,367.

Second Base 1. Robinson Cano, Seattle, 2,077,055; 2. Ian Kinsler, Detroit, 1,338,272; 3. Dustin Pedroia, Boston, 1,264,329; 4. Jose Altuve, Houston, 932,978; 5.

Brian Dozier, Minnesota, 841,980.

Third Base 1. Josh Donaldson, Oakland, 2,436,771; 2. Adrian Beltre, Texas, 1,346,957; 3. Manny Machado, Baltimore, 1,182,098; 4. Evan Longoria, Tampa Bay, 1,118,453; 5. Brett Lawrie, Toronto, 758,043.

Shortstop 1. Derek Jeter, N.Y. Yankees, 2,353,336; 2. Alexei Ramirez, Chicago White Sox, 1,933,117; 3. J.J. Hardy, Baltimore, 1,259,268; 4. Jose Reyes, Toronto, 871,633. 5. Jed Lowrie, Oakland, 629,686.

Catcher 1. Matt Wieters, Baltimore, 1,852,770; 2. Derek Norris, Oakland, 1,486,850; 3. Brian McCann, N.Y. Yankees, 1,344,076; 4. Kurt Suzuki, Minnesota, 812,865; 5. A.J. Pierzynski, Boston, 810,050.

Designated Hitter 1. Nelson Cruz, Baltimore, 2,457,349; 2. David Ortiz, Boston, 1,652,470; 3. Victor Martinez, Detroit, 1,418,509; 4. Edwin Encarnacion, Toronto, 1,276,851; 5. Brandon Moss, Oakland, 796,159.

Outfield 1. Jose Bautista, Toronto, 3,665,208; 2. Mike Trout, L.A. Angels, 3,286,511; 3. Melky Cabrera, Toronto, 1,674,232; 4. Yoenis Cespedes, Oakland, 1,511,838; 5. Adam Jones, Baltimore, 1,490,000; 6. Michael Brantley, Cleveland, 1,284,901; 7. Jacoby Ellsbury, N.Y. Yankees, 1,264,746; 8. Nick Markakis, Baltimore, 1,170,304; 9. Carlos Beltran, N.Y. Yankees, 1,081,686; 10. Torii Hunter, Detroit, 989,715.

11. Coco Crisp, Oakland, 748,013; 12. Alex Rios, Texas, 742,780; 13. Brett Gardner, N.Y. Yankees, 737,736; 14. Shin-Soo Choo, Texas, 699,751; 15.

Josh Hamilton, L.A. Angels, 696,991.

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Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

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GB — 3 1/2 7 1/2 8 9

Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas Houston

West Division W L Pct 51 31 .622 45 35 .563 45 38 .542 37 45 .451 36 48 .429

GB — 5 6 1/2 14 16

Sunday’s Games Chicago White Sox 4, Toronto 0 Oakland 4, Miami 3 Tampa Bay 12, Baltimore 7 Houston 6, Detroit 4 Kansas City 5, L.A. Angels 4 Minnesota 3, Texas 2 Seattle 3, Cleveland 0 Boston 8, N.Y. Yankees 5

Monday’s Major League Linescores

Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee (Estrada 7-4) at Toronto (Hutchison 5-6), 11:07 a.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 8-2) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 2-5), 3:10 p.m., 1st game Tampa Bay (Price 6-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 5-5), 5:05 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 1-5) at Baltimore (McFarland 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

Oakland (Mills 1-0) at Detroit (Porcello 10-4), 5:08 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 5-8) at Boston (Buchholz 3-4), 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Shields 8-3) at Minnesota (Nolasco 4-6), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 5-4) at Houston (Cosart 8-5), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 8-6) at Chicago White Sox (Carroll 2-4), 6:40 p.m., 2nd game Cleveland (Masterson 4-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 5-4), 8:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee at Toronto, 10:37 a.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Oakland at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Kansas City at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

Seattle at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Cleveland at L.A. Dodgers, 1:10 p.m.

Texas at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

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

L.A. Angels at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Atlanta Washington Miami New York Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 45 38 .542 44 38 .537 39 43 .476 37 46 .446 36 46 .439

GB — 1/2 5 1/2 8 8 1/2

Milwaukee Cincinnati St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 51 33 .607 43 38 .531 44 39 .530 42 40 .512 35 46 .432

GB — 6 1/2 6 1/2 8 14 1/2

West Division W L Pct 48 37 .565 46 36 .561 36 47 .434 35 47 .427 35 49 .417

GB — 1/2 11 11 1/2 12 1/2

Sunday’s Games Oakland 4, Miami 3 Atlanta 3, Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Colorado 10, Milwaukee 4 Cincinnati 4, San Francisco 0 San Diego 2, Arizona 1 L.A. Dodgers 6, St. Louis 0 Monday’s Games Washington 7, Colorado 3 Chicago Cubs 2, Boston 0 Atlanta 5, N.Y. Mets 3 L.A. Dodgers 1, Cleveland 0

Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee (Estrada 7-4) at Toronto (Hutchison 5-6), 11:07 a.m.

Arizona (Miley 3-6) at Pittsburgh (Locke 1-1), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (Friedrich 0-2) at Washington (Strasburg 6-6), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 5-8) at Boston (Buchholz 3-4), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Matsuzaka 3-2) at Atlanta (Minor 2-5), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (A.Burnett 5-7) at Miami (H.Alvarez 5-3), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 6-6) at San Diego (Kennedy 5-9), 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Masterson 4-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Beckett 5-4), 8:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Gonzales 0-0) at San Francisco (Lincecum 6-5), 8:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee at Toronto, 10:37 a.m.

Cleveland at L.A. Dodgers, 1:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at San Diego, 1:40 p.m.

Colorado at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

Arizona at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

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

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

Philadelphia at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 4, N.Y. Yankees 3, 12 innings Baltimore 7, Texas 1 Detroit 5, Oakland 4 Chicago Cubs 2, Boston 0 Kansas City 6, Minnesota 1 Seattle 10, Houston 4 L.A. Angels at Chicago, ppd., rain L.A. Dodgers 1, Cleveland 0

Los Angeles San Francisco Colorado San Diego Arizona

Cincinnati at San Diego, late

AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay 101 000 010 001 — 4 9 0 New York 002 000 001 000 — 3 9 0 (12 innings) Archer, McGee (8), Jo.Peralta (9), Balfour (10), Boxberger (11) and Hanigan; Phelps, Warren (6), Betances (8), Dav.Robertson (8), Kelley (10), J.Ramirez (12) and McCann. W—Boxberger 1-1.

L—J.Ramirez 0-2. HRs—Tampa Bay, Joyce (6), Kiermaier (7). New York, B.Roberts (4).

Texas 000 010 000 — 1 4 2 Baltimore 310 210 00x — 7 10 1 J.Saunders, Sh.Tolleson (6), Rowen (7), S.Baker (8) and Chirinos; U.Jimenez, R.Ramirez (9) and C.Joseph. W—U.Jimenez 3-8. L—J.Saunders 0-5. HRs—Baltimore, Pearce 2 (9), A.Jones (15), J.Hardy (2).

NEW YORK — Attention, shoppers! Free agency in the NBA is open, and LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony are available.

Players and teams could begin negotiating just past midnight EDT on Tuesday morning, though contracts can’t be signed until July 10, after next season’s salary cap has been set.

James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, who joined together in Miami in 2010 and have led the Heat to two championships and four straight NBA Finals, all became free agents.

Though many expect that trio to stay with the Heat, Anthony could be persuaded to leave the New York Knicks for a team he believes gives him a better chance to compete for a championship. He was visiting Chicago on Tuesday, and Houston and Dallas also could try to pry the 2012-13 scoring champion away from the Knicks, who can pay him around $30 million more than any team under NBA rules.

Longtime stars Paul Pierce, Dirk Nowitzki and Pau Gasol also are free agents, along with players such as Toronto’s Kyle Lowry and Indiana’s Lance Stephenson, who are coming off their best seasons in the league.

It’s the most anticipated free agency class since 2010, when James led a class that included Wade, Bosh, and other All-Stars such as Amare Stoudemire and Joe Johnson.

That free agency period changed the NBA. This one might mostly change the Heat.

JUNIOR GOLF CHESTERMERE — Jordan Cooke of Sylvan Lake tied for sixth in the bantam boys’ division of the Maple Leaf Junior Tour’s East Sleep Golf Series at Lakeside Greens Golf Club during the

GP 0 1 1 1

GP Winnipeg 1 Calgary 1 Saskatchewan1 Edmonton 1 B.C. 1

PA Pt 0 0 31 0 29 0 45 0

West Division W L T 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0

PA Pt 21 2 8 2 10 2 20 2 27 0

Calgary at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.

B.C. at Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m.

PF 45 29 31 27 20

Week 2 Thursday’s games Ottawa at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, July 4 B.C. at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Hamilton at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 5 Saskatchewan at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Week 3 Friday, July 11 Winnipeg at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 12

Soccer Red Deer City Soccer Association Outdoor Champions

France Switzerland Ecuador Honduras

U14 Gold: Ramada Inn Red. Silver: Trophy Loft Forest Green. Bronze: Mr. Lube Navy.

GROUP F

U16/18 Gold: House of Signs Orange. Silver: Baker Hughes Red. Bronze: Baker hughes Maroon.

weekend.

Cooke finished with a 82-86—168 total, 14 strokes back of Korbin Allan of Lyalta (80-74).

Jeremy Rose of Calgary won the junior boys’ crown with a (76-75) 151 total while Kolby Vold of Ponoka tied for seventh at (84-81) 165 and Grant Numrich of Red Deer was 13th at (84-85) 169.

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T 0 1 0 1

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GA 3 3 4 4

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GP 3 3 3 3

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L 0 1 1 2

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GF 7 4 4 4

GA 2 4 7 6

Pt 7 4 4 1

GP 3 3 3 3

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L 0 1 1 2

T 0 1 2 1

GF 4 6 2 3

GA 1 5 3 6

Pt 9 4 2 1

GROUP A GP 3 3 3 3

W 2 2 1 0

L 0 0 2 3

T 1 1 0 0

GF 7 4 6 1

GA 2 1 6 9

Pt 7 7 3 0

GP Netherlands 3 Chile 3 Spain 3 Australia 3

W 3 2 1 0

L 0 1 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

GF 10 5 4 3

GA 3 3 7 9

Pt 9 6 3 0

GP 3 3 3 3

W 3 1 1 0

L 0 1 2 2

T 0 1 0 1

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GA 2 4 5 6

Pt 9 4 3 1

GP 3 3 3 3

W 2 2 1 0

L 0 1 2 2

T 1 0 0 1

GF 4 4 2 2

GA 1 4 3 4

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Brazil Mexico Croatia Cameroon GROUP B

GROUP C

Transactions

They are in need of an upgrade after getting smashed by San Antonio in the finals, and the Big Three could help give them the means to make one if they agree to salaries that won’t clog up too much of the cap.

Knicks president Phil Jackson hopes Anthony also agrees to take less than a maximum salary, which would be more than $125 million if he stayed in New York.

Also in New York, the Brooklyn Nets stagger into free agency without their coach after letting Jason Kidd leave for the Milwaukee Bucks.

The teams agreed to a deal Monday, with the Bucks sending two future second-round picks to the Nets, who allowed Kidd to pursue other jobs after denying his request for more power in the organization.

Brooklyn has Pierce and Shaun Livingston among its key players who are free agents.

The Los Angeles Lakers have plenty of money to offer, along with the chance to play with Kobe Bryant. Teams such as Phoenix and Atlanta have some good pieces in place and enough cap space to add another.

They would love a shot at James, as would his home state Cleveland Cavaliers, the team he left in 2010. But it’s unclear how seriously the four-time MVP will listen to other teams after meeting with six suitors when he was last a free agent.

Players such as Cleveland’s Luol Deng and Washington’s Trevor Ariza could be good fallback options for teams who can’t get James or Anthony.

W 2 2 1 0

GROUP H Belgium Algeria Russia South Korea

FIFA WORLD CUP At Brazil

Seattle 020 300 302 — 10 11 0 Houston 210 000 001 — 4 6 0 T.Walker, Wilhelmsen (7) and Zunino; McHugh, Zeid (7), Je.Williams (8) and J.Castro. W—T.Walker 1-0. L—McHugh 4-7. Sv—Wilhelmsen (1). HRs— Seattle, Zunino (12), M.Saunders (5), B.Miller (8), Cano (6). Houston, Springer (16), Ma.Gonzalez (3).

New York 111 000 000 — 3 8 3 Atlanta 000 010 04x — 5 8 0 Z.Wheeler, Black (7), Edgin (7), Familia (8), Eveland (8) and d’Arnaud; A.Wood, Avilan (7), Varvaro (8), Kimbrel (9) and Bethancourt. W—Varvaro 3-1. L— Familia 1-3. Sv—Kimbrel (25). HRs—New York, Granderson (11).

Germany United States Portugal Ghana

U14 Gold: Boston Pizza Orange. Silver: Boston Pizza Fuchsia. Bronze: Eurosport Gold.

Costa Rica Uruguay Italy England

NATIONAL LEAGUE Colorado 000 002 010 — 3 9 1 Wash.

000 105 10x — 7 9 0 Flande, Scahill (6), Masset (8) and Rosario; Zimmermann, Storen (7), Barrett (8), Blevins (9) and W.Ramos. W—Zimmermann 6-4. L—Flande 0-1.

HRs—Washington, LaRoche (12).

Argentina Nigeria Bosnia-Herz.

Iran

GP 3 3 3 3

GROUP G Girls U12 Gold: Ramada Inn White/Navy. Silver: Boston Pizza Gold. Bronze: Boston Pizza Fuchsia.

Kan. City 020 101 020 — 6 10 0 Minnesota 000 010 000 — 1 9 2 Duffy, Crow (6), Bueno (7), K.Herrera (7), Mariot (9) and S.Perez; Pino, Thielbar (6), Guerrier (7), Burton (8), Swarzak (9) and K.Suzuki. W—Duffy 5-7. L— Pino 0-2. HRs—Kansas City, S.Perez (10).

Cleveland 000 000 000 — 0 1 0 LAA 000 000 10x — 1 6 0 Kluber, Crockett (7), Allen (8) and Y.Gomes; Haren, B.Wilson (8), Jansen (9) and A.Ellis. W—Haren 8-4.

L—Kluber 7-6. Sv—Jansen (25).

GROUP E

Boys U12 Gold: Mr. Luke Black. Silver: Mr. Lube Gold.

Bronze: Mr. Lube Red.

Colombia Greece Ivory Coast Japan

INTERLEAGUE Chicago 000 200 000 — 2 5 0 Boston 000 000 000 — 0 2 0 Arrieta, Strop (8), H.Rondon (9) and Castillo; Peavy, Badenhop (7), Breslow (8), Mujica (9) and D.Ross.

W—Arrieta 5-1. L—Peavy 1-7. Sv—H.Rondon (10).

HRs—Chicago, Schierholtz (4).

2014 Canadian Football League Leaders TORONTO — Unofficial 2014 CFL scoring leaders following Week One (x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG S Pt Allen, Sask 2 0 0 0 12 Kelly, Wpg 2 0 0 0 12 Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 6 1 0 9 Milo, Sask 0 3 2 0 9 Paredes, Cgy 0 3 2 0 9 Shaw, Edm 0 3 2 0 9 McCallum, BC 0 2 2 0 8 Barnes, Tor 1 0 0 0 6 Bowman, Edm 1 0 0 0 6 Cornish, Cgy 1 0 0 0 6 Feoli-Gudino, Wpg 1 0 0 0 6 Harris, BC 1 0 0 0 6 J.Johnson, Tor 1 0 0 0 6 Lumbala, Mtl 1 0 0 0 6 Marve, Wpg 1 0 0 0 6 McCarty, Edm 1 0 0 0 6 Owens, Tor 1 0 0 0 6 Parker, Cgy 1 0 0 0 6 Player, BC 1 0 0 0 6 Price, Cgy 1 0 0 0 6 Stamps, Edm 1 0 0 0 6 Swain, Sask 1 0 0 0 6 Tasker, Ham 1 0 0 0 6 Washington, Wpg 1 0 0 0 6 Watson, Wpg 1 0 0 0 6 Waters, Tor 0 3 0 0 3 Medlock, Ham 0 1 0 1 2 Whyte, Mtl 0 1 0 1 2 Maver, Cgy 0 0 0 2 2

Week 1 Saturday’s results Calgary 29 Montreal 8 Edmonton 27 B.C. 20 Sunday’s results Saskatchewan 31 Hamilton 10

Oakland 000 001 030 — 4 10 0 Detroit 000 001 004 — 5 7 1 Kazmir, Otero (6), Gregerson (8), Doolittle (9) and Jaso; A.Sanchez, Chamberlain (8), Coke (8), B.Hardy (9) and Avila. W—B.Hardy 1-1. L—Doolittle 1-3. HRs—Detroit, Mi.Cabrera (14), R.Davis (6).

Free agency opens in the NBA with LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony atop the class

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ottawa Hamilton Montreal Toronto

CFL East Division W L T PF 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10 0 1 0 8 0 1 0 21

GROUP D

Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended free agent minor league RHP Joel Pineiro 50 games after testing positive for Heptaminol, a prohibited stimulant in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Assigned RHP Julio Depaula to Bowie (El). Reinstated INF Michael Almanzar from the 60-day DL and designated him for assignment. Selected the contract of RHP Ramon Ramirez from Norfolk (IL). Optioned RHP Evan Meek to Norfolk.

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Josh Laxer on a minor league contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Signed OF Raul Ibanez. Recalled INF Christian Colon from Omaha (PCL). Designated INF Pedro Ciriaco and OF Justin Maxwell for assignment. Traded LHP Donnie Joseph to Miami for cash considerations.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated INF Trevor Plouffe and INF Eduardo Nunez from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Pedro Florimon to Rochester (IL) and INF Jorge Polanco to Fort Myers (FSL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with RHP Brett Graves, RHP Heath Fillmyer, SS Branden Cogswell, RHP Tyler Willman and 2B Trent Gilbert on minor league contracts.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned OF Stefen Romero to Tacoma (PCL). Recalled RHP Taijuan Walker from Tacoma.

TEXAS RANGERS — Purchased the contract of INF Adam Rosales from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned INF Luis Sardinas to Round Rock.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Claimed RHP Cory Burns off waivers from Texas. Designated RHP Angel Sanchez for assignment.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent LHP Brett Cecil to Buffalo (IL) for a rehab assignment.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP Gus Schlosser to Gwinnett (IL).

CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned RHP Dallas Beeler to Iowa (PCL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RHP Jhoulys Chacin on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 29.

Recalled RHP Chad Bettis from Colorado Springs (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned OF Jake Marisnick and RHP Anthony DeSclafani to New Orleans (PCL).

NEW YORK METS — Sent RHP Dillon Gee to Brooklyn (NYP) for a rehab assignment.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Designated RHP Sean O’Sullivan for assignment. Optioned RHP Luis Garcia to Lehigh Valley (IL). Selected the contract of INF Andres Blanco from Lehigh Valley.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned RHP Jorge Rondon to Memphis (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reinstated OF Bryce Harper from the 15-day DL. Optioned LHP Xavier Cedeno and RHP Blake Treinen to Syracuse (IL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BROOKLYN NETS — Acquired second-round

Round of 16 Saturday, June 28 Brazil 1 Chile 1 (so Brazil 3 Chile 2) Colombia 2 Uruguay 0 Sunday, June 29 Netherlands 2 Mexico 1 Costa Rica 1 Greece 1 (so Costa Rica 5 Greece 3) Monday, June 30 France 2 Nigeria 0 Germany 2 Algeria 1 (OT) Tuesday, July 1 Switzerland at Argentina, 10 a.m.

United States at Belgium, 2 p.m.

Quarterfinal Friday, July 4 TBAA at France, 10 a.m.

Colombia at Brazil, 2 p.m.

Saturday, July 5 TBAA at TBAH, 10 a.m.

Costa Rica at Netherlands, 2 p.m.

draft picks in 2015 and 2019 from Milwaukee allowing Jason Kidd to become Milwaukee’s coach.

DETROIT PISTONS —Declined to exercise the team option on G Chauncey Billups’ contract for the 2014-15 season.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Fired coach Larry Drew.

ORLANDO MAGIC — Waived G Doron Lamb and G Jameer Nelson.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Waived G James Anderson.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Declined to extend qualifying offers to F Robbie Hummel and G Othyus Jeffers, making them unrestricted free agents.

FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed OL Daryn Colledge to a one-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed G Al Netter to a one-year contract.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed WRs Lamont Bryant and D.J. Coles.

TORONTO ARGONAUTS — Signed SB-KR Chad Owens and C Jeff Keeping to contract extensions through the 2015 season.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Placed DB Korey Banks on the suspended list.

Arena Football ORLANDO PREDATORS — Acquired DL Michael Janac from New Orleans to complete an earlier trade.

HOCKEY National Hockey League FLORIDA PANTHERS — Bought out the contract of D Ed Jovanovski, making him a free agent.

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Re-signed D Jeff Schultz to a two-year contract.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Traded F Daniel Briere to Colorado for F Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau and a 2015 fifth-round draft pick.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Traded F Nate Thompson to Anaheim for 2015 fourth- and seventh-round draft picks.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Placed D Tim Gleason on unconditional waivers for the purpose of buying out his contract.

WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with D Adam Pardy on a one-year contract extension.

ECHL STOCKTON THUNDER — Re-signed D Ryan Constant.

UTAH GRIZZLIES — Re-signed D Mike Folkes to a one-year contract.

LACROSSE National Lacrosse League EDMONTON RUSH — Acquired a 2014 firstround (No. 1) draft pick, a 2015 second-round draft pick and G Tyler Carlson from Minnesota for a 2014 first-round (No. 3) draft pick and G Brodie MacDonald.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Named Seth Bacon senior vice-president, media.

SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Released MF Alex Martinez. Recalled MF Mikey Lopez from his loan to OKC Energy FC (USL PRO).

MINOR BASEBALL The Red Deer Bantam AAA Servus Credit Union Braves swept all three games up in Fort McMurray against the Oil Giants on the weekend.

In the opener, Andrew MacCuaig went five innings giving up five runs on eight hits with one walk and four strike outs while Ty Moline gave up just one hit and one walk over the final two scoreless innings in Red Deer’s 8-5 victory, Brady Steeves and Darin Fodor both had two singles and a run batted in while Jack Henley had two singles and two RBIs to pace the Braves offence. Zach Olson gave up two runs on five hits and a walk with five strike outs to shut down the Oil Giants in Game 2’s 7-2 win.

Fodor led the offence with two RBI and two runs scored off a double and a single.

The Braves completed the weekend with a dominating third game, crushing the Oil Giants 10-2 as Fodor threw a complete game four-hitter while striking out four and walking one.

Olson was effective at the plate with a double, a single and walk, scoring all three times he got on base. Ben LeBlanc had four hits — three singles and a double — with an RBI, while Steeves had two singles and an RBI, and Kelsey Lalor and MacCuaig both had two singles. Henley tacked on two RBIs on a triple.

The Braves are off this week.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, July 1, 2014 B7

Crazy run puts Cassidy in the final

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Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Curtis Hogg races towards the finish during Heat 7 of the All Pro Canadian Chuckwagon races at the Ponoka Stampede Monday evening. what my job is.”

“Not that I always do my job,” admitted Cassidy. “I got muffed out here on a couple steers here last year.”

Along with the money available in the afternoon Finals round, the winner of the final four Showdown in the evening picks up another $7500. Cassidy would love to get a cheque that size.

“I need it. I’ve been sucking so far this year.”

While Curtis Cassidy leads the Canadian standings this season, Cody’s name is nowhere to be found among the top twenty yet. A good hit from Ponoka could change that.

“Ponoka’s been good to me, and my whole family’s here watching, and you know everybody, so it’s always fun to do good in front of your hometown crowd.”

In case you’re keeping track, Greg Cassidy won steer wrestling at Ponoka once, Cody has taken the title twice, and Curtis has won it three times.

The other event to see a leader change was the team roping, where two teams moved into a tie at the top. Ponoka’s own Levi Simpson and his partner Ryon Tittle of Colorado snagged two steers in 12.9 seconds, a total that was matched by Brett and Justin McCarroll of Camrose.

Several contestants did manage to snag a spot among the top twelve in other events. Two-time World Champion Tuf Cooper roped a pair of calves in 16.5 seconds, to finish third fastest on two. Matt Shiozawa will have the best time going into the Finals with his 15.9. Four-time World Champion Sherry Cervi raced to a tie for second spot in the barrel racing Ponoka standings Monday, with her running time of 17.487. Lisa Lockhart remained fastest at 17.472, to win $4266 in the long

Flames give qualifying offers to RFAs Colborne, Ortio

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have made qualifying offers to six of their restricted free agents.

Defencemen Chad Billins and Mark Cundari, centres Lance Bouma and Joe Colborne, right-winger Ben Hanowski and goaltender Joni Ortio were extended qualifying offers, according to a release on the Flames website.

Centre Paul Byron, left-winger T.J. Galiardi, right-winger David Eddy, defenceman James Martin and goalie Olivier Roy were not given offers.

Teams give qualifying offers in order to retain negotiating rights with the player.

Bouma produced five goals and 10 assists in 78 games for the Flames. Colborne posted 10 goals and 18 assists in 80 games for Calgary.

Billins led Calgary’s American Hockey League team in scoring by a defenceman with 10 goals and 31 assists. Cundari, who was acquired in a

Habs trade Briere to Avs for Parenteau

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Daniel Briere’s on-ice expectations of playing for the Montreal Canadiens didn’t match up with reality, so he wasn’t surprised when he was traded.

More than anything he was glad it happened so soon.

On Monday, the Canadiens sent Briere to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for winger P.A. Parenteau and a fifth-round draft pick, in the process giving the veteran forward a fresh start after a tumultuous season in Montreal.

“I kept saying to myself, ’Good things are going to happen, just be a good team player,”’ Briere said. “And I feel in a sense it’s a bit of what’s happening today. I get the chance to go somewhere where I feel wanted again.”

Briere was no favourite of coach Michel Therrien, who made him a healthy

deal that sent Jay Bouwmeester to St. Louis last year, had nine goals and 14 assists in 56 AHL games.

The Flames acquired Hanowski last year in the deal that send captain Jarome Iginla to Pittsburgh. Hanowski compiled 13 goals and 18 assists in 55 AHL games.

Ortio’s record was 4-4 for the Flames and 27-8-2 in the AHL. Also, the Flames put defenceman Shane O’Brien on unconditional waivers in order to buy out his contract.

O’Brien split the past season between the Flames and their American Hockey League affiliate. He had three assists in 45 games and was minus-8 in 45 games for Calgary. O’Brien’s NHL salary next season would be $2.2 million.

The Flames acquired the 30-yearold from Port Hope, Ont., just over a year ago in a deal that sent forward Alex Tanguay and defenceman Cory Sarich to Colorado for O’Brien and right-winger David Jones.

scratch and demoted him to the fourth line. The 36-year-old Gatineau, Que., native dressed for just 69 regular-season games and had 12 goals and 13 assists before recording three goals and four assists in 16 playoff games.

While saying playing for his hometown Habs was a “great experience,” Briere acknowledged the reduced role Therrien put him in was not what he expected after signing a US$8-million, two-year deal last summer.

“I think sometimes certain coaches like certain players. I don’t think it was anything personal,” Briere said. “But my responsibilities that I had probably were a little lower than I had expected coming in. That’s why I’m looking forward to a new chance in Colorado.”

Parenteau, who conceded there was some friction with Colorado coach Patrick Roy, gets his own chance to start anew. The 31-year-old winger from Boucherville, Que., called this a childhood dream and said he isn’t concerned about the pressure of playing in Montreal.

round. Wyoming’s JR Vezain marked 85.25 Monday in the bareback riding, to grab a qualifying spot. Kaycee Field of Utah has already earned $4735 for his top mark of 88 points. The 86 from Taos Muncy earlier in the week was best in the saddle bronc riding, to give him a down payment of $4706 on his

Ponoka earnings. Jesse Torkelson of Warburg was the only bull rider to make the Finals with his ride Monday, as he marked 84.50 on Liar, Liar. Oklahoma’s Brennon Eldred picks up $4836 for his first trip to Ponoka, with his 88.75 mark.

They crowned the novice champions at Ponoka Monday. Drayton Valley’s Dawson Shannon took the steer riding with a 76, for $2002. The novice bareback title went to Linden Woods of Swift Current for his 79, worth $1260, while novice saddle bronc riding was claimed by Lane Cust of Ardmore for his 80.5 mark, giving him $1311.

After muddy conditions on day 4, racetrack conditions were the best of the week so far on day 5 at the Ponoka Stampede. Tension ran high as eight drivers running two heats were trying to survive the semi-final round and looking for a spot in Tuesday’s final.

When it all played out, Kirk Sutherland, Jason Glass, Chad Harden and Kurt Bensmiller survived the semifinal round and will comprise the $50,000.00 Tommy Dorchester WinnerTake-All Championship final heat. Evan Salmond missed the winner-takeall final by just by 28 one-hundreds of a second. Jerry Bremner would have qualified for Monday’s final, but penalties proved costly and eliminated the former Ponoka champion. Troy Dorchester and Colt Cosgrave were also eliminated in the semi-final round.

On the night was complete, it was Kirk Sutherland who not only qualified for the championship final in first place, but had the best time of the race meet with a time of 1:14.16 from barrel number 3 in the ninth heat. He was followed by Doug Irvine, Jason Glass, Luke Tournier and Kelly Sutherland filled out the top five on the night.

The top twelve in each major event go head to head this afternoon at the Ponoka Stampede Finals at 1:00 pm, with the chuckwagon finals and the Showdown round going at 6:30 pm.

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The stage is set for the richer than ever Ponoka Stampede Finals today.

In true dramatic fashion, one of the regular players cinched up a spot in Monday’s steer wrestling event.

It was a wild afternoon of bulldogging, with several cowboys making more exotic moves than the steers they were to wrestle. There were hoolihans, long reaches and bum first skids.

It was kind of action that gives steer wrestlers nightmares when they think about the infaDIANNE mous Ponoka FINSTAD long score run.

And then there was one.

Cody Cassidy had recorded the fastest time of the morning run at 5.5 seconds, and all he needed was a clean solid run in under ten seconds to be among the top twelve total times. He was the last man to go, and he came out after his black steer at a good clip, got down from his horse, took a tumble himself, and managed to knock his steer over, all in just 4.8 seconds. It was one of those runs where only a video replay would do it justice.

“There was a whole lot of stuff going on there,” his older brother Curtis commented. He was hazing and had a close-up view. Cody agreed he wasn’t exactly sure what happened.

“I had a hold of the right horn, but when I got the nose, I just kind of fell over top of him, and went along with it.

It was fairly crazy.”

“I don’t usually try to hit sideways, but that steer was like a little graham wafer cracker,” stated Cassidy, shaking his head. “I just went on with it. I wasn’t sure if I was going to get the flag (for a completed run), but I looked up at the judge, and was glad to see that flag drop.”

“I tried to be light on his head, but I could tell as soon as my feet hit it was either now or never. I guess it worked out. That’s all I can say. Today was my day, I guess,” he grinned.

Cassidy’s combined time of 10.3 seconds was enough to bump back leader Lee Graves with his 11.9, and snag first place in the ‘long’ round of the Stampede. That gives him the advantage in the Finals, plus he’s already earned $2317 from the payoff in the first two rounds.

“I knew I just had to be sharp today, and give myself a chance to win. Here at Ponoka, it’s all about the last day.

You’ve got to be smart and remember you need to go at the end for the final four deal.”

Cassidy considers Ponoka his hometown rodeo, with the family ranch at Donalda just 50 minutes up the road.

Since his father, Greg, ran here many years before the boys even competed, it’s a familiar place, and that might be an advantage.

“As crazy as it seems, I’ve run a million steers here. I ran the spares so long before I ever was even entered in the rodeo. I’ve been down this alley probably well over a hundred times.

So I’m not nervous when I get here. I’m excited, but I’m not nervous. Some guys are pacing around, sweating, and you can see that it worries them. I know

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GAS PRO COMPRESSION, located in Three Hills, AB, is a manufacturing & fabrication shop, which produces & services single well gas compressor packages ranging from 10 to 80HP. Currently we are looking to fill the following positions: MILLWRIGHT, ELECTRICIAN MECHANIC Successful candidate must possess strong work ethics.

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TRIUMPH Well Service is now accepting applications for all positions.

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Our office dynamic is positive & professional, our excellence in patient care & outstanding customer service are paramount.

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PENTAGON FARM CENTRE WANTED: Contents of navy in Lacombe is looking for a canvas Michael Kors bag full time permanent stolen from parked vehicle.

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE On evening of June 21/22 ADMINISTRATOR. our car was parked in the Must have 5 years experience west parking lot of Days Inn in Accounts Payable.

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WARD EARL WENDELL Nov. 24, 1925 -Sackville, NB June 27, 2014 - Calgary, AB With his daughter Dianne at his side, Corporal Earl Ward passed away peacefully in his home on June 27, 2014 at the age of 88 years. Earl FOUND at our home for the was a dedicated father, last 3 or 4 days, a small grandfather and friend. Earl cat or kitten, in the On was a highly decorated Erickson Drive, Red Deer.

Please call to identify: military man, enlisting in both 403-347-0912 WWII and the Korean War. His military career spanned FOUND RECENTLY: over 46 years. Earl will be A quantity of fishing tackle.

Call to identify lovingly remembered by his 403-342-4053 son, Donald Ward; daughter, TENTS, (several) found at Dianne Ward; granddaughter, Lindsay Thurber/Legion Brandi Ward (Rick Browes), Track, late Tuesday and great grandsons, Jaxin evening. Call to identify and Brody. A celebration of & claim **OWNER FOUND** his life will be held on Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 at Leyden’s Funeral Home, Personals 304-18th Ave, S.W. in Calgary, Alberta. In lieu of ALCOHOLICS flowers, donations in Earl’s ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 memory may be made to COCAINE ANONYMOUS Veterans Canada. Memories 403-396-8298 and condolences may be shared with the family by PALM READINGS PARTY includes coffee grounds visiting leydens.com.

ARCHIBALD Daun Keith July 11, 1944 - June 27, 2014 The family of Daun Archibald is saddened to announce he lost his battle with cancer on Friday, June 27, 2014 at the Strathmore Hospital. Daun is survived by Annette, his wife of 44 years, his son and daughter-in-law, Jason and Melanie, and his adored grandchildren Jade and Jesse.

He will also be lovingly remembered by his sister, Joan Janzen, and brother, Jack Archibald and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was predeceased by his mother, Rose and brothers Jim and Doug. A Memorial Service will be held at the Chapel of Mountain View on Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 10 am with interment to follow.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be directed to the Calgary Health Trust, 11012 Macleod Trail SE, Suite 800, Calgary AB† T2J 6A5.

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WAKEY Helen Ivy Helen was a strong, beautiful woman who touched the lives and hearts of many people. She will be sadly missed. Helen passed away on Sunday, June 29, 2014.

Helen is survived by her loving husband, Bob Wakey of Red Deer; children, Dan (Linda) Holstead of Petawawa, Larry (Alexis) Holstead of Rocky Mountain House, Nicholle (Larry) Colby of Calgary, Brent Wakey of Edmonton and Drew (Laura) Wakey of Edmonton; grandchildren and great grandchildren, Adrienne (Matt) Ethier and children, Emily, Noah of Petawawa; Dayna (Szymon) Janicki and children, Natalie and Naomi of Ottawa; Joey Holstead of Petawawa; Kiza (Stu) Trentham and children, Stuart and Jack of Rock Mountain House; Katy (Corey) Shaw of Leslieville; Sarah Colby (Allen) of Calgary; Matt Colby of Calgary; Andrea Wakey and children, Xida and Ariya of Edmonton; Christine Wakey of Edmonton and Noah Wakey of Edomton.

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CLASS 1 DRIVER with fluid hauling experience, local runs. 403-373-3285 or fax resume and copies of all valid tickets to 403-986-2819 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

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Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 F/T or P/T Seamstress needed for busy alteration shop ASAP. Must have sewing exp. Please drop off resume to Gloria’s Alterations in Bower Mall.

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CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

MORE ON NHL FREE AGENCY ON B11 elsewhere.

The Buffalo Sabres have the most cap space, according to CapGeek, with almost $39 million. They need to spend more than $20 million just to get to the $51-million floor.

First-time GM Tim Murray isn’t worried about needing to get to the floor, nor is he scared of the perils of free agency.

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The negotiating window has shed some light on the idea that some guys are wanted by a lot of teams. Niskanen’s agent, Neil Sheehy, said in an email that more than 10 teams had shown interest in the 27-year-old defenceman and that they were planning to pare down that list before Tuesday.

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Murray and Djokovic close in on rematch as weather wreaks havoc at Wimbledon

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Already, before teams are free to sign players at noon Tuesday, over $1.1 billion has been spent to retain potential unrestricted free agents at an average cost of $3.57 million, according to CapGeek. Many of the top free agents will get more money than that on an annual basis, just based on the market value.

Still, Chiarelli believes it’s possible to spend smart money in free agency.

“As long as the expectations are in place and you know the player that you’re getting, I wouldn’t necessarily call it a bad deal,” he said. “It may be in five years if it is a bad deal, but it is something that can help your team and you just have to be cautious of the hysteria that happens.”

The hysteria started early this year thanks to the new five-day window teams and pending unrestricted free agents have to talk before deals can get signed. They’ve been free to discuss fits and salary parameters, just not agree verbally or in principle.

It seems to have given players more leverage than before because they can consider options rather than make a quick decision on July 1. For teams, the negotiating period is still a work in progress.

“It’s useful in that you can lay some plans and some groundwork,” Toronto Maple Leafs GM Dave Nonis said last week in Philadelphia. “Whether it helps in getting players in or not, I think that remains to be seen.”

Compliance buyouts have also changed the landscape, pouring more players like Richards, Ehrhoff, ex-Vancouver Canucks winger David Booth and ex-New Jersey Devils defenceman Anton Volchenkov into the market.

Those players can double-dip on pay cheques, while their former teams can allocate the saved salary-cap space

it’s an outdoor event.”

Easy for him to say.

Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka was less than pleased that his third-round match was put off from Saturday to Monday (Wimbledon tries to avoid playing on its middle Sunday). He got through it quickly, defeating 45th-ranked Denis Istomin 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in less than 1 ½ hours.

Afterward, the fifth-seeded Wawrinka noted it won’t be easy to win five best-offive-set matches in a week if he’s going to claim the title.

“For sure, I was disappointed,” Wawrinka said about not getting on court Saturday, when showers disrupted play for several hours. “You cannot do anything. You have to accept (it). They do what they want, and you just follow.”

Asked whether he spoke with officials, Wawrinka said: “They just say what’s going to be the schedule and that’s it. Even if you want to talk to them, they’re not going to change anything. They don’t listen (to) the player.

They just do what they think is good for them.”

All England Club spokesman Johnny Perkins said the process was explained to Wawrinka’s coach, including that having past major champions on larger courts is more of a priority than getting all matches completed on a given day.

The start of Week 2 at Wimbledon is called “Manic Monday,” because it usually has all 16 fourth-round matches after taking Sunday off.

“I understand why Wawrinka was complaining, because we have this tradition here of the middle Sunday. ... We have to rethink (that),” Djokovic said. “We all know that tradition is something that is nurtured here ... and we respect that.

But there are some rules

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Andy Murray plays a return to Kevin Anderson of South Africa during their men’s singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Monday. that I believe should be updated.”

Wawrinka will be on No. 2 Court on Tuesday — when, by the way, the forecast calls for a slight chance of rain — against No. 19 Feliciano Lopez, who eliminated the last American singles player, No. 9 John Isner, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3), 7-5. It’s the first time in 103 years that no U.S. men or women reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon.

Like Wawrinka, Isner didn’t take well to having

his match postponed. He tried protesting, to no avail.

“They had their reasons,” Isner said.

Maria Sharapova never got a chance to play at all Monday, because her fourth-rounder against No. 9 Angelique Kerber was postponed. That was rescheduled for Tuesday, and the winner must play Wednesday against No. 13 Eugenie Bouchard, the first Canadian in the Wimbledon quarterfinals in the 46-year Open era.

Kidd headed to Milwaukee after Nets, Bucks reach deal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The Bucks and Brooklyn Nets agreed to a deal Monday allowing Jason Kidd to become Milwaukee’s coach, a person with knowledge of the details said.

The Bucks then paved the way for Kidd by firing coach Larry Drew later Monday.

The Nets will receive a secondround draft pick in 2015 that was formerly their own, and another in 2019 belonging to either Milwaukee or Sacramento.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been announced.

Drew went 15-67 in his only season in Milwaukee, but there had been no indication he wouldn’t be back before the Kidd situation emerged.

“Despite the challenging season, Larry always handled himself and represented the Bucks in a first-class manner,” Bucks general manager John Hammond said in a statement.

“Larry did the best he could in a difficult situation, especially given all of our injuries. I want to thank Larry for all of his efforts, and we wish him the best of luck in his future endeavours.”

Kidd went 44-38 in his only season as Nets coach, but then sought control of the basketball operations department and was denied. The Nets gave him permission to talk to other teams

about a job.

It was a stunningly quick ending to what had been Kidd’s celebrated return to the franchise he twice led to the NBA Finals as a player. The Nets hired him last June as coach just weeks after he retired as a player and retired his No. 5 before a preseason game in October.

Also, he bought a small portion of the team.

There was no reason to believe he wouldn’t be back Thursday when he appeared at a press conference where the Nets announced plans for their new practice facility.

Milwaukee had the NBA’s worst record last season at 15-67 and is under new co-owners in Marc Lasry and Wes Edens. Lasry and Kidd are friends.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, July 1, 2014 B11

Ready, set, sign NHL TEAMS EXPECTED TO MAKE A FLURRY OF DEALS WHEN FREE AGENCY BEGINS TODAY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland is predicting a busy day once NHL free agency opens on today, simply because teams began talking to agents and players days ago.

“It’s going to make things go quicker because there has been time to mull things over,” Holland said Monday. “On the afternoon of July 1, things are going to happen quickly.”

Thomas Vanek, Paul Stastny, Matt Niskanen, Matt Moulson and Jussi Jokinen are among the younger unrestricted free agents.

At least some of them are expected to get long-term deals because they’re potentially entering the prime of their careers.

Jarome Iginla, Dan Boyle, Martin Brodeur and Ryan Miller are relatively productive older players who might be a short-term fit for a championship-contending team.

“The last crop of free agents looked OK, too, this time a year ago and a lot of those players didn’t play up to expectations,” Holland said.

“When you give players long-term money, it’s hard for them to live up to the expectations.”

Columbus, Toronto and De-

troit were teams that invested a lot in a few 2013 free agents — Nathan Horton, David Clarkson and Stephen Weiss, respectively — without getting much of a return in part because of injuries.

St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said it is a big gamble to count too much on new players to produce as well as they are compensated.

“Expecting a free agent to come in out of the wilderness and lead your team is not realistic,” Hitchcock said.

“The easiest thing to talk about and the hardest thing to find is good chemistry in a team. That has to be developed mostly with players you’ve had for the most part. That being said, there is depth in this class and there are younger players who could swing the balance of power significantly if the right team gets one or two of these guys.”

P.K. Subban of Montreal and other top-line restricted free agents might not get many offers to leave their teams because franchises don’t like to let talent get away even if there is compensation coming back in return.

Here’s a list of 10 players to watch in NHL free agency: VANEK: The 30-year-old wing played for three teams last season — Buffalo, the New York Islanders and Montreal

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Colorado Avalanche center Paul Stastny (26) and Minnesota Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon tangle in the second period during Game 7 of an NHL first-round playoff series on April 30, 2014, in Denver. Thomas Vanek, Matt Niskanen and Stastny are among the top NHL unrestricted free agents.

— and should be able to settle in his next home with a multiyear deal.

STASTNY: The 28-year-old centre plays a pivotal position in the league and has done it well. He has 458 points in 538 games over eight seasons in Colorado, which would hate to lose him.

NISKANEN: On a short list of defenceman available, this 27-year-old blue liner is the catch of the class. He had a career-high 46 points last season for Pittsburgh.

MOULSON: Like Vanek, the 30-year-old wing bounced around last season. After playing for the Islanders, Buffalo and Minnesota, he should land

a big deal.

JOKINEN: The 31-yearold forward averaged nearly a point per game in the postseason for the Penguins after a 57-point regular season, putting him in a position to cash in.

IGINLA: The wing had 30 goals last season, tying for the most in Boston, and had seven points in 12 playoff games to prove he can still produce. He turns 37 on Tuesday.

BOYLE: The 37-year-old defenceman is drawing interest from Detroit, Tampa Bay and many other teams in the league.

BRODEUR: The NHL’s alltime winningest goalie with

688 victories is available at the age of 42 after playing his entire career in New Jersey, where he played in just 39 games last season.

MILLER: The 2010 Vezina Trophy winner was 10-8 in the regular season and 2-4 in the playoffs with the St. Louis Blues after spending the first 10-plus seasons of his career in Buffalo.

SUBBAN: A team might make a run at the 25-year-old defenceman with a sevenyear offer sheet, but suitors risk tying up cap space for up to a week for nothing because Montreal would likely match it and can give him an eightyear contract.

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE FREE AGENCY

What NHL’s seven Canadian teams need as free-agency period begins Here’s a look at what the NHL’s seven Canadian teams need as free agency begins at noon on July 1, with salary-cap estimates courtesy of CapGeek:

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

Cap space: $23.6 million Unrestricted free agents: C Dave Bolland, LW/RW Nikolai Kulemin, LW Mason Raymond, C Jay McClement, D Paul Ranger, RW Troy Bodie, C Leo Komarov, C Trevor Smith, G Drew MacIntyre Restricted free agents: G James Reimer, D Jake Gardiner, D Cody Franson, RW Carter Ashton, LW Jerry D’Amigo Biggest needs: Centre, bottom-six forwards, backup goaltender, righthanded-shooting defencemen Outlook: President Brendan Shanahan and general manager Dave Nonis should be busy as a healthy amount of roster turnover is expected.

Four of the top-six forward spots are filled by core players (Phil Kessel, James van Riemsdyk, Joffrey Lupul and Tyler Bozak) and Nazem Kadri is signed for one more season, but after that there isn’t much up front.

Bolland is someone the Leafs like, but not at the salary he’d like to attract as one of those much-desired hard-working pieces of a winning team. If he gets a payday elsewhere, Toronto will be forced to debate external versus internal replacements.

Shanahan and Nonis wanting the Leafs to play a different way under same coach Randy Carlyle is a wild card, so it’ll be fascinating to see the off-season unfold.

MONTREAL CANADIENS

Cap space: $17.4 million Unrestricted free agents: LW Thomas Vanek, RW Brian Gionta, LW George Parros, D Francis Boullion, D Douglas Murray, D Mike Weaver, F Ryan White Restricted free agents: D P.K. Subban, C Lars Eller Biggest needs: Top-six winger, size, depth defencemen Outlook: The Habs are taking a no Vanek, no panic approach to July 1, bidding adieu to the inconsistent yet talented scoring winger who will likely either get a long-term, big money deal or sign with the Minnesota Wild.

A deadline acquisition for just a second-round pick and prospect Sebastien Collberg, Vanek helped Montreal to the Eastern Conference final but found himself on the fourth line late in the run.

If Gionta departs, the Habs will need a new captain from its current roster, but P.A. Parenteau — acquired Monday from the Avalanche for Daniel Briere — could fill his spot. Josh Gorges’ trade situation will make for even more turnover on defence, which could be very young next season with kids like Greg Pateryn, Nathan Beaulieu and Jarred Tinordi filling spots.

Getting face-of-the-franchise Subban locked up to a long-term deal, though, remains GM Marc Bergevin’s biggest task of the summer.

VANCOUVER CANUCKS

Cap space: $17.7 million Unrestricted free agents: F Mike Santorelli, D Andrew Alberts, F Jordan Schroeder, F Zac Dalpe Restricted free agents: C Linden Vey (acquired from Kings at draft), LW/RW Zach Kassian, D Chris Tanev, D Yannick Weber Biggest needs: Starting goaltender, defencemen, youth Outlook: With the makeover well underway in Vancouver, the Canucks are in a weird spot wanting to build back up around young players but not ready to call it a “rebuild.” GM Jim Benning has already gotten rid of centre Ryan Kesler, fetching Nick Bonino, defenceman Luca Sbisa and a firstround pick from the Anaheim Ducks, but it’s unclear how many more veterans want out.

The climate of change is exciting for young players who crave opportunity, but will it be attractive to prospective free agents?

Goaltender Ryan Miller has a previous relationship with Benning from Buffalo, and his destinations might be so limited by a lack of open jobs that Vancouver makes the most sense for the 33-year-old.

OTTAWA SENATORS

Cap space: $16.5 million Unrestricted free agents: RW Ales Hemsky, LW Milan Michalek, F Matt Kassian, D Joe Corvo Restricted free agents: G Robin Lehner, F Stephane Da Costa Biggest needs: Top-six wingers, depth forwards, Jason Spezza trade Outlook: There won’t be any shockers to the level of Daniel Alfredsson leaving this summer for the Senators, but his stated concern about this team not being on the cusp of winning a Cup is more true now than it was then.

A rough season has led to more questions than answers for a team with a Jack Adams Award-winning coach in Paul MacLean and some legitimate offensive talent in Bobby Ryan and Erik Karlsson.

Filling the holes around it will be GM Bryan Murray’s job as he also seeks to find a taker for Spezza, his captain who has asked out of Ottawa and has a year left on his contract.

Clearing Spezza’s $7-million salary would open the Senators up to do some shopping, whether that means re-signing Michalek or bringing in capable replacements for him and Hemsky.

EDMONTON OILERS

Cap space: $20.1 million Unrestricted free agents: D Anton Belov, F Ryan Jones, F Ben Eager, F Steve MacIntyre, D Mark Fraser Restricted free agents: D Justin Schultz, D Jeff Petry, F Luke Gadzic Biggest needs: Top-nine forwards, puck-moving defencemen, size Outlook: Sunday night’s trade of Sam Gagner to the Tampa Bay Lightning for winger Teddy Purcell got proceedings going for the Oilers, who could have a different mix around the core of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle as they seek to end a seven-year playoff drought.

GM Craig MacTavish has gone on record as saying he’d like to add a puck-moving defenceman — who wouldn’t? He also wants top-nine players who can fill roles and allow Matt Hendricks and Boyd Gordon to slide

down to the fourth line, where they’re strong fits.

Drafting Leon Draisaitl fills two major needs — a second-line centre and more size — but Edmonton might have to hedge in case the 18-year-old German isn’t ready.

On the trade market, MacTavish thinks the Oilers can use their salarycap space to pick up some more expensive players but without giving up too much in return.

CALGARY FLAMES

Cap space: $29.7 million Unrestricted free agents: C Mike Cammalleri, D Chris Butler, G Joey MacDonald, D Chris Breen, F Kevin Westgarth, F Blair Jones, F T.J. Galiardi, F Paul Byron Restricted free agents: C Joe Colborne, F Lance Bouma, G Joni Ortio Biggest needs: Goaltender, big, young forwards, depth defencemen Outlook: Still in the early stages of a rebuilding effort, the Flames can start to take the form wanted by president of hockey operations Brian Burke and GM Brad Treliving.

That means bigger players up and down the lineup to build around Monahan. After trading Reto Berra to Colorado at the deadline, the Flames are either in the market for a backup to Karri Ramo or someone who might fit in a 1A/1B situation.

If Treliving and his staff remain

committed to a long-term building project, July 1 might not be too active as other teams shell out big-money contracts.

WINNIPEG JETS

Cap space: $18.3 million Unrestricted free agents: C Olli Jokinen, RW Devin Setoguchi, G Al Montoya, F Chris Thorburn, F Matt Halischuk, D Keaton Ellerby Restricted free agents: RW Michael Frolik, C James Wright, G Michael Hutchinson Biggest needs: Centre, right-wingers, goaltender Outlook: July 1 is another barometer of how the Jets will lean, between fans’ impatience over three years without playoffs since moving to Winnipeg and GM Kevin Cheveldayoff’s calm approach.

Not one to swing for the fences, Cheveldayoff said he’d look for opportunities to strike in free agency, but it’d be surprising to set the Jets make a big splash.

If Jokinen and Setoguchi don’t return, Winnipeg will need to fill significant holes up front.

Hutchinson is considered a strong bet to be Ondrej Pavelec’s backup goalie and potential future starter.

If the organization feels he needs more time, trading for James Reimer or signing another goaltender would make sense.

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Transformers debut sets high mark for 2014 OPENING WEEKEND NETS $100 MILLION DOMESTICALLY, $300 MILLION WORLDWIDE

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Transformers: Age of Extinction, Paramount Pictures’ summer blockbuster, opened with weekend sales of $100 million to mark the biggest domestic debut of the year.

The film, the first in a new trilogy of the alien-robot franchise from Viacom Inc.’s studio, generally met estimates.

It was projected to open with $99 million and $104 million, respectively, by researchers BoxOffice.com and Box Office Guru. The only movie in wide release in U.S. and Canadian theaters, it easily outdistanced returning film 22 Jump Street, according to an e-mailed statement from Rentrak Corp.

Transformers: Age of Extinction is forecast to be the biggest movie of summer, and may give a lift to the domestic box office, which has lagged behind last year in ticket sales. The film pulled in more than $300 million worldwide in its first weekend, shattering the record in China on Imax Corp. large-format screens. It may reach $1 billion in its global theatrical run, according to BoxOffice.com chief analyst Phil Contrino.

“For Paramount, it’s huge to have the no. 1 film,” Jeff Bock, an analyst at Exhibitor Relations. “Their release schedule is probably the leanest. This was important to make sure this franchise is firing on all cylinders.”

Transformers: Age of Extinction is one of Paramount’s most important pictures of the year, alongside Hercules, scheduled for next month, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, set to open in August. The April release Captain America: The Winter Soldier from Walt Disney Co., had been the biggest domestic debut of 2014, at $95 million.

Filmed in the U.S. and China, Transformers: Age of Extinction had a production budget of $165 million, excluding marketing costs, according to IMDB. com.

The movie may produce total domestic sales of $265 million in its theatrical run, according to BoxOffice. com. The preceding film in the series, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, opened with $97.9 million in June 2011, and grossed $352.4 million domestically, according to Box Office Mojo.

Age of Extinction, which opened in China at the same time as its domestic debut, may draw a significant amount

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This photo released by Paramount Pictures shows Grimlock in a scene from ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction.’ The movie opened to big audiences and set the mark as the highest grossing opening weekend of 2014. of its box-office sales from Asia. Dark of the Moon had the second- biggest opening weekend for a U.S. film in China, pulling in $56 million, and ending with total sales of $165.1 million. Early estimates show the new film bringing in about $90 million in China, Rentrak said.

The almost $10 million in ticket sales to view the film on Imax screens in China more than doubled the previous record held by The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, according to Imax.

“Keeping in mind the staggering growth of the Chinese box office since then, expectations are high for this film,” Contrino said in an interview.

The new movie, which stars Mark Wahlberg for the first time in the series, also features Chinese actors as Paramount seeks to increase the appeal of the series in the country.

“Adding Mark Wahlberg to the mix is a very smart move,” Paul Dergara-

bedian, an analyst at Rentrak, said. “It added new blood into the franchise and new excitement.”

Age of Extinction will open in South America and Western Europe toward the end of soccer’s World Cup to avoid competing with the tournament for viewers.

The new movie, the fourth in the series, is again directed by Michael Bay. The film picks up with the battling robots that convert into cars and trucks. Wahlberg stars as Cade Yeager, a car mechanic, who with his daughter Tessa, played by Nicola Peltz, makes a discovery that brings the Autobots, and government officials, down on them.

The film garnered only a 15 percent positive rating with critics on Rottentomatoes.com, while 69 percent of audiences liked it, according to the review aggregator.

“Two hours and 46 minutes of pulverized architecture is a lot to en-

dure,” A.O. Scott wrote in the New York Times. One of the action sequences “reminds you what these movies are really about: a boy at play, reveling in the creative and destructive power, and the glorious uselessness, of his own imagination.”

Among returning movies, Sony’s cop comedy sequel 22 Jump Street collected $15.4 million to place second in its third weekend.

How to Train Your Dragon 2, from DreamWorks Animation SKG collected $13.1 million to place third in its third weekend. Think Like a Man Too, a comedy starring Kevin Hart, collected $10.4 million to place fourth for Sony in its second weekend.

Weekend revenue for the top 10 films fell 5.9 percent to $169.7 million from the year-earlier period, Rentrak said. Domestic box-office sales year to date are $5.19 billion, a decrease of 0.9 percent from the same period in 2013.

Robin Thicke may win wife back with impressive album

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It’s easy to fall in line with the crowd that believes Robin Thicke’s attempt to win back his wife by calling his new album Paula is desperate and ridiculous.

In some ways it is. But if we’re judging strictly on the music — and not on the over-the-top, awkward and somewhat creepy public pleas by Thicke everywhere from the BET Awards to the Billboard Music Awards — Paula Patton might want to reconsider.

The 14-track Paula, where Thicke spills his feelings, confesses his sins and insists he’s a changed man, is a return to Thicke’s R&B roots. It is also a reminder that he was a talented, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter pre-Blurred Lines hysteria.

The sexy number You’re My Fantasy

helps the album start on the right foot, and the piano mixed with Thicke’s aching voice on Still Madly Crazy is impeccable.

Lock the Door is dramatic and theatrical, while the horn-heavy Love Can Grow Back is a winner.

Thicke ditched the glossy electro beats and catchy hooks on last year’s Blurred Lines for a more stripped-down, acoustic and simple sound on Paula — a much better fit for the 37-year-old crooner.

Blurred Lines made Thicke an international star and helped him tap into a younger audience that constantly streams music, buys digital tracks and can determine today and tomorrow’s next pop star. But the song has also been a bit of a curse: It has pigeonholed Thicke and alienated the singer from the R&B fans who help him reach platinum status.

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